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U.S. Senator Nancy Schaefer speaks out against Child Protective Services

Link here to view related topic:
1. - Child Sex Rings Servicing Those with Power and Authority in North America and Elsewhere
(includes CPS connection)
2. COURTS: Warnings to Lawyers-Courts-Lawmakers
3. COURTS: KIDS for CASH - Judges Getting Kickbacks for Jailing Children
4. COURTS: Former Prosecutor Roger Weidner flogs the CPS for Kidnaping and Trafficking in Humans
5. COURTS: Pope - Queen Elizabeth - Canadian PM S. Harper Summoned for Child Trafficking Genocide Crimes Tribunal: Dead - Abused and Missing Children
6. COURTS: Social Workers with Criminal Records
 

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* NEW POSTS * Feb 3- 2014
1. - Nancy's film documentary Innocence Destroyed
2. - article “3 Years Dead; Senator Nancy Schaefer, More Yet Being Murdered”

U.S. Senator Nancy Schaefer speaks out against Child Protective Services involved in government sponsored child sex rings [Later - Killed to silence her]

Please take warning!
Never announce before hand that you plan to expose the evil of others - JUST DO IT!
And when you do speak out - TELL ALL - very publicly!
By doing so evil people no longer have a motive to kill you to keep your mouth shut.
 

CPS Involved In Child Trafficking Rings
Explains Senator Schafer 1 of 4

CPS Involved In Child Trafficking Rings
Explains Senator Schafer 2 of 4

CPS Involved In Child Trafficking Rings
Explains Senator Schafer 3 of 4

CPS Involved In Child Trafficking Rings
Explains Senator Schafer 4 of 4

CPS Warrior, Nancy Schaefer Gunned Down

http://www.infowars.com/cps-warrior-nancy-schaefer-gunned-down/
Infowars.com March 29, 2010
From the Associated Press:

State investigators say the husband of former state Senator Nancy Schaefer shot his wife before turning the gun on himself. The couple’s bodies were found in their north Georgia home Friday. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducted autopsies on the Schaefer’s Saturday—investigators say all evidence points to the deaths as a murder-suicide. The bodies of Nancy and Bruce Schaefer, 73 and 74 years old respectively, were found by their daughter at the couple’s home in Clarkesville. Nancy Schaefer was a two-term state Senator representing Georgia’s 50th district. She lost her seat in 2008. Schaefer was also a candidate for mayor of Atlanta, Georgia lieutenant governor and governor of the state.

The corporate media does not bother to mention that Schaefer exposed the abuses of CPS and the international child sex slavery ring.

“Investigators told the Associated Press they believe Bruce Schaefer, 74, shot his wife once in the back while she slept in the bedroom early Friday morning and then shot himself in the head. Police found a handgun near his body and several letters written to family members, including a suicide note,” reports the Associated Baptist Press.

Other reports indicate Bruce Schaefer shot himself in the chest. People who commit suicide usually shoot themselves in the head.

“Contrary to early reports that Bruce Schaefer had cancer, the Gainesville Times reported March 27 that the couple’s daughter, who discovered the bodies, told the local sheriff her father was not suffering from any serious illness at the time of the shootings. Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell said some of the letters mentioned serious financial problems and speculated that might have been a motive,” Associated Baptist Press also reported.

Appearing on the Alex Jones Show last May, Schaefer detailed how CPS is involved in child trafficking rings. After watching Schaefer’s interview with Jones, if you think Schaefer was involved in a suicide pact with her husband, you may also be interested in a famous bridge for sale in Brooklyn.

* NEW POST * - Nancy's film documentary
Innocence Destroyed

producer/director: Bill Bowen

It is note worthy to share here also that Bill Bowen was found dead approximately 5 months after Senator Schaefer was murdered. It was reported to me, a few weeks after Bill's death, that a USA Congressional Legislator "had warned Bill Bowen not to pursue after CPS and government pedophile rings." I was also informed that Mr. Bowen's body was found on a golf course where he was told to "return to get more information about an investigation he was doing." Some government leaders shared that Bill was playing golf and had a heart attack. However, Bill's body was found alone and as I was informed "very rarely, Bill played golf, he was not good at it." - http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.ca/2011/03/one-year-after-senator-nancy-schaefers.html
 

Innocence Destroyed

- Part 1 - WARNING: Graphic Content

Innocence Destroyed

- Part 2 - WARNING: Graphic Content

Innocence Destroyed

- Part 3 - WARNING: Graphic Content
Read why the planned 2nd film was not released in article directly below.

* NEW POST *

“3 Years Dead; Senator Nancy Schaefer, More Yet Being Murdered”
Friday, March 22, 2013
http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.ca/2013/03/3-years-dead-senator-nancy-schaefer.html

This week marks the three year anniversary of the murder of former Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer. Since the one-year anniversary of her death, I have taken the time to write about her death. Also in sharing my thoughts to some degree, about what occurred to her and update all, as to the progress of the truth about what sadly occurred to her, her husband and Nancy's film documentary producer/director; Bill Bowen. Yes, it is sad...they were all mysteriously found dead and the cover-up and lies about their deaths continues even to this date. To many who knew and know of this tragedy, It really is more than unfortunate that three innocent human being were killed and there are government agents as well as others who killed them/others yet run free and even to this date still partake in the cover-up of their deaths http://youtu.be/_TcDTJlPWbE.

My newest readers of my weekly blog article may very well have no idea who Senator Nancy Schaefer and Bill Bowen were. This makes sense to me as seeing the degree of what many State of Georgia officials, United States Government agents as well as much of the “lame stream media” has done to actively suppress even the knowledge of what dirty “business” Senator Schaefer and Bill Bowen were exposing just before their deaths. For those who unfortunately may be unaware of that business, please allow me to summarize their work as this; “exposing corrupt judges, lawyers, police, CPS agencies, Domestic Violence Programs and others involved in the destruction of families for financial profit.” Nancy and Bill were successful in sharing what was occurring at the time in our government in the way of families and children being destroyed for cash, and when Nancy and Bill's first film came out exposing the truth about these fore mentioned evilists, many eyes were opened (Part 1 of the film... http://youtu.be/48YF1uEuCUA). We all know (well, at least I'd like to think at least most are awake enough to be aware) the atrocities and terroristic actions our US, it's States, Counties and others were taking against families all in the name of cash. Innocent families destroyed, innocent parents jailed, separated, children being wrongly placed in foster care, adopted out all so that unconstitutional and illegal government agents could make cold, hard-cash.

Bill and Nancy made yet another film shortly before their deaths. That film is currently, well... we will just say, in hiding with someone for “safe keeping.”

To bring everyone up to date as one of my goals here in this article as stated earlier, I will simply acknowledge that these sort of murders, illegal incarcerations, separations and more that Nancy and Bill exposed, have not changed. As a matter of fact, there are more instances of these types of horrendous actions occurring not only in the USA, but all around the world today. No doubt that evil still reigns in this world all around us... satan has not taken a holiday since Bill and Nancy being both murdered. Those of us who have suffered and labored very hard in exposing evil such as what Senator Schaefer and Bill Bowen have also done, continue to suffer greatly.

For the readers here who are not aware, I myself am a victim of a Foreign Immigration Marriage Scammer named Jennie Basal who was able to conspire with corrupted Genesee County, NY judges, lawyers, teachers and others to have a City of Batavia, NY cop threaten to murder me as well as illegally take my children, house and all property from me. In fact, to this very date of this article being written, the Genesee County, NY Clerk has refused to give me transcripts from court proceedings. I and others have asked and asked and asked for nearly one year now for those documents and others but to no avail. This is the sort of evil and illegal manner that millions of other Americans, just as myself have been treated and endured as well. You see, It's not just me. But as others just as myself, there are many others also who are waiting for persons such as Jennie Basal and her Genesee County, NY officials to actually make good on their threat to murder I and others http://www.corruptgenesee.com. Please take special note, it's not that I'm afraid... no... make no mistake about it, I am simply stating here that I am waiting and prepared and I'll leave it at that.

Yes, murder is a scheme being used by the devil and his people and for those who are ignorant of that fact, children robbed from homes via Child Protective Services, Family Courts, judges, lawyers, cops, social workers, domestic violence program workers, teachers, psychologists, Filipina Migration Marriage Scammers and all others like them, are all in the murder for hire and murder for cash business http://murderdeathandabuseinfostercare.blogspot.com/. It is what it is, there is no other name for murder for cash. The history and facts speak for themselves. When good and honest people speak up for what is good and demand justice in our nation.... as what Senator Nancy Shaefer, Bill Bowen and others often times did/do---they are often and wrongfully demonized by those who are active in destruction of families and kidnapping children for financial profit schemes.

