Exposing Child UN-Protective Services and the Deceitful Practices They Use to Rip Families Apart/Where Relative Placement is NOT an Option, as Stated by a DCYF Supervisor
MONTPELIER, Vermont — The Vermont Senate panel reviewing child protection matters is considering using subpoena power to request records and documents related to the case of Dezirae Sheldon, a Poultney toddler who died after arriving at the hospital with severe head trauma in February.
Brand new parents Aliea Bidwell and Ben Gray claim that a doctor blackmailed them after they refused to vaccinate their baby, and when they believed they were faced with no other option, they finally gave into the doctor’s demands.
The mother of a 5-month-old who died after being shaken violently is suing the state Department of Social and Health Services, alleging the agency ignored concerns about the baby's safety in the month before his death.
Shanesha Taylor, a woman from Scottsdale, Arizona, is homeless. So when she got asked to come in for a job interview last Thursday, she must have been excited by the prospect. But when you’re homeless, there isn’t always an easy way to take an hour off from watching your kids to be at an interview. That’s how Taylor, 35, wound up losing her children to Child Protective Service — and losing out on the potential job.
SEATTLE -- King County prosecutors claim Tonja Maciolek repeatedly assaulted the boy during the 10 months he was in her care. Maciolek, 47, is alleged to have broken the boy's arms, battered his body and failed to feed him.
A South Side man charged with the murder of his foster mother, who died from a cardiac event during a domestic struggle, has been ordered held without bond.
BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Massachusetts State Police reported that they are investigating several threats made against the state's Department of Children and Families, all in regards to the case of Justina Pelletier.
BOSTON — A report released Wednesday by the Massachusetts auditor’s office says the Department of Children and Families was not meeting some of its most basic requirements.
BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- DCF called a news conference hours after a state audit of the agency was released, and the commissioner of the department failed to answer all of the reporters questions.
Our View: Latest blunder points to system so messed up that even reformers can't get it right
Arizona's child welfare agency didn't need another black eye. Especially not on the face of the new office that's supposed to be an example of how things should be done.
BOSTON — Describing a foster care system rife with problems that could lead “risks to become realities,” Auditor Suzanne Bump released a critical review of the state’s foster care agency on Wednesday, stating that “significant management deficiencies” led to undocumented background checks on foster parents and poor oversight of medical treatment for children in state custody.
A 21-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder after he allegedly beat his foster mother and his actions led to her death from health issues, police said.
The Fitchburg man charged in connection with the disappearance of little Jeremiah Oliver allegedly beat the 5-year-old boy and his siblings, including smacking them with belts, over a nine-month period, authorities say — and all while under the eye of state child welfare workers.
BOSTON, March 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the past several months, the Pelletiers have met face-to-face with Justina once weekly in supervised visits of no more than one hour. Now, Massachusetts DCF is denying the Pelletiers visitation with Justina in another blatant act of vindictive punishment.
A woman who is suing several county and state officials says she wants a dollar for the roughly 41.5 million seconds each of her six children have been taken from her care.
What compels a person to flash on bright billboards the names of the most powerful people in New Hampshire and call them corrupt? Why would some one invite a federal investigation into what he calls a ring of racketeers unless he believed it?
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — A Greenville woman told lawmakers Wednesday that Department of Social Services officials misinformed her family about the difficulties of adopting a teenage boy out of foster care, a situation she said has caused them immeasurable strain.
BOSTON (AP) — The Department of Children and Families failed to check whether registered sex offenders were living in or near foster homes and neglected to ensure all children get required medical screenings within seven days of being placed in Massachusetts’ care, according to a state audit released Wednesday.
Liberty Counsel is to follow every possible legal process to return Justina Pelletier to her parents in Connecticut so she can get medical care, access to a priest, and an education. This follows a court order late yesterday granting the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) continued custody of the desperately ill teenager until at least June 20 this year. In a press release issued last night, the international nonprofit organization said it would be filing a habeas corpus petition or an appeal against the judge’s custody decision.
