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Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) has filed a report and urgent appeal with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture alleging that the Judge Rotenberg Center for the disabled, located in Massachusetts, violates the UN Convention against Torture.
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
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
I Attended the Meet and Greet Michelle Bachman 6/28/11 in Raymond, NH To Request Help for Our Families
I attended the Meet and Greet Michelle Bachman in Raymond, NH yesterday. I'm hoping it was very productive.Though I really didn't get to talk to her, I was able to give her some of my paperwork concerning my two STOLEN grandchildren, Austin and Isabella, along with their pictures, a list of question's and a flyer for the Gov Abuse National Protest which takes place on August 12, 2011.
I know many parent's and grandparent's do not support her at this time, due to the fact she raised 23 foster children, along with her own. But I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. I am a fair person who does NOT judge people by what they have or haven't done. The only people, And I use that term loosely, that I DO judge because of their illegal practices are CPS and the Judicial system.I have seen first hand the destruction they are capable of.
I know Michelle Bachman believes she did a good thing, by taking in foster children. Was she suckered in by the deceitful CPS, just as so many other's have been? Does she even know how CPS and the Family Court's Destroy Families? Most times, Innocent families? Does she have any idea how many children are stolen each year from INNOCENT parent's? Parent's who are NOT afforded Due Process? Parent's whose Constitutional Right's are violated every day?
As I have said before, if Michelle Bachman will help the families devastated by CPS and the Court's AND put a stop to their deceitful practices, hopefully an overhaul of the entire corrupt system, I WILL support her and will push for the support from other's screwed over by the corrupt CPS and the Court's, which include bringing our stolen children home and holding the Destroyer's of Family accountable.
I met other parent's, grandparent's, State Rep's, the Chairman of the House and was able to speak to a few Reporter's, along with many other people. I was also able to pass out my protest flyer's.
The question's I gave Michelle Bachman are listed below. I'm hoping she read's over ALL the paperwork I gave her, which includes the proof of the termination of parental right's of a fictitious man as my grandson Austin's father. I am in hopes Michelle Bachman will respond to OUR plea. If she does, I'm sure she will have many new supporter's!
1. Are you aware children are being removed from their families without proof of abuse and neglect?
2. Are you aware Judges will NOT admit proof of innocence?
3. Are you aware parent’s are NOT allowed to speak on their own behalf?
4. Are you aware, even when criminal charges are dropped due to proof of innocence, the children are still never returned?
5. Are you aware services are NOT provided to families before the children are taken and placed in foster care?
6. Are you aware relative placement is NOT considered before foster care?
7. Are you aware nobody get’s their children back once taken in NH?
8. Are you aware every parent ‘s right’s are terminated that have a TPR in NH?
9. Are you aware the NH Supreme Court NEVER reverses or overturns a parental right’s termination?
10. Are you aware DCYF/CPS CAN do whatever they want because our Government gave them the power to do so?
11. Are you aware fictitious mens right’s are terminated in Nashua and probably other places instead of the REAL Father’s?
12. Are you aware newborn babies are stolen from their Mother’s due to Morphine in the newborns system? Morphine given to the mother’s in labor?
13. Are you aware immigrant’s get deported and their children are illegally adopted?
14. Are you aware Nashua DCYF places children in foster homes that don’t meet residence requirement’s?
15. Are you aware Nashua DCYF places three little girlsin a 2 bedroom condo with 5 adult’s and two teenage son’s? And then let’s them adopt them. Is that legal?
16. Are you aware NH DCYF falsify’s Title IV paperwork and other paper’s in order to get federal funding?
17. Are you aware NH Judges are granting illegal adoptions and illegal name changes, before the children are adopted?
18. Are you aware Reasonable effort’s in Nashua consists of mandatory drug test’s and visitation? Shouldn’t parent’s be afforded REAL effort to reunify their family?
19. Are you aware Nashua Family Court Judges court order parent’s out of methadone treatment in order to regain custody of their child, which is both illegal and discriminatory?
20. Are you aware parent’s in Nashua are court-ordered into programs that don’t exist, just to make sure they can’t comply?
21. Are you aware Probate Court Judges are falsifying their decision’s and the Supreme Court will NOT reverse the decisions even though false statement’s are proven?
22. Are you aware Father’s are Not allowed paternity test’s and are denied custody hearings?
23. Are you aware Nashua DCYF and their cohort hospital, SNHMC, keep evidence of innocence hidden for at least six month’s after the child is taken and the Judge states it’s too late. The parent only has thirty day’s to appeal?
24. Are you aware the children are trying to commit suicide and then are drugged, because they are so severely traumatized, after being dragged from their families they know and love and plead to be with?
25. Are you aware DCYF does incomplete Home studies and then falsify’s the paperwork?
26. Are you aware DCYF does NOT try to find relatives for these children to be placed?
27. Are you aware Nashua DCYF denies Foster parent licenses to Grandparent’s?
28. Are you aware after promising grandparent’s their grandchildren, and starting a home study which takes eight month’s, they place the child in a stranger’s home for them to adopt?
