tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68731447389506360992024-03-04T20:04:17.191-08:00Fairbanks Alaska Office Of Children's Services Stole Our Grand Children For ProfitThe Adoption and Safe Families Act, 1997, offers cash “bonuses” to the states for every child they adopt out of foster care. Government funding is not given to Fairbanks Office of Children's Services if the case worker tries to "help" the family... money is only given if the case worker removes the child from the home.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger292125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-67733417791678347512018-03-11T13:03:00.000-07:002018-03-11T13:03:41.622-07:00State Grand Jury investigation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"In September of 2016, AlaskaRepresentative Tammie Wilson called
for a grand State jury investigation of the Office of Children's Services. In
Tammie's request to the State's District Attorney she wrote:<br />
The
Department of Health and Social Services, Office of Children's Services
(OCS) has become a protected empire built on taking children and
separating families. Poor parents are often targeted to lose their
children because they do not have the means to hire lawyers and fight
the system.<br />
Parents are victimized by "The System" that makes a
profit for holding children longer and "bonuses" for not returning the
children. Case workers and social workers are oftentimes guilty of
fraud. They withhold evidence. They fabricate evidence and seek to
terminate parental rights. The separation of families is growing as a
business because local governments have grown accustomed to having
federal dollars to balance their ever-expanding budgets. OCS can hide
behind confidentiality clause in order to protect their decisions and
keep the funds flowing. Social workers are the glue that holds "The
System" together that funds the court, the child's attorney, and the
multiple other jobs including the OCS attorney.<br />
The Adoption and
the Safe Families Act offers cash "Bonuses" to the states for every
child they adopted out of foster care. In order to receive the "Adoption
Incentive Bonuses" local child protective services need more children.
They must have merchandise (children) that sell and you must have plenty
of them so the buyer can choose. The funding continues as long as the
child is out of the home. When a child in foster care is placed with a
new family then "Adoption Bonus Funds" are available. When a child is
placed in a mental health facility more funds are involved.<br />
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are limited financial resources and no real drive to unite a family and
help keep them together. The incentive for social workers to return
children to their parents quickly after taking them has disappeared.
Many parents are told if they want to see their children or
grandchildren, they must divorce their spouse. Many, who are under
privileged, feeling they have no option, will separate. This is an
anti-family policy, but parents will do anything to get their children
home. state and federal dollars are being used to keep this gigantic
system afloat."<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-45256125579538506262017-03-05T12:03:00.001-08:002017-03-05T12:08:05.213-08:00The oxymoron of The Adoption and Safe Families Act<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Title IV-E, The Adoption and Safe Families Act authorized by then President Clinton is the act that pays social workers from your Social Security for every kid they take FROM THE HOME and foster out and adopted. Helping the families is not the incentive. <br />
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This incentive was reauthorized in 2014 by piggy backing it into: <br />
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Title IV-E (The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997) needs to be dumped like a hot potato and rebuilt so it actually does help strengthen families unlike now where it gives every incentive not to. Instead, it is hidden and passed with other programs. Thus making it the oxymoron it is. This makes me wonder if President Trump and the First Lady know about this yet.<br />
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<span itemprop="author">By Pamela Samash</span><time class="asset-date text-muted" datetime="2017-02-26T00:00:00-09:00"> Feb 26, 2017</time><br />
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<strong>News-Miner Community Perspective:</strong></div>
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On
Feb. 18, from 12-4 p.m. at the Borough Administrative Center, Rep.
Tammie Wilson alone, with no other representatives or legislators to
accompany her, listened to a packed room full of broken people whose
lives have been shredded to pieces by the state Office of Child
Services. In the seats were family members comforting one another as
they felt completely without hope, but saw this as maybe — just maybe —
an opportunity for someone to hear them.</div>
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There
were testimonies coming from parents and grandparents, aunts and
uncles. The stories were so similar that it was sickening. Here’s what
rang out over and over again: “I did everything they told me to do,
jumped through every hoop they instructed, went through every class they
requested, and they still fostered or adopted my kids out.” Here’s
another one common from the grandparents, “I’ve been in and out of the
courts and have spent $30,000 on lawyers (for some reason, $30,000 seems
to be an amount of money to expect to pay when fighting OCS, because a
lot of people mentioned it), and I haven’t ever done anything wrong and
yet they won’t let me have my grandchild.”</div>
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Then
there’s the damaged children, who are not only separated from their
parents or grandparents or aunts or uncles, but also from their own
siblings as well. Night terrors and emotional trauma that last a
lifetime are just another day in their obliterated worlds. As a matter
of fact, there was a very unique twist to the testimonies in that one of
those speaking out was an adult who was taken from her mom as a child.
This is a very significant event, because what we have now are the next
generation of OCS-damaged people coming forward telling their stories
from a child’s point of view. These children are growing up and telling
their perspective and anyone listening to what they say will never
forget the pain in their voice. As I listened to one of these adult
kids, tears ran down my face.</div>
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OCS
isn’t always evil. I admit they have saved and do save lives. There is
intervention on their part that gives children a second chance at life
when parents are violent, vicious, cold-hearted monsters who neglect and
abuse their babies. They deserve recognition for those shining moments
and those moments are heroic. So why is it we have this tree that bears
fruit and thorns? Could the culprit be poor training, financial gain or
just so many horror stories that some of the workers become hardened?</div>
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One
thing is for sure: Once OCS has begun targeting a family, there’s no
shaking them off and no recourse. There’s no politician or ombudsman,
governor or anyone who’s going to fly in and save the day, anywhere. If
somebody alerts OCS to a family and that particular caseworker has it
out for them for whatever reason, life will never be the same again for
them and they will live in and out of court. They may spend every dime
they have for the remainder of that child’s years till 18, and nothing
will be private again. Everything will be under the microscope. The
children will be bounced from foster home to foster home, and if they
are molested or abused, many times their cries are ignored because it’s
assumed they are trying to “make stuff up” to get back to their birth
families.</div>
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Will
Rep. Wilson succeed in changing the system and create a new and
improved OCS that will follow guidelines and work to restore the family
unit every chance it gets? I don’t know. I do know she needs our
support. She is carrying a heavy cross and has to lift it over many
barriers. She flies to Juneau to listen to five hours of testimony for
one issue, then flies to Fairbanks the next day to listen to four hours
of distraught mothers and fathers and family members begging for help to
have their children back. I’ve never seen anyone in her position do
more to represent and listen to the people. Let me be very clear: These
devastated parents and grandparents have proof, proof and more proof.
They are prepared, they are obedient and they are fighters.</div>
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Where
are you, Gov. Bill Walker? Have you listened to these people? Where are
you? We have ignored the guardians, but no one can ignore the future
generation of children. They will grow up and they will start running
for office and making decisions and this era and system will change one
way or the other. Praise God that children grow up. They will have the
final say.</div>
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<em>Pamela Samash is a Nenana resident and community activist.</em></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> The Evil Entity of OCS</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Testimony of Rep. Alan Dick, District 6, 27th Legislature<br />alancanyon@yahoo.com</span></b><br />
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I am 71 and have lived in bush Alaska for over 50 years. I have been married 48 years,
and have 5 children, 14 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.<br />
I flew through the Alaska Range today for the sole reason of testifying before you.<br />
During the 27th Legislature I served as vice Chair of the State House HSS Committee.<br />
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In 2011, I worked for one of my constituents regarding an OCS concern, and was immediately
inundated by distressed families from across the State. The need was and
continues to be desperate. I thank Rep. Tammie Wilson for her continued efforts to reveal
OCS violations.<br />
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Children who are in danger certainly need protection. However OCS has a clear history
of either not showing up when needed or of brutally destroying families. Some good
has been done by OCS, but this is not a spelling test where 60% is a passing grade.
OCS has been unaccountable and untouchable, with practices unconscionable. Please
allow me to cite a few examples from my many related experiences.<br />
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• Responsible leaders such as a health professional east of Glennallen told me OCS
workers and the local magistrate worked together to cherry-pick their cases, ignoring
some egregious situations while targeting certain families.