Details revealed in foster care death of Catoosa County two-year-old | Times Free Press: A state case summary on a Catoosa County, Ga., girl who died New Year's Day from injuries she received while in foster care paints a black-and-blue picture of bruises, emotional trauma and nightmares over the last months of her life and discrepancies in accounts of how her injuries occurred.
Her brothers came into our lives two weeks earlier. As we sat in a local McDonald’s, we were excited and anxious to finally meet this little girl we had heard so much about: our new daughter.
Several government apologists are pointing at this document as support for why the judge made the awful decision to continue holding Justina Pelletier against the will of her family. The claim is the judge made points that show the parents are unfit to care for their daughter, even though evidence suggests the state is now unfit to care for Justina.
We all know someone who has been through the family court system; and it's out of hand in NH. To file contempt against someone who broke an order it's $252.00; ensuring that most of the people who need to get into court can't especially when they are there repeatedly for the same thing. Please sign and encourage others to do the same. Click Here
New Hampshire Supreme Court: Lower Fees & Enforce Orders in the...
The Judge in the Justina Pelletier Case is just another Puppet for DCYF. He, himself Court-ordered DCYF to send Justina back to Tuft's Medical, to continue with the care she was receiving before Boston Children's Hospital stuck their noses in and reported her parents for Medical Neglect. Instead of bringing charges against the high and mighty Ma. DCYF for NOT following Court order's, the Judge instead gives DCYF Permanent custody of 15 year old Justina. First of all, seeing as Justina is a Connecticut resident, doesn't Connecticut have jurisdiction? Second, the Judge stated Justina's Father called DCYF Nazis and spoke abusively toward them, therefore he made this unjust decision. If DCYF doesn't like being called Nazi's, they should STOP acting like them. If they don't want parent's and family member's speaking abusively toward them, DCYF needs to stop speaking abusively to them and STOP railroading families.They have absolutely NO respect for children, parent's or families and they believe they have the Power of God. It's high time we took that power away. Judges need to Stop letting DCYF pull their strings and start holding them accountable for their actions! There is NO Family Preservation, only Family Destruction!
A 41-year-old mother from Spokane, Wash., knew she wouldn't be able to keep her adopted son after she realized the boy had become a threat to his siblings.
TORONTO -- Two former wards of the Crown allege the Ontario government deprived them of their right to seek compensation for the abuse they suffered as children.
Part 2 37-year-old Scott Rolick is fighting back against California Child Protective Services after he says they wrongly took his daughter away, placed her in a lice-infested, abusive, and unsafe foster home, and made up lies in their reports to make it more difficult for him to get her back.
Front-line social workers, investigators and supervisors at the Department of Children and Families are criticizing their boss in an open letter being circulated as a petition to demand changes.
A U.S. veteran's family is unjustly torn apart by CPS and the captors attempt to limit free speech. In a bizarre case of what some are calling government-sponsored kidnapping, California Child Protective Services (CPS) recently punished a war veteran for recording a CPS worker and now the agency is seeking a court order to stop the father from recording them. The two videos below are what CPS considers private and therefore cannot be viewed by the public. In an attempt to hide their inner workings from the public, CPS requested an emergency hearing for Tuesday, March 25th, and will be asking a Ventura County, California, judge to order the removal of both videos.
Why is Massachusetts DCYF and the Family Court's even involved with this case? Justina is a Connecticut resident, which means Massachusetts has NO JURISDICTION!
Yesterday, the Liberty Counsel litigation team filed a contempt of court motion against the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) in the Justina Pelletier case.
