A DCF subcontractor who lied multiple times about an at-risk
toddler's whereabouts has pleaded guilty to falsifying and destroying
records.
Cape Coral resident Denny Kern, 53, was sentenced to four years’ probation for the crime.
Kern
was arrested in November after an Office of the Inspector General
investigation determined he had falsified records. Kern was a case
manager, required to make regular health and welfare checks on children
under the supervision of the Department of Children and Families.
Kern
is by no means the only child welfare worker to file fake paperwork.
His was one of 25 cases involving falsification of case management
records investigated in the past seven years; of those, 20 ended in
employees being fired or quitting. There was one suspension and four
cases that were unsubstantiated or had no action taken.
While
working for Lutheran Services, which has a contract with Children’s
Network, the private company that provides services to the state’s
Department of Children and Families, Kern reported he’d visited the
toddler girl in Cape Coral. Although Kern knew the child had been moved
to West Palm Beach because her mother was in jail, he filed a
log detailing visits to the child in March, April and May.
The
falsified documents came to light only after Kern was fired in May 2015
for poor job performance. When Lutheran Services supervisor Gwen Doyle
took over Kern's 38-child caseload, she started hearing from family
members and caregivers that he hadn't been doing his job.
According
to the investigative report, “When Mr. Kern visited (Caregiver 1’s)
home, Mr. Kern would come to the door, have a blank piece of paper, and
ask Caregiver 1 to sign it. Mr. Kern never came inside the home. ... He
indicated that Mr. Kern was aware that Child 1 was not present in the
home and did not need to see (her).”
In another case,
Kern admitted another child he was supposed to visit regularly was
sometimes "probably not" at home when he said she was, though "Kern
believed 90 percent of the case notes were accurate and 10 percent of
the case notes ... were false, but could not recall which case notes
were false."
http://www.news-press.com/story/news/2017/02/24/ex-dcf-subcontractor-pleads-guilty-falsifying-records/98302196/
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