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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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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
April 9, 2009
This afternoon I looked at a Squidoo lens about Open Letters… and of course CPS came to mind. If I was to write and complain about anything, it would have to be about CPS!
So here’s a plan. We can all write these open letters…. then I’ll gladly publish them on the front page of this site so long as they are about CPS (on topic) and clean/non-abusive. I can’t publish anything that would bring bad vibes to this site in the form of angry public officials demanding retractions… but perhaps with names removed you could tell a few people off.
Anyhow, you’re welcome to write your open letter and send it to me at: webmaster -at- fightcps.com … and please let me know if you want me to make up a fake name, or publish your real name. Either way is fine with me but if you have an open CPS case I recommend anonymity.
I look forward to reading some great letters. Please everyone, participate! This could be fun and at the same time will be a good way to get some strong feelings off your chest.
If I get enough of these letters, I can put them together in an e-book we could give to all sorts of people needing CPS information … wouldn’t that be cool?
So who will you write to? Your social worker? The foster parent? The Juvenile Court Referee? The psychologist?
Be as creative as you like. Illustrations welcome!
Filed under: Activism — LindaJoMartin @ 3:09 pm
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In 1955, a year I was not yet born. My mother was in foster care. Time went on and she met my dad. They had four children together. Then, she had one more, by another man. In 1967, my life was to change forever. Child Welfare took my siblings and myself and threw all of us to the four winds. We cried, we begged, we were abused in foster care. I was put in more foster care, until finally I landed in Cunningham Children’s home, Urbana Illinois. They have a neat web site. Also along the way, I was put into mental institutions of the worst kind and falsely diagnosed with severe schzophrenia. Which later was retracted and now is rightly diagnosed as severe PTSD. I wonder what all those years of forced medication is doing to me.
In 1978, I was pregnant, maybe this time I could have a ‘real’ family. No, child welfare took him away, he was adopted out. A few years later I was married and had a baby, child welfare made sure he got the child. A year later I had a little girl, I was so afraid they would find out I had her, I never told anyone about her. She died in my arms one night, diagnoses cancer. A few years later I had another child. My son, they took him away. I cried. I gave up. I was lost. Child welfare took my visitation away, for a year, because I had a small sore on my wrist I covered with a band-aid.
I decided to stand up and cry, and to not be invisible. To say, you raised me and yet you condemn me. Now you want to raise my children, yet to condemn them too? What is your problem. My son turned 5 years old and they finally gave him back.
The LCSW who did my final evaluation. I will quote what she wrote to the court: Signed
“All Child Welfare Cases involving poor families have, to some extent a political aspect. And this case is, an example of a class struggle. There is an underclass in America. They are over represented in the Child Welfare System. They are ~ and ~ friends. They have lost their children. And those of us who work in the system hold them to the same standards as the middle class. But they have a different set of values which serve them in the culture they were born into. - and - poignantly and eloquently confront us with what it is like to live in that world. They ask us to listen. They refuse to be invisible. They demand that we look at the world through their life experiences and not judge them by our lives. There certainly are risks for any child growing up poor in America. There will be risks for ~. He will not have money, but he will not be impoverished. If ~ is to be returned to his mother he will certainly be subjected to the risks of living in this underclass. But his mother, and her boyfriend are not ordinary representatives of this class. If returned ~’s family experience will be living with political philosophers and poets, creative geniuses (sometimes living on the edge of insanity) who can and do describe to us what it is like to be a member of the underclass in the richest society known to mankind. They are not just takers and users. They are contributors. They contribute to the social conscience. They contribute to mine.
~
So, I brought my boy home.
A few years later my son that Child Welfare had stay with his fathers family died by suicide.
The son that Child Welfare adopted out ask me ‘why I did it’, what is my answer? ‘Why did Child Welfare do this?’ Do you have a real answer.
Now he doesn’t call or give me his phone number.
My last son that they returned has to live with someone with severe PTSD. I fight it constantly. He is now 22. He met a girl. I can’t let go. Without all the pain.
