This little boy can never be forgotten. It makes me cry every time I think about him. These people need to be reminded of the end results of their complacency and their failure to protect this child from the monsters who were paid to adopt him.
This tragedy was preventable and Ricky's life and death should be a reminder to those who take children and warehouse them that they need to do the job they are collecting a check to do. They failed him in the worst possible way.
From the Free Press
On a raw January day in 2006, Tim Holland fell to his knees after leading police to the skeletal remains of his son Ricky in a Michigan swamp.
"What have I done?" he wailed as he looked at the black plastic garbage bag partially submerged in the icy water. "What have I done?"
What could anyone have done to save Ricky?
What did anyone do?
Ricky's story got national attention when the search for the missing 7-year-old turned into an ugly case of murder at the hands of his adoptive parents, Tim and Lisa Holland.
They convinced authorities they were a deserving couple seeking to build a family through the foster care system.
But a Free Press investigation shines new light on how their dark, secretive world unraveled, and Ricky with it. Confidential documents provide disturbing new details about his life, death -- and those who were supposed to protect him.The rest on Ricky Holland here
Problems in the State's Foster Care systems have been a problem for a long time. Read an introduction to The Lost Children and a link to the original here.
A lawsuit filed in 2006 ended up forcing Michigan to clean up it's act starting in 2010. If you spend any time reading some of the stories found here, you will likely conclude that there is still not enough being done.
No comments:
Post a Comment