Child with dead chicken around his neck found shackled to porch at home of Department of Social Serv

[Playinghardball]

Dorian Lee Harper and his wife, Wanda Sue Larson, were arrested on Friday after deputies found their 11-year-old foster child handcuffed to the porch with a dead chicken hanging from his neck.

Police arrived at the home of Harper and Larson, who works for the Department of Social Services — which regulates the state’s foster care program — in Union County, North Carolina, after an animal control deputy found the boy on porch while searching for a loose pig.

The boy had been handcuffed by the foot to the porch, and was shivering, possibly suffering from exposure. When the deputy attempted to question the couple about the child’s condition, another foster child opened the door and loosed a pack of large dogs who chased the deputy back to his car.

While the deputy waited for backup officers to respond, he witnessed Harper remove the dead chicken from the child’s neck and unshackle his leg. When police arrived, they removed four foster children from the house.

A neighbor told WCNC that he was surprised that DSS didn’t check on the foster children, even if their foster mother was a DSS supervisor.

“Anyone who takes children should be supervised,” he said. “I don’t care who it is.”

Watch the complete WCNC report below.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/17/child-with-dead-chicken-around-his-neck-found-shackled-to-porch-at-home-of-department-of-social-services-supervisor/

[RKP5637]

1. This, is so spooky. Yet another WTF today. I have many of those each day. n/t

[shenmue]

2. Good Lord

I hope they throw the book at these cretins.

[99Forever]

3. Wow, dispicable.

Honestly.

[grasswire]

4. horrifying

Think how especially dangerous it is to the child to have a chicken tied to its neck while a bunch of large dogs is near.

This is one of the worst stories I've ever heard in modern times.

[Oilwellian]

7. Methinks that may have been the intent behind the punishment

Using fear as a means of control and submission.

Poor babies. I hope they find a better home for them.

[Lancero]

22. Punishment?

Call it what it is.

Torture.

[freshwest]

5. From the UK Mirror, the hospital nurse and state social worker held on $1M bail:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dorian-lee-harper-wanda-sue-2801549

No telling what had been going on there. The Mirror report has the neighbors saying they were reclusive and into animals, but it wasn't like they were away from civilization as they both had jobs that put them in contact with many people. They don't look incompetent, but very angry. Those are mugshots, so what do I know...

[randome]

6. 'Reclusive' and 'foster parent' should never be allowed.

It doesn't matter what your beliefs or philosophies are, this couple should have had the government in their business every goddamned week.

That should be the price you pay for the privilege of being a foster parent.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[elehhhhna]

8. Fosterfarming. It pays the bills.

[lpbk2713]

17. That's it

The hell with the kids they are supposed to be responsible
for as long as the checks keep coming in regularly.


There ought to be a provision in the law that would make
them pay back what they received for not doing the job.

[Le Taz Hot]

20. Put both of these mother fuckers in

general population. People who abuse children and/or animal don't deserve to live.

[ReRe]

9. This disgusts me to no end...

It's like it's 1845 or 1345 or something in this country. Looks all pretty from the outside, but inside it's a fucked up society. Number 1, no foster parent should have more than one foster child. And number 2, they should check on them at random unannounced times. Check the schools the kids go to too. How are they doing in school? Are they thriving? There's literally a dozen ways they can detect if child abuse is occurring in foster homes, yet it takes someone coming upon it to do anything about it.

[passiveporcupine]

13. I have friends who fostered two girls who were sisters

They ended up adopting them, and they were a very loving couple and family. I think it is OK to keep siblings together in a situation like this. It's hard enough being separated from their mother, but to be separated from each other would have been even more traumatic.

I do believe too many people get into fostering just for the money, and I wish there was a way to prevent that. I don't know how...but it's really sad for the children who are taken from one bad home and placed in another. Maybe foster parents should have a minimum income requirement or something. My friends were not wealthy, but definitely upper middle class. He was an engineer. She didn't work...she was a stay at home Mom who did volunteer work.

Oh, and the kids they adopted were born to a mother who was an addict. So they had problems from birth (being drug dependent when born) that were difficult to get through even for good parents. But they loved those girls (and still do) like their own. The girls are also black, and the parents are white.

[ReRe]

14. I have and Aunt and Uncle who....

... were foster parents for decades. Aunt was a RN. They took one at a time, always those who had health or handicap issues. She kept them until they could be adopted or until their little life finally ended (which was common, as some of them were terminally ill.) They loved those babies and children like they were their own.

I agree that 2 siblings should be kept together, especially if they are twins.

[LeftyMom]

16. Breaking up sibling groups is traumatic.

Whenever feasible siblings should be cared for in the same home.

[ReRe]

18. A agree about siblings...

... had I been in a situation like that, they would have a horrible time tearing my sister and I from one another. It would have killed us, psychologically.

[Delmette]

21. Smaller government and low wages.

There is no one to do the follow up visits because state governments are all forced to cut back on jobs. The positions that are kept are filled by over worked and under paid, college educated, caring people. Finding enough foster parents is another story.
This country is not taking care of the children in so many ways!!

[ReRe]

23. Agree

[sulphurdunn]

10. Remember,

if the child fails to pass his mandated state standardized achievement tests it will be due to the incompetency of the child's teachers.

[Gin]

11. If I ruled.....the two monster adults would be chained to the porch with dead chickens

Around their necks.....and hungry dogs nearby...eye for an eye applies

[rocktivity]

12. Unqualifed for the job much?

Of working for the agency that's supposed to supervise foster parents AND being a foster parent?


rocktlvity

[Brickbat]

15. People sometimes do that to dogs to get them to stop from killing chickens.

Once a dog kills a chicken, it's hard to get them to stop; the idea is that you tie a dead one around its neck and after it begins to rot, that breaks the association of tasty chicken. That's the first thing I thought of when I read this article, that maybe he was so hungry he was "stealing" chickens and this was his punishment. Horrifying.

[TorchTheWitch]

19. that's got to be the most stupid thing I've ever heard of

Just how is that the nuts that contrived this moronic idea thinks it would work to hang lunch around a dog's neck to convince them to not eat it? Besides being horribly cruel it's just stupid. The chicken is never going to rot, it'll be eaten the second it's attached to the dog. Even if it did rot what's the dog going to care? Dogs are scavengers. They eat rotting carcasses anyway. Here's an idea for those folks: don't let the dog around the chickens. Problem solved. Amazing how some people can't think of the obvious solution.

Hanging a dead chicken around anyone's neck for whatever reason is just insane. Doing that to a child with a loose pack of dogs in the home is criminally insane. There's just no way this was done for any positive reason. There's no doubt it was cruel punishment for something and by a really twisted mind. And to think these people even had jobs in the system! I hope they never get out of jail. They're sick and evil people.