I want vindication. I want the world to know that they took me to protect me, and brought me up abused and neglected and raped. Now, I am just trying to keep what I have. I want my oldest son to know the truth
How can I be helped?
I plead for vindication…
Recompense
I will put all on the line.
Please email me at istiandtris at yahoo.com
Comment by Isti May — April 9, 2009 @ 4:29 pm
Isti May, I also have a child who was kept from me, who barely knows me, and who was brainwashed against me. She has Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) meaning that she thinks I must be very bad and it is her choice to never speak to me again. She doesn’t realize she was brainwashed. It is a constant torment not to be able to reconnect with a much-loved child. You have my sympathy and empathy as I know exactly what it feels like.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — April 10, 2009 @ 1:07 am
Hello,my parental rights were terminated 7 yrs ago let me please make this very clear to the readers because this is a very crucial part that is important:My parental rights were not terminated because I was abusing or neglecting my children,I voluntarily called child protective services for help,I had 2 weeks to move out of the home I was renting,also we were running low on food and I had no family members willing to help us 0 support-The day I called was the same day my children and I were severed from one another.
Just writing this is very difficult for me it brings pain that runs through my heart like fire Because I think about not my own pain but the suffering and pain that has been afflicted on my children..This was a decision that hindered me for years,I was bed ridden and literally tortured daily within my own mind, I could not function I could only imagine what my children were going through emotionally,mentally,phisically.I know they were hurting beyond my own comprehension.
A few months later I contacted Muskegon Michigan DHS- on behalf of my children,I told the caseworker my children need me and I them we need to be together,She told me there is a court date scheduled and that I need to be there,I first met with a court appointed lawyer explaining to her what happened,She felt confident that my children would be returned to me,I was hopeful.
The court appointed lawyer told me that each of my children were asked where they wanted to be at, She expressed to me they said I want to be home with my mom,The day of court I was informed that this court date was for the termination of my parental rights,although it was not it was only the beginning of the termination of my parental rights,Judge Ruck from Muskegon county asked me why I missed a court date that was previously scheduled, I told the court I received no documentation to attend a Hearing because I had not given my new address to the court because I did not need my children’s dad knowing where I lived because I was fearful of him,This was held against me,Judge Ruck was insensitive and inhumane to my children’s needs and to the reunification of my family.
Basically another court date was scheduled I came and was able to express my thoughts and what I knew best about my children, I expressed to Judge Ruck that I made a decision that was not in the best interest for my children-I made a mistake and that I need my children back, I Love them very much He told me Love has nothing to do with it, I pleaded with the Judge for the return of my children and that all I wanted was my children to be given what I thought at that time in my life they wanted which was both mother and father a place where they would flourish mentally and emotionally, but see my children were receiving what they needed mentally and emotionally from me I just didn’t realize it and it cost me my children.
I was condemned and ridiculed for wanting a better life for my children, better then what I could provide for them at that time in my life.after pleading with Judge Ruck he told me the only reason I could see you wanting your children back is for the money, which welfare don’t pay enough for that,it was his personal opinion that severed my children and I, it was misleading and untrue now my children linger in the system they have been abused mentally and physically and emotionally and have become a burden to society.
Judge Ruck terminated my parental rights due to me missing the court date that I was not aware of. He said it was neglectful so this is the grounds of why my parental rights were terminated, missing a court date that I knew nothing about and He knew why as I stated above.
Mind you protective services had never been involved in my life previously to me calling them for help. no police records,nor do I have a criminal history of any sort,my record was and still remained clean and till My parental rights were unjustly terminated. There is more to this story,That will be revealed the day I take them to court.
The child protective worker who came to my house that day intimidated me caused me to feel the only option I had was to give up my children I was naive. Since all of this I have Learned my constitutional rights, my children’s rights, The Law. I believe this happens to many familys because they lack knowledge and understanding about the Law and how it works…And there are people who prey on poor/uneducated individuals for profit it’s very sad but very true in many many cases.
