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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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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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Friday, December 12, 2003

Arkansas News Bureau - Court of Appeals hears custody case

Thursday, Dec 11, 2003

By Rob Moritz
Arkansas News Bureau

LITTLE ROCK - Frank Oscar Todd and Debra Nelson, both of Benton County, should retain custody of their child, despite his facing a capital-murder charge in the death of her 5-month-old grandson, their attorneys told the state Court of Appeals on Wednesday.

Todd is being held without bond in the Benton County jail. His trial is expected to occur in June, said his court-appointed public defender, Lora Noschese, after Wednesday's oral arguments.

She told the judges her client has only been charged and no charges have been filed alleging abuse against his own son, now 4-years-old.

'There's no evidence that they should find grounds to terminate' parental rights, Noschese said.

Nelson's attorney, DeeNita Moak of Little Rock, argued she has cooperated fully with the state Department of Human Services since the death of her grandson and she has not been charged in connection with the death.

'She did everything DHS asked her to do in this case,' Moak said after oral arguments. 'She did not try to defend (Todd) and she left him immediately.'

DHS attorney Gray Turner argued that the circuit court judge who heard the custody issue said he thought Nelson either knew, or should have known, that the baby was in danger.

Turner also said some evidence found at the scene indicated that child abuse may have occurred previously in the home.

Nelson and Todd had a son, Jacob, in 1999.

In January 2002, Nelson was living in Pea Ridge with their young son. She also was taking care of her two grandchildren, a 1-year-old girl and 5-month-old boy named Noah, while her daughter was in Texas, according to police and court documents.

On Jan. 12, Nelson went to a hospital to visit a friend and left Todd, who at that time was living in Garfield, to baby-sit the three young children.

Less than 25 minutes later, Todd called 911 to report that the 5-month-old was unresponsive.

The infant was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Rogers and then transferred to Arkansas Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Doctors have said in affidavits that the child had multiple skull fractures and other severe injuries commonly associated with physical abuse.

Todd was charged with capital murder in connection with the boy's death and ordered held without bond.

The following day, Nelson's 1-year-old granddaughter and her son were removed from her home. The granddaughter was placed in the custody of her paternal grandparents in Texas. Her son was placed in a foster home.

Ten months later, DHS moved to terminate Nelson and Todd's custody of their child.

Circuit Court Judge Jay Finch later upheld the request to terminate their parental rights.

The boy's foster parents are now considering adopting the child, Moak said.

The court is likely to rule on the custody issue by early next year.

What's a parent to do? She's not accused of any crime. She cooperated with child protective services plans for her life, expected reunification, and now they want to pull the rug out from under this family because a fosterer wants to adopt. Our legislators need to put an end to this suffering. Children belong with the parents God gave them, and in a case like this where the child wasn't being abused and a non-abusive parent is available to take care of him, he should be sent home as quickly as humanly possible.

posted by Linda for FightCPS.Com at 9:25 PM

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