Agency: Half of foster parents criminals
By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer
Posted: 03/30/2010 07:23:59 PM PDT
Updated: 03/30/2010 07:40:32 PM PDT
County officials plan to examine how many people have qualified to become foster parents in Los Angeles despite criminal backgrounds, after the head of a troubled nonprofit agency claimed Tuesday the figure could be up to half.
Members of the Board of Supervisors remained skeptical but asked county officials to look into the issue.
The statements came during a hearing in which the supervisors voted to terminate a contract with United Care, Inc. following the death of a 2-year-old girl in a South Los Angeles foster home under the nonprofit's oversight.
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky asked United Care's executive director Craig J. Woods if he knew the child's foster mother had a criminal background.
He said he did, but she had been cleared and licensed by the state, like many foster parents.
"The state has an exemption process where it has a criteria that if the particular crime was not of a violent or drug-related nature, then many of our foster parents are exempted," Woods said. "And I would estimate that to be as many as a third to half of foster parents fostering today under state licensing exemptions."
In response, Department of Children and Family Services spokesman Neil Zanville said DCFS Director Trish Ploehn contacted the state Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division to find out what percentage of foster parents have some sort of criminal background.
"I don't know that half of
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our foster care parents are criminals," Supervisor Gloria Molina said. "I disagree with that and I'm going to look into that because I think you're wrong."
The dust-up follows the death of Viola Vanclief, a girl who died as a result of "blunt force trauma" in a death listed as a homicide, Coroner's Office Lt. Fred Corral said.
The girl was a foster child in the care of a South Los Angeles couple, Kiana Barker, 30, and her boyfriend, James Julian, 38. The couple were arrested on suspicion of beating the girl to death, apparently with a hammer, but they were released when prosecutors referred the case back to police for additional investigation.
After the girl's death, Barker told investigators that the toddler had been trapped in a bed frame and that she accidentally struck the child with a hammer while trying to free her.
The death was the most recent in a string of highly-publicized ones in recent years. Last year, 17 children died from abuse or neglect after DCFS had investigated earlier complaints of mistreatment. The figure, an increase from 2008's total of 14 deaths, includes both open and closed investigations.
In a prepared statement, Ploehn said DCFS reviewed United Care's records and placed a "Do Not Use" designation on the agency.
Meanwhile, Ploehn said DCFS is going to assess the other 57 foster family agencies in the county that oversee 2,500 foster homes with 5,800 foster children.
"Children's social workers will investigate the homes, utilizing a special tool to assess safety criteria; interviewing all children and adults residing in the homes, assessing the home itself and reviewing the agency's records ensuring all adults have criminal background clearances and all other safety criteria are met," Ploehn said.
The Auditor-Controller's Office will assist DCFS by providing two investigators to review FFA records. DCFS and the County Counsel's Office have requested the involvement of the state Community Care Licensing Division, which licenses foster parents.
City News Service contributed to this story.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14788933?nclick_check=1
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In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
CPS Does About Face, Accuses Parents Of Abuse
CPS Does About Face, Accuses Parents Of Abuse
Updated: Tuesday, 30 Mar 2010, 10:24 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 30 Mar 2010, 10:24 PM CDT
RANDY WALLACE
Investigative Reporter
HOUSTON - Landon Weber, 4, is one of two little boys that FOX 26 Investigates presented that have spent alot of time in hospitals. The mothers of both little boys were under investigation by Childrens Protective Services for medical child abuse.
"That happens when for one reason or another the medical system is used to perpetrate physical abuse on the child," said Valerie Brock, an assistant County Attorney representing CPS.
While both cases are ongoing, FOX 26 has a dramatic development when it comes to little Landon.
His mother, as well as some doctors, say Landon has a rare disorder called Mitochondrial disease. Some studies claim the symptoms of that disease can cause false allegations of medical child abuse to be lodged against parents.
Two months ago this is what CPS had to say about Landon's mother: "She's having to care for a child who has a lot of medical needs. he's medically fragile the family just needs training," CPS's Estella Oguin told FOX 26 Investigates.
But now CPS believes the exact opposite -- that Landon Weber is the victim of medical child abuse.
"I think we all were a little surprised," said Brock.
CPS had an independent medical evaluation done on Landon. Just days ago, that doctor testified in court, Landon has no medical condition whatsoever. His problems are because of his mother.
"I think that given the findings that we have that the parents have been involved in some medical child abuse," said Brock.
