Ti-Ryn Emery

Ti-Ryn Emery was a four month old baby who was taken out of his mother, Rachel Emery's care in September of 2010. He was taken from her and given to her old boyfriend by the name of Michael Vanderveur, who claimed to have been the baby's father. It seems that he was living a good life with his mother but Vanderveur came and took the baby and also would not give the mother her son back. This type of behavior was permitted by Child Protective Services because the police stated that the parents were in a custody battle. He was then allowed to have Ti-Ryn in his custody and CPS never took the time to investigate this issue. On October 5, Ti-Ryn was taken to the hospital. Prior to this incident Rachel Emery called CPS and told them of the pictures she saw of bruises on his body. She also asked that he go into foster care until the custody battle was settled. They ignored her and on October 5th, he died and was reported brain dead.

This case about Ti-Ryn shows how CPS needs to be reformed because they did not listen to her plead for her child's safety. They ignored the constant concern from her and others but took no action to investigate. He was constantly abused by Michael Vanderveur and in the end it was too late to stop the abuse even though they were aware of this concern of abuse. Many children are still being abused while in the CPS system. Other than Ti-Ryn there are about 700 other cases where children were in the CPS system but were ignored  by social workers and in result died. Now they may face a penalty for not doing enough to save these children from abuse.