Neglecting children: DCYF report shocks NH | New Hampshire:
"Why has this been allowed to go on for so long?"
That's the question Sen. Sharon Carson asked after reading a shocking report about New Hampshire's Division of Child, Youth and Families.
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
Monday, October 31, 2016
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Child protective services worker stabbed while conducting home visit
Child protective services worker stabbed while conducting home visit - 23ABC News:
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A child protective services worker was stabbed in the hand while making a home visit Tuesday, according to a person close to the incident.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A child protective services worker was stabbed in the hand while making a home visit Tuesday, according to a person close to the incident.
Foster mom convicted of murder wants release
Foster mom convicted of murder wants release | News | normantranscript.com:
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — A Cherokee County foster mother convicted of killing a 2-year-old family member in 2013 is asking a federal court to determine she is being illegally imprisoned, court records show.
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — A Cherokee County foster mother convicted of killing a 2-year-old family member in 2013 is asking a federal court to determine she is being illegally imprisoned, court records show.
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Lawmakers react to 'alarming' report on DCYF child-abuse cases | New Hampshire
Lawmakers react to 'alarming' report on DCYF child-abuse cases | New Hampshire:
CONCORD — The preliminary report by an outside agency investigating the handling of child abuse cases by the state was called “disturbing” and “alarming” Wednesday by members of the legislative Commission on Child Abuse Fatalities.
“Reading the report made me feel like we are on a sinking ship,” said commission member Skip Berrien, a Democratic state representative from Exeter.
My Comment:
DCYF wouldn't be so understaffed if only cases of TRUE abuse were being investigated. Reports called in against parents and families should be thoroughly screened. The Reporter's, who call in anonymously or give their names should be screened for legitimacy first. Anonymous caller's usually make up false report's to retaliate against someone they're mad at. Other times reporter's call in and give someone else's name, again in retaliation. Then you have Hospital personnel making reports against parents and families because they listen to people who just don't like them. Then you have reports made against new Mother's for prescribed medication they took while pregnant. That makes absolutely no sense to open a case against a Mother for following Doctors orders. That needs to change.Did you also ever stop to think that some of these worker's have a heart? That some of these worker's already know whether there's REAL abuse and neglect or if there isn't , but their Supervisor forces them to remove the child? Many of these worker's really want to help, but are forced not to.Then you have the "Service Plan", where the parent's and the worker are "supposed" to sit down together and write it up. Never seen it happen. The worker does it and tells the parent if they don't sign it they'll never see their children again. Does it STILL work this way, or was that only ten or eleven years ago?Services to at risk families? How long has this been going on, if in fact it is?State Senator Sharon Carson said:“I am concerned about the children who have possibly fallen through the cracks.†Senator Carson, What about the Grandparents and family member's who have fallen through the cracks, as admitted by DCYF? The family member's who were never considered in placement of the taken children? Never given a Home Inspection or acknowledged in their request's for placement.Told "Relative Placement is NOT an option, the child is going into foster care, period" by a well know Nashua Supervisor.If DCYF is so understaffed, maybe they should do something about the Supervisors who force the workers to take children against their will, knowing full well that the children aren't being abused or neglected? If they weren't so busy investigating innocent families they may have had time to save these children. And if they had placed Brielle with her Grandmother, as she tried getting custody, that innocent little girl would be alive today. Maybe even a reform of ASFA would help. I don't think this Audit went back far enough. There are MANY past cases that would shock them.
CONCORD — The preliminary report by an outside agency investigating the handling of child abuse cases by the state was called “disturbing” and “alarming” Wednesday by members of the legislative Commission on Child Abuse Fatalities.
“Reading the report made me feel like we are on a sinking ship,” said commission member Skip Berrien, a Democratic state representative from Exeter.
My Comment:
DCYF wouldn't be so understaffed if only cases of TRUE abuse were being investigated. Reports called in against parents and families should be thoroughly screened. The Reporter's, who call in anonymously or give their names should be screened for legitimacy first. Anonymous caller's usually make up false report's to retaliate against someone they're mad at. Other times reporter's call in and give someone else's name, again in retaliation. Then you have Hospital personnel making reports against parents and families because they listen to people who just don't like them. Then you have reports made against new Mother's for prescribed medication they took while pregnant. That makes absolutely no sense to open a case against a Mother for following Doctors orders. That needs to change.Did you also ever stop to think that some of these worker's have a heart? That some of these worker's already know whether there's REAL abuse and neglect or if there isn't , but their Supervisor forces them to remove the child? Many of these worker's really want to help, but are forced not to.Then you have the "Service Plan", where the parent's and the worker are "supposed" to sit down together and write it up. Never seen it happen. The worker does it and tells the parent if they don't sign it they'll never see their children again. Does it STILL work this way, or was that only ten or eleven years ago?Services to at risk families? How long has this been going on, if in fact it is?State Senator Sharon Carson said:“I am concerned about the children who have possibly fallen through the cracks.†Senator Carson, What about the Grandparents and family member's who have fallen through the cracks, as admitted by DCYF? The family member's who were never considered in placement of the taken children? Never given a Home Inspection or acknowledged in their request's for placement.Told "Relative Placement is NOT an option, the child is going into foster care, period" by a well know Nashua Supervisor.If DCYF is so understaffed, maybe they should do something about the Supervisors who force the workers to take children against their will, knowing full well that the children aren't being abused or neglected? If they weren't so busy investigating innocent families they may have had time to save these children. And if they had placed Brielle with her Grandmother, as she tried getting custody, that innocent little girl would be alive today. Maybe even a reform of ASFA would help. I don't think this Audit went back far enough. There are MANY past cases that would shock them.
