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Cops Interrogate Family For Allowing Kids To Play Outside - Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Social services harass mother for having ‘free range’ children

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

A family has been harassed by social services and police for the egregious crime of allowing their children to play outside in another example of how the nanny state is running wild in America.

Lenore Skenazy, editor of the Free Range Kids website, was contacted by a mother in Virginia who related her story of how she was interrogated by police four times and visited by social services twice after her children were spotted playing outside unsupervised.

The mother said that despite the fact she is careful about allowing her kids to stay over at other people’s houses because of a related childhood trauma of her own, she is being harassed by authorities because she is “one of only two families that allows my children to play outside at all in our neighborhood (which is very safe).”

“Just today, I allowed all four of my children (they were all together) to go play in the field adjacent to my house. I could literally see them outside my kitchen window. My 10 year old ran home to tell my husband and I that a cop had stopped and was interrogating my oldest daughter,” the mother writes.

“No, this was not after dark, it was at 4pm on a Saturday. So my husband walked out to see what was going on, and the police officer even wrote up a report, stating that the children were left outside unsupervised.”

Although she makes her children carry cellphones and check in every 30 minutes, the mother was told by her neighbors that “it just isn’t safe anymore to allow your kids to play outside.”

When the mother asked the police officer if the children, two teens, a pre-teen and a 5-year-old, were causing trouble, the officer responded, “No they were very respectful kids, I just wanted to make sure they were okay because it was odd seeing them outside unsupervised.”

How fundamentally warped has society become when children are not allowed to play outside in a field right next to their own house without suspicion being cast on their parents by authorities and neighbors?

Paranoia about child abductions has been hyped by both the media and the state as a means of eviscerating parental rights and transferring such power over to the government.

In reality, America has never been safer for kids in decades.

As AOL News’ David Knowles documents, “According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 980,712 people under the age of 18 were reported missing in 1997, compared to 643,744 in 2008.”

Child abductions are declining rapidly year upon year, so why on earth are Americans increasingly terrified of allowing their kids to enjoy the freedom of the great outdoors?

This is another example of the nanny state gone wild.

Manufactured paranoia that has no basis in reality is being hyped to turn all parents into potential child abusers and in the process castrate the happy, normal, and adventurous upbringing that all children should enjoy.

Is it any wonder that so many children end up being put on Ritalin or other psychotropic drugs given that the happiest days of their lives and the key formative stage of their development is being strangled by such overbearing nonsense?

Parents are being harassed by police and social services for caring for their children in ways which a sane society would consider normal and healthy.

Back in 2010, we reported on the case of a father of two who was harassed and investigated by Child Protective Services and police for feeding his daughters organic food, refusing to make them drink fluoride-poisoned tap water and not having them injected with mercury-laden vaccines.

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British Social Workers Provided Cover For ‘Sex Grooming Gang’, Resulting in Murder of Girl - Thursday, June 07, 2012

Social workers hid fact they knew teenage mother was at risk from sex grooming gangs SIX YEARS before she was brutally murdered

Daniel Miller
Mail Online

June 7, 2012

Social workers knew for six years that a teenage mother, murdered for bringing shame on the families of two Pakistani men who had used her for sex, was at clear risk from predatory Asian gangs.

Laura Wilson, 17, from Rotherham had been groomed by a string of British Pakistanis before she was stabbed and thrown into a canal to die for informing her abusers’ families of the sexual relationships.

Her killer Ashtiaq Asghar, who was 18 at the time, was given a life sentence and will serve a minimum of 17-and-a-half years after he pleaded guilty to murdering Laura in October 2010.

But it has now emerged that Rotherham County Council’s social services were well aware she was at risk and had received information about certain adults suspected of targeting her from the age of 11.

Read full report here

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Doctor Calls Police, CPS on Mother Who Refuses to Vaccinate Son - Wednesday, January 18, 2012







 TheAlexJonesChannel on Jan 17, 2012

Curt Linderman Sr.
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/
January 17, 2012

Once again the tyrannical claws of the medical industrial complex, supported by big brother government, have grazed the flesh of an intelligent, educated mother that has refused to bow down to the lies of the vaccine agenda.

Rachel Garmon, a resident of the Centre County area of Pennsylvania, recently took her 2 ½ year old son to an appointment with a new pediatrician. Mrs. Garmon states in her recent interview with Alex Jones that her visit with the doctor was going well. The pediatrician even stated that the boy looked very healthy. This was of course until the good doc found out that Rachel had never vaccinated her son.

Suddenly, the visit took a turn for the worse as the pediatrician, classically trained in the heretical arts of poisoning young children in the name of health, began to attempt the indoctrination of vaccination into this wayward mother. Rachel however, stood her ground and explained to the doctor that she had "strong convictions against vaccinating (her) son and he was not going to get any shots."

Rachel also refused to sign the self incriminating form designed by the American Academy of Pediatrics that basically states that you are a horrible parent for not protecting your child with poisonous vaccines. This is a document that no parent should sign as this can be used against you when CPS or Children and Youth Services begin to push their agenda in a family court situation. By the end of the appointment, Rachel stated that she felt that the visit had ended on a good note and really didn't feel as if there was any need to be concerned with her decision not to vaccinate.

Mrs. Garmon spent the weekend out of town visiting her sister and upon returning home, she witnessed two notes attached to her door. These notes were from a Pennsylvania State Trooper asking her to contact her "ASAP". The first attempt failed due to the late hour but the following day, Rachel was successful in reaching the state trooper and was informed that the doctor that Rachel had visited the week prior had contacted the department to file a report regarding her suspicious behavior. The doctor apparently told the trooper that Mrs. Garmon had come to her office with her son, refused to give her identification and had acted "suspicious".

When was the last time you had to show your driver's license to see your doctor? Mrs. Garmon told the trooper that she had not been asked for her identification and that she felt that this issue was in regards to her decision to not vaccinate her son. Could the "suspicious" actions be of a mother that educates herself on issues regarding her child's health and wellbeing? In today's world of following orders like lemmings to the cliff's edge, perhaps this could be construed as "suspicious". The state trooper also stated that the pediatrician had called Children and Youth Services.

In the interview with Alex on Tuesday I would have to surmise that this doctor has picked on the wrong woman. Rachel is a popular mother and respected member of the community, a Sports and Wellness Director for a well known community based organization and a well educated citizen of Pennsylvania. She also seems quite prepared to take this to the next level and this level should be pressing charges on a pathetic pediatrician that files false and misleading reports with the Pennsylvania State Police.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012 edition of the Infowars Nightly News:

• Alex interviews Infowars contributing writer and vaccine researcher Curt Linderman Sr. about the medical tyranny hoax that ceaseless continues in trying to trick the public into complying with "mandatory" vaccinations. In the latest episode, a Pennsylvanian doctor reported her patient to a state trooper, as well as Children and Youth Services Department, after the mother, Rachel Garmon, refused dangerous inoculations for her son. Garmon appeared on the Alex Jones Show early today to explain what had prompted being contacted by the authorities following her 2 1/2 year old's check-up.

Linderman wrote, in part:

Suddenly, the visit took a turn for the worse as the pediatrician, classically trained in the heretical arts of poisoning young children in the name of health, began to attempt the indoctrination of vaccination into this wayward mother. Rachel however, stood her ground and explained to the doctor that she had "strong convictions against vaccinating (her) son and he was not going to get any shots."

Rachel also refused to sign the self incriminating form designed by the American Academy of Pediatrics that basically states that you are a horrible parent for not protecting your child with poisonous vaccines. This is a document that no parent should sign as this can be used against you when CPS or Children and Youth Services begin to push their agenda in a family court situation. By the end of the appointment, Rachel stated that she felt that the visit had ended on a good note and really didn't feel as if there was any need to be concerned with her decision not to vaccinate.

Linderman also wrote an examination of the CDC's latest campaign to pressure parents to vaccinate their children, citing in particular how such propaganda takes hold in the mainland, endangering the development of children everywhere. Implementation of the color-of-law vaccine policy was especially worrisome in the recent case seen in Natomas, California where school 'officials' went door-to-door in attempt to forcibly inoculate several home-study students.


AMA Journal: Make Participation In Vaccine Trials Mandatory

Population should be forced to take experimental shots “for the greater good”

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, January 18, 2012


An article published by the American Medical Association’s Virtual Mentor journal advocates making participation in vaccine trials mandatory, arguing that people should be forced to take experimental shots in a similar vein to how jury service is compulsory.

The article, written by Oxford University’s Susanne Sheehy and Joel Meyer, is entitled Should Participation in Vaccine Clinical Trials be Mandated?

Concerned about the “distressing decline in the numbers of healthy volunteers who participate in clinical trials,” the piece argues that “Compulsory involvement in vaccine studies” should be considered for the “greater good of society.”

