Tort and CPS and Public Defenders
April 18, 2010yvonnemason
The definition of a “Tort” is “A body of rights, obligations, and remedies that is applied by courts in civil proceedings to provide relief for persons who have suffered harm from the wrongful acts of others.”
The person who has suffered the harm is known as the “plaintiff” and the person who has done the harm is known as the “Defendant”.
In order to file a tort claim three elements must first be established.
The first one is the plaintiff must establish that the defendant was under a legal duty to act in a particular fashion. A prime example is the way Child Protective Services snatches children. They are under “a legal duty” to pull children from homes “they deem” bad. They operate under “the best interest of the child.” It doesn’t matter that they have no knowledge, skill or understanding in what that statement means, or how the child is not served in his best interest by snatching him from his natural environment. Their only goal is to snatch children for money.
Second the plaintiff must show that the defendant breached this duty by failing to conform his or her behavior accordingly. We all know that Child Protective Services fails 99% of the time in that duty. They pull children who are not at risk but who are just poor. They pull children whose parents are struggling to make ends meet and to raise their children in a loving environment.
Third the plaintiff must prove that he suffered injury or loss as a direct result of the defendant’s breach. This is a slam dunk. Not only has the parent suffered a direct loss, but the injury mentally and emotionally is irreversible if that child is sold.
The law of Torts serves four objectives. It seeks to compensate victims for injuries suffered by the culpable action or inaction of others. Then it seeks to shift the cost of such injury to others who are legally responsible for the inflicting of said injury. The third one I really love. It seeks to discourage even more injurious or careless and risky behavior in the future. If more CPS workers were sued under the tort law, they would not be so quick to snatch children to sell them. The fourth part of the equation is that the tort suit seeks to vindicate legal rights and interest that have been compromised, dismissed or emasculated. We know that CPS violates the 1st, 4th, 6th, 13th and 14th amendment right of every parent whose child they snatch just on their own gut feeling and the “best interest of the child.”
I am not talking about parents who really abuse their children. I am talking about parents who become victims of CPS because of the fact that they are poor and uneducated and the very term CPS frightens them. These are the people whose basic rights under the US Constitution are violated when a child is snatched and sold by CPS.
Intentional Tort is any deliberate interference with a legally recognized interest. Included in that is the right to bodily integrity, emotional tranquility, dominion over property, seclusion from public scrutiny, and freedom from confinement or deception. Now these interests are violated by the intentional torts of assault, battery, trespass, false imprisonment, invasion of privacy, conversion, misrepresentation, and fraud.
CPS is guilty of several of these interest, such as, trespass, false imprisonment (when they snatch children and force them into foster homes and new adoptive homes) invasion of privacy, conversion, misrepresentation and fraud. They invade the lives of the families they go after, they misrepresent their agenda, they have no intent of reunification, this is noted in all of their manuals. They even hold workshops to teach caseworkers how to circumvent the system and wear the parents down so they will be able to adopt out the kids.
They commit fraud in that they tell the parent one thing and intend to do something entirely different. Caseworkers present themselves as the go to person the person the parent can trust to do the right thing. However, what they are doing is gathering evidence to use against the parent in the hearing for termination of parental rights.
The measure of the damage done to the Plaintiff is determined by the nature of the tort committed and the type of injury suffered. There are four categories: Damages for injury to person, damages for injury to personal property, damages for injury to real property and punitive damages.
Damages may be recovered for physical, psychological and emotional injury. Specifically some of these injuries may include permanent disability, pain and suffering, disfigurement, humiliation, embarrassment, distress, impairment of earning capacity, lost wages or profits, medical cost and out of pocket expenses.
Now we all know that CPS causes several of these specific damages, permanent disability mentally for the child and the parent, pain and suffering, the emotional pain and suffering the parent and the child always have. The humiliation, embarrassment and distress of baseless accusations never go away. The loss of earning capacity is created due to the emotional and mental stress CPS creates when they snatch a child. The abuse by CPS when they constantly dangle carrots in front of the parent with the “promise” this will help them get their child back, knowing all the while that nothing will get the parent that child back. The lost wages and profits because that parent has to take off work to go to court hearings, therapy sessions both group and individual, parenting classes, visits with the children, trips to Social Services, mental health, etc. A parent stands to lose their job due to all the time they have to take off just because CPS wants them to dance to the tune they play.
Child Protective Services is not the only ones who be sued in Tort. A public Defender or an attorney for someone who has lost their child and is being represented by that attorney can also be sued. Public defenders are notorious for not representing a parent to the best of their ability. They do not stay in touch with their client. They meet them in hallways and side rooms of a courthouse. They don’t follow up with things they are supposed to follow up with. They don’t fight for their client. They go with the flow. They also fall under the same abuses as CPS. I know there is one in Jackson County Ga. doing it right now.
As a parent who has lost a child to the abuse of CPS it is time to fight back. You don’t have to be afraid. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. CPS is going to make sure that you don’t get your child back no matter what you do. They have possession and they are going to keep it until they sell your child to and adoptive family. The children are the cash cows. They are being sold in violation of the 13th amendment right of “no man shall be held in slavery”.
http://protectingourchildrenfrombeingsold.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/tort-and-cps-and-public-defenders/
Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Sunday, April 18, 2010
How Safe is a Foster Home for Children?
How Safe is a Foster Home for Children?
Published November 16, 2006 by:
Ann Strout
More:Foster HomeHome SickFoster ParentsMolested
I wanted to write about Foster Homes, and Foster Parents because i have Personal Experience with this Subject, and hope that my Story might help others really check into Foster Homes better before allowing a Child to be placed in one.
When i was an Infant i was in several different Foster Homes. I think out of the 10 or so that i was in there was maybe 1 that treated me almost decent. I was placed in my first Foster Home (that i can remember) around the age of 6. I don't think i will ever forget that Home.
There was 1 other Child that lived in this home. It was my Foster Parents real son. He was a Handicap boy. They of course, received Checks each month to take care of me. The money went on my Foster Parents, and their Son. At dinner time i was made to sit at a table in another room (seperate from where they ate). I was not allowed to talk, and i had to eat what was on my plate rather i liked what it was or not. When i would force down food i didn't like i would throw up. I would then get a Spanking, and was made to eat my Vomet. Until i ate all the food on my plate i was to eat my Vomet until my plate was empty. When Supper was done i had to do all of the dishes. (with no help).
At night they would all sit on the Couch together, and watch movies. I had to sit in a Chair in the corner by myself. I had to go to bed before the Movie was done. Everyone else would stay up until the Movie was over. When it was time for me to go to bed i had to go to the bathroom, and then straight to bed. No Hugs,No Goodnights, nothing just go to my room, and go to bed. Once i was in my bed my Bedroom door would be locked from the outside, and i was to stay in that room. I was not allowed out to go to the bathroom or get a drink, nothing. Bedtime was bedtime. No Exceptions!
