Now I'm getting accused of giving bad information...

LMFAO!!!

Are You Kidding Me??

This parent basher gives me too much credit. Perhaps she should change the name of her blog to: A bra that fits, a can opener that works, and somebody elses kid.

Just a thought.

Interesting Training

Interesting Training

I don't think Susan is happy about this. And she removed all of our comments...

http://fostercarespacewarp.blogspot.com/2009/06/not-again.html

DHHS and DOJ Turn on the HEAT

DHHS and DOJ Turn on the HEAT

On May 20, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the creation of a new interagency effort, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), to combat Medicare fraud. Holder and Sebelius also announced the expansion of Strike Force team operations to Detroit and Houston. Medicare Fraud Strike Forces, currently in operation in South Florida and Los Angeles, fight Medicare fraud on a targeted local level.

Duke University Official Charged with Offering Up Adopted Son for Sex

Court papers show the investigation into Duke University employee accused of soliciting an adult to have sex with his adopted 5-year-old child began after a confidential informant claimed to have seen the man molest a young African-American child via online chats on multiple occasions.

Pedophilia in the Homosexual World

Judge Grants Discovery in Alamo Lawsuit

Judge Grants Discovery in Alamo Lawsuit

A federal judge will allow lawyers for the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries to seek certain documents from child-welfare officials in a lawsuit against the state.

Some court documents for your reading enjoyment

beverlytran's documents

Edmonton foster mom appeals manslaughter conviction

Edmonton foster mom appeals manslaughter conviction

A foster mother sentenced to three years for the death of a child in her care is appealing her conviction and asking for a new trial.

Jackson/Rowe Not the Biological Parents

Jackson/Rowe Not the Biological Parents

We've learned Michael Jackson was not the biological father of any of his children. And Debbie Rowe is not the biological mother of the two kids she bore for Michael. All three children were conceived in vitro -- outside the womb.

Note: And the plot thickens. Ok... He's dead now. Lets put it to rest.

Police Spend Hours Searching For Boy Already In CPS Custody

Police Spend Hours Searching For Boy Already In CPS Custody

Indianapolis police said Tuesday morning that a mildly autistic 12-year-old boy who they and other agencies searched for throughout the night was actually in the custody of Child Protective Services the whole time.

Holidays may cause emotional triggers for foster children

Holidays may cause emotional triggers for foster children

Cincinnati has some wonderful events to celebrate the holidays. We will soon be seeing some beautiful firework displays for the Fourth of July celebration. For many people, the holidays are a time of celebration and happiness. In the world of foster care, holidays may instead present a challenge. This can occur for a variety of reasons. Holidays may have meant something very different when the child lived with their birth family. The child may have either sad or happy memories of those holidays. The holiday may stur emotions which may intensify the child's sense of loss at this time.

Judge Hogan Critical Of CFSA Director Selection Process

Judge Hogan Critical Of CFSA Director Selection Process

This morning in U.S. District Court, Judge Thomas F. Hogan took up the on-going legal battle over the District’s Child and Family Services Agency. At issue was whether or not the agency could be held in contempt. Hogan devoted much of his consternation on the how the District went about picking Dr. Roque Gerald (pictured) to head up CFSA.

The Dangers of Vaccines - Part 2 (Autism, Mercury, HPV, MMR, Thimerosal, Aluminium, Vaccinations)

Health authorities claim vaccines are safe and that they prevent infectious diseases. Yet these claims are contradicted by statistics and medical studies.

Report: CPS not completing abuse investigations at group homes on time

Report: CPS not completing abuse investigations at group homes on time

A new report finds that Child Protective Services routinely misses deadlines when it comes to investigating allegations of abuse in group homes and treatment centers.

Former foster mother cleared

Former foster mother cleared

A former foster mother was cleared yesterday of charges that she had repeated sexual relations with her teenage foster son.

Vega Pleads Not Guilty In Death Of Her Foster Son

Vega Pleads Not Guilty In Death Of Her Foster Son

A South Sioux City woman has pleaded not guilty in the 2006 death of her foster son.

