“Terrorism” of Child Welfare System to Families to Be Addressed in Arkansas Legislature

“Terrorism” of Child Welfare System to Families to Be Addressed in Arkansas Legislature:

Families caught up in dealing with Child Protective Services nationwide are frustrated with a system which allows families to be terrorized and destroyed, often based on unproven allegations and even outright lies. Legislators in Arkansas will be hearing from families and attorneys on Thursday, October 1 at 1:00 pm in a Joint Performance Review Committee meeting, who will be explaining why there needs to be an overhaul or even elimination of the current child welfare system. 

Man charged with sexually assaulting girls in foster care

Man charged with sexually assaulting girls in foster care | Missoula Local News - NBCMontana.com:

BILLINGS, Mont. -

A 68-year-old Billings man is charged with sexually assaulting two girls who are in foster care.

A Foster Care Tragedy

A Foster Care Tragedy | The Kansas City Star:

Child protection expert Lori Ross reacts to murder charges against foster child who fell through the cracks.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/article36934674.html#storylink=cpy

News Release:Boutin emphasizes role of Commission to review child abuse fatalities

New Hampshire SenateNews Release

For Immediate Release:September 29, 2015

Boutin emphasizes role of Commission to review child abuse fatalities

Concord, NH - Today, the Commission to review Child Abuse Fatalities met to hear from the Director Lorraine Bartlett and Chief Legal Counsel Byry Kennedy for the Division for Children Youth & Families (DCYF) to learn about the process by which child abuse or neglect is reported and investigated by the state.

“There have been a handful of recent local cases where parents have been found responsible for the death of a child following a period of abuse. This Commission is designed to better understand the course of action by which instances of child abuse or neglect is reported and investigated and how the State of New Hampshire can improve this process to eliminate instances where parental abuse results in the death of a child or infant,” said Senator David Boutin, Chair of the Commission to review child abuse fatalities.

“We have a responsibility to the families and children in the state of New Hampshire to ensure that investigations into a child’s wellbeing are effective and that we are doing everything we can to put a stop to tragic outcomes caused by abuse that we’ve seen in the past.”

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The Broken Bond: Stolen Babies Stolen Motherhood Viewed Through a Trauma Perspective

The Broken Bond: Stolen Babies Stolen Motherhood Viewed Through a Trauma Perspective | Apology Alliance Australia:

When the sacred bond between mother and infant is broken it is a traumatic event that inflicts life-long physical and emotional pain (Pearce: 1992; Verrier: 1997).  In Australia during most of the 20th century there was a government sanctioned policy of forcibly removing the newborns of unsupported unwed mothers at or soon after birth.  This was not only  unethical and illegal, but violated their civil and human rights (Sherry: 1992; Harper: 1978; MacDermott: 1984). This article will discuss the past removalist policy and its effects on mothers, their now adult children and other family members, who carry the life-long psychological and emotional scars. It will also examine and discuss the underlying neuro-biological processes of birth and the affects of interfering in its completion.

Surveillance Videos Show Foster Children Abuse in Connecticut

Surveillance Videos Show Foster Children Abuse in Connecticut:

Statistics and studies clearly show that children left in families, even troubled families where “abuse” is alleged, than when they enter the foster care system. (See: Foster Care Children are Worse Off than Children in Troubled Homes – The Child Trafficking Business.) These very disturbing videos of foster care children being abused in Connecticut clearly show how ineffective Child Social Services has become all across America.

It is time to abolish this system, by cutting off the federal funding, and allowing communities to work with troubled families and keeping children with their families.

Conn. Child Advocate Releases DCF Surveillance Videos Showing Illegal Restraint, Isolation

Sacramento Grandmother Beaten and Flees for Her Life as CPS Takes Grandchildren

Sacramento Grandmother Beaten and Flees for Her Life as CPS Takes Grandchildren:
It is a bizarre tale of alleged police brutality and CPS corruption that has ended up with a Sacramento grandmother fleeing the state of California in fear for her very life, while the grandchildren she cared for have been seized by the state, with no apparent evidence of any wrongdoing by the grandmother. All Ann King wanted to do was to love and care for her grandchildren while the parents were unable to, allowing the babies to grow up connected to their own family roots. Apparently, that was too much to ask from Sacramento County CPS, because no one in the family even knows where the children are anymore. 

Sounds Familiar in many ways!