5. The children "begged to stay w/the grandparents," and the reporting adults "fear that boyfriend will harm children."Doe v. Milwaukee County, 712 F. Supp. 1370, 1371-72 (E.D.Wis. 1989) (quoting report of Patricia Ryan, reprinted in Appellants' App. at 26-27). Both King Taylor, head of the protective services unit of the DSS, and Margaret ("Peg") McCarthy, head of the Department's child sexual abuse team, reviewed the Does' report.
That nobody acceded to her position fails to implicate freedom of speech. See Smith v. Arkansas State Highway Employees, Local 1315, 441 U.S. 463, 464-65, 99 S.Ct. 1826, 1828, 60 L.Ed.2d 360, 362-63 (1979); Doe ex rel. Nelson v. Milwaukee County, 712 F.Supp. 1370, 1378 (E.D.Wis. 1989), aff'd on other grounds, 903 F.2d 499 (7th Cir. 1990); Gordon v. Heimann, 514 F.Supp. 659, 661 (N.D.Ga. 1980). The Ryans' First Amendment claim, consequently, lacks merit.