The room i was put in had a small bed, one Blanket, and no light. I had no burrow, barely any Clothes, no Books, nothing. In the morning they would unlock my door, and tell me to get ready for School. When i got
home i had to go straight to my room until Dinner. I remember one morning i was really sick and not feeling well. I asked my Foster Mother if i could stay home becaue i wasn't feeling well. She told me that i was going to School, and that was that. I told her i really didn't feel good, and i started crying. I was Spanked on the butt, grabbed by my Hair, and thrown up the Stairs to be sent to my room. That was my Punishment for being sick, and not going to school.
That day i was locked in my room allday until Dinner time. I was Vometing on my floor in my room because i was again, locked in my room. I couldn't go to the bathroom or ask for help from noone. I stayed in my room allday, and when it was Dinner time i was allowed out of my room to eat. I got a Spanking for Vometing on my floor, and peeing in the corner of my room. I was made to eat Dinner that night by myself when everyone else finished. I remember listening to my Foster Parents, and my Foster Brother watching tv, and laughing while i ate all by myself. I Vometed after eating because i had the flu. I was again, Spanked, and made to eat my Vomet unitl i stopped, and my plate was empty.
When i finished i did the dishes, and was sent straight to my room with no tv. All because i stayed home sick from School. When they brought me to my room they told me that i will think long, and hard about staying home from School again. They locked my door, and that was that. I remember crying for a longtime that night. But i knew i had to go to sleep because i had to go to School the next morning. On sundays, i had to go to Church. It was right across the street from my Foster Home. I was sent outside by myself to cross the street, and go to Church. If it was raining i still had to stand outside alone, and go to Church. My Great Aunt, (who is now my Adopted Mother today) lived right up over the hill from me, and noticed that i was never outside.
I was always looking out the window watching my Foster Parents, and my Foster Brother play out in our dooryard. Even in the summer when it was Georgous out. She went to my Social Worker, and told them what she noticed.
She also told my Worker that the other day my Foster Father came into her Store to get a Sandwhich, and stated that he didn't know what he was going to do about me. My Great Aunt asked him why. He told her that he has to lock the Bathroom door when he goes to the Bathroom because i come running right in, and stare at him. My Great Aunt talked really nice to him that day to get all she could from him. She found what he said very Disturbing. When he left the Store my Great Aunt went right to my Worker, and told him everything that my Foster Father told her.
They soon took me out of that home, and put me with my Great Aunt, and Uncle. I remember nothing but Great things there. But then again, i was taken out of her home, and put with another Foster Family. This place was out in the Country on a Farm. Which i was so happy about. I loved Horses, and was happy at the thought of being able to ride one. I had 2 Foster Sisters. One very nice, and the other very mean. I had my own room, and was never locked in. I had more rules of course because i was a lot younger than my Foster Sisters. They were Teenagers. I remember oneday helping my Foster Mother clean out the Fenced in area that the Horses Galloped in. I helped clean out all the Rocks, and Sticks. We had a pretty big dog at this home. I was a very very Tiny girl. Nothing to me really. Everytime i would throw one of the Rocks over the Fence the dog when jump up on me and scratch me. I would cry because it hurt. My Foster Mother would yell at me, and tell me that if i didn't like it get my butt in the house, and go to my room until she was done.
I wanted to help so bad but getting jumped on, and scratched by this big dog really hurt. So i would go to my room instead, and cry. One of my Foster Sisters would come in my room, and talk to me, and brush my hair. The other one would say i was a cry baby, and needed to grow up. Then there was another night that i wanted to be part of the family, and fit in so bad that i asked if i could help bring Wood from our yard to the Wood Stove in our house. My Foster Father said sure. I was scared of the fire he had going in the yard but i wanted to help. He had me bring pieces of Wood from the yard, and pile them up next to the Wood Stove in our Dining Room. He would come back, and fourth putting Wood in the Stove, and then going back outside to get more. I thought i would help him by putting a piece of Wood into the Stove.
When i saw him comeing towards the house i got scared, and went to shut the Stove door really fast, and forgot to put my mitt on. I burnt my hand really bad. I didn't dare tell my Foster Father so i just went to the
Kitchen sink, and help my hand under cold water. He came in the house twice, and noticed i was stil at the sink. He asked me what i was doing, and i tol him that i was washing my hands. He came over to the sink, and looked at my hand. He smacked me in the back of the head, and told me to sit at the kitchen table that i was going to pay for doing that. I was crying at the table holding my hand. My Foster Mother, Father, and both Sisters stood at the table next to me.
My Foster Mother heated up Butter in the Microwave, and had my Foster Sister, and Foster Father hold my hand while she poured the Boiling Butter over my burnt hand. My other Foster Sister yelled at them telling them that they were so mean, and that they were hurting me. I just sat there crying so hard but didn't dare to move. My Punishement for putting Wood into the Stove was carrying big Cans full of Milk from the Cows in the Barn to the house. It was a long walk. And i remember the Cans being so heavy. Everytime i spilt any of the Milk i would have to start over. Go back to the Barn, and try again. This time without spilling any of the Milk. Finally my Great Aunt got me out of there, and back with her. Again i was taken out of her home, and put into another Foster Home.
This one i only had a Foster Father who smoked a lot. He never really talked to me or payed any attention to me. I don't remember having any toys or anything. I just went to School, and watched tv. I remember that he had a lot of CB's all through the house. That was what he did allday, and allnight. I didn't have much for Rules but i had nothing at the sametime. The state finally found out that the money he got to take care of me went on Drugs, and CB's. Again i was taken out of that home, and put back with my Great Aunt. At this time the State decided that i was old enough to go to Court, and say who i wanted to live with. All they needed to do was get my Biological Mother to sign papers, and agree to this. In the past they had a hardtime getting her to do this. Yet at the sametime she couldn't, and didn't take care of me. She was Mentally Challenged, and was not able to do it but didn't want anyone Adopting me. My older Brother lived with her because he was old enough to make that Decision. But he really worried about me. He wanted me with him or with my Great Aunt, and Uncle where i would be Happy, and Safe. I remember going to Court that day, and the Judge asking me if i wanted to live with my Great Aunt, and Uncle forever. I started jumping up, and down yelling yes yes!
The judge granted Adoption Happily, and sent me home with them that day. We went out to eat at this Huge Resteraunt, and then home to see my room. It had a Big bed with a Pink Blanket, a tv, Lots of Dolls, and Stuffed
Animals. I had tons of Clothes, Dresses, and Shoes. And today i couldn't have had better Parents. The years with them made up for all the bad things i went through in all of my Foster Homes. Today i can think, and Talk about it, and it doesn't bother me one bit. I am very Happy with the life i have now. I have 2 Children of my own, and would never let them go through anything like that. I will say that i do today, have Anxiety, a little bit of Depression, not much Education due to having such Low Self Esteem. But i am Hpappy, and learned a lot from this. I do have some Issues now from having that kind of life. I have a very Hardtime staying in one place more than a few months, i have some Jealousy Issues with my Fiance, Low Self Esteem, and a few other things. Because i was Sexually Molested by one of my Foster Fathers i have Issues with Sexual Interaction. I have trouble going into Public around a lot of people. Therefore i have to Work from Home in order to Work.
