This Federal law was signed by President Bush in October, 2008.

Please, family members, look up the provisions of the “Fostering connections and success” Federal law, passed in 10-08.

I bet there is $$$ available for children where states did NOT follow this federal law.

SUE… SUE…. Sue..

Two groups:

http://www.citizens-for-change.org Wichita

Also, the NAACP ( NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE)

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Multimedia Watch The Video Both girls died this year. And now, for the third time Robertson is making plans to bury another baby.

“I wouldn’t wish it on the person I hate the most,” said Tommy Robertson.

All the more unbearable, says Robertson, is that none of it had to happen.

His ex-wife Katie Cornejo-Robertson is charged with killing two year old Daytona, her stepdaughter. Tommy Robertson says complaints of abuse were made to SRS, but nothing was done.

Then, his one year old stepdaughter was found dead at an in-home day care. The day care provider is charged with involuntary manslaughter.

And now his son is dead too after Cornejo tried to commit suicide while 6 months pregnant. Robertson says he notified police of a suicide note he says Cornejo had written.

“Hey gave her a court date instead of taking her back into custody,” said Robertson. “If they would have taken her into custody they could have made a proper decision and then watched her well being and then I would have a perfectly fine healthy baby.”

“I want the system to do their job and protect the child,” said Donna Roberts. She founded the group “A Child’s Rights Association”. On Friday Roberts is staging a march to raise awareness of the issues surrounding child abuse.

So far this year, four children have died of alleged abuse or neglect, including Daytona and Kailee.

“We have parents that abuse; we have the system that fails to protect,” said Roberts.

That march is tomorrow night at six. It starts at William and Topeka and will l be followed by a candle light vigil. Everyone is invited to attend. .

ADAM HERRMAN – The Family Reacts.
“Last time that I saw Adam, he was about 18 months old. When the state told me that I lost the rights to my kids, it went through me like a bullet,” says Irvin, Adam’s biological father. “When I found out that my son had been missing for 10 years, I had a rush of emotions. I didn’t know what to think. I thought he was going to get a home. A lot of people are thinking, ‘OK, you haven’t seen him in 20 years,’ but you know what? He’s still my son. The hardest thing is knowing that I lost him once and hoping to find him again one day, to find out that that will probably never happen. So I’ve lost him twice.”

Irvin’s ex-wife, Gerri, explains why her parental rights to eight children, including Adam, were terminated. “I tried to prove I could be a good parent. I guess I wasn’t good enough. I pray and hope every day that Adam is somewhere safe,” she says.

Adam’s adoptive aunt, Kim, says her sister constantly punished the child. “Valerie treated Adam a lot differently than she treated the other children. Valerie did abuse Adam,” she says. She explains a horrifying sight that she says she witnessed. “My husband and I went to Valerie and Doug’s house. When I walked into the bathroom, Adam was in the bathtub. He was chained — either with handcuffs or a chain — to the faucets. When I asked Valerie about why Adam was chained in the bathroom, she told me that he was being bad.

“Adam was always helping with the dishes. He was always putting the clothes away. Adam never went outside to play,” Kim continues. “One time Adam was eating with the other two children. The other two kids didn’t finish their food, so Valerie put it on Adam’s plate and told Adam to eat it. Adam made a comment that he was full. Valerie reached over and hit Adam in the back of the head so hard that his head went down into his plate. Adam was the one who Valerie took out all of her anger on.”

Dr. Phil explains that Valerie Herrman emphatically denies any abuse allegations. She and her husband, Doug, were asked to participate in the show, but they declined.

Along with Adam’s aunt, Kim, Dr. Phil is joined by Irvin and Gerri, who haven’t seen each other in 20 years.

Nancy Grace, host of Headline News, joins the conversation via satellite. A leading legal commentator, Nancy has followed missing children’s cases for years. Dr. Phil turns to her. “In this case, we have an 11-year-old boy who’s gone missing, and in 10 years not anybody has raised a question about his whereabouts. What does that say to you as a former prosecutor and as someone who tracks these cases?” he asks.

