Letter: C.P.'s experience not OK

Editor, Daily News:

Since I have had 69 foster children, I have followed the case of C.P. (I can't use the real name because of confidentiality) with great interest.

C.P. is like so many other foster children. I have advocated, nay begged, for necessary psychological and psychiatric services — all to no avail.

If C.P. had received more in-depth counseling, then possibly the adoptive parents and C.P. would have had a better chance for a successful adoption.

I have always believed we pay now or we pay much more later.

Secondly, oftentimes foster children, especially at the therapeutic level, destroy things in the foster home. The Victim's Advocacy fund through the Florida Attorney General's Office is the conduit for reimbursement. This year, under Charlie Crist, the fund has run out of reimbursement money. Crist is running in the Republican primary for the office of governor. If he cannot manage the attorney general's budget, how will he be able to handle the state's budget?

I believe we have a more fiscally responsible and compassionate candidate in Burt Saunders, who is running to succeed Crist as attorney general.

Fritzi Ryan , Naples