If Mattingly can be a liar, why not Maradesa Sunday Adegbola?

JOHN MATTINGLY WAS OF COURSE VERY DISHONEST WITH THIS POOR MOM WHOSE CHILD IS A VICTIM OF A CRUEL AND IDIOTIC KIDNAPPING BY ACS SUBMORONS. HE SHIFTS THE BLAME TO A JUDGE, WHEN IT IS HIS PEOPLE WHO INITIATED THE CASE AND IT IS HE AND HIS PEOPLE WHO COULD SIMPLY WITHDRAW THE CASE. NO WONDER ADEGBOLA SHIFTED THE BLAME FOR THE "ELMHURST HOSPITAL CHINESE GIRL CASE" FROM VARGAS AND HIMSELF ONTO A SUBORDINATE. LYING AND ACS, THEY GO TOGETHER.

Mother makes desperate plea to child welfare agency for return of daughter
BY JESS WISLOSKI

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, December 6th 2007, 4:00 AM
The mother of a 6-year-old girl in city custody on allegations that her parents are mentally ill Wednesday made an emotional plea directly to the head of the city child welfare agency.
More than three months after Amber James was taken from her South Ozone Park home, her frustrated mom confronted city Administration for Children's Services Commissioner John Mattingly at a public conference on the agency's ongoing reforms.
"ACS has kidnapped my daughter wrongfully!" Vanessa James, 41, said at the gathering at the New School in Manhattan.
A pediatrician reported Vanessa James to authorities over concerns that she may suffer from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare disease where a parent believes the child is sick - or makes them sick - to get attention.
Vanessa James and her husband, Marvin James, 48, have been to numerous court hearings since Amber was placed into the foster care system on Aug. 23. But they have not been charged with any crime, and neither has been found to be mentally ill.
"They found us innocent," Vanessa James said to Mattingly during the question-and-answer portion of the panel discussion.
"My daughter's being held prisoner," the desperate mother said. "What do we do now?"
After she made charges that her daughter has been abused while in foster care, Vanessa James was interrupted by the panel's moderator, who asked Mattingly to respond.
"I can feel the hurt in your voice," Mattingly said. "I know about this situation. I know it's in court and hearings have been held and will be held. ... It is up to the court to make the future decisions."
Amber's case has become a public tug-of-war between her parents and the ACS since the Daily News first reported the family's plight in September.
Ironically, yesterday's forum was largely devoted to announcing an ACS pilot program to increase family services and reduce foster-care placements.
After Vanessa James' plea, several welfare workers attending the forum referred to Amber's case as an example of the ongoing problems at ACS.
"Children are being abused" in foster care, said Sharonne Salaam of People United for Children, an advocacy group. Yet ACS has failed to crack down on foster care abuse, she charged.
Susan Loeb, of Voices of Women, said the ACS hotline is often abused.
"Malicious reports are an epidemic in many communities," Loeb said. "Anyone with an ax to grind can call, without any real consequences."
jwisloski@nydailynews.com
If you care about your immortal soul, your relationship with God or The Higher Power you do not want to become a Child Protective Specialist. REad this blog and learn why. Their lies destroy lives.

Not KT da QT

Eyecandy, now that's a sexist, exploitative MCP word, right? Well in my humble opinion men and women who are blessed to be healthy, are in the prime of life and take care of their bodies are joys to behold. Us humans ideally are quite nice to look at. Don't you think so?



I haven't decided how often I'll be bringing you new eye candy but trust me, it'll be frequently.

Anyhow, KT da QT worked as a clerk, when she worked, in applications at ECS. This allowed her time to do schoolwork and she basically never had to go to the field. She caught married man child protective manager's eye and from there it was up, up and up and now she is wearing a rock, meets the moanster outside the office and is a Supe II!

How'sm that for the land of opportunity?

Meet six year old Amber James and the women who abandoned her at Kings County Mental Ward waiting room one fine midnight.

Bulletin dated 11/23/07
There is erroneous information here that must be corrected. Geralsine Fowler did not abandon Amber at the Kings County Psychiatic Hospital waiting room. She is the worker whose efforts did get A,er put into foster care and abusd, but the credit fo abandoning the child at the gates of mayhem goes to Adrian Prichette of St. Vincent foster care agency.

ACS in its typical outlaw mode has not complied with the order of the Family Court to place Amber in a kinship home by Thanksgiving.


Amber James, a child who was never abused until she had to meet up with ACS and monster Geraldine.

This is not Geraldine Fowler, the ACS child protective specialist from Queens who of course is not the one who set up six year old Amanda James to be kidnapped, sexually molested, beaten, deprived of food and told her mother was dead under the loving care of John Mattingly. It is not the same Geraldine Fowler who abandoned the six year old in a mental ward waiting room at midnight because "I had to go home."

No this is not Geraldine. Geraldine does not seem to like water that much.

Cumming soon, KT da QT

None of these are supe 2 KT da QT but she is as hot as any of them. Like I said, CPM Ramon Vargas is not an idiot!
You guys who ended up in a job at Administration For Children's Services or in any Child Protective Services job in the USA or anywhere in the English speaking world are gonna dig this post. Stay tuned.

Q&A: Is this an extremist website? Does it go too far against Child Protective Services?

Q- Aren't you just a disgruntled ex employee?
A- I worked for Administration for Children's Services for more than ten years, eight of those years as a child protective investigator in their Emergency Children's Services. Because my work was thorough and I was a dedicated employee I was among the minority granted a merit pay raise. I was a worker who could be called upon to go into the field in order to correct the blunders of others, and I did that several times.

I had myself convinced that I could do some good from "inside the system" and in a sense sometimes I did help individuals in my casework, more often though, the system was going to do what it does best- mess things up - with me or without me. The system is designed to do what it does.