"I'm horrified," said Landon's mother Jennifer Weber.
The court testimony accusing Landon's parents and even possibly his grandparents of causing his medical problems came as a shock to the Webers.
"It's about the worst thing you could have to do as a parent," that's how Landon's father James Weber described listening to the court testimony.
Landon has feeding and ostomy bags attached to his body.
"His digestive system has been described as dysfunctional," Brock said.
The doctor hired by CPS testified those bags had an unknown substance in them that could cause infections.
"They were not able to find out exactly what was in the bags," Brock said. "Still it was kind of a suspicious and concerning circumstance."
The judge granted CPS's request that Landon's parents and even his grandparents have absolutely no contact with him not even supervised visits.
"It's crazy, this is not justice", Charles Weber, Landon's grandfather said.
Charles Weber said cops ordered his wife out of Landon's hospital room.
"About 5 minutes after the court hearing a police officer escorts her out of the room and takes her out of the building," the distraught grandfather said. "that's ridiculous."
"The frustrating thing is CPS isn't doing it's job," the Weber's attorney Chris Branson said.
Branson accuses CPS of ignoring doctors who say Landon is really sick.
"So they not only want to take the child away from the parents and grandparents they appear to want to put the parents in jail as well," Branson said.
CPS's next move, terminating the Weber's parental rights.
"I'm extremely concerned especially since we have'nt done anything to harm him," Landon's father said.
"It's a terrible thing that's happening and it needs to be stopped," Landon's mother said.
While CPS insists there is nothing physically wrong with Landon, his parents say they will do what they've been doing for 6 months. They will fight.
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/investigates/100330-cps-does-about-face-accuses-parents-of-abuse
Updated: Tuesday, 30 Mar 2010, 10:24 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 30 Mar 2010, 10:24 PM CDT
RANDY WALLACE
Investigative Reporter
HOUSTON - Landon Weber, 4, is one of two little boys that FOX 26 Investigates presented that have spent alot of time in hospitals. The mothers of both little boys were under investigation by Childrens Protective Services for medical child abuse.
"That happens when for one reason or another the medical system is used to perpetrate physical abuse on the child," said Valerie Brock, an assistant County Attorney representing CPS.
While both cases are ongoing, FOX 26 has a dramatic development when it comes to little Landon.
His mother, as well as some doctors, say Landon has a rare disorder called Mitochondrial disease. Some studies claim the symptoms of that disease can cause false allegations of medical child abuse to be lodged against parents.
Two months ago this is what CPS had to say about Landon's mother: "She's having to care for a child who has a lot of medical needs. he's medically fragile the family just needs training," CPS's Estella Oguin told FOX 26 Investigates.
But now CPS believes the exact opposite -- that Landon Weber is the victim of medical child abuse.
"I think we all were a little surprised," said Brock.
CPS had an independent medical evaluation done on Landon. Just days ago, that doctor testified in court, Landon has no medical condition whatsoever. His problems are because of his mother.
"I think that given the findings that we have that the parents have been involved in some medical child abuse," said Brock.
"I'm horrified," said Landon's mother Jennifer Weber.
The court testimony accusing Landon's parents and even possibly his grandparents of causing his medical problems came as a shock to the Webers.
"It's about the worst thing you could have to do as a parent," that's how Landon's father James Weber described listening to the court testimony.
Landon has feeding and ostomy bags attached to his body.
"His digestive system has been described as dysfunctional," Brock said.
The doctor hired by CPS testified those bags had an unknown substance in them that could cause infections.
"They were not able to find out exactly what was in the bags," Brock said. "Still it was kind of a suspicious and concerning circumstance."
The judge granted CPS's request that Landon's parents and even his grandparents have absolutely no contact with him not even supervised visits.
"It's crazy, this is not justice", Charles Weber, Landon's grandfather said.
Charles Weber said cops ordered his wife out of Landon's hospital room.
"About 5 minutes after the court hearing a police officer escorts her out of the room and takes her out of the building," the distraught grandfather said. "that's ridiculous."
"The frustrating thing is CPS isn't doing it's job," the Weber's attorney Chris Branson said.
Branson accuses CPS of ignoring doctors who say Landon is really sick.
"So they not only want to take the child away from the parents and grandparents they appear to want to put the parents in jail as well," Branson said.
CPS's next move, terminating the Weber's parental rights.
"I'm extremely concerned especially since we have'nt done anything to harm him," Landon's father said.
