With at least seven minority children dead on its watch just since the start of last year, the Administration for Children’s Services is starting to look awfully racist.
Yes, we know: It’s somehow now “progressive” to let these kids die at the hands of abusive and neglectful parents; in that view, removing the children from the high-risk homes is the racist move.
That’s the logic that last month left 4-year-old Promise Cotton trapped with the corpses of her dead brother and mother, who had an open case for child neglect.
ACS workers knocked on the door and walked away.
After relatives found little Promise the next day and exposed the horror, Mayor Eric Adams even defended ACS, saying the agency has “saved thousands of lives.”
Does he just not understand that ACS Commissioner Jess Dannhauser is so bent on avoiding “unnecessary separation” that his caseworkers now flinch from even clearly necessary ones?
The numbers prove that ACS’s judgment on when it’s “necessary” to remove a kid has become downright abysmal. Jahmeik Modlin, age 4, was left in the care of parents who allegedly starved him to death, despite ACS visiting the family’s home twice in the prior four years.
Jalayah Eason, 6, allegedly was hung from the ceiling by her wrists and beaten to death by her mother — who during a earlier home visit outright told an ACS worker that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but was not being treated. ACS did nothing.
Under Dannhauser’s rule, one whistleblower told The Post, “workers do not want to upset their supervisors, so they recommend to keep the family together, asking for counseling.”
The adults who’re supposed to protect these children are failing them, time and again, leaving kids to be starved and beaten in the name of . . . social justice?
Even workers who buck the agency’s progressive insanity and recommend removal are often overruled by higher-ups, according to The Post’s ACS sources.
The mayor needs to wake up and reject this deadly ideology; Dannhauser needs to go — along with any underlings who put identity politics over the lives of innocent children.
Pulling kids out of dangerous homes isn’t racist; believing nonwhite parents can’t be expected to properly care for their children is.
Root the abuse-enabling madness out of ACS. New York’s kids deserve much better.
