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2-Year-Old Dies in Foster Care after Mom Begged Case Worker to Check on Him Posted by Paul Napoli March 09, 2010 3:38 PM Injuryboard.com A 2-year-old child died in his Linden, NJ foster home last week, reported WABC-TV New York. Vanessa Gentleman, the mother of 2-year-old Xavier and another child in foster care, trusted her children’s custody to a friend, until she started noticing cuts and bruises on Xavier’s face. She documented injuries such as a split lip, black eye, cut on his forehead and scars with photographs. She repeatedly called the Department of Youth and Family Services, in November, December, January and February, including a call one week before Xavier died. Finally, a DYFS caseworker went to Xavier’s foster care home. "Her exact word were, 'Oh, I seen your other kids, but I didn't see Xavier.' I said well did you request him, because I know by law you are supposed to, and she said 'no, I told her I would come back next week.' Well a week later, my son was dead," Gentleman told WABC-TV New York.  FULL STORY Two words- INCOMPETENCE and criminal MALFEASANCE.  And it's universal in the child abuse industry.  Seriously- If we just shut this entire system down and left the kids at home, what's the WORST that would happen?  Who is most likely to KILL a kid?  A mother or a paid foster that's only in it for the money?  At least a bunch of criminal CPS people would be in prison where they belong.

Blackboard Jungle Freshly minted teachers have passed every test but one: how to control their classrooms. By Pat Wingert | NEWSWEEK Published Mar 6, 2010 From the magazine issue dated Mar 15, 2010 It's really simple- (from a conversation I had with a South Africa social worker in 2000)-- By Praetor on Friday, February 11, 2000 - 02:27 pm) Alternative discipline? I am a social worker in South - Africa. As most poeple know our country has gone through various political changes since 1994, with the fall of "apartheid." This has had various consequences in our schools. Suddenly the number of children per class was increased to about 40-50 per class. Suddenly all races were also mixed in schools. At the same time the basic policies underlying education was changed to that of an outcomes based system like that of many european countries as well as America. Physical punishment, which was a very powerful part of our previous education system and culture was also outlawed. This created a problem. Most teachers were used to using physical forms of punishement like spanking as a diciplinary method. Now they may not, and this has led to chaos in schools. Never before have we seen such discipline troubles in schools. Part of the problems is the fact that teachers lack skills in alternative methods of discipline. This has led me to working with various teachers in order to find solutions. What other methods are open to them? How do they learn these methods? What works and what doesn't? I would enjoy any inputs or advice form other socila workers or students.  My answer to him at that time- Well Praetor... there's drugs. That's about it. Here in America we are now charging kids with crimes and destroying their future- and their parent's too, rather than spank them. Those are the "alternative methods of discipline". See- How Dr. Spock destroyed America Posted: January 27, 2009 1:00 am Eastern By Reb Bradley © 2009  http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87179 Also see- and  What's Going On Here? ~and~ United States statutes pertaining to spanking

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Orphan Train rider finds it in her heart to forgive, heal By Joe Duggan/Lee Enterprises Monday, Mar 08, 2010 - 09:59:57 am CST The Orphan Train story had a terrible dark side. We have the research documented "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children snatched children off streets and playgrounds, out of homes, schools and stores, anywhere they could be found a few feet away from their parents. Within minutes, victims were taken to one of three transport agencies. The system was "justified" by massive Federal propaganda that touted immigrant parents as "child abusers." (Yes, Virginia, I see the resemblance to modern massive falsification of child abuse, neglect and molestation accusations that are completely without validity and serve only to "justify" kidnapping children so they can be sold into adoption/slavery.)"

