Public overwhelmingly wanted FLDS children back with parents
http://www.sltrib.com/Polygamy/ci_9537072
Thousands of pages of do***ents also show problems Texas officials had
housing 450 kids
By Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 06/10/2008 12:58:15 AM MDT
As a district judge heard the state's case for keeping children from a
polygamous sect in custody, hundreds of electronic and telephone
messages were pouring into Texas Gov. Rick Perry's office.
They came from around the country - including Utah - and most made
the same point: Send the children home to their mothers.
By April 17, three days after separating mothers from their
children, the office had received 449 messages opposed to the removal of
the children and just 32 from people who sup****ted it.
"If you do nothing to protect these rights, you can be assured that
you will not have my vote now or ever in the future," one Texan wrote.
"Do something!!!" said another.
Yet, Perry kept his distance from events unfolding in west Texas.
Through his staff, Perry said only that he was in full sup****t of the
Department of Family and Protective Services - a position he reiterated
last week in an interview with a Texas newspaper.
The public response to the removal of about 450 children from the
Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado is included in nearly 3,000 pages of
do***ents acquired by the sect through a records request and provided to
The Salt Lake Tribune.
The do***ents show that in late March, Texas Rangers and Child
Protective Services were independently contacted about an abused girl at
the YFZ Ranch and had begun
separate investigations.
As CPS prepared to visit the ranch, Texas Rangers asked the agency
to hold off until it readied its own response. That helps explain why
four days lapsed between the call - now known to be a hoax - and the
raid, initiated on April 3.
The do***ents show high-level state officials received hourly
updates as law officers entered the ranch and began removing children,
taking them first to Eldorado and then to a fort in San Angelo.
The inadequate shelter conditions at Fort Concho were quickly
apparent. An April 7 e-mail states: "We have reached the saturation
point in San Angelo and some of the buildings do not have air
conditioning, which is a problem."
That led the state to look for another shelter and within a day it
had settled on a Salvation Army facility in Midlothian. As part of the
move, it planned to separate adult mothers from children. But there was
a snag, according to an April 8 e-mail: The Salvation Army wanted no
part of the conflict and asked that the separation occur elsewhere.
But the move to another county was nixed and the state devised a
new plan, relocation to the San Angelo Coliseum - a move that again
included the "highly complicated and risky operation" of separating out
adult women.
The women were to be told only that they were moving to the
coliseum, the e-mails show.
Officials feared that some women were planning to escape, so they
increased the number of staff and law officers. They also took steps to
remove three "first" wives - older women, apparently - who seemed to
hold sway over other women.
State officials kept tabs on media re****ts from across the country
and circulated talking points to ensure public comments stayed
consistent and on target.
Kathy Walt, Perry's deputy chief of staff, said in an April 18
e-mail that if media were "overlooking" testimony about alleged abuse,
the staff should give re****ters court do***ents and "talk the issues
over with them."
brooke@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"
Child Protective Services Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of CPS.
every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com
Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Wa****ngton. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS
Perpetrators of Maltreatment
Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
***ual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5
Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and ***ual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.
THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST
Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs…
THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia
http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/articles.php?filter=6
This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.
http://www.jbs.org/node/4632
Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-callahan16oct16,0,5019944.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILURE:. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler
http://www.nccpr.org/re****ts/cfpanalysis.doc
HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN
http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html
Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News
http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2000/5_May/mayds4.htm
A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster care:
30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed
Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relation****ps. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Sup****t
80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.
The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991
Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s
foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent
housing.
This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would
have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in
the first place.
Front-page story in USA Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-02-foster-study_N.htm?csp=34#Close
Read the studies online.
Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Care: Findings from the
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study,"
www.casey.org/Resources/Publications/NorthwestAlumniStudy.htm
MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects
of Foster Care,"
www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fosterlt_march07_aer.pdf
http://www.cftl.org/do***ents/2008/FCfullre****t.pdf
Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" re****ts:
www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren
The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
walking wreckage...
CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....
CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...
BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLI****NG CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
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