How to make money in your spare time. Adopt 11 kids through New York City's foster care program and keep them hand cuffed and starving at home while you pocket about $180,000 a year. But don't worry, although it went on over a 15 year period, NYC is going to make sure it doesn't happen, again. Good grief.
(CBS) PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. Investigators are calling it a house of horrors. A Queens woman now living here has been accused of abuse and neglect towards the 11 children she adopted from New York City.
Police were horrified at what they discovered at the home of 62-year-old Judith Leekin. Inside, they said they found four malnourished teenagers and five adults, some mentally disabled, living like prisoners.
According to records, the kids provided the unemployed Leekin with as much as $180,000 a year.
Earlier Tuesday, John B. Mattingly, New York City's commissioner of child services, released a statement saying: "This may have happened 10-15 years ago, but we now have to make sure it doesn't happen again."
rumor has it pelosi is gearing up to pass a resolution calling the florida adopter/jailer gal a "mean old woman". also, they'll demand an apology.
unless it turns out she's a democrat. if so, never mind.
Posted by: bloodrage bob | Wednesday, August 01, 2007 at 12:51 AM
Florida's DCF is a known shambles. This one is notable only because of the quantity. Similar quality incidents with lower numbers are reported all the time.
The quality of the social workers who are supposed to keep track of this stuff is notoriously bad.
Posted by: Purple Avenger | Wednesday, August 01, 2007 at 01:07 AM
Here's an odd thing:
From the days of Shakespeare and King James, a "shambles" was quite literally an open-air "meat market" (think like a "bazaar") where animals were slaughtered and cut to customers' orders.
Thus, to consider a foster care/state child care service as a shambles... is quite telling indeed.
Posted by: seekeronos | Wednesday, August 01, 2007 at 10:11 AM