woman kills social worker in custody dispute

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/08/vermont-aid-worker-killed/31330569/

BARRE, Vt. — A mom who lost custody of her 9-year-old girl less than a month ago used a high-caliber hunting rifle to kill the social worker involved in her case as the state employee left the office for the day, authorities said.

Witnesses tackled Jody Herring at about 4:45 p.m. ET Friday outside of a downtown office building that houses a Vermont Department for Children and Families office, Barre police Chief Tim Bombardier said late Friday. They had seen her take two shots at close range at Lara Sobel, who had worked for the agency more than 15 years.

 

That poor woman was just doing her job. Clearly she did the right thing to get the child out of the home of such an unstable person.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/officials-mom...yb21tBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--


It gets worse. Look at the yahoo comments.

These people are siding with the killer

 

Very tragic what happened.

Reading the comments, it appears the frustration lay with the social workers who in general made bad decisions or ignored abuse...not that they endorsed this murder.

 

I get what u are saying so let me say it this way....if a social worker (sw) is not "overzealous" and a child died then the sw would be scorned.

To me when i read the comments they were talking personal issues. It seemed they were say people would make false reports and sw would investigate and make a decision.

Also the way this person acted it proved the sw didnt overreact.