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Oklahoma DHS failed to report a child as missing; her body was just found near Tulsa (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/oklahoma@midwest.social
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Oklahoma DHS is a fucking disgrace.

There needs to be a federal investigation.

I’ve sat in fucking court and hear them laugh off runaways. Zero interest in looking for them, zero care.

And a kid is fucking DEAD.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As a father of a 16 year old this pisses me off. How come she wasn't listed? Is it because she was Poc?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    She ran away multiple times, and with those kinds of kids, they basically stop caring. Same with the ones who attempt to kill themselves multiple times - in the words of the director of Kiamachi Youth Services, they are “lemons.”

    Never a consideration that death often would be preferable to the hell holes we call group homes. It’s fucking sick. I’ve been in the room and heard the complete callousness in the way they talk about these kids.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That pisses me off more. Maybe if they didn't put them in shitholes and givs a shit this wouldn't keep happening. Anything we can do about it?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago*

    The Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth is supposed to oversee DHS, but there’s so much regulatory capture and incest that they don’t do their job.

    DHS used to be under federal oversight, but they were released from the Pinnacle Plan earlier this year. There’s some movements to try to get a grand jury investigation opened, some other movements in court.

    I’ve called senators and house reps over and over. There aren’t really any federal agencies that can help. They really seem to be a law unto themselves.

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