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Florida's adoptive parents deserve more protection: "Buyer beware."?
State's adoptive parents deserve more protection
Palm Beach Post Editorial Wednesday, June 13, 2007 http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion...dopt_0613.html A Palm Beach County man who sexually abused, threatened, underfed and neglected three brothers has been sentenced to prison for life without parole. The Florida Department of Children and Families, which repeatedly placed the children with abusive foster parents and then withheld those records - denying the children medical treatment - has yet to pay for its abusive role in their care. The boys are now 15, 14 and 12. Over the past nine years, they have molested each other, touched other children, set fires, hidden scissors and knives in holes they dug in the walls, hoarded food and threatened to kill their adoptive mother. An occupational licensed mental-health counselor who worked with the boys described them as "little Ted Bundys in the making." As Post reporter Kathleen Chapman wrote on June 3, Debbie and Jorge, a former Boynton Beach couple, learned of their sons' sexual abuse by chance - when the squeak of a bed frightened the youngest one - months after they had adopted the boys. More details were revealed at a Colorado treatment center, despite the efforts of a DCF caseworker who said in a recent deposition that, under orders by her supervisors, she told the center to keep boxes of DCF records on the boys hidden from Debbie and Jorge. DCF also denied the boys follow-up treatment in Colorado. The children's fear and distrust is so deep that even after watching a judge sentence their former foster parent Hector Rosa to prison, the youngest son asked Debbie who will guard Rosa "when the guards sleep at night." Debbie and Jorge sued DCF in 2002 for the cost of treating the boys and for millions in damages because the state misled the couple about the boys' history. Now, three DCF secretaries and four administrators for Palm Beach County later, Debbie and Jorge are scheduled to meet next month for mediation with DCF in Tallahassee before a trial in Palm Beach County this fall. DCF's decision to conceal the boys' history is beyond belief, unless you know DCF's recent history. Floridians who buy a car are protected by the state's lemon law. Floridians who buy a home can have it inspected before the sale by an objective professional. So the state offers more protection to buyers of material goods than to adoptive parents. They must rely on DCF - as the custodial parent of children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned - to provide records charting each child's medical history and background, so that their children can get the care they deserve. Misleading those interested in adopting the 573 boys, 310 girls and 65 groups of siblings available from the state only furthers any abuse the children have suffered. This spring, to encourage more adoptions, the Legislature increased the subsidies for parents from an average of $3,788 annually to $5,000 annually. But the dollars won't matter if the state discourages adoption by being dishonest about the children's backgrounds. Prospective parents will hear only this: "Buyer beware." CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 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. 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... |
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