29. Are you aware perjury is permitted in Family court’s?
30. Will you stop the Title IV funding which pay’s DCYF for every child placed in foster care?
31. Will you end the Adoption Promotion Act?
32. Will you reform DCYF/CPS making sure there is ONLY Family Preservation? Not Family Destruction?
33. Will you reform the Family Court system?
34. Will you make Federal Mandates Law, so DCYF/CPS have to abide by these Law’s?
35. Will you enforce relative placement BEFORE Foster care?
36. Will you enforce accountability of DCYF/CPS?
37. Will you enforce Evidentiary Rules in the Family Court’s?
38. Will you enforce 50/50 custody for both parent’s?
39. Will you stop the needless removal and traumatization of our children?
40. Will you put into effect jury trial’s for ALL parent’s accused of abuse and neglect?
41. Will you afford the parent’s with the same right’s as accused criminal’s?
42. Will you enforce the admittance of proof of innocence to parent’s?
43. When a parent is found innocent or the charges are dropped in criminal court, will you enforce the court to return the children?
44. Will you enforce the right’s of Parent’s and families and their constitutional right’s in the upbringing of their children?
45. Will you put and end to the drugging of our children?
46. Will you hold Judges, Marital Master’s and Gal’s accountable for their actions toward families?
47. Will you rectify the removal and illegal adoptions of our children and grandchildren?
48. Will you enforce court-appointed CUSTODY Lawyer’s, NOT Real Estate and other Lawyer’s for these cases?
49. Will you enforce the parent’s right’s to their files and transcript’s, etc?
50. Will you change the Family Court’s “preponderance of evidence” to Burden of Proof”?
51. Will you initiate Open Court’s for abuse and neglect cases?
52. Will you afford Parent’s the right of presenting NEW evidence which proves innocence, at ANY time, as afforded by convicted criminal’s?
I know many parent's and grandparent's do not support her at this time, due to the fact she raised 23 foster children, along with her own. But I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. I am a fair person who does NOT judge people by what they have or haven't done. The only people, And I use that term loosely, that I DO judge because of their illegal practices are CPS and the Judicial system.I have seen first hand the destruction they are capable of.
I know Michelle Bachman believes she did a good thing, by taking in foster children. Was she suckered in by the deceitful CPS, just as so many other's have been? Does she even know how CPS and the Family Court's Destroy Families? Most times, Innocent families? Does she have any idea how many children are stolen each year from INNOCENT parent's? Parent's who are NOT afforded Due Process? Parent's whose Constitutional Right's are violated every day?
As I have said before, if Michelle Bachman will help the families devastated by CPS and the Court's AND put a stop to their deceitful practices, hopefully an overhaul of the entire corrupt system, I WILL support her and will push for the support from other's screwed over by the corrupt CPS and the Court's, which include bringing our stolen children home and holding the Destroyer's of Family accountable.
I met other parent's, grandparent's, State Rep's, the Chairman of the House and was able to speak to a few Reporter's, along with many other people. I was also able to pass out my protest flyer's.
The question's I gave Michelle Bachman are listed below. I'm hoping she read's over ALL the paperwork I gave her, which includes the proof of the termination of parental right's of a fictitious man as my grandson Austin's father. I am in hopes Michelle Bachman will respond to OUR plea. If she does, I'm sure she will have many new supporter's!
1. Are you aware children are being removed from their families without proof of abuse and neglect?
2. Are you aware Judges will NOT admit proof of innocence?
3. Are you aware parent’s are NOT allowed to speak on their own behalf?
4. Are you aware, even when criminal charges are dropped due to proof of innocence, the children are still never returned?
5. Are you aware services are NOT provided to families before the children are taken and placed in foster care?
6. Are you aware relative placement is NOT considered before foster care?
7. Are you aware nobody get’s their children back once taken in NH?
8. Are you aware every parent ‘s right’s are terminated that have a TPR in NH?
9. Are you aware the NH Supreme Court NEVER reverses or overturns a parental right’s termination?
10. Are you aware DCYF/CPS CAN do whatever they want because our Government gave them the power to do so?
11. Are you aware fictitious mens right’s are terminated in Nashua and probably other places instead of the REAL Father’s?
12. Are you aware newborn babies are stolen from their Mother’s due to Morphine in the newborns system? Morphine given to the mother’s in labor?
13. Are you aware immigrant’s get deported and their children are illegally adopted?
14. Are you aware Nashua DCYF places children in foster homes that don’t meet residence requirement’s?
15. Are you aware Nashua DCYF places three little girlsin a 2 bedroom condo with 5 adult’s and two teenage son’s? And then let’s them adopt them. Is that legal?
16. Are you aware NH DCYF falsify’s Title IV paperwork and other paper’s in order to get federal funding?
17. Are you aware NH Judges are granting illegal adoptions and illegal name changes, before the children are adopted?
18. Are you aware Reasonable effort’s in Nashua consists of mandatory drug test’s and visitation? Shouldn’t parent’s be afforded REAL effort to reunify their family?