MTA officer charged with raping girl, 15

MTA officer charged with raping girl, 15

A Maryland Transit Administration police officer has been charged with raping a 15-year-old Elkridge girl who asked him for help finding her way home on the light rail, according to charging documents.

Michigan Man Not Snatched Tot

DNA results have debunked a Michigan man's claim that he could be a child who was snatched in New York in 1955.

Attorneys question courts' ruling of 1993 foster child's death case

Attorneys question courts' ruling of 1993 foster child's death case

The July 1993 suffocation of 3-year-old Louise Osborn at a Bloomington foster home set in motion 15 years of civil court proceedings to determine if any person or agency should be held accountable for her death.

CPS legislation

CPS legislation is under great debate.

Audit Finds Questionable Spending In DCS

An audit report by the state's comptroller shows some controversial spending in the Department of Children's Services.

Colo. man sues Arizona over son's death

Kim Posey reports. June 18, 2009.

Dreams of Forever Homes...

Greta is a 13-year-old girl living in foster care and hoping for a permanent home. Christine Devine has her story.

DCF social worker claims discrimination

DCF social worker claims discrimination

An African-American woman and social worker at the state Department of Children and Families city office has filed a discrimination complaint against the agency after being terminated from a job where she’s “never been written up for any disciplinary action” in 8½ years on the job, she said.

CAS Handbook of DIRTY TRICKS 4 Case Workers

CAS is Private Corporation maintaining 2.5 Billion Tax Dollars in funding per yr Ontario.

Enjoy your visits

Do not force your kids to talk about it.

Supreme Court says school strip search of student wrong

Supreme Court says school strip search of student wrong

Safford Middle School officials violated the constitutional rights of Savana Redding when they strip-searched her Oct. 8, 2003, while looking for ibuprofen pills, the United States Supreme Court decided June 25.

Note: Don't you just love how it takes the supreme court to show these assholes what anybody else knows with just a little bit of common sense?

Staff 'were in building' when social services laptops stolen in Blackburn

Staff 'were in building' when social services laptops stolen in Blackburn

FIFTEEN council-owned laptops were stolen while staff were working in the building, it has been revealed.

Facility restrained youth at high rate

Facility restrained youth at high rate

Youth at a Sheridan juvenile facility were physically restrained far more often than youth at similar institutions before the facility lost its state contract in March, according to documents from the Wyoming Department of Family Services.

State sued over cuts to disabled kids' care

State sued over cuts to disabled kids' care

Lawyers for three children with Down syndrome have sued in federal court to stop the state from cutting the hours of in-home care they receive.

Oregon's foster care kids shouldn't go it alone

Oregon's foster care kids shouldn't go it alone

It all sounds so familiar: A new law is passed after a child dies in foster care. Oregon child welfare workers will tighten their procedures, ensuring that her "death won't be in vain."

2 Teens Homeless After Foster Care Ends

2 Teens Homeless After Foster Care Ends

Nathan Green and Ryan Race, both 18 years old, are broke, homeless and often hungry.

Your request is being processed... Frank Lombard, Duke Univ. Official, Charged In Child Sex Case

Frank Lombard, Duke Univ. Official, Charged In Child Sex Case

A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering his adopted 5-year-old son for sex.

Anybody want a kid?

Adoption: Girl is eager for a family to cherish

The worker believes Gerisha would fit well into either a two- or single-parent home but admits the girl is "fiercely loyal" to her birth family.

Although Gerisha knows she can't return home, she still thinks that's exactly what she wants to do.

CPS walkout

These parents consented to CPS interview of their daughter outside their presence, however El Paso County Department of Human Services balked at the hitch: the parents intended to record the interview.

With regard to recording conversations, Colorado is a "one-party" state -- meaning that only one party need know that a conversation is being recorded, even if that party is also the recorder; nor is that party required to disclose that the conversation is being recorded to any of the other parties.

CPS records every single second of every single encounter they have with parents; it makes forging our own words into the very weapons with which they stab us in our backs so much easier. But when that shoe was put on both feet, CPS didn't much like they way they felt.

in the selfish interest of defending its ravenous and insatiable penchant for destroying families, CPS turned tail and ran out of this interview and into the protective arms of its legal counsel. Wouldn't it be nice if Moms and Dads had a similar option to simply stand up and run back into the loving arms of our kidnapped and hostage children??

