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PJTV Live From National Tea Party Convention Now   PJTV is streaming live from the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville today, Friday, and Saturday.     Check out our coverage of this event tonight, Thursday, Feb. 4, as well as all the major speeches and highlights on Friday, Feb. 5, and Saturday, Feb. 6.  Don't miss Sarah Palin's keynote at this event.  Everything will be streamed live at www.PJTV.com.  Click here for details and schedule:      http://www.pjtv.com/page/Tea_Party_Convention/148/  Roger L. Simon, PJTV

Trial opens for social workers in death of Danieal Kelly By Nathan Gorenstein Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Posted on Tue, Feb. 2, 2010 Four former employees of a city-funded social-service agency will go on trial in federal court today on charges stemming from the death of Danieal Kelly, the 14-year-old with cerebral palsy who died in 2006 of starvation at her mother's apartment. 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 charge that Michal Kamuvaka, who ran MultiEthnic Behavioral Health Inc., 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. From July 2000 through December 2006, the city paid MultiEthnic some $3.7 million for services it was supposed to have provided to more than 500 families. Danieal Kelly and her family were considered at-risk, and DHS ordered twice-weekly home visits to ensure she was safe and getting services she needed. When she died, she weighed 47 pounds, and her body was covered with bedsores, some of which were maggot-infested and bone-deep. The apartment had no electricity or running water, and Danieal Kelly's siblings did not recognize the MultiEthnic case worker who was supposedly to have visited twice a week. FULL STORY Note to people who think the CPS system is great- Seriously.  How much debate do you think you could make for it?  How do you think more money, more power, and more people with NO ETHICS and NO accountability fixes this FRAUD?  How do you defend incompetence and malfeasance that leads to MURDER of a child?  How do you defend the fact that the Child Abuse Industrial Complex is packed FULL of these lazy sociopaths?

Just found by an AFRA NewsHawk- Agency's ex-exec admits fraud Posted on Thu, Jan. 21, 2010 Philly.com News Briefly The former executive director of MultiEthnic Behavioral Health, a private social-service agency linked to the starvation death of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly in 2006, pleaded guilty yesterday to wire fraud in federal court. Now-defunct, MultiEthnic was contracted by the city to watch children at risk of abuse. Authorities said MultiEthnic failed to make required visits, then forged documents to cover it up. Earle McNeill, 72, of Gypsy Lane near School House Lane, the fifth of nine defendants to plead guilty, admitted that he knew that at least one worker did not provide services that had been billed to the city and that another had complained about being asked to backdate records. "[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." --Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749

New article Child Welfare. 2009;88(3):127-44. CPS: client violence and client victims Ringstad R. California State University-Stanislaus, Turlock, California 95382, USA. rringstad@csustan.edu This paper describes a study that explored the extent and nature of workplace violence in child protective services (CPS). A total of 68 workers and clients reported on their experiences. Of workers, 70% reported being the victim of client violence, and 22% reported they had perpetrated a violent act toward a client. Of clients, 55% reported being a victim of assault by a CPS worker, while 42% acknowledged perpetrating violence. Future research needs and recommendations for practice including training, reporting, and policy development are discussed. PMID: 20084821 [PubMed - in process] Not online for free yet. Places to find the article Beginning with the CAPTA act of 1974, CPS declared WAR on America's Families 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. TOTALITARIANISM IN AMERICA By Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D

Malfeasance in the industry is pandemic College had warned 'fake doctor' Man charged with fraud had been told to stop misleading clients By MICHELE MANDEL, QMI Agency January 29, 2010 Dad lost his kids due to bogus doctor Fraudster posed as doctor in court Grandfather investigated fake doctor Also see What Happens in the Fog "In court, licensed professionals (and now, mere CPS employees and VOLUNTEERS, such as CASA workers) speaking presumptuously "In the best interest of the child" enjoy "particularized guarantees of trustworthiness" for their (often) second and third-hand HEARSAY. (Now, even when caught in a BALD FACED LIE, it matters not to Constitutionally "unencumbered" Walther-type "judges", who consider themselves "part of the prosecution team"."

The vaccines your kids “need to be healthy” Posted by Ryan W. McMaken on January 28, 2010 10:14 PM Lew Rockwell Blog The idea that an HPV vaccine is what a 12-year-old child “needs to be healthy” should be right out of Orwell’s glossary on Newspeak, but that’s the latest propaganda line from the CDC. Note this video in which the CDC graciously brings the vaccine to children compliments of the US taxpayer. The vaccines, which make billions for the pharmaceutical companies that lobby endlessly for their use in schools, are both dangerous and far less effective than advertised.

