Topic : 12/22 Parents Falsely Accused

I've notice its the people who accuse and dictate to everyone else how to parent their kids who have the most annoying, rude, back talking brats.  Child welfare worries about some of the dumbest things.  Child welfare should be a form of government that I believe should be banned.

My daughter was bitten at the daycare.  Child welfare NEVER investigated it.  The police department was the only people who gave a crap and investigated it.  They investigated the bite nothing but the bite.  Didn't do a home inspection, didn't invade our privacy (not that they would have found anything if they had).  But the police did a better job and cared more then Child Welfare could ever have a concept of doing.  Or should I say, Child-We-Really-Don't-Care-About-Their-Welfare. 

So I say let's get rid of case workers who think they're better then everyone and above the law and place chldren in abusive foster homes.  Let's get rid of child welfare and use our police who are real trained professionals.  Also to the parents, grandparents, and everyone who have to worry about how others raise their kids.  While your watching my kids your kids are committing the crimes you complain about and leaving you grandkids to raise. 

Todays show was about false accusations. But what if the accusations could be true, I just don't know.

I have been communicating online with a young girl. I have never actually met her  before but  she lives in the same state as me and we became sort of online friends. She recently confided in me  that her father, who she lives alone with, is sexually abusing her. Had been for some time. He makes her do everything.

She knows she ought to tell someone who can help her. But she's not going to. She's too scared. She's terrified of ending up like Edward. She feels that being in a foster home for the rest of her child hood would be worse than living with her drunk, sexually abusive father.

All I know about her is her first name, the city she lives in, and what school she goes to. I my mind that should be enough to track her down, but I was told that even if I did call that wouldn't be enough information to make a report.

I thought about calling the citys police department directly and seeing if they could help but after watching this show I am even more reluctant to try to find her. I don't know her, I don't know her family or her life, I don't even really have any evidence except the conffesion. Even in I could find a way to report it, what if she  has to go through what Edward did. Whose to say that wouldn't be just as bad?

I just don't know.

I must say I was a bit surprised at the over simplification of the circumstances surrounding the mother leaving her two year-old in the vehicle unattended at the beginning of the show.  From the video, reportedly taken by the husband, it appears the distance from the vehicle to the area where the Salvation Army's kettle was was much more than 30 feet.  Also in that studio there wasn't a support beam blocking the sight line, there was no traffic passing through the sight line, it wasn't dark, and it wasn't raining.  Watching the gimmick with the measuring tape, I feel Dr. Phil was pandering to this woman's assertion that she did nothing wrong, and thus she felt her child was never at risk.   

That said, I agree the police did use poor judgment in executing a full-blown custodial arrest.  As suggested by another poster, the police should have prepared a report and either applied for a criminal summons and served it on the woman at a later date, or the investigation and their completed report should have been forwarded to the local district/state's attorney for review and recommendation as to whether the woman should have been criminally charged or not.