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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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.
Site mission: To provide information and support for families attacked by Child Protective Services and child welfare agents, especially those families facing false or trivial accusations of child abuse or neglect; and for researchers working to protect natural family rights.
"Being a family rights advocate is no fun. There is no money in it, because everybody we advocate for are poor, or they have already been reduced to poverty by trying to prove their innocence to CPS.
We are surrounded by systemites, people who disbelieve the government would be deliberately destroying families."
I like the way Henderson gives new meaning to a word I thought I coined (systemites). I always used it to refer to people employed in the system. He expands that to include average Americans who think the system is flawless.
Anyhow, its a good article - about Cheryl Barnes who's unfortunately been jailed. The gestapo agents in Missouri also took her computer on which, I've heard, was the only backup of her website, http://www.cpswatch.com - which is as of now, down again. Of course, having the computer would make it easy for the gestapo to use her password and ftp-client to delete the site.
How immoral some of our government agents are. I'm sure we're now living in a communist society that's still trying to get rid of the last vestiges of free speech and other troublesome Constitutional Rights. Where will it all end? I vote Libertarian and hope it will catch on. The so-called "Party of Principle" seems to be the only one that hasn't been taken over by communist ideologies. (I will make a few exceptions by voting for legislators and candidates of other parties that show an interest in ending CPS tyranny in the USA.)
Anyhow, I'm making a backup of Fight CPS And Win and putting it in a few safe places out there on the web somewhere. I'm a law abiding citizen - I don't even drive over the speed limit. I don't use drugs and rarely touch alcohol. I don't know what the gestapo could cook up to use against me, but you never know.
My honest opinion... Cheryl's a sitting duck for CPS attention no matter what she's doing in advocacy, or if she's not doing it. She was safer when married but now trying to be a single mom with ten sons under age 18, she's bound to get the wrong kind of attention. Interesting that both the accusations against her came right after she made a long-distance move from state to state.
Anyhow, my sympathy goes to Cheryl and the kids. I hope they recover from the assault. And as for CPS Watch - my instincts tell me that even though its nice to keep a site online and backed up, it isn't the end of the world if we have to start over. The site can make a come-back easily even if its been totally deleted. It takes me all of about a week to build a site and get it set up online. No biggie.
Another dead baby due to child "protective" services stupidity:
3 sentenced in boy's death
Latricia Bars, 49, was sentenced to 13 years in prison, and her husband, L.B. Bars, 54, was sentenced to eight years for child abuse that led to the death of Anthony Bars, 4, a distant relative who was put in their care. Their daughter, Hope Bars, 25, received 80 days but will go on probation because of time served.
By Terry Horne
December 18, 2003
A Marion County judge sentenced an Indianapolis couple to prison Wednesday for child abuse that led to the death of a 4-year-old boy, but Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi says the case isn't over.
"I'm not done with this," Brizzi said vehemently. "I want to know who knew what and when."
The prosecutor announced his investigation of the child welfare system's placement of Anthony Bars minutes after Marion Superior Court Judge Cale Bradford sentenced Latricia Bars, 49, to 13 years in prison and her husband, L.B. Bars, 54, to eight years.
Bradford also sentenced their daughter, Hope Bars, 25, to 80 days in jail for battery. The sentence allowed her to leave the courtroom on probation because she had already served half of the sentence, the normal time served under good-behavior credits.
The couple, distant relatives of Anthony's, were convicted of neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury. Evidence gathered by investigators showed the Barses had starved and beaten Anthony and his twin sister. To protect her privacy, The Indianapolis Star is not publishing her name.
When the little girl was removed from the Barses' home, she had about 100 scars and bruises, some from being whipped with an electrical cord folded in two. An autopsy revealed that Anthony weighed just 24 pounds at the time of his death and had numerous scars and bruises, some from being picked up by the neck.
"There are some cases that still shock," Brizzi told Bradford.
An unanswered question is why child welfare workers with the state Division of Family and Children suddenly removed the twins when they were 15 months old from a foster family and placed them with the Barses.
