CPS Live Buzz Interviews Doctor About Psych Evaluations

Is this an accurate depiction of CPS or what?! So very many parents are railroaded by CPS social workers by way of their contracted parrots-- I mean 'treatment providers'.

Methodology of CPS social workers

Though done in a rather sarcastic tone...this video very accurately portrays the way CPS operates when 'investigating' alleged reports of abuse or neglect of children. It happened in precisely the same manner to this blog's author Denise Dopkins. Spokane social worker Melly Keith jumped me in the hospital room only 12 hours after I gave cesarean birth to my son and while I was still very affected by the medicines the doctor administered during and following the birth. (The doctor and nurses will claim that I was not still affected by the medication from the cesarean birth, however, I know better. After all-- I was the one taking the medicines and I know how I felt.) There was also the issue of the post birth pain medicines that made me dileriously sleepy. I was in no condition to be so suddenly confronted with this emotional and psychological attack, and still-- the social worker could not stand to wait another day for me to better recover in the hospital. I was in the hospital for another two days after Ms. Keith left the room on March 15, 2005.

CPS corruption

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

Governmental tyranny

GOD GUNS AND GUTS



Protecting your family under tyranny

By Jan Smith

I can’t think of a more violent government act against residents, then to send in government agents to take one’s children and place them in stranger’s homes and for all kinds of erroneous reasons determined by the psychiatric and legislative professions. Once removed those in power have devised a system so overwhelmingly corrupt and expansive, the average person is crippled under its auspices. From start to finish, the child protection system under a concept called Parens Patriae ensures that all involved parents and relatives are void of any rights. Most rights presented are nothing more than an illusion and the targets are usually very vulnerable.

The concept of Parens Patriae (government control of vulnerable children) came from English/British legal schools of thought and was implemented by the judicial system here in the US. However, this concept has gone way past the judiciary and encompasses the federal government and agencies, state government and agencies, contracted agencies and mandated reporters. Then there are all the “volunteer” agents (neighbors, friends, relatives, etc.) whose perception of a person’s parenting leads to government intervention. These too, are a part of the Parens Patriae system by choice. What they don’t realize is what they are subjecting the whole family to (including extended) when they pick up that phone and begin the process of removal.

So, what are they being subjected to? Poorly trained attorneys who are part of a “team” and may or may not represent their clients but the state. Then there is a massive Attorney General’s office and assigned assistant AGs who represent each government stakeholder at significant tax payer expense. The courts aren’t really courts at all, but a devised method of child removal and adoption with supportive rules, regulations and laws designed to give Parens the ability to make any type of decision – right or wrong – without consequence. Then there are the case workers and their big ideas of how to save the world through removal and adoption, leaving the entire lineage devastated with their mouths hanging open at the experience.

The targets are anyone whose income is at the poverty level. This includes those families who do not accept any type of government assistance but could if they applied. Most are having babies like crazy and completely unaware they are under government radar and gun scopes of medical, educational, and social worker opinion. Those who fall under ADA categories are disproportionately attacked to include the blind and disabled in wheel chairs. People with diagnosed mental health problems are a “shoe in” for removal and adoption for government agents. Depression is the government’s weapon of choice. They will use this diagnose to divide families and seek out any information that would suggest a parent or extended family has depression issues. Quietly, the government is taking children away from family after family under these categories and only recently, is there becoming an awareness of the plot.

There are several things families need to start doing. The first and most important is practicing the 2nd Amendment rights of gun ownership. All families at or below poverty levels need to own a gun and know how to use it safely by taking the required courses. If this means buying a gun on time payments then do it. Many hand guns are below $200 used. Nine millimeters have the cheapest ammo for practice. Talk to local gun firing ranges about developing a system of affordable shooting. They need to start supporting ALL Americans so they can practice their gun owner rights, not just those of higher incomes. The NRA should start allowing membership based on income because their membership fee is too high. Attend gun shows. Most are only about $5 to get in. You need to get a gun before international law goes into place with the Obama administration who would like to take the guns away from every American.

The second is educating yourself if you are going to have a child. Know who are mandatory reporters and under what circumstances your state allows removal. Know what the evidence standards are and how to dispute accusations. Families need to educate themselves on family law if they are going to have children. Know that marriage, holding down a job, and maintaining a stable environment are important factors in a court room setting. So are fighting in front of children, domestic violence, failing to show up for medical appointments, drug/alcohol abuse and a messy house will get agents involved with court support. Spanking with objects (belt, switch, etc.) is never allowed. Know what your rights are when agents show up at the door investigating your family and how to state those rights.

For activist/system victims who want to know what to do, consider developing groups in your area to do the following:

Develop fliers to hand out at maternity wards in hospitals to vulnerable parents and clinics who take government medical

Find out about all HUD housing apartment complexes and give community lectures on family law and child protection on site. If they won’t let you do that, hand out fliers and set up community meetings. Find a free place to have community meetings. Libraries are one source.

Go to your local ADA and express your concern about their lack of support regarding families. Picket if necessary to get your point across.

Develop a solid volunteer base. Memberships in family rights organizations fail if there is a fee. Most people won’t pay to have advocacy.

Educate those with money like foundations. This is important because they are funding foster care systems but don’t realize what is happening to families in the legal system. We need backers to help.

Work at night if you can, so that your schedule is free during the day to attend court hearings and public legislation. Get to know all the legislators in your state.

Pool resources with others to get training. Pick out members in your groups to attend important functions and meetings then collect the funds to get them that training. Once trained the trainees can come back and train the group.

Hand out fliers at DSHS offices where families are signing up for money/food/medical.

Organize parent groups in school systems that may be a little too excited about government involvement with families. There is safety in numbers.

Make lists of doctors and forensic experts where families are losing their rights because of their testimonies and examine the validity of their arguments. Some of these quacks go for years with false testimony before getting discovered.

Own a gun and practice good safety.


I could continue listing, but if these items get accomplished, great gains will be made. People lack power because of isolation and an absence of critical thinking. It will take some time and effort in the beginning, but once you become an established entity, the ripple effect will take over and have some impact.

A Woman with 20 different personalities

Kim Noble: A woman divided

This blog's author Denise Dopkins first comments on the following article post. I post the article because it demonstrates how cruel and unjust the system really is.  CPS succeeded at convincing a judge to permanently terminate the relationship between my precious baby boy and me. Their reason: They assert that I am so emotionally disturbed that it precludes me from the right to raise my son and live the joy that comes from the mother-child bonding experience. (Read more of my story "My Nightmare with CPS" located on this blog site. It is the May 31st entry under the blog archives.)