Courts distrust evidence from social workers Judges delay decisions in urgent cases affecting vulnerable children to hear from other experts, says report Anushka Asthana and Patrick Butler guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 March 2010 12.07 GMT The Guardian, UK Courts are refusing applications to take children into care because some members of the judiciary hold social workers in such low esteem that they do not trust their evidence, it will be claimed this week in a major study. Local authorities told researchers that children were being put at risk because social workers were not always recognised as experts.  FULL STORY "Communists are to be ready to cheat, lie, perjure and do everything possible to gain their ends." -Vladimir Lenin "CPS agents cheat, lie, perjure and do everything possible to gain their ends"- Leonard Henderson

God given right: A child protection story book By Emmanuel Gomez Rating: Not yet rated. Published: Mar. 08, 2010 Ebook Description What if Child Protective Services took away your child without cause? A poor young couple gives birth to a child, which leads to CPS intervention. This CPS interference invokes numerous stress filled situations which lead a father to his breaking point, and almost costs him his life. Through his tragic encounter with CPS, he ultimately finds remedy to the chaos.

Just found by an AFRA NewsHawk- 02/22/2010 US Supreme Court to hear CA case on falsely accused parents California's Children The US Supreme Court intervened today in the California case of Craig and Wendy Humphries vs. Los Angeles County and agreed to hear the case next fall. The backstory: Craig's teenage daughter accused her father and stepmother of abuse in 2001. The Craigs younger children were removed from the home (Wendy Humphries is a special ed teacher). Eventually, the state courts found the compliant "not true" and declared the couple "factually innocent" ... but they were -- are still -- listed on the state's Child Abuse Central Index. Lee Ross on the Fox News blog, Live Shots, summarizes the case thusly: A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded that California offers no mechanism for people to get off the database list even if they were placed there in error. The database is accessible to a wide array of state and private entities. The Ninth Circuit ruled that state violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause because people like Craig and Wendy Humphries are not given a fair opportunity to challenge their placement on the database. Here is the question the Court will consider in Los Angeles County v. Humphries: "Are claims for declaratory relief against a local public entity subject to the requirement of Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978) that the plaintiff demonstrate that the constitutional violation was the result of a policy, custom or practice attributable to the local public entity as determined by the First, Second, Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, or are such claims exempt from Monell’s requirement as determined by the Ninth Circuit?"

LA County probation workers going unpunished The Associated Press Posted: 03/03/2010 07:35:28 AM PST Updated: 03/03/2010 12:33:41 PM PST LOS ANGELES—Dozens of Los Angeles County Probation Department employees found to have abused youngsters in the juvenile justice system remain on the job because there isn't enough staff to mete out discipline, the department's interim chief said. About 170 employees await punishment while another 112 misconduct investigations are pending, including some involving allegations of excessive force. Some investigations have been pending for months. "We have too many cases and not enough staff," department chief Cal Remington told the Los Angeles Times for its Wednesday print edition. "I'm not happy with the time it takes to complete an investigation and determine the discipline." The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday asked the county's Office of Independent Review to work with the probation department to review its operations. Probation department spokeswoman Kerri Webb told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she welcomes the review, adding: "We do have some bad apples."  Full Story Aw, say it ain't so.  You mean somebody's morals, honesty, ethics, and IQ doesn't go up to unimpeachable status once they get a job with the state?

House Votes to Protect Pupils Against Abusive Discipline By BENEDICT CAREY Published: March 3, 2010 New York Times In a move to provide the first comprehensive protections for children against abusive disciplinary actions by schools, the House on Wednesday easily approved a bill to restrict the use of forcible restraint and seclusion, in which children are held down, drugged or isolated in a locked room to control their behavior.   The coalition that passed the bill 262 to 153, including 238 Democrats and 24 Republicans, sided with dozens of disability groups, as well as the American Federation of Teachers, and against some private school groups. The legislation, if it becomes law, will apply to any school receiving federal money. “Restraint and seclusion are complicated practices,” Representatives George Miller, Democrat of California, and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Republican of Washington, the sponsors of the bill, said in a statement. “They are emergency interventions that should be used only as a last resort, and only by trained professionals.” A companion bill in the Senate is expected to be debated this year.  FULL STORY "Trained professionals" in WHAT?

