"We did everything we could"

When will ACS workers get their chance to tell their stories? Anonymous cops and distraught/ CYA guidance counselors are held to be sources, but not us.

I am not familiar with this particular tragedy however I have handled dozens of reports from guidance counselors in the public schools, and so I have some questions for Rhona Weiss, her boss Chancelor Joel Klein, the Mayor he reports to and The New York Times:
1- How many days did this child miss from school before a report was made?
2- Was the report called in on a Friday night or Saturday from the guidance counselor's home with the school phone number given as a contact?
3- Did Ms. Weiss, or whoever made the report then play telephone tag with the caseworker?
4- At the risk of being taken as a rude person, was the child's correct address and telephone number included in the report?
5- Miss Weiss says "The school did everything we could," she said in a brief telephone interview. "We filed the necessary paperwork." - Are any of you aware that filing a report is not the end of the reporter's obligation, and that the reporter must cooperate with the investigation? Did the reporter make himself-herself available to the caseworker?
6- Did this child present injuries to school authorities and then get sent home without police contact?

I ask these questions because in too many instances that I have seen all or many of the answers are not very good ones. Assuming that in this case as an exceptional situation, the school authorities really did "everything we could do" beyond "FILED ALL THE PAPERWORK" in order to prevent children deaths these factors must be taken to account in each and every instance when a school official suspects a child is being abused.



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/nyregion/31child.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

.....The death of the boy, Quachon Browne, was at least the fifth fatality since November of a child whose family was known to the child welfare authorities. The previous cases included the death of Nixzmary Brown, a 7-year-old Brooklyn girl who the police said was killed by her stepfather. .....

Rhona Weiss, the guidance counselor at P.S. 280, said last night that she was saddened by the death.

"The school did everything we could," she said in a brief telephone interview. "We filed the necessary paperwork."

School absenteeism is often a red flag for child abuse, child welfare professionals have said. In the case of Nixzmary Brown, officials of Children's Services acknowledged the agency erred when it did not determine that the girl was a victim of educational neglect, even though she had missed 46 days of school.

One of Quachon Browne's sisters, education officials said they believed, soon...

DOUBTLESS MORE CASEWORKERS ARE TO HANG, MS WEISS IS TO BE HEROINE OF THE DAY AND MATTINGLY WILL SAY IT'S NOT HIS FAULT.....

Bloomberg's Fix -It Plan for ACS (Child Protective Services) Two thumbs down.

Dear Fellow ACS workers who are members of local 371:

Baby Snatching Fools- Giuliani time returns.

Me to Bloomberg and the media: Where were you for all the other Nixzmary Browns?

Special Victims, Nixzmary, Instant Responses, Emergency Children's Services- The New York Post is Lying When They Say Giuliani Fixed CPS in New York

ACS worker to The Commissioner - My Boss Says Some Things to The New York Daily News - And I React.

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read the exchange here-- 4 comments

Bloomberg's Fix -It Plan for ACS (Child Protective Services) Two thumbs down.

Dear Fellow ACS workers who are members of local 371:

Baby Snatching Fools- Giuliani time returns.

Me to Bloomberg and the media: Where were you for all the other Nixzmary Browns?

Special Victims, Nixzmary, Instant Responses, Emergency Children's Services- The New York Post is Lying When They Say Giuliani Fixed CPS in New York

ACS worker to The Commissioner - My Boss Says Some Things to The New York Daily News - And I React.

Would You Believe It? No Reply! Why I do not trust the Inspector General's Office, or if you'd rather think so, it's just fiction.....

Whatever happened to the investigation of the Whitick case ?

Eugene Weixel, Child Protective Specialist
Administration for Children’s Services
Emergency Children’s Services
492 First Avenue Unit 579 Ground floor
New York, New York 10016-9103

BEN W. DEFIBAUGH
ACTING INSPECTOR GENERAL
180 Water Street, 2nd Floor,
New York, N.Y. 10038
Fax: 212-331-3308
Dear Mr. Defibaugh:
I am writing you first in regards to an ACS case that I believe your office is investigating, the (media case that faded away prior to the election Whitick case ) case. I communicated to the ACS Commissioner that there were memos sent by management to certain supervisors that set arbitrary limits on the number of cases that Emergency Children’s Services would classify as “visits” per shift. ----Whitick case ) case came to Emergency Chidlren’s Services and may account for why a telephone call was made to Ms. XXXXXXX rather than a visit to her home to assess her children’s situation. My communication with the Commissioner also regarded another case that you might want to look at I am including the relevant e mail communications between Mr. Mattingly, Ms. Chahine and me:
Subject: From Eugene Weixel re: IRT case of this morning
Date: 2/11/05 1:18:42 P.M. Eastern Time
From Eweixel (@AOL>COM)
To: John. Mattingly@dfa.state.ny.us
At the risk of receiving additional disciplinary charges I am bringing a case to your attention that demonstrates the extreme of irresponsible casework decisions by those who issue directives in ECS. Rather than name this case here in the Internet email I will simply say that I worked on an IRT case last night (this morning) and I carried out directives that left three children in a dangerous situation.
1. I have documented the case thoroughly, and I have sent a memo to Mr. Jean - Philippe as well as the supervisors and managers involved.
I must say also that I have followed the recent media case. I would hope that you are aware of the memos regarding limitations of case visits that were sent by management to the supervisors who were involved in that case, both before and after the media "blowup."
In my humble opinion these kinds of fiascos will continue as long as ECS supervisors and managers enjoy the impunity they are accustomed to. (End)
I received a reply from Ms. Chahine which I answered (both are included):
Subject: Email Sent Commissioner
Date: 2/12/2005 12:37:56 A. M. Eastern Standard Time
To: Eweixel@aol.comMr. Weixel,
It would be helpful if you could forward to me the memos that we mentioned in your e-mail to the Commissioner for follow up. Thanks
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Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

My reply was as follows:
Subject: Re: Email sent Commissioner
Date: 12/12/2005 9:37:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: Eweixel
To: Zeinab.Chahine@dfa.state.ny.us
In a message dated 2/12/2005 12:37:56 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, Zeinab.Chahine@dfa.state.ny.us writes:
Mr. Weixel,
It would be helpful if you could forward to me the memos that we mentioned in your e-mail to the Commissioner for follow up. Thanks
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Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
These memos were sent to supervisors xxxx,xxxxxx Mr. xxxxxx and I believe also to Mr. xxxxxx. I doubt they'd actually give them to me because they'd fear getting into some sort of trouble. They were sent by CPM Mr. xxxxxxxxxx (Spelling?).
Thank you for responding as you did to this concern and also for the speedy action to place one of the children in my IRT case of Thursday night / Friday morning.
The case in which I was involved is summarized in a memo I sent to my supervisor, manager and director:
ADMINISTRATION
for CHILDREN’S
SERVICES
Memo
To: xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
From: Eugene Weixel
CC: XXXXXX XXXXXX
Date: 02/11/05
Re: Redacted case SCR 214xxxxxx et al.
I must express my grave concerns regarding this case. This is a case in which a xxxxteen-year-old girl alleges that her stepfather sexually fondled her and “attacked” her. This child’s mother believes the child and moved the child into a rented room in someone else’s house to keep her away from the stepfather. This mother however was not willing to cooperate with police in identifying the stepfather in order that he be arrested. In an interview the mother stated her preference to have this xxxxxeen-year-old child taken from the home in order that the marriage to the alleged subject stepfather be preserved.This mother told the CPS that the father had threatened to kill her and had thrown objects around and “talked about killing people” in front of the two younger children.
The child disclosed to hospital staff as well as to her own mother that the father had fondled her vaginal area at least two times. This child, when asked by this CPS if she felt herself safe in the home where she was returned to the stepfather answered, “I don’t know.”
I objected to the decision to take the family out of the EAU gateway to the shelter system where the mother had agreed to take her children and I also objected to leaving the children in the home with this subject father.
The family was being accepted into the shelter system and was taken out of this system abruptly and placed into a high-risk situation.
A false entry was made in the case record: “worker has not obtained any information from child nor the mother to assess risk. All information are from various Sources including social worker and doctor.” This is contradicted by my case entries, it does not reflect anything I told you or any other supervisor or manager, and police and hospital staff can dispute it. While the child could not be interviewed at any depth because she had been asleep (after one in the morning, when her mother had brought her to the precinct at around 3:00 PM) and because of a language barrier, the child would not tell the CPS that is not afraid at her home. (She speaks and understands limited English). The mother had a lengthy interview with CPS that was facilitated by xxxxxxxxx Hospital translation service and there was another discussion with medical staff, police and CPS with the mother that was facilitated by a (Native language) speaking nurse. I had no reason to misrepresent these facts, nor did I do so to you, to Mr. xxxxx, or to Mr. xxxxxxx.