I wish for everyone to know that I was not diagnosed with any serious mental health problems... and certainly not as profoundly disturbing as the woman in the following article. Yet, social services allowed her to have custody and care of her daughter despite her serious mental health condition. Social services refused to allow my son to continue on in his relationship and bonding experience with his natural mother for no legitiamate reason and absent the provision of in home services. The woman in the following article was granted the in home services and ongoing therapy while her daughter remained in her custody and care-- where she remains to this day. I on the other hand was deprived of any in home services or ongoing therapy with my son in my care and custody. I wasn't so much as given the chance to fail or succeed with my son.


KIM NOBLE:  A woman devided

There are 20 people living inside Kim Noble, including an alpha female called Patricia; an anorexic teenager called Judy; and a bloke called Ken. She has the most extreme form of dissociative identity disorder that psychiatrists have seen - and a unique artistic talent, too, as Katy Weitz reports.

Sunday, 27 August 2006

A lot of people are very frightened of us until they meet us," says Kim Noble in a flat south-London accent. "But we've been in treatment now for 10 years and actually we don't behave as if we've got 50 heads!"

This is my first interview with Kim Noble, and I confess that I am a little apprehensive myself - what does a woman with 20 personalities look like? What if she "switches" midway through the interview? Kim's appearance gives nothing away; she is a tiny, almost frail-looking woman with a thick mane of copper hair framing the most startlingly clear blue eyes. The rest of her face is almost incidental, but high cheekbones and delicate features under clear bronze skin all make the picture quite lovely.

There is no trace of disturbance in her voice either - she is breezy and animated. She could even pass for normal if you met her on the street but Kim, 45, has spent the last 10 years coming to terms with the condition dissociative identity disorder (DID) and in the last two, she and 12 of her "alters" have started
painting in acrylics after a short time with an art therapist.

Despite no formal training, all the artists have developed their own distinctive styles, colours and themes and she has had seven successful solo and seven group exhibitions. She is now artist in residence at Springfield University Hospital in Tooting, south London, and wants to show the positive side of her condition to explain her art. This is the reason for our meeting.

"We're doing something really worthwhile and we've also brought up a healthy, well-loved daughter," she says. The use of the plural personal pronoun is strange but Kim talks so quickly, I don't have time to reflect.

"Being diagnosed with DID was the best thing that ever happened to us," she says. "From the age of 14 I'd had spells in psychiatric hospitals and had been diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to depression, hysterical amnesia, anorexia and bulimia. It's a lot to take in when you're first told - I used to think I just had a bad memory because of all the blank periods. Or I put it down to drinking. I was sectioned many times and told I'd have to take medication for the rest of my life.

"Now I don't take any medication and haven't been in hospital for a decade. I just have therapy twice a week and a support team who come over occasionally to help out. One was an art therapist. That's how I got into painting. We just started out doing it on the back of wallpaper two years ago and we loved it."

In just two years, Kim has painted over 200 canvasses, getting up at 3am to start work so that she has time alone in her art room before daughter Aimee wakes up at 6.30am. Of course, it's not always Kim doing the painting.

"I have no memory at all between the personalities so when I come back, I don't always know who's been around. The best way to tell is to look at what painting is out at the time. Or Aimee will tell me. Since we started the artwork, there's actually been a lot more control in my life. If they're painting, they're achieving something and when they don't, they get very restless."

To all intents and purposes, each of Kim's personalities is an artist in their own right: Patricia paints the solitary desert landscapes, Bonny's pictures often feature robotic dancing figures or "frieze people", Suzy repeatedly paints a kneeling mother, Judy's canvasses are large, conceptual pieces while Ria's work reveals deeply traumatic events involving children.

These disturbing images are at the root of Kim's extraordinary condition; DID is a creative mental survival strategy whereby the personality splits at a young age due to severe and chronic trauma. The number of personalities that exist often depends on how long the trauma lasts. But Kim herself has no memory of being abused as a child; she has been protected over the years by her alters.

"I've been told I was abused and to me at this moment in time, it's too much. It goes in one ear and out the other. It's no good retraumatising me and telling me something I don't want to know - in any case, there

would be a switch."

Kim has good reason to fear learning about her past as it's possible that if she acquires too much information, she won't be able to cope and will "disappear". It's happened twice before. (omega)

This is where it gets really weird - for Kim isn't Kim at all. The personality I am interviewing is Patricia and it is she who manages her and Aimee's lives, but Patricia wasn't always the dominant personality. Before Patricia took over, Bonny held the fort and two years previous to Bonny, it was Hayley.

Kim watches me closely as she explains: "You see Kim is just the 'house', the body. There isn't a 'Kim' at all - she has completely split. So we answer to the name Kim but really I am Patricia. When people call us 'Kim' I suppose many of us just assume it's a nickname, but once people know you they don't use your name very often in conversation."

 

Of the 20 or so personalities who share "Kim", some are easily identifiable: there is 15-year-old Judy who is and bulimic, maternal Bonny, religious Salome, depressed Ken, sensible Hayley, Dawn, Patricia and elective mute MJ. There are also a handful of children "frozen" in time. A few of the alters know about the DID but many are unaware - or refuse to accept it.

 

"Judy doesn't believe in the DID," explains Kim. "She's only a teenager and she calls our therapist a nutter when she tries to explain it to her. She's so young, she doesn't even think Aimee is her daughter. She knows about me and she thinks that I'm a terrible mother because I'm always leaving Aimee. To her, it's totally normal to keep coming and going. She probably thinks that you come and go too."

There are certain "triggers" that can force a change and gradually Kim has learnt what they are in order to avoid them - but it doesn't stop her switching up to three or four times a day.

"I don't really get any idea when I'm about to go except occasionally a feeling of drifting. Mostly it's instantaneous. I can lose six or seven hours but if you were asking another personality now, of course they'd say they lose days. So we haven't got much of a sense of time - I'm always in a panic to get things done.

"It means that Aimee's time gets interrupted. If a younger one comes out they can be playing for hours and nothing will get done. Aimee can get me back again but if she's on to a good thing she won't. I came to in the hallway once and there was paint spattered everywhere. Aimee just looked at me and said: 'Well, it wasn't my fault, was it?'