It is so obvious to me that Former Georgia State Senator and Bill Bowen could not be demonized to the point of being silenced, even though through threats, they were told to remain silent about the kidnapping children and destruction of families for cash schemes (that still go on today without check). Thus, they were murdered by those involved in “cash for kids” and "destruction of families for profit" schemes for continuing to expose those horrific evil acts of our government and others just like them.

For those who were and still are close to Nancy and Bill in heart... in what they stood champion for, there likely will come no peaceful end and solution to the evil we still see yet today. I increasingly see bizarre video's often times posted on places like YouTube and equally bizarre statements being made on social websites of folks who purport to be also “victims” of Family Law Government Agents. However, these sort of folks often use a type of murder to kill off good folks and the real victims of the Family Law Government Agents as well. Often using character assassination, false propaganda, dissension and “divide and conquer” techniques, these types of people are often successful in maintaining confusion, causing wasted time and effort as well as resources in fighting them off so that good minded folks who have been raped via Family Law Government Agents can get justice. I cannot help but think and believe there are many Jezebel's and Ahab's that work for the US and it's State's propaganda machine. Thus, we see the influx of false “victims” infiltrating those who are the real victims of what also Bill and Nancy exposed. To the wise in heart and equally to the wicked judges, lawyers, psychologists, CPS workers, domestic violence program workers, cops and Foreign Immigration Marriage Scammers, and others like them... we know that the evil one is hard at work trying to distract from truth, but for those of us who know truth, we will never quit exposing you...never.

We who are fighting for our families are fighting a vicious army that has no qualm of letting up on it's evil actions, we know through their actions that evilists enjoy equally the taste of blood and of money. The sad reality is that Senator Nancy Schaefer and Bill Bowen were not the first victims of this evil war on families and children for cash. No, and they are certainly and sadly will not be the last.

Personally, I am praying fervently and working hard towards revival in our nation and our world. Of course the Lord Jesus Christ's move through the Holy Spirit does not depend only on me and what I say and or do. In reality, it depends upon everyone's repentant hearts to turn from wickedness and the move of God's Spirit to bring much needed reconciliation and peace as well as an end to families and children murdered for financial profit. In the mean time though, until that day when all evil men and women repent of their indulging in wickedness, I educate, I expose and I remove evil wherever and whenever possible.

I do earnestly pray that all people everywhere, irregardless of where they live(and read this article), will indeed repent of their wickedness before that “shot [shout] heard around the world” is fired [heard]. If we do not have that wholesale repentance, we can only expect to see more blood shed. Upon that day and time, it will be to late for many, the blood will flow more than we have ever seen or witnessed before.

Let us pray and act so that the deaths and murders of all families, children, Senator Schaefer and Bill Bowen were not in vain. Those of us who are on the side of truth, especially Biblical Truth are “all” Senator Nancy Schaefer and Bill Bowens' now....The God of the Bible demands justice. Do your part before it's to late.

Proverbs 24:11-12 “if you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, those who go staggering to the slaughter; if you say, “Look, we did not know this”—does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it? And will he not repay all according to their deeds? “

Rev. Paul Waldmiller~Black Robe Regiment Pastor

MURDER of State SENATOR -
NANCY SCHAEFER, clip 1

No ONE Disagrees ... State Senator 50th District Georgia WAS MURDERED March 2011, and this is the 1 year anniversary of HER murder. Question remains who killed her and WHY. The G.B.I. (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) Report is flawed and suspicious at best. At Worst it is a deliberate cover up of the Truth.

This is the Opening clip of a LIVE TV show of investigative TV Host and Journalist William Wagener, who left California for Weeks and went to the murder house of the Schaefers in the Orchards.

See second part from the LIVE Santa Maria, Ca. TV Show. Mr. Wagener had spoken to Nancy starting in Sept. 2008 about the danger in exposing the incestous relationship between foster care system, Child Protective Services and Officials in Government. Especially those with severe Sexual deviancy.

 

Once the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, GBI, completed its report, Mr. Wagener sought to see a copy and review it before doing this show, after he returned from Georgia.

MURDER of State Senator

Nancy SCHAEFER, clip 2

Nancy Schaefer had told several people , she was getting death Threats and Jane Boyer, of www.abusefreedom.com speaks of it and more.

MURDER of NANCY SCHAEFER, part 3

From the March 25, 2011 LIVE TV broadcast of On Second Thought TV show in Santa Maria, CA.

the final part about the Murder of Nancy Schaefer, a EX - State Senator of Georgia, working to root out pediaphiles in Government and Foster Care.

 

We should all call GBI @ (706) 348-4866, in cleveland, Georgia, and Habersham County @ (706) 754-6666. Ask Georgia Bureau of Investigation, GBI for a copy of their report, and ask them why the entire report is not numbered as 3 of 150, 4 of 150, read it as a study on how a double murder is covered up. Ask the Sheriff, at the 6666 number why he did NOT do his own investigation, and the county Coroner did not do HIS job , independantly, that is their ELECTED job. There JOB is not to turn everything over to a State Agency! but thanks Super, SHARE this and get your own copy. Study it. Do NOT take my word for it, THIS is a cover up, plain and simple.

MURDER of Sen. Nancy Schaefer, part 4 -

The ORCHARDS f double homicide

Senator Nancy Schaefer, and husband Bruce Wm SCHAEFER were MURDERED by someone [probably those about to be EXPOSED] who had access to their home, knowledge of it, and MOTIVE. Nancy was about to publish a book which would expose the people IN GOVERNMENT who were abusing children for profit, and worse. Then On or about March 29, 2010, we are suppose to believe according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, that her husband of many years just suddenly decided to kill her in bed with a gun not registered to anyone, and then leave notes to the children, and THEN kill himself. If Hubby did it, why would he bother to use an UNregistered gun, when all his kids knew he had a pearl handled .22 for years. And Why did GBI not send the notes out for Analysis. This is a view of how UNsecure and UNsafe the Schaefers were in this "gated" community golf course rural homesite, that has no fence and can easily be accessed. Yes, there is a gate guard who takes names and license plates, but does it matter if you can take a public road to a place behind Nancy's Home and be at her door in 4 or 5 minutes by walking through a woods? Who had the most MOTIVE. to killl Nancy? her loving husband of decades?or the perverts IN GOVERNMENT offices who were about to be exposed.

Oddities in the Nancy Schaefer "Suicide" Case

http://www.infowars.com/oddities-in-the-nancy-schaefer-suicide-case/

Garland Favorito Infowars.com March 30, 2010

On Friday, former Senator Nancy Schaefer and her husband were found dead in their home in Habersham County. Even before a GBI investigation could be initiated, media outlets began pronouncing that their death was a “murder-suicide” and shut off most public comment posting on their web sites. The “murder suicide” theory implies that Sen. Schaefer’s husband shot her and then killed himself (or vice versa). Both Habersham County and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation began investigating the case as a “murder suicide” rather than the more obvious “murder made to look like suicide”.

Like so many people, I have known former Sen. Nancy Schaefer for 15 years and spoken to several people who know her better than I do. They believe that the “murder suicide” theory is highly unlikely for any one of the following reasons:

1. It is totally against Nancy Schaefer’s consistently strong commitment to the sanctity of life principles that she has fought so valiantly to uphold;
2. Nancy and her husband, Bruce, have five children and more than a dozen grandchildren who they would not choose to leave behind so abruptly;
3. Bruce’s problem with cancer was corrected and under control so there was no reason to end his life as one senator tried to imply;
4. Nancy or Bruce would not likely agree to commit such an act that violates the fundamental principles of their Christian faith;
5. Bruce was retired and the couple did not appear to be in any type of dire financial crisis that would lead them to commit such acts;
6. Bruce and Nancy knew that her sister who had Alzheimer’s disease needed her to help take care of her;
7. Friends who knew the couple best state that Bruce would simply not have the capability to kill his wife;
8. Nancy was dedicated, as a national leader, to help needy people overcome abuse within Child Protective Services organizations;
9. Nancy was actively exposing corruption within the Department of Family & Child Services (DFCS) including actions by the DFCS director in the county where she lived.
10. Nancy knew that she was needed in the fight against child sex slave trafficking in Atlanta which has one of the highest activity rates in the country;
11. Bruce was highly supportive of Nancy’s work for decades and would have little or no reason to suddenly try to kill her at such a critical juncture in her career.

Specifically in Georgia, former Senator Nancy Schaefer had found during the last few years that:
- in Georgia housed children in a foster home with a known pedophile who molested the children.
- in Habersham County failed to remove six children from a home where they are being abused and tortured.
- in Georgia turned two girls over to a California father who had a pornographic video business.

