to be able to interact with audience as again to do this in person. and it also feels like, you know, not only the eyes of all of new york, but the world is watching. june 19th will be another highlight, because that's when the radio city music calls will reopen for the 1st time. after being closed for more than a year because of the krona virus pandemic. it will host the closing night film of tri becca. all of the audience will be fully vaccinated and math will be optional. it will be a landmark event, not only for the festival, but for this city hall, gabriel's hondo just new york. ah. type of quick check of the headlines here on here are the british prime minister boys. johnson says g 7 nations on septa pledge, a 1000000000 corona virus vaccines to low income countries. he was speaking on the eve of a lead us summit and hours after us president joe biden promised 500000000 doses by

the middle of next year. $200000000.00 of these doses will be delivered. this year 2021, and 300000000 more. we delivered in the 1st half of 2022. let me be clear. justice with the 80000000 doses we previously out. the united states is providing these half 1000000 doses with no strings attached. let me say it again with no strings attached. are vaccine donations. don't include pressure for favors or potential cassette concessions. we're doing this to save lives, to end this pandemic. that's it. period. united nations as warned that 350000 people in ethiopia is water on to gray region, a facing or living in famine. fighting broke out in november when europe in government forces entered the region to confront local leaders from 7 hours on end

. so it's direct rolling operations against our groups in africa, the whole region. president manuel macross and french troops will continue to be part of a broader global effort to stop the violence macro recently suspended corporation with malia army after a claim of voter fraud and peruse presidential election is threatening to cause weeks of political wrangling. socialist federal castillo holds a narrow lead of a conservative rival, keiko for g. morry. after some days po. for more he says 300000 votes were suspicious, but as offered no evidence. crowds that protested in saddam's capital over the government's decision to cancel fuel subsidies. prices more than doubled since the move it's part of aggressive economic reforms and that reducing debt. the finance ministry says the subsidies never benefited those with low income u. s. congress, someone ill know mar is facing a backlash from within her own democratic party. it follows an online post in which she appeared to like the actions of the us and israel to those of us and the

taliban. so those are the headlines and use continues here. now to 0 off the phone lines that you found watching london is one of the most important cities in the world and decisions made here have an impact right around the globe. and so here at our view, right, we will show you the true impact of those decision on people and how it affects their everyday life. we are free to put them on air and to really engage. because we know that our audience is interested not just in the mainstream news, but also the more hidden stories from parts of the world that often go under reported me. i said you're in a loser. okay. other times that i get out of you, as you say,

you haven't even seen him being from me. i just want you to cry. right or? no, no, i want you to kill yourself. i want you to go in the bathroom and let your rest right now and lead out january 29. it was a holiday weekend. he came back sunday night just enter age member and pushing my head back into the fall. and then pulling me out by my hair, she started to choke. my mom under water show i got moms phone in dial 911. i just remember that there

are good and he had a nurse. i was want to shoot adams to me and oh, call me in erase to things are going to help you in a department of children and families. it sounds like what you're saying that for as bad as the abuse was nothing compared to what nothing. carmen's punishment was that he spent 21 minutes in jail and you've lost your kid. how do you go for being a mom to not being a mom? i mean, in this episode a fault lines. you travel to florida to investigate an agency with a record of blaming domestic violence victims for their abuse,

and then taking away their children. ah, the me, for months i've been speaking to women across the state of florida, who tell me that despite its intention to protect children, the florida department of children and families is causing more harm than last year . the agency separated more than 3000 children because of domestic violence. in april, i met a group of women who gathered at the state capital to protest dcf. the sign over here to prevent child abuse the job because they're the ones that are causing the would just come into your house without a warrant with that court order and take a trial. it is a level of grief. i don't know how to put into words. webster didn't design work for this. i don't know who were supposed to be protecting here,

but nobody's protecting us. the, the abuser needs to be held accountable, not the mother and not the children in it's been 2 and a half years since dcf 1st separated lena. hail from her 2 children. ah, she lives alone now late after lenient than husband car. my lonia, i tack, turn 2019, dcf placed her son lane at her mother's house. on weekday mornings, lena comes over to make him breakfast before school. he's 10 now again

for marina or the job or she moves and every time i found him, the department separated lane from his step father car mine because witnessing domestic violence can have severe long term effects on kid. ok here. but dcf also separated him from lena in, in the agencies view when carmen beat lena strangled her, she didn't do enough to prevent her children from witnessing william lane. let's go, buddy, give everybody a kiss. now, dcf doesn't consider her a safe parent. she's not permitted to live with either one of her children. ah, there's this sort of normal routine. right? williams?

