The audit comes on the heels of a separate analysis documenting that as many as 36 children died of abuse or neglect while receiving services from the Maryland Department of Human Resources or within a year of leaving the state's care.
Those deaths, between 2001 and 2004, account for about 30 percent of all child-abuse fatalities in Maryland in that time, raising concerns among child advocates and lawmakers about whether the agency assigned to protect children has let some slip through the cracks.
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One of those who will oversee that effort, Del. Talmadge Branch (D-Baltimore), said this week that he is shocked that nothing has been done to resolve the agency's chronic problems.
"What is it that's going on over there?" asked Branch, who is vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "We need someone closely looking at the causes of these deaths and focusing on that to find measures that might prevent any more of them."
Branch said he was particularly concerned about the audit's finding that social workers failed to make monthly visits to check on children under their supervision.
"Using telephone calls is not working," Branch said. "We created a state law that said they had to go out and see these children face to face, and they're not complying with it. I don't know what their thinking is, but certainly, this is not working."
People like to point out market failures but gloss over government failures. It's important to shine just as much light on government failures.
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I'm Maryland Senator Roy Dyson's cousin, Faith Dyson, and I've been trying to get Maryland investigated for it's crimes since they abducted my legally competent, Functionally Autistic, ADULT sons, Robert and Michael Dyson, in July of 2000.
They are VIRGINIA RESIDENTS not even eligible for Maryland "Services", have been defrauded into remaining with the state through every kind of lie imaginable told to them, myself, the school system, the rest of their family, and every dept I've called for help, which lies told by the Calvert County DSS supervisor Doreen McKensie, have been reported to and even witnessed by The State's Attorny's Office, The Maryland Disablity Law Center, The Oklahoma Disability Law Center.
The Md. Health Care Quality Office is also involved in this crime. They claimed the caregiver, Mrs. Charlethia Awkward of Lusby, Md.,( who had a son in jail for murder ), wasn't in need of a license with them, that is, not until The Md. Baptist Family Services called asking the same question. The MD. OHCQ then admitted that the lack of this license made Mrs. Charlethia Awkward a criminal.
Has she been investigated and jailed? No. Why not? Because Governor Ehrlich's office reports that : "All law enforcement agents in the state of Maryland are ordered not to investigate anything that goes on in ANY DSS run home", which leaves the whole foster, disabled and elderly population in that state wide open to abuse, exploitation and death.
The Abduction of Robert and Michael Dyson is only the tip of the iceberg in Maryland HUMAN TRAFFICKING. In 1998 MD. DSS took 48,000 children from their homes claiming abuse or neglect, however, only 14,000 were found to come from any kind of dangerous home situation, yet the other 34,000 never went home.
They were fraudulently floated through the Maryland System for the Federal Funding this brings into the districts, one of which is Sentator Dyson's, ( District 29 ), in which he's sold up his own flesh and blood as well. Don't listen to the administration whine about having a lack of funds. They get between $40,000 and $150,000 per year per child that has already been admittedly not spent on the kids for their welfare. ( See other reports on the failure of Md. to pay for te children's medical welfare. ) It goes into district pockets instead.
As I was calling around trying to get a newspaper to investigate and report these abductions, fraud, and Human Trafficking violations, I came across a person who shall remain nameless at this point and told her this story. She got very quiet then said : "I know those children never went home. I was a legal aide lawyer at that time, my colleagues and I noticed the same thing, and none of the kids were returned to their families even when the parents fulfilled all of the requirements of the state."
Isn't about time someone looked into ALL of this mess? It sure won't be the state that does it. This makes them all liable for Federal FINE$$$$$$$$ and jail time.
Think they don't know about this fraud? Sure they do. I've told them and so has other Advocates in the DC/VA/MD area. Maybe you should add your voices to this crusade as well.
I'd like my sons freed from the criminals who took them and use denial of food and threats of sedation on them to get them to do as they want. They've never had to take medication in their lives and the psychotropics with which they're threatened could kill them.
Every male in the Dyson family dies of liver damage - including their father who died during their abduction in 2001. Psychotropics cause liver damage... Someone, Please, save Robert and Michael from "Maryland Care" before they're DEAD TOO!!!!
Again, this is only the tip of the iceberg of criminal activity/corruption I've uncovered by Maryland administrators re: my son's "case", ( No one has even gone to court to legally do this to them. ), and that of other Maryland children. I can be contacted through freethetwins(at)yahoo.com for more info that goes all the way from Paris Glendenning's administration to the local sheriff's office. They're ALL involved - even the Attorney General's office..
By the way, I found this blog through a link from the article on this subject at The Washington Post. I've repeatedly called them as well as The Washington Times and The Baltimore Sun, have given them ALL the above information plus more that goes all the way up to Dick Cheney's office in the White House, all to no avail.
Let's see how long the Post's link to Blueberrytofu remains on their site after this report gets back to Bob Ehrlich's and Roy Dyson's offices.
The latter is up for re-election, you know. If he sells his own flesh and blood for funding what do you think he'll do to mere constituents?
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