“She’s been in there for the Fourth of July, her ninth birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s,” Golbert said. She is not going to school or being involved in other activities, said Cook County Public Guardian Charles Golbert. A judge ordered three times that the girl be placed in an appropriate placement. Doctors cleared her for discharge on June 1. She was psychiatrically hospitalized since April 24. The 9-year-old girl suffered years of sexual and physical abuse in her biological home. has been at the shelter 149 days, as of Monday. The Mount Vernon shelter is a temporary placement for children for fewer than 30 days. At that time, DCFS told the court that the child needed a therapeutic foster home placement. Before that, C.R.M., who has severe mental health issues, was at another temporary shelter in Chicago where he slept in a utility room. 14 when he was placed in a temporary shelter in Mount Vernon - 279 miles from Chicago where his mother lives. 14 to be taken out of temporary shelter where he was confined since Aug. “The contempt finding and the $1,000-a-day fine is based upon the fact that Director Smith has disobeyed numerous court orders directing him to place the minor in a clinically appropriate placement and to take the minor out of the mental hospital to which she has been confined since June 1, 2021, against the advice of medical staff which determined that she could have been discharged on that date,” Murphy wrote in the contempt order on A.M.’s case. In both cases the orders are stayed - in one case until 4 p.m. 6, also fined Smith $1,000 a day in each of the cases for every day the two children - a 9-year-old girl, known in court records as A.M. Monday, JanuFinds agency failed to move children from inappropriate placementsĬapitol News Cook County judge found Illinois Department of Children & Family Services Director Marc Smith in contempt for the continued improper placement of two state wards.Ĭook County Circuit Judge Patrick T.
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