content: Action Opportunity: Grace deserved love. What she got instead was unspeakable. Please, protect all foster children TO: scheduling@hhs.gov; AskDOJ@usdoj.gov; OCRMail@hhs.gov; Daniel.Levinson@oig.hhs.gov; contact@gao.gov; debra.murphy2@usdoj.gov; reform@mail.house.gov; referrals@usccr.gov; fraudnet@gao.gov; cidhoea@oas.org; spcim@oas.org; rcelorio@oas.org; lel1@cdc.gov; knw9@cdc.gov; petitions@ohchr.org; InfoDesk@ohchr.org; civilsociety@ohchr.org; SUBJECT: Grace deserved love. What she got instead was unspeakable. Please, protect all foster children BODY: Scheduling for HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, VAWA Civil Rights, USDOJ, USDOJ-OCR, HHS-OCR, HHS-OIG including Inspector General Daniel Levinson, USDOJ-OVW, GAO including fraudnet, Debra Murphey at DOJ, US House Reform, US Civil Rights Commission, US House Reform, Organization of American States, Inter American Commission on Women and Rapporteur on the Rights of Women (and Gender Equality), CDC Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, Petitions Team, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, Thank you for your service to our nation, to the Organization of American States, and to the United Nations respectively. A woman charged with killing her adoptive daughter last year worked as an "adoption supervisor" for Northampton County before being suspended in 2010, and throughout that time also took in several foster children, authorities said Monday. Sara Packer, the adoptive mother of 14-year-old Grace Packer, is charged in Bucks County along with Jacob Sullivan, Sara Packer's boyfriend, in the brutal death of the teen who had been reported missing last summer. Prosecutors said Packer and Sullivan acted out a rape and murder fantasy when they killed her in Richland Township last summer and dismembered her body.  Woman charged in killing, dismemberment of daughter worked for Norco child services, had foster kids  http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-pa-grace-packer-murder-dismemberment-northampton-county-20170109-story.html Please recall that federal law under Title IV-E to which states agences are contractors: (10) provides for the establishment or designation of a State authority or authorities which shall be responsible for establishing and maintaining standards for foster family homes and child care institutions which are reasonably in accord with recommended standards of national organizations concerned with standards for such institutions or homes, including standards related to admission policies, safety, sanitation, and protection of civil rights, provides that the standards so established shall be applied by the State to any foster family home or child care institution receiving funds under this part or part B of this subchapter, and provides that a waiver of any such standard may be made only on a case-by-case basis for non-safety standards (as determined by the State) in relative foster family homes for specific children in care; https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/671 Please also recall the pattern of a pattern or practice of various state Title IV-E agencies,inclining those Los Angeles County, Oregon, Texas, and Massachusetts, to fail absolutely and completely to protect the safety and civil rights of children under the plan. In Texas, US District Judge Janice Jack wrote: “rape, abuse, psychotropic medication, and instability are the norm,” THERE’S LITTLE OUTRAGE FOR 12,000 KIDS SUFFERING IN THE TEXAS FOSTER CARE SYSTEM BY CRAIG MALISOW, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016  http://www.houstonpress.com/news/there-s-little-outrage-for-12-000-kids-suffering-in-the-texas-foster-care-system-8161341 I do not accept that these monsters were properly vetted to ensure the "safety, sanitation, and protection of civil rights" of Grace and their other foster children. Rather, her horrific abuse and murder, I believe may be more likely to be a foreseeable grave harm which may be caused by: Gross negligence is a conscious and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care, which is likely to cause foreseeable grave injury or harm to persons, property, or both. It is conduct that is extreme when compared with ordinary Negligence, which is a mere failure to exercise reasonable care. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/gross+negligence I ask HHS, HHS-OIG, and HHS-OCR to faithfully execute federal law, and to ensure  the "safety, sanitation, and protection of civil rights" of Grace and their other foster children. To the extent that agencies have consistently failed to faithfully execute federal law, the General Accounting Office is tasked with investigating and properly informing Congress. To the extent that children continue to suffer for years, and no one actually helps them, this apparent pattern or practice of federally funded child abuse, becomes a human rights violation under the jurisdiction of the Organization of American States and the United Nations. I ask that you remember Grace, and the other children like her, and act with a foundation of righteousness and justice. I ask each of you to recognize your authorities and jurisdictions. Every official is under orders from higher up, and the higher officials look up to their superiors. I ask each of you to recognize your duties to direct the officials who work for you, are contracted by you, or who answer to you, and ask that each of you faithfully execute the duties of your office to the best of your ability.