A Joke

Farrah Fawcettt died early Thursday and went straight to Heaven. When she arrived she was met (appropriately for an Angel) by God who said due to the good life she had led she could have 1 wish. After some thought, Farrah advised God that her wish was "for all children on earth to be safe." Mysteriously Michael Jackson was dead one hour later.

I'm sorry...

Man who dropped off 9 kids now dad-to-be

Man who dropped off 9 kids now dad-to-be

Gary Staton said he had lost the will to be a parent after his wife died.

Now, the man who dropped off his nine kids under Nebraska's safe haven law is going to be a father again.

Judge told to appear in court

Judge told to appear in court

Two judges are embroiled in a legal battle that could force one judge to appear before the other in court next week, as part of a case filed by a formerly homeless man seeking custody of his son.

Circuit Judge Michael Gotsch has ordered County Probate Judge Peter Nemeth, who handles juvenile cases, to appear in court Thursday to explain why a 17-year-old boy hasn't been released from a foster home and returned to his father.

Other kids hurt in foster home: Families

Other kids hurt in foster home: Families

The grandparents of children who were in the same foster home where a man has been charged with assaulting a 10-week-old baby say they complained to government officials about their children's injuries as well.

Statistics bleak for children in foster care

Statistics bleak for children in foster care

The statistics documenting outcomes of children in foster care are bleak.

Only 58 percent had a high school degree at age 19, compared to 87 percent of youth not in foster care.

About one in five were homeless for one or more nights within a year after leaving foster care.

One in four will be incarcerated within the first two years after they leave the system.

Note: This is a sales pitch for CASA. As if they really make a difference.

Neb. court: Tribe can intervene in kids' cases

Neb. court: Tribe can intervene in kids' cases

Financially strapped American Indian tribes do not have to hire attorneys to represent their interests in child welfare cases, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

Christopher Slitor - Daughter Kidnapped by Arlingon CPS

Annual Fathers Day Demonstration - U.S. Capitol, 6-21-09 - Kit Slitor tells about how his daughter Sabrina was kidnapped by Arlington, VA CPS and family court.

Nancy Hey - Daughter Kidnapped by Arlingon CPS

Annual Fathers Day Demonstration - U.S. Capitol, 6-21-09 - Nancy Hey, wife of Kit Slitor, who's daughter Sabrina was kidnapped by Arlington CPS and placed in foster care with a well connected family.

Dead child's family slams social services 'failure'

Dead child's family slams social services 'failure'

Relatives of murdered toddler Demi Leigh Mahon have criticised Salford City Council for ignoring their concerns.

Demi Leigh's father, Gary Mahon, and grandmother, Frances Gillon, said they twice contacted the council to no avail.

Judge drops abuse charge involving exorcism

Judge drops abuse charge involving exorcism

A Gwinnett County magistrate has dismissed warrants accusing a woman of abusing her 15-year-old son by depriving him of food and water during an attempted exorcism.

Child protection: cash ‘not the reason for failures’

Child protection: cash ‘not the reason for failures’

The leader of Dundee City Council today said he agreed with the Scottish Government that a lack of central funding was not responsible for the failures in the city’s child protection services (writes David Clegg).

Note: That's right. It's not the cash it's the incompetence of the workers.

Child Custody False Accusations - Two Tools You Can Use to Defend Against This Very Personal Attack

By: Ed Brooks

There is nothing that is more surprising or hurtful than the bitter sting of a personal attack. And no attack is more personal than being falsely accused of something that involves your child. Whether it is an accusation of directly harming the child like a physical assault, or mental abuse, or if it is an accusation in an attempt to keep you from seeing your child like drug, or alcohol abuse it is all very personal.

One of the worst things about it is that you realize, in a very personal way, how venerable everyone is to these false accusations. Of course the focal point that makes this such a horrendous offense is that it could cost you time and even a relationship with your child. And it is that hard wired genetic parental sense of protection that gets triggered. It isn't really about you, it is about keeping your child safe. And here you are being faced with leaving them in the protection of someone who has no problem with harming their relationship.