I was assigned as a one worker "Instant Response Team" unit and worked as such for around two years, going to the most difficult cases, working along with detectives of the Special victims and Sex Abuse squads of the NYPD. Ultimately I decided that I should be in a "regular unit" and so I went to work under Mr. Adegbola. He is not a good supervisor, though he is a nice guy. I reached a point where I simply was not going to harm other people just because Adegbola couldn't understand what was going on in some cases. Also I was at loggerheads with Mr. Vargas especially after he idiotically ordered me to transport sex abuse and domestic violence victims in one case back to the man who had them terrorized from a shelter where I had brought them. I refused an offer to be put aside once again and be given autonomy in my work. I felt that I was not the problem, and I wasn't! ultimately the management had the Department of investigations take the hard drive from my workstation and lo and behold, they say they found unauthorized emails and Internet contacts. (As virtually the entire municipal workforce that has access to computers would have.) Out of disgust after ACS Commissioner John Mattingly (not to be confused with Don Mattingly who posted from a blog of mine some very damaging information about ACS) emailed me to my home and told me that he did not want me to take advantage of his "open door" policyI resigned and took my pension, since I had signed up for an early retirement package upon my entry into ACS. I left them on my 60th birthday and presently I am happily a yellow taxicab driver on the night shift in NYC (see my blog TAXI NIGHTS).

Q- It's very extreme of you Mr. Weixel to tell people not to call reports against parents to ACS, isn't it?
A- It isn't extreme at all. After all our city and nation survived for many years without anything that looked like Administration for Children's Services. The fact is the only thing ACS ultimately does to "protect" "maltreated" children is to destroy their families, traumatize them and prepare them for a life of institutionalization.
God Is Love. We need to love each other and take care of each other, and not turn to moronic government programs that are proven to to work. (For the record- fire departments work, they put out fires and save lives, homes and workplaces from destruction, public housing works, it provides decent housing to millions of people, food stamps work, they provide food to millions of people including rookie NYPD officers by the way.) - I'm talking about idiotic interventions into the lives of free and autonomous human beings, typified by what is called Child Welfare or Child Protective Services, and includes foster care and subzidized adoption.

ACS functions on a level of incompetency, disregard for human and civil rights and impunity that are hard to match. This blog focuses on one manager in their Emergency Children's Services department, but the truth is, he might not even be the worse that they have, he's just the worse that I had occasion to work with. Did you know that after the Nixzmary fiasco (read my blog ACS MUST BE STOPPED to be filled in about Nixzmary) they fired or demoted to civil service rank ten managers? (The managers at ACS are not civil service employees and they are not unionized. They have their jobs at the pleasure of Mayor Bloomberg.)

Now if these managers were worse than Vargas that would be something! It would be quite an indictment of the system in which they had become managers and functioned as managers to begin with. I suspect however that they were not particularly worse than Vargas, but that once word came down from John Mattingly that some managers needed to be purged they got rid of ten who aren't sociable, or are the wrong ethnicity, for their particular office, or who are too serious, or who authorized "too much overtime." Whether they were worse than Vargas or not it's a sign of just how terribly run the agency is. When you make a child maltreatment report you are handing a family over to these kinds of people. Can your conscience allow that?

Q- But what about the abused children. Child Abuse is real, Weixel.
A- Yes, it is real. It is found everywhere, isn't it, including and especially in foster homes and group homes. Most ACS cases are not "abuse" cases. Most ACS cases (the majority of which have no supporting evidence according to ACS) are called "maltreatment" cases. These can be matters of "dirty homes" or old fashioned discipline, the kind that has existed for thousands of years in Judeo/Christian/Islamic cultures and that I suspect a vast majority of readers of this blog themselves know of first hand. Personally I don't agree with "physical discipline" but I do not see a legitimate government function to be destroying families and locking up parents who believe in what the majority believes in.

Q- Did you say Locking up parents?

A- Yes, good parents, you bet I did. Non white inner city parents get locked up for hitting their children with belts, for the kinds of things that do not result in incarceration in New York City's predominantly white neighboring counties.

Q- But what about abuse cases? Real abuse.
A- First of all even these cases are often blown out of proportion and the majority of them are found to have no supporting evidence. I remember vividly a case of a girl who had definitely been violated according to an emergency room doctor. Police went into action and brought all her siblings into a hospital to be examined. The child was taken out of her home. The next day the hospital's child abuse expert ruled that there had been no abuse. This sort of thing happens, and happens often. But yes, there is abuse. When someone actually abuses another person that criminal should be prosecuted, no? If the criminal is removed from the home the children involved do not have to be removed.

Communities are important. A corrupt and idiotic government agency cannot replace a community. Frankly during a time when I was coming to realize that God is real I was moved to see a church pastor, and congregants come down to a police station house to volunteer themselves and their homes to keep some children out of the horrendous foster care system. It occurred to me that most if not all of the single mothers caught up in the system and their children being violated by The State, need to be in a church, a mosque or a synagogue or community organization (formal or informal) that can function this way. - In this case a police Sergeant decided (not me or my boss) that the child in question had to go to a juvenile detention facility "pending investigation" (imagine that in a country where we claim to uphold rule of law and presumption of innocence!) This child- a boy, a black child, was a barely articulate, most likely mentally delayed and not "tough" non "streetwise" and he was going to Spofford because a police sergeant wouldn't allow his community to handle or even participate in handling a family problem, which this case really was! In this case a retarded boy might have been molesting another child in his home. Instead of bringing help, the system brought charges that their poor overwhelmed overburdened guardian was negletcful! All the children were traumatized rather than helped. Congregants offered to take each child or any child into their homes and they were refused and rebuffed by the order of a police sergeant!

Don Mattingly Is Not John Mattingly
Click here to see how New York Yankee baseball great Don Mattingly made that clear.

I'd like to spend less time driving a taxi and more time fighting the evils that CPS inflicts in the name of protecting children. Help by buying posters from this site.

Some people call him Lurk and really he's no jerk.

Two Headed Rat Snake

Well they called him Lurk because he would lurk behind file cabinets listening in and then he would report back to Bernstein as to who was saying what about who.

A godfather or Rabbi rocketed him from lowly caseworker to SupII just before the new "reform" requirements kicked in and gave him the title of "
Instant Response Coordinator."
After about two weeks of "experience supervising an actual unit (the slowest time period and with all veteran workers) he was ready to be put in the Child Protective Manager, never even having passed a supervisor exam.
Now, tell me is that the story of a jerk?

