Isaac Avilucea reports as follows:
"On March 20, 2014, state child welfare officials took three young children from the Simsbury home of two attorneys who were in the midst of a bitter divorce.
The Department of Children and Families had obtained an order of temporary custody even though there was no conclusive evidence that either parent had abused the youngsters, according to court documents. Now, more than a year later, the children remain in foster care.
That's the bare-bones outline of an unusual case working its way through the state's court system. It would, like most custody battles, be playing out in private but for a document erroneously placed on a public portion of the state Judicial Branch website last October..."
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Having read the article, I do not understand why those kids are in foster care. The state can take kids away from their parents -- in this case both parents -- and put them in foster care based on vague, unproven allegations of "emotional abuse." Yet somehow the state does not consider the impact of its own actions on the kids?! Putting them in foster care is the real abuse.
ReplyDeleteI would agree with this assessment. I also want to say that my best bet is that there are more cases exactly like this out there, but because this is juvenile court and "secret" and parents are subject to gag orders people are unaware of the extent of the problem. My best guess is that the Foy case is the tip of the iceberg. What a nightmare for these children.
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