Transcript of Social Worker's Phone Calls Seeking Action

CFSA: Where does this child live?

Lopes: 4249 Sixth Street in Southeast. We're leaving that area right now.

CFSA: What's the mother's name?

Lopes: Her name is Banita. B-A-N-I-T-A.

CFSA: Banita what?

Lopes: Jacks. Same last name.

CFSA: And the phone number to the home?

Lopes: There is no phone, which is why we had to go there.

CFSA: How many days of school has this child missed?

Lopes: This particular child has missed 33 days this year but has been consistently absent since the first week of March. We haven't seen her. And she expressed to us that she wasn't allowing her to go to school because she was running away or getting into the wrong crowd and things.

CFSA: Is that true?

Lopes: Uh, I don't know. I mean, she used to come consistently to school and was a fairly decent student. She was staying with her aunt, and her aunt said the mother came to pick her up one day, told her to pack her things and that's the last the aunt has heard from her. And that is when she stopped coming to school.