State procedures require caseworkers to conduct a criminal history check, which should have revealed that L.B. Bars was convicted in the late 1980s of battering his oldest daughter with an extension cord. He also was convicted in 1995 on a theft charge, according to court records.
Brizzi said he does know why the Barses wanted to adopt the twins.
"They did it for the money," he told Bradford.
The Barses collected $17 a day in welfare payments for each twin -- slightly more than $1,000 a month, he said.
"What we need to know is if a criminal background check was done. And if a criminal background check was done, why did they miss the conviction for battery? And if it wasn't done, that's a problem," Brizzi said afterward.
Scott MacGregor, a spokesman for the state welfare administration, said Division of Family and Children Director Steve DeMougin is reviewing the actions of the caseworker who made the assignment.
MacGregor also said the welfare administration would cooperate with Brizzi's investigation, including turning over any requested files.
"We certainly have every interest in people being held accountable for their actions," he said "By and large, our caseworkers do their jobs and do them well."
Brizzi said he also wants to know, however, why the placement was apparently done in such a hurried fashion.
During Wednesday's sentencing hearing, Florence Hurst tearfully recalled how the twins were abruptly removed from her home.
"It wasn't fair that I found out on a Monday that I only had until Friday to say goodbye to the two babies that I raised from 3 days old," she said, reading a prepared statement.
The twins were "crack babies," born with their mother's cocaine addiction, but they had become happy toddlers. "Anthony was always looking for a lap to crawl into," she said.
Anthony's sister was reunited with Hurst after her brother's death on Jan. 17, 2002. She "still wants to feed him at dinner and take him places when we leave," Hurst recalled. "Then there are times that she will just sit and not say anything for hours."
During Wednesday's sentencing hearing, friends and Bars family members came to the witness stand and described the Barses as devout Christians. L.B. Bars was an elder in his church and led Thursday evening services; Latricia Bars helped teach Bible classes.
"I have never seen anything contrary to the word of God coming from her," said Dannella Allen, a fellow church member who said she had known the Barses for seven years.
The judge interrupted her. "Well, if they came here today to pick up a parenting of the year award, they came to the wrong place," he said.
One of the Barses was openly apologetic. "I wish I could take it back, but I can't," Hope Bars said.
Defense attorney Marie Kern said L.B. Bars was equally remorseful. "He deferred to his wife on everything that went on," she said. "He terribly regrets not having become more involved."
Latricia Bars remained defiant, however. She insisted that photographs of the twins had been made to look horrific and that witnesses had lied. "If I'm guilty of anything, it's because I had always wanted to have twins," said Bars, the mother of 11 children. "The things that we have been accused of were not true."
When Brizzi's turn came, he scolded her. "You, ma'am, are not the victim."
Latricia Bars' father, Harold Bell, said afterward that his daughter had kept him away from her trial and didn't want him to know about the accusations against her. "I'm deeply saddened. I'm depressed," he said.
Bell said he had raised his children as his parents had raised him, using a belt and a switch sometimes. Latricia Bars was one of about 15 children, he said.
He said some wrong may have occurred, but she was still his daughter. "This is hard for any father."
Brizzi said he probably will ask grand jury investigators, who already are probing the state welfare department on other issues, to investigate the twins' placement.
"We're going to go where the evidence takes us. We're going to start with the caseworker and follow that trail," he said. "The system failed those kids."
" The state and its employees can be sued when social workers act with 'deliberate indifference' in placing a foster child into a dangerous situation, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday."
...but I thought that was true in all states. I guess the AZ-CPS people tried to get out of being sued and were told by their Supreme Court that they're wrong about that.
Here's one more good reason to get out of the social welfare profession NOW. I mean, is it really worth it to you to stake your personal financial security for years to come on a system that you know very well puts children at risk? We all know children are eight to ten times more at risk of abuse in state custody. We've got plenty of evidence of that!
So if you don't want to be sued, don't put kids in dangerous foster situations, right? Best way to prevent that is to GET OUT OF SOCIAL WORK NOW and find a more honorable profession!