Torrington DCF continues to be a concern to the families in this town, as children are being “seized” from good, loving homes. Many families within this town have fought tirelessly, including but not limted to Jamaal Jacob for the return of their children, many have still not been returned. As more reach out for help, wanting to share their story about what is occurring, why are the families in this town such a target? Why does DCF not follow their own rules/guidelines, and ignore the law by not providing parents with their rights, the Mini Miranda
Torrington DCF continues to be a concern to the families in this town, as children are being “seized” from good, loving homes. Many families within this town have fought tirelessly, including but not limted to Jamaal Jacob for the return of their children, many have still not been returned. As more reach out for help, wanting to share their story about what is occurring, why are the families in this town such a target? Why does DCF not follow their own rules/guidelines, and ignore the law by not providing parents with their rights, the Mini Miranda
I was in law enforcement for many years and I can tell you that CPS was never respected during my years of service and we would do everything possible to take care of a situation without involving them.
Sheriff Scott Miller announces child abuse arrests: Eraca Dawn Craig, 31, and Christian Jessica Deanda, 42, were arrested on suspicion of child endangerment and false imprisonment.
Not long ago, the director of Florida's Department of Children and Families confronted the issue of hundreds of child deaths by stating the agency wasn't "broken," just "challenged." Under the unspeakable circumstances in many of those preventable deaths, that tone deaf remark sounded dismissive.
The juvenile court judge in the long-running Justina Pelletier custody case delayed issuing a ruling Friday on a motion to return the teenager to her Connecticut home.
KENOSHA - Authorities say it's been more than a decade since they've seen a case like this. A baby boy in foster care dies after a visit with his biological mother. The baby was living with a family in Kenosha, but his biological mother noticed something was wrong during a visit last week.
Michigan CPS has gigantic secret list of parents labeled “child abusers” without due process: No family is safe while CPS is operational. MICHIGAN — Hundreds of thousands of parents have been flagged as “child abusers” in a huge database maintained in secret by Michigan’s Child Protective Services (CPS) agency. The names are entered into the database without due process, without a judicial hearing, without an opportunity for defense, without a conviction, and without even letting the individuals know they have been targeted.
On an Internet forum where parents sought takers for adopted children they no longer wanted, a teenager from Haiti was offered more frequently than any other girl.
I'm Jennifer Ludden and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Michel Martin is away. Now we're going to discuss a disturbing new report that focuses on Florida's Department of Children and Families.
Mobile police arrested a 24-year-old father in the death of his adopted 2-year-old. Police originally reported the child fell out of a high chair but investigators no longer believe the toddler’s death was an accident.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a baby Wednesday morning in a home in the Wynnfield Lakes Subdivision off Kernan Boulevard.
BOSTON, March 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than two weeks after Judge Johnston ordered medical care of Justina to be returned to Tufts, she has yet to see one doctor from that facility or receive a medical evaluation.
BOSTON — A judge will decide by week's end who gets custody of Justina Pelletier, a sick 15-year-old from West Hartford, Conn., who has been in the care of the state of Massachusetts for more than a year, a family attorney said Monday.
BROOKLYN (PIX11) - Patrick Alford, Sr. lived for years in Harlem but moved to the East New York section of Brooklyn, after his son vanished from foster care there on January 22, 2010. That decision to re-locate, Alford told PIX 11, led to a near-fatal shooting that left him partially paralyzed.
The state must pay $301,783 to Kentucky's two largest newspapers to cover their attorneys' fees in a court fight over records about children killed or badly hurt from child abuse, a judge ruled Tuesday.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. —A Brevard County girl's future is uncertain after the Department of Children and Families worker who was supposed to be protecting her took her home instead.
Former senior social worker Adriaan de Plessis entered into a plea agreement for the 168 charges against him. These included sexual assault, sexual grooming as well as the possession and distribution of child pornography.
Free Times has uncovered two major revelations in the controversy surrounding the state’s child welfare agency: First, that staffers for Gov. Nikki Haley asked Republican senators to soft-pedal their investigation of the Department of Social Services so as not to make the governor look bad; and second, that federal investigators are looking into allegations against the agency.
Britain's most senior family judge says children who are separated from their families must be able to access a record of the court's secret ruling when they grow up
BLOEMFONTEIN - A Bloemfontein social worker has pleaded guilty to numerous sexual offences, committed against children he was tasked to work with on Friday at the Bloemfontein Sexual Offences Court.
