Wow. CPS takes your kid away, and promptly proves that they aren't capable of being a safe guardian either.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2025
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Raised by wolves
Hessian wolf-children[19]: 15–7 [20] (1304, 1341 and 1344) lived with the Eurasian wolf in the forests of Hesse:
- The first boy (1304) was taken by wolves at age 3 and found when 7 or 8 by Benedictine monks, the wolves having cared for him by "surrounding him in cold weather, and fed him the best meat from the hunt." He was later sent to the court of Prince Henry, and became accustomed to human society but said he preferred the wolves.[21]
Frankly, Alabama, I think that you need to up your child-rearing game to at least wolf-level.
This is fucking infuriating. Pure rage.
I remember being in a car too long around the age of 5/6. I'm middle aged, I still remember due to the mild trauma.
Fuck. This poor kid died suffering, crying, screaming. Until he probably passed out due to exhaustion and dehydration.
FUCK.
Those involved deserve prison. Long sentences.
Let's not forget that this was after he had his entire concept of safety and security shattered due to being taken away from his family.
This involved have never deserved the air they breathe.
This is one of those cases where I wish we had old time "punishment fits the crime" laws.
Don't get me wrong. If we're gonna have a systemic and capital punishment conversation I am absolutely for systems that rehabilitate and work towards reintegrating criminals into society. Failures like this are systemic failures that should really not be only blamed on the individual idiot that did this. We shouldn't have a system that can literally lose a kid for hours. There should be no way for this to even happen. Even IF the person that did this specifically meant to kill the kid (which I hope not).
Having said that. My monkey brain wants the person that did this to have to sit in a hot car until they die.
yea ideally not just the contracted worker, anyone involved in setting up such a soulless shit piece of a system
If you feel anger. Good. You should. The easiest target is the worker. But ask yourself this. Why was there only one?
The general rule for most professions that deal with kids is that adults should never be alone 1 on 1 with a kid.
This worker is probably paid the least of any profession that deals with children, and they are asked to do it alone, with no backup to help catch mistakes.
So I blame the state for not investing in the well-being of children.
That being said, this worker should still be held criminally accountable for the death of this child. Regardless of the states culpability in not allocating enough money to hire the number of workers necessary to care for the children they supervise, this person was still criminally negligent.
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If the state actually invested in things besides private prisons and locking people up for smoking a joint it wouldn't be such a miserable backwards shithole but if the dirt roads leading to the redneck's trailers out in the sticks were paved they wouldn't have their trucks covered in mud every time they went into town and that would infringe on their cultural identity as tribal swamp people.
Yeah but it wasn't like the kid was left in the car for 20 minutes according to the article they were in there for multiple hours. How do you forget about a kid for hours and hours on end?
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Nah, fuck this opinion. Parents are required to be good parents regardless of how they're getting paid and somebody who has been entrusted to ensure the safety of a child regardless of how they're getting paid should do so in a way that does not ensure their death. When your entire job is child healthcare, forgetting a child in a hot car is completely inappropriate. Not only should they be blackballed from this industry, but they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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Ah yes, the ol', "I don't get paid enough for this shit", defence for letting a child die while in your custody. Solid.
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This looks to be a case of manslaughter, defined by state law as if one "(1) Recklessly causes the death of another person." For criminal liability, it really is that simple. The person who did the immediate bad act is charged with the most severe crime.
It seems you want to blame the state. Great! Talking about civil liability, you can be sure the victim's family will sue the worker, their company, and the state, and they'll probably settle out of court because it's a sure win for the plaintiff.
So the family managed to at least keep him alive for 3 years, the state takes him and he's dead after a few hours. This isn't going to go well for anybody. Poor kid.
For...several....HOURS
I know it's horrifying. This isn't a momentary lapse there's no defence for it. It's so bad I'm wondering if it's deliberate
Yeah when it's the parent who does it, it's usually because they're completely exhausted from trying to tend to the baby and... Tragic.