Look at what this communist has to say- If the Fostering Connections Act continues to be implemented and funded and if the health care bill becomes law, fundamental changes are possible in how vulnerable children are treated, creating a real opportunity to sizably shrink the foster care system. CWLA Reveals Top 5 Child Welfare Challenges and Opportunities for 2010 List Notes Real Chance to Shrink Foster Care System January 27, 2010 08:42 AM Eastern Time WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kicking off the year, the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), the nation’s oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization, announced its top challenges and opportunities for 2010, during its “Children 2010: Leading a New Era” National Conference. CWLA’s Top 5 list captures events and trends are shaping the future for foster children this year…and beyond. “The Top 5 are key issues affecting foster children. Even though the economy continues to take its toll, we do see promising changes in the way our nation treats children and tackles child welfare issues” .“The Top 5 are key issues affecting foster children. Even though the economy continues to take its toll, we do see promising changes in the way our nation treats children and tackles child welfare issues,” said CWLA’s CEO Chris James-Brown. “As President Obama reports on the State of the Union, we encourage him to continue embracing changes that help children succeed. Smart and sustained investments in children are critical to our nation’s future.”  FULL STORY Just like our economy needs the government to get the heck out of strangulating business by taxing and regulating, the best thing government can do FOR THE CHILDREN is GET OUT of their lives.   As always- "Government can't solve the problem. Government is the problem." --Ronald Reagan Also see my essay on the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act last year- Washington , DC - On Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Lame Duck George W. Bush signed into law the Orwellian-named  Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act

Rutgers sorority members are accused of beating pledges during hazing By Star-Ledger Staff January 27, 2010, 8:40PM I am guessing that the girls are social work majors.  Hazing is exactly how CPS agents operate out in the field, terrorizing every person they deal with.  So perhaps they were just practicing for their future employment as domestic terrorists in the child abuse industry.  I am not trying to be funny.

January 27, 2010 Fourth Amendment rights upheld for KIDS State of Washington makes a determination on how CPS is to handle child interviews after the Greene v. Camreta case Which means- Forcing you to talk means you have been SEIZED.  KIDS now have CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, so LEARN THEM. LEARN YOUR FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHT NOW! Amendment IV The right of the people (now including kids too!) to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized You don't have to talk with CPS agents, so DON'T Kids don't want or need European Socialism's Rights of the Child, when AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS are much better. Just for fun, Here's our Kid's Rights page from 2002  Also see our SATIRE letter from the poison pen of Liz B. Bueldyke, CPS Caseworker

Lots more fresh meat for CPS to devour- US teen pregnancy rate up for first time since 1990: study Jan 26 01:04 PM US/Eastern AFP The US teen pregnancy rate rose in 2006 for the first time in 16 years, an report showed Tuesday, as experts speculated that the increase was due to abstinence-only sex education in schools. (while ignoring the sex crazed society) Three percent more girls between the ages of 15 and 19 became pregnant in 2006 than in 2005, four percent more gave birth, and one percent more had abortions, the report by the Guttmacher Institute showed. Three-quarters of a million women younger than 20, or seven percent of the 15-19 age group, became pregnant in 2006, the report said. That made for 71.5 pregnancies for every 1,000, 15- to 19-year-old girls, compared to 69.5 pregnancies per 1,000 girls in the same age group in 2005, when the US teen pregnancy rate reached its lowest point in more than 30 years.  FULL STORY As our CPS friend says- "There is no tool or legislation that will ever completely expunge child maltreatment or child deaths so long as the only requirement for parenthood is a capacity for coitus."

