Family Attorney Blows the Whistle on State Child Protective Services

Family Attorney Blows the Whistle on State Child Protective Services
Agencies
By Bill Hahn
Published: 2007-07-10 21:53

http://www.jbs.org/node/4685

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:

Practicing family attorney Gregory Hession confirms child
protective service agencies engage in abusive, deliberate and dirty
tricks motivated by federal funding.

Follow this link to the original source: "Families Separated by the
State"

http://www.jbs.org/node/4631


COMMENTARY:

Every year thousands of families are forcibly separated from their
children based on unsubstantiated or outright false allegations of child
abuse. Gregory Hession, a practicing constitutional and family law
attorney in Mass., says that for these families, the nightmare has only
begun.

Children in child protective services (CPS) have been abused,
wounded, brain washed, drugged, adopted out and some have even died.
Hession has represented hundreds of these families and has dedicated
himself to exposing CPS abuses and reuniting loving, deserving families.
He documents CPS abuses in the July 23, 2007, issue of The New American
magazine.

Hession's articles highlight true stories of families who have been
targeted by CPS agencies. All the families discussed are Hession's clients.

Hession writes that state CPS agencies continually yank children
out of good, loving homes based on flimsy allegations of child abuse. He
asserts that the child protection business generates so much money, and
employs so many social workers, therapists, lawyers and other
professionals, that it needs a steady flow of cases to keep all of these
workers employed. In Mass., the cost of these state services totals into
the billions of dollars, which the state can leverage to obtain
prodigious quantities of federal reimbursement monies.

In 2005, more than 3.3 million reports involving 6 million children
were made to state child-abuse hot lines. The vast majority of these
eventually proved to be untrue. Statistics from the U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services show 40 percent of allegations are initially
screened out. Of the remaining 60 percent, nearly two-thirds of
child-abuse investigations are unsubstantiated. Yet, more than 500,000
children are currently in foster care and another 300,000 or so are
forcibly removed from their homes by the system every year.

Hession states that genuine child abuse obviously does exist and
those involved in its practice need to be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law. However, he writes that most people would likely disagree
with CPS in how it defines abuse or neglect. Families are attacked for
home-schooling or spanking their children, for not overseeing all play
activities, or for when a child has an accident. Only a small percentage
of the 3.3 million reported cases annually prove to be genuine abuse,
and the system does a bad job of sorting it out.

The articles conclude that millions of children are imperiled by
this imperious, abusive CPS system, which works quietly without much
public scrutiny. Change will likely come only when the cruelties have
been exposed, and the public reaffirms that raising children is the
responsibility of families, not the state.




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

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

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

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

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

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

*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*

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

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

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

On Jul 10, 10:58 pm, "0:-]" wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:37:31 -0700, fx wrote:

....I'll post a slanted opinion piece and pretend it's not
propaganda....

Right, fx?

Kane wrote
This one kind of reads like krp, no?

How so?



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Family Attorney Blows the Whistle on State Child Protective Services
Agencies
By Bill Hahn
Published: 2007-07-10 21:53

http://www.jbs.org/node/4685

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:

Practicing family attorney Gregory Hession confirms child
protective service agencies engage in abusive, deliberate and dirty
tricks motivated by federal funding.

Follow this link to the original source: "Families Separated by the
State"

http://www.jbs.org/node/4631

COMMENTARY:

Every year thousands of families are forcibly separated from their
children based on unsubstantiated or outright false allegations of child
abuse. Gregory Hession, a practicing constitutional and family law
attorney in Mass., says that for these families, the nightmare has only
begun.

Children in child protective services (CPS) have been abused,
wounded, brain washed, drugged, adopted out and some have even died.
Hession has represented hundreds of these families and has dedicated
himself to exposing CPS abuses and reuniting loving, deserving families.
He documents CPS abuses in the July 23, 2007, issue of The New American
magazine.

Hession's articles highlight true stories of families who have been
targeted by CPS agencies. All the families discussed are Hession's clients.

Hession writes that state CPS agencies continually yank children
out of good, loving homes based on flimsy allegations of child abuse. He
asserts that the child protection business generates so much money, and
employs so many social workers, therapists, lawyers and other
professionals, that it needs a steady flow of cases to keep all of these
workers employed. In Mass., the cost of these state services totals into
the billions of dollars, which the state can leverage to obtain
prodigious quantities of federal reimbursement monies.

In 2005, more than 3.3 million reports involving 6 million children
were made to state child-abuse hot lines. The vast majority of these
eventually proved to be untrue. Statistics from the U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services show 40 percent of allegations are initially
screened out. Of the remaining 60 percent, nearly two-thirds of
child-abuse investigations are unsubstantiated. Yet, more than 500,000
children are currently in foster care and another 300,000 or so are
forcibly removed from their homes by the system every year.

Hession states that genuine child abuse obviously does exist and
those involved in its practice need to be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law. However, he writes that most people would likely disagree
with CPS in how it defines abuse or neglect. Families are attacked for
home-schooling or spanking their children, for not overseeing all play
activities, or for when a child has an accident. Only a small percentage
of the 3.3 million reported cases annually prove to be genuine abuse,
and the system does a bad job of sorting it out.

The articles conclude that millions of children are imperiled by
this imperious, abusive CPS system, which works quietly without much
public scrutiny. Change will likely come only when the cruelties have
been exposed, and the public reaffirms that raising children is the
responsibility of families, not the state.

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

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

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

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

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

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

*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*

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

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

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