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Speaking dispassionately for a moment, there are unhealthy and incapable people in every walk of life from paperboy to president, and some of them have very important responsibilities that mean real consequences for their inability and/or mental/emotional illness. While what happened is truly unspeakable, my hope is that it will help to bring to light the abuses of others in similar positions of responsibility.
Here's another idea: it's too difficult to fire people in the publicly funded mental health/child welfare industry(ies). At the last organization my mother worked for (publicly funded child crisis organization), an individual put the life of one of the children she was responsible for in direct and clear danger, and this was after repeatedly breaking rules and doing serious emotional damage to other children. They couldn't fire her because they were concerned about being taken to court because the color of her skin means that statistically she was more likely to win if the case appeared before a jury. Dana Poindexter, the DHS employee, was likely too difficult to fire and that fact means that this inability to fire issue was and is directly responsible for his continued failures. I'm all for workers rights, I love unions and worker organization because I feel it can be a tool to level the playing field and can prevent management from abusing workers, but when it's impossible to fire someone for gross incompetence then there has been a serious failure. Dana Poindexter should have been fired long before being assigned to dear Danieal.
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