To clarify the situation for you , Mr. Inspector General, I emphasize that I was in telephone communication with my supervisor and with supervisor xxxxx xxxxxxx, night administrator at ECS, throughout the case from the xxxxxxxxx General Hosptal Pediatric Emergency Room, From the Emergency Assistance Unit, while in transit to the Emergency Assistance Unit and from the home of the subject family. I carried out their instructions to the letter while I made my objections clear.I hope I have helped in shedding light onto the BIG MEDIA CASE THAT WENT AWAY WHILE BLOOMBERG FOLLOWED IN THE POLLS Whitick case and a similar matter that you might wish to look into. (As you may know xxxxx xxxxxxx was the Child Protective Manager directly involved with both of these cases).
Thank You,
Eugene Weixel
917-680-5034
CC: John Mattingly
Zeinab Chahine


YES, THERE WAS THIS BIG MEDIA CASE AT THAT TIME, AND THE PRESS WROTE THAT AN INVESTIGATION WAS UNDERWAY AND NEVER REVISITED THE STORY (THE ELECTION WAS IN THE FUTURE AND AT THE TIME THE MAYOR'S STANDING WAS SHAKY) Whitick case

Bloomberg's Fix -It Plan for ACS (Child Protective Services) Two thumbs down.

Dear Fellow ACS workers who are members of local 371:

Baby Snatching Fools- Giuliani time returns.

Me to Bloomberg and the media: Where were you for all the other Nixzmary Browns?

Special Victims, Nixzmary, Instant Responses, Emergency Children's Services- The New York Post is Lying When They Say Giuliani Fixed CPS in New York

ACS worker to The Commissioner - My Boss Says Some Things to The New York Daily News - And I React.

NYPD, ACS, Locking up moms and dads and snatching children.

I've had a very intense few days interacting with the above subjects. Frankly I am so tired we've put off starting the adoption process to another day. I have a lot to tell you about these past days. I hope I'll be more energetic and coherent tommorrow.

One story of cops handing a kid back to the guy who beat him, and one story of a cop who wanted to torment five little black kids, and how I didn't let him (do more harm than he already had done.) So stay tuned,,,,,

Quick Index for surfers and readers - Nixzmary/ACS

About the Nixzmary Brown situation, ACS Child Protective Services-

Bloomberg's billions and democracy.


Some Grandiose Plans Now On Hold

My Day and My Plans for This Blog Over The Next Few Weeks.

What a night! I can't keep my promise today but....

Bloomberg's Fix -It Plan for ACS (Child Protective Services) Two thumbs down.


Dear Fellow ACS workers who are members of local 371:

Baby Snatching Fools- Giuliani time returns.

Me to Bloomberg and the media: Where were you for all the other Nixzmary Browns?

Special Victims, Nixzmary, Instant Responses, Emergency Children's Services- The New York Post is Lying When They Say Giuliani Fixed CPS in New York

ACS worker to The Commissioner - My Boss Says Some Things to The New York Daily News - And I React.

The Nixzmary Brown Case - Daily News gets its hands on the case record, more....

Nixzmary Brown, 7 Is Dead, Known to Child Welfare Authorities

Ms., Ms, How Stupid Do We Look To You?

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Christmas Eve At Emergency Children's Services

ACS/BCW--Stop Locking Up Good Parents!--Israel/Palestine--Bloombux Wins--Child Protective Cruelty--Life for ordinary New Yorkers--Living With Section 8--Email the Fat Guy--Life in the Projects--Public School Horrors--Working For The City--What Was The Holocaust--Your Input, more to come...

I got to work early, at around 11:30 pm. I found out that one of my co workers had been attacked by two Pit Bull Terriers, them having jumped for his throat, him having raised his arm and having it a bit mangled.

I don't know how he's doing. It seems that he was knocking on someone's door, as we do every night, and someone who lives upstairs opened his door and let loose the dogs. Rumor has it there has been no arrest.

Management and the Union both keep these sorts of incidents on the quiet. We never know how many have happened throughout ACS and we never hear about these matters in any media. Recently a good law was passed making it a felony to attack a transit worker while on duty.

Are our lives worth as much as theirs?

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A Few Words About Hamas

Hamas is the faction among the Palestinian people who have worked to provide for the needs of those living under occupation and they have been at the forefront in not allowing the occupier to rest.

People like me here in New York and other Western places cannot imagine living under a government that a group like Hamas would probably create. There are a lot of differences between the Western notions of sex, love, relationships between men and women and so forth and what Hamas represents or is said to represent. But (here is the but) Hamas represents honesty, courage, integrity and forthrightness.

Congratulations on your victory.

Here's a good article.

Some Grandiose Plans Now On Hold

There has been a storm battering the agency that I work for and I have been fairly lucky so far in terms of not being pushed too hard. For one thing I had taken a couple of days off that were approved before the sh!tstorm hit. I left an email that if things got too bad they could call me in but one of my bosses told me that they decided to let me rest as there would be unfortunately plenty of opportunity for me to be exhausted.

Monday, which is more or less my Saturday I had some business to attend to during the daytime that was work related. Same on Thursday afternoon, so they let me take of Weds, night to be ready for that. Yesterday, and Tuesday too I got hit full force. Not only is our shrinking staff covering more cases as the television and radio are happily drumming up business for us, but there is this ongoing review of ten thousand cases.

As I have said, the office I work in / out of is the place where children who have been removed from their parents at nights or weekends or holidays are taken and how it is crowded once again, just like Giuliani Time. Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning I had a couple of telephone and computer cases but then got sent out on an IRT (working with detectives) where from their point of view someone had to be arrested for doing a crime and from my point of view this same person had to leave the family abode in order that the children there be safe. You{ll notice that there wee parallel interests, but not quite identical interests here. We try to come from the point of view of what is best for the children.

Then yesterday/this morning I had another one where even though the alleged subject (called alleged perpetrator by police, alleged subject by us) got arrested (and from what I understand needs to be separated from society in some manner) but in spite of that in the interests of safety the kids still had to be removed and so I did that. This is never easy or pleasant, for even when the kids are eager to get out of their family situations there's something not too pleasant in it and I've done it countless times, happy kids and crying kids alike.

Anyway the situation at my workplace is such that I will have less time to post and do other blog related things for the foreseeable future.

Monday morning I plan to be in court to start the process of adopting my new daughters. That promises to be an all day thing too. Tonight/tomorrow I know that whether I am in the office on the phone and computer or in the field or more likely both I can expect a heavy dose of other people's woes and I have no idea of what time in the morning or afternoon I might get to drag myself back home.

