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Accused Child Molester Was A Foster Parent Licensed By The State of Idaho
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August 28, 2003 Accused Child Molester Was A Foster Parent Licensed By The State of Idaho By Mike Keckler BOISE - Authorities call Daniel Joseph Bell a predator who targeted young boys. But for three and a half years, the State of Idaho placed three kids in his care as a licensed foster parent. Despite that, The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare defends their system. "No system is perfect, I think we use the best practices in our system for approving foster families," says Spokesman Tom Shanahan. Health and Welfare conducts criminal background checks on all perspective foster parents which includes fingerprinting. They also do regular one on one interviews with foster children. Shanahan says none of the children in Bells care raised any red flags. But last January, Bell's license was revoked and the department won't say why. "There was no criminal activity involved and it wasn't related to the present situation," said Shanahan. But authorities say there were allegations. "There were allegations of physical abuse and we do know that he lost his license," said Ada County Undersheriff Gary Raney who says he does not know if any of Bell's foster children are among his alleged victims. Investigators claim to have found more than 40 pictures of young boys in Bell's home - some in what they call sadistic positions. Besides his stint as a foster parent, he also volunteered at a navy young group and worked at a local boys home. "All of these things are coming together to show what I think could be a pattern of trying to target young boys," Raney said. When Bell's arrest was announced, authorities claimed Bell enticed boys to go camping with him where he would molest them. Since the story broke, Raney says they've gotten 13 new leads including one from a neighbor who claims Bell used to stand by the back fence and stare into their children's bedroom window. A Meridian-based social worker is critical of a system that put troubled children in Bell's care. "The system doesn't work very well at protecting these kids," says Brenda Harper, a licensed clinical social worker who also says that when it comes to picking foster parents, there's only so much the system can do. "They are overworked and overburdened and someone comes along and says you know, I'll take care of these kids and they don't have a past history - beggars can't be choosers. We don't have that many people," Harper said. |
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Accused Child Molester Was A Foster Parent Licensed By The State of Idaho
Careful.
CPS Might say posting your childs name on a newsgroup is child endangerment and remove her. Better kiss CPS rear a lot! A TV on air personality admitted that she had pushed the pro-CPS propaganda for years in her job on air. Then her child was removed because CPS didn't like that she was a career woman. Suddenly she had a revelation about CPS ""good intentions"". By the way, your hunch is wrong about blood parents being the child abusers statistically. So much so that CPS here tried to make removal automatic if Single mom's had a man move in. Based on the STATS about non-relatives perpetrating. The STATS say the opposite of what your hunch. But the move here FAILED when it was pointed out the implications of that SAME THEORY for Foster Care where NEITHER caregiver is a blood relative. CPS ALMOST shot themselves in the foot with that one. Besides, it's like a grocery store saying that it has only been robbed by black people so they are all guilty. Misuse of statistics. In fact, CPS has a long tradition of covering up abuse in Foster Care (they're ALLIES!). One state even had a hidden room full of UNINVESTIGATED abuse complaints on foster care providers, their good buddies. You never mentioned the fact that a lot of the kids who DIE or are injured or abused in Foster Care were removed because of a ""messy house"" or other such trivia. They'll use the "white glove test" on parents but their track record proves they are just the opposite of experts at child care. Time and time again they have been caught THEMSELVES guilty of Child NEGLECT, FAILURE TO PROTECT, and CHILD ENDANGERMENT. But CPS and caseworkers are for the most part immune from prosecution for this. Take away their government IMMUNITIES and you'd see who the REAL child abusers are! They are the models of government ineptitude. Really abused kids go unprotected and die while THOUSANDS of kids are damaged by needless removals because the agency funding is based on body counts. Gelles who wrote the ASFA law is grumpy about this. He's "one of their own"! |
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Accused Child Molester Was A Foster Parent Licensed By The State of Idaho
Greg Hanson wrote:
