Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

I don't know this case well, but there are so many children who fall through the cracks.

Like so very many of our issues, we lack the budget and the political will to fix it.

Affidavit reveals there had been multiple calls to 3 different law enforcement agencies reporting domestic violence, official cause of death is listed as battered child syndrome. Where was @BANGORPOLICE #mepoliticshttps://twitter.com/VStv_ME/status/968576912095436800?ref_src=twcamp%5Ecopy%7Ctwsrc%5Eandroid%7Ctwgr%5Ecopy%7Ctwcon%5E7090%7Ctwterm%5E3 …

In my experience, there are 3 reasons why child abuse is not caught (leaving out causes of abuse occurring). 1. People lie, particularly to/for people they love. 2. We have legal boundaries. 3. We have a budget/political will problem. #mepolitics

1. Is pretty self-explanatory 2. Parenting is a very protected right, though are certainly anecdotal situations where it is not. In many ways Maine's laws already intrude into parenting in ways that may not pass constitutional muster. It is hard to push much further.

State officers often cannot take action, particularly if people are lying. The most abusive parents usually aren't the ones who jump up and say "oh, yeah - I *totally* beat the crud out of my kids daily!"