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Baby Dies In Custody Of DCF Employee
Baby Dies In Custody Of DCF Employee
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc...,2436541.story By HILDA MUÑOZ And CHRISTINE DEMPSEY | Courant Staff Writers May 21, 2008 Less than two weeks after the state Department of Children and Families took his son, Michael Anthony Brown got a visit from a social worker and five police officers who told him the baby was dead. The 7-month-old, Michael Brown Jr., was reported unresponsive around 8 p.m. Monday at the licensed foster home of a DCF employee on Stearns Road in Mansfield, authorities said. He was pronounced dead about 10 p.m. at Hartford Hospital. "They said my son fell off a bed and hit his head and went to the hospital," said Brown, 47. "It's just hard — that's my first baby. I had to lose my 7-month-old and now he's dead and I have to make funeral arrangements." State police and DCF officials are investigating, as is Jeanne Milstein, the state child advocate. The results of an autopsy Tuesday were inconclusive. A spokeswoman from the state medical examiner's office said more needs to be done before the cause and manner of death can be determined. Authorities would not identify the foster mother, but public records and other sources say she is Suzanne Marie Listro. DCF spokesman Gary Kleeblatt said the child was in the home of a licensed foster care provider who also is a children's services consultant for the department. He said she works on programs that help older teens with the transition to adulthood. "Staff at the department feel a great sense of loss regarding this tragedy and extend our greatest sorrow to the baby's family," Kleeblatt said. Milstein said the fact that the foster mother is an employee of the state agency charged with caring for children raises questions. "For me, it raises the question of whether DCF is actually able to subject their employee who is a foster parent to the same standard of care and level of scrutiny as everybody else," she said. Kleeblatt said everyone who wants to be a foster parent, DCF employee or not, has to undergo 10 weeks of training, background checks and a study of their home. State police said Michael Brown Jr. was reported to be unresponsive at the Mansfield house shortly before 8 p.m. Monday and was taken by ambulance to Windham Memorial Hospital in Willimantic. He was then was flown by Life Star helicopter to Hartford Hospital, police said. Brown said he and the boy's mother, 40-year-old Angelica Burgos, were sleeping at their home in East Hartford when a social worker and police knocked on their door at 2 a.m. Tuesday. "Why would a social worker and five police officers come to our door at 2 a.m.? I'm thinking the worst," Brown said. The couple heard the words, "Your son is dead," and started crying. Brown and Burgos went to Hartford Hospital but were unable to see the baby. They visited his body at the medical examiner's office later that morning. His head was bandaged, Brown said. "He looked so peaceful," Brown said. Burgos, who had a history of drug use and mental illness, had traces of codeine in her system when the baby was born in October. Brown said DCF became involved right away and gave him custody. The case was closed roughly three months later, he said. But DCF took custody of his son on May 9, citing inadequate supervision. The boy had been left in the care of Burgos' 18-year-old son, and a relative called the department to report that the child was not with his parents. "The household here was wonderful. They took him from my household and he died," Brown said. "Why wasn't he in a crib?" No one was home at Listro's residence, a small, Dutch colonial at 260 Stearns Road in Mansfield early Tuesday afternoon. A plastic, child's lawn mower sat in the front yard of the house, which is set back in the woods. A neighbor, James Leta, said Listro, 42, is divorced and has adopted a boy from Russia who is 5 or 6 years old. He described Listro as "a nice, sweet girl." Leta said he saw police cars driving up Listro's long driveway Monday night but he assumed the house had been burglarized again. Listro's house has been broken into a few times, he said, adding that his had been burglarized, too. He didn't know his neighbor had a foster infant, or that the baby had died. "That's a shock to me," he said. Listro used to work as a residential counselor for an organization called Community Mental Health Affiliates in Bristol, according to federal bankruptcy court records from a credit card-related case. Contact Hilda Muñoz at . An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and the Child Protection "INDUSTRY" Child Protective Services Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of CPS. every parent should read the free handbook from connecticut dcf watch... http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN) Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS Perpetrators of Maltreatment Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59 Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13 Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241 Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12 Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5 Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers. THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central intelligence agency wiretaping programs… THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6 This is Child Protection? By Gregory A. Hession, J.D. http://www.jbs.org/node/4632 Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer." http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families By Nev Moore Massachusetts News http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca 30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children. 27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated 33% were receiving public assistance 37% had not finished high school 2% receive a college degree 50% were unemployed Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems, including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment than the general population. *Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support 80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system. The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991 Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing. This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in the first place. Front-page story in USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close Read the studies online. Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Ca Findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study," http://www.casey.org/Resources/Publi...lumniStudy.htm MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care," http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" reports: www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than walking wreckage... CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS.... CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON... BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION... |
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