I urge anyone that has Children that they cannot take care of or are thinking about Foster Homes to really look into the People. They put good acts on to get that Child, and the money that comes with it. Please be very Careful chooseing a Foster Home. Or if you know of anyone that is in one please check the Home, and People out really really good. You never know what is happening in that Home to the Kids.
I think Foster Homes (not all of them) but most of them do not take care of the Children. Nor do they care about the Children they just want the money. This should really be looked into for the sake of the Children. I would NEVER want any Child to go through what i went through. I know so many do, and it just gets looked passed. But if we can start now by Researching more of the People, and Homes we may save some lives of these poor Children who are so Helpless in this Matter. I ask that anyone who reads this, and knows of anyone in a Foster Home to please look into things for that Child. Its a terrible way to live. It can really ruin a Childs future down the Road. This is an Absolutely true Story. There is so much more not said. This is just a very Tiny piece of what i went through.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/86557/how_safe_is_a_foster_home_for_children.html?cat=25
Published November 16, 2006 by:
Ann Strout
More:Foster HomeHome SickFoster ParentsMolested
I wanted to write about Foster Homes, and Foster Parents because i have Personal Experience with this Subject, and hope that my Story might help others really check into Foster Homes better before allowing a Child to be placed in one.
When i was an Infant i was in several different Foster Homes. I think out of the 10 or so that i was in there was maybe 1 that treated me almost decent. I was placed in my first Foster Home (that i can remember) around the age of 6. I don't think i will ever forget that Home.
There was 1 other Child that lived in this home. It was my Foster Parents real son. He was a Handicap boy. They of course, received Checks each month to take care of me. The money went on my Foster Parents, and their Son. At dinner time i was made to sit at a table in another room (seperate from where they ate). I was not allowed to talk, and i had to eat what was on my plate rather i liked what it was or not. When i would force down food i didn't like i would throw up. I would then get a Spanking, and was made to eat my Vomet. Until i ate all the food on my plate i was to eat my Vomet until my plate was empty. When Supper was done i had to do all of the dishes. (with no help).
At night they would all sit on the Couch together, and watch movies. I had to sit in a Chair in the corner by myself. I had to go to bed before the Movie was done. Everyone else would stay up until the Movie was over. When it was time for me to go to bed i had to go to the bathroom, and then straight to bed. No Hugs,No Goodnights, nothing just go to my room, and go to bed. Once i was in my bed my Bedroom door would be locked from the outside, and i was to stay in that room. I was not allowed out to go to the bathroom or get a drink, nothing. Bedtime was bedtime. No Exceptions!
The room i was put in had a small bed, one Blanket, and no light. I had no burrow, barely any Clothes, no Books, nothing. In the morning they would unlock my door, and tell me to get ready for School. When i got
home i had to go straight to my room until Dinner. I remember one morning i was really sick and not feeling well. I asked my Foster Mother if i could stay home becaue i wasn't feeling well. She told me that i was going to School, and that was that. I told her i really didn't feel good, and i started crying. I was Spanked on the butt, grabbed by my Hair, and thrown up the Stairs to be sent to my room. That was my Punishment for being sick, and not going to school.
That day i was locked in my room allday until Dinner time. I was Vometing on my floor in my room because i was again, locked in my room. I couldn't go to the bathroom or ask for help from noone. I stayed in my room allday, and when it was Dinner time i was allowed out of my room to eat. I got a Spanking for Vometing on my floor, and peeing in the corner of my room. I was made to eat Dinner that night by myself when everyone else finished. I remember listening to my Foster Parents, and my Foster Brother watching tv, and laughing while i ate all by myself. I Vometed after eating because i had the flu. I was again, Spanked, and made to eat my Vomet unitl i stopped, and my plate was empty.
When i finished i did the dishes, and was sent straight to my room with no tv. All because i stayed home sick from School. When they brought me to my room they told me that i will think long, and hard about staying home from School again. They locked my door, and that was that. I remember crying for a longtime that night. But i knew i had to go to sleep because i had to go to School the next morning. On sundays, i had to go to Church. It was right across the street from my Foster Home. I was sent outside by myself to cross the street, and go to Church. If it was raining i still had to stand outside alone, and go to Church. My Great Aunt, (who is now my Adopted Mother today) lived right up over the hill from me, and noticed that i was never outside.
I was always looking out the window watching my Foster Parents, and my Foster Brother play out in our dooryard. Even in the summer when it was Georgous out. She went to my Social Worker, and told them what she noticed.
She also told my Worker that the other day my Foster Father came into her Store to get a Sandwhich, and stated that he didn't know what he was going to do about me. My Great Aunt asked him why. He told her that he has to lock the Bathroom door when he goes to the Bathroom because i come running right in, and stare at him. My Great Aunt talked really nice to him that day to get all she could from him. She found what he said very Disturbing. When he left the Store my Great Aunt went right to my Worker, and told him everything that my Foster Father told her.
They soon took me out of that home, and put me with my Great Aunt, and Uncle. I remember nothing but Great things there. But then again, i was taken out of her home, and put with another Foster Family. This place was out in the Country on a Farm. Which i was so happy about. I loved Horses, and was happy at the thought of being able to ride one. I had 2 Foster Sisters. One very nice, and the other very mean. I had my own room, and was never locked in. I had more rules of course because i was a lot younger than my Foster Sisters. They were Teenagers. I remember oneday helping my Foster Mother clean out the Fenced in area that the Horses Galloped in. I helped clean out all the Rocks, and Sticks. We had a pretty big dog at this home. I was a very very Tiny girl. Nothing to me really. Everytime i would throw one of the Rocks over the Fence the dog when jump up on me and scratch me. I would cry because it hurt. My Foster Mother would yell at me, and tell me that if i didn't like it get my butt in the house, and go to my room until she was done.
I wanted to help so bad but getting jumped on, and scratched by this big dog really hurt. So i would go to my room instead, and cry. One of my Foster Sisters would come in my room, and talk to me, and brush my hair. The other one would say i was a cry baby, and needed to grow up. Then there was another night that i wanted to be part of the family, and fit in so bad that i asked if i could help bring Wood from our yard to the Wood Stove in our house. My Foster Father said sure. I was scared of the fire he had going in the yard but i wanted to help. He had me bring pieces of Wood from the yard, and pile them up next to the Wood Stove in our Dining Room. He would come back, and fourth putting Wood in the Stove, and then going back outside to get more. I thought i would help him by putting a piece of Wood into the Stove.