"It's a terrible thing that's happening and it needs to be stopped," Landon's mother said.
While CPS insists there is nothing physically wrong with Landon, his parents say they will do what they've been doing for 6 months. They will fight.
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/investigates/100330-cps-does-about-face-accuses-parents-of-abuse
he Strange “Suicide” of Nancy Schaefer Twist in Schaefer Murder-Suicide
The Strange “Suicide” of Nancy Schaefer
Posted by PUPPETGOV on Mar 31st, 2010 and filed under Headlines, New World Order, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
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Twist in Schaefer Murder-Suicide
~Garland Favorito
On Friday, former Senator Nancy Schaefer and her husband were found dead in their home in Habersham County. Even before a GBI investigation could be initiated, media outlets began pronouncing that their death was a “murder-suicide” and shut off most public comment posting on their web sites. The “murder suicide” theory implies that Sen. Schaefer’s husband shot her and then killed himself (or vice versa). Both Habersham County and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation began investigating the case as a “murder suicide” rather than the more obvious “murder made to look like suicide”. Like so many people, I have known former Sen. Nancy Schaefer for 15 years and spoken to several people who know her better than I do. They believe that the “murder suicide” theory is highly unlikely for any one of the following reasons:
1. It is totally against Nancy Schaefer’s consistently strong commitment to the sanctity of life principles that she has fought so valiantly to uphold;
2. Nancy and her husband, Bruce, have five children and more than a dozen grandchildren who they would not choose to leave behind so abruptly;
3. Bruce’s problem with cancer was corrected and under control so there was no reason to end his life as one senator tried to imply;
4. Nancy or Bruce would not likely agree to commit such an act that violates the fundamental principles of their Christian faith;
5. Bruce was retired and the couple did not appear to be in any type of dire financial crisis that would lead them to commit such acts;
6. Bruce and Nancy knew that her sister who had Alzheimer’s disease needed her to help take care of her;
7. Friends who knew the couple best state that Bruce would simply not have the capability to kill his wife;
8. Nancy was dedicated, as a national leader, to help needy people overcome abuse within Child Protective Services organizations;
9. Nancy was actively exposing corruption within the Department of Family & Child Services (DFCS) including actions by the DFCS director in the county where she lived.
10. Nancy knew that she was needed in the fight against child sex slave trafficking in Atlanta which has one of the highest activity rates in the country;
11. Bruce was highly supportive of Nancy’s work for decades and would have little or no reason to suddenly try to kill her at such a critical juncture in her career.
Specifically in Georgia, former Senator Nancy Schaefer had found during the last few years that:
- in Georgia housed children in a foster home with a known pedophile who molested the children.
- in Habersham County failed to remove six children from a home where they are being abused and tortured.
- in Georgia turned two girls over to a California father who had a pornographic video business.
A report that Nancy Schaefer produced on these remarkable cases can be found here:
http://fightcps.com/2008/02/29/report-of-georgia-senator-nancy-schaefer-on-cps-corruption/
Nancy Schaefer was also interviewed extensively by talk show host Alex Jones about corruption in Child Protection Services nationally. A multi-part series of her interview and an Eagle Forum presentation can be found on You Tube here:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nancy+schaefer&search_type=&aq=f
In addition, Senator Schaefer led opposition to HB582 and SB304, two bills introduced by fellow Republicans that would have likely resulted in increasing child sex slave trafficking. These bills would have made it legal for teenagers to participate in certain illicit acts. The bills effectively removed the legal authority that police now have to pick teenagers up and get them into protective custody so that they can no longer be pimped for those acts.
As President of Georgia Eagle Forum, Nancy Schaefer planned to be in Alabama this weekend for an Eagle Forum convention. Instead she chose to stay in Georgia to develop new information that would have further exposed corruption in DFCS and beyond. Many Eagle forum members who were close to Sen. Schaefer were aware of her courageous efforts. None of them believe that either she or her husband was involved in any type of suicide.
It is particularly ironic that the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) chose to quote State Sen. Don Thomas in their March 26 article about Sen. Schaefer’s death. The AJC portrayed him as a friend of the couple even though he lives on the other side of the state from the Schaefer family and was diametrically opposed to many of their core beliefs. Sen. Thomas, the Chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, immediately propagated and expanded the “murder-suicide” theory without any first-hand knowledge or evidence. That is very disturbing considering it is his committee that should have been helping to clean up the corruption at DFCS. Activists supporting Sen. Schaefer explained that he constantly advocated increased power and authority for DFCS in spite of the evidence showing the organization was misusing that authority.
