Funky Alvin worked the middle. He was his usual old self. He wore no apron. His belly hung way down over his pants. The kitchen shirt was so tight on him he couldn’t button every button. He wasn’t shaved, had a scraggly beard and it was clear he hadn’t combed his Afro.
He was funky, but he could do the job.
First thing he did was set all the spoons and everything he was going to use in the direction he wanted them. Next thing he did was trim the prime rib so that all he had to do was slice it. He was going to slice down because that was most propitious for the space they had. In other places, as Bill would discover through the course of his career, they always sliced across, setting the rib upright and carving across. In some places, however, Bill would discover that they took the bones off altogether and simply sliced down like Alvin was doing.
When the rib was set the way he wanted it, Alvin checked everything in front of him to see that nothing was missing. He fixed all the aluminum foil covers so they were on but the items inside were easily accessible. He stirred a few things, the sauces, au jus and vegetables. Satisfied, standing right there in the middle of the line, he lit himself a cigarette, took a long drag on it then tucked it down on the underneath shelf of the steam table. First waitress in, who happened to be Victoria, the one Alvin most particularly liked, he told to get him a beer.
At 11:30 sharp the doors opened and not even a few minutes later, the first orders started coming in. By this time Lillian was in although she had not started calling orders yet. She was sitting in the corner on Bea’s stool drinking a coffee. Alvin grabbed the orders from the spindle, called to Bill what he needed to put on the grill and slid the orders on the board. Jimmy stood next to Alvin. He would do the fryers and help Alvin put the sides on all the plates. He told Jimmy he had three sides of fries and nothing else.
Grandma was in now. She had lined up her frying pans, set her oil in a bain marie with a ladle inside it. Mary had cut and portioned all the orders of chicken. Grandma had her flour set up the way she wanted it and was all set.
Tommy made a last run through the restaurant. He checked out the dining rooms and came into the kitchen, just for a moment, only to ask if everything was in place and everyone were ready. Bea and Mary answered for the kitchen.
And so it started.
“Yeah, Bill,” Alvin said in his throaty, deep-raspy cigarette voice, “what it is.” He reached under the steam table and picked up his cigarette. He took another deep drag on it, flicked the ashes onto the floor and set it back in place. Then he sipped his beer, the beer Victoria had quickly delivered.
Brooklyn and Lily were working the side dining room. Today, because of the nature of the animal, it didn’t matter who worked where. All tips would be pooled. Busboys would get ten percent off the top and the waitresses would get even shares of the remainder. They all stood to make a fortune.
It was Lorraine who asked Bill if he wanted anything. Bill told her he wanted a pitcher of sodas for the dishwashers, a bottled soda for Jimmy and a coffee with cream for himself. What he didn’t tell her was that he really wanted to pop some black beauties, smoke a joint, drink some bourbon and get laid in the storeroom. That all might happen, but surely not today. If he did pop black beauties, drink bourbon and smoke weed, it would not be until they were near closing.
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By Peter Weiss
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Comments by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
We have reported for years now that the Child “Protective” Services of state governments are corrupt, and part of a national “child trafficking” system that is a multi-billion dollar industry funded by American taxpayers and employing hundreds of thousands of people to support this industry.
If you are new to this subject and suspect that I am overstating the problem, here are some good places to start to understand what is really happening with child welfare services in this country:
The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking
Child Kidnapping and Trafficking: A Lucrative U.S. Business Funded by Taxpayers
From Child Protection to State-sponsored Child Kidnapping: How Did we Get Here?
While it varies from state to state, statistics bear out that very few children are actually removed from their homes due to abuse.
True abuse, a legally defined term, happens in only 10-15% of the cases. And even in those few cases, seldom is abuse determined by law enforcement trained in forensic evidence to determine abuse, as is evidenced by the fact that social workers and judges in family courts rule on cases of abuse while no formal charges are made against the parents.
The vast majority of children are removed from their homes for “neglect,” a much broader term which has no standard legal definition.
