ALEX HILL WAS PLACED IN FOSTER CARE AFTER HER FATHER ADMITTED TO USING MARIJUANA ACCORDING TO THE Houston Press.
Joshua Hill told Texas child welfare investigators that he smoked after the child was in bed at night. A case worker determined that the father’s marijuana use and the mother’s medical condition (frequent seizures) warranted removal from the home.
The toddler had appeared healthy and happy with her parents, but she was placed into the foster care system in early 2013.
On Tuesday Alex’s foster mother, Sherill Small, was sentenced to life in prison for the July 2013 death of the little girl, who would have turned four on Friday.
- Abuser Name or Alias:: Sherill Small
- Abusers Organisation:: Cameron, Texas CPS
- Type of Abuse:: Physical, Neglect, Death
- Matter Resolved?: No, Ongoing
New Zealand rocked by Māori protests on child removals and use of sacred land
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- Created: Thursday, 01 August 2019 20:52
- Written by Eleanor Ainge Roy - Guardian UK
Māori leaders are staging two major protests in New Zealand, straining relations with the Labour coalition government and drawing accusations that Jacinda Ardern – who is visiting the remote Pacific territory of Tokelau – is a “part-time prime minister”.
On Tuesday, hundreds of activists marched on parliament house in Wellington, as well as other New Zealand cities, calling for an overhaul of the government’s child welfare agency, Oranga Tamariki [Ministry for Children], amid a series of controversial cases in which Māori children and newborns were taken into state care.
Families SA, another suicide, rape in care and family destruction
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- Created: Monday, 05 August 2019 15:18
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So I have 8 children, one got taken into family's sa care, we fought for a year and a half to get him home.
During that year and a half our son was in their care they failed my son.
During the first three weeks he was in DCP care he had a threesome and filmed it, our son was 11 at the time, he was injected with heroin by another teenager at the same resi care unit.
Our son was befriended by a clown busking in the mall, bought him and another child from care cigarettes and took them to the hotel, got his drug dealer around, drugged them raped them and dumped them on the wch doorstep unconscious.
DCP failed to notify us, we found out through an article called the unplacables, page 10 then I called the editor and talked and cried the editor contacted police media and they confirmed our son was involved..
Now just going back to that God awful night that clown rang us, he refused to return the boys as they were on missing persons..
That guy rang us and refused to let us speak to our son. I gave police his number. At the time we knew nothing that had taken place..
FAMILY SA RUINED OUR LIVES.
SALISBURY OFFICE SAID THEY WOULD TAKE MY OTHER CHILDREN...
SO OUR SON CAME UP FOR AN ACCESS VISIT AND DIDNT HAVE TO BE RETURNED.....
8 months later, one of our sons say his brother sexually abused him.
Four of my son's were sexually abused cops says, but they only interviewed two of them...
Ten days short of a year our 12 year old son walked out the room and hung himself from his bunk bed.
Thanks to his dad not giving up trying to resuscitate our baby, he was gone,Ambulance workers worked tirelessly he was placed into a coma on a ventilator.. two days later family's sa took my children from my care.
I hung myself where my son did, I was detained.
I had a massive breakdown...
I love my children with my everything and I want them home..
My children did not need to be taken away..
Yes I needed some help because of family's sa with holding information...
Since my children got taken into care they have suffered. We have all suffered...
Trying to stay strong ♥
- Abuser Name or Alias:: Residential Care
- Abusers Organisation:: Families SA
- Type of Abuse:: Sexual, Neglect, Emotional, Psychological or Mental, Death
- Matter Resolved?: No, Ongoing
Lawsuit challenges use of restraint, seclusion in California special education school
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- Created: Monday, 20 May 2019 05:02
- Written by Diana Lambert - Ed Source
Class-action suit says state didn’t do enough to keep children safe
Four special education students and their parents or guardians filed a lawsuit last week against the state of California claiming they were emotionally and physically harmed when they were illegally put in restraint holds and secluded during behavioral interventions at their Concord school.
The four students attended Floyd I. Marchus School, operated by the Contra Costa County Office of Education. The public school offers special education services and integrated counseling to 85 children with emotional and behavioral disabilities. Students are referred to the school from districts in Contra Costa County and neighboring counties.
The class-action suit, alleging battery, negligence and civil rights violations, also names the California Department of Education, the Contra Costa County Office of Education and members of the staff at Marchus School as defendants. The suit also names State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, in his official capacity as state schools chief, although the incidents occurred before he took office in January.
Lawsuit: lawyer uncovers alarming "trend" as thousands of babies kidnapped by CPS.
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- Created: Wednesday, 17 December 2014 23:40
- Written by Mikael Thalen - Infowars.com
A federal class action lawsuit filed out of Southern California states that the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services has kidnapped “thousands” of children without warrant or reason.
