Court sides with mom who gave birth while on methadone

Court sides with mom who gave birth while on methadone - NBC40.net:
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey's Supreme Court says a woman can't be considered to have abused and neglected her child because the infant was born with symptoms of methadone withdrawal.

The ruling published Monday reverses a lower court ruling that required her custody to be state-supervised.

Comment:I wonder if this case help's out the Mother's in the other States, including New Hampshire. Mother's whose newborns were stolen and adopted out because the Mother's were on Methadone. Mother's who were court ordered OUT of Methadone treatment! Will these Mother's cases be considered Null and Void?

http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/opinions/supreme/A2413DCPPvYN.pdf

States start to crack down on parents 're-homing' their adopted kids

States start to crack down on parents 're-homing' their adopted kids:

Among pet owners, "re-homing" an unwanted dog or cat is a relatively straightforward process. The owner who seeks an alternative home often places an ad on the Internet, and a private transaction occurs that moves the pet to a new family. But with the rise of foreign adoptions of children and the inability of some parents to handle troubled youths, more and more desperate families are taking that approach with adopted youngsters and re-homing the children with strangers. Often those re-homed children report gruesome tales of physical, sexual or emotional abuse by their new guardians.

Drugging our kids: A bold step away from heavy medication

Drugging our kids: A bold step away from heavy medication:

When Yolanda Vasquez was 12, her speech was so slurred doctors planned to clip the bottom of her tongue. But the young girl didn't need surgery to find her voice.After a decade in California foster care, Yolanda had become so medicated with psychiatric drugs, she practically lost the ability to speak.

Fight Against Unwarranted Seizures of Babies, Children

Fight Against Unwarranted Seizures of Babies, Children | NBC 7 San Diego:

San Diego attorneys are fighting against the unwarranted seizures of babies and children.

Attorneys Shawn McMillan and Mark Ankcorn have filed a federal class action lawsuit in Riverside County.

10 Things You MUST DO if CPS Comes to Your House

Coroner: Foster child died of allergy med overdose

Coroner: Foster child died of allergy med overdose - KRXI - Reno NV Top Stories - News, Sports, Weather:

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Authorities say a 16-month-old Las Vegas girl who was apparently killed by her foster dad in a murder-suicide this fall died of an overdose of allergy medication.

Stepfather Charged In Deaths Of Two Young Girls

UPDATED: Man Charged In Deaths Of Two Young Girls - The Greeneville Sun: Local News:

A man living in the same North Hardin Street house where an infant and toddler died Wednesday was charged Saturday morning with two counts of aggravated child abuse and neglect.

Sacramento parents seek answers in foster care death of their 2-year-old

Sacramento parents seek answers in foster care death of their 2-year-old | The Sacramento Bee:

A Sacramento couple are upset about a lack of answers in the mysterious death of their 2-year-old daughter while in foster care.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article4713789.html#storylink=cpy

Dixon child abuse case moving forward as 10 children get therapy for 'abuse/neglect'

Dixon child abuse case moving forward as 10 children get therapy for 'abuse/neglect' | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:

Wonda Dixon charged with withholding food, medical care to adopted daughter, remains in custody

AP: Texas in top three for child abuse deaths

AP: Texas in top three for child abuse deaths:

The Associated Press Thursday released a state-by-state breakdown of child abuse deaths for the past six years and Texas falls in the top three.

Study: Abused Children Die as Authorities Fail

Study: Abused Children Die as Authorities Fail - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register:

786 Died in Six-Year Span in Plain View of Officials

Stop abusive tactics in family court : Opinion

Local View: Stop abusive tactics in family court : Opinion:

Much has been written in the last few years about the pressing need for family law reform. Most attention has correctly been focused on the need to protect children from inadequate parenting time with either parent. However, we also need to protect children and the public from bad lawyers.

Caretaker charged in NY boy's death

Caretaker charged in NY boy's death | Local News - WMUR Home:

BERNE, N.Y. —A 19-year old New York woman is accused of killing a 5-year-old cousin in her care and then calling in a false report that two masked intruders took the boy from their Albany-area home.

VanAlstyne's parents have been the legal guardians of Kenneth, his twin sister and a 4-year-old sister since September.
Foster care?????