With Nancy Schaefer no longer on the scene the question may be raised as to how best to continue her legacy. I believe that she would want conservatives, progressives, libertarians, constitutionalists as well as grass roots Democrats and Republicans throughout Georgia to unite and work to rectify the corruption in DFCS and eliminate child sex slave trafficking in Georgia.
http://www.puppetgov.com/2010/03/31/the-strange-suicide-of-nancy-schaefer/
Posted by PUPPETGOV on Mar 31st, 2010 and filed under Headlines, New World Order, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
RELATED:
Twist in Schaefer Murder-Suicide
~Garland Favorito
On Friday, former Senator Nancy Schaefer and her husband were found dead in their home in Habersham County. Even before a GBI investigation could be initiated, media outlets began pronouncing that their death was a “murder-suicide” and shut off most public comment posting on their web sites. The “murder suicide” theory implies that Sen. Schaefer’s husband shot her and then killed himself (or vice versa). Both Habersham County and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation began investigating the case as a “murder suicide” rather than the more obvious “murder made to look like suicide”. Like so many people, I have known former Sen. Nancy Schaefer for 15 years and spoken to several people who know her better than I do. They believe that the “murder suicide” theory is highly unlikely for any one of the following reasons:
1. It is totally against Nancy Schaefer’s consistently strong commitment to the sanctity of life principles that she has fought so valiantly to uphold;
2. Nancy and her husband, Bruce, have five children and more than a dozen grandchildren who they would not choose to leave behind so abruptly;
3. Bruce’s problem with cancer was corrected and under control so there was no reason to end his life as one senator tried to imply;
4. Nancy or Bruce would not likely agree to commit such an act that violates the fundamental principles of their Christian faith;
5. Bruce was retired and the couple did not appear to be in any type of dire financial crisis that would lead them to commit such acts;
6. Bruce and Nancy knew that her sister who had Alzheimer’s disease needed her to help take care of her;
7. Friends who knew the couple best state that Bruce would simply not have the capability to kill his wife;
8. Nancy was dedicated, as a national leader, to help needy people overcome abuse within Child Protective Services organizations;
9. Nancy was actively exposing corruption within the Department of Family & Child Services (DFCS) including actions by the DFCS director in the county where she lived.
10. Nancy knew that she was needed in the fight against child sex slave trafficking in Atlanta which has one of the highest activity rates in the country;
11. Bruce was highly supportive of Nancy’s work for decades and would have little or no reason to suddenly try to kill her at such a critical juncture in her career.
Specifically in Georgia, former Senator Nancy Schaefer had found during the last few years that:
- in Georgia housed children in a foster home with a known pedophile who molested the children.
- in Habersham County failed to remove six children from a home where they are being abused and tortured.
- in Georgia turned two girls over to a California father who had a pornographic video business.
A report that Nancy Schaefer produced on these remarkable cases can be found here:
http://fightcps.com/2008/02/29/report-of-georgia-senator-nancy-schaefer-on-cps-corruption/
Nancy Schaefer was also interviewed extensively by talk show host Alex Jones about corruption in Child Protection Services nationally. A multi-part series of her interview and an Eagle Forum presentation can be found on You Tube here:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nancy+schaefer&search_type=&aq=f
In addition, Senator Schaefer led opposition to HB582 and SB304, two bills introduced by fellow Republicans that would have likely resulted in increasing child sex slave trafficking. These bills would have made it legal for teenagers to participate in certain illicit acts. The bills effectively removed the legal authority that police now have to pick teenagers up and get them into protective custody so that they can no longer be pimped for those acts.
As President of Georgia Eagle Forum, Nancy Schaefer planned to be in Alabama this weekend for an Eagle Forum convention. Instead she chose to stay in Georgia to develop new information that would have further exposed corruption in DFCS and beyond. Many Eagle forum members who were close to Sen. Schaefer were aware of her courageous efforts. None of them believe that either she or her husband was involved in any type of suicide.