Muskegon county is filled with corruption,Children in the foster care system in Muskegon county stay in the system and till they age out, DHS/MCI superintendent makes sure of that even if there are willing familys to adopt or maintain a permanent guardianship who completes homestudys/psyc evaluations and go through all the Muskegon county DHS hoops, these familys pass everything you still wont get the opportunity to give these children a good life DHS/MCI makes it impossible for you, They wont let go of the $…. I pray for this to come to a Head in muskegon county, May God bring what is in the dark to the Light for the children.
Comment by Joe — April 12, 2009 @ 7:08 pm
My name is Karina and I am 22 years old. I am a young mother of 3 beautiful children. My life has been hard. My parents never got along and when I was 6 they got a divorce. I dont fully know everything that they fought about but the thing I do remember was mediators. I remember how they kept repeating things to my brother and I so they could record it. Things that were not true. I decided to not have kids at all. Adoption might have been a possibility if I was married for a few years. Yet thats not how it happened.
I went to a continuation school my senior year. I was behind 15 units and my old school would not allow me back. Thats where I met the guy who is the father of my 2 children. I met his sister, mother and brother. All you could tell were not all there. When I would wait outside his house I would hear his mom and brother yelling at my ex. Threating to beat him and told him never to come home. From that moment on I knew his family was not a family to be connected with. I became pregnant at the age of 18. I knew my family wouldnt accept it but I dont believe in abortion. Adoption? No I wanted to try to raise this child with my ex.
5 months into my pregnancy I found out my mother had only 30 days to live. HEARTBREAKING! She was my best friend and the one I ran to. I needed her more than anything and to find that out tore me up. Not being any better was the father had left me for drugs and party times. I had no choice but to go for adoption. I found a family that went to my church. They had been trying for kids for 5 years. I met them and felt it was OK. We discussed visitation and other things and what we agreed apon sounded fair. Yet when my son was born it all changed. The family said I couldnt see my son nor have updates. They told my grandma more things about my son then me! The father and his mother pleeded with him to get my son back. They said I could go to school and still be a mom! Fabulous! Yet thats not how it went either.
I got my son back when he was 5 weeks old. Drama and fighting was all that went on in that house. My friends helped me leave and I took my son with me. Heres were it begins. Out of anger the mother and aunt were so upset they had the nerve to call CPS on me. Saying my son was in danger and had NO medical care. The 2 social workers never actually called me back even after I left them 5 messages. I asked my dad what do I do when they wont call me back? He said you have done enough let it be. So I did. I took my son to his dr appointments and he was loved and taken care of. The father never asked to see him nor asked how he was.
When my son was 9 months old we went to his fathers work for a birthday party my uncle threw for my cousin. He said why dont you stay at a hotel for the night and I will take Josh so you can relax. O.o was the expression on my face. Did he really just say that? Well I got a room and I fell asleep before he came. My friend was in the room and she let my ex in to take my son WHICH HE DIDNT DO. He lied and said I told him he could sleep with me. He ended up raping me. I was sleeping and when im in a deep sleep its hard to wake me up. I woke up to him hurting me and I quickly pushed him off and was WTF are you doing?! He said I wanted it and asked for it. Im like how Im SLEEPING! That was the night I became pregnant with my daughter.
He once again denied my son and my daughter when she was born. His mom and sister knew about her but didnt care one bit. When my daughter was 1 month old I had 2 police officers show up at my door. I was in the middle of giving my daughter a bath and my son was visiting my sister. They pulled me aside and said CPS was trying to contact me but couldnt, we have a call of abuse on you and your son. I said who said this and what was said? They said it was an annonymus call but the caller stated once again that my son had no medical care and my ex was beating my son and I. Well I lived with my ex and his family and the mother jumped in saying this is not true. The police said well we came to check on them and a social worker will be by tomorrow morning.
Early morning a social worker knocked on my door. It was feeding time for my daughter so my friend offered to feed her while we talked. I stated that these calls need to stop. You guys come here with the same report and find NOTHING. I said the grandmother is obviously upset and is trying to get my son taken away. The social worker couldnt make any promises. She searched my house, made her report and left.