When i saw him comeing towards the house i got scared, and went to shut the Stove door really fast, and forgot to put my mitt on. I burnt my hand really bad. I didn't dare tell my Foster Father so i just went to the
Kitchen sink, and help my hand under cold water. He came in the house twice, and noticed i was stil at the sink. He asked me what i was doing, and i tol him that i was washing my hands. He came over to the sink, and looked at my hand. He smacked me in the back of the head, and told me to sit at the kitchen table that i was going to pay for doing that. I was crying at the table holding my hand. My Foster Mother, Father, and both Sisters stood at the table next to me.
My Foster Mother heated up Butter in the Microwave, and had my Foster Sister, and Foster Father hold my hand while she poured the Boiling Butter over my burnt hand. My other Foster Sister yelled at them telling them that they were so mean, and that they were hurting me. I just sat there crying so hard but didn't dare to move. My Punishement for putting Wood into the Stove was carrying big Cans full of Milk from the Cows in the Barn to the house. It was a long walk. And i remember the Cans being so heavy. Everytime i spilt any of the Milk i would have to start over. Go back to the Barn, and try again. This time without spilling any of the Milk. Finally my Great Aunt got me out of there, and back with her. Again i was taken out of her home, and put into another Foster Home.
This one i only had a Foster Father who smoked a lot. He never really talked to me or payed any attention to me. I don't remember having any toys or anything. I just went to School, and watched tv. I remember that he had a lot of CB's all through the house. That was what he did allday, and allnight. I didn't have much for Rules but i had nothing at the sametime. The state finally found out that the money he got to take care of me went on Drugs, and CB's. Again i was taken out of that home, and put back with my Great Aunt. At this time the State decided that i was old enough to go to Court, and say who i wanted to live with. All they needed to do was get my Biological Mother to sign papers, and agree to this. In the past they had a hardtime getting her to do this. Yet at the sametime she couldn't, and didn't take care of me. She was Mentally Challenged, and was not able to do it but didn't want anyone Adopting me. My older Brother lived with her because he was old enough to make that Decision. But he really worried about me. He wanted me with him or with my Great Aunt, and Uncle where i would be Happy, and Safe. I remember going to Court that day, and the Judge asking me if i wanted to live with my Great Aunt, and Uncle forever. I started jumping up, and down yelling yes yes!
The judge granted Adoption Happily, and sent me home with them that day. We went out to eat at this Huge Resteraunt, and then home to see my room. It had a Big bed with a Pink Blanket, a tv, Lots of Dolls, and Stuffed
Animals. I had tons of Clothes, Dresses, and Shoes. And today i couldn't have had better Parents. The years with them made up for all the bad things i went through in all of my Foster Homes. Today i can think, and Talk about it, and it doesn't bother me one bit. I am very Happy with the life i have now. I have 2 Children of my own, and would never let them go through anything like that. I will say that i do today, have Anxiety, a little bit of Depression, not much Education due to having such Low Self Esteem. But i am Hpappy, and learned a lot from this. I do have some Issues now from having that kind of life. I have a very Hardtime staying in one place more than a few months, i have some Jealousy Issues with my Fiance, Low Self Esteem, and a few other things. Because i was Sexually Molested by one of my Foster Fathers i have Issues with Sexual Interaction. I have trouble going into Public around a lot of people. Therefore i have to Work from Home in order to Work.
I urge anyone that has Children that they cannot take care of or are thinking about Foster Homes to really look into the People. They put good acts on to get that Child, and the money that comes with it. Please be very Careful chooseing a Foster Home. Or if you know of anyone that is in one please check the Home, and People out really really good. You never know what is happening in that Home to the Kids.
I think Foster Homes (not all of them) but most of them do not take care of the Children. Nor do they care about the Children they just want the money. This should really be looked into for the sake of the Children. I would NEVER want any Child to go through what i went through. I know so many do, and it just gets looked passed. But if we can start now by Researching more of the People, and Homes we may save some lives of these poor Children who are so Helpless in this Matter. I ask that anyone who reads this, and knows of anyone in a Foster Home to please look into things for that Child. Its a terrible way to live. It can really ruin a Childs future down the Road. This is an Absolutely true Story. There is so much more not said. This is just a very Tiny piece of what i went through.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/86557/how_safe_is_a_foster_home_for_children.html?cat=25
Saturday, April 17, 2010
STATE BY STATE, CPS IS GETTING ITS ASS SUED OFF
STATE BY STATE, CPS IS GETTING ITS ASS SUED OFF
Article from the FLDs Website
There is an evil in the land beyond the wildest imagination of the average American citizen. Beyond the cruelest theories of anthropologists and archeologists about ancient pagan civilizations. A plague of Biblical proportions.
Almost as cruel as anything Dr Mengele did.
This unspeakable terror walks among us, usurping unimaginable power, operating far outside of the LAWS, and endowed with unearned respect and honor.
Many of them are respectable-looking, well-dressed women. Some are just kids, stupid, dangerous spoiled rotten brats themselves.
Some of them consider themselves as "public servants", as if they have any concept of what the words mean. Most of them consider themselves "children’s advocates". Many bring prejudices from their own perceived "bad childhood".
Some of them get into it idealistically, believing they could "make a difference". They don’t last long. The "turn over rate" is 50% a year. The ones with any real morals or ethics can’t stand the job once they find out what the job REALLY is.
Some of them get into it because they are natural-born sociopaths. Eventually, the ones that stay, become arrogant, caustic, insolent, self-aggrandizing, plain nasty with a preposterously grand superiority complex, power-drunk, and an excruciating need for control.
They are anything but "professional". They are 100% emotionally involved, adversarial, vindictive and retaliatory for what they IMAGINE.
They feel remarkably unconstrained by (or ignorant of) LAWS, new court decisions AGAINST them, Constitutional Rights and Miranda Rights.
Their lives and world-view is a sensational soap opera and they see themselves as the "hero" in the plot. They easily lie and re-arrange the story to fit their plot.
They are mendacious children, playing a game where they are the megalomaniac "boss" making up the rules as they go along.
To call them "investigators" is a rape of the definition of the word. They are VALIDATORS of allegations, masters of Circular Logic, the Devil’s Advocate, inventors of absurd scenarios.
They have no ethics and they have no moral authority whatsoever. They are frauds and every word that comes out of their mouth is a farce. They have absolutely NO credibility whatsoever.
Who, or what is this evil plague upon the land?
Children’s "Protective" "Services" agents.
(A double-oxymoron)
Putting a Sociopathic CPS agent in officious charge of people’s lives is insane.
CPS agents are organically incapable of telling the truth and should be removed from every courtroom in handcuffs for perjury, which is probably why they often aren’t "sworn in", (obsolete : to invoke the name of a sacred being in an oath). Besides, there’s nothing SACRED to them to swear on (perhaps their little BMW?).
Where’s the "Services"?
You know- Those SERVICES required by law (in order to get PAID) to help prevent the kids from being kidnapped to begin with, or enable Reunification- The Reasonable Efforts, what they claim to the "judge" that they did and "YOU FAILED", even though you DID take every goofy class, jumped through every hoop, and did every single thing the CPS agent dreamed up for you like a College Freshman during "hazing week".
