Of the Washington State Children who Died, most Had been Reported to DSHS by a Mandated Reporter

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The story above highlights the intelligence of the common every day citizen. It is often the so-called common ordinary citizen who has the intuitive, correct take on a situation that can prevent a tragedy thus my blog today respecting and celebrating those people in our lovely country.

From the article, "He was arrested Wednesday afternoon after a call from Greg Ebert, an employee at a Killeen gun shop, who told Reuters he was concerned when Abdo bought ammunition and smokeless powder."

In this case the police listened and responded; and a tragedy was prevented. The bureaucracies not so good. When the F.B.I. arrested infamous spy Robert Hansen, they did so eleven years after his brother-in-law told them he thought Hansen was a spy. As great as the movie Breach is, that information is not contained in that film. The Unabomber? His brother turned him in. James Woods the actor saw some of the 9-11 hijackers on his plane and reported his intuitive, observational skills that those guys' behavior made him think they were going to hi-jack a plane. This about three weeks before 911.

What does this have to do with day care? We have to speak up and keep speaking up to protect our children.

The latest Office of Children and Family Ombudsman (OCFO) report to the legislature showed most children before they died or were killed, a mandated reporter had called DSHS to make a report. The reported faulted the intake moment that led to the inaction on the part of DSHS.

Without seeing the research documents I don't know the accuracy of that assessment. I do know the OCFO child death review reports for some years have nicely ignored the role of its actual human managers, many of them, enjoying life and benefits on the taxpayers dollar. The investigative documents that OCFO bases their reports on are now kept secret not only from citizen oversight from the Courts in the State of Washington.

Jacyee Dugard starting at age 11 spent 18 years in captivity in the backyard of a convicted violent sex offender who had been visited by various parole officers 60 times and not one looked in the backyard. Neighbors had called about seeing kids in the backyard.

We have to say what we see, and understand the dynamics of the government bureaucracies that don't work, but understand by speaking up in as many ways we can think of...will lead to protecting children.

This sales clerk in a gun shop, the gun shopwhere the last mass murderer bought his supplies, had a feeling. He merely reported his feeling. The police didn't dismiss his feeling and acted; and lives were saved.

After Jaclyn Frank died in daycare in Washington State on December 1, 2005 two different sets of parents called in to report concerns about the daycare after her death, reports they wished they had reported after they had removed their children from that daycare. 

Make the call.

Let's do that for daycare children as well.