Kids in foster care have right to counsel WashTimesOpEd
I know the community needs all hands on deck. The city’s shelters and office buildings overflow with newborns and young children. It’s the peak of the opioid crisis, and every 15 minutes, another drug-exposed infant struggles into the world.
I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that there would be no one to speak for the toddler in court. Although her future hung in the balance, she’d be the only party in court without representation. Most children in the foster care system across the U.S. still lack this basic due process right — a right noticeably extended to the criminally accused who abuse them.
Fundamentally, children’s lives are saved or lost in court proceedings. Children who die of abuse often have long histories of involvement with child protection. Consider the gruesome torture and murder of Gabriel Fernandez, baby Dylan Groves, and Chaskah Smith. One of our pro bono cases involved an 8-year-old girl. Adopted by relatives due to severe physical abuse, Baylee thought she’d found safety. Sadly, her nightmare had just begun. Doctors discovered grim physical evidence of sexual abuse on her tiny body.
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