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Home - US Concerned Parents
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We know the laws that serve us in CT.: www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/selfguides.htm New poster reads- "STOP DCF/CPS kidnapping our children for PROFIT$"
http://www.fightcps.com/
corrupt Family court Judges bilk parents of $$$$$$$ Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in CT. allows DCF/CPS to kidnap our children for profit$
PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME is now considered a condition
I'm a '"JUDICIAL ABUSE ADVOCATE" copyrighted by posting it here. --- If you or a loved one has been falsely accused or wronged by the DCF/CPS and the Family/child support/probate/criminal Courts and you have seen corruption in these places and you know that you did not do what they are trying to say you did, we support all issues concerning Children and families that they have put you into a situation you did not have before, please contact me, Cheryl Martone, founder, Feb.2009 of the US CONCERNED PARENTS support group. phone: 860-301-1274 This is not a me club or a fan club, it is a place for HELP FOR PARENTS -- We can give information, guidance, knowledge as to what is going on in the system (they dragged you into) for children's and parental rights, knowledge, understanding of what they are doing, help each other and give notices to discussions/meeting/events about Family Preservation. How to protect your family from the unlawful ways of the State Agencies that are making money from federal funds (Title IV) off your child if they get taken away and unlawfully put into the system. How the corrupt CPS/DCF/Family/child support/probate/criminal Courts are keeping you in hearings for years (unlawfully). Please contact us so we can talk about the injustices and make a *change*( going to Legislation to speak(testify) talk about the laws if they are right or wrong and make them right) to protect the Future of America, our children. Please contact me, to tell your nightmare story about DCF/CPS/GAL's/Attorney's when children and parents are pushed into (DCF/CPS/Family/child support/probate/criminal) COURTS, that we can tell you how you were illegally brought there.
I INVITE all PARENTS, ADULT CHILDREN who are/were in the system (DCF/CPS/Family) and Family members to become a member (MEMBERS PAGE) of "US Concerned Parents" support group. There are guidelines set one has to follow to be a member. - RULES & INVITATION: go to "OUR STORY" page for now.
***PUBLIC HEARING: AN ACT CONCERNING PARENTAL RIGHTS IN JUVENILE MATTERS - GO TO JUVENILE MATTERS PAGE here FOR details. TUES. MARCH 9, 2010 10AM Room 2A You have can have a voice here to make the laws and testify to make change for Children's and Parents RIGHTS
*IMPORTANT EVENT TO MEET TOGETHER AT: APRIL 25TH, 2010 IS PAA DAY- PARENTAL ALIENATION AWARENESS DAY- TIME: 3:00PM - 9:00PM Please get in touch with me: email me for details: ctparent@gmail.com sponsors of this event: Save Our Kids-Parental Alienation Foundation, Ken Krajewski - 860-881-6311 http://www.fatherwithoutchristmas.com
IN CT. PLease VOTE FOR US SENATOR---- LINDA McMAHON & FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL ---MARTHA DEAN ON Tues. August 10 in the Primaries ALL U.S. Citizens can vote, go to the polls on this day to stop the demorats corruption. Thankyou These candidates are republicans and they are doing a good job and I know they will continue to work for the people when they are voted in on TUES. Nov. 2, 2010. You can do your part by going to the campaign offices and volunteering to get the good ones in office to protect our rights. I think you have to register to vote, check with your town registrars office at least a week before voting.
We know the laws that serve us in CT.: www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/selfguides.htm New poster reads- "STOP DCF/CPS kidnapping our children for PROFIT$"
http://www.fightcps.com/
corrupt Family court Judges bilk parents of $$$$$$$ Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in CT. allows DCF/CPS to kidnap our children for profit$
PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME is now considered a condition
I'm a '"JUDICIAL ABUSE ADVOCATE" copyrighted by posting it here. --- If you or a loved one has been falsely accused or wronged by the DCF/CPS and the Family/child support/probate/criminal Courts and you have seen corruption in these places and you know that you did not do what they are trying to say you did, we support all issues concerning Children and families that they have put you into a situation you did not have before, please contact me, Cheryl Martone, founder, Feb.2009 of the US CONCERNED PARENTS support group. phone: 860-301-1274 This is not a me club or a fan club, it is a place for HELP FOR PARENTS -- We can give information, guidance, knowledge as to what is going on in the system (they dragged you into) for children's and parental rights, knowledge, understanding of what they are doing, help each other and give notices to discussions/meeting/events about Family Preservation. How to protect your family from the unlawful ways of the State Agencies that are making money from federal funds (Title IV) off your child if they get taken away and unlawfully put into the system. How the corrupt CPS/DCF/Family/child support/probate/criminal Courts are keeping you in hearings for years (unlawfully). Please contact us so we can talk about the injustices and make a *change*( going to Legislation to speak(testify) talk about the laws if they are right or wrong and make them right) to protect the Future of America, our children. Please contact me, to tell your nightmare story about DCF/CPS/GAL's/Attorney's when children and parents are pushed into (DCF/CPS/Family/child support/probate/criminal) COURTS, that we can tell you how you were illegally brought there.
I INVITE all PARENTS, ADULT CHILDREN who are/were in the system (DCF/CPS/Family) and Family members to become a member (MEMBERS PAGE) of "US Concerned Parents" support group. There are guidelines set one has to follow to be a member. - RULES & INVITATION: go to "OUR STORY" page for now.
