3 social workers face drug charges

3 social workers face drug charges
TONY BURBECK
WCNC

http://www.charlotte.com/breaking_ne...ry/541802.html

ALBEMARLE --
Two Stanly County Department of Social Services employees whose job it
is to protect kids face drug charges.

A former Stanly County DSS employee has also been arrested and charged.

Police say they got medications with fake prescriptions.

They also say the arrests came as a result of a separate drug
investigation. The names of the current and former DSS employees popped up.

"Yeah, that's him,� said a woman who didn’t want us to use her name
while looking at the mug shot of Mark Andrew, Jr.

She says she remembers Andrew's face. He is a children's services worker
with Stanly County Department of Social Services.

"He came to my house one day when DSS got a call about my granddaughter."

That granddaughter ran out of an open door and into the street.

"Asked me all kinds of questions about why she was in the road and who
took care of her,� she said.

Child Protective Services investigates maltreatment, abuse, neglect and
dependency and tries to fix the problems.

"It was an honest mistake, she got out,� she said. "Sent me a letter
saying case was closed."

Andrew's case isn't closed. Neither is fellow child services worker
Jennifer Burden and former DSS employee Rita McKeithan.

Police say all three used fake prescriptions to get drugs. Andrews is
also charged with trafficking amphetamines and McKeithan with
trafficking opium.

Police say the trafficking charges are due to the amounts and the packaging.

Police say nothing indicates drugs were at the DSS office, sold, or tied
to clients.

Monday, the suspects aren't home, moved or are in jail.

Acquaintances and neighbors say given the charges, if these three were
making judgments and decisions about other people's lives -- one word
comes to mind -- hypocrites.

Stanly County DSS did not return our phone calls.

All three are due in court May 12.






An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"

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

every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...

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/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological 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.

THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST

Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs…

THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia

http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6

This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.

http://www.jbs.org/node/4632

Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail

FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler

http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc

HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN

http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html

Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News

http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm

A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca

30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed

Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support

80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.

The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991

Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s
foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing.

This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would
have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in
the first place.

Front-page story in USA Today.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close

The full study is available here.

http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf

The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
walking wreckage...

CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....

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...

Is Child Protection going to reach the point where,
like the pharmaceuticals found in city water supplies,
the government conceals these stories?

It's worked SO WELL to reassure people about
city drinking water! LOL

Maybe concealing these stories will avoid
people deciding that caseworkers are scum?

Too late!

On Mar 18, 8:30 am, fx wrote:
3 social workers face drug charges
TONY BURBECK
WCNC

http://www.charlotte.com/breaking_ne...ry/541802.html

ALBEMARLE --
Two Stanly County Department of Social Services employees whose job it
is to protect kids face drug charges.

A former Stanly County DSS employee has also been arrested and charged.

Police say they got medications with fake prescriptions.

They also say the arrests came as a result of a separate drug
investigation. The names of the current and former DSS employees popped up.

"Yeah, that's him," said a woman who didn't want us to use her name
while looking at the mug shot of Mark Andrew, Jr.

She says she remembers Andrew's face. He is a children's services worker
with Stanly County Department of Social Services.

"He came to my house one day when DSS got a call about my granddaughter."

That granddaughter ran out of an open door and into the street.

"Asked me all kinds of questions about why she was in the road and who
took care of her," she said.

Child Protective Services investigates maltreatment, abuse, neglect and
dependency and tries to fix the problems.

"It was an honest mistake, she got out," she said. "Sent me a letter
saying case was closed."

Andrew's case isn't closed. Neither is fellow child services worker
Jennifer Burden and former DSS employee Rita McKeithan.

Police say all three used fake prescriptions to get drugs. Andrews is
also charged with trafficking amphetamines and McKeithan with
trafficking opium.

Police say the trafficking charges are due to the amounts and the packaging.

Police say nothing indicates drugs were at the DSS office, sold, or tied
to clients.

Monday, the suspects aren't home, moved or are in jail.

Acquaintances and neighbors say given the charges, if these three were
making judgments and decisions about other people's lives -- one word
comes to mind -- hypocrites.

Stanly County DSS did not return our phone calls.

All three are due in court May 12.

An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"

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

every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...

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/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological 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.

THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST

Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs...

THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia

http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6

This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.

http://www.jbs.org/node/4632

Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...16,0,5019944.s...

FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler

http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc

HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN

http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html

Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News

http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm

A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca

30% of the nation's homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed

Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support

80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.

The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991

Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America's
foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing.

This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would
have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in
the first place.

Front-page story in USA Today.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...tudy_N.htm?csp...

