New York, NY Two recent cases have pointed to major problems in New York’s Child Welfare System. A New York Times Story of 1 August 2008 reports that Lethem Duncan, 62, plead guilty to embezzling large sums of money intended for children with special needs:
“I agreed with other persons to embezzle money from A.C.S.,” Mr. Duncan said in United States District Court in Manhattan as he addressed the first of six counts to which he pleaded guilty.
Duncan worked with other employees to create phantom adoptions and issue subsidy checks. He also arranged to pay funds to a private contractor for services that were never performed. The amount of diverted money that has been identified totals about $500,000 but this estimate may be lower than the actual amount diverted.
The announcement of he guilty plea came one day after Judith Leekin was sentenced who was convicted of fraud. Leekin used 4 aliases to adopt 11 children with disabilities and collected $1,680,000 in subsidies from New York Child Welfare System. Now, aged 16 to 28 the children were abused,beaten, neglected, restrained, handcuffed, and warehoused under inhumane conditions for years before being discovered in Florida. See the Associated Press Video below for more on this story.
December 4, 2010 at 10:11 pm |
I am attempting to unite the CPS victims. We need a massive mailing list to accomplish this, recognizing the fear of retaliation for going public. I personally am not afraid of their retaliation. Please e-mail me at dbdkho@aol.com if you would like to join this effort to unite the group.
We are the ordinary people. We are the people. We can do this. Tell me your story, if you like. I’ll tell you my false accusation story. The main thing is that the identical abuse is happening to each and every one of us and we must unite, as voters, jurors, petition signers.
I am contacting state legislators (senators). Please, come out of the darkness of their lies, fear and terrorism. You can remain annonymous with me if you like.
We can do this.
I personally will go public for us, as others are.