I don't get what is going on with the Florida Department of Children and Family's because it seems like they aren't doing the quality job you would hope they were doing. Candace Clark, a woman whose children were in foster care, kidnapped her child (Courtney Clark) from the foster home and had her for four months before the police were notified. It was lucky that the girl is unharmed considering the state of the house they found her in a few days ago. Candace Clark and her band of suspected identity thieves were in Wisconsin were they had killed one of their own and tortured the the dead woman's 11 year old boy.
Tonight on the local news Fox 35 (I live in Central Florida) they talked to Candace Clark's sister who had been trying to get custody of Courtney Clark and her siblings. Stacy Scarborough, the sister of Candace Clark, had been trying to get custody of her niece and siblings for a while and she had been checking up on the children regularly. She said that Clark had put her children into the care of a friend (which it makes since how Clark had been able to take one of her kids) which sounds like no much of an intelligent choice. Then there is the story of Rilya Wilson, which seems to be the cases that they have been comparing the disappearance of Courtney Clark to. Back in 2002 the case of the Rilya Wilson, a 4 year old back then, that had been brought to light because she had been missing for more than 16 months before police were notified that she was gone. Unfortunately Rilya Wilson has still never been found to this day.
I don't get why there isn;t a more effective change to that policies to stop this from happening again. My first change if it were possible to me would be to try and get these children visited more often. Apparentlly a social worker doesn't have to vist the child(ren) except for every six months which can be a huge gap for something to happened to a child or children, ie abuse or abduction. Some of these children have been through enough to start their lives out and if the get put in the care of a foster home someone should really be looking out for them.
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Unfortunately, it's not just in Florida where the foster care system is running into problems. It's everywhere and it needs a serious overhaul.
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