Lifeway should lose it's License to operate, and the people in charge of placing Marcus with the Carroll's should face criminal prosecution. Taking care of a child is one of the most important jobs in the world, but Placement agencies, and foster parents such as the Carrolls, are turning it into another way to make money, and then the child suffers. These children are our future, and they are being used and damaged. Then we wonder why our society is in the shape it is in. When our kids do not receive the knowledge of right and wrong from loving parents, they will grow up with a distorted view of reality. This distorted view will then be passed on to their children, and the cycle starts over again.
She says changed records weren't about David Carroll
A foster-care trainer who testified Monday about altering records for Lifeway for Youth has been fired from her new job.
Kathy Sprinkle, who took a job in November as home resource coordinator with a foster-care agency in Springdale, said her new employer told her they had problems with her admission Monday that she changed records related to a foster parent's training after 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel's death in August.
State memos indicate Liz and David Carroll Jr., Marcus' foster parents, also did not attend the full 36 hours of training as required. One of the state's allegations against Lifeway for Youth questions why the Carrolls did not sign in for orientation and sex abuse training sessions in the fall of 2005. The Carrolls were convicted of murder for leaving Marcus tied up in a closet. Marcus was dead when the couple returned from a weekend family reunion in Kentucky.
Christopher Tesi, enforcement coordinator for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, testified Thursday that he has no way of verifying whether foster parents - including the Carrolls - attended all their training, except through Lifeway's billing invoices. Tesi is expected to testify again on Tuesday when the hearings resume at the Rhodes Office Tower.
In an interview with The Enquirer Thursday, Sprinkle insisted that the training records she testified about Monday did not have to do with Marcus' foster dad, David Carroll Jr., but another unnamed foster parent.
"I'm not allowed to tell you who we were talking about but to assume it was David Carroll was (an inaccurate) assumption," Sprinkle said. "What I did was absolutely wrong, but I didn't see it as being deceptive. ... The created documents were setting the record straight, not falsifying anything. ... It looks like I went back and falsified something. What I did was I went back and created something that made it right, because I'd been wrong before."
Lifeway For Youth, the Clark County agency that placed Marcus Fiesel with the Carrolls, is defending its license during state hearings. On Thursday, attorneys for Lifeway asked about a letter from Sprinkle attesting that the Carrolls, and another unnamed foster parent, attended an orientation session on Oct. 27, 2005, for which they had not signed in.
Dennis Evans, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, called Sprinkle's firing unfortunate, saying there can be consequences to telling the truth.
Job and Family Services officials allege that Lifeway overbilled the state $3,075 for 10.5 hours of required training that foster parents, including the Carrolls, did not receive. Sprinkle was not a volunteer witness; she was subpoenaed to appear by both sides.
"The lack of supervision at Lifeway was appalling," Sprinkle said Thursday. "I made some really bad errors, none of them were meant to be deceitful. ... I told the truth and I knew Lifeway wasn't even going to think about telling the truth. They were going to lie to the very end."
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