• A community leader in Pilot Station told me she had been calling OCS for over six
months regarding a child in danger and could not get help.<br />
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• A responsible mature couple in Wasilla told me they tried taking in foster children.
They said they enjoyed the children, but dealing with OCS was so insane they would
never consider having foster children ever again.<br />
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• A grandfather from the northwest coast of Alaska tried to get custody of his three
grandchildren that had been taken from his daughter. In desperation, he sold his
house, and exhausted the $30K equity in a failed attempt to secure his grandchildren
from OCS. When I had a meeting with Director Christy Lawton in Fairbanks regarding
his situation, I was told “He was noncompliant.” My response was, “Since
when is total compliance with you a prerequisite for good parenting skills?”<br />
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• OCS workers, the GALs (guardian ad litems) and court officials are paid state professionals
who are quite accustomed to working together. For most families, OCS
intrusion is bewilderingly unfamiliar with no means of resolution. The State Ombudsman’s
office, who is supposed to defend citizenry against government intrusion,
was defunded to the point of worthlessness over a decade ago. Once children are
Taken by OCS, even Liam Neeson would have a hard time getting them back.<br />
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• When concerned family members or even Legislators try to find out what is going on
they are kept at bay by 1” of plexiglass. An Anchorage mother tried to get her two
children back for many, many years. OCS had given her children to a woman that
literally starved them and kept them chained up. That documented case was made
public in the Anchorage media, but two years later, that adoptive, abusive OCS
mother still had legal custody of the children and the dedicated biological mother
could not contact them! I went with that mother to the OCS office in Anchorage and
waited one hour-forty-five minutes attempting to get ROI (release of information) paperwork
so the mother could give me legal access to the information regarding her
case. The OCS office refused to give us the paperwork which is supposed to be
freely available. While waiting, two OCS workers separately called the mother aside
and spoke quite rudely to her. I later told OCS Director Christy Lawton about the rebuff,
and she admitted that we should have been given the ROI paperwork, but I was
not able to get any farther on that case. I was neither the first nor the last Representative
who failed in a efforts to break the OCS stronghold.<br />
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• Recently in McGrath, an OCS approved home was given a 13 year old girl. For an
extended period of time that family allowed her 19 year old boyfriend to move in and
stay in the same bedroom. The OCS office was a half of a mile away and most of
the community was aware of the situation. The OCS worker did absolutely nothing
until pressured by community members. She was later fired, I was told for long-term
substance abuse.<br />
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• In 2012 Rep. Wes Keller, Chairman of HSS, conducted a public hearing with HSS
Commissioner Streur in Wasilla. As vice Chair of HSS, I attended that meeting.
Many aggrieved families testified. Commissioner Streur appeared to listen, and said
“Game on.” But when I followed up with the families, I discovered that none of them
had been contacted after that meeting and absolutely nothing had been resolved for
the parents.<br />
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• It is the assignment of the GAL (guardian-ad-litem) under the Dept. of Admin. to focus
exclusively on the safety of the child. It is, in theory, the function of OCS to
restore families. I saw several situations where the GAL pleaded for the child to be
returned to the family, yet OCS was adamantly opposed, as the whole focus has
been to seize and adopt out the children.<br />
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• A grandmother from the mid-west with a Master’s degree is a professional social
worker in her own state. I spent several hours with her in the Valley. She was articulate,
intelligent and seemed completely responsible. Her Alaskan daughter had not
been a good mother, so the grandmother took the grandchildren to stay with her in
the mid-west. She later thought it right that the children have contact with the father’s
family, and brought the children to Alaska on a short visit. OCS seized the children
and later managed to adopt them out to strangers despite the grandmother’s best
efforts. When I asked her what the solution was, she immediately said, “Record all
conversations!” She said OCS workers lie constantly in and out of court, and without
recording all conversations there is no recourse.<br />
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• OCS workers commonly extort parents, “If you don’t relinquish your parental rights to
these children, then we will seize the others.” Not understanding their rights, the intimidated
parents do so and never see their children again. One mother told me that
OCS assured her that her children were better off with their paternal grandparents,
and that she would have free access to her children if she relinquished her parental
rights. She complied and the children were moved out of state within two weeks.
Multiple tactics are used to get uninformed parents to relinquish parental rights.<br />
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• The same mother was previously told that she had to attend training in Anchorage in
order to keep her children, but she had no job, no housing, no transportation in Anchorage.
Her children were taken away as there was no way for her to take that
training in her village. I arranged for that mother to have an interview with Governor
Parnell’s Legislative Liaison, Heather Hebdon, in the Anchorage LIO, but the 45
minute meeting produced no results for that mother.<br />
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• Instead of working with ICWA, OCS has been adversarial and has gone out of its
way to keep village people uninformed about the purpose and legal authority granted
by ICWA. At the same time, the criminal justice system in western Alaska is so broken
that many village people are saddled with boundary crimes as they have had to
plea-bargain out of exaggerated allegations and impossible bail requirements. Those
families will never be able to get custody of a related family member even if they
maintain a good, loving home.<br />
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• Extreme turnover among OCS staff members statewide has produced inconsistent
interpretation and implementation of OCS regulations.
I understand that families can say absolutely anything they want, true, false, or exaggerated,
while OCS must outwardly appear professional. There are multiple facets of all
situations. It is not until you get to the third or fourth layer that the whole truth starts to
emerge. Families do not attract OCS attention without having some form of functional
issues. However, as I told Commissioner Struer in person, “You can’t fix dysfunction
with worse dysfunction. OCS is more dysfunctional than the families they purportedly
restore.”
Over a long period of time, State government has been extremely non-responsive to
the cries of the people. How unresponsive? As a State Representative, I told Governor
Parnell, in the presence of Heather Hebdon, that one of my constituents had told me he
murdered seven people. That man told me who he murdered and how he murdered
them. Governor Parnell’s response was identical to that of over a dozen people in state
government including the Commissioner of Public Safety… absolute… extended…
dead… silence. Pleas regarding OCS transgressions have fallen on the same deaf
ears.
The anecdotes I have cited sound exaggerated, incredible, even impossible, yet it is
that incredulity that has allowed the transgressions to continue in plain sight. “Certainly,
this couldn’t be true!”