Around this time the father had said his mom and sister wanted to see my son. He never said anything about him just his mom and sister. When my son came back from his visit he was extreamly sick. He couldnt breath and wouldnt eat so I took him to the ER. I spent 5 hours there to have a doctor tell me nothing was wrong. I called the father and yelled. He said he was already sick which wasnt even true. A few months later my son had another visit. He came back sick and in diapers that were too small and clothes way too big. I said this is enough if you want to see him you see him when I’m around. If you dont like it then I’m sorry. He didnt like that nor did his mother.
From Jan to May I had jumped from 3 places. Not by my choice it was the owners. First place was because my ex and I were not getting along. The second was the landlord said we had to leave because it wasnt in contract that I could live there. I moved to my cousins apartment. My kids had their beds and toys and we played all the time. My friends soon became my enemies. Sending me death threats from restricted numbers and so forth. I called the cops but there was nothing they could do. So I called my ex and said would it be alright if the kids and I came for a bit to get away from this. He said sure. My ex of 8 years had said why dont you fly to Vegas to see if you would like to move here with the kids. I set up Josh to stay with his dad but the grandmother said they would not watch my daughter because she wasnt their’s. My friend offered and I was going to be paying her. She lived in a motel with her 2 kids. After my arrangements were made I was dropped off at the airport and flew to Vegas.
2 days after being there I get a call from my ex saying my daughter is missing and my son was taken away by CPS. Frantic I booked a flight back home to find out what happened. Come to find out I was set up. I go to court to read the report and my jaw dropped to the floor. The grandmother and aunt both called CPS on me and said I abadoned my son and daughter to live in Vegas. They said I did meth and I abused my kids there and ignored them. I couldnt belived how I was backstabbed. My son ended up staying with his father and my daughter was removed from me after court. She went into foster care. I cried and cried and said what did I do to deserve this?! This was not the end.
My daughter went into a depression state and stopped eating and she was quiet and stared at a wall. She was taken to the ER and stayed there for a few days. The social worker told me I could come by at 7 to see her. I said cant it be earlier I mean thats my daughter in the hospital. She said no. When I arrived with my brother I saw my ex, his gf, mom, 2 sisters and their friend all walk out of the room. I was furious! This social worker let some people who werent even the biological family see her before me! I talked with her and said this isnt right you said you were busy and your here with them?! She had no excuse she just said they came with no warning. I walked in the room and held my daughter. She was limp and lifeless. The social worker my brother and the foster mom left to talk while I was alone. I cried. I told her I was sorry that she got put in this mess. I was only allowed to see her for an hour. I went home and didnt sleep. I was told I could come again to have a 2 hour visit. The foster mom and I talked. We became friends. She updated me on my daughter and everything. She was an angel.
Next court date my enemies appear. Starting more trouble than ever. 11 people teaming up on just me. Their lies breezed through court while my proof of how unsafe the father and grandmother was didnt. Their lies ruined my case even more. The doctors that looked at my daughter said she was mentally retarded because of her flat head. Now my cousin had a son who had a flat head. She went to classes and learned that a flat head doensnt make your child mentally retarded. Yet when I brought that up they ignored it. Nothing I said was even brought up only what everyone else said. My enemies walked out of there with their noses in the air. To this day they laugh at the thougth of what they did and how glad they are.
Sept will be 2 years since my children were removed. My social worker did nothing but ruin my case. She delayed my case plan and ruined my visits with my kids. In the end my rights became terminated. I told the social worker if she placed my son with his father I would never hear from him again. Which is now true. I never get pictures, updates or anything. My family says that my son has gone downhill. His father feeds him fast food every day. My son violently beats his toys and grunts. He no longer talks. I sent my social worker an email and never got one back. Shows right there that money talks and &^%$ walks. I left my son who I gave birth to in March and my daughter with the foster family. I know many people have had bad experiences with foster homes and such but I was truely blesses to find this family. They love my kids unconditionally.