***PUBLIC HEARING: AN ACT CONCERNING PARENTAL RIGHTS IN JUVENILE MATTERS - GO TO JUVENILE MATTERS PAGE here FOR details. TUES. MARCH 9, 2010 10AM Room 2A You have can have a voice here to make the laws and testify to make change for Children's and Parents RIGHTS
*IMPORTANT EVENT TO MEET TOGETHER AT: APRIL 25TH, 2010 IS PAA DAY- PARENTAL ALIENATION AWARENESS DAY- TIME: 3:00PM - 9:00PM Please get in touch with me: email me for details: ctparent@gmail.com sponsors of this event: Save Our Kids-Parental Alienation Foundation, Ken Krajewski - 860-881-6311 http://www.fatherwithoutchristmas.com
IN CT. PLease VOTE FOR US SENATOR---- LINDA McMAHON & FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL ---MARTHA DEAN ON Tues. August 10 in the Primaries ALL U.S. Citizens can vote, go to the polls on this day to stop the demorats corruption. Thankyou These candidates are republicans and they are doing a good job and I know they will continue to work for the people when they are voted in on TUES. Nov. 2, 2010. You can do your part by going to the campaign offices and volunteering to get the good ones in office to protect our rights. I think you have to register to vote, check with your town registrars office at least a week before voting.
CPS - A System Out of Control: Former CPS Agent Accused of Murdering Foster Child - Trial Begins on Tuesday
CPS - A System Out of Control: Former CPS Agent Accused of Murdering Foster Child - Trial Begins on Tuesday
The Mansfield woman — and former Department of Children and Families employee — accused of killing a foster child in her care is expected to appear in court Tuesday.
Suzanne Listro, 43 of 260 Stearns Road, was charged with the May 19, 2008, death of 7-month-old Michael Brown Jr.
After months of delay, her jury trial is slated to start at Rockville Superior Court at 10 a.m.
Listro’s Hartford attorney, Hu-bert Santos of Santos & Seeley, could not be reached for comment this morning.
Listro was charged July 16, 2008, with first-degree manslaughter and risk of injury to a minor. She pleaded not guilty to both charges in a December 2008 court appearance.
Listro had worked with DCF for 12 years and spent a year as a “children’s services consultant.”
She was terminated from the department following the death of Brown.
According to DCF Commission-er Susan Hamilton, Brown was Listro’s first foster placement with the department.
Brown was in Listro’s care one week when he died from a “blunt traumatic head injury.”
According to court records, Listro said Brown’s injuries were sustained from “falling off the bed.”
Listro said Brown fell from the bed when she was ejecting a tape from the VCR in her bedroom and the boy began crying, according to the police report.
Court records state she told police Brown cried and screamed, but then stopped and went limp while she picked him up.
However, court documents show Dr. Ronald Gross of Hartford Hospital told police “the victim’s injury did not appear consistent with the reported fall.”
Gross was the physician who pronounced Brown dead at 9:55 p.m. the evening of May 19, 2008, after he was transported to Hartford for medical attention.
The Office of the Chief State’s Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide.
As a result of the death of baby Brown, several state officials called for a “complete overhaul” of the DCF to ensure no more deaths or incidents occur.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said in October 2008 the department needed to be broken up and sections need to be reassigned.
“At the core of DCF’s problems and our recommendations is a fatal dilemma,” said Blumenthal at the time, adding DCF currently hires private individuals for additional services for abused and neglected children.
Blumenthal said the department cannot both hire and regulate providers.
“Doing both presents an inherent, inevitable conflict of interest,” he said. “The agency cannot be both contractor and regulator.”
In a report released in May, it was determined Brown’s death may be attributed to procedural flaws in the DCF.
The report was compiled by the Child Welfare League of America, in collaboration with DCF and the Office of the Child Advocate.
The Child Welfare League is a national nonprofit group in Virginia dedicated to child welfare issues.
According to the report, it was discovered foster parent pre-training did not “adhere” to certain components of the department’s prescribed training curriculum.
In addition to improper training, previous claims of child neglect against Listro were lost in paperwork within the department.
During the investigation, it was discovered personnel responsible for licensing Listro as a foster parent were not aware of two previous “unsubstantiated” investigations connected to the care of Listro’s own child.
In addition to Listro coming under fire, the department is also being blamed for the death of Brown.
His parents sought in May 2009 to sue to department for wrongful death.
The notice of a wrongful-death claim — dated May 12 — was sent to James Smith, the state’s claim commissioner, by Louis Flynn Jr. of the Hartford law firm Brown, Paindiris and Scott on behalf of Michael Brown Sr. of East Hartford.
According to the notice, the claims for damages for the estate of Michael Brown Jr. are estimated to be $15 million.
POSTED BY DIVOTDAWG AT 12:07 AM
The Mansfield woman — and former Department of Children and Families employee — accused of killing a foster child in her care is expected to appear in court Tuesday.
Suzanne Listro, 43 of 260 Stearns Road, was charged with the May 19, 2008, death of 7-month-old Michael Brown Jr.
After months of delay, her jury trial is slated to start at Rockville Superior Court at 10 a.m.
Listro’s Hartford attorney, Hu-bert Santos of Santos & Seeley, could not be reached for comment this morning.
Listro was charged July 16, 2008, with first-degree manslaughter and risk of injury to a minor. She pleaded not guilty to both charges in a December 2008 court appearance.