Parents Find Injury to Baby After Daycare, Doctor Visit Results in CPS Removing all 3 Children

Parents Find Injury to Baby After Daycare, Doctor Visit Results in CPS Removing all 3 Children:
Another Medical Kidnapping! The new wave of the Future?

A South Dakota couple still can’t figure it out. All they know is their three children, all under 3 years old, have been taken away for reasons they cannot fully explain because it makes no sense to them. They also have no idea how to get their children back from Child Protective Services (CPS). 

New Mom Suspected Of Drug Addiction Has Baby Taken Away For A Week, Despite Inconclusive Drug Test

New Mom Suspected Of Drug Addiction Has Baby Taken Away For A Week, Despite Inconclusive Drug Test:

As heroin and prescription drug abuse continues to increase in America, so does the number of children addicted to these substances. In an attempt to protect infants, hospitals have cracked down on their observation of new mothers, but unfortunately this has frightening consequences for drug-free mothers being denied access to their newborns.

SoCal County Takes 'Thousands' of Babies Without Cause, Class Says

Courthouse News Service:
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (CN) - Riverside County took a newborn baby from her mother without a reason or a warrant - and it makes a habit of it, the mother and baby claim in a federal class action.

"County child welfare agencies regularly subvert the constitutional rights of parents and children by seizing children from their parents when there is no danger to the child, and in fact no need to seize the child at all," McMillan said.

........ They [Riverside County social workers] as a matter of course don't get warrants before seizing kids. 

Comment: And New Hampshire DCYF is no better. They also steal children who aren't in danger and also without a warrant. It's too bad there aren't any Lawyer's brave enough to go after NH DCYF. All chicken shit!

How did a sex offender become a foster parent?

State-by-state breakdown of child abuse deaths

State-by-state breakdown of child abuse deaths:

The Associated Press asked all 50 states, the District of Columbia and military services to provide information on children who died of abuse or neglect over a six-year span, even as authorities were investigating them or their families or providing some form of protective services.

Court upholds dismissal of foster care lawsuit

Court upholds dismissal of foster care lawsuit - Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston:

BOSTON (AP) - Attorney General Martha Coakley is applauding a federal appeals court ruling on a lawsuit that became a major issue during her recent unsuccessful campaign for governor.

Abused kids die as officials fail to protect

Abused kids die as officials fail to protect - Worcester Telegram & Gazette - telegram.com:

BUTTE, Montana — At least 786 children died of abuse or neglect in the U.S. in a six-year span in plain view of child protection authorities — many of them beaten, starved or left alone to drown while agencies had good reason to know they were in danger, The Associated Press has found. 

Texas: Children's Advocacy Group Brings Class-Action Lawsuit Against CPS

Texas: Children's Advocacy Group Brings Class-Action Lawsuit Against CPS - Breitbart:

Crystal Bentley, age twenty-three, spent sixteen years in the Texas foster care system. Her testimony in a federal civil trial being held in Corpus Christi casts even more shadows on the embattled Texas Children’s Protective Services agency (CPS). The agency, formally known as the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS), is the subject of a civil rights class-action lawsuit.

Portland jury awards record sum against DHS: $4.1M to girls who said foster mom molested them

Portland jury awards record sum against DHS: $4.1M to girls who said foster mom molested them | OregonLive.com:

A Portland jury on Friday awarded the largest sum ever levied against the Oregon Department of Human Services for failing to protect children: $4.1 million to two girls who said they were molested by their Portland foster mom, who had been reported to a child-abuse hotline seven times before state child-welfare workers intervened.

Foster Homes: Where Good Kids Go To Die

Foster Homes: Where Good Kids Go To Die:

A former CPS Investigator exposes the seedy underworld of foster homes in the United States in the video above, where children are routinely abused physically, emotionally, and sexually.

Some statistics revealed in the video show that foster kids are:

• 7-8 times more likely to be abused
• more likely to end up homeless with nearly half becoming homeless at the age of 18
• 3 times more likely to be put on psychotropic drugs
• 7 times more likely to develop an eating disorder
• more likely to have PTSD than veterans of war and less likely to recover from that PTSD
• more likely to become pregnant as a teenager
• 20% more likely to be arrested
• 6 times more likely to die

than if they stayed in an abusive household.

Former WV Child Protective Services Worker To Serve Up To 20 Years

Former WV Child Protective Services Worker To Serve Up To 20 Years - WCHS - ABC:

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A former West Virginia Child Protective Services worker accused of having sex with a 16-year-old boy was sentenced Wednesday in Kanawha County Circuit Court.

