Children fall through the creacks.............

We need everybody's support to help Little 7 year old "Ariana Leilani" Please.

By: Barbara Hollingsworth 03/08/11 8:05 PM
Local Opinion Editor

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Children fall through the cracks in Ward 3

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http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/03/children-fall-through-cracks-ward-3#ixzz1G7OZUBsE

The city's Child and Family Services Agency, "just didn't do their job."  They're still not.

CFSA social worker Kerstin Rae Magnuson reported that she found "no concerns regarding the immediate safety and well-being" of the little girl. And documents obtained from her mother's attorney under the Freedom of Information Act show that CFSA employees falsely informed Children's National Medical Center in a May 29, 2009, letter that the investigation had been requested by the child's noncustodial mother.

Case in point: The city has repeatedly been warned about the worsening condition of a 7-year-old girl who suffers from severe chronic neutropenia, an extremely rare failure of the immune system that leaves her highly vulnerable to ordinary infections. But the little girl is not being treated for this life-threatening condition, even though she is one of only 1,300 people worldwide to be listed on the Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry.

Because of her dual German/American citizenship, the German Embassy has been the only governmental body willing to intervene on behalf of this seriously ill child to date. That's an embarrassing indictment of the District of Columbia............................
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