The full study is available here.

http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf

The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
walking wreckage...

CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....

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...

On Mar 18, 6:09�pm, Greegor wrote:
Is Child Protection going to reach the point where,
like the pharmaceuticals found in city water supplies,
the government conceals these stories?

It's worked SO WELL to reassure people about
city drinking water! � LOL

Maybe concealing these stories will avoid
people deciding that caseworkers are scum?

Too late!

On Mar 18, 8:30 am, fx wrote:




Hey Asshat,

It doesn't look concealed to me. Compared w/the numbers of parents
who abuse their kids due to using drugs, I'd say the number of
caseworkers isn't all that bad. PLus, fire the caseworkers who break
laws. Hold them to the highest standards.

On Mar 20, 7:06Â*am, SRplus wrote:
On Mar 18, 6:09�pm, Greegor wrote:

Is Child Protection going to reach the point where,
like the pharmaceuticals found in city water supplies,
the government conceals these stories?

It's worked SO WELL to reassure people about
city drinking water! � LOL

Maybe concealing these stories will avoid
people deciding that caseworkers are scum?

Too late!

SRplus wrote
Hey Asshat,

It doesn't look concealed to me.

I didn't say it was, but I know they'd LIKE it to be!

I used the analogy of the recent story where
pharmaceuticals have been found in city
water supplies all over the country, but some
efforts have been made to conceal this "to avoid panic".

Want to argue that CPS agencies don't have PR people?

Compared w/the numbers of parents
who abuse their kids due to using drugs,

Usually they get them for NEGLECT or
"risk of neglect", not actual abuse.

It's an all purpose slippery slope label that
could be applied to almost any parent.

(And conveniently NOT applied to agents of the state.)

I'd say the number of
caseworkers isn't all that bad.

Sure, the level of DRUG ADDICTION and drug dealing
among Child Protection caseworkers is just fine! LOL

Â*PLus, fire the caseworkers who break
laws. Â*Hold them to the highest standards.

What do you mean when you say hold them to
the highest standards?

Currently the system does just the opposite.
They are granted exceptions and the standards
are reduced to make their job easy.

Standards? Like requiring them to be LICENSED SW's?

Standards? Like a spelled out code of conduct where
any violation is grounds for termination?

Standards? Like removing all legal immunity when
laws are broken?

Standards? Like when Florida actually passed a
special law making CPS caseworker lies/perjury a FELONY?

How about weeding out the ones with malevolent
parent-hating attitudes?

On Mar 20, 12:50 pm, Greegor wrote:
On Mar 20, 7:06 am, SRplus wrote:

On Mar 18, 6:09�pm, Greegor wrote:

Is Child Protection going to reach the point where,
like the pharmaceuticals found in city water supplies,
the government conceals these stories?

It's worked SO WELL to reassure people about
city drinking water! � LOL

Maybe concealing these stories will avoid
people deciding that caseworkers are scum?

Too late!

SRplus wrote

Hey Asshat,

It doesn't look concealed to me.

I didn't say it was, but I know they'd LIKE it to be!

He didn't claim you said it was concealed.

I used the analogy of the recent story where
pharmaceuticals have been found in city
water supplies all over the country, but some
efforts have been made to conceal this "to avoid panic".

Efforts?

Such as?

Want to argue that CPS agencies don't have PR people?

Post the evidence that some specific agencies do.

Compared w/the numbers of parents
who abuse their kids due to using drugs,

Usually they get them for NEGLECT or
"risk of neglect", not actual abuse.

Having a meth lab in the home isn't good enough?

It's an all purpose slippery slope label that
could be applied to almost any parent.

Explain.

(And conveniently NOT applied to agents of the state.)

I'd say the number of
caseworkers isn't all that bad.

Sure, the level of DRUG ADDICTION and drug dealing
among Child Protection caseworkers is just fine! LOL

Post the evidence.

PLus, fire the caseworkers who break
laws. Hold them to the highest standards.

What do you mean when you say hold them to
the highest standards?

Currently the system does just the opposite.
They are granted exceptions and the standards
are reduced to make their job easy.

Standards? Like requiring them to be LICENSED SW's?

Where is that a requirement?

Standards? Like a spelled out code of conduct where
any violation is grounds for termination?

ANY violation?

Such as?

Be specific.

Standards? Like removing all legal immunity when
laws are broken?

Standards? Like when Florida actually passed a
special law making CPS caseworker lies/perjury a FELONY?

There are already laws regarding perjury... that rarely are enforced.

How about weeding out the ones with malevolent
parent-hating attitudes?

Define those attitudes.