PEACE JOURNEY: "In the best interest of the child" - Autism and a mother's fight against CPS | Autism Support Network

PEACE JOURNEY: "In the best interest of the child" - Autism and a mother's fight against CPS | Autism Support Network

WELCOME TO PEACE JOURNEYA grief support group for biological parents and their family members who have lost their parental rights either voluntarily or involuntarily. Voluntarily is often when you sign over or relinquish your rights to avoid a termination with the promise you could still be a part of your child’s life after adoption. It also means a decision or plan to put your child up for adoption before or after the birth. Involuntarily means you were not willing to surrender your rights and they were terminated by a judge in a juvenile or family court trial. You may have lost custody of your children through Divorce, maybe you are a victim of parental alienation. We offer friendship, compassion, hope and guidance as you work the grief steps that are necessary to be free from some of the pain you are experiencing. We are advocates for parental rights and are striving to hel change the system that has so unjustly torn apart so many families.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

"In the best interest of the child" - Autism and a mother's fight against CPS | Autism Support Network
"In the best interest of the child" - Autism and a mother's fight against CPS Autism Support Network

Tiffany Pritchett

When does cps really act in the best interest of the child? When does children serve as a dollar sign with child protective services? Offering parents “services” that they don’t need. Offering them to parents because they get paid to do so. Getting federal bonus money for each child they adopt out and an extra 2k for a special needs child. Before my kids were taken; I thought cps acted in the common good of families and not rip children away from families that loved them. My name is Tiffany Pritchett and I have three beautiful children. My oldest son’s name is James Pritchett. He has Autism.

Kimberly Harris ILLEGALLY Jailed By Kentucky Judge Catherine Rice Holderfield. « Battered Mothers-A Human Rights Issue

Kimberly Harris ILLEGALLY Jailed By Kentucky Judge Catherine Rice Holderfield. « Battered Mothers-A Human Rights Issue

Battered Mothers-A Human Rights Issue

ABOUT MR PRESIDENT, WHEN WILL YOU GIVE MOTHERS THEIR CHILDREN BACK?? DOCTOR WHO INTENTIONALLY SEVERS BONDS WITH MOTHERS IS A MONSTER MATERNAL DEPRIVATION FAMILY COURT CRISIS; OUR CHILDREN AT RISK PBS DOCUMENTARY: BREAKING THE SILENCE: CHILDREN’S STORIES WOMEN WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS AMPP-AMERICAN/AUSTRALIAN MOTHERS POLITICAL PARTY ARCHIVES RSS FEED
Kimberly Harris ILLEGALLY Jailed By Kentucky Judge Catherine Rice Holderfield.
In domestic law on March 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm
See updates as they happen here:Free Kimberly Harris Mother of Christian Coffey Now and Christian’s Voice


PRESS RELEASE: AMPP Stands Behind Christian Coffey HIS Mother and All Their Supporters


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – First Amendment Violations in Warren County, Kentucky

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The truth is heavy; therefore few care to carry it.

October 17, 2010 National USA –First Amendment violations and other illegal and unethical maneuvers in Warren County Kentucky. American Mothers Political Party has announced they will stand up for those in Warren County Kentucky that have been unconstitutionally gagged by the family courts.

Kimberly Harris is preparing to be sent to jail on October 19, 2010 as she is being accused of speaking out about her horrific nightmare with Warren County government officials. The Warren County Kentucky Judge, Catherine Rice-Holderfield, has threatened Mrs.Harris not to speaking publicly regarding her son being placed into the foster care system by the juge. The corruption, illegal maneuvers of this unconstitutional activity came to the attention of AMPP in early October. Frightened supporters knew that they could not in good conscience submit to the intimidation as Rice-Holderfield threatened to also jail the supporters for speaking out.

Warren County officials have become hostile due to the highly publicized blogging and/or expressing the outrage about this severe case of judicial abuse and impropriety, basic fundamental rights are in peril. Many supporters have been warned that Bowling Green PD and DHS workers are questioning and harassing individuals regarding blog posts made, including the 14 year old girlfriend of the child abuse victim.