Sunday, October 23, 2016
State seeks balance in child protection statutes
State seeks balance in child protection statutes | New Hampshire:
BEDFORD - Bedford attorney Rus Rilee and his clients hope their public lawsuits over the state's handling of child abuse cases will provide momentum for changing the state's Child Protection Act to more aggressively promote child safety instead of its current emphasis on parental rights.
My Comment:
"For everyone who has a story to tell of children who should have been placed in Foster care, there are at least ten families where the children shouldn't have been removed to begin with.What is considered to be imminent danger? Is it a child whose mother was given morphine in labor and subsequently, the morphine spilled into the baby? Is it when a Mother walks into a Hospital and her daughter of 4 years old walks down three steps behind her, so the Mother is accused of being intoxicated, but blood tests proved no alcohol? There are way too many of these cases just as frivolous as these where parents and their families lost the children for good to Foster care and adoption. Where parents had no rights at all and NO Due process.State Rep. Dan Itse is right. Are any of you even aware that when proven false reports are called in against a parent or family member, that report STILL goes against the parent/family member for three years? A proven false report SHOULD be scrapped and never be brought up, but once in Court that doesn't happen. The reports STILL go against the accused and they're still treated as if they're guilty.So how much longer should these false reports hang over ones head?"
BEDFORD - Bedford attorney Rus Rilee and his clients hope their public lawsuits over the state's handling of child abuse cases will provide momentum for changing the state's Child Protection Act to more aggressively promote child safety instead of its current emphasis on parental rights.
My Comment:
"For everyone who has a story to tell of children who should have been placed in Foster care, there are at least ten families where the children shouldn't have been removed to begin with.What is considered to be imminent danger? Is it a child whose mother was given morphine in labor and subsequently, the morphine spilled into the baby? Is it when a Mother walks into a Hospital and her daughter of 4 years old walks down three steps behind her, so the Mother is accused of being intoxicated, but blood tests proved no alcohol? There are way too many of these cases just as frivolous as these where parents and their families lost the children for good to Foster care and adoption. Where parents had no rights at all and NO Due process.State Rep. Dan Itse is right. Are any of you even aware that when proven false reports are called in against a parent or family member, that report STILL goes against the parent/family member for three years? A proven false report SHOULD be scrapped and never be brought up, but once in Court that doesn't happen. The reports STILL go against the accused and they're still treated as if they're guilty.So how much longer should these false reports hang over ones head?"
Grandparents of abused girls pushing for change in child protection laws
Grandparents of abused girls pushing for change in child protection laws | New Hampshire:
An aging couple from the Monadnock region, they never planned to be at the center of a controversy over the handling of child abuse cases in New Hampshire.
Instead of anticipating their retirement, they're preoccupied with the challenges of raising two young granddaughters, now their adopted daughters.
My Comment:
"How things have changed in ten years. The NH Legislature wouldn't have had to step in if so many parent's and grandparents hadn't been railroaded for so many years by DCYF and the Family Courts. Parent's and their families were ALWAYS considered guitly, even after being proven innocent. Treated worse than convicted criminals, never allowed to admit evidence of innocence into Court. Back then, a parent was never given a chance to fail. Children were taken from families for frivolous reason's, nothing like these horrendous acts of abuse of the children and the children never returned. DCYF could even look into the future and determine the child would be neglected in the future. The Judges sided with DCYF and bam, the child was taken from not only parents, but grandparents and other family member's as well. Relatives never considered for placement. Federal mandates never followed, which included services that were never provided for at risk families.These parent's should never have been allowed unsupervised visits. Parent's whose children were removed for frivolous reasons and proven, falsely accused parents didn't even get unsupervised visits. Their children never beaten or sexually abused. Nothing that even came close to the abuse of these children. Even parents who proved their innocence, only supervised visits and their children never returned.It's not that more caseworkers are needed. They need to do REAL investigations, which they didn't do in the past and they need to stop railroading innocent families and concentrate on the truly abused."
An aging couple from the Monadnock region, they never planned to be at the center of a controversy over the handling of child abuse cases in New Hampshire.
Instead of anticipating their retirement, they're preoccupied with the challenges of raising two young granddaughters, now their adopted daughters.
My Comment:
"How things have changed in ten years. The NH Legislature wouldn't have had to step in if so many parent's and grandparents hadn't been railroaded for so many years by DCYF and the Family Courts. Parent's and their families were ALWAYS considered guitly, even after being proven innocent. Treated worse than convicted criminals, never allowed to admit evidence of innocence into Court. Back then, a parent was never given a chance to fail. Children were taken from families for frivolous reason's, nothing like these horrendous acts of abuse of the children and the children never returned. DCYF could even look into the future and determine the child would be neglected in the future. The Judges sided with DCYF and bam, the child was taken from not only parents, but grandparents and other family member's as well. Relatives never considered for placement. Federal mandates never followed, which included services that were never provided for at risk families.These parent's should never have been allowed unsupervised visits. Parent's whose children were removed for frivolous reasons and proven, falsely accused parents didn't even get unsupervised visits. Their children never beaten or sexually abused. Nothing that even came close to the abuse of these children. Even parents who proved their innocence, only supervised visits and their children never returned.It's not that more caseworkers are needed. They need to do REAL investigations, which they didn't do in the past and they need to stop railroading innocent families and concentrate on the truly abused."
Saturday, October 22, 2016
DCYF sued over girls' sexual abuse
DCYF sued over girls' sexual abuse:
CONCORD, N.H. —
CONCORD, N.H. —
The grandparents of two young sisters who were sexually abused by their parents while in foster care are suing New Hampshire’s child protection agency.The lawsuit, filed Thursday, alleges the Division for Children, Youth and Families allowed the biological parents to have unsupervised visits with their children in 2013, even after police began investigating reports the couple had molested other children at a homeless shelter where they were living.
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