Listro had worked with DCF for 12 years and spent a year as a “children’s services consultant.”
She was terminated from the department following the death of Brown.
According to DCF Commission-er Susan Hamilton, Brown was Listro’s first foster placement with the department.
Brown was in Listro’s care one week when he died from a “blunt traumatic head injury.”
According to court records, Listro said Brown’s injuries were sustained from “falling off the bed.”
Listro said Brown fell from the bed when she was ejecting a tape from the VCR in her bedroom and the boy began crying, according to the police report.
Court records state she told police Brown cried and screamed, but then stopped and went limp while she picked him up.
However, court documents show Dr. Ronald Gross of Hartford Hospital told police “the victim’s injury did not appear consistent with the reported fall.”
Gross was the physician who pronounced Brown dead at 9:55 p.m. the evening of May 19, 2008, after he was transported to Hartford for medical attention.
The Office of the Chief State’s Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide.
As a result of the death of baby Brown, several state officials called for a “complete overhaul” of the DCF to ensure no more deaths or incidents occur.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said in October 2008 the department needed to be broken up and sections need to be reassigned.
“At the core of DCF’s problems and our recommendations is a fatal dilemma,” said Blumenthal at the time, adding DCF currently hires private individuals for additional services for abused and neglected children.
Blumenthal said the department cannot both hire and regulate providers.
“Doing both presents an inherent, inevitable conflict of interest,” he said. “The agency cannot be both contractor and regulator.”
In a report released in May, it was determined Brown’s death may be attributed to procedural flaws in the DCF.
The report was compiled by the Child Welfare League of America, in collaboration with DCF and the Office of the Child Advocate.
The Child Welfare League is a national nonprofit group in Virginia dedicated to child welfare issues.
According to the report, it was discovered foster parent pre-training did not “adhere” to certain components of the department’s prescribed training curriculum.
In addition to improper training, previous claims of child neglect against Listro were lost in paperwork within the department.
During the investigation, it was discovered personnel responsible for licensing Listro as a foster parent were not aware of two previous “unsubstantiated” investigations connected to the care of Listro’s own child.
In addition to Listro coming under fire, the department is also being blamed for the death of Brown.
His parents sought in May 2009 to sue to department for wrongful death.
The notice of a wrongful-death claim — dated May 12 — was sent to James Smith, the state’s claim commissioner, by Louis Flynn Jr. of the Hartford law firm Brown, Paindiris and Scott on behalf of Michael Brown Sr. of East Hartford.
According to the notice, the claims for damages for the estate of Michael Brown Jr. are estimated to be $15 million.
POSTED BY DIVOTDAWG AT 12:07 AM
The Truth Bites "NH"Speak Out about family court endangerment of children SAVE THE DATE WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN
The Truth Bites "NH"
Speak Out about family court endangerment of children SAVE THE DATE WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN
From: CA Protective Parents Association
Subject: News from CA Protective Parents Association
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 4:25 PM
Dear Friends,
Congratulations to Mo Hannah and her team for a great Battered Mothers Custody Conference in Albany NY! We heard it was awesome.
1. SAVE THE DATES: February 13 and 14, 2011.
Mothers of Lost Children will gather at the White House from 2:00 to 4:00 pm Sunday 2/13 for a vigil and speak out about family court endangerment of children. On Monday 2/14 at 11:00 am we will gather at the US Department of Human Services, 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC for a press conference to protest the huge expenditure on Fatherhood and the zero expenditure on Motherhood. At noon we will march to Congress to ask again for Congressional hearings. It is crucial to maintain our presence in Washington DC. We encourage all you brave and hardy souls to join us in person. Wear your warmest clothes. See www.mothers-of-lost-children.com
Please consider writing letters to your 2 US Senators and your 1 Congressmember (http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ ) to request Congressional hearings on the failure of family courts to protect children. You can attach a 1 page summary of your case, if you wish.
2. MEDIA. Let us know at cppa001@aol.com if you want to be contacted:
a. A freelance reporter has asked 48 Hours to cover our issue from the perspective of crimes that are being mishandled. She is looking for current cases in which there is evidence of criminal activiity such as molest, and a family court trial is coming up.
b. A Bay Area reporter is interested in PAS cases.
3. CA AUDIT. The Bureau of State Audits findings will be published on Jan 20, 2011. It has taken 3 years of hard work by Center for Judicial Excellence and CPPA to get the audit approved by the Legislature and finalized by BSA. http://www.bsa.ca.gov/ .
4. CHILDREN'S VOICES. Next year, on Jan 1, 2012, AB1050 (Ma) goes into effect. Children will have the right in CA to speak directly to the judge (unless the judge states the reason for refusing their request). http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1001-1050/ab_1050_bill_20100827_chaptered.html
4. GOOD NEWS. We've heard of several cases in which family and appellate courts have protected abused children. Our persistent activism is helping. There are picketers outside the courthouse in San Diego every Friday, court watch in various counties, blogs all over the place, Youtube videos mocking biased judges, complaints to the Commission on Judicial Performance, meetings with, and letters to, legislators, Congressmembers, and the White House. Mothers of Lost Children demonstrations in May and October 2010 effectively framed it as a civil and human rights movement.
Speak Out about family court endangerment of children SAVE THE DATE WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN
From: CA Protective Parents Association
Subject: News from CA Protective Parents Association
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 4:25 PM
Dear Friends,
Congratulations to Mo Hannah and her team for a great Battered Mothers Custody Conference in Albany NY! We heard it was awesome.
