THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN by Ray Ferris
A children’s minister once told me that 30% of cases are
over-investigated and 30% under-investigated. Looks like he was unintentionally
saying that his staff got it wrong 60% of the time. To anyone who has had
dealings with that ministry, this will come as no surprise. This blog has been
primarily concerned with the cases of over-investigation. Those cases where a
family has been persistently pursued and harassed when there was no good reason
to do so. I want to write about cases on the other side of the coin. Those cases
where the social workers turned a blind eye to neglect and abuse and left
children to live in misery for years.
