Friday, September 30, 2011

This Is The Standard Method Of Operation With CPS- They Lie Falsify And Cover Up Now Because Of Andrea Fleary Two Children Are Harmed

February 24, 2011

This article just came over my alerts for the Palm Beach Post. This office needs to be investigated from the top down. The corruption, lies, falsifying of records and cover ups is the norm in all offices all over the country. This is the tip of the iceberg. It is time to stop the murder of our children. Ms.Fleary should be criminally charged for her part in the death of Nubia and the near death of Victor. It is past time to take back our children
By Ana M. Valdes Palm Beach Post Staff Writer                
Updated: 5:14 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011                       
Posted: 5:08 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
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The state child abuse investigator currently under fire for not following up on an allegation that twins Victor and Nubia Barahona were being tied and confined to a bathroom by their adoptive parents was given a final notice for a similar mishandling of a case last year, according to state Department of Children and Families documents released this afternoon.
Andrea Fleary, who was placed under paid administrative leave Feb. 17, two days after the twins were found in West Palm Beach – Nubia’s dead body in the back of the truck and Victor seizing and covered in toxic chemicals – was given a final conseling notice Feb. 15 of last year, for failing to find a home for a child removed from his or her biological family by the 24 hour deadline established by DCF.
“Your neglect placed this child at risk of additional harm,” wrote Kevin Ramos, a DCF child protective investigator supervisor. “Further, you interviewed the child without law enforcement present. Even more disturbing, you failed to document notification with the Child Protection Team.”
Fleary refused to sign the notice, according to DCF documents.
Last year’s reprimand, however, was not the first time Fleary was called out by the agency for her performance.
In 2003, the department issued her first final counseling notice for taking 11 days to interview the person who reported the abuse of six children. The notice also said Fleary failed to find shelter for one of the children, despite a knowing that the child was living with the mother even though a court order denied the mother custody. Some of the children were also allowed to visit with their maternal grandmother without proper authorization.
In 1992, Fleary was also given a written reprimand for punching a colleague in the face.
DCF officials are now looking into whether Andrea Fleary did enough to find the 10-year-old Barahona twins before Nubia was found dead in a truck owned by her adoptive father, Jorge Barahona, and Victor was hospitalized with life-threatening burns.
The 48-year-old investigator gave a brief explanation about how she handled the case at a court hearing two days after the twins were found in Palm Beach County.
She said she had visited the Barahona home in western Miami-Dade County Feb. 10, when the abuse allegation was reported to DCF’s abuse hotline.
After Flearly failed to locate the twins or their father, she visited the home a second time the next day, but she did not find the children again. When the judge asked why she had not tried to locate other relatives or contact the reporter of the abuse, Fleary said it was 9:30 p.m. on a Friday night, and that she was not allowed to work weekends.
Since then, DCF is investigating Fleary’s actions. Officials will not comment on whether Fleary violated any steps in the abuse investigation at the Barahona home.
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Honorable Rex Barbas Tampa Florida Are You Making Judgements In The Best Interest Of The Child?

 
A Grandmothers Letter To The Judge

Sunday, September 30, 2007

A Grandmother's Letter To The Judge

The Honorable Rex Barbas,

I am a broken-hearted grandmother and I beg you to please read this letter. I am going to fast and pray until I am sure you have read this letter. I will know that you have when God gives me the peace in my heart that I have asked Him to give me.

The main purpose of this letter is to inform you of the great injustice that has been done to our family by the DCF, and how it is truly breaking our hearts. We very much appreciate the time you are taking to read this letter.

My husband and I are missionaries and through text messages and emails with churches and individuals in several Southeast Asian countries, thousands of Christians all over the world are praying for my grandchildren who have been taken from our son and daughter-in-law’s arms unjustly. They have been taken from a family, both immediate and extended, who are devout servants of the Lord Jesus Christ and want to raise their children to love Jesus too.

My little granddaughter, Jaquelyn Faith Douglass, who turned three on September 22nd was taken ill in April and her parents took her to Sun City Hospital where she was diagnosed with the stomach flu. The doctor prescribed medicine to treat this flu. She seemed better for a few days. My husband and I were visiting in the home when she became ill again. This time they took her to Brandon Regional Hospital. There she was diagnosed with a life-threatening intestinal problem. She was flown to Tampa General Hospital and my husband and I were there to be with our grandchild. Both hospitals she had been in prior, had no report of physical abuse. In fact the reports which we have received in the form of hospital records stated there is no evidence of physical abuse of any kind. In the emergency room of Tampa General hospital the emergency room doctor went over every possible cause with us and there was no evidence of any abuse nor signs of bruising. Jackie was in the emergency room of the pediatric section and we saw her several times along with her other grandfather and her parents. Judge, there were no bruises or evidences of abuse at all. Photos and videos of Jackie in the hospital taken when she arrived will show no bruising. Three weeks later Dr. Brooks claimed he saw bruising on Jackie which he believed caused Jackie’s trauma requiring her to be hospitalized.

I know my son and his wife. They live and breathe for their children and would in no way ever hurt them. They stayed with us when they were first married and had their first daughter, and again when they were relocating to be near us. I have never seen them to be abusive in any way. I would have known, I am sure. I have taught children for over 20 years and I know what abused children look like and act like.

Our family and Jackie’s siblings were allowed to visit her in the hospital for over one month. Then a doctor in the hospital who works for an arm of DCF said that because she had been diagnosed with pancreatitis that my son, or daughter-in-law, had punched or kicked her. His statement to my son was “What did you do, get drunk and kick her in the stomach?” My son does not drink, do drugs, or even smoke. He has done some of those things in his younger and more foolish days, but since he allowed God to turn his life around years ago, he has lived as he was raised by my husband and myself. He now sings and preaches in Baptist Churches all around Florida warning young people to live the right kind of life and stay away from all those things that will hurt them. He loves his children and wife the way God intends.

Two years ago a family we were acquainted with got angry and made some false allegations against my children and called the DCF. The circumstances were thoroughly investigated and there was no abuse found. However, my son and his wife were told if they pleaded “not guilty” to child abuse it would take years to get their children back, but if they pleaded “no contest” and followed the program set up for them, they would have the children back soon. They have done all required of them and the case was closed in Clay County and the children returned to their custody.

They have done excellent since that time demonstrating their love for their children. They have joined a Baptist Church in Plant City where the children sing with their dad and love to go to church. I was allowed to see the other three children who had been placed in foster care on June 27th and the oldest granddaughter held her mom, who was with me, and said “Mommy, they won’t take me to church and I want to go.” How sad!!!

In June we were ordered out of our granddaughter’s hospital room and told we could not come back and see her, after seeing her regularly for all of May. There is no reason to deny her family from being with Jackie. The siblings have not been allowed to see her also and cry to do so. The children are in 3 different Foster homes, in 2, possibly 3 different cities. No one would take them up to the hospital to visit Jackie. The only way they could see her was for her mother to video-tape her in the hospital and take the video to the visitation with her other children. She then video-taped them and took it to the hospital to show Jackie. The first time she saw them on video in two months, Jackie waved and kissed the video as a tear rolled down her cheek.

