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Child Protective Services, CPS, has devastated and destroyed hundreds of thousands of families in America during the last thirty years leaving a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, and shattered childhoods.
Rather than helping families, government agents have used unconstitutional laws in Juvenile Court to rip children away from their loving parents, break asunder God-given, natural, parent-child bonds, and adopt the children of the grieving out to others who profit financially with large monthly adoption subsidy payments.
Child Protective Services must be stopped! The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed. We must work tirelessly to inform the public of this very dangerous travesty of justice. We must keep faith knowing that if there is a God, there is an answer and a way to end this heartache.
Child Protective Services Agents - please come to your senses! Family destruction on false or trivial grounds is wrong, reprehensible, and inhumane.
Fosterers - be aware that for the money you get you are holding much-loved children away from their grieving families while the parents are forced to perform a service plan that is anything but a service to them. I call this hostage holding for the government. This is not kindness - to help misguided government agents destroy family relationships and break loving bonds.
CPS workers and fosterers - I ask that you now let the children of the innocent return to their homes where they are truly valued, adored, and loved by the parents God gave them.
Family rights are God-given rights. And they should not be ignored or postponed. Every moment these loving parents and children spend separated from one another is a torment beyond what anyone should ever have to bear.
It is unworthy of human dignity to allow this terrorism and torture of families to go on without saying something, speaking out, and trying to make a change.
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Fighting Child Protective Services False Accusations
July 9, 2007
A three-year-old girl in Oregon is suffering from permanent brain damage inflicted by her foster parent, a man who became frustrated with her crying when she was only three months old. He punched her and cracked her skull, and she’ll never recover. In May 2007 a federal lawsuit awarded her $960,000 which will be paid by the taxpayers of Oregon.
Source: Caseworkers intended to help the baby, but they waited too long
The state child welfare agency struggles to protect kids, even as it settles the case of an infant whose foster father left her with permanent brain damage by Brent Walth for The Oregonian, published July 3, 2007.
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A Fight CPS reader requests letters:
It is my hope that your readers will express their outrage, regardless of where they live, and write a letter to the editor of the Oregonian…. They request a letter of no more than 150 words, and the writer’s name, address, and phone number need to be included. (Should they need to edit, verify writer, etc.)
Thank you,
Lucy Brackett
From the article by Brent Walth:
“The baby girl lived in a house littered with dirty diapers and slept on sheets soaked in her own urine. Her older brothers — both toddlers — showed signs that they often went hungry. The adults in charge struggled to make ends meet and care for the three children. The children might have been candidates for state foster care. Except this was a foster home, and caseworkers wanted to get the neglected children out of the house.”
The foster parents were practically children themselves!
“N.E. was born in September 2003 to a mother who tested positive for methamphetamine use. State officials quickly took the baby into custody and placed her with foster parents, Melissa Kavanaugh and Terence Chi Hui. Kavanaugh and Hui — then 21 and 23 — had no experience as parents, but the state had recently certified them as foster parents after they completed required training.”
Terence Chi Hui, who was working as a computer network consultant with AT&T Wireless, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted assault and was sentenced to 72 months in prison.
Thanks to Lucy Brackett for sending this to me via email.
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SHEER EVIL!!!!!!! how much more do kids need to suffer before the GOV get it in their HEADS that it needs to STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what in the WORLD is it going to take?
that is the QUESTION of the DAY…
Comment by Angela Hawk — July 10, 2007 @ 11:19 am
why was this person allowed to pled guilty to attempted asault when clearly he amitted to asaulting a 3 month old baby, this is not justice. this person should spend the rest of his life in prison or better yet receive the death penitly. cps please quit helpig so many families enough children have been neglected abused and even murdered in your protecting hands
Comment by Christy — July 14, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
These 2 young people ( not committed to each other) had NEVER parented a baby.
Why isn’t CPS placing these helpless infants with FAMILY?
By not even looking into family fostering, I believe a case can be made for the prosection of DSS in Oregon.
Sounds like a fact pattern that an independent attorney could litigate v DHS.
Perhaps could be precedential.
Comment by Fern — July 15, 2007 @ 6:26 am
That is absolutely horrible. I being an ex-Oregonian have seen CPS at work there. I knew loving foster parents that have had all their children ripped away because someone or a troubled teen that lives with a foster family for a short time goes and tells a lie… and then I read stories like this of degenerates being approved as foster parents no problem, and end up abusing innocent children and it just makes me more angry.
I am so outraged. I will say I am not surprised this has happened in the good old communist state of Oregon. I think they are the leaders in dividing families in this country, it fits their agenda.