According to the suit, which makes mention of several social workers and investigators, Riverside’s operation “makes a habit” of kidnapping young children.
Speaking with the Courthouse News Service, the Plaintiffs’ attorney, Shawn McMillan, said that he “uncovered an alarming trend” when investigating similar cases in the area the year prior.
Parents file federal civil rights lawsuit against Minnesota because CPS kidnapped their children
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- Created: Tuesday, 01 May 2018 23:23
- Written by rian Shilhavy - Health Impact News
Dwight D. Mitchell (center at podium) is the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit of parents suing the State of Minnesota for kidnapping their children via Child Protection Services. Image courtesy kaaltv.com.
This past week (April 2018) a group of Minnesota parents filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing Dakota County and the State of Minnesota for kidnapping their children and placing them unnecessarily into foster care.
The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit is Dwight D. Mitchell, who founded an association of parents called Stop Child Protection Services From Legally Kidnapping, which has about 250 members in Minnesota.
County reaches settlement agreement in lawsuits by former foster children
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- Created: Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:10
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Former foster father Michael Jarome Hayes appears in a photo taken by San Diego police in 2013. San Diego Police Department
San Diego County has agreed to settle two lawsuits by former foster children who allege the county failed to protect them from abuse by a former foster parent, then invaded one of the children’s privacy during resulting litigation, according to papers filed Tuesday in federal court.
Lawsuit against DHS claims agency 'failed to protect children'
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- Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 20:12
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, families and former employees are moving forward with a class action lawsuit that was filed against the Oklahoma Department of Human Services.
They plan to sue the agency for what they call "failing to protect children."
"I heard it over and over and over and over again, and it's sort of, where there's smoke there's fire," attorney Rachel Bussett said.
Bussett represents more than a dozen people, including former DHS employees, who allege the state agency is blocking families from reuniting.
"No children died under my watch at that time, and then I have to get permission from somebody higher than me to remove children who have never been to the home, who haven't talked to the worker, and a child dies four months later," former DHS worker Heidi Stingley said.
Former employees, such as Stingley, claim they were wrongly terminated.
"The fact of the matter boils down to if something goes wrong, it's not upper management that made the decisions that are held accountable. It's the workers that had the concerns," former DHS caseworker Dahn Gregg said.
The former employees also allege DHS is violating a previous class action civil rights lawsuit the agency settled in 2012, which targeted its foster care system.
"Thorough reviews of the new cases presented to us found no evidence of improprieties," DHS officials said. "We are quite confident our actions have been justified, in the best interest of the children involved, and these allegations are without merit."
Members of the group involved in the lawsuit said they have a meeting scheduled for Friday with Gov. Kevin Stitt in an attempt to persuade him to make changes at DHS. They said they plan on filing the lawsuit this month.
Source : https://www.koco.com/article/lawsuit-against-dhs-claims-agency-failed-to-protect-children/27022833
Lawsuit against DHS claims agency 'failed to protect children'
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- Created: Wednesday, 03 April 2019 21:39
- Written by Alecomm2
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, families and former employees are moving forward with a class action lawsuit that was filed against the Oklahoma Department of Human Services.
They plan to sue the agency for what they call "failing to protect children."
"I heard it over and over and over and over again, and it's sort of, where there's smoke there's fire," attorney Rachel Bussett said.
Bussett represents more than a dozen people, including former DHS employees, who allege the state agency is blocking families from reuniting.
"No children died under my watch at that time, and then I have to get permission from somebody higher than me to remove children who have never been to the home, who haven't talked to the worker, and a child dies four months later," former DHS worker Heidi Stingley said.
Former employees, such as Stingley, claim they were wrongly terminated.
"The fact of the matter boils down to if something goes wrong, it's not upper management that made the decisions that are held accountable. It's the workers that had the concerns," former DHS caseworker Dahn Gregg said.
The former employees also allege DHS is violating a previous class action civil rights lawsuit the agency settled in 2012, which targeted its foster care system.
"Thorough reviews of the new cases presented to us found no evidence of improprieties," DHS officials said. "We are quite confident our actions have been justified, in the best interest of the children involved, and these allegations are without merit."
Members of the group involved in the lawsuit said they have a meeting scheduled for Friday with Gov. Kevin Stitt in an attempt to persuade him to make changes at DHS. They said they plan on filing the lawsuit this month.
Source : https://www.koco.com/article/lawsuit-against-dhs-claims-agency-failed-to-protect-children/27022833
Lawsuit against Montana CPS to move forward
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- Created: Sunday, 16 June 2019 23:46
- Written by K Renee - Northwest Liberty News
Class action lawsuit aims to bring charges of human trafficking, kidnapping
Montana CPS may soon see their day in court. At least, if Representative Rodney Garcia (MT HD52), has anything to say about it. Their agents, and their organization, as a whole, may soon face a judge, with their actions being under legal scrutiny. Representative Garcia aims to assure such a day, as he announced during an interview on Friday’s edition of Northwest Liberty News’ show. The lawmaker wants to move to file a Class Action lawsuit against Montana state CPS.
