Couple Found Guilty Of Killing Toddler - Louisville News Story - WLKY Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a couple accused of killing a 2-year-old boy.
Joshua Peacher was found guilty of wanton murder, first-degree intentional assault, and two counts of criminal abuse. Nereida Allen was found guilty of wanton murder, first-degree wanton assault and two counts of criminal abuse.
Allen and Peacher were taking care of her nephew, Christopher, after Child Protective Services removed him from his mother's home in 2008.
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
Monday, February 7, 2011
Raped by the State: CPS: A FINANCIAL EMPIRE
Raped by the State: CPS: A FINANCIAL EMPIRE
Sunday Reading: The Money Behind State Adoptions
POLITICS
Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness...DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore
Massachusetts News
Child "protection" is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it.
The money goes to tens of thousands of a) state employees, b) collateral professionals, such as lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and c) DSS contracted vendors such as counselors, therapists, more "evaluators" , junk psychologists, residential facilities, foster parents, adoptive parents, MSPCC, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, YMCA, etc. This newspaper is not big enough to list all of the people in this state who have a job, draw a paycheck, or make their profits off the kids in DSS custody.
Sunday Reading: The Money Behind State Adoptions
POLITICS
Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness...DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore
Massachusetts News
Child "protection" is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it.
The money goes to tens of thousands of a) state employees, b) collateral professionals, such as lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and c) DSS contracted vendors such as counselors, therapists, more "evaluators" , junk psychologists, residential facilities, foster parents, adoptive parents, MSPCC, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, YMCA, etc. This newspaper is not big enough to list all of the people in this state who have a job, draw a paycheck, or make their profits off the kids in DSS custody.
Former Erie County Child Protective Services worker gets three years probation for adoption scheme
Former Erie County Child Protective Services worker gets three years probation for adoption scheme - alt.support.foster-parents | Google Groups
http://www.examiner.com/x-14537-Albany-CPS-and-Family-Court-Examiner~...
According to the office of Erie County Court Judge, Michael L. D'Amico,
former Child Protective Services investigator, Anthony Noble, was
sentenced to three years probation and 200 hours of community service
for his role in an adoption scheme.
Noble was to have been sentenced on July 14 but his case was adjourned
until yesterday.
Anthony who is the son of retired Erie County Child Protective Services
director, Joyce Noble, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2009 before Judge
Michael D'Amico to criminal contempt for his involvement in the adoption
scam.
Arkim Godfrey, the adopted child's mother, has already been sentenced to
probation for her part in the scheme and must perform 100 hours of
community service.
Noble, a 16 year employee of Child Protective Services, apparently tried
to adopt the child by claiming he was its father. The biological
mother was a client of the agency. Noble was charged after not complying
with the judge's order to return the child to its mother.
An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"
Child Protective Services Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of CPS.
every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com
Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS
Perpetrators of Maltreatment
Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5
Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.
THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST
Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs…
"It is the closest agency we have to the Gestapo in our society."
-District Judge R. Darryl Mazur
"For every 1 child CPS helps they destroy 700 other families" --
Montel Williams.
THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia
http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/articles.php?filter=6
Senator Pam Roach Report
http://pamroachreport.blogspot.com/
The Business of Child Stealing in Florida
http://www.nolanchart.com/article4132.html
This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32729767_ITM
Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-callahan16oct16,0,5019944.s...
How safe is Foster Care?
http://www.syc.org/
FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILURE:. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler
http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc
http://www.nccpr.org/index_files/page0003.html
HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN
http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html
http://www.nccpr.org/reports/asfa.pdf
Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News
http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2000/5_May/mayds4.htm
Ted Gunderson Speech to Congressional Hearing on Child Protection 3/13/04
http://educate-yourself.org/tg/childprotectionspeech13mar04.shtml
Phoenix New Times
Outrageous Fortune
Private lawyers in Maricopa County child-dependency
cases are soaking us for unbelievable bucks
By Paul Rubin
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-04-19/news/outrageous-fortune/
When The State Becomes Parent by Mollie Martin.
http://www.ejfi.org/family/family-110.htm
A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster care:
30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed
Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support
80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.
The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/FosterCare/Story?id=2017991&page=1
Numerous rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of
America’s foster children could be home right now if their parents had
decent housing.