1. SAVE THE DATES: February 13 and 14, 2011.
Mothers of Lost Children will gather at the White House from 2:00 to 4:00 pm Sunday 2/13 for a vigil and speak out about family court endangerment of children. On Monday 2/14 at 11:00 am we will gather at the US Department of Human Services, 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC for a press conference to protest the huge expenditure on Fatherhood and the zero expenditure on Motherhood. At noon we will march to Congress to ask again for Congressional hearings. It is crucial to maintain our presence in Washington DC. We encourage all you brave and hardy souls to join us in person. Wear your warmest clothes. See www.mothers-of-lost-children.com
Please consider writing letters to your 2 US Senators and your 1 Congressmember (http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ ) to request Congressional hearings on the failure of family courts to protect children. You can attach a 1 page summary of your case, if you wish.
2. MEDIA. Let us know at cppa001@aol.com if you want to be contacted:
a. A freelance reporter has asked 48 Hours to cover our issue from the perspective of crimes that are being mishandled. She is looking for current cases in which there is evidence of criminal activiity such as molest, and a family court trial is coming up.
b. A Bay Area reporter is interested in PAS cases.
3. CA AUDIT. The Bureau of State Audits findings will be published on Jan 20, 2011. It has taken 3 years of hard work by Center for Judicial Excellence and CPPA to get the audit approved by the Legislature and finalized by BSA. http://www.bsa.ca.gov/ .
4. CHILDREN'S VOICES. Next year, on Jan 1, 2012, AB1050 (Ma) goes into effect. Children will have the right in CA to speak directly to the judge (unless the judge states the reason for refusing their request). http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1001-1050/ab_1050_bill_20100827_chaptered.html
4. GOOD NEWS. We've heard of several cases in which family and appellate courts have protected abused children. Our persistent activism is helping. There are picketers outside the courthouse in San Diego every Friday, court watch in various counties, blogs all over the place, Youtube videos mocking biased judges, complaints to the Commission on Judicial Performance, meetings with, and letters to, legislators, Congressmembers, and the White House. Mothers of Lost Children demonstrations in May and October 2010 effectively framed it as a civil and human rights movement.
Pennsylvania Governor Upset by Lack of Abortion Oversight | LifeNews.com
Pennsylvania Governor Upset by Lack of Abortion Oversight | LifeNews.com
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who is pro-life, is upset by the lack of state oversight concerning the abortion practitioner recently charged with 8 counts of murder in connection with the death of a woman from a botched abortion and several babies purposefully born in order to kill them.
District Attorney Seth Williams released the detailed charges yesterday and the grand jury report contains shocking findings that he says shows significant problems in monitoring abortion centers.
The infanticide abortion cases are causing significant outrage and may get a federal law involved. Several of his staff were also arrested overnight and will face charges in connection with the cases.
Corbett, who was not governor during the last couple of years as abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell committed the atrocities, is so upset by a grand jury report showing state officials did nothing when told of the problems that he is taking action.
The Associated Press today indicates Corbett’s office is reviewing the grand jury report detailing the deplorable conditions at the abortion center and the acts in which Gosnell engaged in infanticides of seven babies purposefully born and killed with scissors. Corbett met with his new secretaries of Health and State on Thursday. Janet Kelley, Corbett’s spokeswoman, said the governor called what he read “horrific.”
“Pennsylvania is not a Third World country,” the district attorney’s office declared in the report. “There were several oversight agencies that stumbled upon and should have shut down Kermit Gosnell long ago.”
The grand jury report came out a day after Corbett took office and spokesman Kevin Harley, according to the Courier Post, pledged that Corbett’s administration would do more to oversee abortion centers.
“The Corbett administration will review the allegations contained in the grand jury’s report regarding deficiencies in oversight by both the department of state and the department of health and make it a priority to address those deficiencies,” he said. “This has to do with enforcing regulations and the law.”
Denise Burke, an attorney for Americans United for Life, said the case of Gosnell shows the need for additional legislation to regulate and monitor abortion businesses.
“Wednesday’s arrest of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a West Philadelphia abortionist, for the murders of a pregnant woman and seven newborn infants and the blatant failure of Pennsylvania health officials to enforce the state’s existing abortion clinic regulations, underscores the need for more stringent regulation of abortion clinics and for more consistent and meaningful enforcement of these regulations by state officials,” she said.
“Sadly, Gosnell’s Philadelphia clinic is not an aberration. Substandard and unsafe abortion clinics are currently operating across the nation. All too often, America’s abortion clinics have become the “back alleys” that abortion advocates have warned against,” she added.
AUL provides two options: (a) the “Abortion Patient’s Enhanced Safety Act” which requires abortion clinics to be licensed as and to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers. These exacting standards should be viewed as the “gold standard” of abortion care; and (b) the “Woman’s Health Protection Act” which codifies the abortion industry’s own internal standards – standards which have withstood multiple legal challenges over the last decade.
“Second, state health officials must prioritize the inspection of abortion clinics to ensure that they are complying with applicable standards. Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” is a clear warning as to what can result when state officials neglect their responsibilities,” she said.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who is pro-life, is upset by the lack of state oversight concerning the abortion practitioner recently charged with 8 counts of murder in connection with the death of a woman from a botched abortion and several babies purposefully born in order to kill them.
