Man gets 20-year term for starving, beating foster children

[WhiteTara]

Source: AP

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A third former operator of a San Antonio day care center was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for forcing his three adopted children to sleep in a shower, bite each other and pour bleach on wounds.

Tim Archuleta agreed to the 20-year sentence in a deal with prosecutors in which he pleaded guilty to injury to a child with serious bodily injury by omission. His sentencing comes a week after his wife, Iliana Archuleta, was sentenced to 30 years in prison and his brother, Rogelio Archuleta, received a 35-year sentence. Both pleaded no contest to injury to a child and other charges.

Prosecutor Stephanie Boyd told state District Judge Ron Rangel that the three adopted the children, who had been born drug-addicted, to collect the state support of more than $90,000. "They got $90,000 tax-free and blew it all on themselves," Boyd said.

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The system has nearly 30,000 children and is one of the largest child protection agencies in the U.S. Caseworkers face massive workloads and struggle to provide necessary oversight, with only about 100 residential Child Care Licensing investigators to ensure that the state's roughly 10,000 foster homes are providing adequate care, according to Dimple Patel, senior policy analyst with The Texas Association for the Protection of Children.

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[jwirr]

1. Why does a man like this adopt children in the first place?

And yes, having worked as a social worker it is true that most agencies are understaffed. Why are they understaffed is the question? Has the state cut back on needed staff or is it the feds?

I would guess that many of these children are subsidized adoptions which means that is some federal funding. If Texas will not handle this then it should be taken over by the feds.

[WhiteTara]

2. money. nt

[jwirr]

3. I saw that when I went back and read the whole story. These

kind of stories are horrible. There are so many levels that this could be stopped at. First the adoption has or should go through a investigation of the parents and the life style. Then the home itself has to meet certain levels. And since they were a subsidized adoption there should have been a case manager involved directly with the family not to mention teachers who see them every day and medical professionals who should have been working with them.

What I am trying to say here is that all of us need to be involved. We do not have enough social workers hire to do the job. They need help.

[WhiteTara]

4. It's part of the puke plan to

cut all social services. THere are only 100 social workers for 10,000 homes.

[jwirr]

6. That is horrible. When I was working I had 45 cases in the

whole county. Our Medicaid worker had 100 cases and had a nervous breakdown because she could not keep up.

And I agree it is the pukes.

[valerief]

7. You can't give massive tax cuts to businesses (and then have to spend part of

your state budget cleaning up the messes those businesses create because of deregulation) and expect to have money for social services, especially when the state PTB refuse to give up their own lavish perks.

[jwirr]

10. Exactly.

[Judi Lynn]

5. This home had to be far worse than the one from which the children were removed, originally.

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Forced to stay in a shower stall, with boxes holding the glass door shut, forced to stay in an upright position with their knees against their chests, no restroom, only the shower drain, and a bucket, not allowed to eat with the Archulettas and their biological children.

Meantime, the day care center operator, wife, and brother ripped through a $90,000.00 given them by the state when they took the children into their home.

The would-be parents should have been a lot more closely investigated. Clearly, their running a day care center did not prove them to be good with children.

Adding photos:

[center]

Iliana Archuleta



Tim Archuleta



Rogelio Archuleta, Tim's brother. [/center]

[passiveporcupine]

8. Because of the money involved, these kinds of adoptions

or even just foster care, need to be carefully monitored. But if you don't have the funds to adequately monitor them, what happens to the children?

The family's income should be investigated too. If they don't have a good solid income, they should be checked out even more carefully before allowing them to adopt or foster a child that brings 20K in income a year to their family.

My heart just breaks when I read stories like this. If they could have kept the kids outside in a cage without anyone knowing, they probably would have done that.

[keithbvadu2]

9. One of the Oregon militia terrorists used gov't sponsored children

as his major source of income.

[WhiteTara]

12. good ole Lavoy.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. Good