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Comments :: Sheriff: Lack of communication led to Raeford Amber Alert

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superman Yes I know Who is on first. You are indeed correct.

I like the original story better, it was less confusing...

Does anyone know who is on "first".

Sounds to me like someone has a major gripe against this woman. I noticed her arm was in a cast/sling typoe thing. How did that happen? She mentioned at one point that she had been beaten or something by her husband, I think it was.

DSS, for the most part, isn't worth the powder and shot to blow them up!

Sheriff peterkin will tell you every time he did nothing wrong and then fire a few depties. The problem with that is he does everything wrong and does not listen to them.

there's something very " Hokey" about this story.

"DSS had deemed Joyce a danger to the child a few days earlier after she underwent a mental evaluation . . ." WHAT!!!! Based upon a DSS evalation. By who's examination? If it was a valid diagnosis why wasn't the child taen aat that time?? This DSS is SLACK!!! Mom said she arrived back home at 5:30p. Sheriff sid PoPo checked the house at 6:00p"

EXACTLY!!!!

On a different note, Sheriff Peterkin stated in an interview with Brian Mimms on the Noon News, that the Sheriff's Dept. received a anynomus tip @ 9:30 pm that the mother and child was at the residence the he supposedly abducted from, and after the arrivial of the 1st WRAL Reporter @ 10:30 pm knocking on the door and physically speaking to the mother and calling the Sheriff's Dept. and explaining to them that he had personally spoken to the mother, the Sheriff's Dept. still hadn't sent an officer to investigate the anyonmus tip they received @ 9:30pm.

My mother once asked a social worker why they decided to pursue that degree in college. The answer was "it was one of the easiest degrees to get." I think that explains a lot.

There are so many stories where social services workers did something that was hurtful to children and adults alike. Worse, I don't think they should have power to simply remove a child from a mother who has not harmed the child.

So, the lady "underwent a psychological evaluation" and based on those results, she was determined to be a danger to the child? I'd be more interested to know whether she had ever hurt or threatened to hurt the child. To heck with the "psychological evaluation". I want facts, not opinions -- and that's precisely what that is.

Here's my opinion: taking the son away from a loving mother hurts them both.

Sadly, this is par for the course with DSS. I've heard similar stories of "poor" communication with them.

"What we have here is a failure to communicate"

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