ACSs failure to protect kids: Letters to the Editor May 8, 2025

My earliest memory of horrific child abuse is from 1987, when Lisa Steinberg was murdered in Greenwich Village after being tortured by Joel Steinberg (“Kids doomed,” May 5).And here we are, almost 40 years later, and the awful agencies in charge of rescuing these poor, beautiful innocents from their abusers are failing miserably.I still have the newspapers back from 1987 with Lisa’s picture on the front page, and it still makes me cry, as do these awful stories.How is it considered racist to remove these children from these awful parents? I hope The Post’s reporting causes the Administration for Children’s Services such grief that things get changed once and for all.Please don’t give up the fight.Save these babies from the adults who have failed them.Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for shining the spotlight on these children.Joanne UrbanWantaghSo now the agenda of progressives has caused children to die horribly, because the ACS isn’t doing its job.Instead of protecting kids, ACS workers are too worried about “racism,” because most of the families they investigate are minorities.

Time for Mayor Adams to step up and spearhead an investigation.Also, it would be great to hear the candidates running for mayor address this atrocity.Rob FeuersteinStaten IslandI’m fortunate to be 15 years retired after 32 years in Child Protective Services.I know firsthand what it’s like to respond to reports of all kinds of abuse and neglect of children, and what a worker endures when they enter a house.Their safety is not guaranteed.They’re also not given a crystal ball.

But when a child dies, as is unfortunately inevitable given the behavior of some in the population they serve, the blame falls on them.Zachary MargoliesPhiladelphia, Pa.It would be a tragedy if Mayor Adams does not implement the positive remedies suggested by The Post to purge ACS of its delusional and, yes, deadly woke tenets (“Save the Children,” Editorial, May 6).The root causes o...