19. Are you aware Nashua Family Court Judges court order parent’s out of methadone treatment in order to regain custody of their child, which is both illegal and discriminatory?
20. Are you aware parent’s in Nashua are court-ordered into programs that don’t exist, just to make sure they can’t comply?
21. Are you aware Probate Court Judges are falsifying their decision’s and the Supreme Court will NOT reverse the decisions even though false statement’s are proven?
22. Are you aware Father’s are Not allowed paternity test’s and are denied custody hearings?
23. Are you aware Nashua DCYF and their cohort hospital, SNHMC, keep evidence of innocence hidden for at least six month’s after the child is taken and the Judge states it’s too late. The parent only has thirty day’s to appeal?
24. Are you aware the children are trying to commit suicide and then are drugged, because they are so severely traumatized, after being dragged from their families they know and love and plead to be with?
25. Are you aware DCYF does incomplete Home studies and then falsify’s the paperwork?
26. Are you aware DCYF does NOT try to find relatives for these children to be placed?
27. Are you aware Nashua DCYF denies Foster parent licenses to Grandparent’s?
28. Are you aware after promising grandparent’s their grandchildren, and starting a home study which takes eight month’s, they place the child in a stranger’s home for them to adopt?
29. Are you aware perjury is permitted in Family court’s?
30. Will you stop the Title IV funding which pay’s DCYF for every child placed in foster care?
31. Will you end the Adoption Promotion Act?
32. Will you reform DCYF/CPS making sure there is ONLY Family Preservation? Not Family Destruction?
33. Will you reform the Family Court system?
34. Will you make Federal Mandates Law, so DCYF/CPS have to abide by these Law’s?
35. Will you enforce relative placement BEFORE Foster care?
36. Will you enforce accountability of DCYF/CPS?
37. Will you enforce Evidentiary Rules in the Family Court’s?
38. Will you enforce 50/50 custody for both parent’s?
39. Will you stop the needless removal and traumatization of our children?
40. Will you put into effect jury trial’s for ALL parent’s accused of abuse and neglect?
41. Will you afford the parent’s with the same right’s as accused criminal’s?
42. Will you enforce the admittance of proof of innocence to parent’s?
43. When a parent is found innocent or the charges are dropped in criminal court, will you enforce the court to return the children?
44. Will you enforce the right’s of Parent’s and families and their constitutional right’s in the upbringing of their children?
45. Will you put and end to the drugging of our children?
46. Will you hold Judges, Marital Master’s and Gal’s accountable for their actions toward families?
47. Will you rectify the removal and illegal adoptions of our children and grandchildren?
48. Will you enforce court-appointed CUSTODY Lawyer’s, NOT Real Estate and other Lawyer’s for these cases?
49. Will you enforce the parent’s right’s to their files and transcript’s, etc?
50. Will you change the Family Court’s “preponderance of evidence” to Burden of Proof”?
51. Will you initiate Open Court’s for abuse and neglect cases?
52. Will you afford Parent’s the right of presenting NEW evidence which proves innocence, at ANY time, as afforded by convicted criminal’s?
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
FACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
http://www.cchrstl.org/documents/facts_about_foster_care_children.pdf
FACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN
ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
6616 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. USA 90028
Telephone: (323) 467-4242
Fax: (323) 467-3720
E-mail: contact@cchr.org
www.cchr.orgFACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
2
Whether under the care of Child Protective Services, Departments of Family and Child Services, or
Youth Welfare Offices, foster children—often removed from family homes because of abuse—are furthered
abused when they are prescribed psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs. Some US states report that more than
60% of foster children are prescribed mood-altering drugs (at a rate 300% above the national average).
Already troubled over their circumstances, these children are drugged for emotional and behavioral issues,
sometimes with tragic outcome.
Take, for example, 7-year-old Gabriel Meyers, who didn’t want soup for lunch one Thursday in April
2009. He was sent to his room after he threw away his soup, kicking his toys around and threatening to
kill himself. Around 1 p.m., police responded to a frantic call and found Gabriel had hanged himself.
He’d been prescribed a cocktail of psychiatric drugs, including an antidepressant that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) warned could lead to children committing suicide.1
Psychiatrists prescribed 93% of the psychotropic medication dispensed to foster youths, according to a
2008 study.2
• In Australia, one in four foster children was taking psychotropic drugs, and in residential homes,
where children live in small groups supervised by social workers, the rate of drug use is 50%. Foster children
are being medicated with psychotropic drugs at 10 times the rate of other children. 3
• In Ontario, Canada, psychotropic drugs are prescribed to nearly half of the state wards accounting for
drug prescriptions at a rate three times that of children in the general population.4
• In 2007, in Texas $37.9 million was spent on psychiatric drugs for foster children.5 Pharmaceutical
companies have played a major role in encouraging their increased use on foster care clients. They participate
in aggressive marketing, and conduct misleading research about efficacy and safety.6
• The United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971 requires governments to protect
children, including those in foster care from excessive and unwarranted exposure to psychotropic drugs.
