Cari Covahey's Case Summary

Penny Ann Beernsten, a thirty-six year old small business co-owner and physical fitness instructor, went through a traumatic experience on the afternoon of July 29, 1985. She jogged at a stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline in Wisconsin. She was planning on meeting with her father at the beach at 4:00 PM and she started the jog at 3:50 PM, but was grabbed and taken to the woods where she was raped and deprived her of oxygen by suffocation until she passed out. When she woke up, she walked out of the woods, where couples comforted her until she found her husband and finally the police. (Possley).

adolescent boy and girls, are physically and sexually abused. CPS claims that among the children who enter foster care, most will

Qu. 1. Is Tavion’s mother’s statement of concern of abuse sufficient to warrant further investigation by the hospital?

Other health problems arise when the trauma from past experiences such as abuse or violence in the home cause long term effects in the children. The needs of children in foster care are multifaceted and the problems are exacerbated when the resources in the community are scarce and when the service system is fragmented (Halfon, Berkowitz, & Klee, 1993). Due to the complexity of their problems and the degree of vulnerability, a well-trained and

IRTC spoke with CPS, Cari Covahey, who reported that she observed the subject child and her siblings and there were no visible injury. CPS stated that there are no present issue regarding the subject child being sexual abused, but she seems to have a strong attraction to sexual related content. CPS uttered that she was told that the child is making comments about wanting to get pregnant and she frequently make remarks which are sexual in nature. Based on the above statement, this case does not meet the criteria for an IRT. However, if there is any suspicion pertaining to the subject child begin sexually abused in a physical manner, CPS is to contact IRTC or an IRTC at ECS (after hours) for a case reassessment.

Biehal, N. (2014). Maltreatment in Foster Care: A review of the evidence. Child Abuse Review,

Lucius Isaiah Gibson IV, age 16, was arrested Tuesday, July 12, 2016, on the allegation that he committed sexual assault on a 3 year old girl at the home day care center known as “Jacque's Teddy Bear Child Care,” ran by his mother (Alani, 2016). The home day care facility is located at 1538 Amaryllis Court in the Thousand Oaks East Subdivision (Alani, 2016). On June 9th detectives first interviewed the 3-year-old victim, who name is not mentioned (Alani, 2016). According to the police report, the girl stated to the officers that, Gibson went into the “nap room” and assaulted her several times (Alani, 2016). Gibson’s argument to the arresting officers was that he did “expose himself in front of the children,” however, he denies touching or

According to the National Children’s Alliance, one in four girls and one in six boys under the age of eighteen are at risk of being sexually abused but only according to what is reported. In the State of Texas, a professional has forty-eight hours to report any cause to believe a child been abused as stated in Sec. 261.101. As a foster parent and principal, Angela Sugarek and Carol Jeffery had a major moral responsibility and legal duty to report what her three year old foster son was displaying: behaving strangely and an anal injury.

More than two-hundred and fifty thousand children enter the foster care system each year, making it extremely difficult to find the right caregiver for each child. There are so may effects on the child that last their entire lifetime, making it difficult for them to trust others. Not being able to trust their peers, they often find it hard to make friends and long-term relationships last. Fortunately, there are many results that can improve everyone’s position in placing the child. Foster care agencies repeatedly create destructive situations due to the selected caregiver, as well as the plethora of glitches that are created. Due to the unacceptable and inappropriate selection of foster parents, the child frequently experiences difficulties and disadvantages later on. Most children are placed into foster care because of mistreatment and experience the same treatment in their foster homes. Unfortunately, a lot of times the foster parent will take their anger out on their foster child, making a wide array of short-term and long-term complications for the child.

Another issue of doing research with foster children is the reality that some of those children might be being abused. The issue of consent is again complicated because of the relationship between abused child and abusive guardian. Kinard provides three special situations where procedures for interviewing an abused child might need provisions: when a child is distressed by the interviewing or testing; when a child’s answers or test results indicate emotional problems; and when a child’s answers or comments indicate that the child is being abused. Kinard comments that the decision regarding whether to inform the guardian and/or others about the child’s answers must balance a guardian’s right to know against the child’s right to privacy. However, she notes that the decisions made under these circumstances require intense deliberations (1985).-need to put in quotes? Or change wording-exact copy from study

REPORTER: The reporter (Gennette) called with concerns for the victims, Leslie, Tapenga, and Teagan. According to the reporter, there was a police report in Leslie’s file from Wisconsin. When Justin Tegelman (Leslie’s brother/special needs/currently 19 years old) was 16 years old, he had six counts of sexual assault (from December 2011-June 2012), while living in Wisconsin. The incidents occurred when Justin was a minor. In the police report, Chad (Justin’s father) caught him doing something to one of his sisters (Tapenga). Chad caught them under the covers, and it didn’t appear that their pants were down. Justin said they (Tapenga) were humping. The reporter said, Chad clapped his hands together to indicate humping and Tapenga said “that’s not what happened”. Justin described it as

CCIB Intake received referral #1560-1578-3742-8023697 from reporting party and foster parent Isaiah Haro. According to the reporting party (RP) the foster children spend a great deal of time in the living room watching television or in their rooms playing games. Each child has their own room with their own television. Foster child Savina Anna Ventura DOB: 11/14/06 is private and doesn't like anyone entering her room. Approximately at 6PM on 9/21/16 Junior age 18 the biological son of foster father looked through all the bedrooms for foster child Juan Olea age 7 to take him to the park. Savina's door was open and it appeared her room was empty, however, Junior heard voices coming from inside the room. Junior overheard Savina asked Juan to like

The underlying issues in both cases are racial discrimination. For Cheryl Boulden in the affirmative action case the issue is being “an African American woman among the good ol’ boys in Indiana.” She was recruited because of race and her permanent handicap was seen as an asset for a diversity program lacking any. Yet these qualities made her a target of racism. Susan Finn’s ethnic discrimination presents a dilemma of how to deal with a contract physician’s abusive behavior “toward Hispanics and female staff as well as patients” (Reeves, 2006, p. 79). While the issues of racial and gender discrimination is not unusual, the failure of these agencies to address multiple complaints is.

On 1/6/16 at approximately 12:05PM the reporting party (RP) was alone with foster child Michael Martinez as they worked on a puzzle on the floor of the resource room. The RP questioned Michael regarding the prior day after school. Michael answered "stupid, I had to stay in my room until dinner." The RP asked why and Michael responded "I don't behave right at school." The RP asked what else did he do and Michael responded "got spanked, and then spanked myself in my room. I hit the crap out of my butt." The RP asked if he played with toys at which Michael responded "yes after I spanked the crap out of my butt because I'm bad." The RP asked Michael what is a spanking and he responded "we get hit on the butt." When the RP asked who, Michael stated

A lack of knowledge can not only leave the child in danger of repeated abuse but places her in danger of legal ramifications. “Standard12 of The National Organization for Human Services (NOHS) suggests that all Human Service Workers be conscious of their local, state, and federal laws. Advocate for change in regulations and statutes that may violate ethical guidelines and/or client rights. If these laws are proven to be harmful to clients than clinician will closely consider the conflict between the values of obeying the law and the values of serving people.” (NOHS, 2016). Tamika should advise her supervisor of Melissa dating relationship along with the bruise found on Shane once returned. I believe she should not forget to mention that the father stated that Shane’s behavior had gotten better when it had