In a juvenile courtroom, the judge reprimanded the caseworkers, the attorneys, and CASA for responding to a no-fault dependency case as an abuse case, “There is nobody bad here! There were no criminals. There was no crime.
Then why were we sitting in the accused chairs?
As an infant, Daniel entered the foster care system as a result of severe neglect, which manifested in violence and aggression later in his childhood.
After Daniel was hospitalized 11 times within two years, DCFS presented Jim and Toni with two brutal choices. Pick him up and be charged with child endangerment for failure to protect the other children, or leave him at the hospital and be charged with neglect. Find out how Jim and Toni endured oppression and injustice at the hands of the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, before discovering that his treatment was covered under the Medicaid card that he received as part of a special needs adoption. Learn how they battled the state to save their son.
With Forewords by:
Dr. Ronald S. Federici and Karl Dennis
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