These studies found thousands of children already in foster care who
would have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away
in the first place.
Read some of the studies online.
Front-page story in USA Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-02-foster-study_N.htm?csp...
Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Care: Findings from the
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study,"
www.casey.org/Resources/Publications/NorthwestAlumniStudy.htm
MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects
of Foster Care,"
www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fosterlt_march07_aer.pdf
http://www.cftl.org/documents/2008/FCfullreport.pdf
Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" reports:
http://www.window.state.tx.us/news/60623statement.html
www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren
Chosen Children: how the Foster Care and Adoption industries fuels the
Prison industry.
Billion Dollar Babies in America's Foster Care, Adoption & Prison
Systems by Lori Carangelo
http://www.thechosenchildren.com/
http://www.thechosenchildren.com/ebooks/chosen.pdf
Statistics of Adoption-2005 Edition-Compiled and edited by Lori Carangelo
http://www.amfor.net/statistics.html
The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
Walking Wreckage...
CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....
CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...
BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
"SAVE THE FAMILY AND YOU SAVE THE CHILD"
http://www.examiner.com/x-14537-Albany-CPS-and-Family-Court-Examiner~...
According to the office of Erie County Court Judge, Michael L. D'Amico,
former Child Protective Services investigator, Anthony Noble, was
sentenced to three years probation and 200 hours of community service
for his role in an adoption scheme.
Noble was to have been sentenced on July 14 but his case was adjourned
until yesterday.
Anthony who is the son of retired Erie County Child Protective Services
director, Joyce Noble, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2009 before Judge
Michael D'Amico to criminal contempt for his involvement in the adoption
scam.
Arkim Godfrey, the adopted child's mother, has already been sentenced to
probation for her part in the scheme and must perform 100 hours of
community service.
Noble, a 16 year employee of Child Protective Services, apparently tried
to adopt the child by claiming he was its father. The biological
mother was a client of the agency. Noble was charged after not complying
with the judge's order to return the child to its mother.
An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"
Child Protective Services Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of CPS.
every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com
Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS
Perpetrators of Maltreatment
Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5
Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.
THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST
Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs…
"It is the closest agency we have to the Gestapo in our society."
-District Judge R. Darryl Mazur
"For every 1 child CPS helps they destroy 700 other families" --
Montel Williams.
THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia
http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/articles.php?filter=6
Senator Pam Roach Report
http://pamroachreport.blogspot.com/
The Business of Child Stealing in Florida
http://www.nolanchart.com/article4132.html
This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32729767_ITM
Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-callahan16oct16,0,5019944.s...
How safe is Foster Care?
http://www.syc.org/
FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILURE:. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler
http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc
http://www.nccpr.org/index_files/page0003.html
HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN
http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html
http://www.nccpr.org/reports/asfa.pdf
Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News
http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2000/5_May/mayds4.htm
Ted Gunderson Speech to Congressional Hearing on Child Protection 3/13/04
http://educate-yourself.org/tg/childprotectionspeech13mar04.shtml
Phoenix New Times
Outrageous Fortune
Private lawyers in Maricopa County child-dependency
cases are soaking us for unbelievable bucks
By Paul Rubin
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-04-19/news/outrageous-fortune/
When The State Becomes Parent by Mollie Martin.
http://www.ejfi.org/family/family-110.htm
A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster care:
30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed
Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support
80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.
The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/FosterCare/Story?id=2017991&page=1
Numerous rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of
America’s foster children could be home right now if their parents had
decent housing.
These studies found thousands of children already in foster care who
would have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away
in the first place.
Read some of the studies online.
Front-page story in USA Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-02-foster-study_N.htm?csp...
Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Care: Findings from the
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study,"
www.casey.org/Resources/Publications/NorthwestAlumniStudy.htm
MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects
of Foster Care,"
www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fosterlt_march07_aer.pdf
http://www.cftl.org/documents/2008/FCfullreport.pdf
Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" reports:
http://www.window.state.tx.us/news/60623statement.html
www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren
Chosen Children: how the Foster Care and Adoption industries fuels the
Prison industry.