you miss having her here? i'm clear my 2030 as i my theories, i'm sorry. i think the thing that attracted me either mine or the things heating he was just my german lars and in charge me some. when did carline become physically abusive? i was with me what was a push became like a choke or a grab? i got pregnant. me i was always on

a shelf always because i was always waiting for the other shoe to drop it in. i don't think it's at my nurse or for 32 months and i think that was a comfort to her because there was so much screaming. i didn't want my kids to see for they hadn't found machines and hurricane fans. you say sound wise to me. i got smack in the classroom. i had those require calls because he was calling from the office where we had all of our records. you want to was this normal, you did last he talk to you like that. i don't very single day picked up child and throw it in the dumpster here. what i'm saying, you understand? i kept the recordings because she thought no one would believe or should do it. she played them for the dcf investigators. you need any manella. ready ready ready now and then kicked my feet out from under me. and i got our ever joking

your eyes every time. i do remember just playing bad though and in the dark. and just like county days and tell the baby to be a teeth whitening . you know the organs, turn your ability every in we're back in january of 29 me 2019. carmen was released from jail. soon after the attack, dcf scrutinized him and lena for the next 11 months. they learned that car mine had been arrested and charged twice for beating and strangling lena. they found evidence that his ex wife had also filed

a restraining order against him. they learned to police responded to his workplace after an employee said car mine had threatened him with a crowbar till the trial. well, for systems electric car mine at the same parent, a judge awarded him full custody of their 4 year old daughter. the i called for help, i want it out and i still got fun in the it really shocking to me. hearing those recordings where he is saying he was going

to break her jaw on and that he would still get custody. i mean that is really difficult. to process, how does domestic violence result in a child being taken away from the safe parent? we tend to look at the mother's, it's her children and so she has to act to protect them. and if she doesn't do exactly what they think she should have done in that scenario, then they come back fire on her and she can be accused of having to protect failure to protect under florida law. if a mother fails to protect her children from witnessing the domestic violence against her, she could lose her children. this is where the state lays out why they need to get involved with their children. the mother has continued to expose the children to

the ongoing violence and danger of the volatile relationship. and that's why, in this documented, argues that lena has failed to protect her children because she maintained a relationship with her abusive husband. what was your house like when you lived with carmen? i couldn't really sleep so night because he was screaming at my mom. one of the 1st questions i get is why doesn't she leave in 25 years? nobody's. there were came out to me and then why does this god, thank you, country, his family, the way and to me, that's the question we need to be african. her staying in the relationship is not a crown him putting his hands on her. that's a crop. they're kind of damned if they do in them that they don't calling the law enforcement. the fear is really what that start. and if you're

running a risk of losing your children, that's really scary place to be. we've heard so many women say they wish they would have never called the police. what does that tell you about the system that is broken and we need to work on it. any time the system is set up to prevent people from asking for help. where in trouble, plain and simple i i, usa to day publish this body camera footage from 2019 as part of an investigation into dcf. it shows what a child removal looks like. and practice came into this mother's life after a boyfriend beat, her strangled her, and left her unconscious. in the agency's view, while she was unconscious,

she had left her children unsupervised. now the investigator has tractor 2 boys to their daycare. are they not me? she's here to take them to foster home. ah right you are you're, you're dcf eventually returned her children. are they on down the desks were so bizarre, so cruel that they made huge headlines and sparkle usa today found that in recent years, child removals for domestic violence in florida spiked dcf face criticism. it's a cycles, it works like a case of child abuse made headlines,

and outreach public demands action. and in response, dcf removes more children from their homes, both justified and not. in 2014 a miami herald investigation found the dcf failed to prevent the death of almost 500 children. over a period of 6 years. in response, florida, lawmakers made it easier for dcf to separate children from their parents. we wanted to understand the thinking behind these removal, but no one at dcf would talk to us. so we tracked down a lawyer. we used to work for the agency. how many child removals were you doing there? be some time, certain days where you'd have 5 or 6 in the day. how many of those removal do you think were absolutely necessary to keep the children safe? that's probably like 510 percent of the cases that most i'd say in this way. and i felt like a monster. one thing that we were doing more to protect our job than protect

children a time. and there was a lot of, i had to use the slang word, but the way was basically cover in your covering your ass and ration. you didn't want to make the wrong call and lose your job. right, right. anytime something happened with a child in florida. if god forbid a child, there is barrage of blame and you know everybody's point fingers to the systems become very liability driven. we're doing the usb today. investigation also found that when dcf removed more kids from their parents, that created a need for new foster homes. the dcf failed to properly that the new foster parents. and as a result,