“They think they’re above the law…and I’m going to show them that they’re not.”
Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against DHHS by mother seeking contact
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- Created: Saturday, 13 July 2019 03:50
- Written by Judy Harrison - BDN News
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed an Eddington woman’s lawsuit that sought to force the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to allow her contact with her 7-year-old daughter, who in May was living with her father’s girlfriend in Ellsworth under an agency safety plan.
U.S. District Court Judge Lance Walker said the case belonged in state court because “federal courts do not have jurisdiction to issue child custody decrees.”
More >> Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against DHHS from mother seeking contact with her daughterThe lawsuit in federal court offered a rare public glimpse into a process usually handled privately as part of the state’s Child Protective Services system and in family court. It also objected to a practice DHHS caseworkers rely on in emergencies to remove children from environments they consider unsafe without securing court orders. That practice, the use of out-of-home safety plans, has received increased attention within DHHS as Maine’s child welfare system has come under scrutiny recently following the deaths of two young girls whose families were involved with Child Protective Services.Toni Barronton, 33, claimed in the lawsuit that DHHS violated her right to due process after it reneged on a decision to let the girl live with her temporarily after her father, Patrick Lynn, 32, allegedly violated his probation by using drugs.
Lynn’s girlfriend allegedly has not allowed Barronton to see the girl since Easter. Prior to his arrest, Barronton had weekend visits with her daughter twice a month, even though Lynn has sole parental rights and responsibilities, according to court documents.
Parental rights and responsibility refer to decision-making over children, such as where they attend school, the religion they practice and the doctor they see. Legally, Lynn may make those decisions without consulting Barronton, but the department has acted as if Barronton’s parental rights have been terminated when they have not been, her attorney, Ezra Willey of Bangor, said.
The lawsuit was filed in May in U.S. District Court in Bangor. It is rare for a case concerning a family matter and the state’s child welfare program to be filed in federal court.
Under Maine law, matters involving children, including divorces and protective custody cases, are not public. The federal court case made public details that ordinarily would be sealed in state court.
Walker called the argument Willey presented “misguided.”
“Clearly, the state has afforded and continues to afford Barronton access to procedural due process based on her natural parental relationship to [her daughter],” he said.
Jackie Farwell, spokeswoman for DHHS, said the judge made the right decision.
“The federal judge correctly recognized that child custody matters belong in state court, where parents’ rights are fully protected,” she said Wednesday.
Willey said Thursday that he would file additional motions in the case and would consider appealing Walker’s decision to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. The attorney also said that Walker does have the authority to rule on an administrative action by a state agency, which is what Barronton asked him to do.
“What my client is challenging is the DHHS administrative action that was taken by a caseworker to place my client’s child with a non-family member, through a ‘safety plan,’ when there were no safety or other concerns with my client, but instead the concerns were with the child’s father,” Willey said. “This is absolutely unconstitutional conduct. No one, other than a judge, can prohibit or otherwise block contact between a biological parent and her child, especially when the other parent cannot have contact or otherwise make decisions for the child due to safety concerns on his end.”
The attorney said that the only place Barronton could challenge the safety plan was in federal court because under Maine law it could not be challenged in state court.
“That is the issue,” Willey said. “So, the judge essentially gave DHHS the green light to do whatever they want, outside of the scope of state court, to interfere with a parent’s fundamental, constitutional right to parent her child free from governmental interference, with no repercussions. That is a very dangerous precedent set by this judge — this case boils down to constitutional checks and balances, and my client was depending on the federal judiciary to place some limits on the overwhelming power of DHHS.”
In addition to the federal lawsuit, Willey has filed in Bangor District Court a motion to modify the custody agreement that gave sole parental rights and responsibilities to Lynn after Barronton did not show up for a court hearing three years ago.
A hearing in that matter has not been set, according to Willey.
Lynn is scheduled to be sentenced on the probation violation, which he has admitted, on Aug. 29 at the Hancock County Courthouse in Ellsworth.
While federal judges do not ordinarily consider child custody cases within the U.S., federal courts have jurisdiction in child custody cases under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
A mother living in Mexico earlier this year sought to have two of her children returned to her after they visited their father in Maine. The case was settled out of court and the children are to be returned to their mother next week, according to documents filed in federal court in Bangor.