They need to be charged and tried for their Federal Capital Crimes. ALL of their immunity, impunity, and the agency secrecy needs to be pierced. The kids and the parents certainly do not care about their "confidentiality".
Only the agency cares, because it’s how they hide all their dirty deeds that should send them to capital punishment for treason against the Constitution, for waging WAR against the American family, disfranchising and supplanting the authority of parents with "parens patriae", destroying the fabric of society.
Why a "judge" in his unconstitutional court of NO due process would believe a word they say is an absolute mystery and travesty of justice. (See "Walthered") They are nothing but nasty little "Nifongs" running around playing prosecutors, COMPLETELY WITHOUT LEGAL AUTHORITY, practicing law without a license, practicing psychiatry without a license, many of them without any Social Work licensing of any kind (as if a Social Work degree is anything but toilet paper from a Socialist College), mercilessly harassing families and costing the American economy TRILLION$.
Tip to Lawyers- These diabolical agencies have MEGA- Insurance policies for malpractice. Since everything CPS is and does is the very definition of MALPRACTICE and MALFEASANCE- Be our guest- Go get the MONEY. Sue them back to the Stone Age. TRILLION$ in settlements would do fine. Take THEIR homes, savings, Escalades and give them to the families they have wrongly destroyed. Destroy THEIR future employability. We couldn’t wish for their kids to be sent out to residential treatment centers to be doped out of their skulls and to pervert foster homes to be raped, beaten and killed like they have kidnapped and sent OUR children there. NO CHILD deserves having their lives destroyed like CPS does just for the money. Fill the prisons up with THEM. Show THEM what endless LEGAL ABUSE is like, having THEIR lives and family trees destroyed forever. Too vindictive? What (certainly not the LAW) gave them the right to do the same thing to us for MADE UP, phony charges- For THE MONEY?
There are more than half a million children and youth in the U.S. foster care system today. Studies reveal that children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than they are in their own homes, and 7 times more likely to die as a result of abuse in the foster care system."– John Walsh Show April 16, 2003
He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance. " –The Declaration of Independence
http://www.flds.ws/2010/04/17/state-by-state-cps-is-getting-its-ass-sued-off/
Article from the FLDs Website
There is an evil in the land beyond the wildest imagination of the average American citizen. Beyond the cruelest theories of anthropologists and archeologists about ancient pagan civilizations. A plague of Biblical proportions.
Almost as cruel as anything Dr Mengele did.
This unspeakable terror walks among us, usurping unimaginable power, operating far outside of the LAWS, and endowed with unearned respect and honor.
Many of them are respectable-looking, well-dressed women. Some are just kids, stupid, dangerous spoiled rotten brats themselves.
Some of them consider themselves as "public servants", as if they have any concept of what the words mean. Most of them consider themselves "children’s advocates". Many bring prejudices from their own perceived "bad childhood".
Some of them get into it idealistically, believing they could "make a difference". They don’t last long. The "turn over rate" is 50% a year. The ones with any real morals or ethics can’t stand the job once they find out what the job REALLY is.
Some of them get into it because they are natural-born sociopaths. Eventually, the ones that stay, become arrogant, caustic, insolent, self-aggrandizing, plain nasty with a preposterously grand superiority complex, power-drunk, and an excruciating need for control.
They are anything but "professional". They are 100% emotionally involved, adversarial, vindictive and retaliatory for what they IMAGINE.
They feel remarkably unconstrained by (or ignorant of) LAWS, new court decisions AGAINST them, Constitutional Rights and Miranda Rights.
Their lives and world-view is a sensational soap opera and they see themselves as the "hero" in the plot. They easily lie and re-arrange the story to fit their plot.
They are mendacious children, playing a game where they are the megalomaniac "boss" making up the rules as they go along.
To call them "investigators" is a rape of the definition of the word. They are VALIDATORS of allegations, masters of Circular Logic, the Devil’s Advocate, inventors of absurd scenarios.
They have no ethics and they have no moral authority whatsoever. They are frauds and every word that comes out of their mouth is a farce. They have absolutely NO credibility whatsoever.
Who, or what is this evil plague upon the land?
Children’s "Protective" "Services" agents.
(A double-oxymoron)
Putting a Sociopathic CPS agent in officious charge of people’s lives is insane.
CPS agents are organically incapable of telling the truth and should be removed from every courtroom in handcuffs for perjury, which is probably why they often aren’t "sworn in", (obsolete : to invoke the name of a sacred being in an oath). Besides, there’s nothing SACRED to them to swear on (perhaps their little BMW?).
Where’s the "Services"?
You know- Those SERVICES required by law (in order to get PAID) to help prevent the kids from being kidnapped to begin with, or enable Reunification- The Reasonable Efforts, what they claim to the "judge" that they did and "YOU FAILED", even though you DID take every goofy class, jumped through every hoop, and did every single thing the CPS agent dreamed up for you like a College Freshman during "hazing week".
They need to be charged and tried for their Federal Capital Crimes. ALL of their immunity, impunity, and the agency secrecy needs to be pierced. The kids and the parents certainly do not care about their "confidentiality".
Only the agency cares, because it’s how they hide all their dirty deeds that should send them to capital punishment for treason against the Constitution, for waging WAR against the American family, disfranchising and supplanting the authority of parents with "parens patriae", destroying the fabric of society.
Why a "judge" in his unconstitutional court of NO due process would believe a word they say is an absolute mystery and travesty of justice. (See "Walthered") They are nothing but nasty little "Nifongs" running around playing prosecutors, COMPLETELY WITHOUT LEGAL AUTHORITY, practicing law without a license, practicing psychiatry without a license, many of them without any Social Work licensing of any kind (as if a Social Work degree is anything but toilet paper from a Socialist College), mercilessly harassing families and costing the American economy TRILLION$.
Tip to Lawyers- These diabolical agencies have MEGA- Insurance policies for malpractice. Since everything CPS is and does is the very definition of MALPRACTICE and MALFEASANCE- Be our guest- Go get the MONEY. Sue them back to the Stone Age. TRILLION$ in settlements would do fine. Take THEIR homes, savings, Escalades and give them to the families they have wrongly destroyed. Destroy THEIR future employability. We couldn’t wish for their kids to be sent out to residential treatment centers to be doped out of their skulls and to pervert foster homes to be raped, beaten and killed like they have kidnapped and sent OUR children there. NO CHILD deserves having their lives destroyed like CPS does just for the money. Fill the prisons up with THEM. Show THEM what endless LEGAL ABUSE is like, having THEIR lives and family trees destroyed forever. Too vindictive? What (certainly not the LAW) gave them the right to do the same thing to us for MADE UP, phony charges- For THE MONEY?
