Child "Protective" Services: Destroyers of Families

Child "Protective" Services: Destroyers of Families
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Date: 2007-11-28, 1:35PM CST

http://austin.craigslist.org/vnn/492312472.html

There is a nation wide concern for our child protection service agencies
failing to perform their duties adequately and with competence. State
and federally funded Child Protective Service agencies are arbitrarily
seizing children from non-abusive homes in the absence of evidence or
realistic cause to believe that the child is in danger of harm, and in
gross violation of their own protocols, state and federal regulations,
and the Constitution of the United States. Children failed by the system
have died while in the protective custody of
the state, in the care of CPS and in foster care.

Many children are taken from fit and loving parents solely based upon
false allegations reported anonymously to a hotline, or as a result of a
caseworker’s own personal judgment, or even by someone with a vendetta.

Federal statistics say that there are approximately 3 million reports of
suspected child abuse and neglect each year. The U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services documents 900,000 as "substantiated", leaving
over 2 million families per year falsely accused of child maltreatment.
Of the "substantiated" cases, 68% do NOT involve child maltreatment,
according to the federal authorities.

Here in Texas, we have a similar rate of unsubstantiated cases of child
abuse. “In 76.4 percent of investigations, investigative caseworkers
either rule out abuse or neglect, or are unable to determine whether it
occurred.� (Protecting Texas Children, Health and Human Services
Commission, CPS Reform Recommendations 1.5 Screen Out Unnecessary
Investigations...page 22 January 6, 2005)

In 2005, the child population in Caldwell County was 10, 258. There were
510 intakes alleging abuse/neglect, 448 cases were assigned to CPS
caseworkers, 329 completed cases alleging abuse/neglect, 539 alleged
victims in completed cases, 101 confirmed cases, 153 confirmed victims,
and 131 cases opened for in home services. (Source: The Texas Department
of Family and Protective Services 2005 Data Book)

Nothing in our life experience is more devastating than the abrupt,
brutal, and
unwarranted forced separation by strangers. The parent-child bond is our
strongest instinct, superceding all else. To have this bond severed by
state agents who possess unhindered power, and give no thought or
consideration to the fear, anxiety, and trauma that their actions cause,
is a crime against humanity. This is happening to 4,600 children per
day, right here in the United States of America.

The law states that a child can only be removed from their home as a
last resort, and only when the child is at imminent risk of serious
harm, but CPS does not follow established law and policy, and nobody
makes them.

Actual acts of child abuse or severe neglect are not the primary
allegations used to seize children from their families, meaning
deliberate acts, willfully committed with the intent to harm - contrary
to public assumption. CPS employs a method known as the "Clinical
Model", in which the behaviors of the child are used to claim that there
is some sort of obscure psychological abuse in the home that has
traumatized the child.

The state gains entry into private homes following the filing of a
report of suspected child maltreatment. This report may be filed
anonymously by anyone: a vindictive neighbor, a teacher, a day care
provider, or an unstable busybody.

Once CPS gains entry, the family is put under a distorted microscope.
Social workers will ask bizarre and invasive questions. Do the parents
ever argue? Do they ever raise their voices? This is documented as
"domestic violence." No surprise here since the majority of the funding
for domestic violence programs is channeled through CPS. If parents deny
domestic abuse or child abuse, they are told that they are "in denial",
and this is all "part of the syndrome." Admitting and confessing is one
of the requirements. Truth is not important. Saying the right things to
keep federal funding streams flowing, is. It’s all about the money.

“Child protection is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We
spend $12 billion a year on it. The money goes to tens of thousands of
state employees, collateral professionals such as lawyers, court
personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and
CPS contracted vendors such as counselors, therapists, more evaluators,
junk psychologists, residential facilities, foster parents, adoptive
parents, MSPCC, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, YMCA, etc.�
Nev Moore, Founder of Justice for Families.

Under the CPS microscope every word, inflection, and action is
attributed with the most bizarre and outlandish "meanings." If you have
ever bounced a check, you have a "criminal record"; if your child is
shy, they are "fearful and withdrawn"; if they are outgoing and active,
they are "acting out due to the trauma."

After a child is seized by the state, the parents are processed through
a sham civil court proceeding that makes a total mockery of our judicial
system and are often told they may not speak or present exculpatory
evidence. Exculpatory evidence is either not allowed, or "disappears"
from the case file.