Psychotropic drugs can be prescribed only for medical purposes, yet foster care youth are routinely prescribed
drugs for behavioral control.
1“Psychotropic Drug Abuse in Foster Care Costs Government Billions,” Politics Daily, 17 June 2010.
2 Julie Zito, “Psychotropic Medication Patterns Among Youth in Foster Care,” Pediatrics, Vol. 121, No. 1, Jan. 2008, pp. e157-e163.
3 Caroline Overington, “Foster kids medicated for ‘mental health,’” The Australian, 4 Nov. 2008.
4 “Nearly half of children in [Canadian] Crown care are medicated,” Globe and Mail, 9 June 2007.
5 Evelyn Pringle, “Psychiatric Drugging of Children Intolerable-Betrayal of Innocence,” Lawyers and Settlements.com, 8 Mar. 2009.
6 Op. cit. Politics Daily.FACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
3
Angela Olivia Burton, “They Use it Like Candy’ - How the Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs to State-Involved Children Violates International Law,” Social Science Research Network, 3
Apr. 2010,
Carol Marbin Miller, “Mind-altering drugs given to some babies in DCF’s care,” Miami Herald, 17 Sept. 2002.
Caroline Overington, “ONE in four children who have been removed from the care of their parents and placed in foster homes are being heavily medicated to control their emotions and
behaviour,” The Australian, 3 Nov. 2008.
Angela Olivia Burton, “They Use it Like Candy’ - How the Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs to State-Involved Children Violates International Law,” Social Science Research Network, 3
Apr. 2010,
Eileen FitzGerald, “”Growing numbers of children on medication,” NewsTimes, 7 June, 2010.
Vera Sherav, “America’s Over-Medicated Children,” AARP, June, 2005
Bob Jacobs, psychologist, Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc, “Legal Strategies to Challenge Chemical Restraint of Children in Foster Care A Resource for Child Advocates in
Florida.”
“Florida to FDA: No Foster Care Kids in Psychotropic Trials,” Pharmalot, 19 July 2010.
Speaking Out
• ”This is child abuse on a grand scale.” — Richard Wexler, head of the Virginia-based National
Coalition for Child Protection Reform.
• “We call it the chemical straitjacket.” — Denise Crisp, President of the New South Wales, Australia,
Foster Care Association.
• “Children in state foster care systems and juvenile prisons are particularly at risk of overmedication
with psychotropic drugs…and under conditions that constitute egregious [extremely bad] departures from
sound medical practice.” — Angela Olivia Burton from CUNY School of Law.
• “All kids in foster care have some story of trauma, like abuse or neglect, so we need to ask the
question, ‘How are we dealing with trauma?’” Further, “The fact is that medication does not treat a disorder, it
treats the symptoms of the manifestation….” — Charles Manos, School psychologist.
• “We’re taking away their future…By blunting their emotion, we take away children’s ability to relate to
people, to trust, love, to care for others or to put themselves in another person’s shoes to see how it feels.” —
Neuropsychologist who examined Texas records of children under state care.
• “Child advocates should illuminate that no alternatives were first tried and/or that the treating
physician has given the prescription(s) without knowing if less invasive interventions were attempted.”
Guardians must “ensure that psychotropic drugs are not administered improperly to children in foster care as
a means of chemical restraint.” — Bob Jacobs from the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc.
• In 2010, Florida’s Department of Children and Families prohibited foster care children being enrolled
in clinical trials for psychotropic drugs. Foster care parents and guardians in any state or country should
object to any child under their care being part of a clinical drug experiment.
FACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN
ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
6616 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. USA 90028
Telephone: (323) 467-4242
Fax: (323) 467-3720
E-mail: contact@cchr.org
www.cchr.orgFACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
2
Whether under the care of Child Protective Services, Departments of Family and Child Services, or
Youth Welfare Offices, foster children—often removed from family homes because of abuse—are furthered
abused when they are prescribed psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs. Some US states report that more than
60% of foster children are prescribed mood-altering drugs (at a rate 300% above the national average).
Already troubled over their circumstances, these children are drugged for emotional and behavioral issues,
sometimes with tragic outcome.
Take, for example, 7-year-old Gabriel Meyers, who didn’t want soup for lunch one Thursday in April
2009. He was sent to his room after he threw away his soup, kicking his toys around and threatening to
kill himself. Around 1 p.m., police responded to a frantic call and found Gabriel had hanged himself.
He’d been prescribed a cocktail of psychiatric drugs, including an antidepressant that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) warned could lead to children committing suicide.1
Psychiatrists prescribed 93% of the psychotropic medication dispensed to foster youths, according to a
2008 study.2
• In Australia, one in four foster children was taking psychotropic drugs, and in residential homes,
where children live in small groups supervised by social workers, the rate of drug use is 50%. Foster children
are being medicated with psychotropic drugs at 10 times the rate of other children. 3
• In Ontario, Canada, psychotropic drugs are prescribed to nearly half of the state wards accounting for
drug prescriptions at a rate three times that of children in the general population.4
• In 2007, in Texas $37.9 million was spent on psychiatric drugs for foster children.5 Pharmaceutical
companies have played a major role in encouraging their increased use on foster care clients. They participate
in aggressive marketing, and conduct misleading research about efficacy and safety.6
• The United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971 requires governments to protect
children, including those in foster care from excessive and unwarranted exposure to psychotropic drugs.