“Many societies already mandate that citizens undertake activities for the good of society; in several European countries registration for organ-donation has switched from “opt-in” (the current U.S. system) to “opt-out” systems (in which those who do not specifically register as nondonors are presumed to consent to donation) [10], and most societies expect citizens to undertake jury service when called upon. In these examples, the risks or inconvenience to an individual are usually limited and minor. Mandatory involvement in vaccine trials is therefore perhaps more akin to military conscription, a policy operating today in 66 countries. In both conscription and obligatory trial participation, individuals have little or no choice regarding involvement and face inherent risks over which they have no control, all for the greater good of society.”

Using the example of military conscription – the draft – to justify the idea of compulsory participation in vaccine trials, illustrates how the whole idea is completely rooted in authoritarian tendencies. The draft has its historical origins in slavery and has largely been abolished by developed nations.

And if you thought the use of the term “for the greater good of society” wasn’t downright creepy enough, the authors later propose tackling society’s reluctance to accept compulsory recruitment to vaccine trials by virtually advocating the arrival of a more deadly disease than swine flu in order to ensure “compulsory recruitment becomes a more palatable option.”

“Consider an infectious disease with a high transmission and mortality rate for which vaccine development were possible but limited by a shortage of volunteers willing to participate in clinical trials. Would mandatory participation in clinical trials then be an acceptable policy?” ask the authors, ruminating on how an “Increase (in) the severity of the disease in question,” would increase the likelihood of society accepting mandatory vaccine trials.

The authors conclude by bemoaning ethical considerations that would present a roadblock to the effort to force people to take experimental vaccines, proposing instead that a system of “mandated choice” be introduced to coerce people into agreeing to be given the shots.

Mandating that people take experimental vaccines is of course completely abhorrent, it violates the fundamental human right not to be forcibly medicated, and harks back to the dark days of eugenics, mandatory sterilizations, and episodes like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

The very reason why less people are willing to volunteer for vaccine trials is the fact that vaccines, whether approved or experimental, have been responsible for deaths and injuries worldwide in increasing numbers. The United States, which administers the highest number of vaccines to babies, has the highest infant mortality rate out of all developed nations, a connection that is no coincidence according to a recent medical study published in a prestigious medical journal.

Indeed, earlier this month GlaxoSmithKline was fined $93,000 dollars for its role in an experimental vaccine program in Argentina that killed 14 babies between 2007 and 2008.

For this authoritarian premise to even be considered in the AMA’s ‘Journal of Ethics’ is shocking, but the increasing move towards making vaccines mandatory is a wider phenomenon.

Last year, California passed a law that allows children to be given the Gardasil shot, which has been linked with thousands of adverse reactions and dozens of deaths, without parental consent.

Parents who try to remove their children from the ever-expanding list of “required” vaccine programs for school-age kids are being targeted by law enforcement. When Rachel Garmon told her doctor that she had taken the decision not to vaccinate her healthy 2 and a half year old son, she was subsequently visited by a Pennsylvania State Trooper who was tasked with investigating her “suspicious behavior,” despite the fact that Pennsylvania is one of the many states that allows vaccination exemptions on both religious and medical grounds.

The AMA article represents a shocking insight into the control freak tendencies of some of today’s most influential medical minds. Forcing people to take part in experimental vaccine trials that pose a serious risk to their health is totally contemptible and has no place in a free society.

HEADLINE NEWS LINKS

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Saga of 12-year-old foster boy reveals state’s psychiatric drug abuse of children - Friday, December 16, 2011

Tara Green
Natural News
December 16, 2011

A 12-year-old Texas boy testified before Congress that he was drugged for four years with multiple anti-psychotic medications while in the state foster system. The boy, identified only as Ke’onte, recalled that the drugs left him “in a stupor” and physically ill.

Governmental Child Abuse

The child’s ordeal was revealed when a Government Accountability Office report was released pointing to the failure of the federal government to protect foster children. The report stated that foster children were up to 13 times more likely to be prescribed anti-psychotics and anti-depressants than other children.

Ke’onte told legislators that being drugged was “the worst thing anyone could do to foster kids.” He lost his appetite because of the medication and felt so exhausted “I would collapse wherever I was in the house.” The drugs also interfered with his mental abilities: “My foster parents would tell me something, and I wouldn’t be able to process it,” the child told members of a Congressional subcommittee.

The boy was prescribed the medications after being misdiagnosed with ADHD and bipolar syndrome. During his testimony he recalled a history of pharmaceutical abuse at the hands of the state: “I’ve been in the mental hospital three times during foster care, and every time I had to get on more meds or new meds to add to the ones I was already taking.” The child was in the foster care system for four years of his life.

Therapy not drugs

Since Ke’onte’s adoption in 2009, he no longer takes the anti-psychotic drugs. His well-being has improved dramatically. He plays clarinet in his school band, competes in cross-country events and participates in school plays. He now goes to a therapist rather than receiving drugs. The boy notes the difference between his current and previous situation: “In therapy, you talk about the deepest things and it hurts, but you can deal with it better the next time. I’m not only more focused in school, I’m not going to the office anymore for bad behavior and I’m happy.”

Medicaid-Funded Drugs

Ke’onte’s story is only the latest to emerge of the ongoing horrors foster children experience at the hands of prescription-happy doctors. A study published in the journal of Pediatrics revealed that foster children covered by Medicaid insurance are prescribed psychotropic medication more than three times as often as children who qualify for Medicaid because of family income levels. In Texas alone, Medicaid paid for more than $200 million in psychotropic drugs for children in 2008.

Only half of state child welfare systems have policies in place to review the prescription of drugs to children in the system. Even those states that have oversight policies do not have stringent supervision to protect children against over-medication.

Diseases for Dollars

Pharmaceutical companies have had an ongoing campaign for several decades to increase their sales by branding conditions as diseases and then linking them in the public’s mind to a drug. This phenomenon is documented in the book “Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients” by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels. The book traces the ways in which pharmaceutical companies have in effect invented new diseases in order to sell more drugs.

While adults have the ability to educate themselves and resist the insidious marketing campaigns which create diseases in order to sell drugs, children need a responsible to adult to look out for their best interests. Without any adult advocate protecting them, foster children are the most vulnerable to the growing trend to over medicate youth. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International warns that as many as 52% of children in the US foster care system are prescribed psychiatric drugs.

Sources:

http://www.cchrint.org/2011/12/02/1…

http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/e…

http://www.cchrint.org/2011/06/23/f…

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3…

 

No Mandatory Mental Health Screening for Children! - Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Ron Paul
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Maryanne Godboldo, a mother in Michigan, noticed that pills prescribed by her daughter’s doctor were making her condition worse, not better. So Mrs. Godboldo stopped giving them to her. That’s when the trouble began. When Child Protective Services (CPS) bureaucrats became aware that the girl was not receiving her prescribed medication, they decided the child should be taken away from her mother’s custody on grounds of medical neglect. When Ms. Godboldo refused to surrender her daughter to the state, CPS enlisted the help of a police SWAT team! On March 24 of this year a 12 hour standoff ensued and young Ariana was taken into custody. The drug involved was Risperdal, a neuroleptic antipsychotic medication with numerous known side effects. Ms. Godboldo had decided on a more holistic approach for her daughter. She is still engaged in a costly legal battle with the state over Ariana’s treatment and custody.


This is one example of how government’s increasing proclivity to medicate children with questionable psychiatric drugs violates the rights of parents. Just recently, the Government Accountability Office released a report on the astonishingly high rate of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs for children in the foster care system. It is absolutely astounding that nearly 40% of kids in foster care are on psychotropic drugs, some of them taking up to 5 different pills at a time. Some of these children are under one year of age – too young to safely take over the counter cold medication!

To fight this dangerous trend I reintroduced the Parental Consent Act of 2011, HR 2769, which prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health or psychiatric screening program. The previous administration pushed hard for this type of federal intrusion into the medical decisions of families through its wildly misnamed “New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.” Everyone interested in parental rights and true health freedom must fight to make sure the commission’s findings and dubious psychiatric science are never used as justification to force mental health screening on American kids at school without their parents’ consent.

There has been a persistent lobbying effort, funded by pharmaceutical companies, to increase the number of these prescriptions to even more children. A universal screening program is the stated goal of these lobbyists. I would not be at all surprised to see the recent attention to the issue of schoolyard bullying used as a tool towards these ends.

Imagine the potential ramifications of a universal, mandatory psychiatric health screening program in a public school, considering how some bureaucrats are wont to behave! The diagnostic criteria for many mental illnesses remain vague and subjective. Therefore it is all too easy for a bureaucrat in a white coat to label a child with some sort of psychiatric syndrome simply because they were having a bad day, or behaving as a typical rambunctious child. That label could follow them around the rest of their school career and come with a number of prescriptions attached, which the state, as in the Godboldo case, may try to force the parents to administer, whether they want to or not.

I plan to continue the fight to ban federal funding of any universal screening program that imposes mental healthcare screening on children without express informed consent from parents.

