Word: izquierdo
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...Izquierdo apparently knew about the mistreatment. A neighbor told the New York Times that Elisa would wake up screaming in the night, that although toilet trained, she had begun to urinate and defecate uncontrollably and that there were cuts and bruises on her vagina. In 1992 Izquierdo petitioned the family court to deny Awilda custodial rights, but fate intervened before the court could act on his request. By late 1993, already ill with cancer, he was planning to take Elisa to Cuba, and perhaps hoping to leave her there permanently. Tickets were bought, but he became too ill to travel...
AWILDA IMMEDIATELY FILED FOR permanent custody. A cousin of Izquierdo's, Elsa Canizares, challenged the petition, alleging that Lopez was insane and abused the child. Bryce wrote in a letter to family court judge Phoebe Greenbaum that "Elisa was emotionally and physically abused during the weekend visitations with her mom . Teachers' observation notes are available." Bryce also enlisted the help of Prince Michael, who added his own letter...
...sick individual, but by the impotence of silence of many, by the neglect of child-welfare institutions and the moral mediocrity that has intoxicated our neighborhoods." Later, Elisa was laid to rest in the Cypress Hills Cemetery in Queens. There had been discussion about her body: the Izquierdo side of her family wanted to determine its fate, but so did the Lopez side. And it seems that mortuaries, like city bureaucracies, have rules for such situations. Regardless of the circumstances, the custody of the body goes to the mother...
...them in the child-welfare hierarchy, yet their views carry the greatest weight. Only they "walk up the drug-filled staircase, sit on the dirty couch and talk to the teenage mother," says Marc Parent, who spent four years as a caseworker in New York City. As the Elisa Izquierdo case demonstrates, "if you get a caseworker who goes to somebody's home and says it's fine, then it's fine," notes Parent. "That's how important their voice is." They get no public recognition when that voice is right and they help mend a broken home or rescue...
That, certainly, was the question many New Yorkers were asking last week as more and more details about the inner workings of the Child Welfare Administration leaked to the press. For the entire six years of Elisa Izquierdo's life, it appears, lawsuits, special reports and government audits had been decrying a dangerous overload at the city agency. At week's end, the New York Times published a shocking internal memo from the Bronx office, dated Nov. 15, 1995, regarding the caseload. "Please encourage your workers to follow this simple mathematical equation," it read. "For every opening you should have...