The CBS 2 Investigators delve into a practice the state was ordered to fix decades ago.
-- More than 60,000 foster children have been stuck in a vicious cycle of moving from one place to another - four, 10, 20, and even more homes and institutions.
She loved being there, but her foster mother became ill. DCFS had to remove Mallory and find her a new home. That began her childhood full of turmoil. After analyzing the data, CBS 2 found many children moved from one place to another. Nearly 62,000 kids, 41% of the children in the system, moved four times or more. About 7,000 children were placed 20 or more times.
"In the middle of the night, they just dropped me off at this DCFS worker's house," Mallory said about another move.Dr. Michael Naylor is a psychiatry professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. He runs mental health programs through a DCFS contract. "I think central to all of the difficulties here are the disruptions in relationships that these kids have," said Dr. Naylor about the department often moving children.
the vast majority of abuse and neglect allegations against foster parents are closed without findings against them. Using DCFS foster parent abuse data dating back to 2016, we were able to reveal nine out of every 10 abuse or neglect allegations were closed by the child welfare agency as"unfounded.
Mallory still struggles with the years of abuse she suffered in DCFS. In one home, she was severely punished for bed wetting. Then she was beaten, and a special friendship bracelet was ripped off her ankle. It was made by a friend Mallory had to leave during one of her 67 moves. The bracelet meant so much. Thinking about it being ripped away brought her to tears. "But basically, it's the cost of being in care," said Mallory."I had bruises. I had lots of bruises and scars.
But Mallory says her path through the child welfare system was even worse. She suffered abuse throughout her childhood in DCFS and got stuck in the system - languishing until she was old enough to age out.
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