It is particularly ironic that the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) chose to quote State Sen. Don Thomas in their March 26 article about Sen. Schaefer’s death. The AJC portrayed him as a friend of the couple even though he lives on the other side of the state from the Schaefer family and was diametrically opposed to many of their core beliefs. Sen. Thomas, the Chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, immediately propagated and expanded the “murder-suicide” theory without any first-hand knowledge or evidence. That is very disturbing considering it is his committee that should have been helping to clean up the corruption at DFCS. Activists supporting Sen. Schaefer explained that he constantly advocated increased power and authority for DFCS in spite of the evidence showing the organization was misusing that authority.
With Nancy Schaefer no longer on the scene the question may be raised as to how best to continue her legacy. I believe that she would want conservatives, progressives, libertarians, constitutionalists as well as grass roots Democrats and Republicans throughout Georgia to unite and work to rectify the corruption in DFCS and eliminate child sex slave trafficking in Georgia.
http://www.puppetgov.com/2010/03/31/the-strange-suicide-of-nancy-schaefer/
CPS Warrior Nancy Schaefer Gunned Down
CPS Warrior Nancy Schaefer Gunned Down
By Brenda Alexander CPS-A System Out Of Control
Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:24 PM PDT
Quote:
From the Associated Press:
State investigators say the husband of former state Senator Nancy Schaefer shot his wife before turning the gun on himself. The couple’s bodies were found in their north Georgia home Friday. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducted autopsies on the Schaefer’s Saturday—investigators say all evidence points to the deaths as a murder-suicide. The bodies of Nancy and Bruce Schaefer, 73 and 74 years old respectively, were found by their daughter at the couple’s home in Clarkesville. Nancy Schaefer was a two-term state Senator representing Georgia’s 50th district. She lost her seat in 2008. Schaefer was also a candidate for mayor of Atlanta, Georgia lieutenant governor and governor of the state.
The corporate media does not bother to mention that Schaefer exposed the abuses of CPS and the international child sex slavery ring.
Appearing on the Alex Jones Show last May, Schaefer detailed how CPS is involved in child trafficking rings (see video below). After watching Schaefer’s interview with Jones, if you think Schaefer was involved in a suicide pact with her husband, you may also be interested in a famous bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
YouTube - Nancy Schaefer on Alex Jones: "CPS criminality" 1of4
YouTube - Nancy Schaefer on Alex Jones: "CPS criminality" 2of4
YouTube - Nancy Schaefer on Alex Jones: "CPS criminality" 3of4
YouTube - Nancy Schaefer on Alex Jones: "CPS criminality" 4of4
YouTube - Nancy Schaefer exposes the EVIL CPS
Former Senator Nancy Schaefer and her husband were murdered for exposing CPS's child sex slave ring. "Authorities" claim this 74 and 73 year old couple suicide/murdered one another.
http://cpsasystemoutofcontrol.blogspot.com/2010/03/nccp-child-welfare-blog-case-of.html
By Brenda Alexander CPS-A System Out Of Control
Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:24 PM PDT
Quote:
From the Associated Press:
State investigators say the husband of former state Senator Nancy Schaefer shot his wife before turning the gun on himself. The couple’s bodies were found in their north Georgia home Friday. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducted autopsies on the Schaefer’s Saturday—investigators say all evidence points to the deaths as a murder-suicide. The bodies of Nancy and Bruce Schaefer, 73 and 74 years old respectively, were found by their daughter at the couple’s home in Clarkesville. Nancy Schaefer was a two-term state Senator representing Georgia’s 50th district. She lost her seat in 2008. Schaefer was also a candidate for mayor of Atlanta, Georgia lieutenant governor and governor of the state.
The corporate media does not bother to mention that Schaefer exposed the abuses of CPS and the international child sex slavery ring.
Appearing on the Alex Jones Show last May, Schaefer detailed how CPS is involved in child trafficking rings (see video below). After watching Schaefer’s interview with Jones, if you think Schaefer was involved in a suicide pact with her husband, you may also be interested in a famous bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
YouTube - Nancy Schaefer on Alex Jones: "CPS criminality" 1of4
YouTube - Nancy Schaefer on Alex Jones: "CPS criminality" 2of4
YouTube - Nancy Schaefer on Alex Jones: "CPS criminality" 3of4
YouTube - Nancy Schaefer on Alex Jones: "CPS criminality" 4of4
YouTube - Nancy Schaefer exposes the EVIL CPS
Former Senator Nancy Schaefer and her husband were murdered for exposing CPS's child sex slave ring. "Authorities" claim this 74 and 73 year old couple suicide/murdered one another.
http://cpsasystemoutofcontrol.blogspot.com/2010/03/nccp-child-welfare-blog-case-of.html
Kinship Care Versus Foster Care
Kinship Care Versus Foster Care
By Brenda Alexander CPS-A System Out of Control
Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:25 PM PDT
Recently I read a rather nasty comment on my friend Yvonne's blog and I thought I'd write in her defense. The "family member" who ended up with her sister's children are the exception to the rule, not the norm. I don't know how many grandparents I have talked to begging for help getting their grandchildren out of the system. They took all the prerequisite classes, home inspections, medical/psychological evaluations but never ever were granted custody of the children. Why? Here's the answer.
