District Attorney says kids get lost in system
8:42 a.m. Monday, August 14, 2006
Wichita — Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston is calling the state's child protection agency a "behemoth" that should be re-evaluated.
Her comments were made three weeks after police removed a pair of malnourished and bruised girls from their Wichita home.
School officials have said they alerted state officials twice about concerns they had that the girls were being abused and Governor Sebelius has ordered an investigation.
The six and seven-year-old girls were found last month emaciated in their basement. Their well-fed step-siblings were found upstairs. The girls spent several days in a hospital before being placed in state custody.
Foulston accuses the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services of conducting cursory examinations of reported abuses, and she said that has put children at risk.
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