Billion Dollar Babies in America's Foster Care, Adoption & Prison
Systems by Lori Carangelo
http://www.thechosenchildren.com/
http://www.thechosenchildren.com/ebooks/chosen.pdf
Statistics of Adoption-2005 Edition-Compiled and edited by Lori Carangelo
http://www.amfor.net/statistics.html
The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
Walking Wreckage...
CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....
CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...
BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
"SAVE THE FAMILY AND YOU SAVE THE CHILD"
'Kinship Caregivers' Get Less Help Than Foster Parents: Study
'Kinship Caregivers' Get Less Help Than Foster Parents: Study - US News and World Report
MONDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Children who live with a relative after being removed from their home because of maltreatment have fewer behavioral and social skills problems than children in foster homes, finds a new study.
MONDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Children who live with a relative after being removed from their home because of maltreatment have fewer behavioral and social skills problems than children in foster homes, finds a new study.
Senator and seniors seeking expansion of grandparent rights | Wichitopekington | Wichita Eagle Blogs
Senator and seniors seeking expansion of grandparent rights | Wichitopekington | Wichita Eagle Blogs
TOPEKA – A Wichita state senator and family members of abused and displaced children went before the Senate Judiciary Committee today to try to enhance the status of grandparents in child-custody courts.
Senate Bill 52 would automatically establish grandparents as interested parties in cases when their grandchildren are removed from their homes. At present, grandparents only receive notice of and status to be heard in such proceedings when they request it.
Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, D-Wichita, who is sponsoring the bill, told the committee the legislation “is pretty simple, allowing grandparents to be notified without a lot of additional hassle.”
“We as a state want to keep families together and keep kids out of foster care,” Faust-Goudeau said.
Read more: http://blogs.kansas.com/gov/2011/02/07/senator-and-seniors-seeking-expansion-of-grandparent-rights/#ixzz1DJzzB2NY
TOPEKA – A Wichita state senator and family members of abused and displaced children went before the Senate Judiciary Committee today to try to enhance the status of grandparents in child-custody courts.
Senate Bill 52 would automatically establish grandparents as interested parties in cases when their grandchildren are removed from their homes. At present, grandparents only receive notice of and status to be heard in such proceedings when they request it.
Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, D-Wichita, who is sponsoring the bill, told the committee the legislation “is pretty simple, allowing grandparents to be notified without a lot of additional hassle.”
“We as a state want to keep families together and keep kids out of foster care,” Faust-Goudeau said.
Read more: http://blogs.kansas.com/gov/2011/02/07/senator-and-seniors-seeking-expansion-of-grandparent-rights/#ixzz1DJzzB2NY
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Maine Voices: Endangered kids need new approach | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Maine Voices: Endangered kids need new approach | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Things have gotten better in the decade since Logan Marr's death, but more can be done with a $300 million budget.
BRUNSWICK - It was with great interest that I read this paper's review of Maine's child welfare system.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Newell Augur, a resident of Brunswick, is a lawyer who represents parents in child custody cases and serves on the Maine Bar Association’s subcommittee on child protection issues.
Ten months after Logan Marr was killed 10 years ago, I began working as legislative and public affairs director at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Four years later, I left state service and started a law practice representing parents in child custody cases. I currently participate on the Maine Bar Association subcommittee that reviews child protection issues.
The changes at DHHS are significant. They have reduced the number of children in care and increased the number of children who, after taken into custody, are placed with relatives. Training and recruitment of foster parents has improved. The system is much better today than it was 10 years ago.
Things have gotten better in the decade since Logan Marr's death, but more can be done with a $300 million budget.
BRUNSWICK - It was with great interest that I read this paper's review of Maine's child welfare system.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Newell Augur, a resident of Brunswick, is a lawyer who represents parents in child custody cases and serves on the Maine Bar Association’s subcommittee on child protection issues.
Ten months after Logan Marr was killed 10 years ago, I began working as legislative and public affairs director at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Four years later, I left state service and started a law practice representing parents in child custody cases. I currently participate on the Maine Bar Association subcommittee that reviews child protection issues.
The changes at DHHS are significant. They have reduced the number of children in care and increased the number of children who, after taken into custody, are placed with relatives. Training and recruitment of foster parents has improved. The system is much better today than it was 10 years ago.
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