Psychotropic drugs can be prescribed only for medical purposes, yet foster care youth are routinely prescribed
drugs for behavioral control.
1“Psychotropic Drug Abuse in Foster Care Costs Government Billions,” Politics Daily, 17 June 2010.
2 Julie Zito, “Psychotropic Medication Patterns Among Youth in Foster Care,” Pediatrics, Vol. 121, No. 1, Jan. 2008, pp. e157-e163.
3 Caroline Overington, “Foster kids medicated for ‘mental health,’” The Australian, 4 Nov. 2008.
4 “Nearly half of children in [Canadian] Crown care are medicated,” Globe and Mail, 9 June 2007.
5 Evelyn Pringle, “Psychiatric Drugging of Children Intolerable-Betrayal of Innocence,” Lawyers and Settlements.com, 8 Mar. 2009.
6 Op. cit. Politics Daily.FACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
3
Angela Olivia Burton, “They Use it Like Candy’ - How the Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs to State-Involved Children Violates International Law,” Social Science Research Network, 3
Apr. 2010,
Carol Marbin Miller, “Mind-altering drugs given to some babies in DCF’s care,” Miami Herald, 17 Sept. 2002.
Caroline Overington, “ONE in four children who have been removed from the care of their parents and placed in foster homes are being heavily medicated to control their emotions and
behaviour,” The Australian, 3 Nov. 2008.
Angela Olivia Burton, “They Use it Like Candy’ - How the Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs to State-Involved Children Violates International Law,” Social Science Research Network, 3
Apr. 2010,
Eileen FitzGerald, “”Growing numbers of children on medication,” NewsTimes, 7 June, 2010.
Vera Sherav, “America’s Over-Medicated Children,” AARP, June, 2005
Bob Jacobs, psychologist, Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc, “Legal Strategies to Challenge Chemical Restraint of Children in Foster Care A Resource for Child Advocates in
Florida.”
“Florida to FDA: No Foster Care Kids in Psychotropic Trials,” Pharmalot, 19 July 2010.
Speaking Out
• ”This is child abuse on a grand scale.” — Richard Wexler, head of the Virginia-based National
Coalition for Child Protection Reform.
• “We call it the chemical straitjacket.” — Denise Crisp, President of the New South Wales, Australia,
Foster Care Association.
• “Children in state foster care systems and juvenile prisons are particularly at risk of overmedication
with psychotropic drugs…and under conditions that constitute egregious [extremely bad] departures from
sound medical practice.” — Angela Olivia Burton from CUNY School of Law.
• “All kids in foster care have some story of trauma, like abuse or neglect, so we need to ask the
question, ‘How are we dealing with trauma?’” Further, “The fact is that medication does not treat a disorder, it
treats the symptoms of the manifestation….” — Charles Manos, School psychologist.
• “We’re taking away their future…By blunting their emotion, we take away children’s ability to relate to
people, to trust, love, to care for others or to put themselves in another person’s shoes to see how it feels.” —
Neuropsychologist who examined Texas records of children under state care.
• “Child advocates should illuminate that no alternatives were first tried and/or that the treating
physician has given the prescription(s) without knowing if less invasive interventions were attempted.”
Guardians must “ensure that psychotropic drugs are not administered improperly to children in foster care as
a means of chemical restraint.” — Bob Jacobs from the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc.
• In 2010, Florida’s Department of Children and Families prohibited foster care children being enrolled
in clinical trials for psychotropic drugs. Foster care parents and guardians in any state or country should
object to any child under their care being part of a clinical drug experiment.
FACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
FACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN
ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
6616 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. USA 90028
Telephone: (323) 467-4242
Fax: (323) 467-3720
E-mail: contact@cchr.org
www.cchr.orgFACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
2
Whether under the care of Child Protective Services, Departments of Family and Child Services, or
Youth Welfare Offices, foster children—often removed from family homes because of abuse—are furthered
abused when they are prescribed psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs. Some US states report that more than
60% of foster children are prescribed mood-altering drugs (at a rate 300% above the national average).
Already troubled over their circumstances, these children are drugged for emotional and behavioral issues,
sometimes with tragic outcome.
Take, for example, 7-year-old Gabriel Meyers, who didn’t want soup for lunch one Thursday in April
2009. He was sent to his room after he threw away his soup, kicking his toys around and threatening to
kill himself. Around 1 p.m., police responded to a frantic call and found Gabriel had hanged himself.