I researched this issue a few years ago and posted my findings to alt.support.child-protective-services:
Children killed in fosterincarceration - statistical data
> According to the the statistics on the Administration for
> Children and Families (ACF) website, "Child Maltreatment 2000" (2000 is the
> most recent year for which statistics are available)...
>
> They claim that about 1200 children were killed in the USA that year. 32 of
> those were killed in fosterincarceration.
>
> Total population of children - 72,293,812
> Children in fosterincarceration - 545,097
> Children not in fosterincarceration - 71,748,715
>
> 32 children killed in fosterincarceration - .0058705% of 545,097
> 1168 children killed at home - .0016279% of 71,748,715
>
> According to the government's own statistics it appears that children are
> 3.6 times more likely to be killed in state custody!
>
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/cm00/chapterfive.htm#child
CBS does it again. They are stuck on this Home for the Holiday special program that I've been protesting for three years now. It doesn't make me feel good to see a family raising children that aren't theirs when I know how many parents out there had their children taken from them on false or trivial charges. Adopters who take children from the child welfare system seem like kidnappers to me.
CBS seems to like that kind of stuff. Remember, a few months ago they were trying to convince the nation that all homeschooling parents are potential child abusers in desperate need of government busy-body supervision. I suspect that CBS is owned by communists.
The High Court at Hamilton sentenced Michael Waterhouse to 10 years jail, with a six-year non-parole period, for the manslaughter of the three-year-old at a Huntly foster home in April last year.
Bad bookkeeping: Crofford on foster children report
REGINA - The Opposition is calling on the government to do more to protect children in its care after the Children's Advocate, the provincial auditor and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations raised concerns about the situation.
Investigations have found that even though social workers had good rules in place for handling foster children, those rules were often ignored.
The province's auditor found that in seven of 16 cases he reviewed, criminal record checks were not recorded for prospective foster parents. Fred Wendel also found that in one case an extensive criminal record was discovered, but was not considered in the evaluation of the foster home.
Joanne Crofford, the Minister of Community Resources, says she believes that proper checks are being done, but that they are not being recorded. She also admits that even if that is the case, improvements are needed.
Opposition critic Brenda Bakken says that blaming bookkeeping isn't good enough.
"Children are put in care. They're taken out of a vulnerable situation and are supposed to be put in a situation which is better for them," Bakken said. "They're supposed to be ensured that they have security of being well looked after, and if criminal record checks are not even happening, I think it's very alarming that these children are being put in maybe a worse situations and certainly in situations that are not safe."
Crofford says she has ordered her department to review the situation and make sure that criminal records checks are done before children are placed in foster homes.
Abused foster children removed
By Steven Wardill and Rosemary Odgers
December 16, 2003
TWENTY children have been urgently removed from seven Queensland foster homes amid concerns they were being sexually and physically abused.
A damning audit of the state's foster care system has unearthed almost 100 cases where foster children were left at risk of harm because Families Department officers failed to adequately investigate abuse allegations.
The six-month audit, sparked by a series of reports in The Courier-Mail about abuse of children in foster care, found systemic problems within the department caused by massive under-resourcing and a lack of properly trained staff.
Headed by child protection expert Gwenn Murray, the audit team reviewed 1060 child protection notifications against active foster carers dating back to 1996 and found only 15 per cent had been thoroughly investigated.
Nearly 30 cases from nine regions required immediate review leading to the removal of 20 children from their carers.
"In some cases there was evidence of harm occurring over a number of years with little or no departmental action," Ms Murray said.
She said the department was itself becoming "like a neglected child".
The audit team found cases where officers ignored emotional abuse as well as excessive physical punishment that should have been referred to police.
The abuse included cases where children had their faces rubbed in urine-soaked sheets, were forced to eat chillies as a punishment for swearing and made to eat home-made sandwiches when taken to a restaurant.
In one incident, a 13-year-old girl was impregnated by a carer while a sexually abused boy later went on to abuse a three-year-old girl.
Ms Murray made more than 90 wide-ranging recommendations to ensure children were better protected and any future abuse allegations quickly investigated.