HEADLINE NEWS LINKS

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  • The mass overmedication of foster children with psychiatric drugs
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  • Texans unknowingly donate children’s blood to research
  • CPS involved in child trafficking?
  • Mother Gives Mentally Ill Son to State Because She Can’t Afford Health Care
  • Obese Ohio Child Taken from Parents, Placed in Drug-Crazy Foster Care
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    The California Family Courts Sexual Abuse Industry - Wednesday, December 07, 2011

    Editor’s Note: The following material is explicit and disturbing, but serves to expose a corrupt system of institutional child abuse – in this case by the State of California – through a system which is meant to protect vulnerable children, not push them further into a nightmare of abuse by criminals. Society must shine a flood light on our court system, foster care and violations by adult individuals who are using our institutions to hide their crimes against humanity.

    BARBARA FARRIS
    Ellis County Observer
    December 7, 2011

    The following summaries are a few selected samples of real California Family Law cases (catogorized by county), in which children are taken away from safe parents, and forced to live with abusive parents. Is this becasue the abuser is offered money to film his sexual abuse against the child so the judicial system gets a kick back? All involved would be local police, judges, children services, attorneys and even medical examiners.

    You decide after reading the following, is $8 billion a year worth this type of corruption.

    Amador County

    When these children were four, seven and nine years old, they were taken from their mother who was accused of non-evidentiary Parent Alienation Syndrome, and placed in the full custody of their father. This occurred in 1996, after the two girls disclosed molest by their father, despite corroborative medical evidence, explicit disclosures of abuse to law enforcement, and receipt of California Victims of Crime funding for therapy due to the crime committed against them. They had a cluster of symptoms indicative of sexual abuse, including nightmares, encopresis, excessive fears, sexualized behavior, depression, dissociation, anger, physical pains, headaches, constipation, and stomach aches. The mother, found by the court to be a good, loving mother and not accused of any crime, has been on supervised visitation since the reversal of custody three years ago. The mother, bankrupt after spending $250,000, must represent herself in court against the father’s attorney. The children’s attorney functions as a de facto attorney for the accused perpetrator.

    Contra Costa County

    After disclosing molest by her father, this 11-year-old victim and her two siblings were forced to continue overnight, unsupervised visits with the identified perpetrator. The father admitted molesting his daughter and was convicted. Nevertheless, overnight visits were court ordered to continue. In 1997 the five-year-old daughter disclosed molest by the father. Unsupervised visits continued because the court determined the father was not able to pay a supervisor.

    El Dorado County

    In 1998 this 4-year-old boy was taken from his mother and given to his physically abusive father. He is barred from any contact from his mother.

    Fresno County

    This little girl, born in 1994, was taken away from her mother when she was a toddler, and placed with her father, despite her on-going disclosures of sexual abuse by the father. She had a cluster of symptoms indicative of sexual abuse including anger, phobias, eating problems, insomnia, constipation, headaches, nausea, regression, terror when her diapers were changed, night terrors, and attention problems. These problems increased when she was placed with the father, but the numerous reports to CPS have been to no avail. The child cries until she vomits when she leaves her mother on week-end visits and is forced to return to the father.

    Los Angeles/Orange County (Torrance)

    Born in 1988, this little girl was placed in the custody of her mother when she was five years old, seeing her violent father only in the presence of a court monitor. When she was seven, she was forced to see her father without a supervisor, and reported to professionals that he was sexually and physically abusing her. The abuse was corroborated by medical evidence. She had a cluster of symptoms indicative of sexual abuse including nightmares, night terrors, enuresis, encopresis, excessive fears of her mother dying, depression, suicide attempt, eating disorder, extreme dissociation, intense anger, flashbacks, physical pains, headaches, insomnia, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, stomach aches, and a learning disability. Rather than protecting her, Judge F. granted primary custody to her father. In Utah, where her mother had moved, physical and sexual abuse was substantiated and she received complete court protection. However, California regained jurisdiction and placed her with the father. The child, now 11, is only able to see her non-offending mother for 8 hours per month under supervised conditions.

    These two children, a boy born in 1982 and a girl born in 1984, were in the full custody of their mother who was a victim of domestic violence. In 1989 and 1990, both children disclosed sexual abuse by the father. They had a cluster of symptoms indicative of sexual abuse, including lack of intact hymen, vaginal infections, nightmares and night terrors, enuresis and encopresis, phobias, sexualized behavior, depression, eating disorders, intense anger, headaches, and stomach aches. The mother was charged by the State of Georgia for not protecting the children from the father. The children received California Victims of Crime funding for therapy due to the crimes committed against them. However, in 1990 the California court took the children away from their mother and put them with the father’s family. The mother was placed on supervised visitation. In 1992 the father gained custody and hid the children from their mother. $36,000 back child support owed to the mother was erased, and the court doubled her payments of child support. In 1997 the mother was assaulted and injured in the courthouse by the father, who continued to terrorize her. The mother, a court monitor herself, was chosen “1995 Humanitarian of the Year” by her university.

    Los Angeles County Superior Court

    Born in 1987, this child began masturbating at school and reported sexual abuse by her father when she was seven years old. The Department of Children and Family Court Services (DCFS) concluded she had been sexually abused. She was placed in the custody of her mother, and saw her father on court-ordered supervised visits. The child repeatedly asked to be placed with her mother and consistently reported sexual molest by her father, even in court. Nevertheless, in she was taken away from her non-abusive mother and placed in the custody of her father on the recommendation of an evaluator. In 1994 DCFS filed another sexual-abuse petition against the father in juvenile court. However, the child remained in the custody of her father, despite having a court-appointed attorney who does not represent the wishes of the child. In 1998, the court cut off her off from all contact with her non-offending mother. Currently this severely learning-disabled child is allowed to see her mother only twice a week under supervised conditions. The mother is now bankrupt.

    Los Angeles/Riverside County (Torrance Superior Court)

    This child was raised by her mother who has never been accused of any crime. In 1998 she was taken away from her mother and legal father, and forced to live with a man whom she has continuously stated sexually abused her. She is allowed no contact with her mother, who has tried unsuccessfully to protect her.

    Los Angeles County

    This two-year-old girl disclosed sexual abuse by father, and was given to identified abuser. The mother is on supervised visits.

    These small children were placed in the custody of their mother when they were nearly one and two years old. Their violent father was ordered to take a parenting class. A year later they were taken away from their mother and forced to live with their father. The judge stated he was only interested in the mother’s “alienation” (the mother was breast-feeding), and ignored police reports of the father’s domestic violence and history of DUI’s. The unemployed mother is ordered to pay child support of over $1200 per month to the multi-millionaire Israeli father (who obtained a green card through their marriage). The toddlers are being raised to speak only Hebrew and are only allowed scant contact with their mother, who cannot afford an attorney.

    Born in 1990, this child made graphic disclosures of rape by his father, including group sex, to physicians, therapists, and detectives. He had a cluster of symptoms indicative of sexual abuse including sexualized behavior, depression, suicide attempt, eating disorder, extreme dissociation, intense anger, physical pains, headaches, insomnia, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, stomach aches, learning disability and attention problems. CPS did not protect him. The child’s attorney did not represent the child’s wishes. Despite saying that he wanted to live with his mother, he was forced to live with his identified perpetrator who then moved to Boston. He is rarely allowed to see his mother, and only with a supervisor.

    Born in 1989, this child was taken from his mother after he disclosed that his father beat him when he was 4 years old. There was medical evidence of abuse. The child had a cluster of symptoms indicative of sexual abuse, including sexualized behaviors, depression, intense anger, nightmares and night terrors, headaches, stomach aches, bladder problems and enuresis, diarrhea, phobias, and attention problems. The boy stated he wanted to live with his mother, and instead was forced to live with his father. The child’s attorney does not represent the wishes of the child. The non-offending mother has spent approximately $85,000 and must represent herself in court.

    Los Angeles (Long Beach and Concord)

    This four-year-old child lived with his mother and 3 brothers in Long Beach after his parents separated in 1997. When the mother decided to move to Northern California, the judge ordered the child delivered to Southern California every week for visits in 1998. An evaluator recommended a change of custody to the father, despite the mother complying with the visitation schedule.

    Marin County

    This little girl reported sexual abuse, corroborated by 4 medical reports, by her father who physically abused and choked her mother unconscious. She was placed in the custody of her mother, a bank vice president, and saw her father only under supervised conditions. The father threatened and stalked them until the mother and child took refuge in a battered women’s shelter. The child was forced to visit her father without supervision, and was subsequently re-abused. Her mother was court-ordered not to take her to the doctor. The mother fled with her daughter to Europe in 1992, because she could not obtain protection for the child through California family law court. They were found 1½ years later, and the child was placed in the full custody of her father. Her mother went to prison for depriving the father visitation, is prohibited from contacting her daughter, and is ordered to pay the father $65,000 in restitution.