The 15 year old son of Mrs. Harris was brutally beaten by his father and was subsequently placed in foster care by Rice-Holderfield. The child victim asked that his story be made public before he was taken into foster care. This young man has stated that he wants to be home in the safe loving arms of his mother, Kimberly, and that very wish is disappearing by the same officials sworn to protect and serve their community and its most vulnerable citizens.

Please visit the following page and links for the incredible in-justice being done and the ILLEGAL actions of the Court and Child Welfare Services in Kentucky.

Please visit the following links for the incredible in-justice being done and the ILLEGAL actions of the Court and Child Welfare Services in Kentucky.

Face Book Page: “Stop The Abuse of Christian Coffey”

Parents denied a voice in court against the child-snatchers - Telegraph

Parents denied a voice in court against the child-snatchers - Telegraph

Christopher Booker
Parents denied a voice in court against the child-snatchers
Lord Justice Thorpe was 'aghast' at the way children had been removed from their parents by a county court. But such outrages are an everyday procedure, says Christopher Booker

Lord Justice Thorpe in the Court of Appeal was 'aghast' at the way three children and been removed from their family Photo: PHOTOSHOT
By Christopher Booker 7:00PM GMT 05 Mar 2011
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In the Court of Appeal recently, Lord Justice Thorpe said he was “completely aghast” at a case where a Derby County Court judge had ordered three children to be removed from their parents. The only evidence was that of a doctor who “expressed the opinion” that bruising on one child’s ear looked as though it was caused by pinching. The hearing had lasted just 15 minutes and the parents had not been allowed to say a word. Thorpe observed: “There is nothing more serious than a removal hearing, because the parents are so prejudiced [against] in proceedings thereafter. Once you have lost a child, it is very difficult to get a child back.” He ruled that the children should be reunited with their parents.
For once, a senior judge has spoken out about a mockery of justice which is repeated week after week in courts across the land. I have now followed dozens of such cases, where children are seized from their parents by social workers on the flimsiest of evidence, and where the parents then find themselves in the clutches of a system rigged against them in every way. Often they are not allowed to speak while they hear judges apparently accepting extraordinary lies, or evidence given by supposed “experts” which cannot be questioned.
One of the most disturbing features of this system, which protects itself behind a wall of secrecy, is how far it goes to ensure that aggrieved parents are represented only by lawyers who are themselves accomplices of the system. Again and again parents are bemused to find that the lawyers they were advised to use seem unwilling to challenge the case being made against them, however spurious.
Of all the cases I have followed, none is more bizarre than that of a couple whose six children were snatched by social workers last year on evidence which seemed at best highly questionable and was at worst an absurd fiction. The mother was advised to use a solicitor, on legal aid, who she felt was so much on the other side that she discharged him. Just before Christmas, when the council’s case seemed to be falling apart, I tracked down one of the very rare solicitors who has a reputation for fighting the system. His firm applied to the Legal Services Commission for transfer of the legal aid, and when the LSC seemed to be delaying its response, I paid £2,000 from my own pocket to enable the firm to start work.
The local authority learned, it seemed before anyone else, that the LSC would not allow the transfer from the solicitor who had been discharged – and the head of the council’s legal department then sent the mother a list of other solicitors who would be able to take her case on legal aid. By the time the solicitor to whom I had given £2,000 heard that he had been turned down, he was able to present me with a bill which, including VAT, came to exactly £2,000.

Legally Kidnapped: We The People Family Preservation Organization

Legally Kidnapped: We The People Family Preservation Organization

FAMILIES’ RIGHTS GROUPS FROM ACROSS THE NATION AND CANADA TO CONVERGE ON WASHINGTON DC

Numerous Groups Plan To Rally On The US Capitol To Protest Anti-Family Agencies And Laws We the People Family Preservation, a coalition of numerous families’ and children’s rights groups have come together to conduct four days of congressional education and rallying to change Federal and state laws regarding the treatment of families and children in various governmental systems. Currently, and unconstitutionally, families are being denied their due process rights and the right to the society of their families.