Premier Peter Beattie and Families Minister Judy Spence immediately vowed to adopt a recommendation to appoint an independent committee to address the report's findings.
But the Opposition and child protection advocates said the Government had clearly failed children in care and repeated their calls for a royal commission into the entire department.
"siskiyou co. sells children for profit.cps workers allow there husbans to rape hurt children and do nothing about it..they must have a get out of jail card.."
He's a father whose children were taken by TPR in Siskiyou County, California. He's referring to the case of Kathy Burkleo, a Siskiyou County CPS supervisor whose husband was accused last December of sexually abusing their fost-adopt daughter:
Burkleo is the third person within the recent past charged with sexually molesting a child placed in a Siskiyou County home for foster care. In 2001, Harry Bruce pleaded guilty to annoying or molesting a child in foster care in his home and Richard Wood is currently serving a prison sentence for molesting two McCloud girls initially placed in his home in foster care.
I've got my doubts as to whether Harry Bruce or Richard Wood were really guilty. Harry Bruce is a free man who agreed to a plea-bargain so he could get out of jail. He claims to be innocent. Richard Wood was a former 'foster father of the year' who was sentenced to prison. The newspaper reported that his last words to his wife before they took him away were to say that God knows he's innocent. Read about the Wood conviction here.
I've felt this county is prosecuting too much for sex abuse. We've got less than 50,000 people here but we hear about new sex abuse cases being prosecuted here all the time. I've even had a CPS caseworker come to my door and accuse my husband of sex abuse out of the blue with no evidence (this was a couple of years ago). Fortunately my daughter was standing on the porch at the time and told him nothing of that kind ever happened in our home. I believe the motivation for that was harassment because of my Fight CPS And Win website. On that occasion he brought with him an ex-CPS worker who lives in our town, putting me on display as an anti-CPS activist and breaking our confidentiality.
The criminal complaint lists as corroborating evidence verbal admissions by Burkleo that the events occurred to his wife and admissions in a letter to the alleged victim which was delivered by Burkleo's wife. The complaint also mentions another letter from Burkleo's wife to the victim describing him as a "situational offender" and not a "pedophile."
The alleged victim is also reported to have told friends and a pastor at a Grenada church about what was going on in the home, but no report was ever made to law enforcement by any of those people. It was not until just recently that the victim made her first report to law enforcement.
Burkleo is retired from Siskiyou County as a probation officer and his wife, Kathy Burkleo, is a supervisor with Child Protective Services. County officials said this week that Kathy Burkleo was an employee of Child Protective Services when these events are alleged to have occurred and has been placed on administration leave.
Actually, he didn't have a get-out-of jail card even though he was retired from the probation department and his wife is a supervisor working for CPS. He was released because of a new Supreme Court decision:
Burkleo was arrested in December 2002 on charges of continuous sexual abuse of his adopted daughter between 1980 and 1984 when she was under 14 years old. The victim is now 29 and only reported the alleged crime to law enforcement weeks before Burkleo's arrest. To corroborate her claims, the criminal complaint against Burkleo detailed admissions Burkleo had made to the victim, both orally and in writing, that confirmed her claims, according to authorities.
...audits revealed taxpayer funds were used to pay off Las Vegas gambling debts and call psychic hot lines, and to pay for jewelry, parties, lottery tickets, alcohol, vacations, antiques, artwork and even a cremation.
"They have abused both children and taxpayers,' said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. "Particularly in these tough economic times, the fact that money is being misspent this way is absolutely appalling. Local governments are screaming for more revenues, yet they are grossly misspending these funds, frittering away this money without any accountability at all.'
That's right - your taxpayer dollars at work being misused in the fosterincarceration industry.
Some of the executives of the private foster- care agencies that oversee the children receive up to $310,000 a year in salaries and benefits, enjoy extravagant lifestyles and drive luxury cars provided to them at public expense, the county audits reveal.
Some directors of foster-family agencies and group homes drive around in head-turning vehicles Jaguars, a Land Rover, a Cadillac Escalade SUV, Mercedes and Lexus provided to them at public expense, audits reveal.
