cohabitation bad for children

On Nov 19, 8:31 am, firemonkey wrote:
On Nov 19, 4:58 am, Greegor wrote:





http://groups.google.com/group/misc....ead/9a5ff1ea14...
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I thought it was just propaganda from the
corrupt Child Protection INDUSTRY.

Their Public Relations has fallen apart badly and their
abuse of statistics has been exposed.

In Iowa they tried to get a law passed that if a parent
cohabitated Iowa DHS could automatically remove
children. They argued about the non-related abuse
statistics. Then somebody pointed out that when
they put a kid in Foster Care, BOTH caretakers are
non-related. Suddenly it came to a halt.

It's good for them that it stopped because just then
it was spashed across the news media public
sentiment turned extremely sour.

Interestingly, Iowa DHS has an incredible track record
of breaking up intact families without any criminal
conviction, without evidence, and often without even
an accusation.

When CPS caseworkers set upon a family and
urge the Mother to eject the Father or Fiance'
they expect compliance! If the reasoning is
absent or fraudulent and the Mother refuses
to abandon the Man without good reason, the
caseworkers get downright hostile, even malicious.
One of the caseworker complaints is that the
woman is a pushover for the man, when the
real issue is that the woman won't be a
pushover FOR THE CASEWORKERS!

Instantly and without merit!

If a parent was shacking up with a different guy
each week, or each night, I could see that as
a serious issue, but the REALITY is that the
agencies drive out Husbands, Dads and Fiance's
in longstanding relationships with the family
and the agency MISREPRESENTS this as
promiscuity.

A healthy BOND, relationship or loyalty is actually
seen as an obstacle, a difficulty, a target for
Child Protection caseworkers to attack.

One explanation is that several years ago one
Feminist group reviewed textbooks for the curriculum
in college "Womens Studies" courses and programs.

The Feminist group actually complained that
severe anti male bias had crept into the curriculum.
In reference to family, Fathers were referred to as
a "foreign element".

The field of Social Work itself has huge problems
with the unscientific way they come to supposedly
KNOW various of their truisms. Much of it is
more political dogma than scientific truth, not
that it matters much to caseworkers, most
of whom are NOT licensed Social Workers.

Caseworkers are generally politically liberal
and the agencies traditionally carry a strong
bias in favor of homosexuality. Another factor
is the number of homosexuals working IN the agencies.

In many cases of abuse in Foster Care it seems
that the liberal trusims and pro gay agenda
has backfired severely and and endangered children.

There seems to be an element of the "spoils system"
in how Child Protection functions. They have placed
kids with ""Single Men"" (gay) and had particularly nasty
results. In one case a UK citizen was allowed to be
a Foster in Oregon, and take in boys, and after he
moved to Monterey California, Oregon continued
to send him little boys. Even after abuse accusations
arose, they STILL sent him little boys to indoctrinate
into anal sex.

In the Judith Leekin case it seems likely that
she got help from inside the agencies or at least
was part of some sort of organized enterprise.

Recent information shows that kids are actually
better off staying home EVEN if there is some
level of abuse or neglect. It turns out that the
DAMAGE done by child removal and breaking
the family is FAR DEEPER and LONG LASTING
than the damage done by even moderate abuse.

The child homicide story is NOT the normal thing
that CPS encounters. Not by a long shot!
The sort of things that a reasonable person
considers child abuse are actually LESS than 1%
of the child removals on CPS caseloads.
But the PR people at the agencies are anxious
to have the horror stories depicted in the press.
( This form of exaggeration is called "demagoguery".
It's like when Barney Fife talks up his job as if
he deals with hardened criminals on a daily basis,
when the reality is Otis and parking tickets. )

Recently some Fosters duct taped a 2 year old
to a toilet and duct taped the 2 year old to a crib.
When this outrage blew up, the kids were returned to
their family. In a rare bit of reporting it was revealed
that the children were removed from their parents
for "Messy House" and failure to supervise.

These are more like the USUAL reasons that
populate a caseworkers case load.

Please note that those issues DO NOT rise
to the IMMINENT DANGER that should have
been required to remove the children.

CWLA, one of the biggest lobbying organizations
for the Child Protection INDUSTRY reported
a few months back that 1/3 of kids in Foster Care
could go home if the parents only had
adequate housing. This ALSO reveals the lack
of IMMINENT DANGER in child removal cases.

For the Child Protection INDUSTRY to complain
about broken families and the risks is absurd
considering the way they have destroyed so
many families starting with the "divide and conquer"
tactic of driving husbands, fathers, fiance's out
as "foreign elements".

This also adds to the problem with "adequate housing".

Nov. 17, 2007, 5:25PM
Without both parents, childrens' abuse risk rises
Studies finding cohabitation trend often poses danger
By DAVID CRARY
Associated Press
STATISTICS

Many studies reinforce the concerns. Among the findings:
* Danger of death: Children living in households with unrelated adults
are nearly 50 times as likely to die of inflicted injuries as children
living with two biological parents, according to a study of Missouri
data published in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics in
2005.
* Danger of assault: Children living in stepfamilies or with single
parents are at higher risk of physical or sexual assault than children
living with two biological or adoptive parents, according to several
studies co-authored by David Finkelhor, director of the University of
New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center.
* Hazard for girls: Girls whose parents divorce face significantly
higher risk of sexual assault, whether they live with their mother or
father, according to research by Robin Wilson, a family law professor
at Washington and Lee University.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK -- Six-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. was beaten to death in
California, then buried under fertilizer and cement. Jayden Cangro, 2,
died after being thrown across a room in Utah.
In each case, as in many others every year, the alleged or convicted
perpetrator had been the boyfriend of the child's mother -- men thrust
into father-like roles which they tragically failed to embrace.
Every family is different. Some single mothers bring men into their
lives who lovingly help raise children when the biological father is
gone for good.
Nonetheless, many scholars and social workers who monitor America's
families see the abusive-boyfriend syndrome as part of a broader,
deeply worrisome trend. They note an ever-increasing share of
America's children grow up in homes without both biological parents,
and say the risk of child abuse is markedly higher in the
nontraditional family structures.
"This is the dark underbelly of cohabitation," said Brad Wilcox, a
University of Virginia sociologist.
Existing U.S. data on child abuse is patchwork, making it hard to
track national trends with precision. The latest federal survey on
child maltreatment tallies nearly 900,000 abuse incidents reported to
state agencies in 2005, but doesn't delve into how abuse rates
correlate with parents' marital status or the makeup of a child's
household.
Similarly, data on the roughly 1,500 child-abuse fatalities that occur
annually in America leaves unanswered questions. Many of those deaths
result from parental neglect, rather than overt physical abuse. Of the
500 or so deaths caused by physical abuse, the federal statistics
don't specify how many were caused by a stepparent or unmarried
partner of the parent.
Census data make clear that family patterns have changed dramatically
in recent decades as cohabitation and single-parenthood became common.
Thirty years ago, nearly 80 percent of America's children lived with
both parents. Now, only two-thirds of them do. Of all families with
children, nearly 29 percent are now one-parent families, up from 17
percent in 1977.
The net result is a sharp increase in households with a statistically
greater potential for instability, along with the likelihood that
adults and children will reside in them who have no biological
connection.
"I've seen many cases of physical and sexual abuse that come up with
boyfriends, stepparents," said Eliana Gil, clinical director for the
national abuse-prevention group Childhelp.
"It comes down to the fact they don't have a relationship established
with these kids," she said. "Their primary interest is really the
adult partner, and they may find themselves more irritated when
there's a problem with the children."
That was the case with Jayden Cangro.
In July 2006, his mother's boyfriend, Phillip Guymon, hurled the 2-
year-old across a room in Murray, Utah, because he balked at going to
bed. The child died as a result.
Jayden's mother, Carly Moore, has undergone therapy since the killing.
Yet she continues to second-guess herself about her two-year
relationship with Guymon.
"There's so much guilt," she said in a telephone interview. "I never
saw him hit my kids, ever. But he was gruff in his manner -- there were
signs that he wasn't the most pleasant person for kids to be around."
Guymon is serving five years in prison for second-degree felony child
abuse homicide. Moore thinks the penalty ...

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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/...4b70a2&k=70446
Boyfriend to testify in mother-daughter sex abuse trial
Paula McCooey, Ottawa Citizen
Published: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The trial of a mother accused of forcing her young daughter to fondle
her and her then-boyfriend over five years continued Wednesday.
The 38-year-old woman is charged with two counts of sexual assault,
sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching, between 2001
and 2006.
A publication ban on all names has been imposed to protect the
identity of the child.
the 10-year-old girl about the allegations raised by the girl's
father, who learned of the alleged incidents through the girl's seven-
year-old sister.
Asked how the girl felt when her mother's friend used to come over,
the girl replied "not good."
She later described scenarios in which her mother would call her from
her bedroom and into the living room, where the woman would be with
the man, who would be naked.
She told the police her mother asked her to touch the man's "private
part." Despite the fact she told her mother she didn't want to, and
that she felt scared, she was forced to do it, she said.
The trial was adjourned three times over a seven month period because
the accused claimed she was ill.
The woman's ex-boyfriend is expected to continue his testimony
Wednesday.

