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 July 27, 2010 We Need Only Five More Senators to Kill the CRC The facts are clear: ratifying the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) would be bad policy for our country. Yet there are still 71 Senators who can’t decide whether they prefer that to our own American law. We are grateful to those 29 senators with the courage to step forward and be counted opposing this dangerous treaty. And we are grateful to all of you for contacting your senators to produce this kind of response. But the remaining senators have so far resisted all efforts from their constituents to urge their support of SR 519: FULL STORY |
| Foster Parents; the
Foster Care System, can it be salvaged? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison
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| July 22, 2010
NOTICE from the Webmaster, Leonard Henderson- My dear mother has suffered a major stroke, and it looks like it's going to work out BAD bad. So I won't be here for a while. For the next few days, no updates will be made here. AFRa Front Page Content current up to 7-22-2010 can be found on Page 2 If you are looking for the latest news, see AFRA News and especially Legally Kidnapped At this same time, AFRa President Bill Tower will be in Washington DC for the ParentsDay Weekend Questions sent to the ASK Leonard or Tell the Web Guy are probably not going to receive an answer until Monday the 26th or later. People with DESPERATE problems- please see How to Fight CPS |
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2010 1:00AMToo old for foster care, youths struggle Lack of state, federal funds leave holes in safety net Catherine Jun / The Detroit News Detroit -- A growing number of youths in Michigan are reaching adult age while in foster care, a situation experts fear leaves them vulnerable to homelessness, poverty and incarceration. State and welfare agencies say a lack of funding has been the greatest obstacle to getting these youths the safety net they need when they age out of the system. When they're pushed out onto the streets at age 19 after years of jumping from home to home, the trauma of being separated from their families and getting inconsistent adult guidance destines them to multiple problems, said Paul Toro, professor of psychology at Wayne State University. "The cards are against them," Toro said. "And they're expected to be on their own." FULL STORY We have been SCREAMING about this for 10 years. We have a culture that wants kids to be kids during their entire growing up period. State custody is the WORST for this. Of course, when kids are receiving NO education, NO job or life skills, they are going to have troubles when they "age out".Us old dads know how to fix it, but nobody wants to listen to us. |
| Indiana:
IBM welfare intake work flawed from start AP By KEN KUSMER, Associated Press Writer July 21, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana's human services agency says it found problems with IBM Corp.'s takeover of welfare intake services early in the project and suggested delays, but yielded to the company's wishes to expand the project. IBM, meanwhile, claims the Family and Social Services Administration seized more than $9 million worth of its computers, servers and office furniture without paying for them after Gov. Mitch Daniels fired the technology giant last year. The counter charges are included in filings rebutting and denying claims in the former partners' lawsuits against each other in Marion Superior Court in Indianapolis. The state agency is suing IBM for more than $1.3 billion, claiming the Armonk, N.Y.-based company breached one of the biggest outsourcing deals in state history. IBM wants the state to pay $52.8 million it says it's owed in deferred payments and equipment costs. The two sides sued each other May 13 over IBM's canceled $1.37 billion contract to automate intake for Medicaid, food stamps and other benefits received by more than a million Indiana children, seniors, elderly and disabled residents. FULL STORY As an old computer professional who used to write robust relational database applications, and as a victim of CPS, and as a Freedom and Liberty loving American, this whole story just ticks me off every way possible. |
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found by an AFRA NewsHawk- Review finds UM social work employee committed fraud Worker said to misuse thousands of dollars in gift cards case forwarded to attorney general July 09, 2010| By Childs Walker, The Baltimore Sun
The report, dated June 30, did not detail the employee's actions but says the case was forwarded to the state attorney general's office last month for possible prosecution. The employee, who was not identified, was let go earlier this year. "The results of the audit have been referred to the criminal division of the office of the attorney general," a University of Maryland, Baltimore, spokesman said in a prepared statement. "It is inappropriate to offer further comment on this prior to the conclusion of the OAG's investigation." The potential misuse of gift cards was initially caught by the same state audit that raised questions about $410,000 in compensation to Karen Rothenberg, the former dean of the University of Maryland School of Law. That case remains under review by the attorney general, according to the internal report from UMB. FULL STORY Absolutely normal behavior for these people. And not even the tip of the iceberg of the level of fraud they are operating.
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21, 2010 12:15 AM Infant is returned to blind couple after state places her in protective custody By LEE HILL KAVANAUGH The Kansas City Star Erika Johnson will never be able to see her baby, Mikaela. But for 57 days she couldn’t keep her newborn close, smell her baby’s breath, feel her downy hair. The state took away her 2-day-old infant into protective custody — because Johnson and Mikaela’s father are both blind. No allegations of abuse, just a |
| Joy
Heaven, 30, to be arraigned on homicide charge in death of 5-year-old girl
in her foster care Published: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 10:03 AM Updated: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 11:12 AM Nate Reens | The Grand Rapids Press KENT COUNTY, Michigan- Joy Heaven, a foster mother accused of inflicting fatal brain injuries to a 5-year-old girl in her custody, is expected to be arraigned this afternoon, court officials said this morning. Heaven, 30, is being held in the Kent County Jail. State records show her detention is on a homicide charge. FULL STORY |
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of York report claims new approach to child protection needed 9:05am Wednesday 21st July 2010 The York Press RESEARCH from the University of York has claimed older children are not sufficiently protected against abuse. The report, called Safeguarding Young People, found the needs of 11 to 17-year-olds were not always met by child protection processes, which are more geared to protecting younger children. The three-year project, carried out by the university, with The Children’s Society and the NSPCC, claimed a new approach to child protection for older children was urgently needed. Bob Reitemeier, chief executive of The Children’s Society, said older children needed as much support as younger children. The project looked at current literature, safeguarding policies and guidance, surveyed 160 professionals in Children’s Social Care Services and interviewed 24 young people and 56 professionals. It also showed public and professional perception of 11 to 17-year-olds was that they were more resilient than younger children. The report suggested young people struggled to disclose maltreatment, and had difficulty creating relationships with social workers, while younger children in similar circumstances may be prioritised. FULL STORY I am sure the Jews had difficulty creating relationships with the SS too. |
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the DHS won't investigate child abuse reports Posted: Jul 20, 2010 5:05 PM PDT DUBUQUE (KWWL)- ...The Iowa Department of Human Services responds to reports of possible child abuse, but doesn't investigate every claim. DHS Spokesperson Roger Munns said in each report of possible child abuse, the worker taking the call must decide whether what the caller is describing would qualify as child abuse if the claim proved to be true. If the answer is yes, then the DHS investigates. In order for a report to qualify as child abuse, it must fulfill three criteria. "The caller has to actually allege an action that would be abuse, if proven true. The alleged victim has to be a child, obviously. And there has to be a caretaker arrangement. In other words, someone who is supposed to be looking after that child," Munns said. In the state of Iowa, child abuse includes physical abuse, finding drugs in a child's system and neglect. All of those can result in the crime of child endangerment. When calling to report possible child abuse, Munns said, "did you actually see what it is that's going on? And, if you did, tell us details, not just generalities." According to Munns, the DHS receives approximately 35,000 calls every year reporting possible child abuse. Of those, the DHS looks into about 25,000. From that, Munns said, only about one-third are found to be actual cases of child abuse. The Math= One third of 25,000 is 8250. So 8250 is 23% of ALL calls. Which numbers are fairly consistent with my March Editorial- 85% of all child abuse reports are unfounded |
| Grandfather
says girl who died in foster care didn't belong there: 'This never should
have happened' Published: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 11:00 PM Updated: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 7:07 AM John Tunison | The Grand Rapids Press GRAND RAPIDS -- Hank Schriever disagreed with authorities for putting his 5-year-old twin granddaughters in foster care in February, but assumed they would be safe. He was distraught to learn police think a foster care mother is responsible for causing the death of one of the girls, Emily Marie Meno. "My feeling is this never should have happened," the Cedar Spring man said. "That's why I'm so cotton-pickin mad about the whole system." FULL STORY So are we, Hank. And we have been mad about the whole system for 10 years. |
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of murdered foster child said CPS wrongly took sibling Last Update: 7/20 10:30 pm KGET Murder arrest warrants have been issued for the foster parents of a 3-year-old girl found dead Sunday, Bakersfield Police Department Sgt. Mary DeGeare said. She said the death of Serenity Gandara has been ruled a homicide. Meantime, there are serious accusations against Child Protective Services. Serenity’s maternal grandmother, Maria Garcia, said CPS retaliated against her after she criticized a social worker for allegedly ignoring reports that Serenity and her brother, 4-year-old Isaiah, were being abused at their foster home. "You needed to take care of things when I told you what happened with my kids the other kids. You never listen to me," Maria Garcia said she told the social worker. Serenity was found dead at the home of her foster parents, Carla and Alberto Garcia, who is Maria’s son. Isaiah was found sleeping in a bedroom. Police said the Garcias likely fled to Mexico with Carla's three children before Serenity's body was found. Maria says the CPS worker went to her home while she was at the coroner's office making arrangements to get Serenity's body. She said Serenity’s younger sister, Juliana, 1, was safe at the home with her uncle and several children, but after Maria retuned and then criticized the worker for Serenity's death, the CPS employee took Juliana, and told Maria it was because she left the toddler at home, albeit with family. "Why you take away my baby she is fine?" Maria said she asked the CPS employee. Hours after 17 News called CPS Monday, and asked a spokeswoman why they took Juliana, the little girl was returned, with no explanation from authorities. The CPS spokeswoman told us they are not legally allowed to comment on the case. Garcia says she wanted to be the foster mother for the other children as well, and she is going to fight to get custody of Isaiah. |
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the American sex drive has taken a sordid turn Genocide of morality documented, explained Posted: July 20, 2010 8:46 pm Eastern © 2010 WorldNetDaily |
| Larimer
County lawmakers to host public forum on child welfare BY NATE TAYLOR • NateTaylor@coloradoan.com • July 20, 2010 Colorado- A trio of Larimer County state lawmakers will host a forum Thursday providing the public a chance to voice their concerns and comments about child welfare issues. State Reps. BJ Nikkel, R-Loveland, and John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, along with Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, will host the meeting beginning at 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. at the Commissioner's Hearing Room in the Larimer County Courthouse in Fort Collins. FULL STORY |
| Foster
mother faces murder charge in death of 5 year old July 20, 2010 2:50 PM WWMT, Michigan |
| Hundreds
of “Child Care Workers” Background Checks Falsified by Staff Writer 7/20/2010 1:38:00 PM Pre-Employ.com Over 100 child care centers in Florida are involved. Rather than order the tests, workers forged signatures on documents stating the checks had been performed.An investigation with the Department of Children and Families shows more than 100 child care centers did not have proper background checks performed on new employees. The DCF worker, rather than order the tests, forged signatures on documents stating the checks had been performed.After the investigation started it showed both employees were forging documents going back over a year.Falsifying any DCF records and documents is a felony in Florida. DCF officials said they have not pressed charges against the two yet. FULL STORY |
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mother, boyfriend arrested in connection with hammer-beating death of
2-year-old girl July 20, 2010 | 9:25 am LA Now Los Angeles police have arrested a foster mother and her boyfriend in connection with the March death of 2-year-old foster child Viola Vanclief. Kiana Barker, 30, was arrested Thursday and authorities have charged her with dissuading a witness, child abuse and murder, according to Los Angeles police. Barker's bail was set at $1.1 million. James Julian, 38, surrendered to police on Saturday and faces charges of dissuading a witness and accessory to murder. He is being held in lieu of $1.6 million bail. FULL STORY |
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abuse possible in foster child death July 20, 2010 Last Update: 7:32 am KGET California- Child welfare workers said Monday that confidentiality laws prohibited them from responding to claims they had been warned a little girl was in danger before the child’s bruised body was abandoned in a southwest Bakersfield home Sunday. FULL STORY |
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Spears child abuse investigation dropped Jul. 20, 2010 05:30 AM AZ Central.com The child abuse investigation into Britney Spears
has been dropped. A source told RadarOnline.com: "The department said there was absolutely no truth to the accusations. FULL STORY They never say that about us little people. For us it's "unable to determine". |
| Foster Parents; the
Foster Care System, can it be salvaged? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison |
July 20, 2010 We Need SR 519 NOW! …and here’s why. With November elections coming up, timing is everything. If we can focus on the Parental Rights Amendment during the August recess and beyond, we can add more cosponsors between now and November, as candidates looking to win their seats begin to feel the popularity of our cause. August through Election Day is a crucial opportunity for the Amendment. But we can’t take advantage of that if we have to spend August (or worse, September and October) finishing up with Senate Resolution 519 (SR 519). And we don’t dare save SR 519 until after the elections. The current leadership have made clear that they will use any chance to push their agenda, which is unwanted by the majority of Americans. Historically, a lame duck Congress such as we are likely to have for November and December is just such an opportunity. Voters have “won the election” and let their guard down, and BOOM – lawmakers on the way out leave behind one final mess. This year, that mess could very well include ratifying the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child. But not if SR 519 reaches 34 cosponsors before then. And that’s why we need to get just 9 more senators on board this month! FULL STORY |
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Dear
Child Protective Industry- Monday, July 19, 2010
I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank the Child Protective
Industry for giving me so much to work with by providing a never ending
supply of Child Welfare Screw-ups. I concur with LK. When I co-founded the American Family Rights Association in 2002, we were sure that we could quickly blow the lid off the entire CPS Organized Crime Ring, get their agents put in prison, and restore freedom and liberty to the United States. Our plan was to win and then just shut AFRA down. But here we are eight years later- still trying to educate the Dumb Masses who have no clue what CPS is or how to deal with them. And the sociopathic Child Abuse Industry stumbles on, in spite of NEVER complying with LAW. It is an odd thing that nobody from the Child Abuse Industry has tried to argue with me for several years- because anybody who wants to defend this system is a FOOL.
Leonard Henderson, opinion leader and AFRa Webguy |
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Is 'Thompkins' the Death Knell of 'Miranda'? D. Michael Crites and Anjali P. Chavan Special to Law.com July 19, 2010 A recent Supreme Court decision greatly expands the powers of law enforcement officers during custodial interrogations. On June 1, 2010, the Court decided Berghuis v. Thompkins. Thompkins lessens the government's burden to show waiver of a suspect's right to remain silent, and clarifies law enforcement obligations that were established in Miranda v. Arizona more than 40 years ago. The Thompkins decision will find a happy audience in state and local law enforcement agencies. Defense attorneys, on the other hand, are less excited about the high court's decision. FULL STORY See original story- |
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state employee accused of assaulting foster son By the Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Monday, July 19, 2010 11:00 am
Kirk Patrick Decoste, a state Department of Revenue employee who has been a single foster parent since January, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree sexual assault of a child. An 18-year-old foster son told police he returned to the family apartment late Saturday morning to find the 10-year-old and Decoste both naked. The younger boy later told police there had been unwanted sexual contact since his recent placement with Decoste, said Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood. She said Decoste has no criminal record. He does now. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has placed both boys in other homes, Flood said. Certainly no red flags here that would have been obvious about NOT putting kids with a single man?
Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis
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To FDA: No Foster Kids In Psychotropic Trials By Ed Silverman // July 19th, 2010 // 8:56 am Pharmalot Also see- Doping the Kids- The Pharmacaust |
| Meet
the real general of the sexual revolution Lionized as prophet, Kinsey revealed as bigot, pervert, traitor in new book Posted: July 18, 2010 9:00 pm Eastern © 2010 WorldNetDaily |
| You
have really GOT to see the latest LEGALLY KIDNAPPED News |
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centers in Daytona might not have been screened The Associated Press Published: July 18, 2010 DAYTONA BEACH, Florida- Child welfare workers in the Daytona Beach area failed to ensure that criminal background checks were performed on child care workers. Preliminary investigations by the Department of Children and Families showed that more than 100 child care centers may not have had the proper screenings and inspections because of problems with two DCF workers. Authorities say it appears that some reports may have been forged. One of the workers was fired and the other resigned. Falsifying DCF records is a felony but the two have not been charged. DCF says there is no indication that any child safety was compromised. I wonder if the newswriters can type this crap up with a straight face. |
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THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD" Are you and your child victims of CPS? Did CPS take your child from you and put them in protective custody? Do you know why they took your child? Are you a victim of false allegations? FULL STORY |
| Crashing
juvie jail's orgy party Probe blasts prison bigs for inmate sex social By FREDRIC U. DICKER State Editor Last Updated: 5:52 AM, July 17, 2010 Posted: 3:40 AM, July 17, 2010 New York Post ALBANY -- The state's youth detention agency was ripped as incompetent in a blistering report yesterday for allowing three murderers and a robber to attend a sex-soaked "social dance" at a facility in Orange County with less security than one would find "at a high-school prom." The scathing report from the watchdog state Commission of Correction called for disciplinary action against the Goshen Secure Center's top administrators and took a major swipe at state Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) Commissioner Gladys Carrion, who authorized the "social" as part of a new inmate-friendly policy. FULL STORY |
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had to leave a comment on this ridiculous puff piece. Wexler had commented there this morning and the useful idiots got snotty with him. Saturday, July 17, 2010 Protection from abuse, neglect: More than a house CASA gives kids a safe home to live By Cheryl Berzanskis cheryl.berzanskis@amarillo.com |
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July 17, 2010 Child-identity theft increases Many face credit troubles at the hand of family members  By
Lucy SotoFor the AJC Imagine applying for that first job, that first
exciting credit card, that freshman-year college loan. Now, don’t. For more young adults, plans and hopes are being dashed because they are unwitting victims of identity theft at the hands of someone they know, usually their parents. It often happens when victims are too young to do anything about it, so it’s a crime that can go undetected for years. A parent or other relative uses a child’s personal information, including Social Security number, to get a credit card, loan or other account with a clean credit record. FULL STORY Not a word said about the pandemic of CPS fraud on kid's Social Security. Or the unbridled government debt. |
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welfare investigator arrested for misconduct July 17, 2010 2:19 PM The Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)- A former investigator for the Florida Department of Children and Families has been arrested on charges of misconduct and falsification of child-protective records that contributes to great bodily harm. Jail records show 27-year-old QuaKeita Anderson is being held in jail on $100,000 bail. It was not immediately known if she has an attorney. Her pretrial hearing is Saturday. There was no phone number listed for her. Anderson began as a protective investigator in 2007. She resigned on Jan. 14. DCF had already begun an investigation. A DCF spokeswoman says the investigation found that Anderson lied about visiting a home where child abuse had been reported, and never conducted interviews with the family, “(possibly) allowing further (alleged) physical abuse against the child.” (or not) (Sorry, I don't believe a word they say) Of course they couldn't care less about an innocent person falsely accused and hounded maliciously on the mere whim of one of these skanky CPS agents. Nobody cares about kids wrongly kidnapped from their homes and doped out of their heads in state custody. It's no big deal when a kid gets KILLED in state custody- it just gets covered up. |
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CPS and Family Court Examiner July 17, 4:24 AM July 16, 8:52 AM July 16, 7:45 AM |
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vaguely-written story that appears to be about a foster- Palm Springs woman arrested on suspicion of child abuse in suspected drug overdose Saturday, July 17th, 2010. Valley News, Issue 28, Volume 14. PALM SPRINGS - A woman was arrested today on suspicion of child abuse in the suspected drug overdose death of a 16-year-old girl. The girl's death was reported about 11:40 a.m. July 5 in the 2900 block of Escoba Drive, Palm Springs police Sgt. Melissa Desmarais said. During the follow-up investigation, police detectives learned Suzanne Mowery, 44, of Desert Hot Springs had used minors, including the deceased 16- year-old girl, "for the purposes of furnishing and/or using controlled substances," Desmarais said. Detectives determined the 16-year-old allegedly ingested unspecified controlled substances while in the care of Mowery, Desmarais said. A deputy coroner tonight declined to release the girl's name or other information about her death. Police submitted the case to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office today and charges were filed against Mowery for child abuse and use of a minor to violate controlled substance laws, Desmarais said. Detectives obtained a search warrant and took Mowery into custody just after 3 p.m., according to police and inmate records. Mowery was behind bars tonight at Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning, a jailer said. Her bail was set at $500,000. Mowery is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Indio, according to inmate records. |
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2010 3:12 AM EDT Sex-for-smokes to get social worker 9 months BY BRIGITTE RUTHMAN REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
David Traverso admitted guilt Friday in Litchfield Superior Court Friday to second degree sexual assault. Senior Assistant State's Attorney Terri L. Sonnemann said Traverso traded cigarettes for sex with a 17-year-old girl living at Touchstone, a residential program for troubled girls in Litchfield where he worked the overnight shift in July 2009. Free on $75,000 bond, Traverso, 32, at first denied the allegation, then said the girl initiated physical contact with him. By his plea, Traverso admitted that the evidence is strong enough for the state to win its case against him at trial. Under the terms of the agreement, he has the right to argue for a mandatory minimum nine-month term but faces up to 18 months as a cap. He must also register as a sex offender for 10 years. DCF, which licenses but does not operate the facility at 11 Country Place, filed a complaint with state police a year ago claiming Traverso had assaulted the girl. The arrest warrant said he first pressured her to reveal her breasts, then demanded sexual favors in exchange for cigarettes. FULL STORY EVERYBODY should know about this-Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis
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charged in Medicare scams totaling $251M AP By KELLI KENNEDY and TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writers– Fri Jul 16, 9:38 pm ET MIAMI – Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic. Claims flooded in from Miami for HIV treatments that never occurred. One professional patient was named in nearly 4,000 false Medicare claims. Authorities said busts carried out this week in Miami, New York City, Detroit, Houston and Baton Rouge, La., were the largest Medicare fraud takedown in history — part of a massive overhaul in the way federal officials are preventing and prosecuting the crimes. In all, 94 people — including several doctors and nurses — were charged Friday in scams totaling $251 million. Federal authorities, while touting the operation, cautioned the cases represent only a fraction of the estimated $60 billion to $90 billion in Medicare fraud absorbed by taxpayers each year. FULL STORY So when are they going to get into the CPS fraud on Social Security and Medicare? There's close to a third of a TRILLION$ going down the rathole there.
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Cuts Could Affect Abuse, Neglect Reports POSTED: 5:55 pm CDT July 16, 2010 UPDATED: 7:10 pm CDT July 16, 2010 KANSAS CITY, Mo- State budget cuts have hit Missouri's Department of Social Services Children's Division. The department's workers investigate abuse and neglect that are often phoned in from schools. But the way the state responds to some of those hot line calls has changed. "It's hard enough for a teacher to make a call -- but putting safety back in the hands of a teacher is inappropriate, "said Assistant Raytown Superintendent Janie Pyle. Pyle, along with other Missouri educators, got a letter from the state's Division of Children's Services. The letter said that due to budget cuts there are fewer staff to investigate calls in the field. "My major concern is that we are now asking teachers to provide resources for those families or students in need," Pyle said. A downtown Jefferson City call center receives teachers’ calls concerning child abuse and neglect on a toll-free line. Children's services said operators will only have field staff respond to calls that meet the statutory criteria for abuse and neglect. Operators will not provide callers with resources to give to families that they determine to have not met the abuse and neglect criteria. 
DOH!"It's a big change in terms of the division responding to everything," said Virginia Lewis-Bruck, regional director, Missouri Department of Social Services Children’s Division in Jackson County. FULL STORY |
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wrongly accused in flawed abuse inquiry Published Date: 16 July 2010 By John Forsyth Scotsman Scotland- THE
handling of child abuse investigations in Scotland has been thrown into
question after a sheriff found the methods used by police and social
workers while interviewing a young girl were so flawed that he recommended
they be retrained. This is a world-wide problem with CPS. They can retrain forever and they will never stop the incompetence, malfeasance and tyranny.
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Friday, July 16, 2010 People like us were ignored for far too long LOUISE RAFTER The HSE and childcare policymakers need to listen to the voices of young people like me who’ve been through the care system ============================== Children
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of perpetrators on Iowa child abuse registry could have their names purged Blog post by Jennifer Jacobs • jejacobs@dmreg.com • July 15, 2010 Des Moines Register More than half of the (alleged) perpetrators listed on Iowa’s child abuse registry – including those who committed bestiality1 in the presence of a child – could have their names removed from the list because of a recent Iowa Supreme Court order. State officials think pulling those 28,000 cases off the registry could create a public safety hazard2, and hope to delay the order for at least a couple weeks. “This is big,” said Wendy Rickman, the administrator of the Department of Human Services’ child and family services division. “The implications for that are huge.”3 The Iowa attorney general on Thursday filed a motion asking the supreme court to delay implementation of a July 9 decision. FULL STORY 1- As a sensational claim goes, isn't that one a tad unlikely? 2- Which is the worst public safety hazard? The accused or DHS? 3- I think Wendy means that having 28,000 of DHS' absurd character assassination cases fall apart could be a serious career problem to her. Not that any agencies or administrators are much better. |
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is like the Cancer society advertising they need more cancer- Needed: More social workers Published Thursday July 15th, 2010 Resources: Province's at-risk kids need more help, but social workers say they're already overworked and have heavy caseloads BRETT BUNDALE TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL, Canada |
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realize it was a SPOOF Federal Child Welfare Agency Orders Crackdown On ‘Tater Tots’ And Restaurants Serving ‘Baby Back Ribs.’ written by: Bargis Tryhol Posted on: 7/15/2010 6:24:19 AM |
| Casey
Family Programs Hires Former New Jersey Child Welfare Leader as Managing
Director for Strategic Consulting PR NewswireThu Jul 15, 3:02 pm ET SEATTLE, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Casey Family Programs has hired Kimberly S. Ricketts as managing director for strategic consulting. Ricketts will support child welfare practice in seven states while helping the foundation achieve its vision of ensuring that every child in America has a safe, strong and permanent family. Ricketts served as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families after former Governor Jon S. Corzine appointed her to the position in June 2008. Under her continued leadership, the state was successful in safely reducing the number of children in foster care by 25 percent. As managing director, Ricketts will bolster Casey Family Programs' efforts to safely reduce the nation's foster care population while supporting services that provide strong, lifelong connections for all children and youth. Since Casey launched its 2020 Strategy for America's Children five years ago, the number of children in foster care has declined from 511,000 in 2005 to 435,000 in 2009. Meanwhile, states, counties and tribes are providing appropriate services that keep children safe without removing them from their homes or communities. FULL STORY Just call me a skeptic. |
| Foster Parents; the
Foster Care System, can it be salvaged? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison |
| Gov't
says abuse of prescription meds skyrocketing AP July 15, 2010 WASHINGTON – A new government study finds a 400 percent increase in the number of people admitted to treatment for abusing prescription pain medication. The increase in substance abuse among people ages 12 and older was recorded during the 10-year-period from 1998 to 2008. It spans every gender, race, ethnicity, education and employment level, and all regions of the country. The study was released Thursday by Gil Kerlikowske (kur-lih-KOW'-skee), director of the White House office of drug control policy. Kerlikowske says prescription drug abuse is now the second-most prevalent form of illicit drug use in the country, and the nation's fastest-growing drug problem. It's not as if we haven't been
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Thursday, July 15, 2010 In the previous post to this Blog, I said that home visiting programs like the Nurse Family Partnership or Healthy Families America have such strong support in the child welfare community that they should be called "goody-two-shoes prevention." The people whose 19th Century counterparts proudly called themselves "child savers" like these programs because they enormously expand the scope of intervention into families. Advocates of family preservation like them because the intervention is voluntary, and such programs really can be helpful. Almost the only dissenters are a few on the far right who see it as some kind of conspiracy to impose government child-rearing standards and take away children when the parents don't comply. Absurd, of course – except for the fact that every once in awhile, someone from the mainstream of American child saving says something to fuel those very fears. FULL STORY |
July 15, 2010 Big News on SR 519! We are very excited to announce three new cosponsors on Senate Resolution 519, which opposes U.S. ratification of the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child. Just in the last few hours, Senators Pat Roberts (R-Kansas), Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) have signed on as official cosponsors! This brings us to 25 cosponsors, which is a rarity in the U.S. Senate. And when we consider that SR 519 was introduced just 2 months ago, this kind of support is very encouraging. It shows that Senators are listening, and that they understand our desire to have Americans making laws for Americans. Your calls and our Declaration Campaign have also been very effective. If one (or two!) of these is your senator, please consider sending a thank you card to their nearest local office (for an address, visit parentalrights.org/States, click on your state, then click on the senator’s name). It has been an exciting week for stopping the UN’s CRC, and we would like to see that continue. With only 9 cosponsors to go, we are hopeful that some who have not yet signed on will look closer and join. But we need you to help us keep their attention! Please take a moment now to visit parentalrights.org/status and check the status of your own senators. If they’re in orange, they’ve signed on. If not, their phone number is provided – please give them a call and urge them to cosponsor SR 519. (If you need some talking points, find those here.) Tell them ParentalRights.org asked you to call – this will aid our lobbying efforts when we go to visit them on your behalf. Together, we can protect the right of children to have their interests protected by parents who love them! Expectantly, Michael Ramey |
| S.
