In the year of 1984, a four year old child named Joshua DeShaney was so badly abused by his father Randy that he became severely mentally retarded. Even though the Winnebago County Department of Social Services was well aware of the abuse present in the home, they did not remove Joshua from the hostile environment. Joshua’s mother, as well as many others, believed that Social Services could have prevented his lifelong injuries if they would have removed him from the home. Instead, they made the mistake of keeping little Joshua in his father’s care, a mistake that soon turned disastrous.
In the DeShaney v Winnebago case, argued on November 2, 1988, each justice let the lawyer, Donald J Sullivan, speak, but I believed that they were questioning
