Florida DCF has described the parents as loving parents who deserve to get their children back which they lost when their 9-year-old son was found by police Jan. 28 wandering his neighborhood naked, severely malnourished and with visible marks over much of his body. His parents both were charged by police with aggravated child abuse. More recently, DCF representatives have said the boy may have a rare disorder that led to his losing weight and picking at his own skin — thus explaining marks that appeared to result from abuse. They urged prosecutors to seek the couple’s release from jail, and have told a Miami judge that the couple had not harmed their five children...The GAL Program fought the newspaper’s request for court documents in the case, arguing the media and public could gain information about the boy’s well-being by attending open court hearings. What they didn’t say: The 9-year-old at the center of the controversy has told his doctors he’s afraid to go home. “I’ve never seen so many black pages in my life,” Lederman told the agency Wednesday. “Everything was blacked out. Not one word.”“He has told his physicians two or three times that he feels safe at school, safe at the hospital, but he does not feel safe at home,” the judge said. “He did not want to go back home.” ...DCF’s attorney, Christine Lopez-Acevedo, dismissed the judge’s suggestion that the agency was withholding information — and cast doubt on the suggestion that the boy was genuinely fearful.A court-appointed psychologist has reported that the 9-year-old is not always truthful, Acevedo said...“Judge Lederman was very attentive to the television camera and made it a point to look in that direction as she held the picture of the child and stated on two occasions that he looked like he came out of Auschwitz,” Lissette Valdes-Valle, the department’s Miami spokeswoman, wrote in a Jan. 30 email to bosses.Following that hearing, DCF asked the judge to recuse herself from the case, and lost an appeal before the Third District Court of Appeal when she declined.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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Florida DCF has described the parents as loving parents who deserve to get their children back which they lost when their 9-year-old son was found by police Jan. 28 wandering his neighborhood naked, severely malnourished and with visible marks over much of his body. His parents both were charged by police with aggravated child abuse. More recently, DCF representatives have said the boy may have a rare disorder that led to his losing weight and picking at his own skin — thus explaining marks that appeared to result from abuse. They urged prosecutors to seek the couple’s release from jail, and have told a Miami judge that the couple had not harmed their five children...The GAL Program fought the newspaper’s request for court documents in the case, arguing the media and public could gain information about the boy’s well-being by attending open court hearings. What they didn’t say: The 9-year-old at the center of the controversy has told his doctors he’s afraid to go home. “I’ve never seen so many black pages in my life,” Lederman told the agency Wednesday. “Everything was blacked out. Not one word.”“He has told his physicians two or three times that he feels safe at school, safe at the hospital, but he does not feel safe at home,” the judge said. “He did not want to go back home.” ...DCF’s attorney, Christine Lopez-Acevedo, dismissed the judge’s suggestion that the agency was withholding information — and cast doubt on the suggestion that the boy was genuinely fearful.A court-appointed psychologist has reported that the 9-year-old is not always truthful, Acevedo said...“Judge Lederman was very attentive to the television camera and made it a point to look in that direction as she held the picture of the child and stated on two occasions that he looked like he came out of Auschwitz,” Lissette Valdes-Valle, the department’s Miami spokeswoman, wrote in a Jan. 30 email to bosses.Following that hearing, DCF asked the judge to recuse herself from the case, and lost an appeal before the Third District Court of Appeal when she declined.
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