(c) Ottawa Citizen 2007

On Nov 19, 4:58 am, Greegor wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc....ead/9a5ff1ea14...
Original message thread in misc.kids

I thought it was just propaganda from the
corrupt Child Protection INDUSTRY.

Their Public Relations has fallen apart badly and their
abuse of statistics has been exposed.

In Iowa they tried to get a law passed that if a parent
cohabitated Iowa DHS could automatically remove
children. They argued about the non-related abuse
statistics. Then somebody pointed out that when
they put a kid in Foster Care, BOTH caretakers are
non-related. Suddenly it came to a halt.

It's good for them that it stopped because just then
it was spashed across the news media public
sentiment turned extremely sour.

Interestingly, Iowa DHS has an incredible track record
of breaking up intact families without any criminal
conviction, without evidence, and often without even
an accusation.

When CPS caseworkers set upon a family and
urge the Mother to eject the Father or Fiance'
they expect compliance! If the reasoning is
absent or fraudulent and the Mother refuses
to abandon the Man without good reason, the
caseworkers get downright hostile, even malicious.
One of the caseworker complaints is that the
woman is a pushover for the man, when the
real issue is that the woman won't be a
pushover FOR THE CASEWORKERS!

Instantly and without merit!

If a parent was shacking up with a different guy
each week, or each night, I could see that as
a serious issue, but the REALITY is that the
agencies drive out Husbands, Dads and Fiance's
in longstanding relationships with the family
and the agency MISREPRESENTS this as
promiscuity.

A healthy BOND, relationship or loyalty is actually
seen as an obstacle, a difficulty, a target for
Child Protection caseworkers to attack.

One explanation is that several years ago one
Feminist group reviewed textbooks for the curriculum
in college "Womens Studies" courses and programs.

The Feminist group actually complained that
severe anti male bias had crept into the curriculum.
In reference to family, Fathers were referred to as
a "foreign element".

The field of Social Work itself has huge problems
with the unscientific way they come to supposedly
KNOW various of their truisms. Much of it is
more political dogma than scientific truth, not
that it matters much to caseworkers, most
of whom are NOT licensed Social Workers.

Caseworkers are generally politically liberal
and the agencies traditionally carry a strong
bias in favor of homosexuality. Another factor
is the number of homosexuals working IN the agencies.

In many cases of abuse in Foster Care it seems
that the liberal trusims and pro gay agenda
has backfired severely and and endangered children.

There seems to be an element of the "spoils system"
in how Child Protection functions. They have placed
kids with ""Single Men"" (gay) and had particularly nasty
results. In one case a UK citizen was allowed to be
a Foster in Oregon, and take in boys, and after he
moved to Monterey California, Oregon continued
to send him little boys. Even after abuse accusations
arose, they STILL sent him little boys to indoctrinate
into anal sex.

In the Judith Leekin case it seems likely that
she got help from inside the agencies or at least
was part of some sort of organized enterprise.

Recent information shows that kids are actually
better off staying home EVEN if there is some
level of abuse or neglect. It turns out that the
DAMAGE done by child removal and breaking
the family is FAR DEEPER and LONG LASTING
than the damage done by even moderate abuse.

The child homicide story is NOT the normal thing
that CPS encounters. Not by a long shot!
The sort of things that a reasonable person
considers child abuse are actually LESS than 1%
of the child removals on CPS caseloads.
But the PR people at the agencies are anxious
to have the horror stories depicted in the press.
( This form of exaggeration is called "demagoguery".
It's like when Barney Fife talks up his job as if
he deals with hardened criminals on a daily basis,
when the reality is Otis and parking tickets. )

Recently some Fosters duct taped a 2 year old
to a toilet and duct taped the 2 year old to a crib.
When this outrage blew up, the kids were returned to
their family. In a rare bit of reporting it was revealed
that the children were removed from their parents
for "Messy House" and failure to supervise.

These are more like the USUAL reasons that
populate a caseworkers case load.

Please note that those issues DO NOT rise
to the IMMINENT DANGER that should have
been required to remove the children.

CWLA, one of the biggest lobbying organizations
for the Child Protection INDUSTRY reported
a few months back that 1/3 of kids in Foster Care
could go home if the parents only had
adequate housing. This ALSO reveals the lack
of IMMINENT DANGER in child removal cases.

For the Child Protection INDUSTRY to complain
about broken families and the risks is absurd
considering the way they have destroyed so
many families starting with the "divide and conquer"
tactic of driving husbands, fathers, fiance's out
as "foreign elements".

This also adds to the problem with "adequate housing".

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.a...1-18-0221.html
Child-abuse tied to family type
Sunday, Nov 18, 2007 - 12:09 AM Updated: 12:52 AM
A 4-year-old Chesterfield County boy was beaten to death for asking
for juice.
In Spotsylvania County, the body of 3-year-old Tyreek Davis from
Caroline County was recovered from a drum in a creek. The caretaker
convicted in the death eventually led police to the watery grave.
In both cases, as in many every year, the perpetrator had been the
boyfriend of the child's mother -- men thrust into fatherlike roles
that they tragically failed to embrace.
Every case is different; every family is different. Some single
mothers bring men into their lives who lovingly help raise children
when the biological father is gone for good.
Nonetheless, many scholars and front-line caseworkers who monitor
America's families see the abusive-boyfriend syndrome as part of a
broader trend that deeply worries them. They note that an increasing
share of America's children grow up in homes without both biological
parents, and the risk of child abuse is markedly higher in the
nontraditional family structures.
"This is the dark underbelly of cohabitation," said Brad Wilcox, a
sociology professor at the University of Virginia. "Cohabitation has
become quite common, and most people think, 'What's the harm?' The
harm is we're increasing a pattern of relationships that's not good
for children."
Research on child abuse in America is patchwork, making it difficult
to track national trends with precision. The most recent federal
survey on child maltreatment tallied nearly 900,000 abuse incidents
reported to state agencies in 2005, but it does not delve into how
rates of abuse correlate with parents' marital status or the makeup of
a child's household.
Similarly, data on the roughly 1,500 child-abuse fatalities that occur
annually in the United States leave unanswered questions. Many of
those deaths result from parental neglect rather than overt physical
abuse. Of the 500 or so deaths caused by physical abuse, the federal
statistics do not specify how many were caused by a stepparent or
unmarried partner of the parent. Virginia is among states that require
annual reports on deaths due to child abuse and neglect.
Despite a dearth of federal data, there are many other studies that,
taken together, reinforce the concerns. Among the findings:
* Children living in households with unrelated adults are nearly 50
times as likely to die of inflicted injuries as children living with
two biological parents, according to a study of Missouri abuse reports
published in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics in
2005.
* Children living in stepfamilies or with single parents are at
higher risk of physical or sexual assault than children living with
two biological or adoptive parents, according to several studies co-
authored by David Finkelhor, director of the University of New
Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center.
* Girls whose parents divorce are at significantly higher risk of
sexual assault, whether they live with their mother or their father,
according to research by Robin Wilson, a family-law professor at
Washington and Lee University in Lexington.
"All the emphasis on family autonomy and privacy shields the families
from investigators, so we don't respond until it's too late," Wilson
said. "I hate the fact that something dangerous for children doesn't
get responded to because we're afraid of judging someone's lifestyle."
.. . .
Census data leave no doubt that family patterns have changed
dramatically in recent decades as cohabitation and single parenthood
became common.
Thirty years ago, nearly 80 percent of America's children lived with
both parents. Now only two-thirds of them do. Of all families with
children, nearly 29 percent are now one-parent families, up from 17
percent in 1977.
The net result is a sharp increase in households with a potential for
instability, and the likelihood that adults and children who have no
biological tie to each other will reside in them.
"I've seen many cases of physical and sexual abuse that come up with
boyfriends, stepparents," said Eliana Gil, clinical director for the
national abuse-prevention group Childhelp.
"It comes down to the fact they don't have a relationship established
with these kids," she said. "Their primary interest is really the
adult partner, and they may find themselves more irritated when
there's a problem with the children."
.. . .
Herman Lee Black was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the
Spotsylvania death of Tyreek Davis. At his sentencing in January 2006,
he tearfully said he loved Tyreek. Black was the live-in boyfriend of
the boy's mother, Linette Davis.
A summary of evidence suggested that if the case had gone to trial,
Linette Davis would have testified that she was happy living with
Black. She also would have said that Black would whip Tyreek with his
belt after "potty-training accidents."
In the Chesterfield case in which a 4-year-old boy was killed, Travis
S. Pritchard pleaded guilty to several charges and was sentenced to 30
years in prison. The child's mother, Patricia A. Lee, was convicted of
failing to stop her boyfriend's abuse, which also was directed at her
3-year-old daughter, who spent seven days hospitalized in critical
condition.
In a failed attempt in April 2006 to have her 20-year prison sentence
reduced, she wept as she told a judge, "I was a good and loving mother
who made a very bad decision to allow Mr. Pritchard into our lives."
.. . .
Some of the worst cases of child abuse involve biological parents, and
examples abound of children thriving in nontraditional households.
"There's no going back to the past," said Washington and Lee's Wilson.
"We don't tell people who they can cohabit with. We don't tell them
they can't have children out of wedlock."
There are, of course, some initiatives aimed at reducing the
percentage of children raised by single parents. That's one of the
goals of the Bush administration's Healthy Marriage Initiative.
"The risk [of abuse] to children outside a two-parent household is
greater," said Susan Orr, one of the top child-welfare specialists in
the Department of Health and Human Services. "Does that mean all
single parents abuse their children? Of course not. But the risk is
certainly there, and it's useful to know that."
The sensitivity of probing into private lives is one of many issues
underlying the lack of definitive national data that correlates child
abuse with parents' marital status and household makeup. Some
commentators cite a reluctance to press for data that might reflect
negatively on single motherhood.
Among child-welfare specialists, there is hope that the statistical
gaps will be filled by a comprehensive federal survey, the National
Incidence Study, that will be completed next year.
Long term, many child-welfare advocates say economic and social
changes are needed, so that day-care options improve and young men in
poor communities have job prospects that make marriage seem more
feasible. There is also agreement that many adults in high-risk
households need better parenting skills.