It basically means that the government decides who is a good parent and who is not based on their own subjective standards.
The most common area we report on is “medical neglect,” which means a doctor decides what is appropriate treatment for your child, and if you disagree or want to seek a second opinion, you risk losing your children.
The trauma to children from being removed from their homes is both documented by large-scale studies, and proven by the results of what happens to these children as they grow up outside of their homes and become adults.
The American Bar Association has compiled this research and made it available for attorneys:
Trauma Caused by Separation of Children from Parents: A Tool to Help Lawyers
Children are seriously harmed when they are separated from their parents. There has been quite a bit of research that proves that harm and outlines the specific ways that children are harmed.
This tool is designed to help lawyers use that research in their advocacy.
Whether you are a child welfare lawyer who wants to encourage a court to balance the harm of removing a child with the risk of abuse or neglect that the child faces by remaining in the home, a delinquency lawyer who wants to encourage a placement that preserves a child’s relationship with their family, or an immigration lawyer who wants to emphasize the damage done when a child is separated from his or her parents, this information is laid out in a way that allows you to easily use the research.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This memorandum provides a summary of the extensive research detailing the grave consequences that result when a child is separated from his or her parent(s).
Part II sets forth talking points for use by trial and appellate lawyers during oral argument. These talking points distill the key themes and conclusions of the clinical and legal research set out in the balance of this memorandum.
Part III begins with a review of the clinical literature concerning the well-documented psychological and physical effects of removal generally. These resources find that the negative effects of removal often far outweigh the harm allegedly inflicted on the child by his or her parent.
Part III next reviews relevant case law and legal journal articles applying these clinical findings in cases involving removal or attempted removal. Because one of the original driving forces behind development of this memorandum was the federal government’s policy of separating children from their parents at the border, the cases summarized in this memorandum generally concern challenges to that policy. The courts rely heavily on literature from the scientific and medical communities describing the negative effects of parent-child separation.
Part IV reviews literature discussing the effects of placement into foster care, which concludes that those effects are negative and substantial. The memorandum then reviews literature that may serve as a resource for parents facing a removal or who have already lost their children. Some of this literature provides guidance on healthy and effective parenting strategies; other literature addresses the potential benefits of post-removal visitation, mental health counseling, and other social services. Though not particularly useful for a memorandum of law in opposition to a removal petition, these resources may be helpful in counseling the client on practical actions he or she might take to protect the relationship with his or her child.
Part V reviews literature regarding the physical effects of “toxic stress,” which is prevalent among children who are removed from the parental home.
Finally, Part VI of the memorandum provides a listing of available additional resources assessing the effects of removal, including studies on the outcomes for children removed from the parental home and the long-term effects of the trauma that results from removal. (Source.)
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By Peter Weiss
They had a commercial—you remember—with the Republicans pushing Grandma-in-a-wheelchair over the cliff. They said if you voted for Republicans you’re killing Granny.
And remember that commercial with the egg and the frying pan that fried the egg and said this is your brain/this is your brain on drugs?
Well take a good look at the media-assisted Democrats. Take a very good look. They were crazed when they produced the Grandma-In-the-Wheelchair commercial and their brains are totally fried now. Their drug is power. They’d do anything and everything for it. Anything and everything includes purposefully working to collapse and/or disable the elected government. Anything and everything means breaking the law, lying to the public, dividing to conquer, and overall, perpetrating a total scam on the American people.
They are currently wholly immersed in and fully committed to this scam. They have adopted the old “I’d rather be dead than red” attitude (from the Cold War) and are clearly in the process of killing the very America they portend to be fighting for.
And so it goes.
Sometimes it seems kind of remarkable that it has to be stated so many times, the old adage that says that when you point a finger at someone three fingers are pointing back at you. Clearly, if you look at what the Democrats have done, and it’s beginning to look, no, not like a lot like Christmas, but a lot like the Obama administration not only knew about but actually helped orchestrate the crazed attempt to delegitimize the duly-elected president once they discovered that they couldn’t prevent him from being elected.
