Florida child welfare agency said the kids were doing fine. Actually, they were dead.

[Nevilledog]

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https://news.yahoo.com/florida-child-welfare-agency-said-100000091.html

On April 13, 2022, at exactly 6:09 p.m., a child welfare investigator assigned to the case of Miami mother Odette Joassaint entered a benign-sounding note into the Florida Department of Children and Families’ computer system.

“She reports that everything is fine.”

The “she” referred to Joassaint, 41, a mother of three who had been entangled with the department for years due to persistent reports of domestic violence and poor parenting.

Of Joassaint’s 3-year-old son, Jeffry, the investigator offered this reassuring image: “He likes to play, laugh, and grab things.” Referring to Jeffry’s older sister, 6-year-old Laura, the narrative read: “She is a quiet child [who] is well-behaved.”

Actually, as of the day before, Joassaint had been in the Miami-Dade County Jail and Laura and Jeffry were in the morgue. Police had arrived at the mother’s home on Northeast 75th Street to find the children hogtied and strangled. Their mother told officers the children were better off that way.

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[SunSeeker]

1. DeathSantis doesn't care. They were children, not embryos.

[Nevilledog]

2. Yup. And an already broken social safety net can't handle forced births.