A report that Nancy Schaefer produced on these remarkable cases can be found here:http://fightcps.com/2008/02/29/report-of-georgia-senator-nancy-schaefer-on-cps-corruption/

Nancy Schaefer was also interviewed extensively by talk show host Alex Jones about corruption in Child Protection Services nationally. A multi-part series of her interview and an Eagle Forum presentation can be found on You Tube here:http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nancy+schaefer&search_type=&aq=f

In addition, Senator Schaefer led opposition to HB582 and SB304, two bills introduced by fellow Republicans that would have likely resulted in increasing child sex slave trafficking. These bills would have made it legal for teenagers to participate in certain illicit acts. The bills effectively removed the legal authority that police now have to pick teenagers up and get them into protective custody so that they can no longer be pimped for those acts.

As President of Georgia Eagle Forum, Nancy Schaefer planned to be in Alabama this weekend for an Eagle Forum convention. Instead she chose to stay in Georgia to develop new information that would have further exposed corruption in DFCS and beyond. Many Eagle forum members who were close to Sen. Schaefer were aware of her courageous efforts. None of them believe that either she or her husband was involved in any type of suicide.

It is particularly ironic that the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) chose to quote State Sen. Don Thomas in their March 26 article about Sen. Schaefer’s death. The AJC portrayed him as a friend of the couple even though he lives on the other side of the state from the Schaefer family and was diametrically opposed to many of their core beliefs. Sen. Thomas, the Chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, immediately propagated and expanded the “murder-suicide” theory without any first-hand knowledge or evidence. That is very disturbing considering it is his committee that should have been helping to clean up the corruption at DFCS. Activists supporting Sen. Schaefer explained that he constantly advocated increased power and authority for DFCS in spite of the evidence showing the organization was misusing that authority.

With Nancy Schaefer no longer on the scene the question may be raised as to how best to continue her legacy. I believe that she would want conservatives, progressives, libertarians, constitutionalists as well as grass roots Democrats and Republicans throughout Georgia to unite and work to rectify the corruption in DFCS and eliminate child sex slave trafficking in Georgia.

Sen Nancy Schaefer,
High-Level CPS Crimes Investigation

P1/2, The Beast

Link here to view information on Franklin Sex Scandal



Sen Nancy Schaefer,
High-Level CPS Crimes Investigation

P2/2, The Smoking Gun

The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services

By Nancy Schaefer
Georgia State Senate, 50th District
revised September 25, 2008

My introduction into Child Protective Service cases was due to a grandmother in an adjoining state who called me with her tragic story. Her two granddaughters had been taken from her daughter who lived in my district. Her daughter was told wrongly that if she wanted to see her children again she should sign a paper and give up her children. Frightened and young, the daughter did. I have since discovered that parents are often threatened into cooperation of permanent separation of their children.

The children were taken to another county and placed in foster care. The foster parents were told wrongly that they could adopt the children. The grandmother then jumped through every hoop known to man in order to get her granddaughters. When the case finally came to court it was made evident by one of the foster parent’s children that the foster parents had, at any given time, 18 foster children and that the foster mother had an inappropriate relationship with a caseworker. In the courtroom, the juvenile judge acted as though she was shocked and said the two girls would be removed quickly. They were not removed. Finally, after much pressure being applied to the Department of Family and Children Services of Georgia (DFCS), the children were driven to South Georgia to meet their grandmother who gladly drove to meet them.

After being with their grandmother two or three days, the judge, quite out of the blue, wrote up a new order to send the girls to their father, who previously had no interest in the case and who lived on the West Coast. The father was in “adult entertainment”. His girlfriend worked as an “escort” and his brother, who also worked in the business, had a sexual charge brought against him.

Within a couple of days the father was knocking on the grandmother’s door and took the girls kicking and screaming to California.

The father developed an unusual relationship with the former foster parents and soon moved to the southeast. The foster parents began driving to the father’s residence and picking up the little girls for visits. The oldest child had told her mother and grandmother on two different occasions that the foster father molested her.

To this day after five years, this loving, caring blood relative grandmother does not even have visitation privileges with the children. The little girls are, in my opinion, permanently traumatized and the young mother of the girls was so traumatized with shock when the girls were first removed from her that she has never completely recovered. The mother has rights but the father still has custody of the children.

Throughout this case and through the process of dealing with multiple other mismanaged cases of the Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS), I have worked with other desperate parents across the state of Georgia and in many other States because their children were taken for no cause and they have no one with whom to turn. I have witnessed ruthless behavior from many caseworkers, social workers, investigators, lawyers, judges, therapists, and others such as those who “pick up” the children. I have been stunned by what I have seen and heard from victims all across this land.

In this report, I have focused mainly on the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS). However, I believe Child Protective Services nationwide has become corrupt and that the entire system is broken beyond repair. I am convinced parents and families should be warned of the dangers.

The Department of Child Protective Services, known as the Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) in Georgia and other titles in other states, has become a “protected empire” built on taking children and separating families. This is not to say that there are not those children who do need to be removed from wretched situations and need protection.

However, this report is concerned with the children and parents caught up in “legal kidnapping,” ineffective policies, and an agency that on certain occasions would not remove a child (or children) when the child was enduring torment and abuse.

In one county in my District, I arranged a meeting for thirty-seven families to speak freely and without fear. These poor parents and grandparents spoke of their painful, heart wrenching encounters with DFCS. Their suffering was overwhelming. They wept and cried. Some did not know where their children were and had not seen them in years. I had witnessed the “Gestapo” at work and I witnessed the deceitful conditions under which children were taken in the middle of the night, out of hospitals, off of school buses, and out of homes. In one county a private drug testing business was operating within the agency’s department that required many, many drug tests from parents and individuals for profit. It has already made over $100,000.

Due to being exposed, several employees in this particular office were fired. However, they have now been rehired either in neighboring counties or in the same county again. According to the calls I am now receiving, the conditions in that county are returning to the same practices that they had before the light was shown on their evil deeds.

Having worked with probably 300 cases statewide, and now hundreds and hundreds across this nation and in nearly every state, I am convinced there is no responsibility and no accountability in Child Protective Services system.

I have come to the conclusion:

· that poor parents very often are targeted to lose their children because they do not have the where-with-all to hire lawyers and fight the system. Being poor does not mean you are not a good parent or that you do not love your child, or that your child should be removed and placed with strangers;

· that all parents are capable of making mistakes and that making a mistake does not mean your children are to be removed from the home. Even if the home is not perfect, it is home; and that’s where a child is the safest and where he or she wants to be, with family;

· that parenting classes, anger management classes, counseling referrals, therapy classes and on and on are demanded of parents with no compassion by the system even while the parents are at work and while their children are separated from them. (some times parents are required to pay for the programs) This can take months or even years and it emotionally devastates both children and parents. Parents are victimized by “the system” that makes a profit for holding children longer and “bonuses” for not returning children to their parents;

· that caseworkers and social workers are very often guilty of fraud. They withhold and destroy evidence. They fabricate evidence and they seek to terminate parental rights unnecessarily. However, when charges are made against Child Protective Services, the charges are ignored;

· that the separation of families and the “snatching of children” is growing as a business because local governments have grown accustomed to having these taxpayer dollars to balance their ever-expanding budgets;

· that Child Protective Services and Juvenile Court can always hide behind a confidentiality clause in order to protect their decisions and keep the funds flowing. There should be open records and “court watches”! Look who is being paid! There are state employees, lawyers, court investigators, guardian ad litems, court personnel, and judges. There are psychologists, and psychiatrists, counselors, caseworkers, therapists, foster parents, adoptive parents, and on and on. All are looking to the children in state custody to provide job security. Parents do not realize that the social workers are the glue that hold “the system” together that funds the court, funds the court appointed attorneys, and the multiple other jobs including the “system’s” psychiatrists, therapists, their own attorneys and others.

· that The Adoption and the Safe Families Act, set in motion first in 1974 by Walter Mondale and later in 1997 by President Bill Clinton, offered cash “bonuses” to the states for every child they adopted out of foster care. In order to receive the “adoption incentive bonuses” local child protective services need more children. They must have merchandise (children) that sells and you must have plenty so the buyer can choose. Some counties are known to give a $4,000 to $6,000 bonus for each child adopted out to strangers and an additional $2,000 for a “special needs” child. Employees work to keep the federal dollars flowing;

· State Departments of Human Resources (DHR) and affiliates are given a baseline number of expected adoptions based on population. For every child DHR and CPS can get adopted, there is the bonus of $4,000 or maybe $6,000. But that is only the beginning figure in the formula in which each bonus is multiplied by the percentage that the State has managed to exceed its baseline adoption number. Therefore States and local communities work hard to reach their goals for increased numbers of adoptions for children in foster care.

