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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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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, July 09, 2004
Tennessee: Child collectors force foster kids to dig their own graves
Don't you wonder how much money these child collectors were making in adoption subsidy and fosterincarceration payments for all those 'special needs' children? - LJM
Affidavit: Children made to dig own graves
Friday, July 9, 2004
 TRENTON, Tennessee (AP) -- A couple facing criminal abuse charges forced some of their 18 foster, adopted and biological children -- many of them disabled -- to dig their own graves, warning the youngsters they could be killed and nobody would care, according to investigative documents.
A search warrant affidavit released in the case against Thomas and Debra Schmitz also alleges that the children were beaten, locked in a cage and punished by having their eyeglasses, leg braces or crutches taken away.
A home care nurse told authorities the "children were forced to dig their own graves" and told by the couple "they could be killed and buried in the back yard and no one will care," according to the affidavit.
The nurse said she saw two children, ages 8 and 10, forced to sleep in a locked metal cage without a mattress or blankets. The youngsters were "curled in a fetal position in the cage," the affidavit said.
Debra Schmitz, 44, was charged on June 22 with three counts of aggravated child abuse and one count of child abuse; Thomas Schmitz, 45, was charged with one count of aggravated child abuse and one count of child abuse.
The Schmitzes, who were investigated on similar accusations four years ago in the Green Bay, Wisconsin, area, moved to this town 85 miles northeast of Memphis in 2000. They were not charged in that case.
They have denied wrongdoing and, on legal advice, have refused interview requests since their arrest.
Children in the home ranged from 13 months to 17 years old. Nine of the youngsters are the Schmitzes' adopted children, one was in the process of being adopted and another was their biological child.
The Tennessee Department of Children's Services took custody of the children June 21, but it is still unclear why some of them were with the Schmitzes. Authorities were unsure who has legal custody of the seven other youngsters, who may be special needs children adopted by families in other states.
Adoptive parents of special needs children are allowed to put youngsters in the care of others in times of family troubles. That so-called "respite care" is designed to be temporary.
The home-care nurse told investigators that Debra Schmitz used the Internet to keep in touch with guardians of special-needs children across the country.
The nurse was told "she could get a child through this Web site within three weeks and would not have to go through [Tennessee's] Department of Children's Services," said the affidavit filed by the Gibson County Sheriff's Department.
Sheriff Joe Shepard said three nurses and a half-dozen children have given reports of abuse. Investigators have found four places where they believe children were forced to dig mock graves, he said.
The investigation could be forwarded to a grand jury following a court hearing August 17.
"I'm positive there will be more state charges," Shepard said Thursday.
One nurse who said children were strictly disciplined refused to return to work at the Schmitzes' home.
"Two nights were as much as she could handle," Shepard said. "One girl had to sit on the floor with her nose up against the wall. We found that's pretty much a standard thing out there. But she sat there from the time she got home from school until past 10:30 at night."
posted by Linda for FightCPS.Com at 2:23 AM
Thursday, July 08, 2004
North Carolina: CPS manager caught using gift cards meant for kids
DWood writes "I hope they throw the book at this one."
DSS manager charged with stealing gift cards
7/8/2004 10:16 AM
Associated Press
(BURLINGTON) -- A manager with the Alamance County Department of Social Services has been charged with stealing $950 worth of Wal-Mart gift cards intended for needy families.
Pamela Evette Grantham of Mebane faces nearly seven and half years in prison if convicted.
Grantham has worked for the social services department for nearly two years. She's manager of the child welfare and family support program.
She has been suspended with pay while authorities investigate.
Burlington police say Grantham, 42, could be seen on Wal-Mart surveillance tapes using gift cards.
posted by Linda for FightCPS.Com at 2:40 AM
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