Bill Medvecky's Letter to the Wichita Eagle

-----Original Message-----
From: wjm2644@aol.com
To: newsletters@wichitaeagle.com
Sent: Sun, May 16, 2010 2:26 pm
Subject: STORY ON FOSTER PARENTS.


Sirs,

Since I cannot access my account which sends me newsletters each day, I write to you through this address,

The story you have up concerning the "Unsung heroes" of foster care, is a story that you seem to put out there about once a month concerning the Kansas foster care system.

I have to guess that you do not read the follow-up comments from your readers... This system is not only broken, it is corrupt and actually highly abusive to both the parents and children who come into contact with these businesses.

The CEO of Youthville, Shelley Duncan, earns over $200,000.00 a year. That's not a group interested in children, it's a business.

This group stops HUNDREDS of children who should, and could live with blood relatives, and yet they don't get that opportunity, because there's no money in placing children in relatives care. Federal Law DEMANDS they try to place the children with families FIRST. Yet they place these children in just 10% of the time with family? WHY?
The answer is quite simplke; If Youthville does that, who's going to pay Shelly's salary?


I don't know what the deal is between these vultures and the paper, but if you go back and do a poll of the responses from your readers, you will see that the sale is not being made. You cannot sell this turkey to the people who come into contact with them, and they keep trying to get you to understand that over and over again.

I have people ringing our phones off the hook BEGGING for help in their fight with Youthville and that corrupt D.A. you have, yet you seem to think these folks are as pure as the driven snow. Why?

Do the comments heap praise upon Youthville? Are they ALL just a pack of malcontents? Where are all the folks who think that everything in Kansas Foster care is just ducky?

THEY DON'T EXIST. If you come into contact with these people, your child is nothing more than a dollar sign. They are nothing more than job security for these ghouls.

I have a roll a dex full of people sitting in Kansas who are loosing their grandchildren, nieces and nephews and sons and daughters for nothing more than money. Want to speak to a few? How about ONE?

I ask you to go back into your own archives. Take a look at the comments on these stories and ask yourself how so many folks could be so wrong about this "Wonderful" group and the multi millions of dollars that put smiles on their faces while Kansas children pay the price, even unto death!

Thank you,

Bill Medvecky
wjm2644@aol.com
239-826-3831