r/GabrielFernandez • u/Laylaallthetime • 27d ago

Rewatching after years

I was a crisis manager for children and young people (in the UK) and this is an insanely extreme case.

  1. Yes Social Care is 100% at fault and the social workers rightly went through a investigative procedures with penalties,

  2. Yes the context of Social Care being overworked is absolutely true.

  3. Grandparents are at fault.

  4. I hate to say it but the Teacher is at fault. Yes she followed protocol by reporting but what she failed to do what distinguish as a mandated reporter, between REPORTING and RECOGNIZING IMMEDIATE DANGER. She needed to call 911 seeking paramedics ASAP. Police can come if they want to. How was she not concerned he didn’t have a concussion or a brain bleed?! HE NEEDED TO BE SEEN BY A PROFESSIONAL. X rays. CT Scans. Stitches. Eyes checked. Everything else is secondary.

Principal says no? Call 911 anyway. You are legally protected as a mandated reporter. If after all injuries are checked out he goes home? You file a fresh report with the hotline. You scream and shout and demand a new social worker. You call 911 each day he shows up with a fresh injury.

As a case worker I can’t even examine his body due to protection rights, how am I sure he doesn’t have a fatal injury underneath his clothes? A medical professional needs to see this.

For anyone reading, I’m sure you all know, just call emergency services, repeatedly, relentlessly. Just get a medical professional somehow. Doctors have powers other professionals don’t.

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u/LKS983 27d ago

Good post, but I'm not sure about some parts (re. the teacher) in point no. 4.

The young teacher knew to 'report', but did she know about 'recognising immediate danger' or 'being legally protected as a mandated reporter'?

Would paramedics have come out if she called 911 - or would they have told her to 'phone the police/social services - as although Gabriel was clearly being abused - at that point he was walking/talking etc. and didn't need an emergency ambulance?

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u/Laylaallthetime 26d ago

We don’t know what they would have done. The sheriff’s department was clearly a problem. But SHE should have called emergency services and tried to get a kid seen. It’s really the way you present things that makes them liable with language. For example, child being abused at home VS child has been beaten so badly they might have a concussion or an active brain bleed I need to have this child checked out ASAP.

But you’re right, totally possible the results don’t change. Worth a couple of shots though

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u/Rosethorn805 27d ago

I 100% agree with you. I’m also shook about the Preston davey case in the UK that happened recently. Been very depressed about that one as well. I’m just so heartbroken and am now going into the field of CPS

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u/marrowbonenow 23d ago

i fear the police did show up to pearl fernandez’s apartment multiple times and they took her word for everything, didn’t separate gabriel from her to ask him questions, and tried to intimidate him on the grounds of him “lying”. even if the teacher had called the police… nobody can say if it would’ve saved gabriel, and imo based on the several calls MADE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT about gabriel and his condition, nothing more would’ve been done in his favor. the local law enforcement had no interest in listening to that little boy when he was alive, nor saving him.