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THE RILYA WILSON CASE, Miami, Florida
5-year old disappeared from foster home for more than one year.
The social services did not miss her.
Article series by Associated Press, published on CNN.com
May 4 -- May 27, 2002, and other articles
Police Arrest Caretakers
In Rilya Wilson Case
The caseworker for a
missing 5-year-old girl faced being fired for falsifying records and
"unbecoming conduct" before she was allowed to resign earlier this
year, according to documents obtained by CNN.
Women Who Cared for Still-Missing Florida Girl Are Charged With Abusing
Her Before She Disappeared
By Catherine Wilson
Two women who cared for a still-missing Florida girl were charged
Wednesday with abusing her before she vanished - placing her in an animal cage
and tying her to her bed.
Geralyn Graham, 58, was charged with kidnapping and aggravated child abuse
causing great bodily harm for actions leading up to the disappearance of Rilya
Wilson - a unsolved case that rocked Florida's child
welfare agency.
Judge
'Case of missing girl absolutely despicable'
The family court judge
who has presided over the case of little Rilya Wilson since she became a ward
of Florida was visibly agitated Monday morning at a status hearing for the
5-year-old who was missing for more than a year before the state realized she
was gone.
Missing girls
caseworker accused of lying
The caseworker for a
missing 5-year-old girl faced being fired for falsifying records and
"unbecoming conduct" before she was allowed to resign earlier this
year, according to documents obtained by CNN.
Privacy
law muddles missing girl query
A clash between laws
respecting privacy and those urging open government has stalled a panel's
investigation into the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl.
Police investigate
past of missing girl's caregiver
Police investigating the case of Rilya
Wilson, a 5-year-old missing girl from Miami,
Florida, are widening their look into the youngster's
caretaker, Geralyn Graham.
Florida panel: More children may be at risk
A review panel looking
into the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl found that despite the attention
given to the child's case, flaws in Florida's child welfare agency still exist
and more children could be at risk.
One little lost girl, one huge bureaucratic mess
By
Carl Hiaasen
Three feet tall. Forty pounds. No wonder Rilya Wilson got lost. She's way
too small for a place as big and crowded as Florida. There are 16
million people here, mostly grown-ups busy with their own lives and their own
grown-up problems.
The Lost Children
Fla. Official Says Hundreds of Foster Kids Have Been Lost
By Brian Ross
As Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed a new law intended to protect foster
children Wednesday, ABCNEWS' Good Morning America discovered there are
hundreds of kids who have been lost by the state's child-welfare system.
YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
Where is Rilya Wilson?
State of Florida loses child, doesn't notice for 16 months
By H.P. Albarelli Jr.
It's
a bureaucratic nightmare beyond comprehension: How a state social services
agency could lose a 4-year-old girl and for 16 months fail to notice or report
the incident.
That's the case of Rilya Wilson, who was lost by the state of Florida and
whose whereabouts, despite national media coverage of the incident, are still a
mystery.
Why child agencies lose kids
Since case of missing Rilya Wilson, Florida can't locate 3 percent of its
foster children.
By Mark Sappenfield
Rilya Wilson's story, everyone acknowledges, is appalling. It is the
subject of astonishment from the street corners of Cuban barrios to Fort Lauderdale's wholefoods
markets: How could Florida simply lose one of its foster children?
DCF Worker Shaken By Rilya Wilson Case
Says Progress Notes Missing From File
When Dora Betancourt opened the file for
Rilya Wilson, she knew something was wrong. The bulging file just wasn't big
enough. Betancourt's first thought was, "This is it? Is there another
volume?" The file should have contained monthly "progress notes"
on Rilya and her sister, Rodericka. But the notes abruptly ended 15 months
earlier. Betancourt, a 21-year veteran of the Department of Children &
Families, is the state worker who discovered Rilya was missing in April.
NBC6.net Coverage Of The
Rilya Wilson Case
National advisory on organized crime operating in the child protection system
The
Dominic James Case.
Two year old boy ill-treated to death
in Springfield, Missouri foster home
A series of articles in the Springfield Newsleader.com
Article series in The BBC and The Guardian
Social
Workers Meet Counter Protest at State House
Mass News