The 2 major problems you typically face with false allegations are:
1: The element of surprise. This is normally sprung on you and you have no idea it was coming.
2: The difficulty of disproving a negative. There is no good answer to "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
On the other hand you do have to tools that work in your favor.

1: The complete lack of a documented history. While you probably have loads of email or texts complaining about clothes, food, or something trivial. Where's the major allegations complaints?
2: The motivation driving the allegation. Why resort to false allegations? You must be doing something right.
Because it caught you off guard, you were not prepared to deal with it as quickly as you should. Depending on the type of allegation and how it came about, you may find yourself kept from your child, or finding it in court documents that were served on you. Either way it is an unpleasant feeling.

If you find yourself talking to a CPS worker or court worker unexpectedly, you should make sure you ask the question, if they know you are in a high conflict custody battle. This in most instances is all they need to hear. If you don't say that and find yourself in much more dire straits, then share some email or texts with the investigator. Then ask the question, if this is such a horrible crime, why is the other parent concerned with daily tasks in their communication with you? Why not address this horrible accusation directly?

While you cannot directly disprove a negative, you can point the light and ask why now? Above all, don't panic. This normally means you were doing well and they fear losing control. Keep your cool and ask why now? Why this? Why not before? These cases are painful but they can be won if you ask the right questions.

Ed Brooks knows firsthand how painful a High Conflict Child Custody battle can be. Ed has created a site where parents can get advice on how to handle all aspects of a high conflict Child Custody battle. If you want to learn more about handling False Allegations issues you can find it here.

Abuse in Foster Homes

Abuse in Foster Homes

Happens all the time.

Man sues Trust for foster 'abuse'

Man sues Trust for foster 'abuse'

A man from Londonderry is suing the Western Health Trust for damages because he alleges he was beaten and kicked by his now-dead foster parents.

Ex-foster father sentenced for abusing girls in his care

Ex-foster father sentenced for abusing girls in his care

A former foster father, once licensed by the state to take care of abused and neglected children in Anchorage, will go to prison for sexually abusing the girls he was supposed to protect.

10-year-old son attempts to kill adoptive parents

10-year-old son attempts to kill adoptive parents

A couple have spoken of their fears that their adopted 10-year-old son will kill them unless he receives the special residential care he needs.

Michael Jackson: star's family offer to take in children

Michael Jackson: star's family offer to take in children

Michael Jackson leaves behind three children, all of whom bear his name. Their future is said to be set out in his will but family members including Jackson’s mother, Katherine, have already offered to take care of the orphans following their father’s death.

Social services fail toddler who was punched, kicked and bitten to death by a 15 year old boy

Social services fail toddler who was punched, kicked and bitten to death by a 15 year old boy

After McCluney, the troubled teenager, who was of low intelligence and 'poor moral development', was today convicted of her murder, it can now be revealed that social workers ignored a catalogue of evidence that Demi-Leigh was at risk.

Agencies failed to safeguard babies

Agencies failed to safeguard babies

Note: That's because they're a bunch of incompetent morons.

Opportunities to intervene before two vulnerable youngsters were murdered by their violent fathers were missed, damning reports concluded.

This is a really depressing day for me.

Here's why: This is my 6000th post to Legally Kidnapped

2 1/2 years and 5999 posts ago I started this blog.

It is shameful and disgusting that I have so much to work with in such a short amount of time.

The best day ever will be when there is nothing left for me to post.

Kids Removed From Foster Home

Kids Removed From Foster Home

Child Protective Services in Van Buren County has removed two children from a foster home near Lawton, after tips led deputies to the discovery that she had been cooking Methamphetamine in the basement.
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Lawton foster mother arrested after meth lab found in home with kids

How to file a complaint against a family court judge or any judge in New York State

How to file a complaint against a family court judge or any judge in New York State

If you have had a bad experience with a judge in New York State, whether a family court judge or not, you can file a complaint against him or her with the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct. The law requires that your com- plaint be in writing and you must sign it. However, you do not have to have it notarized, nor do you have to be sworn.

