“It can’t happen here” – Frank Zappa
Department of Human Services employees have been arrested in Philadelphia on child abuse charges
Anne Marie Ambrose, commissioner of the Department of Human Services, said she could not explain why some of her 1,900 employees failed to save Danieal after receiving four complaints about her welfare. She could also not explain why that staff had allowed a private contractor working on the girl’s case to neglect her.
I first found out about it from this blog and you can download the Grand Jury PDF from there. The Grand Jury PDF is the most shocking and has a photo of the abuse.
you can also download the Grand Jury report directly from here
Just keep repeating “it can’t happen here, it can’t happen here”
It’s true that in Danieal’s case, a private agency demonstrated callous indifference towards her plight, even as it was busy forging paperwork and bilking taxpayers for nonexistent services rendered.
But it could get away with it because its customer, the Philadelphia DHS, was complicit in its crimes. One administrator even admitted to the grand jury that falsifying and backdating reports was common practice at the agency
Gee, wonder if that’s common practice with San Francisco Department of Human Services?
It can’t happen here, could it? I’ve seen an awful lot of people carried out on stretchers over the years at one SF DHS contractor
From the Philadelphia Grand Jury report
On a curious side note, Tenderloin Housing Clinic only very recently started the practice of checking on their clients in their rooms once a week. They didn’t before, and people would only know because of the smell, and I don’t know if this has anything to do with it
Remember, things like this do not show up in audits. They only get detected and fixed when people speak up
The non disclosure agreements that Randy Shaw forces all of his (Tenderloin Housing Clinic – primary contractor to San Francisco DHS)) employees to sign explicitly prohibits something like this from being made public, even if it does happen