The federal funding of state agencies, responsible for the taking of children from families, with or without just cause, without due process, makes states more interested in the income rather than the best interests of children. Title IV-D of the Social Security Code now pays states on the number of children removed from households, regardless of the reason. Additionally, the Code pays state Child Support Enforcement Agencies dollars based on the amount of support collected. These policies result in states seeing the destruction of families – the cornerstone of civilization - as income generators.

Issues such as Parental Alienation, dysfunctional governmental agencies (CPS, Divorce and Family Courts, etc.), familial damage done by the Violence Against Women Act, Child Abduction, the International Effects of Family Dissolution and Family Dissolution in general

will be the topics of a Congressional Educational Panel on March 24, 2011 inside the Gold Room of the Rayburn Building

The Congressional Educational Panel was sponsored and obtained through Democrat of the 11th District in Ohio Congresswoman Marsha Fudge.

Lobbying efforts on March 25, 2011.will cover all six building elected officials have an office in. Lobbying begins at 9 a.m and ends the close of the day.

On March 26 and 27, 2011, a public rally will be held on the South Lawn of the Capitol, aimed at educating the public on the problems that families and children face with governmental policies, currently in place.

MnowTV (www.Mnow.TV) and various other media outlets will cover the events.

For more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with L. Wilson, please contact

New York Board Member, John Chichester at 516-672-9099, or email ChiDad@Consultant.com, L. Wilson
Telephone: 740-622-0168
Cell Phone: 740-610-1643
Email: WethePeopleFPR@OfficialDCRallyFest.ORG
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OPB News · We'll Call Him Richard: A Story Of Foster Child Abuse

OPB News · We'll Call Him Richard: A Story Of Foster Child Abuse

Foster families do some wonderful work in Oregon. But every now and then abusive parents get into the system.

This is the story of a nine-year-old boy, we'll call him Richard. The state only identifies him as RH.

His story shows the state failed to act on a series of reports that he was being abused by the foster parents who adopted him.

Richard was placed at the home of Alona and Roger Hartwig when he was about five.

They lived outside Eugene and were certified to care for up to five children.

A state investigation found four reports of abuse there, before Richard even arrived. They involved very young kids who were bruised or who were losing weight.

Sealing the Cracks in Foster Care - We'll look at the cracks in Oregon's foster care system that allow cases of abuse to go unchecked.
Richard moved in during 2005 and for two years there were no reports of trouble.

Then, when he was about seven, there were calls to say he didn't have enough clothes on for the rainy weather -- and that he had to stand for hours as punishment.

The next year, another call said Richard was made to go days without food and that he was being beaten down mentally and maybe physically.

It also said he was the only child in the house being home schooled -- an indicator, the state now says, of disparate treatment.

Another report that year said the family had been at a wedding and Richard looked scared to death of his adoptive mother.

Foster Care Conundrum: Do Social Workers Get Too Close To See The Problems
Most foster parents provide good, supportive homes for kids. But multiple outside reports identify a system-wide problem.

The same people who recruit and retain foster parents also have to report suspected wrongdoing.

Next year, when he was about nine, someone called to say Richard had weeping sores on his legs -- and that Alona Hartwig had gone on vacation instead of taking him to the doctor.

The report also said she told other children in the house not to talk to Richard -- and coached them on answering questions from state workers.

It's important to know that Richard and other children repeatedly denied any abuse.

Then, last year, he spent more than a month in the hospital with a fractured pelvis and a burn that had turned septic from a lack of treatment.

That finally sparked the investigation that led to charges being filed against the Hartwigs.

By law, the state didn't have to investigate what happened to Richard, because he didn't die. But the abuse was so bad, authorities decided to find out why it took so long to recognize what was going on.