But this is a person in the clock...?
I mean idk I'd like to know more about this person's general wellbeing/state. Are they working 3 jobs? Dealing with loss or something? Or was this just a day at work?
If you have ever met an actual cps worker you would know. They don't take that job for the money. They are asked to work in often horrible circumstances, with thier hands essentially tied behind thier backs. Just imagine taking a child to visit a parent who isn't allowed to be alone with thier own kid. That often is going to be heartbreaking and insanely stressful.
Mistakes happen. If the state/community really cared, there would always be at least two workers with a child in custody at any time. And they would be paid better so that the hiring manager could be more choosy about who they hired. Google spends more on redundancy alone to ensure you can always read your email. So don't blame the person, blame the system the put them in over thier head.
I don't care how "tied" your hands are. A child in a hotbox for HOURS is on you. Unless they had been awake for 36 hours straight or something there's no excuse and even that excuse is weak. You don't just FORGET that you put a child in a fucking car for hours. Not unless there's a severe cognitive issue like drug use or exhaustion.
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Workers contracted? Independent contractors are allowed to have custody of children? That's psychotic.
Privatizing everything possible so the maximum number of shitbags enjoy the grift is a repugger wet dream.
Sounds like that should be illegal. You would at least hope it is but we will sub contract anything.
The fact CPS is part of the Department of Human Resources seems about on par for Alabama
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I am so fucking angry. Fuck Alabama.
Toss the perpetrator in a dumpster in Death Valley and lock the top.
The whole domain of foster care, CPS/CYF offices, and adoptions is a huge and tragic world that exists all around us but is invisible to most people.
Almost anybody who works in that world is in the same situation as jobs like teachers and game developers where passionate people are aggressively exploited by the business drones. But they have to deal with sadder higher stakes while getting even worse pay and nowhere near the resources they need. So then they become victims of the system too.
And we all know that here in the US at least, our population does not give a fuuuuuuck about living children breathing air outside wombs. And when they are poor and "urban?" Forget about it.
I can hear conservative distant relatives now: "Sounds like his baby mama should have taken better care of him!" (Of course with the term "baby mama" shoehorned in where it doesn't fit in order to make sure the sentence ends with an air of racism and dehumanization of an innocent child)
Oklahoma DHS let a Cherokee girl die just last week. THREE WEEKS MISSING, no report, the just found her body.
According to the article the woman picked him up from daycare, went to a supervised visit with the father, then ran errands with K.J. still in the backseat for an hour instead of bringing him back to daycare, then went home and left him for 5 hours still strapped in the backseat and was only made aware he was still there when the daycare called to see why he hadn't been returned.
How the hell do you forget you have child in a car? That has to be a drug situation or some kind of mental impairment.
How the hell do you forgot you have child in a car?
This situation aside, quite easily. Especially if not your own, you don't drive kids places often, are exhausted or feeling unwell, have too much other stuff getting overwhelming, and of course the kid being nice and quiet. Possibly also just leaving the kid there for a short time at first, and then forgetting, which would be the irresponsible way under these conditions (heat, closed windows, no escape).
It can happen to anyone, according to research. I can’t fathom the guilt someone must feel over such a horrific accident.
Several hours? Unbelievable! JFC!
If I lived in Alabama and CPS tried to take my child away, I would rather die protecting him.
Exactly. Even if the parents are unsafe for the kid, the government's just proved that it's even worse. Good luck trying to get people to give up their kids voluntarily.
It's not just Alabama.
Georgia has repeatedly failed my kids by not preventing them from being abused (obviously not by me)
This country has repeatedly proven itself to just not care about people, especially kids and the elderly. It's depressing and horrifying and monstrous. Guess we can add that to the pile of depravity.
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“Rather than properly returning K.J. immediately to day care, the worker made numerous personal errands with K.J. buckled in a car seat in the back of her car,” French told CNN.
wtf
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