My boss is holding a meeting *Commissioner Mattingly( to which us Emergency Children's Services people are invited , I guess a social workish gripe session, a koombayah hour or so is planned and I wouldn't want to miss it for the world, even though it is schedules on a day off during an hour when all good vampires and night people like me are hiding from the sun. I'll let you know how that goes even if briefly.

Anyhow I'll give this blog what I can, there will be lots to say

My Day and My Plans for This Blog Over The Next Few Weeks.

Today I took this blog to the headquarters of Administration For Children's Services and distributed 200 copies of my letter to fellow ACS workers who are members of Local 371. I got a mixed response. Some people were quite happy to see someone doing what I was doing, others not interested and still others seemed mainly to be afraid of being seen taking the flyer. In other words it went as expected. I got hits on this blog from NYC Government computers pretty soon after, also to be expected.

I plan on taking the letter to some of the Field Offices and also I plan on a general public oriented flyer soon, as well as one I will be giving out in fron of City Hall. They might end up being one and the same flyer. I plan to go to highly traveled places in NYC with my signs telling people about the website.

When I get the chance I will be writing about the Department of Investigations and why they should not be trusted with the investigation of the Nixzmary Brown matter.

Stay tuned, drop by again and please click one of the ads. I have paid good money to advertise the blog and if you appreciate it, that's a simple way to help out. I do not expect to make any profit on this website, it is not a business, I am doing this for love, not for money.

What a night! I can't keep my promise today but....

Let me do a once over lightly about our Mayor's plan to renovate ACS.

Hiring 350 more caseworkers = Baloney. The problem isn't hiring caseworkers the problem if he is sincere which I do not believe, is retaining case workers. He's already said he's not going to throw money at the problem. Surprise, surprise! But there are a few bucks to hire twenty politically connected retired detectives who are probably already lined up from the nepotism gravy train to show us how to do our jobs... Like the Special Victims dicks who went to Nixzmary's school with two caseworkers and didn't interview anyone? Like the cops who "place´´ kids with unknown people and then as afterthought call in child maltreatment reports? Really give me a break. Not that all cops are like that, some, especially Special Victims Detectives I've seen at work can be professional, and some uniform cops who have assisted me in cases also have been good - for one thing by not trying to take the case over from me, which is a common complaint not only from me.

So we are going to have 20 politically connected ex dicks who want to sit in a room full of young women who happen to have more educati0on than they do and act like, well, "who's da man?" and get payed royally on top of their pensions which are twice as fat as ours are. Watching Mattingly with that grin I can no longer abide on the TV while this insult is delivered to his people by the Mayor is too much for me....

Actually what else is there to this plan? More managers? Scopetta tried that too.

Scopetta and Giuliani turned ACS into a culture of toadyism and nepotism. ''Cut the overtime caseork be damned'' was the watchword and now the watchword seems to be once more, '' remove the lot of them and let the judges sort them out.'' They just about killed Civil Service and meritocracy at least as measured by objective tests. That´s what has to change, and Mister Mayor, you´re going to have to pay some overtime if you want us to go singly where cops only go in pairs or more and conduct confrontational interviews in people's homes which Special Victims never does nor for the most part any cop. They bring them to a police station where the balance of power supports the questioner and not the questionee. Oh, and they make twice what we do including their much more generous pensions, plus they get respect from their superiors, something Mr. Mattingly, nor the army of mnagers we already have never learned to give.

Bloomberg's Fix -It Plan for ACS (Child Protective Services) Two thumbs down.

I have to get ready to go to work. Stay tuned and tomorrow I'll have the break down on Bloomberg's plan and why it won't work. (And why it's really just more of the same).

MY ARTICLES ABOUT THE NIXZMARY BROWN CASE
Dear Fellow ACS workers who are members of local 371:
Baby Snatching Fools- Giuliani time returns.
Me to Bloomberg and the media: Where were you for all the other Nixzmary Browns?
Special Victims, Nixzmary, Instant Responses, Emergency Children's Services- The New York Post is Lying When They Say Giuliani Fixed CPS in New
ACS worker to The Commissioner - My Boss Says Some Things to The New York Daily News - And I React.
The Nixzmary Brown Case - Daily News gets its hands on the case record, more....
Nixzmary Brown, 7 Is Dead, Known to Child Welfare Authorities

My First Love Is In The Public Domain

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FOR RELEASE June 29, 2005
Court Rules that Marilyn Monroe Photos Belong to the World
LOS ANGELES, CA, June 29, 2005 —Yesterday, in United States District Court in Orange County, Judge Gary L. Taylor entered judgment in favor of VNU Business Media, Inc. in a copyright infringement suit over a biography of Marilyn Monroe that VNU published in 2001. The plaintiff, Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc., had sued the book publisher for copyright infringement, claiming ownership of photographs used to publicize Bus Stop and The Prince and the Showgirl, films starring Ms. Monroe in the 1950s. In granting a summary judgment motion filed by VNU, the court ruled that the plaintiff, a company owned by the son of the celebrity photographer, did not own valid copyrights in the photos because they were originally published without copyright notice at the time of the theatrical release of the films and thus fell into the public domain.
“We are extremely pleased with the result,” said Andrew J. Thomas, a Davis Wright Tremaine attorney who defended VNU in this suit. “The judge took a great deal of time and care considering both sides’ claims, but eventually sided with VNU due to the extensive historical documentation we presented.”
The suit arose from the use of seven photos of Ms. Monroe in a book that chronicled her film career titled Blonde Heat, authored by Richard Buskin and published by VNU's Watson-Guptill Publications division. The photographs were publicity shots used to promote two films in 1956 and 1957, Bus Stop and The Prince and the Showgirl , which were produced through a partnership with Marilyn Monroe and photographer Milton H. Greene. Through archive research and expert testimony, VNU was able to show that all of the photographs at issue either were published in contemporaneous newspaper advertisements and articles, or were included in the film studios' promotional materials, called “press books”, that were distributed to theater operators nationwide to assist in film marketing. Because the photographs were widely distributed without proper copyright notices on them, the photographs fell into the public domain under the copyright law in effect at the time.
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About Steven Spielberg and "Munich" In Context

EUGENE WEIXEL TO JACK BOOT: WHAT'S UP WITH THIS SUPERMAN THING?

HATE RADIO

I knew Adolf Hitler

Israel Shamir, David Duke and Me

Crown Heights, So - Called Anti - Semitism and the Ox Being Gored

If not me who? If not now, when?

speilberg, speilburg, spielburg, speelberg, speelburg

Dear Fellow ACS workers who are members of local 371:

Dear Fellow ACS
workers who are members of local 371:

My name is Eugene Weixel, I am a Child
Protective Specialist who works at Emergency Children's Services.
Like you, I have been working very hard these days. We all know that
the number of cases is skyrocketing that morale is as low as it has
ever been, that people are quitting this job and others are getting
just worn out.

Besides us, AND OUR FELLOW WORKERS BEING
BLAMED, it is the children we serve and their families who are
really being hurt by this artificial hysteria brought on by the
dirty politics in this city.

I have my own website in which I talk about
these things. It has a strange name, true, but it's one you
shouldn't easily forget: Fat Old Jewish Guy Who Lives In The
Projects and the web address is

www.fatoldjewishguywholivesintheprojects.com.
Probably like you are, I have been waiting for my union to come
forward and help us fight off this terrible attack on all of us,
especially the workers and supervisors who are being set up as the
patsies in this mess that has been going on for years. One way
we can help ourselves is to speak out and to communicate with one
another.

I invite you to look at what I have to say
and leave your own remarks and comments to be put on the internet in
my site. You can make the remarks either in your name or
anonymously. You can do it in writing or by telephone at
917-680-5034.

