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  324. DYFS failures ; Some dubious choices for adoptive parents: [All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B]
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  380. A review of the thousands of pages of confidential files released earlier this year as part of a lawsuit filed against DYFS by Children's Rights Inc. shows that abuse by foster and prospective adoptive parents was not all that unusual, including abuse in homes monitored by ARC offices. Episodes of malnutrition, beatings, and other forms of cruelty are in those files. And the ARC South office had already been cited internally by DYFS for failures in monitoring foster children as they moved to adoption.
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  382. The suffering of the Jackson children points to the dire need for dramatic change in all areas of DYFS operations, including the adoption process. The amazing failure to recognize their starvation may have included a familiar litany of DYFS problems: inexperienced, overworked staff, an inefficient bureaucracy, and a desperate attempt to get children placed - without adequately monitoring the homes and parents involved. But that is no excuse for overlooking such obvious cruelty and abuse.
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  440. THE revelations about the four starving boys in Camden County are horrible, but they are not a complete surprise to those who know the severity of the problems at the state Division of Youth and Family Services.
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  442. The office that failed to notice the emaciated children, despite repeated visits to the Jackson household, is DYFS' Adoption Resource Center (ARC) South. It is one of six regional offices around the state that handle the adoption of foster children who have been abused or neglected by their biological parents.
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  444. A review of the thousands of pages of confidential files released earlier this year as part of a lawsuit filed against DYFS by Children's Rights Inc. shows that abuse by foster and prospective adoptive parents was not all that unusual, including abuse in homes monitored by ARC offices. Episodes of malnutrition, beatings, and other forms of cruelty are in those files. And the ARC South office had already been cited internally by DYFS for failures in monitoring foster children as they moved to adoption.
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  446. From 1997 to 2002, DYFS adoptions in New Jersey more than doubled, from just under 600 to more than 1,200, due in part to pressure from a federal law aimed at keeping children from languishing in foster care. But at that accelerated rate, DYFS may have been less than selective, to say the least, in its choice of adoptive parents.
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  448. The Jacksons had adopted six foster children and were in line to adopt a seventh when their adopted son Bruce, a 19-year-old who weighed 45 pounds, was found looking for food in a neighbor's garbage can. The Jacksons collected $28,000 in state and federal subsidies last year to help care for the children, but they did not have to account for one penny.
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  450. They also claimed they home-schooled the children. Yet New Jersey requires no evidence that the children were being taught anything at all.
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  452. In plain sight, the Jackson sons - ages 19, 12, 10, and 9 - were wasting away, and no one in the home was held accountable for their health, their safety, or their education.
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  454. At least now, the boys are being cared for and gaining weight, although the damage that has been done to their physical and emotional development will take years to correct.
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  456. DYFS is under intense scrutiny - by the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, the new state Office of the Child Advocate, a congressional subcommittee which is to hold a hearing this week, and the panel of experts created in the settlement of the Children's Rights lawsuit. No true improvement can take place until the worst of the agency's failures are brought to light.
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  458. The suffering of the Jackson children points to the dire need for dramatic change in all areas of DYFS operations, including the adoption process. The amazing failure to recognize their starvation may have included a familiar litany of DYFS problems: inexperienced, overworked staff, an inefficient bureaucracy, and a desperate attempt to get children placed - without adequately monitoring the homes and parents involved. But that is no excuse for overlooking such obvious cruelty and abuse.
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  462. Raymond and Vanessa Jackson were freed on bail over the weekend and reunited with members of their church on Sunday, to cheers and applause. Their pastor says they have explained that the boys suffered from eating disorders and other medical conditions, and the couple will defend themselves in an interview with Dan Rather on "60 Minutes II" next week.
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  464. Maybe Mr. Rather will ask the Jacksons for the name of the doctors who were treating their children for these medical conditions - because there is no doctor in New Jersey, we believe, who would not have taken immediate and drastic action.
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