“And, as a new mother, I would like to add. When your child goes missing, and you don’t report it, it means one thing to me: that you are involved in the child’s disappearance,” Nancy says, visibly upset. “Dr. Phil, yes, they deny any guilt or any wrongdoing, but the state has named [Valerie and Doug Herrman] as formal suspects in little Adam’s disappearance. When I heard you play back that the family, the adopted family, came in and saw a little boy chained up in the bathroom — if that home had fallen down around me, I would have gotten that child out at that moment. Call the police, do something, but don’t just shut the door and leave the child in there. The whole family is responsible.”

Dr. Phil turns to Kim. “Nancy took the words right out of my mouth. At that point did you call the authorities? Did you call the police? Did you call Child Protective Services?”

Kim answers no to each query.

“Why not?” Dr. Phil asks.

“I don’t know how to answer that,” Kim says, fighting back tears. “I don’t know.”

“You left this boy chained to a bathtub fixture. You just turned the light off, shut the door, and that was the last he saw of you?”

“Yes.”

Dr. Phil wonders aloud if Kim understood the gravity of what she says she witnessed. “Did it occur to you that a crime was being committed and that you should pick up the phone and call some authorities to come in and take care of this child?” he asks.

“Yes,” she replies. “I went home, and I discussed it with my husband, because my husband walked in on it too, and this is the first time we knew anything about it. We had discussed it, and he said we needed to do something about it. The next day, I was going to call the authorities and Valerie came over, and we spent the whole day together. I commented again about Adam, where Adam was. She said Adam was in the bathroom at home locked up, because he was being bad.”

“So you saw it with your own eyes, then you went home and discussed it with your husband. Did he pick up the phone and call the authorities?” Dr. Phil inquires.

“No.”

Dr. Phil can’t conceal his astonishment. “Nancy, help me out here,” he says.

“Unfortunately, Dr. Phil, in our jurisprudence system, there is no duty to be a Good Samaritan. The only one she’ll answer to is God in heaven. She will never be prosecuted for this, but there were signals everywhere. She was not the only one who ignored it,” Nancy declares. “Listen to this, Dr. Phil. Just before he ‘goes missing,’ they take him out of the school system and decide to ‘home school.’”
Scene of a Crime

We’re at Pine Ridge, where Valerie, and Doug and Adam used to live. You can see the spot where they dug up to try to find evidence or a body,” she tells Dr. Phil cameras, gesturing to a fenced-off plot of land.

Kim holds up a newspaper bearing the headline: Missing Boy’s Parents Named as Suspects. “It’s very painful to read it, to know that my sister and brother-in-law could be accused of murdering Adam. In my heart, I don’t think Adam’s alive. I think my sister, Valerie, she didn’t mean to, but she just went too far and Adam’s gone.”

When the videotape ends, Dr. Phil turns to Adam’s biological parents. “What do you think about when you’re hearing all of this that was observed and going on?” he asks. “How do you feel about it when you hear about this?”

“Angry, frustrated,” Gerri says.

“Talk to me about why he was taken from your home and placed with this other family.”

“Because of a situation with the oldest child.” Gerri says.

“How many children have you had removed from your care by Child Protective Services?” Dr. Phil asks.

“In the State of Kansas, eight.”

“Eight children,” Dr. Phil says, letting that revelation sink in.

“I’ve been doing this a long time. It’s not just a matter of course that eight children be removed from a mother. What did they determine you were doing with these children that they had to remove them?” Dr. Phil asks Gerri.

“Nothing. It was based on what I did to my oldest daughter,” she replies. “I left a black-and-blue mark on her leg.”

“You’re telling me that you left one black-and-blue mark on one child, and they removed eight kids over the years?”

“Yes.”

