We are Kathleen and Robert Raskin of Las Vegas, and here at StopDHR Corruption, we are dedicated to raising awareness of corruption and injustice in the child protective services system. Today we’d like to tell you the good news that a former DCBS caseworker who refused to cover up for the agency’s complicity in the near-death of an eight-year-old girl has had her case settled. This brave worker was ordered by her supervisors to cover-up this huge failure of the system, but instead she fought them—and won.

How Could This Have Happened?

Robert Wayne Baldwin was the lead social worker assigned to the case, despite the fact that he had been reprimanded and suspended without pay for his incompetence multiple times by DCBS in the past. Because of this incompetent worker, this child was left to be tortured by her father and his abusive girlfriend. In the past crimes against this child had been reported to authorities in California and Florida. In Kentucky Baldwin failed to intervene to help her despite multiple neighbors’ reports. The child ended up hospitalized and close to death after years of being stripped nude and forced to endure ice baths and beatings inflicted with a leather belt.

While we, Kathleen and Robert Raskin, are pleased with the outcome of the lawsuit because this whistleblower who was brave enough to take a stand saw justice, we wonder what kind of justice the child will ever see, if any. Her father and his girlfriend are now in prison, but her childhood is gone for good.