These are probably the same people asking for donations for foster children, for volunteers, for Christmas presents, teddy bears - whatever else they can get while trying to make the public think they are so cash-strapped the poor fosterincarcerated kids can't get anything they need.
"I think it suggests Los Angeles County is a national scandal,' said Richard Wexler, an author, former university professor and executive director of the National Coalition For Child Protection Reform in Alexandria, Va. "There are lots of troubled foster- care systems in the United States. But Los Angeles County is always on people's lists.'
Absolutely - this is not just an LA problem - the problem exists all over the USA, because the underlying federal legislation is bad, bad, bad, and needs to be repealed.
LEGISLATORS NEED TO QUIT BELIEVING THAT CHILD WELFARE NEEDS MORE MONEY. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! THE MORE MONEY THEY GET, THE MORE TRIVIAL EXCUSES THEY'LL USE TO PICK UP AND EXPLOIT CHILDREN THAT AREN'T REALLY BEING ABUSED AND NEGLECTED.
Department of Children and Family Services Director David Sanders, who earns $175,000 a year and is among the nation's highest-paid public child- welfare agency directors, said taxpayer dollars should be spent ensuring the safety of children.
That's right so he needs a radical cut in pay.
"When we have that kind of credibility issue, it's little wonder people can raise questions about our ability to get the work done,' said Sanders, who took over the department in March. Since 1985, the four previous DCFS directors have resigned under pressure from top county officials.
They always use the directors as fall-guys instead of ending the child welfare system nightmare that doesn't work and is a waste of taxpayer money.
"I think it's clear that foster care has become an industry in some parts of Los Angeles County,' said child advocate Nancy Daly Riordan, founder of United Friends of Children and wife of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. "There is definitely a financial incentive to keep kids in foster homes way beyond what is necessary.'
The California Family Rights Association (CAFRA) website has been updated and includes a new media release with a cover letter to Governor Schwarzenegger and photos from the December 6, 2003 "Protest for CPS & Judicial Reform" at the Juvenile Court Centennial Celebration in Hollywood. (See News section at http://www.cafra.us.) Please get a copy and send it to as many media reps nationwide as you can. This contains a lot of good information that can be used to inform the media and legislators from coast to coast.
Our next demonstrations are planned for Valentine's Day, February 14, 2004. The name we've chosen is "The North and South State of Emergency March for Human Rights". Marches will take place in Sacramento and Los Angeles on that date. We need your support and the support of like-minded organizations and all AFRA members. Please join us at one of these sites if you can.
Updated information on the demonstrations will be posted to the CAFRA website and to my site, Fight CPS And Win.
Some say, "As California goes so goes the nation." We've already had major break-throughs with the Los Angeles Daily News investigation and series of articles by Troy Anderson, and Judge Nash's decision to review the cases of thousands of Southern California foster children in hopes many of them can be sent home.
Flawed policy, poor laws and human error all contribute to problems in the state's foster care and adoption system.
These five cases - all from 2003 - provide examples of how the system can fail in a variety of ways. They also demonstrate the foster care system's dependence on organizations both inside and outside of state government.
Northville
A 41-year-old Northville man lived with his two adopted children despite a plea agreement that was supposed to stop him from having unsupervised contact with any child. The registered sex offender was convicted of violating probation, and also was charged with new counts of sexual assault involving an adopted son, in September. A judge's written order had failed to mention the plea agreement that forbade contact with any child, and a probation officer also admitted to failing to enforce the deal.
Monroe County
Monroe County's branch of the Family Independence Agency was held in contempt of court for failing to stop two teens from having sex in a foster home. A 14-year-old girl who had been sexually abused by her father was placed in a foster home, where she had consensual sex with a 15-year-old boy. A Monroe County judge criticized FIA for not informing the court about what happened, and for failing to protect the teens from their own poor judgment. FIA demoted or transferred workers involved in the case.
Detroit
Wayne County Prosecutor Mike Duggan filed neglect charges in May against social workers and doctors in the unrelated beating deaths of two 4-year-old Detroit boys. A foster mother who was set to adopt two boys was charged with using her fist and a hair brush to beat one of them to death in March. A man was charged with beating his foster son to death in April after the boy had soiled himself. The charges against social workers and health care workers were for failure to report child abuse or neglect that likely occurred before the deaths. The charges were designed to shake the system out of apathy, although critics said they would scare off potential employees.