· that there is double dipping. The funding continues as long as the child is out of the home. There is funding for foster care then when a child is placed with a new family, then “adoption bonus funds” are available. When a child is placed in a mental health facility and is on 16 drugs per day, like two children of a constituent of mine, more funds are involved and so is Medicaid;

· As you can see this program is ordered from the very top and run by Health and Human Resources. This is why victims of CPS get no help from their legislators. It explains why my bill, SB 415 suffered such defeat in the Judicial Committee, why I was cut off at every juncture. Legislators and Governors must remember who funds their paychecks.

· that there are no financial resources and no real drive to unite a family and help keep them together or provide effective care;

· that the incentive for social workers to return children to their parents quickly after taking them has disappeared and who in protective services will step up to the plate and say, “This must end! No one, because they are all in the system together and a system with no leader and no clear policies will always fail the children. Just look at the waste in government that is forced upon the tax payer;

· that the “Policy Manual” is considered “the last word” for CPS/DFCS. However, it is too long, too confusing, poorly written and does not take the law into consideration;

· that if the lives of children were improved by removing them from their homes, there might be a greater need for protective services, but today children are not safer. Children, of whom I am aware, have been raped and impregnated in foster care;

· It is a known fact that children are in much more danger in foster care than they are in their own home even though home may not be perfect;

· that some parents are even told if they want to see their children or grandchildren, they must divorce their spouse. Many, who are under privileged, feeling they have no option, will divorce and then just continue to live together. This is an anti-family policy, but parents will do anything to get their children home with them. However, when the parents cooperate with Child Protective Services, their behavior is interpreted as guilt when nothing could be further from the truth;

· Fathers, (non-custodial parents) I must add, are oftentimes treated as criminals without access to visit or even see their own children and have child support payments strangling the very life out of them;

· that the Foster Parents Bill of Rights does not stress that a foster parent is there temporarily to care for a child until the child can be returned home. Many foster parents today use the Foster Parent Bill of Rights as a means to hire a lawyer and seek to adopt the child placed in their care from the real parents, who are desperately trying to get their child home and out of the system. Recently in Atlanta, a young couple learning to be new parents and loving it, were told that because of an anonymous complaint, their daughter would be taken into custody by the State DFCS. The couple was devastated and then was required by DFCS to take parenting classes, alcohol counseling and psychological evaluations if they wanted to get their child back. All of the courses cost money for which most parents are required to pay. While in their anxiety and turmoil to get their child home, the baby was left for hours in a car to die in the heat in her car seat by a foster parent who forgot about the child. This should never have happened. It is tragic. In many cases after the parents have jumped through all the hoops, they still do not get their child. As long as the child is not returned, there is money for the agency, for foster parents, for adoptive parents, and for the State;

· that tax dollars are being used to keep this gigantic system afloat, yet the victims, parents, grandparents, guardians and especially the children, are charged for the system’s services;

· that grandparents have called from all over the State of Georgia and from other states trying to get custody of their grandchildren. CPS claims relatives are contacted, but there are many many cases that prove differently. Grandparents who lose their grandchildren to strangers have lost their own flesh and blood. The children lose their family heritage and grandparents, and parents too, lose all connections to their heirs;

· that The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in 1998 reported that six times as many children died in foster care than in the general public and that once removed to official “safety”, these children are far more likely to suffer abuse, including sexual molestation than in the general population. Think what that number is today ten years later!

· That according to the California Little Hoover Commission Report in 2003, 30% to 70% of the children in California group homes do not belong there and should not have been removed from their homes.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

1. Call for an independent audit of all State Child Protective Services (CPS) and for a Federal Congressional hearing on Child Protective Services nationwide.

2. Activate immediate change. Every day that passes means more families and children are subject to being held hostage and their lives destroyed.

3. Abolish the Federal and State financial incentives that have turned Child Protective Services into a business that separate families for money.

4. Grant to parents their rights verbally and in writing.

5. Mandate a search for family members to be given the opportunity to adopt their own relatives if children need to be removed permanently.

6. Mandate a jury trial where every piece of evidence is presented before permanently removing a child from his or her parents. Open family court. Remove the secrecy. Allow the press and family members access. Give parents the opportunity in court to speak and be a part of their children’s future.

7. Require a warrant or a positive emergency circumstance before removing children from their parents. (Judge Arthur G. Christean, Utah Bar Journal, January, 1997 reported that “except in emergency circumstances, including the need for immediate medical care, require warrants upon affidavits of probable cause before entry upon private property is permitted for the forcible removal of children from their parents.”)

8. Uphold the laws when someone fabricates or presents false evidence. If a parent alleges fraud, hold a hearing with the right to discovery of all evidence made available to parents.

FINAL REMARKS

On my desk are scores of cases of exhausted families and terrified children. It has been beyond me to turn my back on these suffering, crying, and beaten down individuals. We are mistreating the most innocent. Child Protective Services have become an adult centered business to the detriment of children. No longer is judgment based on what the child needs or who the child wants to be or with whom, or what is really best for the whole family; it is some adult or bureaucrat who makes the decisions, based often on just hearsay, without ever consulting a family member, or just what is convenient, profitable, or less troublesome for the social workers.

I have witnessed such injustice and harm brought to so many families that I am not sure if I even believe reform of the system is possible! The system cannot be trusted. It does not serve the people. It obliterates families and children simply because it has the power to do so.

Children deserve better. Families deserve better. It’s time to pull back the curtain and set our children and families free.

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.
Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and the needy” - Proverbs 31:8-9

"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
"Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! - Matthew 18: 5-7

Nancy Schaefer exposes the EVIL CPS
 

Nancy Schaefer
"The Unlimited Power of Child Protective Services"
Part 1 of 2

Click here to read THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES by Nancy Schaefer or read below

Nancy Schaefer
"The Unlimited Power of Child Protective Services"
Part 2 of 2

March 31, 2010 — "After 4 years of viewing the ruthless and unsparing actions of CPS... I wrote a scathing report, entitled 'The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services.' The report cost me my senate seat."

As we now know, Nancy Schaefer lost more than her senate fighting CPS [ it cost her life]. Let's keep her spirit alive, and keep fighting against the "ruthless and unsparing" gang of thugs known as CPS. These videos, Parts 1 and 2, are a powerful speech, given by Nancy Schaefer in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 15, 2009.

Nancy Schaefer, former Georgia State Senator and President of Eagle Forum of Georgia and Eagle Forum's National Chairman of Parents' Rights, spoke at the World Congress of Families in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the subject of "The Unlimited Power of Child Protective Services."

Nancy Schafer explained to over 4,000 attendees from some 60 countries how CPS is a threat to children and families not only in the U. S., but in many other countries that have patterned their Child Protective Services, Foster Care, Family Court and Adoption Services after the U.S. and supplied, with taxpayer dollars, the financial incentives to turn all Child Protective Services into a lucrative business.

Nancy Schaefer, as always, was on the cutting edge of how to take the family back from the "social gestapo" made up of judges, caseworkers, court appointed attorneys, investigators, guardian ad litems, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and more.

Nancy Schaefer encouraged immediate change to State and Federal policies and the abolishing of Federal and State financial incentives that use taxpayer dollars to separate families for money."The family is the natural foundation for marriage and home relationships. The family deserves and should always be protected by the state, the culture and by society.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord -Psalm 33:12

U.S. Horror Stories - Nothing's Different in Canada

U.S. Horror Stories - Nothing's Different in Canada


Adoptive Father Accused of Murder, Child Abuse

The Child Abuse Laws that Could Destroy Your Reputation
http://nafwa.org/general-nutrition/alternative-nutrition/29511-the-child-abuse-laws-which-could-destroy-your-reputation.html
By Dr. Mercola

Child abuse is a horrific act, no matter how you define it.

That's why we have so many laws, and public and private agencies, set up specifically with the charge to protect children and maintain their safety. It's exactly why so much funding is directed toward this goal.

But did you know that the money funneled to states and child protective services actually encourages them to accuse you of child abuse and even murder, and to take your children, even if you're not guilty, and even though they have absolutely no proof that you harmed your child?

The Legal Abduction of Children

Horrendous as it sounds, it's true: child abuse has become a business -- an industry of sorts -- that actually pays states to legally abduct your children and put them up for adoption!

Even more unbelievable is that, instead of pumping the money back into child protective service programs, some states actually are putting it into their general funds to help balance their budgets.

A number of groups have tried to reform this shady practice, but it was a California politician who caught media attention this past summer, when he said that, if elected, he would expose how local governments were amassing billions of dollars in annual reimbursements, in exchange for what amounted to legal abduction of children.

