been many discussions about Child Protective Services,

otherwise knows as SRS. This writer has read many articles

regarding their services and what they are suppose to offer

children, protecting them from abuse and neglect. Not only

do they step in and removed children from abusive and

neglectful situations, SRS also takes into their care,

children who are deemed delinquent. Unfortunately for this

writer, I have seen SRS at work and have seen the damage

that they have caused to otherwise good families. I have

seen them totally ignore a desperate plea for help from

Juvenile Jeremy, was always a difficult child. He refused to conform or

follow any rules that were setforth by his mother. He was in constant fist

fights at school, when he attended. By the time that Jeremy was thirteen,

he was drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana. He was sneaking out of

bedroom window and gone for the night. A very large boy, he was

physically threatening to his mother and his two sisters and brother.

Jeremy's mother had been told by his sc

residential treatment program, one designed to handle kids with emotional

and once again the worker never notified Michelle. Michelle never learned

SRS worked said he would set up an appointment to see Jeremy. At the

his mother, no one from SRS called or returned phone calls to Michelle.

children's safety, Michelle once again called the number that social

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