The tragic moment a child was taken from his parents because they were deemed unfit for smoking medical marijuana has been captured on tape.
Napa, California, couple Shawnee and Aaron Hillyer are heard in a recording begging to know why authorities had decided to take their 11-month-old child away.
A year-long Miami Herald investigation found that, in the last six years, 477 Florida children have died of abuse or neglect after their families had come to the attention of the Department of Children and Families. Emily Michot/Miami Herald Staff
WYTHE CO., Va., March 16, 2014 — American kids are the most medicated in the world. The increase in use of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs has been nothing short of staggering in its scope. Read more:
HOW THE MOST SACRED COW IN CHILD WELFARE HURTS THE CHILDREN IT IS MEANT TO HELP
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To see the actual study discussed below, click here.
The trade journal Youth Today aptly summed up the appeal of the Court-Appointed Special Advocates Program, noting that CASA
“couldn’t sound more apple pie, more thousand points of light. CASAs are a cadre of 74,000 volunteers trained for dozens of hours, then dispatched to conduct independent investigations of child abuse and to represent the children’s interests in courts around the nation. What could be wrong with that?”
Plenty, it turns out; much of it revealed by the most comprehensive evaluation of CASA ever done, an evaluation commissioned by the National CASA Association itself. As Youth Today noted, the report “delivers some surprisingly damning numbers.”[1]
●The study found that CASA’s only real accomplishments were to prolong the time children languished in foster care and reduce the chance that the child will be placed with relatives.
●The study found no evidence that having a CASA on the case does anything to improve child safety – so all that extra foster care is for nothing. (The study specifically controlled for CASA’s all purpose excuse for this – the claim that CASAs handle the most difficult cases.)
●The study also found that when a CASA is assigned to a child who is Black, the CASA spends, on average, significantly less time on the case. (The study also found that CASAs don’t spend as much time on cases in general as the organization’s p.r. might lead one to believe. CASA volunteers reported spending an average of only 4.3 hours per month on cases involving white children, and only 2.67 hours per month on cases involving Black children).[2]
Does anyone out there know this little Angel's name? This precious little Angel's picture was found on the Internet December 11th, 2013 by a good friend and Family Rights Activist. All we know as of this time is that the little girls parent's could no longer take care of her and she was then placed in the care of CPS. Three week's after being placed in Foster care, she was dead. If anyone know's this little Angel's name and the story of her cut too short life, please contact me. It is my duty as well as everyone else's to put an end to the horrible abuse and death of children being "Protected" by the State R.I.P. Little one. You will not be forgotten! I found out that this little 4 month old baby was found beaten, suffocated, and stuffed in a garbage can in her bedroom. I also found out her name is Elizabeth Fay "LizzyBee" Mariani Mariani. She was born in 2006 and was murdered in 2007. No-one has ever been charged with her murder. Her Grandmother has a Facebook page: Justice for Baby Elizabeth-https://www.facebook.com/groups/132364096798753/And there is also a Petition requesting that the City of Layton District Attorney's office in the County of Davis of the State of Utah investigate baby Elizabeth's murder from Layton, Utah. Please click on the link and sign and share: http://www.gopetition.com/petition/42185.html Someone need's to be held accountable for this precious little Angel's death! More new info: I also found out LizzyBee wasn't in a Foster home.She lived with her parents and maternal grandmother. Her Paternal Grandmother is the one fighting for an investigation and justice. From what I read, CPS was involved with the family and the children taken in the past and returned. LizzyBees two year old brother was thrown out a three story window in Dec. 2007. The Mother was arrested for child abuse. When the boy got out of the Hospital, he was returned to the parents. This story is a total nightmare. Go to the link above and you will find out plenty.
Butler County Children Services spends almost 10 times more money placing endangered children outside their homes than it does funding programs that help parents get their children back.