There are more than half a million children and youth in the U.S. foster care system today. Studies reveal that children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than they are in their own homes, and 7 times more likely to die as a result of abuse in the foster care system."– John Walsh Show April 16, 2003
He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance. " –The Declaration of Independence
http://www.flds.ws/2010/04/17/state-by-state-cps-is-getting-its-ass-sued-off/
Friday, April 16, 2010
Pill Popping Kids Of America
By LOUIS THEROUX
Published: 15 Apr 2010
PUTTING children with behavioural conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on prescription drugs is rife in the US. In his latest documentary, Louis Theroux travelled to the Western Psychiatric Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a leading centre in the treatment of children with mental health problems, to meet the kids, the families and the doctors who believe medication is the only way to tackle their conditions. It is estimated that between five to eight per cent of all American school children have been diagnosed with ADHD. In the UK the figure is 500,000, with around 60,000 of those taking medication. Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids, is on BBC2 at 9pm on Sunday. Here, Louis, 39 - who has two sons aged four and two - gives TV Features Writer KATE JACKSON his verdict on the issue and, on the right, we look at three of the children featured on the show.
I WAS interested in the subject as a parent - and also because it seems there's a large grey area with these diagnoses.
There are clearly people who are mentally ill, there are people who clearly aren't, and there are some people in the middle who could go either way.
In terms of the kids who get diagnosed, I would say the majority seem to be on medication.
I don't know if that's shocking or not shocking. It's certainly a controversial area. It's easy, as a lay person, to pronounce on these things.
The idea of drugs is scary.
Doctors at Western Psych aren't too worried about long-term effects of the stimulant drugs for ADHD, such as Adderall and Ritalin.
But it's not clear what the long-term side-effects would be on the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel, which Hugh is taking.
I spent a few days with ten-year-old Hugh and, to be honest, it was hard to tell whether he was a kid with a mental health problem or just a difficult kid. Certainly, the professional consensus is the former.
I liked him but at the same time I found him quite difficult.
He was rude at times. I would ask him something and he would just wander off.
I asked him, "Do you know better than me about most things in the world?" and he said, "Yeah, I think I do."
In a weird way I found that endearing - but I don't have to live with him. At one point Hugh refused to have a shower and I asked his mum, Barbro, how she rated that experience on a stress level of one to ten.
She rated it a seven, which was a surprise. You would think if you lived with a kid who was difficult, and what they call oppositional defiant, you could roll with the punches a bit more.
That's just my reaction.
Don't a lot of ten-year-old kids say "I hate you" and refuse to take showers?
I have to wrestle my four-year-old son into the bath most nights.
I felt maybe Barbro had got to the point where she had been dealing with this for so long that she had sort of run out of patience - or that it took less to wind her up.
Maybe she needs to take some time out.
I then met Jack, a six-year-old with obsessive compulsive disorder who was on an anti-depressant.
From what I understand, a six-year-old in Britain is unlikely to be on that medication. It's perhaps a little too young.
Again, as a lay person, I wasn't sure whether the diagnosis was completely valid, and even if it was, whether medication was the right road to take. But when his parents can't find a mainstream school to take him, you have to treat that seriously.
There was also Kaylee, 15, who has been diagnosed with ADHD and who volunteered to stop taking her medication to show us what a difference it makes to her behaviour.
We arrived about 9am and, after a couple of hours, Kaylee started getting a bit hyperactive and silly.
Her behaviour did seem to change, and she had a headache and a feeling of irritability.
I don't know if those were withdrawal symptoms but she aborted the experiment and went back on the medication.
She seemed a little self-conscious about her diagnosis. She mentioned that she had told a male friend that she had ADHD and seemed relieved that he didn't find it too weird.
I came from a British perspective that Americans are over-medicating.
Advertisement
The original title for the documentary was Medicalised Normality, with the idea that we're creating these medical categories for things that would have been considered normal in the old days.
Now you're not naughty, you're oppositional defiant.
You're not fidgety, you've got ADHD.
I was one of these people who thought ADHD was just a technical word for a kid who couldn't sit still. But there are kids who are really being helped by having that diagnosis.
There are adults who dropped out of school because they couldn't sit still, and they wish they had been diagnosed with ADHD instead of just being considered a problem child.
Having been to Pittsburgh and seen how much the parents believe in the drugs - and how much of a difference it has made in their lives - the issue of medication is much less clear-cut in my own mind.
And as a parent, the idea of medicating a kid is off-putting.
But none of these parents was rushing to put their kids on drugs.
It was more that the doctors were advising it and the parents were at their wits' end.
It would be a very difficult decision and you would have to weigh up where the kid was at and how extreme his or her behaviour was getting.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2933351/Putting-children-on-prescription-drugs-is-rife-in-the-US.html#ixzz0lJNFqL9K
Published: 15 Apr 2010
PUTTING children with behavioural conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on prescription drugs is rife in the US. In his latest documentary, Louis Theroux travelled to the Western Psychiatric Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a leading centre in the treatment of children with mental health problems, to meet the kids, the families and the doctors who believe medication is the only way to tackle their conditions. It is estimated that between five to eight per cent of all American school children have been diagnosed with ADHD. In the UK the figure is 500,000, with around 60,000 of those taking medication. Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids, is on BBC2 at 9pm on Sunday. Here, Louis, 39 - who has two sons aged four and two - gives TV Features Writer KATE JACKSON his verdict on the issue and, on the right, we look at three of the children featured on the show.
I WAS interested in the subject as a parent - and also because it seems there's a large grey area with these diagnoses.
There are clearly people who are mentally ill, there are people who clearly aren't, and there are some people in the middle who could go either way.
In terms of the kids who get diagnosed, I would say the majority seem to be on medication.
I don't know if that's shocking or not shocking. It's certainly a controversial area. It's easy, as a lay person, to pronounce on these things.
The idea of drugs is scary.
Doctors at Western Psych aren't too worried about long-term effects of the stimulant drugs for ADHD, such as Adderall and Ritalin.
But it's not clear what the long-term side-effects would be on the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel, which Hugh is taking.
I spent a few days with ten-year-old Hugh and, to be honest, it was hard to tell whether he was a kid with a mental health problem or just a difficult kid. Certainly, the professional consensus is the former.
I liked him but at the same time I found him quite difficult.
He was rude at times. I would ask him something and he would just wander off.
I asked him, "Do you know better than me about most things in the world?" and he said, "Yeah, I think I do."
In a weird way I found that endearing - but I don't have to live with him. At one point Hugh refused to have a shower and I asked his mum, Barbro, how she rated that experience on a stress level of one to ten.
She rated it a seven, which was a surprise. You would think if you lived with a kid who was difficult, and what they call oppositional defiant, you could roll with the punches a bit more.
That's just my reaction.
Don't a lot of ten-year-old kids say "I hate you" and refuse to take showers?
I have to wrestle my four-year-old son into the bath most nights.
I felt maybe Barbro had got to the point where she had been dealing with this for so long that she had sort of run out of patience - or that it took less to wind her up.
Maybe she needs to take some time out.
I then met Jack, a six-year-old with obsessive compulsive disorder who was on an anti-depressant.
