Children staying fewer nights at Cuyahoga County office building, but officials still face huge placement gap

It’s an update to a tragic story we told you this summer. The boy is just one of many troubled teens 19 Investigates discovered have spent part of the year living at a Cuyahoga County office building.

“He doesn’t understand,” the boy’s mom, Cheryl, said. “He is not able to process that. He is too mentally ill.”But, it’s more that just a financial cost on the county to send him out of state.Her son was charged with attempted murder earlier this year. When he was declared incompetent to stand trial in any criminal case, Cheryl says officials wanted to send him home.A Cleveland teen failed by a broken child welfare system, is now preparing to be shipped out of state.

She’s been told her son will likely get sent out of state just a few weeks before the Center’s beds become available. We reached out to Chris Ronayne last week, after he was elected to be the next county executive. He doesn’t take office until January, but we wanted to talk to him about where aiding child and family services stands in his priorities. A communications person told us he was busy and ultimately didn’t answer our request for an interview. Regardless, these moms want him to hear this:Cheryl’s friend Sarah Hihn has been fostering children in Cuyahoga County for more than a decade.

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