District Attorney Seth Williams released the detailed charges yesterday and the grand jury report contains shocking findings that he says shows significant problems in monitoring abortion centers.
The infanticide abortion cases are causing significant outrage and may get a federal law involved. Several of his staff were also arrested overnight and will face charges in connection with the cases.
Corbett, who was not governor during the last couple of years as abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell committed the atrocities, is so upset by a grand jury report showing state officials did nothing when told of the problems that he is taking action.
The Associated Press today indicates Corbett’s office is reviewing the grand jury report detailing the deplorable conditions at the abortion center and the acts in which Gosnell engaged in infanticides of seven babies purposefully born and killed with scissors. Corbett met with his new secretaries of Health and State on Thursday. Janet Kelley, Corbett’s spokeswoman, said the governor called what he read “horrific.”
“Pennsylvania is not a Third World country,” the district attorney’s office declared in the report. “There were several oversight agencies that stumbled upon and should have shut down Kermit Gosnell long ago.”
The grand jury report came out a day after Corbett took office and spokesman Kevin Harley, according to the Courier Post, pledged that Corbett’s administration would do more to oversee abortion centers.
“The Corbett administration will review the allegations contained in the grand jury’s report regarding deficiencies in oversight by both the department of state and the department of health and make it a priority to address those deficiencies,” he said. “This has to do with enforcing regulations and the law.”
Denise Burke, an attorney for Americans United for Life, said the case of Gosnell shows the need for additional legislation to regulate and monitor abortion businesses.
“Wednesday’s arrest of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a West Philadelphia abortionist, for the murders of a pregnant woman and seven newborn infants and the blatant failure of Pennsylvania health officials to enforce the state’s existing abortion clinic regulations, underscores the need for more stringent regulation of abortion clinics and for more consistent and meaningful enforcement of these regulations by state officials,” she said.
“Sadly, Gosnell’s Philadelphia clinic is not an aberration. Substandard and unsafe abortion clinics are currently operating across the nation. All too often, America’s abortion clinics have become the “back alleys” that abortion advocates have warned against,” she added.
AUL provides two options: (a) the “Abortion Patient’s Enhanced Safety Act” which requires abortion clinics to be licensed as and to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers. These exacting standards should be viewed as the “gold standard” of abortion care; and (b) the “Woman’s Health Protection Act” which codifies the abortion industry’s own internal standards – standards which have withstood multiple legal challenges over the last decade.
“Second, state health officials must prioritize the inspection of abortion clinics to ensure that they are complying with applicable standards. Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” is a clear warning as to what can result when state officials neglect their responsibilities,” she said.
Health Dept Ignored Abortionist Who Killed Woman, Babies With Scissors | LifeNews.com
Health Dept Ignored Abortionist Who Killed Woman, Babies With Scissors | LifeNews.com
Abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell of Pennsylvania was charged with 8 counts of murder yesterday related to the botched abortion death of a woman and his infanticides of seven babies purposefully born and killed with scissors. But the grand jury report accompanying the charges shows state officials did nothing when reports came in about problems at Gosnell’s abortion center.
District Attorney Seth Williams released the detailed charges yesterday and the grand jury report contains shocking findings that he says shows significant problems in monitoring abortion centers.
“We discovered that Pennsylvania’s Department of Health has deliberately chosen not to enforce laws that should afford patients at abortion clinics the same safeguards and assurances of quality health care as patients of other medical service providers,” the report says. “Even nail salons in Pennsylvania are monitored more closely for client safety.”
“The State Legislature has charged the Department of Health (DOH) with responsibility for writing and enforcing regulations to protect health and safety in abortion clinics as well as in hospitals and other health care facilities. Yet a significant difference exists between how DOH monitors abortion clinics and how it monitors facilities where other medical procedures are performed,” the report continues.
“Indeed, the department has shown an utter disregard both for the safety of women who seek treatment at abortion clinics and for the health of fetuses after they have become viable. State health officials have also shown a disregard for the laws the department is supposed to enforce. Most appalling of all, the Department of Health’s neglect of abortion patients’ safety and of Pennsylvania laws is clearly not inadvertent: It is by design,” the report indicates.
The kicker of the reportshows state health officials “knew that Gosnell and his clinic were offering unacceptable medical care to women and girls, yet DOH failed to take any action to stop the atrocities documented by this Grand Jury.”
“These officials were far more protective of themselves when they testified before the Grand Jury. Even DOH lawyers, including the chief counsel, brought private attorneys with them – presumably at government expense,” the report reads.
The grand jury report also finds officials “twisted” state law to not inspect abortion centers like Gosnell’s or make them abide by laws regulating legitimate medical centers as ambulatory surgical facilities:
It was clear to us after hearing these witnesses testify that the decisions not to inspect abortion clinics or to license them as ASFs were not based on any serious interpretation of statutes or legal research. These lawyers were simply twisting and reinterpreting the law to explain policy decisions that changed with administrations, even though the laws did not. Dutton admitted in her testimony that the decision not to inspect was a policy decision, not one grounded in the law:
Q: Does it surprise you to know that some of the reasons cited for the failure to go out and do these inspections is that they believed that they didn’t have the legal authority to do so?
A: That would surprise me, yes. . . . To me, I would believe that they didn’t go out to do them because some policy had been set in the department at some point in time in the past that we were not going to do regular inspections of abortion facilities.
Dutton’s failure to recognize and treat abortion clinics as ASFs, and her silence as DOH shirked its duty to protect women and infants at abortion clinics, reflect a blatant refusal to enforce the law.