Times-Dispatch staff researcher Jennifer Perilli and The Associated
Press contributed to this report.

On Nov 19, 4:58 am, Greegor wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc....ead/9a5ff1ea14...
Original message thread in misc.kids

I thought it was just propaganda from the
corrupt Child Protection INDUSTRY.

Their Public Relations has fallen apart badly and their
abuse of statistics has been exposed.

In Iowa they tried to get a law passed that if a parent
cohabitated Iowa DHS could automatically remove
children. They argued about the non-related abuse
statistics. Then somebody pointed out that when
they put a kid in Foster Care, BOTH caretakers are
non-related. Suddenly it came to a halt.

It's good for them that it stopped because just then
it was spashed across the news media public
sentiment turned extremely sour.

Interestingly, Iowa DHS has an incredible track record
of breaking up intact families without any criminal
conviction, without evidence, and often without even
an accusation.

When CPS caseworkers set upon a family and
urge the Mother to eject the Father or Fiance'
they expect compliance! If the reasoning is
absent or fraudulent and the Mother refuses
to abandon the Man without good reason, the
caseworkers get downright hostile, even malicious.
One of the caseworker complaints is that the
woman is a pushover for the man, when the
real issue is that the woman won't be a
pushover FOR THE CASEWORKERS!

Instantly and without merit!

If a parent was shacking up with a different guy
each week, or each night, I could see that as
a serious issue, but the REALITY is that the
agencies drive out Husbands, Dads and Fiance's
in longstanding relationships with the family
and the agency MISREPRESENTS this as
promiscuity.

A healthy BOND, relationship or loyalty is actually
seen as an obstacle, a difficulty, a target for
Child Protection caseworkers to attack.

One explanation is that several years ago one
Feminist group reviewed textbooks for the curriculum
in college "Womens Studies" courses and programs.

The Feminist group actually complained that
severe anti male bias had crept into the curriculum.
In reference to family, Fathers were referred to as
a "foreign element".

The field of Social Work itself has huge problems
with the unscientific way they come to supposedly
KNOW various of their truisms. Much of it is
more political dogma than scientific truth, not
that it matters much to caseworkers, most
of whom are NOT licensed Social Workers.

Caseworkers are generally politically liberal
and the agencies traditionally carry a strong
bias in favor of homosexuality. Another factor
is the number of homosexuals working IN the agencies.

In many cases of abuse in Foster Care it seems
that the liberal trusims and pro gay agenda
has backfired severely and and endangered children.

There seems to be an element of the "spoils system"
in how Child Protection functions. They have placed
kids with ""Single Men"" (gay) and had particularly nasty
results. In one case a UK citizen was allowed to be
a Foster in Oregon, and take in boys, and after he
moved to Monterey California, Oregon continued
to send him little boys. Even after abuse accusations
arose, they STILL sent him little boys to indoctrinate
into anal sex.

In the Judith Leekin case it seems likely that
she got help from inside the agencies or at least
was part of some sort of organized enterprise.

Recent information shows that kids are actually
better off staying home EVEN if there is some
level of abuse or neglect. It turns out that the
DAMAGE done by child removal and breaking
the family is FAR DEEPER and LONG LASTING
than the damage done by even moderate abuse.

The child homicide story is NOT the normal thing
that CPS encounters. Not by a long shot!
The sort of things that a reasonable person
considers child abuse are actually LESS than 1%
of the child removals on CPS caseloads.
But the PR people at the agencies are anxious
to have the horror stories depicted in the press.
( This form of exaggeration is called "demagoguery".
It's like when Barney Fife talks up his job as if
he deals with hardened criminals on a daily basis,
when the reality is Otis and parking tickets. )

Recently some Fosters duct taped a 2 year old
to a toilet and duct taped the 2 year old to a crib.
When this outrage blew up, the kids were returned to
their family. In a rare bit of reporting it was revealed
that the children were removed from their parents
for "Messy House" and failure to supervise.

These are more like the USUAL reasons that
populate a caseworkers case load.

Please note that those issues DO NOT rise
to the IMMINENT DANGER that should have
been required to remove the children.

CWLA, one of the biggest lobbying organizations
for the Child Protection INDUSTRY reported
a few months back that 1/3 of kids in Foster Care
could go home if the parents only had
adequate housing. This ALSO reveals the lack
of IMMINENT DANGER in child removal cases.

For the Child Protection INDUSTRY to complain
about broken families and the risks is absurd
considering the way they have destroyed so
many families starting with the "divide and conquer"
tactic of driving husbands, fathers, fiance's out
as "foreign elements".

This also adds to the problem with "adequate housing".

http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa...=penn#continue
Police: 10-month-old Pittsburgh baby dies after rape, assault
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A 10-month-old baby died after being raped and
beaten by her mother's boyfriend while the mother was at work, police
said.
The infant died at Pittsburgh's Children Hospital on Saturday
afternoon, two days after the alleged assault.
Clinton Smith, 30, of Pittsburgh, the mother's live-in boyfriend,
remains in custody after being charged with rape and other offenses.
Additional charges could follow an autopsy that was scheduled for
Sunday, authorities said.

The mother told police she left the baby with Smith on Thursday
morning when she went to her waitressing job. Smith was also caring
for his 2-year-old son.
The mother found the baby unresponsive when she returned home at about
9:30 p.m. and called paramedics. The baby had severe bruises on her
face, arms and legs, as well as a bite mark on her chest, police said.
Doctors told police she had also been sexually assaulted.
A preliminary hearing for Smith was scheduled for Wednesday. He was
awaiting trial on an unrelated June charge of simple assault, court
records show.
In a separate September 2006 case, a woman who has two young children
with Smith was granted a protection-from-abuse order against him after
she said he attacked her and their daughter.

On Nov 19, 4:58 am, Greegor wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc....ead/9a5ff1ea14...
Original message thread in misc.kids

I thought it was just propaganda from the
corrupt Child Protection INDUSTRY.

Their Public Relations has fallen apart badly and their
abuse of statistics has been exposed.

In Iowa they tried to get a law passed that if a parent
cohabitated Iowa DHS could automatically remove
children. They argued about the non-related abuse
statistics. Then somebody pointed out that when
they put a kid in Foster Care, BOTH caretakers are
non-related. Suddenly it came to a halt.

It's good for them that it stopped because just then
it was spashed across the news media public
sentiment turned extremely sour.

Interestingly, Iowa DHS has an incredible track record
of breaking up intact families without any criminal
conviction, without evidence, and often without even
an accusation.

When CPS caseworkers set upon a family and
urge the Mother to eject the Father or Fiance'
they expect compliance! If the reasoning is
absent or fraudulent and the Mother refuses
to abandon the Man without good reason, the
caseworkers get downright hostile, even malicious.
One of the caseworker complaints is that the
woman is a pushover for the man, when the
real issue is that the woman won't be a
pushover FOR THE CASEWORKERS!

Instantly and without merit!

If a parent was shacking up with a different guy
each week, or each night, I could see that as
a serious issue, but the REALITY is that the
agencies drive out Husbands, Dads and Fiance's
in longstanding relationships with the family
and the agency MISREPRESENTS this as
promiscuity.

A healthy BOND, relationship or loyalty is actually
seen as an obstacle, a difficulty, a target for
Child Protection caseworkers to attack.

One explanation is that several years ago one
Feminist group reviewed textbooks for the curriculum
in college "Womens Studies" courses and programs.

The Feminist group actually complained that
severe anti male bias had crept into the curriculum.
In reference to family, Fathers were referred to as
a "foreign element".

The field of Social Work itself has huge problems
with the unscientific way they come to supposedly
KNOW various of their truisms. Much of it is
more political dogma than scientific truth, not
that it matters much to caseworkers, most
of whom are NOT licensed Social Workers.

Caseworkers are generally politically liberal
and the agencies traditionally carry a strong
bias in favor of homosexuality. Another factor
is the number of homosexuals working IN the agencies.

In many cases of abuse in Foster Care it seems
that the liberal trusims and pro gay agenda
has backfired severely and and endangered children.

There seems to be an element of the "spoils system"
in how Child Protection functions. They have placed
kids with ""Single Men"" (gay) and had particularly nasty
results. In one case a UK citizen was allowed to be
a Foster in Oregon, and take in boys, and after he
moved to Monterey California, Oregon continued
to send him little boys. Even after abuse accusations
arose, they STILL sent him little boys to indoctrinate
into anal sex.

In the Judith Leekin case it seems likely that
she got help from inside the agencies or at least
was part of some sort of organized enterprise.

