DHS Analyses Whether Age is a Factor in Abuse Investigations

Note from unhappygrammy-Age is a huge factor in abuse investigations. Potential Foster strangers are more interested in babies and toddler's than older children, as stated in foster classes. They all want babies. They are also more interested in adoption of these young children than working with families for reunification. Not that DCYF want's them to work with parent's. They don't. They tell the potential fosters to steer clear of bio family member's because their angry. Supposedly DCYF has no clue why their so angry. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that one.

DHS Analyses Whether Age is a Factor in Abuse Investigations


February 8, 2010
SALEM, Ore. -- Just last month, the Oregon Department of Human Services found it missed the warning signs of abuse with Jeanette Maples, a Eugene teen who was found dead in her home last year.

Now the agency is looking into whether age plays a factor when welfare workers choose which cases to investigate.



State investigators are looking at whether the flawed screenings in Jeanette Maples' case were due to individual misjudgments or a systemic problem of screeners relying upon a child's age as part of their evaluation of a child's vulnerability.



State investigators said Maples' age appears to have been considered as a major factor in the conclusion that she was not vulnerable.



Their audit of a sample of closed cases is expected to be completed by March 1st.

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