"Most people are not aware of how much profit many of these services provide the country, ' John Van Doorn told a San Diego newspaper. These profits are hard to ignore and even more difficult to pass up.

(left: John Van Doorn)

Counties can bring in thousands of dollars in excess revenue for each child in foster care, Van Doorn said - which means they have more inentive to remove children from their families than to keep families intact. "As such our country's government is a major factor in the dismantling of families and/or destruction of children's lives," he said.

He then cited San Diego CPS for "egregious behaviors" that included accusing parents of child abuse without any evidence.

The ugly truth is that San Diego isn't the only community where false accusations of child abuse occur. Across the nation, the practice has become so blatant that some of the leading experts on child abuse and foster care have started to cry "foul."

About the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)

White Children being Targeted for Abduction By Government Agencies

Jeanne Gelin, a member of The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, claims that there is a systematic policy of targeting "white" children on behalf of government agencies involved in child protective services. In areas like Orange County, there is a large demand for caucasian children. Hopeful parents pour vast amounts of money into the private adoption community. This, in turn sets up a system that rewards gov't agents for taking children that fall in line with that need. This seems to be a glaring example of misdirected and over reaching authority by social services agencies into the American family unit

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) is the federal law on which almost all state and local legislation and funding for child protective services are based. Enacted in 1988, CAPTA directs the U.S. Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families to provide grants to communities for child abuse prevention programs.

As a federal mandate, CAPTA mandates states to implement child abuse laws on their own, so they can align themselves for the massive funding and grants that go along with the law.

In theory as the years went by, if the goal for this law - to reduce child abuse in this country - had been successful, then today we should need less funding for these programs, not more. Success also should have resulted in fewer children in foster care and even fewer being put up for adoption.

But in reality, the opposite happened. Instead of less children in foster care, the numbers went up for nine years after CAPTA was passed. And, layers and layers of state and federal government programs and agencies whose funding depends solely on child abuse occurring were created.

In 1999 foster care numbers started dropping - but only because of new laws that encouraged states to move children out of foster care and into adoptive homes.

Of course, that legislation came with funding too, giving CPS a new avenue for making more money and creating more jobs and more programs. The tragedy is what Van Doorn pointed out in his campaign: the financial incentives for rooting out child abuse actually encourage agencies to make false accusations against parents, and to tear families apart for something that did not occur.

How this Law Actually has Increased Child Abuse Reports

What happened in San Diego is not an anomaly, nor is it new. In 1991, the bi-partisan National Commission on Children had already figured out that children were being taken from their families "prematurely or unnecessarily" because federal formulas give states "a strong financial incentive" to do so rather than provide services to keep families together."1

As a result, the federal government and a number of states created legislation that was supposed to keep more families together. But as the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR) reports, those efforts only disrupted more families, and encouraged more adoptions.

Again, the reason is financial: the new laws give "bounties to states of up to $8,000 or more per child for every adoption they finalize over a baseline number," NCCPR reports. And again, all the help goes to foster and adoptive parents. "About the only parents the federal government won't help indefinitely are birth parents," NCCPR found.

But the injustices don't stop there, because in order to get that money, states have to have children to take away and place - and therein lies the incentive to falsely accuse parents of harming their children and to forcibly remove children even when there is no evidence to do so.

Kim Hart

"CPS nationally are doing a job they've never been trained to do," says Kim Hart, a trial strategist and facilitator who has been assisting attorneys in defending persons accused of child abuse for more than 18 years. They're investigating people who have never been charged, and calling them child abusers, and taking kids away, and they get paid to do it.

This mechanism is bigger than what most people know. It goes all the way back to the 1980s [It actually goes back much, much futher] with legislation that told states they had to develop registries with mandatory child abuse reporting."

The money that follows a child abuse accusation and subsequent placement of the so-called endangered children into foster care or adoption is the real catalyst for the epidemic of child abuse accusations, Hart said.

"And there is no incentive for any physician or anybody involved to be intellectually honest about this because the law also gives them immunity if they're wrong," she said.

"So what happens is that the minute CPS is involved - or the second the EMTs are called (for example, in sudden infant death or alleged shaken baby cases), parents are already labeled as child abusers."

How are States Spending this Extra Money?

According to NCCPR, in FY 2010 the federal government is expected to spend at least $7 more on foster care and $4 more on adoption for every $1 spent to prevent foster care or speed reunification. This is based on President Obama's $4.681 billion foster care budget for FY2010 - an increase of $21 million over FY2009. The number represents a decrease of 4,300 children a month in foster care.

But this decrease is based on "placement of children in more permanent settings." In other words, states are getting more money to take care of fewer children by placing more of them in adoptive homes.

The law also increases incentives for adoption by paying out $1,000 to $8,000 extra for certain types of children who are placed for adoption.

The twist is that states are not required to put this money back in to keeping families intact or even for preventing child abuse. Instead, by law, they can use it for non-child-related things, such as delivering meals to senior citizens or for transportation services, or a range of other home-based services!

In San Diego, Van Doorn couldn't get a direct answer when he demanded that city officials tell him where their $4,000 per adopted child was going. But a look at any state's budget - from Minnesota to Florida to Connecticut and back to California - can tell you that local governments and states are cutting back or flat-lining children's services and using these extra federal dollars to balance their budgets .

Not Enough Abused Children? Change the Definition of Child Abuse

This certainly is a convoluted way to stop child abuse, if for no other reason than it's a form of child abuse to tear families apart and take children away from parents who are accused of doing something they didn't do. It also doesn't explain one of the newer definitions of child abuse that came along after CAPTA was enacted, Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS).

Reliable statistics on SBS do not exist, but according to the National Shaken Baby Coalition (NSBC), as many as 1,500 babies a year are shaken by their parents, and either severely injured or killed.

While the numbers may not seem exceedingly large, they still add another arena in which CPS can seize children from their parents, and place them in adoptive homes - and claim the booty that the federal government gives them for doing this.

On the Backs of Children, an Industry Based on Child Abuse has Arisen

In San Diego, CPS proudly announced that due to their efforts, child abuse reports had gone down. But again, Van Doorn busted them - the numbers went down, he said, because the public had begun to catch on to the county's recent court cases they'd lost in conjunction with false child abuse allegations.

When you apply this same thinking to the national statistics, it makes you wonder how many other states and local municipalities are dealing with false allegations.

The truth is staggering, according to Hart, and is so prevalent that countless blogs have popped up addressing the problem, [This one included ! ]  as well as entire websites devoted to helping people who've been falsely accused of child abuse.[Well done all of you! ]

Shaken Baby Syndrome - A Convenient Catch-All to Steal Babies Away?

Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. F. Edward Yazbak

Internationally renowned natural health physician and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. F. Edward Yazbak discuss the frequency of accusations of shaken baby syndrome.

Shaken Baby Syndrome has become an industry in itself, according to Dr. Edward Yazbak, a physician who has devoted the past 10 years to studying the issue and testifying as an expert witness on behalf of parents he believes are innocent of this crime.

"This is an inverted pyramid," Yazbak says. "It's an idea that has been added to and added to, but does not stand to science.

This shaken baby business has come out of nowhere and become an epidemic, and it's the other side that's making money - the child protective services, the funding, the grants that all these people get.

It's obviously a very popular and passionate thing with them. But they're literally convicting people before they're even accused. It's the only crime in the world like this, and many of these parents are perfectly innocent."

Dr. Mercola Presents a Lecture by F. Edward Yazbak MD

Internationally renowned natural health physician and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. F. Edward Yazbak discuss the frequency of accusations of shaken baby syndrome.

A short Internet search can show you what Dr. Yazbak is talking about. Hundreds of private adoption agencies around the nation are totally dependent on public welfare services supplying them with children - and funds - to keep their "businesses" going.

Likewise, hundreds of state, county and community agencies and governmental jobs are dependent on the same thing - legally abducting children to pay for the programs that have sprung up in the name of protecting children.

Again, the numbers tell the story:

In 1990, two years after CAPTA was created, nearly 2.6 million children nationwide were reported as abused and/or neglected, and referred for investigation. Despite the law, six years later, in 1996, 3 million children were reportedly abused, and under CPS "investigations." Today the number varies, depending on how federal authorities define child abuse. Under one definition, statistics show that the numbers have dropped by nearly a third.

But with a "more inclusive" definition, the numbers have stayed the same at about 3 million - or about 1 in every 25 children. In a 2010 report to Congress, the Administration on Children and Families explained how the numbers figure in the face of other data showing a decline in child abuse.

But no matter how you interpret them, or whether the numbers have stayed the same or dropped, the Congressional report doesn't explain why the President and Congress have continued to inflate budgets with more money to take children away from their families.

So what can you or I do about it?

