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Although Jodie is only eight years ancient, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through copious foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass. At the Social Services office, Cathy (an veteran foster carer) is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie’s challenging behavior has seen off five carers in four months. Despite her reservations, Cathy decides to take on Jodie to protect her from being placed in an institution. Jodie arrives, and her first act is to soil herself, and then wipe it on her face, smiling wickedly. Jodie meets Cathy’s teenage children, and greets them with a sharp kick to the shins. That night, Cathy finds Jodie covered in blood, having cut her own wrist, and smeared the blood over her face. As Jodie starts to trust Cathy her behavior improves. Over time, with childish honesty, she reveals details of her abuse at the hands of her parents and others. It becomes clear that Jodie’s parents were involved in a sickening pedophile ring, with neighbors and Social Services not seeing what should have been obvious signs. Sorry to say Jodie becomes increasingly withdrawn, and it’s clear she needs psychiatric therapy. Cathy urges the Social Services to provide funding, but as a replacement for they choose to take Jodie away from her, and place her in a residential unit. Although the pedophile ring is investigated and brought to justice, Jodie’s future is still up in the air. Cathy promises that she will stand by her no matter what—er like for the abandoned Jodie is unbreakable.
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It didn’t take long before the leader’s long-suffering patience and selfless goodness on behalf of yet another abused child pegged the needle on my should-be-nominated-for-sainthood-NOT meter. Come one. The leader writes under a pseudonym. I wouldn’t place my real name on this delusional piece of self-stroking egotism, either.
But, the book is not a total loss. To the critical, inquiring mind, it is a treasure brimming with her blissfully-ignorant, unintended expose’s of the inside effective of child welfare agency practices, the malpractice, the malfeasance, the non-feasance and the just unadorned dopery, mopery and idiocracy. I cite as one example: Foster carers taking child’s statements about sexual abuse? Lacking proper training? Lacking documenting it? Lacking insuring that the interview techniques are proper? (They weren’t) Inappropriate to say the least. Shocking to the astute observer.
This is not to discount the child’s reported experiences, but rather, to expose the failures of the system to protect, and effectively treat the child. It is safe to presume that while this child was being studiously ignored by the agency in her abusive home, they were too busy to rescue her because of all the non-abused children being swept into their nets. This child will never be a functioning, normal adult, if the leader is to be believed. That is a tragedy that the leader indicates was avoidable, if the system was doing its job. This is a powerful indictment against the wholesale removal of children lacking proof of serious harm.
The heartless cruelty of this system is well documented. As a foster carer, she boldly exposes her attempts to make the child despise her parents, ignorant of the harm that causes the child’s ability to form attachments, and like herself. She sees no incorrect in building a child doubt her own identity, her origins, her feelings for her parents (which cannot be denied no matter how sick the parents were), because it is more expedient for the agency to emotionally disaffect the child from her parents rather than teach the child to admit and refuse the sin, lacking having to despise herself because the sinners were her parents.
It shows the practitioner’s systemic denials of the harms caused to the innocent victims by the child saver’s well-intentioned services, non-services, incorrect-services, delayed services, inappropriate services and outright failures, yet they can pat themselves on the back and walk away bureaucratically secure in a job well done, as the human toll mounts.
I am glad she wrote the book. She had no clue the hero she tried to convince the world she is was more accurately exposed as one of the villains perpetuating the abuse of children under the guise of protecting them.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
THIS IS ONE BOOK THAT I WILL REMEMBER FOR A LONG TIME. IT LEFT ME WITH SO MANY DIFFERENT EMOTIONS. ONE THING IS FOR SURE, I HOPE “EILEEN” IS NO LONGER WORKING FOR SOCIAL SERVICES!!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Jodie’s tale is appealing and heartbreaking and Cathy Glass is an adequate writer. Sorry to say, she’s “tells” as opposed to “shows” and the book suffers for the dry, removed style of her writing.
As a replacement for of relating incidences in Jodie’s life as they take place, she relates them in the past tense, which lessens the dramatic structure of the book.
More use of adjectives and color would have helped the book tremendously.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This is an incredible tale and one book I just could not place down… It is a sad tale, but I reflect it shows how some children fall through the cracks.. And need a name to save them…..
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Its hard to judge that anyone could mistreat a child but these parents went beyond abuse.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5