Gaps noted in aid to 2
Social services had boys' case
(Winston-Salem Journal) - A review of the drowning deaths of two young brothers in Stokes County found gaps in services provided by the county agencies that were supposed to protect them.
Jacob Craig White, 3, and Jeffrey Wayne White Jr., 4, were found in the Dan River on Sept. 8, 2006, after they wandered away from their grandparents’ house on Hicks Farm Road in Danbury Sept. 5, 2006.
Hundreds of volunteers and rescue workers showed up to search for them. After three days of searching, a lone kayaker found their bodies within 100 yards of each other in the river.
It was a day that shook Stokes County.
More than a year later, a state child-fatality review team has released a review of the brothers’ lives and deaths to better protect other children.
Such reviews are required by state law in deaths of children when neglect is suspected or the child’s family was followed by the child-protective-service system.
(Winston-Salem Journal) - A review of the drowning deaths of two young brothers in Stokes County found gaps in services provided by the county agencies that were supposed to protect them.
Jacob Craig White, 3, and Jeffrey Wayne White Jr., 4, were found in the Dan River on Sept. 8, 2006, after they wandered away from their grandparents’ house on Hicks Farm Road in Danbury Sept. 5, 2006.
Hundreds of volunteers and rescue workers showed up to search for them. After three days of searching, a lone kayaker found their bodies within 100 yards of each other in the river.
It was a day that shook Stokes County.
More than a year later, a state child-fatality review team has released a review of the brothers’ lives and deaths to better protect other children.
Such reviews are required by state law in deaths of children when neglect is suspected or the child’s family was followed by the child-protective-service system.
posted by BP News Bureau | 12:50 PM
1 Comments:
I helped to search for these boys. I was told the boys got "whippings" by the Grandmother they lived with. Why were they able to walk down the hugh hill to the store or Moratock Park alone, the local restuarant etc. Why each time the door was opened did they run? Why was there to be a custody hearing on the day they turned up missing? Why did the Father never cry on camera? WHY did he say, "At least now, I know where my youngens are."
The hearing was a custody hearing and the Mother was said to have been dating or living with a black man. We all know how most stokes county feel about this. Why are there so many unsolved mysteries in this county. I was told by a social worker herself, "people around here tend to take care of their own".
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