Recent information shows that kids are actually
better off staying home EVEN if there is some
level of abuse or neglect. It turns out that the
DAMAGE done by child removal and breaking
the family is FAR DEEPER and LONG LASTING
than the damage done by even moderate abuse.

The child homicide story is NOT the normal thing
that CPS encounters. Not by a long shot!
The sort of things that a reasonable person
considers child abuse are actually LESS than 1%
of the child removals on CPS caseloads.
But the PR people at the agencies are anxious
to have the horror stories depicted in the press.
( This form of exaggeration is called "demagoguery".
It's like when Barney Fife talks up his job as if
he deals with hardened criminals on a daily basis,
when the reality is Otis and parking tickets. )

Recently some Fosters duct taped a 2 year old
to a toilet and duct taped the 2 year old to a crib.
When this outrage blew up, the kids were returned to
their family. In a rare bit of reporting it was revealed
that the children were removed from their parents
for "Messy House" and failure to supervise.

These are more like the USUAL reasons that
populate a caseworkers case load.

Please note that those issues DO NOT rise
to the IMMINENT DANGER that should have
been required to remove the children.

CWLA, one of the biggest lobbying organizations
for the Child Protection INDUSTRY reported
a few months back that 1/3 of kids in Foster Care
could go home if the parents only had
adequate housing. This ALSO reveals the lack
of IMMINENT DANGER in child removal cases.

For the Child Protection INDUSTRY to complain
about broken families and the risks is absurd
considering the way they have destroyed so
many families starting with the "divide and conquer"
tactic of driving husbands, fathers, fiance's out
as "foreign elements".

This also adds to the problem with "adequate housing".

http://www.daily-journal.com/archive....php?id=407885
Web Exclusive: Baby clings to life; mom's boyfriend arrested
11/15/2007, 5:33 pm
Comment on this story

By Gary Mays

815-937-3359
An 11-month-old Kankakee baby girl is on life-support at a Chicago
hospital following a case of what authorities allege was severe child
abuse Monday at the hands of a live-in-boyfriend.

Officials Thursday said the baby has a cerebral hemorrhage and other
injuries consistent with being severely shaken. They were unsure if
she would make it through the night.

City police have arrested and charged Kyle Cranford, 27, with
aggravated battery to a child in connection with the alleged abuse.
Cranford lived with the baby's 20-year-old mother and 2-year-old
sister in a rented unit at Crestview Apartments in Kankakee.

The other child is unharmed, said Det. Sgt. Jay Etzel.

While baby-sitting the younger child Monday, the mother received a
phone call just after her work shift ended at about 3:30 p.m., said
Etzel. That's when she was allegedly told by Cranford that the baby
was having trouble breathing.

"Just so you know, I've been trying to get hold of you, the baby's not
breathing well," Etzel said of Cranford's call to the mother.

Assuming the situation was perhaps just an illness, the mother ran
errands and went to the grocery store before going home between 7 p.m.
and 8 p.m..

That's when, Etzel says, she discovered a child that was not sick, but
apparently battered, with blood around her eyes and barely clinging to
life.

"The baby's laying there with one eye open, one eye closed," said
Etzel.

The child was rushed to Provena St. Mary's Hospital; and then
airlifted to a neonatal intensive care unit at the University of
Chicago Hospitals, where she remained in critical condition Thursday
night.

Etzel said DCFS notified Kankakee detectives Tuesday of the suspected
child abuse from health care workers who treated the child. The
hospital staff were subsequently interviewed by detectives, as was the
suspect, who was later charged after allegedly making "some
admissions" related to the child's condition, he added.

Cranford's currently being held pending a bond hearing in Kankakee
County's Jerome Combs Detention Center.

Etzel said that, at this time, he is unaware of any previous police
contact of significance with Cranford in the recent past. Cranford has
lived in the area only briefly, he added.

The detective said he was also informed that DCFS had no record of
previous contact with the family prior to the Monday incident.

On Nov 19, 4:58 am, Greegor wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc....ead/9a5ff1ea14...
Original message thread in misc.kids

I thought it was just propaganda from the
corrupt Child Protection INDUSTRY.

Their Public Relations has fallen apart badly and their
abuse of statistics has been exposed.

In Iowa they tried to get a law passed that if a parent
cohabitated Iowa DHS could automatically remove
children. They argued about the non-related abuse
statistics. Then somebody pointed out that when
they put a kid in Foster Care, BOTH caretakers are
non-related. Suddenly it came to a halt.

It's good for them that it stopped because just then
it was spashed across the news media public
sentiment turned extremely sour.

Interestingly, Iowa DHS has an incredible track record
of breaking up intact families without any criminal
conviction, without evidence, and often without even
an accusation.

When CPS caseworkers set upon a family and
urge the Mother to eject the Father or Fiance'
they expect compliance! If the reasoning is
absent or fraudulent and the Mother refuses
to abandon the Man without good reason, the
caseworkers get downright hostile, even malicious.
One of the caseworker complaints is that the
woman is a pushover for the man, when the
real issue is that the woman won't be a
pushover FOR THE CASEWORKERS!

Instantly and without merit!

If a parent was shacking up with a different guy
each week, or each night, I could see that as
a serious issue, but the REALITY is that the
agencies drive out Husbands, Dads and Fiance's
in longstanding relationships with the family
and the agency MISREPRESENTS this as
promiscuity.

A healthy BOND, relationship or loyalty is actually
seen as an obstacle, a difficulty, a target for
Child Protection caseworkers to attack.

One explanation is that several years ago one
Feminist group reviewed textbooks for the curriculum
in college "Womens Studies" courses and programs.

The Feminist group actually complained that
severe anti male bias had crept into the curriculum.
In reference to family, Fathers were referred to as
a "foreign element".

The field of Social Work itself has huge problems
with the unscientific way they come to supposedly
KNOW various of their truisms. Much of it is
more political dogma than scientific truth, not
that it matters much to caseworkers, most
of whom are NOT licensed Social Workers.

Caseworkers are generally politically liberal
and the agencies traditionally carry a strong
bias in favor of homosexuality. Another factor
is the number of homosexuals working IN the agencies.

In many cases of abuse in Foster Care it seems
that the liberal trusims and pro gay agenda
has backfired severely and and endangered children.

There seems to be an element of the "spoils system"
in how Child Protection functions. They have placed
kids with ""Single Men"" (gay) and had particularly nasty
results. In one case a UK citizen was allowed to be
a Foster in Oregon, and take in boys, and after he
moved to Monterey California, Oregon continued
to send him little boys. Even after abuse accusations
arose, they STILL sent him little boys to indoctrinate
into anal sex.

In the Judith Leekin case it seems likely that
she got help from inside the agencies or at least
was part of some sort of organized enterprise.

Recent information shows that kids are actually
better off staying home EVEN if there is some
level of abuse or neglect. It turns out that the
DAMAGE done by child removal and breaking
the family is FAR DEEPER and LONG LASTING
than the damage done by even moderate abuse.

The child homicide story is NOT the normal thing
that CPS encounters. Not by a long shot!
The sort of things that a reasonable person
considers child abuse are actually LESS than 1%
of the child removals on CPS caseloads.
But the PR people at the agencies are anxious
to have the horror stories depicted in the press.
( This form of exaggeration is called "demagoguery".
It's like when Barney Fife talks up his job as if
he deals with hardened criminals on a daily basis,
when the reality is Otis and parking tickets. )

Recently some Fosters duct taped a 2 year old
to a toilet and duct taped the 2 year old to a crib.
When this outrage blew up, the kids were returned to
their family. In a rare bit of reporting it was revealed
that the children were removed from their parents
for "Messy House" and failure to supervise.

These are more like the USUAL reasons that
populate a caseworkers case load.

Please note that those issues DO NOT rise
to the IMMINENT DANGER that should have
been required to remove the children.

CWLA, one of the biggest lobbying organizations
for the Child Protection INDUSTRY reported
a few months back that 1/3 of kids in Foster Care
could go home if the parents only had
adequate housing. This ALSO reveals the lack
of IMMINENT DANGER in child removal cases.

For the Child Protection INDUSTRY to complain
about broken families and the risks is absurd
considering the way they have destroyed so
many families starting with the "divide and conquer"
tactic of driving husbands, fathers, fiance's out
as "foreign elements".

This also adds to the problem with "adequate housing".

