Fenty Moves Quickly in Deaths of 4 Girls!

I may be wrong but it seems to be that Mayor Adrian Fenty should be commended for the speed in which his team has reported back to the public in the deaths of four girls in their home in Southeast this week.

No need to regurgitate all the horrible details here; but it should be noted that City workers knew of Banita Jacks dire straits, beginning with her dying husband's plea for help while seeking emergency treatment a George Washington University hospital.

His wife and girls, ages 5 to 17, were living in a vehicle with no fixed address; but rather than send out an SOS and respond with all the city government's resources, the Jack family was tossed off the emergency rolls, their case closed just because they had no fixed address.

The Mayor's team pieced together lots more disturbing details that justify the zero based review of the emergency assistance efforts of DHS for this family and all the others.

Here's a bet on my part; that one of the things they will find is that there are to few social workers, too many social service cases. Too few truant officers to track down children who disappear from classrooms, and too few people making home visits, refusing to leave without some answers.

The goal shouldn't be to merely reduce the caseload. The goal should be to get these poor children, and this city has thousands of them, into places were they can be healthy, safe, fed and given a chance in life; even if their parents have already given up or been given up on..