Rita Price, Writer For The Columbus Dispatch, Recounts

Rita Price, writer for The Columbus Dispatch, recounts a horrific story about siblings who suffered numerous accounts of abuse. After being beaten with baseball bats, burned with irons, starved, and forced to drink their own urine, the Ferguson children were finally able to come forward and testify against their adoptive parents in order to send them to prison. The children did not believe they had a voice, and the abuse went unnoticed for years. The Ferguson children, along with many others in similar situations, do not feel they have anyone to turn to. After going through foster care systems and the adoption process, the children had already experienced large amounts of change and stress, only to be left with negligent parents. In†¦show more content†¦Multiple visits are scheduled between the child and adoptive parents and, finally, the child can be placed in the home. Even though the adoption process seems extensive, there are still faults within the system. A nine year old in Oregon was removed from her home by child protective services in 2010 and placed into the care of Kamlo and Dwight Reed. Even though the state Department of Human Services allegedly knew that Dwight had been accused of sexually abusing a another foster child, the adoption still went through. After the Dwight couple abused the young girl sexually, physically, and emotionally, a a guardian who was court-appointed for the child filed a lawsuit against the department in 2016. If the agency had looked into the allegations, the child would have likely been saved from suffering through years of abuse by being placed into a different home. The social service workers receive a large amount of cases each year. According to the U.S. Children s Bureau, children protection agencies received nearly 3.6 million reports of abuse or neglect concerning 6.6 million children; however, the agency only reported roughly 702,000 children who suffered from abuse, including 1,580 children who died. The number of cases reported is less than  ¼ of the cases received. If the agency discovered some of the 1,580 cases quicker, adolescent deathsShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesthe 1840s to more than a million by 1914) and steamers (whose tonnage increased twenty times over the same period). These transportation advances then made possible the movement of even more people and of the heavy or bulky commodities with low price per weight or mass that came to make up much of global trade. The trading, extraction, and processing of these commodities then required even more migrants. Both flows, of goods and people, have thus moved in tandem— although not always in the same