When the Whitick case blew up he was given a pass even though he was manager on duty when the case was sent over to Emergency children's Services. I know of more than one case in which he put children in jeopardy. I wonder what other cases he might have messed up.

The demonstration has been postponed indefinitely because I got hit by a car and the demonstration relies on me to organize it.

I got knocked down by a car and am not able to get around much right now.

ACS Must Be STopped Will Be At City Hall

The protest is indefinitely postponed.




New York City's Department of Investigations has just discovered that after ten years of so called "reform" the Administration for Children's Services Division of Child Protection, for which I worked for over ten years, is more messed up than before.

When I tried to inform the ACS Commissioner of some of the same problems and also the DOI what I got for my efforts was an investigation of me. They found unauthorized emails and links on my desktop, me one of thousands, and brought charges against me.

ACS knows all and more than what the DOI is telling the Mayor now. They have willfully not wanted to know.

Mattingly, the commissioner is one of these white guys in a suit who likes to say things like "I'm responsible" "The buck stops here" and "I call 'em like I see "em" but he also likes to say and says more these days than before "It's not my fault."


NEW YORK (AP) -- City workers charged with investigating child abuse and neglect reports sometimes simply took parents at their word when they denied the allegations. Sometimes they closed cases without even trying to interview people who probably had relevant information.
At least one manager doctored records -- after a child died -- to make it look as though he had been on the case more diligently than he had.
Spotlighting those problems and more, a damning new report on the city child welfare agency called for significant changes after 10 children died as a result of bungled investigations..."

Now, to see what I've been trying to tell these fools, go to
http://www.acsmustbestopped.com/

and
http://www.cpmramonvargasisnotanidiot.com/

Ramon Vargas is one of many incompetent managers at ACS who is shielded with an aura of impunity.

Threats work.

Having gotten an anonymous letter at my home that threatens my family, and not any legal action, a letter whose information indicates that the source is within Administration For Children's Services, I am going to meet the threatener's demands part way in the interests of my family's tranquility and safety.

I am editing certain parts of this and other blogs.

Mr. Anonymous cries foul.(Revised June 1, 2007)

I got a snail mail letter today claiming I have libled someone. Should I be scared? Of what - an anonymous complainant who can't even specify what he or she is complaining about? Well, what about "we know where you live"? Or even "we know who your kids are"?

You've threatened my wife and children. This is something you would be good at doing, as most likely you are a seasoned staffer at Emergency Children's Services and threatening women and children with an actual kidnaping here and there- that's actually your profession, isn't it?

The Anonymous caseworker. (revised Tuesday May 22)

An anonymous post to this blog, probably made by a caseworker, or Child Protective Specialist from Emergency Children's Services gave the name of the woman he or she believes is Ramon Vargas' at work sex partner. The email blames the problems of Emergency Children's Services on this alleged dalliance. I erased the worker's name as soon as I saw this post.

The problems at ECS include cliquism and a viscious undercurent of animosity and division in the staff. This blog is not here to promote one clique over another nor to be a venue where one case worker atttacks the name of another.

Supervisor II's and managers are political appointees as well as government officials. Their actions do deserve the light of day.

An Open Letter to The Commissioner-Mattingly, Are You OK?

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Mayor Bloomberg appeared to shake his head in disbelief when his child welfare commissioner, John Mattingly, announced his cell phone number to a crowd of 230 rookie caseworkers at a graduation ceremony Tuesday morning.
Commissioner Mattingly, I also shook my head in disbelief when I read this on WNBC's website yesterday.
http://www.wnbc.com/politics/11127085/detail.html
I could understand why you gave your cell phone number to the new caseworkers- for a moment you put yourself in their shoes. They've just gone through a pretty intensive training and they're about to find out something that you could have told them but you didn't - that most of this training is going to be useless, because in your agency it is not the written word of procedure that rules, it is the spoken word of your line supervision and management. And frankly many of your line supervisors and managers don't even understand the concept of working under rules and regulations - ah, but you already know that, you read www.ACSmustbestopped.com, and you might have glanced at its companion website www.cpmramonvargasisnotanidiot.com.

Yes, these caseworkers are in for a shock. Some of them will be revulsed by things that people like Sunday Adegbola and Ramon Vargas want them to do- they'll want to let you know about it. But you already know about it.

But your odd behavior at the graduation tells of something else- your own meltdown. You came to ACS with ideas of reforming it and making it less destructive to the community- because you knew and still know that it is a destructive force, but one that seemingly is never going to go away. Your first real test was the Nixzmary Brown imbroglio. Any idiot knew that a doctor at Woodhull Hospital had given the child a clean bill of health, and any idiot could see through the NYPD nonsense that their elite secial victims squad had gone to Nixzmary's sibling's school to give security to caseworkers. Any idiot knows that special victims detectives are not caseworker bodyguards. Caseworkers have no body guards. But Mattingly, you folded. You gave your people up while the doctor, the nurse, the detectives skated. Then you folded again, a worse collapse- you gave up the children!

You allowed ignorant insensitive media owners and politicians to set your agenda.You knowingly allowed children who were not in any danger at all to be taken out of their homes in order to feed the monster of the media and the politicans' need to be "tough" on child abuse. You knew that this was a very dangerous game - that a removal panic leads to more child fatalities- not less child fatalities.

Now the numbers of child fatalities in ACS cases has soared on your watch, and your agency cannot even keep an accurate count of the children it is taking away from their parents. Also to the shame of this city the scandal of the illegal and unethical drug experiments that were done under mayors Koch, Dinkins and Giuliani are being swept under the rug with your active participation. I kind of think that you really feel a lot of shame, embarassment, and a dread of what may come next.

God is just, Mattingly. God has to be angry at what is being done at ACS. You know better than what you are doing, that is why you are acting strange.

What is the honorable thing to do? Call a press conference, tell the truth and resign.

By the way I plan on letting as many caseworkers as possible know that it is not a good idea to avail themselves of your open cell phone policy- because you will ultimately turn them over to their immediate bosses - the people they hope you'll correct. They only have to read www.acsmustbestopped and www.cpmramonvargasisnotanidiot to know that.

Sincerely,

Eugene Weixel
veteran caseworker

Individuals who are beyond shame.

