Trumbull CSB investigation turns up evidence of deceit

Trumbull CSB investigation turns up evidence of deceit

WARREN

A 2011 state investigation of Trumbull County Children Services agency employees resulted in no criminal charges, but did turn up evidence of deceit.

This was one of several investigations that resulted after a video was provided to police showing a child being raped in a Children Services visitation room by her biological parents during a supervised visit in April 2011.

Investigator Mark Kollar of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation questioned about half a dozen employees about documentation that the agency required employees to file in a statewide database regarding the supervised visits. He investigated the employees in October and November 2011, resulting in a 71-page investigative report.

Agency policy requires employees to document every visitation involving children in the agency’s custody, and to do it within a few days of the visit. The case worker for the raped child, however, didn’t do that.

The woman, who was not identified in the report because she is not charged, was among several employees who said they didn’t know that this was the agency’s policy.

For more on this story, see Thursday’s Vindicator or vindy.com