You can lose your children from an anonymous phone call, with NO
involvement from law enforcement, and NO charges of any wrong-doing. CPS
controls the courtroom and employs the tactic of delay and “hide the
ball� to keep families separated. This can go on for months and even
years while children are separated from their families.

These cases usually degenerate into an exercise in character
assassination and slander by CPS where actual acts of child abuse or
neglect that place the child at "imminent risk of serious harm" are not
even discussed. Vague, obscure, and distorted allegations about the
parent’s personalities comprise most of the court room testimony,
including the parents "denial", "hostility", and "uncooperativeness." .

Federal law gives CPS 15 months to seek Termination of Parental Rights
and have the child adopted out (and collect hefty adoption incentive
bonuses—did we mention the money?) So, children are being put up for
adoption based on the timeline, even when parents have not had a chance
to answer the initial allegations, and in the absence of any evidence or
charges that they have harmed their child. Social workers routinely
perjure themselves under oath without ever facing any penalties or
admonishment.

Meanwhile, children who have been removed from their grieving families
are placed in state contracted foster homes and institutions which
receive federal benefits. Residentials and other institutions hold
multi-million dollar contracts with the social service agencies.
Children are drugged, restrained, put in straight-jackets, some are
sexually, physically, and emotionally abused. In Texas, 12,000 foster
youth received psychotropic drugs in 2004. Each child averaged 21
psychotropic drug prescriptions a year. ALL are tormented by a system
out of control.

Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, in Fiscal 2003, 30
foster children died in our state's care; in Fiscal 2004, 38 foster
children died; and in Fiscal 2005, 48 foster children died. Data shows
that while the number of foster children in our state's care increased
24 percent from 26,133 in Fiscal 2003 to 32,474 in Fiscal 2005, the
number of deaths increased 60 percent (Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn
Statement On Foster Care Abuse given Friday, June 23, 2006 in Austin, Texas)

$12. billion of unmonitored federal funding per year is poured into this
system. Service providers, called vendors, hold multi-million dollar
contracts with CPS. Families are ordered to engage in "services" with
these contracted vendors, all of whom bill Medicaid at enormously
inflated rates for "services" that are often inappropriate, unnecessary,
and completely irrelevant to the families situation, or to child
maltreatment.

Families are coerced into participating by intimidation and the threat
of losing their children. In return for fraudulently collected profits,
the contracted vendors provide manufactured "evidence" of child
maltreatment to support the claim that they need to keep the child in
foster care. In return for this they receive more federal funding. Now
this is truly job security.

Behind the money is the socialist ideology that children should be
raised by the state. This agenda was promoted by Dr. C. Henry Kempe
(author of the Battered Child Syndrome) in the 1970's. An open supporter
of the Communist party, he stated "We must remove children from the
crude influence of their families and, frankly, nationalize them." Dr.
Kempe emphasized the need for a "stealthy, incremental approach" to
implementing the agenda to make families obsolete.

From what I have seen and experienced at the Caldwell County Judicial
Center in
Lockhart, CPS is in the forefront of making families obsolete. We are
among the
statistics. Each child in your family has a 1 in 25 chance of being the
subject of a child abuse/neglect investigation this year. The chance of
getting a flat tire on the family car is 1 in 70 (including Firestones).

For information about CPS, drugging foster children for profit, and the
social engineering of our nation’s children, please check out my site
at: http://texasroadrunner.spaces.live.com/

Citizens should NOT be more afraid of social workers than they are of
criminals. To this end, I have uploaded over 1,000 documents in PDF
format for your edification and enlightenment in the Public Folders
section of my site (scroll down to the bottom of the page and you’ll see
them). Knowledge is power. Empower yourself so you don’t become the next
victim of America’s SS (social services).

Carmen Rodriguez, BSN, RN
Falsely accused casualty of the child abuse industrial complex










_"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the
benefit of the children the people will happily endure almost any
curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
Adolph Hitler, 1943, Mein Kampf_




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...

The greatest credit is a wife and son!
And the greatest danger is loosing them to a system like Americas i wish america The destruction it deserves and any other country that is taking children from good mothers and fathers for this I see the end is nigh,
sorry it's and indestructible undeniableness fact Richard Sievert