As we’re beginning to see, a good part of the reason the Democrats, wholly assisted by the Pravda USA mainstream media, are so crazed is because they are knee-deep in corrupt and illegal doings. It goes on and on and on, all through the Obama administration including things like the uranium deal to the Russians that Hillary Clinton was part and parcel of and profited from.
Remember that pants-suit darling? Remember Hillary standing there on that debate stage and asking Donald Trump, her opponent, if he would accept the results of the election?
So smug! So wealthy from all the money that she and her husband, the ex-president, collected into their charity in what we now know was a pay-for-play not investigated by the FBI because the FBI was so deep into her pants suit, well, that darling in the pants suit has, of course, not accepted the results of the election. She chips away at its legitimacy every chance she can get to speak publicly, the latest of which proclamation of hers was that the election was stolen, or, not legitimate.
Her people, inclusive of her lawyer Lanny Davis (who served as special counsel to her husband, President Bill Clinton, for several years, then as a surrogate for her in her 2016 campaign and now as Michael Cohen’s defense attorney) are infused everywhere in this campaign to delegitimize and/or unseat President Trump. It’s incest to the nth degree.
Clinton’s people are active in this to protect what they do not want made public, which is the deep-seated corruption within the Clinton machine which goes way back to their Arkansas Governor days and plods forward to theirs (and the Democrat Party’s) illicit scheme to get her elected president or ruin Trump so that he could not uncover the dirty dealings they’ve been involved in all along the way.
The Crazed-Idiot Democrats and their Pravda USA mainstream media aiders and abettors, their personal propagandists, are so very crazed now because they are only a hair’s throw away from being exposed as trying to effect the take down of a duly elected president.
In all likelihood, when fully exposed their scheme will be one of the biggest scandals in America’s history, not to mention the crimes involved which are all the more reason for them to keep pointing their fingers without any sense of their fingers, three times over, pointing right back at them.
Run by crazed idiots, the Despicable Dems, all-in now, are cornered cats scratching out at anything and everything. And we, the American people, are nothing more than collateral damage.
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Adoption: It is about the Money!
By Steven R. Isham M.A., L.B.S.W.
Special to Health Impact News
Child ‘protection’ is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it.
A recent CDC study, The Economic Burden of Child Maltreatment in the United States and Implications for Prevention, found the total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of cases associated with child protection services is approximately $124 billion. [1]
Arizona Leads the Nation in Children Removed from Homes and Sent to Foster Care and Adoption
The State of Arizona has increased the percentage of kids in out-of-home placement by almost 50% between 9/30/2007 and 9/30/2012. That is 20% higher than the next closest state, Oregon, who increased only 20% in those five years. Nationwide 41 states actually lowered the percentage of children in out-of-home placements. Arizona has recently passed the mark of more than 16,000 children in out-of-home placements and is still increasing this trend. [2]
Why would Arizona be continuing to take more children than ever before and adopt out so many of these children to other families? Is it about the money?
Certainly, “yes”, the state government and the state economy needs every business opportunity it can achieve, and the taking of children by the state and adopting these children to others is a financial windfall for the State of Arizona, the state budget and the economy. It is easily a billion dollar business, and growing every day in Arizona.
According to Wall St., Arizona is the 45th worst run state in the nation, has a poverty rate of 18.6%, the 9th highest in the nation, and a 2013 unemployment rate of 8.0%, 12th highest in the country. [3]
So why does Arizona lead the nation in percentage of children removed from their parents’ homes?
- Money: Federal Financial Incentives for taking and keeping children. ($72,000.00 Base)
- Adoption Bonuses: $4,000.00 to $6,000.00+ per each time [4]
- Adoption Subsidies: Even after adoption is completed until 22 years of age
- Physicians: Completing research or hiding medical malpractice mistakes
- Hospitals: Completing research or hiding medical malpractice mistakes
- Pharmaceutical Companies: Endless pool of test subjects
- Employment: Hundreds if not thousands of jobs depend on the state taking these children, especially since they are already built into the state budget now.
