Are Foster Children Overmedicated? Government Seeks Improved Guidelines

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It is no secret that foster children can be dangerously overmedicated. Three years ago, Mirko and Regina Ceska of Crawfordville, FLA told former Gov. Charlie Crist their two adopted 12-year-olds had been prescribed 11 pills a day, including the powerful antipsychotic Seroquel, reported the Tampa Bay Times.

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DNA test proves Indiana man is father of Hancock County boy

DNA test proves Indiana man is father of Hancock County boy — Hancock — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine:

ELLSWORTH, Maine — A DNA test has confirmed what many people involved in a child custody case have suspected.


Now will he get custody? Will Justice prevail?


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Obese father's only ‘crime’ is that he isn’t the best possible parent

Obese father's only ‘crime’ is that he isn’t the best possible parent: Marni Soupcoff | Full Comment | National Post:

On Wednesday, an obese Ottawa man learned that his worst fears had come true: He is being denied custody of his two sons, in part because of his weight.


The very strong presumption in all other cases, however, must be that children belong with their biological parents. Not the parents that would do the best job at meeting their needs if selected from the entire pool of parents available in the whole wide world. The humble and imperfect parents they were born to, no matter how fat or messy or impolitic those parents might be. The courts have no business trying to engineer perfect families.

SUGGESTIBILITY OF THE CHILD WITNESS

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NCJ Number:	NCJ 147432
Title:	SUGGESTIBILITY OF THE CHILD WITNESS: A HISTORICAL REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS
Journal:	Psychological Bulletin  Volume:113  Issue:3  Dated:(1993)  Pages:403-439
Author(s):	S J Ceci ; M Bruck
Sponsoring Agency:	National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) United States
Publication Date:	1993
Pages:	37
Type:	Issue overviews
Origin:	United States
Language:	English
Grant No.:	RO1 HD 25775
Annotation:	This article puts in historical context the field of children's testimony and describes psychological and legal views of child witnesses held by scholars since the turn of the 20th Century.
Abstract:	Although there has been consistent interest in children's suggestibility over the past century, the last 15' years have been the most active in terms of the number of published studies and novel theorizing about the causal mechanisms that underpin the observed findings. A synthesis of this research posits three families of factors--cognitive, social, and biological--that must be considered if one is to understand seemingly contradictory interpretations of the findings. The authors conclude that there are reliable age differences in suggestibility but that even very young children are capable of recalling much that is forensically relevant. Findings are discussed in terms of the role of expert witnesses. The article describes two court cases--the Wee Care Nursery School and the Country Walk Babysitting Service--in which child witnesses provided critical eyewitness testimony. These cases are windows through which to view the authors' points: How accurate are children's recollections of everyday events? How suggestible is the child witness? How much difficulty does the child have distinguishing reality from fantasy? How honest are children? Footnotes, references
Main Term(s):	Victims
Index Term(s):	Juveniles ; Theory/ ; Criminology ; Juvenile witnesses
	To cite this abstract, use the following link: http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=147432

Chesterfield man charged with firing at child custody lawyer

Chesterfield man charged with firing at child custody lawyer - dailypress.com:

CHESTERFIELD -- A Chesterfield County man faces attempted murder and other charges after police say he shot at the opposing attorney in his child custody case yesterday.

CPS still failing....models are in place for in-home care yet...

DMVC Productions = Results: CPS still failing....models are in place for in-home care yet...:

On April 20, I posted the following about gaining creditbility for Child Protection Services http://dmvc-results.blogspot.com/2012/04/verdicts-sweeping-us-oppossing.html and it showed when court rooms are open the CPS offices came into compliance with Federal Standards.

Pennsylvaniahttp://www.dpw.state.pa.us/ucmprd/groups/public/documents/report/s_001667.pdfhttp://www.dpw.state.pa.us/ucmprd/groups/webcontent/documents/report/p_011889.pdf and Maryland http://www.napcwa.org/Legislative/docs/Maryland.pdf where I spoke with the deputy commissioner have all had success for a couple of years now; with service provided in their clients homes over foster care. Yet, it appears New Hampshire is not the only state not getting the big picture; Utah is just about behind the times as well http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54343486-78/care-services-foster-kids.html.csp

N.H. Citizens Have Had Enough Abuses in the N.H. Family Court

STOP! Judicial Child Abuse - N.H. Family Courts - Destroying One Family At A Time:

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE DECLARATION OF ABJURATION AND REFORMATION

As it is apparent to all that a government is constituted by a sovereign people to administer the will of the people, to defend them from oppression and violence; and whereas God did not create the people slaves to their government, to obey its commands, whether right or wrong, but rather God created a people imbued with reason, who established a government for their common benefit, protection, and security: to administer the laws and rules the people have found right and meet to establish for mutual peace and prosperity, to witness in the body politic the inexpressible love the Creator has manifested in his creation of natural law, and to defend and preserve themselves, even at the hazard of life, in support of the convictions their Creator has placed in their hearts.

