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Child protection services pledge overhaul after catalog of missed chances to stop father throwing his daughter, 5, to her death off 60ft bridge
- A caller warned child services John Jonchuk was acting 'delusional'
- The call 'did not rise to the level of reasonable cause to suspect'
- Hours before, his attorney warned police of his 'strange' behavior
- Officers interviewed Jonchuk, 25, and found nothing suspicious
- Hours later, Jonchuk allegedly threw daughter Phoebe, 5, off bridge
- He has been charged with first-degree murder and assaulting police officer
- Michelle Kerr, the girl's mother, said he had made false abuse allegations
- Described how he had been diagnosed with bipolar and was 'unstable'
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Child protection services have scrambled to overhaul their policies after it emerged they were alerted to a man's delusional behavior hours before he allegedly threw his five-year-old daughter off a bridge to her death.
It was one of two red flags waved at government agencies on Wednesday that went ignored.
An anonymous caller told Florida's Department of Children and Families on Wednesday afternoon they had seen John Jonchuk Jr, 25, driving around in his pajamas looking 'delusional and depressed'.
But the call 'did not rise to the level of reasonable cause to suspect' according to the DCF's policies and the report was not investigated.
Earlier that day, Jonchuk's attorney had called police warning that he was 'acting strangely' during a custody meeting, calling her 'God' and asking her to read the Bible in Swedish.
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Devastated: Jonchuck's mother and the girl's grandmother Michelle Lynn Jonchuck, has said she never wants to see her son again and claims she wishes it was him who had died on the bridge
Troubled relationship: Michelle Kerr, Phoebe's mother who last saw her on Christmas Eve, said Jonchuck gave her restricted access to her daughter. She added that he had been diagnosed with bipolar
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3OM70fVXg
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