He’d been prescribed a cocktail of psychiatric drugs, including an antidepressant that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) warned could lead to children committing suicide.1
Psychiatrists prescribed 93% of the psychotropic medication dispensed to foster youths, according to a
2008 study.2
• In Australia, one in four foster children was taking psychotropic drugs, and in residential homes,
where children live in small groups supervised by social workers, the rate of drug use is 50%. Foster children
are being medicated with psychotropic drugs at 10 times the rate of other children. 3
• In Ontario, Canada, psychotropic drugs are prescribed to nearly half of the state wards accounting for
drug prescriptions at a rate three times that of children in the general population.4
• In 2007, in Texas $37.9 million was spent on psychiatric drugs for foster children.5 Pharmaceutical
companies have played a major role in encouraging their increased use on foster care clients. They participate
in aggressive marketing, and conduct misleading research about efficacy and safety.6
• The United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971 requires governments to protect
children, including those in foster care from excessive and unwarranted exposure to psychotropic drugs.
Psychotropic drugs can be prescribed only for medical purposes, yet foster care youth are routinely prescribed
drugs for behavioral control.
1“Psychotropic Drug Abuse in Foster Care Costs Government Billions,” Politics Daily, 17 June 2010.
2 Julie Zito, “Psychotropic Medication Patterns Among Youth in Foster Care,” Pediatrics, Vol. 121, No. 1, Jan. 2008, pp. e157-e163.
3 Caroline Overington, “Foster kids medicated for ‘mental health,’” The Australian, 4 Nov. 2008.
4 “Nearly half of children in [Canadian] Crown care are medicated,” Globe and Mail, 9 June 2007.
5 Evelyn Pringle, “Psychiatric Drugging of Children Intolerable-Betrayal of Innocence,” Lawyers and Settlements.com, 8 Mar. 2009.
6 Op. cit. Politics Daily.FACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
3
Angela Olivia Burton, “They Use it Like Candy’ - How the Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs to State-Involved Children Violates International Law,” Social Science Research Network, 3
Apr. 2010,
Carol Marbin Miller, “Mind-altering drugs given to some babies in DCF’s care,” Miami Herald, 17 Sept. 2002.
Caroline Overington, “ONE in four children who have been removed from the care of their parents and placed in foster homes are being heavily medicated to control their emotions and
behaviour,” The Australian, 3 Nov. 2008.
Angela Olivia Burton, “They Use it Like Candy’ - How the Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs to State-Involved Children Violates International Law,” Social Science Research Network, 3
Apr. 2010,
Eileen FitzGerald, “”Growing numbers of children on medication,” NewsTimes, 7 June, 2010.
Vera Sherav, “America’s Over-Medicated Children,” AARP, June, 2005
Bob Jacobs, psychologist, Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc, “Legal Strategies to Challenge Chemical Restraint of Children in Foster Care A Resource for Child Advocates in
Florida.”
“Florida to FDA: No Foster Care Kids in Psychotropic Trials,” Pharmalot, 19 July 2010.
Speaking Out
• ”This is child abuse on a grand scale.” — Richard Wexler, head of the Virginia-based National
Coalition for Child Protection Reform.
• “We call it the chemical straitjacket.” — Denise Crisp, President of the New South Wales, Australia,
Foster Care Association.
• “Children in state foster care systems and juvenile prisons are particularly at risk of overmedication
with psychotropic drugs…and under conditions that constitute egregious [extremely bad] departures from
sound medical practice.” — Angela Olivia Burton from CUNY School of Law.
• “All kids in foster care have some story of trauma, like abuse or neglect, so we need to ask the
question, ‘How are we dealing with trauma?’” Further, “The fact is that medication does not treat a disorder, it
treats the symptoms of the manifestation….” — Charles Manos, School psychologist.
• “We’re taking away their future…By blunting their emotion, we take away children’s ability to relate to
people, to trust, love, to care for others or to put themselves in another person’s shoes to see how it feels.” —
Neuropsychologist who examined Texas records of children under state care.
• “Child advocates should illuminate that no alternatives were first tried and/or that the treating
physician has given the prescription(s) without knowing if less invasive interventions were attempted.”
Guardians must “ensure that psychotropic drugs are not administered improperly to children in foster care as
a means of chemical restraint.” — Bob Jacobs from the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc.
• In 2010, Florida’s Department of Children and Families prohibited foster care children being enrolled
in clinical trials for psychotropic drugs. Foster care parents and guardians in any state or country should
object to any child under their care being part of a clinical drug experiment.
ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
6616 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. USA 90028
Telephone: (323) 467-4242
Fax: (323) 467-3720
E-mail: contact@cchr.org
www.cchr.orgFACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
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Whether under the care of Child Protective Services, Departments of Family and Child Services, or
Youth Welfare Offices, foster children—often removed from family homes because of abuse—are furthered
abused when they are prescribed psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs. Some US states report that more than
60% of foster children are prescribed mood-altering drugs (at a rate 300% above the national average).
Already troubled over their circumstances, these children are drugged for emotional and behavioral issues,
sometimes with tragic outcome.
Take, for example, 7-year-old Gabriel Meyers, who didn’t want soup for lunch one Thursday in April
2009. He was sent to his room after he threw away his soup, kicking his toys around and threatening to
kill himself. Around 1 p.m., police responded to a frantic call and found Gabriel had hanged himself.