According to Hart, this is an issue that can't be fixed with a single article or a few phone calls. It's a national problem that's gone on for decades, that needs local and federal pushes to change the laws that made these injustices possible.

Coincidentally, CAPTA is up for renewal in 2011, with billions more of your money proposed for the kinds of child abuse "prevention" that I've talked about here.

In an effort to change this, I encourage you to study the links I've included in this article [Am still working on posting these links - meanwhile go to URL address under title and use links there], and then contact your legislators and ask them to take a closer look at the monster that CAPTA has created.

While sunsetting the law or stopping its funding is probably only a dream, Hart believes it's possible that with enough pressure, you can lobby to have the "immunity" clause removed from this, so that at the very least, agencies who falsely accuse parents of child abuse can't do so without being held responsible.

References:

1 National Commission on Children, Beyond Rhetoric: A New American Agenda for Children and Families, (Washington, DC: May, 1991) p.290.

from Democracy Now - The War and Peace Report

Thousands of U.S.-Born Kids Languish in Foster Care as Immigrant Parents Detained, Deported [transcript below from video above]

Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman

JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, continuing with immigration news, we turn now to a major new report that looks at thousands of U.S.-born children whose parents are detained or deported. It is called "Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System." http://www.nalacc.org/fileadmin/Documents/Biblioteca_recursos/ARC_Report_Shattered_Families_FULL_REPORT_Nov2011Release.pdf 

According to the report, there are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care who are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents. If nothing changes, researchers found 15,000 more children may end up in foster care in the next five years.

AMY GOODMAN: The Applied Research Center estimates the U.S. deported more than 46,000 parents of U.S. citizen children between January and June of this year (6 month period). The figures reflect a striking increase in the rate of removals of parents and raise serious concerns about the impact of these deportations on children, many of whom are left behind. The Center says most child welfare departments lack systemic policies to keep families united when parents are detained or deported.

We’re joined here in New York City by Seth Wessler, a senior researcher at the Applied Research Center, principal investigator for the new report, "Shattered Families." Seth is also a staff writer for ColorLines. His recent deportation article, "Thousands of Kids Taken from Parents in U.S. Deportation System." http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/11/thousands_of_kids_lost_in_foster_homes_after_parents_deportation.html

Seth, lay out what you have found, how kids are separated from their parents and put into foster care here.

Seth Freed Wessler

SETH FREED WESSLER: Well, the Applied Research Center found that there are at least 5,000 children who are now stuck in foster care, and they’re stuck there because their parents have been detained or deported. The United States has, in the last year, deported a historic number of people: 400,000 people. And one of the most troubling collateral effects of that, that we found after a year-long investigation, is that many children are now separated from their mothers and fathers for extended periods of time, sometimes permanently. Sometimes they never see their parents again.

I spent days on end inside of detention centers scattered around the United States—in Arizona, in Florida, in Texas. And I spoke with parents who were separated from their children. I met parents who had no idea where their children were, except that they were stuck in foster care. They didn’t know who they were with, and they had lost all contact with the child welfare system. Immigration detention effectively severs the critical line of communication that’s necessary between families and the child welfare system in order to keep children together. And draconian immigration enforcement policies are really the driver here.

So, I met a woman inside of a detention center in Arizona who was picked up by one of Joe Arpaio’s deputies. And she was picked up because she called police to report domestic violence. She and her abuser were arrested. But instead of them being released—her children were put in foster care at the time of the arrest. Instead of being released, she was held in immigration detention, is now facing deportation, and she has no idea where her children are.

This is something we heard happen all over the country. There are 22 states that we identified where there are parents and children who are separated because of this intersection of immigration enforcement and the foster care system. And there may be many more.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, let me ask you, when—during the big workplace raids in 2006, ’07 and ’08, the Bush administration came under a lot of criticism about the separation of families. And ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) adopted a policy, supposedly, where parents who had children would be released with ankle bracelets to maintain the families together. Is this now ICE policy, or is this a situation where local governments are taking matters into their own hands?

SETH FREED WESSLER: It’s a result of a number of things. I mean, ICE has said, and consistently says, that parents get to choose what happens to their children if they’re deported. The reality is, that our research and our investigation has found, that’s simply not happening. Now, ICE protocols for protecting families are really antiquated. They apply to old forms of immigration enforcement that were relevant when there were these workplace raids. Now we’re talking about the expansion of immigration enforcement to local police departments and where local police are now tasked with the job of immigration enforcement. So, as I described, there are people being picked up by local cops and then funneled into the detention process without any regard for their families, where their families are. These children are losing their parents. I met a foster father who said that the child he’s cared for has been in his care for a year, has forgotten Spanish, her mother’s language, and now are facing significant barriers to being reunified. That family may never come back together.

AMY GOODMAN: Seth, what needs to happen?

SETH FREED WESSLER: Well, first of all, we need to stop the clock on the detention and deportation and the child welfare process for these families. We also need to think about and implement alternatives to detention. Detaining massive numbers of parents is simply going to produce these sorts of outcomes. I mean, we found, through a Freedom of Information Act request, that there are 46,000 parents deported in the first six months of this year.

AMY GOODMAN: Is this unprecedented?

SETH FREED WESSLER: It’s unprecedented. It is a huge increase in number and proportion of total deportations that are parents. And the collateral effect is going—are going to grow and grow and grow. This is amongst the most troubling that I’ve seen, and we spent—we dug pretty deeply to find it.

AMY GOODMAN: And it’s also very possible it will lead to the deaths of women and children, because if women are afraid to report domestic violence, it means that they often will stay with their abuser.

SETH FREED WESSLER: Absolutely right. There are people who stayed—that I met in detention, who stayed for years in terribly violent relationships, because they feared deportation, and then finally called police and were detained and are facing deportation. And then, we have a situation where people are coming back for their children, after having been deported, and are being incarcerated in jails on criminal charges because of that deep-seated desire to be with their families. So—

JUAN GONZALEZ: Did you get any sense of the number of U.S. citizen children who end up leaving the country with their deported parents, because that’s the only way to stay together?

SETH FREED WESSLER: Many U.S. citizen kids do leave with their parents. Of those 46,000 parents in six months, almost 100,000 in a year, many go with their parents. Many are separated for long periods of time and stay here with extended family. And what we found is that some are actually permanently separated. Those families are shattered entirely.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you for being with us. We’ll link to your report, Seth Freed Wessler, a senior researcher at Applied Research Center, a staff writer for ColorLines magazine. His piece is called "Thousands of Kids Taken from Parents in U.S. Deportation System."
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/11/thousands_of_kids_lost_in_foster_homes_after_parents_deportation.html

Shattered Families
http://arc.org/shatteredfamilies

ABOUT ARC:

The Applied Research Center (ARC) is a 30-year-old racial justice think tank that uses media, research and activism to promote solutions. ARC’s mission is to popularize racial justice and prepare people to achieve it. For more information on ARC’s work, please visit http://www.arc.org/.

ABOUT THE REPORT:

Link here to read the full report: http://www.nalacc.org/fileadmin/Documents/Biblioteca_recursos/ARC_Report_Shattered_Families_FULL_REPORT_Nov2011Release.pdf

Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System, a report by the ARC, is the first national investigation on threats to families when immigration enforcement and the child welfare system intersect.

It explores the extent to which children in foster care are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents and the failures of the child welfare system to adequately work to reunify these families. ARC’s yearlong research project found that Clara and Josefina’s children are among thousands of children currently in foster care who are separated from their family because of immigration enforcement.

Immigration policies and laws are based on the assumption that families will, and should, be united, whether or not parents are deported.2 Similarly, child welfare policy aims to reunify families whenever possible. In practice, however, when mothers and fathers are detained and deported and their children are relegated to foster care, family separation can last for extended periods. Too often, these children lose the opportunity to ever see their parents again when a juvenile dependency court terminates parental rights.

In fiscal year 2011, the United States deported a record-breaking 397,000 people and detained nearly that many. According to federal data released to ARC through a Freedom of Information Act request, a growing number and proportion of deportees are parents. In the first six months of 2011, the federal government removed more than 46,000 mothers and fathers of U.S.- citizen children. These deportations shatter families and endanger the children left behind.

Anecdotal evidence drawn from news and advocacy reports and ARC’s initial research over the last half decade have shown that a disturbing number of children with detained or deported parents are now in foster care.3

Systematic research on this topic is challenging, because child welfare departments and the federal government fail to document cases of families separated in this way. This “Shattered Families” report is the first to provide evidence on the national scope and scale of the problem. As more noncitizens are detained, the number of children in foster care with parents removed by ICE is expected to grow.

Without explicit policies and guidelines to protect families, children will continue to lose their families at alarming rates.