From what I understand, a six-year-old in Britain is unlikely to be on that medication. It's perhaps a little too young.
Again, as a lay person, I wasn't sure whether the diagnosis was completely valid, and even if it was, whether medication was the right road to take. But when his parents can't find a mainstream school to take him, you have to treat that seriously.
There was also Kaylee, 15, who has been diagnosed with ADHD and who volunteered to stop taking her medication to show us what a difference it makes to her behaviour.
We arrived about 9am and, after a couple of hours, Kaylee started getting a bit hyperactive and silly.
Her behaviour did seem to change, and she had a headache and a feeling of irritability.
I don't know if those were withdrawal symptoms but she aborted the experiment and went back on the medication.
She seemed a little self-conscious about her diagnosis. She mentioned that she had told a male friend that she had ADHD and seemed relieved that he didn't find it too weird.
I came from a British perspective that Americans are over-medicating.
Advertisement
The original title for the documentary was Medicalised Normality, with the idea that we're creating these medical categories for things that would have been considered normal in the old days.
Now you're not naughty, you're oppositional defiant.
You're not fidgety, you've got ADHD.
I was one of these people who thought ADHD was just a technical word for a kid who couldn't sit still. But there are kids who are really being helped by having that diagnosis.
There are adults who dropped out of school because they couldn't sit still, and they wish they had been diagnosed with ADHD instead of just being considered a problem child.
Having been to Pittsburgh and seen how much the parents believe in the drugs - and how much of a difference it has made in their lives - the issue of medication is much less clear-cut in my own mind.
And as a parent, the idea of medicating a kid is off-putting.
But none of these parents was rushing to put their kids on drugs.
It was more that the doctors were advising it and the parents were at their wits' end.
It would be a very difficult decision and you would have to weigh up where the kid was at and how extreme his or her behaviour was getting.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2933351/Putting-children-on-prescription-drugs-is-rife-in-the-US.html#ixzz0lJNFqL9K
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Former DCS Workers Say Kids At Risk Judge Quits Over Lack Of Faith In Department Of Children's Services
http://www.wsmv.com/news/22524714/detail.html
Former DCS Workers Say Kids At Risk
Judge Quits Over Lack Of Faith In Department Of Children's Services
Reported By Dennis Ferrier
POSTED: 2:58 pm CST February 10, 2010
UPDATED: 8:08 pm CST February 10, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- More than a dozen current and former Department of Children's Services workers say children are at risk from the agency's focus on mandates and quotas.
Related: Pt. 1 | Pt. 2
April Meldrum is the new associate dean at the Duncan LawSchool in Knoxville. But just one month ago, she was a juvenile judge in Anderson County -- a judge who dealt every day with broken families, struggling families, foster families and the DCS.
Meldrum quit that judgeship because she said DCS would not help families.
"As you're faced with making a decision every day of deciding whether or not to remove a child from their parents, you would like to know that the agency to whom you're giving the child would do a better job than the parents from which you just removed the child," said Meldrum. "It's untenable to be in if you don't have that faith, and I no longer have that faith."
Meldrum said she constantly had to battle DCS to provide its basic services like drug and alcohol counseling, anger management and just helping with paying a utility bill for a month.
"It happens routinely that services are ordered, and they not provided. Time and time again the department would return without meeting their obligation," said Meldrum.
DCS Commissioner Viola Miller said those statements are not true, and DCS provides services that are court-ordered in a timely and even urgent manner.
"Do you know that almost nothing that says to me makes me angrier than that? Because I love our kids, and I love her families," said Miller.
In October, Coffee County Juvenile Court Judge Tim Brock was so mad at DCS that he ordered every DCS caseworker and manager in the county to appear before him and bring all their cases and explain why kids weren't being seen sometimes for months and why services he ordered weren't being provided.
This was all done in the secrecy of juvenile court, but it isn't a secret anymore because of Brian Bagby, who resigned from his position as a Coffee County DCS investigator. He felt DCS was concerned with numbers, not kids.
"I just felt like it wasn't worth the job anymore," said Bagby. "I just felt I wasn't doing anything for families. I kind of felt like I was actually harming families more than doing anything good for them."
Bagby isn't alone: Three former and current DCS workers have also made similar complaints to Channel 4, but chose not to appear on camera.
When case managers investigate complaints that children are being harmed in a home, a case is officially opened. As long as a case manager has any contact with the family, the case remains open.
Case managers said cases often stay open for long periods of time because there are so many questions to ask, and they are getting pressure to hurry up and close the case as soon as possible.
"The department really wants you to get it closed within 30 days," said Bagby. "They really don't care what's going on, as long as the media isn't involved or a child doesn't die, they want you to close it."
Miller said there is pressure to close cases, not because it's costing DCS money but because kids are in imminent danger and deserve fast action.
"This is about kids' safety. We can't leave them hanging out there," said Miller.
But Bagby argued if there are 50 cases, that could be 150 kids. With interviews, court, counseling, psychological evaluations, Bagby said it ends up with a shoddy investigation.
"It just got to the point if you go to the house and nobody was on fire, nobody was bleeding and no broken arm, you (were told) just to talk to the family and kids for 10 to 15 minutes, get in the car and go to the next case," said Bagby.
Miller said DCS believes a case worker should be able to handle a constant load of 30 cases, and it's a well-documented standard that DCS is maintaining.
"We don't have a bunch of caseworkers with over 30 cases, and we'll be glad to show you that we have the data on that," said Miller.
But internal caseload summaries provided to Channel 4 by DCS insiders show some issues. In September 2009, for example, there were 75 case managers with more than 30 cases. This represents hundreds of Tennessee kids over the limit.
What Bagby and Meldrum are saying is even these case load numbers don't tell the story because it doesn't count the many cases being closed to quickly.
Bagby admits he was reprimanded by his bosses by DCS management. But he maintains that his supervisors at DCS required him to do things he thought were unsafe and eventually quit his job.
Previous Story:
February 10, 2010: Ex-Workers: Kids' Safety Not Focus Of DCS
http://www.wsmv.com/news/22524714/detail.html
Former DCS Workers Say Kids At Risk
Judge Quits Over Lack Of Faith In Department Of Children's Services
Reported By Dennis Ferrier
POSTED: 2:58 pm CST February 10, 2010
UPDATED: 8:08 pm CST February 10, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- More than a dozen current and former Department of Children's Services workers say children are at risk from the agency's focus on mandates and quotas.
Related: Pt. 1 | Pt. 2
April Meldrum is the new associate dean at the Duncan LawSchool in Knoxville. But just one month ago, she was a juvenile judge in Anderson County -- a judge who dealt every day with broken families, struggling families, foster families and the DCS.
Meldrum quit that judgeship because she said DCS would not help families.
"As you're faced with making a decision every day of deciding whether or not to remove a child from their parents, you would like to know that the agency to whom you're giving the child would do a better job than the parents from which you just removed the child," said Meldrum. "It's untenable to be in if you don't have that faith, and I no longer have that faith."