South Lyon
Three South Lyon foster children stayed in the same house as a teenage sex offender for two years. It was allowed by a loophole in the law that will be closed in January with new Family Independence Agency regulations. Under the former policy, kids could wind up staying with juvenile sex offenders because only adult offenders were prohibited. The new policy will include sexual predators of all ages, including those under 18.
DeWitt
Tamera and Chadd Smith's adoption of two children was approved by a Clinton County judge in March, based on a recommendation by the Michigan Children's Institute, a division of the FIA that acts as a legal guardian for state wards. But an Oakland County judge overturned the FIA recommendation in April, and awarded the children to a Farmington Hills couple who are distantly related to the girls. The girls are daughters of Jennifer Holey, who is jailed on a sexual assault charge and had her parental rights terminated. Lawmakers are studying options to revamp adoption law, including a proposal that would require a single judge to consider all petitions for adoption involving the same child.
Most Urgent Need For 8,000 Teens Close To Being Released From System
December 10, 2003
LOS ANGELES -- A judge wants an unprecedented review of the cases of half of the 30,000 children in Los Angeles County foster homes to determine if they could be safely returned to their own families or relatives, it was reported Wednesday.
Juvenile Court presiding Judge Michael Nash, responding to a weekend article in the Los Angeles Daily News, said Tuesday the most urgent need is for judges, attorneys and social workers to review the cases of about 8,000 foster children -- mostly teenagers -- who have been in foster care for years and are about to turn 18, after which they will be released from the system.
'We need to closely review each of these cases as they come up and determine what is the most appropriate long-range plan for these kids,' Nash said in remarks reported by the Daily News.
'For many of those kids, it will require us to go back and look at their family situations. Are there responsible adults they can rely upon once they leave the system?' Nash said.
The Daily News reported Sunday that up to half of the 75,000 children in the system and adoptive homes were needlessly placed in a system that is often more dangerous than their own homes because the county receives $30,000 to $150,000 in state and federal revenues for each placement.
The $1.4 billion Department of Children and Family Services budget currently pays to support a total of 75,000 children, but Nash pointed out that the number of children in foster homes has dropped from 52,000 in 1998 to 30,000 now, according to the Daily News. He said about half of those children are placed with relatives.
Andrew Bridges, managing director of child welfare reform programs at the private Broad Foundation, told the Daily News that since the mid-1990s, the county's child welfare system has been based on an aggressive policy of detaining children because of the financial incentives.
In the UK there's progress in exposing the junk psychology 'diagnosis' of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy... used to destroy thousands of families here in the USA as well.
"Last week, when Angela Cannings stood on the steps of the High Court, a free woman after serving four years of a life sentence when she was wrongly convicted of killing two of her babies, Donna Anthony was given fresh hope that her own appeal will prove her innocence. Mrs Cannings' conviction, like Donna's, had rested upon the same expert witness: Prof Sir Roy Meadow.
Prof Meadow is now to be investigated by the General Medical Council. The discrediting of his Meadow's Law - which decreed 'one cot death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder' - and his claim that women harm their babies to draw attention to themselves (dubbed by him Munchausen's Syndrome 'by Proxy' in 1993 during the Beverley Allitt trial) has led to at least 50 more cases being reopened. In all of them, women have been convicted of murder or manslaughter of their young babies.
While there has been widespread rejoicing that these women - the majority of whom are believed innocent - could be released, their plight has revealed a hitherto unreported heartache suffered by them and their families.
In scores of these cases the women's surviving children have been taken into care - in some cases fostered or even adopted - and the family torn asunder.
In many instances, even where the mother is only being investigated about the death of one of her babies and has not been charged with any crime, the authorities have decreed that she is 'unfit' to care for her other children.
Such is the secrecy shrouding the machinations of the family court (their proceedings may not be made public) that the families have little redress."
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