As for now…. I will be 23 in May. Im pregnant with twins and I’m due Oct 2. Not a day goes by where I dont fear that CPS will walk their way into my house and destroy my life even more. I sit and think of ways to fight what CPS has done to me and my family. Yet I am helpless. This website does help a lot. I want to finish up my degree on criminal justice and hopefully become an attorney who fights CPS with these things. Law has been my passion since I was 10. I hope one day this all ends.
Comment by Karina — April 14, 2009 @ 4:41 pm
I would like to add my story to this open letter project. My children are 9 and 15 and I lived in a small town in Indiana and on Dec. 28, 2008 CPS came to my door and said they received a call that I was manufacturing Meth and I knew that not to be true so I let them come in and see for themselve (that was a huge mistake)once they were in thats when all the lies started. I am a single mother and I would consider myself poor but rich with love and now determination! I was a random user of drugs but my children had no idea because I never did anything around them. I know I am not totally inocent in this matter but the lies that they (CPS) told were not right either. My children were not removed that night but they wanted me and everyone in my household to come in to their office the very next morning to have hair follicle tests done, well I was up all night thinking about what I should do the next morning I called a lawyer to ask how much I needed to hire him and he told me $2000 I only had $1000 (I had to borrow the rest from family) and I wanted a lawyer with me when I went to their office so I ask him what should I do he said “Do you have relatives you can go stay with for a couple days while you get the rest of your money together?” I said yes so I called the CPS lady and told her “I still want to cooperate but I have a few questions that need answers to (you see I also spoke with another county’s CPS lady that I knew and she told me the things I needed to ask before taking my children in for the hair test) 1. of the questions was “what are the allegations?” 2. ” are you substainiating child abuse or neglect?” 3. “is this going to be an in house chins” well at that point she was angry that I was asking these questions and she said “If you are not in my office by 9am (it was 8:15am) then I will send law enforcement to your home” So I paniced and told my children to pack a bag we are going to your aunt’s for the holiday (it was Dec. 29) so that is what I did I went to my sisters and got the other $1000 I needed to hire that lawyer Of course by the time I got the money was New years day so I had to wait until the next morning to get it to the lawyer and he tells me to go to the CPS Office and do what they ask of me.My sister calls him while I am on my way to CPS and he tells her if they remove my children he will get them back “promptly” she said define promptly he says “same day” well that did not happen they took my children and put my boy in foster care and my daughter with her father thank god I had him meet me there. CPS had pititioned orally to remove my children. Then my sister gets approved 3 days later to keep my son so they call me and tell me to come to the office for a visit while they transfer him to my sister. I do and then I am told that I can only have supervised visits because they heard me talking to my son about the a drug problem he has(LIE!) and we was talking on the phone to my daughter while in the visit and they told me to get off the phone so I told my son “if they say anything about the phone call you let them now we were talking to your sister” and that was made out to be me telling him to lie to them but it was not a lie. So we have the second hearing for Clarification of visitation- and the CPS lady gets on the stand and her lawyer ask her “when you went to the residents that night did you smell a strange odor?” and she said “yes after being in the home for just a few moments I could hardly breath and my throat started hurting and I could hardly carry on a conversation with officer ___ after leaving the home”
What my Q. is about that comment is “why did you leave my children there IF that was true. My lawyer did not ask that Q. even though I told him to.I was upset and of course all the Judge seen was me being hostile. Then the tests results come back saying my children had Meth in their system and I did not beleive that so I researched and ask clinics Q and also had another test done 2weeks after the 1 they did (they go back 90 days) and the test i had done came back negative plus in my research I found out that Meth only shows up in a test if someone is ingesting it themselves it will show up amphetimines if they are around it lets say while someone in making meth. I still have yet to get an answer as to why the tests came back different or why she would leave my children in a home that she couldn’t breath in! Oh and let me top the story off with the supervisor over all CPS ladies had a relationship in the past with my present mate. They tell me that this is the fastest they have ever seen a case go its been 41/2 months and I have moved out of the county and they have decided to give my children back but they want them to continue going to the schools they are in until school is out this year. At that time they say they will close the case. Ican’t wait until that day for more than 1 reason! Thank you for letting me share. Good luck to all of us and our children, best wishes.