My son was arrested on June 7th on aggravated child abuse charges with no evidence. Dr. Brooks’ false vindictive accusation is why those children can not see the dad they adore. That is why Jacquelyn cannot see her siblings, and while she was in the hospital, only her mom could be with her with Jackie’s grandfather supervising. The mom was there almost every day since this little one has been in the hospital (April 29, 2007). Dad was there everyday until his arrest. I realize, and know full well, after having worked with children for over 20 years, that there are cases where children are much safer away from their wicked parents. This is NOT the case for my children and grandchildren. Every evening, my son sat the children down around him and read God’s word to them. He sang with them and told them a Bible Story. I have been there many times to be blessed to observe this. He and his wife tuck them in and kiss them goodnight after praying for and with them. My son and his wife ask wisdom from the One who is Wisdom to raise the children entrusted into their care by the Great Creator of children.
Having been raised in a Christian home, my son is today the very picture of a Christian father and family man. I am so proud of both of them.

Having been in the ministry for over 30 years has taught my husband (pastor, teacher, missionary and now a missionary/evangelist) and I that many things can be said and done to break our hearts. Our hearts have been broken by people many times over these years, but never like this heartbreak; the reason being is that this is so unjust, and the lies are many to make our family look like the worst of the worst. I am so glad that the Heavenly Father knows the truth. I am so glad that He is Sovereign. Even knowing this, our hearts are breaking for our children and grandchildren. My daughter-in-law calls me regularly in tears and great sorrow. She has visited the children and been told by the oldest that she is not allowed to tell how her sister got a black eye or how the bruises got on her arms or on the baby boy’s head. They do not even see their baby brother except for two hours out of 744 hours of the month. Neither does their mom. What is this organization doing, trying to make my grandchildren forget their family? Forget those who love them the most of all?

One thing I know is that these children are treated worse than most prisoners. A prisoner can see those who love him every Saturday and Sunday for six hours and all holidays. One who is incarcerated in the jail can see his loved ones every day for one hour. My children have done nothing wrong, and my grandchildren have done nothing wrong and cannot even see each other. I cannot see my grandchildren due to the DCF’s disapproval of our religious faith. I have had a loving relationship with all of them since the day they were born and I was there to see every one of them at birth. What is wrong with an organization that is supposed to be FOR the family, but is tearing down my family? Why are my grandchildren being punished? Why am I being punished? Why is their mom being punished? Our family is not abusing the children, DCF is abusing our grandchildren and children.

Your Honor, after the court hearing when you said the family can visit Jackie and the children, there was an immediate refusal to your court order. The maternal grandparents were down from Pennsylvania for the hearing, and to see the grandchildren. It was told that their background check, which was passed in PA, was not accepted here in FL, and to go to the Sheriff’s Dept. to get a new one. When they got there, Dep. Allison Bredbener refused to run the check stating “this case is now closed”. She then referred them to go to H.K.I., where when they got there were told their check takes up to 2 weeks! The test at the Sheriff’s Dept takes only one day. The Grandparents sadly had to go back to PA without seeing their own grandchildren. Dep Bredbener has caused our family so much pain, by not only refusing your direct order, but by malicious comments to Jackie’s mother stating how when this is all over, she wants to adopt their son herself. There are many other cruel statements she has said to the family, too many to write at this time.

The DCF said that the children’s mom “failed to report.” She has nothing to report! Her husband has never abused the children and did not abuse their little one in the hospital. Now the doctors are saying that the pancreatitus may have been caused by cysts in the bile duct or the stones in the gallbladder they have found and could have been there since birth. (Not Abuse!!!) Now what about my son who cannot see his children and was falsely accused? They say it is because his six year old daughter said that he hit Jackie for crying. However, DCF workers told her if she would say that daddy hit the little girl that they would bring Jackie home from the hospital and she would be well. How do I know? The older girl told our friend that very thing. Our friends were allowed to have temporary custody of the children for a short while. The older child cried when she got to the house after DCF tricked her into accusing her daddy and Jackie was not there. She then told our friends that the DCF people were liars. Then she said, “I can’t talk because they told me the police are hearing everything I say.”

What kind of people do this kind of thing? By the way, I work everyday with children that are that same age, and have for many years. Be assured a person can twist what ever a child may say or even get a child to say what ever they want by a promise or a gift. The students I teach say things that I know are only how they have perceived a conversation or an act, but it is not necessarily so.

At this time Jacquelyn is doing better and has been released from the hospital and has been placed in a medical foster home. Do you have any idea what heartache Jackie’s mother and her family are going through? She has been at the hospital nearly everyday to care for and comfort her little girl. Being able to see each other everyday has been instrumental to help Jackie’s mother keep going through these atrocious and false accusations , and the one thing that has caused Jackie to heal. Seeing her mother is the one thing that Jackie looked forward to everyday. What will this do to a little child trying to heal after being in a hospital for over 19 weeks? Imagine not knowing how your 3 year old child may be doing or not being allowed to see your recovering child but 2 hours a month? Jackie is still going to need surgery later. She has done nothing to deserve the way she is being treated by the DCF and the courts.

I have had to ask myself the question many times, “Just who is the abuser in this situation?” It is not the parents. It is the people with no heart or genuine love for my grandchildren. To them it is just a job, a cruel job, and the children are the means of them making money. Do those people tuck them in at night and read them a Bible Story or sing them a song or give them “butterfly kisses” good night? Do these people pray for my grandchildren? I lay awake night after night, crying and praying for my children and grandchildren and writing this letter in my mind. My son and his wife cannot sleep or even eat properly for the heartache they are unjustly being made to endure.

Please pray and ask God to help you see the real abuser in this case. It is not our family. I am a grandmother with a broken heart and a constant prayer on her lips to keep her precious grandchildren’s minds and bodies safe. I have heard many horror stories from people who were in foster care as children. I don’t know what this is doing to my grandchildren and I can only imagine what they must think every day. Their daddy always told them he would be there to protect them and care for them and love them. Now some cold-hearted people are playing with their minds and they must wonder “When will my daddy come for me?” When will I feel my daddy’s arms around me and my mommy’s arms around me again? When will I see the mammaw who loves me so much again? When will I get to visit my aunts and uncles and cousins again? All my sons are fine Christian young men with families of their own. They are active in good Baptist churches and are raising their children right. So was this son, until an organization decided to stop all the good that was being done. You have not been told the facts, Your Honor, and in a country where we are suppose to be innocent until proven guilty my son and daughter are treated as though they are guilty and have to prove their innocence. Meanwhile precious children and wonderful parents are separated from one another. This is totally wrong.

Please, Your Honor, help put my family back together. Our government has put you into a position of trust and as someone having wisdom I am very respectful of this very thing. I know you are a busy person, but please consider all I have written and take a close look at what is going on in this case. Thank you from the heart of a heart-broken, and sad grandmother and mom.

Paula Jean Douglass
Posted by Paula Jean Douglass  
 

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Prosecutor Richard Komando Why is Quakeita Leisha Anderson, DCF Worker Not Jailed?


The State Attorney Didn’t Ask For Jail Time! Why Not?