Source : https://bangordailynews.com/2019/07/12/news/bangor/federal-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-against-dhhs-from-mother-seeking-contact-with-her-daughter/
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To date, that we are aware of there has been three Georgian senators murdered to cover up child protective services crimes by the state. These are Senator Nancy Schaeffer and her husband, Senator Robert Brown, Senator Bobby Franklin. Then former marine turned child abuse industry documentarian Bill Bowen died, followed later by Martin Burns. Another year later a former foster child Ashley Harris disappeared two days after releasing youtube videos detailing the corruption by Santa Clara County caseworkers and judges.
Given the untimely deaths of child abuse industry advocates, we are now dedicating a section to our still alive advocates. We pray for their safety and that of their families whilst getting their hands dirty in an effort to save our innocent families from fate of the state.
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Everyday state child protection authorities knowingly place innocent children with sex offenders, murderers, bank robbers and known child abusers. They refuse to intervene in family law matters when they should be protecting children, because they cannot be bothered taking the time to really protect a child. Part of the blame lays on the oversight authorities because they blatantly refuse to prosecute workers who practise unethical and unlawful work ethics, in fact we are unable to find one single case in the past two decades.
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Mothers who died because of Child Protection
This section is dedicated to the mothers who lost their lives because of the torture to themselves and their children at the hands of the state child protection authorities.
Mothers in every state in Australia have been unnecessarily lost dir to there being no rules or laws that child protection are forced to abide by.
Innocent children are being drugged, raped and murdered under the care of the state, whilst child protection workets turn a blind eye - because it doesn’t suit their agenda or the “perfect” family they created to make up for their own mesed up childhoods.
How many more mothers have to die at the hands of child protection before the government acknowledges what is happening.
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Many newspaper articles relating to child protection disappear. This section is designed to keep an archive of relevant articles, so that even when they do go missing, there is evidence that the article did once exist. Registered users can upload relevant child protection media or newspaper articles to this section, to assist with the archiving of records the government wants to see gone.
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Medical kidnap of children by the state for profit
Medical kidnapping is part of a larger problem of State-sponsored child kidnapping. State-sponsored kidnapping is where the State steps in and decides that they know what is best for a child or group of children within a family, and then removes the children without any formal charges being brought against the parents. The parents lose their children immediately, often without any warrant being issued by a judge. They are assumed guilty by social services of something worthy of losing their children, usually with no formal charges filed in a court of law, and no trial by a jury of peers as is afforded by the Constitution of the United States of America. They must spend significant resources to try and get their children back from a family court system that is cloaked in secrecy with little to no accountability. Sometimes the parents are able to get their children back, but sometimes they do not, and the children are adopted out. Even in the instances where the children are allowed to return home to their parents, they are severely traumatized.
Source : http://medicalkidnap.com/2016/03/02/medical-kidnapping-a-threat-to-every-child-in-america-today/
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Manmeet Bhullar says no enquiry is needed. Manmeet Bhullar, who will take over the portfolio when the newly shuffled cabinet is sworn in next week, said Wednesday December 18 2013 he doesn't see the need to hold an independent public inquiry into the matter, as demanded by all three opposition parties. Great concerns the 33-year-old Bhullar, who is moving from the Service Alberta portfolio, lacks the experience to shepherd Human Services, which handles child and youth issues, social programs and homelessness.
No inquiry means we do not think these children's lives matter, so much so that we can not even be bothered to look into their deaths. There are no words to describe how disgusted I am.
Whatever it takes to keep this out of the public's view. This government's actions speak far louder than their words will ever speak. People with nothing to hide DO NOT act the way these people do. They've been everything but forthcoming with information and openness.Sources:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/minister+Bhullar+says+inquiry+into+deaths+kids+government+care+needed/9275775/story.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmeet_Bhullar
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Currently, Child Protective Services violates more civil rights on a daily basis then all other agencies combined, including the NSA / CIA wiretapping program.... 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 INNOCENTFAMILIES 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 THEYARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...(Source : http://www.parentingbanter.com/showthread.php?t=57107)
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Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. This produces a feeling of discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes, beliefs or behaviors to reduce the discomfort and restore balance, etc.
For example, when people smoke (behavior) and they know that smoking causes cancer (cognition).
Festinger's (1957) cognitive dissonance theory suggests that we have an inner drive to hold all our attitudes and beliefs in harmony and avoid disharmony (or dissonance). This is known as the principle of cognitive consistency.
Cognitive dissonance was first investigated by Leon Festinger, arising out of a participant observation study of a cult which believed that the earth was going to be destroyed by a flood, and what happened to its members — particularly the really committed ones who had given up their homes and jobs to work for the cult — when the flood did not happen.
While fringe members were more inclined to recognize that they had made fools of themselves and to "put it down to experience," committed members were more likely to re-interpret the evidence to show that they were right all along (the earth was not destroyed because of the faithfulness of the cult members).
Saul McLeod, updated 2014
Further reading : https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html
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