He’d been prescribed a cocktail of psychiatric drugs, including an antidepressant that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) warned could lead to children committing suicide.1
Psychiatrists prescribed 93% of the psychotropic medication dispensed to foster youths, according to a
2008 study.2
• In Australia, one in four foster children was taking psychotropic drugs, and in residential homes,
where children live in small groups supervised by social workers, the rate of drug use is 50%. Foster children
are being medicated with psychotropic drugs at 10 times the rate of other children. 3
• In Ontario, Canada, psychotropic drugs are prescribed to nearly half of the state wards accounting for
drug prescriptions at a rate three times that of children in the general population.4
• In 2007, in Texas $37.9 million was spent on psychiatric drugs for foster children.5 Pharmaceutical
companies have played a major role in encouraging their increased use on foster care clients. They participate
in aggressive marketing, and conduct misleading research about efficacy and safety.6
• The United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971 requires governments to protect
children, including those in foster care from excessive and unwarranted exposure to psychotropic drugs.
Psychotropic drugs can be prescribed only for medical purposes, yet foster care youth are routinely prescribed
drugs for behavioral control.
1“Psychotropic Drug Abuse in Foster Care Costs Government Billions,” Politics Daily, 17 June 2010.
2 Julie Zito, “Psychotropic Medication Patterns Among Youth in Foster Care,” Pediatrics, Vol. 121, No. 1, Jan. 2008, pp. e157-e163.
3 Caroline Overington, “Foster kids medicated for ‘mental health,’” The Australian, 4 Nov. 2008.
4 “Nearly half of children in [Canadian] Crown care are medicated,” Globe and Mail, 9 June 2007.
5 Evelyn Pringle, “Psychiatric Drugging of Children Intolerable-Betrayal of Innocence,” Lawyers and Settlements.com, 8 Mar. 2009.
6 Op. cit. Politics Daily.FACTS ABOUT FOSTER CARE CHILDREN ABUSED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
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Angela Olivia Burton, “They Use it Like Candy’ - How the Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs to State-Involved Children Violates International Law,” Social Science Research Network, 3
Apr. 2010,
Carol Marbin Miller, “Mind-altering drugs given to some babies in DCF’s care,” Miami Herald, 17 Sept. 2002.
Caroline Overington, “ONE in four children who have been removed from the care of their parents and placed in foster homes are being heavily medicated to control their emotions and
behaviour,” The Australian, 3 Nov. 2008.
Angela Olivia Burton, “They Use it Like Candy’ - How the Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs to State-Involved Children Violates International Law,” Social Science Research Network, 3
Apr. 2010,
Eileen FitzGerald, “”Growing numbers of children on medication,” NewsTimes, 7 June, 2010.
Vera Sherav, “America’s Over-Medicated Children,” AARP, June, 2005
Bob Jacobs, psychologist, Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc, “Legal Strategies to Challenge Chemical Restraint of Children in Foster Care A Resource for Child Advocates in
Florida.”
“Florida to FDA: No Foster Care Kids in Psychotropic Trials,” Pharmalot, 19 July 2010.
Speaking Out
• ”This is child abuse on a grand scale.” — Richard Wexler, head of the Virginia-based National
Coalition for Child Protection Reform.
• “We call it the chemical straitjacket.” — Denise Crisp, President of the New South Wales, Australia,
Foster Care Association.
• “Children in state foster care systems and juvenile prisons are particularly at risk of overmedication
with psychotropic drugs…and under conditions that constitute egregious [extremely bad] departures from
sound medical practice.” — Angela Olivia Burton from CUNY School of Law.
• “All kids in foster care have some story of trauma, like abuse or neglect, so we need to ask the
question, ‘How are we dealing with trauma?’” Further, “The fact is that medication does not treat a disorder, it
treats the symptoms of the manifestation….” — Charles Manos, School psychologist.
• “We’re taking away their future…By blunting their emotion, we take away children’s ability to relate to
people, to trust, love, to care for others or to put themselves in another person’s shoes to see how it feels.” —
Neuropsychologist who examined Texas records of children under state care.
• “Child advocates should illuminate that no alternatives were first tried and/or that the treating
physician has given the prescription(s) without knowing if less invasive interventions were attempted.”
Guardians must “ensure that psychotropic drugs are not administered improperly to children in foster care as
a means of chemical restraint.” — Bob Jacobs from the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc.
• In 2010, Florida’s Department of Children and Families prohibited foster care children being enrolled
in clinical trials for psychotropic drugs. Foster care parents and guardians in any state or country should
object to any child under their care being part of a clinical drug experiment.
Gov Abuse Nationwide Protest August 12, 2011-Please Join US!
A Nationwide protest against the abuse of Families is scheduled for August 12,2011.
Please join us in our fight against the abuse of ALL families. Your family could be next!
Check out the Gov Abuse web-site at govabuse.org for a protest near you.
The protest will take place outside of the County Family courthouses throughout ALL states.