The DOH attorneys offered multiple explanations to attempt to justify why the department does not license abortion clinics in the same manner as any other ASF. None of their explanations comports with the law or with common sense.
The information contained in the report is shocking to officials at Operation Rescue, who have seen some of the worst of the worst as they monitor abortion practitioners and abortion facilities.
“In the report, the Grand Jury notes that several agencies and groups became aware of what has become known as Gosnell’s “shop of horrors” but did nothing,” complains OR president Troy Newman. He said the grand jury was right to give them “a stern rebuke” for “giving their stamp of approval on his criminal practices.”
“These people who saw the abuses yet stood idly by, or worse, encouraged the behavior that has now shocked the nation bear some responsibility for what happened in Philadelphia. In fact, they deserve criminal prosecution just as much as Gosnell and his cohorts because their silence not only enabled the crimes, but gave tacit consent to them,” Newman said.
Newman said his group “calls for immediate emergency inspections of every abortion clinic in the nation. We have often said that if this were to ever happen, no abortion clinic would remain in operation because we have yet to discover one that adheres to all the laws that apply to them.”
Newman also pointed out that even abortion advocates did nothing to stop Gosnell.
“Just the day after the death of Karnamaya Mongar, Gosnell had applied for membership to the National Abortion Federations, whose meager guidelines Gosnell could not meet. Even though an NAF staff person spent several days in Gosnell’s abortion mill noting numerous violations, they did not think to report him to the proper authorities,” he told LifeNews.com.
It wasn’t until last year that Gosnell was the focus of FBI raids and his his medical license was suspended and his abortion facility, Women’s Medical Society Clinic, closed down. Authorities found filthy and deplorable conditions along with a collection of aborted babies dating back 30 years.
Williams charged Gosnell with killing Mongar in a failed abortion. Gosnell was arrested and charged with eight counts or murder in the deaths of Mongar and seven infants allegedly killed with scissors after their birth. The arrest came affecter a grand jury investigation.
The infanticide abortion cases are causing significant outrage and may get a federal law involved. Several of his staff were also arrested overnight and will face charges in connection with the cases.
The infanticides are “abortions,” in that Gosnell purposefully induced a premature birth of the infants for the purpose of taking their lives. District Attorney Seth Williams said today that the charges involve a particularly gruesome method of killing the babies.
Williams said Gosnell “induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord.”
“There were bags, and bottles holding aborted fetuses were scattered throughout the building,” said Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams. “There were jars lining shelves with severed feet that he kept for no medical purpose.”
Gosnell allegedly aborted and killed babies in the sixth and seventh months of pregnancy. The abortions of the biggest babies allegedly were scheduled for Sundays, when the abortion center was closed. The only person allowed to assist with such cases was Gosnell’s wife, Williams said. Gosnell allegedly took home the files for those patients and disposed of them.
Abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell of Pennsylvania was charged with 8 counts of murder yesterday related to the botched abortion death of a woman and his infanticides of seven babies purposefully born and killed with scissors. But the grand jury report accompanying the charges shows state officials did nothing when reports came in about problems at Gosnell’s abortion center.
District Attorney Seth Williams released the detailed charges yesterday and the grand jury report contains shocking findings that he says shows significant problems in monitoring abortion centers.
“We discovered that Pennsylvania’s Department of Health has deliberately chosen not to enforce laws that should afford patients at abortion clinics the same safeguards and assurances of quality health care as patients of other medical service providers,” the report says. “Even nail salons in Pennsylvania are monitored more closely for client safety.”
“The State Legislature has charged the Department of Health (DOH) with responsibility for writing and enforcing regulations to protect health and safety in abortion clinics as well as in hospitals and other health care facilities. Yet a significant difference exists between how DOH monitors abortion clinics and how it monitors facilities where other medical procedures are performed,” the report continues.
“Indeed, the department has shown an utter disregard both for the safety of women who seek treatment at abortion clinics and for the health of fetuses after they have become viable. State health officials have also shown a disregard for the laws the department is supposed to enforce. Most appalling of all, the Department of Health’s neglect of abortion patients’ safety and of Pennsylvania laws is clearly not inadvertent: It is by design,” the report indicates.
The kicker of the reportshows state health officials “knew that Gosnell and his clinic were offering unacceptable medical care to women and girls, yet DOH failed to take any action to stop the atrocities documented by this Grand Jury.”
“These officials were far more protective of themselves when they testified before the Grand Jury. Even DOH lawyers, including the chief counsel, brought private attorneys with them – presumably at government expense,” the report reads.
The grand jury report also finds officials “twisted” state law to not inspect abortion centers like Gosnell’s or make them abide by laws regulating legitimate medical centers as ambulatory surgical facilities:
It was clear to us after hearing these witnesses testify that the decisions not to inspect abortion clinics or to license them as ASFs were not based on any serious interpretation of statutes or legal research. These lawyers were simply twisting and reinterpreting the law to explain policy decisions that changed with administrations, even though the laws did not. Dutton admitted in her testimony that the decision not to inspect was a policy decision, not one grounded in the law:
Q: Does it surprise you to know that some of the reasons cited for the failure to go out and do these inspections is that they believed that they didn’t have the legal authority to do so?
A: That would surprise me, yes. . . . To me, I would believe that they didn’t go out to do them because some policy had been set in the department at some point in time in the past that we were not going to do regular inspections of abortion facilities.