Kara Brumley was sentenced to two concurrent 10 to 20 year prison terms.

How To Deal With Drug Problems in State's Foster Care Program

How To Deal With Drug Problems in State's Foster Care Program - California Healthline:

Recent reports shed light on troubling practices in California's foster care system. An investigation and series of articles published this fall by the San Jose Mercury News and Bay Area News Group showed that pharmaceutical companies are spending millions of dollars to influence physicians who prescribe psychiatric medications to California children in foster care. The investigation found that children in the state foster care system are prescribed psychiatric drugs at a rate three times higher than children nationwide.

Chapter 11: Child protective services failure

Young Oklahoma father successfully wins back son from adoptive parents and is granted full-time custody following three-year battle

Young Oklahoma father successfully wins back son from adoptive parents and is granted full-time custody following three-year battle | Daily Mail Online:

'People complain about men who don't take responsibility. Here I am, wanting to be a father to my son': Young dad wins custody THREE YEARS after mother secretly put son up for adoption as a newborn

Jordan man accused of raping another foster child

Jordan man accused of raping another foster child | Star Tribune:

Daniel Hennen served time in prison for sexually abusing other foster and adopted children. In October, another woman stepped forward.

CYFD could investigate children in homeless camp

CYFD could investigate children in homeless camp | New Mexico News - KOAT Home:

If callers report to CYFD, the agency would investigate

STOP THE ADOPTION INCENTIVE PROGRAM

Americans Against Tyranny

• Saturday, January 10, 2015

• Saturday, January 10, 2015

• Capital, Washington DC Washington, District of Columbia

https://www.facebook.com/events/1509448755990877/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

Currently Sitting in the Senate is Bill H.R. 3205. It was introduced by Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4] (Introduced 09/27/2013). The Bill contains the following.

Title I—Adoption incentives grant program

Sec. 101. Extension of program through fiscal year 2016.

Sec. 102. Improvements to award structure.

Sec. 103. Renaming of program.

Sec. 104. Limitation on use of incentive payments.

Sec. 105. Increase in period for which incentive payments are available for expenditure.

Sec. 106. State report on calculation and use of savings resulting from the phase-out of eligibility requirements for adoption assistance; requirement to spend 20 percent of savings on post-adoption services.

Sec. 107. Preservation of eligibility for kinship guardianship assistance payments with a successor guardian.

Sec. 108. Effective dates.

This means that currently the Adoption Incentive Program does not exist. This bill is to REAUTHORIZE the Adoption incentive program.

In the year 1997, Bill Clinton signed in the bill "Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997" or Bill 105 H.R 867. On section two of the bill you will find the following subsection.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/321441231391843/?pnref=story

I helped found Americans United Against Tyranny Family Division to advocate and reform Child Protective Services. The first step to reform is to take away the incentive of taking the children wrongfully.

As the American public the purpose of this event is to write to your local representative and ask them to vote NO on Bill H.R. 3205 and also organize rallies in your state out the front of your local representatives office. That is all I am asking you to do. Is send a quick email or make a quick call to your local Senator to VOTE NO on H.R. 3205

To accomplish what many have tried to do in the past will take many THOUSANDS of people around the United States of America! And you dont have to be dealing with Child Protective Services to do it!

Please invite EVERYONE you can.

If you dont know who your local rep is or how to contact them please let me know or another event admin and we will point you in the right direction.

I will also provide a "base" letter for those who do not have time so it can be copied and pasted!

It is time the American People STOOD up and said NO to this Bill.

Thank you for your participation and inviting all your friends.

Regards

Matt Virgin

Americans United Against Tyranny Family Division

CPS was involved weeks before baby shaken to death

CPS was involved weeks before baby shaken to death | wivb.com:

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Although the medical examiner ruled the death of 7-week-old Michael Clifford Junior a homicide and police say he was shaken to death, there have been no criminal charges. But News 4 has confirmed that Erie County Child Protective Services have been involved since weeks before Baby Michael died.

Report: Justina Pelletier moved to Philadelphia hospital

Report: Justina Pelletier moved to Philadelphia hospital - Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston:

(MyFoxBoston.com) --The Connecticut teenager who was was in the center of a custody battle between her parents and the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families is back in the hospital.

