Connecticut: DCF Hearing Reveals Social Worker Cruelty and Family Destruction
A hearing on December 18, 2008 informed Connecticut state legislators of DCF
injustice and cruelty to families. One participant, an out-of-state aunt, told
legislators that family members were denied kinship care rights because the
court ruled they had no bond with the child, a girl now totally separated from
her natural family. Many others came forward to tell legislators their stories
of injustice, trauma and distress at the hands of DCF caseworkers.

According to the article written by Arielle Levin Becker, State Representative
Toni Walker, a Democrat from New Haven, wept and said, “We as a state have
failed miserably in this situation.� One hundred and thirty eight people
signed up to testify at this hearing, the last hearing of four, and apparently
the only hearing allowing the public to testify. People spoke out about rude DCF
social workers and unjust family devastation practices.
The hearings were scheduled in response to the death of an infant in foster care
last May.

Source: Familiar Complaints Aired At Hearing On DCF by Arielle Levin Becker
published on December 19, 2008 by the Hartford Courant.
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Filed under: CPS, Connecticut — Linda @ 2:25 am


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