I will be handing out these union related
flyers at work locations in the boroughs. We are the union, not the
people who work in the union office. Let's take a stand!

Eugene Weixel member of and delegate in Local
371, SSEU.

Friday, January 20, 2006

Baby Snatching Fools- Giuliani time returns.

Me to Bloomberg and the media: Where were you for all the other Nixzmary Browns?
Special Victims, Nixzmary, Instant Responses, Emergency Children's Services- The New York Post is Lying When They Say Giuliani Fixed CPS in New York
ACS worker to The Commissioner - My Boss Says Some Things to The New York Daily News - And I React.
The Nixzmary Brown Case - Daily News gets its hands on the case record, more....
Nixzmary Brown, 7 Is Dead, Known to Child Welfare Authorities

It looks like my boss John Mattingly's dreams of
reducing the numbers of foster children, of fixing the
foster care system and making it more humane are on
indefinite hold now.

A cabal of cold blooded conspirators- Michael Bloomberg,
Mort Zuckerman and his so - called Daily News, Rupert
Murdoch's News Corporation and its flagship rag The New
York Post, Arthur Sulzberger and his disgraced once
respected New York Times, decided to take a case,

one of many they could have
picked, in which a child known to ACS was
killed, and make it into the battle cry for a new
hysteria. This looks to me like the result of cold
calculation.

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A LETTER I SAW RECENTLY AT THE OFFICE----

Dear Mr. Bloomberg and fellow ACS colleagues,
My name is Nicholas De Bello (Child Welfare Specialist) and I am writing this letter with a heavy heart that is filled with sorrow. As we all know the death of Nixzmary Brown, a beautiful seven year-old girl that loved doing mathematics and playing tag with schoolmates, was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment by the hands of her parents. This story has outraged many people across the city and beyond. Many people want to place all the blame on my agency, the Administration for Childrens Services. While I don’t have 100% of the details pertaining to this case, much like the general public doesn’t, I do know that our workers do their very best to keep families together and to help create environments for the children that are conducive to them having meaningful and positive lives. Unfortunately things don’t always work out for the best, as was the case with poor Nixzmary. I feel sorry that I haven’t done anything other than my job until this point, but now I want to be more active. I think after reading this email in its entirety you will have a better understanding of whats going on in many of the ACS field offices.
I work in Jamaica, Queens at the North Fork Savings Bank location. I will have been here for two years come February, and I must say that I have seen drastic changes in the work place since day one. For one, morale is at an all time low. Caseworkers are severely limited in the time they have with each family due to the lack of workers that we have. We have CPS workers with caseloads well into the thirties. Can you imagine being responsible for over thirty families? It’s hard enough for people to deal with their own families sometimes, let alone the well being of over thirty families, many of them not willing to be honest or truthful to the worker. Consider that most families we deal with have numerous children, so many of our caseworkers are responsible for the well being over more than one hundred children at a time. That’s not an easy thing to do considering many of the parents are divorced and live on two different ends of the borough.
Traveling is a huge problem for the workers. Due to the lack of staff in our office, we have workers that are constantly doing tons of traveling from one Community District (CD) to another. How is it possible to see more than one or two families a day if they have to see one family in Astoria and another in Far Rockaway? Workers are only allowed two field days a week, and most workers only use half the day because they need to get back to the office to prevent themselves from getting far behind in their work. We do have a system that is supposed to protect workers from having to travel from one end of the borough to another, but with the lack of staff, workers are continually assigned cases out of CD.
Another major problem that faces our workers is the Connections Build 18 that was implemented a few months ago. This new work requires us to double the amount of computer documentation that we have, thus preventing workers from having more contact with families. A big part of the Connections program is that it duplicates most of the work that we enter into ACRS plus, another program that is very time consuming. When the new Connections bill came into effect many workers began leaving as the work became increasingly more tedious and time consuming. The Connections program might be better suited for agency’s that have smaller caseloads then ours, but it’s a ridiculous waste of time for workers that need to do more with their precious time. We need to be permitted more hands on time with the families, not spending the majority of our days documenting the visits. Clearly its important to document things and keep records of whats going on, but the level of documentation prevents workers from being with the families they serve. As we all know, that can lead to disastrous results.

I have a few suggestions that might help improve moral and productivity-
We need to have more workers!! Thirty family caseloads are impossible for any person to handle. With all the families to visit and communicate with, and all the paperwork that we are required to do, we need to reduce workloads. The only way to do that is by bringing in more workers.
2- I hate to bring up money, but we need more money. I work with educated people, and don’t think for a second none of them area not aware that a person with a high school diploma or GED can make more money sweeping subways ($45,000) than a person in our position ($40,000). Where is the justice in that?? Nobody in the child protection field took this job thinking they were going to be millionaires and live in mansions (although I still aspire to win the lotto), but we need to get compensated at a level that allows us to provide for our families.
3- Another way to bring in new workers is to offer free traveling. I come from Long Island and pay $227 for a train pass, and new police cadets are riding for free. Also, I understand that officers have cards they can swipe to get into and out of subways. If our workers had that it would be much easier than filling out more paperwork at the end of the month and being shorthanded in their personal pockets until reimbursed. I know many workers that don’t even have the time during the day to file the proper paperwork to get reimbursed, thus leaving their wallets lighter and their families with less.
4- Safety. Certain cases permit us to get police escorts to the homes, but not on all of them. Many workers have to go to the worst parts of the city at night time with nothing to protect them at all. We need to allow the workers something they can carry that will allow them to defend themselves in case a problem breaks out. If that’s not possible then I suggest a police escort be given on every visit, even if they just wait outside of the home.
Like I said earlier, morale is at an all time low. But fear not, we as an agency are still filled with qualified and caring individuals who are willing to go the extra mile for the families they serve and the agency they love. We need help. We need support. We need to know that the hard work, the long hours on the computers and away from our own families is being appreciated. The good people at ACS had a hard enough time with their jobs prior to all the bad publicity that is hitting us now. It’s a shame that we live in a day and age of sensationalistic media coverage that only wants to point fingers and place blame. I don’t see media coverage about the hundreds and thousands of lives that we save every day, and maybe we are going to need more of it. The last time we were in the news for something positive was when we helped poor little Valery Lazada find a home after the horrible slaying of her mother. We help children like her everyday, although her case is obviously more extreme then many others. On a daily basis we save lives and take children out of harms way with little or no coverage from the media. We save lives, but we need help.

I’m sure nobody feels worse about Nixzmary than the worker that was assigned to helping her. Clearly she is not the only person to blame, because from what we know she followed protocol and did everything she could. The torture of Nixzmary was beyond sadistic, beyond any level of human comprehension. God bless her soul. This agency and its workers tried to save her as best they could, but unfortunately we failed. Society failed. Lets do our best not to let this happen again. Please help us get this agency back on its feet so that we can all do what we came here to do, and that’s to save the children.
Sincerely,
Nicholas De Bello and staff

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Baby Snatching Fools- Giuliani time returns.

It looks like my boss John Mattingly's dreams of reducing the numbers of foster children, of fixing the foster care system and making it more humane are on indefinite hold now.

A cabal of cold blooded conspirators- Michael Bloomberg, Mort Zuckerman and his so - called Daily News, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and its flagship rag The New York Post, Arthur Sulzberger and his disgraced once respected New York Times, decided to take a case, one of many they could have picked, in which a child known to ACS was killed, and make it into the battle cry for a new hysteria. This looks to me like the result of cold calculation.