March 29, 2011

When I read this article I had to read it twice, she falisfied records, this is done all the time- both to steal children and to keep from doing the job. Children are abused and killed by being stolen and by not doing the job. What if these children had been hurt or worse murdered because she falsified the records? This is what happened to Nubia. Our tax dollars pay for her to lie on the paperwork. It is time no past time to revamp or shut this system down all together. The enitre system is built on lies.

By David Hunt
A former state Department of Children and Families investigator in Jacksonville has avoided trial by pleading guilty to falsifying a child abuse record.
Quakeita Leisha Anderson, 28, resigned from the agency last year amid an investigation into the bogus report. She closed a child abuse case without making a standard follow-up visit, even though she justified it by reporting she made the visit.
The same family became subject to another child abuse investigation based on a hotline tip a month later.
Anderson pleaded guilty to official misconduct last week. She had been scheduled to go to trial this week.
She is scheduled to be back in court for sentencing April 25. Prosecutor Richard Komando said he was mostly concerned with holding Anderson accountable and does not plan to ask for jail time.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

State Settles Lawsuit With Female Raped In Foster Care

The Florida Department of Children and Families has settled a lawsuit with the guardians of a mentally disabled girl who repeatedly was molested by her foster father in Immokalee and ended up pregnant.

DCF has agreed to pay the guardians of Pierreisna Archille $1.3 million for ignoring complaints of abuse made by Pierreisna’s younger sister, Darlene Achille. Pierreisna’s foster father, Bonifacio Valazquez, repeatedly raped Pierreisna when she was an underage minor and Pierreisna ended up pregnant at 17.
When Darlene alleged abuse, DCF transferred her to another foster home and left Pierreisna in the Valazquez home. DCF didn’t take the abuse complaints seriously until it was discovered that Pierreisna was four months pregnant.
The failure of DCF to follow up on Darlene’s complaints was the crux of the lawsuit, which argued DCF caseworkers and investigators were negligent and allowed the rapes to happen.
It generally is Daily News policy not to publish the names of victims of sexual abuse. However, Darlene Achille gave the newspaper permission to identify her sister, for whom she is the legal guardian. The sisters’ last names are spelled differently, according to their birth certificates.
Valazquez and his late wife, Josephine, were registered foster parents in Immokalee. When Josephine died in 1999, DCF workers came in to re-evaluate whether Valazquez could care for all the children in the home by himself. They removed Pierreisna and other girls but recommended relicensing him to care for boys.
Five days later, Pierreisna’s new foster family found she was pregnant. This happened two years after Darlene accused Valazquez of abusing several children, including a girl who then was 2 years old.
The allegations were dismissed at the time they were first made, but a new investigation was conducted that led to Velazquez going to jail after it was discovered that Pierreisna was pregnant.
In addition to the rape, Velazquez attempted to smother Pierreisna, threatened to kill her, choked her and took photographs of her naked, according to records.
Valazquez, now 72, was sentenced in 2001 for sexual battery and in 2003 for indecent assault of a child under 16. He is scheduled to be released from prison in 2008.
Darlene is now the primary guardian of Pierreisna and the child she had. They live in Fort Myers.
Darlene is 22 and Pierreisna is 25, but Pierreisna has a mental disability that gives her the thought process of a 13 year old, court records show.
Pierreisna works at a Publix. Darlene is a full-time student at Florida Gulf Coast University who also works at a SweetBay.
This lawsuit had been bogged down in procedure for five years until it recently was settled.
Attorney Richard Filson, who represents Darlene and Pierreisna, said the key was Gov. Charlie Crist coming into office and installing former state Attorney General Bob Butterworth as the new secretary of DCF.
Butterworth pushed to settle the case, while previously DCF fought to delay the case indefinitely, Filson said.
“The state did dramatically change its position,” Filson said. “That made it much easier to have a good-faith settlement negotiation.
DCF spokeswoman Kristi Sonntag said Crist expressed a desire to settle these types of cases when he came into office.
“The attitude is they want these cases settled as quickly as possible,” Sonntag said. “It’s the best solution for both parties.”
Under the settlement agreement, Darlene and Pierreisna get $100,000 now. The other $1.2 million must be approved by the state Legislature by passing what is known as a claims bill. The Legislature must approve the settlement because state law caps judgments against government agencies at $100,000. Payments over that amount can only be awarded if approved by the Legislature.
A claims bill is expected to be introduced soon in the Legislature. Sonntag said DCF wouldn’t oppose the passage of that bill.
Filson said the money is needed for Darlene to take care of both Pierreisna and the child. A consulting firm had estimated that it would cost $4.5 million to care for Pierreisna and the child.
“This is the absolute minimum that we were willing to settle for,” Filson said. “If I’d had to take the case to trial my client would have had to testify. She didn’t relish that fact.”
Howard Talenfeld, an attorney who is president of Florida’s Children First, a confederation of lawyers who work on behalf of children, will be the point person in getting a claims bill through the Legislature on behalf of Pierreisna.
Talenfeld said he is talking to legislators now and expects to have someone in the House and Senate introduce claim bills by Aug. 1.
Talenfeld declined to say who would be sponsoring the legislation in the House and Senate because those discussions are ongoing.
The Legislature has approved requests like this before, but not for the past few years.
The most notable recent case involved Kimberly Goodwin, a developmentally disabled girl who was raped by the son of the director of a group care home in which she was living. Goodwin was awarded $8 million in 2002.
No significant claims bill has been passed by the Legislature since then, Talenfeld said.
The next regular session of the Legislature is in 2008. But it’s possible the bill could be approved earlier if a special session is called this year.
Former state Rep. Dudley Goodlette of Naples said getting a claims bill approved can be challenging.
“There are some legislators who believe the cap (on awards) exists for a reason,” Goodlette said, adding that those legislators oppose all claim bills.
When the leader of a committee that must approve a claims bill feels this way, or the leadership of the House or Senate has this philosophy, no claim bills make it to the floor for approval, Goodlette said.
Goodlette isn’t involved in this case, but has read news accounts of the lawsuit.
“From what I’ve heard this is the type of claim that would merit approval,” he said.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Two More Children Abused In The System In Florida

