Child welfare authorities are allowed to remove newborns from homes if the parents had other children taken from their custody. This case is still open under a new policy enacted by the city. The policy was influenced in part by the death of Pablo Paez, an 11-week-old whose older sibling was taken from the same home a year earlier and placed in foster care.
An ex-junkie beat her newborn son without mercy until he ended up gravely injured in the emergency room with a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and broken bones. Pablo's mother, Kiana Paez, 23, was charged in April with second-degree murder in the beating death of the child. Child welfare workers had been in frequent contact with Paez since the first baby was placed in foster care because of violence in the home, but they did not try to remove Pablo. The child welfare policy includes a terms for "extraordinary instances," where the child may need to stay in the home, and removals are not automatic. When caseworkers learn of a pregnancy, they must have a safety conference with family members to evaluate the risk for the infant. If the caseworker feels the baby should stay in the parent's home, a supervisor must sign off on the decision. Otherwise, the agency will start proceedings to take the child from the parents.
I feel that it is a good idea to monitor the parents but not a good idea to take the child away from them. Yea it is a crime to beat your children to the point that they die, but sometimes you have to discipline your children. I say just monitor the parents because to have my child taken away, that would just hurt so badly. So, parents don’t beat your children to the point that child services has to come and take them away because you would dread the fact that you lost your child.
New York Post
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