The mayoral elections are over. Negotiations with District Council 37 are beginning, and Distric Council 37 represents the Child Welfare workers and almost all of the non uniform employees of New York City outside of the teachers. Teachers, cops, sanitation workers and others have gained substantial raises in their recent negotiations. The Transport Workers showed the world, and these little men, the power of workers in a real union. Of all the municipal workers, those represented by DC 37 command the least respect and get the least reward. Looking at what others have gotten, and how they've gotten it, they have come to expect that after all the many years of sacrifice and falling behind it was their time to catch up. The most vulenrable to attack and smear of these workers are the child protective workers and supervisors of ACS. And the attack came.

It looks like the cops in the Nixzmary case are doing what cops are wont to do, and getting away with it as they are also wont to do.

They are being allowed to jump ship. A little whisper from an anonymous cop and the press is off them.Scopetta got promoted to fire chief, and continues even now to be praised for his role in child protection, in spite of the dead children he left on his watch. The cops who went to Nixzmary's school and were assigned to investigate the criminal aspects of the case are home free or so it seems. The operative excuse is that they didn't investigate, and therefore are not responsible. Two plus two is five.

Left holding the bag are the mainly non white women who do the work of child protection and the children themselves.

I had taken a few of my accumulated holidays this week (we in emergency children's services work through holidays and take compensatory days at other times) and last night I returned to my work site (actually much of my worksite is the homes of children said to be abused, precincts, and hospitals, but we do have an office) at the renovated morgue called The Children's Center and my heart sank to the floor. There were newly removed children everywhere. I don't know how many there were but it looked like Giuliani time all over again.

My work site is the place where children who are removed at night times and weekends and holidays are brought. Since Scopetta left the place has been less and less crowded yet he had his share of children murdered:

Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, widely hailed as the mastermind behind the agency’s reinvention, is stepping down and his replacement has yet to be announced. At the same time, as if to mock all their best intentions, tragically, at least six children under the age of seven have died recently, allegedly at the hands of their abusive parents.>The list is a heartbreaking reminder of the agency’s grave responsibility: Inez Bennett, 7, found dead in her family’s Bronx apartment with a smashed jaw and hot water burns, cuts and bruises covering her body; Signifagance Oliver, 4, drowned in the bathtub by her mother in an exorcism ritual; Sylena Herrnkind, 3, beaten to death by her mother in the Staten Island home she shared with four siblings; Sidney Achan, 2, who died from multiple skull fractures and brain injuries; and Kyron Hamilton, 15 months, beaten to death by his mother who said the baby was bothering her while she watched television. A Brooklyn man was charged with second-degree murder in the death of De Andrew Monroe, the 15-month-old son of his girlfriend. According to police, the baby was shaken to death because he would not stop crying. We all know that Scopetta was elevated to Fire Commissioner in spite of this ''heartbreaking ''responsibility, and that even to this day his work at ACS is highly praised.

My boss had reduced the numbers of beds in foster care, shutting down the agencies that Scoppetta had allowed to function in spite of horrific records of non service to the kids in their care. With Bloomberg, Zuckerman, Murdoch and Sulzberger now deciding what good child protective practice is he'd best be getting back to the drawing boards.

More than me and my co workers who are being heaped with scorn, demonized and left to hold the bag, these children,are paying the horrific price of Bloomberg's cold blooded strategy and my boss´ capitulation to it.

Special Victims, Nixzmary, Instant Responses, Emergency Children's Services- The New York Post is Lying When They Say Giuliani Fixed CPS in New York

ACS worker to The Commissioner - My Boss Says Some Things to The New York Daily News - And I React.

The Nixzmary Brown Case - Daily News gets its hands on the case record, more....

Nixzmary Brown, 7 Is Dead, Known to Child Welfare Authorities

Child fatality review board.

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I plan on sticking with this Nixzmary Brown matter. I HATE LYING HYPOCRITES.

Me to Bloomberg and the media: Where were you for all the other Nixzmary Browns?

Below is a piece published in the Gotham Gazette with my response.

Nixzmary Brown, Nothing New
January 17th, 2006

In his Daily News column, Juan Gonzalez says in effect that the death of seven-year-old Nixzmary Brown, whom police allege was beaten by her stepfather, is not a new story: “A decade ago, the murder of 6-year-old Elisa Izquierdo horrified the nation. And in 1987, the dead girl’s name was Lisa Steinberg. Go back even further and the story doesn’t change… Over time, our leaders responded with a vast bureaucracy meant to protect the city’s children. A measure of how poorly that bureaucracy functions is how often City Hall keeps changing its name. Years ago, it was called the Bureau of Child Welfare, or BCW. Then it became Social Services for Children, or SSC. For the past few years it’s gone under the name of Administration for Children’s Services, or ACS. Not until Elisa’s death in late 1995 did city officials actually begin to sharply reduce the caseloads of its social workers and increase pay and training. But children, being the most powerless group in our city, are inevitably forgotten - until the next shocking murder suddenly captures the public’s attention.‿

Compiled by Jonathan
One Response to “Nixzmary Brown, Nothing New”
Eugene Weixel Says:
January 18th, 2006 at 5:22 am
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Juan Gonzalez forgot one incarnation of the agency : Child Welfare Administration.

When Nick Scopetta was leaving ACS to take on the bigger and more glamorous and important job of Fire Commissioner and a search began for his replacement (yes, after his departure) the Gotham Gazette carried the following piece (my emphasis and my further remarks):

by Caroline HowardGuest Reporter
Children’s Services
The agency whose job it is to keep the city’s children safe, the Administration for Children’s Services, is now a permanent agency, thanks to a charter proposal that the voters passed in November, after a six-year separation from the Human Resources Administration. But Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, widely hailed as the mastermind behind the agency’s reinvention, is stepping down and his replacement has yet to be announced. At the same time, as if to mock all their best intentions, tragically, at least six children under the age of seven have died recently, allegedly at the hands of their abusive parents.>The list is a heartbreaking reminder of the agency’s grave responsibility: Inez Bennett, 7, found dead in her family’s Bronx apartment with a smashed jaw and hot water burns, cuts and bruises covering her body; Signifagance Oliver, 4, drowned in the bathtub by her mother in an exorcism ritual; Sylena Herrnkind, 3, beaten to death by her mother in the Staten Island home she shared with four siblings; Sidney Achan, 2, who died from multiple skull fractures and brain injuries; and Kyron Hamilton, 15 months, beaten to death by his mother who said the baby was bothering her while she watched television. A Brooklyn man was charged with second-degree murder in the death of De Andrew Monroe, the 15-month-old son of his girlfriend. According to police, the baby was shaken to death because he would not stop crying.If the Administration for Children’s Services is……
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You won’t remember any uproar in the press at that time because there was none.


Now that this one fatality of so may is being taken seriously the strong are running for cover leaving the weak to fend for themselves. First we have the media including you, who have not found this matter very urgent until now, with this case of all the cases you could have bored in on. You can talk now of who failed and what must be done. Where have you been since the article was published above? And was anyone suggesting, like the Daily News and Post are regarding Mattingly and a whole lot of other people that Scopetta be fired? (Well in this case not promoted)?