I have never seen more kids ripped out of loving homes in anywhere else I have lived than in Oregon, where I was raised…
I hope this goes through further legal action because it is injustice if those poor children are not fought for…
Comment by Kristy — July 16, 2007 @ 9:17 am
I am OUTRAGED. CPS is supposed to be protecting these children. Some of the homes they put them in are worse than the ones that they came from. They don’t want to take the time to check out these foster parents and the children are getting abused. We need to find a better way to protect our kids.
Comment by Susan Guthrie — July 25, 2007 @ 4:33 am
I am not surprised with the actions of CPS. It is an exact example of what occured with this circumstance as to how they deal with abused children in other settings. CPS needs to be held liable and responsible for the neglect and poor judgement calls that they decide upon. Some agency above CPS periodically needs to review and look into the cases that CPS has undertaken, and intervene, if neccessary.
During my own severe childhood abuse, CPS did nothing to alleviate my situation, and actually aggravated it further. They sat me down right next to my step-faher and asked me if I was being abused! What child, scared and intimidated, would admit this to this agency, knowing that the parent whom caused this ill would further take action at a later time? I ended up with skull fractures from head trauma, my skull still bleeding for 2 days after this event.
My son was also not protected by CPS. My ex husband had a girlfriend with a violent temper. Pamela, in a rage, threw my son, whom was around 9, on the ground and beat his head on the floor. I had my son checked by a doctor, called the police and contacted CPS. They gave me a “temporary hold” until an investigation was done. At the end, they ordered me to give my son back to my ex and Pamela, stating that it was only her “first offense” with an abuse charge against her, that it was on “record” but felt that it was safe enough for my son. I was appaled and outraged!
THIS is what good CPS does, not only in example of what occurances transpired with me, but a great many people also exerience the same frusration that I do. Countless cases against CPS are are told, yet nothing is being done to prevent poor decisions from resulting in the deaths and serious injuries of children everywhere. They are understaffed, overworked, and not properly trained enough to make a wise action. We need to have CPS regulated and educated to have better results in the future for the sake of our children!
Comment by heather railng — January 1, 2008 @ 12:34 am
you peoople from Oregom when Hilary Clinton comes to your state ask her about parental rights tell her about this website.
Comment by Terri — April 26, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
I feel terrible for the children who are abused, neglected, and abandoned. And I am sorry for the pain anyone suffers. But as a parent myself and now raising my daughter (previous foster child) I would have to defend CPS and other foster parents. CPS have the hardest job out there and they do a good job. The system is not perfect, but nothing is. As for foster parents, these are people who open their homes and heart to innocent children. Not all foster parents are bad, and not all biological parents are good. My advice to you who feel the need to criticize the people who are out there trying to make a difference; you need to realize that you would do more good joining up with CPS to help them fill the gap of the bad foster homes by becoming a good foster home. Standing around complaining that CPS and SOME foster parents do not do a good job is ignorant. Unless your willing to open your heart and home to children, what right do you have to tell the people who are trying that they are doing a bad job? Take personal responsability and make a difference, not another problem.
Comment by Kendra Skiles — June 22, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
72 months isn’t enough for ruining a little girl life. The girl will suffer the rest of her life. What kind of Law is it? She deserve to be burn ALIVE
Comment by mccuthul — August 20, 2008 @ 1:13 am
I read all these different perspectives about bad and good foster parents and kids being abused and neglected. I say try a year with no child protective services ripping families apart and see how the death and permanent damages decrease. I know that some kids need help. For gods sake call the police not CPS if a child is being abused.
If a child is doing without ! Pitch in and help. Cases of what each individual percieves as neglect are on different planes. Even the worst cases of neglect can change with a little help to get a family over whatever hump in life they are facing. Foster care should be reserved as a last resort for the children that have parents carted off to jail for real abuse. Even then grandma and Grandpa should be called first. Aunts uncles and friends should also have the kids placed with them before any foster parent is considered. From the second these kids are considered in danger.
Where the hell have the good people with common sence gone. Oh yeah to the bank that is where.
Comment by Elaine Wolcott=ehrhardt — February 14, 2009 @ 6:24 pm
Elaine Wolcott=ehrhardt,
Yes I second that, trying a year with no child protective services. I also believe that the abuse will decrease. I also believe the police can handle true abuse cases and the person shall have their day in criminal court with due process. Unlike the many families that are brought into juvenile court with no due process and abused by the system that is supposed to protect the children, who are often the target of abuse, by the ones that say were only doing whats in the best interest of the child.