Judge's concern over lack of family court reporting

Judge's concern over lack of family court reporting

A judge has today spoken of her disappointment that few journalists are taking up the opportunity to report on family court proceedings.

The Ministry of Justice opened up the family courts to the media at the end of April as part of plans for greater openness in the justice system.

Ohio co-workers freed from prison after wrongly convicted of child abuse

Ohio co-workers freed from prison after wrongly convicted of child abuse

Two Ohio Head Start preschool workers are finally free, 15 years after they were wrongly convicted of sexually abusing young children.

Foster care a "toxic intervention"

Foster care a "toxic intervention"

This is a step in the right direction because this new settlement puts a new emphasis on the most important change Baltimore needs to make: Doing more to keep children out of foster care in the first place.

Most parents who lose their children to foster care are nothing like those whose cases, rightly, make headlines. And in typical cases, extensive research shows that children left in their own homes do better even than comparably-maltreated children placed in foster care. That does not mean no child ever should be taken from her or his parents. Rather, it means that foster care is an extremely toxic intervention that should be used sparingly and in small doses.

Social Services official dismissed by gov't

Social Services official dismissed by gov't

The Saskatchewan Party government has dropped another of its hand-picked civil servants in social services, just four months after Social Services Minister Donna Harpauer expressed confidence in and promoted Tim Korol.

'Extreme pain' of abused baby Amy

'Extreme pain' of abused baby Amy

It was one of the most shocking cases of child abuse seen in Doncaster in recent years.

Child's death exposes a big problem in foster-care reform

Child's death exposes a big problem in foster-care reform

It wasn't that long ago when the Florida Department of Children & Families was seen as a hapless bureaucracy. Whether it was their seeking to incarcerate an 8 year-old to ensure he received proper care, or simply losing youngsters supposedly under its care, it didn't take much for DCF to make a mockery of its role in child welfare.

Parents groups shut down Whitehouse phone lines

Parents groups shut down Whitehouse phone lines

In response to the administration's recent heralding of of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, parents' groups and family rights advocates across the nation overwhelmed the phone lines of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice. They shut down phone lines and crashed the voice mail system, announced Michael Ramey, Director of Communications & Research for parentalrights.org.

Interactive Dad - Start Here!

Hey Orphans! Father's Day got you down? Well no need to fret, because now there is the INTERACTIVE DAD! Now you can play fun games, get great advice and know someone will always love you (sorta).

Disgraced child worker costs council £750k

Disgraced child worker costs council £750k

A council will have to foot a £750,000 legal bill for a court case in which a disgraced social worker lied, leading to her criminal past being exposed.

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HELP EXPOSE THE UK BABY STEALING SOCIAL SERVICES

HELP EXPOSE THE UK BABY STEALING SOCIAL SERVICES

the purpose of this blog is too show people what goes on in the uk,and the barbaric ways of the social services...i just want too make others realise what is going on and get the message across...DNT BECOME ANOTHER CHILDLESS VICTIM OF THIS COUNTRIES ADOPTION SYSTEM AND SUFFER AS MY FAMILY ARE!

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not
have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Brandon Muir death: Social work department blasted over failings

Brandon Muir death: Social work department blasted over failings

WATCHDOGS yesterday savaged the social work department that failed to save tragic Brandon Muir.

Appeal permitted in foster care lawsuit

Appeal permitted in foster care lawsuit

Oklahoma officials are alleging that the strategy of a court case on behalf of Oklahoma’s 10,000 foster children is to force the state into a settlement at a staggering cost to taxpayers.

County's child advocate sues state, DCFS

County's child advocate sues state, DCFS

Cook County Public Guardian Robert F. Harris filed suit Tuesday against the governor and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, asking a judge to halt a budget plan to slash psychological services for roughly 100 wards who were turned over to the state after they were sexually and otherwise physically abused.

Bill would add foster children to food stamp rolls at age 18

Bill would add foster children to food stamp rolls at age 18

A bill by Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal that would enroll foster children who turn 18 in food stamp programs on Tuesday cleared the Senate Human Services Committee.

