We doan need no s****kin' CPS!
Highly unlikely, but:
"Authorities found Kateland had 3,400 milligrams of salt in her
stomach when she died April 9, 2001, said Gary Hayes, a deputy coroner
in Imperial County. More salt had already passed into her system at
the time of her death, he said. "
Note that last sentence. 3,400 mg remaining might suggest her system
was suffused with salt and could not absorbe more...leaving this
residue.
Usually a system of laboratory reduction, various methods find
different substances, is used. The entire body would have to be
reduced to discover how much had actually passed into her system.
This ranks right up there with hot peppers in the mouth as a
"sensible" discipline, or castor oil, now doesn't it?
I'm just guessing of course but it does go to show how wonderfully
free to devise such tortures parents are now going to be what with
Bush's signing of the new CAPTA.
While CPS workers are off trying to convince now skitterish judges to
issue a warrant the parents get to disappear the witness or cow them
or manipulate them into recanting. Lovely situation.
Lots more investigation AFTER injury or death.
If you'd like to know more of the truth of what CPS has to deal with
in the aftermath of such treatment of children by their parents
subscribe to The New York Times, that paragon of liberal reportage
that usually is hot for a negative story about CPS and see what they
say in this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/nyregion/30FOST.html
More than 300 of the 4,000 or so New Jersey children who spent time in
the inpatient wards in the last year — children ages 6 to 17 — were
foster children. They spent, on average, a month in the wards, four
times the average stay for other children.
Hospital administrators, child welfare officials and others say there
is just no real alternative — that scarcely any spots are available in
residential after-care, and that even fewer foster families are
capable of taking in difficult children.
These children are so damaged by their parents they cannot even be
cared for adequately by foster parents. The untold story here is that
some that end up in these facilities cannot even be stablized...too
damaged when they come into the system.
Best, Kane
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