Child Protective Services and Logan's Experience

Child Protective Services and Logan’s Experience
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Child Protective Services and Logan’s Experience
There has been a heated debate in the recent past about what is the appropriate measure to take to ensure there is a balance between saving a child and destroying a family from which the child is to be taken from. "Failure to Protect" is a story of a girl by the name of Logan, who lost her life as a result of the negligence of Maine's Child protective services (Failure To Protect, The Taking and murder Of Logan Marr Frontline, a PBS Documentary, 2017). Maine Child protective services failed to conduct a thorough scrutiny of the foster parent's background before entrusting them with someone else's child. This essay serves to enlighten and bring to record the loopholes within the Childcare services through a true story of a 5-year-old girl.
The death of Logan Marr in their home in Chelsea, where she was found bound in the basement with a tape and strapped into a chair sparked a lot of reactions from the public. According to the public the state had failed to protect this young girl. The state had earlier ordered Logan to be moved out of the care of her mother, Christy Marr upon an allegation that she was being mistreated. These allegations of both physical and sexual abuse had no evidence to back them up yet the State through the Department of Human Services hurriedly terminated Christy's parental rights (Failure To Protect, The Taking and murder Of Logan Marr Frontline, a PBS Documentary, 2017).
The decision made by the State was so drastic yet they failed to do a full detailed public scrutiny of the foster mother, Sally, just because it was and still is a norm that in every system privacy law and confidentiality agreements are the order of the day (Failure To Protect, FRONTLINE: PBS, 2003). Child Protective Services workers include social workers whose sole duty is to ensure the safety of children at all times even within households. According to Offen, (2017), the Child Protective Services had a duty to play in ensuring the safety of Logan.
Child Protective Services workers were supposed to give Christy Marr counseling services and from time to time visit with her to check any improvements. On the other hand, the Department of Human Services ought to have given Christy Marr a listening ear to present her side of the story to counter the allegations brought forward against her, which in fact had no substantial evidence to back them up. The ...