KEY RESEARCH FINDINGS:

• ARC conservatively estimates that there are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care whose parents have been either detained or deported (this projection is based on data collected from six key states and an analysis of trends in 14 additional states with similarly high numbers of foster care an  foreign-born populations). This is approximately 1.25 percent of the total children in foster care. If the same rate holds true for new cases, in the next five years, at least 15,000 more children will face these threats to reunification with their detained and deported mothers and fathers. These children face formidable barriers to reunification with their families.

• In areas where local police aggressively participate in immigration enforcement, children of noncitizens are more likely to be separated from their parents and face barriers to reunification. For example, in counties where local police have signed 287(g) agreements with ICE, children in foster care were, on average, about 29 percent more likely to have a detained or deported parent than in other counties. The impact of aggressive immigration enforcement remains statistically significant when our research controls for the size of a county’s foreign-born population and a county’s proximity to the border.

• Immigrant victims of domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence are at particular risk of losing their children. Approximately one in nine of the stories recounted to ARC in interviews and focus groups involved domestic violence. As a result of ICE’s increased use of local police and jails to enforce immigration laws, when victims of violence are arrested, ICE too often detains them and their children enter foster care. Many immigrant victims face an impossible choice: remain with an abuser or risk detention and the loss of their children.

• ARC has identified at least 22 states where these cases have emerged in the last two years. This is a growing national problem, not one confined to border jurisdictions or states. Across the 400 counties included in our projections, more than one in four (28.8 percent) of the foster care children with detained or deported parents are from non-border states.

Whether children enter foster care as a direct result of their parents’ detention or deportation, or they were already in the child welfare system, immigration enforcement systems erect often-insurmountable barriers to family unity.

KEY BARRIERS TO FAMILY UNITY:

• Federal immigration enforcement uses local police and jails to detain noncitizens. As a result of aggressive local immigration enforcement, especially the expansion of Secure Communities, any interaction with police can spur ICE involvement and lead to detention and deportation. An incident with police that would not separate children from a citizen parent can result in a long-term or permanent separation if the parent is not a U.S. citizen.

• ICE does not protect families at the time of apprehension. ICE and arresting police officers too often refuse to allow parents to make arrangements for their children. Existing ICE guidelines are largely outdated and insufficient for the current immigration enforcement context in which ICE has shifted from high-profile raids to more-hidden and devolved forms of enforcement that operate through local police and jails and smaller-scale ICE enforcement actions.

• ICE detention obstructs participation in CPS plans for family unity. ICE consistently detains parents when they could be released on their own recognizance or expand the use of community-based supervisory programs. Once detained, ICE denies parents access to programs required to complete CPS case plans. Due to the isolation of detention centers and ICE’s refusal to transport detainees to hearings, parents can neither communicate with/visit their children nor participate in juvenile court proceedings. Child welfare caseworkers and attorneys struggle to locate and maintain contact with detained parents.

• Child welfare departments lack proactive policies to reunify children with deported parents. ARC’s research found that children are reunited with their deported parents only if foreign consulates are involved with the case. However, few child welfare departments systematically contact a foreign consulate when they take custody of the U.S. citizen children of a detained or deported noncitizen.

• Systemic bias against reunifying children with parents in other countries is pervasive in child welfare practice. CPS administrators, caseworkers, judges, and attorneys (including the children’s own lawyers) often believe that children are better off in the United States, even if those children are in foster care. This belief often supersedes the child welfare system’s mandate to move toward family reunification and places borders on family and parental rights.

• Structural barriers and systemic bias against undocumented parents and relatives threaten the reunification of families.

Despite clear child welfare policy [Problem is, this is in writing only! In fact, it is rarely the practice and certainly not the priority for CPS to reunite families.] that prioritizes placing children with their own families, many child welfare departments will not place children with their undocumented non-custodial parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents or other relatives. As a result, children of detained and deported parents are likely to remain in foster care with strangers when they could be with their own family.

As the federal government continues to expand its immigration enforcement infrastructure, detention and deportation will continue to pose barriers to family unity for families involved in the child welfare system. Federal, state and local governments must create explicit policies to protect families from separation.

These polices should stop the clock on the child welfare process and the immigration enforcement process to ensure that families can stay together and allow parents to make the best decisions for the care and custody of their children.

STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT:

This “Shattered Families” report will explore the treacherous intersection of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system. The report is divided into six sections. Section II, “Background on Immigration Enforcement, Child Welfare and Anti-Immigrant Bias,” will provide important background of the immigration enforcement and child welfare/juvenile dependency systems. It will then present ARC’s findings on systemic anti-immigrant bias in the child welfare system. Section III, “Immigration Enforcement, Detention and Shattering of Families,” explores ARC’s research findings on the treacherous intersection of immigration enforcement and child welfare and maps the paths that lead to children entering or remaining in foster care while their parents are detained or deported. Section IV, “Deportation, Systemic Bias and Barriers to Reunification”, discusses ARC’s findings on threats to family unity after a parent is deported and the failure of the child welfare system to adequately move toward reunifying these children with their parents or place them with family members in the United States.

This report concludes with a set of recommendations for change. An appendix that includes a full explanation of ARC’s research methods follows the report.

RESOURCES:

"How to Protect Your Parental Rights from Detention" Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Spanish / English (PDF)

"FAQ: Detained Parents with Minor Kids" Americans for Immigrant Justice (formerly, FIAC)
Spanish / English (PDF)

ADDITIONAL READINGS:

Thousands of Kids Taken From Parents In U.S. Deportation System ColorLines magazine by Seth Freed Wessler, Wednesday, November 2 2011

"Torn Apart by Immigration Enforcement: Parental Rights and Immigration Detention" Women's Refugee Commission

Lead-in article for below http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/bacon_program/disappearing_parents_report.cfm
"Disappearing Parents: A Report on Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System" University of Arizona. Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program

"The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Child Welfare"  First Focus

Child Protective Services: CPS and Police Abuse,
Constitution, Invading Homes, Kidnapping Children,
Ignoring Courts, and Criminalizing Americans.

Child Protective Services can take your children too. CPS has come to believe they are above the law and the Constitution, that they do not need a search warrant to come into your home, label you as a child abuser for any reason and make you a criminal based upon their opinion alone, take your children away in a paddy wagon, and put your kids into foster homes pending a court hearing where CPS will try their best to win and permanently take custody of your kids. If CPS loses, they will continue to fight you, slandering your family and listing you as a child abuser in government databases.

CPS is an abusive government agency spiraling completely out of control. It's time to shut them down.

The unlawful removal of 468 children from the FLDS ranch in west Texas, has put CPS under the microscope. That case has led others to wonder if they can do that to FLDS children, can CPS do that to my children?

CBS 42 investigative reporter, Nancy Wilson, shows us one family who says the same thing happened to them, and eight years later they are still trying to clear their names.

This is the Gates family, Gary and Melissa have 13 children, 11 of them adopted. They saw a need for kids from a variety of backgrounds who need love in a stable home.

Imagine their surprise when 11 government employees, 6 police officers and 5 CPS workers, showed up on their doorstep.

The school called CPS when they discovered that the Gates pinned a baggy with food wrappers inside the shirt of one of the kids that was caught stealing. It included a two page explanation and who to call if there were questions.

The school did make a phone call, to CPS. Gates was shocked to find CPS workers in his home uninvited, especially when CPS refused to leave.

"How can you take 13 kids? That opened my eyes to a whole new way of government." - Gary Gates

CPS and Police completely ignored the 4th Amendment Constitutional rights of Americans, entered the Gates home, and took away all 13 of their children, without a court order, after a mere phone call. This is a very similar situation to the FLDS raid, except that the phone call that Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (CPS) used to kidnap the FLDS children was a hoax.

Later in court, the reason CPS gave for taking the Gate's children was that CPS felt that Mr. Gates was uncooperative with them taking away his children, and his unwillingness to cooperate put the children at risk.

Fortunately, the judge ordered the children returned immediately. An independent psychologist conducted his own review and wrote a glowing report, saying, "I've never said this about anyone I have evaluated: I admire the Gates, I would not hesitate to place my own children in their care."

However, even though the judge ordered the case dismissed, and the independent review was praiseworthy, CPS did not care. CPS called the praiseworthy review disappointing and continued to fight the Gates anyway, listing them in the state's central registry as child abusers.

Even though the Gates were innocent, CPS claims that because their opinion is that the the father emotionally abused one child by punishing him, and since all the kids saw it, that equals 13 counts of abuse. And, because the wife did not stop it, that equals another 13 counts of abuse for a grand total of 26 counts of child abuse.

The Gates were never charged with any crime, they are guilty based solely on the opinion of CPS.

The Gates have spent the past 8 years and $175,000 trying to get their names removed from the child abuser registry after CPS unjustly listed them.

