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Children’s Aid in Toronto, in fact all across Ontario, is inept, negligent, irresponsible and lazy, and now another child is dead because CAS’s unwillingness and inability to adhere to their mission statement and philosophy, and because there are far too many social workers working in CAS who are too f**king lazy to do their job properly in the first place.

Their first priority is their paycheck, and the amount of time they have to put in to earn that paycheck, and then it is the children they are supposed to be protecting and advocating for. CAS, is and always has been a joke that Ontario taxpayers help pay for, and it just isn’t Ontario that has this problem.

If an investigative journalist had the balls to dig deep enough, ask the right questions, and actually do a decent investigation into organizations like CAS, people would see that these agencies know about, and care about as much about children as some of the parents they investigate do. Social workers are a dime a dozen in Canada, and there are many bad ones working with children across the country.

Its f**king bullshit and it needs to stop. Having worked looking out for the best interests of children for a number of years myself, I could share a lot of stories here in Crooked in Canada about what I saw going on and how committed social workers were to looking out for the best interests of children and their families. Some of the shit I’ve seen is ridiculous, and many people might find it shocking, especially those people who know nothing or are ignorant of what goes on in social services.

There are reasons why social workers sign confidentiality agreements when they begin their employment with social service agencies, and it isn’t just about protecting the kids and their families. Trust me on that.

The death of Katelynne Sampson isn’t the first death of a neglected and abused child that can be blamed on social workers without them having to lay a hand on a child, and it won’t be the last if social workers are allowed to continue to operate with the lackadaisical and nonchalant attitude they have when it comes to the job taxpayers are helping to pay them do.

It is utter bullshit the way social workers carry out their “duty of care” responsibilities and the death of Katelynne by her legal guardian Donna Irving would have never have happened had CAS done their job properly. They are the reason Katelynne was in Irving’s custody to begin with. What really gets me is that CAS allowed Irving to be Katelynne’s guardian in the first place especially since there is information that claims that two of Irving’s own children were in the care of CAS. How f**king dumb is that if that is true?

The death of Katelynne is a direct result of neglect on the part of the Children’s Aid Society and an inquiry into how they handled Katelynne’s case needs to come into play. CAS should not be allowed to skate on this case, and they should be held accountable for what is obviously their irresponsible handling of Katelynne’s case. Make no mistake about it; CAS has more involvement in the Sampson and Irving children’s lives than they are willing to admit. The fact that a Family Court judge placed Katelynne in Irving’s care in the first place is proof of that.

If CAS had not agreed to allow Katelynne to live with Irving who as rumour has it, has two children of her own in the care of CAS, Katelynne would be alive today. No doubt about it.

CAS f**ked up big time, and so did the Family Court judge, and they need to pay for what has happened to Katelynne. Heads should roll in this case.

Somebody needs to go after them.

As far as I’m concerned and speaking as a former foster parent and as a former member of the Child Welfare League of North America, CAS was, and always has been, inept and prone to wilful and deliberate neglect of their responsibilities to children, which is in direct violation of their mandate, mission statement and philosophy.

The CAS executive and board members hire the social workers and the investigators. They sign off on case and risk management plans. They sign off on many things when it comes to children in their custody. They are present in matters before Family Court when a child is at risk and they have had to intervene on that child’s behalf.

Don’t anybody think for one minute that Katelynne Sampson wasn’t known to CAS, that Donna Irving wasn’t known to CAS.

This child-welfare case has CAS written all over it, despite what they themselves might say about their involvement. Remember that confidentiality agreement I mentioned earlier.

The most reprehensible and disgusting aspect of this case is that Family Court placed Katelynne into the care of a woman who has a criminal record that includes violent offences in the first place, and a judge wouldn’t have made that ruling without an assessment of the environment Katelynne Sampson’s mother was requesting that she be allowed to live in. That assessment, if the child-welfare system is working properly, would have been done by the Children’s Aid Society.

Headline: Legal guardian charged in death of 7-year-old Toronto girl-CBC.ca

Headline: A mother’s grief turns to rage-National Post