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21825897/
Family Accused Of Decade Of Violent Abuse
9:43 p.m. EST November 15, 2007
WHITE SPRINGS, Fla. - Four family members are accused of holding a
young woman captive for 10 years, repeatedly tying her up and beating
her. Three adults and a juvenile -- the victim's mother, her mother's
boyfriend, her sister and her 12-year-old brother -- were charged with
kidnapping and aggravated battery after what Hamilton County Sheriff
Harrell Reid called years of violent treatment of a mentally
challenged woman, now 27.
"One of the most severe cases of abuse that I have ever seen. She had
been falsely imprisoned in her own home by members of her family that
beat her, that tied her up," said Reid.
The victim, whose name is not being used because detectives also think
she might have been sexually abused, managed to escape the family's
White Springs home on Oct. 22. She made it to a nearby home, where
rescue personnel were called.
Three weeks later, she remains in a local hospital recovering from her
injuries.
Hamilton and Columbia county deputies, along with the Florida
Department of Law Enforcement, investigated for the past three weeks
and served search warrants and made the arrests on Wednesday.
Investigators believe the abuse started when the victim was a teenager
and took place over a period of several years. The beatings -- as many
as two or three per day -- were conducted as "punishment" for the
woman not doing menial chores in the home.
Officials said there was also evidence that the victim may have been
bound and gagged while the beatings took place.
"In my 20 years as sheriff and 10 additional years as a deputy, I have
never seen the amount of physical abuse that was endured by this
victim," Reid said. "We believe the abuse to be both physical and
sexual."
Martha Irene Turner, 46, and Johnny Nichols, 43, were taken into
custody by Hamilton County deputies. Jessica Lynn Turner, 23, was
arrested in Columbia County, where the family moved after the victim
escaped.
Reid said the mother and sister admitted to keeping the woman
imprisoned and abusing her, but said the women never gave a reason why
the victim was abused.
"How could a mother do, or allow to be done, what was being done to
her daughter? That's the question I have," Reid said.
The juvenile family member was also taken into custody and turned over
to the Department of Juvenile Justice in Gainesville.
Four other children were removed from the family's home by the Florida
Department of Children and Families and placed in foster care.

"firemonkey" wrote in message
...
On Nov 19, 4:58 am, Greegor wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc....ead/9a5ff1ea14...
Original message thread in misc.kids

I thought it was just propaganda from the
corrupt Child Protection INDUSTRY.

Their Public Relations has fallen apart badly and their
abuse of statistics has been exposed.

In Iowa they tried to get a law passed that if a parent
cohabitated Iowa DHS could automatically remove
children. They argued about the non-related abuse
statistics. Then somebody pointed out that when
they put a kid in Foster Care, BOTH caretakers are
non-related. Suddenly it came to a halt.

It's good for them that it stopped because just then
it was spashed across the news media public
sentiment turned extremely sour.

Interestingly, Iowa DHS has an incredible track record
of breaking up intact families without any criminal
conviction, without evidence, and often without even
an accusation.

When CPS caseworkers set upon a family and
urge the Mother to eject the Father or Fiance'
they expect compliance! If the reasoning is
absent or fraudulent and the Mother refuses
to abandon the Man without good reason, the
caseworkers get downright hostile, even malicious.
One of the caseworker complaints is that the
woman is a pushover for the man, when the
real issue is that the woman won't be a
pushover FOR THE CASEWORKERS!

Instantly and without merit!

If a parent was shacking up with a different guy
each week, or each night, I could see that as
a serious issue, but the REALITY is that the
agencies drive out Husbands, Dads and Fiance's
in longstanding relationships with the family
and the agency MISREPRESENTS this as
promiscuity.

A healthy BOND, relationship or loyalty is actually
seen as an obstacle, a difficulty, a target for
Child Protection caseworkers to attack.

One explanation is that several years ago one
Feminist group reviewed textbooks for the curriculum
in college "Womens Studies" courses and programs.

The Feminist group actually complained that
severe anti male bias had crept into the curriculum.
In reference to family, Fathers were referred to as
a "foreign element".

The field of Social Work itself has huge problems
with the unscientific way they come to supposedly
KNOW various of their truisms. Much of it is
more political dogma than scientific truth, not
that it matters much to caseworkers, most
of whom are NOT licensed Social Workers.

Caseworkers are generally politically liberal
and the agencies traditionally carry a strong
bias in favor of homosexuality. Another factor
is the number of homosexuals working IN the agencies.

In many cases of abuse in Foster Care it seems
that the liberal trusims and pro gay agenda
has backfired severely and and endangered children.

There seems to be an element of the "spoils system"
in how Child Protection functions. They have placed
kids with ""Single Men"" (gay) and had particularly nasty
results. In one case a UK citizen was allowed to be
a Foster in Oregon, and take in boys, and after he
moved to Monterey California, Oregon continued
to send him little boys. Even after abuse accusations
arose, they STILL sent him little boys to indoctrinate
into anal sex.

In the Judith Leekin case it seems likely that
she got help from inside the agencies or at least
was part of some sort of organized enterprise.

Recent information shows that kids are actually
better off staying home EVEN if there is some
level of abuse or neglect. It turns out that the
DAMAGE done by child removal and breaking
the family is FAR DEEPER and LONG LASTING
than the damage done by even moderate abuse.

The child homicide story is NOT the normal thing
that CPS encounters. Not by a long shot!
The sort of things that a reasonable person
considers child abuse are actually LESS than 1%
of the child removals on CPS caseloads.
But the PR people at the agencies are anxious
to have the horror stories depicted in the press.
( This form of exaggeration is called "demagoguery".
It's like when Barney Fife talks up his job as if
he deals with hardened criminals on a daily basis,
when the reality is Otis and parking tickets. )

Recently some Fosters duct taped a 2 year old
to a toilet and duct taped the 2 year old to a crib.
When this outrage blew up, the kids were returned to
their family. In a rare bit of reporting it was revealed
that the children were removed from their parents
for "Messy House" and failure to supervise.

These are more like the USUAL reasons that
populate a caseworkers case load.

Please note that those issues DO NOT rise
to the IMMINENT DANGER that should have
been required to remove the children.

CWLA, one of the biggest lobbying organizations
for the Child Protection INDUSTRY reported
a few months back that 1/3 of kids in Foster Care
could go home if the parents only had
adequate housing. This ALSO reveals the lack
of IMMINENT DANGER in child removal cases.

For the Child Protection INDUSTRY to complain
about broken families and the risks is absurd
considering the way they have destroyed so
many families starting with the "divide and conquer"
tactic of driving husbands, fathers, fiance's out
as "foreign elements".

This also adds to the problem with "adequate housing".

http://www.daily-journal.com/archive....php?id=407885
Web Exclusive: Baby clings to life; mom's boyfriend arrested
11/15/2007, 5:33 pm
Comment on this story

By Gary Mays

815-937-3359
An 11-month-old Kankakee baby girl is on life-support at a Chicago
hospital following a case of what authorities allege was severe child
abuse Monday at the hands of a live-in-boyfriend.

Officials Thursday said the baby has a cerebral hemorrhage and other
injuries consistent with being severely shaken. They were unsure if
she would make it through the night.

City police have arrested and charged Kyle Cranford, 27, with
aggravated battery to a child in connection with the alleged abuse.
Cranford lived with the baby's 20-year-old mother and 2-year-old
sister in a rented unit at Crestview Apartments in Kankakee.

The other child is unharmed, said Det. Sgt. Jay Etzel.

While baby-sitting the younger child Monday, the mother received a
phone call just after her work shift ended at about 3:30 p.m., said
Etzel. That's when she was allegedly told by Cranford that the baby
was having trouble breathing.

"Just so you know, I've been trying to get hold of you, the baby's not
breathing well," Etzel said of Cranford's call to the mother.

Assuming the situation was perhaps just an illness, the mother ran
errands and went to the grocery store before going home between 7 p.m.
and 8 p.m..

That's when, Etzel says, she discovered a child that was not sick, but
apparently battered, with blood around her eyes and barely clinging to
life.

"The baby's laying there with one eye open, one eye closed," said
Etzel.

The child was rushed to Provena St. Mary's Hospital; and then
airlifted to a neonatal intensive care unit at the University of
Chicago Hospitals, where she remained in critical condition Thursday
night.

Etzel said DCFS notified Kankakee detectives Tuesday of the suspected
child abuse from health care workers who treated the child. The
hospital staff were subsequently interviewed by detectives, as was the
suspect, who was later charged after allegedly making "some
admissions" related to the child's condition, he added.

Cranford's currently being held pending a bond hearing in Kankakee
County's Jerome Combs Detention Center.

Etzel said that, at this time, he is unaware of any previous police
contact of significance with Cranford in the recent past. Cranford has
lived in the area only briefly, he added.

The detective said he was also informed that DCFS had no record of
previous contact with the family prior to the Monday incident.

Is it just me, or has anyone else given any thought to the age range ofthe
perpetrators in these kinds of cases?

On Nov 19, 9:32 am, "dragonsgirl" wrote:
"firemonkey" wrote in message

...





On Nov 19, 4:58 am, Greegor wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc....ead/9a5ff1ea14...
Original message thread in misc.kids

I thought it was just propaganda from the
corrupt Child Protection INDUSTRY.

Their Public Relations has fallen apart badly and their
abuse of statistics has been exposed.

In Iowa they tried to get a law passed that if a parent
cohabitated Iowa DHS could automatically remove
children. They argued about the non-related abuse
statistics. Then somebody pointed out that when
they put a kid in Foster Care, BOTH caretakers are
non-related. Suddenly it came to a halt.

It's good for them that it stopped because just then
it was spashed across the news media public
sentiment turned extremely sour.

Interestingly, Iowa DHS has an incredible track record
of breaking up intact families without any criminal
conviction, without evidence, and often without even
an accusation.

When CPS caseworkers set upon a family and
urge the Mother to eject the Father or Fiance'
they expect compliance! If the reasoning is
absent or fraudulent and the Mother refuses
to abandon the Man without good reason, the
caseworkers get downright hostile, even malicious.
One of the caseworker complaints is that the
woman is a pushover for the man, when the
real issue is that the woman won't be a
pushover FOR THE CASEWORKERS!

