Listen to this shit

On the news this morning...

A woman sobbing and carrying on on TV - suing Florida because her birth daughter committed suicide on Facebook live while in foster care.

She was removed from her mother's home and was in foster care for the past 7 years...



Am I missing something here? Why does she get a settlement ? She should benefit off the death of a child she didn't raise ?

She should really be on TV fake crying ?

Jesus Christ!

You aren't missing anything....

Maybe she should be asking herself why her daughter was so troubled?

She said ...and I quote ..."I trusted Florida foster care to take care of my baby"



Wow good strategy

I'm going to assume that she is looking at her daughter's death as a way to make some quick cash.

I truly hope that she doesn't get a nickel. If someone is found liable that money should go to charity.

Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if she won. There is something fundamentally wrong with our system.

Posted by brianafay
She said ...and I quote ..."I trusted Florida foster care to take care of my baby"



Wow good strategy

Fucking hell! That is twisted. She is either crazy or ..... evil

No I totally get where you're coming from but I looked at it from a similar standpoint and came to a different conclusion ...from what I've seen it does take a lot to have your child removed ...plenty of kids have died at the hands of unfit parents and it comes out there was years of documented abuse and the children should have been removed.

So, to me, that meant you must have really fucked up to have your kid taken and were unable to get her back for 7 years

You don't get to profit off her death

It is just tragic that her foster parents were negligent and did not stop her from taking her own life...but that happens when children are with birth parents too

Posted by PVandJelly
I'm on the fence about this. I'm not saying she should be getting money. But at the same time kids have died in care due to the concerns of birth parents falling on deaf ears.

Additionally, children are sometimes removed from their parents home, and then put in a foster home with other types of abuse occurring which is less scrutinized. Some of those kids would have been safer with their birth parents. I've heard some not good things about Florida foster care system.

Also, once kids are put into foster care, the parents are sometimes expected to jump through unrealistic hoops to get them back. I had one client...in my very very brief stint as a foster care worker...who ended up homeless trying to get her child back. I inherited the case from a worker who quit. Any way, she was expected to do all these parenting classes during business hours. And maintain stable income and shelter. Her job fired her, because she was taking too many days off. She lost her home. She couldn't get another job because of her homeless status. I don't know if she ever got her kids back.

I only had one family who got their kids back. But it's usually a 1 year turn around before people get their kids back, and only if they are stable enough to meat all their service goals. When I did CPS, I tried to exhaust every avenue before removal. Because once they come into care, it takes almost an act of God to get your kids back.

After 7 yrs in care, I wonder why they did not terminate parental rights and start looking for adoptive parents.

very informative, and very very true in a lot of social cases. Some states are really fucked up badly with the corruption.

you fight and fight and fight for your child but they have to go through a "system"...

it sucks like that. I was also informed that you have to write letters to the Judge who handles your cases, if you had to go through child custody, but that is not going to sway his /her decision.

some parents are not even fucked up or messed up, but if the man (as an example) this happened in real life years ago when I was a teen, talked to another girl who was a teen mother, but she had lost her child to an older guy who had money and power, mostly a good, honest working job, and he can take away her child and claim her UNFIT mother. She fought and fought but she could never get her baby back. He made her case like she was this totally unfit young woman who couldn't provide. Which is TRUE, in the eyes of the courts.

because she didn't have a steady paying job which you're supposed to have, and yes she could get on welfare, get money from the government until she finds work. I think too, welfare will help you find a job. But they have to find babysitters first too, can't just leave them at home without someone to care. So she had NO money for that either, and no family close. It was awful all around.

but I think she would have done all she could to keep her baby.

but if you're up against a man who has money and power, you will lose a lot.

edit she wasn't taking drugs or anything bad either... she was UNFIT because she could not provide.

if you can't provide or care for your baby you will be unfit, so many cases, doctors/ect will talk to you personally private in the office to ask you if you want to GIVE UP your baby...for adoption...

Right so hurt she wants to profit off it

I'm all for her bringing awareness to a broken foster care system

But not the way she's doing it with a 1800ASKGARY lawyer who is out for profit only

Another teenage girl committed suicide on Facebook right before this and she wasn't in foster care

Posted by P6X58DE
Just so you know, don't ever judge a scene like this without knowing personally what is going on, not everyone in care is in for the same reasons, and that parent is most likely very hurt.

Also jw if I missed something ? You seem to know something I don't , so please share so I can understand

first off, WHY did she get a settlement??

I don't care if she gets money or not. So what? money doesn't give much of a replacement for your child at all.

if the courts awarded her money, why— you don't win because they were right.

they were wrong, and she found something wrong.

they most likely investigated and found out how awful her living was, due to what went on...

and awarded her the money.

Perhaps it's for exposure to the way the system is fucked up.