I know there are concerned and responsible workers within the OCS operation, but I
also believe that a large number, and perhaps majority, would end up behind bars if the
1” of plexiglass and impenetrable wall of “confidentiality” were removed.<br />
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Solutions:<br />
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1) To stop human trafficking in Alaska, start by dismantling OCS. A rigorous yet clear,
informative, positive, restorative process must be created for families to follow who
have been identified as lacking good parenting skills. Create a Restoration Handbook
for families needing help including clear information regarding parents’ rights.<br />
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2) GAL’s must be held accountable as well. Biased and inept GAL’s also exist.<br />
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3) Malfeasance and outright perjury by OCS workers and GAL’s should constitute a
felony with the same sentence as aggravated kidnapping because the result is identical:
family members are stolen and scores of hearts are scarred for life.<br />
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4) The authority and resources of ICWA should be maximized in villages.<br />
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5) All conversations with parents must be recorded and digital copies provided for use
in appeal processes.<br />
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6) All OCS activities within the statute of limitations should be seriously investigated
and human rights violations prosecuted to the full extent of the existing law, with
guilty OCS workers doing actual prison time. Prove to the wounded families and all
the people of Alaska that reform is genuine.<br />
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In sum, OCS is an evil entity whose reign must end, at least in current form. For those
who think they are not impacted by current OCS issues, the question arises- If government
can seize children without accountability for alleged “abuse,” who then defines
abuse? Is my personal belief system or your personal belief system abusive? If not today,
could it be tomorrow?<br />
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Family is the fundamental inviolable structure in a stable society. Healthy family values
must be nurtured, encouraged and defended.<br />
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Thank you for your attention. Please fully support Rep. Wilson’s efforts.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-9791769181088563982016-10-21T21:28:00.001-07:002016-10-21T21:33:00.723-07:00The Adoption and Safe Families Act<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The Adoption and Safe Families Act, 1997, offers cash “bonuses” to the states for every child they adopt out of foster care. Government funding is not given to if the case worker tries to "help" the family... money is only given if the case worker removes the child from the home. The creator of this scam was none other than the then President of the United States, Bill and Hillery Clinton. </span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-21034084973728726692016-03-26T14:03:00.000-07:002016-03-26T14:19:05.391-07:00Office of Children’s Services reform needed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Pamela Samash Mar 25, 2016<br />
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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner community perspective:<br />
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I am very concerned with some events connected with the Alaska Office of Children’s Services and the child custody court system.<br />
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About a month or so ago, I had a long conversation with a grandmother of two grandchildren. She said the first grandchild was taken away from the mother due to a marital breakup and false accusations by the father. In the meantime, the mother was pregnant. By her fourth month of pregnancy, the unborn child had been already adopted out by the state; they found this out later on. This grandmother said as soon as the child was born, she was taken from her mother. The mother pleaded with them and asked if she could at least supply breast milk to the baby. They refused. The first and second children were both adopted out, never to be seen since. There was no court trial; they were just taken. The grandmother has fought to see her grandchildren ever since. They were not taken to family members, they were split up and taken to different homes.<br />
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An audio file on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABbxSfxBKA" target="_blank">YouTube at bit.ly/1UKX1tf</a> details another incident. This mother’s son was taken with no trial. The mother says OCS has admitted wrongdoing and she told me she has gotten her son back since this horrific event. The incident in the YouTube audio happened during a legislative hearing. The legislators heard everything and it was Rep. Tammie Wilson who stepped in to help this family.<br />
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I have a dear friend who has divorced because of a bad marriage. Three kids were caught in the middle — a little girl, a young boy and an older boy. The father moved away. The mother had a great life here with her kids. Then this happened, as she explained to me, out of the blue, with no court case, no trial: She said Alaska State Troopers showed up with the father and yanked all the kids literally from her arms and took them 300 miles away. Oh, how they screamed and cried, she said. In response, she uprooted her entire life to follow them and has been in courts for the last six years. She says the children show signs of sexual and physical abuse, but when she mentions it in court, she is told she is the one who needs supervised visits and psychiatric help.<br />
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Once, a friend of mine was in an abuse shelter in Interior Alaska. She met a woman whose little girl was being sexually assaulted by her father. The woman shared with her how she took photos of the bruises and obvious signs of harm. She turned them into the police. She said the police blamed her and arrested her.<br />
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When Alan Dick was running for state office, his phone lines were burning up with hysterically crying parents who had lost their children to OCS and the courts. He said it was hard to sleep at night thinking of those calls.<br />
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Alaska has 2,000 children in custody looking for foster homes to be bounced around in. Doesn’t that seem a bit excessive to anyone? I feel it seems almost like human trafficking. Some cases are legitimate, I know. Some kids really are horrifically abused. How somebody can intentionally cause a burn to a baby or shake a toddler to death is beyond me. But many are in worse shape in custody then they ever were when they were with their parent or parents.<br />
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When a child is taken from family, it’s so traumatic it can cause severe mental health and emotional problems in the child. The stress of ripping kids away from their mom creates post-traumatic stress disorder in both mom and child. It also creates detachment disorder. It is kidnapping in the mind of the child and is completely unnatural to the way God designed their brains. They do not grasp or understand why they can’t see their parent. It is just another violent form of child abuse. You can’t explain to 1-year-olds who are at the tender age of separation anxiety why they can’t be with the only parent they’ve ever known.<br />
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The pain to the victim parent is so intense that after endless pleads and courts or letters or begging, they can become suicidal. Foster children, too, have a higher suicide rate than those who aren’t in foster care. Some foster parents are angels sent by God to repair broken children who have never known a gentle touch or kind word, but some are in it for the money and could care less about the kids at all. Foster kids are not only separated from their parents, they are bounced from one foster home to another. People are creatures who thrive on stable relationships. Bouncing kids around is just another form of mental child abuse.<br />
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I feel there are serious problems with the whole OCS system and the courts. When they get it right, it’s the best thing ever, but when they get it wrong, they destroy those kids and parents in ways that can effect them for generations to come. We need to shut the system down and do a reboot with public input. I believe every case needs to be fully reviewed and that many of these kids need to just go back home, including the adopted ones. Just because they were adopted, doesn’t mean it was right by any means. I appreciate Rep. Tammie Wilson and her efforts in this matter. She has called for investigations. I wish all the legislators that day would have done the same.<br />
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Pamela Samash is a mother and community activist. She lives in Nenana.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-11859852298636608142016-03-08T16:11:00.000-08:002016-03-08T16:13:04.284-08:00Speech That Got Judge Napolitano Fired From Fox News!Published on Jul 12, 2014
Speech That Got Judge Napolitano Fired From Fox News!
Asking questions as Judge Andrew Napolitano did in a recent broadcast on his now cancelled daily show may very well be the reason behind his recent dismissal from Fox. Though specific details are hard to come by because the Judge has yet to give any interviews on the matter, it's believed that his refusal to bow to commonly manufactured media narratives is among one of several key reasons he is no longer with the network.
The following 5-Minute Speech that Got Napolitano Fired from Fox News is one that should not only be forwarded and shared with every single man, woman and child in this country, but taught and expounded upon in every social studies, civics and government class from first grade through college.
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Without Prejudice UCC 1-207Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-91842851357688638092015-12-19T08:21:00.000-08:002015-12-19T08:37:24.795-08:00Abuse of Alaska Children...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From article dated December 15, 2015, Alaska Dispatch News. <br />
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<a href="http://www.adn.com/article/20151215/abuse-alaska-children-even-worse-grim-stats-suggest-study-says" target="_blank">Abuse of Alaska children even worse than grim stats suggest, study says</a></h1>
"... <span class="updated"> <a href="http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/news/?p=1189" target="_blank">a new study released Tuesday by the Institute of Social and Economic Research</a>
at the University of Alaska Anchorage contends the state's rate of
child maltreatment doesn’t even reflect the true extent of the problem
here. And the state’s youngest children are the most vulnerable,
according to the 24-page study by ISER researcher Jessica Passini and
assistant public policy professor Diwakar Vadapalli. ..."</span><br />
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<span class="updated">>Pausing there for just a moment. If this article were about the IRS, [it is not] it would be like the IRS investigating itself. </span><span class="updated">Diwakar Vadapalli holds the chair for the Alaska Citizens Review Panel. "... </span><br />
<a href="http://www.uky.edu/SocialWork/crp/" target="_blank"><b>Citizens Review Panels (CRP) are groups of citizen-volunteers who are federally mandated to conduct an evaluation of their state's child protective services agency. ..." </b></a><br />
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Here are your current citizen volunteers of the CRP in Alaska<b>;</b><br />
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Diwakar Vadapalli, Chair, Anchorage<br />
<a href="http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/people/directory.php" target="_blank">Assistant Professor of Public Policy. Research: Community and Social Development, Rural Development, Social Capital, Cash Transfers</a><br />
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Dana Hallett, Vice-Chair, Haines<br />
Margaret McWilliams, Douglas<br />
Bettyann Steciw, Anchor Point<br />
Jen Burkmire, Wasilla<br />
Donna Aguiniga, Anchorage<br />
Rebecca Vale, Anchorage<br />
