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[QUOTE="leftytg, post: 689510, member: 2651"]
I worked the first 6 years of my career prosecuting child abuse and neglect in Manhattan (I still work in the field, only in TX now) and saw a lot of truly disturbing things done to children by their parents.  It is sad, but as awful as Raymon's case is, it wouldn't even come close to some of the bad cases I've had.  Out of the hundreds, if not thousands, of kids I had on my caseload, I can think of fewer than a dozen or so who managed to escape and get into and stick at a 4 year college.  I also can't emphasize strongly enough how fortunate, and rare, it was for Raymon to be taken out of the RTC and into a nonrelative's home at age 12.  It is sad, but if you aren't adopted by 7 or 8, your chances of ever finding a permanent home and family are almost nil.  I handled countless cases just like John.  The anger, the trust issues, the insecurity - it really messes kids up and makes them lash out at prospective foster parents, it reject the foster parents before they have a chance to reject the kid.  To make it worse, there are plenty of terrible foster parents out there too.  I had a case where a foster parent had 4 kids (all siblings).  One night she decided she didn't want them anymore, so she told the kids she was taking them out to dinner, got them in the car, and dropped the kids at the foster care agency 15 minutes before they closed.  As if that wasn't bad enough, the woman had the audacity to come to court 2 months later and ask for the kids back because she couldn't pay her mortgage without the foster care subsidy.  The judge about burst a blood vessel in her head screaming at the woman.
 
  God Bless the Finney's indeed - the world needs more people like them.
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