March 30, 2011

Lawsuit Alleges Foster Children Abuse
Canadian Couple Suing Family Support Services of North Florida
POSTED: Tuesday, March 29, 2011
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Canadian couple said the details about their adoptive children’s care before they became their legal guardians are horrific.
The couple is suing Family Support Services of North Florida, alleging the adoption agency never told him the real background of the two Jacksonville children.
The adoptive parents said their two children were physically, sexually and mentally abused while in foster care.
“Yeah, I am angry. I am very angry,” Andrew Dolan, the children’s adoptive father, said at a news conference Tuesday morning. “I’m angry, disappointed.”
Video: Lawsuit Filed Over Abuse
According to the lawsuit, the siblings, who are now 8 and 6, were shuttled from one foster home to another, five in all.
During that time, they suffered disturbing abuse ranging from being yelled at or beaten, being denied food and being forced to commit sex acts with adults or one another, the couple said their adopted children told them.
Dolan said that if he had it to do again, he and his wife would have never adopted the two children from Jacksonville and taken them to live in Canada.
“My wife and I have saved these children’s life, as far as I am concerned,” Dolan said. “We’ve taken them out of a system that did nothing for them and treated them terribly.”
“The years since have been hell,” the Dolans’ attorney, Brian Cabrey, said of how the adoptive parents feel. “The things that have been disclosed, the things they learned what their children have been through while in foster care in the state of Florida is nothing short of nauseating. They are egregious. They are among the worst allegations I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot.”
The family said they will never give the children back, but they believe the state should pay more for the children’s medical and psychiatric care. The parents already receive $900 a month from the state, but they said the bills are much more, and that’s why they are suing.
“(Family Support Services) saw us coming and dropped this bombshell on us and did not tell us anything about it,” Dolan said. “And not until we got (the children) back to Canada, then months later the bombshell started to blow up, and this is what we are left with.”
Jim Adams, the head of Family Support Services of North Florida, said in a phone interview that he can’t believe the allegations and what happened to the children.
“Whoever covered it up should be prosecuted and should be held civilly liable,” Adams said. “Ultimately, I am responsible for every employee who works for me. If one of our employees covered up anything, it’s just as vengeful as the attorney engaged in this case.”
Family Support Services is investigating, along with the Florida Department of Children and Families.
“It boggles my mind that the children were taken away from their birth mother for neglect, put into a foster care system that then exposed them to physical, mental and sexual abuse over a number of years,” Dolan said. “You have to wonder if they would not be better outside the system.”
The Department of Children and Families said the allegations are a concern if they are true. DCF said the family has not been cooperative and only made the claims when seeking more money.
DCF said it has notified the abuse hotline, the state attorney’s office and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office about the accusations.
DCF did say other children in the foster home had been interviewed and there were no reports of abuse with them.
The suit was filed on Tuesday. No court date has been set. The family’s attorney says the agency is the only one named in the suit but others might be added at a later date.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Read the full report and see a break down of how your state scored.Florida 58 F






A NATIONAL REPORT CARD ON LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR ABUSED & NEGLECTED CHILDREN

GRADES AT A GLANCE-how did your state score ?         

Alabama 73 C                       Missouri 61 D
Alaska 71 C                           Montana 79 C
Arizona 63 D                         Nebraska 76 C
Arkansas 77 C                       Nevada 71 C
California 82 B                       New Hampshire 66 D
Colorado 73 C                       New Jersey 88 B
Connecticut 103 A+              New Mexico 92 A
Delaware 51 F                       New York 98 A
District of Columbia 78 C       North Carolina 82 B
Florida 58 F                           North Dakota 55 F
Georgia 68 D                        Ohio 86 B
Hawaii 55 F                           Oklahoma 93 A
Idaho 45 F                           Oregon 83 B
Illinois 63 D                           Pennsylvania 82 B
Indiana 43 F                         Rhode Island 84 B
Iowa 90 A                            South Carolina 76 C
Kansas 86 B                         South Dakota 65 D
Kentucky 68 D                    Tennessee 87 B
Louisiana 95 A                      Texas 85 B
Maine 52 F                           Utah 77 C
Maryland 93 A                     Vermont 90 A
Massachusetts 104 A+        Virginia 77 C
Michigan 76 C                    Washington 61 D
Minnesota 70 C                  West Virginia 93 A
Mississippi 96 A                   Wisconsin 76 C
Wyoming

Read the full report and see a break down of how your state scored.
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Foster Care Failures In Florida

Two disturbing facts about the Florida foster care system have emerged following the suicide of a 7-year-old boy on psychiatric drugs. First is the extraordinary prescription rate for children under the supervision of the Department of Children and Families. Second is the alarming revelation that a 2005 law aimed at tackling that problem has been repeatedly and systemically ignored. 

So far, DCF Secretary George Sheldon, eight months into the job, is to be commended for the openness and urgency he has brought to the agency's investigation. But his true challenge will be altering the culture of an agency that failed to implement the safeguards already in place. 

Agency critics have long argued that too many foster children are being medicated for the convenience of caregivers. As of Friday, an ongoing review of DCF's foster care database found that at least 400 more children are taking psychiatric drugs than initially thought. That means at least 3,068 — or 15 percent of the 20,000 foster children — are receiving the drugs, compared to 5 percent of the state's children. 

What's more, DCF acknowledges at least 14 percent of the children received the drugs without the informed consent of the parent or the court. Sheldon believes the percentage is higher, because he suspects many parents weren't adequately informed of potential side effects of such drugs or didn't speak to the physician. 

Sadly, the revelations come four years after concerns about pediatric use of antipsychotics and antidepressants — few of which have been tested or approved by the FDA for use by children — prompted legislative action. A 2005 law requires that all foster children's prescriptions be approved by a parent, or if parental rights have been terminated, by the court. The law also made clear that DCF was to monitor children on such drugs. 

In response, DCF included questions about medications and parental consent on its database software. Local providers use the program to create the official state record of each child. But time and again, Sheldon acknowledges, caseworkers have failed to fully complete the forms or lied about obtaining consent. 

DCF's failure to follow the law was laid bare by the tragic death of Gabriel Myers, a 4-foot-tall, 67-pound boy who hanged himself from an extendable shower hose at a South Florida foster home in April shortly after having his medication changed. He was taking Vyvanse, an ADHD drug, and Symbyax, a combination of the antipsychotic Zyprexa and the antidepressant Prozac. Symbyax carries a "black box" warning that it might lead to suicidal behavior among children and adolescents, especially when first prescribed. Neither his parent nor a judge had approved the prescriptions. And his death came after 10 days of tumult: His mother had lost visitation rights. He had been in two foster homes, changed therapists, and been told he would be going back to Ohio, where he had been sexually abused.
Since his death, caseworkers across the state have been ordered to go through their files and remedy shortcomings — from updating the state database to reaching out to parents whose consent was never sought for their child's medications. DCF has also convened a panel of experts aimed at addressing what else might be done. Among the likely outcomes, Sheldon said, are new protocols before a child is given powerful psychotropic drugs, such as requiring a review by a second doctor. 

Such changes will only work if Sheldon succeeds in changing a culture that ignored such safeguards. DCF relies heavily on nonprofit local providers to do its work. Those providers need to fully understand what is at stake, as do their employees. Four years after the Legislature thought it had addressed this problem, a 7-year-old's suicide is a stark reminder that the system is still terribly flawed. How long will it take to get it right?

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Monday, September 19, 2011

Legal Abuse Syndrome By Social Services.

The book, Legal Abuse Syndrome written by Karin Huffer is the result of her experiences for over twenty years as a marriage and family counselor in private practice. What is unique about this book is that it addresses the victims of legal abuse from a psychologi-cal therapeutic perspective. The objective is to move the victim beyond their predicament into positive action and thinking. Ms. Huffer illustrates the abuses with the cases of seven victims of Legal Abuse Syndrome, detailing their pain and suffering and the various stages of the therapy they have undergone for recovery of their emotional health.

