Documents detail dead girl's troubled life

I didn't have anything interesting in mind to blog about so I went searching for a good story to share. An interesting story is exactly what I found when I came across this entry. This story left me with a lot of questions and thoughts on this subject.
According to this article, a young, dead girl was found in the back of her foster dad's pesticide truck. The girl, Nubia Doctor, was found in the back of the pesticide truck, wrapped in plastic and doused with a toxic chemical. Nubia's twin brother, Victor, was also found in the front seat of the truck, critically injured after authorities said his adoptive father poured a chemical on him. The chilren's biological mother and father had problems of drug abuse. The children lived with their biological mother from the time they were born in 2000 until they were about four years old. Nubia was born with both male and female parts and required medical attention. The biological mom hated Nubia for this problem and would yell at her and scream that she hated her. They were also homeless for the first year of their lives. The twins were removed from their biological mother's home to their biological father's home. Their father had a problem with drug abuse also and was arrested in 2004 for sexually molesting Nubia. The children were then placed in foster care and a few months later, they went to stay with foster parent's Jorge and Carmen Barahona. Carmen Barahona never took Nubia to her doctor's appointments and just sends her on a medical bus, a nurse noted. In 2006, Nubia had 17 absences from school in a three-month period and eventually became home schooled. In 2007, a teacher noted that Nubia smelled bad and was hoarding food in her back pack. The teacher also noted that Nubia was always hungry and ate a lot at school and that she never talked. Investigators talked to the Barahonas, a speech therapist and the twins — everything seemed OK, according to the documents. The Barahonas said one of the side effects of Nubia's medical condition was a strong odor. Florida's Children First Executive Director, Christina Spudeas, asked why "cries to the Florida Abuse Hotline were dismissed and not competently, completely and urgently investigated before the kids met their tragic fates."


This is just a summary of the story. To read the full story just click on the link above that says, "article". I don't understand how this could have happened when DFS was completely involved with these two children! This really boggles my mind! All the warning signs are there! I understand that the children had already come from a damaged home and had pending problems, but DFS should have at least had a clue to look into this matter. If a girl that needs a lot of medical attention is missing her doctor appointments and she is starving all the time, scared, and not speaking to anyone, I think that it might be time to look into the matter and see why she is doing all that stuff. I mean, come on people, that is not normal, even for a damaged little girl. I think this story is just sick. How can somebody sit by and see that the little girl is suffering and not do anything about it. This is the result of carelessness. Somebody should have done something, especially DFS! Why would they ignore the hotline calls about the concern for these children? This story really leaves me speechless and left me with so many questions. Why would DFS ignore the warning signs that were radiating from these two children? Is that movie, Case 39, for real? Was the little girl evil or something? I mean, who does that? Who just ignores that kind of ovious suffering? I just can't understand this situation. If DFS was involved then it never should have gotten this far. Those people shouldn't have even been foster parents! Don't they check these people out before they let them adopt children? Anyway, I think there should be some serious imvestigating on this story, because something is not adding up. This one might take a while for the feds to crack. This crime should not go unpunished. I think that DCF should release the files of the twins. What is DCF hiding? I really don't think that "Case 39" is a true story, but DCF is treating this case like the parents were treating their problem in the movie. The parents in the movie were trying to keep it quiet and get rid of the girl. The case worker in the movie took her from the parents and she eventually found out that the girl was evil, thereby putting the caseworker in the girl's parent's original situation. Weird? I don't think that the girl in this story has evil satanic powers, but there is oviously some reason why these children met this fate and now everyone is trying to keep it quiet. In the "release the files" link above, it says that the Barahonas had two other fost children that were living with them at the same time the twins were. Why would they want to do this to those twins and not the other children in the home? This story is just not adding up to me. I'm very anxious to know what conclusion the investigators come up with on this one.