Bill targeting foster kids' meds passes final hurdle

Bill targeting foster kids' meds passes final hurdle

A bill requiring state officials to pay closer attention to the psychiatric drugs prescribed to children in foster care cleared its last legislative hurdle Tuesday.
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Legislation Would Help Protect Oregon’s Most Vulnerable in Foster Care

SWEET VICTORY: TEXAS GOVERNOR VETOS “TAKE AWAY YOUR CHILD ACT”

SWEET VICTORY: TEXAS GOVERNOR VETOS “TAKE AWAY YOUR CHILD ACT”

In a move that has parents and children’s rights advocates cheering, Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday vetoed Senate Bill 1440, a contentious measure designed to make it easier for the state Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to remove children forcibly from their homes for interrogation and examination during investigations of alleged child abuse or neglect.

County legislators to discuss Cornell's DSS report today

County legislators to discuss Cornell's DSS report today

When the Oswego County Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee meets today, the last item on the agenda is a discussion of the Cornell Process Review Report and Child Protective Services Improvement Plan.

What you should do if Child Protective Services knocks on your door

What you should do if Child Protective Services knocks on your door

October 4, 2004. I will remember that day for the rest of my life. For me, September 11, 2001 fades in comparison because October 4, 2004 was the day Child Protective Services (CPS) of Montgomery County, New York took my daughter away from me based on anonymous and false allegations. I finally got her back, but she would never have been taken in the first place if I had known more about how CPS and Family Court operated, and if I had known my rights under the law.

Daniel's Articles

Daniel's Articles

A collection of articles from the Examiner.

Remembering Marcus Fiesel

Remembering Marcus Fiesel

Marcus Fiesel would be 6 years old Wednesday, June 24, had he lived.

Another foster parent might be treated like a real parent

How can it be?

The poor thing. Give her your sympathy people.

This blogger really set off a nerve with the cps victims in the newsgroup. It turned out to be a really lively exchange. Make sure you read all the comments. That was one hell of what Torina or M4$ would call a troll attack.

Several people set her straight.

Pass this all over the net!

Good advice to save families!

The Dana Lawhon story

The Dana Lawhon story

We were very close and had a good life until the day he went to school at 5 years old with a bruise. I noticed it before he went to school and asked him how he got it. He told me that he got it outside playing.

Later that day the school called and told me that they called DHS and they came and picked up my son for that very same bruise.

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the new and improved video of the events taking place in washington d.c. july 17-19, 2009

New agreement reached in battle over foster care

New agreement reached in battle over foster care

The state and lawyers for Baltimore City children in foster care have reached a new agreement in their 25-year court battle over the care the children receive.

Lawyers for foster children filed suit in 1984 seeking better treatment for the children. In 1988, the two sides reached a consent decree, but that did not end the case. For the past 21 years, the state and the children’s advocates have argued over the extent of Maryland’s compliance with the decree, culminating in the advocates’ 2007 motion asking a judge to find the state in contempt and enforce compliance.

In my email

Would you please post the following on your blog?

Children all over the USA are being taken from loving families on falsified documents. The CPS Secretary of Kansas stated that the Sedgwick County DA "bullied" Social Workers into falsifying affidavits to remove children. Please view this website for more information and help BE A Voice for all children.
http://kansascpspostaudit.blogspot.com/
Contact Leo Hafner and let him know the USA is watching this Audit:
Deputy Post Auditor
Leo Hafner
leo.hafner@lpa.ks.gov
785-296-3792

Police: Woman Killed Pregnant Friend, Took Baby

A 27 year old woman accused of killing her pregnant friend is believed to have cut open the mother-to-be's womb to take her baby and pass it off as her own.

Arizona Risks Losing $130 Million

Arizona Risks Losing $130 Million

Arizona risks losing $130 million in federal funds if it fails to expand a law to protect children before July 1.

Note: Watch them scramble now.