Half pound baby survives A premature baby born weighing less than nine ounces has survived in Germany - the lightest ever baby boy to live. Ananova The tiny tot, weighing in at just 8.8oz, or 275 grams, recorded the lowest weight for a living birth of a newborn boy, according to doctors at the University of Goettingen Hospital. He survived thanks to the latest developments in postnatal care. In most cases, doctors said, it was regarded as impossible for a child with a birth weight below 350 grams to survive. News of the birth was kept quiet while the boy was in a critical condition but doctors revealed details after announcing that he was no longer in danger. The little boy was born in June last year in the 25th week of pregnancy, revealed Stefan Weller, a spokesman for the University of Goettingen Hospital. He spent six months in intensive care and was finally discharged in December after he grew to more than 8lbs (3.7kg). Weller said doctors had checked every available record worldwide of premature births and found no viable birth at a lower weight for boys. Until now the lowest surviving birth weight for a boy was 297 grams. The lowest surviving birth rate for a newborn girl is 244 grams. So this "pregnancy matter" became a baby somewhere along the line?

An alternative to foster care’s ‘toxic intervention’ By: Barbara Hollingsworth Washington Examiner March 2, 2010 In the “Jeopardy” category of dubious offenses against the state, you’ve probably heard of DWB (“driving while black”), but what about PWP (“parenting while poor”)? University of Michigan law professor Vivek Sankaran, one of the nation’s top legal experts on foster care, estimates that only 6 to 7 percent of the 500,000 children in foster care nationwide are victims of severe physical or sexual abuse. However, two-thirds are from poor families. Law students of University of the District of Columbia professor Matthew Fraidin also discovered that 40 percent of the District children taken into foster care could be returned to their families within a week; 60 percent within three months. .... providing families with intensive legal and social services within 72 hours of opening a case file can dramatically lower the number of children taken into foster care. Sankaran says that of 59 families who received assistance from the University of Michigan’s Detroit Center for Family Advocacy, none was sent to live with strangers.  Read more at the Washington Examiner

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." -Cicero - 55 BC Surely, we have progressed in our understanding of economics to not repeat the errors of a past powerful government. - We the People USA.com

Just found by an AFRA NewsHawk-  Mistrial ruling in top federal lawyer's suit charging illegal search of Staten Island home By John Marzulli DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, February 19th 2010, 4:00 AM   A mistrial was declared Thursday in the civil trial of a top federal lawyer who accused NYPD cops and caseworkers for the Administration for Children's Services of illegally searching her home in Staten Island. The jury awarded $100,000 to Colleen Piccone but also found none of the cops or caseworkers was responsible. "I think they feel the city is going to pick up the $100,000," Brooklyn Federal Judge David Trager told the lawyers. Piccone, the assistant deputy counsel in the New York office of U.S. Customs & Border Protection, had refused to allow the caseworkers into her home when they came looking for her brother's three young children in January 2008. Massachusetts authorities were investigating allegations of child abuse and suspected the children might be in Piccone's home, but the out-of-state court order carried no weight in New York. The children were not in her home.  Read more So the CPS and the cops violated Piccone's Constitutional Rights, took it to trial, lost, and the people get to pay for the CPS and cop's violations.  Then to put the icing on the cake, neither the CPS and the cops are "responsible".  So the people get to pay for CPS and the police criminal behavior. The lesson for YOU to learn from this is- DO NOT LET CPS OR COPS INTO YOUR HOME WITHOUT A PROPER SEARCH WARRANT. The perfect doormat. And the solution to the CPS problem-

Russian officials call for suspension of adoptions to U.S. parents after death of Dillsburg-area boy By LARA BRENCKLE, The Patriot-News March 05, 2010, 12:00AM QUIT calling fosters and adopters PARENTS!

