Taking care of the people of Philadelphia, PA

It seems that not everyone that gets into Social Work does it because of their desire to take care of people. From The Boston Globe:

Social workers charged in starvation death
By all accounts, there is blame to go around for the 2006 starvation death of disabled teenager Danieal Kelly.

Her mother, Andrea Kelly, pleaded guilty to murder this week for criminally neglecting the once-vivacious girl. Her case worker and a supervisor are charged with involuntary manslaughter for alleged "ghost visits" to the family's squalid home.

Yesterday, federal prosecutors took aim at their entire company, MultiEthnic Behavioral Services, which had a $1 million-a-year contract with the city to provide in-home services to needy families. "At some point, they realized they could get paid for doing nothing," US Attorney Laurie Magid said at a press conference.

A bit more:

Company owners furiously forged documents before routine audits and in the panic that followed Danieal's death, the federal indictment charges. Worried supervisors tried to destroy computer evidence and client files, prosecutors said.

And of course nothing will happen to the people in that company; maybe a token slap on the wrist. And with a name like: MultiEthnic Behavioral Services you KNOW that they got that $1,000,000/year contract based on the previous work of their founders, the abilities of their employees and that this wasn't just shoehorned through to fill a minority owned diversity clause somewhere...