Comment by Tina — April 15, 2009 @ 8:17 am
RE THE PEOPLE VS CPS PLEASE READ AND REPOST
Body: —————– Bulletin Message —————–
From: Sword Of Truth Crusader for CPS refor
To:
Date: Apr 10, 2009 5:56 PM
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL ANTI CPS MEMBERS
IMPORTANT NOTICE! REPOST.
please
Dear anti-CPS members:
We have been requested by the President to help with the reform of CPS. He has been in personal touch with one of our members and is expecting our help. If you are serious about your criticisms and your desire to see that the corrupt practices of the various children Protective services around the country be stopped, now is the time to act. President and Michelle Obama have the power and the willingness to make the changes we have been fighting for.
But he needs our help to set the wheels in motion. He has personally requested that we all send direct to him our experiences with CPS. The recount of your stories may be sent to either President Barack Obama or to the First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House Washington DC 20500.
In large block letters write “personal and confidential”
The letters may be typed or handwritten. Please no profanity.
If you have any questions, call Cheryl at (803) 438 8119 or contact her at Jane@abusefreedom.com
WE NEED EVERYONE EVERYWHERE TO GET INVOLVED IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW IS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH CPS PLEASE CONTACT US TO ANY GROUPS THAT ARE CURRENTLY FIGHTING CPS PLEASE CONTACT US WE WOULD LIKE TO GET EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT
THANKYOU ABUSE FREEDOM UNITED
http://WWW.ABUSEFREEDOM.COM
Comment by robin blithe — April 15, 2009 @ 9:36 am
My family is one of the lucky ones.
A teenage daughter, a good girl sheltered in many respects involved in her own teenage angst posted to a yahoo group claiming she was abused and was urged to call CPS.
The nightmare then began but owing to the fact that I work in the legal profession and thanks to this website, and to the NYPD, we prevailed.
Ten months later, our family never lived one day under CPS rule and our names are cleared.
But more importantly, or most importantly, our daughter is successfully enrolled in a good college, is maintaining her scholarship and is continuing with her life.
CPS does NOT help. It at best hinders and at worst destroys.
Comment by MaggieC — April 15, 2009 @ 6:47 pm
I would like permission to repost your request for these stories.
Comment by bellasmom06 — April 29, 2009 @ 3:19 pm
Yes, bellasmom, please repost this - I would love to get some open letters to post here.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — April 29, 2009 @ 10:15 pm
To the CPS, Court system and the Local Sheriff’s department,
Back in the day about 30-40 years ago the system to help the children that had no protection against their abusers was a great ideal. people stopped beating on their children and guide lines sprouted out of these ideals as to how correction could and could not be giving to a child. I saw as friends of mine was protected because of the CPS goals. and I grew up meeting some of the abused children placed into better homes. When I thought of foster care 6-10 years ago I would think of movies such as Angels in the Outfield. where forgotten or abused children found a place to call home.
I would like to ask however what happened to these social workers and judges over the years. now people with children especially those at or below the impoverished level of income are scared and frightened. They do everything they can for their children but with the tightening grip on how all the different levels of the government works. People find it hard to get help without being scrutinized and subjected to the prodding fingers of those that should be out to protect them.
Take schooling for example. We need certain paper work to get the child enrolled and to get some of those papers become nearly impossible if there is identification records or medical records lost. Transcripts from other school to school can be a large barrier when the schools to not use the same methods of transferring records. Some use certified mail between schools, some electronically, others still prefer that the parents or guardian bring them in personally. I understand the reasons behind most of it is so that children that have people caring for them are doing so illegally through kidnapping or what ever. But any child found un-enrolled is being “neglected” even if the parents or guardians are trying to tackle the paperwork but have to wait for each step that could take 4-6 weeks PER ITEM.
When asking for Welfare assistance for child daycare they can not get help unless they are working but if they are in a new area they may not be able to look for work without this child daycare assistance. We can not take the children all over town with us and expect a respectable employer to give you an interview. Especially if there are 4 or more children your trying to keep control of in order to talk the perspective boss.