Update- Utah man convicted of 56 sex abuse charges Last Update: 3/06 11:31 am Associated Press He's gonna need the new Sodomizer exercise bike Man accused of raping five boys claims teen forced him into sex Janice Peterson - Daily Herald | Posted: Friday, March 5, 2010 12:35 am I am seriously offended by the characterization of what homosexuals do as "sex".  Only COITUS is sex. Everything else is masturbation. If you can even call it that. Several decades ago, in the early versions of psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), homosexuality was a mental disorder What happened? Political Correctness At least, what homosexuals do to children is still unlawful. I don't know whether it is still acceptable to characterize men like this guy a "pervert". Political Correctness probably will get around to putting the "OK" on this behavior too.   My impression is, this guy is a pervert AND a liar. Perhaps Mentally Ill? Perhaps he is hoping that Political Correctness has become so pervasive that he will be excused? Someday, it will probably degenerate to the point that the only thing "criminal" is for a parent to protect their children from this pandemic filth.   Or are we already there? **This is the OPINION of Leonard Henderson and does not necessarily reflect the views or values, or an endorsement by AFRA or it's members.

New lawsuits in child sex abuse case names 3 doctors, Medical Society Suspicions about Delaware pediatrician went unreported, plaintiffs' lawyer says By CRIS BARRISH • The News Journal • March 5, 2010 Perhaps someday, people will cease their denigration of our characterizing the New Class professions as malfeasant

"They can only set free men free ...And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free." -- James Oppenheim (1882-1932), was an American poet, novelist, and editor Source: The Slave

Abducted infant found safe; teen arrested March 3, 2010 2:42 p.m. EST (CNN) -- A weeks-old baby was found safe Wednesday after he was abducted, police said, by a 19-year-old woman posing as a worker with the Florida Department of Children and Families. Melvin Duclos was taken from his Jacksonville, Florida, home about 6:50 p.m. Tuesday, Sheriff John Rutherford said. "This was a bona fide abduction." The abductor showed some credentials and paperwork, Rutherford said, and told the baby's parents she was conducting an investigation. She threatened to call the police if they did not hand over the baby, he said. The baby and the suspect were found at the teenager's mother's home early Wednesday, Rutherford said. "They were all in bed," he said. Police believe that the suspect's mother was "told a story" and was not involved. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, Rutherford said.  FULL STORY It would be "kidnapping" even if it had been an actual CPS agent.  By the way, this was the same story in the Ryla Wilson case years ago. The perfect doormat. And the solution to the CPS problem-

Posted on Wed, Mar. 3, 2010 Two Danieal Kelly social-service administrators found guilty By Nathan Gorenstein INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Two administrators of a city-funded social-service agency were convicted today on charges stemming from the death of Danieal Kelly, the 14-year-old with cerebral palsy who died in 2006 of severe bed sores and malnutrition at her mother's apartment. The verdicts ended a month-long trial, but are not the final legal acts stemming from the girl's death and multiple investigations. Mickal Kamuvaka, co-founder of MultiEthnic Behavior Health Inc., and Solomon Manadela, an administrator, were found guilty of health care fraud and conspiracy. Two caseworkers received mixed verdicts from the jury. Kamuvaka still faces an involuntary manslaughter trial in city courts for Kelly's death. The now-defunct agency was supposed to provide care for the teen and other at-risk children with federal funds funneled through the city's Department of Human Services. But federal prosecutors charged that Kamuvaka and the other defendants instead billed the city for services it never provided - including home visits that never happened - purportedly to care for the girl. And when an FBI investigation started, subpoenaed documents were allegedly tossed out or never turned over to the government. The jury delivered mixed verdicts for Julius Juma Murray, 52, and Mariam Coulibaly, 41, another former caseworker. Murray, the MultiEthnic caseworker directly assigned to the Kelly family, is currently being held in prison pending trial later this month on federal immigration charges, and he also faces a manslaughter trial.  FULL STORY An illegal immigrant case worker?  American CPS people have no comprehension of Constitutional Rights, so it figures.