Res. 519, A
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the primary
safeguard for the well-being and protection of children is the family,
and that the primary safeguards for the legal rights of children in the
United States are the Constitutions of the United States and the
several States, and that, because the use of international treaties to
govern policy in the United States on families and children is contrary to
principles of self-government and federalism, and that, because the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child undermines
traditional principles of law in the United States regarding parents
and children, the President should
not transmit the Convention to the Senate for its advice and
consent Please call your senators and urge them to cosponsor S.R. 519
Don't forget S.J. Res 16 and H.J. Res. 42- Parents Rights Amendment "The government's interest in the welfare of children embraces not only protecting children from physical abuse, but also protecting children's interest in the privacy and dignity of their homes and in the lawfully exercised authority of their parents." -CALABRETTA v FLOYD 97-15385 |
| At last.
A great visual of what I
think of the entire wimpy world of easily offended, feelings-based, "emotionally fragile", self-centered sub-species of people that have arisen in the last 30 years-
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PEDIATRICIAN ALLEGEDLY BEAT HER CHILD TO DEATH A MT. JULIET, TENNESSEE PEDIATRICIAN AND HER HUSBAND ARE ACCUSED OF KILLING THEIR ADOPTED CHILD. A WILSON COUNTY GRAND JURY JUST INDICTED DR. DEBORAH MARK AND HER HUSBAND STEVEN. NEIGHBORS AND FELLOW CHURCH MEMBERS WHO KNEW THE FAMILY SAY THEY'RE SHOCKED...ALAN FRIO HAS MORE. THE MORE DETECTIVES GOT INTO THE INVESTIGATION OF WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE THIS HOME IN MT JULIET'S PROVIDENCE SUBDIVISION... THE MORE THEY WERE SICKENED BY IT. IT TOOK 11 DAYS TO BRING CHARGES AGAINST DEBORAH AND STEVEN MARK TO THE GRAND JURY...AND NOW POLICE SAY IT WAS DEBORAH WHO HIT THE 4 YEAR OLD CAUSING A FATAL INJURY TO HER HEAD ON JULY FIRST. POLICE SAY THE FACT THAT A PEDIATRICIAN IS CHARGED WITH ABUSE AND MURDER OF HER ADOPTED CHILD IS ALL THE MORE STUNNING. THE MARKS WILL BE IN COURT NEXT WEEK IN LEBANON FOR A PRELIMINARY HEARING. |
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Albany
CPS and Family Court Examiner July 15, 9:02 AM |
| News
from the worker's paradise in North Korea (Free Health Care)- Report: Amputations without anesthesia in NKorea Jul 15, 4:50 AM (ET) By HYUNG-JIN KIM SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's health care system is in shambles with doctors sometimes performing amputations without anesthesia and working by candlelight in hospitals lacking essential medicine, heat and power, a human rights watchdog said Thursday. North Korea's state health care system has been deteriorating for years amid the country's economic difficulties. Many of its 24 million people reportedly face health problems related to chronic malnutrition, such as tuberculosis and anemia, Amnesty International said in a report on the state of the health care system. FULL STORY Exactly what Amerika is being "fundamentally transformed" into. |
| Former
County Worker Charged with Falsifying Child Protection Documents By Jay Olstad Jul 14, 2010 TMJ4 RACINE - He was in charge of investigating cases for child protective services in Racine County, but Todd O'Brien has been accused of falsifying documents that could have put hundreds of children at risk. O'Brien pleaded not guilty in a Racine County courtroom to six charges of falsifying documents. His former employer, the Racine County Human Services Department, is in the middle of reviewing his entire case load. The trust O'Brien allegedly fabricated may take years to repair. "This is a combination of a white collar matter and a typical criminal investigation," said District Attorney Michael Nieskes. O'Brien, who is 37 and from Franklin, was in charge of investigating child abuse and neglect cases. But instead of investigating, he allegedly marked the cases as "unsubstantiated." He has since been fired, and Racine County Human Services is reviewing about 250 of O'Brien's cases. Neither O'Brien nor the people he was with in court would talk to us. Officials with Human Services would not comment about the internal investigation or what specifically they're doing to make sure this doesn't happen again, but they say they're taking this situation very seriously. So are prosecutors. "Our fear is that someone will continue to be victimized or was victimized further," said Nieskes. O'Brien is scheduled to return to court next month. Or possibly their greater fear is that nothing happened except a bunch of people didn't get their character assassinated, kids not kidnapped and doped out of their heads, and the Federal funding streams untapped. |
| Oregon
foster care improves in latest federal review Published: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 7:35 PM Updated: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 7:37 PM Jessica Van Berkel, The Oregonian Three years after Oregon failed most of the federal requirements for the safety and well-being of children in foster care, a second review has "shown significant improvement". Oregon met or exceeded all six federal goals, including returning foster children to their families sooner, reducing abuse and maltreatment, and moving children less frequently while they're in foster care. Regional officials from the U.S. Administration for Children and Families, which conducts the reviews, commended Oregon's improvement. But there's still a long way to go, state officials in child welfare said. Three Oregon-specific goals approved by federal officials were not met: keeping children out of long-term foster care, providing services to families to help children remain safely at home, and responding in a timely manner to reports of abuse and neglect. FULL STORY Honestly, it sounds like propaganda to me. |
| DA:
Death penalty off the table Woman accused of killing adopted son faces life for capital charge By: Lynn LaRowe - Texarkana Gazette - Published: 07/14/2010 Prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty for a Queen City, Texas, woman accused of starving and beating her 13-year-old adopted son to death last year. Cynthia Hudson is still charged with capital murder in connection with the December 2008 death of Samuel Hudson and now faces life without the possibility of parole if convicted. FULL STORY |
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HSD investigator bound over for trial MARCI LAEHR TENUTA mtenuta@journaltimes.com | Posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:45 am RACINE, Wisconsin- A former child abuse investigator for the Racine County Human Services Department who is accused of not looking into abuse complaints and filing false reports waived his preliminary hearing in court Wednesday. Todd P. O'Brien, 37, of Franklin also entered a not guilty plea to the six counts against him of misconduct in office for making a fraudulent record or statement. O'Brien was bound over for trial, but Racine County District Attorney Mike Nieskes said the state and defense are working toward a resolution. A plea agreement would avoid a trial. A pretrial conference was scheduled for Aug. 13. O'Brien was a veteran investigator with HSD when administrators there found evidence that he had filed a false report on an abuse case he had never investigated. In February, a woman being considered as a possible placement for a child who needed a place to live had a flag on her file from a previous abuse investigation. HSD workers asked the woman about the previous investigation. She told them no one had ever spoken with her about anything like that. However, O'Brien had filed a report in 2008 that said he spoke to the woman and the children in her home. He found the abuse allegations unsubstantiated. At that point, HSD officials began looking into other cases where O'Brien had determined there was no abuse. They found five other cases where he allegedly fabricated information on investigations he had never conducted. O'Brien was charged last month. He is out of custody on a $5,000 signature bond. Just doing business as usual. Until he got caught. There are a hundred thousand more out there who are infinitely more evil. |
| Father
Says Abuse Charge Unwarranted Christopher Robison Suspended From Teaching Job POSTED: 5:57 pm EDT July 13, 2010 UPDATED: 12:15 pm EDT July 14, 2010 WLWT UNION, Kentucky- A Boone County teacher accused of child abuse said he struck his 5-year-old son with a belt because the boy had been disrespectful. There is also a POLL there. Here's the current results-
If you are mystified at what these results mean, it's a total rejection of Dr.Spock's (and CPS) insane "kindler, gentler theory of child rearing" that has destroyed America. Also see- How
Dr. Spock destroyed America
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| Transsexual
spared jail over safety fears Wed Jul 14, 9:58 am ET LONDON (AFP) – A transsexual convicted by a
Manchester court of downloading child pornography avoided prison after a
judge ruled "Frankly, you deserve to go to prison, but I can't bring myself to send you to prison, entirely because I think prison would be an appalling experience for you," (Prison is wonderful for anybody else?) Judge Lesley Newton was quoted as saying by the Manchester Evening News. Laura Voyce, who is biologically a man but legally a woman and used to be called Luke, was found guilty on 14 counts of downloading indecent images of children, some of which were graded as the second most serious level of abuse. Voyce, of Liverpool, was sentenced by the judge at
Manchester Crown Court to a nine-month jail term suspended for a year but
will not be put behind bars unless If "I do not see how you could be kept safe in a prison environment with the best will in the world on the part of those who run such establishments," (hysterical laughter) Judge Newton was quoted as saying. Voyce, who maintains I am remembering a few years ago, an Australian trannie tried to get on the Australian Olympic women's swim team. I remember this trannie said he-she-it was a "transvestite lesbian". Think about that one for a minute or two. |
| Conn.
judge tosses charges in Haiti sex-abuse case AP July 14, 2010 NEW HAVEN, Conn.- A federal judge dismissed charges against a man accused of sexually abusing boys at a school in Haiti, saying he can't be prosecuted in Connecticut because the alleged crimes didn't occur here. U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven approved Douglas Perlitz's motion to dismiss the case Wednesday, ruling that a prosecution in Connecticut violated both the Constitution and federal rules. "The government's arguments conflate Perlitz's having prepared for criminal conduct in Connecticut, which may well be shown by the facts alleged, with his having engaged in essential criminal conduct in Connecticut," Arterton wrote. Perlitz, a former Connecticut resident who now lives in Eagle, Colo., was accused of enticing children at the Project Pierre Toussaint school in Cap-Haitien into sex acts by promising them food, shelter and other items. He had pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors, who opposed Perlitz's motion to dismiss, are reviewing Wednesday's ruling. "We're pleased," said Perlitz' attorney, William Dow III. "We can't wait to tell our client." Too bad falsely accused parents can't find (or afford) aggressive counsel like this. |
| Can
The European Welfare State Survive? by Eleanor Beardsley, NPR I think the question is rhetorical, because the answer is- OBVIOUSLY NOT. |
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Albany
CPS and Family Court Examiner July 14, 8:46 AM |
| Shaken
Baby Syndrome is BOGUS- First time I have seen the TRUTH told about
shaking a baby-
Man
charged with child abuse Tennessee- A Russellville man is in jail accused of hurting an 18-month-old baby’s neck by shaking him, officials said Tuesday. See my old, OLD essay from 10 years ago- New (First Time) Parent? |
| "As
long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families." -John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1814 |
| 1
in 3 U.S. Docs Wouldn't Report Impaired, Incompetent Colleague HealthDay Reporter by Amanda Gardner  TUESDAY,
July 13 (HealthDay News) -- A large survey of American doctors has found
that more than one-third would hesitate to turn in a colleague they
thought was incompetent or compromised by substance abuse or mental health
problems.However, most physicians agreed in principle that those in charge should be told about "bad" physicians. As it stands, said Catherine M. DesRoches, assistant professor at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, "self-regulation is our best alternative, but these findings suggest that we really need to strengthen that. We don't have a good alternative system." DesRoches is lead author of the study, which appears in the July 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The American Medical Association (AMA) and other professional medical organizations hold that "physicians have an ethical obligation to report" impaired colleagues. Several states also have mandatory reporting laws, according to background information in the article. FULL STORY Just think about how low the ethics are in other "professions"- CPS, social work, and other bureaucracies for instance. |
| PEDIATRICIAN
ABUSE CASE: Defense challenges key evidence BY DAN SHORTRIDGE AND CRIS BARRISH • THE NEWS JOURNAL • July 13, 2010 State police illegally searched a building at Dr. Earl B. Bradley's office that led to the seizure of a computer drive critical to the child abuse and rape case against the pediatrician, his attorneys argue. Bradley's public defenders contend in court records that all evidence seized during the two-day search of his office building and two outbuildings near Lewes last December should be thrown out because the building in which video recordings were found was not covered by the search warrant. That evidence includes video recordings found on a "thumb drive" of Bradley abusing or raping some of his young patients, prosecutors say. Thomas J. Reed, a professor at Widener University School of Law, said getting the videos excluded from trial is Bradley's only hope to avoid being found guilty. "The tapes are so incriminating that if they could be kept away from the jury, there is some hope for him,'' Reed said. "Then it becomes 'he said, she said.' " FULL STORY God knows I am not pulling for this SOB's rights in this case. |
July 13, 2010 |
| Just
found by an AFRa NewsHawk- The Marriage Myth: Why do so many couples divorce? Maybe they just don't know how to be married. By Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post Sunday, June 27, 2010 As an old, OLD man, I learned long ago the value of knowing when to just shut up. |
July 13, 2010 Get Ready For August See FULL STORY |
| "It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness." --James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791 |
| This
story has been circulating around for a couple days, and now has gone
"viral"- Sexual Abuse Survivors Have Increased Lifetime Diagnoses Of Psychiatric Disorders Medical News Today Article Date: 13 Jul 2010 - 1:00 PDT Of course the mental illness practitioners swarming all over these cases couldn't possibly have anything to do with the "increased risk to develop psychiatric disease". |
| Mt.