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You will find that these people make their income from children in one form or another. You will find no truck drivers, waitresses, plain old housewives or husbands or any other normal people.<<br />
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The article reads; "... <span class="updated">The ISER study, funded by the University of Alaska
Foundation, Alaska Children’s Trust and First National Bank Alaska,
looked at repeat maltreatment among Alaska children between 2005 and
2013 using case-level data from the federally sponsored National Child
Abuse and Neglect Data System. The researchers examined how the
maltreatment rate differs for substantiated abuse versus all
investigated reports. They also looked at the “workload burden” on OCS
staff performing intake and investigation. ..."</span><br />
<span class="updated">"... </span>The study did not explore whether the
maltreatment occurred among children in state custody or the role that
substance abuse or mental illness played.<span class="updated"></span><br />
It recommends
exploring high turnover of case workers at OCS and high rates of repeat
maltreatment, saying “it will be instructive to know if frequent changes
in social workers serving a child or family leads to repeated
investigations among children in care.”<br />
Researcher Vadapalli contends more than one agency is needed to prevent maltreatment.<br />
“We
need a community-wide effort … so once you know that one kid was
maltreated, it should attract more attention to make sure they don’t go
through that again.” ..."<br />
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As stated at the top of this page "The Adoption and Safe Families Act, 1997, offers cash “bonuses” to
the states for every child they adopt out of foster care. Government
funding is not given to Fairbanks Office of Children's Services if the
case worker tries to "help" the family... money is only given if the
case worker removes the child from the home."<br />
If the "numbers" don't climb yearly, they lose the free money [bonuses]. They will do whatever they have to to make sure they do. I, for one, could care less about the "boo-hoos" of high turnover of case workers. Maybe case workers leave when they finally rub two brain cells together and realize kidnapping children for profit is not moral and is indeed not ethical. After our grandchildren were kidnapped, Justin [the case worker who was responsible in the end], had a kid of his own and quit. Now he sells real estate. Watch who you buy your property from. Leopards don't change their spots.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-41866899274475993372015-12-06T20:33:00.000-08:002015-12-06T20:33:02.506-08:00When Trump is elected<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When Trump is elected, here is my question for him;<br />
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"Mr. President..."<br />
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"It started with Mondale. Then The Adoption and Safe Families Act, 1997,
was put into place by Bill Clinton. It offers cash “bonuses” to the
states for every child they adopt out of foster care. Government funding
is not given if the case worker tries to "help" the family... money is
only given if the case worker removes the child from the home, is put
into a foster home and adopted out. What could you do when you are
President about this tragedy that has and is affecting millions of
children and the destruction of families across our nation? This bonus
money comes from our Social Security. Child Protective services, in my
opinion, does nothing more than pad their own pockets while destroying
families. And, if anyone thinks I am not PC... I don't care."<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-40158002020414805402015-08-08T08:40:00.000-07:002015-08-08T08:43:12.102-07:00Title IV Funding The Root Cause of Problems in the Child Abuse Industry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b class="watch-time-text">"... </b>I was just at the Tennessee State Capital with our group and we were
speaking about the Foster Care system and what many people don't realize
is how easy it is for a child to be placed into foster care. Sadly, it
comes down to numbers and what is truly best for a child falls second to
those numbers. I don't know why but the image of a child who has been
taken from home with belongings in garbage bag, whether the child was
removed needlessly or justifiably, is heartbreaking. After all, the
entire thing is heartbreaking but that plastic garbage bag just screams
"you don't matter". But people also need to know that because of the
secrecy involved with removal of children the general public is unaware
of high rate of wrongful removal of children from good, loving,
non-abusive homes is reported in some reports as high as 17 out of 18
removals being from non-offending, non-abusive, loving homes. Let that
number sink in, 17 out of 18. In my home state, approximately 22
children are removed daily and placed into foster care. And those are
just the foster care numbers. Data from the Casey Foundation clearly
demonstrates that there is quota being maintained to maintain the
Federal Title IV E-F funding received by states for placement of
children into foster care. These federal programs are a use it or lose
funding, meaning if the state doesn't have the appropriate number of
foster children and label the children appropriately, well, they lose
the funding. The trauma for removal of a child is known and well founded
in the healthcare industry. The statistics on dozens of studies
demonstrate that children are far more likely to suffer abuse, neglect,
sexual abuse and death - up to 12 times more likely. What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over (Albert
Einstein). If these research projects are correct then we are creating a
generation of very emotionally damaged children that will have
everlasting effects into adulthood and a big impact on society. <span style="background-color: #f1c232;">
Basically, a very flawed system has evolved from a Federal program that
was intended to help but because of how it was written has actually
promoted systemic failure whereby Child Protective Service Agencies are
putting funding statistics over the needs and well being of children and
families. </span>It further decays the process for truly needy and abused
children to get the help they desperately need. The future impact on
this nation will be devastating as these numbers are maintained by
states each year. You may not be affected directly today but the future?
The future of your children? Your grandchildren? Direct or indirect
through a dating choice made by a child or grandchild. The parents who
win against the system spend in the tens of thousands of dollars on
brief cases and in many cases over one hundred thousand dollars. If you
earn more than poverty level in your area then you won't be able to get
the mostly ineffective court appointed representation, if you are
fortunate to have a few thousands dollars extra per month to pay a
private attorney and you are smart enough to choose the right one then
you might survive an allegation from Child Protective Services, but if
you are like the average American and earning enough to live but not
having a lot extra at the end of the month then you better hope Child
Protective Services never gets an anonymous call about your parenting
because you might just find your child on the receiving end of services
from all the Child Abuse Industry businesses (like for profit Foster
Care and Adoption Agencies). Family placement? Not usually because the
Federal Funding is meant for foster placement. Food for thought. Just
the same, the children in foster care now that were simply part of the
state's net to maintain their foster placement quota deserve as much
love and advantage as they can get. The black garbage, forever a symbol
of what was taken from them and that simply breaks my heart. ..."<br />
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Source: https://youtu.be/mgLo7AtKPAM<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="qualified-channel-title ellipsized"><span class="qualified-channel-title-wrapper"><span class="qualified-channel-title-text" dir="ltr"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-70701224482587153652015-06-23T16:49:00.000-07:002015-06-23T16:50:26.294-07:00Report Exposes Why Corrupt CPS Agencies Seldom Place Foster Children with Family Members<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From: http://medicalkidnap.com/2015/05/06/report-exposes-why-corrupt-cps-agencies-seldom-place-foster-children-with-family-members/<br />
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"We are very pleased to see local media investigate the corrupt practices
of child service agencies kidnapping children. While we disagree with
the News Anchor at N.C. Fox 8 who started this report by stating that
removal of children by the State is “almost always” in the best interest
of the child (we have been covering this issue probably longer and have
looked into probably more cases than they have, and we have found that
it is almost NEVER in the best interest of the child to remove them from
the home), we do applaud their investigation into why children removed
from supposed “abusive homes” are almost never placed with family
members, but instead go into the foster care system to strangers."<br />
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"Fox 8 points out in their investigation that North Carolina rejects
funding that would put children permanently with relatives instead of in
foster homes. Grandparents who are able and willing to care for their
grandchildren, for example, are routinely rejected by the State."<br />
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"Why?"<br />
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"Melissa
Painter of Fox 8 points out that in North Carolina more than 10,000
children are in foster care under the care of the State. This brings in
more than $198 million of funding to take care of these children.<br />
Federal laws actually require states to give preference to placing
children with relatives. There is even federal funding available to
place the children with relatives in “permanent legal
guardianships.” But North Carolina (and many other states) do not follow
this practice, because children put up for adoption bring in more
federal funding. Instead of giving federal funds that can be designated
for relatives in guardianships, they keep the funds for themselves to
administer the foster care and adoption system."<br />
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"In short, a child put into the foster care system on the path to
adoption, brings in more money to the State and employs more people to
“administer” these children. They are simply unwilling to give these
funds to relatives to take care of the children, because their job
security is at stake."<br />
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"Child welfare experts say subsidized guardianships save taxpayers money in
the long run, because they cut the enormous ADMINISTRATIVE costs of
managing an open foster care case. (emphasis added.)"<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-12985998916100194462015-01-07T07:46:00.000-08:002015-01-07T08:03:37.098-08:00Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System: A Critical Analysis from Law, Ethics, and Catholic Social Teaching <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Stephen M. Krason: Why should the average American Catholic care about
the subject of this book? The collection of six papers presented at a
recent conference held at The Catholic University apply Catholic social
teachings and related ethical and legal principles, all in the name of
protecting families and children from the Child Protective System, an
overzealous government agency. </div>
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Must-see interview for anyone concerned
with possible violation of rights against parents.</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Child-Family-Rights-Protective-System/dp/0810886693" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle">Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System: A Critical Analysis from Law, Ethics, and Catholic Social Teaching </span></span></a></h1>
"The child protective system (CPS), shaped by federal law
forty years ago and run on the state and county levels in the United
States, offered in utopian fashion the hope of preventing all possible
child abuse or neglect. In response, legislators enacted a spate of
vague laws that poorly defined such categories as “abuse” and “neglect,”
and granted the CPS sweeping powers to intrude into families, often on
the basis of nothing more than anonymous complaints about standard
