What does FLorida law state regarding a child and the environment of children?

Answer 1

There are several laws governing this issue in the State of Florida. Unfortunately they are rarely, if ever, enforced.

For example, Florida law states that it is unlawful to strike a child with any object. However, Florida Schools will have parents sign consent forms allowing them to paddle children with a board and they do this frequently under stringent Board Governed circumstances. Also, children who are spanked by parents with belts are never prosecuted even though Florida law specifically mentions the belt as a prohibited object.

There are many other such laws, none of them being enforced by either the Florida Law Enforcement, the Courts, or the Department of Children.

The State of Florida has been sued many times and either lost or settled out of court because Department of Children have not acted to prevent children from abuse, physical and emotional.

In a case in 2007 James Ledford, a Dept of Children child protective investigator told a parent that "we do not take a children out of a home unless to leave them there for another day could mean their life is in danger."

This is official Dept of Children policy in Florida. Which means, a child could be in the most horrendous of abusive environments, as long as there is no immediate threat to their LIFE they will not be protected. Broken bones, battered and or bruised faces, crippling emotional abuse, these are all things that cannot and will not lead to the child being taken from environment.

Anyone who challenges this answer is clearly either naive or is terribly misinformed.

The problem lies with the Law Makers themselves, who, knowing the will of the people and passing these laws do not ensure that they are enforced, and with the Law Community in Florida who are completely callous to the plight of abused children in the state unless there is a hefty 5000.00 or better retainer involved.

There is simply NO ONE in Florida looking out for abused children.