    Mono County

    In 1997, these five- and six-year-old brothers were taken away from their mother, amid allegations that the mother deliberately kept the youngest child sick. The five-year-old was subsequently hospitalized when the father did not take care of his illness. The father threatened suicide at the hospital, and had to be subdued, disarmed and taken to a psychiatric hospital by police. Subsequently, the boys were placed in foster care. The five-year-old, who suffered from a rare blood sugar disease, became fatally ill and died after social worker and foster parents failed to provide appropriate medical care, in spite of the mother’s pleas. The older boy is forced to live with his father, despite his statement that he wants to live with his mother, and statements by his older sister to CPS about sexual abuse by their father. He is only allowed to see his non-offending mother with a court monitor. The mother has won 3 wrongful death lawsuits against the father and the county totaling over $800,000.

    Placer County

    This child, when she was 6 years old, was ripped from her mother’s arms and given into the custody of her father whom she had reported molested her. She begs to come to live with her mother, who has spent several hundred thousand dollars trying to protect her.

    Plumas County

    Born in 1994, this little girl began disclosing sexual abuse when she was only 1½ years old. She identified her father as the perpetrator. She eventually told a doctor, counselor and school teacher about the abuse. She had a cluster of symptoms indicative of sexual abuse, consisting of nightmares, night terrors, sexualized behavior, enuresis, fear of her father, depression, eating disorder, dissociation, extreme anger, physical pains, headaches, insomnia, nausea, and stomach aches. Despite documentation of the sexual abuse to the court, she is forced to stay unsupervised with her father. The child’s attorney does not represent his client’s wishes. The mother has spent approximately $150,000 trying to protect her child and is now without an attorney. She has not seen her child.

    Sacramento County

    This boy, born in 1990, was placed in the custody of his mother after to his parents divorce, with overnight visits with his father. When he was less than two years old, he began reporting on-going sodomy by his father. He had a cluster of symptoms indicative of sexual abuse, including rectal bleeding, nightmares, night terrors, enuresis, encopresis, sexualized behavior, depression, extreme dissociation, intense anger, flashbacks, physical pains, insomnia, diarrhea, and stomach aches. The child disclosed the abuse to 5 teachers, family physician, therapists, police, family and friends. There were over 62 reports of suspected abuse in 7 years. Child Protective Services investigated and substantiated 7 reports of child sex abuse. The child wrote and talked to the judge, asking to live with his mother and grandmother. Instead, the court repeatedly placed him in the custody of his identified perpetrator. He called 911 for help from his father’s house, and his therapist called the police to help him, and was put into expensive private foster care, rather than with his non-offending mother. He was able to stay with his mother while she was dying. Four months after her death, he was forcibly removed from his non-offending grandmother’s care by armed police. He was placed in expensive foster care again for over six months, and is now forced by Juvenile Court to live with his identified perpetrator permanently. The child’s attorneys did not represent his wishes, and functioned as de facto attorneys for the accused perpetrator.

    This child, born in 1986, had nightmares and medical evidence of sexual abuse at age 4 ½ years, and identified her father as the perpetrator. The judge ordered that the father’s new wife supervise the visits. The child again disclosed molestation. CPS and the sheriff’s department placed her in the Children’s Receiving Home. After a 6 month investigation and UC Davis Medical Center examinations, the little girl was placed with her mother, and the father was not allowed visits. During reunification, the therapist recommended unsupervised visits. The mother fled with the child to Canada to protect her from further abuse. They were found after 11/2 years and the mother was put in jail. The child was forced to live with her identified perpetrator and did not see her mother for six years. She is currently being treated for suicide attempts and alcoholism.

    These two boys were taken from their mother and given to their father when they were 12 and 15 years old, after they reported that their father abused them and threatened suicide. The father had brutally abused the mother during the marriage. When the boys asked their mother to motion the court to remove their court-appointed attorney who was threatening them, the judge gave guardianship of the boys to that attorney. The children protested being removed from their mother, pleaded with the judge and evaluator, refused to get on the airplane to be sent to another state, and were forced to go to live with the father. The younger child ran away from his father’s home and cannot be found.

    These three children reported sexual molestation by the father to numerous professionals. Physical evidence of the abuse was found for all three, and the children had psychological symptoms of nightmares, school phobias, eating disorders, and suicidal ideation. Both parents have equal time with the children due to evaluator recommendations.

    In 1996 this 3 ½ year old child, who lived in the custody of her mother, stated she was being touched by her father inappropriately during visits. The recommendation from the mediator was to have supervised visits, but the evaluator denied the molest, did not gather evidence, misquoted parties, and recommended 50/50 custody. The child again disclosed molest. When the judge still refused to provide supervised visits, CPS in another county took the child into protective custody and supervised visits were ordered. However, Sacramento County took jurisdiction and the evaluator said the mother had Parent Alienation. The judge forced both the girl and her brother to live with their father, despite ordering the father to attend anger control classes.

    This little boy had speech problems, frequent ear infections and leg pains, nightmares, enuresis, fears and phobias. The mother divorced the physician father (who was in treatment for addiction to pornography) due to his violence and alcohol abuse. During the divorce proceedings, a custody evaluation report was written which the mother was not allowed to see. The father demanded custody of the child. The mother’s attorney said she would lose all parental rights if she did not accede to the demand. She acceded and the child is now allowed to see his non-offending mother only under supervised conditions, despite the child’s statements that his father abuses him.

    This child reported sexual abuse by the father to numerous professionals. The child had medical and psychological evidence of sexual abuse, yet was required to visit the father unsupervised, due to evaluator’s recommendations.

    This child reported sexual abuse by the father. CPS investigation confirmed the abuse and there was medical evidence of sexual abuse. The child was required to visit the father unsupervised, due to the evaluator’s recommendations.

    San Bernardino County

    In 1993 this child’s mother divorced her father due to his physical abuse of the child. After a visit with her father, the child reported physical and sexual abuse. There was medical evidence of genital warts, bruises and welts. In 1995 after an evaluation, the mother was ordered to bring the child to court. The court forced the child to live with her identified perpetrator father. After the evaluation was overturned in a peer review, the child was placed half time with her mother. The evaluator did another report in 1997, and again recommended the child be placed with her father. After the child told her mother that she wanted to commit suicide, she was not allowed to see her mother at all. Now she may see her non-offending mother only with a court monitor present.

    Born in 1989, this child was placed in the custody of his mother when he was 20 months old. His father had physically abused his mother for 9 years. The child returned from visits with the father with bruises, black eyes, a raw penis, headaches, ear aches, stomach aches and throat infections. At age 4, he had sexualize behavior, masturbation, nightmares, night terrors, enuresis, depression, dissociation, insomnia, nausea, and attention problems. The child tried to jump out of a moving car when he had to return to his father. The evaluator ignored hospital reports and police reports. The court gave full custody to the father in 1995, despite the child’s stated desire to stay with his mother. Four months later he again disclosed sexual abuse to 12 professionals and 3 CPS workers. Nevertheless, the court forced him to remain in his father’s custody, and has denied him any visits with his mother. The mother is now bankrupt.

    These seven and ten year old children reported physical and sexual abuse by father. The father received full custody and mother is on supervised visits once per week when she can afford it.

    San Diego County

    Born in 1987, this child reported sexual abuse to his pediatrician when he was six years old. He had sexualized behavior, fears of his mother dying, depression, flashbacks, physical pains, headaches, insomnia, and stomach aches. He has a medical condition called Williams Syndrome in which his body ages rapidly, but he is younger in many ways than his biological age. In 1988 he and his mother had moved to a battered woman’s shelter due to violence in the home. He stated he wanted to live with his mother, a teacher. Instead he is forced by the court to live with his violent father who had been convicted of DUI and stealing, and is permanently disabled with mental disability. The father moved the child to another state, and sees his mother only a few times per year. The child’s attorney did not represent the child’s wishes.

    After a short marriage this child’s parents separated in 1986. Custody of the one year old child was given to the mother. He returned from visits with the father with genital irritation. At age 2 ½ he disclosed genital touching by the father, and at age 3 ½ he displayed sexually precocious behavior to a therapist, and a deep bruise on his genitals. An evaluation was ordered. The evaluator recommended full custody to the father. The mother left the state with the child to protect him from further abuse. 1 ½ years later the mother and child were apprehended. Both old and new abuse evidence was suppressed in court, through the efforts of a social worker. Although there was medical evidence of sexual abuse and evidence of abuse by the father from another victim, full custody was given to the father and the mother was placed on supervised visits. The child continued to disclose abuse. The father moved to another state, and the mother’s visits have been thwarted.