Juliet Pediatrician Charged In Death Of Her Adopted Child Fatal Injury Occurred July 1 POSTED: 10:16 pm CDT July 12, 2010 UPDATED: 11:15 pm CDT July 12, 2010 MOUNT JULIET, Tennessee -- Deborah Mark was a respected pediatrician. Her husband Steven Mark was a stay at home dad. The couple had just adopted a 4-year-old girl from China in April. On July 1, police were called to their Providence subdivision home. The 4-year old was not responsive. Wilson County paramedics got her breathing again, but the girl died at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital six days later. Mount Juliet officers found evidence of abuse on the child's body. "Our officers also observed evidence of possible abuse and requested the criminal investigation unit to send some detectives out," said Mount Juliet Police Chief Andy Garrett. When investigators presented their evidence to the Wilson County grand jury this morning, the panel indicted the couple on a number of felony charges. Deborah Mark was indicted on seven felony counts, including first-degree murder. Steven Mark is charged with eight felony charges, including accessory after the fact and aggravated assault by failure to protect. "It's a personal feeling that you work hard on a case. It gives the little girl justice, that's our main goal," said Bonnie Harris, a lead investigator in the case. The couple are out of jail on bond. A hearing is scheduled July 23 at the Lebanon courthouse. Their 8-year old biological child is in state custody. |
| Parental
loss and the family grief journey Part 1. July 12, 11:17 PM West Georgia Parental Rights Examiner Callie Thornton |
| Oakland
man arrested after child thrown in traffic Monday, July 12, 2010 Amy Hollyfield OAKLAND, California (KGO) -- A horrifying incident was witnessed by people in Oakland on Saturday, including an off-duty police officer. The officer saw a man shake a toddler violently and then hurl her into oncoming traffic. She was run over near Lake Merritt. The incident happened at around 5:30 p.m. at 5th Avenue and 15th Street. Witnesses say they are having a tough time recovering from what they saw. "It was shocking. It was incredibly shocking," said witness Raymond Pisano. I'm running across the street and I'm screaming. The whole thing was horrifying." Pisano heard the toddler crying and saw her underneath the car. His wife did what she could for the child. "I saw the baby kind of appear underneath the car," he said. "As the car's passing I could see her and right when it stopped my wife gets there, gets underneath the car and takes her out." Pisano then saw the child's father running down the street, slamming himself into cars. When police arrived, they used a Taser to subdue him. The child's uncle, Demarion English, says he is having a hard time believing his brother would hurt the little girl, and says his brother has had a rough life. "He has PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder,"(I highly doubt that) said English. "We've been in group homes for a long time... they use us as guinea pigs giving us medication." Pisano says the little girl is doing well. "From what I understand she's out of the hospital," he said. "My wife, after holding her her, assumed that the way she was moving that there was nothing broken. She had some contusions and bruises." The child suffered burns from the car's engine, but escaped major injuries and is expected to be OK. The suspect has been identified as John Taylor. He was booked into jail on several charges, including child endangerment. Don't miss the VIDEO there |
| Foster Parents; the
Foster Care System, can it be salvaged? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison July 12, 2010 |
| Accepting
That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds We marvel at the resilient child who survives the most toxic parents, yet the converse- the notion that some children might be the bad seeds of more or less decent parents- is hard to take. New York Times July 12, 2010 Also see- |
| Two
arrested in death of 3-year-old boy in Oklahoma City Police found a 3-year-old boy dead Sunday inside an Oklahoma City residence and arrested his adoptive mother and her boyfriend. FROM STAFF REPORTS Oklahoman Published: July 12, 2010 Police arrested an Oklahoma City woman and her boyfriend Sunday after finding the woman's adopted son dead inside their home, police Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow said. Alibra Nichols, 32, and Donald Miller, 35, were booked into Oklahoma County jail without bail on murder complaints in the death of Larandon Nichols, 3, Wardlow said. Officers went to 840 Greenvale Rd. about 9:50 a.m. Sunday and found Larandon unresponsive, Wardlow said. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Police arrested Nichols and Miller after interviewing them, but further details have not been released. |
| Child
visitation rights go unenforced, fathers complain Published: Monday, July 12, 2010, 4:00 AM Updated: Monday, July 12, 2010, 8:16 AM Stan Donaldson The Plain Dealer Elroy Thomas knew there might be trouble when he went to pick up his 6-year-old daughter from his ex-wife's house on Father's Day. So he had a police officer accompany him. Thomas had a court-issued visitation order to spend the day reserved for dads with his first-grader. But his ex had denied his visitation rights before. And she did again on Father's Day. She told Thomas and the officer that her daughter didn't feel comfortable going on the visit. The University Heights police officer said there was nothing he could do. It wasn't his fight. ...Thomas and several other men in similar situations say the courts use the hammer to force noncustodial parents to pay child support. But no one punishes parents on the other end of the child support orders who defy visitation orders, they said. FULL STORY It is a WAR out there, and the kids are caught in the middle, used as pawns. That's exactly why custody should be 50-50 and NO child support. Also see Love, Marriage, Hate |
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Monday, July 12, 2010 |
| Volunteers
needed to be child advocates in abuse cases Posted: Jul 12, 2010 5:49 AM PDT Associated Press Indiana- State officials say thousands of abused and neglected Indiana children lack someone to speak on their behalf in court. Indiana law requires an advocate for every child in abuse and neglect cases, but the Indiana State Office of Guardian Ad Litem/Court-Appointed Special Advocate says 3,500 children statewide are still waiting for one. Program officials say they are having difficulty finding volunteers. Advocates undergo 30 hours of initial training and 12 hours of ongoing training each year. They gather information and make recommendations about the children to the court system. Volunteers donated more than 500,000 hours in 2009 advocating for Indiana's children. For many years, we have been recommending good people take these jobs, instead of the usual COMMUNISTS with their agenda |
| "What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind." -Abigail Adams, letter to John Quincy Adams, 1783 |
| You
have really GOT to see the latest LEGALLY KIDNAPPED News |
| Daycare
workers charged with neglect Published: July 11, 2010 at 4:17 PM ORLANDO, Fla., July 11 (UPI) -- Two daycare workers in Orange County, Fla., upset with their boss, were arrested after abandoning 13 children for almost an hour, authorities said. Laquanda Tamel King, 33, and Michele Lavett Bell, 41 face 13 counts of child neglect after allegedly leaving the children, some as young as 14 months, alone in the care of a 9-year-old at All Star's Child Care in Pine Hills, The Orlando Sentinel reported Saturday. Ednita Williams, owner of the center, allegedly argued Friday morning with Bell because she didn't think Bell had completed required child-care certification classes, the newspaper reported. Williams confirmed her suspicions when she went to the Community Coordinated Care for Children offices, leaving the children in the care of King, Bell and Michelle Hill, a relation to Bell. After calling Bell to tell her she'd be fired at the end of the day, Williams returned to All Star's, the Sentinel said. When she got there, she allegedly found King, Bell and Hill gone. As King was being led away by a sheriff's deputy she said she left the center because Williams owed her $100, the newspaper said. I would give the $100 to the 9-year-old. |
July 11, 2010 |
| Brisbane
Family Court trial halted over claims of secret talks with social worker by Matthew Fynes-Clinton From: The Courier-Mail July 11, 2010 5:11PM Australia- A CHILD custody trial was aborted when a Brisbane Family Court judge disqualified himself after being accused of holding secret talks with a case social worker. Isn't that pretty much standard practice here in the US in the 100% unconstitutional Family Court where EVERYBODY is part of "the prosecution team", including the court-appointed attorney?
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| Found
by an AFRA NewsHawk- Man gets 20 years for stash of child porn By Bill Lawson / Staff Writer / blawson@sherwoodvoice.com Friday, July 9, 2010 9:57 AM CDT  Arkansas-
Eric Wayne Kelley, 44, of Sherwood was sentenced on July 1 to 20 years
in prison for having 183,000 images of child pornography. The case was
heard in federal court.
Karen Whatley, assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, said Kelley will serve the federal sentence after he completes his 47-year state sentence from 2008 for sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy. She said the federal sentence has no opportunity for parole. Whatley said Kelley was sentenced to life in prison in Pulaski County Circuit Court in 2006 for raping a 12-year-old boy but that conviction was appealed and, after some of the video evidence was thrown out, he was convicted in 2008 and sentenced to the 48 years. She said FBI agents testified the collection of child pornography found in Kelley’s Sherwood apartment was the largest amount of child pornography they had seen. FULL STORY |
| Found
by an AFRA NewsHawk- This is a BIG deal. Andrews to receive CPS records By Jon Johnson Assistant Editor Eastern Arizona Courier Published on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 9:55 AM MST Arizona- An accused child abuser will receive records in regard to Child Protective Services' psychological reviews of the victim during his time at her home and any reviews of CPS' home visits. The child was in the care of Tammy Renea Andrews, 40, of Safford from Oct. 15, 2004, until Feb. 12, 2010, when the allegations of abuse arose. She had adopted the victim, but her parental rights have been terminated, and the child is in the care of CPS. At her pretrial conference June 28, Andrews' attorney, Barry Standifird, said the only way he could proceed was if he was granted access to CPS' records. ...At the June 28 hearing, Standifird requested that Judge Duber order CPS to release its records. Attorney Sara S. Wisdom from the Office of the Attorney General appeared telephonically and represented CPS, while Deputy County Attorney C. Allan Perkins represented the state. Wisdom said the records could not be released unless Duber ordered it due to the regulations in the law. Standifird said the records are necessary because he might be able to gather witnesses' testimony from them that would show no abuse took place. "I have a basis, based on my client's discussions with me, to believe that home studies, referrals, investigations, a number of CPS reports (and) these types of things could actually confirm that there was no abuse going on in the home," Standifird said. Duber ordered CPS to deliver the documents to Standifird and Perkins but said it was free to redact any information that would disclose the identity of a reporter of abuse. CPS will have until July 28 to produce the documents. The reports will not be made public and will only be available to the defense, prosecution and judge. FULL STORY Proving a negative- that NOTHING happened- can be really rough when the agency hides the exculpatory evidence. |
| Quite
an alarming title. But the story is finished by almost telling the
complete truth. Home Births Increase Risk for Babies Benjamin Radford LiveScience's Bad Science Columnist Sun Jul 11, 11:15 am ET "....The authors found that women who gave birth at home had lower risk factors overall, fewer infections, less hemorrhaging, and so on. "...over 99 percent of all babies were delivered without life-threatening complications." |
| Don’t
abuse power: MB 2010/07/11 New Straits Times KEMAMAN, Malaysia- Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said has warned civil servants in the state not to abuse their power. He said he received numerous complaints involving several departments and warned that he, together with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, would conduct spot checks to deter errant civil servants. Speaking at a gathering with the civil servants
here, he said government officers should uphold the trust given to them
and not abuse it. Speaking to reporters later, Ahmad said he had forwarded the complaints to the departments concerned. He declined to elaborate. - Bernama Too bad no official will do such in the USA, where abuse of power and corruption is "Ubiquitous" (Fogarty-Hardwick v. County of Orange, et al. June 18, 2010). "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" -Lord Action |
| ALABAMA
ABUSE LAW The Associate Press Published: July 11, 2010 A new Alabama law allows people who are dating to seek court protection if they are abused. The change effective July 1st permits anyone who has been dating for six months to seek a protection from abuse order from the state court system. J.B. Ward, a domestic violence court advocate for Crisis Services of North Alabama, said that someone seeking court protection previously had be married, divorced or have children with the alleged abuser. Ward said that 35 percent of domestic violence victims are in dating relationships. Does it occur to anybody to
wonder why these problems are getting worse? See - |
| Bahamas
police catch 'Barefoot Bandit' AP By JUAN McCARTNEY, Associated Press Writer July 11, 2010 NASSAU, Bahamas – Bahamian police captured a teenage U.S. fugitive Sunday, bringing to an end the "Barefoot Bandit's" two-year flight from U.S. justice, a senior police official said. |
| Detective
work helps reunite foster kids with family Lauren Ritchie COMMENTARY Orlando Sentinel July 11, 2010 |
| Tolland
doctor facing child porn charges Published: 08:43 p.m., Saturday, July 10, 2010 Connecticut Post
The FBI says 52-year-old Dr. Carl Koplin used his home computer to send and receive hundreds of pornographic images of children, mostly boys. Federal authorities say Koplin's arrest follows a 10-month investigation. According to an arrest affidavit, a federal computer crimes specialist used a password taken from another child pornography suspect to infiltrate a file-sharing site that was used by Koplin and others to download and distribute child porn. Koplin faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. He was released Friday after posting a $500,000 bond. FULL STORY Then, there's THIS too-Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis
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Exactly the same, identical thing going on here in the USA. |
| Lawyer
wants pope's testimony in Oregon abuse case Suits name the Vatican as a respondent on grounds that it employed clergy suspected of abuse. Papal spokesmen say it is a sovereign entity and immune from the American court system. By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times July 10, 2010 | 5:57 p.m. Pope Benedict XVI is a head of state and the leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics worldwide. To Jeff Anderson, a lawyer who represents victims of sexual abuse by priests, he is also a potential legal witness. Unlikely as it may seem, Anderson intends to demand the pope's testimony in a sexual abuse case wending its way through court in Oregon. "I don't think I would require him to come to Oregon," the attorney said in a recent interview. "I would go to him … and videotape and transcribe his testimony." The Vatican, he said, should be treated "like any other corporation that is subject to the power of the American court system." Increasingly, the Vatican, an independent city-state headed by the pope, stands in the cross hairs of lawyers and investigators probing cases of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. The church is fighting back, maintaining both that it is not responsible for the actions of abusive priests and that it enjoys sovereign immunity from the U.S. legal system. FULL STORY I think the plague of pervert
priests is going to bankrupt them. On the other hand- and then there is- |
| Baby-sitter
who drugged and drank while baby drowned in tub get prison time Saturday, July 10, 2010 By MICHAELANGELO CONTE JOURNAL STAFF WRITER A Jersey City woman was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday after admitting to smoking marijuana, drinking vodka and having "sex" with a girlfriend while the 16-month-old girl she was baby-sitting nearly died in her bathtub last year. FULL STORY |
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"How high does the 'Cost
of Freedom' have to get before it's no longer Freedom?"- Leonard Henderson |
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Diego foster mom convicted of grand theft July 9, 2010 (AP) SAN DIEGO — A San Diego foster mother accused of hoarding thousands of toys donated for needy children has been convicted of grand theft. Jurors returned a guilty verdict Friday for 75-year-old Virginia Kelly, a former head of the Latino Foster Parents Association. The panel also found true an allegation that the amount of loss exceeded $200,000. Prosecutors say Kelly kept thousands of donated toys and personal items and hid them in her home, her daughter's home and a storage facility in Chula Vista. Kelly testified she held on to the toys so she could distribute them in later years if the donations dried up. She faces up to five years in prison when she is sentenced Sept. 3. |
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Foster Dad Goes to Prison on Child Sex Charges Written by Kye Parsons Posted: Jul 09, 2010 10:01 AM PDT WBOC TV WILMINGTON, Del.- A Delaware Superior Court judge sentenced a 52-year-old Newark man to 20 years in prison Friday on multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a child, the state Department of Justice said. According to prosecutors, Steven Hughes is a former foster parent who operated a photography studio specializing in the photography of young children and also billed himself as a "Santa Claus" who would conduct home visits. Hughes was arrested in Millsboro on Oct. 22, 2009, and was indicted on Nov. 9, 2009, on multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a child and dealing in child pornography. The indictment alleges that Hughes possessed 18 images of a 6-year-old girl exposing her genitalia in sexually explicit poses and numerous other images of toddler-age girls forced into sex acts with adult men. Hughes was charged with distributing these images by publishing them online to any interested party, including undercover law enforcement agents involved in the investigation. Prosecutors say that in total, the ongoing investigation revealed that Hughes maintained more 15,000 images of child exploitation, hundreds of which he created himself. He pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual exploitation of a child last April 15. Somehow, you know he did a lot more than this through the years. |
| What
will happen to the children of the Russian agents? Friday, 9 July 2010 19:51 UK BBC The ten agents who admitted gathering intelligence for Russia have arrived back in Moscow after being deported from the US, but what is the fate of their American-born children? Coming home from a slumber party to discover that your parents are at the heart of an international spying scandal sounds like a plot of a summer action film. But for one 11-year-old girl, last week it was real life. The girl is one of six children, under the age of 18, born to the 10 Russian spies who were swiftly deported from the US yesterday, just hours after pleading guilty in court. The youngest child is just one year old. There are also two adult children, aged 20 and 38. Authorities remained tight-lipped on the fate of these American-born children, except to say they will be free to come and go from the US as they see fit. FULL STORY They aren't going to be adopted out? |
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on the arrested
10-year-old baby-sitter story Updated: 5:49 PM Jul 9, 2010 Abused Beloit Child's Mother Arrested 21-year-old Stephanie Schober is arrested for child neglect. Posted: 3:06 PM Jul 9, 2010 Reporter: Tina Stein WIFR BELOIT, Wisconsin- Beloit Police arrested 21-year-old Stephanie Schober for child neglect. They say Schober told medical staff at Beloit Memorial Hospital her baby fell out of her crib. But authorities say Schober ignored obvious signs of abuse and that abuse happened over the course of several weeks. Court records show the ten-year-old smashed the victim's head on a concrete floor and threw her into a bathtub. And after watching her for seven hours on June 30th, she became angry and hit the toddler with a belt, plastic bat and toys. The 10-year-old babysitter will remain in juvenile detention, pending a competency hearing. And will be back in court July 19th. Her public defender says she has mental health issues. The baby's mother, Stephanie Schober will be in court August 10th. The 23-month-old suffered severe brain injuries and a skull fracture. She's in a Milwaukee hospital and is expected to survive. But permanent damage is likely. We've learned the two girls are second cousins. |
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Court: Agency had no authority to place woman on child abuser list By Lynda Waddington 7/9/10 12:30 PM The Iowa Independent An Iowa City woman placed on a state registry of known child abusers was vindicated Friday when the state’s highest court ruled that the Iowa Department of Human Services over-stepped its authority and erred while interpreting legislative intent. FULL STORY |
| Grove
couple charged with collecting welfare on son who's been missing more than