The investigation revealed several flaws.

For one, case workers should have conducted more interviews. And those interviews should have been done individually and in a neutral location -- so the kids would feel free to speak.

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The state found that if similar abuse allegations were made nowadays, there would have been more investigation.

The state also found that by 2008 the sheer number of reports should have triggered further inquiry.

Richard still lives in a foster home in Lane County.

Case workers say he is doing well.

Meanwhile, Alona Hartwig pleaded guilty to criminal mistreatment.

She was sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Roger Hartwig got five years for second-degree assault. A report on whether the state has made changes as a result of this case, has yet to be published.

Child Maltreatment 2009 from ACF

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm09/cm09.pdf

This publication is available on the Children’s Bureau Web site at the following address
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/index.htm#can.
For more information, please contact info@childwelfare.gov or the NCANDS Contracting Officer’s Technical
Representative at the following address:
Dr. John A. Gaudiosi
Mathematical Statistician
Children’s Bureau
Administration on Children, Youth and Families
1250 Maryland Avenue, SW
8th Floor
Washington, DC 20024
john.gaudiosi@acf.hhs.gov

Please pray for the passage of NH house bill 506-FN

This letter was forwarded to me by a concerned NH citizen in regard's to Bill 506-FN-AN ACT relative to false allegations of child abuse, which was sent to the NH Legislature. I really liked it and am happy I was given permission to post it. I think it's perfect!

I was not able to be present to speak in support of house bill 506-FN. I wish for this email to be included in support of this house bill. There have been too many cases of false allegations of abuse/neglect made against a parent by their ex-spouse, and the result is trauma and other harm to the child and to the parent at whom the allegations are made against. Parents may lose their parental rights and children may lose their right to be with that parent, causing immeasurable damage/harm to the child and family. False allegations of abuse/neglect can also be made against a parent, or against parents by state workers, health care workers, allied health workers, medical professionals and made by or supported by legal staff (GAL's, CASA workers, parent aids, attornies, judges, etc) and the result is also very detrimental to the child and family who both suffer enormous trauma and losses as the family is temporarily or permanently ripped apart and the child is placed with foster strangers and the family is not allowed to be a family. There have been situations whereby the courts accept allegations of the state worker via an ex-parte hearing to open up an investigation when there was no actual abuse or neglect, situations whereby falsified documents by state agency workers are presented as court evidence, yet exculpatory evidence that contradicted the state worker allegations was ignored by the court or not presented by the attorney or ruled as not allowable in as evidence by the judge, requested by the state agency as irrelevant to the case (this would include family member testimony, lab results, testing results, etc)......Where is the justice in such practice?

Furthermore there have been adjudicatory hearings out of cases that are based on predictions (and I do mean predictions, similar to that of a fortune teller) of potential future harm based on future potential abuse/neglect, which seem to be based upon personal bias. Just as it's not common practice for a person to undergo an operation for a potential future health condition that doesn't presently exist, and just as no insurance company would pay for damages done to a car for an automobile accident that could potentially happen in the future, and just as a health insurance company wouldn't pay for potential treatment for a medical condition that might happen in the future, and just as a dentist wouldn't drill someone's teeth for future potential dental decay that isn't actual decay, and just as drivers don't drive with their windshield wipers on throughout the day because of a future potential for a rainy day, there must be the same reaction to predictions of future potential harm to a child.

Whenever there is personal or company/business (including affiliate business) gain IE in form of money including title iv funds, increased business, promotions, increased salary, any type of kick-back, notariety, partnerships, awards of any sort as a direct or indirect result of false allegations including guardianship/custody of children, THEN THERE IS NO GOOD FAITH REPORTING. Anyone who makes false abuse or neglect allegations including "predictions" of potential future child abuse/neglect for any direct or for indirect gains has committed perjury and must be held accountable and punished in a criminal capacity and in such a way that those involved cannot ever be in power to repeat such an event. Any and all kickbacks and gains should also be criminally investigated.