"To Aimee, all of this is normal. She's grown up with it and she knows all the personalities better than anyone. She misses Bonny quite a lot because Bonny used to be her main carer and now she's not around so much. Sometimes she asks if she can speak to her and I let her. Now that she's older she's getting a bit cheeky. She asked me for a kitten yesterday and I said no, then she asked Judy and she said yes. But it's me that has the final say, so she's not getting one."

This playing-off between the personalities mimics the actions of a child trying to manipulate two parents to their advantage. "Oh, I think Aimee's very lucky in some ways," says Kim. "There's always plenty of people for her to talk to and have fun with and we never get angry at her. If we're beginning to get frustrated then someone else will take over. I'm not saying (omega) it's always easy for Aimee - she gets stressed about getting to school on time because if I'm not around, maybe one of the other personalities won't know they have to get her ready. But the school are aware of the DID and are very supportive."

It is a testament to Kim's strength that she is a mother at all as Aimee was taken away by social services at birth to be put up for adoption. Kim took her fight all the way to the High Court and was assessed by two independent psychiatrists in the process - they both confirmed she was no danger to her child.

"DID is all about protection so I know that Aimee will always be safe - we all love her and take care of her together," says Kim. "At first, social services were worried I wouldn't remember to feed Aimee, or overfeed her. But luckily the trend was to feed on demand so we just fed her when she was hungry. It's the same for me - I tend to just snack as I don't know who's been out recently or whether they've eaten. I have to listen to my body. I let Judy do the eating."

Kim lets out a loud, throaty laugh - despite the day-to-day difficulties, she is the first to point out the ludicrous nature of her situation. "All the personalities have different taste in clothes so sometimes I can end up in five different outfits in one morning. And I lose things all the time because another personality might move my mobile and I'll have no idea where it's gone. I lost the computer once! It was broken and I was taking it in to be fixed but then I lost time and when I came back there was no computer. I went to the repair shop and just sort of hung around, waiting for them to say, 'We've got your computer.' I didn't want to just ask them - it would have seemed crazy."

Can she not communicate with the other personalities? "I leave notes for them sometimes but usually get rude replies back like: 'Mind your own business.'"

According to leading psychology professor at UCL, Professor John Morton, Kim has the misfortune to represent the British "gold standard" over genuine dissociation. In the last four years he has conducted extensive tests on Kim and found there is no memory at all between the different personalities.

"Even when DID patients reported no memory between the different personalities, our tests usually showed massive leakage between them," he says. "Kim shows no leakage at all. She is proving existing memory theories wrong. She's doing things which we would say are impossible."

On our second meeting, I discover more about Aimee's origins. "One of us was seeing a guy and got pregnant but he wasn't everybody's choice so he left. It was Dawn who had Aimee. But because she was taken away at birth and we only got her back when she was six months old, Dawn didn't recognise her, so she's always looking for her baby."

For all the personalities, this appears to have been a major trauma in their lives. Now single, Kim says she doesn't want a relationship as it would be too complicated and she couldn't imagine all of them marrying one man.

I ask where the treatment is leading - could the personalities one day integrate, allowing Kim to lead a more "normal" life? "That always used to be the aim with DID sufferers, but not anymore," she says. "And I wouldn't want it. It's a bit like killing someone else, isn't it? Perhaps it will be me who's never around and Bonny will take over again. Apparently that doesn't happen but I can't even imagine what it's like. Also, if I integrated I'd lose the artists too. We'd all mould into one style and which style would that be? No, I don't want integration at all - my goal is managing it."

For our third interview, Kim's therapist is present at her request - it means I can meet the other personalities under controlled and safe conditions. Judy comes out at lunch so that she can eat. The change occurs almost immediately - Patricia closes her eyes for a second and then when she opens them again she looks bewildered and a little embarrassed. The therapist explains who I am and Judy grunts in greeting then starts picking at the white trousers she is wearing. "What's these?" she says to no one in particular. Her therapist replies: "You don't like them?" Judy snaps back: "I don't like white. It makes me look fat." She pulls a cushion over her legs then we carry on a halting conversation while she pokes at her chicken in lentil sauce.

Judy is sullen and defensive - she's never seen lentils before and announces they look like "rabbit poop".

Eventually, we get onto the subject of DID. "Did? I did what? I did it! What Katy did," Judy plays with the words. I ask her if she believes in DID. "No!" she scoffs. "What? When I'm not there, somebody else is there talking to me? Eh?" So how is it she's wearing trousers she doesn't like? "I've always got bizarre clothes on that belongs to some other idiot," she says. When her therapist tries to point out that this isn't usual for most people, Judy shoots back: "I've just got a bad memory. I probably put these on."

I ask: "How old are you, Judy?" "Old enough to know better! I'm 15." The therapist gently says that she was 15 when they met 10 years ago. "But you've never been good at maths. You told me that."

Judy seems to have a brilliant arsenal of weapons to protect her from the truth: she has a bad memory, or her therapist is a terrible mathematician. As the meal ends, Judy leaves the sofa and in the middle of crossing the room, she stops, there's a jerk in her spine and she slowly turns around. It is Patricia again - she smiles warily. She has no idea what has just happened and looks at the empty plate: "So she ate all her food then? Was she all right?"

Later on, Bonny comes out - Patricia's head bows for a second then she looks up slowly and shyly. Bonny is altogether different from Patricia and this is reflected in the tension in her face - she is a softer, more serene character and even begins to cry when she talks about missing Aimee. "I just don't get to see her," she says sadly.

When Patricia is back again, we tell her what Bonny has said. She is resentful: "Yeah, but I don't get enough time with Aimee." 

I leave the interview tired and amazed; there was no trace of Kim/Patricia in either of the two alters. Though I cannot even begin to imagine horrors Kim faced as a child, I am struck that neither the abuse nor its devastating consequences have destroyed this woman's spirit, humour or capacity to love. She may not have 50 heads but there is nothing normal about Kim Noble; she is one terrible, exquisite and beautiful work of art.

