THE PRICE OF PANIC, FLORIDA, 2011

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THE PRICE OF PANIC, FLORIDA, 2011
By Richard Wexler, NCCPR Executive Director
Released April 26, 2011
The chart on page 4 shows the extent to which the outcry over the Barahona case has terrified
Florida DCF workers into tearing apart more families and throwing far more children into foster
care.
It is, of course, a foster/adoptive parent who is accused of killing Nubia Barahona and almost
killing her brother. By placing more children at risk of abuse in foster care itself, and by
overloading the system so more children in real danger are more likely to be missed, the
response to the death of Nubia Barahona is making the next such death more likely.
WHAT THE DATA SHOW