Couple Keeps Their 5 Kids From Being Detected

[BNWriter]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20101129_Cops__Parents_kept_five_kids_hidden.html

Hope this is not a d_b, but this is a terrible way for these kids to start their lives all on account of their parents. Makes you wonder how many more we will all wind up reading about or paying for in some way or another down the road.

 

[YankeeFan]

York County Children and Youth Services became aware of the family through anonymous tips in 2003 and again in 2007, but police said that Johnson refused to cooperate with caseworkers.

The agency got another anonymous referral in 2009, this time from someone claiming to be a family member who had seen the children. The agency contacted Johnson again, but he remained uncooperative, court documents state.

That led caseworkers to get a court order giving them permission to enter the dilapidated house on South Duke Street. By the time they arrived, the family had fled.

Why the hell didn't they do a better job on this 7 years ago?

Those poor children were sentenced to 7 years of hell because they didn't do their job.

 

[Ace]

So they

York County Children and Youth Services became aware of the family through anonymous tips in 2003 and again in 2007, but police said that Johnson refused to cooperate with caseworkers.

The agency got another anonymous referral in 2009, this time from someone claiming to be a family member who had seen the children. The agency contacted Johnson again, but he remained uncooperative, court documents state.

That led caseworkers to get a court order giving them permission to enter the dilapidated house on South Duke Street. By the time they arrived, the family had fled.

Why the hell didn't they do a better job on this 7 years ago?

Those poor children were sentenced to 7 years of hell because they didn't do their job.

So the caseworkers couldn't do anything because the parents wouldn't cooperate?

That's like the police saying they couldn't arrest anyone because the criminals would not cooperate.

 

[HC]

Having just finished reading "Room" this really hit me. Those poor children.

"She understands she had some shortcomings as a parent, but her love and desire to have the children and wanting to be there for her children has not changed," Gross said.. Really?

 

[93Devil]

Parents can play a game on this where the answers can be "we homeschool" or "we are about to move" and fly under the radar for years.

Was this family collecting welfare or on medicade? If they were not, then they would be very tough to catch.

 

[Ace]

Parents can play a game on this where the answers can be "we homeschool" or "we are about to move" and fly under the radar for years.

Was this family collecting welfare or on medicade? If they were not, then they would be very tough to catch.

What's different here is that the neighbors said they never heard or saw any kids.

It's these kinds of stories that give home schooling a creepy vibe to me -- unless your kids are immersed in non-school activities.

 

[93Devil]

Ace, there are a lot of people in the world, and some of them do sick things to their children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece

What they were uncovering in the 1970s when it because law to send children to school was, well, disturbing.