tjangel
July 24th, 2008, 09:51 PM
LANSING – Michigan’s oversight of child care providers was so ridden with deficiencies that state regulators licensed hundreds of convicted sex offenders, child abusers and criminals during a three-year period ending in 2006, according to an audit released today by the state auditor general.
The audit did not cite any specific instances of abuse to children in day care committed by the inappropriately authorized providers.
Among those authorized, auditors found 428 people who had been identified by the department as having “substantiated histories of child abuse” and 712 providers with unsuitable criminal histories, including 28 with convictions for murder, rape and assault. The department also authorized 31 day care providers who were, at the time of approval, registered sex offenders, auditors found
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080722/NEWS06/80722041/1008/news06
The audit did not cite any specific instances of abuse to children in day care committed by the inappropriately authorized providers.
Among those authorized, auditors found 428 people who had been identified by the department as having “substantiated histories of child abuse” and 712 providers with unsuitable criminal histories, including 28 with convictions for murder, rape and assault. The department also authorized 31 day care providers who were, at the time of approval, registered sex offenders, auditors found
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080722/NEWS06/80722041/1008/news06