Prof. Conrad studies medicalization of ADHD

The Brandeis Hoot » Prof. Conrad studies medicalization of ADHD:

“I was the kind of kid who would get up and walk around, look at the goldfish, read the encyclopedias in the back of the room, talk to neighbors,” Peter Conrad, a professor of sociology, said in regard to his childhood. “Had ADHD been an option as a diagnosis in the ’50s, which it wasn’t, I would have been probably labeled and gotten a trial and medications.”

Justice Department Vows To Fight States That Violate Indian Child Welfare Law

Justice Department Vows To Fight States That Violate Indian Child Welfare Law : The Two-Way : NPR:

In the middle of a lengthy speech to Native American tribes last week, Attorney General Eric Holder planted the Justice Department firmly on the side of tribes against states, as the tribes struggle to keep their families together.

We risk an indigenous lost generation

We risk an indigenous lost generation | The Australian:

THE number of indigenous children removed from their parents has risen from 4146 children in 2000-01 to almost 14,000 children in 2012-13. The proportion of the indigenous child population in state care has tripled from 2 to 6 per cent. Indigenous-specific child protection policies are intended to prevent past mistakes associated with the Stolen Generations. The Aboriginal Child Placement Principle means the preferred option is to place indigenous children into kinship care with relatives or local community members.

Suit reveals wild abuse claims against Children’s Services

Suit reveals wild abuse claims against Children’s Services | New York Post:

A family desperately seeking help from the city Administration for Children’s Services endured years of abuse from the agency’s workers — including a counselor who impregnated one member and a cruel hypnotist who wouldn't take no for an answer, a new lawsuit charges.

Holding Foster Care Agencies Accountable

Holding Foster Care Agencies Accountable - CNN iReport:

Parents express concerns about the child Welfare system in NYC. Nicole Lopez is a parent dealing with Edwin Gould foster care agency since 2007. The agency according to the The adoption and family safe act law is suppose to reunify parents with their children. Ms Lopez states that Edwin Agency fail to provide her with the supportive servies that she needed.Ms Lopez has two children that she has not seen in two years because her visits were terminated by the judge and agency.

Missing Utah Social Worker Kayelyn Louder Found Dead

Missing Utah Social Worker Kayelyn Louder Found Dead - Crime & Courts, True Crime : People.com:

A city worker was inspecting drainage pipes in West Valley City, Utah when he made a grisly discovery: the body of a young woman floating in the Jordan River. The body, which police believe had been there for a long time, was obscured by leaves and other plant debris. 

When CPS Kidnaps Children for Money

When CPS Kidnaps Children for Money:

“If I have it my way, you’ll never see your mommy and daddy again.” These cruel words were reportedly uttered to eight-year-old Jaxon Adams by a Missouri doctor working closely with Child Protective Services. While we don’t know if this statement will prove prophetic, the fact is that some children will never see their parents again — or, at least, not for a very long time — because of CPS.

More parents complain of guardian ad litem billing

More parents complain of guardian ad litem billing | The Augusta Chronicle:

Two more people are alleging that a guardian ad litem in Augusta’s Judicial Circuit has charged “unreasonable and unjustified” fees.

Jerry Sandusky's adopted son speaks out on abusive childhood

Jerry Sandusky's adopted son speaks out on abusive childhood | FOX Sports:

PHILADELPHIA -- Jerry Sandusky's adopted son Matt spoke out Friday about his two abusive fathers and called sexual abuse the ''single worst health epidemic that children face.''

Former Sask. foster parent, hockey coach charged with sexual assault

Former Sask. foster parent, hockey coach charged with sexual assault | Globalnews.ca:

NIPAWIN, Sask. – A former foster parent and hockey coach faces multiple sexual assault charges after two men came forward alleging he sexually abused them. Police laid charges against Thomas Donald Mark of Codette, Sask. on Nov. 23 following an investigation into the allegations.

Ex-TTC bigwig claims foster child consented to sex

Ex-TTC bigwig claims foster child consented to sex:

Now being sued for raping and impregnating his foster daughter 36 years ago, retired TTC superintendent Howard Smith claims in his recently filed statement of defense the vulnerable 15-year-old was a willing partner.