Attorneys involved in litigation against Administration For Children's Services should be sure to read this blog. They will see how Administration For Children's Services has been warned time and time again regarding the incompetence of the namesakes of this blog. These warnings went all the way up to Commissioner John Mattingly, to Zeinab Chahine, to the Inspector General of The City of New York.

I'm not an attorney but I would guess that any harm that the manager who was on duty when the Whitick case came into ACS, that the manager who sent a teenage sex abuse victim and her mother who was terrorized by the father back to his control may have done your clients after these warnings were given by email and ignored (not really ignored, they set out to remove me from their agency) is all the more egregious.

A very competent and capable manager, Patrick Malia, who also has had well deserved fame as a caseworker who has won prestigious awards and recognition, and who is possibly the best softball coach John Jay College ever had, unfortunately sees his job as "incompetents protective manager" rather than (or perhaps in addition to) "Child Protective Manager". His name is on the emails because he is capable and in fact I know that he knows what I am saying is right. What a shame.

Why I say Ramon Vargas is a symbol of a system beyond repair.

Child Protective Manager Ramon Vargas makes decisions five days a week that can spell the difference between life and death. He is probably not the worse manager they have at Administration for Children's Services in New York, but he does symbolize what's irreparibly wrong with their system.

Vargas is a poster boy for two waves of so - called "reform" of ACS. The first "reform" wave he represents came in 1996 under the cowboys Rudolph Giliuliani and Nichola Scopetta, his sidekick. After announcing bold new strict and impressive requirements for the position of supervisor at ACS Giuliani and Scopetta went on to promote a whole cohort of unqualified supervisors- people who now run the agency.

Like many, Vargas neither passed a test nor won an advanced degree to become a supervisor. Like very few, Vargas got a direct appointment to Supervisor II (senior supervisor) with no experience whatever as a supervisor I (remember this guy never passed a test). He was given a position as an "Instant Response Team " coordinator and spent a few weeks supervising a unit of veterans who were scheduled for the quietest time of night at Emergency Children's Services and then - bingo! the man is a manager and IRT heavyweight.

To recall the Nixzmary Brown case is to learn a lot about the "Instant Response Team".

Then there is the Whittick case.

Then the cases I personally experienced working with Vargas.

Vargas is a protected species under the latest "reform" Commissioner John Mattingly, under whose watch child fatalities of children on the ACS caseloads has skyrocketed. Mattingly is a complete captive of the media and the go along get along paperpushers in his agency.

Because it deals with poor and minority and immigrant children and their families there is no consistent interest by the informed public about this agency, nor by the political establishment. Comes a slow news day, an all too common incident of a child being violently killed is splashed across the media, and the entire agency is sent into a tailspin, being ordered around by ignorant media moguls whose bottom line is not children, but media sales.

It is under this environment that someone like Vargas not only makes decisions that impact other people's lives, he blunders and is protected, because in truth high quality individuals with real qualifications do not want Vargas' job. He and those like him have this power by default.

It would be better to close down this monument to corruption and incompetence called Division of Child protection, Administration for Children's Services, have the police investigate real crimes, have a small unit assigned to placing the very few real victims of child abuse who have no friends or relatives to care for them and calling it a day.

You want to read about governmental idiocy? Read this blog.

To the Public- Don't Rat To ACS

DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR TO ACS- Don't talk to them!

The overwhelming majority of CPS cases nationwide and ACS cases in NYC are classified not as "abuse" cases but as "neglect" or what they now call "maltreatment."

These represent matters that are not and should not be the business of the government to begin with, NYPD or ACS!

If some one's life or well being is at imminent risk, then yes that's a police matter. Perhaps in a rare few of those cases there is no family or neighborhood informal solution as simple let's say as a kid goes to stay with a neighbor for a few days until a situation cools down or gets worked out between family and friends, and church, mosque or synagogue.

I know that ACS has a gigantic computerized data bank (called "Connections" and "CCRS") that tracks the hundreds of thousands of Black and Hispanic families, with details their lives, has lies and exaggerations spread throughout. ACS is not above printing these materials out and placing them unshredded on sidewalks either.

I know that foster care is almost never a good solution to whatever the problem may be, call it "maltreatment" or call it "abuse". These days after Mrs. H. Clinton got done with it foster care now more and more means never ever getting your child back. When ACS comes to your door it's serious! Don't let them in! The caseworkers are stressed out, tired out, many really couldn't care less about you and they report to and suck up to people like Ramon Vargas and Maradesa Adegbola. Not a good recipe for solving your problems, trust me on that!

The difference between how NYPD and ACS function in child abuse cases.

The NYPD is of course interested in finding crime and if they find it, commencing the process of justice. They also are interested in securing the safety of children and all others. I'm the last one to say that they do these things perfectly - I've seen them mess up on child protective situations, but I feel that they can do no worse and probably can do much better than can ACS in these acute situations. Frankly the investigating of child abuse should belong to them. Some of their errors are due to lack of training, while ACS staff is trained, trained and trained again, but ignores the training in practice.

In all of my cases that involved police I was alone, on the telephone to bosses trying to get their decisions as to what I should do, while there would be several cops, detectives, and when decision time came there would be a Sergeant, a Lt. or even a captain on the scene signing off.No ACS supervisor or manager ever came out to the ground level to see the situation first hand before issuing an order as to how to resolve a case. Cops just don't work like that.

When you read about the sex abuse case at Elmhurst Hospital you can imagine a phalanx of police, including a sergeant, as well as numerous medical staff and me, the sole ACS representative trying to get the undivided attention of an Adegbola over the telephone.

That just can't work well.

"I can't take another child fatality review board" (or words very much to that effect).

Yes, a supervisor at Emergency Children's Services was heard saying that and it actually got back to me!

Child fatality. He can't take another one!

A nice enough guy, but he's not an accident waiting to happen, he's an accident that has happened already, and more than once. If his accidents affected people who are counted as being important in this society he'd be gone- certainly from any job of responsibility.

This guy has real problems at home, it's no secret at ECS. He's stressed out and distracted. Any decent boss would take him aside, get him counseling, try to find help for his situation and by God, give the guy some job where he can function without hurting himself or others, like Ms. Bleefeld has.

