CPS caseworker in Texas (NOT) arrested for soliciting a minor online. Remember the old "Highlights Magazine" image search?

This article is disturbing. Not so much for the obvious reason that another CPS worker was found to have been an abuser of minors, but because of all the things the article reveals (or doesn't reveal) WITHOUT SAYING THEM.

There used to be a magazine called "Highlights" that always had a picture in it, taking up a full page, where you had to find the hidden animals or birds, or snakes, (or whatever) in a fairly intricate picture. At least it was fun for a child, and I used to remember looking forward to getting the magazine every month to try to solve this puzzle. This article is like that. You see a picture, but what you don't see is what has been carefully hidden within the picture.

(Adrian Martinez, CPS worker, 44. Image courtesy of patheos.com.)

Here it is:

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-child-protective-services-caseworker-arrested-allegedly-soliciting-1143954

Let's go over some of the things we can find in this article that aren't said, or are said in a way that makes you think something else other than what they are probably really about.

It doesn't say if this perp (Adrian Martinez, 44) was vetted before being hired.

CPS has been under a lot of heat in several states for having strict rules in place to require law-enforcement-level background checks on potential new hires, BUT THEN NOT GETTING THEM. Why? Who knows...although they can be costly and time consuming. The department doesn't really seem to care all that much about actually "protecting" anyone.

It doesn't say if the perp was planning on contacting children whose on-line status/identity/avatars/usernames he was already privy to as a result of his work for CPS.

CPS has had so many black eyes in recent years over its employees using their positions to specifically target children under their care that this might be a purposeful omission. The article certainly SHOULD have discussed WHO he was targeting in terms of his unique employment status giving him access to children, but totally omitted any mention of that, one way or another.

The article says several times that the perp was arrested, and then near the end of the article it talks about the perp NOT being arrested, and how they are seeking a warrant.

This may be the oddest things about the whole article. Either Newsweek needs to hire some editors who can clean up awful writing, or there is something that doesn't quite add up about this particular issue within the article. I don't even have a good guess as to why even the title would suggest a guy was arrested who wasn't actually in custody. Is he going to get off scott free? If so, why??

The article lists 13 other people who actually WERE arrested in this current "sting operation" but (again) not one of them is a person of any high standing, politically, financially, etc.

We know, and have repeatedly shown in this blog, that CPS always tries to target parents and caregivers who are not likely to be able to defend themselves because they are poor, poorly connected, or not very bright. Has law enforcement taken the same approach with perps of child abuse, or is it something EVEN WORSE than that...?

Why are they targeting only people under the "age of 17"...is it legal in Texas to proposition 17-year-olds on line?

I could have sworn the age of consent was always 18. If it changed, I apologize. If it is "Okay" for a 44 year old man to contact a 17-year old on-line for sex, that he has access to electronically because of his position with CPS, then, even if I'm wrong about the age of consent in Texas, THAT IS WRONG and needs to be fixed.

(Ah...found my own answer. Still...)

"Child Protection" "Services" does NOT protect children, and they provide no valuable services to anyone. This case, and hundreds of others like it PROVE they are failing society in every way imaginable, and the degree to which law enforcement and media are helping them to cover up their waste, fraud, and abuse is simply disgusting. CPS has become part of an amazingly rich and powerful anaconda that is literally squeezing the life out of the nation.

We have got to stand together against this menace and put enough pressure on our "representatives" to totally reform or abolish it....YESTERDAY.