State authorities had removed her from her biological parents and placed her, as a toddler, in the Sierra Vista home of David Frodsham, where she lived with other foster children from 2013 until January 2015.
Frodsham was arrested in 2016 after federal authorities accused him of sexual misconduct with children and of providing at least one child to an alleged child pornographer, Randall Bischak, for sexual contact.
The biological mother of the Tucson child says she raised concerns with state workers that while living in Frodsham’s home, her toddler daughter had repeated urinary-tract infections, which can be a sign of sexual abuse in children, but says those concerns went unanswered.
http://tucson.com/news/local/crime/among-horrors-scalded-tucson-girl-faced-living-with-sex-offender/article_e0f7b5ec-46fe-54e5-9f44-01eceb3fea03.html
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sponiatowski ago
Cripes! How hard is it to check the police record of someone trying to be a foster parent? Is there a shortage of foster homes? Is CPS taking away too many children from their parents? What the heck is going on here?
palmitespo910 ago
If you're familiar with The Fosters, it used to be an ABC family show but now it's on some channel that I don't care about, the plot touches several times on specifically privatized foster care. There's an end-of-the-season story line presented where the protagonist, Callie, finds out that Arbiter Group (a privatized foster care company) was knowingly placing foster children into unsafe homes all in the pursuit of the almighty dollar.
sponiatowski ago
I'll never figure out why people have kids when they know they're not capable of being a good parent. There is birth control and even abortion, but the welfare check and copping out on working hard for your keep is simply made too easy.
palmitespo910 ago
I eventually had to entertain the notion that the world is bad. And it is up to the good people to make it good. That's what I've come up with. So I am on double duty making the world a better place.
sponiatowski ago
Worthless and priceless have the same value on earth, don't they. That choice of which to shoot for, the worthless or the priceless, is the real human choice. Move towards the priceless and you walk with God, so to speak, work towards the worthless and walk with Satan, so to speak.
Now, figuring out what is worthless and priceless in a world where gangsta rap outsells Mahalia Jackson or even Ella Fitzgerald....that's the difficult part to sift through. Good luck.