What say you, Zeinab Chahine? (A hard copy of this post is on its way to her via snail mail.)

What's The Big Deal? (and thanks to the great ER staff at Elmhurst Hospital)

Q- Okay, so Vargas was the manager on duty and also the Instant Response Team coordinator when the Whitick case came in to ECS, so he didn't send a case worker to the kids, he did have someone make a phone call, didn't he?
A- Yes, well someone did, and Vargas was in charge under two different hats, that of manager on duty and of IRT coordinator. Question- were the kids beaten to a pulp before, during or after the brilliant telephone call?

Q- Okay, so Vargas sent a teenaged sex abuse victim out of the shelter system with her mom back to where the guy that the kid and mother had run to the precinct away from thirteen hours earlier. You hadn't done a home assessment, Weixel. (Ask Vargas, he said you needed to do a home assessment). Also Adegbola wrote into the case record that that you only provided second hand information on this case. Not to mention that veteran supervisor George Baird was the "night administrator" that night and he thought it was fine to send the kid back, right?

A- This is where it is hard to say that Adegbola is not an idiot, but truth is he is not an idiot. He has a Master's Degree. Even if his lie were true, and I had only got information from cops, detectives, social workers, nurses and doctors of Elmhurst Hospital (who were very helpful in this case by the way, - thanks) that night and not one word from the mom or kid (a bald faced lie by Adegbola and he can take me to court if he wants to) the information was clear that the kids and mom needed to get away from that step father. That's why next day Zeinab Chahine, number two at Administration for Children's Services, (skipped over twice, now that's not nice) and her buddies were at ECS trying to fix Vargas' blunder. Don't forget, this was not even a removal. The mother agreed to bring her children to the shelter system as domestic violence victims, which all of them were. I wonder who Vargas' rabbi is. Do you?

Q- What's this thing about the four month old? What did Adegbola and Vargas do in that one?

A- A young mom and her seventeen year old baby daddy had a fight at paternal grandmother's Bronx apartment, cops came and they decided that the mom had attacked the dad, and that the house looked fine and so they locked up the mother and left the baby at the grandma's apartment not calling ACS to see if there was any child abuse record and definitely not checking to see if grandma was a criminal herself.

As they often do (when they bother themselves to do it at all) the cops called CPS hours after they had taken their own action regarding a child's well being.

When mom got released from jail with charges dismissed, she called in a CPS report that I was assigned to. I found in the record that baby's daddy was a child himself who had been removed and ordered by a judge not to return to grandma's house because she had brought baby daddy and her other kids upstate to a prison and tried to smuggle some heroin to her man and got caught. So baby daddy was not allowed to be where he was, let alone the baby. A Bronx ACS worker had come there, looked around, liked the furniture and left. So I told Adegbola that I needed to go there and get that baby out of there, and if possible baby daddy too. I told him it would be good to go there with cops as there had been violence and grandma is a felon and I would be there to take her kid and grandkid. Adegbola blew his stack, got defensive of his turf as boss and well, I went to Vargas who backed Adegbola up. Only by writing my opinion into the case record and by emailing the honchos was this assinine decision reversed.

I have a question. Okay a lot of people know about the Whitick case but the two other ones. They just involved me alone. How many other caseworkers have stories they feel too afraid to tell anyone about idiotic decisions by Vargas and Adegbola? Probably quite a few.

The public needs to consider the caliber of people in charge at ACS before they make a mistake and put a family into their hands by making that phone call. Think about it. If it's an emergency call the cops, they won't do any worse at least than ACS does, and maybe they'll do better. If it's not an emergency leave the family alone. For God's sake we all have problems and not every problem has a neat clean solution. Foster care by God surely isn't one.

PS to the people at Elmhurst Hospital. This sex abuse/domestic violence case was an ACS case on the night of 2/10/05 into the morning of 2/11/05. You can see how I tried to get the attention of the higher ups at ACS to take action about the irresponsibility of Vargas and Adegbola and how I tried to get ACS to repair the damage they had done HERE.

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People everywhere are learning about how New York City, the greatest city in the world puts it's most vulnerable children into the hands of irresponsible people. Child Protective Manager CPM Ramon Vargas is more or less the prototype of what Giuliani cursed Child Welfare with. People all over the world are checking in.

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Workers at Emergency Children's Services have been told, but there is no memo or regulation cited, that they are not to express any difference of opinion with a supervisory or mangerial decision in case records. Anyone with half a brain knows that this is to set the caseworker up to take blame if and when a muckety-mucks decision explodes. My advice- disregard this mumbled, non written, non legal "directive."

Child Protective Manager Ramon Vargas, Poster Boy of Giuliani's Child Welfare "Reform"(revised June 1, 2007)

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Vargas was an ordinary case worker who had been boosted out of the Brooklyn Field Office under arguable circumstances# and consigned to the nights and weekends at Emergency Children's Services when some how some way he got a double promotion to Supervisor II and got assigned to the notorious "Instant response Team" (Google "Instant Response Team", "Nixzmary Brown" ). Vargas had no experience as a unit Supervisor I, had not passed a supervisor's test (most of the new supervisors can't pass this exam, which, incidentally, I did pass) and had not gained a Masters Degree either. (It is interesting how many "Masters of Social Work" cannot pass the ACS supervisor Exam, but maybe a book needs to be written about that.) Anyhow after a brief stint as a Supervisor II Vargas got boosted yet again, still without a degree or a passing mark on the Supervisor's test, this time to the title "Child Protective Manager" (a non civil service, non unionized title whose holders serve at the pleasure of The Mayor.)

Giuliani and his Child Welfare Commissioner Scopetta had just announced new tougher standards for the making of supervisors in the agency when Vargas got his first lucky break at ECS.

Vargas may have no civil service protection and he may have no union but he clearly has a rabbi.

I had a case in which a four month old baby was given over to a criminal whose own children had been removed from her home by the courts in an informal NYPD "child placement", a disaster that was seconded by a Bronx ACS worker, by Sup II Adegbola and by Vargas, though not by their superiors once I insisted that the situation was dangerous. The higher ups were furious - not at Vargas, but at me, because I had blown their "Me? I see nothing. Me? I know nothing" cover. After the Whitick case, after this case, after the case of the teenage girl who was sexually abused by her stepfather and sent back to him by Vargas, Vargas still makes life and death decisions for the victims of child abuse and for the victims of ACS.