Scrap CPS - Baby LK Report For December 6th 2014

Overmedicating Foster Care Children For Money, Foster Care Abuse Documentary, The Truth Talks

Overmedicating Foster Care Children For Money, Foster Care Abuse Documentary, The Truth Talks Circle Us On Google Plus @ Child Abuse in Foster Care System Interview - The Truth Talks - Tyrone Obaseki Story Visit Ty.

Parents effected by Social Services

Social Services LIE to Adoptive Parent

In Remembrance of Brielle Eternity Gage-R.I.P. Little Angel

This is a picture of Brielle and her Daddy, who was fighting for custody of his little girl.

Another child in Nashua has died, "allegedly" by abuse while under the "watchful" eyes of Nashua DCYF.  See:

Nashua Police Investigating Death of a Child on Oak Street

 Her name is Brielle Eternity Gage, age 3.
The Medical Examiner's Report has determined the cause of this precious little Angel's death is "Blunt Force Trauma".  See:

Medical Examiner: Nashua Girl Died from 'Blunt Force Trauma'

Police investigating death of 3-year-old girl in Nashua

Abuse history at Nashua address where 3-year-old died

   I, like so many other's, have many question's as to her death. Why did this happen? How could this happen? How could anyone do such harm to an innocent little child?
How in God's name could Nashua DCYF screw up so badly as to put this little girl and her four other siblings back into a home where Criminal Abuse charges are pending against Brielle's Mother and her Mother's boyfriend for  the "alleged" physical abuse of a young sibling?? They are both facing second degree assault charges. See:

Two Charged with Abusing 8-year-old

 From what I've read, they were to go on trial this month.
What I really don't understand is how DCYF could return the children to the Mother, when Criminal charges of assault against the sibling are pending? These are serious charges. A child suffered physical harm, "allegedly" in this same home.
NH DCYF's Lorraine Bartlett, interviewed by WMUR, stated it was the Judge who returned the children. That DCYF had no say. (Sorry, still looking for this link.)  That's rather odd considering I and my family were told by Nashua DCYF caseworker's and a DCYF Attorney that the Judges have no say. That it's up to DCYF if a child is ever returned. Again, DCYF doesn't want to take the blame. I was told by them I was in "denial". So who's in "denial" now? I also read Judge Ryan of Nashua was on the case and he stated Nashua DCYF screwed up the paperwork, therefore the children were sent home.
Another Nashua Mother, went to Southern NH Regional Medical Center with her 3 year old daughter. She was "accused", of driving while intoxicated with her daughter in the car, which was never proven. She was stopped inside the Hospital after her daughter walked down three steps, not holding her Mother's hand. The Mother was charged with belligerent behavior because she wasn't allowed to leave the Hospital. She was later charged with child endangerment for driving intoxicated with her child in the car. Still never proven. Lab report's from the Hospital turned up almost six months later, showing No Alcohol and the Criminal charges were dropped in Criminal Court, yet the same Judge who dropped them in Criminal Court refused to drop them in Family Court,(Judge Bamberger). Her children were never returned. Her son ILLEGALLY adopted, while ALL Family member's were refused custody.
I just have to ask, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS STATE?  A child is brutally beaten in Nashua. He and a sibling were placed in Foster care and then returned home? First off, why weren't ALL five children removed and placed in Foster care? Why were they returned with criminal charges pending?What is wrong with this picture?  This innocent little girl did NOT have to die. DCYF removes children from innocent families and leaves the truly abused in homes suffering.
I just don't get it. And this isn't the first child who has died in Nashua while under the "watchful" eyes of DCYF. Will Nashua DCYF EVER get it right?
Please check out this little Angels' Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RIPBrielleEternityGage
Also, a fund has been set up fro Brielle's Funeral: http://www.gofundme.com/JusticeForBrielle

R.I.P. Little Angel

Shunyi Foreign Foster Parent of 11 Disappears, Critically Ill Child at Hospital

Shunyi Foreign Foster Parent of 11 Disappears, Critically Ill Child at Hospital | the Beijinger:

Police are seeking the whereabouts of a fifty-something foreigner they suspect of child abuse whose eight-year-old foster daughter is recovering from surgery at a Beijing hospital.

Mother of child abused by foster parent speaks out

Mother of child abused by foster parent speaks out | WINK NEWS:

 FORT MYERS, Fla.- For the first time, WINK News is hearing from a woman who says her 11-year old daughter was beaten with a belt by her foster mother.