Albany family court judge W. Dennis Duggan voted worst judge in New York state for 2008 & 2009

Albany family court judge W. Dennis Duggan voted worst judge in New York state for 2008 & 2009

Albany Family Court Judge, W. Dennis Duggan, was named 2007 Family Court Judge of the Year by his colleagues from the New York State Family Court Judges Association. However, as of the date of this article, he has been voted New York State's worst judge for 2009 on Courthouse Forum. The surveys and voting on Courthouse Forum are not necessarily scientific.

The real child abuse is by the Durham cops

The real child abuse is by the Durham cops

Not everything that’s dumb should be illegal.

So even if you think the University of New Hampshire prof who left his 16-month-old in the car is a moron, does he have to be a felon, too?

City child protection criticised

City child protection criticised

Child protection services in Dundee have been severely criticised in a report by inspectors.

Aboriginal 'spiritual teacher' molested teen foster child

Aboriginal 'spiritual teacher' molested teen foster child

The Crown is seeking a five-year prison sentence for an aboriginal medicine man and spiritual teacher who repeatedly molested a young girl placed in his care by Manitoba Child and Family Services.

Woman charged with having sex with foster son

Woman charged with having sex with foster son

A Cedar Lake woman has been charged in Lake Superior Court with sexual misconduct with a minor involving a 15-year-old foster son she said fathered her baby last fall.

Letter: Adoptive parents should not be paid

Letter: Adoptive parents should not be paid

I agree with your editorial on the foster care system of June 11, except I feel it did not cover the basic needs that should apply to foster parents. I feel that anyone who wants to “adopt” a child should, at the very first, have the means to support that child. To be given the care of a child who is not one’s own and to be paid to do it is asking for trouble.

Area man gets 20 years in foster child's death

Area man gets 20 years in foster child's death

A Coleman man received the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison Thursday for recklessly causing serious bodily injury that led to the death of a 14-month-old foster child in his care three years ago.

Heartbroken mother of child who drowned in mop bucket still in shock

Heartbroken mother of child who drowned in mop bucket still in shock

Josiah said she was at work at a foster care service when Khan called her and told her there was an accident.

The Spanking Police... I mean "DCF" targets... I mean "reaches out" to Haitians in Lee County

DCF reaches out to Haitians in Lee County

Following the rousing hallelujah that filled the storefront church off Evans Avenue on a recent Sunday evening, the Haitian congregation welcomed the Department of Children and Families.

Antipsychotic drugs for kids raise hope, worry

Antipsychotic drugs for kids raise hope, worry

As a result, some doctors say, mental illness, especially bipolar disorder, has been overdiagnosed much the same way attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was in the 1980s.

Note: And still is today.

Readers detail ugly side of Canadian child-protection agencies

Readers detail ugly side of Canadian child-protection agencies

When Kevin Libin was writing this story at the National Post on CAS, their child protection agency, he certainly didn't expect readers to respond with a flood of stories of their own experiences, each more chilling than the next.

Why Schools Want Children Medicated

Why Schools Want Children Medicated

In the city of Kansas City, MIssouri, an unholy alliance exists between one reading teacher at Troost Elementary by the name of Williams, and the Missouri Department of Social Services, one Jason Campbell to be exact. Mr. Campbell, and Ms. Williams have joined together, to remove children from loving homes, and have them placed on medication. These children are removed from their homes, they are placed with specific case-workers. These children are placed in specific homes, where they are “broken down”, This basically amounts to brainwashing, and beatings. They are isolated from their siblings, not allowed to see their families, or even talk to their families. The school district and the state has turned a deaf ear on this issue.

New York state central register on child abuse and neglect seriously flawed

New York state central register on child abuse and neglect seriously flawed

Almost everyone knows that New York State maintains a sex offender registry, but few people know that New York State, in deed all states, also maintains a child abuse and maltreatment registry, known as the State Central Register. While the sex offender registry serves a useful purpose in that it makes the public aware of convicted sex offenders, the nature of their crimes, and where they are currently living; the child abuse and maltreatment registry is seriously flawed and is injurious to thousands of people who have never been convicted of a crime. That’s because you do not have to be convicted of a crime to have your name placed on the child abuse and maltreatment registry.