Dutton’s failure to recognize and treat abortion clinics as ASFs, and her silence as DOH shirked its duty to protect women and infants at abortion clinics, reflect a blatant refusal to enforce the law.
The DOH attorneys offered multiple explanations to attempt to justify why the department does not license abortion clinics in the same manner as any other ASF. None of their explanations comports with the law or with common sense.
The information contained in the report is shocking to officials at Operation Rescue, who have seen some of the worst of the worst as they monitor abortion practitioners and abortion facilities.
“In the report, the Grand Jury notes that several agencies and groups became aware of what has become known as Gosnell’s “shop of horrors” but did nothing,” complains OR president Troy Newman. He said the grand jury was right to give them “a stern rebuke” for “giving their stamp of approval on his criminal practices.”
“These people who saw the abuses yet stood idly by, or worse, encouraged the behavior that has now shocked the nation bear some responsibility for what happened in Philadelphia. In fact, they deserve criminal prosecution just as much as Gosnell and his cohorts because their silence not only enabled the crimes, but gave tacit consent to them,” Newman said.
Newman said his group “calls for immediate emergency inspections of every abortion clinic in the nation. We have often said that if this were to ever happen, no abortion clinic would remain in operation because we have yet to discover one that adheres to all the laws that apply to them.”
Newman also pointed out that even abortion advocates did nothing to stop Gosnell.
“Just the day after the death of Karnamaya Mongar, Gosnell had applied for membership to the National Abortion Federations, whose meager guidelines Gosnell could not meet. Even though an NAF staff person spent several days in Gosnell’s abortion mill noting numerous violations, they did not think to report him to the proper authorities,” he told LifeNews.com.
It wasn’t until last year that Gosnell was the focus of FBI raids and his his medical license was suspended and his abortion facility, Women’s Medical Society Clinic, closed down. Authorities found filthy and deplorable conditions along with a collection of aborted babies dating back 30 years.
Williams charged Gosnell with killing Mongar in a failed abortion. Gosnell was arrested and charged with eight counts or murder in the deaths of Mongar and seven infants allegedly killed with scissors after their birth. The arrest came affecter a grand jury investigation.
The infanticide abortion cases are causing significant outrage and may get a federal law involved. Several of his staff were also arrested overnight and will face charges in connection with the cases.
The infanticides are “abortions,” in that Gosnell purposefully induced a premature birth of the infants for the purpose of taking their lives. District Attorney Seth Williams said today that the charges involve a particularly gruesome method of killing the babies.
Williams said Gosnell “induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord.”
“There were bags, and bottles holding aborted fetuses were scattered throughout the building,” said Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams. “There were jars lining shelves with severed feet that he kept for no medical purpose.”
Gosnell allegedly aborted and killed babies in the sixth and seventh months of pregnancy. The abortions of the biggest babies allegedly were scheduled for Sundays, when the abortion center was closed. The only person allowed to assist with such cases was Gosnell’s wife, Williams said. Gosnell allegedly took home the files for those patients and disposed of them.
Judge Denies Bail for Abortion Practitioner Gosnell And Staff | LifeNews.com
Judge Denies Bail for Abortion Practitioner Gosnell And Staff | LifeNews.com
Kermit Gosnell was arraigned without bail late Thursday afternoon after charged with eight counts of murder in the death of a woman from a botched abortion and seven babies purposefully born so they could be killed in infanticides shortly thereafter.
Gosnell several staffers were arrested overnight on Tuesday after a grand jury indicted them on multiple charges after officials raided his abortion business following the woman’s death and discovered a “shop of horrors” filled with bags of bodies and body parts of deceased unborn children and babies killed in infanticides.
Authorities searching the facility last year found bags and bottles holding aborted babies scattered around the building, jars containing babies’ severed feet lining a shelf, as well as filthy, unsanitary furniture and equipment.
Gosnell, who used a method of live birth abortion to birth babies and snap their spinal cords with scissors, was arraigned and held without bail and two of Gosnell’s unlicensed and untrained staff, Adrienne Moton and Lynda Williams, who allegedly assisted him in the gruesome killings at his Women’s Medical Society abortion business were also arraigned and held without bail.
The grand jury released a 261-page report which said the 69-year-old abortion practitioner and his staff killed hundreds of babies in this manner and killed at least two women and injured many more in failed abortions. Gosnell became known in Philadelphia and the Atlantic region as the guy women should go to if they wanted a late-term abortion illegal in most states.
Other members of Gosnell’s stall were given bail amounts, with Tina Baldwin on $150,000 bail, Madline Joe on $250,000 bail, Elizabeth Hampton on $250,000 bail, Eileen O’Neil on $1 million bail, his wife Pearl Gosnell on $1 million and Sherry West on $2 million. Steven Massof has not yet been arraigned, according to NBC Philadelphia.
Pearl Gosnell, Kermit’s 49-year-old wife who also has no medical license, faces charges of providing an abortion at 24 or more weeks and conspiracy, among other charges. Hampton, the abortion practitioner’s sister-in-law, is charged with hindering prosecution, perjury and obstruction of justice.
Williams, 42, routinely performed illegal operations and gave anesthesia without a license and is charged with third-degree murder in Mongar’s death as well as charges related to the infanticides. Moten, 33, faces charges in the infanticides.