childrearing practices. This arrangement, which followed from the
questionable assertion of the existence of a crisis of child abuse and
neglect, became the basis in theory for the universal monitoring of
American families that has resulted in the sharp curtailing of parental
rights and responsibilities. With overreaching by local and state
governments into family affairs, the current CPS has not only damaged
untold numbers of families but also undercut the legitimacy of parental
authority through the continuous threat to parents of child removal. <br /><br />In <span style="font-style: italic;">Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System: A Critical Analysis from Law, Ethics, and Catholic Social Teaching</span>,
Stephen M. Krason gathers essays by leading scholars and practitioners
to comment through the prism of Catholic social thought, on the plight
afflicting American families and the role of the child protective
system. Here readers will find critical essays on the deleterious effect
of the1974 passage of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act;
assessments of current American policies on child abuse and neglect and
the role of the CPS within the context of prevailing international human
rights principles and Catholic social teaching; a survey of the
enforcement of CPS policies from a legal and constitutional perspective;
research data disputing the CPS principle that all parents are
potential abusers and illustrating the greater prevalence of abuse and
neglect in broken, “blended,” and “untraditional” families; and
arguments for poverty and unemployment as the prime culprits in the
mistreatment of children. Also included are the <span style="font-style: italic;">amicus curiae</span>
briefs that the Society of Catholic Social Scientists submitted in two
U.S. Supreme Court cases on parental rights, the CPS, and state control
over the family. <span style="font-style: italic;">Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System</span>
should appeal to a variety of professionals as well as scholars, from
family court attorneys, social workers, family counselors, and clergy to
researchers in the fields of social work, law, family studies, American
politics, sociology, human services, counseling and psychology, and
education, as well as public officials...."<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-28978032179520923432014-11-29T12:46:00.000-08:002014-11-29T12:46:01.748-08:00A remake of "There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A remake of "There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe"<br /> By <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=671544563" href="https://www.facebook.com/jan.smith.57" id="js_2c">Jan Smith</a><br />
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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe<br /> She had so many children, she didn’t know what <span class="text_exposed_show">to do<br /> She gave them all broth without any bread<br /> Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed</span><br />
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The next day there was a loud knock on the door<br /> And standing behind it were cops lined up four<br /> Along side of them a woman stood with an edict<br /> The court said “take them all” so she heeded it<br />
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The mother screamed loudly upon deaf ears<br /> The children hysterically shed many tears<br /> But that didn’t faze the stone faced one<br /> As she pushed and dragged out each little son<br />
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The mother watched helplessly as they took her brood<br /> Away, away, as far as they could<br /> She saw her youngest tapping on the glass<br /> Yelling “mommy mommy” as they drove past<br />
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The mother collapsed in the driveway<br /> She never got over the trauma they say<br /> Now staring in darkness with a blank sad look<br /> Next to the stack of colorful story books<br />
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Things could have been different with a little help<br /> The kids could have stayed instead of the hand that was dealt<br /> Now each child is in prison and a drop out from school<br /> Away from a mother who loved them inside of their shoe</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-49602582504836190822014-11-19T21:27:00.000-08:002014-11-19T21:27:32.525-08:00'They slapped Laura, knocking her glasses off of her face'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">SWAT team tasers, pepper-sprays homeschoolers</span><br />
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"A Missouri homeschooling family is
suing a sheriff and another officer who <span style="background-color: yellow;">forcibly entered their home
without a warrant, Tasered the father, pepper-sprayed the mother and put
their children in the custody of social service workers.</span><br />
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A court already has ruled that the actions of Sheriff Darren White and Capt. David Glidden <a href="http://www.nodawaycountymo.com/content/view/38/50/">of Nodaway County, Missouri</a>,
<span style="background-color: yellow;"> violated the U.S. Constitution</span>, resulting in the dismissal of charges
of child endangerment and resisting arrest against the couple, Jason and
Laura Hagan, of New Hampton.<br />
The lawsuit, which <span style="background-color: yellow;">seeks compensatory damages, punitive damages and
attorneys costs and fees,</span> was brought on behalf of the couple by the <a href="http://www.hslda.org/">Home School Legal Defense Association,</a> the world’s leading advocate for homeschooling families.<br />
Attorney James Mason, senior counsel for HSLDA, told WND the Fourth
Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure were added
to the Constitution for a reason.<br />
“We need to be vigilant,” he said. “We need to be willing to stand up for our rights.”<br />
He said <span style="background-color: yellow;">authorities sometimes need to be reminded that “rules apply to them, too</span>.”<br />
The complaint, filed Nov. 14, alleges the the officers came to the
Hagan residence because <span style="background-color: yellow;">a social worker was investigating a report of a
messy home.</span><br />
The <span style="background-color: yellow;">case worker wanted to inspect a second time, and the Hagans refused, so she called Glidden and White.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">Glidden first demanded to be allowed into the home and was denied
permission. So, according to the complaint, he pepper-sprayed Jason and
then Laura.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">
</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">“Glidden then turned to Jason, who was still standing, and shot him in the back with his Taser,” the complaint said.</span><br />
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</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">When Laura closed the front door, Glidden continued triggering the Taser through the closed door.</span><br />
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</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">Then White joined in.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">
</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">“Together they forced open the door and found Laura and Jason lying on the floor,” <a href="http://www.hslda.org/">HSLDA said.</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">
</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">They “slapped Laura, knocking her glasses off of her face,” they
threatened to shoot the family dog, they threw a telephone across the
room, called Laura a “liar,” handcuffed the parents and threatened to
let Jason fall down, according to the complaint.</span><br />
It all<u><span style="background-color: yellow;"> took place in front of the three children, ages about 13, 10
and 8, who were taken into state custody, where they remained for
months.</span></u><br />
When the <span style="background-color: yellow;">allegations made by social workers</span> and the officers against
the couple reached court, a judge summarily tossed the case.<br />
“The court will not allow [an] exception to sanction warrantless
entry into a private residence by pepper spray and Taser. If the officer
had a warrant in hand and such force was necessary, that is a different
story, but those are not the facts of this case,” the judge said<br />
The judge ruled all information the officers obtained was disallowed.<br />
“The state has not offered sufficient, if indeed any, evidence of an
exception that would justify a warrantless entry,” the judge said.<br />
A WND request to the sheriff’s office for comment did not produce a response.<br />
“The Fourth Amendment strikes a carefully crafted balance between a
family’s right to privacy and the government’s need to enforce the law,”
said HSLDA in its report. “In most situations, <span style="background-color: yellow;">government agents cannot
simply force their way into a home. Instead, they must explain to a
neutral magistrate why they need to enter the home, and they must
provide real evidence to support that need.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">
</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">“This rule applies to all government agents,” the report said. “Court
after court has agreed that there is no social services exception to
the Fourth Amendment.”</span><br />
The report said:<span style="background-color: yellow;"> “All too often, law enforcement officers and
child-welfare workers act as if the Fourth Amendment does not apply to
CPS investigations. They are wrong. The Fourth Amendment is a legal
shield that protects people from exactly the kind of mistreatment the
Hagans endured.”</span><br />
The organization said warnings of the consequences of violating the Fourth Amendment are abundant.<br />
It quoted Doriane L. Coleman, a law professor at Duke who has written
“Storming the Castle to Save the Children: The Ironic Costs of a
Child-welfare Exception to the Fourth Amendment.”<br />
Coleman wrote that the law-enforcement actions “epitomize deep intrusion[s] in both symbolic and actual respects.”<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">“They can shatter the innocence of even the youngest of children,
causing a broad range of emotional responses, including ‘trauma,
anxiety, fear, shame, guilt, stigmatization, powerlessness, self-doubt,
depression, and isolation.’”</span><br />
HSLDA’s report said there “are rules, and they exist for a reason.”<br />
“Law enforcement can only work if our officers follow the laws
themselves. If we stand by and allow law enforcement to flagrantly
disregard our Fourth Amendment rights, those rights will be eroded and
eventually ignored. And real parents and real children will continue to
be harmed,” the report said.<br />
The Missouri case alleges violation of the Fourth Amendment’s ban on
unreasonable search, unlawful seizure, excessive force and violation of
the plaintiffs’ “family integrity and privacy.”"<br />
<span><br />Source; Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/swat-team-tasers-pepper-sprays-homeschoolers/#pEJH0vgOFrQUpWX5.99</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-39169210680155061532014-11-09T13:10:00.000-08:002014-11-09T13:10:53.061-08:00Georgia Tann: Tennessee Children's Home Society<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I see where very little or nothing has changed. If anything, the system has made it easier. Add in some lawyers and they all share the wealth.<br />
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<b>"Georgia Tann</b> (July 18, 1891 - September 15, 1950), born <b>Beulah Georgia Tann</b>, operated the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Children%27s_Home_Society" title="Tennessee Children's Home Society">Tennessee Children's Home Society</a></b>, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the unlicensed home as a front for her <span style="background-color: yellow;">black market baby adoption
scheme</span> from the 1920s until a state investigation closed the
institution in 1950. Tann died of cancer before the investigation made
its findings public.<br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Tann used <b>pressure tactics, threats of legal action and other methods
to take children from their birth parents—mostly poor single
mothers—and sell them</b></span> to wealthy patrons. Tann also arranged for the
taking of children born to inmates at Tennessee mental institutions and
those born to wards of the state through her connections.<br />
Tann also arranged for what her victims (now adult) refer to as kidnapping.
