CPS Lies

September 4, 2013 permalink

This week five-year-old foster child Dominic Lloyd Lee Elkins died in Harrison County Iowa. It was not in this blog because there was nothing unusual about his death. Until now. A news item by WHO TV in Des Moines propagates two lies from child protectors:

• Any abuse within foster care is rare.
• The Iowa Department of Human Services says they have never seen a case where a foster child has been accused of killing another foster child living in the same home.

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FIRST TIME: DHS Says Foster Child Death Is A First

Posted on: 5:42 pm, September 3, 2013, by Erik Wheater, updated on: 09:19am, September 4, 2013

The Iowa Department of Human Services says they have never seen a case where a foster child has been accused of killing another foster child living in the same home.

According to the agency, any abuse within foster care is rare.

In 2012, more than 10,000 Iowa children spent time in foster homes.

There were only 15 reported cases of abuse.

None of them led to deaths, and none were between two foster children.

Joby Holcomb, the Clinical Director for Lifeworks in Des Moines says he’s shocked by what happened, but hopes he can use it to better serve his own clients.

“What am I going to do in the future to make sure something like this doesn’t happen. How am I going to do things differently with the families I’m working with so I can make sure something like this never has to happen again,” said Holcomb.

Source: WHO-TV, Des Moines

Careful research has shown that the death rate of foster children is ten times that of children in real families. And here is a list of eleven other foster children killed by foster children living in the same home. It comes from our archive of dead foster children, the one drawn from press reports that omit nineteen of every twenty deaths.

• On August 21, 2013 six-year-old foster child Lee Allan Bonneau died on the Kahkewistahaw First Nation lands in Saskatchewan at the hands of an unnamed foster boy.
• On April 21, 2009 in Georgetown Tennessee three-year-old foster girl Gracie Ann Trentham was raped and murdered by a fellow foster boy.
• On December 15, 2005 three-year-old Matthew David Reid was suffocated at the hands of a teenaged foster girl identified by sources as L.B. or Jennie Jane Ewing in Welland Ontario.
• On June 2, 2005 foster child Braxton D Wooden died from a gunshot fired by fellow foster boy Brandie McLean in Alba Missouri.
• On September 18, 2003 foster child John Brian Gifford, age 5, of Wilson Oklahoma was killed by a car started by a teenaged foster girl.
• Foster boy Daniel Brock Austin, age 14, died on June 23, 1992 in Lansing Michigan from a gunshot fired by foster child Thomas Mack.
• On December 23, 1991 foster child Todd Crawford died in Dundalk Maryland. Foster child LaTonya Crawford was accused but later acquitted.
• On August 31, 1989 foster arsonist Lakeya Hartwell was responsible for the deaths of foster children Anwan G Reid (8), Keith Moye (7), Preston Moye (5) and Robert Lavenhouse (14) in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.