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[quote=Anonymous]I have enjoyed and also been irritated with the podcast as well. I don’t know what to expect from the last episode. What I am hoping it contains is some refutation of the District’s finding that this was a tragic accident that couldn’t have been prevented. That’s just such BS.

1) The school should never have accepted the excuses being given. Absences that long require a doctor’s note.

2) The family was actively under the supervision of the shelter as well as at least one case manager - probably more than one. Where was that person?

3) The shelter had rules about hiring people with criminal backgrounds. They also had rules about staff fraternizing with residents. Both of those rules were demonstrably broken. Were there any consequences for that?

All things considered, it seems to me that the organization running the shelter as well as the DC department in charge of homeless services is at least partially responsible. DCPS also has policies and is partially responsible for not adhering to them. CFSA chose not to remove the kids from the family when they were involved. Maybe that was the right decision. Maybe not. But realistically, the shelter hired a predator against their own policies and did nothing despite his known fraternization/grooming behavior, and the school failed to follow up on 3 weeks of absences in anything close to a timely fashion. Both of those seem like ways that “this could have been prevented.”

My personal belief is that Tatum either bought or stole this little girl, probably the same day she was last seen on surveillance camera. I believe that his wife found out, and he killed her to cover up his crime. By the time anyone started looking for Relisha, it was too late.[/quote]

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