Possible Child Abuse Went Underreported
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EXPANDED SPORTS COVERAGE SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE Questions? Call 1-800-Tribune Monday, October 22, 2018 Breaking news at chicagotribune.com BETRAYED UPDATE Possible child abuse went underreported Despite law, data show CPS held fewer But that has not been of district data shows a ing to call the state child- CPS did not alert law en- enough to instill a culture at troubling trend: CPS has abuse hotline immediately. forcement or the Illinois workers accountable in recent years CPS of consistently report- held fewer employees ac- From 2010 through 2014, State Board of Education ing these cases. countable for failing to alert there were an average of 10 after one of its employees By Jennifer Smith Richards, Juan Perez Jr. In documenting hun- child-welfare workers discipline cases per year. failed to act on behalf of an and David Jackson | Chicago Tribune dreds of sex crimes against about possible abuse in re- Then punishments abused child. That means CPS students for the “Be- cent years even though re- dropped off; just three em- those educators not only Chicago Public Schools’ mediately. And the state trayed” series earlier this ports of student sexual ployees were disciplined faced few consequences child-abuse reporting pol- “mandated reporter” law, year, the Tribune found that abuse in Chicago schools last year, district records from their employer, they icy is clear: School workers enacted more than four educators sometimes had did not decline. show. also escaped potential crim- must report suspected decades ago, makes failure failed to report the abuse. In 2009, CPS disciplined The Tribune also found abuse to authorities im- to report abuse a crime. Now, a Tribune analysis employees 27 times for fail- that, over the last decade, Turn to Betrayed, Page 4 Migrant PATRIOTS 38, BEARS 31 caravan resumes odyssey President promises 5,000-strong crowd won’t enter U.S. By Mark Stevenson and Sonia Perez D. Associated Press CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — A growing throng of Central American mi- grants resumed their ad- vance toward the U.S. bor- der in southern Mexico on Sunday, overwhelming Mexican government at- tempts to stop them at the border. Their numbers swelled to about 5,000 overnight, and at first light they set out walking toward the Mexi- can town of Tapachula, 10 abreast in a line stretching about a mile. Several hundred more already had applied for ref- ugee status in Mexico, and an estimated 1,500 were still on the Guatemalan side of the Suchiate River, hoping to enter legally. It was not immediately clear where the additional travelers had materialized from since about 2,000 had been gathered on the Mexi- can side Saturday night. They seemed likely to be JOHN J. KIM/CHICAGO TRIBUNE people who had been wait- Bears receiver Kevin White catches a pass near the end zone with no time left on the clock against the Patriots at Soldier Field on Sunday. ing in the Guatemalan town of Tecun Uman and who decided to cross during the night. FALLING SHORT As they passed through Mexican villages on the “Close doesn’t cut it,” Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky said of Sunday’s final play where Kevin White was just short of the end zone. It was another outskirts of Ciudad Hidalgo, they drew applause, cheers narrow loss for the Bears, who gave up two touchdowns on special teams and had a chance to test their mettle against an elite team. Chicago Sports and donations of food and clothing from Mexicans. Maria Teresa Orellana, a resident of the neighbor- hood of Lorenzo, handed Emanuel talks transit, out free sandals to the migrants as they passed. “It’s solidarity,” she said. bicycles and gas tax “They’re our brothers.” In the tropical heat, Besi Freewheeling along Lakefront Trail Jaqueline Lopez of San Pedro Sula carried an im- capital construction bill; probable stuffed polar bear whether the Trump ad- with a winter cap, the favor- ministration will give the ite — and only — toy of her city more transit money; two daughters, Victoria, 4, raising the gas tax; and and Elisabeth, 3, as they the long delay in building trudged beside her. the Navy Pier Flyover. A business administra- Mary Wisniewski Emanuel blamed the tion graduate, Lopez said Getting Around last of those items on the she couldn’t find work in state not delivering mon- Honduras. She wants to Last week, I met the ey in time, describing reach the United States but mayor of Chicago in a himself as “beyond frus- would stay in Mexico if she cold, dark place. trated.” could find work here. “My ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE