One of the worst cases in central Florida happened in 2004, when Hernando County sheriff’s deputies discovered a 10-year-old girl starved to 29 pounds and locked in a bedroom while in the care of family friends.<\/p>\n
These friends, Tommy and Lori Allain also had custody of the girl’s brother. The couple had extensive criminal records and lived in a filthy mobile home with holes in the floor. Yet DCF had visited the home frequently and even ended its supervision of the children at one point.<\/p>\n
Lori Allain insisted the girl had an eating disorder, her brother abused her and that because the Allains weren’t foster parents, they couldn’t get any help from DCF. The Allains were convicted last year of child abuse and sentenced to 25 years in jail.<\/p>\n
Their case left DCF and then-Gov. Jeb Bush red-faced and prompted swift changes: A DCF attorney now must sign off on all placements no matter the time or place, and children in nonrelative care are no longer allowed to be home schooled, as the children in the Allain case were.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The assumption seems to be that homeschooling = potential abuse and that the g-schools somehow protect against this. A better solution might be for the DCF case workers to actually do their jobs. Nah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One for JJ. On the dysfunctional Child Protective Service situation in FL: One of the worst cases in central Florida happened in 2004, when Hernando County sheriff’s deputies discovered a 10-year-old girl starved to 29 pounds and locked in a bedroom while in the care of family friends. These friends, Tommy and Lori Allain also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}