10 years A former Kansas couple who now live in Grove have been charged with collecting welfare benefits on their adopted son, who last was seen in 1999. BY SHEILA STOGSDILL, Oklahoman Published: July 9, 2010 GROVE, Oklahoma- A former Kansas couple who now live on Grand Lake have been charged with collecting welfare on their adopted son who has not been seen in more than 10 years. Doug and Valerie Herrman were charged Wednesday in Butler County, Kan., District Court. They were released on $50,000 bail each and are scheduled to return to court July 14. They are accused of accepting $52,800 in welfare payments they were not entitled to after their son Adam Herrman disappeared in 1999 when he was 11. The Herrmans are "people of interest” in their son's disappearance, said Jan Satterfield, Butler County chief prosecutor. According to the charges, Doug Herrman, 55, and Valerie Herrman, 53, falsely claimed Adam on their income tax returns. They continued to receive an adoption subsidy after his disappearance and failed to report to the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services that the child was no longer living in their home. Read more |
| Child
Predators Sharing A How-To Guide Coaches Pedophiles How To Abuse Children POSTED: 8:36 pm MST July 8, 2010 UPDATED: 9:14 pm MST July 8, 2010 KPHO TV 5 PHOENIX, Arizona- The 170-page how to guide has already surfaced in the Valley and most likely is already in the hands of predators. The manual is designed to help predators do a better job attracting and then molesting children. "There are guides that are put out by sexual predators, the underground community of it if you will, but they are guides,” said John Dyck, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “They're fairly detailed and they're fairly instructive." John Dyck tracks sexual predators -- mostly men caught with child porn. But when it comes to manuals like this one, Dyck said there's not a whole lot he can do. "This guide is not child porn,” Dyck said. “It's arguably obscene but it's not child porn. It's not a chargeable offense, so it's not illegal." And that may be the reason manuals like this exist. Read beyond the warning on the second page and you'll find step-by-step instructions on how to have sex with children. The book was authored by someone called "The Mule." And it tells predators where to prey on children -- from daycare facilities to single women with children. It also teaches how to groom a child -- or get the child to trust. The final 90 pages offer graphic details on how to molest a child. ...."The important thing for your viewers to realize is that sexual predators are educating themselves on ways to victimize their children,” said Dyck. “Parents need to educate themselves on ways to protect their children, it's just as important." FULL STORY And then, there's THIS too-Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis
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| Teen Arrested After Escaping DCS Custody WSMV TV 4, Nashville July 8, 2010 Tennessee- (VIDEO) A 17-year-old who escaped from the Department of Children's Services custody for the second time this month has been arrested after a shootout during a botched burglary. I don't know why there isn't a lot more of these stories. This is very much like the reason CPS dragged me into their house of horrors- blaming me for the criminal activities of a step-son while IN THEIR CUSTODY. This is exactly why I co-founded AFRa. |
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Juliet Child Dies; Police Investigate 4-Year-Old Girl Recently Adopted From China Reported By Cynthia Williams POSTED: 3:53 pm CDT July 7, 2010 UPDATED: 6:21 pm CDT July 7, 2010 WSMV MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. -- A 4-year-old Mount Juliet girl, who was recently adopted from China, has died, and investigators said there were "obvious signs of abuse." An ambulance was called to a home located along Laurel Hill Drive in the Autumn Ridge subdivision July 1. Later, two Mount Juliet police officers arrived and observed what they described as obvious signs of abuse to a 4-year-old girl who lived at the home. A child was rushed to Summit Medical Center in Hermitage but died the next day at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. The district attorney's office won't release the names of the child's parents, but Channel 4 News learned that a woman in the house, possibly the adopted mother, is a pediatrician who works in Lebanon. Word of the girl's death stunned neighbors who live in the suburban neighborhood. "It's just shocking. How does something like that happen?” said neighbor Ken Vorhies. "First of all, you can hardly believe something like that happens in general, but if it happens in your neighborhood, it's a little scary." An 8-year-old girl also lived at the home of the family that's being investigated. She is living with someone else while police investigate the death of the 4-year-old girl. The child who died was adopted from China in April. |
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case worker arrested and accused of stealing gift cards Last Update: 7/08 9:51 pm WOAI FLORESVILLE, TX – A case worker with Child Protective Services is in hot water and facing some huge criminal charges. Stefanie Moore, 32, is accused of stealing $650 worth of donated WalMart gift cards from a supervisor’s desk drawer. News 4 WOAI learned it was once Floresville Police detectives began looking into the case, Moore allegedly admitted to her direct manager she took the gift cards.
“It is uncommon and it’s something Child Protective Services does not and will not tolerate,”1 said CPS spokeswoman Mary Walker regarding the theft allegations. Walker says Moore began working with the agency’s Floresville office in January 2009, and a background check was performed. Moore now faces felony and misdemeanor theft charges. She is no longer working with Child Protective Service, since this criminal investigation. “The actions of this particular investigator is not reflective of the actions2 of hundreds of men and women that are out there working on behalf of children3 everyday,” said Walker. Investigators are also looking into whether Moore is behind some other reported thefts coming out of the Floresville office. 1- Translation- It's uncommon for one of them to get caught, and getting caught is what is intolerable.2-
To the contrary, stealing and lying is exactly what CPS people do every
day. 3- "Sadly, there is a certain element within the child welfare industry that tends to look upon kids in the way that, say, Colonel Sanders looks upon chickens." - Professor Ronald Davidson, Director, Mental Health Policy Program, University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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this story just found by an AFRA NewsHawk- DHS worker charged, reassigned By Donna Hales Phoenix Staff Writer July 6, 2010 Oklahoma- A Department of Human Services worker who has been charged with a felony remains on the job in McIntosh County. Rhonda Renee Duke, 50, of Checotah is charged with: • Unlawful use of a computer, a felony. She is alleged to have accessed information known to her to be confidential and which she had no authorization to access. She then allegedly disclosed the Oklahoma Department of Human Services information to unauthorized persons. If convicted, the crime is punishable by imprisonment for not more than 10 years and/or a fine not less than $5,000 or more than $100,000, according to a court filing. • False statement during a state investigation, a misdemeanor. Duke declined comment Tuesday. FULL STORY I wonder if she was supplying EVIDENCE to be used against the state in THIS CASE? |
| Foster Families; Did you know? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison July 8, 6:28 PM The HOTLINE |
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news for you Christine- the Obamination couldn't possibly care less. Obama: Hope for Black Children Christine James-Brown CEO, Child Welfare League of America Posted: July 8, 2010 05:22 PM Huffington Post .....Bias or cultural misunderstanding and distrust between child welfare decision makers and the families they serve also can contribute to the removal of children from their homes. When was the last time YOU ran into an insolent "child welfare decision maker" that you could trust? For instance, the average child welfare worker is a young, maleducated white woman. She is juggling a demanding case load -- often in communities of color -- and expected to make major decisions about a child's life with limited child rearing experience (0%) and exposure to various cultures. This can lead to cultural misunderstandings and mistrust, and also contribute to more children entering care. Such a phenomenon can also be created by minority social workers who have a high level of maleducation and don't share the same socio-cultural background and experiences with the families with whom they work. In other words, CPS agents are pompous, arrogant, spoiled rotten snots. The same barriers and problems exist as children try to leave the system. Reunification is supposed to be the first permanency option considered for children entering care. Yet, in many ways, it is the most challenging option to achieve because the Feds aren't paying for THAT. Research of national data indicates that White children were almost four times more likely to be reunified with their families than Black children. Also disturbing, once African-American children are removed from their homes, their lengths of stay in foster care average nine months longer than those of White children. The challenges in accessing services, such as substance abuse treatment and subsidized housing, also lead to longer lengths of stay for children whose goal is to reunify with their families. For Black children who cannot be reunified with their families, it can be difficult to find them appropriate permanent homes, in part because of the difficulties in recruiting adoptive parents, especially for youth who are older or have special needs not cute anymore and have developed a heck of an attitude. FULL STORY In short, EVERYBODY has the same HUGE problems with the schizophrenic and fascist CPS. CPS- Equal Opportunity Destroyers
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| America
Is In A Societal Meltdown By Chuck Baldwin July 8, 2010 |
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"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." -Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39 |
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"How high does the 'Cost
of Freedom' have to get before it's no longer Freedom?"- Leonard Henderson |
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State to Ensure Equal Access to Child Protective and Welfare Services for
All Its Children Press Release Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services On Wednesday July 7, 2010, 2:35 pm EDT WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at HHS today announced an agreement to help ensure that children in Washington State in need of welfare and protective services will not be segregated based on race, color, or national origin. OCR, along with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) and HHS’ Administration for Children and Families, signed the voluntary resolution agreement to provide equal access to care needed by one of Washington’s more vulnerable populations. DSHS entered into the agreement following an OCR compliance review conducted under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and Section 1808(c) of the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 (Section 1808(c)). The compliance review focused on the Office of African American Children’s Services (OAACS), located in Seattle, Wash. Following its review, OCR notified DSHS of concerns that race was the sole factor for determining whether children in DSHS Region 4, which encompasses King County, Wash., were referred for services at OAACS. As a result, DSHS voluntarily reorganized OAACS and renamed it the Martin Luther King, Jr. Office (MLK Office). Children in Washington’s DSHS Region 4 are now referred to the MLK Office and all other Children’s Administration offices in the region based on zip code. DSHS voluntarily agreed to additional measures, including disseminating its notice of nondiscrimination and complaint resolution procedure to clients and providing Title VI and Section 1808(c) training to workforce members in DSHS Region 4 who provide child protective services and child welfare services. “We are pleased that DSHS has been working with us to ensure that children in the state of Washington have the opportunity to be served in an environment that is not segregated by race,” said OCR Director, Georgina Verdugo. Individuals who believe that they have been discriminated against because of their race, color, national origin, disability, age, sex or religion by a health care or human services provider (such as a hospital or social service agency) or by a state or local health or human services agency, may file a complaint with OCR at: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/civilrights/complaints/index.html A copy of the Voluntary Resolution Agreement can be found at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/civilrights/activities/agreements/index.html For additional resources on preventing and addressing discrimination in adoption and foster care, see http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/civilrights/resources/specialtopics/adoption/index.html Note: All HHS press releases, fact sheets and other press materials are available at http://www.hhs.gov/news Isn't that GREAT? Now if they were anywhere nearly as concerned about actual Constitutional Rights and Due Process violations. Or even obeying the Federal Law. And by the way, hardly worth mentioning- Kids are DENIED THEIR RIGHTS TOO! ~and~ On June 10, we reported that in Washington State, DSHS "consumes nearly one-third of the state's budget" |
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Arrested In Child Abuse Case Police: Baby Suffered Brain Injuries Updated: 7:46 am CDT July 8, 2010 BELOIT, Wisconsin- Beloit police said they've arrested a 10-year-old babysitter who was watching a toddler who suffered brain and external injuries. What the HE double-toothpicks? |
State foster care system to go on (stumbling like a drunk) By DAVID HARPER World Staff Writer Published: 7/8/2010 2:24 AM Last Modified: 7/8/2010 6:10 AM Oklahoma- A trial date that is well more than a year away was scheduled Wednesday in a class-action lawsuit that seeks changes in the state's foster-care system. U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell set the trial for Oct. 17, 2011, but said the date "may be a bit ambitious" in light of the scope of the case. He told attorneys that "it will require all of your efforts" to attain the goal. Marcia Robinson Lowry, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, had asked that the nonjury trial be scheduled for next summer. However, Frizzell said a setting some 15 months in the future is more realistic. Even though the lawsuit was filed in February 2008, it essentially became a new case earlier this year after the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Frizzell's 2009 decision to grant the plaintiffs' request for class-action status, the judge said. On behalf of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, attorney Donald Bingham apologized for the slower-than-anticipated pace of providing pretrial "discovery" materials to the plaintiffs. His apology reiterated that made last Thursday by co-counsel David Page at a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Frank McCarthy. McCarthy had expressed his dissatisfaction with the number of case files that had been shared with the plaintiffs, and he said that if improvements are not made, the court could issue orders that DHS might consider "draconian." FULL STORY Probably not nearly so "draconian" as the orders I would issue against them if I was the judge. These people are guilty of Federal Capital Crimes. |
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Albany
CPS and Family Court Examiner July 8, 9:32 AM In May New York State's highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled in Hurrell-Harring v State of New York that a lawsuit against the state, claiming that indigent defendants in criminal court and family court do not get adequate representation, could go forward. New York State, represented by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, then moved to have the attorney-client privilege waived for certain of the litigants in the case. The state's motion was denied in Supreme Court. Now the Appellate Court, Third Department has affirmed the lower court's ruling. FULL STORY |
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Angeles child abuse investigator arrested for statutory rape July 7, 2010 (NewYorkInjuryNews.com - Injury News) New Source: JusticeNewsFlash.com Los Angeles, CA—A Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services investigator was arrested for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl in a parked car. The child abuse investigator is now facing possible disciplinary action following the shocking arrest, as reported by the Los Angeles Times. San Bernardino police officers arrested Rod Lautrec Carter, 45, of Highland on Sunday, June 27, 2010, after finding Carter and the girl having sex in residential area inside a car. Officers believe the child abuse investigator met the girl that night, which has lead officers to look into whether she is a prostitute. Carter was held in jail for several hours on suspicions of statutory rape, before posting bail. Sources reported that Carter is employed as a child abuse investigator, who is assigned to the DCFS’ command post. Carter investigates urgent allegations of abuse or neglect, which are reported through the department’s hotline. DCFS spokesman Nishith Bhatt stated, “We can confirm that this employee was not on duty or acting in any official capacity as a DCFS employee at the time of the alleged incident.” The girl and alleged victim has reportedly never been involved in L.A. County’s child welfare system. County officials have begun an independent inquiry into the matter, which could lead to termination of his job. Legal News Reporter: Nicole Howley-Legal news for California sex crime attorneys. |
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Home: Turning children into human teddy bears by Richard Wexler, published on July 7, 2010 at 6:56AM Sacramento Press THE PEOPLE AT THE CHILDREN’S RECEIVING HOME OF SACRAMENTO MEAN WELL. BUT THEIR PROGRAM HURTS CHILDREN, WASTES MONEY, IMPEDES REAL REFORM, AND HASN’T HAD AN OBJECTIVE EVALUATION IN 66 YEARS. They are among the most sacred cows in all of child welfare, and no wonder. Donors love them. They can get a plaque on the wall for giving money or furniture or, if they're really rich, donating a whole building. The volunteers love them. They can turn real flesh-and-blood human beings into human teddy bears who exist for the volunteers' gratification and convenience, even as they convince themselves they're helping children. When they get bored with their human teddy bears, they simply hand them back to the shift staff. In short, they're good for everyone but the children. FULL STORY |
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Jersey man gets probation in bogus Onondaga County child abuse case Published: Wednesday, July 07, 2010, 2:57 PM Updated: Wednesday, July 07, 2010, 3:21 PM John Mariani / The Post-Standard John Mariani / The Post-Standard Syracuse, NY- A New Jersey man who admitted he falsely accused a woman he had dated of child abuse was sentenced Wednesday in Onondaga County Court to five years probation. Edward Allard, 50, of Haskell, NJ, pleaded guilty in April before Judge Joseph Fahey to first-degree falsifying business records. Fahey, who promised him probation then, carried through on Wednesday. According to prosecutors, Allard admitted making a false report to Onondaga County Child Protective Services in October 2008 that the woman used illegal drugs in the presence of her children. The accusation launched an investigation of the woman and one of her friends. Allard was investigated after he admitted to Child Protective Services officials that his complaint had been bogus, prosecutors said. We would love to see a million prosecutions of false accusers. The system seldom seems to care. |
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Abuse Laws Eastern NC - 7/7/2010 Posted By: Wes Goforth WCTI Channel 12 The Legislature has responded to a North Carolina appeals court case that found people suspected by social workers of abuse should have the ability to defend themselves before going on a statewide list. Lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a bill that gives people a chance challenge their addition to the "Responsible Individuals List." The list is a confidential roster of more than 8,000 people checked by day care centers or adoption agencies to determine the fitness of a potential parent or worker. The state Court of Appeals ruled in March that putting people on the list without them being able to argue against it violates due process rights. The bill now heads to Governor Perdue's desk. |
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abuse tied to later mental disorders Published: July 7, 2010 at 5:11 PM WELLINGTON, New Zealand, July 7 (UPI) -- Abuse or
neglect in childhood is associated with mental disorders Kate M. Scott and colleagues at University of Otago-Wellington, New Zealand, linked government child protection records with data from a nationally representative community survey of mental disorders among young adults ages 16-27. The survey included 2,144 young adults, 221 of whom had a history of child maltreatment. The study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, says the strongest associations were with post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. "This implies, first, that targeted mental health interventions with present or past clients of child welfare agencies are indicated in addition to the interventions currently provided to stop or reduce the maltreatment; and second, that concerted population-level strategies are required to address the needs of the many other children who also experience maltreatment," the study authors said in a statement. This absurd story originated several days ago. Now it seems to have gone "viral". Of course, the government inserting themselves into these kids lives couldn't possibly have caused the alleged "disorders"See- Best
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receive makeovers, photos in hopes of finding foster families By CHELSI MOY of the Missoulian | Posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2010 11:30 pm As an old Daddy, this story just breaks my heart. But I KNOW what the problem is.