Ms. Huffer found that many victims of the legal system suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She identified this as Legal Abuse Syndrome, brought on by the abusive and protracted litigation, prevalent in our courts. According to Ms. Huffer you may be suffering from Legal Abuse Syndrome if you feel deeply disillusioned and oppressed as a result of your experience with the legal system; if you feel you were frustrated in obtaining justice; if you feel your dreams and plans for your life were torn from you by a system that is supposedly there to protect your rights and property; if you fear that the system will defeat you at every turn and there is nothing you can do about it, and if you feel that you have been victimized several times over, by the perpetrators, by lawyers, judges, bailiffs and other court personnel. As a consequence you may suffer from tension and anxiety, recurring nightmares you may feel emotionally an physically exhausted, numb, disconnected and vulnerable.
A central point of Ms. Huffer’s book is that the victims in America are not only assaulted by crime, but also by the abuses of power and authority administered by tax dollars intended to provide due process of law for the protection of civil rights. Ms. Huffer observes that not only does the justice system move slowly, but delays are used as strategy by attorneys to weaken their opposition economically and emotionally and to provide hefty fees for attorneys. Ms. Huffer notes that when courts fail as a consequence of officially sanctioned wrongdoing it leaves victims and vigilantes in its trail. The rage of these victims accumulates when they are not provided a satisfying place to turn to. She concludes that the enormous betrayals and inefficiencies that make up bureaucratic post-crime experiences are literally attacking the emotional health of the nation. She recommends that the community of American citizens adopt the following:
1. Oppression and abuse of power are injurious to the health of the victims. Domination by abusers of bureaucratic power threatens the very functionality of the public and private sections in our country.

2.

Victims are not self interested, narcissistic folks who sit around and wallow in their losses. They are courageous individuals who face their pain and care to right the wrongs. They participate in the collision of evil and good as it is classically intended in order to achieve balance. Denial is popular, but far less responsible.

3.

Trust is a social staple that must be protected just as earth and water must be protected to provide for survival. When trust is damaged the community suffers and society as a whole will eventually falter and collapse (Bok). Veterans of crime must exude zero tolerance for lying in courtrooms, lying in political campaigns, lying to cover-up, and deceptions through omission and nonperformance by public officials and public servants.
LEGAL ABUSE SYNDROME, Kerin Huffer M.S., her website is www.legalabusesyndrome.com or www.legalabusesyndrome.org

A new cause of action that is a new bases for lawsuits is being accepted by the courts allowing cases to proceed on claims of "organic brain injury" caused by traumatic stress.  An article appeared on this on November 11, 2002 in the National Law Journal. Click here to see full article.

Harassment related emotional distress is being recognized in the work field upon which lawyers are now suing. To read the article by by Joni Johnston, Psy.D. Click here There is no reason why the same facts and reasoning should not apply to the harassment inflicted on victims in a lawsuit.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Robin Jensen can you help me trace the money?

Dulce you are Always in our  prayers  
I miss you Dulce
I love you Dulce 
Our hearts are broken without you    













So this seems to me to be an incentive to remove children. If a child is placed into a foster home additional money is provided. DCF gets paid to provide services, but it has also become quite evident it takes a great amount of time to get these helpful services. The more time it takes to complete the required tasks (that DCF demands as conditions of return) then the longer children are kept away from their parents. Guess who makes money on this?

I wonder if it is not people like Robin Jensen Sarasota  Florida Department Of Children And Families, Lisa Voigt, a DCF supervisor in Venice Florida, Alexis Nevling, Safe Children Coalition Arcadia FL, Kelly A. Razzano  Executive Administrative Assistant Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office Tallahassee, Florida,  Brena Slater, Department of Children and Families, Operations Manager and many more?

Do Not Ever Look Back And Say I Wish I Would Have Done More.

Tuesday, September 20 at 12:00am - September 21 at 12:00am

It is time to make our voices heard. We are asking everyone who is a Mother, Father, Grandparent, Sibling of a child that had been hurt by Social Services, Friend, Family Member, Neighbor, Teacher, Social Worker, any one who wants to see true change in the system to protect FAMILIES and CHILDREN to be the voice of a child, let it be heard that they want and need their family and Families deserve protection and rights. We want to send as many stories, Links, Blogs, videos, opinions and calls for change to Anderson Cooper this Tuesday. 
We are determined to make sure that DCF, SOCIAL SERVICES, CPS, DHS, DCFS, DHS, DHSS, DFPS, DCSS, OCS, OCYF, STATE GOVENORS, REPRENATVISE STATE AND FEDERAL, PRESIDENT OBAMA, JUDGES, ATTORNEYS, AND FAMILIES hear our voice to save the children!

Remember it is important for everyone to wait until Tuesday, we want to FLOOD him with a never ending stream of requests. We can do this, you can help. Do not ever look back and say I wish I would have done more.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

STOP DCF IN FLORIDA

DCf is corrupt! They steal our children!

 Tuesday, September 6, 2011

STOP DCF IN FLORIDA

To Whom It May Concern:                                                                                                                                                                       Attorney Kyle Fletcher

 We would like to file some complaints with the State of Florida concerning CBC a subcontracted company for Seminole county DCF, JUDGE JOHN GALLUZZO and Attorney Kyle Fletcher We have had a terrible time with these people. We are two parents that will no longer sit back and do nothing about the unethical practices. Why it is a Judge can be very rude raise his voice and treat people the way we have been treated? If we had done this in his court room we would have gotten contempt of court. Where is the justice system? I live in a country where I should be free. I live in a country that has Constitution. Our rights have been violated. We have been treated very unfairly. I contacted my court appointed attorney all the time he don’t reply. I have emails that I have sent this has gone on over 6 months now. He can’t even show up for court. Isn’t this legal malpractice and VERY unethical? We need to know who to contact and how contact them?

 WE WILL GO TO EVERY NEWS PAPER, EVERY NEWS PRESS AND POST ON EVERY WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET REGARDING THESE TYPE OF ISSUES IF SOME THING DOSE NOT CHANGE.  Why do these State agencies and this Judge have immunity?  Our tax dollars pay for a corrupt and very unethical system. Now if we didn’t pay taxes I assure you we would not complain as much as we will be now. We have been calling different people for months. I have sent emails this has to stop somewhere and it needs to be now!

 We were told by Susan Cox our case manager during a staffing we could do our classes for our case plan online we have a witness that heard this. This same case manager has also stated that she wanted to move this case to the county our child resides in. We have had many court hearings where there have been many lies and a lot of unethical practices done. We have been flat out called liars amongst other things by JUDGE GALLUZZO. Now if he is able to call us these names can we do the same to him and with no legal action against us please let us know? He was created just like we were he took an oath with GOD! If he is unable to treat us fairly then we want him to step down from that bench and go up against another Judge that can call him down and put him in place.  These classes WE took were court approved classes now the need to be accepted. Our child has been through enough. CBC placed him in a NON-MED foster home with severe medical conditions. Our child has physiological damages now we believe from the state of Florida’s DCF AND SEMINOLE COUNTY for not employing competent employees. OUR WHOLE FAMILY DEMANDS JUSTICE NOW! Our child has never ever been harmed the harm has been done in Seminole County Florida. Why does the State of Florida and Seminole County let these people have a job?  It took over 5 months to even get a referral for the parenting plan. The attorney for CBC never has the correct information. This county has said we have been non-compliant when in fact we called daily to find out why we had no referrals.

