Readers sound off on foster care abuse, Giants offense and City of Yes changes

Abused successful foster attraction and waiting to beryllium heard

Queens Village: In 1975, the Daily News wrote a scathing bid connected foster attraction successful New York City. It was truthful troubling that Congress, via Rep. Mario Biaggi, decided to clasp a proceeding astir what was going connected and what could beryllium done. One of the biggest topics was however agelong children were successful foster care, suffering maltreatment nary American could person dreamed possible. One bureau mentioned was Speedwell Services for Children. It turns retired that replacement petitions for foster children were ne'er audited by immoderate societal services department, conscionable signed by societal workers arsenic supporting documentation. This I cognize firsthand, arsenic I was capable to petition and find petitions for replacement of my ain foster attraction that contained lies that devastated me. It became wide that this was the main crushed for my staying successful the aforesaid home.

Until 1987, replacement petitions had nary request that allowed children to talk astatine hearings. Supporting documentation successful petitions was not guided by law, but was a argumentation of the societal services departments. For 15 years successful foster care, I did not cognize specified petitions existed. When societal workers came to my home, I was ne'er interviewed. The full sojourn was with my foster mother. While Speedwell knew of abuse, it ne'er reported it to the Bureau of Child Welfare. They ne'er had to. The replacement petitions made it imaginable for them to bash arsenic they pleased.

Here we are with the Child Victims Act and galore lawsuits against NYC successful limbo, with nary foreseeable result successful immoderate lawsuit arsenic the metropolis watches different cases enactment up to what yet whitethorn beryllium heard successful the U.S. Supreme Court. Robert Quintana

Bring them home

San Francisco: Over the weekend, Hamas claimed that a pistillate Israeli hostage it is holding, Daniella Gilboa, was killed successful an airstrike. She was 1 of 5 Israelis, each ages 18-19 erstwhile they were seized connected Oct. 7, 2023, who were taunted arsenic “girls who tin get pregnant” successful a horrifying Hamas-filmed video of their abduction. Another of the five, Naama Levy, was seen successful a consequent Hamas video being forced into a motortruck bound for Gaza, her pants drenched successful blood. Gilboa, Levy, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger and Liri Albag are among 101 hostages Hamas is inactive holding, including 7 Americans and 2 children. The satellite indispensable request their contiguous and unconditional release. Stephen A. Silver

Theirs just and square

Brooklyn: To Voicer Richie Nagan: Your assertion of land-grabbing genocidal Zionists is each wrong. Jewish onshore acquisitions successful Palestine were by ineligible purchases. Their improvement of farms and factories provided higher-paying jobs for Arab Palestinians. The draining of the swamps and the sharing of modern aesculapian techniques by the Zionists resulted successful a alteration successful Arab babe mortality. Palestinians were uprooted from their onshore due to the fact that of the 1947 and 1948 Arab wars against the Jews. Wendy Jackson

Feeling cheated

Bronx: I person been a Daily News subscriber for much than 40 years and look guardant to and bask doing the Word Search, Jumble and particularly the TV Crossword puzzle. I wholly hold with Voicer Jan Subelka to delight bring backmost Jacqueline E. Mathews. It is present intolerable to bash the puzzle. Clues and answers bash not marque sense. Anyone different than Ricky Cruz would beryllium better. I haven’t been capable to bask doing the puzzle. Makes maine sad. Please bring backmost a doable TV Crossword. Angela Bates

Surrendered talent

Sea Isle City, N.J.: The New York Giants are unspeakable to watch. The owners should beryllium fired. The coaching unit volition decidedly beryllium gone by the caller year. How bash they slumber astatine nighttime — particularly Sunday night, if they stayed up to ticker the Eagles/Rams game? Saquon Barkley had 2 70-yard touchdown runs. Jim Fusco

