Social worker rules in dispute over disabled couple's 10 children

Social worker rules in dispute over disabled couple's 10 children

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...40-662,00.html

Craig Binnie

September 03, 2007 12:00am

AN intellectually disabled couple with 10 children are at the centre of
a dispute with child protection workers over who is best able to care
for their children.

A Children's Court has heard allegations of over-zealous child
protection workers acting simply to justify their existence.

But the Department of Human Services claims the children have been
forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor in bedrooms that smelled of
urine.

In one of the fiercest attacks on the credibility of the department in
the Children's Court in recent times, a highly experienced former
childcare worker accused child protection staff of seeing things in a
way that suited themselves.

The man said the staff considered children taking two steps out of a
playground to be so big a problem that they had to intervene.

The beliefs of the department's expert witnesses were also questioned
when one recommended a child be given a feather duster or cloth to play
with instead of shaving cream for a tactile experience.

The case revolves around how much time the mildly intellectually
disabled parents should be allowed to see their three youngest children,
whom the department put into foster care.

Child protection workers have painted the couple as being unable to
adequately care for their children, up to six of whom are also believed
to be mildly intellectually disabled.

But the former worker said the couple were loving and capable parents
who were raising their children to be happier than those in many
so-called normal families.

Two of the workers, flanked by their lawyer, refused to comment outside
the court on the allegation that they created problems to justify their
existence.

The magistrate in the case was critical of the department's witnesses,
likening the workers' expectation of what should occur during child
access visits to what one could expect in Stalinist Russia.




CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA
WIRETAPPING PROGRAM....

CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.

every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*

Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.


CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...


BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...