Are Arizona Children Entering Foster Care and Adoption Moving on to Better Lives?
So after millions of dollars in services, thousands of employees from hundreds of businesses, both state and federal, including in-state and out-of-state experts, are the children being protected ending up in safe and secure environments? Are the children being treated better or worse in state custody?
A reasonable taxpayer would assume that children are going from a bad environment to a good environment, a sick environment to a healing environment. We would assume they are going to a new environment totally void of any more suffering or trauma, safe from abuse or neglect of any kind, right?
Wrong!
Some of these children have suffered more trauma by being taken by CPS than they ever suffered in their own homes. Being taken from your own home and placed in another home with strangers while often not having any clue why, is extremely traumatizing. The impact is just like that of an illegal kidnapping; but in these cases the kidnapping is totally legal.
Or, imagine being told that your mother tried to harm you when in fact nothing ever happened. Purely speculative areas that are not researched but are based on diagnoses like Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy (MSBP) and others are often made up signs and symptoms to qualify the child for a disability that can receive massive amounts of federal funding.
Nationwide, Statistics Show Children Entering Foster Homes Suffer More AFTER They Leave Their Families
According to Cornell University, about 68% of all child protective cases “do not involve child maltreatment.” [4]
According to the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) in Washington, the calculated average is for every 1 abused child removed from an abusive home, there are 17 children removed from loving non-offending homes nationwide. [5]
Take a look at statistics of children who are removed from their families by CPS:
Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the United States. These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) in Washington D. C. [5]
Children in CPS custody:
- Physical Abuse (160)
- Sexual Abuse (112)
- Neglect (410)
- Medical Neglect (14)
- Fatalities (6.4)
Children in Parent Custody:
- Physical Abuse (59)
- Sexual Abuse (13)
- Neglect (241)
- Medical Neglect (12)
- Fatalities (1.5)
A child in CPS custody is:
- Almost three times more likely to be physically abused in CPS custody than at home
- Over eight times more likely to be sexually abused in CPS custody than at home
- Almost two times as likely to be neglected in CPS custody than at home
- Almost equally likely to be medically neglected (How can that be in CPS custody?)
- Almost five times more likely to die in CPS custody than at home
More Children in the Adoption System = More Money for the State
Financial Opportunities for the State of Arizona and Economic Growth; Stability
One local hospital in Arizona was billing the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (Medicaid) over one million dollars a year on one child, but then the same physicians/hospitals were testifying in “kiddie court” there was nothing wrong with the child. The Mom must have done something? The true medical condition of the child was never given to the judge!
How do Child Protection Services Pick which Children to Take?
Poverty
Poverty is the single best predictor of child abuse and neglect. According to one frequently cited federal study, children in families earning below $15,000 a year are 22 times as likely to be considered maltreated as kids in families with incomes above $30,000. These numbers are readily available through documents CPS Investigators have about AHCCCS (Medicaid) [7] It is also well known that these parents cannot afford private attorneys to represent them and fight to get their children back. They must rely on court-appointed attorneys who are generally quick to encourage them to settle with the State, and lose all custody of their children.
Research
There seems to be a trend in this area as certain Arizona hospitals have relationships with pharmaceutical companies and there seems to be a parallel between CPS reports, the genetics of the child, the medical conditions of the child, Arizona elected officials, and the research of the pharmaceutical company. The numbers are difficult to find, but apparently some parents have found their children in those research studies.
Medical Malpractice
There are several cases where there is no evidence whatsoever of any neglect, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse and CPS is called by the physician or hospital involved. In many of these cases there is specific evidence and expert testimony, from nationally recognized experts, of medical mistakes or care below the community standards. Interestingly, CPS has never done an investigation of many of these cases and yet severs the rights of the parent as quickly as possible. “Bazinga” the medical malpractice disappears, saving hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements, legal fees, and increased liability insurance costs.
