Little Angelo was only eight months old when his father
ruthlessly shook him to death over the unsupervised Christmas visit social
workers allowed after the many incidents the Angelo family had of harming
children, the first of which involving Little Angelo when he was but a few days
old he was taken to the hospital for multiple broken bones.
Nevertheless, the social services overlooked the severity of
the abuse and, instead of taking him away from his parents to be adopted by one
of the many families that long to have a child, which was legal due to the
extent of his injuries, Little Angelo’s parents were put through “Family
reunification services”; this was the tried and untrue method of helping
abusive families change their ways so they could get their children back.
There were multiple warning signs that the social workers
ignored until after his father was convicted, probably because they wanted
their programs to work so badly, like seeing fear in the little boy’s eyes when
the time came for parental visits, bruises on his body after visits, and the
fact that his sister had already been taken away from the parents for reasons the
social workers disregarded, thus, making them and everyone who overlooked the obvious
participants in the crime.
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