    In 1993 this three year old child began to reveal she was sexually abused by her father. The family court refused to consider any evidence of sexual abuse and ordered “molest cannot be an issue in this case”. Unsupervised visits, and later temporary custody with the father, were ordered in 1994. An evaluator recommended that the child be removed from the mother’s house due to “severe parental alienation.” The mother was placed on supervised visits, and is now allowed weekends with the child. The evidence of molest is overwhelming, as testified to by 3 psychologists, a police investigator, an expert in child sexual abuse allegations, tape recordings of the child’s disclosures, sexual acting out, photographs of the father naked with the child on his lap, and medical evidence of labial adhesions. . The attorney for the child does not listen to the child’s wants, but indicates he is doing what is “best” for the child. The police determined probable cause, but the District Attorney declined to prosecute the father. This child ran away from her father’s home.

    San Luis Obispo County

    Born in 1994, this child disclosed that he was being molested by his father when he was nine years old. He told counselors, CPS, and police, and had symptoms of nightmares, night terrors, enuresis and encopresis, excessive fears of men and anger, sexualized behavior, depression, suicide attempt, eating disorder, dissociation, intense anger, flashbacks, physical pains, headaches, insomnia, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, stomach aches. Despite this, the child was taken away from his safe mother and forced to live with his identified perpetrator. He has only been allowed to see his mother a few times with a therapist. The child’s attorney did not represent the child’s wishes. The mother has since died.

    Follow full story below:

    Part 1http://www.elliscountyobserver.com/?p=35658

    Part 2http://www.elliscountyobserver.com/?p=35662

    Part 3http://www.elliscountyobserver.com/?p=35666

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    Got a Fat Kid parents, CPS will take your child for good... - Monday, November 28, 2011

    Medical Mafia using financial leverage to enforce children’s vaccinations on poor families

    NaturalNews | Australia has a very high percentage of children fully vaccinated by age five.

    NewsCore | The case is the first state officials can recall of a child being put in foster care strictly for a weight-related issue.

     

    NewsCore
    November 28, 2011

    COMMENT: The AP version of this story notes the following CPS precedent: “The case is the first state officials can recall of a child being put in foster care strictly for a weight-related issue.” While this may be an extreme case, look where the trend is headed…

    An eight-year-old Ohio boy who weighs more than 200 pounds was taken from his family last month and placed in foster care after social workers said his mother was not doing enough to control his weight, The Plain Dealer reported.

    The third grader is considered severely obese by the standards of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, putting him at risk of developing diseases like diabetes and hypertension.

    The boy was taken out of his home on Oct. 19, according to The Plain Dealer. He is currently in foster care, and his mother can see him once a week for two hours.

    [...]

    She also said she was trying to help him lose weight. “Of course I love him. Of course I want him to lose weight. It’s a lifestyle change, and they are trying to make it seem like I am not embracing that. It is very hard, but I am trying.”

    Read full article


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  • Obese Ohio Child Taken from Parents, Placed in Drug-Crazy Foster Care

    Anthony Gucciardi | State officials reported that this is the first case over a weight-related issue in Ohio.

    Anthony Gucciardi
    Infowars.com
    November 28, 2011

    Ohio social workers have taken a 200-pound third-grader from his parents and placed him in foster care, where children are given as many harmful antipsychotics as the mentally disabled.

    The government workers said that his mother was not doing enough to lower his weight, clearly deeming her an irresponsible parent.

    State officials reported that this is the first case of a child being put in foster care over a weight-related issue in Ohio.

    The 8-year-old was considered to be severely obese and subsequently at risk for the development of diseases like diabetes and hypertension. However, the county in which the boy lived in, Cuyahoga County, does not have a specific policy on dealing with obese children.

    According to a spokesman for the Department of Children and Family Services, the child was a victim of ‘medical neglect’ as his mother ignored the instructions of a doctor to help control his weight.

    ‘This child’s problem was so severe that we had to take custody,’ the spokesman said. The agency worked with the mother for more than a year before asking Juvenile Court for custody of the child, she said.

    The lawyers for the mother argue that while intervention is necessary, obesity is not grounds to pull a child from his family and place him into foster care.

    ‘I think we would concede that some intervention is appropriate,’ Juvenile Public Defender Sam Amata said. ‘But what risk became imminent? When did it become an immediate problem?’

    Beyond the arguments of both parties lies an even greater question: will foster care ruin the health of this third-grader far more than his original lifestyle, or help him?

    Mental Illness Drugs Given By Foster Homes Linked to Suicide and Diabetes

    The antipsychotics, powerful tranquilizers, and other mental illness drugs dished out like candy in foster homes may be even more deadly than the obesity-promoting lifestyle of the young boy stripped from his family by social workers. Even mainstream health officials are now speaking out against the dangers of popular antipsychotic drugs that are given to young children worldwide for just about any mental illness.

    It is important to note that the usage of antipsychotic drugs has been found to result in a number of known dangers as well as even more concerning unknown dangers. In fact, many pharmaceuticals intended to ‘treat’ suicide can actually lead to suicide. However, suicide is not the only side effect of these drugs. There is significant research linking usage to childhood diabetes, an increased risk of depression, and weight gain.

    These are the drugs given in excessive amounts to young foster children. In a report published in the journal Pediatrics that examined how often foster children were given two antipsychotic drugs at once, it was found that the children were given antipsychotics just as frequently as children considered to be the most mentally disabled.

    Will the health of this child really be improved by placing him in foster care?

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    Gov't seizes grieving parents' surviving children - Monday, September 05, 2011

    A Victoria couple grieving the sudden death of their daughter say they've been dealt another shocking blow after the province seized the girl's surviving twin sister and an older sibling.

    The parents, who can't be identified due to privacy laws, slept next to their 36-day-old twins on Thursday night, but woke up on Friday to find one of them wasn't breathing.

    "I lifted her up. She was limp and I heard a gurgling sound so we called 911 right away," the father said. "He was trying to explain stuff to me but I was crying too much."

    An ambulance arrived within minutes, whisking the baby off to Victoria General Hospital -- but it was too late. The child was pronounced dead.

    The parents say a coroner called the death "a tragic accident" and said the baby appeared healthy.

    But the Ministry of Children and Family Development reacted differently. The girl's two sisters, one twin and one who is 18 months old, were seized the same day.

    "My daughter passed away and now you're taking my kids away. It doesn't make sense," the father said.

    He says authorities told him the children were seized because of his history. He's had trouble with the law in the past, but says he's been on the straight and narrow for three years.

    "I don't have any violent crimes or drug crimes or anything like that," he said. "I'm clean now. All I care about is my kids. My kids are my life."

    Police investigating their daughter's death told CTV News they were "surprised at the Ministry of Children and Family Development's decision to seize the child, because we were not notified and were in the middle of our investigation."

    Victoria police also confirm they're not considering charges against the couple.

    The Ministry says it can't comment on the case due to privacy laws.

    An autopsy will be conducted and the coroner's child death review unit, which investigates every child death in B.C., will also be investigating.

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    Kids in HSE care ended up working in brothels - Thursday, July 07, 2011

    The Independent

    By Tom Brady and Shane Phelan

    Friday June 03 2011

    Children have been going missing from State care and ending up working as sex slaves in brothels for at least three years, leaked US embassy cables reveal.

    Health Service Executive (HSE) officials made the shocking admission during a private briefing of diplomats from the American Embassy in Dublin.

    Details of the disclosure were contained in cables obtained by the Irish Independent through the whistle-blowing organisation WikiLeaks.

    Cables reveal how foreign-born children who went missing from HSE care had been ending up in the sex trade as far back as 2008.

    The disclosure was made to US diplomats conducting research for an annual report on people trafficking in Ireland.

    According to one cable, the HSE said some foreign children who went missing from care had been retraced to brothels, restaurants and private households where they may have been used as domestic slaves.

    The missing minors were found in various towns throughout the country.

    Disturbingly, the unnamed HSE officials admitted statistics on the number of these children were not being maintained.

    A February 2009 cable, detailing a HSE briefing, said gardai had located two minors - both missing from HSE care - in the sex industry during the previous year.

    The cable, which gave a detailed assessment of Irish efforts to combat people trafficking, was forwarded to the office of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

    According to the dispatch, HSE officials believed Chinese children were at greatest risk of being trafficked.

    They also claimed traffickers bringing such children to Ireland were likely to be non-nationals who preyed on their compatriots.

    When a child under the age of 17 arrives in Ireland without a parent or guardian, they are automatically placed in foster care or hostel facilities administered by the HSE.

    However, each year dozens of children go missing from care. It is suspected many end up in the hands of the traffickers who arranged for them to come into the country in the first place.

    According to the cable, gardai indicated trafficking gangs were increasingly targeting Ireland due to the ease with which children could escape from HSE facilities.

    Briefings received by the embassy between 2006 and 2008 indicated there was no evidence at the time to substantiate suspicions children were being trafficked into the sex trade in Ireland.

