M- You may not be aware, but Schenectady is in the spotlight especially because of a child named Extacy Garcia that was severely abused last year.(I think they do spell it w/an X) This summer, Extacy's Law went into effect in NYS, as well as the Mandated Reporter Bill in NYS that went into effect in October. You will see more in the media- at least for now. As you know I work in this field, and it is horrible what people will do for a fix. Sell their car for $250 worth of crack, take their kids to the state fair so mom and dad can get high on crack and see Tesla; and they wont hesitate to rent out their kids to sexual perverts to get drug $ or go out of town for their own sexual romps; but these are of course fictional, I couldnt disclose anything I've heard. Its heartbreaking and its sick and you want to go to their house yourself and yell at them. Sometimes though, you see that the next day CPS removed the children from the delusional parent before they ended up stabbing their own child and you feel better about the system. It would work best however, if vindictive people would stop calling and bitching about their housing/tenant issues, or parents/relatives would stop calling using the system to bitch about their family court /bad divorce issues- thats where all the red tape and wasted time and tax dollars go- the ignorance of the public who say "I dont want to call the police and file harrassment charges- I dont want to file social security fraud or call the housing buerau- I dont need an order of protection for me or I dont need to just simply ask the parent what is wrong i dont talk to the mother or the father- I need to file a child abuse report." No one can just talk about it first. They just file a million reports that end up unfounded and waste time and money and take away from an actual child in need who could suffer in the process of someone elses nonesense. Meanwhile, all the jackasses make the headlines in the paper.

How ironic is it, though, that someone actually named their child after a drug, and now that child's name is on a law... I think we need to quit passing laws for every poorly-named child that gets abused and just enforce the laws that already exist, not to mention beat parents severely for failing to have the common sense God gave a frog.

I have heard people name their kids after body parts like Labia, Vulva, Orgasm or things like Cash Dolla, Skitty, BO BO, Assa or Ashameme. I mean, you wouldnt believe it. From very historic, family, culture ethnnic oriented names, to crazy, nickname wack stuff. I cant believe I havent heard Twinkie yet. There has to be one out there.
Xtasy Garcia. She is the very reason there is so much focus on mandated reporters getting their act together- at least *for now* at least in NYS. Read this article in the Times Union from i think 2006: (these are the kinds of phone calls I get EVERY DAY in NYS and can you imagine that these things go on every day in all our states and what dont we hear about? It is heartbreaking and sick).

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=503129&category=SCHENECTADY&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=8/2/2006