This remains true for most assistance programs outside of ADC (Aid for Dependent Children), food stamps, Medical assistance. So finding work at these lower incomes with multiple children become harder. Especially if you moved to the area recently and do not know anyone.
I myself have been through this scenario. No help from anywhere and a extremely ill fiance` and between us 6 children. We sought help from the welfare assistance programs. but because we had just moved into the area was not able to get child care due to neither of us working. and I couldn’t leave the children with my fiance` for hours at a time when she could barely get out of the bed.
Until a neighbor that had issues with us after asking her to control her children decided to get back at us by kidnapping one of our children from the yard and called the sheriff’s department which her husband worked at as a dis-batch. She claimed that she found the child wondering and playing in a snowdrift. There was no snow outside. but someone that knew them from the force was first on the scene. After failing to persuaded my fiance (I was out looking for the child immediately and my fiance` had called the sheriff herself reporting a missing child) after about 15 minutes let herself into the home. there was several officers at the home by the time I got there. they searched and searched the home. Have you ever seen what the police do if they are searching for evidence of something? Have you at least seen the after math of such a search. after 3 hours of tearing our house apart claimed it to be to filthy and took pictures and walked off with our children. during that three hours we had been denied the right to have an attorney present even tho we was being “detained for questioning” and was also denied the right to make a phone call or even a advocate present.
It is chilling to hear your children in another room screaming “no no you cant do that, that’s not right, stop that!” and have officers stand in our way to protect our own children from what ever they was doing to our children. the one screaming this was old enough to know what is right from wrong. What was they doing to our poor children.
That’s where the real nightmare began. The CPS and court involvement. the lies started and didn’t stop flowing from the CPS workers mouths. and to be told by the judge that we had no rights. that the rights of a criminal outweigh the rights of a parent. although we was tried twice for the same incident. once in criminal court and a second time for 5 years in Juvenile court.
The CPS threatened, made promises, and continued to not serve their appointed duties. all the while our children was truly getting abused and neglected. they ate toxic materials from not being supervised. almost died from improper medical care ignoring my fiance’s diet and special care guidelines she had written to the CPS and foster care home. One of them was even molested. when we was allowed to visit the children they had bruises that what the case worker would say was an accident or just general roughhousing between the children. Then why is it we never had the same story from the children. at least till they started telling us “we are not allowed to talk about what goes on at the foster cares house anymore or we might lose the chance to visit you”.
The system has broken down and needs to have someone from the outside with a much better perspective on its original reason for being created. this is not a secluded circumstance but rather becoming the norm. a father down the street had his child returned to him 3 times during the time my fiance and I went through our case. And he was abusive and put the child in the hospital more then once.
I used to believe that my state was the best of them all away from the corruption and nightmarish stories you hear on the T.V.. And now….. Ive done some looking around and you cant tell me that all these people crying for a reform of the system are lying.
Because of the “system” I have lost my children, my fiance`, and everything that brought true joy and meaning to my life. I have heard stories of people killing themselves over these nightmare cases. I myself was almost one of those statistics.
Is it the money that floats through the system on a per child basis that drives you people? Is it Megalomania? What is it that gives you people such diverse pleasure to attack families that are struggling to do their utmost best? And most of all, how many lives must you tear apart and leave in ruin before you are done?
Makes me wonder what Paul Harvey and Andy Rooney would say with their logic and wisdom about the current state of Child Protection. the rate of teen pregnancy is higher from children place in foster care, higher rates of drug use and violent crimes. And the scariest of them all from any parents perspective is the rate of child death is higher in foster care. So who or what are you protecting at this point?
And if it is all about money, maybe you should get a job writing movies or books. You do have a great talent for making these fabrications up. I don’t think Stephen King would mind another horror writer being published. After all you made the Brady Bunch appear as evil and sadistic as the family in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Comment by Brett Leisy (aka Asunder) — May 5, 2009 @ 3:56 am