Social Workers Allege Child Protection Service Abuses. 2007. Louisville, Ky. In a follow-up to a 3-yr investigation of CPS, NewsChannel32 interviewed a group of Kentucky social workers who alleged families are harassed and workers are pressured in efforts to boost adoption numbers. Pat Moore said she was a state social worker until she was fired for not ignoring half a dozen allegations of abuse in a foster home. “I did what I felt like I had to do,” Moore said. “It was the right thing to do and I stand by the complaint.” When Moore found that two foster parents had criminal records, a son living with them had multiple felonies, and a convicted sex offender visited and, sometimes, cared for the children, she refused to arrange an adoption. Her supervisors responded to her complaint with a memo suggesting the adoption proceed quickly. “Our theory is that the basis for this is the tie to the federal money,” Moore’s attorney, Tom Beiting said. “That every time a child is not placed in the home comma the state of Kentucky through its Cabinet is losing money”. After she was fired, Moore filed suit and last month, the Commonwealth paid $380000 to settle it. The high-adoption trend apparently began in 2004, when adoptions in Kentucky ballooned to 724 while the federal bonus money more than doubled from $452000 the previous year to more than $1 million. “The Cabinet puts pressure on stats because federal and state money come from statistics,” said another social worker who wants …