Comment by christy — February 14, 2009 @ 11:12 pm
No—CPS/DHS doesn’t need more people to come support their corrupt system— a system that shuffles innocent kids through a revolving door of therapists, mediators, DHS staffers, children’s lawyers, and court rooms. Too many immature, emotionally imbalanced, and alcohol or drug addicted people work their way into the foster care system, when they have no business being foster parents. They feed off the system, and CPS/DHS gladly holds the door open to these supposed “do-gooders”, who often can’t hold down a job and need a source of income.
Children’s services needs to be completely overhauled, from top to bottom. Poor folks know this is the place to “get a kid”, and have the state help the foster parent financially should it go to adoption; resulting in their ability to receive all the benefits “due” a child. Heck, the nanny state will even help pay for child care, food stamps, and schooling for the “struggling” foster parents—FOLLOW the money people. All the court cases, endless wranglings with DHS/therapists/psychologists, and paperwork has to be paid by someone—-the burden falls on the taxpayers!!! When foster parents are in the system for themselves, and NOT for the poor child who is quite often completely cut off from the biological relatives—THEY should pay their way and not expect we, the taxpayers, to fund their need for a child. So often the single foster parent has an insatiable need for a child, and will do anything to get a child (even taking someone else’s child with DHS’s help) even though their is no husband and potential father in sight! More on this in Ann Coulter’s new book, “Guilty”–a must read for those uninformed.
Bottom line— clean up DHS/CPS, return children to their bio relatives if the parents haven’t gotten their lives together, and quit throwing more money at DHS in their unending plea for “more funding please”.
The judges, caseworkers, state-appointed lawyers, and child psychologists/therapists keep patting each other on the back as they supposedly seek to act in the “best interests of the child”—-how incredibly shameful they act—but happy are they that their paychecks and fees keep coming in! All at the expense of the children they are supposed to serve, and on the backs of everyday taxpayers.
Comment by Kyla — February 17, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
I am a mother whose three youngest children have just been granted by the local judge to have mine and my husband’s Parental Rights TERMINATED on. This judge allowed DHS to present evidence that could have been disputed my my oldest child into the court record, but refused to allow me to address the court on that court record. The local courts have FAILED to PRESERVE the record which the higher courts depend on in a ‘de novo’ review of the case. My daughter was subpoenaed to testify and DHS refused to transport her (knowing she would blow their evidence and testimony to shreds) and told us we had to figure out how to get her there. They have custody of her. We would have been jailed for kidnapping if we had tried to transport her. Our attorneys also refused to bring her in to testify against our wishes. The Judge ruled to terminate because of a haircut that I have given my daughter to CORRECT the butchering she had done to herself. She wanted short hair and never had a problem with the haircut, the adults did. No one asked us about what had happened and decided my daughter needed to go back into care. They even lied to her to get her into the vehicle from her school, and THEN notified us they had removed her again. The Judge called the haircut cruel, and abusive, and COMPARED it to CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. My children had NEVER suffered abuse until they entered foster care. My oldest son was a recipient of some incompetent foster parents. All they got was their license removed, NOTHING else was done to them. If it had been us, we would have been jailed immediately. My son never got any justice. There are some foster parents who are decent. The problem is, they are few and far between. And mixed in with a corrupt DHS, it tends to give those who truly care about the children a bad name. We as a general public need to protest DHS. We need to stop talking and come to action. The health, safety, and sanity of our children and the sanctity of the family depends on it.
Comment by Crystal Shugars — April 19, 2009 @ 6:52 pm
HELP!! My two daughters ran away because they did not want to face the consequences for their lies about how mean we are as parents. They told all the powers that be my husband tried to touch them.
Madras, Oregon DHS and one specific investigating police detective helped them elaborate their lies until my innocent husband ended up with 11 charges ( 5 felony, 6 misd.). DHS did no investigation of anyone who knew me or my husband, nor would they listen to any of our explanations to counter the teenagers’ stories. They never reviewed the charges with us as the law says they are suppose to.( I had recorded this meeting without telling anyone. Didn’t think I had too because Oregon is a one party state. Tell them anyway! DHS staff is so stupid they tell lies even with the recorder going. I know , I have dozens and dozens of such recordings- all legal!) It is an issue to appeal if they didn’t, but with a plea, appeals are not allowed.
I need to find a way to get them in court to show they completely lacked a proper investigation. We had a lawyer who refused to investigate any of the lies we uncovered against the cops and judges who continually ruled against us The result is that he was pressured to take a plea of minimum 6 1/2 years prison time.
