In 2007 staff members at a family recovery center reported to the County of San Diego that a child acting out sexually. What did the county do about it? Absolutely nothing, and that’s why they are being sued now. We are Kathey and Rob Raskin, and we report these cases to you because we are dedicated to raising awareness of corruption in our child protective systems. Won’t you join us in our fight? After all, if we don’t fight to protect vulnerable children an families, who will?

This story began in 200, when a six-year-old boy in foster care reported to his social worker that his foster father was hurting him. The incompetent worker refused to take him seriously, completely dismissing his request to be moved to a new foster home. The child told workers again that he was being sexually abused in 2008, but after being removed from his placement he was returned to his foster father again within 18 hours of his complaint.

Foster father Michael Jarome Hayes was only arrested in 2013, after Hayes himself reported that the child had run away. Now the child and his twin brother are suing the county and 14 social workers. Hayes faced 28 felony charges, including sexual molestation, later pleading guilty to eight of the charges. It was later learned that another previous foster child in the household had also complained, yet the twins were placed there anyway.

How was it that a monster like this was allowed to harm children for so long? Why were this child’s cries for help unanswered? How was Hayes able to get through the screening process to become a foster parent in the first place? The twin boys—now adults—deserve both answers and compensation for what they went through. We demand answers, and we won’t stop bringing these issues to light until we get them.