Federal Government Incentives
The United States Federal Government, through an array of laws and grants, provides billions of dollars in incentives to states to take children from their parents. Arizona takes more percentage wise than any other state.
Adoptions
People who do not have children and want children create a market for children. Where is there an endless availability of children? Child Protective Services! The younger and healthier the child the more adoptable that child will be. Younger and healthier children are significantly more adoptable. A reasonable person might conclude the demand is so high that there could possibly be a connection between this demand and the increase in the taking of children before they ever leave the hospital.
The Funds?
It is easier to build a round pizza puzzle with 1,000 pieces, than find the exact money a state gets per child from the moment CPS takes that child and then from month to month. The amount most consistently quoted and spoken about is $6,000.00 per month.
“For instance, in the case of foster care, the present reimbursement to state and local government for each child taken into foster care is approximately $6000/month. Yet the foster care provider (the foster parent) receives only somewhere around $600/month. Allowing about the same for administrative costs, each child in foster care is worth about $5000/month; that’s pure profit on the bottom line!” [8]
On October 11, 2014, Arizona Central reported the following:
“Arizona had the second-largest increase in the nation over the decade, adding 7,296 children to Texas’ 8,294 (which has 4x the population of Arizona). There were 15,751 foster kids in Arizona at the end of March, according to the latest numbers from the state.” (Data given on March 2013) [9]
Assuming these numbers are correct, and the accepted dollar amount is correct:
The Arizona State child welfare and adoption services would have generated for Arizona approximately 94.5 million dollars a month or 1.134 billion dollars a year.
Conclusion: American Families Under Attack in Government-Sponsored Children for Profit Adoption Practices
Most American’s find it nearly impossible to believe that our own Government, both state and federal, would allow some scheme this obscene to be perpetrated against the American family unit and our precious children. And yet, there is so much evidence that something perverse is happening that it begs for an independent audit by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the United States Department of Justice.
A few questions that I believe should be addressed during both investigations:
- How much combined funding is each state getting for each child?
- What is the amount of Medicaid fraud by state in relation to these children?
- How do race, poverty, medical research, medical malpractice, federal government incentives, and adoptions impact the number of children taken by each state?
- Why have the states or federal government not researched if the current system even works to do anything but pay for itself?
- How many children in the Foster Care system, as it currently exists, end up with criminal records, prison sentences, post-traumatic stress disorder from Foster Care, and suicide attempts and deaths?
About the Author
Steven R. Isham has educated, advocated, and fought for children and families since 1975, going on 40 years. His experience spans education, special education, school administration, behavioral health, juvenile justice, developmental disabilities, curriculum development, coaching, author of a book on Child and Family Advocacy and service to others throughout his career.
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By Peter Weiss
Before the service started, when Tommy came around to look at things, he saw a stock pot half-filled with au jus on Mary’s stoves. He also saw a large soup pot filled with Bordelaise sauce, a smaller stock pot filled with soup of the day, a half-homemade chicken noodle soup with, of all things, garden vegetables inside it. Then there was a roasting pan filled with yellow rice covered with aluminum foil and three pans of vegetables, each one ready to be set into the steam table. These were stacked and also covered with aluminum foil. Mary was in the process of setting up more pans of vegetables and told Tommy she had more baked potatoes in her regular ovens.
One stove and half of another was purposefully left clear on top. That was for Grandma, where she would fry her chicken, order by order, although today because it was going to be so busy she was going to fry a few orders ahead and keep herself a few orders ahead. Grandma was not in yet. But she was not overdue either.
The meal and service were straightforward and simple. The regular dinner menu was being served. So for the most part, it was steaks, prime rib with au jus, the usual frozen items, Grandma’s fried chicken and of course chopped steaks and hamburgers. The sides were a choice of rice, baked potato or French-fries and vegetables. The vegetable for the day was mixed garden vegetables, all from frozen packages devoid of any water. They were warmed in butter and seasoned by Mary to taste.