WE DEMAND ANSWERS AND ACTION AGAINST ALL PARTIES!!!!!!!!  WE ARE TAX PAYERS AND WE WILL GO TO THE PRESIDENT IF THIS CONTINUES TO HAPPEN……….There is much more than this that has happened but we will no longer tolerate this!


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Raul Irizarry


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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Parents of seven told: Your children are too fat, so you will never see them again.

This is not a problem that exists in Florida alone, it is world wide.  I had no idea that there was this much corruption in FL until Department Children and Families Sarasota Fl took my daughter on lies and for money.

I say that enough is enough, and who will stand up for Florida families.

The answer is simple.. follow the money for all the corruption in Department Children and Families Sarasota Fl.
 

Four obese children are on the brink of being permanently removed from their family by social workers after their parents failed to bring their weight under control.
In the first case of its kind, their mother and father now face what they call the ‘unbearable’ likelihood of never seeing them again.
Their three daughters, aged 11, seven and one, and five-year-old son, will either be ‘fostered without contact’ or adopted.
Torn apart: The parents, left and right, with six of their children who they fear will be taken away from them
Torn apart: The parents, left and right, with six of their children who they fear will be taken away from them
Either way, the family’s only hope of being reunited will be if the children attempt to track down their parents when they become adults.

 

The couple, who have been married for nearly 20 years and are not being named to protect their children’s identities, were given a ‘draconian’ ultimatum three years ago – as reported at the time by The Mail on Sunday.
Warned that the children must slim or be placed in care, the family spent two years living in a council-funded ‘Big Brother’ house in which they were constantly supervised and the food they ate monitored.

 
But despite subjecting them to intense scrutiny, social workers did not impose rules on what food the children should eat, and there was apparently little or no improvement.
News of the decision to remove them was broken to the couple, from Dundee, on Tuesday. Critics called it a disgraceful breach of human rights and a chilling example of the power of the State to meddle in family life.
In an emotional interview, the 42-year-old mother said: ‘We might not be the perfect parents, but we love our children with all our hearts. To face a future where we will never see them again is unbearable.
‘They picked on us because of our size to start with and they just haven’t let go, despite the fact we’ve done everything to lose weight and meet their demands. We’re going to fight this to the bitter end. It feels like even prisoners have more human rights than we do.’

The couple have not committed any crime and are not accused of deliberate cruelty or abuse. Their solicitor, Joe Myles, said there was ‘nothing sinister lurking in the background’ and accused social workers of failing to act in the family’s best interests.
‘Dundee social services department appear to have locked horns with this couple and won’t let go,’ he said, adding that the monitoring project caused more problems than it solved. ‘The parents were constantly being accused of bad parenting and made to live under a microscope.

 We have tried very hard to do everything that was asked of us. My wife has cooked healthy foods like home-made spaghetti bolognese and mince and potatoes; but nothing we’ve done has ever been enough.

The couple have three older children who are all distraught and angry at the ruling.
Speaking through tears, their 15-year-old daughter said: ‘The social workers should hang their heads in shame. A person’s weight is their own business and only we can do anything about it, not them. My parents are good people and they love us all. The four little ones don’t know what is about to happen to them.’

Social workers became aware of the family in early 2008 after one of the sons accused his father of hitting him on the forehead. In truth, he had fallen and hit his head on a radiator – a fact he later admitted. However, the allegation opened the door to the obesity investigation.
While the couple admit experiencing what their lawyer calls ‘low grade’ parenting problems, which would have merited support, they were aghast when the issue of weight was seized on as a major concern.
A council report at the time said: ‘With the exception of [one of the names], the children are all overweight. Advice has been given regarding diet but there has

been no improvement. Appointments with the dietician have been missed.’
Investigation: The family have been subject to an obesity probe -at meal times social workers took notes and children met with dieticians (picture posed by model)
Investigation: The family have been subject to an obesity probe -at meal times social workers took notes and children met with dieticians (picture posed by model)
At that point their then 12-year-old son weighed 16 stone; his 11-year-old sister weighed 12 stone; and his three-year-old sister weighed four stone. It is not known how much the four younger children weigh now.
The couple were ordered to send their children to dance and football lessons and were given a three-month deadline to bring down their weight. When that failed, the children were placed in foster homes but were allowed to visit their parents.

After the couple objected to this arrangement, the council agreed to move them into a two-bedroom flat in a supported unit run by the Dundee Families Project. They insisted on the couple living with only three of their children at a time.

At meal times, a social worker stood in the room taking notes. Doctors raised concerns that the children put on weight whenever they spent time with their parents, a claim they vehemently denied.
The couple and their children also had to adhere to a strict 11pm curfew. This involved ‘clocking’ in and out by filling in a sheet held by an employee who lived on site.
Although the children’s weight was the major concern, other allegations were included in a report. It showed that social workers were worried when the youngest child was found crawling unsupervised. The parents point out they were never far away and the flat had no stairs.
They also found her ‘attempting to put dangerous objects’ in her mouth. The family say this is natural in toddlers and she was never successful.

 To have a social worker stand and watch you eat is intolerable. I want other families to know what can happen once social workers become involved. We will fight them to the end to get our beloved children back.
Social workers were further worried when she crawled through the contents of an upturned ashtray – an ‘unfortunate one-off incident’, claim the parents. All the concerns were dismissed by the family’s legal team as ‘low grade’ problems.
It is understood the father crumbled under the strain of being so closely monitored in January this year and moved into a council flat elsewhere in the city.

In the next few months, the mother breached the lunch and dinner meal observations, by her own admission, on ‘several’ occasions while taking the children to see their father.

She personally never broke the 11pm curfew but once allowed her seven-year-old daughter to remain at her father’s flat after she fell asleep. She did not want to disturb her and argued the child had ‘two parents, not one’ and was in ‘good hands’.

These breaches led staff to declare the trial a failure and the mother was asked to leave the unit in April this year. She moved in to her husband’s flat but the children were then handed over to foster parents.
Her solicitor said he planned to use independent experts to prove that the children want to live with their parents and have been damaged by the social workers’ intervention. He added: ‘We may ultimately look towards human rights laws.’

The father, aged 56, said: ‘We have tried very hard to do everything that was asked of us. My wife has cooked healthy foods like home-made spaghetti bolognese and mince and potatoes; we’ve cut out snacks and only ever allowed the kids sweets on a Saturday. But nothing we’ve done has ever been enough.

‘The pressure of living in the family unit would have broken anyone. We were being treated like children and cut off from the outside world. To have a social worker stand and watch you eat is intolerable. I want other families to know what can happen once social workers become involved. We will fight them to the end to get our beloved children back.’

It is estimated 26 million British adults will be obese by 2030, with obesity levels running at an all-time high among children. Official statistics show those who are overweight spend 50 per cent more time in hospital, placing extra strain on the NHS.
Tam Fry, honorary chairman of the Child Growth Foundation, said: ‘This is a disgrace. These parents have clearly attempted to comply. They have, if you like, played Dundee City Council’s game and yet they are still losing their children.’
Dundee City Council said: ‘The council always acts in the best interests of children, with their welfare and safety in mind.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033486/Your-children-fat-again.html

Being to fat is not good but for God's sake work with the famlilies!!!

