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.

A Georgia child welfare administrator for the Department of Children and Family Services (DFCS) has been arrested for felony child cruelty according to news reports. The accused woman, Cylenthia Clark, 38, is an assistant director for Fulton County DFCS.

On March 13, 2007 News4Jax.Com published this article:DFCS Official Accused Of Spanking Daughter With Belt. According to this news report the accusation came after school officials reported that the accused woman’s eight-year-old daughter had marks on her back and legs.

The mother apparently has confessed that she forced her daughter to strip down to underwear, then spanked her with a belt. She claims this isn’t child abuse and that it was done because the girl misbehaved at school.

The eight year old girl and her three sisters, ages 6, 5, and 3, have all been placed in protective custody.

Because of this accusation Cylenthia Clark is having second thoughts about how child abuse cases are handled. She is quoted as saying, “It makes me very empathetic; it makes me look at some of the cases that we handle. It’s something that down the line that it’s something that we are really following through and getting all the questions answered before we assume that person is guilty.”

And that’s a good point. Is she guilty? In America we are supposed to be considered innocent before proven guilty, however for thirty years parents have complained that in child abuse cases they are considered guilty first, then forced to prove their innocence. It can be very difficult to prove that something didn’t happen when government-paid experts are saying it could have.

What seems strange to me is that the arrest warrant states that the beating took place on February 7 but the school personnel didn’t see the welts until February 28. That’s 21 days later, and welts were still visible? If that’s correct, the injuries must have been severe.

Here is another news source for this story: DCFS Official Denies Abuse