Unless you are willing to take money, Medicaid, SSI, disability, Title IV-E funding, be involved in Medicaid fraud and accept child support all the while denying the REAL parents access to their children, you will NOT be a suitable placement. An dirty sink of dishes, not enough "proper food" (whatever that means); not enough bed, not a big enough home, both parents work, blah blah blah.
The truth is, only the sorry mother flubbers who want to sit on their collective asses all day, telling junior to fetch mom another beer or drink (food, drugs, whatever their drug of choice is) and play games online and bitch about how hard and tiring it can be to be a foster "mother" (their term, not mine).
The bottom line, play the game or get out. Don't tell me you do it for love unless you follow that it up "the LOVE of MONEY." Otherwise, why do you kick them out on their 18th birthday? You're sick people looking for easy money and damned if I our government doesn't hand it over to you free and clear. Don't worry about background checks, they don't really do much of them. They might look on the sex abuse register but they also might not. Oh, and just because someone hasn't been caught yet, that doesn't mean he's not a mean, twisted, perverted son-of-a-bitch. Women too and they gravitate to foster children because their case managers CHOOSE not be believe them and allow them to remain in unsafe, abusive homes when the reason they were originally taken was a dirty kitchen.
So shut up unless you know exactly what you're talking about. It's wonderful your family is so perfect but there a lot of single parents out there with no one, they're former foster children themselves and literally don't have a "perfect" sister like you. How do we know for sure that you're not taking in them for worse abuse. Every convicted pedophile got by with it many times before being caught. How does we know that's not you? I'm not saying it is but i this day and age, with CPS and the foster care system being so corrupt, I don't trust any of you.
The dirty house thing reminds me of a poem...
I'm forever singing songs to Abigail that I only know half the words to, so whilst searching out the other half of the words to one on the internet, I found this poem, which I thought was very sweet......
I hope that my child, looking back on today
Will remember a mother who had time to play;
Because children grow up while you're not looking,
There are years ahead for cleaning and cooking.
So, quiet now cobwebs, dust go to sleep.
I'm nursing my baby, and babies don't keep.
from www.nurseryrhymes4u.com
http://cpsasystemoutofcontrol.blogspot.com/2010/03/nccp-child-welfare-blog-case-of.html
By Brenda Alexander CPS-A System Out of Control
Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:25 PM PDT
Recently I read a rather nasty comment on my friend Yvonne's blog and I thought I'd write in her defense. The "family member" who ended up with her sister's children are the exception to the rule, not the norm. I don't know how many grandparents I have talked to begging for help getting their grandchildren out of the system. They took all the prerequisite classes, home inspections, medical/psychological evaluations but never ever were granted custody of the children. Why? Here's the answer.
Unless you are willing to take money, Medicaid, SSI, disability, Title IV-E funding, be involved in Medicaid fraud and accept child support all the while denying the REAL parents access to their children, you will NOT be a suitable placement. An dirty sink of dishes, not enough "proper food" (whatever that means); not enough bed, not a big enough home, both parents work, blah blah blah.
The truth is, only the sorry mother flubbers who want to sit on their collective asses all day, telling junior to fetch mom another beer or drink (food, drugs, whatever their drug of choice is) and play games online and bitch about how hard and tiring it can be to be a foster "mother" (their term, not mine).
The bottom line, play the game or get out. Don't tell me you do it for love unless you follow that it up "the LOVE of MONEY." Otherwise, why do you kick them out on their 18th birthday? You're sick people looking for easy money and damned if I our government doesn't hand it over to you free and clear. Don't worry about background checks, they don't really do much of them. They might look on the sex abuse register but they also might not. Oh, and just because someone hasn't been caught yet, that doesn't mean he's not a mean, twisted, perverted son-of-a-bitch. Women too and they gravitate to foster children because their case managers CHOOSE not be believe them and allow them to remain in unsafe, abusive homes when the reason they were originally taken was a dirty kitchen.