Instantly and without merit!

If a parent was shacking up with a different guy
each week, or each night, I could see that as
a serious issue, but the REALITY is that the
agencies drive out Husbands, Dads and Fiance's
in longstanding relationships with the family
and the agency MISREPRESENTS this as
promiscuity.

A healthy BOND, relationship or loyalty is actually
seen as an obstacle, a difficulty, a target for
Child Protection caseworkers to attack.

One explanation is that several years ago one
Feminist group reviewed textbooks for the curriculum
in college "Womens Studies" courses and programs.

The Feminist group actually complained that
severe anti male bias had crept into the curriculum.
In reference to family, Fathers were referred to as
a "foreign element".

The field of Social Work itself has huge problems
with the unscientific way they come to supposedly
KNOW various of their truisms. Much of it is
more political dogma than scientific truth, not
that it matters much to caseworkers, most
of whom are NOT licensed Social Workers.

Caseworkers are generally politically liberal
and the agencies traditionally carry a strong
bias in favor of homosexuality. Another factor
is the number of homosexuals working IN the agencies.

In many cases of abuse in Foster Care it seems
that the liberal trusims and pro gay agenda
has backfired severely and and endangered children.

There seems to be an element of the "spoils system"
in how Child Protection functions. They have placed
kids with ""Single Men"" (gay) and had particularly nasty
results. In one case a UK citizen was allowed to be
a Foster in Oregon, and take in boys, and after he
moved to Monterey California, Oregon continued
to send him little boys. Even after abuse accusations
arose, they STILL sent him little boys to indoctrinate
into anal sex.

In the Judith Leekin case it seems likely that
she got help from inside the agencies or at least
was part of some sort of organized enterprise.

Recent information shows that kids are actually
better off staying home EVEN if there is some
level of abuse or neglect. It turns out that the
DAMAGE done by child removal and breaking
the family is FAR DEEPER and LONG LASTING
than the damage done by even moderate abuse.

The child homicide story is NOT the normal thing
that CPS encounters. Not by a long shot!
The sort of things that a reasonable person
considers child abuse are actually LESS than 1%
of the child removals on CPS caseloads.
But the PR people at the agencies are anxious
to have the horror stories depicted in the press.
( This form of exaggeration is called "demagoguery".
It's like when Barney Fife talks up his job as if
he deals with hardened criminals on a daily basis,
when the reality is Otis and parking tickets. )

Recently some Fosters duct taped a 2 year old
to a toilet and duct taped the 2 year old to a crib.
When this outrage blew up, the kids were returned to
their family. In a rare bit of reporting it was revealed
that the children were removed from their parents
for "Messy House" and failure to supervise.

These are more like the USUAL reasons that
populate a caseworkers case load.

Please note that those issues DO NOT rise
to the IMMINENT DANGER that should have
been required to remove the children.

CWLA, one of the biggest lobbying organizations
for the Child Protection INDUSTRY reported
a few months back that 1/3 of kids in Foster Care
could go home if the parents only had
adequate housing. This ALSO reveals the lack
of IMMINENT DANGER in child removal cases.

For the Child Protection INDUSTRY to complain
about broken families and the risks is absurd
considering the way they have destroyed so
many families starting with the "divide and conquer"
tactic of driving husbands, fathers, fiance's out
as "foreign elements".

This also adds to the problem with "adequate housing".

http://www.daily-journal.com/archive....php?id=407885
Web Exclusive: Baby clings to life; mom's boyfriend arrested
11/15/2007, 5:33 pm
Comment on this story

By Gary Mays

815-937-3359
An 11-month-old Kankakee baby girl is on life-support at a Chicago
hospital following a case of what authorities allege was severe child
abuse Monday at the hands of a live-in-boyfriend.

Officials Thursday said the baby has a cerebral hemorrhage and other
injuries consistent with being severely shaken. They were unsure if
she would make it through the night.

City police have arrested and charged Kyle Cranford, 27, with
aggravated battery to a child in connection with the alleged abuse.
Cranford lived with the baby's 20-year-old mother and 2-year-old
sister in a rented unit at Crestview Apartments in Kankakee.

The other child is unharmed, said Det. Sgt. Jay Etzel.

While baby-sitting the younger child Monday, the mother received a
phone call just after her work shift ended at about 3:30 p.m., said
Etzel. That's when she was allegedly told by Cranford that the baby
was having trouble breathing.

"Just so you know, I've been trying to get hold of you, the baby's not
breathing well," Etzel said of Cranford's call to the mother.

Assuming the situation was perhaps just an illness, the mother ran
errands and went to the grocery store before going home between 7 p.m.
and 8 p.m..

That's when, Etzel says, she discovered a child that was not sick, but
apparently battered, with blood around her eyes and barely clinging to
life.

"The baby's laying there with one eye open, one eye closed," said
Etzel.

The child was rushed to Provena St. Mary's Hospital; and then
airlifted to a neonatal intensive care unit at the University of
Chicago Hospitals, where she remained in critical condition Thursday
night.

Etzel said DCFS notified Kankakee detectives Tuesday of the suspected
child abuse from health care workers who treated the child. The
hospital staff were subsequently interviewed by detectives, as was the
suspect, who was later charged after allegedly making "some
admissions" related to the child's condition, he added.

Cranford's currently being held pending a bond hearing in Kankakee
County's Jerome Combs Detention Center.

Etzel said that, at this time, he is unaware of any previous police
contact of significance with Cranford in the recent past. Cranford has
lived in the area only briefly, he added.

The detective said he was also informed that DCFS had no record of
previous contact with the family prior to the Monday incident.

Is it just me, or has anyone else given any thought to the age range ofthe
perpetrators in these kinds of cases?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I remember reading that for psysical abusers it early twenties but for
sexual assualt its any age.

On Nov 19, 9:32 am, "dragonsgirl" wrote:
"firemonkey" wrote in message

...





On Nov 19, 4:58 am, Greegor wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc....ead/9a5ff1ea14...
Original message thread in misc.kids

I thought it was just propaganda from the
corrupt Child Protection INDUSTRY.

Their Public Relations has fallen apart badly and their
abuse of statistics has been exposed.

In Iowa they tried to get a law passed that if a parent
cohabitated Iowa DHS could automatically remove
children. They argued about the non-related abuse
statistics. Then somebody pointed out that when
they put a kid in Foster Care, BOTH caretakers are
non-related. Suddenly it came to a halt.

It's good for them that it stopped because just then
it was spashed across the news media public
sentiment turned extremely sour.

Interestingly, Iowa DHS has an incredible track record
of breaking up intact families without any criminal
conviction, without evidence, and often without even
an accusation.

When CPS caseworkers set upon a family and
urge the Mother to eject the Father or Fiance'
they expect compliance! If the reasoning is
absent or fraudulent and the Mother refuses
to abandon the Man without good reason, the
caseworkers get downright hostile, even malicious.
One of the caseworker complaints is that the
woman is a pushover for the man, when the
real issue is that the woman won't be a
pushover FOR THE CASEWORKERS!

Instantly and without merit!

If a parent was shacking up with a different guy
each week, or each night, I could see that as
a serious issue, but the REALITY is that the
agencies drive out Husbands, Dads and Fiance's
in longstanding relationships with the family
and the agency MISREPRESENTS this as
promiscuity.

A healthy BOND, relationship or loyalty is actually
seen as an obstacle, a difficulty, a target for
Child Protection caseworkers to attack.

One explanation is that several years ago one
Feminist group reviewed textbooks for the curriculum
in college "Womens Studies" courses and programs.

The Feminist group actually complained that
severe anti male bias had crept into the curriculum.
In reference to family, Fathers were referred to as
a "foreign element".

The field of Social Work itself has huge problems
with the unscientific way they come to supposedly
KNOW various of their truisms. Much of it is
more political dogma than scientific truth, not
that it matters much to caseworkers, most
of whom are NOT licensed Social Workers.

Caseworkers are generally politically liberal
and the agencies traditionally carry a strong
bias in favor of homosexuality. Another factor
is the number of homosexuals working IN the agencies.

In many cases of abuse in Foster Care it seems
that the liberal trusims and pro gay agenda
has backfired severely and and endangered children.

There seems to be an element of the "spoils system"
in how Child Protection functions. They have placed
kids with ""Single Men"" (gay) and had particularly nasty
results. In one case a UK citizen was allowed to be
a Foster in Oregon, and take in boys, and after he
moved to Monterey California, Oregon continued
to send him little boys. Even after abuse accusations
arose, they STILL sent him little boys to indoctrinate
into anal sex.

In the Judith Leekin case it seems likely that
she got help from inside the agencies or at least
was part of some sort of organized enterprise.

Recent information shows that kids are actually
better off staying home EVEN if there is some
level of abuse or neglect. It turns out that the
DAMAGE done by child removal and breaking
the family is FAR DEEPER and LONG LASTING
than the damage done by even moderate abuse.

The child homicide story is NOT the normal thing
that CPS encounters. Not by a long shot!
The sort of things that a reasonable person
considers child abuse are actually LESS than 1%
of the child removals on CPS caseloads.
But the PR people at the agencies are anxious
to have the horror stories depicted in the press.
( This form of exaggeration is called "demagoguery".
It's like when Barney Fife talks up his job as if
he deals with hardened criminals on a daily basis,
when the reality is Otis and parking tickets. )

Recently some Fosters duct taped a 2 year old
to a toilet and duct taped the 2 year old to a crib.
When this outrage blew up, the kids were returned to
their family. In a rare bit of reporting it was revealed
that the children were removed from their parents
for "Messy House" and failure to supervise.

