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Old May 27th 07, 09:17 PM posted to alt.support.child-protective-services,alt.support.foster-parents
Jason Ryels
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Every CPS office in the country falsifys it's records on a regular basis
- CPS gets a check for ripping children from 'bad' homes to put in
'good' homes, what happens to the children is of little concern - so
why visit them. lol.





Fired Caseworker Charged Over Records

By SHERRI ACKERMAN The Tampa Tribune

Published: Apr 28, 2007



TAMPA - A former child welfare worker fired for lying about visiting
children in her care was arrested Friday and charged with a third-degree
felony.

Margaret "Peggy" Haq, 55, of 3719 W. Wisconsin Ave., faces up to five
years in jail and $5,000 in fines for falsifying state records.

She is the second Tampa caseworker in little more than a month to be
charged with a felony by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

The charge follows a yearlong investigation by the Office of the
Inspector General and comes on the heels of a Tampa Tribune story Sunday
that looked at workers falsifying child welfare records.

Haq was featured in the story, in which state officials are calling for
more convictions.

Haq was once a supervisor for The Children's Home Inc., a private
contractor that provided local oversight of foster children for the
state. She later became a caseworker and said she juggled as many as 48
cases at a time.

The inspector general's investigation uncovered 12 false entries by Haq
in a computer system designed to monitor children's care.

One of the children, who had not been seen by a caseworker in three
months, landed in juvenile detention for 21 days. A month later, he ran
away from his sister's home.

Haq told the Tribune that she was fired for speaking out against a
supervisor during a court proceeding. She also described a system that
relied on falsehoods and pressured workers to rush to close cases.

She got bogged down in paperwork, she said, and didn't have time to file
mileage reports. When she couldn't visit children, her supervisor told
her to report that she had, Haq said.

About a month after The Children's Home dismissed Haq, she was hired to
do similar work at another child welfare agency, Directions for Mental
Health. Haq was fired again, for falsifying records.

She said she was doing what she was told.

Robin Melissa Schofield, 31, of Tampa, was charged last month with two
counts of falsifying official records. Her time sheets at The Children's
Home showed that the caseworker wasn't working on days she claimed to
visit children. She also failed to file mileage reports - a red flag to
supervisors.

Schofield posted $5,000 bail and was released from jail. Haq was
released Friday on $2,000 bail.

Gerard Veneman, president and chief operating officer of The Children's
Home, said Haq's arrest confirms the agency's findings.

Both arrests send a message to other employees, he said. Lying at the
risk of children's lives won't be tolerated.

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