    However, for the past three years the HSE has acknowledged in briefings with American officials that trafficking of minors into the sex trade is happening.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/wikileaks/kids-in-hse-care-ended-up-working-in-brothels-2665248.html

     

    CPS involved in child trafficking? - Wednesday, May 25, 2011
    Natural News | Maryanne Godboldo speaks out on the state-sponsored kidnapping of her daughter

    Maryanne Godboldo speaks out on the state-sponsored kidnapping of her daughter

    Mike Adams
    Natural News
    May 24, 2011

    (NaturalNews) Health freedom champion and civil rights defender Maryanne Godboldo was victimized by an armed attack led by Child Protective Services. CPS officials conspired with local law enforcement to threaten Maryanne with deadly force and kidnap her daughter. And what did Maryanne do to deserve this treatment? She refused to medicate her daughter with psychiatric drugs and, instead, chose to treat her daughter holistically.

    Welcome to the new health care police state in America, where if you refuse to inject your child with dangerous vaccines or refuse to medicate your child with mind-altering psychotropic drugs, you are considered en enemy of the state.

    Maryanne Godboldo recently spoke with Mike Adams, editor of NaturalNews, to describe what really happened and how she is working to stand up for parents’ rights, civil rights and human rights. Watch the full interview at:

    http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8B819…

    or catch it on YouTube at:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JiP…

    Hear the true story from the woman who lived through it

     

    In this interview you’ll learn:

    • The real story of what happened and how the state of Michigan kidnapped Maryanne’s daughter.

    • Why psychiatric doctors pushed dangerous psychiatric medications onto Maryanne’s daughter against her will.

    • How Child Protective Services engaged in “bait and switch” tactics to lure parents into their centers where their children are taken away.

    • The true story of a mysterious woman who showed up at Maryanne’s front door and began interrogating her about her daughter.

    • How the police refused to produce any legal documentation justifying their attempt to take away Maryanne’s daughter.

    • Maryanne’s experience in the Civil Rights movement and what she has seen happen with the abuse of power.

    • The truth about the horrifying stories Maryanne is hearing from other moms from all over the country who are also having their children kidnapped right off the street by Child Protective Services.

    • How the African American community in Detroit has come to Maryanne’s defense, with legal help, public marches and social support.

    • How the state authorities withheld Maryanne’s daughter’s prosthesis (she is an amputee) and kept it from her as part of her kidnapping.

    • The truth of how Maryanne’s daughter was being treated with psychotropic medications to treat the side effects of other psychotropic medications!

    • The tricks that CPS plays to abuse the children they’ve kidnapped and then blame the parents for stirring up their own child’s “emotional reactions.”

    • How CPS authorities go after multiple generations, targeting the daughters and granddaughters of moms they’ve previously harassed.

    • The shocking truth of how Child Protective Services “family treatment centers” are actually funded by pharmaceutical companies.

     

    Children are being kidnapped and trafficked by CPS authorities

     

    Says Maryanne:

    “It’s incredible what’s going on, our children are being snatched and kidnapped, they’re being shipped from state to state, and their parents’ rights are being taken away from them.”

    “When a police officer knocks on your door and demands your child, and he doesn’t give you a reason why, we all become very frightened, and we wonder who’s child is going to be next? Whose child are they going to snatch and ship off to another state? And never see their child again?”

    Watch the full interview at:
    http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=8B819…

     

    Latest update

     

    Shortly after this interview was recorded, Maryanne was able to regain custody of her daughter. She is, however, still facing multiple felony charges by the state of Michigan.

    Please help Maryanne with donations for her legal defense. Learn more at www.Justice4Maryanne.com

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    At-risk children died needlessly: B.C. report - Friday, January 28, 2011
    Last Updated: Thursday, January 27, 2011
    CBC News
     
    A new report slams B.C.'s attempts to protect infants from dying unnecessarily, citing 21 cases where children died unexpectedly in their sleep.
     
    The report, prepared by provincial Children's Representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, said the children — who died between June 2007 and May 2009 — were well known to the ministry and could easily have been helped.
     
    "The stories are heartbreaking," Turpel-Lafond told a Victoria news conference Thursday. "We must learn from them and we must do much better."
     
    Her report — entitled Fragile Lives, Fragment Systems — highlights several cases where the odds were stacked against these children from the start.
     
    'With adequate services, some of these infants very well would be alive today.' — B.C. Children's Representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
     
    "We're talking about third-generation families on subsistence with major shocks — not just living in deep poverty, but major shocks of violence, major shocks of loss, major shocks of mental illness," she said.
     
    Drug and alcohol abuse were common, as were babies born to very young mothers, the report says. Some lived in homes full of mould that led to breathing problems.
     
    All of the families were on the radar of various government agencies, but the problem is a lack of co-ordination to deal with health, housing and other issues facing families at risk, Turpel-Lafond said.
     
    Problems well known
     
    "Too often, public health, medical and child welfare professionals note part of the challenges but don't or can't connect the dots to paint a whole picture when the whole picture would clearly reveal a fragile situation and critical need of intervention," she said.
     
    While each death had its own circumstances, the patterns were clear, Turpel-Lafond said. Problems were known and could have been addressed.
     
    "With adequate services, some of these infants very well would be alive today," she said.
     
    B.C. has the highest rate of child poverty in Canada despite being one of the wealthiest provinces, she said.
     
    The report recommends several measures to prevent similar tragedies, such as ensuring at-risk infants are closely monitored by public health nurses and providing cribs to mothers who can't afford them.
     
    Much of the work required to deal with the problem is well underway, said Mary Polak, provincial minister of children and family development .
     
    "[The report] reinforces the needs we have — to work better across ministries of health, education, social services — but also to focus on aboriginal communities and the needs they have," Polak said.
     
    While B.C. has the highest level of child poverty in the country, Polak said, that rate has been falling faster than in other provinces.
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    Inquiry into disabled girl's death begins - Wednesday, January 19, 2011

    Comment from a Women in a E-mail..Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:35:10 -0500

    Children's lives can be easily erased. Like that of a little girl name Samantha Martin. It is absolutely horrific to witness today a criminal lawyer, and the Family Services lawyer acting like it was a big joke, a big party.  For a few exception the people in the court room lost their humanity.  As for the foster parents they were laughing as well.  The sister, the foster mother, the foster father, and their nanny sat together in second row, their daughter sat by herself in the last row, with a worker from family services.  Please pray for the Martin Family!  Scroll down to see article in paper. 
     
    Linda


    Last Updated: January 17, 2011 8:45pm

      A fatality inquiry into the death of a severely disabled 13-year-old girl is so emotionally charged that it drew placard-carrying activists all the way from Ontario to an Edmonton courtroom Monday. “We’re here for Samantha,” said Linda Plourde of Protecting Canadian Children, a group that advocates for kids who are wards of the state. “Her story is all over the Internet.”

      Somehow, Plourde and Margaret Steiss managed to carry several placards and banners with Samantha Martin’s picture into the courtroom before sheriffs ordered the women to take them out of the building.

      “Why aren’t you protecting the children?” Plourde demanded of the sheriffs.
      Samantha Martin died in December, 2006, of cardiac arrest, six months after she moved back into her St. Albert parents’ home after more than a decade in foster care.

      She had a rare genetic disorder called Tetrasomy 18p, which left her mentally and physically disabled. She lived in a foster home that specialized in children with disabilities not far from St. Albert.

      Samantha’s parents, John and Velvet Martin, are convinced that her time in foster care contributed to her death.

      “Our daughter was ill-treated,” Velvet told the inquiry. “There were things going on with our daughter that were not good.”

      No criminal charges were ever laid in connection with Samantha’s death, and an internal review by children’s services in 2007 concluded there was no link between the foster system and the tragedy.

      Since then, Velvet pushed for a public fatality inquiry. They do not look for blame, but want to examine the circumstances surrounding a death to see if there’s anything that can done to prevent similar tragedies in the future.

      Velvet said shortly after Samantha died she found documents showing the foster home (which cannot be identified under the law) had been investigated for something not connected to her daughter.

      She also said she found that the school had several “incident reports” about Samantha, but their details were not revealed Monday. Velvet also accused Samantha’s caseworker with children’s services of failing to keep proper records, describing the child’s file as “skeletal.” She said the foster family ignored concerns from the school that Samantha was having frequent tiny seizures.
      Velvet testified that when it was clear shortly after Samantha was born that she was severely disabled, social workers urged the Martins give their child over to foster care.

      They were told that if Samantha was in care she’d get full access to programming she needed, which they would have to pay for themselves if she lived with them.
      They signed a voluntary “permanent guardianship agreement” an order they could have cancelled with 10-days notice, but Velvet said, “we thought (if we did that), Samantha wouldn’t get what she needed.”

      In 2005, children’s services was reorganized and Samantha’s file was transferred to another office, Velvet said.

