Please join, especially if you’d like to keep in touch with others who are writing letters to send her statement to legislators:

The Senator Nancy Schaefer Memorial Information Project

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Words cannot express how distressed I am to hear that our dear Senator Nancy Schaefer has died in what is being called a murder-suicide, along with her husband.

Nancy was the first state senator to speak out forcefully, truthfully about the corruption of Child Protective Services. For this reason some have surmised that this murder-suicide could actually be a cover-up for something more sinister… a silencing!

Regardless of how she died, she will be remembered for many years to come as a brave, honest, ethical and truth-telling woman who stood up to the child welfare industry and voiced the pain and trauma of those who had approached her for help with their Georgia CPS cases.

Let’s not let this be the end!

Please join me in taking a stand to make her life even more meaningful.

Here’s the plan.

1. Download a copy of Senator Schaefer’s report on CPS corruption.

2. Print out copies of pages one through seven.

3. Write heartfelt letters to every county supervisor in your county. Shorter letters are better, as they’re more likely to be read. Ask them to investigate and cut funding for CPS in your county. Send your letters to every supervisor along with a copy of Senator Schaefer’s report, pages one through seven.

4. Now send letters to every state senator, congressman, and legislator in your state! Remind them that federal child welfare laws are a violation of the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution and request State Sovereignty. Send them the first seven pages of Senator Schaefer’s report!

Please, please, please do this!

And if you take up the banner and run with it, please leave a comment on this thread to encourage others to participate.

We love you, Nancy!
So long as I’m alive you will NEVER be forgotten!
Thanks so much for all you did for CPS victims everywhere!

News Reports

What really happened? Friends, strangers wonder about Schaefer deaths – by Mark Davis, published April 3, 2010 in the Atlantic Journal-Constitution.

Hundreds attend Schaefer funeral by Mark Davis, published April 1, 2010 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

GBI: Husband shot ex-senator, then self by Alexis Stevens, published March 29, 2010 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Murder-suicide possible cause of deaths of former state Sen. Schaefer and husband by By Mashaun D. Simon and Aaron Gould Sheinin, published March 27, 2010 in theAtlanta Journal-Constitution.

GBI probing deaths of former lawmaker, her husband, an AP article published March 26, 2010 at Macon.Com.

I will be doing a series of articles to answer questions asked in a comment posted on March 26, 2010.

This question was asked by a social worker who is upset because I’m giving defense information publicly to people who may be guilty of child abuse.

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Q: How does your website weed out those who post their rants on here that ARE the guilty ones?

A: This may surprise you, but parents, guilty or not, have a right to information that will help them present themselves in court in the best possible light. Those that are innocent are more likely to get their children returned than those that have actually committed some form of child abuse.

This website doesn’t have to weed out child abusers from falsely accused people. That’s something the judges should be doing. The focus of this site is to provide victims of injustice with information on how to present their cases better in court. They need this information because court appointed attorneys usually do not do an adequate job of protecting family rights.

Since you’re involved with the CPS system as a social worker, you’re surely aware that social workers are trained to present their case in court with a comprehensive report. The caseworkers who write these reports have done so dozens or even hundreds of time and are expert at doing so. In the caseworker corner is an experienced county attorney. They’ve ripped hundreds of families apart – so they’re good at what they do.

On the other side of the courtroom is a confused parent with an attorney who is working for the county he’s supposed to be defending the parent against. This is a clear conflict of interest. These county-paid attorneys are known to help convince the confused parents to sign guilty pleas regardless of whether or not they are adequately good parents. The parents usually know nothing about what to expect or how to defend themselves. Thus the parents give up their right to a trial without ever realizing they have that right!

Once the plea deal is signed, the parents are forced into a service plan that ranges from intrusive and inconvenient, to abusive and detrimental to the family’s well being. For example, many CPS victim parents have lost their jobs because of service plan scheduling conflicts that caseworkers force upon them.

Many if not most of the lawyers these parents have don’t do a thing to help their clients who are taken advantage of in court, and in fact, serve the counties more than they serve their clients.

Furthermore there’s a huge issue with lack of regard for constitutional rights in juvenile court. A criminal accused of murder is given more rights than a parent in juvenile court, where there’s no right to a jury trial, no opportunity to face the accuser, no press and public allowed, and usually, no adequate representation. Constitutional rights are suspended in these cases, ostensibly “for the children.” But obviously it isn’t for the children at all. It is to imbalance the justice system and push through a family destruction agenda thrust on us by whatever evil power is creating the abusive federal child welfare laws.

Because constitutional rights are not allowed in juvenile court, virtually every parent processed through that system, guilty or not, is a victim of injustice. Every single one of them!

Obviously there’s an imbalance here. Parents are used and abused by this legal system and their children are often unjustly placed in foster homes when they could be home with their parents who love them. This is traumatic for both parents and children. And who is there to help, to explain the way the system works, and to show them what they can do to present their cases better in court?

Well, that’s where my site comes in. I give a few suggestions for being proactive participants in their cases, and show them how to get their court appointed attorneys to work for them rather than for the county.

Now if you, as a social worker, have any REAL evidence of child abuse, you can present that in court at a trial. However you rarely do that. In fact, it seems that most CPS victims are run through the system by a coercive court appointed attorney who convinces them to sign a guilty plea and give up their right to a trial. The bait? “Do you want to get your children home sooner? Sign or the judge will be upset with you. etc.” Therefore no EVIDENCE is presented in court, most of the time. That makes your job easy and the parents and children miserable. Of course ‘miserable’ is an understatement. We’re talking about seriously traumatized people whose families have been attacked.

It simply isn’t fair.

If you have real evidence, no child abuser will escape the system. However if your evidence isn’t convincing, the parents should get their children and their life back. And that’s how it should be.

It isn’t up to me to decide who is and who isn’t a real child abuser. I’m just here to help balance the scales of justice a little bit for those falsely accused parents who are lucky enough to (1) find this site, and (2) learn and apply a bit of legal self-defense. If child abusers find the site and use my ideas, I trust that the legal system and any actual evidence you have will suffice.