Wow. CPS takes your kid away, and promptly proves that they aren't capable of being a safe guardian either.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2025
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child
Raised by wolves
Hessian wolf-children[19]: 15–7 [20] (1304, 1341 and 1344) lived with the Eurasian wolf in the forests of Hesse:
- The first boy (1304) was taken by wolves at age 3 and found when 7 or 8 by Benedictine monks, the wolves having cared for him by "surrounding him in cold weather, and fed him the best meat from the hunt." He was later sent to the court of Prince Henry, and became accustomed to human society but said he preferred the wolves.[21]
Frankly, Alabama, I think that you need to up your child-rearing game to at least wolf-level.
This is fucking infuriating. Pure rage.
I remember being in a car too long around the age of 5/6. I'm middle aged, I still remember due to the mild trauma.
Fuck. This poor kid died suffering, crying, screaming. Until he probably passed out due to exhaustion and dehydration.
FUCK.
Those involved deserve prison. Long sentences.
Let's not forget that this was after he had his entire concept of safety and security shattered due to being taken away from his family.
This involved have never deserved the air they breathe.
yea ideally not just the contracted worker, anyone involved in setting up such a soulless shit piece of a system
So the family managed to at least keep him alive for 3 years, the state takes him and he's dead after a few hours. This isn't going to go well for anybody. Poor kid.
The fact CPS is part of the Department of Human Resources seems about on par for Alabama
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Workers contracted? Independent contractors are allowed to have custody of children? That's psychotic.
Alabama...
You've got the rest of the union to help you along ... What's going wrong?
State's rights?
Privatizing everything possible so the maximum number of shitbags enjoy the grift is a repugger wet dream.
Sounds like that should be illegal. You would at least hope it is but we will sub contract anything.
Several hours? Unbelievable! JFC!
If you feel anger. Good. You should. The easiest target is the worker. But ask yourself this. Why was there only one?
The general rule for most professions that deal with kids is that adults should never be alone 1 on 1 with a kid.
This worker is probably paid the least of any profession that deals with children, and they are asked to do it alone, with no backup to help catch mistakes.
So I blame the state for not investing in the well-being of children.
That being said, this worker should still be held criminally accountable for the death of this child. Regardless of the states culpability in not allocating enough money to hire the number of workers necessary to care for the children they supervise, this person was still criminally negligent.
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Yeah but it wasn't like the kid was left in the car for 20 minutes according to the article they were in there for multiple hours. How do you forget about a kid for hours and hours on end?
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This looks to be a case of manslaughter, defined by state law as if one "(1) Recklessly causes the death of another person." For criminal liability, it really is that simple. The person who did the immediate bad act is charged with the most severe crime.
It seems you want to blame the state. Great! Talking about civil liability, you can be sure the victim's family will sue the worker, their company, and the state, and they'll probably settle out of court because it's a sure win for the plaintiff.
Ah yes, the ol', "I don't get paid enough for this shit", defence for letting a child die while in your custody. Solid.
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The whole domain of foster care, CPS/CYF offices, and adoptions is a huge and tragic world that exists all around us but is invisible to most people.
Almost anybody who works in that world is in the same situation as jobs like teachers and game developers where passionate people are aggressively exploited by the business drones. But they have to deal with sadder higher stakes while getting even worse pay and nowhere near the resources they need. So then they become victims of the system too.
And we all know that here in the US at least, our population does not give a fuuuuuuck about living children breathing air outside wombs. And when they are poor and "urban?" Forget about it.
I can hear conservative distant relatives now: "Sounds like his baby mama should have taken better care of him!" (Of course with the term "baby mama" shoehorned in where it doesn't fit in order to make sure the sentence ends with an air of racism and dehumanization of an innocent child)
Oklahoma DHS let a Cherokee girl die just last week. THREE WEEKS MISSING, no report, the just found her body.
If I lived in Alabama and CPS tried to take my child away, I would rather die protecting him.
Exactly. Even if the parents are unsafe for the kid, the government's just proved that it's even worse. Good luck trying to get people to give up their kids voluntarily.
It's not just Alabama.
Georgia has repeatedly failed my kids by not preventing them from being abused (obviously not by me)
This country has repeatedly proven itself to just not care about people, especially kids and the elderly. It's depressing and horrifying and monstrous. Guess we can add that to the pile of depravity.
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Being abused while in CPS custody, though?
Send the guy to prison. Term length doesn't matter.
A few hours in a car should do.
Toss the perpetrator in a dumpster in Death Valley and lock the top.
Someone needs to be hanged for this
https://www.findlaw.com/state/alabama-law/alabama-capital-punishment-laws.html
Methods of Execution Allowed in Alabama
Lethal injection is the primary method of execution allowed in Alabama. Also, the state allows the use of nitrogen hypoxia as an alternative method.
Looks like you're out of luck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_in_the_United_States
The hanging of Billy Bailey is likely to be the final hanging in the United States, considering that all three of the states that maintained hanging as a secondary method of execution alongside lethal injection after the 1976 restoration of the death penalty have now abolished executions. Delaware's Supreme Court declared the death penalty to be in violation of their state constitution in 2016,[20] Washington abolished executions in 2018,[21] and New Hampshire abolished executions in 2019.[22] However, the last person on death row in the three states is Michael K. Addison in New Hampshire, convicted in 2008 of the 2006 murder of Michael Briggs, an on-duty police officer. Should the state carry out Addison's execution, the method could be hanging if lethal injection was found unconstitutional or inefficient, or if he chooses to be executed by hanging.
When the CPS isn't CPSing
Funny how they go around removing children from their families, but do not actually run foster homes or orphanages. Yet they get away with identifying as a "protection" agency.
“Rather than properly returning K.J. immediately to day care, the worker made numerous personal errands with K.J. buckled in a car seat in the back of her car,” French told CNN.
wtf
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