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Originally Posted by BigV
I didn't see that in the story or the video, but even it it's true that social services were called, preventing murder isn't a fair charge against them.
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Geeti was failing in school and calling social workers to get her out of a home in turmoil.
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It's true that we don't know if they did "nothing" or not. Possibly they investigated, but everything in the house appeared normal, and there was no way to see that members of this family were the type to plot a murder. But when the child called social workers to ask for protection, either they came or they didn't. If they didn't, they are guilty of criminal negligence in my mind. If they did, what did she say to them? "Get me out of here because" ...what? Because my dad is violent? That's enough cause to remove younger children from a household until the situation is investigated. Because my dad threatens to kill me? Again, enough cause to do their jobs.
About the only thing she could have said that would still leave their hands tied is, "Well, my dad yells at me because I get bad grades." And maybe she said something like that, and they were justified in ignoring her. But I find it unlikely that she was smart enough to figure out how to call social services for protection, but wasn't smart enough to know what words to use to accurately portray the danger she was in.