Sacramento County Child Protective Services employee “accused of locking children in garage ‘for hours without food or water’, taunting boy as ‘faggot.’”

The state forbade Blancho Brumfield from ever working in a facility licensed by the department – except when it came to her job as a child abuse investigator for Sacramento County.

In 2007, the state Department of Social Services revoked the foster care license of a Vallejo woman whom the agency accused of locking children in her garage “for hours without food or water” and taunting one foster boy with the words “faggot” and “queer”....

From the SacBee:

Sacramento County Child Protective Services sued by "Girl with a hundred scars"

From the SacBee:

Since the moment she was born 10 weeks premature, with cocaine rippling through her 21/2-pound body, Lilly Manning has been the recipient of other people’s poor choices, bad judgment and terrible timing.

Now, the 19-year-old woman who escaped torture in a south Sacramento home is seeking retribution.

Last week, lawyers for Manning filed a claim for damages against Sacramento County’s Child Protective Services and the Sacramento City Unified School District.

The claim, a precursor to any lawsuit, alleges child welfare workers and school employees failed to protect her from the violent household into which she was adopted.

Sacramento social worker defrauds elderly, blind, disabled of $278K

From the SacBee:

    A former Sacramento County social worker has been sentenced to state prison after pleading no contest to felony grand theft from the In-Home Supportive Services Program.

    Julie Mee Vue, 40, entered the plea today and admitted to an additional enhancement that the aggregate loss to the program exceeded $200,000, according to a Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office news release. Vue was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $278,777.52 in restitution.

    Vue was extradited to Sacramento from Arkansas in September as part of a major fraud investigation into claims the she allegedly filed on behalf of people she had falsely enrolled as home health-care workers. As a Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services social worker, Vue handled cases for the state In-Home Supportive Services Program, which pays people to care for aged, blind and disabled individuals who live in their homes.