# To hear Vargas tell the tale, he was being stalked by a mom on one of his cases and she was threatening his life. I never had anything like that happen to me even with moms whose kids I took away.

Putting Your Personal Life Onto the Sidewalk, For The Daily News To See....

Putting Your Business Out On the Street For All The World To See

This happened at the office where Vargas is a honcho and his buddy Jean-Philippe is the honcho.When bozzos like them trample on the dignity of New York Citizens all they need to do is "frantically apologize", then resume doing whatever it is they do...

The ACS department where I worked for eight years, Emergency children's Services, has made the news for the first time since the Child Protective Manager Ramon Vargas bungled Whitick case on super Bowl Sunday, 2005. This time it was because the Daily News found out that ECS takes case records that have all kinds of private information as well as all kinds of unsubstantiated accusations and lies, about hundreds of New Yorkers, puts them in garbage bags and leaves them out on the sidewalk.i

Bloomberg says he's very upset - about the Daily News getting hold of one of these bags - and wants an investgation. If the investigation will be a typical ACS investigation, like the one about what went wrong on the Whitick case, no one needs to worry, unless of course some taxi driving ex-employee had given the bag to The Daily News.

From 11/20 NY Daily News:

Confidential ACS files found dumped on street

BY RICH SCHAPIRO and NICOLE BODE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

[Daily News reporter holds confidential files found in clear plastic
bag dumped outside Administration for Children's Services office on E.
29th St. and First Ave.] More than 200 case files filled with
confidential information about the city's most at-risk children were
dumped on a Manhattan streetcorner, the Daily News has found.

The unshredded Administration for Children's Services files - tossed
out in a ripped, clear plastic garbage bag - contained highly
sensitive personal data about families, social workers and police
involved in agency cases dating from 2000-2001.

"You found it on the street? You're kidding me!" gasped Melissa, a
41-year-old mother whose last name the Daily News is withholding.
"They just put it on the street and anybody could have come? Those
people need to be sued for doing what they're doing."

The files were tossed in a trash heap filled with office furniture and
cardboard boxes in front of the ACS offices on E. 29th St. and First
Ave. last Thursday. Agency officials issued a frantic apology to those
named in the files, adding that they were scrambling to learn how it
had happened...

http://www.nydailyn ews.com/front/ story/473188p- 398034c.html

The Whitick case, Bloombreg, Vargas and me.

ACS flacks told the world that it was not required by regulation that the children in the Whitick case be visited immediately. It was incumbent that either ACS or NYPD make contact as soon as possible, physical and visual contact, because there was a credible report that children were being seriously hurt and they were! 2 days later the cops got involved. Emergency Children's Services had a case worker call the family (!) and of course an adult answered and said that there was no problem, so the matter rested until Tuesday when cops found the kids beaten and battered and needing ambulances. No one has asked whether these kids got beaten before, during or after ACS's very brilliant telephone call.

Mayor Bloomberg told the world that he was outraged, outraged mind you, and that by golly he was going to get to the bottom of it all. Two years plus and no follow up to his outrage is apparent. The puppy dog journalists have no further questions...

I was brought up on charges for supposedly not making an immediate midnight, non emergency cruel, needless and heartless case visit. Cops, detectives in fact, had already been to the home, extensively. A doctor did not call in a report, because there was nothing reportable. Cops called in a report that was rejected. They tried a second time and an exageration or lie was added to the report to make it viable, as the NYS Office of Children's Services is known to do.

While I was brought up on charges the Supervisor One, Hani Malek, who was with me and agreed that there was no need to call police got promoted to Supervisor Two. Go figure!

So, yes I have this thing about the Whitick case, but everyone who cares about children or who pays taxes that go to NYC's ACS should, because here was a call from a person with a name and phone number, not an anonymous call, about kids getting the stuffing beaten out of them. In fact that was an IRT (Instant Response Team) case but since Ramon Vargas was both the manager on duty, and the IRT coordinator, and it was after all, Super Bowl Sunday, and he has this off to the side, curtained off office that no other Child Protective Manager has at ECS, well...

As I approach the first anniversary of my somewhat forced resignation I have renewed energy and will to see that this case, and the matter of Ramon Vargas, accident that has already happened, not get lost.
Who is the idiot who brought me up on charges for this? Well, he isn't an idiot, he's Maradesa Adegbola.

While Vargas is no moron he has put children at serious risk, not that that would bother anyone at ACS.

Oh, yes, the Whitick Case was called in to Child Protective Services on Superbowl Sunday, 2005. What with the television sets on bosses' desks, is it any wonder that no one went to see those kids that day???

Would You Believe It? No Reply! Why I do not trust the Inspector General's Office, or if you'd rather think so, it's just fiction.....

Whatever happened to the investigation of the Whitick case ?

Eugene Weixel, Child Protective Specialist
Administration for Children’s Services
Emergency Children’s Services
492 First Avenue Unit 579 Ground floor
New York, New York 10016-9103