Whenever the ends of government are manifestly endangered and the power delegated to the government is perverted to oppress the people in their practices and beliefs, seeking opportunities to infringe on their ancient customs and rights, exacting from them a slavish compliance, then this is no longer a government approved by God and constituted by the people, but a tyrannous mob, and the people must consider it in no other view. This condition is more particularly venomous when this usurpation is done deliberately, unauthorized by the people or by their representatives. When such a time arises in the course of human events, the people may not only disallow this authority, but lawfully put aside and abjure this government and its officers for the choice of an administration and officers more favored in the light of their own eyes. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of all humanity.

This is the only method left for people whose humble petitions and pleadings have never softened the hardened hearts of the administrators of a government, nor have dissuaded officers from the tyrannous progress of their designs. This is what the law of nature and our sovereign God dictate for the defense of liberty, which we have an obligation to pass down to our posterity, even at the hazard of our own lives.

Now, thus, we have seen numerous acts of violence and tyranny exacted by judges and officers of the courts of New Hampshire on its sovereign citizens:

Judges have allowed children to be taken from fit parents in secret hearings without recourse to the law for many years.

Judges have unlawfully removed children from the care of their fit parents, then continued to deny the familial love and interest of the children and their parents, by violating criminal laws to cover up the original unlawful removal and to fabricate evidence against the already aggrieved parents to cover up the first crimes against the families.

Judges have allowed friends of the court to claim the authority of the court without appointment, to claim fees for services never contracted, to determine court decisions without hearing, and then to threaten the abused, who refused to pay and refused these services, with indefinite incarceration merely for objecting to the court’s authority to ignore the law.

Judges have violated laws of the legislature, then, refusing to recuse themselves from their criminal trials, participated as both criminal defendant and judge, exonerating themselves of wrongdoing.

Judges have created, sua sponte, a class of individuals, guardians ad litem, who have the full authority of judges to go about the people and report back to the judges alleged crimes and infractions, which the judges then act upon without trial, incarcerating citizens, threatening and denying them liberty, and taking their property without any recourse in law against said guardians and their false reports.

Judges have unlawfully removed children in secret hearings from the care of fit parents for the practice of Christian worship, prayer, Bible study, and attendance at church, for many years without recourse to a hearing.

Judges have neglected the best interests of our children by rejecting the statutes the New Hampshire General Court enacted to protect families under RSA 461-A, Parental Rights and Responsibilities.

Judges have denied parents federally protected rights of life, liberty, and property, without due process of law and without equal protection under the law.

Judges have knowingly and willfully violated their own code of Judicial Conduct in woeful disregard of impartiality and fairness, have demonstrated abject bias and prejudice against parents, have denied parents the right to be heard in court, have compelled parents to bear witness against themselves, demanded excessive bail and incarcerated parents when challenged to conform to the law that their own oaths demand they uphold.

Judges have denied parents the right to counsel, the right to be heard, and have ignored the numerous petitions to rectify these plain errors of the court, resulting in yet further abuse and injury of parents and their children.

Judges have denied the right to freedom of the press, after one of their own was documented on video and before the eyes of the world ordering a false arrest and alleging infamous and non-existent crimes against a journalist.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered by repeated injury only. A government whose every act is thus marked by the above-cited injuries and abuses is unfit to administer the will of a free and sovereign people. It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property, and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is, therefore, not only the best policy, but for the security of the rights of the people, that the judges of the courts should hold their offices so long as they behave well.

So, despairing of any hope from the courts and finding no other remedy, we have, agreeable to the law of nature and to our own sovereign liberty in our own defense and for maintaining the rights, privileges and liberties of our fellow citizens and our future posterity from being enslaved by the courts, do hereby abjure and renounce the authority of the courts and pursue such methods as appear to us most likely to secure our ancient liberties and rights. Being reduced to the last extremity, as witnessed by the foul acts above, we have unanimously and deliberately declared that the courts of New Hampshire have forfeited,ipso jure, all authority over the people of this State, and we also are determined henceforward not to acknowledge the courts’ authority or jurisdiction, but rather to dissolve their existence from across the breadth and width of the land.

We, therefore, the People of the State of New Hampshire, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do solemnly publish and declare the following acts of abjuration and reformation of the courts.

Pass CACR 26.

Rededicate Cheshire Superior Court as Thomas Ball Memorial Court of Cheshire County.

Convene a Constitutional Convention July 1, 2013, in Concord to reform and re-establish the Courts of the State, according to the will of the people and their representatives.