Please join us and help to put a stop to the government abuse of our families!
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
National Family Rights Protest
“Government Abuse IS Child Abuse for Profit”
When: Friday, August 12, 2011
Where: See State/PLC tab for your area
Who: United States- Child/Family Rights Groups
Why:“We the People”
are no longer tolerating;
· Unjust Laws
· TAXPAYER dollars (billions) used to separate, and financially demolish families.
We the People” demand reformation of:
· OUR FAMILY COURT SYSTEMS including:
· Assigned Judges- (must be abolished)
· Court Appointed Guardian-ad-litem
(must be abolished-severely limited at a minimum)
· Family courts / records must be made public
· Court Gag orders are a violation of 1st amendment
· Adoption incentive payments (must be abolished)
Re; Adoption / Safe Families Act 1997
Every effort must be made for children to stay with Grandparents / family members instead of foster care.
· Grandparents / family must have visitation rights without current criminal treatment
· Families must be given assistance instead of removing their
Children example; removal due to gas shut-off
· Parents must be restored freedoms to raise their children
· Immediate access in all cases for children’s records
· Option to have a Jury, when requested in family courts
We the People” demand reformation of:
OUR FAMILY COURT SYSTEM including:
Assigned Judges- must be abolished
· We are stripped of our right to elect public servants (judges)
· Assigned judges cannot be voted out of office as they are ‘assigned’ to hear cases after pretending to retire.
· They have zero incentive to administer justice or follow law or legal procedures because they cannot be voted out of office after they ‘retire’ THEREFORE, we have been stripped of our legal right to elect (vote) for our judges
· Assigned judges are ‘DOUBLE-DIPPING’. Pretend to ‘retire’
but are assigned to family court cases, collecting approx; $485.00 per ‘day’ while collecting their retirement pay- all paid by taxpayers
· Court appointed guardian-ad-litem / advocate for child / lawyer for child
· Child Protective Services aka; CPS/ DHS / DFS/DSS/Foster Care and Adoption Services
Please join us in our fight against the abuse of ALL families. Your family could be next!
Check out the Gov Abuse web-site at govabuse.org for a protest near you.
The protest will take place outside of the County Family courthouses throughout ALL states.
Please join us and help to put a stop to the government abuse of our families!
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
National Family Rights Protest
“Government Abuse IS Child Abuse for Profit”
When: Friday, August 12, 2011
Where: See State/PLC tab for your area
Who: United States- Child/Family Rights Groups
Why:“We the People”
are no longer tolerating;
· Unjust Laws
· TAXPAYER dollars (billions) used to separate, and financially demolish families.
We the People” demand reformation of:
· OUR FAMILY COURT SYSTEMS including:
· Assigned Judges- (must be abolished)
· Court Appointed Guardian-ad-litem
(must be abolished-severely limited at a minimum)
· Family courts / records must be made public
· Court Gag orders are a violation of 1st amendment
· Adoption incentive payments (must be abolished)
Re; Adoption / Safe Families Act 1997
Every effort must be made for children to stay with Grandparents / family members instead of foster care.
· Grandparents / family must have visitation rights without current criminal treatment
· Families must be given assistance instead of removing their
Children example; removal due to gas shut-off
· Parents must be restored freedoms to raise their children
· Immediate access in all cases for children’s records
· Option to have a Jury, when requested in family courts
We the People” demand reformation of:
OUR FAMILY COURT SYSTEM including:
Assigned Judges- must be abolished
· We are stripped of our right to elect public servants (judges)
· Assigned judges cannot be voted out of office as they are ‘assigned’ to hear cases after pretending to retire.
· They have zero incentive to administer justice or follow law or legal procedures because they cannot be voted out of office after they ‘retire’ THEREFORE, we have been stripped of our legal right to elect (vote) for our judges
· Assigned judges are ‘DOUBLE-DIPPING’. Pretend to ‘retire’
but are assigned to family court cases, collecting approx; $485.00 per ‘day’ while collecting their retirement pay- all paid by taxpayers
· Court appointed guardian-ad-litem / advocate for child / lawyer for child
· Child Protective Services aka; CPS/ DHS / DFS/DSS/Foster Care and Adoption Services
Mercury Leaves Its Mark: Autism, Cancer & Neurodegenerative Disease Part 3
Mercury Leaves Its Mark: Autism, Cancer & Neurodegenerative Disease Part 3 - AGE OF AUTISM
This is a continuing look at a hypothesis, using pertinent pieces of evidence-based research, that connects autism and other neurodegenerative disorders to mercury and also to cancer. Read Part 2 and Part 1. Here is such a study related to mercury and breast cancer:
"Methyl mercury influences growth-related signaling in MCF-7 breast cancer cells" (Pubmed)
This is a continuing look at a hypothesis, using pertinent pieces of evidence-based research, that connects autism and other neurodegenerative disorders to mercury and also to cancer. Read Part 2 and Part 1. Here is such a study related to mercury and breast cancer:
"Methyl mercury influences growth-related signaling in MCF-7 breast cancer cells" (Pubmed)
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