An 11-year-old abused girl, considered a risk to herself and others, has spent two months in what's considered a shelter and has been waiting months longer for a secure residential treatment center placement.
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services' failure to properly place her, has led to Cook County Judge Patrick Murphy issuing an 11th contempt of court order against DCFS Director Marc Smith.
DCFS says several secure residential treatment centers refuse to accept this fifth grader because of the violent act. And said it can not force residential programs to take in youth. "This youth is no longer in a psychiatric hospital and DCFS has, in fact, placed this youth in a clinically appropriate setting where she is receiving supportive services and is attending school every day. DCFS is in constant contact with its network of providers and foster parents in an ongoing effort to place children in clinically appropriate settings.
After being hit with the three other past contempt orders, DCFS quickly found the right placements for those youth who had been languishing in psychiatric hospitals.The judge's order involves two youth in care who had languished in psychiatric hospitals long after they were ready to be medically discharged.
In cases of youth staying in the hospital beyond medical necessity, taxpayers pick up the cost. In court, it was said taxpayers have to pay the hospital bill - $600 a day for the first month which increased then to $1,000 a day. This child being left hospitalized has cost taxpayers about $348,000."We can't continue to torture kids," said a juvenile court judge as he held DCFS Director Marc Smith in contempt of court for the seventh time since January.
DCFS also was accused of saying they are trying to place the teen into facilities they already knew wouldn't take him because of his developmental delays. In March, the eighth contempt of court order was issued. In this case, a 14-year-old girl was taken into temporary DCFS custody last September. She was then moved 21 times. She was stuck in a psychiatric hospital and was then moved around to different shelters, hospital emergency rooms, DCFS offices, and emergency foster placements.
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