Oklahoma mother and her 3 children, including 10-month-old, killed in murder-suicide during supervised visitation
Oklahoma mother and her 3 children, including 10-month-old, killed in murder-suicide during supervised visitation
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Oklahoma mother and her 3 children, including 10-month-old, killed in murder-suicide during supervised visitation
Police found Brandy McCaslin and her children ages 11, 6, and 10 months old dead inside the Verdigris home following a three-hour standoff.
I work in mental health and have a fair bit of professional experience with parents and the CPS system in my state. What a fucking shit show. With both CPS workers and foster parents, it seems like a 50/50 toss up whether you get a good one or a bad one. Having a system for this sort of thing is obviously better than not having one, but damn do we need to improve upon ours.
Sadly, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. CPS mostly deals with poorer families and no one gives a shit about them.
I gotta think that part of the problem is even finding someone who would want to be a CPS worker in the first place, considering the kind of work it is and the kind of situations they deal with.
Put another way, It's like how prison guards tend to be of low quality - no one decent wants the job.