Nev Moore Featured in Fox News Story

March 2002

Fox used MassNews stories and pictures last month to tell about the sufferings of Nev Moore and others at the hands of social workers at DSS.

They used Moore and MassNews to tell the story on their website about DSS abuse across the entire country.

They reported that, "While the Moores were stuck in a backlogged court system waiting for their case, DSS obtained 200 continuances, or delays, on their case."

They also reported about the corruption with people making money off the system. "(T)he Moores discovered a network of shelters, doctors, programs, and therapists that held multimillion-dollar contracts with state agencies. And with the state as their top client, these practices had a financial interest in producing evaluations supportive of DSS cases, activists say.

"'The doctors getting paid by [DSS] should not be doing the evaluations,' [one expert] said. His organizations and others have pushed for independent reviews from doctors and therapists not under contract with [DSS].

"The Moores, repeating a charge made by families involved with DSS across the country, said they were also advised to drop their private health insurance so that DSS could bill Medicaid for the counseling services they were receiving.

"'It's filthy corruption,' Mr. Moore charged. 'All of the counseling agencies are private practices existing solely on DSS business. They bill Medicaid. If you're not on Medicaid, the family is forced to drop private insurance sot he state can over-bill Medicaid.'"