Charlene A. Dorcy kills her two young daughters

[Guest guest]

www.google.com/search?hl=en & lr= & ie=UTF-8 & q=%22charlene+a.+dorcy%22

copy above link into web browser window for list of links to more

info concerning case.

> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2001956367_kidsslain15m.html

>

> The girls' deaths already have prompted questions about the state

> CPS system, which has been under fire after a 2-year-old Ephrata

> boy, Gomez, died last year after being returned by the

agency to his mother's care.

>

>

> The agency received more than 77,200 complaints of child abuse and

> neglect last year and investigated about half of them, records

show.

>

> As a result, about 7,100 children were removed from their homes.

>

> The agency has front-line screeners who use a " risk matrix " to

> factor in the age of a child, the severity of an allegation and

> parents' previous contacts with CPS or police to determine whether

> to investigate a complaint.

>

> Yesterday, some advocates said this case may show that it's time

to change the screening method.

>

> " This and the Gomez situation shows us clearly that we need to

> examine what it is that needs to change, " said Laurie Lippold, a

> lobbyist for the nonprofit Children's Home Society of

> Washington. " This is an opportunity to do that, a sad one, but an

> opportunity. "

>

> About 100 mothers per year in the United States kill two or more

of their children at the same time, said Park Dietz, a Newport

Beach, Calif., forensic psychologist.