WILKES-BARRE — Tony Bellizia will never forget the day. Bellizia has been a caseworker at Luzerne County Child and Youth Services on Pennsylvania Avenue for nearly two years. In August of 2016, Bellizia and a co-worker went to a home in Wilkes-Barre to remove two young children because the father was using drugs. Bellizia and his co-worker were armed with a court order from a county judge to give them the authority to remove the children from the father’s care. The father, seated on the front porch, was armed with a gun, and he told Bellizia he was not giving up his children. As Bellizia told the story Tuesday at a special hearing before Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, you could hear a pin drop in the room filled with elected officials, law enforcement personnel and Children and Youth workers. Luzerne County was the first stop for DePasquale, who will hold similar hearings across the state to try to fix what he has called “a broken child welfare system.” On Sept.
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