Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Boy's death haunts former protective services supervisor

Boy's death haunts former protective services supervisor | Inland News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California: "The violent death of toddler Michael 'Mikey' Vallejo-Seiber nearly two years ago still haunts former Riverside County Child Protective Services supervisor Scott Chase.

In August 2005, Chase supervised the CPS emergency response units that fielded the call from the 3-year-old's pediatrician reporting suspected abuse.

'I keep on playing it over in my mind,' he said. 'I had the (Vallejo-Seiber) file in front of me. Why couldn't there have been more information in there? Was there more I could have done? Was there a way we could have saved the kid?'

Chase is a 20-year Navy veteran and received some of his social work training while in the Navy. He worked as a drug and alcohol prevention coordinator and a sexual assault victim advocate.

He received a bachelor's degree in human services from Wayland Baptist University in Hawaii."

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