Phoebe Mistakes Times Three
February 9th, 2015 by Mike VasilindaThe Critical Incident Response Team report in the death a a five year old thrown off the Skyway Bridge highlights three errors made by child protection workers. The first was the failure of staff to make a referral to the family as early as June 2013 for services to stabilize the family. The second was the failure to follow Florida Abuse Hot Line procedures when a call came to the hot line on December 29 warning Phoebe Jonchuck was in danger. The third was the failure to act on a call that came in January 7th of this year, hours before Phoebe was thrown 60 feet to her death. The caller said Jon Jonchuck wanted him to read from a Swedish bible because he was God.
“At one point he said he was God too.”
Q:”He was drugged?”
“Yeah, he was god himself at one point in the conversation. He said he was. The child was in the office, then he talked about an angel coming down and ah, and then he had to be in a church in 15 minutes to be baptized.”
The Department of Children and Families declined to make someone available on camera. DCF changed Hot Line procedures once it knew the second of the two calls had not been acted upon.
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