Authorities err terribly in Janiya's child abuse case and death

Really? What has happened to the Florida Department of Children and Families? First, you have a little baby with two parents deemed to be drug addicts, yet it was not seen as being in an unsafe environment. The baby ends up dead. Then, less than a month later, you have an 11-year-old child who has been missing for over a year and found dead and locked up in a freezer.

It was only then that the rest of her four siblings to be considered "unsafe due to danger threat" (Oct. 28)?

What about the other times in the 15 years DCF had been called to the home and the kids were found beaten, burned, starving, etc.?

This case with Janiya has disgusted me the most. For one, I am 38 years old, do not have children and would have taken Janiya into my home and given her the care she deserved, and, for two, I worked with this heartless monster and did not know what a horrible person she was!

DCF has truly fallen apart and needs to be gutted and reformed. They should have one group who helps kids in low-income homes or possibly homeless and can get them to the organizations that can help them and one group who helps those in abusive homes and who do their jobs properly and take children who are in danger out of those situations and into safe homes with people who care for them.

I truly do not want to read about another dead child in the near future, or ever preferably.

Heidi A. Severson

Bradenton

This story was originally published November 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Authorities err terribly in Janiya's child abuse case and death ."