And now NYPD, our “Finest” are jumping the ship too, leaving the caseworkers who won’t be fired and the kids still reliant upon them to navigate the current hysteria:

11:00 pm NEWSFLASH: COP WHISPER CAMPAIGN AGAINST CASEWORKERS GETS PUSH FROM NY Times:
‘’The Sunday News reported that the Children’s Services case file on Nixzmary said the detectives had helped interview her relatives, but then chose not to pursue a criminal case. The police have disputed that account, and a police official went further yesterday, providing more details of the detectives’ actions.
The police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the caseworker called the detectives from the Brooklyn Child Abuse Squad to the school out of a fear that Nixzmary’s stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, might show up and try to interfere. Normally, such a call would have been referred to uniformed officers, but since the detectives knew one of the Children’s Services workers, they went, the official said.
But by the time they arrived at the school, the caseworker’s interviews with Nixzmary and her siblings were finished, the official said, and Mr. Rodriguez had already appeared on the scene without incident. At no time did the police interview Nixzmary or Mr. Rodriguez, nor did the caseworkers ask the police to take any further action, the official said. The child welfare workers then traveled to the family home to continue their work, without the police detectives accompanying them.
The official said that Deputy Inspector Ann Marie K. Connell, the commanding officer of the Special Victims Division, which oversees all child abuse squads, was present at the meeting in City Hall on Sunday and provided those details.'’
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/nyregion/17mayor.html?pagewanted=print

If we want to believe that Special Victims Unit Detectives provide security for ACS caseworkers inside school buildings we are ready to believe anything at all. There is a protocol that lays out the cooperation that is supposed to take place between NYPD and ACS in such matters. It is called the Instant Response Protocol. The Special Victims Detectives were at the school to do their jobs which is to investigate crimes against small children in this instant. It is incredible what is being said now by NYPD both off the record and on the record. Schools employ security officers. Special Victims Detectives are not school security officers. This investigation smells more and more like an old fashioned lynching to me….
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PS- Shame on the New York Times for printing anonymous garbage from a scared cop.

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Special Victims, Nixzmary, Instant Responses, Emergency Children's Services- The New York Post is Lying When They Say Giuliani Fixed CPS in New York

From The Daily News

We never talked to girl - NYPD City policy called for cops to investigate Nixzmary Brown's injuries alongside child welfare caseworkers - but detectives never even talked with the girl, according to the NYPD and the notesFull Story

(I have this bridge I'd like to sell you....)




Archives of Rudolph W. GiulianiMAYOR'S MESSAGE
Mayor's WINS AddressSunday, February 15, 1998
New Instant Response Teams Will Protect Children Firstby Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani

MAYOR GIULIANI ANNOUNCES INSTANT RESPONSE TEAM PROGRAM TO TARGET MOST SERIOUS CHILD ABUSE CASES Hey Mike, what's up with the Instant Response Teams?

ARCHIVES OF THE MAYOR'S WEEKLY COLUMNArchives of Rudolph W. Giuliani
City's New Children's Center a Monument to Caring

As a delegagte of my local union 371 SSEU I tried mightily to stop the move to this center. For one thing there was an issue of concern over formaldehyde, since the Children's Center is a renovated morgue.

Additionally most staff come and go by private automobile and they enter and leave work at odd late hours. Parking is very tight and there are heavy fines and towing fees. We emergency children's services workers get no breaks in this regard. When one's car is in the "No parking after 8:00 AM'' zone and eight o'clock comes and one is in a precinct or hospital miles away from the car one is very very much out of luck. I don't understand how this situation helps us to investigate child abuse, do you?

I emailed virtually every City Council member and State Legislator from the city but after a delay of a few months the move went forward. We union members met with staff from Betsy Gottbaum's office but to no avail.
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How many children died in ACS care or under ACS investigation during Giuliani's term in office?

PRESS RELEASEState child fatality reports show continuing failure of child welfare agency to learn from mistakes and of state to require changes.

From Gotham Gazette during Giuliani time no, not the Daily News, not The New York Post, not any big media, because teflon was in effect>


See past monthly updates for Children.
by Caroline HowardGuest Reporter
Children's Services
The agency whose job it is to keep the city's children safe, the Administration for Children's Services, is now a permanent agency, thanks to a charter proposal that the voters passed in November, after a six-year separation from the Human Resources Administration. But Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, widely hailed as the mastermind behind the agency's reinvention, is stepping down and his replacement has yet to be announced. At the same time, as if to mock all their best intentions, tragically, at least six children under the age of seven have died recently, allegedly at the hands of their abusive parents.The list is a heartbreaking reminder of the agency's grave responsibility: Inez Bennett, 7, found dead in her family's Bronx apartment with a smashed jaw and hot water burns, cuts and bruises covering her body; Signifagance Oliver, 4, drowned in the bathtub by her mother in an exorcism ritual; Sylena Herrnkind, 3, beaten to death by her mother in the Staten Island home she shared with four siblings; Sidney Achan, 2, who died from multiple skull fractures and brain injuries; and Kyron Hamilton, 15 months, beaten to death by his mother who said the baby was bothering her while she watched television. A Brooklyn man was charged with second-degree murder in the death of De Andrew Monroe, the 15-month-old son of his girlfriend. According to police, the baby was shaken to death because he would not stop crying.
If the Administration for Children's Services is......

You won't remember any uproar in the press at that time because there was none.
To understand the situation you should read these articles I have posted on this blog:

ACS worker to The Commissioner - My Boss Says Some Things to The New York Daily News - And I React.

The Commissioner speaks of more aggressive interviews.

The Nixzmary Brown Case - Daily News gets its hands on the case record, more....

I ask if the failures seen in these excerpts provided by The News are typical or not and offer a simple way of finding out. I also point out that the famous NYPD Special Victims Unit of television fame was deep in this case. Of course the police commissioner is not on the spot nor his staff.....

Nixzmary Brown, 7 Is Dead, Known to Child Welfare Authorities

How Scopetta and Giuliani "Reformed" Child Welfare in NYC

11:00 pm NEWSFLASH: COP WHISPER CAMPAIGN AGAINST CASEWORKERS GETS PUSH FROM NY Times:
''The Sunday News reported that the Children's Services case file on Nixzmary said the detectives had helped interview her relatives, but then chose not to pursue a criminal case. The police have disputed that account, and a police official went further yesterday, providing more details of the detectives' actions.
The police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the caseworker called the detectives from the Brooklyn Child Abuse Squad to the school out of a fear that Nixzmary's stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, might show up and try to interfere. Normally, such a call would have been referred to uniformed officers, but since the detectives knew one of the Children's Services workers, they went, the official said.
But by the time they arrived at the school, the caseworker's interviews with Nixzmary and her siblings were finished, the official said, and Mr. Rodriguez had already appeared on the scene without incident. At no time did the police interview Nixzmary or Mr. Rodriguez, nor did the caseworkers ask the police to take any further action, the official said. The child welfare workers then traveled to the family home to continue their work, without the police detectives accompanying them.
The official said that Deputy Inspector Ann Marie K. Connell, the commanding officer of the Special Victims Division, which oversees all child abuse squads, was present at the meeting in City Hall on Sunday and provided those details.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/nyregion/17mayor.html?pagewanted=print

If we want to believe that Special Victims Unit Detectives provide security for ACS caseworkers inside school buildings we are ready to believe anything at all. There is a protocol that lays out the cooperation that is supposed to take place between NYPD and ACS in such matters. It is called the Instant Response Protocol. The Special Victims Detectives were at the school to do their jobs which is to investigate crimes against small children in this instant. It is incredible what is being said now by NYPD both off the record and on the record. Schools employ security officers. Special Victims Detectives are not school security officers. This investigation smells more and more like an old fashioned lynching to me....


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ACS worker to The Commissioner - My Boss Says Some Things to The New York Daily News - And I React.

http://www.nydailynews.com/01-14-2006/news/crime_file/story/382663p-324889c.html

In yesterday's New York Daily News my boss John Mattingly is quoted as saying: "We need to be more skeptical and invasive and pushy," ..."We are beginning to be extremely concerned at our inability to take that one extra step or ask that one extra question or push that one issue harder in order to make sure children are safe."..."What does stand out for me in this case is an inclination on the part of these staff to accept a story as long as it made sense to them," ..."We need to be focusing more on careful investigation and interviewing family members in ways that don't just ask them to give us a reason, but the way police detectives do - to revisit the story again and again to make sure that we have something we can believe." ..."One worries when the workers get into the field office they may be in a position where they are told, 'Well, that is what the trainers tell you - now we are going to tell you about the real world,' "

That's a lot of words and a mouthful, too.

