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Marcus Fiesel Investigation Gets More and More Disturbing...

August 25, 2006 08:26 AM

...with each passing today.  Cincinnati based readers are already familiar with the blanket local news coverage into the disappearance of Marcus Fiesel on August 15.  The three year-old autistic kid disappeared 10 days ago, when his foster mother collapsed in a suburban park, and blacked out.  When she came to, Marcus was no where to be found.  People have been openly discussing the foster parent's weird behavior for the past 10 days, and the local news outlets have been hinting about it.

In this morning's Enquirer, Sheila McLauglin finally dispenses with all that, and drops a daisy cutter of bad information about the foster parents.  She reports that the foster mother was incorrect when she said last week that Marcus had last been seen by a case worker on August 10.  It turns out that the foster mother turned the case worker away from their home, explaining that Marcus was too sick that day.  Marcus was last seen by an adult--other than his foster parents--on August 3.  Nearly two weeks before his foster mother blacked out and reported him missing.

The children's services folks are also not looking to great either.  Check out the nice, stable home they placed Marcus in:

Information that surfaced about the Carrolls also caught Butler County officials by surprise.

They knew nothing about a third adult living in the home or that David Carroll was bipolar, as his wife told reporters, Grady said. His psychological evaluation would have made him unsuitable as a foster parent, she said.

"(Lifeway) is contracted to provide qualified foster homes. Why would they submit someone who had a psychological problem? That would not be an approved foster home," she said.

Friends, family and law enforcement say Amy Baker, 25, is a live-in girlfriend. She has lived with the couple six months or possibly more, they say.

Baker, when contacted this week, denied being a live-in girlfriend.

But others close to the three people say otherwise.

"He was seeing Amy quite a while behind Liz's back," family friend Cynthia Smith said. "Amy eventually moved in."

So the foster father's 25 year-old girlfriend moved in with the foster mother and father (and the foster kids) six months ago.  Sounds very healthy.  Wonder if that little family drama is at all connected to the foster father's "arrest in June on a domestic violence charge that was later dismissed. The couple did not report the arrest, as required."

Completely incompetant oversight, and now we have a 3 year-old autistic kid who no one has seen in 10 22 days.

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