BEN W. DEFIBAUGH
ACTING INSPECTOR GENERAL
180 Water Street, 2nd Floor,
New York, N.Y. 10038
Fax: 212-331-3308
Dear Mr. Defibaugh:
I am writing you first in regards to an ACS case that I believe your office is investigating, the (media case that faded away prior to the election Whitick case ) case. I communicated to the ACS Commissioner that there were memos sent by management to certain supervisors that set arbitrary limits on the number of cases that Emergency Children’s Services would classify as “visits” per shift. ----Whitick case ) case came to Emergency Chidlren’s Services and may account for why a telephone call was made to Ms. XXXXXXX rather than a visit to her home to assess her children’s situation. My communication with the Commissioner also regarded another case that you might want to look at I am including the relevant e mail communications between Mr. Mattingly, Ms. Chahine and me:
Subject: From Eugene Weixel re: IRT case of this morning
Date: 2/11/05 1:18:42 P.M. Eastern Time
From Eweixel (@AOL>COM)
To: John. Mattingly@dfa.state.ny.us
At the risk of receiving additional disciplinary charges I am bringing a case to your attention that demonstrates the extreme of irresponsible casework decisions by those who issue directives in ECS. Rather than name this case here in the Internet email I will simply say that I worked on an IRT case last night (this morning) and I carried out directives that left three children in a dangerous situation.
1. I have documented the case thoroughly, and I have sent a memo to Mr. Jean - Philippe as well as the supervisors and managers involved.
I must say also that I have followed the recent media case. I would hope that you are aware of the memos regarding limitations of case visits that were sent by management to the supervisors who were involved in that case, both before and after the media "blowup."
In my humble opinion these kinds of fiascos will continue as long as ECS supervisors and managers enjoy the impunity they are accustomed to. (End)
I received a reply from Ms. Chahine which I answered (both are included):
Subject: Email Sent Commissioner
Date: 2/12/2005 12:37:56 A. M. Eastern Standard Time
To: Eweixel@aol.comMr. Weixel,
It would be helpful if you could forward to me the memos that we mentioned in your e-mail to the Commissioner for follow up. Thanks
--------------------------
Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

My reply was as follows:
Subject: Re: Email sent Commissioner
Date: 12/12/2005 9:37:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: Eweixel
To: Zeinab.Chahine@dfa.state.ny.us
In a message dated 2/12/2005 12:37:56 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, Zeinab.Chahine@dfa.state.ny.us writes:
Mr. Weixel,
It would be helpful if you could forward to me the memos that we mentioned in your e-mail to the Commissioner for follow up. Thanks
--------------------------
Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
These memos were sent to supervisors xxxx,xxxxxx Mr. xxxxxx and I believe also to Mr. xxxxxx. I doubt they'd actually give them to me because they'd fear getting into some sort of trouble. They were sent by CPM Mr. xxxxxxxxxx (Spelling?).
Thank you for responding as you did to this concern and also for the speedy action to place one of the children in my IRT case of Thursday night / Friday morning.
The case in which I was involved is summarized in a memo I sent to my supervisor, manager and director:
ADMINISTRATION
for CHILDREN’S
SERVICES
Memo
To: xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
From: Eugene Weixel
CC: XXXXXX XXXXXX
Date: 02/11/05
Re: Redacted case SCR 214xxxxxx et al.
I must express my grave concerns regarding this case. This is a case in which a xxxxteen-year-old girl alleges that her stepfather sexually fondled her and “attacked” her. This child’s mother believes the child and moved the child into a rented room in someone else’s house to keep her away from the stepfather. This mother however was not willing to cooperate with police in identifying the stepfather in order that he be arrested. In an interview the mother stated her preference to have this xxxxxeen-year-old child taken from the home in order that the marriage to the alleged subject stepfather be preserved.This mother told the CPS that the father had threatened to kill her and had thrown objects around and “talked about killing people” in front of the two younger children.
The child disclosed to hospital staff as well as to her own mother that the father had fondled her vaginal area at least two times. This child, when asked by this CPS if she felt herself safe in the home where she was returned to the stepfather answered, “I don’t know.”
I objected to the decision to take the family out of the EAU gateway to the shelter system where the mother had agreed to take her children and I also objected to leaving the children in the home with this subject father.
The family was being accepted into the shelter system and was taken out of this system abruptly and placed into a high-risk situation.
A false entry was made in the case record: “worker has not obtained any information from child nor the mother to assess risk. All information are from various Sources including social worker and doctor.” This is contradicted by my case entries, it does not reflect anything I told you or any other supervisor or manager, and police and hospital staff can dispute it. While the child could not be interviewed at any depth because she had been asleep (after one in the morning, when her mother had brought her to the precinct at around 3:00 PM) and because of a language barrier, the child would not tell the CPS that is not afraid at her home. (She speaks and understands limited English). The mother had a lengthy interview with CPS that was facilitated by Elmhurst Hospital translation service and there was another discussion with medical staff, police and CPS with the mother that was facilitated by a (Native language) speaking nurse. I had no reason to misrepresent these facts, nor did I do so to you, to Mr. xxxxx, or to Mr. xxxxxxx.

To clarify the situation for you , Mr. Inspector General, I emphasize that I was in telephone communication with my supervisor and with supervisor George Baird, night administrator at ECS, throughout the case from the Elmhurst General Hosptal Pediatric Emergency Room, From the Emergency Assistance Unit, while in transit to the Emergency Assistance Unit and from the home of the subject family. I carried out their instructions to the letter while I made my objections clear.I hope I have helped in shedding light onto the BIG MEDIA CASE THAT WENT AWAY WHILE BLOOMBERG FOLLOWED IN THE POLLS Whitick case and a similar matter that you might wish to look into. (As you may know Ramon Vargas was the Child Protective Manager directly involved with both of these cases).
Thank You,
Eugene Weixel
917-680-5034
CC: John Mattingly
Zeinab Chahine


YES, THERE WAS THIS BIG MEDIA CASE AT THAT TIME, AND THE PRESS WROTE THAT AN INVESTIGATION WAS UNDERWAY AND NEVER REVISITED THE STORY (THE ELECTION WAS IN THE FUTURE AND AT THE TIME THE MAYOR'S STANDING WAS SHAKY) Whitick case



By the way, after Vargas ordered me to drag this teenage sex abuse victim and her terrorized mother back to the home of the terrorizer Zeinab Chahine had to get personally involved in partially rescuing the situation from Vargas' hasty abrupt and uninformed decision. Once again it was not Vargas who incurred wrath, but me, the one who warned via email the higher ups of the disaster Vargas had created. But me, for making the higher ups responsible for what their agency was doing.

Not revised. This is the heart of the problem with Ramon Vargas.