So shut up unless you know exactly what you're talking about. It's wonderful your family is so perfect but there a lot of single parents out there with no one, they're former foster children themselves and literally don't have a "perfect" sister like you. How do we know for sure that you're not taking in them for worse abuse. Every convicted pedophile got by with it many times before being caught. How does we know that's not you? I'm not saying it is but i this day and age, with CPS and the foster care system being so corrupt, I don't trust any of you.
The dirty house thing reminds me of a poem...
I'm forever singing songs to Abigail that I only know half the words to, so whilst searching out the other half of the words to one on the internet, I found this poem, which I thought was very sweet......
I hope that my child, looking back on today
Will remember a mother who had time to play;
Because children grow up while you're not looking,
There are years ahead for cleaning and cooking.
So, quiet now cobwebs, dust go to sleep.
I'm nursing my baby, and babies don't keep.
from www.nurseryrhymes4u.com
http://cpsasystemoutofcontrol.blogspot.com/2010/03/nccp-child-welfare-blog-case-of.html
Covering foster care in LA: The case of the selective sidebar
NCCP: Child Welfare Blog; The Case of the Selective Sidebar
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2010
Covering foster care in LA: The case of the selective sidebar
I'LL BE DISCUSSING CHILD WELFARE IN LOS ANGELES THIS MORNING ON KPFK PACIFICA RADIO'S "SOJOURNER TRUTH" PROGRAM, SOMETIME DURING THE 7 TO 8AM HOUR, LOCAL TIME. IT ALSO SHOULD BE AVAILABLE AT KPFK'S WEBSITE.
Yesterday's Los Angeles Times story, apparently some kind of half-hearted effort to add context to the paper's child welfare coverage was accompanied by a sidebar apparently designed to reinforce the "master narrative" of Times reporting – that the only fatal mistake the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services makes is leaving children with dangerous parents.
Called "A timeline of death" a better title would have been "A highly-selective timeline of death." Because a quick check of NCCPR's own archive of child welfare news coverage turned up these cases, which the Times left out:
● 1999: Four-month-old Garnet Peels is placed with a foster mother who allows her brother – a narcoleptic – to drive the boy in his SUV. The infant was not in a car seat. He died when the foster mother's brother drove the SUV into a pole.
● 1999: Gilbreania Wallace is taken from her grandmother when the pipes in their rented house burst, flooding the basement and making the home a health hazard. Instead of helping them find another place to live, DCFS places Gilbreania in foster care. She dies there, allegedly killed by her foster mother. (DCFS, which would spend nothing to move the family offered $5,000 for the funeral). Just as in the case of Viola Vanclief more than a decade later (making it the one death of a foster child too recent for the sidebar to ignore), Gilbreania's foster mother has previous complaints against her, and the home is overseen by a private agency with a troubled history – the same agency that oversaw the case of Garnet Peels.
● 2001: Two-year-old Jasmine Garcia dies of what police call "catastrophic injury to her head." Jasmine was placed in a foster home overseen by another private agency – and there had been warnings to DCFS about alleged abuse of other children in the home. The foster parents are charged, but one foster parent is acquitted and charges against the other are dropped.
● 2003: Dakota Prince, age 5, and Nehemiah Prince, age 3, are taken from their mother because of what the DCFS deputy director at the time calls "just an inability to provide adequate care." They are placed with a foster mother who was under the supervision of still another private agency. The foster mother can afford the best – including a Cadillac Escalade SUV. But one day she forgets that she'd left Dakota and Nehemiah in the Escalade in 100 degree heat where, a deputy district attorney says, "they cooked inside the car and died." The foster mother is convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
There is nothing in the Times chronology to indicate why it only goes back to 1998 – seemingly an arbitrary choice. But perhaps it's because that avoids including another case, the particularly searing story of Jonathan Reid, taken needlessly from his mother only to die in foster care in 1997. You can read all about that case in this 2002 story - by Garrett Therolf, the Times reporter who now wants us to forget all about such cases, or at least write them off as aberrations, as he crusades to keep more children in the system that killed Jonathan - and Dakota, and Nehemiah, and Garnet, and Gilbreania, and how many others?
And for another example of the kind of story Los Angeles Times systematically avoids, check out today's lead story in the Philadelphia Daily News.