Sherry West, 54, was charged with third-degree murder providing an abortion at 24 or more weeks and other charges; Eileen O’Neil, 54, was charged with theft by deception, conspiracy, perjury and false swearing and falsely posed as a doctor at the abortion center; Maddline Joe, 53, was the office manager and charged with conspiracy; Tina Baldwin, 45, was charged with racketeering, conspiracy and corruption of a minor after she allowed her 15-year-old daughter to administer anesthesia.
Steven Masoof, 48, was the lone person not arraigned and he is charged with conspiracy and other charges. He was an unlicensed medical school graduate.
“The women that were there, they were subjected to such horrific and barbaric … treatment,” Williams said Wednesday about how other patients were treated by the staff. “My grasp of the English language doesn’t really allow me to fully describe how horrific this clinic was — rotting bodies, fetal remains, the smell of urine throughout, blood-stained.”
Gosnell, who is not a board-certified obstetrician or gynecologist, will next appear in court on February 9, according to a CNN report.
CNN also reported comments from Gosnell’s attorney, William Brennan, who stressed that, while the report appears horrific, Gosnell and his staffers should be “presumed innocent.”
“No one expected these (charges),” Brennan said. “There should be no rush to judgment, no matter how salacious (they) are.”
Including the seven first-degree murder charges related to the infants’ deaths, Gosnell is charged with third-degree murder in the death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar. She died November 20, 2009, after overdosing on anesthetics prescribed by the doctor, Williams said. Mongar’s family filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Gosnell’s abortion business seeking damages.
The grand jury investigation also shows state officials did nothing when reports came in about problems at Gosnell’s abortion center, which has upset incoming pro-life Governor Tom Corbett.
Kermit Gosnell was arraigned without bail late Thursday afternoon after charged with eight counts of murder in the death of a woman from a botched abortion and seven babies purposefully born so they could be killed in infanticides shortly thereafter.
Gosnell several staffers were arrested overnight on Tuesday after a grand jury indicted them on multiple charges after officials raided his abortion business following the woman’s death and discovered a “shop of horrors” filled with bags of bodies and body parts of deceased unborn children and babies killed in infanticides.
Authorities searching the facility last year found bags and bottles holding aborted babies scattered around the building, jars containing babies’ severed feet lining a shelf, as well as filthy, unsanitary furniture and equipment.
Gosnell, who used a method of live birth abortion to birth babies and snap their spinal cords with scissors, was arraigned and held without bail and two of Gosnell’s unlicensed and untrained staff, Adrienne Moton and Lynda Williams, who allegedly assisted him in the gruesome killings at his Women’s Medical Society abortion business were also arraigned and held without bail.
The grand jury released a 261-page report which said the 69-year-old abortion practitioner and his staff killed hundreds of babies in this manner and killed at least two women and injured many more in failed abortions. Gosnell became known in Philadelphia and the Atlantic region as the guy women should go to if they wanted a late-term abortion illegal in most states.
Other members of Gosnell’s stall were given bail amounts, with Tina Baldwin on $150,000 bail, Madline Joe on $250,000 bail, Elizabeth Hampton on $250,000 bail, Eileen O’Neil on $1 million bail, his wife Pearl Gosnell on $1 million and Sherry West on $2 million. Steven Massof has not yet been arraigned, according to NBC Philadelphia.
Pearl Gosnell, Kermit’s 49-year-old wife who also has no medical license, faces charges of providing an abortion at 24 or more weeks and conspiracy, among other charges. Hampton, the abortion practitioner’s sister-in-law, is charged with hindering prosecution, perjury and obstruction of justice.
Williams, 42, routinely performed illegal operations and gave anesthesia without a license and is charged with third-degree murder in Mongar’s death as well as charges related to the infanticides. Moten, 33, faces charges in the infanticides.
Sherry West, 54, was charged with third-degree murder providing an abortion at 24 or more weeks and other charges; Eileen O’Neil, 54, was charged with theft by deception, conspiracy, perjury and false swearing and falsely posed as a doctor at the abortion center; Maddline Joe, 53, was the office manager and charged with conspiracy; Tina Baldwin, 45, was charged with racketeering, conspiracy and corruption of a minor after she allowed her 15-year-old daughter to administer anesthesia.
Steven Masoof, 48, was the lone person not arraigned and he is charged with conspiracy and other charges. He was an unlicensed medical school graduate.
“The women that were there, they were subjected to such horrific and barbaric … treatment,” Williams said Wednesday about how other patients were treated by the staff. “My grasp of the English language doesn’t really allow me to fully describe how horrific this clinic was — rotting bodies, fetal remains, the smell of urine throughout, blood-stained.”
Gosnell, who is not a board-certified obstetrician or gynecologist, will next appear in court on February 9, according to a CNN report.
CNN also reported comments from Gosnell’s attorney, William Brennan, who stressed that, while the report appears horrific, Gosnell and his staffers should be “presumed innocent.”
“No one expected these (charges),” Brennan said. “There should be no rush to judgment, no matter how salacious (they) are.”
Including the seven first-degree murder charges related to the infants’ deaths, Gosnell is charged with third-degree murder in the death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar. She died November 20, 2009, after overdosing on anesthetics prescribed by the doctor, Williams said. Mongar’s family filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Gosnell’s abortion business seeking damages.
The grand jury investigation also shows state officials did nothing when reports came in about problems at Gosnell’s abortion center, which has upset incoming pro-life Governor Tom Corbett.
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