      “They said, ‘oh my God, this is a mess. We don’t know what to do with you.’ ”
      She was told the permanent guardianship agreement had been done away with previously and it “doesn’t exist under law,” but no one had told them. Velvet continues to testify Tuesday, when she’s expected to be cross-examined by lawyers for the foster family and children’s services. The inquiry is expected to last three weeks.
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      Child Protection Racket


      Judges, Government, and the CPS Protection Racket should be shut down and here is why and another example of a government-ism out of control 

      Judge Stong added comments after the verdict announcement suggesting that if had the power to overturn the jury’s verdict, he would. He said, “It is more than disconcerting to think that if Campione had not been so abused, so used and discarded as a person, her two daughters could still be alive…” Judge Stong was determined that even if it is Campione that gets locked up, Canadians would know that the real villain, morally speaking, is Leo Campione, the father of the dead girls (even though his alleged abusiveness was entirely based on his wife’s allegations and never proved), and it is actually the “discarded” Elaine Campione who is the victim.

      Judge Stong felt such personal animus against the grieving father that he wanted to deny Mr. Campione and his parents their opportunity to read a victim-impact statement, standard practice even with mandatory- sentencing cases. He only relented under strong pressure from the prosecutor, who reminded the judge that the murdered girls had been “an extremely important part of [Mr. Campione's] life.”

      The judge’s attitude is shameful. But what can you expect from someone who has been trained – literally, judges take structured learning programs steeped in feminist myths and misandric conspiracy theories – that women are never abusive or violent unless they have been driven to it by an abusive male. Judge Stong just could not get it into his head – he alluded to the “unimaginable facts of this case” – that a woman could kill her children without a motivation involving a controlling male that somehow drove her to the act.

      Why did it not occur to the judge to blame the CAS? The CAS was well aware of Elaine Campione’s quixotic and alarming history. They knew that Campione had exhibited many signs of psychosis, that she had been hospitalized in psychiatric wards, believed people were out to kill her and kidnap her children, and exhibiting such bizarre and/or negligent behaviours toward her girls that mother-substitutes, including her own mother, had to be constantly parachuted into her household if it was to function at all.

      Yet the CAS decided the mother was the “safe parent.”

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      Ministry must hand in files on girl left with dead mom
      Staff at the Ministry of Children and Families have been ordered to turn over information about how a 15-year-old girl with Down syndrome was left alone with her dead mother's body for nine days.

      Staff at the Ministry of Children and Families have been ordered to turn over information about how a 15-year-old girl with Down syndrome was left alone with her dead mother's body for nine days.

       

      Minister Mary Polak made the order after Children's Representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond complained that her office wasn't told of the September incident. Turpel-Lafond said earlier this week she had extreme concern about how the case was handled and said her office should have been notified that the girl had suffered a "critical injury."  Family members and neighbours say they had warned childcare workers that the mother was a drug addict and alcoholic who neglected the child, but the girl was returned to her mother's care anyway.  She was discovered after neighbours broke into the family home near Cultus Lake and found her emaciated and filthy.  Polak says there was never an effort to cut the children's representative out of the loop and she urged people not to jump to conclusions



      Children's ministry subpoenaed by watchdog

       Last Updated: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | 9:39 AM PT

      http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/11/17/bc-ministry-officials-subpeona.html

      B.C.'s representative for children and youth has issued subpoenas to government officials to explain why a severely disabled 15-year-old girl was left living with her dead mother for nine days.

      This girl, now 15, was found in a Cultus Lake, B.C., trailer home after spending several days alone with her dead mother.

      This girl, now 15, was found in a Cultus Lake, B.C., trailer home after spending several days alone with her dead mother. (CBC)

      Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says she started the legal action after the ministry failed to notify her of the incident as required, and then failed to respond to her questions.

      "It's important for me to find out what's happened here and I have commenced an investigation," said Turpel-Lafond.

      "The subpoena process is one under my act. If people don't want to sit down and talk to me I can use the powers under my act to compel them to appear. If they refuse to attend, I can get enforcement in the courts for their attendance," she said.

      The office of Mary Polak, B.C.'s minister of Children and Family Development, said the ministry first received a formal request from Turpel-Lafond for a meeting on Tuesday and is willing to meet.

      Neighbours found girl with corpse

      The girl in question, who suffers from Down syndrome, was found in an emaciated state and living in filthy conditions with the corpse of her dead mother by neighbours at a Cultus Lake trailer park east of Vancouver on Sept. 15.

      The girl's brother Mike Prentice said he and his brother had warned the ministry before she died that their alcoholic and drug abusing mother could not care for the child, but officials did nothing to help the girl.

      Prentice said he doesn't think anything would have happened if he hadn't notified the media about the incident last week.

      "There is too much stuff going on here and I knew in my heart they were going to try and cover it up ... and that's why I went to a news van last week," he said.

      The girl is in government care, but it hasn't been determined who will look after her in the future, said Prentice.

      The provincial government is prevented from discussing specifics of the case, Polak told CBC News on Thursday.


      Embattled Ohio Father Reunited with Son

       

      Illegally Taken in Adoption Battle
       
      November 10, 2010
      Embattled Ohio Father Reunited with Son Illegally Taken in Adoption Battle

      After three years of legal battles, Ohio father Benjamin Wyrembek has finally been reunited with the little son who was wrongfully taken from him. In Ohio high court right to unite father, son (Toledo Blade, 10/24/10), Fathers and Families Board Member Robert Franklin, Esq.  recently explained:

      This month, the Ohio Supreme Court finally cleared the way for Benjamin Wyrembek of Swanton to be united with his biological son, who will turn three years old this week. That should have happened long before now.

      But for almost three years, attorneys for an adoptive couple in Indiana who have raised the child since birth have kept the case tied up in court, separating father and son.

      In the vast majority of cases, adoption is a fine and noble act. But Mr. Wyrembek’s son has never needed adoption. He had a capable, loving father who wanted to care for him.

      And from the very first, that fact was public knowledge. Within 30 days of the boy’s birth to a former girlfriend, Mr. Wyrembek registered with the Ohio Putative Father Registry. Then he filed suit to get custody of his son.

      At any time since then, the couple that sought to adopt the boy could have done the obvious, fair, and kind thing: hand Benjamin Wyrembek his son and seek another child to adopt. Instead, they chose litigation.

      In every court, Benjamin Wyrembek prevailed, because he is the child’s rightful father. And every time he did, opposing attorneys filed more motions and appeals.

      Now the Blade reports:

      The 3-year-old boy [Grayson] who has been at the center of a custody dispute was returned to his biological father in Swanton on Saturday by an Indiana couple who had raised the child from birth and had sought to adopt him. Jason and Christy Vaughn were ordered by the Ohio Supreme Court to deliver Grayson to Benjamin Wyrembek.

      Fathers and Families has always been mindful of the fact that until this transfer, the Vaughns were the only parents that Grayson knew. However, the Vaughns created this circumstance and prolonged it through endless legal appeals, in effect using the concomitant delays as a strategy to deny Benjamin Wyrembek custody.

      Unfortunately, the Vaughns now say, “For us, the fight isn’t over,” and have filed a new adoption case which will be heard December 1. Fathers and Families believes that the following is in the best interests of little Grayson:

      The Vaughns should drop the suit, accept that Benjamin Wyrembek is Grayson’s father and custodial parent, and support their relationship.

      Assuming that this happens, we urge Benjamin Wyrembek to offer the Vaughns a liberal visitation schedule under which Grayson can maintain his relationship with them, hopefully throughout his childhood and adult life.

      Facebook Postings by Mom Lead to Custody for Dad, but Was It Fair?

      This article and video raise some issues about the decision-making process of family courts (The33TV, 10/22/10).

      It’s all about a child custody case in the Dallas area.  It seems that the mother and father were duking it out in family court over who was better suited to be the primary custodial parent of their five-year-old son.  Ultimately, the dad prevailed, but the way he did it is what raises the issues.

      It seems that Facebook is what did the job.  Specifically, his ex was a bit too free with her Facebook postings. According to the story, the father's attorney Michael Wysocki "says pictures posted to the site painted a picture of a partying mother, with wild friends. He says the mother was seen in a bikini, with another woman pretending to lick her breast. He says the woman's boyfriend posted pictures smoking and brandishing a semi-automatic rifle. The woman's friend, who testified on her behalf posted a picture kissing another woman."

      As Joseph Conrad wrote, “The horror!”

      Let’s see, the fact that Mom was photographed wearing a bikini was used to prove her parental unfitness.  Do I have that right?  Apparently I do.  So was the fact that she posted a photo of two women kissing and another of a woman pretending to lick Mom’s bikini-clad breast.  And, if we can believe the article, so was a photo of her holding a lighted cigarette.

      I’m not making that up.  Of course, all of that is (a) perfectly legal and, with the possible exception of smoking, (b) perfectly safe.  And yet we’re asked to believe that it’s reasonable to hold that behavior against the mother in deciding custody.

      Now, I must admit that other factors enter the picture.  For example, another photo showed Mom’s new boyfriend posing with a semi-automatic rifle.  Of course that too is perfectly legal in Texas.

      But what all that led to was the judge ordering Mom to be tested for drugs, which turned up positive.  The article doesn’t say what drug was found, and I’d call that important.  To me, prescription medication or even pot would be one thing; heroin or cocaine would be another.