The place was the We first talked about goal is to find work for a Activist Charlie Kirk speaks in Chicago. He said his Yeezy shoes were from Kanye West. Lakefront Trail, before how Bicycling magazine better future for my daugh- sunrise, when the temper- this year dropped Chi- ters,” she said. Her husband, ature was in the 30s and it cago’s ranking as a top David Martinez, said they was so dark you could still bike city from first place were tired but had to push Turning Point USA founder: see the Big Dipper. Rahm in 2016 to sixth. The mag- Emanuel and I met at azine noted that there had Turn to Caravan, Page 11 Fullerton Avenue. We been a decline in the Wheeling to White House both arrived on bikes, our number of new protected By John Keilman the price of cookies. highlight of most school eyes watering from the bike lane miles. It also Chicago Tribune At the start of Kirk’s days, only to be DOUBLED cold. I wanted an inter- docked Chicago for its Parties unite, senior year, Wheeling’s in price without our con- view about transporta- small number of people Before Charlie Kirk be- cafeteria raised the cost of a sultation? NO! Enough of tion, so I was willing to who commute by bike, take hard line came a conservative star, cookie from a quarter to 50 the manipulation. We must put up with an unusual particularly women. Only before he palled around cents, citing more expen- stand together in this fight. venue. He is in the last about 1 percent of Chi- on Saudi Arabia with Kanye West and Don- sive ingredients. Kirk and Fight the Power!” eight months of his two cago’s women get to work Saudi Arabia’s belated ald Trump Jr., before pro- some friends called for a The boycott worked. terms as mayor and in a on a bike. explanation for Jamal testers hounded him at a boycott. Administrators brought chatty mood. Emanuel touted the Khashoggi’s death drew restaurant in a viral video, “Together we can show back cheaper cookies, Trying to ignore the first-place ranking in 2016 deep bipartisan skepticism and before he regularly the establishment the though some students said wind, I asked about in a news release and Sunday. Senior Republicans berated liberals, lefties and power of our generation,” they were smaller and less whether billionaire Elon recalled that the city was and Democrats proposed a the “Democrat Party” on he wrote on the page of a tasty than the originals. Musk can really build an in 10th place in 2010. But range of punishments, Fox News, he was just a kid 400-member Facebook Some of Kirk’s former express train to O’Hare he says his focus is not on including sanctions. from Wheeling High group he created for the International Airport; the Nation & World, Page 10 School who was mad about cause. “Cookies are the Turn to Kirk, Page 6 prospects for a new state Turn to Mayor, Page 7 Chicago Weather Center: Complete $2.50 city and suburbs, $3.00 elsewhere High Low Tom Skilling’s forecast 60 36 forecast on back page of A+E section 171st year No. 295 © Chicago Tribune 2 Chicago Tribune | Section 1 | Monday, October 22, 2018 ARMANDO L. SANCHEZ/CHICAGO TRIBUNE J.B. Pritzker, left, and Gov. Bruce Rauner have spent months — and millions of their own money — trying to win votes. THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX: ‘A DECADE-BY-DECADE HISTORY’ Our choices for Illinois governor To be a White Sox fan is to know the highest of highs, have little in common with us the lowest of lows and all points in between. “The accounts he might be hid- could “shake up Spring- quicker to overlook that Chicago Tribune Book of the ing money in. I’m not going field.” phone conversation the Chicago White Sox: A Dec- to trouble myself trying to He talked big at the FBI taped him having with ade-by-Decade History” decide which of the two beginning, promising that then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. touches all those bases and candidates has avoided he would stand up to He and the governor were covers more than a century paying more income taxes. Democratic boss House heard disrespectfully dis- of baseball. At over 300 Dahleen Glanton Our next governor will Speaker Michael Madigan. cussing which African- pages, it’s filled with fea- be a billionaire or at the But in the end, Rauner was American might be worthy tures and profiles, plus stun- In two weeks, I will step very least a multimillion- too inexperienced and too of an appointment to Oba- ning images from the Tribune’s photojournalists. store. into a voting booth and aire. And we can be assured weak for the job. The entire ma’s vacated U.S. Senate chicagotribune.com/books. begrudgingly cast my ballot that he will have little, if state has paid for his mis- seat.