These are more like the USUAL reasons that
populate a caseworkers case load.

Please note that those issues DO NOT rise
to the IMMINENT DANGER that should have
been required to remove the children.

CWLA, one of the biggest lobbying organizations
for the Child Protection INDUSTRY reported
a few months back that 1/3 of kids in Foster Care
could go home if the parents only had
adequate housing. This ALSO reveals the lack
of IMMINENT DANGER in child removal cases.

For the Child Protection INDUSTRY to complain
about broken families and the risks is absurd
considering the way they have destroyed so
many families starting with the "divide and conquer"
tactic of driving husbands, fathers, fiance's out
as "foreign elements".

This also adds to the problem with "adequate housing".

http://www.daily-journal.com/archive....php?id=407885
Web Exclusive: Baby clings to life; mom's boyfriend arrested
11/15/2007, 5:33 pm
Comment on this story

By Gary Mays

815-937-3359
An 11-month-old Kankakee baby girl is on life-support at a Chicago
hospital following a case of what authorities allege was severe child
abuse Monday at the hands of a live-in-boyfriend.

Officials Thursday said the baby has a cerebral hemorrhage and other
injuries consistent with being severely shaken. They were unsure if
she would make it through the night.

City police have arrested and charged Kyle Cranford, 27, with
aggravated battery to a child in connection with the alleged abuse.
Cranford lived with the baby's 20-year-old mother and 2-year-old
sister in a rented unit at Crestview Apartments in Kankakee.

The other child is unharmed, said Det. Sgt. Jay Etzel.

While baby-sitting the younger child Monday, the mother received a
phone call just after her work shift ended at about 3:30 p.m., said
Etzel. That's when she was allegedly told by Cranford that the baby
was having trouble breathing.

"Just so you know, I've been trying to get hold of you, the baby's not
breathing well," Etzel said of Cranford's call to the mother.

Assuming the situation was perhaps just an illness, the mother ran
errands and went to the grocery store before going home between 7 p.m.
and 8 p.m..

That's when, Etzel says, she discovered a child that was not sick, but
apparently battered, with blood around her eyes and barely clinging to
life.

"The baby's laying there with one eye open, one eye closed," said
Etzel.

The child was rushed to Provena St. Mary's Hospital; and then
airlifted to a neonatal intensive care unit at the University of
Chicago Hospitals, where she remained in critical condition Thursday
night.

Etzel said DCFS notified Kankakee detectives Tuesday of the suspected
child abuse from health care workers who treated the child. The
hospital staff were subsequently interviewed by detectives, as was the
suspect, who was later charged after allegedly making "some
admissions" related to the child's condition, he added.

Cranford's currently being held pending a bond hearing in Kankakee
County's Jerome Combs Detention Center.

Etzel said that, at this time, he is unaware of any previous police
contact of significance with Cranford in the recent past. Cranford has
lived in the area only briefly, he added.

The detective said he was also informed that DCFS had no record of
previous contact with the family prior to the Monday incident.

Is it just me, or has anyone else given any thought to the age range ofthe
perpetrators in these kinds of cases?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

http://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/203851.html
Some recent child-abuse deaths blamed on mother's boyfriend
11/17/07 12:07:54
________________________________________
Some recent fatal child-abuse cases in which the convicted or alleged
perpetrator was the unmarried companion of the slain child's mother:
-Jose Calderon, 20, was sentenced Nov. 1 to up to 15 years in prison
for the death of 4-year-old Quachaun Brown in New York City.
Prosecutors said Calderon beat the boy several times with his fists, a
belt, a plastic bat, and struck the child's head against a wall in
their Bronx apartment in January 2006. The mother, Aleisha Smith,
pleaded guilty earlier to second-degree manslaughter for failing to
get her son to a hospital promptly.
-Phillip Guymon, 30, of Murray, Utah, was sentenced in October to five
years in prison after admitting he threw his girlfriend's 2-year-old
son, Jayden Cangro, across a room last year, killing the child. Guymon
initially told police the child had fallen out of bed and later said
the boy fell down stairs. He eventually acknowledged he had become
frustrated and threw the boy when he wouldn't go to bed.
-Samuel Corona, 34, was arrested on a murder charge in September in
connection with the fatal beating of 6-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. in
San Jose, Calif., in February. Police say Corona and the boy's mother
then took the body to Phoenix, where authorities later discovered it
buried beneath concrete bags and soil. The mother, Kathryn Jimenez,
who says she was often abused by Corona, has pleaded guilty to lesser
charges for her role as an accessory.
-Donell Parker, 23, has been charged with murder in the April death of
4-year-old Cameron Smith, who allegedly was punched and whipped with a
belt over the course of two days in suburban Chicago. The boy's
mother, Lavada Smith, had left her three children with Parker while
she was being deployed to Iraq with the Army National Guard.
-Derek Chappell, 25, was sentenced to death this month for the 2004
drowning of 2-year-old Devon Shackleford in Mesa, Ariz. Prosecutors
said Chappell committed the murder in an apartment complex swimming
pool because he considered Devon an obstacle to his relationship with
the boy's mother.
-Rene Barrios, 26, faces a first-degree murder charge in the Oct. 26
death of a 2-week-old boy, Jaden Encinas, in Tucson, Ariz. Police said
the baby appeared to have died from blunt-force trauma.
-Kerry Joe Smith, 21, of Oklahoma City, has been charged with sexually
abusing and murdering Olivia Scroggins, who died in August a few weeks
before her second birthday. Her mother, Wendy Scroggins, 22, has been
charged with permitting child abuse.
-Alvaro Andres Ramos-Cardenas, 24, faces a murder charge in the July
death of 13-month-old Peter Blanco in Tucson, Ariz. Police say the
baby was abused after being left by his mother in the care of Ramos-
Cardenas.
-Traveles Bullard, 21, of Pine Bluff, Ark., faces a murder charge in
the July death of 9-month-old Jermauri Craig, whose body was found at
a motel where Bullard was caring for him while the mother was at work.
Police said Jermauri suffered a skull fracture, bruising around both
eyes and bite marks to the side of the face and arm.
-Paul Tejada-Jimenez, 30, of New York City, pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in October in the July 2006 death of 2-year-old Sharllene
Marillo. She died of blunt force trauma to the head; Tejada-Jimenez
told police she fell to the floor as he was shaking her. The city's
child protection service had received warnings six weeks earlier that
Sharllene was being abused.
-Raul Arteaga, 33, of Milwaukee, has been charged with first-degree
reckless homicide in the suffocation of 19-month-old Alicia Burgess in
May. Police said Arteaga told them he was on a crack-cocaine binge at
the time and wanted Alicia to stop crying. Alicia and her brother had
remained at the home despite several warnings to child-welfare workers
of abuse.
-Johnny Carvajal, 48, is charged with endangering the welfare of a
child and narcotics offenses in connection with the death of 2-year-
old Sherlyn Polonia in New York in 2006. A stash of drugs was found in
the Bronx apartment, and an autopsy determined the girl died of heroin
intoxication.

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I thought it was just propaganda from the
corrupt Child Protection INDUSTRY.

Their Public Relations has fallen apart badly and their
abuse of statistics has been exposed.

In Iowa they tried to get a law passed that if a parent
cohabitated Iowa DHS could automatically remove
children. They argued about the non-related abuse
statistics. Then somebody pointed out that when
they put a kid in Foster Care, BOTH caretakers are
non-related. Suddenly it came to a halt.

It's good for them that it stopped because just then
it was spashed across the news media public
sentiment turned extremely sour.

Interestingly, Iowa DHS has an incredible track record
of breaking up intact families without any criminal
conviction, without evidence, and often without even
an accusation.

When CPS caseworkers set upon a family and
urge the Mother to eject the Father or Fiance'
they expect compliance! If the reasoning is
absent or fraudulent and the Mother refuses
to abandon the Man without good reason, the
caseworkers get downright hostile, even malicious.
One of the caseworker complaints is that the
woman is a pushover for the man, when the
real issue is that the woman won't be a
pushover FOR THE CASEWORKERS!

Instantly and without merit!

If a parent was shacking up with a different guy
each week, or each night, I could see that as
a serious issue, but the REALITY is that the
agencies drive out Husbands, Dads and Fiance's
in longstanding relationships with the family
and the agency MISREPRESENTS this as
promiscuity.

A healthy BOND, relationship or loyalty is actually
seen as an obstacle, a difficulty, a target for
Child Protection caseworkers to attack.

One explanation is that several years ago one
Feminist group reviewed textbooks for the curriculum
in college "Womens Studies" courses and programs.

The Feminist group actually complained that
severe anti male bias had crept into the curriculum.
In reference to family, Fathers were referred to as
a "foreign element".

The field of Social Work itself has huge problems
with the unscientific way they come to supposedly
KNOW various of their truisms. Much of it is
more political dogma than scientific truth, not
that it matters much to caseworkers, most
of whom are NOT licensed Social Workers.

