I would like to comment on the article I posted Disgusted with the system: cbs11tv.com – North Texas Man Fighting For Custody Of His Kids and thank the blogger who originally posted it, Louise, whose blog Disgusted With The System, is one of my favorites. Collin County, Texas seems to have a trend in...
Continue readingCollin County Texas – Still taking kids from the innocent..
North Texas Man Fighting For Custody Of His Kids Reporting Stephanie Lucero DALLAS (CBS 11 News) ― A North Texas man has been found not guilty of the aggravated sexual assault of a child. Now, he and his wife are fighting to get their children back. Douglas Buchar was a successful custom homebuilder when...
Continue readingChildren in Foster and Kinship Care at Risk
Children in Foster and Kinship Care at Risk for Inadequate Health Care Coverage and Access Changes in Health Care Financing & Organization — findings brief .pdf file Historically, federal child welfare policy has overlooked the role of kinship caregivers, and, if states provided assistance, it was done through income-assistance programs. Now, children are preferentially channeled...
Continue readingWhat Is CPS Doing To Our Kids?
Children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than they are in their own homes. If foster homes aren’t safer than where the children came from, whats the point of any of it? What is CPS doing to our kids??...
Continue readingFLORIDA Child Protection Agency spokesman faces child-porn charges
Article published Feb 5, 2008 DCF to review personnel records Agency spokesman faces child-porn charges By Bill Cotterell FLORIDA CAPITAL BUREAU POLITICAL EDITOR The head of the Department of Children and Families, “horrified and shocked” by the arrest of his agency spokesman on child-pornography charges, Monday ordered a review of personnel records for all...
Continue readingCheck 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...
Continue readingForgotten 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...
Continue readingHostile? 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....
Continue readingCaseworkers 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...
Continue readingRegister 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...
Continue readingYakimA 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...
Continue readingFoster 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...
Continue readingFailure 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...
Continue readingLaws 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...
Continue readingVote for Its Almost Tuesday and spread awareness
If you haven’t joined our feed yet, please do so by clicking here. And help spread awareness and advertise to others by clicking on the link below at MillionsRSS and voting for Its Almost Tuesday. It only takes a minute, and it’ll help spread the word to others. Thanks for all your support!...
Continue readingThis 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...
Continue readingNew Revisions to CPS Handbook 2007 – Texas
This revision of the Child Protective Services Handbook was published on November 1, 2007. Summaries of new revised items are posted below, followed by the edited versions with significant changes noted in red. Not displayed are minor copy editing and formatting changes. Baby Moses Cases The items listed below are revised to include: ...
Continue readingtranscript 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...
Continue readingChild 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...
Continue readingSurvey: 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...
Continue reading