Kim Noble will be exhibiting at the Raw Arts Festival in Valencia in October and at the London Art House, Islington, in January. To find out more about her work visit www.kimnoble.com

Mom wins lawsuit against CPS

California Court of Appeal Affirms Mom's $4.9 Million Award Against Social Services Agency

RE: Fogarty-Hardwick v. County of Orange, et al.
Superior Court of California, County of Orange
Case No. 01CC02379 (Trial before Hon. Ronald L. Bauer, Dept. CX103)


In 2007 an Orange County jury returned a $4.9 million verdict in favor of Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick finding that county social workers had lied to the juvenile court in order to cause the removal of Fogarty-Hardwick's young children - 6 and 9 years old at the time. In a unanimous scathing opinion issued Monday, June 14, 2010, Division Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal noted that the evidence presented at trial led both the judge and jury to conclude that "something seriously wrong had been done to Fogarty-Hardwick" and that the conduct of the social workers was not "an isolated incident." The Court of Appeal went on to chastise the County saying "This conclusion is something that should be taken very seriously.
In this case, the jury specifically concluded that Vreeken and Dwojak lied, falsified evidence, and suppressed exculpatory evidence...There was no error in rejecting qualified immunity in this case.


San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 18, 2010

A California Appellate Court found this week against Orange County and its Social Services Agency, and Affirmed what is called a “Substantial” damages award arising from a Civil Rights Verdict obtained in May 2007.

After in depth review of extensive briefs and a complex record, Division Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal for the State of California issues its opinion today affirming an Orange County jury’s verdict awarding Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick approximately $4.9 million against the County of Orange, and two of its social workers.

In its opinion, the Court of Appeal voiced its concerns over what happened to Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick: “Stated plainly, the outcome of this case cannot be dismissed as merely the unfortunate product of a runaway jury. The evidence adduced at trial obviously caused both the jury and the judge to conclude not only that something seriously wrong was done to Fogarty-Hardwick in this case, but also that the wrongful conduct was not an isolated incident. That conclusion is something the County should be taking very seriously.”

The underlying case was filed by Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick against the County of Orange in February 2001. The suit alleged that Orange County, social worker Marcia Vreeken and her supervisor Helen Dwojak violated Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick’s constitutional rights to raise and associate with her children free from governmental interference.

On March 23,2007 an Orange County Jury found against Orange County, social worker Marcia Vreeken, and social worker supervisor Helen Dwojak and awarded monetary damages of $4.9 million. A third social worker, Elaine Wilkins was found not liable.

Lead attorney Shawn A. McMillan states: “Ms. Fogarty is very pleased with the Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold the verdict. This case encompasses extremely important issues for the people of Orange County, and the People of the State of California. Allegations of social worker misconduct of the type proven in this case is "ubiquitous" as admitted in an Amicus Brief filed by the California Association of Counties. Hopefully, the 52 counties that belong to the association will take note of the outcome of this case and promulgate policies to prevent their social workers from engaging in this type of conduct in the future.”

San Diego Lawyer Shawn A. McMillan, of the Law Offices of Shawn A. McMillan, was lead trial counsel in the case and the lead appellate attorney. Attorney Sondra Sutherland was co-counsel at trial and assisted on the appeal.



For additional information, contact:


Shawn A. McMillan, Esq.
The Law Offices of Shawn A. McMillan, A.P.C.
4955 Via Lapiz
San Diego, California 92122


Telephone: (858) 646-0069
Facsimile: (206) 600-4582
Website: www.mcmillan-law.com



http://www.prweb.com/releases/Fogarty-Hardwick/social_services/prweb4157254.htm

This needs to be applied nation-wide, because CPS agents operate in the same identical manner EVERYWHERE. This agency needs to be sued out of existence and the agents tried for their Capital Crimes against American families.

CPS Abuse of Power

The new racism in family court

Posted by: "Jan Smith" sunflowerinthemist2006@yahoo.com sunflowerinthemist2006

Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:40 am (PDT)

There is a new frontier and I say new, because most Caucasians aren't used to
civil rights violations as it pertains to their families. They certainly have
dished it out....consider the tribes and what they went through. In the name of
social reform and religious ideation, the white bureaucrats demolished the
native tribes taking their children, putting them in boarding homes then
"re-educated" their victims. Many never saw or heard from their families again.
As a result of legal litigation long overdue, the tribes have federal protection
- something that drives the power hungry Children's Administration who want no
barriers to child removal crazy.

The Africans faced untold terror as they were removed from their homeland, sold
into slavery, and forced to jump over brooms to get married. Often their
children were sold on the market like cattle and disappeared as frightened small
ghosts. Horrified parents would put the word out trying to find out what
happened on the information chain. Sometimes they found out, sometimes they
didn't. Many children ended up tortured and dead. Currently, they have the
"dis-proportionalit y card" and organized groups of highly educated prominent
individuals who regularly voice descent at the civil rights atrocities occurring
in their defense. Relative placement seems to be a higher priority in the black
community and bio family isn't nit picked and dissected for character defects as
much as some.

Now, it is the Caucasians turn. Not just any Caucasians though, only the poor
ones. The middle and upper classes enjoy the advantage of child removal laws
that somehow remove the risk of most government intervention. Orders are taken
from potential parents wanting to adopt. They want the blond haired blue eyed
little girls and boys and they are getting them. Relatives are regularly kicked
to the curb in favor of stranger placement and told they have no rights.

From the moment an impoverished mother steps into the Doctors office and gets a
positive pregnancy test, the games begin. Drug tests and background history
start the process of collecting evidence for the prosecution. A test for
depression is offered (please don't take it) and the subjectivity of the test
and broad ranging questions hands government intervention opportunities to them
on a silver platter. This is important to states who find themselves struggling
financially because the federal financial entitlements produce a thriving
economy using public funds and dwindling social security dollars for child
removal and adoption.

Doctors have set themselves up as an absolute legal authority. For a parent to
disagree with an offered treatment or service is failure to follow medical
advice and CPS will get called in. Hospitals can place a hold on a child for
pretty much any reason. If one misses an appointment with either a doctor or the
Women's Infants and Children program it may mean being accused of medical
neglect and child removal. The reasons for removal do not have to be imminent
danger - just a power struggle and subjective reasoning.

This puts the poorer Caucasian community in a real dilemma. Faced with more
civil rights violations both in CPS and family courts then one can count, they
find there are no laws that protect white people from subjective and erroneous
government intervention. Caucasians are in unfamiliar territory without a voice
or advocate. Perhaps it was assumed it would never be necessary but things have
evolved.

How do they justify their actions? Its all about obscure arguable reasoning that
in practice doesn't happen most of the time. One argument is children fare
better in a two parent household so they remove from single parents using that
as one of the reasons only to place with a single foster/adopt. Another is
bonding. Once a child is removed, heaven help the parent if the child even
smiles at the foster because that is deemed "bonded" and will get used against
family in a court of law.