Please go to this site, sign the petition and repost. Department of Children and Families abuse of power.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/florida-department-of-child-and-families-dcf-power-abuse

This is a blog to bring us together with our stories of corruption with social services.
 
Thank You
Randy


 

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Manatee County,Florida has long made a business of stealing children!!!!

Dulce looks real abuse doesn't  she?
Rick Scott,
Please read this article, you will notice that it is Manatee county, which is under the jurisdiction of Robin Jensen, the same attorney that destroyed our family. If you go to the link you will read comments that say such things as "That is why I left Florida" this is not an isolated problem. Please Please help FL families. Do some research, become a child advocate, you are interested in your political career, here is a stand that you can take.
Under 5 years, blond, blue-eyed - $6,000.00. a top of the line product

We are going to take you behind the lies into the ugly truth that is destroying families for profit every day, in every community across America.� You won't want to believe it but when you see their faces, hear their voices, you will understand why this is happening and what it means to your own life, even if you don't have children.
The same system that views children as commodities to be sold also has plans for you.� There is a solution and we will get to that.�

The CPS steals children using the system paid for by citizens who believe it is being used to protect those in need.� That is a fraud; the system actually pumps money into the personal accounts of all those involved in the system, converting children into cash while destroying them and their families.� The number of children who emerge from the system, able to function normally, are near zero.� Some are never seen again.

The system used includes three stages.� The first phase is to shock and intimidate the parents into consenting to let their children be processed into the system.� The second phase is to force parents, terrified for their children, to begin a process of 'case management.'� That process is a template that is designed to push the parents into emotional meltdown and bankruptcy.� The third phase is to sever the parental rights entirely and sell the children.�

In the wake of this trauma families are atomized, destroyed.� Parents and grandparents never again see the children who connect them to the future.� Children lose their past and the anchoring each of us needs to develop into a healthy human being.�

Those who carry the process through the stages are well compensated.� Agents, Case workers, judges, physicians, clerks, and others expect and receive compensation for services often not even delivered.� Compensation takes place through corporations.� State employees who fail to take children out of homes are penalized; many of these leave the system which has been converted from a system originally intended to help families to one that profits those in control.��

Across the country, CPS experienced high turn overs in case workers struggling under impossible work loads for many years.� Good people, motivated to help struggling families were frustrated and unable to help; those are the kinds of caseworkers who simply quit.� Cases of extreme abuse while children were in foster care were common.� Nothing about the system gave cause for hope it was working.� Then the picture changed.� The idea that instead of providing services the system as a whole should move to the model of generating income took hold as the concept of privatization was widely adopted by government. Privatization, introduced during the Reagan Years, was pushed by think tanks that saw government, a corporation itself, as the logical partner for other large corporate interests. Children, roads, military services, each of these and more were recalibrated to provide income to those in control.� In this way, the problem with social services created an opening that in the late 1990s allowed the least ethical to profit from the pain of others.

PL 105-89 (HR 867), passed into law November 19, 1997, was intended to ensure that children who could not be reunited with their birth families could be placed in loving homes.� But those entrusted to carry out the desperately needed changes found the measure enabled a very different agenda. CPS agents and caseworkers could be trained to look at their industry as a profit center.� The system began to view children as product to be harvested and parents as barriers to be demolished.�

The system became a template for kidnapping, carried out by barely educated caseworkers who were told that they made the law.� This itself had become a tenet of belief held by those in power as the foundations of Constitutional law continued to be eroded by a judiciary who graduated from law school ignorant of America's foundational documents.� The shift from Constitutional law to statute and whim of court, low-level government employee, and law enforcement is documented in "The Anti-Government Movement Guidebook," published by the� National Center for State Courts in1999.

The stage was set and the feeding frenzy was about to begin.�

The process goes through three stages of slow death; ripped from their families the children are bewildered, afraid, vulnerable to the system.� The process hinges on secrecy and an asserted immunity from accountability for all involved.� Power, through the official but unacknowledged transfer from the Constitution to government by statute, code and whim, renders all of those outside government vulnerable.� Caught in that process parents lose track of all the things that brought happiness and normality to their lives.� Years later this will mark them.� Most will never recover.�

This is the story of three families.� Each of their stories is still in motion because the pain never stops.�

Stage One
Manatee County, Florida has long made a business of stealing children.� Families who settle there do not know that, however.� They are attracted to the weather, the beauty of the area.� If they knew they would never settle anyplace in Florida, which is arguably has the most corrupt CPS system in the nation.� The County is run by a Board of Commissioners who meet at this well polished table.

Children are a commodity for which there is a steady and growing market both in the United States and across the world.� Child sex-slaves arrive in Europe and elsewhere from unspecified locations; children taken from homes routinely end up in the porn industry.� It has been going on for many years but since it did not impact most of us it was easy to ignore.� But as counties across the country have cycled down into bankruptcy the need to pump harder for every buck to be made has become more compelling.� Today it is not just the most vulnerable who are targeted but families that would before have been passed over as too well connected.� In Manatee County the pumping is in fast forward.��


Monday, June 2nd 2008
The two young sons of the Roberts were dropped off at the home of their babysitter, Christina Holbrook, residence11534 57th Street Circle East, Parrish, Florida.� Both parents work.� Michelle and James Roberts are both veterans of the US Navy who met while in service to their country.� Both came from families with long and honorable histories of serving in the military.��

Their oldest son, had been disciplined by his father the day before for jumping up and down on his baby brother, a potentially life-threatening activity.� Spanking was the kind of discipline James himself experienced as a child growing up in Tennessee.� The spanking had left a slight bruise.��

CPS arrived at the babysitters home at 9:30am.� They proceeded to strip the two boys and photograph them in the nude, questioning them for an hour. This was a bewildering and frightening experience for the boys.���

The first James and Michelle heard of this was when Michelle received a phone call at 3:30pm from Alicia Habib.� Habib presented herself as an agent for Child Protective Services, demanding that the couple present themselves for an 'interview'. No criminal complaint was presented.� But the process of intimidation and fear was launched.��

Here, Michelle and James find out, to their shock, that the kids have been stripped and photographed.� Left feeling as if the ground had been cut out from under them they endured with shock the moment when the deputy sheriff read James his Miranda rights.� He was not charged; no criminal complaint was served.� Michelle is interviewed.� They are given orders.� Michelle is to be present when James saw their children.� CPS is moving towards building paperwork to take the children away from their parents.��

During the interview they were shown the photos taken of their naked children by the deputy.� The children's faces were frozen in tears.� He did not show them all the photos, keeping them under the paperwork.� Michelle found his behavior intimidating.� As the photos were shown he questioned her about their use of discipline.���

Soon Michelle and James will realize that the CPS has no power unless they give it to them.� CPS depends on the ignorance of ordinary people.� The first phase had begun.��

The system ground them out fine; dehumanizing them and working with fine-tuned intention to show them, by its actions, that they had no rights and no recourse.� At the end of the week a hearing was set; they were now being launched into the second phase of the process that intended to wrest their children from them.� But during those endless days they began to come out of the shock and consider their alternatives.� They considered the Constitution and the rights they knew they had both sworn to defend as members of the armed forces of America.��

