Re: Girl Who Was Reunited With Dad Sues L.A. County

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:53:14 -0700, Pneuma Cheney <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

congratulated county agencies for locating
the father.

But the lawsuit alleges that the Department of Children and Family Services
failed to use "due diligence" to locate Thomas Smith as required by law. It
claims the agency never notified Smith that his daughter was in foster care
and never gave him a chance to claim her.


The attitude of most Child Welfare Departments and their workers is
that the fathers only role is to pay child support and that is why
they never looked for the father. At least the daughter wasn't forced
into prostitution like so many other female teenagers in foster care.


Well, dad might have a little lack of diligence, there, too. Had he
ever asked where she was? I would if I was paying money for her care.
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