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Child Protective Services, CPS, has devastated and destroyed hundreds of thousands of families in America during the last thirty years leaving a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, and shattered childhoods.
Rather than helping families, government agents have used unconstitutional laws in Juvenile Court to rip children away from their loving parents, break asunder God-given, natural, parent-child bonds, and adopt the children of the grieving out to others who profit financially with large monthly adoption subsidy payments.
Child Protective Services must be stopped! The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed. We must work tirelessly to inform the public of this very dangerous travesty of justice. We must keep faith knowing that if there is a God, there is an answer and a way to end this heartache.
Child Protective Services Agents - please come to your senses! Family destruction on false or trivial grounds is wrong, reprehensible, and inhumane.
Fosterers - be aware that for the money you get you are holding much-loved children away from their grieving families while the parents are forced to perform a service plan that is anything but a service to them. I call this hostage holding for the government. This is not kindness - to help misguided government agents destroy family relationships and break loving bonds.
CPS workers and fosterers - I ask that you now give up these unworthy professions and find something more dignified to do with your lives. Let the children of the innocent return to their homes where they are truly valued, adored, and loved by the parents God gave them.
Family rights are God-given rights. And they should not be ignored or postponed. Every moment these loving parents and children spend separated from one another is a torment beyond what anyone should ever have to bear.
It is unworthy of human dignity to allow this terrorism and torture of families to go on without saying something, speaking out, and trying to make a change.
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Sunday, March 07, 1999
Connecticut: FIVE TIMES REPORTED? I'd sue too
DWood writes "DSS should also be charged with harrassment! This is absolutely ridiculous. Much less - never heard of this reported on the television broadcasts. Media black-out of this corruption has to stop. My Lord, after 5 times you would THINK the DSS minions would say 'something is wrong here' and the reports are obviously false as it states that DSS has not taken the children. When will this Gestapo be shutdown?"
Woman sues to learn who accused her of child abuse
March 7, 1997
Web posted at: 11:39 p.m. EST (0439 GMT)
Tens of thousands of phony accusations yearly
No teeth in Connecticut penalty for false reports
From Correspondent Brian Jenkins
BERLIN, Connecticut (CNN) -- Five times over two years, Susan Leventhal's children have had their bodies examined for bruises, their teachers and doctors questioned about signs of abuse, and their bedrooms searched.
Each time, the inspection came because child welfare officials had received calls from people claiming Leventhal abused her children.
"Three times, I was furious. Four times, I told them I was going to sue their agency. The fifth time, I did," she said.
Leventhal believes it's her constitutional right to know who accused her of child abuse.
Officials at the Connecticut Department of Children and Families say at least two people made separate reports, but they know the name of only one woman -- and won't give it to Leventhal. They say there's no reason to think any of the five reports were malicious.
And David Dearborn, a worker at the Department of Children and Families, argues that revealing the names of such callers might deter others from reporting real cases of abuse.
"She will say, 'Well, they weren't true!' And they may not have been true," Dearborn said. "But that doesn't mean the person that made them was not making them in good faith."
Tens of thousands of phony accusations yearly
The few studies conducted indicate that of all the child abuse reports made in the United States, perhaps only 2 percent are deliberately false. But that still translates into tens of thousands of phony accusations every year.
For each family involved, the result can be devastating. A recent made-for-television movie illustrated the nightmare of false accusations. It was based on the case of the Timm family of Cass County, Nebraska, who suspected a woman they knew had made a false and vindictive claim.
"I think the hardest thing was putting the children in the police car, not knowing where they were going and when we would be seeing them again," said father Jeff Timm. It took the Timms a month to get their children back.
Susan Leventhal didn't lose her children, but her son Eddie Garcia says being examined left him "very annoyed, 'cause it's not true. They shouldn't have to do all this."
No teeth in Connecticut penalty for false reports
The Connecticut Legislature set down penalties last fall for filing a false report of child abuse. But the Connecticut law permits people to make anonymous complaints.
To make the statute work, law Professor Paul Chill argues, the Department of Children should require callers to give their names, to be held in confidence unless there's evidence of malicious intent.
"When the agency doesn't even know who's making the report, because the reporter hasn't told them and because the agency hasn't pressed them, as it's required to do, that obviously invites abuse," said Chill, a professor at the University of Connecticut.
Susan Leventhal suspects either personal grudges or racism spawned the calls made about her. Her estranged husband and the father of her three oldest children is Hispanic.
She wants to know for certain, though, whether the callers honestly thought she was abusing her children or just wanted to harass her -- and she hopes the courts will help her.
posted by Linda for FightCPS.Com at 2:34 AM
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