03/03/2010 07:10 AM New Hanover Co. DSS case leads to appeals court decision By: News 14 Carolina Staff Don't miss the video WILMINGTON – A state appeals court ruled Tuesday that child abuse suspects must have the right to defend themselves before being placed on the Responsible Individual List. The list could affect the suspect's employment and adoption rights. The case involved a man placed on the list by the New Hanover County Department of Social Services. He was told he could only challenge the decision after he was placed on the list. The court said the procedure violates the North Carolina Constitution by denying due process. See What Happens in the FOG TOTALITARIANISM IN AMERICA By Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D December 18, 2007 NewsWithViews.com  Mass incarcerations without trial or charge; forced confessions; children forcibly separated from their parents with no reasons given; doctored hearing transcripts and falsified court records; evidence fabricated against the innocent; government agents entering the homes, examining private papers and personal effects, and seizing the property of citizens who are under no suspicion of legal wrongdoing; special courts created specifically to convict people who cannot be convicted in ordinary courts; children instructed to hate their parents by state functionaries:  Is all this the Soviet Union in the 1930s or Communist China in the 1960s? Is this some novelist’s prognosticated dystopia?  No, all this and more is routine in the United States today. Full Story

AFRA EDITORIALS By Leonard Henderson Smoking around children is now child abuse By Leonard Henderson March 2, 2010 Also see previous Family Rights Examiner articles and the Scribbles of the Founder

Regulations sought for foster kids prescribed psychiatric drugs In the wake of a Broward child's death, state lawmakers will consider a bill designed to make it harder for child welfare workers to use mental health drugs to control foster kids. BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER Miami Herald March 2, 2010 This story was forwarded to me by CCHR Florida.  If you are in Florida or interested in helping them, Click Here Also see- Doping the Kids- The Pharmacaust

New psychiatric disorders flag normal human behaviors as "diseases" Tuesday, March 02, 2010 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (NaturalNews) The Disease Mongering Engine, which I invented a couple of years ago and posted on NaturalNews, was initially created as a joke to demonstrate the ridiculousness of the fictitious diseases that are constantly created by the psychiatric industry. This hilarious online disease generator allows you to instantly create your own fictitious diseases and disorders such as: • Repetitive Dysmorphic Nose Picking Disorder With Itching (RDNPDWI) • Oppositional Disorganized Speaking Disorder With Indigestion (ODSDWI) • Chronic Bipolar Anticipation Dysfunction With Smelly Feet (CBADWSF) ... and so on. Here's the bizarre part: All of a sudden, the new psychiatric diagnostic manual (DSM-V) appears to have adopted as medical fact many of the disorders that were created by the Disease Mongering Engine! This new manual, for example, now says that spending a lot of time thinking about sex is a disorder. (That immediately paints every teenage boy as "diseased.") Another new disease is "Oppositional Defiant Disorder" (ODD), which includes anyone who disagrees with authority. All those who are skeptical about the safety of vaccines, for example, are about to be diagnosed with ODD. Now, people who are antisocial aren't merely antisocial. They're suffering from "Antisocial Personality Disorder" and require pharmacological treatment. So the prick neighbor isn't merely a prick anymore; he's a "sufferer" of a "disorder" who needs "treatment." Children are no longer unhappy or throwing a temper tantrum, they are suffering from "Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria." (I'm not making this up...)  FULL STORY

Snow and Terror in Gotham by Eric Margolis March 2, 2010 Copyright © 2010 Eric Margolis ......A final caution: Zazi confessed after prosecutors threatened to imprison his entire family. A former Bush administration "terrorism expert" boasted on CNN how threatening suspect’s families with prosecution gave the government useful "leverage." She would have found a happy home chez the Soviet secret police. This is exactly how the Soviet secret police got people to sign confessions during the 1930’s purges. In fact, the great 1936 purges began right after the Soviet courts changed the law to allow the arrest of children over 12 years. That gave the NKVD a potent lever for getting parents to confess under threat their children would be jailed and disappear. We also learn that CIA interrogators menaced suspects with an electric power drill, and threatened to arrest their families. Is this what we have really become? Sinking to the level of the Iraqi secret police.  FULL STORY This EXACTLY how CPS operates.