the agency delivered some children to foster parents who then physically and sexually abused them. dcf shouldn't be finding out about these things in, in the newspaper. january 2021. they'll work with dcf top official, responded to usa, today's findings at an oversight hearing. serial pedophile had over 30 of our children in his care. i'm not happy with the quality of that work. the quality of the work was poor at they stop removing children from loving families. they'll open up the bed and those good foster care for the children that really need it. and those children won't have to go someplace where they're going to be abused. we can't be defined by media story. there's a lot of, there's a 1000000 great things that happen in the system every day. me 1st, we have lena marie hale bina also testified to miss hale. i am victim not only of domestic. i want to suffer some severe and battered women's syndrome,

but also a victim of the system. please, mister pablo, how may i understand my abuse or custody of our daughter? i have resigned the following month. what exactly are you all asking for? we want you to have to have accountability, society as a whole, thinks that you're a bad person, and society needs to be educated, that that's not necessarily the fact. hi, beatrice. this is natasha phelps from paul mines, requested interviews with dcf officials who could explain how the agency handles domestic violence and whether it's pursuing reforms. over a period of weeks, the agency declined multiple requests that we could schedule an interview. in a statement dcf emphasize the consequences that witnessing domestic violence can

have for children. it is even more distressing. the staple said, the parents do not quote, take action to try and stop the cycle of abuse. i still wanted to understand what lena's case looked like from the inside. so i located the case manager who was in charge of lena during dcf investigation. i feel to understand how someone like her could lose custody of her children to the perpetrator of abuse. if they're not together and that has never hurt the kids physically, then there's no reason to believe it. he's going to harness his daughter. i wouldn't say that dad was unsafe as a parent, as a husband 100 percent. what do you remember about lena during that time, what i remember most about her? she's very anxious, i guess. okay, my job. it's not just metric. it's like that's not my end goal here. i just

remember her being very scared and fearful of losing her kid or not being with her children or the kids safe with lena, if i went to that home myself and at home study, and not only did i believe that she was, you know, fit to have her children back, was all parties agree that she was a safe parents? may of 2019 was a turning point. in the case lena tested positive for cooking twice, according to dcf records. having the substance abuse problem, does that automatically mean that you're not a fit parent? not at all. not at all. it just depends on, is she trying to parent while impaired? lena disputed the test as false positives. christiana said those denials probably heard her case. still, dcf never accused lena of abusing her children. this was christmas day, mcdonald. i got an hour with it. i guess i don't know the years that i'd be at

mcdonalds for an hour. my kids and i was surprised that it ended up that way, especially when there was the caregiver in the grandparents. we're not seeing a lot of agree just cases of child abuse. what we see are parents are struggle when they get involved with the family because of domestic violence. they may uncover other issues like substance misuse paper. but we need to support them and helping them get to a better place, leaving them better than we found them. not making ours are always in my our way there's only been an instance of maybe one or 2 cases where i thought it was actually like this kid needed to be removed. i think it's widely

misused. i. i don't agree. go for moving so many kids from home, it just as a traumatizing them all over again. lena was one of christiane as last cases before she resigned in 2019. she said she left the agency because she was doing more harm than good to work with me because she listened to your car. my last attack on a judge granted, carmen custody of their daughter in a court order. he wrote the car mine was now safe because he had completed a batter's intervention program. there was no evidence that carmen had beaten or strangled anyone else, while under dcf supervision, the domestic violence was quote,

remedied. please leave your message for carmen. lonnie, i could not respond to her repeated interview, replaced with a program called fault lines. i was wondering if you might have some time to talk to me. where is your sister now? was it was online when a traitor of domestic violence, awarded custody of a child, the message, the child guess what my parent did was okay. and that, that's not a good message as horrible as it is for children when the semester rollins. what is more horrible is that they don't witness the accountability in body. you got your shoes on, right? you got everything you need in order to get me away from my mom and what are your hopes for the future?

but i get a little why sister? again, are you happy? no. she used to be a lot when we 5 percent happy. i was sister. i the average person believe that when the child welfare service comes to a home and remove the child that that removal was warranted. i've heard a lot of people say, well, you know, these are outliers. these are allies. this is the experience of survivors in general. oh, 1st me dcf closed lean, his case at this point. mean us,

he's no clear path to getting her kids back me. a judge granted lena one hour of visitation a week with her daughter during the cooper 19 pandemic. she's been limited to video, visit me during the visit. lena says her daughter, hold an ipad while carmen said just outside the frame on mondays, lena drops off these messages. her daughter at her school, i need about a year maybe, maybe $730.00 for an hour. one day they come and they have, you know, mommy white abandoned me. i can show mom, try in

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