SEATTLE - I want to pick up where I left off before I left for a short vacation.

So let's talk a little more about DSHS.

More information has come out about the latest DSHS screw up, the one that involves a young girl who suffered abuse and torture for 10 years - including being blinded in one eye after having been stabbed with a hypodermic needle in that eye.

Here's a quick review: DSHS records show that neighbors, educators and police complained about how the girl was being treated 16 times over a 5 year period.

DSHS just wrote the complaints off.

DSHS admits it failed to protect the girl, but says since it was all about errors in judgment and not neglect of duties, no one gets fired or disciplined.

Then there's the bureaucratic mumbo jumbo about how changes in policy and new safeguards should keep this from happening again.

I think I first heard that back in the 80's after Eli Creekmore was killed.

I spoke with former State Supreme Court Justice Phil Talmadge about all this.

He's of the mind that DSHS can't be fixed.

I agree.

He believes that to save the lives and well being of kids, DSHS has to go, with a new agency rising in its place.

I agree.

There have been too many dead children.

Too many abused children.

Too many neglected children.

Look for more on this in the weeks ahead.