Meldrum said she constantly had to battle DCS to provide its basic services like drug and alcohol counseling, anger management and just helping with paying a utility bill for a month.
"It happens routinely that services are ordered, and they not provided. Time and time again the department would return without meeting their obligation," said Meldrum.
DCS Commissioner Viola Miller said those statements are not true, and DCS provides services that are court-ordered in a timely and even urgent manner.
"Do you know that almost nothing that says to me makes me angrier than that? Because I love our kids, and I love her families," said Miller.
In October, Coffee County Juvenile Court Judge Tim Brock was so mad at DCS that he ordered every DCS caseworker and manager in the county to appear before him and bring all their cases and explain why kids weren't being seen sometimes for months and why services he ordered weren't being provided.
This was all done in the secrecy of juvenile court, but it isn't a secret anymore because of Brian Bagby, who resigned from his position as a Coffee County DCS investigator. He felt DCS was concerned with numbers, not kids.
"I just felt like it wasn't worth the job anymore," said Bagby. "I just felt I wasn't doing anything for families. I kind of felt like I was actually harming families more than doing anything good for them."
Bagby isn't alone: Three former and current DCS workers have also made similar complaints to Channel 4, but chose not to appear on camera.
When case managers investigate complaints that children are being harmed in a home, a case is officially opened. As long as a case manager has any contact with the family, the case remains open.
Case managers said cases often stay open for long periods of time because there are so many questions to ask, and they are getting pressure to hurry up and close the case as soon as possible.
"The department really wants you to get it closed within 30 days," said Bagby. "They really don't care what's going on, as long as the media isn't involved or a child doesn't die, they want you to close it."
Miller said there is pressure to close cases, not because it's costing DCS money but because kids are in imminent danger and deserve fast action.
"This is about kids' safety. We can't leave them hanging out there," said Miller.
But Bagby argued if there are 50 cases, that could be 150 kids. With interviews, court, counseling, psychological evaluations, Bagby said it ends up with a shoddy investigation.
"It just got to the point if you go to the house and nobody was on fire, nobody was bleeding and no broken arm, you (were told) just to talk to the family and kids for 10 to 15 minutes, get in the car and go to the next case," said Bagby.
Miller said DCS believes a case worker should be able to handle a constant load of 30 cases, and it's a well-documented standard that DCS is maintaining.
"We don't have a bunch of caseworkers with over 30 cases, and we'll be glad to show you that we have the data on that," said Miller.
But internal caseload summaries provided to Channel 4 by DCS insiders show some issues. In September 2009, for example, there were 75 case managers with more than 30 cases. This represents hundreds of Tennessee kids over the limit.
What Bagby and Meldrum are saying is even these case load numbers don't tell the story because it doesn't count the many cases being closed to quickly.
Bagby admits he was reprimanded by his bosses by DCS management. But he maintains that his supervisors at DCS required him to do things he thought were unsafe and eventually quit his job.
Previous Story:
February 10, 2010: Ex-Workers: Kids' Safety Not Focus Of DCS
http://www.wsmv.com/news/22524714/detail.html
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Grandparents Rights, 4E
Grandparents Rights, 4E
Notes:
Product Description
Your Grandchildren Need You in Their Lives.
Grandparents have long been the backbone to any family. In times of trouble, they are the first place struggling parents turn. However, when the struggles turn into a bitter divorce battle, it is the grandparents who are punished. Unfortunately, it is the children who ultimately suffer.
As a grandparent, you provide a sense of history and stability to your grandchildren. You are a source of inspiration to them and you instill in them the value of family. When, for whatever reason, you are prevented from being a part of their lives, you feel the pain, but they are the ones who lose. You have the right and the obligation to stand up for yourself and for your grandchildren.
Grandparents’ Rights fully explains what you can do to protect your relationship with your grandchildren. Learn the steps you can take to get the courts on your side and guarantee that you will be able to spend time with them. Written in easy-to-understand language, Grandparents’ Rights teaches you how to:
• Work with your grandchildren’s parents to find the best
solution
• Identify when legal action may be necessary to enforce your rights
• Take action if you think your grandchildren are being abused
• Increase the time you get to spend with your grandchildren
Continue to Be a Part of Your Grandchildren’s Lives.
Grandparents Rights, 4E
http://childcustodymedia.com/grandparents-rights-4e
Notes:
Product Description
Your Grandchildren Need You in Their Lives.
Grandparents have long been the backbone to any family. In times of trouble, they are the first place struggling parents turn. However, when the struggles turn into a bitter divorce battle, it is the grandparents who are punished. Unfortunately, it is the children who ultimately suffer.
As a grandparent, you provide a sense of history and stability to your grandchildren. You are a source of inspiration to them and you instill in them the value of family. When, for whatever reason, you are prevented from being a part of their lives, you feel the pain, but they are the ones who lose. You have the right and the obligation to stand up for yourself and for your grandchildren.
Grandparents’ Rights fully explains what you can do to protect your relationship with your grandchildren. Learn the steps you can take to get the courts on your side and guarantee that you will be able to spend time with them. Written in easy-to-understand language, Grandparents’ Rights teaches you how to:
• Work with your grandchildren’s parents to find the best
solution
• Identify when legal action may be necessary to enforce your rights
• Take action if you think your grandchildren are being abused
• Increase the time you get to spend with your grandchildren
Continue to Be a Part of Your Grandchildren’s Lives.
Grandparents Rights, 4E
http://childcustodymedia.com/grandparents-rights-4e
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Russia Threatens to Freeze Adoptions To The U.S.
Note from unhappygrammy:
The Russian Government need's to be held accountable for adopting out their un-adoptable children. This little boy is not the only child adopted from Russia with severe psychiatric disorders. American citizens pay thousands of dollars to adopt these children and are being lied to as to the severe trauma they've suffered and their psychiatric issues. They aren't even provided medical records. Wasn't there an adoptive family in the news a fews months ago, who adopted their son from Russia, who were having these same types of issues in Oklahoma? I know of another parent who has adopted from Russia. Her son has TRIED to set the house on fire, hides knives and scissors all over the house and threatens to kill his family, plus much, much more. His mother did seek help and in turn DCYF tried to charge her with abuse and neglect because the psychiatric hospital he was placed in sent him home. On the way home, he tried to strangle his sister and tried to jump out of the moving vehicle. His mother turned the car around and took him back to the hospital. The hospital in turn reported her to DCYF in NH, who tried to charge with abuse and neglect because she sought help for her son. NH DCYF claimed the boy was perfectly normal and subsequently filed, collected and cashed Social Security checks for his mental disability.
After a year of hell of fighting the charges in court with an excellent Lawyer, she finally won her case. She left the state of NH and her son is now receiving the help he needs. He may never be able to return home as he is so badly damaged from the abuse he suffered in Russia. This mother has been dealing with this nightmare for five years.
http://www.newsy.com/videos/russia-threatens-to-freeze-adoptions-to-the-u-s/
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