$1.7 Million to Hire Additional CPS Caseworkers

$1.7 Million to Hire Additional CPS Caseworkers

New York State Office of Children and Family Services Commissioner Gladys Carrión, Esq., today allocated nearly $1.7 million in seed funding to ten local counties and the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe to hire additional child protective services caseworkers to investigate calls to the state’s Child Abuse Hotline.

Note: They want more kids.

The CPS Worker

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DCF studies failures in child's hanging death

DCF studies failures in child's hanging death

A 25-year-old woman who spent a decade in foster care told Department of Children and Families officials she believes children in foster care are overdiagnosed and overmedicated.

Note: Failures studying failures, like the blind leading the blind.

Murder charge renews calls for inquiry into child protection system

Murder charge renews calls for inquiry into child protection system

Alberta's child protection system has come under heavy criticism after it was revealed Thursday that the 16-year-old charged with second-degree murder in the weekend stabbing of Curtis Osterlund in Edmonton was a ward of the province.

Tragic consequences

Tragic consequences

Felicia Wale burst out in tears when the child protection worker told her that the government was not going to give back her two daughters. Two weeks after her 21-month-old son, Jor-el Macnamara, died while in government care, she could not understand why her worker believes her children were better off under government supervision.

Doctor who examined Baby P to sue hospital over her dismissal

Doctor who examined Baby P to sue hospital over her dismissal

The doctor who failed to spot that Baby P had suffered serious physical abuse days before his death is suing Great Ormond Street hospital over her dismissal.

CPS threatener gets jail, probation

CPS threatener gets jail, probation

A San Carlos woman who prosecutors say threatened two Child Protective Services workers investigating child abuse claims that later proved unsubstantiated was sentenced to 61 days jail.

Note: Never make threats. It takes away the element of surprise.

Protected To Death

To My Dearest Readers

I have created a new blog, the blog of blogs so to speak which I have named Protected To Death.

This blog is a collection of RSS feeds from any and all family rights blogs I come across. And I come across them all the time. It is an attempt to bring all family rights bloggers together under one roof. It will never be the same blog twice as it will only show the most recent posts to these other blogs.

If you would like your blog to be included, let me know. I will deck it out over time.

LK

VICTORIA LAWYER CALLS FOR AUDIT OF FOSTER CARE SYSTEM

VICTORIA LAWYER CALLS FOR AUDIT OF FOSTER CARE SYSTEM

AFTER AN ALLEGATION OF CHILD ABUSE SEVEN MONTHS AGO AND A SUBSEQUENT ARREST WEDNESDAY, QUESTIONS AND OUTRAGE ARE BUILDING.

Investigators: Judge makes rare ruling in Poca case

Investigators: Judge makes rare ruling in Poca case

A Snohomish County Superior Court Judge has made a nearly unheard of ruling in the case of Poca, a 4-year-old child who was taken from her foster parents, the only stable home she’d ever known, a month-and-a-half ago.

Children Suffer as States Cut Health Budgets

Children Suffer as States Cut Health Budgets

As the recession forces more hospitals and doctors to pare costs and services, the cutbacks are hitting one group of patients especially hard: children.

Kids need care, not pills, ex-foster children tell panel

Kids need care, not pills, ex-foster children tell panel

A state group looking at the suicide of a young foster child met Thursday to discuss ways to improve care and listened to adults who said they were overmedicated in the foster-care system.

Report Says County Caseworkers Are Overwhelmed By A ‘Perfect Storm’ Of Case Increases

Report Says County Caseworkers Are Overwhelmed By A ‘Perfect Storm’ Of Case Increases

A new report on the Oswego County Department of Social Services says the agency runs well but needs a larger staff to handle a surge of child welfare cases that began with the death of Erin Maxwell.
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Erin Maxwell's 'Legacy'

An investigation conducted by Cornell University finds significant internal problems within the Child Protective Services Division at the Oswego County Department of Social Services. The report was requested by Social Services Commissioner Fran Lanigan following the death of Erin Maxwell last August. Following the alleged murder of 11 year old Erin Maxwell, many in the community refuse to accept the idea that caseworkers investigated three complaints about the Ma