Right? How is this not a criminal investigation

I mean, even then, a cursory examination of the file, showing the child had been in the hospital for days, with daily scans, proving no fractures until like the 4th day or whatever it was, Should have been the immediate first step, and ended there.

DCFS dropped the ball hard to terrorize a family and sexually traumatize the kids with their genital "inspections". Especially with the fact that the file was fucking empty.

Think about all the time, money, and effort wasted on this provably false from the get go accusation.. Then think about how they don't even give a fraction of this time and effort to kids in actual bad, abusive situations.

My parents have worked in a hospital in varying capacities from janitorial to administrative, to being the money people keeping the books balanced.

In the words of my mother, "the hospital owners will outright tell you 'we don't make mistakes so figure out how it's the patients fault'"

She works trying to get insurance to cover things now and finally agrees with me that the while insurance system is a scam designed to fleece people out of money they already spent on Healthcare through taxes (because you pay more now in taxes for Healthcare than you would if the whole country moved to universal Healthcare, how's that for "fiscal responsibility")

This might sound tin foil hat-y, but the doctor - Petrak - is a contractor without an incentive to complete the work in a timely or efficient manner. I can’t see why he would push for a speedy closure.

That plus a hospital that doesn’t want to be sued for malpractice, plus a government agency where they would rather check boxes and maximize their metrics*, than consider the damage of their policies to innocent people is a recipe for torturing the public.

* I would assume they’re going for number of investigations, and not efficiency. They probably count raw numbers, and do what they can to catch every little thing - thoroughness can be good, mind you - because finding something is “proof” of their efficacy.

It’s a shame more families don’t sue in these circumstances to make the involved parties check themselves to ensure they aren’t causing more harm than good.