reply to post by MorningStar8741
Here's the link for the Report of the Task Force of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
www.iarf.org...
Scroll down to page 35, that's where they start actually talking about the children that were missing while in their custody. They don't really
address any findings about where the children were though, as i stated earlier they basically swept it under the rug. They basically just address the
issue of how to look for the missing children and how DCFS wasn't following their own protocal. They also seem to try and cover it up by saying that
the majority of the missing children are runaways.
Between the years of 1993 - 2003 more than 14,000 children "ran away" while in the custody of DCFS. That seems like an awfully high numbers of
runaways from one state agency to me. I find it hard to believe that all those children "ran away". But yet in everything i've come across so far
they all seem to attribute all these missing children to "runaway" cases.
In September of 2003 DCFS in Illinois could not account for the whereabouts of 797 children in their custody ! I don't know about anybody else, but
to me that's an extremely high number of missing children. Especially if you take into account that this is a government agency that was created to
"protect" children. So they routinely forcefully remove these children from their parents to "protect" them and then proceed to loose them ! How
do they defend that, how does a goverment agency created solely to "protect" children proceed to lose them ?
They said that girls between the ages of 14-16 are 1.5 - 2 times more likely to run away without returning than boys. Wonder why, could it be that
girls are in higher demand than boys in sex rings, especially girls at that age ?
They also admitted that there was in fact a time period where DCFS specifically directed that there were to be no reports made to law enforcement or
the National Center for missing and exploited children for some youths prior to 2/10/2003. Now why would they give a directive like that? Why would
they not report missing children to the police, and why only some children? Could it be that they were involved in the cases of these missing children
? Could it be that they knew exactly where these children were and did not want the police to actively look for them, for fear that they might
actually find them ?
It seems that all of these children gone "missing" while in the care of child services throughout the country came to light because of one little
girl in 2002. A five year old girl named Rilya Wilson was discovered to be missing while in the custody of Child Services and people could not
understand how they managed to lose a little 5 year old girl. That's when the Child Welfare League of America became involved and that's when it
became apparent just how many children were "missing".
I can't provide the link for the Child Welfare League of America: Children's Voice Newsletter because it can't be reproduced or put on the internet
without their permission. The URL that came up when i was reading it was, htpp://www.cwla.org/voice/0509children.htm if you can't find it using
that URL just google, children missing while in the custody of DCFS in Illinois and scroll down to Child Welfare of America: Children's Voice
Newsletter. They talk a little about Rilya Wilson and all the missing children in Illinois as well as other states. However even they make it appear
as though they are runaways.
I believe there is another thread here where they bring up the possibility of Child Services being involved in these cases, when i find it i'll come
back and post the link.