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A retired social services officer set fire to his home with his soninside, officials say.
Man charged with attempted murder
A retired social services officer set fire to his home with his son inside, officials say. By NICOLAS ZIMMERMAN | 247-4760 December 4, 2007 http://www.dailypress.com/news/local...,5442297.story MIDDLESEX - — A retired Middlesex County social services officer is awaiting extradition from a Maryland jail to Middlesex County on charges he torched his Wake home while his adopted slept inside. Art Bracke, who retired this summer after more than 20 years as a child protective services officer in Middlesex, is charged with arson and first-degree attempted murder in the Nov. 17 fire at his Mill Wharf Road home. A state police arson investigator was called to the scene shortly after firefighters responded to the blaze around 1 p.m. Nov. 17, according to Lavinia Thornton, public information officer for the Middlesex Sheriff's department. Josh Bracke, 19, was inside the home when the fire started but was unharmed, Thornton said. He told police later that when he ran out of the house, he saw his father speed out of the driveway, according to the sheriff's office. Around 5 p.m. that day, Bracke, 61, was involved in a head-on collision near Joppa, Md., north of Baltimore, said Maryland State Police Investigator J.E. DeCourcy. When Bracke was arrested, just a few miles from the accident scene, he was carrying two handguns that were not registered in Maryland, DeCourcy said. Bracke was taken into custody and charged by Maryland state police with DUI, leaving the scene of an accident and two counts of possession of a concealed deadly weapon. As the county's senior social services officer, Bracke investigated reports of child abuse and neglect and worked with courts to place children in foster homes. According to press clippings and a Web site maintained by Bracke, he founded and served as executive director of New Beginnings, a therapeutic foster home for boys located in Newport News and later in Middlesex. He ran the home from 1975 to 1985, according to his Web site. Bracke is being held without bail at the Harford County Detention Center, Bel Air, Md. Extradition to Virginia should take about a month, Thornton said. 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 PROGRAMS.... 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. 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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