Category: system failure

  • Check out LawyersandSettlements.com – Article written about my story!

    Abusive Ex-husband Makes Sure Woman Loses Son Its Almost Tuesday – Read Our Story on http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com January 8, 2008. By Julia Browne RSS Del.icio.us Seed Newsvine Facebook Dallas, TX: Mary’s abusive husband, Robbie, vowed to make her pay if she left him. She dared escape domestic violence, but due to additional victimization by Child Protection…

  • Forgotten Children

    My apologies for being stagnant as of late.  Life has been happening, and it hasn’t always been easy.. Anyhow, this article is a few years old but the problems aren’t – they continue today. I hail Comptroller Strayhorn for the work she did in “Forgotten Children” and if you have not read the report and…

  • Hostile? Leave the kids out of it…

    “Brainwashing” is a concept “too narrow” (Gardner, 1989) to capture the psychological manipulation involved in turning a child against his/her non-residential parent.

  • How to Bond With Your (Foster) Child

    Top 10 Five Minute Bonding Activities From Carrie Craft, Your Guide to Adoption / Foster Care. FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! These activities are not for every foster/adoptive parent or every foster/adoptive child. Only do what is comfortable for you and your foster/adopted child. Keep in mind: Child’s Age – Chronological and Emotional Child’s History…

  • Caseworkers changed, destroyed records in starvation case

      Documents: Counties changed, destroyed records in starvation case (AP) Caseworkers from two neighboring counties and a state agency doctored or destroyed records pertaining to a 4-year-old girl whose starved body was found stuffed into a picnic cooler, according to a newspaper’s review of court documents. One caseworker testified in a pretrial deposition that her…

  • Register Your Case Against the Department of Social and Health Services

    A lawsuit has been filed and is seeking class action status against the department alleging violations of constitutional rights. Nine Latina child care workers claim the state came into their homes and seized personal records in search of ‘phantom children’. The lawsuit also alleges discrimination against child care workers on the basis of ethnicity and…

  • YakimA County, Washington: FOSTER ABUSE

    Yakima County, WA Yakima County, WA: (May-26-07) Tim Farris, a Bellingham, WA lawyer and critic of Washington’s foster-care system, has been known to repeatedly file lawsuits against the State Department of Social and Health Services. He filed one more lawsuit against the department recently, on behalf of injured children, accusing the department and social workers…

  • Foster Care Brain Damage — Settlements and Verdicts

    Baltimore, MD: (Dec-13-07) A lawsuit was brought against the state by the mother of a 6-year-old, alleging violation of rights. The suit claimed that Brandon, the severely brain-damaged boy lives in a hospital bed in the front room of his Southwest Baltimore home, being fed through a tube and undergoing daily dialysis because of abuse…

  • Schaefer: Trial by jury needed to remove child

    Sunday, December 2, 2007 Last modified Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:03 AM EST Schaefer: Trial by jury needed to remove child By Tom Law Source: The Toccoa Record State Sen. Nancy Schaefer last week called for an overhaul of the state’s child protection services provided through the Department of Family and Children’s Services (DFCS). Among…

  • Failure to Protect – A look at CPS and the System

    I’ve added a new page, Failure to Protect – Caseworker Files. Go check it out and the source: PBS’s Frontline series about CPS and our families/system. The information and stories are indescribable and full of information everyone needs to know. I’d love your comments on it, and if you’ve been affected by CPS and the…

  • Laws on notification of child abuse/neglect – and false notifications/allegations

    What are the laws on notification of child abuse/neglect? What about falsely accusing someone of child abuse? Child abuse is very serious, and false allegations or allegations made in bad faith ruin not just the target’s life, but the child’s…. Stricter enforcement of policies regarding the false allegations made by so many should be paramount.…

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  • This problem should have been solved long before anyone got hurt

    Sign this petition To: U.S Congress Our Families are under attack! It is time for change. Children’s Protective Services and the Family Court System are out of control. In the Best Interest of the Child has turned into for the Best Interest of the Budget. We call for a full investigation into the corrupt Children’s…

  • transcript of audio visit – CPS ABUSE

    The following visit took place December 2004 at a Texas CPS Children’s Advocacy Center between an 8 year old child and his mother. This child’s case was ruled out for physical abuse at his natural home, but the same cannot be said for his foster home. Nevertheless he had been removed and placed in foster…

  • Child agency touts progress

    Foster kid adoption rate has improved in S.A. region, but much wor Web Posted: 10/03/2007 12:00 AM CDT Nancy Martinez Express-News Child Protective Services has in the past 21/2 years seen a higher turnover among caseworkers, taken on more cases, removed more children that it can place and seen a large gap in the number…

  • Survey: Too many children stuck in temporary foster care

      Overloaded courts, insufficient services part of problem By Susan Shepard   Media Credit: Mark Mulligan Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn tells reporters that action must be taken immediately to reform the Texas foster-care system. On Friday Strayhorn held a press conference to answer questions about her recently released report, “Forgotten Children.” Children are languishing…

  • In Memory: These children died In the government’s care in the name of “safety”

      These children were killed or died AFTER they were taken into CPS’s custody for allegations of abuse/neglect against their caretakers at their natural home . There are two parts of this list that get me the most in a shuddering chills kind of way – First, is how many times i roll the scroll…

  • Child welfare officer jailed (ACCOUNTABILITY!!!!)

    this is what i like to see – this case is a couple years old, but its a good leader to what needs to keep happening – accountability!!! The Pinellas sheriff’s employee lied about checking on children and filed false overtime claims, detectives say. By CHRIS TISCH Published December 10, 2004 Megan Gallagher faces felony…

  • Missing mom may have feared losing son

    The woman’s husband says she was afraid the state would take away their newborn like they did with their other kids. By CURTIS KRUEGER Published April 24, 2006 Gregory Pound sat in the Pinellas County Jail for a month for failing to reveal where his wife and baby son had gone, even though he insists…

  • How Does A CPS Case Work? When to report?

    The Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare (“Bureau”), a division of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Fam- ily Services (“Department”), provides child abuse preven- tion and related services in Milwaukee County. The Bu- reau receives reports of child maltreatment at its intake office. When an intake screener receives a call, he drafts an intake form…

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