Unmitigated Bullshit

[whitehall]

Here's the deal. Nobody wants the government poking it's nose into every single parent home in the Country but when the police enter the equation it gives the child welfare people the right to look into every aspect of the welfare of the children. My guess is that the there were a hundred reasons other than the marijuana that determined that the mother was unfit to raise her children.

 

[Full-Auto]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/n...l?_r=2&pagewanted=1&sq=marijuana&st=cse&scp=2

The police found about 10 grams of marijuana, or about a third of an ounce, when they searched Penelope Harris’s apartment in the Bronx last year. The amount was below the legal threshold for even a misdemeanor, and prosecutors declined to charge her. But Ms. Harris, a mother whose son and niece were home when she was briefly in custody, could hardly rest easy.

The police had reported her arrest to the state’s child welfare hot line, and city caseworkers quickly arrived and took the children away.

Her son, then 10, spent more than a week in foster care. Her niece, who was 8 and living with her as a foster child, was placed in another home and not returned by the foster care agency for more than a year. Ms. Harris, 31, had to weather a lengthy child neglect inquiry, though she had no criminal record and had never before been investigated by the child welfare authorities, Ms. Harris and her lawyer said.

“I felt like less of a parent, like I had failed my children,” Ms. Harris said. “It tore me up.”

What do you see as the outrage in this story?

Yes it is outrageous, if those are the only circumstances.

 

[bodecea]

the sub human sow should not be allowed to reproduce!!

Why do you always insist on sharing your personal family "issues" with us?