Judge Denies Qualified Immunity for Kentucky Child Welfare Workers Who Illegally Strip-Searched Childrenhttps://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/08/28/judge-denies-qualified-immunity-for-kentucky-child-welfare-workers-who-illegally-strip-searched-children-n861686U.S. District Judge Justin Walker issued a blistering ruling against qualified immunity for a Kentucky Cabinet of Health and Family Services caseworker and a deputy on July 18. They participated in the illegal strip-search of children whose mother went to get muffins while her children slept in her car on a cool day in 2017. ...
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The children were harassed by child welfare agents after Holly Curry ran into a store to get muffins on the way to karate class and she left her children in a locked car for five to ten minutes. A do-gooder called the police, and when Curry returned to her car, she was informed by the officer that child welfare would be called and a report made. Then the nightmare began. Caseworker Jeanetta Childress and Deputy Michael Furnish forced their way into a private home, without a warrant, under threats of harm to the family, which ended in all six of the Curry children being strip-searched by strangers to “inspect their genitals.â€
This is the Clabretta vs. Floyd case cited in footnote 68 on page 11 of this decision,
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1149036.html . It was decided in 1999, not 2009. I don't know whether the Curry family is homeschooling, but that aside, possibly, what happened to them when the HFS social worker showed up at the door was almost exactly what happened to the Calabretta family. There are decent, overworked, CPS social workers "out there", but mini-tyrant-wannabes like the ones in these two cases who think they are above the US Constitution need to be rooted out (not just hand-slapped).