In some cases, <b><span style="background-color: yellow;">single parents would drop their children off at nursery
schools, only to be told that welfare agents had taken the children</span>.</b> In
others, <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>children would be temporarily placed with the society because a
family was experiencing illness or unemployment,
only to find out later that the Society had either adopted them out, or
had no record of the children ever being placed.</b></span> Tann was also
documented as<span style="background-color: yellow;"> <b>taking children born to unwed mothers at birth, claiming
that the newborns required medical care.</b></span> When the mothers asked about
the children, Tann told them that the babies had died, when they were
actually placed in foster homes or adopted.<br />
Tann's crimes were <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>accomplished with the aid of Memphis Family Court Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Kelley" title="Camille Kelley">Camille Kelley</a>,
who used her position of authority to sanction Tann's tactics and
activities.</b> <b>Tann would identify children as being from homes which could
not provide for their care, and Kelley would push the matter through
her dockets.</b> <b>Kelley also severed custody of divorced mothers, placing
the children with Tann, who then arranged for adoption of the children
into "homes better able to provide for the children's care"</b></span>. However,
many of the children were placed into homes where they were used as child labor on farms, or with abusive families.<br />
When an adoptive parent discovered that the information on the child
was incorrect, such as in cases of <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>falsified medical histories</b></span>, Tann
often <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>threatened the adoptive parents with possible legal action that
would force a surrender of their children (ordered by Judge Kelley) by
demonstrating that they were unfit parents</b>.</span><br />
Tann <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>destroyed records of the children that were processed through
the Society, and conducted minimal background checks on the adoptive
homes.</b></span> Many of the files of the children were fictionalized before being
presented to the adoptive parents, which covered up the child's
circumstances prior to being placed with the society. As a result, the
Child Welfare League of America dropped the Society from its list of
qualifying institutions in 1941.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tann#cite_note-1"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>The Georgia Tann/Tennessee Children's Home Society scandal resulted in adoption reform laws in Tennessee in 1951</b></span><br />
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Out-of-state_adoptions">Out-of-state adoptions</span></h2>
Under Tennessee law at the time, the Home charged about $7 per
adoption. Adoptions in states such as Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri
could be arranged for $750.<br />
But Tann also<b> <span style="background-color: yellow;">arranged for out-of-state private adoptions</span></b> where she
charged a premium - upwards of $5,000 per child - for her "services". It
is alleged that she pocketed 75% of the fees from these adoptions for
her own personal use, and failed to report the income to either the
Society Board or the Internal Revenue Service.<br />
The Tennessee Children's Home Society was closed in the 1950s, and is not to be confused with the <b>Tennessee Children's Home</b>, which is accredited by the state of Tennessee.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tann#cite_note-3"><span></span><span></span></a></sup> The Tennessee Children's Home has no legacy connection with Georgia Tann or the Society which she operated. ..."<br />
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tann<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-65857156002530992882014-06-29T15:03:00.000-07:002014-06-29T15:14:14.533-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="watch-title long-title yt-uix-expander-head" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Rethinking foster care: Molly McGrath Tierney at TEDxBaltimore 2014"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rethinking foster care:</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="watch-title long-title yt-uix-expander-head" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Rethinking foster care: Molly McGrath Tierney at TEDxBaltimore 2014">Molly McGrath Tierney at TEDxBaltimore 2014</span></span><br />
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This talk was given at a local TEDx
event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Molly McGrath
Tierney is the Director for the Baltimore City Department of Social
Services, managing the City's child welfare and public assistance
programs. Over the past six years, she has led a massive reform effort
to dramatically improve the impact of services to vulnerable citizens of
Baltimore. Molly's work is considered a national model for modern
social services.</blockquote>
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Our Grand Kids were thrown into this system almost three years ago. Since they are now part of a magnetic chess game where all pieces have a carefully pre-planned movement, they will be adopted out as we believe that was planned before they were taken. They have not only lost their Alaskan family heritage, they have lost their inheritance. When Gramma and Grampa are gone, it must go to someone else as the "new family" is not getting it. Let them actually live here and build their own heritage, not just claim they have one. The kids will know the truth some day.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-4149334727687443622014-06-09T09:22:00.000-07:002014-06-09T09:22:23.810-07:00New Commission to Regulate Prosecutorial Misconduct<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From: <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100002902028214" href="https://www.facebook.com/mad.angel.750">Mad Angel</a>-
a prosecutor is suppose to find all the facts of the case even if it
proves you innocent. But that's not what prosecutors are doing even in
cps cases. Instead they are just another lawyer on cps side.<br />
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From: Huffington Post <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bennett-l-gershman/new-commission-to-prosecutorial-misconduct_b_5353570.html?view=print&comm_ref=false" target="_blank">THE BLOG</a><br />
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Posted: <time datetime="2014-05-20T12:09:01-04:00">
05/20/2014 12:09 pm EDT </time>
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"New York State is poised to become the first state in the nation to create a <a href="http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S6286-2013" target="_hplink">public commission </a>specifically
designed to investigate complaints of misconduct by prosecutors and
impose discipline upon prosecutors who violate the rules. The commission
is modeled after <a href="http://www.scjc.state.ny.us/" target="_hplink">commissions on judicial conduct,</a> which exist in every state, including New York, to regulate the conduct of judges. Given the prosecutor's unique role as a <a href="http://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_section_archive/crimjust_standards_pfunc_toc.html" target="_hplink">"minister of justice" </a>who
occupies a "quasi-judicial" position, the huge costs on the criminal
justice system from prosecutorial misconduct, and the abject failure of
other mechanisms to discipline prosecutors, it is essential to the
integrity of the justice system and the public's confidence that the
system functions fairly and accurately, that this commission be created.<br />
The
incidence of misconduct by prosecutors in New York and across the
country is escalating. Flagrant misconduct by prosecutors has been
documented in several recent high-profile cases: late <a href="http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1866&context=lawfaculty" target="_hplink">Senator Ted Stevens' conviction </a>was thrown out because of egregious misconduct by federal prosecutors; the Duke Lacrosse prosecutor <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3285862" target="_hplink">Michael Nifong</a> was disbarred and jailed because of his misconduct; and prosecutor <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bennett-l-gershman/ken-anderson-court-of-inq_b_2664315.html" target="_hplink">Ken Anderson,</a>
who hid evidence that wrongfully convicted Michael Morton and sent him
to jail for 25 years, also was disbarred and jailed. But these cases are
the tip of the iceberg. They illustrate the terrible consequences of
misconduct that occurs regularly in thousands and thousands of other
cases but do not receive the same publicity.<br />
Prosecutors claim
that reports of misconduct are exaggerated, and that misconduct is the
work of a few bad apples, or a handful of rogue prosecutors. Indeed,
some prosecutors in New York even claim that the prosecutor commission
has been created to<a href="http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/05/fitzpatrick_ny_legislatures_prosecutor_conduct_commission_retaliation_for_morela.html" target="_hplink"> retaliate </a>against
the Moreland Commission, which subpoenaed legislators in connection
with its investigation into public corruption. But given the extent of
misconduct nationally and in New York, and the fact that this proposed
commission has been studied for several years, this response by
prosecutors is misguided and misinformed. Indeed, in a remarkable <a href="https://www.casetext.com/case/united-states-v-olsen-4" target="_hplink">opinion</a>
by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in
which he was joined by several colleagues, Kozinski writes that the
culture of prosecution has changed dramatically in recent years; no
longer is misconduct by prosecutors the "exception" or "a rare blemish."
