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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Senator Nancy Schaefer's update Sept 2008 on "The Corrupt Business of Child Protection Services"

LETTER FROM SENATOR NANCY SCHAEFER
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Updated: September 25, 2008


THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES


BY: Nancy Schaefer

Senator, 50th District


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 have 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 Manuel" 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


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

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

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

Grant to parents their rights verbally and in writing.

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

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.
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.")
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


Note from Kathleen Dearinger to Senator Schaefer:

You are a true inspiration to many and I consider you to be my friend. Thank you for being there for me and for everything you have done to help families throughout the United States. You truly are a Mother Theresa to all of us. God Bless you and all the families and children who are fighting for justice

Monday, December 29, 2008

Governor's memo authorization collection of children

READ THIS MEMO FROM THE GOVERNOR. HE STATES THAT 68% OF THE PRISION POPULATION ARE DROPOUTS YET MISSES THE FACT THAT 70% ARE FORMER FOSTER KIDS. LOOKS LIKE AB219 IS PART OF THE PROBLEM IN CALIFORNIA & THE REASON THE SCHOOLS ARE IN COLUSION WITH THE POLICE & MANY OTHERS. BINGO. THIS EXPLAINS WHY MY DAUGHTERS SCHOOL DROPPED OFF HER SCHOOL RECORDS AT THE ATASCADERO POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE WIC LAW STATES THAT CPS CANNOT TAKE A CHILD BECAUSE THEY ARE DITCHING SCHOOL. A CHILD IS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE REMOEVED IF THEY ARE IN IMMINENT DANGER FROM SERIOUS BODILY HARM. DITCHING SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY HAVE A BOYFRIEND AND BEING A TYPICAL TEENAGER IS NOT ABUSE. CPS HAS THE SAFE FAMILIES ACT WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO FAMILIES YET THEY RARELY DO. CHILDREN ARE DYING IN FOSTER CARE YET OUR GOVERNMENT IS INCREASING FEDERAL GRANT FUNDS WHICH IS INCREASING THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO ARE IN FOSTER CARE. THESE KIDS ARE BEING TRAUMATIZED AND MANY ARE DYING BECAUSE OF A CORRUPT SYSTEM.

Fcik Gov Letter Ab219

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Title IV Fraud - income guidelines to qualify for funds

CLICK ON THE TITLE FOR TITLE IV FLOW CHART FEDERAL FUNDING

In order for CPS to qualify for TITLE IV funding the parents must fall within the income guidelines. CPS never questioned me about my income. They knew I owned a business and real estate. Maybe this is why they are trying to make me loose my house....interesting. I wonder if it has something to do with the new program they offer foster parents. They are offering houses to people who become foster parents. The CORRUPT-O METER is working overtime.

DHS worker emails - shhhhhh this is how they kidnap kids

TAKE A LOOK AT THE FORM LETTER THEY GIVE TO HOSPITALS TO TAKE NEWBORNS. SCROLL DOWN. More departmental emails are uploaded online. Soon to be released!!! Social Worker Memos

Board of Supervisors - pecking order

Saturday, December 6, 2008

CPS pimped out my daughter at taxpayers expense

Just as I thought...It must be my "CPS corrupt-o sniffer" working overtime again. My detective senses told me the new "job" my daughter began over the summer working for daycare center "Tender Years" was no average job.

It seems that this job in Ankeny Iowa was procured just in time so it would distract my daughter from attending her own hearing in California. I became concerned when Jenny told me she was forced to work at Tender Years. She said she had to stay there until her Dad returned home from work; sometimes working for 12 hours. In court the Social worker claimed that Jenny found this job.... but I was already a step ahead. I seriously doubted that my daughter would be able to locate a job without a telephone or arrange funding to be paid to a daycare center that is licensed by Social Services... so I had called the daycare center myself. I spoke to the Owner. She confirmed my suspicions and stated she was recieving money from the state for my daughter working there. BINGO. CPS commits perjury AGAIN!!

The question remains - which state paid this daycare center and under what program were they paid? Was it CALWORKS or did CPS work out an arrangement with CPS in Iowa? My daughter wasn't a legal resident of Iowa and nor did my ex-husband have legal custody. Jenny was on a "visit" so how was CPS able to pull this one off??

Looks like CPS defrauds our Government and uses taxpayer money to do it. County counsel was a bit worried when I mentioned it so they forced Jenny to lie on the stand. I wonder what they have to hide????? Maybe we should call Social Services and both State licensing boards.

Here's the daycare center:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=tender+years+daycare+center+ankeny&fb=1&view=text&latlng=3143508117599737565

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Grand Jury in SLO refuses to hear testimony - Father's Rights Activist suspected in tampering with case

Well here's the sad facts: The Grand Jury in San Luis Obispo has now refused to hear our testimony !!! CPS gets off from committing fraud - AGAIN.

We originally had a hearing scheduled for Oct 20, 2008. They agreed to let me testify by telephone since I do not want to return to California due to Police harassment. The Jury admonished me to secrecy, which I fully complied with. During my conversation with a Grand Juror I was asked to put them in touch with a certain person who is covering CPS cases throughout the US. I won't mention this persons name encase the Jury decides to change their mind, however, the confident is a father's rights activist who is not personally involved with my case.

Almost immediately after having contact with this individual the Grand Jury called back stating they needed additional time. My contact told me they were gathering evidence on other cases to determine whether a full investigation was warranted. I was told to gather other cases similiar to my own which involved the same individuals so this information could be presented. I contacted other families and obtained their statements and sent a link to my website which had tape recordings and text messages my daughter had sent me. Included was her message to the Grand Jury. This contact did not accept the link which invited them to my online account that held the evidence. This information was supposed to be given to the Grand Jury because I did not want my location to be disclosed until my case was resolved for fear of retalliation.

Suddenly now the Grand Jury tells me they are not going to hear my case. They told me not call back ..........so how is that for justice????


NO REASON WAS GIVEN FOR CANCELLING OUR HEARING !!

When I confronted this contact the phone suddenly went dead ......

Could it be that a Father's Right Activist actually destroyed my daughter's testimony and chances of returning home ???

It seems that once again CPS escapes justice. I'm beginning to think there isn't anyone who cares about children in this "Child Protection Racket". All of the evidence has been ignored and the Grand Jury has yet to review the evidence, tapes and text messages my daughter wrote to me.
I wonder just who is profitting off my child. One has to wonder just how deep this corruption runs.....

My daughter calls The Grand Jury "DARTH VADER". She tells me no one cares.

Stay tuned because this Mother ain't givin up that easy...........

MORE LOCAL NEWS:

Next door (Santa Barbara) is being investigated