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| Foster Families; Did you know? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison July 7, 2010 The role of your agency |
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Albany
CPS and Family Court Examiner July 7, 10:47 AM Oh the things we wish we could say... |
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lock-ups blasted Star investigation Hearings order release of children found not to have mental disorders Published On Wed Jul 07 2010 RICHARD LAUTENS/TORONTO STAR Just around the corner from the Eaton Centre, a psychiatric facility is locking up youngsters who don't belong in secure custody, provincial documents reveal. In one case, a 15-year-old girl's “moderately eccentric interests” in origami and the study of bugs were cited by a psychiatrist at Youthdale Treatment Centre as examples of a possible mental disorder. Another teen's admission of having unprotected sex was taken as evidence of a suicide wish because such behaviour could lead to AIDS. “Secure treatment is not a placement substitute for child welfare,” a provincial appeal board ruled in ordering the release of a 14-year-old boy with a learning disability and limited school supports. A Toronto Star review of 32 cases over the past two years where a youth formally appealed the lock-up decision found that nearly half (14) were overturned after an emergency hearing by the Ontario Child and Family Services Review Board. Most of these children were ordered released on the grounds they didn't even have a mental disorder. FULL STORY Also see- Doping the Kids- The Pharmacaust |
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Bend settles police lawsuit $150,000 to be paid in allegations of excessive force. By JEFF PARROTT Tribune Staff Writer July 07. 2010 6:59AM SOUTH BEND, Indiana- The city has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging three officers used excessive force by unnecessarily Tasering a 14-year-old boy, letting a police dog attack him and then failing to quickly get him medical care. |
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mom accused of child abuse speaks out Updated: Jul 06, 2010 5:31 PM PDT North Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - A North Las Vegas woman charged with abusing two foster children in her care last year is breaking her silence. The foster mother appeared in court today and spoke with Action News but did not want her face shown. She said she's being falsely accused. 52 year old Deborah Hill was initially booked on four felony counts of child abuse, along with her teen age son who was also involved in the case. Hill denies ever abusing any child during her 17 years as a foster parent. "I welcomed these kids in to my house not knowing this was going to happen," Hill said. Back in April of 2009, a 3 month old baby girl and her 8 year old brother were placed in foster care at Hill's house, after the boy accidentally swallowed his dad's medicine. But Hill alleges that from the start the infant was in bad shape. "She had a gash in the knee with a rash down below on the genital area," Hill added. The kids were in her home 5 days. A week later she and her now 17 year old son, were arrested for reportedly beating the boy with a plastic bat and locking the baby girl in a closet without food or water. "I never abused those children. It was discipline...not abuse," she added Hill's son admitted off camera to spanking the boy but not abusing them under their care. "Those marks were on them before they came in to my house. I didn't know until I returned them back," said Hill. Action News has spoken to the children's mother on several occasions. She's always said her kids were fine up until they were removed from their home and landed in Hill's house. The children's mother is now involved in a class action law suit against the Clark County Department of Family Services. There in a nutshell is exactly why CPS has no business kidnapping kids for ridiculous reasons- and why NOBODY should want to be a CPS foster home. |
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Welfare Changes Stir Hopes, Fears Service providers like that the city is moving away from group homes and institutional foster care. But they wonder if the money and policies are in place to make the changes work. By Helen Zelon New York City Limits Tuesday, Jul 6, 2010 |
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cars stories update- Number of child deaths from being in hot cars is growing WAFF48 News Posted: Jul 06, 2010 2:37 PM PDT Updated: Jul 06, 2010 2:58 PM PDT **SIGH**
Mommas don't leave your babies in the car. OK? HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - A 20-year-old Hattiesburg woman has been charged with felony(?) child neglect after leaving her 9-month-old son in a car while she went shopping. Sgt. Allen Murray tells the Hattiesburg American that Bobby Joe McSwain left the baby in the car after 5:00 p.m. Sunday while she went into a Walmart store. Murray said a witness saw the baby in the car and called police. He said police arrived and removed the baby from the car. McSwain was arrested after she returned to the car and was booked into the Forrest County Jail. It was not immediately known whether McSwain has an attorney. A warning to a vapid 20-year-old would just never do. No, gotta make it a FELONY to "send a message"- Don't leave your baby in a car or the state will destroy your life FOREVER. |
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Great Assault On Families: There is no greater assault on American families by the State than the current use of junk science to accuse and convict mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents, friends and babysitters of abusing babies by so-called “shaken baby syndrome” (SBS). This article is the first in a series presented to suggest ways to first understand the history and background of the scientific disputes about the SBS diagnosis and then, in turn, defend cases of alleged shaken baby syndrome (SBS).
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 |
July 6, 2010 Our Declaration and a New Video Trailer I hope your Independence celebration was a wonderful time with family and friends. I hope you took time to remember the sacrifices of our founders and of our veterans since then. I hope you recalled the Declaration of Independence from foreign rule, adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776, and signed on August 2 of the same year. I hope you will also recall our own declaration of independence from foreign rule – SR 519 – which opposes ratification of the U. N.’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). And I hope you’ll keep in mind our own August 2 – the date we will run ads across the country decrying this treaty and informing constituents about those senators who are still undecided regarding who should shape family law for Americans. See the sample ad here. “Campaign 519” was a wonderful success thanks to you. More than 540 donors gave at least $5.19 to fund our expenses for the SR 519 campaign. (Our goal was 519 donations.) These funds have covered the preparation of our ad, as well as our lobbying efforts and other measures which so far have resulted in 22 cosponsors on the resolution. Our “Declaration Campaign” to raise funds for these ads began last week and is off to an excellent start – we have received more than $12,000 so far – but it will take many more donations to put ads in every state where they will be needed so we can have the greatest possible impact. If you are able, please donate to bring an ad to your state or to another key state. Also, please check out the trailer for a new documentary coming this November which will look at the CRC, the Parental Rights Amendment, and our campaign. Click, watch, and pass it on. The trailer is designed to pique interest and draw people to our site, so please share it with everyone you know! Finally, this week is an at-home work period for the Congress and Senate. So, we would urge you this week to make calls to the nearest local office of your lawmakers rather than to their D.C. offices. Please continue to urge your senators to stand for parents’ rights and American self-government by cosponsoring SR 519, and ask them to support the only permanent solution to the CRC by sponsoring SJR 16, the Parental Rights Amendment in the Senate. And call your Congressman about cosponsoring HJR 42, the Parental Rights Amendment in the House. Point out that with elections coming up, they can’t afford to play party politics. They need to join this fight to preserve family freedoms! To find their contact information, visit parentalrights.org/States, click on your state, then click on the name of your senator or congressman. Thank you for your on-going faithful support of this vital effort! Michael Ramey See FULL STORY |
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519, A
resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the primary
safeguard for the well-being and protection of children is the family,
and that the primary safeguards for the legal rights of children in the
United States are the Constitutions of the United States and the
several States, and that, because the use of international treaties to
govern policy in the United States on families and children is contrary to
principles of self-government and federalism, and that, because the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child undermines
traditional principles of law in the United States regarding parents
and children, the President should not transmit the Convention to the
Senate for its advice and consent
Please call your senators and urge them to cosponsor S.R. 519
Don't forget S.J. Res 16 and H.J. Res. 42- Parents Rights Amendment "The government's interest in the welfare of children embraces not only protecting children from physical abuse, but also protecting children's interest in the privacy and dignity of their homes and in the lawfully exercised authority of their parents." -CALABRETTA v FLOYD 97-15385 |
| Govt
claims child protection win ABC July 6, 2010, 1:20 pm The Tasmanian Government claims the child protection system is improving after an overhaul of child and family services. The Minister for Children says almost 90 per cent of more than 200 recommendations in a 2006 report have now been implemented. Lin Thorp says the case list has been cut by helping families before they end up in the system. "The reforms, while still in their early stages, are starting to show positive results. At risk families are receiving the support they need earlier and fewer children are being unnecessarily referred to the child protection system," she said. Sure would be nice if it's true. Helping families is what they are supposed to be doing- instead of kidnapping kids. |
| When
the first story about the injury came out, I remarked then that this
sounded like a foster home and the news was being "word-smithed".
Now the child has died and the story is still just as vague. Girl, 4, in child abuse case dies from injuries WKRN July 5, 2010 MT. JULIET, Tenn. – Mt. Juliet police have confirmed that a 4-year-old hospitalized last week in a case of suspected child abuse has died from her injuries. Mt. Juliet Police Chief Andy Garrett did not verify what day she passed away or give any detail on the type of injuries she had. The child was in the intensive care unit at the Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt since Thursday. When an officer was called out to the child's home Thursday morning, he knew it was an emergency situation. At first, the girl was taken to Summit Medical Center, but her injuries were so serious, she was transferred to Vanderbilt. No charges have been filed yet. Mt. Juliet Police Chief Andy Garrett said Thursday, "This is somebody's child, and you want to make sure that you don't make a mistake. You want to make sure that all the T's are crossed and I's are dotted before any charges are brought on a case like this." Certainly not the case with real parents. Chief Garrett says there will be charges brought against "the responsible parties." Previous Story: * July 1, 2010: Mt. Juliet girl, 4, in critical condition, police suspect abuse |
| Maine
Voices: Parents, children suffer from epidemic of detachment Establishing solid relationships between the generations is vital to preparing young people to become adults By KOKO PRESTON Portland Press-Herald July 5, 2010 |
| This seems to be a really good
article- How child abuse affects society by Francis Harris Helium July 5, 2010 |
| City's
bidder blunder hits kid agencies By DAVID SEIFMAN City Hall Bureau Chief Last Updated: 6:25 AM, July 5, 2010 Posted: 2:33 AM, July 5, 2010 New York Post In a stunning snafu*,
the city's child-welfare agency has rescinded more than $600 million worth
of contracts awarded to "nonprofit"
agencies in April -- causing havoc among
groups that City officials, claiming that the scoring of
contract proposals was bungled, will go back and re-evaluate all the bids.
