There's piece of shit, Josh Powell. I'm sure y'all have heard about this, just like I have. Josh blew up his house with his two young sons inside. Charles, 7, and Braden, 5, were on a supervised visit to their daddy with a social worker. The social worker was forced out of the home and it then blew up. The weirdest part of this story is that Josh's wife, Susan had disappeared and Josh is the main person of interest in her murder. It gets even weirder. Josh's dad was arrested for child porn and basically stalking Susan before her death.You can go look it up. HERE is one horrible article. Now, it's come out that Josh attacked those two little boys with a hatchet before he blew them up. He maimed them horribly. They suffered a terrible, terrifying death and my heart just goes out to their maternal grandparents who were raising them.
The question is, when are we going to change the laws so that social service goals are not to reunite the parent with the children, but, to protect the children? Period. They had no business forcing those kids to go see their daddy when he most likely murdered their mother. If it had turned out at the trial that he was innocent, then he would have missed some visits with his sons. Too bad, if that's the worst that could happen. Now they're both dead and the maternal family is living a nightmare that will never go away. Something is wrong with our system and it needs to be fixed.
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i think everyone in that child's services program that was involved with his case should be fired.....supervised visits in his home?!?!?!??! why couldn't they make him take his ass to THEIR location????? especially since he was being investigated for being involved, not only for his wife's disappearance and obvious murder; but also now in conjunction with his dad's child porn????
and that case worker---who was a contract employee....now they're saying she called 911 too....some stories said when he slammed the door in her face and wouldn't let her in she knocked on the doors and windows and THEN went to her car to call her supervisor (and now they also say 911) since he wouldn't let her in and she smelled gas....
there's way too many people here with blood on their hands and how many times and how many children have to die or be placed in horrible circumstances because agencies DO NOT LISTEN???? protecting children should be JOB #1....and if the 'parents' who lost custody, even temporarily, of their kids were PARENTS they would understand that instead of cry, whine, and manipulate....
this shit pisses me off.....and that poor family.....her parents not only now lost their daughter, they lost their grandchildren by her......all by the same person....
Until the goal of human services is changed, shit like this will keep happening.
It's the same question I have for DHS here. How many times are you going to put my grandkids in a dangerous situation? How many chances do bad parents get?
Living in Utah, I have followed this since Susan went missing. It is beyond comprehension what this monster did, and can't believe he and his father are such cowards....his old man knows something about what he did to his wife, and if he has a shred of humanity he should spill so her family has some closure. The Utah police have really pushed for answers, even a search of the west desert just a few months ago. My heart is broken for those kids and their Grandparents who tried to do the right thing, but we're bound by the laws that protect "parental" rights at any cost......snowbunnie
the boys had started to talk about what happened too---which is why, the police are theorizing, he did what he did----they said mommy was in the trunk when they went 'camping'.....
and didn't those social worker fucks think it really really ODD that he wouldn't allow the boys to mention or discuss their mother around him??????
there needs to be NATIONAL guidelines for children services....not namby pamby every city/county/state different.....NATIONAL guidelines.....and the #1 priority should be: CHILDREN'S SAFETY AND PROTECTION that encompasses not only their physical, but their mental and emotional health.....
There is no way I could handle the pain of knowing my grandkids died like that.
Josh's father is a piece of shit, just like him. He makes my skin crawl. The apple didn't fall far from the tree in that fucked up family forest. Rot in hell, Josh, you selfish, evil coward.
Cab you imagine the horror of knowing your daughter married into that and had kids? Damn. It must have been an ongoing nightmare..and now this. Those poor poor grandparents. My heart aches for them.
I think that the police search of the desert was after the boys starting talking....there were many weird things right from the start...who takes two babies out in the middle of the midnight to go camping in december in Utah? This whole thing makes me feel sick.....snowbunnie
I saw a pic of them (grandparents) with the boys. They look like such nice normal people. Gawd, what they are enduring now is beyond anything I can imagine.
I ranted about this yesterday, I think at the end of the "Ayla" post. It is just beyond my comprehension how someone can do this to any child.
I read the article, and what is so telling to me, is that the maternal grandparents said that the kids were emotionally distant when they first came under grandparent care. It took them awhile to warm up. In my eyes, that puts them in a similar spot to my relatives kids that were adopted out. There was abuse at the hands of that coward. He didn't just murder their mother, he was abusing them, as well.
The fact that there were hatchet marks on those little guys is almost more than I can handle. The article also said that they died of smoke inhalation, so they had lacerations to their head and neck, probable burns and blast, and then died over a period of time. He wasn't just a coward. He was a monster. I hope they nail the paternal grandfather for all they can.
My heart goes out to the grandmother---she said that the little guys didn't want to go visit dad, but she talked them into it. She didn't know this would happen, but she will have it in her heart and mind for the rest of her life.
My question is, if the maternal grandparents felt that it was unsafe to have only one social worker with the kids during visits, why didn't social services take that into account and look more closely, deciding on a neutral location for the visits, or add more personnel? My relative had some visits in a park, etc., I think.
It makes me cry to think how they suffered. Imagine if they were my own. It's beyond comprehension. Social services has some hard questions to answer.
This just makes me sick over & over again. What a POS coward. I hope there is some special kind of hell or whatever waiting for such a monster.
I think all your readers should sent a newspaper clipping (it appeared in all papers all over the country) to your town Social Services department.... no note, no comment, just the article from different states....
some people do not deserve kids. Period.
I work for social services ( Child Protective Services)....I have a few questions myself. Did social services have legal custody of these children? How long had the father been visiting with the children? For us we start visits in the office supervised by a worker. As time passes and the parent prove they have consistently been appropriate and we also, usually but not always, do a psychological evaluation (def in this case) and if there are no concerns we will allow for some visits outside of the office in a public place....once we are about to reunify with the parent because they have done everything they needed to do and have been stable for several months we will start to allow visits in the home and then a few over nights until reunified. And then we keep the case open for several more months and visit you once or twice a month
this is really sad :(
-M
THANK YOU for responding. Can I ask you some questions about my case and treatment? It's okay if you say no, but, you might shed some light.
I posted this on another post too. I hope you see it, M.
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