Offensive blame

Park Ridge, N.J.: Well, it yet happened. Daniel Jones has been made the scapegoat for a miserable Giants team, benched and proclaimed the third-string backmost down the now-starting Tommy DeVito and Drew Lock. The 2-9 Giants started the play with a batch of anticipation but not overmuch promise. The violative enactment has underperformed for years, and portion players person travel and gone, a prerequisite for being a Giants violative lineman has ever seemed to be, “Don’t support the quarterback.” It’s similar the aged hockey movie “Slapshot,” wherever the goalie is taking shots from each space and winds up blocking imaginary shots and talking to himself successful the locker room. When Jones has had time, helium has been precise good, but erstwhile you’re moving for your beingness connected each play and getting sacked six oregon 7 times a crippled due to the fact that you person nary protection, it’s hard to beryllium effective. People person been calling for a alteration for years. If the alteration made was a amended violative line, Jones could beryllium precise good. Steve Ostlund

Hot-air apical brass

Tomkins Cove, N.Y.: Regarding that vacation acquisition usher for Jets fans adjacent to Mike Lupica’s column, I couldn’t assistance announcement that 1 was missing: the old, reliable “Fart successful a Can” with a representation of “The Ambassador” connected the label. Though, to beryllium fair, erstwhile speechmaking Pat Leonard’s file connected the Giants (“No 1 near to blame,” Nov. 24), a tin with John Mara’s representation would marque a large stocking stuffer for fans of the “G Men” arsenic well. Doug Slotolowicz

Follow the ruling

Staten Island: The ignorance of immoderate who explicit their thoughts connected these pages is, astatine times, astounding. When a seed who isn’t successful a infirmary harms others, it has perfectly thing to bash with progressiveness (look up the explanation of “progressive,” arsenic the ignorant proceed to usage it to disparage) oregon immoderate elected authoritative beyond Richard Nixon, LBJ and Gerald Ford. How, you’ll ask? Who bash you deliberation appointed the Supreme Court justices who, connected June 26, 1975, ruled successful O’Connor vs. Donaldson that we tin not involuntarily clasp radical oregon marque them instrumentality meds? Look it up. You person a instrumentality astatine manus to bash conscionable that, earlier incorrectly blaming everyone but the radical who made it so. Ignorance is repairable. Lying conscionable to spot your words successful people is inactive lying. Toward what end? I conjecture the folks who blasted each Dem ever calved marque themselves consciousness bully spouting lies. Tom McGuire

Similar vibe

Brooklyn: Does anyone other deliberation that Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and Gov. Hochul are related to each other? And are each 3 unburdened? Rocco Conte

Appeasement isn’t peace

Brooklyn: Bramhall’s cartoon showing Democrats penning astir learning from past oregon repeating it should person the Republicans also. The past of the 20th century, particularly of Czechoslovakia successful the 1930s but besides of aggressions by Italy and Japan, should amusement the perils of appeasing dictators grabbing territory. The 18th-century Seven Years’ War successful Europe was the French and Indian warfare here. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars made waves for the U.S. successful the 1790s and aboriginal 1800s, and were liable for the War of 1812. Efforts to enactment neutral failed successful World War I and World War II. Today, the satellite is simply a batch smaller (missiles from Asia tin deed america successful a fewer minutes, the net is astir instantaneous) and our interests are overmuch wider. Donald Trump’s solution — to springiness Vladimir Putin what helium wants successful Ukraine, resume isolationism and disregard assertive moves by North Korea and China — volition yet backfire. Martin Selbst

Shorted

Brooklyn: I americium sorry, but I person to disagree with your editorial praising the pitiful woody connected the City of Yes (“Yes connected Yes,” Nov. 23). As a effect of a deficiency of enactment by our governmental leaders, we present person 30,000 less units, which volition astir apt mean much than 30,000 much families arriving successful shelters implicit the adjacent decade. In summation to losing 30,000 units, someway we besides mislaid $5 cardinal that could’ve been utilized successful galore different areas. Where is the governmental enactment successful the City Council and wherefore couldn’t they get this passed? This Council is expected to beryllium progressive. With galore of the members term-limited, wherefore was it truthful hard to get the archetypal package, which was not overbearing, passed? We can’t judge this piecemeal summation to lodging arsenic a occurrence oregon other we volition beryllium looking astatine much and much lodging shortages. Robert Mascali