BOSTON (AP) — Giving smartphones to social workers and taking photos of all children who enter state care are among the recommendations of an independent group examining Massachusetts’ child welfare system.
http://www.SanityCheckRadioShow.com During the March 1 broadcast Lou responds to the blockbuster charges made against the entire family court/child protective services system by the late Georgia state senator Nancy Schaefer while a couple short clips of her are played. An upcoming broadcast of Sanity Check will be devoted to Schaefer's courageous activism as a state legislator upon the fourth anniversary of her untimely passing.
Sara M. Bartosz, the lead attorney for Children's Rights representing foster children in a federal class action lawsuit filed years ago against the state, said the Patrick administration was well aware of changes needed within Department of Children and Families to ensure youngsters are cared for long before 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver of Leominster disappeared.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Today, Governor Rick Scott visited Child Protective Investigators to thank them for their dedication to Florida’s children and spoke about his 2014-2015 “It’s Your Money Tax Cut Budget” that commits more than $31 million for child protection services. The additional dollars would be targeted at protecting at-risk children and families by expanding investigation initiatives that are currently being piloted by the Department of Children and Families (DCF).
On February 25th, the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office of Criminal Investigation, received a report alleging an inappropriate sexual relationship between a 17 year old juvenile foster child and a foster parent in Watauga County.
For over a year Jamaal Jacob and his story has been read and listened to from people from east to west. With many people supporting him as he spoke out about his child that was kidnapped by the Torrington D.C.F in Connecticut. It has been over a year since this nightmare has started for this family, they continue to miss, love and fight for the return of their daughter.
A scathing federal report on Child and Family Services in the Northwest Territories has found that foster parents are rarely screened and social workers aren't following up on reports of kids at risk.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Friday pleaded with conservative activists to remain on guard against government overreach, referring at one point to the case of a Connecticut teen who is being held by the state against her parents’ wishes.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 7, 2014. (Getty Images)
“I know this,” Huckabee said at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. “I know that mothers and fathers raise better children than governments ever will.”
More than two months after an investigation began, questions still remain in the death of North Georgia foster child. As a community is left questioning, we started following leads, pressing local and state government offices for answers.
For years, a respected member of the community molested various children in his care – until one “very courageous 10-year-old girl” broke the cycle, not only reporting the abuse but also agreeing to call the perpetrator, who apologized while police were listening, the prosecutor said.
The state’s largest foster care contractor racked up 16 confirmed cases of abuse and neglect in just one year — including the death of an infant and the sexual assault of a 12-year-old — stunning examples one watchdog says shows DCF’s “lack of oversight” of its two dozen private placement agencies.
The story of 15-year-old Justina Pelletier captured the hearts of many Americans as the horrible story of the young girl’s plight over the past 13 months was brought to light by the media.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Eleven children forced to sleep in cages by their adoptive parents reached a $2 million settlement with an Ohio county where three of them lived before they were placed in the home outfitted with wire and wood enclosures.
ROCKPORT, Texas — A South Texas family law judge seen beating his then-16-year-old daughter in a video she posted online in 2011 has lost his re-election bid.
Juvenile judge Joseph Johnston approved an agreement between the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) and the Pelletier family to drop the contempt charges against Lou Pelletier for speaking to the media as well as to dissolve the gag order and transfer Justina Pelletier's medical care to Tufts Medical Center, where she was treated by Dr. Mark Korson 13 months ago before she went to the Boston Children’s Hospital ER.
Family court » HB418s1 could complicate life for foster and adoptive parents, say opponents.
A bill that squeaked by committee Wednesday with a 5-4 vote would allow grandparents to petition for visitation rights, which may mean more court proceedings for parents of foster and adopted children, even after the rights of biological parents have been terminated.
Millionaire Oklahoma abortionist Nareshkumar Gandalal “Naresh” Patel, who once faced charges of raping and sodomizing his abortion patients, is once again under investigation after Operation Rescue filed a five-count complaint against him with the State Attorney General’s office, the Oklahoma Health Department, and the Oklahoma Medical Board.