I'm not here to tell tales out of school. I will comment on public information.

I'm not going to ask how or when this problem became apparent or when it began to be a problem. You the reader can do that.


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I am going to ask here if my boss thinks these changes are likely to cost money. I think they might, and here's why I think so:

A confrontational interview in another person's house is dangerous. Will we be traveling with police on each and every such interview? If so who will be in charge of the interview, the cops (plural) or the caseworker (singular)? Will the aim of the interview be to find out how to best protect the child or how to convict the alleged subject (or in police lingo the alleged perpetrator). Will the parent then be given Miranda rights?

In such an interview will there have to be legally certified translators involved in many of them?

A confrontational and skeptical interview takes more time than an interview that is aimed at rapidity and case closing. Do you have a problem with turnover right now? Has overtime ever been seen as an overarching problem in your agency?

I believe that you are a well intentioned, well read and educated and honest non political person who wants to do what is right and what is best for the children.

Do you think that the necessary changes can be accomplished with the tabloid press breathing down everyone's necks? How long would you guess the press is going to care about this matter? Once they move on to other things will we have the momentum and support needed to do what needs to be done?

Oh, and are any of these cynical oldtimers you speak of managers and supervisors ?

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The Nixzmary Brown Case - Daily News gets its hands on the case record, more....

This morning's online New York Daily News reports on aspects of the Nixzmary Brown case records they say they obtained. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/383118p-325249c.html.

This article points to some dismal case practice. I still say we need to pull for public review the case records of every child who died last year while under ACS investigation and /or care. I still say that we need to pull one hundred random cases right now to be reviewed by the public to see if this case as represented by today's Daily News represents typical or common or widely tolerated case practice. If it is typical or common or widely tolerated ACS case practice then it is fair to say that it represents de facto ACS policy.

NYPD says that two Special Victims Squad detectives went with ACS workers to Nixzmary's school only to provide security for the ACS case workers. Question - Is this typical use of elite Special Victims Squad Detectives ?

According to today's Daily News the ACS record indicates that the SVS detectives participated in the interviews. Question: Which version makes more sense ?

''Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs, while refusing to offer specifics, acknowledged the record of who did what in the case was muddled.
"In some cases, the information from city agencies is incomplete; in others, the accounts are not consistent," she said. One of the points under review is the role of the NYPD, which stated its child abuse detectives did not interview Nixzmary.
Police said they only provided security during interviews - and information about any previous domestic abuse calls to the family's Bedford-Stuyvesant home.
Portions of the ACS case file, obtained by the Daily News, state detectives were present during interviews with .Nixzmary and her siblings, and that detectives spoke with the child's stepfather for 15 to 20 minutes Dec. 1.
"It is crucial that we understand what took place so we can take the necessary steps to improve every aspect of how the city protects children," Gibbs said.''
http://www.nydailynews.com/01-16-2006/news/story/383105p-325241c.html

This is the Special Victims Squad whose exploits thrill millions on television. Providing security for a two caseworkers in a school ?

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Nixzmary Brown, 7 Is Dead, Known to Child Welfare Authorities

By Eugene Weixel

It's sad to hear about and read about a child dying. It's more sad to read about her being tortured. Sadder still is to learn that at the time she was killed, her plight was being investigated by the authorities charged to protect children just like her.

When I heard about it at work last night and saw the big headlines I wondered why they were making such a big thing about this case. After all, in 2004 33 children known to ACS died, and in 2005 it was 30 such children dead. In today's' New York Times they tell us "Nixzmary, who was 45 inches tall, was the fourth child from a family known to city child welfare authorities to die in a parent's home in the last two months. " and also let us know that "City officials acknowledge that the spate is unnerving, but say it is not necessarily a reflection on city policy. They say there were 30 deaths of children known to the authorities in 2005, down slightly from 33 in 2004."

Hmmm, four kids die in two months which is an "unnerving spate" when the overall rate has been MORE than that very same number. So the number of these deaths has decreased and yet we have "an unnerving spate" that gets Michael Bloomberg to the podium and all kinds of crackdown talk in the air. In 2004 how many of these deaths got the attention of The New York Times? In 2005? How many got the mayor to talk crackdown? None.

What is happening in this matter that is different from every other such incident? CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS. The union federation that represents most of the non uniformed municipal workforce is in CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS with Bloomberg. Bloomberg just got his head handed to him by the Transit workers who pushed his crazy talk of reduced pensions and skimpy wage increases paid for by "productivity" off the table in their historic "illegal" Christmas Season strike. Mike will be polite and let his attack dogs at The New York Post, the New York Daily News, right wing hate radio and the tabloid TV news shows keep the heat on the workers, who will be blamed for this "spate". Now, recently one child protective manager was suspended for falsifying a record in a media case and most likely his departure will suffice in maintaining Mike's image of "balanced" and "fair," as the lowest on the totem pole, those who do as they are told or are encouraged to do, take the rap and are characterized as dolts unworthy of any wage at all.

Not too long ago, during another contract season the Whitick case became a public matter. An investigation was publicly pledged and the pledge duly reported. The outcome of the investigation is nowhere to be found on Google, MSN or Yahoo.

It's time for a brave journalist to demand and sue for if need be the records in all these cases of dead or severely injured children previously known to ACS. It's time for a brave journalist to read the records slowly for comprehension. It's time for a "watchdog" to walk into every ACS child protective office and pull one hundred cases at random and read them carefully for comprehension and report back to the brave journalist and a judge or panel of them who aren't afraid of nor sucking up to our billionaire mayor and his friends who run New York and its tabloids.

Then let us have a "crackdown" a "revamping" a "reform" of child protective services in New York City.

It's never a good idea to have the government investigate itself.

HOW NICHOLAS SCOPETTA AND GIULIANI REFORMED NEW YORK'S CHILD WELFARE"

"STARASIA'S NIGHTMARE"

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A Chat with a Nigerian Friend.

I know a few Nigerian New Yorkers and I had this interesting conversation with one of them.

Before I start off let me make a few things clear:

1- I'm not against immigrants in the US whether they are called legal or not.
2- Immigrants are indespensible to the life of my city and probably to the place you live in too.
3- My wife is from Venezuela and her kids are US citizens born here.

We started out talking about Israel and things Jewish. I said that once upon a time (not now) Israel served American purposes and I gave a few examples:

a- They defeated Soviet armed and trained military forces.
b- Some of the soldiers they used to do that had also served in the Soviet armed forces and then came here and were debriefed.
c- They helped a lot through the "Free Soviet Jewry" campaigns to bankrupt by "brain drain" the USSR, as a large portion of their university educated population were either Jewish, had at least one Jewish grandparent, or could make such a claim.

Like other countries where it's not easy to get rich (in fact it was illegal in the USSR to try to get rich) lots of such people want to immigrate to rich "dog eat dog" societies where they feel they can use the education given them free at home to make themselves rich.

My Nigerian friend then told me about the recent visit of his cousin to New York. This cousin had recently had serious surgery. Now, only people of means in Nigeria get sophisticated medical care, and he had to travel to Great Britain to get this surgery. In fact there were no specialists he could have used in Nigeria (none that he could find, anyhow).

Guess what? The doctors he saw in England were all Nigerians! Well, I asked, what if Nigeria were to forbid doctors to emigrate and get rich in Europe and America? Or tax them heavily? Or demand they spend x years at home first? Wouldn't they be called "tyrannical" "authoritarian" or even "totalitarian" for limiting the human right of people to take a free or cheap education given by a poor country and using it to get rich someplace else?