      Still, using illegal drugs certainly qualifies as a legitimate factor in considering custody, so eventually the right decision may have been made. But the process by which the mother lost custody is disturbing...
      Read the rest of Robert Franklin's post


      Amy J. L. Baker, Ph.D.

      “Parental Alienation creates immense suffering for the rejected parent as well as all the children and must be stopped. Conferences such as this one represent an important step in that direction.” Amy J. L. Baker, Ph.D.


      Amy J.L. Baker, Ph.D., internationally recognized expert in Parental Alienation, will be the keynote speaker at the "Southern California Parental Alienation Workshop: A Community Responds" this Saturday (11/13/10) at the California State University at Northridge Student Union Thousand Oaks Room. The conference goes from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. To learn more, see the conference flyer here.

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      Canada's Children & Family's Protection Racket



      Canadian Supreme Court Rules Child Welfare System Can Take, Keep Kids Without Any Finding of Abuse or Unfitness

      The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the child welfare system can take and keep children without a finding of abuse or unfitness. This is very dangerous thinking, because it essentially abrogates a parent's right to raise their own children. Only if there has been a finding of abuse, neglect or unfitness should a child welfare agency have the power to permanently remove children from a home. In this case there was no such finding, and evidence was lacking.

      The story said that "the teenager, with her consent, was kept in state custody until she turned 18 in 1998," but I wonder what exactly that means. Does it mean she talked it over with her parents and wanted to be there? Or does it mean she was sequestered away, not allowed real contact with her parents, and fed negative information about them? To learn more about this scary ruling, see the CanWest News Service article below. This is also a problem in the United States

      Top court sides with child welfare system over families

      The Supreme Court of Canada threw its support behind the country's child welfare system Friday, saying child protection agencies and their workers have no general legal responsibility to families whose children have been taken away by the state.

      By CanWest News Service July 27, 2007  

      The Supreme Court of Canada threw its support behind the country's child welfare system Friday, saying child protection agencies and their workers have no general legal responsibility to families whose children have been taken away by the state.

      The Court issued a unanimous ruling Friday, upholding an appeal by the Syl Apps Secure Treatment Centre in Oakville, Ont. and one of its workers, who were being sued by a family that lost its 14-year-old daughter in 1995.

      The girl was apprehended by the Children's Aid Society after writing a story in school that said her parents had physically and sexually abused her.

      Although an investigation turned up no evidence of any abuse --- and no charges were ever laid --- the teenager, with her consent, was kept in state custody until she turned 18 in 1998.

      The following year her family sued the Syl Apps Centre and one of its social workers, accusing them of negligence, for treating their daughter as if she was an abuse victim, and thereby denying any hope of a future relationship between the girl and her family.

      The centre and the Ontario government said the lawsuit had no merit, but the Ontario Court of Appeal decided there were legal grounds for a claim.

      The Supreme Court has now disagreed, saying there is no general basis in Canadian law under which a family can claim that a "duty of care" is owed to them by child welfare agencies or their employees.

      Introducing such a duty of care to families, the court said, would conflict with the child welfare system's primary duty to the children in its care.

      "Such a duty (to families) has never before been recognized," the Court said in its judgment Friday.

      The overall emphasis of Ontario's Child and Family Services Act, it said, is the "protection and promotion of the child's best interests, not those of the family."

      CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc.


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      Newborn child taken away because of a bagel

      WABC-TV | Child protective services in Pennsylvania were at her doorstep, taking her 1-day-old baby because they thought Liz was abusing drugs.

      Diana Williams
      WABC-TV
      October 18, 2020

      This is a story that will likely outrage many moms. Liz Mort gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, but the next day, police and child protective services in Pennsylvania came to her home and took the infant from her – all because of a bagel.

       

      Liz Mort says she never saw it coming.

      “I was shocked. I was at a loss for words. I just started crying,” she said.

      Child protective services in Pennsylvania were at her doorstep, taking her 1-day-old baby because they thought Liz was abusing drugs. Read entire article

      Child protective services in Pennsylvania were at her doorstep, taking her 1-day-old baby because they thought Liz was abusing drugs.

      "Someone was saying that 'Oh, we're CYS and we found something in your system,' and at that time I never even heard of it before. It means that we have to take custody of your child," Mort said.

      Jameson Hospital in New Castle, Pennsylvania, tests mothers of newborns for drugs. State law allows it, but what the hospital did not consider more closely was poppy seeds.

      "Opium comes from the poppy plant. Ingesting poppy seeds can cause levels of morphine and codeine in a person's urine," Dr. Neil Capretto explained.

      On the day Liz gave birth, she says she ate an Everything bagel from Dunkin' Donuts - a bagel with lots of poppy seeds. Now, the local ACLU is taking on the case.

      The hospital issued a statement saying: "We have initiated an investigation to compare our standards to other community and regional hospitals. And if necessary, we will advise our reference lab to critique their standards for consistency."

      But Liz isn't sure yet it that will be enough.

      "I understand that they were doing what they had to do to protect children, but they should have investigated it more. Like I have to drive by that place every day when I go to work, and I just cry every time," said Liz.

      So far, no lawsuit has been filed. The ACLU says it is trying to figure out the next step. Liz did get her baby back, but it took 5 days for the hospital and child protective services to determine she was a fit mother.


       

      Losing a Baby Over a Poppy Seed
      by Charles Davis November 02, 2010

      The birth of a couple’s first child is supposed to be a joyous occasion -- and for the first three days, it was for Elizabeth Mort and her partner Alex Rodriguez. But then the commonwealth of Pennsylvania took their young daughter away after the hospital where she was born reported the mother for testing positive on a drug test. Her drug of choice? An “everything” bagel from Dunkin’ Donuts.

      “The best thing in my life had been taken from me and there was nothing I could do to get her back,” Mort says. For five excruciating days, officials with Lawrence County Children and Youth Services (LCCYS) kept mother away from child, all based on a positive drug test they didn’t even bother to investigate -- and which the hospital never even informed the mother about. Now, aided by the ACLU of Pennsylvania, the parents are fighting back with a lawsuit against both LCCYS and Jameson Hospital.

      “We decided to file a lawsuit so that Jameson Hospital and Lawrence County Children and Youth Services could not do this to another innocent family,” she explains. “They need to research and ask questions before they jump to conclusions.”

      Mort and Rodriguez’s daughter was taken by the state a mere day after they returned from the hospital. Despite a test of the child failing to uncover any trace of illicit drugs, a pair of LCCYS caseworkers and two police officers showed up at their door bearing a court order legally entitling them to seize her. And that never would have happened were it not for Jameson Hospital’s written policy of subjecting mothers-to-be to urine drug tests -- and to then report them to the state for testing positive if they exceed an exceptionally low threshold that is far more stringent than the one the federal government applies to its own workers.

      While a federal employee would fail a drug test if they exceed a threshold of 2,000 nanograms/mL of opiate metabolites, a patient at Jameson Hospital would fail if they exceed a threshold of just 300 nanograms/mL -- or just 100 nanograms/mL for morphine. At such low thresholds, there’s a good chance other parents will have to suffer -- and likely have already suffered -- the pain of having their child taken away from them based on nothing more than their choice of breakfast food.

      Indeed, "Jameson Hospital's policy of drug-testing all obstetrical patients for opiates at cut-off levels so low that they are triggered by the mere consumption of a poppy seed bagel, and then reporting these unreliable results to LCCYS is plainly misguided,” says Patricia Dodge, one of the attorneys representing Mort and Rodriguez.

      But “misguided” is probably an understatement. As detailed in the ACLU’s lawsuit, the state “is removing newborns without any reasonable suspicion that they have been abused or are in imminent danger of abuse, in violation of parents' fundamental constitutional rights, and Jameson is aiding and abetting that constitutional violation by carrying out a drug-testing regime, the primary purpose of which is to further the goals of LCCYS, not provide medical care to patients.”

      Keep in mind: what happened to Mort and Rodriguez isn't a mere fluke -- it's the direct result of an established hospital policy in dire need of reform. In fact, the lawsuit states that one caseworker admitted LCCYS made a mistake by removing Mort's daughter from her home, explaining that they had experienced problems with Jameson Hospital in the past. And if its drug-testing policy doesn't change, rest assured more parents will have their children seized by the state over nothing more than a poppy seed.

      To prevent future incidents, Jameson Hospital needs to start treating its mothers-to-be like patients, not prospective criminals. And it can start by raising its "positive" drug-testing threshold to the level used for federal workers. But it shouldn't stop there. Unless there are signs of abuse or actual evidence a child is in danger of abuse, hospital staff should not report parents to child services over just one potentially faulty test result, especially when the hospital knows that will result in the state taking the child away without any further investigation.

      Join the ACLU of Pennsylvania and Change.org in calling on Jameson Health Service CEO Douglas Danko to immediately change his hospital's drug-testing policy.

      Photo Credit: ACLU of Pennsylvania