Heres how NYCs child services agency is failing innocent kids, with sometimes deadly results: Doesnt have to come to this

Jahmeik Modlin slowly starved to death in a squalid Harlem apartment — one of seven neglected and abused kids who died under the lax supervision of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services.The tragic 4-year-old’s parents allegedly kept his food locked in kitchen cabinets for up to two years, leaving Jahmeik so malnourished that he died weighing just 19 pounds — with his grieving family blaming ACS for abandoning the children in its care.“ACS failed the kids,” Jahmeik’s aunt, Nyisha Ragsdale, told The Post.“They could have done something.

They need to fix the system, their rules, their regulations — the whole thing.“Why are these things happening? You don’t know what’s going on until something happens and that’s the sad part.It doesn’t have to come to this,” she said.

“He was still a baby.He didn’t get a chance.”The toddler is just one of the innocent victims of an agency stubbornly committed to a progressive ideology that considers removing children from a troubled home — no matter how abusive — to be cruel and even racist, leaving too many children to fend for themselves, a review by The Post found.

“Caseworkers are taught at their academy to keep the nucleus of the family together,” one frustrated ACS worker said.“Inexperienced workers do not want to upset their supervisors so they recommend to keep the family together, asking for counseling.“However, there have been numerous times when a caseworker wrote in the report that the child should be put with another family member or foster care and the supervisor and our manager overruled them and said the child should be kept with the family after counseling,” the staffer said.Of more than 18,000 reports of neglect filed with the 7,000-employee agency last year, 44% ended with no services being provided — with at least seven children dying under ACS supervision since the start of last year and dozens of others suffering horrific abuse, data reviewed by ...