Ex-cop accused of sex abuse also faces child porn charge Former Minneapolis Park Police chief allegedly possessed tens of thousands of images By David Hanners Updated: 01/25/2010 11:53:19 PM CST Pioneer Press Former Minneapolis Park Police head William Allan Jacobs had a computerized stash of child pornography with tens of thousands of pictures, and there could be more, Hennepin County prosecutors charged Monday. Jacobs, 66, was named in a single count of possession of child pornography. The charge grew out of a search of his Deephaven home after Hennepin County sheriff's deputies arrested him on suspicion of sexually abusing a youth over a three-year period. The lawman-turned-college instructor listened passively Monday as a judge set his bail on the two charges at $500,000 and ordered him to surrender his passport and stay away from his alleged victim, computers and booze. Prosecutors said the investigation into Jacobs was continuing and didn't rule out the possibility of more charges. "This has been a bad month. We've had inappropriate sexual conduct by a lawyer, a businessman and now a cop," said Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman. "It's disappointing to all of us in law enforcement." Freeman said he was particularly taken aback by the number of images discovered when deputies seized Jacobs' four computers, six external hard drives, four thumb drives and 141 CDs and DVDs. The criminal complaint says a forensic computer examiner picked 40 of the CDs and DVDs at random — 28 percent of the total — and discovered "approximately 39,133 images ... that appear to be children under the age of 18 engaged in sexual acts with other children or adults." "It's just pretty sad," Freeman said. "That's a whole lot of pornography. A whole lot of pornography." Criminal defense attorney Bruce Rivers, who represented Jacobs at the hearing, did not return calls seeking comment. Jacobs rose to the top post in the Minneapolis Park Police before retiring in 2001. He also earned a law degree and, in his retirement, taught at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. He'd taught in the criminal justice studies program since 1990. But on Jan. 17, a 15-year-old youth identified in court papers as "Child A" told his mother that Jacobs had been repeatedly sexually abusing him on camping trips and in Jacobs' home since he was 12. Jacobs was arrested Thursday and charged Friday with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. When Hennepin County sheriff's deputies arrested him, they also searched his home and seized several items, including computers. Inspection of those items led to the child pornography charge. An affidavit filed with the complaint alleges that a preliminary search of one CD labeled "Deleted Files Photos" contained a file titled "Sex Paradies" and that the file contained "photos of four pre-pubescent boys who are completely unclothed and are engaged in sexual acts."  FULL STORY  Also See- Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis "Adults with an added authority (e.g., teachers, camp counselors, coaches, religious leaders, law-enforcement officers, doctors, judges [DA and child protection attorneys]) present even greater problems in the investigation of these cases. Such offenders are in a better position to seduce and manipulate victims and escape responsibility. ...The most difficult case of all involves a subject who has an ideal occupation for any child molester: a therapist who specializes in treating troubled children. This offender need only sit in his office while society preselects the most vulnerable victims and brings them to him. The victims are by definition “troubled” and unlikely to be believed if they do make an allegation

Washington state grandparents inspires Senate bill Plateau family inspires Senate bill By BRENDA SEXTON Enumclaw Courier Herald Reporter Jan 25 2010, 4:16 PM Washington state- Stemming from her work with Enumclaw grandparents Doug and Anne Marie Stuth and their granddaughter Alexis Stuth, Sen. Pam Roach has introduced two pieces of legislation regarding child welfare and the Child Protective Services. The Stuths and Alexis were in Olympia Thursday for a public hearing on both bills. “They are perfect to represent this issue,” said Roach, who worked with the Enumclaw couple for nearly two years before they were able to adopt their granddaughter. Doug and Anne Marie Stuth had essentially raised their granddaughter Alexis until she was taken out of their care and put into foster care by the Department of Health and Human Services. The Stuths did not have legal standing to defend themselves or their granddaughter. After months of heartache, Alexis was placed back with the Stuths and they have since adopted her. Senate Bill 6416, the Alexis Stuth Act, would give certain grandparents and relatives legal standing in child welfare cases where a parent has been declared unfit to parent the child. In the Stuths’ case, Roach said, a relative, living outside the state of Washington, should also have been considered as a home for Alexis before foster care and that also did not happen. SB 6417 would create a legal presumption that placement with relatives, in dependency cases, is in the best interest of the child. “The Stuth case shows how crucial this legislation is,” Roach said. “We must place children with caring relatives first and we must give relatives who have been caring for a child that is stuck in the system a say in any placement decisions.”  FULL STORY

PsychRights® Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, Inc. NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2010 CONTACT  Jim Gottstein 907-274-7686 jim.gottstein@psychrights.org Massive Medicaid Fraud Lawsuit Unsealed The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) announces the unsealing today of a major Medicaid Fraud lawsuit against psychiatrists, their employers, pharmacies, state officials, and a medical education and publishing company for their roles in submitting fraudulent claims to Medicaid. ....The Complaint walks through the lack of science supporting the practice and the methods used by the pharmaceutical industry to induce psychiatrists to improperly prescribe these drugs. "Even though the drug companies have been using these methods to induce psychiatrists to prescribe these drugs, it is the psychiatrists' responsibility to base their decisions on the facts, not drug company marketing," said Mr. Gottstein, continuing, "the uncritical acceptance of pharmaceutical company hype represents a massive betrayal of trust by the psychiatrists prescribing these drugs to children and youth."  FULL STORY   Also see the PsychRights website  Don't miss our Doping the Kids- The Pharmacaust