One piece we wanted checked was the police detective’s recording of the search of our house. It is 2 min. LONGER than the stated time on the recording and we have an analysis of at least 6 places where it has been cut and possibly edited. Lawyer wouldn’t explore it further.
Same Det. illegally took a digital recorder from my purse, down loaded and listened to it on his computer, distributed it as discovery. Then I got arrested 5 months later, for making this recording (the DHS meeting). I filed an ethics charge against the DA for false arrest. He arrested me for making this recording of a private meeting, BUT the complaint against him was dismissed because he now says it was a semi-private meeting. The info was shared with police and the DA for the investigation so it really was not really a private meeting. How can he have it both ways but I can’t? I challenged the decision and appealed the decision. Still waiting for an answer. All charges were dismissed against me for the recording after the judge ruled the cop exceeded the scope of the search warrant because he didn’t get a warrant to listen to the recording. I have never been in any trouble with the law and I have been in court more times than anyone person should.
I am a teacher and because of the charges against my husband, I may lose my teaching license for not reporting something that didn’t happen and we have no way to prove it. They say I had to have known about it.
I need to find someone in Oregon who can help me expose this Madras, Oregon crooked police department, file some kind of lawsuit against DHS, and do something against the lawyer to get some of our $38,000 back. We want to get this in the newspaper but are not sure how to do it and not make it sound like a couple of whiners. We want justice for ourselves and to make sure our kids know the consequences of their lies. We want the deceiving liers in DHS and the MPD to be held accountable for what they did to us and hopefully stop others in this community from having to go through this nightmare.
Comment by Deanna Shepherd — September 18, 2009 @ 12:37 am
Hello, I am a young struggling mother… trying to make lemonade out of the sourest lemons. I have 3 children, yes… I said 3. Ages 7,4, and 3. I am so concerned CPS will come to take my children away. I really cannot think of a single thing I could have done to deserve this, as my children are all well fed, clean and have all of the clothes they need.
At the beginning of this month, my 4 year old son was shoved off of the monkey bars at Salem’s Riverfront Park. He broke his arm in 5 places, and we RUSHED him to the ER. Next thing I know there are social workers in MY SONS ER ROOM! BEFORE he had even recieved any tylonol or anything for the pain, and he was then pressured to discuss the incident.
He was sitting there with a SHATTERED elbow at 4 years old, and she wouldn’t let it go for awhile. So he said, plain as day “my friend pushed me off the monkey bars”… it wasn’t enough for this woman. She then started prodding at me and my fiancee.
We even pulled out the camera, which we had JUST used to take pictures at the park, in which my son was wearing the SAME clothing… he even pointed to the boy that shoved him without provocation.
Next thing I know, my life is under a microscope. I honestly believe it was ONLY because of my age, and that I was abused in a past relationship, which I GOT OUT OF ON MY OWN.
In addition to having all of their basic needs met, my children have so much love in their lives. My 7 year old has bi-polar disorder and ADHD, both of which he recently started medication for, and my middle son (4) has epilepsy, my Daughter (3) has athsma and a heart murmur. I have moved into a house with hardwood floors to ensure I can keep the dust mites at bay (as my daughter is allergic) and have based everything in my life around helping my children succeed in everything they do.
I have a good job, and carry private insurance for my children. I pay my taxes and am a productive member of society. At one point I even worked 2 full time jobs to avoid public assistance and second-rate medical care. I am baffled at this case, and the need to pull at my family. They have been in my home several times… and I am terrified by their silence. Please dear lord, Do NOT let them return.
I love my children so much, they are my life, my light, the joy in every burst of laughter… to take them is to take my soul. This will be the 3rd case they have found to be completely unfounded against me. Same person making the other claims until the hospital I believe. We were thinking about just moving to another state after they finish the investigation and the case is closed. I do not feel that as a young mother with children that have disabilities, that my family will survive oregon CPS.I need advice, and support.
Comment by Jessie NonyaBUS — October 25, 2009 @ 1:22 am
Jessie, hang tough - I know how unnerving it is to have CPS workers investigating you. Have they said yet whether they’ve closed the case? How long has it been since they were in your house? You know you don’t have to let them in (the Fourth Amendment guarantees your right to privacy in your home.) They’ve seen it enough already. I hope you’ll be able to relocate, but wherever you go in the USA, CPS is there. Truth be told, there are a lot of complaints about CPS in Oregon. I hope if you move you can get another good job. Times are hard right now, because of the recession.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — October 25, 2009 @ 4:57 am