Logan Marr died Jan. 31 2001 in the Chelsea home of her foster mother, Sally Schofield, who is charged with manslaughter. Schofield is a former caseworker for the state agency that monitors foster parents.

Wow, It's not only parents who have a problem with these baby-stealers

I was personally involved in one case where the Department of Human Services removed a child from its mother’s care. What I saw appalled me. DHS claimed that if the mother passed a lie detector test, she would have her child back. She passed, but did not get the child back. She was told that if she passed a second lie detector test, she would get her child back. She passed, but did not get her child back. She was told that if she took parenting classes, she would get her child back. She did so, and did not get her child back.

When I went to graduate school in counseling at the University in Orono, I thought my attitude toward DHS would make me an outsider among the many mental health workers who were upgrading their education. Not so. Almost every one of them had a story at least as appalling as mine. The trouble is, no one could name names because of confidentiality.

In addition, I have heard of many mental health people who were afraid of speaking out because they were concerned about their careers. Also, I have heard of several who were threatened by DHS that their own children might be taken from them if they spoke out against DHS.

There are no checks on the power of DHS to take children from their parents. This needs to change. In addition, the financial incentive for DHS to remove children from their families needs to be changed, so that the incentive is to keep the children with their parents or with close relatives.

They are breaking us emotionally and financially.

It's easy to tell when a caseworker is not being truthful. Their lips move.

She is gone. I lost her.

It is as if the American public has bought into the lies and the cover ups hidden behind that name. Or feel that DFCS does more good than it does harm.

I have searched for organizations who are sympathetic and actively taking a stand against injustice against our families. Unfortunately, I have not found a lot of
resources.

I have fought a long and painful battle with this system. And found that the authority intrusted to the individuals who govern it has made many of them inhuman.

The very name, Family & Children Services, is a lie. Instead of using their power, money and resources to EDUCATE and SERVE, this system uses its power to dictate, humiliate, and emotionally scar children and their families. That name gives them the right to legally kidnap our youth and hold them captive. And do to our children the very things and then some which we were accused of doing. But we are labeled unfit parents for these things.

In January 1998, 5-year-old Terrell Peterson was beaten to death, allegedly by his foster mother.

Stop CPS from abusing their power AND our children.

my two son's were taken by cps and 12 days later my son trevor was dead in there care.

Would you want your kids calling a stranger mommy?

At Foster Care Reveiw Board Meeting, everyone said it is appropriate for them to call her Mama nad him Daddy and that is who they spend their time with (other Foster Care Givers have dis-agreed).

The counselor said he has never seen anything good come out of DCS/CPS involvement.

I think this is intentional

We are supposed to be involved in the medical care of the children and yet they are not informing us of Dr. visits or are scheduling them after 3p.m. when I am at work or not informing me of the visits until the day before or the day of. (I could get someone to cover for me at work if I had a weeks notice at least!) Supervisor says court order just says to inform of the visits and for me to be there, not what time to set them for.

a child is defined as being abused or neglected if they are "at risk". As you all know, "at risk" can incorporate anything a social worker wants it to.

Too bad most CPS workers don't respond like this describes, rather they encourage kids to report normal parental authority as "abuse." Anyway, it says a lot about what happens when the bureaucracy brainwashes our kids.

no matter what happens, if they scream they hate us as they walk out the door on their own, or if they scream save me as CPS drags them out the door, they are still our children and they always will be.

The social worker is coming over after the visit today to check out the house. Supervised visits may start occurring here.

No unsupervised visits until after we have all those assessments done.

Please pray my inlaws will help pay for them.

We are supposed to have a visit tomorrow, and they changed the time from 11:30-1:30 to 9:30-11:30 and Social Worker is trying to get her supervisor to let us go to the park. Pray that we can.

My husband asked for the original time off from work and now will not be able to go.

One of the Foster Homes abused one of my children. All the Foster Kids in the home at the time were moved, even the one that had been there 2 1/2 years. The one they were adopting however, got to stay. And this man has so abused his grandchildren that they are not allowed to visit, shaking and throwing them against walls!

One of my children and her Foster Mom found out and reported this abuse after a
child to child visit, they were "fussed" at the hips and now the children are
not allowed to visit each other even against CASA and GAL advice.

THE PUBLIC IS SO UNINFORMED AS TO WHAT CAN REALLY GO ON IN A BAD FOSTER HOME.

I can not get in touch with the Workers Supervisor until Friday and the Social Worker is out to Lunch after having me hold 10 minutes.

Cherish Every Minute You Get With Your Kids

the Foster Parent slipped and told me that they are planning to cut our visit short tomorrow using her 4:30 appt as an excuse, and if the visit ends at 1:30 as it is supposed to, she can still be to her appt in plenty of time. Last week they cut it 15 minutes short.

The state has not even looked into family placement. There is documentation showing that the children have been emontinally, mentally and physically abused while in the
care of the state. Many counslors,Casa, and a physiologist have stated that the
children should be returned to their parents, But the judge over looks all of these reports.

I signed up. This could help us to pay some of the expenses that are being incurred due to CPS asking for all these evals, having to pay for our children to call us, etc.