Medicaid, Welfare Would See Budget Boosts Mon Feb 1, 1:40 pm ET CQ Politics President Obama is proposing to expand the government's safety net for the poor as part of his fiscal 2011 budget for the Health and Human Services Department, which manages most of the government's health and welfare programs. Obama proposes additional spending for Medicaid, the health entitlement for the poor, as well as for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the government's main cash assistance program for low-income families. Programs to help single parents collect child support and to help families pay for child care and home utilities also would see big spending increases. While Obama announced last week he would freeze discretionary spending for many domestic agencies, HHS is clearly an exception. The budget shows that the administration considers the agency's health and welfare programs vital for a nation still struggling with unemployment rates in excess of 10 percent. The HHS discretionary budget would increase by $1.7 billion, to $81.3 billion in 2011. But many of the health and welfare programs, including Medicaid, are mandatory entitlements that are not charged to discretionary budgets. Obama plans to recommend legislation to increase the mandatory spending.  FULL STORY HHS would be one of the first unconstitutional agencies I would DISBAND if I were president.  You can be sure there's going to be plenty in there to keep the CPS kidnappers and their colluders in business. "HHS is the largest line item in the federal budget at over 700-billion last year, much of the expense going towards weakening the marriage market or attempting to Humpty-Dumpty the downstream wreckage." --David R. Usher September 7, 2008 Full Story

Obama unveils $3.83T budget with massive deficits Martin Crutsinger - The Associated Press | Posted: Monday, February 1, 2010 7:35 am WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.83 trillion budget on Monday that would pour more money into the fight against high unemployment, boost taxes on the wealthy and freeze spending for a wide swath of government programs.  FULL STORY Learn about the Cloward–Piven Strategy First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Just found by an AFRA Newshawk- Office of Family & Children's Ombudsman An Independent Voice for Families and Children Loss of Trust: A Crisis of Confidence in the Child Welfare System in Colville Colville Investigation May 2009 Shows what can happen when folks work together.  Relatives are NOT being notified about kids in system and notices for meetings are not being fwd to them.  Even foster providers have kids taken on hasty or NO NOTICE.  Major fault is disconnect between arrogant agency that has a real DISCONNECT between them and the entire community.  Physicians will NOT even report suspected CA , since they, too, are wary of DFCS.

Judge orders life support for Baby Isaiah to continue Condition of injured infant to be re-evaluated Posted: January 27, 2010 6:29 pm Eastern © 2010 WorldNetDaily A judge in Edmonton today ordered life support services to an injured infant to continue for several more weeks while specialists examine his condition and made recommendations. According to a report in the Globe and Mail, Judge Michelle Crighton ordered the treatments for baby Isaiah to continue until another hearing she scheduled for Feb. 19. That will allow time for experts to assess the extent of injury the child suffered during a complicated birth. WND reported just days ago when the family was scheduled to hit a deadline today for the medical equipment supplying Isaiah James May with oxygen to be de-activated.  FULL STORY

January 26, 2010 Homeschooling Family Granted Political Asylum Immigration Judge Says Germany Violating Basic Human Rights HSLDA In a case with international ramifications, Immigration Judge Lawrence O. Burman granted the political asylum application of a German homeschooling family. The Romeikes are Christians from Bissinggen, Germany, who fled persecution in August 2008 to seek political asylum in the United States. The request was granted January 26 after a hearing was held in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 21. “We can’t expect every country to follow our constitution,” said Judge Burman. “The world might be a better place if it did. However, the rights being violated here are basic human rights that no country has a right to violate.” Burman added, “Homeschoolers are a particular social group that the German government is trying to suppress. This family has a well-founded fear of persecution…therefore, they are eligible for asylum…and the court will grant asylum.” In his ruling, Burman said that the scariest thing about this case was the motivation of the government. He noted it appeared that rather than being concerned about the welfare of the children, the government was trying to stamp out parallel societies—something the judge called “odd” and just plain “silly.” In his order the judge expressed concern that while Germany is a democratic country and is an ally, he noted that this particular policy of persecuting homeschoolers is “repellent to everything we believe as Americans.”  FULL STORY That family had better be really careful what state they settle in, because things aren't really much better here.  You can just smell the irony.  Tennessee CPS is just as nasty and Constitutionally uninhibited as any place else.