The bonding argument is used in virtually every dependency case. They mistake
adaptation for bonding regularly never asking children their preference. As a
matter of fact, it is in writing not to. So, while the children are screaming
for their families, acting out and getting drugged to death, the caseworkers are
in the court room talking about "loving foster families" and "forever homes"
where they state the child is bonded more to the foster than the parents or
extended family. Using flowery words that look nothing like the real picture,
they destroy family after family. Perjury is the number one most protected crime
by the government in family dependency cases and is how the case goes to
termination most of the time.

The white impoverished race is in trouble with nowhere to turn except to the
very people that have been raped by the government for 200 years and know the
ropes. Because the need to change and challenge this status quo requires rapid
intervention to gain back parental and bio family rights, the races should be
working together and are not. Will they help us? They don't have to. I am hoping
that the spiritual will recognize that it is the poor of all races that are
under attack and bind together as a unified force. We can change this horrible
travesty in motion, but we need each other to do it.

Susan Dreyfus To Fire Washington State Liars?

The following article is authored by Washington State Senator Pam Roach and can be located on her blog at: pamroachreport.blogspot.com

Monday, May 24, 2010

SUSAN DREYFUS TO FIRE LIARS?

I believe that anyone lying in a court room to steal a child should be fired for lying to the court. No coddling. You lie then you should be fired. That, by the way, is exactly what DSHS Secretary Susan Dreyfus said she would do to liars in her system......................(seeing is believing).

With the Willard Case I personally sat down with both Sec. Dreyfus and Director Denise Revels-Robinson. In fact, with Denise, her own division director lied to me about the contents of an in home study for the Willards with Denise present. It was shown to be a lie in the meeting!!! Denise turned to the woman and was not too happy. But, what happened after the meeting? Anything?

The Willard Case is coming to an expensive and "fingers-crossed" happy ending. Much damage has been done to the family and little girl. But, things are looking very good.

The department never backed down. They wanted the girl for someone else. In this case as in the Stuth Case, it was a judge who made the difference.

Integrity is something that is quite elusive within the department. I am told there is a letter coming to me regarding the Willard Case and "Lilly." I want to see what has happened to Myron who lied by saying the Willard's stole a computer. I want to see what happened to the person who wrote in the second in home study that Mrs. Willard had breast cancer and that she was on dialysis.

What happens to liars in the system, Susan and Denise? Anything? Because if nothing happens the message clearly being sent is that it is OK to lie to the court and the people of the state. If nothing happens the stealing just continues. I am betting nothing happens. After all...only a few can afford lawyers. Right? The odds are in favor of the state.

Posted by State Senator Pam Roach at 7:46 PM

DSHS Lives Up to Low Expectations

The following article is authored by Washington State Senator Pam Roach from her own blog:  pamroachreport.blogspot.com

Thursday, August 28, 2008


DSHS Lives Up to Low Expectations

I received a call a few days ago from a wonderful young man: former Marine, dual languages, UW grad this summer, and my '08 session intern. I have always been so proud of him and excited for his future. He was going into military intelligence to live the CIA, "I'll take the risk for my country," type of life.

After clearing the significant security checks and while getting ready to pack, he and his wife got the word that there was a reversal. He had been declined. The reason? He married a Russian woman (now a US citizen) and a background check of her relatives still in Russia found someone in a high governmental position.

I used this story today when I was trying to make a point to high ranking DSHS officials and two attorneys from the attorney general's office. There needs to be a "fail safe" point where they admit that they have made a mistake. In this case they have a foster adopt woman who was not vetted, not disqualified, and is now being shielded by state bureaucrats each making more than $100,000 a year for their "work."

"The government must have standards," I said, "especially when lives are concerned."

And, there needs to be "deal breaker" triggers when we place a child in a bad foster adopt home.

YOU BE THE JUDGE. ASSUME ALL OF THE FOLLOWING LISTED TRAITS OF THE FOSTER ADOPT MOTHER ARE TRUE (THEY WERE UNDISPUTED IN THE MEETING) AND YOU DECIDE IF THIS IS WHERE YOU WOULD PLACE A CHILD FOR ADOPTION:

Foster Adopt Single (Divorced) 44 year old Woman...

NO JOB....The law states that you can NOT be a foster parent if you do not have a job. DSHS has refused to even answer the question. Why? Why won't they say she has a job? Because....they know she does not have a job.

Keeps the 3 year old in back-to-back daycare (Childhaven is not open long enough so the little girl is bussed to yet another facility.) The child is picked up by a bus in the morning and 12 hours later is deposited back to the house to eat and sleep.

Tiny girl goes to daycare with "significant black eye" which goes unreported by the foster adopt woman...(she is "mandated by law" to report)

Tells DSHS there is no man in the home...but there is...and...when a process server went to her door a man answered and told the server that she didn't live there (lies?)

Has a current restraining order ('08) out for a former lover with a gun...a man she had while still married

Failure to "parent"...child is educationally impaired...does not know the alphabet nor can she count to 20

Already has an adopted infant from DSHS (Attention Taxpayers...you are paying for all this daycare while she eats Bon Bons)

IS THIS THE PROFILE FOR AN ADOPTIVE PARENT? In Washington State...Yes. It is.

DSHS has no standards for where they place children. They have no conscience when leaving a child in harms way (black eyes and guns). They are completely out of touch with the thinking of "normal" people and they really are not accountable to anyone so make no one accountable to them. The ones at the top do not discipline poor performance of DSHS employees or contracted agencies and pass off decision making to those lower on the totem pole.

Our meeting took place in the downstairs conference room in my senate office building. The #2 people in both DSHS and the attorney general's offices were there. A representative of the governor was there. A couple high level AG and DSHS staffers were there. A couple of senate staffers, a private investigator and I were there.

DSHS refuses to release the study on the black eye. They have had it for a month and say they are still redacting names. Now... Think Mike Meyers and Dr. Evil...."REALLY!?"

Posted by State Senator Pam Roach at 10:13 PM

Accountability for dishonest state agents?

The following article is authored by Washington State Senator Pam Roach. It is from her own blog:  pamroachreport.blogspot.com

Susan Dreyfus To Fire Liars?


