Child Protective Services’ Criminals Get What’s Coming to Them

The truth will out, it always does. This is just the beginning. What is to come will make Nuremberg look like Romper Room. =============================== Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering. Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25000 and/or sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of “racketeering activity.” RICO also permits a private individual harmed by the actions of such an enterprise to file a civil suit; if successful, the individual can collect treble damages. When the US Attorney decides to indict someone under RICO, he or she has the option of seeking a pre-trial restraining order or injunction to temporarily seize a defendant’s assets and prevent the transfer of potentially forfeitable property, as well as require the defendant to put up a performance bond. This provision was placed in the law because the owners of Mafia-related shell corporations often absconded with the assets. An injunction and/or performance bond ensures that there is something to seize in the event of a guilty verdict. CONSPIRACY – 18 USC 371 makes it a separate Federal crime or offense for anyone to conspire or agree with someone else to do something which, if actually carried out, would …

http://thelawtonlawyer.com/lawtalk/child-protective-services-criminals-get-whats-coming-to-them/

Agency Admits Fault in Death of Child

Agency Admits Fault in Death of Child
By RAY RIVERA
Published: September 24, 2010


A supervisor and a caseworker for New York City’s child welfare agency have been suspended without pay for failing to adequately oversee the case of a bruised and emaciated 4-year-old girl who was found dead in her mother’s apartment in Brooklyn this month, the agency said Friday.

Admitting for the first time that there had been internal breakdowns in the case, the agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, said in a brief statement that there had been “lapses in frontline protective practice.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/nyregion/25acs.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Baby LK Report For September 26th 2010 - National Failure To Protect Week Special

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Drug Laws Violated for Foster Kids, Part Two : Deeper Concerns

Drug Laws Violated for Foster Kids, Part Two : Deeper Concerns
by Kieron McFadden
In the wake of a little boy's suicide and the admission by child welfare chiefs
that they violated a 2005 law aimed at protecting kids from psychiatric-drug use, some Florida lawmakers suggest the death may be a symptom of deeper problems.
The 2005 law came about when Florida lawmakers became concerned that kids in foster care were being needlessly medicated to control "difficult" behavior.
On April 27, Sen. Ronda Storms, who chairs the Children, Families and Elder Affairs Committee, wrote to DCF Secretary George Sheldon, ''This case raises serious concerns which demand attention and answers,'' Among the questions, she asked was, ``To what degree, if any, has the [department] ignored or circumvented . . . the 2005 law which curbed the use of psychotropic drugs in the treatment of our children in department care?''
A former lawmaker who authored the 2005 legislation, Walter G. ''Skip'' Campbell, who also chaired the children's committee, accused the DCF of ''cooking the numbers'' so as to make it look as if had curbed the use of mental health drugs to "manage" the behavior of unruly children.
In a report last September to the Florida Senate, the DCF claimed that less than 7percent (2,307!) foster kids were on such drugs. It also claimed that in almost all cases the agency had "received proper consent". But that report was based on figures from the DCF's internal database (known as the Florida Safe Families Network, or FSFN) long acknowledged by administrators to be unreliable.
In a memo as long ago as September 2006, the DCF's then-director of family safety, Patricia Badland, said DCF's computer system recorded that only 4 percent of children in the state's care were being given psychotropic drugs -- while a separate system kept by Medicaid said nearly 12 percent - three times as many - of foster children were on psychotropic medications.
''This discrepancy would . . . indicate there is under-reporting of children being prescribed psychotherapeutic medications,'' Badland wrote. "It is critical that the . . . database be accurate and up-to-date to assure that we are able to monitor all children taking these medications.''
Eight months later, DCF did report to the Senate that 11.3 percent of children in its care from September through November 2006 had been prescribed mind-altering drugs.
Concerns over the drugging of children were raised as long ago as 2001, when The Miami Herald reported that child welfare administrators were relying on powerful mind-altering drugs to manage the behavior of unruly foster kids, and that those children sometimes suffered dangerous side-effects. Advocates accused the department of using such drugs as ''chemical restraints'' and this concern eventually led to the 2005 law.
Dr. Ewald Horwath, interim chairman of the University of Miami Medical School's psychiatry and behavioral sciences department, said, ''What use can one have for an anti-psychotic drug, other than a psychiatric one?''
He also said, ''It seems to me you would want parental consent before prescribing. You would want someone exercising judgment in place of the child, who cannot make decisions on whether benefits outweigh risks.''

It appears that in Florida children were illegally denied that basic right.

http://freedom-plaza-humor.blogspot.com/2010/09/drug-laws-violated-for-foster-kids-part.html

Tell Senator Chris Dodd to Leave our Children Alone!!!

S. 3817:
A bill to amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, the Family Violence Prevention and...

Primary Source
See S. 3817 on THOMAS for the official source of information on this bill or resolution.

A bill to amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978, and the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988 to reauthorize the Acts, and for other purposes.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-3817

National Stolen Child Day-November 20th

November 20th is National Stolen Child Day.
We can no longer sit back and let our children be stolen from us under the false pretenses of DCYF/CPS and the Judges who let this rogue agency pull their string's.
It's time to fight back! Our children are NOT being saved by this un-honorable bunch of thief's. They are traumatizing our children by the thousand's, holding them hostage, while they wait for their federal government payoff.
The foster stranger's who kiss their butt's are no better. There are a few who really care, but for the most part, there are many just in it for the money. They listen and believe the lies of the great and powerful DCYF/CPS.
We must show our government we won't take this abuse any longer. We need to stand up and fight back for our children. They need to know we do care. They need to know who the enemy is and that it isn't their families. It's the people who have dragged them out of their homes, brainwashed them and drugged them. All for the almighty dollar.
We will NOT be celebrating the kidnapping of our children. We will be fighting for their return and fighting for the abolishment of this rogue agency they call "child protective services", the Destroyer's of children, youth and families!

Number of kids taken by DCS is up again

Number of kids taken by DCS is up again

Written by
Tim Evans

Indiana continues to increase the number of children it is taking away from families -- a fact that bucks the national trend and concerns both state child welfare officials and national experts.

The new federal statistics revealing that trend are especially disturbing because they suggest that either the state's Department of Child Services is not doing enough to keep families together or that Indiana has a disproportionately high rate of bad parents.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20100927/LOCAL/9270320/Number-of-kids-taken-by-DCS-is-up-again?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com