So,yeah...this happened. The
Houston DA’s office partnered with the local Children’s Assessment Center to
launch a public awareness campaign aimed at child abuse. It’s a noble goal, no
one could deny that.
However, I would love to see a
similar effort made to raise awareness of the CAC’s own bad behavior in the
past, with an effort to repair the lives that it has torn apart. Recall, if you will, the
clusterfuck caused by nurse Colleen Taft, resulting in hundreds of cases being
brought under review. Problems with her work were brought to light in 2004:
Last
week, District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal expressed
concern that some people may have been wrongfully convicted based on Taft's work.
The prosecutor in charge of the review confirmed Wednesday that the probe now
extends to about 30 children's cases Taft worked on at Memorial Hermann.
"Yes, we are having
those cases pulled," Oncken said. "We've gotten a list of those cases
and are in the process of determining which ones resulted in criminal
charges."
Oncken was the lead prosecutor in
Coy’s case; her team benefitted from evidence gathered by the CAC, and then she
was asked to look into the source of that evidence and determine whether or not
it was ‘good’ evidence. Not surprisingly, there is almost no word on how this
investigation turned out.
I applaud the DA’s willingness to
fight for innocent children. Let’s see if we can’t also fight for innocent men
and women.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Probe-of-nurse-s-child-abuse-exams-expands-1973880.php
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