In the meantime, agency leaders who thought they lost the city contracts
have to rehire Some began laying off
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| HIDDEN
FACTS ABOUT RITALIN By Jon Rappoport July 5, 2010 NewsWithViews.com |
| You
have really GOT to see the latest LEGALLY KIDNAPPED News |
| Child
jail restraint rules revealed Source PA News Updated on 05 July 2010 Channel 4 London, UK- Child protection groups have welcomed the decision to disclose the contents of a secret manual governing the use of physical restraint in child prisons. The Youth Justice Board (YJB) has agreed to hand over the instructors' manual detailing techniques used in secure training centres. The document includes descriptions of "distraction" techniques, which deliberately inflict pain. |
| Child
abuse bill: accused must prove innocence HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times New Delhi, July 05, 2010 First Published: 00:46 IST(5/7/2010) Last Updated: 02:45 IST(5/7/2010) India- In the first-ever law aimed specifically at curbing alleged child molesters, the government proposes to put the onus of proving innocence on the accused, in a landmark shift from the existing laws. The draft Protection of Children from Sexual Assault Bill, 2010, says if a person is charged with sexually abusing a child, the prosecution will not have to prove him guilty. The accused will have to prove his innocence. Until now, child abuse cases were all tried under provisions relating to rape or sexual assault. “A government study in 2007 found 53 per cent of an estimated 420 million children surveyed had faced some form of sexual victimisation,” Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily told Hindustan Times. “This convinced us that a special law was mandatory to effectively tackle the issue.” The bill also proposes special courts to try these cases. A key provision of the bill, which awaits cabinet approval, is that the child should not have to face the accused while giving evidence. Other important clauses maintain that trials should be completed within a year, and that government servants or army officers found guilty could face life imprisonment. Moily also said the conviction rate in child sexual assault cases was less than five percent and putting the onus on the accused would help guaranteed in raising it. This brings India up to speed with the westernized countries where the accusation is the crime and it's up to the accused to PROVE a NEGATIVE- that NOTHING happened. And of course, there are NO penalties to false accusers. Once this insane cancer gets started, there's no end to it until the country runs out of prisons and money.As for the "special courts", see Volksgerichtshof |
| Foster Families; Did you know? Foster Families Examiner Marilyn Harrison July 4, 7:55 PM "One small voice" |
| The
Welfare State’s Death Spiral How Greece's economic plight threatens to rattle other European countries. Newsweek - Jul 04 06:45am What we're seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state. This isn't Greece's problem alone, and that's why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens economic recovery. Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect. Aging populations have been promised huge health and retirement benefits, which countries haven't fully covered with taxes. The reckoning has arrived in Greece, but it awaits most wealthy societies. Americans dislike the term "welfare state" and substitute the bland word "entitlements." Vocabulary doesn't alter the reality. Countries cannot overspend and overborrow forever. By delaying hard decisions about spending and taxes, governments maneuver themselves into a cul-de-sac. To be sure, Greece's plight is usually described as a European crisis—especially for the euro, the common money used by 16 countries—and this is true. But only to a point. FULL STORY |
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Published: 05:09 AM,
Sun Jul 04, 2010 No sane, decent human
being can bear working for the fascist CPS |
| International
support group for parents whose children have died meets in Va. By Hamil R. Harris Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 4, 2010 Parents never get over the death of a child. Mothers and fathers become experts in concealing their grief, smiling through the anger, pain and denial as they go through their daily routines. On the other hand, parents whose children were KIDNAPPED by CPS get Legal Abuse and shame on top of their loss and grief. Permanent termination of parental rights has been described as "the family law equivalent of the death penalty in a criminal case." In re Smith (1991), 77 Ohio App.3d 1, 16, 601 N.E.2d 45, 54 |
| July 4, 2010 VIDEO-How to raise an only child I started out being Daddy
to one child. |
| In
Nebraska- Published Sunday July 4, 2010 Child welfare overhaul: Rough start By Martha Stoddard WORLD-HERALD BUREAU Doing everything but the obvious- Just send the kidnapped kids HOME. |
| A
feminazi is exposed- Published: July 04. 2010 12:01AM 6 pediatricians raised concerns about discredited Erie forensic nurse By LISA THOMPSON and ED PALATTELLA GoErie Pennsylvania- Rhonda Henderson, an Erie nurse trained to "detect" medical evidence of sexual assault, photographed a child's body and authored her "expert" report. There were, she said, numerous abnormal findings that "showed abuse". She listed the findings in explicit detail. This report, unlike others, did not remain on the
desk of a prosecutor or child-welfare worker -- officials who might have
been unable to detect errors or
unlikely to want to in Henderson's work, but who Instead, the report landed on the desk of a peer of Henderson, pediatrician Mary Carrasco, of Pittsburgh, who had been asked to give a second opinion. In the child's records, Carrasco and five of her colleagues said, they saw evidence of constipation, not sexual assault. They also saw what could happen if Henderson's report were submitted, unchallenged, to a caseworker, a judge or a jury. The consequences, the child abuse experts came to agree, would be "devastating." Carrasco and her colleagues detailed their concerns in a March 30 letter to Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri, who released it last week to the Erie Times-News. The letter triggered a review in Erie County and throughout northwestern Pennsylvania of cases that involved forensic medical examinations by Henderson, 48, a registered nurse who had worked at Saint Vincent Health Center. FULL STORY |
| Abortion
Laws Undermine Child Abuse Message Sunday, 4 July 2010, 10:13 am Press Release: Family First Scoop New Zealand Liberalised Abortion Laws Will Undermine Child Abuse Message Family First NZ says that any attempts to make abortion more available will undermine the “It’s Not OK’” message and will legitimise child abuse of the unborn child. “It is impossible to say with any integrity that a child that has been born should be protected from child abuse but if it is still in the womb, that it is suddenly legitimate,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ. “The value of a child should be upheld from conception – hence the desire to warn women about issues such as fetal alcohol syndrome and the harm of smoking while pregnant.” “The proposal being pushed by Labour MP Steve Chadwick also fails to acknowledge both the advances in technology which has shown the development of the unborn child in the womb, and the growing body of research suggesting the harm done to women by having an abortion.” “It is incorrect to label this as ‘pro-choice’, because nobody chooses to be in the situation of an unwanted pregnancy and having to make such a difficult decision.” A University of Otago study in 2008 found that women who had an abortion faced a 30% increase in the risk of developing common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. Other studies have found a link between abortion and psychiatric disorders ranging from anxiety to depression to substance abuse disorders. And the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK recommended updating abortion information leaflets to include details of the risks of depression. They said that consent could not be informed without the provision of adequate and appropriate information. “With 98% of abortions in NZ being performed on the basis of the mental health of the mother, it is time that the research on the post-abortion mental health outcomes was made known to women so that they can make an informed decision.” Family First NZ is calling for a law which requires informed consent - including ultrasound - for all potential abortions, and counselling to be provided only by non-providers of abortion services. Parental notification of teenage pregnancy and abortion should happen automatically except in exceptional circumstances approved by the court. “Child abuse is not ok – ever,” says Mr McCoskrie. “Liberalised abortion laws will send the completely wrong message about the way we value children.” No problem here in the US where both issues are handled schizophrenically. |
| Missing:
$1.3 billion in taxpayers' money Abortion provider cannot account for federal grants Posted: July 03, 2010 10:50 pm Eastern By Michael Carl © 2010 WorldNetDaily ...The American Life League president said the candidate's political party isn't as important as the candidate's convictions. "My firm conviction is that we have to elect someone who is willing to put principle above politics and rid the government of any funding of any organization that is involved in destroying the family," Brown stated. "The government of our Founding Fathers was one to defend and protect this country, not to destroy the family," Brown added. The Planned Parenthood annual reports show that about one-third of the organization's funding comes from the federal government. Brown believes that if the federal funding stopped, Planned Parenthood would dry up and go away. "Not only would ending the federal funding put Planned Parenthood out of business, it would destroy their public image. If the federal government withdrew all of the federal tax dollars it's giving to the organization, it would send a clear message to the American people," Brown claimed. "Even liberals would get the idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with their interfering with family life the way Planned Parenthood does," Brown stated. FULL STORY |
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Forced adoption is a truly dreadful scandal Social workers are removing children from loving families without proper justification By Christopher Booker Published: 7:44PM BST 03 Jul 2010 London Telegraph, UK In recent months, I have been reporting on what is one of the most alarming scandals in Britain today – the secretive system that allows social workers to remove children from loving families without any proper justification, and to send them for adoption or fostering with no apparent concern for their interests. FULL STORY It's the same in every westernized country. |
| Issue (07/03/2010) Have you told your child about sexual abuse? By Jan Klooster Cadillac News CADILLAC, Michigan - Have you told your child about sexual abuse? They deserve to know. Those are the first words of a new booklet written by Shirley Jo Petersen and published with a grant from the Child Protection Council. The booklets are being distributed for free throughout Wexford and Missaukee Counties. Petersen, the author of "The Whisper," was a victim of childhood incest. She hopes the booklet will be used as a tool to explain and uncover sexual abuse. The small, easy-to-read booklet contains poetry based on true stories from victims of childhood sexual abuse. The poems speak about secrets, fear and shame and contain pleas for help. Next to the poems are questions for children and thoughts for parents. The back of the booklet gives specifics on how to talk to your child about sexual abuse. It provides examples and tells how to empower children with words and actions that will protect them. Petersen decided to write the booklet after working with more than 100 victims of sexual abuse over the last five years in support and recovery groups sponsored through her nonprofit organization, Healing Private Wounds. By telling their stories in a safe and secure setting with licensed counselors present, victims slowly start to heal and reclaim their lives. The one thing Petersen observed over the years was that almost every victim had one big question - why didn’t I know this was wrong? Why didn’t anyone tell me that I could say no?* "These victims feel let down by their families and also by their schools and churches," Peterson stated. "Parents need to tell children that they have rights and that they can say no." The booklet is titled "I Am A child, Love Me Like A Child." It is being distributed free throughout Wexford and Missaukee counties. FULL STORY *Really? After this has been hammered on in the public skools for maybe 30 years now? Maybe they don't know because our culture has boiled them in "safe sex" and "tolerance" education? Not to mention all the false allegations that have come from in-school "education" on the subject.
October 31, 2002- American parents worry most about whether their children will have good character and values and they see America's popular culture as their adversary, according to a new survey. "Parents today are struggling very hard to raise respectful, responsible, well-behaved children," said Deborah Wadsworth, president of Public Agenda, which yesterday released its parenting survey, "A Lot Easier Said Than Done." (Conducted for the State Farm Insurance Companies with additional funding from the Family Friendly Programming Forum) But 76 percent of parents felt their job was "a lot harder" than what their parents faced, said the survey, based on telephone interviews of 1,607 parents of children ages 5 to 17. The previous generation of parents went through hardships and world wars, "but we did not feel as if our kids were surrounded by hazards of every kind," Mrs. Wadsworth said. "We felt there were allies — institutional allies — and the real world reinforced the values that we wanted to teach our kids," she said. My sense from this study, and it's really painful, is that parents just feel absolutely abandoned. They feel as if they are being sabotaged at every turn." FULL STORY ~and~ HOW
CHILDREN ARE SEXUALLY CORRUPTED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ...A Michigan state Senate committee studying the problem of parental consent in public schools, found: “The treatment of parents with the temerity to object to sex education curricula also reflects a more general attitude toward the role of parents in public education today. “There is a pervasive attitude among many administrators and health educators,” the Michigan Senate committee found, “that they know best what children need. They communicate to parents that they are the professionals and the parents are unschooled amateurs.” Too often, the committee found that parents were treated as if they were an “incidental biological appendage in the raising of their children.” FULL STORY |
| Caretaker
charged in death of 5-year-old boy Court documents describe beating Julian Soliz received from woman days before body found By Tony Plohetski and Claudia Grisales AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Updated: 12:36 a.m. Saturday, July 3, 2010 Published: 9:34 p.m. Friday, July 2, 2010 Texas- Authorities charged a 22-year-old woman Friday in the April death of a 5-year-old boy in her care, saying that she delivered a fatal beating that left the body of Julian Salazar Soliz covered with nearly 60 bruises. According to an arrest affidavit, Nichole Shante Turner badly beat Julian with a belt, also causing severe injuries to his abdomen and damaging his intestines, days before his body was found about a mile from her Wells Branch-area apartment. FULL STORY |
| Just
found by an AFRa NewsHawk- Grand jury: Agencies that aid kids need work By Zachary K. Johnson Record Staff Writer June 29, 2010 12:00 AM STOCKTON, California- Two short reports among the 2009-10 grand jury investigations look at services in place to "protect" San Joaquin County's "most vulnerable children". Child Protective Services, formally known as San Joaquin County Children Services, needs to create policies and procedures for dealing with complaints against social workers, according to the grand jury report. Or maybe just apply the FEDERAL laws? In addition, these changes should be made public on the agency's website. The jury also looked at Mary Graham Children's Center, the short-term home for young people "removed from dangerous situations" by the courts and the county. The emergency shelter needs to boost low morale (it's hard to find useful idiots who can tolerate the fascism) among its employees and seek financial support from outside the county to preserve quality staffing levels1. In the report, the jury notes that the Mary Graham Children's Foundation could be instrumental at increasing support for the shelter. Both investigations report on services that fall under the umbrella of the county Human Services Agency, but county officials stress that no child can be removed from his or her parents without a decision by the courts. You mean the whims, feelings, or "concerns" to trigger "exigency" kidnappings aren't enough? The investigation into Child Protective Services was prompted by complaints and news stories that personnel were not always acting in the best interests of children and sometimes (define "sometimes" as a percentage) acted against parental rights, according to the report. The grand jury also noted that people making the complaints did not know how to complain about social worker conduct2. God knows WE do, but the people "in charge" haven't cared. It has been one continuous Stone Wall. FULL STORY 1...There is this unwritten assumption that, given any problem or bad news of any kind, that government politicians and bureaucrats know what's best for all of us; that anyone who works for the government is, by definition, smarter, wiser, and has more honesty and integrity. -Big Government by David M. Woods August 19, 2009 2- How about this form somebody created last year? |
| Cloward
and Pivens Strategy completed in Illinois. Illinois Stops Paying Its Bills, but Can’t Stop Digging Hole By MICHAEL POWELL Published: July 2, 2010 New York Times ...a figure in red: $5.01 billion. “This is what the state owes right now to schools, rehabilitation centers, child care, the state university — and it’s getting worse every single day,” he says in his downtown office. Mr. Hynes shakes his head. “This is not some esoteric budget issue; we are not paying bills for absolutely essential services,” he says. “That is obscene.” For the last few years, California stood more or less unchallenged as a symbol of the fiscal collapse of states during the recession. Now Illinois has shouldered to the fore, as its dysfunctional political class refuses to pay the state’s bills and refuses to take the painful steps — cuts and tax increases — to close a deficit of at least $12 billion, equal to nearly half the state’s budget. ...In Peoria — where the city faced a $14.5 million gap this year and could face an additional $10 million budget hole next year — Virginia Holwell, a trainer of child welfare caseworkers, lost her job when the state cut payments to her agency. She sits in her living room high above the Illinois River and calculates the months of savings left before the bank forecloses on her house. FULL STORY |