I don't recall seeing the American news publishing this Woman killed adopted daughters and kept bodies in a freezer so she could claim £100,000 benefits By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 2:20 PM on 23rd February 2010 London Mail, UK A woman who killed two of her adopted children and kept their bodies in a freezer so she could continue collecting benefit payments has been convicted of murder. Renee Bowman, 44, kept the young girls’ bodies on ice for months while she received £100,000 in subsidies paid to parents who adopt special needs children. ...'This woman was in it for the money. And by killing the children, keeping them literally on ice, the money continued to flow.'  Read more   100,000.00 GBP = 149,869.45 USD United Kingdom Pounds United States Dollars 1 GBP = 1.49869 USD 1 USD = 0.667247 GBP

Medina questions need for state-level CPS 10:18 AM Mon, Mar 01, 2010 Robert T. Garrett/Reporter Dallas News  Wharton political activist Debra Medina has questioned whether Texas needs a state child welfare agency. Medina, a Republican candidate for governor, suggested over the weekend that the state perhaps hand off child-protection duties to local law enforcement agencies closer to the people. That would mean abolishing Child Protective Services, which after suffering some budget cuts in the mid-1990s has grown rapidly under Gov. Rick Perry, in response to criticisms it was failing the state's most vulnerable youngsters and needed more caseworkers and support staff. "Why is CPS a state agency? Could that be handled by the police department or sheriff's office?" Medina (above right/AP photo) said during a campaign stop in Wichita Falls on Saturday, according to a story in the Wichita Falls Times-Record News. Medina said child abuse is a criminal offense and those agencies know the community and the law. "It's a discussion that can be had," she said.  FULL STORY WOW.  It's as if Medina has been reading my #1 talking point.  REAL Child abuse IS a CRIME and should be handled as such, by the police and REAL Courts in Constitutional Due Process, not the insane, lying fools at CPS who are breaking Federal Laws in their malfeasant operations that are destroying America's Families. What Happens in the FOG- Beginning with an anonymous hotline "tip" of suspected abuse, a parent enters a gray area of American jurisprudence.  And it is not "murky" to his benefit. Child Abuse, when alleged, is not a criminal matter.  It is blithely characterized as a "Civil" matter, much the same as a lawsuit to collect on a breach of contract.  Thus, the Constitutional protections afforded in a criminal case are not necessarily extended to those accused of Child Abuse. Full Article TOTALITARIANISM IN AMERICA By Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D December 18, 2007 NewsWithViews.com Mass incarcerations without trial or charge; forced confessions; children forcibly separated from their parents with no reasons given; doctored hearing transcripts and falsified court records; evidence fabricated against the innocent; government agents entering the homes, examining private papers and personal effects, and seizing the property of citizens who are under no suspicion of legal wrongdoing; special courts created specifically to convict people who cannot be convicted in ordinary courts; children instructed to hate their parents by state functionaries:    Is all this the Soviet Union in the 1930s or Communist China in the 1960s? Is this some novelist’s prognosticated dystopia?  No, all this and more is routine in the United States today.   Full Story

California’s Gambit Pays Off for Kinship Care Fed change in ‘GAP’ rules can save states money. (February 24, 2010) by John Kelly Youth Today A threat by California to do an end-run around federal regulations that restricted funding for guardianship programs – even though the threat might have ended guardianship care for 16,000 children – has ended with a policy shift by the Obama administration that could save some states considerable time and money. With the new change, all guardianship programs can qualify for federal funding, regardless of when they were established, as long as the children involved can otherwise qualify for foster care, adoption and guardianship assistance under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act. The dispute involved a portion of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, which was passed in 2008 to help states establish or expand guardianship programs using federal child welfare funds. But the inclusion of a single word – “prospective” – threatened to turn the intent of the law on its head and add to the financial woes of states, like California, that already had guardianship programs. Here is how the conflict arose and the solution played out:  FULL STORY

Warrant out for mom who testified at hearing about losing custody of children By Earl Glynn on February 28, 2010 Kansas Watchdog You bet it's retribution by the Kansas SRS thugs.

County near settlement with family of girl who died in foster care February 28, 2010 12:02 PM JOHN C. ENSSLIN  THE GAZETTE Colorado Springs, Colorado **SIGH**  Meanwhile, CPS is out kidnapping every kid they can.

