Jaycee Dugard: 11 Missed Chances to Stop Kidnapper Phillip Garrido - ABC News
This reports highlights that government bureaucratic workers failed to search the backyard and failed to talk to neighbors in investigating a report of children living on the grounds of this violent sex offender.
Not in this article but of interest in Diane Sawyer's television news report is a video of the violent sex offender's wife video taping and harassing the parole officer who is searching inside the house. She harasses him, mocks him wants to know what he's doing to help parolees. The harassment is effective and parole officer leaves in what I would describe as a meek manner.
As a former child day care licensor I know that dynamic from being an investigator on licensed day care home complaint referrals, for example, a day care with a history of serious and concerning violations; and instead of the day care provider correcting the violations, the day care provider would go into verbal attack mode as seen in this news story.
The unelected bureaucratic managers like whipped puppies would capitulate to this behavior rather than operating the agency by the laws and regulations in the state of Washington. Then too many times these managers would refuse to allow licensors to do the follow up monitoring visits required on day care facilities with violations to witness whether the day care provider corrected the violations.
What do you do? How do you stand up for children?
Some of the neighbors of this violent sex offender (apparently, they didn't know he was a sex offender which should have been the first job of the parole officer, to protect children in the neighborhood and give the neighbors his business card) feel terrible.
We have to speak up and say what we see; and if the unelected bureaucratic managers fail to do their jobs as prescribed by law, take it to local law enforcement, take it to the media, take it to the governor's office as the Governor is now the top person in the chain of command for child day care licensing in Washington State.
As I've blogged before on the Connie King family home child day care in Clark County the day I went to investigate another complaint of her being over her capacity of 12, she did not want me to go upstairs, saying that the upstairs was not licensed. Upstairs she had 8 children hidden in one room; and 2 babies, each in separate rooms with no fire escape on the second floor. She had 21 children by herself.
I left for a scheduled trip to England and another licensor did a follow up visit and found her overcapacity. Then the supervisor went out and found her in violation of not supervising the young ones per regulation. Fully expecting revocation action to have been taken, I was surprised to learn the supervisor took no such action. Furthermore, my supervisor refused my plan to do follow up monitor visits including going out on weekends as she was doing 24/7 day care.
The best suggestion I can give to parents is to trust your gut feelings, your intuition and empower yourselves by speaking up (and document) and don't trust unelected government bureaucratic managers.
The Department of Early Learning (DEL) website is missing the most vital information parents must have and that is day care providers who have valid child protective services (CPS) allegations; yet the department let day care providers continue to have a license, this included sexual violations that were done to children while in licensed care.
How many different government bureaucracies have failed children and their parents? Can we uncover these secrets and expose them to make a better future for our children here in America? Can we be brave and decisive as those two campus police women who followed their intuition and started digging into the story?
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