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Foster father sentenced to 30 years for shaking infant, causing herto lose sight and ability to walk
Man sentenced to 30 years for shaking infant, causing her to lose sight
and ability to walk http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content...aby.html?imw=Y Tuesday, February 12, 2008 By Tommy Witherspoon Tribune-Herald staff writer A 2-year-old Bosque County girl lost her eyesight and the ability to walk and spent 30 days in the hospital after her foster father, Matthew Lewis Anderson, violently shook her because she was crying. McLennan County Assistant District Attorney Melanie Walker thinks a year in prison for Anderson for every day the child was in the hospital was a proper plea offer. “Anybody who is a parent feels frustration, but most people have the sense to just walk away,” Walker said. “He didn’t, and this little girl suffered serious injuries.” Anderson, 51, of Waco, pleaded guilty Monday to injury to a child with serious bodily injury, a first-degree felony, after admitting that he shook the child in April 2007 and told her not to cry. Judge Ralph Strother of Waco’s 19th State District Court sentenced him to 30 years in prison. Anderson and his wife, Cassiopia, were caring for the child and her infant sister as foster parents after Child Protective Services workers removed them from a neglectful home in Bosque County, according to reports filed in the case. Anderson and his wife, who was not home when the shaking occurred, had been foster parents since July 2005. They had cared for three infant foster children before taking in the sisters, according to a Texas Department of Family and Protective Services spokesman. They were making plans to adopt the child before she was injured, officials said. The other child was removed from the Anderson home and is in foster care in the Dallas area, Walker said. In an emotional victim-impact statement Monday, the child’s paternal grandmother, Joanna Kanui, who is caring for the child now, held up a photo of the young girl taken in the hospital. She told Anderson, who began to cry, that his guilt should not be assuaged if he learns in prison that the child’s condition has improved. Kanui told of a recent trip to McDonald’s with the girl. Another girl, about 3, came over and asked if she wanted to play. Kanui explained that the girl could not see and could not walk. “That’s OK. I’ll hold her hand,” the little girl told Kanui. Anderson was not the only one crying in the courtroom before Kanui ended her statement. Waco attorney Rob Swanton, who represents Anderson, said his client has been full of remorse about the incident. “Mr. Anderson has been devastated by what’s happened,” Swanton said. “He and his family, obviously, have been affected, as well as the girl’s family. He recognizes that 30 years is a harsh sentence, but he was willing to accept it because he knows this incident led to some very serious injuries, and he did not want to put his family or the victim’s family through a trial.” Meridian attorney Phil Robertson, who represented the child during CPS hearings, said doctors wondered if the child would survive her first day at the hospital. He said he thinks justice was served in the case. “It is very difficult to attract good foster parents to the system,” he said. “It is difficult work to begin with. But CPS has given the responsibility to several nonprofit agencies to screen applicants, and that is probably the place where the system breaks down as far as selection of foster parents.” Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the Department of Family and Protective Services, acknowledged Monday that the majority of foster families are recruited and screened by other agencies. “We are certainly pleased that the criminal justice system has worked in this very serious case and that it has come to a conclusion,” he said. “Fortunately, injuries due to maltreatment in foster care are extremely rare, and we are going to continue to work to try to stop them.” 757-5737 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. 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... |
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