They "Erred on the Side of the Child" -- Some Case Histories

They "Erred on the Side of the Child" -- Some Case Histories
Opponents of family preservation have a lot of great applause lines. They are for "child
protection," they say. They are for "children's rights," they say. They are for "putting children first instead
of families first," they say.
But in the name of "child protection" children have been beaten. In the name of "children's rights"
children have been raped. And in the name of "erring on the side of the child," children have been
murdered. These are the stories of some of those children:

When Sara Eyerman of northern
California was nineteen-months-old, child
protective services was concerned that she
wasn't growing fast enough. So they "erred on
the side of the child" and placed Sara in a
"specialized" foster home.
About six weeks later, Sara began
running a 105 degree fever. But the "specialists"
in the specialized foster home decided it was
o.k. to wait two days before taking her to a
doctor. On the way to the doctor's office, Sara
Eyerman died of viral pneumonia.
"She should have been in the hospital
two days earlier when she had a 104.8 [degree]
temperature," said Sara's mother, Angie. "When
she was home, she went to the emergency room
if her temperature got over 101. I didn't care if
they laughed at me when I got there or not. One
time I took her when she was cutting a tooth ... I
kept her alive for a year and seven months.
They had her for six weeks and three days and
she died."
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