I believe that anyone lying in a court room to steal a child should be fired for lying to the court. No coddling. You lie then you should be fired. That, by the way, is exactly what DSHS Secretary Susan Dreyfus said she would do to liars in her system......................(seeing is believing).

With the Willard Case I personally sat down with both Sec. Dreyfus and Director Denise Revels-Robinson. In fact, with Denise, her own division director lied to me about the contents of an in home study for the Willards with Denise present. It was shown to be a lie in the meeting!!! Denise turned to the woman and was not too happy. But, what happened after the meeting? Anything?

The Willard Case is coming to an expensive and "fingers-crossed" happy ending. Much damage has been done to the family and little girl. But, things are looking very good.

The department never backed down. They wanted the girl for someone else. In this case as in the Stuth Case, it was a judge who made the difference.

Integrity is something that is quite elusive within the department. I am told there is a letter coming to me regarding the Willard Case and "Lilly." I want to see what has happened to Myron who lied by saying the Willard's stole a computer. I want to see what happened to the person who wrote in the second in home study that Mrs. Willard had breast cancer and that she was on dialysis.

What happens to liars in the system, Susan and Denise? Anything? Because if nothing happens the message clearly being sent is that it is OK to lie to the court and the people of the state. If nothing happens the stealing just continues. I am betting nothing happens. After all...only a few can afford lawyers. Right? The odds are in favor of the state.

Posted by State Senator Pam Roach at 7:46 PM 0 comments

Former Senator Nancy Schaefer's Death

I wish to tell the world how sad and shocked I am at the news of former Senator Schaefer and her husband's untimely and recent death. I actually feel lost without Nancy Schaefer's presence in this world. She was a very vocal advocate for parents and children trapped in the CPS/family court system. She really cared about the most innocent victims in the CPS trap. She was extremely dedicated to warning people near and far about the dangers of falling prey to the cruelties and illegalities of the corrupt CPS system. She had very little, if anything positive to say about CPS. She wrote a scathing report titled: "The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services" where she rightfully asserts that CPS is a financial empire built upon tearing loving families apart and adopting the children out to people in the 'foster-adopt' industry. As she states in her article, the states receive financial bonuses for every child they successfully adopt out. Mrs. Schaefer said so much more about the corruption within the CPS and family court system in her report. I have posted the link to the report at the end of this post. It is really a shocking unveiling of the true intentions of the so called child welfare system.

Again, I am so saddened by the deaths of Mrs. and Mr. Schaefer. Now there are two less voices advocating against the cruelties and illegal actions of that governmental department. I also hope the mainstream media and major news papers in every part of this nation will at least mention the fact of the former senator and her husband's passing. It is very suspect that they do not get so much as a mention in local media and journalism everywhere in this nation, yet Ted Kennedy's passing was all over the news everywhere for at least several days following. I firmly believe the media is afraid to broach the subject of the Schaefer's passing due to the fact that there are thousands upon thousands of people nationwide who strongly suspect that the government had something to do with it-- namely CPS. Furthermore, the very few small news papers that have mentioned the Schaefer's passing have neglected to even touch on the fact that it is suspected that CPS had something to do with their deaths. They don't even touch on the fact that Mrs. Schaefer stood up to the corruption within CPS and the family court system. The articles ONLY speak of Mrs. Schaefer's views on subjects such as religion, the fact that she was against abortion and gay/lesbian relations, however, nothing about her advocacy for parental rights or that she went up against the wrongdoings within the CPS system. As a matter of fact, she wrote and tried to pass a bill that would have curtailed their illegalities and fraudulent ways. That cost her the senate seat she held at that time. Otherwise known as political suicide. Now she has lost her life. I do not buy the assertion the Mr. and Mrs. Schaefer had a murder-suicide pact, however, want to know if that was indeed what happened. If that is truly the cause of their deaths, I want to have concrete evidence. I suspect rather, that that is just a cover-up story. I also wish to know that no rock had been unturned in the invesigative process that is supposedly being conducted.

Following is a link to many articles by former senator Nancy Schaefer. Read 'em all... however, regarding CPS issues, please pay special attention to the following title within that list:

*UPDATED 9-25-2008 The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services

The following statement was composed by Brenda Alexander, author and creator of http://www.cpsasystemoutofcontrol.blogspot.com/  in response to an article from the following website: http://current.com/news/92346048_senator-nancy-shaefer-and-husband-found-dead.htm


"I do not believe Mrs. Shaefer committed suicide or had a suicide pact with her husband. The FBI and other agencies are going to leave no rock unturned to find out what happened. Is Child Protective Services behind her death? She was very outspoken about their corruption as is Pam Roach. In fact, she committed "POLITICAL" suicide by going up against them. She was a great woman, a true warrior for parents who lost their children and she will be missed. She had 60 cases on her desk that she was working on at the time of her death. Do you really believe that she would take on these cases if she knew she was going to die soon? No. She was an honorable woman and she would never have abandoned her family. This is a tragedy. I hope they find the rat bastards who did this and give them the death sentence...and I am opposed to the death penalty!!!!"

Fostering Files Left in the Street

Sunday, March 28, 2010


Fostering Files Left in the Street

Editor's Note: These people are simply brilliant! This happened in the UK but it could have just as well happened here. Social workers for CPS work there cos no one else wants them. They're incompetency is simply overwhelming.

www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/FOSTERING-FILES-LEFT-STREET/article-1949248-detail/article.html

CONFIDENTIAL information held by social services about children in care has been found on a pavement by a passer-by.

Dozens of sensitive Stoke-on-Trent City Council documents were discovered on a memory stick left in Potteries Way, Hanley, yesterday.

The social services records of foster carers, family court proceedings, parenting assessments, child custody arrangements and the psychological history of youngsters were all included in the files.

The stick was found by IT consultant Gary Fox and reported to The Sentinel before one of our reporters handed it to the council. Now officials have launched an urgent investigation into how the security breach happened.

It is not known whether the social worker had permission to take the memory stick away from the council's offices, or when it went missing.

But the information on the memory stick was not encrypted, which is against the council's own policy.

A council spokesman said: "The safety of children in our care is our priority. We have procedures for ensuring that confidential and sensitive data is kept as secure as possible.

"We will conduct a thorough investigation to determine the circumstances in which the data was lost.

"We thank The Sentinel for returning the data, as situations such as this require immediate attention. The device has been put in a safe place."

Mr Fox, who works in Hanley and lives in Stafford, had picked up the memory stick, which was covered in mud, because a blank one is worth about £10 in a shop.