Careful. CPS Might say posting your childs name on a newsgroup is child endangerment and remove her. Better kiss CPS rear a lot! [] Really abused kids go unprotected and die while THOUSANDS of kids are damaged by needless removals because the agency funding is based on body counts. ------------ More bull**** meant to make us all see that CPS=bad so these child-abusers can abuse their kids with impunity. BULL****! Steve |
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Accused Child Molester Was A Foster Parent Licensed By The Stateof Idaho
On 1 Sep 2003, Cathy Weeks wrote: (Greg Hanson) wrote in message . com... By the way, your hunch is wrong about blood parents being the child abusers statistically. So much so that CPS here tried to make removal automatic if Single mom's had a man move in. Based on the STATS about non-relatives perpetrating. The STATS say the opposite of what your hunch. Yeah? Want to post them? Sources? And an anti-CPS website isn't a reliable source. Cathy Weeks Mommy to Kivi Alexis 12/01 USA Today, 10/20/98 SAN FRANCISCO. A child's chances of dying from abuse or neglect are eight times higher when a biologically unrelated adult, usually a boyfriend, lives in the home, and six times greater with a stepfather present, suggests a study out Monday. The three-year report is among the first to compare the home lives of children killed by maltreatment with those of a control group (youngsters who died of natural causes). The study involved 175 Missouri kids, every state resident under 5 who died of maltreatment over three years, and 296 randomly selected youngsters who died from natural causes. Despite the higher risk for kids living with unrelated adults, baby sitters weren't the problem. "There was only one confirmed case of a baby sitter involved," says St. Paul, Minn., family physician Michael Stiffman, the study director. He reported at the American Academy of Pediatrics meeting here. The national figures on child maltreatment deaths are comparatively small: Of 19.3 million kids under 5 in 1996, an estimated 924 died from abuse or neglect. And in the new study, two-thirds of fatal maltreatment happened in homes with only biological parents. The findings confirm smaller, uncontrolled studies, says David Finkelhor of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at University of New Hampshire in Durham. Live-in male companions could see a woman's kids as rivals, he says. "Why haven't the women married these guys? It could be a sign of an unstable relationship with more stress." Some experts think biologically rooted impulses help account for abuse by unrelated men. In some primate tribes, "one of the first things a newly dominant male does is kill the offspring of the female he's going to mate with," says Richard Gelles, a family violence specialist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Substance abuse, violent men and young mothers are common features of homes with severe child abuse, says Deborah Daro of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse. "Boyfriends may be a proxy for lots of other factors. There's nothing wrong with a boyfriend or stepfather in the home. It's what kind of person he is that counts." Doan |
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Accused Child Molester Was A Foster Parent Licensed By The State of Idaho
"Cathy Weeks" wrote in message om... (Greg Hanson) wrote in message . com... By the way, your hunch is wrong about blood parents being the child abusers statistically. So much so that CPS here tried to make removal automatic if Single mom's had a man move in. Based on the STATS about non-relatives perpetrating. The STATS say the opposite of what your hunch. Yeah, the mother didn't abuse the children... she just brought in the guy who did. Yeah? Want to post them? Sources? And an anti-CPS website isn't a reliable source. Greg is simply a source of amusement. He has been for years. Cathy Weeks Mommy to Kivi Alexis 12/01 |
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Accused Child Molester Was A Foster Parent Licensed By The State of Idaho
Destroycps!!!!!!!!!! Destroycps!!!!!!!!!! Destroycps!!!!!!!!!!
Cathy Weeks, Mommy to Kivi Alexis 12/01 Yeah? Want to post them [STATS about non-relatives perpetrating]? Sources? And an anti-CPS website isn't a reliable source. Destroycps! Doan gave you a USA Today article, and there's other objective evidence as well. But it's strange that a new mother should be demanding proof of what should be intimately obvious to her. Do you think anybody else could love your baby as much as you do? Do you believe anybody else would be as concerned for your baby's safety as you are? Probably not. It's not that you're such a wonderful person; it's instinct. And that's the instinct that keeps the human race alive. Destroycps!!!!!!!!!! Destroycps!!!!!!!!!! Destroy dfs!!!!!!!!!! |
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