Posted by NATIONAL COALITION FOR CHILD PROTECTION REFORM at 6:20 AM
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2010
Covering foster care in LA: The case of the selective sidebar
I'LL BE DISCUSSING CHILD WELFARE IN LOS ANGELES THIS MORNING ON KPFK PACIFICA RADIO'S "SOJOURNER TRUTH" PROGRAM, SOMETIME DURING THE 7 TO 8AM HOUR, LOCAL TIME. IT ALSO SHOULD BE AVAILABLE AT KPFK'S WEBSITE.
Yesterday's Los Angeles Times story, apparently some kind of half-hearted effort to add context to the paper's child welfare coverage was accompanied by a sidebar apparently designed to reinforce the "master narrative" of Times reporting – that the only fatal mistake the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services makes is leaving children with dangerous parents.
Called "A timeline of death" a better title would have been "A highly-selective timeline of death." Because a quick check of NCCPR's own archive of child welfare news coverage turned up these cases, which the Times left out:
● 1999: Four-month-old Garnet Peels is placed with a foster mother who allows her brother – a narcoleptic – to drive the boy in his SUV. The infant was not in a car seat. He died when the foster mother's brother drove the SUV into a pole.
● 1999: Gilbreania Wallace is taken from her grandmother when the pipes in their rented house burst, flooding the basement and making the home a health hazard. Instead of helping them find another place to live, DCFS places Gilbreania in foster care. She dies there, allegedly killed by her foster mother. (DCFS, which would spend nothing to move the family offered $5,000 for the funeral). Just as in the case of Viola Vanclief more than a decade later (making it the one death of a foster child too recent for the sidebar to ignore), Gilbreania's foster mother has previous complaints against her, and the home is overseen by a private agency with a troubled history – the same agency that oversaw the case of Garnet Peels.
● 2001: Two-year-old Jasmine Garcia dies of what police call "catastrophic injury to her head." Jasmine was placed in a foster home overseen by another private agency – and there had been warnings to DCFS about alleged abuse of other children in the home. The foster parents are charged, but one foster parent is acquitted and charges against the other are dropped.
● 2003: Dakota Prince, age 5, and Nehemiah Prince, age 3, are taken from their mother because of what the DCFS deputy director at the time calls "just an inability to provide adequate care." They are placed with a foster mother who was under the supervision of still another private agency. The foster mother can afford the best – including a Cadillac Escalade SUV. But one day she forgets that she'd left Dakota and Nehemiah in the Escalade in 100 degree heat where, a deputy district attorney says, "they cooked inside the car and died." The foster mother is convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
There is nothing in the Times chronology to indicate why it only goes back to 1998 – seemingly an arbitrary choice. But perhaps it's because that avoids including another case, the particularly searing story of Jonathan Reid, taken needlessly from his mother only to die in foster care in 1997. You can read all about that case in this 2002 story - by Garrett Therolf, the Times reporter who now wants us to forget all about such cases, or at least write them off as aberrations, as he crusades to keep more children in the system that killed Jonathan - and Dakota, and Nehemiah, and Garnet, and Gilbreania, and how many others?
And for another example of the kind of story Los Angeles Times systematically avoids, check out today's lead story in the Philadelphia Daily News.
Posted by NATIONAL COALITION FOR CHILD PROTECTION REFORM at 6:20 AM
Foster Care and Criminal Behavior: Are the two linked?
Foster Care and Criminal Behavior: Are the two linked?
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 1:54 pm
Are youth making the transition from out-of-home care to independent adulthood more apt to commit crime then others? A recent DOJ study comes to the following conclusions: the link between group care and violent crime was particularly strong for African-American youth, high numbers of foster-care placements contributed to increases in both violent and nonviolent crime and foster youth were much more likely than their peers to be arrested as they made the transition to adulthood.
Read the full report here.
http://thecrimereport.org/2010/03/30/foster-care-and-criminal-behavior-are-the-two-linked/
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 1:54 pm
Are youth making the transition from out-of-home care to independent adulthood more apt to commit crime then others? A recent DOJ study comes to the following conclusions: the link between group care and violent crime was particularly strong for African-American youth, high numbers of foster-care placements contributed to increases in both violent and nonviolent crime and foster youth were much more likely than their peers to be arrested as they made the transition to adulthood.
Read the full report here.
http://thecrimereport.org/2010/03/30/foster-care-and-criminal-behavior-are-the-two-linked/
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