Before speaking about the changes to social services we need to understand why Melisha was placed back with her parents.
Melisha Gibson’s stepfather abused her severely at 11 months old and she lived for more than three years in a foster family with whom she had a deep bond. Foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins considered Melisha, or Missy as she was called, and inquired about adopting her.
Ronnie and Wanda Maddux wanted their children returned, however and over the course of months, one-by-one the state returned all of the children, placing Missy there last.
Why? Why did social services in the US hold reunification of the family as so important? And since it was so important, why didn’t social services provide more resources or require treatment that would have given a family placement more chance at success?
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2.9 Fight for Justice: Whatever Happens, Happens in Tracey v. City of Torrington
2.8 Fight for Justice: Unequal Protection and the 14th Amendment
2.7 Fight for Justice: What about the Baby?
2.6 Targeted Topic: Restraining Orders – Worth the Paper They’re Written On?
2.5 Fight for Justice: The Trials of Buck
2.4 Fight for Justice: The Aftermath
2.3 Why Did She Stay? The Leaving Process and Media Messages about Love Final.
2.2 Fight for Justice: I Will Get You and I Will Hurt You
2.1 Season Two Introduction
1.20 Fight for Justice: Looking Toward Season Two (Season Finale)
1.19 Missy, We Won't Forget (Case Wrap-Up)
1.18 Targeted Topic: Why Do Abusers Stay? With Kate, Ignorance Was Bliss podcast
1.17 Targeted Topic: When the SPCA Saved a Child
1.16 Roundtable
1.15 Child Abuse Laws: Not a Story of Failure, but of Progress & Hope
1.14 No Longer in the Shadows: Child Abuse
1.12 On the Banks of the Nile: The Verdict & Aftermath
1.11 Plumb Wild: The Mother's Defense
1.10 The Stepfather's Defense
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