Jean-Philippe, Joycelyn (ACS),- Can't read for comprenesion too well. (Revised June 1, 2007)

This is a director who went around the office talking about how great it is to be a single New York man in Santo Domingo. He can't read too well, not for comprehension, anyhow.Please note that in internet style the first communication is at the bottom, the reply is above it.-

From: Jean-Philippe, Joycelyn (ACS)
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 4:10 PM
To: Weixel, Eugene (ACS); Mattingly, John (ACS)
Cc: Adegbola, Maradesa (ACS); Fore, Gregory (ACS); Vargas, Ramon ECS (ACS); Malek, Hani (ACS); Malia, Patrick (ACS); Brown, Olivia (ACS); McDougall, Sharon (ACS); Chahine, Zeinab (ACS)
Subject: RE:

Hello Eugene,



I have asked your CPM, Patrick Malia, to meet with you and your supervisor in order to clarify and address the contents of your e-mail. During this meeting, the CPM will review with you our mission versus the mission of the police, our role, our mandates, our case practice guide, and our responsibility to act effectively upon all calls requiring a child abuse/neglect investigation and/or immediate preventive services. The CPM will also discuss with you our Instant Response and High Risk protocol, which requires an immediate face-to-face response on all cases identified as high risk by the SCR. This includes all IRT cases (i.e. fatalities, sexual abuse, serious injuries, severe neglect/abuse reports, etc.) There is also a fatality protocol, which requires the immediate response on all reported fatality situations and the submission of a 24-hour fatality report to the State, which the CPM will review with you. In addition, I want to emphasize that Children’s Services is a fully operational 24-hour per day agency. We operate this way because we live in a diverse and multicultural city. Some of our citizens function during the day, while others (like ECS employees) function at night. We cannot in good faith and with good conscience fully protect our children if we decided that we should not conduct home visits during certain hours.



Lastly, I want you to know that your comments are always appreciated, but you must follow the Chain of Command, as required by the Agency’s “Employee Code of Conduct,” to address all work related issues. Conferencing with you about this matter and/or directing you to follow the code of conduct is not “retaliation.” Since it seems that you are lacking clarity in this matter, your CPM will review the code of conduct with you as well. Thank you.




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From: Weixel, Eugene (ACS)
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 6:47 AM
To: Mattingly, John (ACS); Jean-Philippe, Joycelyn (ACS)
Cc: Adegbola, Maradesa (ACS); Fore, Gregory (ACS); Vargas, Ramon ECS (ACS); Malek, Hani (ACS); Malia, Patrick (ACS)
Subject:



Dear Mr. Commissioner:



I am writing this letter to you because I have confidence in the rightness of what I am going to tell you, even though the last time I communicated directly to you regarding case practice in ECS I had to undergo an attempt at retaliation that failed.



As you may know, a one month old infant died in New York City last night. I was assigned to investigate this matter prior to the acceptance by the SCR of any report against the parents.



I spoke with the detective on the case who told me that he did not suspect child abuse or neglect at this time. He told me that the infant had been carried by the now subject mother in an ordinary baby carrier. He told me that he could not make a determination regarding crime prior to the results of the Medical Examiner's investigation. He did tell me that the home is in deplorable condition. (This is not mentioned in the Oral Report that the SCR was generating at perhaps the very moment I was getting into a car to go to the parent's home.)



My visit to the parent's home, at 2:21 AM, is described in my case notes. Basically the now subject father wanted ACS to return to his home at a more conventional hour. He stated that he and his wife are bereaved. He said that the surviving one year old sibling is in the home of a neighbor. He said he did not want to wake up that neighbor's family and that the child would be returned to his apartment in the morning.



I decided not to push, bully or coerce this father into allowing us into his home at 2:30 in the morning nor to attempt to force the awakening of the neighbor's family.



I want to bring up another matter. The police officer whose report was taken has told ACS that the report does not accurately reflect his words. He did not say that the child was being carried in a "backpack." More than once I have spoken with reporters who tell me that the ORT being described to them does not reflect the information they reported, and I can say that this has happened even tome in reports I have called in carefully going over the facts with the SCR worker. At times the information gathered by us from reporters would point to a lack of any real allegations, yet we pursue these matters, prying into the lives of people who have not been truly and factually even accused of doing anything wrong, sometimes calling them and ringing their door bells sometimes at very unconventional hours as well.



I initially objected to the assignment to go to this family’s home in the stark hours of early morning. I feel this is a brutish and heartless act, needlessly heartless at that, and in fact I question being assigned to investigate the family or ring their doorbell without a report.



I can recall another instance in which a child died on Staten Island and a report was made only accusing this family of leaving the deceased child’s siblings unattended in a hospital parking lot. I was dispatched to the family’s home and learned that the children in question were not unattended. (Such an investigation on the day a parent’s child has died!) When I called back to the IRT coordinator he wanted me to return to the home and question the family about the death that had been investigated by police and found not to be homicide and after the hospital that pronounced the child dead had not reported any neglect or abuse connected to the death itself.



In still another instance another worker told a manager that the worker suspected that a reporter was mentally disturbed. I was assigned to assist on the matter, to ring the doorbell of the reporter at around three in the morning to assess his mental state!



In still another case I was ordered to “tell the parents” of a child who just had died on the day of this death that the “had to bring the other children to the hospital right now.” I’d hope not to see those days return.



I believe in the rule of law. When lawmakers, law enforcers and government officials habitually do not abide by law then the ideas that underpin our Declaration of Independence come into play. Beyond the law and rule of law (investigation without report, investigation of reporters) there is a matter of common decency in all of this. Our office is called “Emergency Children’s Services” I think for a reason. We are conceived as an arm of Child Protection that intervenes in emergencies. It is a matter of decency if not of law that people are not to be disturbed in their abodes by the government at unreasonable times or for reasons that lack reason.



One cold February morning around four years ago I removed four little children from their homes at around four in the morning without court order and for no reason a normal person would accept, other than the old cliché “I was only following orders.” I wrote a memo to my director who thanked me for bringing the matter to his attention. A few months after this the manager retired, some say under duress. This action was ordered and insisted upon after my co worker and I told the supervisor from the home itself that there was no safety emergency in this home – and I promised myself that I would never again be the instrument of such thoughtless brutality.



I’m almost 60 years old and it is too late for me to change much. I have these hang ups about decency, respect for others and lawfulness of government actions that help make me into a misfit where I work, but it is too late for me to find another job. Maybe it is not too late for the place where I work to change.



Thank you,





Eugene Weixel