The 53-year-old said: "I put the memory stick in a computer and realised there were about 40 documents on it.

"I was shocked by the vast amount of confidential information and the fact it wasn't even password protected.

"Public bodies gather information on everyone, but it seems can't be trusted to keep it safe.

"I handed the memory stick to The Sentinel, because people should be aware of how public bodies look after confidential information."

The council will report the breach to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), responsible for regulating the use of personal information.

An ICO spokesman said: "We may serve an enforcement notice if an organisation has failed to comply with any of the data protection principles.

"We have statutory power to impose a financial penalty if there has been a serious breach of data protection."

The security breach has shocked foster carers who rely on such confidential information being kept secure.

Carer Phyllis Hulme, aged 62, of Meir, said: "Everything to do with foster care is meant to be highly confidential.

"We are always told not to mention children's names in meetings or discuss information with anyone. Somebody has slipped up badly here."

Individual councils are responsible for creating their own data protection policies.

Nancy Schaefer on CPS Corruption

Nancy Schaefer on CPS Corruption


Nancy Schaefer speaking out on CPS Corruption on Alex Jones Radio show.










Below are the links to the videos on YouTube...

Part 1 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOx5Q5ekPxk&feature=player_embedded

Part 2 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfWEQEm9GJk&feature=player_embedded

Part 3 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1HnWqy_0yM&feature=player_embedded

Part 4 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg-N9tT6OtY&feature=player_embedded



Feel free to pass along - we need to get the word out!!!!

Senators deem CPS as corrupt

Larry Holland on 'Get Your Justice Live' reports:

Washington Senator Pam Roach and Former Senator Nancy Schaefer: “CPS is Corrupt”


Lary Holland04.29.09Campaigns, Congress, Judicial Oversight, Parental Rights, Political and Advocate Tools, Programs and Resources, educational, Child Protective Services, Child Welfare Laws, CPS, CPS Abuse, CPS Neglect, Eagle Forum, Georgia, Nancy Schaefer, Nancy Schaefer Report, Pam Roach, Pam Roach Report, Senate, Washington13 CommentsWe were joined by two very special guests to discuss Child Protective Services and Parental Rights. Although these two notable figures live great distances apart, their noble goals are remarkably similar. Nancy Schaefer and Pam Roach made special appearances on Get Your Justice Live Wednesday April 29, 2009. A common theme that both leaders agreed on is that “CPS is Corrupt.”

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Nancy Schaefer is president of Eagle Forum of Georgia. She served in the Georgia State Senate for four years. She has been a staunch defender of parents’ rights and will also assume the position of Eagle Forum’s National Chairman of Parents’ Rights. She is president of Family Concerns, Inc. and represented Eagle Forum at the Untied Nations conferences in Beijing, Istanbul, Rome and New York. Nancy Schaefer is well-known for a scathing report titled “The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services” that was originally released on November 16, 2007 and later updated on September 25, 2008. (Download Available)

State Senator Pam Roach continues to serve in the Washington State Senate for 19 years. In the year 2000, Senator Roach and her son Representative Dan Roach became the first mother/son duo to represent the same district at the same time. Throughout her years of service she has represented the U.S. in East Timor for the International Republican Institute; hosted a radio talk show on KIRO in Seattle; and is founder of an NGO in Honduras among other accomplishments. As Judiciary chair she authored landmark bills on juvenile justice and DUI. Senator Roach chaired the Children and Family Services Committee and continues to advocate for children and parental rights. This year Senator Roach chaired a special legislative committee to shine light on the lack of accountability and trampling of parental rights by the Child Protective Services. She continues to demand accountability within Child Protective Services today.



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You can learn more about Eagle Forum by visiting their website at http://www.eagleforum.org and also find additional resources pertaining to the Pam Roach Report at http://pamroachreport.blogspot.com. By referring your own legislators to these resources, organizations, and interviews you can supplement your own voice and positions about the “Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services” and establish a higher burden of proof on the various state programs before they are able to burgeon your family.

No matter which way you look at it, former Georgia Senator Nancy Schaefer as well as Washington State Senator Pam Roach believe that “Parental Rights Should Be Respected and Protected By All” and the great need for Child Protective Services to come under greater scrutiny of the general public.Please take a listen and spread the word.

Beware Child Protective Services

Beware Child Protective Services

www.welfarewarriors.org/mwv_archive/s07/s07_cps.htm 

What Victims, Advocates, and  Mandated Reporters Need to Know

 

The following information is from the Women’s Justice Center . To read the entire document, go to www.justicewomen.com

 

Most mothers say they would rather be threatened with jail than to be threatened with the loss of her child. Such a governmental threat is invasive, terrifying, and awesome. Yet virtually all the decisions as to her fitness, compliance, and fate are decided at the lowest judicial standard of evidence: 51% of the evidence. This is the 'preponderance of the evidence' standard. It is a far cry from the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard. (That is the standard the government must reach before sentencing someone to jail for even the briefest time.) 

 

The level of proof against her that CPS is required to put forth is minimal. It provides the mother little protection against any abusive, prejudiced, or discriminatory exercise of power by CPS. The low evidence burden on CPS also makes it nearly impossible for the mother to defend herself, especially against their vague accusations. 'Failure to protect', or 'she knew or should have known' don't even constitute a crime in the criminal system. Yet on those grounds children are separated from their mothers. 

 

The agency seems to be perpetually marred by a steady drumbeat of nightmare stories about CPS emanating from the very families CPS is supposed to serve. 

 

The Oppressive Swath of Danger and Damage 

 

The harm of the widespread CPS practice of removing children from non-offending parents extends far beyond the dangers and injustices to individual mothers and children. The harm extends to nearly every poor, immigrant, or minority race mother who is trying to deal with family violence. Most have heard stories of CPS removing children from other mothers in their neighborhoods. As a result, they become reluctant to seek help for their own situations for fear that the same thing might happen to them. 

 

Key Facts About Child Protective Services and Child Welfare Agencies 

 

1. In California, and Many Other States, Mandated Reporters Do NOT Have to Report to Child Protective Services. 

 

Many counselors, teachers, doctors are already sympathetic to the problems mothers experience with CPS. But they say there's nothing they can do about it. They believe they must make a report to CPS. But that's not what the law in California and many other states says. Mandated reporters in many states can choose not to report to CPS. The law gives mandated reporters a choice of institutions to which they can report. You can make your report to police, sheriffs, probation departments, or child welfare agencies. In fact, in California and many other states the mandated reporting laws put child welfare agencies last on the list of options. You have other options, and often those other options will be much more beneficial for both the mother and the child. 

