Letters: A troubled foster-care agency
Re “Foster agency thrived despite lapses,” Oct. 7
Renee Moncito — chief executive of the private Wings of Refuge foster care agency, which just had its contract with Los Angeles County terminated — should never have been allowed to care for children. The fact that she used the term “professional foster children” to refer to those who registered complaints in order to be placed in safer situations is outrageous.
Unlike Moncito — who not only made her living from placing foster children in inadequate and abusive homes but also ran a side business selling these children used clothing — foster children do not game the system.
They don’t enter foster care by choice only to suffer terrible disruption and permanent scars from being moved from family to family.
L.A. County’s vetting system is horribly broken to have entrusted Moncito with so many vulnerable young lives.
Jacqueline Jacobs Caster
Pacific Palisades
The writer is the founder and president of the Everychild Foundation, which provides grants to charities that serve children.
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