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...