Don't Sue Your Parents - Baby LK Report For March 16th 2013

The Case Against CASA-HOW THE MOST SACRED COW IN CHILD WELFARE HURTS THE CHILDREN IT IS MEANT TO HELP

The Case Against CASA | National Coalition for Child Protection Reform:

HOW THE MOST SACRED COW IN CHILD WELFARE HURTS THE CHILDREN IT IS MEANT TO HELP

For a printable pdf copy of this document, click here.

To see the actual study discussed below, click here.

The trade journal Youth Today aptly summed up the appeal of the Court-Appointed Special Advocates Program, noting that CASA

“couldn’t sound more apple pie, more thousand points of light.  CASAs are a cadre of 74,000 volunteers trained for dozens of hours, then dispatched to conduct independent investigations of child abuse and to represent the children’s interests in courts around the nation. What could be wrong with that?”

Plenty, it turns out; much of it revealed by the most comprehensive evaluation of CASA ever done, an evaluation commissioned by the National CASA Association itself.  As Youth Today noted, the report  “delivers some surprisingly damning numbers.”[1]

●The study found that CASA’s only real accomplishments were to prolong the time children languished in foster care and reduce the chance that the child will be placed with relatives.

●The study found no evidence that having a CASA on the case does anything to improve child safety – so all that extra foster care is for nothing. (The study specifically controlled for CASA’s all purpose excuse for this – the claim that CASAs handle the most difficult cases.)

●The study also found that when a CASA is assigned to a child who is Black, the CASA spends, on average, significantly less time on the case. (The study also found that CASAs don’t spend as much time on cases in general as the organization’s p.r. might lead one to believe. CASA volunteers reported spending an average of only 4.3 hours per month on cases involving white children, and only 2.67 hours per month on cases involving Black children).[2]

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Medical Marijuana Patients Lose Custody Of Baby, Deemed Unfit Parents (Video)

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An 11-month-old California boy was taken into protective custody because his parents have legal prescriptions for medical marijuana.

Who Is This Precious Angel? New Info

Does anyone out there know this little Angel's name?
This precious little Angel's picture was found on the Internet December 11th, 2013 by a good friend and  Family Rights Activist.
All we know as of this time is that the little girls parent's could no longer take care of her and she was then placed in the care of CPS. Three week's after being placed in Foster care, she was dead.
If anyone know's this little Angel's name and the story of her cut too short life, please contact me. It is my duty as well as everyone else's to put an end to the horrible abuse and death of children being "Protected" by the State
R.I.P. Little one. You will not be forgotten!

I found out that this little 4 month old baby was  found beaten, suffocated, and stuffed in a garbage can in her bedroom.
I also found out her name is Elizabeth Fay "LizzyBee" Mariani Mariani. She was born in 2006 and was murdered in 2007. No-one has ever been charged with her murder.
Her Grandmother has a Facebook page: Justice for Baby Elizabeth-https://www.facebook.com/groups/132364096798753/ And there is also a Petition  requesting that the City of Layton District Attorney's office in the County of Davis of the State of Utah investigate baby Elizabeth's murder from Layton, Utah. 
Please click on the link and sign and share: http://www.gopetition.com/petition/42185.html
Someone need's to be held accountable for this precious little Angel's death!

More new info:  I also found out LizzyBee wasn't in a Foster home.She lived with her parents and maternal grandmother. Her Paternal Grandmother is the one fighting for an investigation and justice. From what I read, CPS was involved with the family and the children taken in the past and returned. LizzyBees two year old brother was thrown out a three story window in Dec. 2007. The Mother was arrested for child abuse. When the boy got out of the Hospital, he was returned to the parents. This story is a total nightmare. Go to the link above and you will find out plenty.

More spent on foster care than programs to reunite parents, kids

More spent on foster care than programs to reunite parents, kids | www.journal-news.com:

Same thing in New Hampshire and many of the other States and the Federal Govt. just keeps on 
rewarding them with funding. When will they ever wake up?

BUTLER COUNTY — 

Butler County Children Services spends almost 10 times more money placing endangered children outside their homes than it does funding programs that help parents get their children back.

Group issues Mass. child welfare recommendations

Group issues Mass. child welfare recommendations - News Local Massachusetts - Boston.com:

BOSTON (AP) — Giving smartphones to social workers and taking photos of all children who enter state care are among the recommendations of an independent group examining Massachusetts’ child welfare system.

Children into Cash, says Senator Schaefer

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http://www.SanityCheckRadioShow.com
During the March 1 broadcast Lou responds to the blockbuster charges made against the entire family court/child protective services system by the late Georgia state senator Nancy Schaefer while a couple short clips of her are played. An upcoming broadcast of Sanity Check will be devoted to Schaefer's courageous activism as a state legislator upon the fourth anniversary of her untimely passing.