 

2. CPS Does Not Have the Power to Open a Criminal Case Against the Perpetrator. Nor Do They Have the Power of Arrest. 

 

CPS agencies are not law enforcement agencies. They are social service agencies. This explains why CPS does not take action against the perpetrators in cases of one parent’s violence. 

 

3. The CPS/juvenile court System Has Only One Significant Power, the Power to Remove Children from their Parents. 

 

CPS does not have law enforcement powers. But, unlike most other social service agencies, CPS does have one awesome power. They have the power to take custody and remove children from the home. The stated purpose of this power is to protect the child from future abuse. The stated purpose is not to punish anyone. But obviously for parents and children who love each other this forced removal can be the worst punishment of all. 

 

4. At best, CPS/juvenile court Decisions are Made on the Lowest Judicial Standard of Evidence, the 'Preponderance of the Evidence' Standard, i.e. 51% of the Evidence. 

 

There is a void of evidence and rigor in the CPS/juvenile court system. That leaves the decision making process wide open to the virtually unchecked influence of mistakes, bias, discrimination, prejudice, vengeance, hearsay, junk science, nonsense, and arbitrariness of all kinds. (The one exception to this is that a final termination of parental rights usually requires a 'clear and convincing' standard of evidence. This is still a much lower standard than the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard of the criminal system.) 

 

Many lawyers themselves are so scornful of the flimsy evidence standard of the CPS system they call it "a crap shoot", or the "anything goes" standard. The problem for the mother goes beyond the fact that CPS doesn't need much evidence against her. It also means that whatever opinion a CPS worker may have of you, the worker can usually support that opinion in court. She can simply fish through the extensive family details the worker has gathered. Then she selects the one or two tidbits that favor the opinion. 

 

5. The Flimsy 'Preponderance of the Evidence' Standard is Bad Enough But things are Actually Much Worse. 

 

Increasingly, the CPS/juvenile court systems are handing off their fact finding and decision making responsibilities to mediators, evaluators, and even to CASA volunteers. All of them operate on NO standard of evidence at all. 

 

There are a number of things that makes the system tend toward abusive responses. One of these is the cardinal truth of any power. Unchecked power always tends towards abuses of that power. And the power of CPS is hugely unchecked. And worse yet, as is discussed later, it is exercised in secret. 

 

A second thing that tends the system toward abusive and prejudicial responses is the class of the mothers themselves. Heaping social prejudices already prevail against them. The mothers who come to the attention of CPS are most often poor, or immigrant, or minority race. The harsh realities and chaos of their lives are generally incomprehensible to people who don't live like them. There is much prejudice, stereotypes, ignorance, and blame against these women floating in society. So the middle class social service system is primed from the start to blame these mothers. Or at the very least, they believe it's the mothers that need to be fixed. 

 

6. Both the Federal and State Welfare Law Governing the CPS/Juvenile court System are Full of Vague, Non-mandatory Language. This Further Promotes the 'Anything Goes' Atmosphere of CPS Proceedings. 

 

In addition, these laws almost always refer to the parents as an undifferentiated single unit, "the parents'. This puts a legal lock on viewing the non-offending parent with as much culpability as the abusive parent. Only recently has the legal language begun to recognize the existence of the 'non-offending parent' as separate or unique from the offending parent. 

 

7. The CPS/Juvenile Court System Operates in Secrecy Off the Public Record. This secrecy fans the flames of the system's other tendencies to abuse. 

 

The CPS/Juvenile Court findings, proceedings, mandates, and actions take place off the public record. This is ostensibly to protect the privacy of the child and family in what is viewed as a private family matter. But who really has been more protected by this secrecy, the CPS system or the families it serves? 

 

Nothing fans the flames of governmental abuse like governmental secrecy. Secret files, secret evidence, secret accusations, secret proceedings are a sure fire formula for allowing abuses to thrive and expand throughout the system. Since its inception, CPS/juvenile court activities have been off the public record with the exception of only a few states. The involved parents are informed. But, to date, neither the public nor any public watchdog has been allowed scrutiny or oversight of the handling of these cases. 

 

Fortunately, it looks like there is the possibility this may change. In 2005, The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges voted approval of presumptively open hearings with discretion of courts to close. This isn't yet law, but it's a big step in that direction. 

 

8. Most all CPS/juvenile court Systems deal ONLY with Intra familial Child Abuse. 

 

There is a schism between the way society deals with child abuse perpetrated by a family member versus child abuse perpetrated by an 'outsider' . This points out a staggering hypocrisy in the rhetoric about treating child abuse seriously. Behind the rhetoric is a child welfare and police system that in reality works hand in hand to let most child abusers walk free. 

 

Many people are very surprised when they call CPS to report a child abuse case perpetrated by a neighbor, a priest, a stranger. CPS tells the caller they don't handle these cases. They only respond to cases in which the perpetrator is a family member. So CPS tells the caller to report to police. 

 

Another thing that may surprise you. If you call police to report a case of child abuse perpetrated by a family member, police will often tell you to report the case to CPS. Police could take the report if they wanted to, and they should take the report. But police themselves are all too often on the same philosophical page as CPS. They too often believe that when fathers 'grow their own victim', the fathers shouldn't be held accountable like other offenders. 

 

And even if police do take a report of sexual abuse perpetrated by a family member, chances are very good, even if convicted, he will get off lightly compared to an outside-the-family perpetrator. California law, like the law in many states, maintains gaping legal loopholes. Prosecutors can, and frequently do, charge intra familial child sex abuse under different codes which allow the family offenders much lighter sentences. What's perhaps most telling is that, at least in California, these legal loopholes for intra familial perpetrators have been widened over recent years, rather than tightened. The more women and children have made demands on the system to stop family violence, the more the system has created ways to look good while paving the perpetrator's escape. The patriarchy with all its bluff and bluster to the contrary, still supports the notion that a man's home is his castle, and that his children are his to do with as he pleases. Unfortunately, CPS, with its hold-no-perpetrators-accountable system, is a vital part of the machinery for perpetuating these archaic and oppressive beliefs.

Marie De Santis
Women's Justice Center
rdjustice@monitor.net ; www.justicewomen.com