He said "I would be a totalitarian."

Would you?

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General Grant houses is one of the projects where they have cameras watching the playgrounds, the walkways, the hallways, the building lobbies, the insides of the elevators.

Back in the days when I knew everything there was to know and was a member of a leftist cult I'd have had one response which was "the people ' (not us revolutionaries though) would need to "take the cameras out."

We were the guys running around yelling "tear down the jails" and "cops out of Harlem." I was on some picket line or other yelling this stuff when a black matron of around fity or so told me I was nuts and wanted genocide for black people. Though it burned in my mind, I kept parroting the words.

Now I know better. I don't like a lot of what cops do and don't do, but 'till I can replace them they are going to have to stay a while. And same for jails. I'd let out maybe 3/4 of the people in there and maybe a few hundred thousand suits not inside need to be inside too, but for the 1/4, well, what's your plan mister white revolutionary?

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I prefer the field to the office especially when I end up enmeshed in a real case. By "real case" I mean a case with some adrenalin pumping stuff. Recently I was on the road with my Black Muslim partner and we went to a case where there had been an anonymous report that the two parents in the house fought furiously around their eleven month old baby and that this kid was at risk because of it.

We got to apartment building at around 2:45 AM and I rang the doorbell. After about fifteen minutes of ringing, waiting, ringing and waiting a man answered through the intercom and he buzzed us in. There was no elevator to the fifth floor apartment. The mom let us in and claimed that there was no man in her apartment at all, just the baby and she and her black eye, I guess, making three.

I said "Look Ms., Ms., how stupid do we look to you?" She said something along the lines of "for real mister there ain't no guy up in here." I said "Okay Ms., I admit I look pretty dumb, but look at my p[partner over there. How stupid do you think he is?"

My partner said "Now come on lady don't start off lying in here. Where'd you get the black eye? And where's the baby? We need to see him." He's in the bedroom, wait a minute, okay?" She vanishes and brings the kid out to the hallway.

My partner says "We need to see where he sleeps to, and his diapers and his formula."

"The room is messy I'm ashamed" says the mom.

I say "Not to worry lady. It's the middle of the night. This isn't a military inspection here. We need to see the baby and who's in there with him. And where did you get the black eye?"

"I was fighting with some girls outside" Says mom.

The guy speaks up "I told you not to lie to them. Now they're gonna take Hector. You piss them off! Shit!"

I look at my Muslim brother and say: " Lets call 911 and get some help here. We got a tough guy in there."

My fellow road warrior agrees.

Up the stairs they huff and puff, half the precinct. Then the ambulance guys arrive.

The trick is to use the cops but not let them take over the case. Sometimes you can and sometimes you can't and sometimes they're okay anyhow.

While the lady is telling the ambulance guy about her fight with "the girls outside" Romeo is telling the truth, or a lot of it anyhow. "I was sitting right here with the kid in my arms like this and the speaker phone on. I was talking with my ex. She likes to fight. She was swinging at me 'cause I was on the phone." (Whaaa?)

Then Romeo who lives in Idaho according to his driver's license demonstrates for the cops and me how he "just swung a little bit and my finger tips here they brushed on her face. See how the mark is shape like a finger?"

I figure "this guy's a goner now." The cops just stand there. No one is calling the Sergeant. Maybe it's because of Christmas?

The ambulance guys look the baby over and the mom's black eye. "It's a week or so old", one of them tells us. "The baby's fine. And clean too."

I tell the dad here. "Listen your driver license is expired, get a new one. And count yourself one lucky guy because I never saw the cops not arrest someone like you."

"And" I tell him: "Don't put a finger on this lady again. And don't be yelling at her about how she lied to us and almost this or could ha' that. The daytime people might take you to court anyhow but we are letting the kid stay here tonight."

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Then there was this one (next day):

There's a report that this mom who has had three kids removed for drugs and domestic violence had a kid in the living room three months ago and didn't tell a doctor or anyone else.

We go (me and my Muslim brother) and a guy named Paul says he isn't gonna let us in and that Leslie isn't here and Steve don't live here. We come back with cops because this is no joke either, a baby in a crack den, no doctor ever seen him and so forth. There are four adults on the ground floor. One owns the building (a two family) and says he's Steve's brother. "I don't know where the fuck is. He's fifty three years old. I don't wipe his ass."

There's a young looking woman in his bed. "Miss who are you? Do you have ID? Do you know Leslie? Where's her baby?"

No ID, Doesn't know Leslie. "What baby?"

Into the front of the first floor that is separated sort of like another apartment but doesn't have its own bathroom or kitchen. There's a woman on the bed and another guy in there. Says her name is Gloria Rivera (she looks white to me) and that the baby crib, the pampers, the formula are all for this kid who lives up the block. She has no ID, doesn't know Leslie very well she doesn't live around here, and doesn't know where Steve is.

The cops start rooting around in earnest. A lady cop pulls this guy out of the closet. A crackhead. I learned how to recognize them when I was a taxi driver. They have these young faces that are aged at the same time. Can't exactly explain it or describe it but I know it. Learned the very hard way. Like a new car that's been in a few fender benders and not been washed lately.

The Sergeant is in his face yelling "where's the baby!?" The guy pisses his pants. Really. (Not the Sergeant, the guy on the floor). The guy starts crying. The Sergeant amps it up. "Where's your fuckin' ID?! Who the freak are you!? Where's the baby stop fucking with me!?"

The guy is really crying now "I don't know I swear."

"Get the fuck out of my precinct and if you ever come back, if I ever see you, I'll run your prints and find all your warrants. Like that? Now beat it. Go! Count yourself lucky Christmas has twelve days."

Now, all of a sudden Ms. Rivera is really Leslie Gilbert.

Down in the basement is where we find the baby in this crawl space with the dad and two other guys. They get chased out for Christmas. (Not the dad, he's going to jail like the mom.)

At the hospital the doctor says the baby is fine, just needs his vaccinations. I go back to the precinct to give the cops the details of the history for the D.A. and give the mom her 701B which is like her reciept.

I hope mom doesn't have a sister like herself to raise this kid. I hope the kid gets a chance at life.

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I travel the web where my thoughts and arguments might take me. Lately I've been loitering around the David Duke website, Stormfront. They have a discussion board for "opponents" and that's where I have some remarks posted. Some comments I got there made me realize that some fascists have notions that might be shared by the general public. One little storm trooper accused me of moving into a hellhole to get attention.

Whoa, how far from the truth! I moved here because it is not a hellhole. My wife already lived here. Her daughters are enrolled in nearby accelerated school programs and are happy here. The building is well kept. No one looks at me angry or cross eyed. If I'm running up the path a neighbor will hold the door open for me and say "good morning." I do the same.

We have a small four room apartment that has heat in the winter time, hot and cold running water, a toilet that works, electricity all the time, and an interesting view from the seventeenth floor. Once we were awakened at around five in the morning by a gaggle of detectives looking for someone I don't know, other than that no one has bothered me.

People in the General Grant Houses work, sweep outside their doorways, send their kids to school, celebrate Christmas and Kwanza, take in foster children, go to church and mosque, baby sit for each other, borrow and lend cups of milk and sugar, have love affairs, have arguments, call in sick to go to a ballgame, do all the things people do.

I'm happy here. I love this neighborhood. Don't cry for me, okay?

The name for this blog came to me after I moved here. I know that I am who I describe and that makes me maybe one in a million or so. I don't want to drop the political side of this blog, but I want to get deeper into everyday life here too.

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I had an online chat with Mr. Jack Boot of the David Duke website, "Stormfront" in which the "Superman" concept came up. As this concept rarely comes up I decided to give special treatment and add an audio comment. The online conversation is available if you click the title of this article.

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