Dr. Phil points out that Irvin is the father of two of Gerri’s children. “Why did you not take those two children when they were removed by Child Protective Services?” he inquires.

“I was going through the court proceedings with her at the time. Once the court proceedings were over with, I went back to Indiana. In Indiana, my lawyer contacted me and said, ‘They’re fixing to terminate Gerri’s parental rights, and they’re going to terminate yours also in the same batch.’ I said, ‘What can I do?’ He said, ‘You need to have a psychological evaluation done, you need to have a home study done,’ and a couple of other things that I don’t remember,” Irvin explains. “I tried everything I could to get those two children into my home. They sent back to Kansas and said that I’m not mentally capable of taking care of my two minor children so they decided to terminate my parental rights.”

Turning to Nancy, Dr. Phil summarizes, “We’ve got a situation where eight children have been removed from this biological mother. The biological father’s rights were terminated to two of the kids, and Adam, who is now, I guess, 21 years old, is just out there missing.”

“The reason you can’t make sense of it is because you’re not hearing the whole story. You are approaching it in a rational manner. You’re only hearing a sliver of the story that the biological parents, Irvin and Gerri George, want you to hear,” Nancy says. “Look, you don’t take away somebody’s parental rights because their home is too small. In the home I grew up in with two other siblings, a mom and a dad, you could stand in one place and see the whole house. They didn’t take us away. We had the happiest home that I’ve ever seen. So you’re not hearing the whole story from them.”

Nancy turns her wrath on Gerri. “She clearly beat her daughter and left her black and blue. So the children, eight of them — and I noticed she said, ‘in Kansas’ — are there other children somewhere else, in some other state?”

“I have two of them at home with me in Sterling, Colorado,” Gerri interrupts. “They’re doing just fine. They’re both in school, they’re both getting good grades, and they’re healthy as a horse.”

“There were multiple warnings. Little Adam was actually taken away from the Herrmans on one occasion and went to the Wichita Children’s Home for a couple of days when the state suspected they were abusing the little boy,” Nancy says. “They put him back in the Herrman’s home. There were several occasions when the state was alerted, ‘Danger, danger! This child is being abused physically.’ Nothing happened.”

Dr. Phil says that children need to be protected, and he points to Adam’s case as an example. “If there are parents at home that know of these kinds of situations, people have to do something. Children don’t have a voice. They don’t have the ability to know who to pick up the phone and call and say, ‘Rescue me. Save me,’” he explains. He turns to Kim. “I find it astounding that you could go home at night, and go to bed, knowing that a little boy was across town chained up in a bathtub.”

He addresses Nancy. “I want people to understand what they have to do here. They have to pick up the phone and call the authorities,” he says.

“It’s so easy, Dr. Phil. I’m just sitting here thinking of my own children and how defenseless they are, how they trust me. It’s on me to ensure their safety and their welfare. That’s all children have in this world, and everybody turned the other way,” Nancy says. “All we can do for Adam Herrman right now is to seek justice. And I’m happy to report that it is under investigation. That’s the only bright spot in this tragedy.”

Dr. Phil shows a picture of Adam at age 11 and an age-progression photo of the young man at 21.

Nancy adds a final comment about Adam’s adoptive parents. “They got $50,000, Dr. Phil. Don’t forget about that. After they claimed the boy ran away at age 11, after they beat him with a belt until he was black and blue — that’s what they confessed to — they kept collecting $700 a month of our tax money while the boy was gone. Over $50,000 they took, pretending the boy was still in the home.”

“We have to say that these are allegations until there are convictions. We have to hope that this boy is out there alive somewhere,” Dr. Phil says. “Adam if you are, if you are out there, come forward and tell your story,” Dr. Phil says.

If you know of Adam’s whereabouts, please call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST, or 1-800-843-5678.

Go to another activist Website:

http://www.familyrights.us

KS clips have been added to. Listen to what folks in KS are saying.