Oklahoma lawmaker wants foster care changes BY RANDY ELLIS The Oklahoman Published: February 28, 2010 For years, Oklahomans have been deluged by reports of children being killed and subjected to horrific abuses while in state custody. A New York-based child advocacy group found reports so disturbing it filed a federal lawsuit designed to force reforms to the system. Blackwell said he believes getting nonprofit groups and churches more directly involved with foster care would create better opportunities for children. "One of the key things I want to do is give a community ownership of this special opportunity,” Blackwell said. "Right now, a lot of times these kids are seen as the state’s problem instead of something that is an opportunity for their community.”  Read more

York County parents charged in death of their son, 7 By LARA BRENCKLE, The Patriot-News February 27, 2010, 12:00AM Pennsylvania- A northern York County couple accused of beating and killing their 7-year-old adopted son in August had briefly lost custody of the boy and his twin sister two years earlier during an investigation by county children and youth workers, authorities said.  FULL STORY We see this sort of dishonest "reporting" often.  These people were NOT the PARENTS of this 7 year-old boy.  Fosters and Adopters are NOT parents.  These stories never tell about the child's REAL parents and why the child had been kidnapped.

Just received this by hand-written letter today (2-27-2010) Dear Leonard & AFRA family, This is a California court form (388b) (check this box modification)  Blank form was attached. I used it to file a: "change of circumstances". I wrote "change of circumstances" in question #5. I had reputable friends & family notarized character references & filed them with my request for a court hearing to bring my child home. By the grace of God I won my child back! (My child was a ward of the court for 8 yrs) He came home 45 days after I filed my own paperwork! I did everything & completed every class they told me to take but my child didn't come home until I stepped out in faith & stood up against the system.  I had to fire my attorney & file the evidence myself while asking God for courage & protection.   Thanks Leonard for encouraging me to stand up, stand strong & take charge of my own legal matters if my child was to ever come home again. God bless you all.  Joshua 1:9 Post-a-Note attached after she wrote the above letter- NOW MY DAUGHTER IS COMING HOME TOO!

Just found by an AFRA NewsHawk- 2009 House Bill 5364 (Make DHS employees liable for false reports ) Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on September 15, 2009, to establish that the usual immunity from civil suits for actions by public employees in the course of performing their duties does not apply to a Department of Human Services or foster care agency employee if they file or produce a false report or false document relating to the department, or commit perjury in a proceeding relating to a case or duty encompassed within his or her job duties.  Referred to the House Judiciary Committee on September 15, 2009. UPDATE- New Info- No, no, no my dear, do not be confused.  The bill died in committee.  Republican leadership threatened to stop supporting him. Instead, they are pushing through the adoption quickening to hide the fraud, a bi-partisan effort.  It is so bad, the Senate Dems opposed resolution to memorialize DHHS and DOJ on reforming Medicaid regulations, saying, "Nothing is wrong with our system." The cover up is a political party non-discrimination project. That figures

Parents in Del. child sex abuse case face dilemma By RANDALL CHASE, Associated Press Writer – Fri Feb 26, 11:54 am ET LEWES, Del. – For years, Brandy Little worked as a nurse for the Delaware pediatrician accused of molesting more than 100 of his young patients. Dr. Earl Bradley treated two of her children, his four kids sometimes baby-sat hers, and her oldest daughter even spent the night at his house. Now the mother of three — along with thousands of other parents whose kids were treated by the quiet, disheveled doctor — has been asked to provide photos of her children to see if they match images on 13 hours of video that prosecutors say Bradley took to document his alleged crimes. But Little and other parents aren't sure they want to know.  FULL STORY

New developments in law, medicine, and psychology affecting child abuse cases.  For additional news and information, visit www.childabuselaw.info False Memories Abound in Child Sex Abuse Trial by David S. Marshall February 2010 "Now everyone has a false memory." Thus did the prosecutor caricature my closing argument in his rebuttal argument. But his derision probably spoke the truth. This probably was a case in which at least four witnesses' memories had been altered. For the rest of this story please go here.

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