Michelle loaded the two boys in their car and drove them hundreds of miles to the town where James had grown up.� There, she left them with their great-grandparents.� When you are seven months pregnant no long drive is comfortable, but for her children Michelle would risk anything.��
In the car she prayed that she would not miscarry the baby held so close to her heart.��

The two young parents are both veterans of the War in Iraq. Each had joined the Navy, after looking forward to serving their country from their early teems.�� She planned this as her career, since 7th Grade.� He, since taking in ROTC in High School.��

But they had joined a military that they believed cared for its own and kept its promises; after finding that their small son would be have to be left with someone else while both served in the war zone, they resigned.� Their son, Lukas, was born the following October.��

Now, they knew what the military is about.� To them, they were just bodies to fill slots that civilians could fill at twice the pay.� Never previously interested in politics they began to think about how the world was being run.��

From the time you join you are told he is your commander and chief.� She was not a Bush fan, but you cannot say it without fear of reprisal.��

But Florida CPS was not finished with them.� Although they did not know it, Habib stood to make nearly $10,000 as her bounty for taking the children, both very adoptable, from their home.��
They never could have imagined that the elderly great-grand-parents would be threatened with arrest, but that is what happened.� They began studying the Constitution; This, they knew was the real law in America.� If they understood it they could use it.�

Now they understand that they should never have talked to CPS.� If they had not, CPS would have had to leave them alone.� CPS uses fear and intimidation to force the appearance that there they have entered into a 'contract' with parents.� But since a valid contract cannot exist without the elements of disclosure, consent, and equitable exchange this is a fraud.� All parents get is bankruptcy, heartbreak, and too often death.��


The Case Plan Ploy � Adam Umholtz
Adam comes from a family that lived in a log cabin in Pennsylvania.� The cabin was 230 years old. Made of chestnut beams that are from a species that is not extinct the beams were hand hewed and rectangular and criss crossed.� Adam's dad was a pastor for the Southern Home Mission Board.� Adam's younger brother was born there, in the horseshoe shaped valley that was filled with berry bushes and food they grew themselves.��

Adam went to school at the Advanced Training Institute of America, now the ATI.� Now he is an entrepreneur, or was until his life and family was hijacked by the CPS.� Adam's children were taken from him and his wife on Monday, July 28th, 2007.� They were given a case plan that it was impossible to fulfill.�

As part of the 72 goals laid out in the plan was one requirement that Adam attend a class for sexual offenders who had served time in prison.� This was impossible for Adam to do.� Adam is attending a study on successful parents and couples, a study in which he and his wife were invited to participate.� Both parents are strong Christians who take their faith seriously. Neither parent has ever been to prison for any cause, much less a sexual offense.� The charges were falsified made by a neighbor who was later charged with having committed a sexual offense themselves.

Adam cannot attend the classes available because he has never been to prison and has never been a sexual offender. He is not eligible for the class in any case. So the court told Adam to confess to a crime he did not commit to get his kids back.� The court has an agenda.� If Adam confesses they have a clear track for severing his parental rights.� The lack of justice does not bother the court or the attorney who has urged him to confess to a crime he did not commit. They are all paid through the process that steals children for resale.��

Parents are routinely told that to 'complete their case plan' they must fulfill requirements that force them to leave jobs that prevent them from attending classes scheduled from 9 � 5 on work days.� They are told they cannot be self employed.� Every possible block is put in their paths to complete a 'requirement' that is pointless in any case.� The same pattern is reported by parents across the United States.� Angelina Alexander, a parent in California was told she must quit her job as a taxi driver because she was self employed.� Yet she had taken the job, the only one she could find, to fulfill the requirements to attend classes.� In her case the report that took her small son from her home was from a former boyfriend who had never seen the child.� Complaints that the charge was false were ignored as her processing continued.��

Mainstream Americans are at risk today and have no idea what is coming. In Adam's case the CPS had targeted� the kids because they were homeschooling and because they had building materials in the back yard.� Then a malicious neighbor,� made sexual allegations.� The neighbor was later proven to have lied.��

But the fact that all the 'charges' were illegal did not stop them from forcing you to undertake the� 'Case Plan.'� There were no charges but they had already taken their eight children out of the home.� If the family had known they would have refused to talk to CPS.

Adam and his wife are now approaching bankruptcy although they are better off than many couples because at least they do not have to hide to keep the child still living with them. Most parents face the same problem.� Attempts to fulfill the case plan make it impossible to earn a living or are impossible to fulfill.� There are no charges.� There have been no charges.� There will be no charges. As with most couples, they force the father to leave so that they will have a clear shot at grabbing the children from the mother.���

CPS has continuously made false allegations, added their youngest child, born after they took the original eight children, to the present case, and over and over ignored the orders of the court.� One of their daughters in foster care is suffering from a wound on her foot, acquired in the foster home, for which she is receiving no treatment.� The wound continues to fester and they can do nothing.���

Although there are no charges Adam and his wife are allowed to see the kids only two hours a week with supervision.� And the court continues to threaten to sever their parental rights. Adam does not intend to let that happen.��

Adam and his wife are considering their options now that they understand the fraud that has been perpetrated.� Those options are growing, along with their understanding of the Constitution and how the system in place has worked to negate their rights.��

Phase Three � Severing Parental Rights
Greg Pound and his wife, Malissa, had their parental rights severed in November of 2007.� The incident that brought CPS into their lives was a simple accident.� A friend's dog visiting their home bit their baby.� It could have happened to anyone; the dog's owner was desperately sorry, the dog had never� harmed anyone before.�� Accidents happen.� There was a time when an accident was treated with offers of assistance, not viewed as the means for grabbing children� from their parents and their home.� But that was before those in power noticed the opportunity PL 105-89 (HR 867) offered them.�

For four years the Pounds saw their children for just two hours a month.� Looking at the children, across the barriers built by CPS always reduced them to tears.�

The last time the Pounds saw their children was at the YMCA in Pinellas County.� That 'not for profit' is paid 125 million a year, just for that county, according to Pound who says he has researched the subject exhaustively, to 'babysit' kids as they meet their parents in a stark ten by twelve foot room for the two hours they are allowed to be together for those months when they still hoped to be reunited.�

The system is intended to separate children, a valuable commodity, from their parents.� Mandates to reunite children and parents are consistently ignored as children are processed further and further into the system. What then happens to the children varies, but is in all cases appalling.�

Along with the system abuse of families parents attempting to work in the system report that FOIA requests on such routine matters as copies of the Oath of Office and bonds, required by the Constitution, for each judge or elected official or law enforcement officer, are not produced, despite repeated requests. Many ask, over and over again, why such requests should be met with silence and hostility.� Parents continue to struggle to regain custody of their children and to exact accountability from those who claim sovereign immunity as government employees from the impact of their acts on ordinary Americans.� The claim of sovereign immunity for those employed by government is, according to Constitutional experts such as not employed by government entirely without foundation.�

The three families whose cases appear here each report that they will never stop fighting.� Each family is presently filing a civil rights suit against those involved in their several cases.� In light of yesterday's revelation on child-sex rings, operating across the United States but very present in their own areas of Florida, their questions are ever more anguished as they deal with the echoing emptiness of homes that once held the laughter of children.���
Randy