One of the most pervasive forms of misconduct - hiding favorable
evidence that could prove a defendant's innocence -- "has reached
epidemic proportions." Judge Kozinski concludes, just as so many courts
and commentators have previously concluded, that "some prosecutors turn
a blind eye to misconduct because they're more interested in gaining a
conviction than achieving a just result."<br />
The increasing incidence
of misconduct by prosecutors is not surprising. The phenomenon is
closely linked to the post-9/11 legal and political culture of fear,
secrecy and repression in which the power of law enforcement, especially
of prosecutors, has become much more dominant and aggressive.
Prosecutors see themselves almost exclusively as "Accusers and
Convicters." This unsettling spectacle has replaced almost completely
the prosecutor's other important function to respect the rights of
everybody, including defendants, and ensure justice for all persons. In
this changed climate, the goal of finding the truth becomes submerged in
an overly-aggressive law enforcement culture. In this troubling period
of criminal justice, prosecutors get the message that they can
prosecute as hard as they want and as far as they want, and there is
virtually nothing to stop them. This new climate is manifested by
massive and warrantless electronic surveillance, far broader leeway for
law enforcement to search, seize and get confessions, a huge increase in
drug arrests and prosecutions, a huge increase in the prison
population, and more and more legislatively and judicially-created
weapons in the hands of prosecutors to help them get convictions.<br />
Moreover,
it is well-known that sanctions against prosecutors who commit
misconduct are either inadequate or non-existent. Prosecutors who commit
misconduct are hardly ever disciplined. They are almost never
disciplined by their own office, rarely disciplined by federal and state
disciplinary agencies, and hardly ever disciplined by the courts, even
for gross and repeated acts of misconduct. Consider the case of upstate
New York prosecutor Jeffrey Taylor. As documented by the <a href="http://www.nysacdl.org/" target="_hplink"> New York State Criminal Defense Lawyers' Association</a>,
despite six cases in which he was harshly rebuked by state and federal
courts for his misconduct, and where four of those cases were reversed
because of his misconduct, Taylor has never been disciplined. Despite
numerous<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/for-brooklyn-prosecutor-a-troubled-last-term-and-a-trail-of-lingering-quest" target="_hplink"> reports of misconduct </a>against
the office of former Brooklyn County District Attorney Charles Hynes,
there is no report of any prosecutor in his office being disciplined for
misconduct. And when a judge actually disciplines an offending
prosecutor, it becomes headline news because of its rarity, as occurred a
few months ago when a Bronx judge<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/bronx-prosecutor-barred-courtroom-article-1.1746238" target="_hplink"> banished a prosecutor</a> from his courtroom for life because of her flagrant misconduct.<br />
Errant
conduct by prosecutors exacts tremendous costs. First, scarce taxpayer
resources are expended on having to litigate and re-litigate cases over
and over again because of a prosecutor's misconduct, which money could
be much better spent making communities safer. Second, the failure of
the criminal justice system to deal effectively with misconduct by
prosecutors and make them accountable when they violate the law erodes
public confidence in the system and undermines the public's faith in the
integrity of criminal trials. And third, let's never forget the
enormous pain and suffering inflicted on innocent persons, and their
families, when they are subjected to a wrongful prosecution through the
deliberate misconduct of a prosecutor who, in Judge Kozinski's words,
wants a conviction and turns a blind eye to justice. The <a href="https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx" target="_hplink">National Registry of Exonerations</a>,
covering cases since 1989, ranks New York State fourth nationally with
166 exonerations out of 1,367 nationally. And many, maybe most of these
wrongful convictions are attributable to the prosecutor's misconduct.<br />
To
be sure, a state commission on prosecutorial conduct will not prevent a
prosecutor from engaging in misconduct, particularly when so much
misconduct is hidden, as when prosecutors suppress favorable evidence
from the defendant. But a commission that is independent from the legal
profession, and independent from the prosecutor's office, will be able
to conduct investigations in a nonpartisan, non-political, and objective
manner. Indeed, for 100 years prior to 1975, when the state commission
on judicial conduct was created, only 23 judges were disciplined. Since
1975, 826 judges were disciplined, and 166 removed from office. That's a
fairly dramatic testament to the importance of an independent
disciplinary commission, and to its effectiveness. The creation of such a
commission to regulate prosecutors very likely would achieve similar
results. It is imperative that this bill be enacted by the state
legislature, and Governor Cuomo sign it."</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6873144738950636099.post-30839358266894426742014-05-25T10:26:00.001-07:002014-05-25T10:26:35.087-07:00Report: Alaska [OCS] pays $1 million to settle abuse lawsuit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Report: Alaska pays $1 million to settle abuse lawsuit<br />
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The Associated Press | Posted: Monday, May 19, 2014 12:48 pm
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The state of Alaska has agreed to pay $1
million to settle a lawsuit filed by man who claims he was placed into
the adoptive care of an abusive couple.<br />
Thomas Joseph White, 20,
reached the settlement in the case filed against the state Office of
Children's Services, the Anchorage Daily News (http://bit.ly/1o7Bg4j )
reported Saturday.<br />
White told the newspaper he wants his story told to make sure other neglected children do not suffer in the system.<br />
"They
could have done a lot better, actually," White said of the Office of
Children's Services and its predecessor, the Division of Family and
Youth Services.<br />
The state did not acknowledge any wrongdoing in the settlement.<br />
The
abuse was revealed in 2004, three years after state oversight ended,
Christy Lawton, director of the Office of Children's Services, said by
email.<br />
"The only lesson to be learned was that OCS does not have a crystal ball that will perfectly predict the future," she wrote.<br />
Sherry
Kelley was convicted of assault and criminal nonsupport. Patrick Kelley
was convicted of child endangerment. Both were jailed for 17 months.<br />
White
first needed state protection in 1993 as the 2-month-old son of a
cocaine addict, the newspaper said. In July 2000, the Kelleys made him
their fifth adopted child.<br />
His aunt, Betsy Golan, claimed she saw
signs of abuse during a visit in May 2001, including locks on the
outside of his bedroom door and a bucket used for a toilet in his
bedroom. Lawton said the office had no record of complaints by Golan.<br />
The
family moved from Anchorage to a compound between Big Lake and Wasilla,
and the children were put to work, White said. They did not go to
school and were not educated at home, he said.<br />
White claims the children were beaten and older children in the family were forced to sleep outside.<br />
In
February 2004, White said, he was ordered outside for the night. He
slept near a fire and woke with his clothes on fire. He suffered
third-degree burns that he said were treated with rubbing alcohol.<br />
He lost the tip of a finger to frostbite and ate dog food but not regular meals, he said.<br />
His adoptive grandfather in July 2004 called Alaska State Troopers and said he feared White might die.<br />
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Information from: Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, <a href="http://www.adn.com/">http://www.adn.com</a></blockquote>
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Information backing up what Maggie is talking about can be found in this link...<br />
<a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/u32/joint_appg_inquiry_-_report...pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/tcs/u32/joint_appg_inquiry_-_report...pdf">http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/si...</a><br />
The song Calling you, calling me, will soon be available on Maggie's website ..<br />
<a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://www.childrenscreamingtobeheard.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.childrenscreamingtobeheard.com/">http://www.childrenscreamingtobeheard...</a> and can be downloaded from Itunes, all <br />
proceeds will go to helping the children screaming to be heard.<br />
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SMOKE AND MIRRORS: IS THE UK HIDING THE "NUMBER" OF CHILDREN HAVING PASSED AWAY IN STATE CARE<br />
October 13, 2013 at 11:58pm<br />
By R. Fairhurst © 2013<br />
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LONDON