Caseworkers are generally politically liberal
and the agencies traditionally carry a strong
bias in favor of homosexuality. Another factor
is the number of homosexuals working IN the agencies.

In many cases of abuse in Foster Care it seems
that the liberal trusims and pro gay agenda
has backfired severely and and endangered children.

There seems to be an element of the "spoils system"
in how Child Protection functions. They have placed
kids with ""Single Men"" (gay) and had particularly nasty
results. In one case a UK citizen was allowed to be
a Foster in Oregon, and take in boys, and after he
moved to Monterey California, Oregon continued
to send him little boys. Even after abuse accusations
arose, they STILL sent him little boys to indoctrinate
into anal sex.

In the Judith Leekin case it seems likely that
she got help from inside the agencies or at least
was part of some sort of organized enterprise.

Recent information shows that kids are actually
better off staying home EVEN if there is some
level of abuse or neglect. It turns out that the
DAMAGE done by child removal and breaking
the family is FAR DEEPER and LONG LASTING
than the damage done by even moderate abuse.

The child homicide story is NOT the normal thing
that CPS encounters. Not by a long shot!
The sort of things that a reasonable person
considers child abuse are actually LESS than 1%
of the child removals on CPS caseloads.
But the PR people at the agencies are anxious
to have the horror stories depicted in the press.
( This form of exaggeration is called "demagoguery".
It's like when Barney Fife talks up his job as if
he deals with hardened criminals on a daily basis,
when the reality is Otis and parking tickets. )

Recently some Fosters duct taped a 2 year old
to a toilet and duct taped the 2 year old to a crib.
When this outrage blew up, the kids were returned to
their family. In a rare bit of reporting it was revealed
that the children were removed from their parents
for "Messy House" and failure to supervise.

These are more like the USUAL reasons that
populate a caseworkers case load.

Please note that those issues DO NOT rise
to the IMMINENT DANGER that should have
been required to remove the children.

CWLA, one of the biggest lobbying organizations
for the Child Protection INDUSTRY reported
a few months back that 1/3 of kids in Foster Care
could go home if the parents only had
adequate housing. This ALSO reveals the lack
of IMMINENT DANGER in child removal cases.

For the Child Protection INDUSTRY to complain
about broken families and the risks is absurd
considering the way they have destroyed so
many families starting with the "divide and conquer"
tactic of driving husbands, fathers, fiance's out
as "foreign elements".

This also adds to the problem with "adequate housing".

http://www.daily-journal.com/archive....php?id=407885
Web Exclusive: Baby clings to life; mom's boyfriend arrested
11/15/2007, 5:33 pm
Comment on this story

By Gary Mays

815-937-3359
An 11-month-old Kankakee baby girl is on life-support at a Chicago
hospital following a case of what authorities allege was severe child
abuse Monday at the hands of a live-in-boyfriend.

Officials Thursday said the baby has a cerebral hemorrhage and other
injuries consistent with being severely shaken. They were unsure if
she would make it through the night.

City police have arrested and charged Kyle Cranford, 27, with
aggravated battery to a child in connection with the alleged abuse.
Cranford lived with the baby's 20-year-old mother and 2-year-old
sister in a rented unit at Crestview Apartments in Kankakee.

The other child is unharmed, said Det. Sgt. Jay Etzel.

While baby-sitting the younger child Monday, the mother received a
phone call just after her work shift ended at about 3:30 p.m., said
Etzel. That's when she was allegedly told by Cranford that the baby
was having trouble breathing.

"Just so you know, I've been trying to get hold of you, the baby's not
breathing well," Etzel said of Cranford's call to the mother.

Assuming the situation was perhaps just an illness, the mother ran
errands and went to the grocery store before going home between 7 p.m.
and 8 p.m..

That's when, Etzel says, she discovered a child that was not sick, but
apparently battered, with blood around her eyes and barely clinging to
life.

"The baby's laying there with one eye open, one eye closed," said
Etzel.

The child was rushed to Provena St. Mary's Hospital; and then
airlifted to a neonatal intensive care unit at the University of
Chicago Hospitals, where she remained in critical condition Thursday
night.

Etzel said DCFS notified Kankakee detectives Tuesday of the suspected
child abuse from health care workers who treated the child. The
hospital staff were subsequently interviewed by detectives, as was the
suspect, who was later charged after allegedly making "some
admissions" related to the child's condition, he added.

Cranford's currently being held pending a bond hearing in Kankakee
County's Jerome Combs Detention Center.

Etzel said that, at this time, he is unaware of any previous police
contact of significance with Cranford in the recent past. Cranford has
lived in the area only briefly, he added.

The detective said he was also informed that DCFS had no record of
previous contact with the family prior to the Monday incident.

Is it just me, or has anyone else given any thought to the age range
ofthe
perpetrators in these kinds of cases?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

http://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/203851.html
Some recent child-abuse deaths blamed on mother's boyfriend
11/17/07 12:07:54
________________________________________
Some recent fatal child-abuse cases in which the convicted or alleged
perpetrator was the unmarried companion of the slain child's mother:
-Jose Calderon, 20, was sentenced Nov. 1 to up to 15 years in prison
for the death of 4-year-old Quachaun Brown in New York City.
Prosecutors said Calderon beat the boy several times with his fists, a
belt, a plastic bat, and struck the child's head against a wall in
their Bronx apartment in January 2006. The mother, Aleisha Smith,
pleaded guilty earlier to second-degree manslaughter for failing to
get her son to a hospital promptly.
-Phillip Guymon, 30, of Murray, Utah, was sentenced in October to five
years in prison after admitting he threw his girlfriend's 2-year-old
son, Jayden Cangro, across a room last year, killing the child. Guymon
initially told police the child had fallen out of bed and later said
the boy fell down stairs. He eventually acknowledged he had become
frustrated and threw the boy when he wouldn't go to bed.
-Samuel Corona, 34, was arrested on a murder charge in September in
connection with the fatal beating of 6-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. in
San Jose, Calif., in February. Police say Corona and the boy's mother
then took the body to Phoenix, where authorities later discovered it
buried beneath concrete bags and soil. The mother, Kathryn Jimenez,
who says she was often abused by Corona, has pleaded guilty to lesser
charges for her role as an accessory.
-Donell Parker, 23, has been charged with murder in the April death of
4-year-old Cameron Smith, who allegedly was punched and whipped with a
belt over the course of two days in suburban Chicago. The boy's
mother, Lavada Smith, had left her three children with Parker while
she was being deployed to Iraq with the Army National Guard.
-Derek Chappell, 25, was sentenced to death this month for the 2004
drowning of 2-year-old Devon Shackleford in Mesa, Ariz. Prosecutors
said Chappell committed the murder in an apartment complex swimming
pool because he considered Devon an obstacle to his relationship with
the boy's mother.
-Rene Barrios, 26, faces a first-degree murder charge in the Oct. 26
death of a 2-week-old boy, Jaden Encinas, in Tucson, Ariz. Police said
the baby appeared to have died from blunt-force trauma.
-Kerry Joe Smith, 21, of Oklahoma City, has been charged with sexually
abusing and murdering Olivia Scroggins, who died in August a few weeks
before her second birthday. Her mother, Wendy Scroggins, 22, has been
charged with permitting child abuse.
-Alvaro Andres Ramos-Cardenas, 24, faces a murder charge in the July
death of 13-month-old Peter Blanco in Tucson, Ariz. Police say the
baby was abused after being left by his mother in the care of Ramos-
Cardenas.
-Traveles Bullard, 21, of Pine Bluff, Ark., faces a murder charge in
the July death of 9-month-old Jermauri Craig, whose body was found at
a motel where Bullard was caring for him while the mother was at work.
Police said Jermauri suffered a skull fracture, bruising around both
eyes and bite marks to the side of the face and arm.
-Paul Tejada-Jimenez, 30, of New York City, pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in October in the July 2006 death of 2-year-old Sharllene
Marillo. She died of blunt force trauma to the head; Tejada-Jimenez
told police she fell to the floor as he was shaking her. The city's
child protection service had received warnings six weeks earlier that
Sharllene was being abused.
-Raul Arteaga, 33, of Milwaukee, has been charged with first-degree
reckless homicide in the suffocation of 19-month-old Alicia Burgess in
May. Police said Arteaga told them he was on a crack-cocaine binge at
the time and wanted Alicia to stop crying. Alicia and her brother had
remained at the home despite several warnings to child-welfare workers
of abuse.
-Johnny Carvajal, 48, is charged with endangering the welfare of a
child and narcotics offenses in connection with the death of 2-year-
old Sherlyn Polonia in New York in 2006. A stash of drugs was found in
the Bronx apartment, and an autopsy determined the girl died of heroin
intoxication.

Seems to me that most of the cases center around perpetrators who are under
30.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the immature nature of the early
twenties.
I know that I, personally, sure didn't have the patience in my twenties that
I have now.
I am certain that I would have been more likely to be easily frustrated at
those ages.

The sort of things that a reasonable person
considers child abuse are actually LESS than 1%
of the child removals on CPS caseloads.
But the PR people at the agencies are anxious
to have the horror stories depicted in the press.
( This form of exaggeration is called "demagoguery".
It's like when Barney Fife talks up his job as if
he deals with hardened criminals on a daily basis,
when the reality is Otis and parking tickets. )