| US
swim group begins revamping policies to protect young athletes By Linda Goldston Posted: 07/02/2010 04:16:19 PM PDT Updated: 07/02/2010 04:16:19 PM PDT Mercury News Under mounting criticism for its handling of sex abuse allegations, top officials of USA Swimming met this week with child welfare experts to begin reviewing and expanding its policies to protect its athletes. The review includes potential improvements to the organization's complaint reporting system and background screening requirements for coaches. Critics question if major changes can be made under the current leadership of the national governing body of the sport, but Chuck Wielgus, executive director of USA Swimming said in a statement that the organization is committed to "working to build the safest environment possible for our athletes." He declined to be interviewed. The Mercury News reported Sunday that USA Swimming did not investigate two abuse complaints about swim coach Andrew King years before he was arrested and later convicted for molesting a young swimmer in San Jose. In both cases, officials said nothing would be done because a "formal complaint" was not made and one said "it is very important that we do nothing, or else Pacific Swimming will be at risk." Officials also urged that the information be kept confidential, according to e-mails between officials at Pacific Swimming, the West Coast regional branch of the group, and the national organization, based in Colorado Springs. "This is the mindset of people who have been in charge for a long time," said former board member David Berkoff.. FULL STORY |
| Publish Date: 7/2/2010 Coroner: Baby may have died because of medical condition Autopsy shows no sign of abuse or neglect Rachel Alexander The Daily Record Colorado- Autopsy results indicate a 5-month-old Florence girl may have died because of an underlying medical condition, the Fremont County Coroner said. The girl, Destine Warren, was taken Wednesday morning to St. Thomas More Hospital and was declared dead soon after arriving. Dr. Dorothy Twellman said the autopsy showed no signs of abuse or neglect. The child had a congenital metabolic abnormality, Twellman said. She was being cared for periodically at Children's Hospital in Denver. “The parents (Richard and Renee Warren) were taking good care of her,” Twellman said. She said it was unclear whether the child died from her condition or from sudden unexpected death in childhood — formerly known as SIDS. Department of Human Services removed the remaining children — 2-year-old twin girls and a 4-year-old girl — from the home Wednesday, because of  concerns
held by the department.“Just a fatality is significant,” Director Steve Clifton said. “It’s just going to depend on what the autopsy shows and what the police investigation shows. These (cases) are very difficult to get all the facts.” The girls were placed in foster care. It was unclear at press time when they would be returned to their parents. FULL STORY Absolutely no pretense of obeying any law whatsoever. The kidnapped girls may be returned after being raped and beaten in foster care. Or in caskets. |
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Albany
CPS and Family Court Examiner July 2, 9:09 AM |
| Boda
gets 20 years in prison Judge: Rocky counselor poses reoffending risk BY TREVOR HUGHES • TrevorHughes @coloradoan.com • July 2, 2010
Boda in April pleaded guilty to molesting children when he was a church counselor in Longmont in the late 1990s and early 2000s. "These children have suffered for 16 years," Judge Gwyneth Whalen said in pronouncing the sentence. Whalen said she was particularly disturbed to learn that Boda insinuated himself into the families of his victims, in what she said appeared to be an effort to keep his betrayals secret. One mother who spoke in court said Boda attended her children's weddings, which she said forced them to relive their experiences. The victims, Whalen said in response, "lost their innocence in ways no child should ever have to experience." Whalen said she believed Boda posed a "significant" risk for reoffending and said she's skeptical of claims that Boda never molested any children he worked with at the high school in Fort Collins. Under the plea bargain, Boda admitted to molesting five children, but an investigation conducted prior to sentencing found at least 14 separate victims, Whalen said. "The court would not be surprised to hear in future years that (more) victims have come forward," Whalen said. During Thursday's hearing, several parents spoke on behalf of their children. The Coloradoan is withholding their names to protect the victims' identity. "I actually handed my son over to a child molester," said one father, who described how Boda was treated as a family member. "He betrayed my trust in order to harm my family." By agreeing to a plea bargain, prosecutors spared the victims from testifying in open court. FULL STORY So I gather from the politically correct verbiage, that this pervert may have exclusively went for boys? Or just not particular like a pup that humps everything, including your leg. |
| Teenage
runaway: 'It seemed like fun' 15-year-old, mother tell story of exploitation on the run By DAVE STEPHENS South Bend Tribune Staff Writer July 02. 2010 6:59AM MISHAWAKA, Indiana- The 15-year-old girl said she stood staring at the cell phone, wondering whether she should make the call. She was alone, but the man named Hector was in the next room, taking a shower. Already he had forced her to have sex with him, she said, and refused to let her leave. The girl hadn't been home in two months. Since running away, she had talked to her mom only sporadically, never revealing where she was living. The girl's 24-year-old boyfriend was in jail, arrested after trying to have sexually explicit pictures of her printed at a local Target. She was tired and scared and hungry, the past weeks a blur of late-night partying, marijuana smoking and a story that would make any mother cry. It was late Saturday night when the 15-year-old said she picked up Hector's phone. Mom, she said quietly into the receiver, I want to come home. ....Both mother and daughter know the fallout from the past two months is far from over. Upon returning home, the 15-year-old learned she was pregnant, but she's not sure exactly how far along she is. The mother said she is thinking about moving out of state, far from the people who invited her daughter into their world, to somewhere safe and secure. "For so long I didn't eat, I didn't sleep, all I did was to try to find someone who could bring my daughter home," the girl's mother said. The girl - who at times during the interview seemed like an average teenage girl, and at others like a tired adult, hardened by life - said she is done with running away, with living on her own. "It seemed like fun, just doing whatever I wanted, when I wanted," the girl said of her decision to run away. "I thought it was cool hanging out with an older person, that I was being an adult." Instead, when she needed help the most, she picked up the phone and called her mom, the only adult she knew who could help. FULL STORY Sorry honey, but I suspect this story is going to put you on the hit list for CPS "intervention". CPS LOVES these cases because they get to DOUBLE DIP the Federal Funding streams. |
| Schwarzenegger
orders minimum wage for California state workers By the CNN Wire Staff July 2, 2010 1:29 a.m. EDT (CNN) -- As many as 200,000 state workers in California could see their pay scale slashed to minimum wage, if orders from the governor's office are followed. In a letter to the state controller Thursday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration ordered the department to reduce the payment of state workers to the hourly rate of $7.25 unless a budget is reached soon. FULL STORY If I had my way, a bunch of them would be in PRISON for their Federal Crimes against the people. |
| Number
of children removed from parents soars ADELE HORIN July 2, 2010 Sydney Morning Herald Australia- TWO in every 100 children* aged under 18 in NSW have been removed from their families and placed in foster care or with relatives at some time in their lives, new official figures show. This amounts to about 36,000 children and young people who have had experience of out-of-home care either through abuse or neglect or because of parental illness or inability to cope. The high rate of removals in recent years is contained in a report, Estimate of NSW Children Involved in the Child Welfare System, by the evaluation and statistics branch of Community Services, now a part of the Department of Human Services. It shows that in June 2009 1 per cent of NSW's children under 18 - more than 16,523 - were living in out-of-home care. Advertisement: Story continues below The number in care has risen by 72 per cent since June 2002, when 9273 children and young people were in foster or kinship care. The number of children being removed from parental care has soared in recent years, partly because of increased awareness of parental drug and alcohol problems, and mental illness, and also because of an increased number of case workers hired after the department received a $1.2 billion five-year funding package in 2002. Frank Ainsworth, adjunct senior principal research fellow in the school of social work and community welfare at James Cook University, said more children were being removed at birth from mothers who had already had a child placed in care. A 2006 legal amendment had reversed the onus of proof from the department to mothers. "It's modern-day eugenics," he said. FULL STORY *Which is strange, because in 2002, we had stats that FOUR in 100 kids would run into CPS problems in the US. |
| Ex-child
services worker sentenced for lying in court By Lydia X. McCoy Evansville Courier & Press Posted July 1, 2010 at 11:41 p.m. EVANSVILLE, Indiana- A Gibson County judge told a former Child Protective Services supervisor Thursday that her lying in court regarding the case of a 17-year-old runaway being held at the Southwest Indiana Regional Village "cuts the very heart of the system." Gibson Superior Court Judge Earl Penrod made the comment during the sentencing of Gayle Edelen, who was found guilty last month of three counts of perjury and a count of official misconduct, all class D felonies. Penrod sentenced Edelen to 540 days in the Gibson County Jail. The entire sentence, except for 60 days, was to be suspended. So with good time credit, the 54-year-old will serve a total of 30 days in jail — roughly the same amount of time the 17-year-old spent at the Southwest Indiana Regional Village. "This isn't just a matter of someone coming to court and shading the truth ... this is a situation where a person is in a position charged with protecting young people," Penrod said. "With that goes a great deal of responsibility. There is a child that was in custody for almost 30 days ... it would be inappropriate for me not to acknowledge that. She is the one who was responsible for looking out for her best interests." FULL STORY I wonder what they are REALLY mad at her about? It sure isn't about lying to a court, because that is their standard MO. |
| Child
Sex Abuse Case Brings Tough Laws To Delaware by Jamie Tarabay July 1, 2010 NPR In Delaware, legislators have swiftly passed a package of bills that would toughen oversight of the state's medical practitioners and those who monitor them. The new laws were prompted by the case of a pediatrician who was charged with abusing patients as young as 3 months old. The rules have been called the Bradley Bills, after Earl Bradley, the pediatrician currently behind bars on charges of abusing nearly 130 young girls and a boy. Bradley operated out of an office on the coastal highway in the beach town of Lewes. FULL STORY It's not as if he wasn't breaking about every law ever written in the past 6000 years, and it's not as if passing a bunch more laws is going to fix the problem. What's the problem? The total breakdown of moral decency. More coercive laws isn't going to stop it.
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| LA
County child abuse worker accused of teen sexAP Thu Jul 1, 1:36 pm ET LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles County child abuse investigator has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with a 15-year-old girl. San Bernardino police say 45-year-old Rod Carter was arrested Sunday for investigation of statutory rape and was released on bail. Lt. Dan Keil says police officers found Carter and the girl having sex in a parked car and are trying to determine whether she was a prostitute. The county Department of Children and Family Services says Carter wasn't on duty and the girl wasn't involved with the child welfare system. I'll bet she is now. Carter on Thursday declined to discuss the arrest but says he's going to be fired and won't challenge his termination, calling it appropriate because of the nature of the allegations. |
| Baby
making industry creating children with malformations, parents not told of
risks Thursday, July 01, 2010 by: S. L. Baker, features writer NaturalNews |
| Just
found by an AFR NewsHawk- California Court of Appeal Affirms Mom's $4.9 Million Award Against Social Services Agency RE: Fogarty-Hardwick v. County of
Orange, et al. Superior Court of California, County of Orange Case No.
01CC02379 (Trial before Hon. Ronald L. Bauer, Dept. CX103) In 2007 an
Orange County jury returned a $4.9 million verdict in favor of Deanna
Fogarty-Hardwick finding that county social workers had lied to the
juvenile court in order to cause the removal of Fogarty-Hardwick's young
children - 6 and 9 years old at the time. In a unanimous scathing opinion
issued Monday, June 14, 2010, Division Three of the Fourth District Court
of Appeal noted that the evidence presented at trial led both the judge
and jury to conclude that "something seriously wrong had been done to
Fogarty-Hardwick" and that the conduct of the social workers was not
"an isolated incident." The Court of Appeal went on to
chastise the County saying "This conclusion is something that
should be taken very seriously.
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 18, 2010 -- A California Appellate Court found this week against Orange County and its Social Services Agency, and Affirmed what is called a “Substantial” damages award arising from a Civil Rights Verdict obtained in May 2007. After in depth review of extensive briefs and a complex record, Division Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal for the State of California issues its opinion today affirming an Orange County jury’s verdict awarding Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick approximately $4.9 million against the County of Orange, and two of its social workers. In its opinion, the Court of Appeal voiced its concerns over what happened to Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick: “Stated plainly, the outcome of this case cannot be dismissed as merely the unfortunate product of a runaway jury. The evidence adduced at trial obviously caused both the jury and the judge to conclude not only that something seriously wrong was done to Fogarty-Hardwick in this case, but also that the wrongful conduct was not an isolated incident. That conclusion is something the County should be taking very seriously.” The underlying case was filed by Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick against the County of Orange in February 2001. The suit alleged that Orange County, social worker Marcia Vreeken and her supervisor Helen Dwojak violated Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick’s constitutional rights to raise and associate with her children free from governmental interference. On March 23,2007 an Orange County Jury found against Orange County, social worker Marcia Vreeken, and social worker supervisor Helen Dwojak and awarded monetary damages of $4.9 million. A third social worker, Elaine Wilkins was found not liable. Lead attorney Shawn A. McMillan states: “Ms. Fogarty is very pleased with the Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold the verdict. This case encompasses extremely important issues for the people of Orange County, and the People of the State of California. Allegations of social worker misconduct of the type proven in this case is "ubiquitous"* as admitted in an Amicus Brief filed by the California Association of Counties. Hopefully, the 52 counties that belong to the association will take note of the outcome of this case and promulgate policies to prevent their social workers from engaging in this type of conduct in the future.” San Diego Lawyer Shawn A.
McMillan, of the Law Offices of Shawn A. RE: Fogarty-Hardwick v. County of Orange, et al. Social Service agent's lying, falsifying evidence, hiding exculpatory evidence is the standard toolbox of CPS agencies in every westernized country in the world.
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| "It is a governing
principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when
perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves
the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of
even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was
established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the
agent of the wrong."
-James
Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851, long
before the Alphabet Agencies, ESPECIALLY CPS, came into existence.
"For every social problem A caused by government program X, problem A can be solved by abolishing program X. The principle can be applied at all levels of government --federal, state and municipal. The possibilities are intriguing and should appeal to partisans of all political persuasions." -William J. Stepp |
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Albany
CPS and Family Court Examiner July 1, 8:23 AM I was not aware that being a spy was bad parenting. Ironically- Being a spy might be LESS treasonous than being a CPS agent. |
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protection reports hit 30 percent ABC July 1, 2010, 10:19 am Australia- One-third of 15- and 16-year-olds in New South Wales have been reported to the Department of Community Services (DoCS) at least once in their life, a report has revealed. The departmental report also shows more than a quarter of all children under 18 were officially "known to DoCS" in June, 2009, because of concerns about neglect or abuse. Community Services Minister Linda Burney says the figures reflect a culture of over-reporting. Ms Burney says since then, the child protection system has been overhauled and only the most serious cases are now referred to DoCS. She says her department has seen a drop in the number of calls to its helpline since the period covered by the report. "What we're cautiously seeing is a drop of something like 15 per cent of calls to the Community Services helpline," she said. "That's a very early indication but what we're starting to see, in my view, is that the new child protection system is working." The reporting system was overhauled after a 12-month inquiry found DoCS was being swamped by too many reports that did not require the exercise of its powers. |
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