Trumbull Ohio Child Services Bureau employee blog posted threat to attorney

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Trumbull CSB employee sent email threat

By Ed Runyan Published:12:10, 1/11/12

The Trumbull County Children Services agency admitted Tuesday that one
of its employees was responsible for the threatening message sent to
Atty. David Engler’s Internet website Friday.

Engler, who turned the matter over to the Ohio attorney general’s
office, Ohio Inspector General and Canfield Police Department, says
the message probably qualifies as a criminal act.

“They literally committed a crime on public time,” Engler said of the
person who posted the remark. He said the act is another indication
that Children Services is an organization that “needs to be replaced.”

Engler has filed several lawsuits against the agency in recent months
after the revelation that a 9-month-old girl in Children Services
custody was raped by her biological parents during a visit with the
child at the agency’s Reeves Road offices. The couple reportedly
videotaped the acts on a cellphone.

A Tuesday press release from Nick Kerosky, executive director of
Children Services, said: “An employee has come forward and admitted to
sending a post to Mr. Engler’s blog.”

It adds that the message was not accepted by the person who
administers the site, so it was never posted “and was therefore never
made public.”

The site is called “David Engler’s Elder Law Blog,” and is at
http://davidengler.wordpress.com.

The press release says Children Services “will be taking appropriate
action to deal with the matter.”

It adds, “This was an action of an individual and was not authorized
or sanctioned by the agency. Additionally, the agency had no prior
knowledge that this post was being attempted.”

Reached by telephone Tuesday, Kerosky said he would not reveal at this
time who the employee is or what type of work the employee does.

Engler said he believes the person who wrote the message should “call
me up and apologize, admit to being stupid and ask that I not file
charges.”

Engler was in common-pleas court Thursday, the day before the message
was received, for a hearing in one of the suits that received a great
deal of media attention.

That suit accuses Children Services of illegally requiring the public
to sign their name before entering a Children Services Board meeting
in October.

According to Engler, the CSB employee’s message says, “I’ll warn you
and warn you only once.”

Then it tells Engler, who lives in Canfield, to “stay out of Trumbull
County” and “go back to Mahoning County.”

It also tells Engler to “stop attacking the good people doing the work
of Children Services.” The message says that “we will try to embarrass
you and do you economic damage,” Engler said.

Engler was able to determine that the message came from the Warren
area and was sent from a computer on a statewide database.

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, which has oversight of
Children Services, is conducting a second review of Children Services’
visitation policies and the agency’s handling of the case involving
the rape victim.

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