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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the Superintendent’s Report on the number of complaints to CPS about MCPS employees:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/childabuseandneglect/Annual%20CAN%20MEMO%20to%20BOE_Update%20Policy%20JHC%20CAN_FY20.pdf

Remember - FY20 was the start of online learning so these numbers are lower than the trend was demonstrating.

CPS screens out (does not investigate) the vast majority of cases.  They have a small department so they are overwhelmed by the volume of complaints that come in county wide.  MCPS employees are not a priority for them.

As pp said, when CPS doesn’t investigate or rules out child abuse, MCPS points to CPS and says that the employee is cleared. The employee keeps his job no matter how many Code of Conduct violations the employee made. MCPS fails to understand that the Code of Conduct is for getting questionable employees out of control with children BEFORE the abuse occurs.

Look at the numbers.  Prior year reports are on the MCPS Child Abuse and Neglect homepage.  The Board of Ed has these reports yet they have not made changes to a school system that keeps questionable staff in place till the abuse occurs.[/quote]

Wow. And yes, CPS doesn't investigate most things so that should not be the "rule out" method MCPS uses. That is not the point of having internal MCPS staff do this so-called investigative work. If CPS and the police choose not to investigate, I am thinking the paid leave time is mainly to see if anyone else comes out of the woodwork. It's all CYA, because no one within MCPS is investigating beyond reading the initial report and interviewing the employee who was accused of wrongdoing. When those people turn out to be pedophiles, it will be on MCPS. People may not come out on the time table they're using, as the Whitman case shows, but they will come out with their stories eventually. [/quote]

This generally goes under police.  CPS has a unit to investigate day care but that's about it.[/quote]

It’s child sex abuse.  Doesn’t CPS investigate in conjunction with the police? A child that has been abused has suffered a horrible trauma. CPS are the trained experts for interviewing children. Normally, CPS conducts the child interview and the police watch.[/quote]

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