The state Department of Children and Families has long been a popular whipping boy. Charged with the Herculean task of protecting the welfare of children, many of them from troubled families, the agency is regularly criticized and sued over allegedly questionable policies, bad judgment and insensitive treatment of clients.
Such condemnations are common from angry parents and lawyers who have run afoul of the agency. But in a case involving an emotionally troubled 12-year-old boy listed in court records as Francisco R., DCF is facing severe scorn from a veteran member of the Superior Court bench. In a newly released ruling, Judge Francis J. Foley III characterized DCF actions as “disturbing,” “misleading,” and “disingenuous.”
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