- Factual and accurate information concerning children who have died in
care is not readily available and is by no means a straight forward
process to obtain. One would assume the information is recorded as all
other data is, however, it is not. National statistics do not reveal the
annual numbers of children who have died while in the care of the
state.<br />
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Figures available for England,Scotland, Ireland and Wales
are all held on separate data bases, the figures below are for England
alone. However there are currently over 90,000 looked after children in
care in the UK.<br />
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Numbers revealed 2008, 2009, 2010 an even number
of 50 with a drop to 40 in 2012 and up to 60 in 2013. When asked why the
numbers were consistent and rounded the National statistics office
explained publishing unrounded figures could lead to the identity of the
child if the data was split and crossed with geographic statistics and
tables of locations. This may reveal the odd number and the identity of
the child which would be a breach of data protection.<br />
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Statistics
for children who have died while NOT in care are disclosed; however when
requesting information from local councils under the freedom of
information Act councils reply by stating the information is exempt from
disclosure under section 40(2) of the freedom of information Act.<br />
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Disclosure
rules are set in accordance with the code of practice for official
statistics. This is statutory code published under the section 10 of the
statistics and registration and service Act 2007 which applies to all
UK official statistics. Principle 5practice 1 of the code states "Ensure
that official statistics do not reveal the identity of an individual or
organisation, or any private information relating to them, taking into
account other relevant sources of information".</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From a former foster child thrown into the system. In her words:</span><br />
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They say mind what you say and do because the children are watching. (Well former foster kids are watching too)<br />
I have so many things that have really bothered me lately about the so
called child protection services. And it has to do more with their
claims than anything. As cps claims millions of calls have come in about
child abuse, during this very line to plead for more money, they do not
tell people that many of these calls are unfounded and in retaliation. <br />
The true numbers of child abuse are actually way down. And of course
the number of neglect cases are way up. But let's look at what they
consider neglect. As a child is moved around from place to place because
parents are struggling financially cps steps in to remove the kid
because of lack of stability.<br />
But look at what cps and the foster
care system provides for these children, many moved once or twice every
six month. (One girl had been moved over forty times in her life of
foster care) the lack of stability and structure in these children's
lives are appalling and this is their response for a loving family who
is in a financial crises.<br />
The child had already been dealing with
struggle but had the strength and love of the family, yet suddenly
ripped up and taken away permanently traumatized with a lack of security
and (here I want to call it a shield from the outside world, a child no
longer believes his parents can protect them from anything) <br />
Removed from everyone, school, friends, grandparents, aunts and uncles
some of the most important people in a child's life. And placed with
complete strangers (afraid to really trust anyone) held captive away
from their family they become angry, depressed withdrawn, (an emotional
wreck) and for this normal response they are labeled and placed on
medication for their best interest. <br />
And from one excuse to
another through the courts ever burdened large case loads (caused by
this abuse of power) and cps claims of their ever burdening case loads
(ditto on why) the children are held in a purgatory of this system
abuse. Remaining on medications they shouldn't be on (without their
parents permission) being subjected to sometime traumatic and unjust
counseling sessions (my position stands here as I was told since I was
molested I would molest in one of their therapy sessions, it broke my
heart, I've learned better <br /> Dear cps just because you get mugged doesn't make you a mugger lay off your junk therapy) <br />
Every day children beg to see and hear from their parents, wanting to
hear that their parents are trying everything to win back the child's
freedom. But sadly parents are not allowed to tell their children this
because cps claims the parent should not give the child false hopes.
Again how cruel. Leaving the child in such a confusing state continually
visiting and walking away and as the child begs the parent to take them
home all the parent is allowed to say is I love you. (THIS IS NOT
ENOUGH FOR THE CHILD) <br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">As the bond and closeness of the family
slips away because cps holds on to the child for so long it becomes a
struggle to reunite and bond these family members are no longer the
same, pain and stress has taken its toll on the parents in court and the
child is so use to closing people out that all this creates a new
burden on the family.</span> (But no one including me would ever tell cps this
or they would use it as an excuse to hold on to the child longer)<br />
Here I have to tell you of a very loved happy little girl. She'd shown
such great signs of intelligence eager to start school soon and very
happy with her family. She was ripped away by cps with the excuse of
failure to thrive. (No she wasn't malnourished, but she was extremely
hyper and happy and her mother is only five foot) because this adorable
little girl was short and skinny cps took her away and placed her first
in a foster care and then to her paternal grandmother's home.<br />
In
court she was then described as inconsolable, she begged everyone to
take her home to her mom and dad (the caseworker claimed the child had
been couched even though the parents hadn't been allowed to see her)
this already tiny child started to lose weight as the pain and
depression kicked in. There was talk of placing her on medication. (This
is when the parents finally got to visit and begged their little girl
to be strong, so afraid of the type of medications they planned to force
onto her without the parents permission, yes cps told the parents they
were well within their rights to do so)<br />
Everyday this child was
put through more and more abuse from cps. As she was taken from the
grandmother's home (the caseworker said for a mental evaluation) and as
the little girl was instructed at this evaluation to take off all her
clothes and get on the table she had no one familiar to give her
strength at this violation of her rights.<br />
After she was returned
to the grandmother the caseworker left and said nothing. And this now
timid five year old girl took her 13 year old sister aside and told her
what had really happened. As she described how they had touched her, how
they had touched her down there and then placed something inside her.
(This crushed the older sister and she told her parents) all the parents
ever received was an apology for not telling them what had happened and
that they usually don't have a five year old tell the parents (yeah I
can imagine they are usually to scared, that's why the five year old
told her sister) <br />
Never once was there a claim of sexual abuse,
molestation or physical abuse. She was taken for being short. And for
this she was anal and vaginal probed. (They caseworker CLAIMED in court
they where we'll within their rights, but this really wasn't true. Doing
this to every single child who enters cps care would truly be abuse.) <br /> (Fyi I have documented proof of this case) <br />
All the importance of keeping secrets to spare a child from being
teased in school over their cases is allowing some truly horrific abuse
to take place. All the claims of cps in the best interest of the child
is also helping to facility and perpetuate even more atrocious abuse
that many children should never have ever experienced.<br />
Now I can
see the news and I even know from my own childhood that child abuse is
real. But the solution and response to this for far to many years has
actually caused a greater amount of child abuse than it has stopped.
(Sadly I know from experience the real amount of abuse children suffer
while in cps care will never be reported because abusers don't tell on
themselves, not tell they've been caught, notice this pattern with
cps.....it's an abuser mentality)<br />
I can show hundreds of double
standards and abuser mentality within cps very own policies, procedures
and manuals but I have to find someone who will listen and look. And far
to many people still believe cps is there to save and protect
children.....maybe someday someone will want to see.</div>
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