CPS' unlawful and massive FLDS raid of the polygamist community's children may actually result in more Americans becoming aware of these abuses within CPS and the government.

Mass CPS Corruption P1



Mass CPS Corruption P2



CPS Wrongful Removal of Baby

CPS in Texas filed an affidavit with the courts stating, "Baby's mom was positive for illegal drugs." CPS said the house was unclean and unfit for the baby.

CPS LIED! For once, their lies did not work.

Drug test - NEGATIVE

Condition of House - Judge wanted to know why this statement was in the affidavit if known to be untrue.

Quote from transcripts:

Judge: I'm not cutting anybody off [...]but you have in the Affidavit [of Facts] that the house was dirty and there was dog stuff on the floor.

CPS: That's what it had alleged in the report, yes, sir.

Judge: Tell me about that.

CPS: The condition of the house was appropriate.

Judge: I'm sorry?

CPS: The condition at the home was appropriate for the child.

(END)

In seven weeks infant was in foster care she came home with a severe sunburn, diaper rash with pustules, asthma requiring breathing treatments throughout the day!

There is more and as time permits, we will post more.

This baby is so fortunate to have a mother and father who love her dearly, and a grandmother you do not want to mess with!

DA Willing to Prosecute CPS Judges in Texas




Innocence Destroyed - Part 1




Innocence Destroyed - Part 2




Innocence Destroyed - Part 3



Alex Jones - CPS and Pedophilia - 6-9-09 Part 1/2


Alex Jones - CPS and Pedophilia - 6-9-09 Part 2/2


Former CPS director sentenced to 10 years for child molestation:

judge rejects recommendation of 1 year in jail and treatment

THE DAILY WORLD Gary E. Anderson, a former supervisor with Child Protective Services, was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to first-degree child rape and molestation.

Gary E. Anderson leaned into the podium, his head lowered and the blue jail jumpsuit draping off his thin frame.

The 67-year-old former Child Protective Services director told the court he did not understand how he could spend 36 years of his life defending children, including his own, and now stand guilty of raping a 9-year-old girl and molesting another girl of the same age.

“I’ve broken a sacred trust not only with these children, but those who love them,” he said Friday. “I broke their hearts. … I am sorry for what I’ve done.”

Anderson pleaded guilty to first-degree child rape and first-degree molestation last year for “numerous” times when he touched the two girls inappropriately, according to court records. He admitted his conduct in a plea agreement recommending an alternative sentence of one year in jail as well as sex offender therapy and supervision upon release.

Superior Court Judge Mark McCauley rejected the recommended Special Sex Offender Sentencing Alternative on Friday, saying Anderson deserved prison despite pleas from the victims’ families to grant treatment.

“I have really struggled with this decision,” the judge said. “There was such a trust. There are multiple victims. His conduct went on for years.”

McCauley sentenced Anderson to a minimum of 10 years to life in prison with annual reviews to determine whether he can ever be released.

Anderson’s eyes dropped to the table. His supporters in the audience wept softly.

“These crimes, from my point of view, are horrific crimes,” McCauley said, noting he had given substantial prison sentences to other offenders who never even touched a child.

The judge said the victims and their families have to live with the consequences of Anderson’s actions for the rest of their lives. He said he is also concerned about any chance Anderson could re-offend, despite his age.

“I just can’t in good conscience grant a (sentencing alternative),” McCauley said.

Court records stated Anderson first acknowledged he had touched the girls inappropriately when confronted by their parents in January of 2008. He was charged with raping one girl and molesting the other.

The state Department of Social & Health Services said he worked for Child Protective Services for 36 years and retired in 2000. He supervised social workers, but rarely interacted with children.

Anderson was arrested in March of 2008 and unanswered questions about other possible victims delayed his sentencing for months.

Deputy prosecutor Katie Svoboda said everyone involved should be better off with the long case finished.

“It took a lot of work,” she said. “This is a hard case and a hard call (by the judge).”

Svoboda had joined the defense in recommending the alternative sentence with therapy, but said a prison sentence was “well-warranted.”

Defense attorney Brett Purtzer called a polygraph examiner and a psychotherapist to the stand Friday to testify about Anderson’s chances of benefiting from treatment.

“If Mr. Anderson is not an individual that qualifies for (the alternative sentence),” Purtzer argued, “then that person does not exist.”

The attorney presented several letters of support for Anderson and one of the victim’s parents asked the court to allow for treatment instead of prison.

Anderson said he had taken full responsibility and wanted the chance to understand why he had done such things. He believed the alternative sentence and treatment would give him that chance.

“This (sentencing alternative) truly is a privilege,” McCauley told him. “There’s no right to go through this treatment.”

[ I'd like you to ask yourself, what Foundation are you donating to? Most of the Foundations (if not all) that you are donating to, fund this sort of behavior and give Grants to CPS, such as United Way just as an example. Foundations have become the small business of the modern generation by government officials, Judges, an those within the DHHS organization; either directly or indirectly.. so next time you Donate.. ask yourself.. who are YOU hurting?.. I will do an article on Foundations one day, hopefully soon]

Former Arizona CPS Official Arrested Child Molestation + Pornography

Arizona CPS Covers Up Child Abuse in Childrens Shelters, Group Homes, Auditor General Report

Aug 2009. AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT:

Arizona Child Protective Services is missing 98% of deadlines to investigate complaints of abuse in group homes + treatment centers. The report is the result of an audit that found CPS investigators did not look into such complaints on time which placed kids at risk for further abuse. The audit also showed that CPS allowed treatment-center employees who had complaints of abuse filed against them to get new jobs in group homes, where the abuse allegedly continued. According to the Office of the Auditor General, CPS wrapped up in its investigations on time in just 4 of 147 cases (2%) since 2007. http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/54559087.html

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CPS focus turns to children in shelters
DES officials, attorneys from Calif. center to meet
by Mary K. Reinhart - Oct. 20, 2011 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2011/10/20/20111020cps-focus-turns-to-children-shelters.html

Top officials from Arizona's child-welfare agency will meet with California child-advocacy attorneys about how to reduce the number of babies and young children living in crisis shelters and group homes.

Pressure from the San Francisco-based Youth Law Center helped to nearly empty Arizona shelters 5 years ago + place more children with foster families. Then, as now, the state's overloaded child-welfare system was undergoing public scrutiny following highly publicized child injuries and deaths.

Attorney Carole Shauffer, the center's executive director, said there's now an even greater body of research showing the damage group care can do to small children removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect.

"We know even more about how bad this is for young children," Shauffer said.

In a letter last month to state Dep't of Economic Security Director Clarence Carter, who oversees CPS, Shauffer said the center and the Annie E Casey Foundation had used Arizona as a model for other jurisdictions seeking to reduce the number of foster children in group care.

But the influx of children into state custody in recent months and a net loss of hundreds of foster homes forced Arizona to ask shelter + group-home operators to begin caring for CPS children for the first time in years.

Shauffer said that trend needs to stop or the state could face litigation, as it did in 2006, based on state law and constitutional due-process rights. "They've got a flood of kids," Shauffer said. "They've got a mess."

Decades of research shows that young children fare better with relatives or in family foster homes than in institutional settings, in part because of their need to establish a lasting relationship with one significant grown-up. Group care also is more expensive than family foster care.

State rules limit shelter placements to 21 days, with weekly reviews by a Juvenile Court judge required thereafter.

A joint legislative committee meets today to discuss three state audits on CPS, including recommendations to more quickly investigate reports of abuse and neglect in shelters, group homes and residential treatment centers.

As of Aug. 31, the latest figures DES provided, among the nearly 1,500 children in group settings, there were 23 babies and children younger than 4 living in shelters and 10 children younger than 7 in group homes.

That compares with March, when 16 children younger than 4 years were in shelter care, and group homes housed two children younger than 7.

Marsha Porter, who runs the 15-bed Crisis Nursery in Phoenix, said most of the young children she's cared for in recent months are part of sibling groups. She said a few days in a shelter, particularly to keep siblings together and assess their well-being, is fine for children.

Porter and Chris Scarpati, founder and CEO of the East Valley Child Crisis Center, said they're also getting CPS children so traumatized that their first foster families couldn't handle them.

Porter said she's turning away 20 to 30 requests for CPS placements every month.

Shauffer's company has worked around the country to eliminate group care for children younger than 3 and has successfully sued to close shelters in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

In 2006, Maricopa County shelters were housing nearly 100 babies and young children, following a 60 percent increase in the number of foster children since 2002.

But with financial and technical help from the Casey Foundation, and pressure from the law center, state officials brought those numbers to near zero.

Reach the reporter at maryk .reinhart@arizonarepublic.com.