How come CPS fails so many abused children?

Sometimes it is just random luck too My school called cps because I had "cigarette burns" on my legs. It was a rash called impotigo, a boy who sat near me in class had it not Long before and his mum warned the class so others could look out for symptoms. But I fit the profile of an abused child apparently because I was shy and bullied, and when they asked me about the marks I said I didn't know where they came from (because I literally didn't, they appeared one day, I was like 9). My family were the one area in my life where I actually felt safe and loved, my mother was terrified when CPS called her up, and I was in floods of rears scared someone was going to show up and try to snatch me away from home.

Even the doctor I was required to see thought the reaction was odd, he diagnosed me within seconds.

I was scared for a while after that someone would try to take me away and wouldn't listen to me telling the truth, that the marks literally did just appear. So as I got older and saw horrific abuse cases being ignored in the same country, such as "Baby P". Blonde haired blue eyed toddler, his mother literally covered his wounds in chocolate to disguise them from social workers, the poor kid was horrifically abused and eventually killed...and cps did basically nothing.

So a big fuss was made over an unpopular 9 year old, but a toddler in sketchy living conditions is no cause for alarm? It made me very sceptical about their competence.

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