Everything was in place by eleven. All the waitresses were working, every one of them, each with their own station and two of them working as runners. Not only did Tommy make his walk through the kitchen, but he went from dining room to dining room over and over again making sure everything was in place, extra everything was in place, everything was clean, everyone was ready.
It was going to be a big to-do. At eleven when everything was set and ready to go, there was the sense of it being the calm before the storm, like there was a hurricane coming in and they knew it was going to hit in about a half an hour.
Bill sat on his milk cases in the hall and smoked a cigarette. Bea came out and sat on her lettuce cases. Maybe she was so preoccupied about what was to come for the day that she forgot she and Bill had fought. She sat with her legs spread so wide Bill could see all the way up them and she didn’t seem to have a care in the world as to whether or not he looked. For his part, Bill didn’t say anything. But he did look. She saw him looking, spread her legs wider.
“My pussy all sweaty,” she said. “My fat ass too.”
“I’m soaked all the way through,” said Bill. “It’s goddamn hot outside and it’s gonna be much hotter inside.”
“You got that right,” Bea said. Then she looked at Bill kind of funny, in a way Bill didn’t quite understand, a way he hadn’t seen before. “Been meaning to say I’m sorry,” she said. Using both her hands she grabbed her kitchen dress in the middle between her legs and fanned herself with it. “I know I was out of line. I know you didn’t mean nothing. Sometimes, you know, things just catch you the wrong way and you blow your cool. Well, that’s what happened to me.”
“So what you want from me?” Bill asked.
“Don’t want nothing,” Bea said. “Just wanted you to know.”
Bill got up and walked across the hall to her. He stood over her, moved close against her. He leaned down and kissed her once on the cheek.
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Massachusetts State Auditor Finds Widespread Rape and Sexual Abuse in Foster Care but DCF Officials Won’t Report It (part 3)
Find this report in its entirety here: from Medical Kidnap
by Terri LaPoint
Health Impact News
Evidence of Abuse in Foster Care Ignored, or Worse
Usually, when the real parents point out the injuries to social workers, their concerns are brushed aside or swept under the rug. The children are silenced, told by social workers not to say anything to their parents. It is extremely rare that anything is done about the abuse.
In one of the most extreme cases, when a biological mother recognized signs that her daughter was being abused and molested in foster care, social workers brought her concerns to the judge, accusing the mother of making it up and “sabotaging” the placement of her child. That was actually used as grounds to terminate her parental rights.
However, the mother was right. The foster “father” currently sits in prison for being part of a pedophile pornography ring. He was using the children for sex trafficking. See:
When the children come home, they often tell their parents horror stories – abuse from which their loving family was rendered powerless to protect them. Most former foster children have nightmares and night terrors after they come home, and they often have fears they didn’t have before. Some have PTSD.
As we have reported many times, children in foster care are at least 6 times more likely to be abused, molested, raped, or killed in foster care than they are in their own homes, even if their own homes were troubled. See:
Foster Care Children are Worse Off than Children in Troubled Homes – The Child Trafficking Business
Foster Children Funneled into Sex Trafficking
There is evidence that Child Protective Services funnels some foster children into the child sex trafficking trade. According to a report by the Los Angeles Times, over 1000 registered sex offenders were on the list of state-approved foster care providers and facilities, in Los Angeles County alone.
Many sources cite that at least half of sex trafficking victims come from foster care, and some cite figures that are as high as 90%.
See:
Child Sex Trafficking through Child “Protection” Services Exposed – Kidnapping Children for Sex
Massachusetts Governor Refuses to Acknowledge Problem or Enforce Accountability – Adds More Money to DCF Budget Instead
Since the auditor’s scathing report was released, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has pushed back. Mass Live reports the governor’s response that the audit was “irresponsible” and that it went back to a time period before he took office.
According to WBZ 4 in Boston, he has addressed the well-publicized short-comings of DCF by throwing another $100 million at the problem, hiring almost 400 new social workers, and changing some policies.
A massive influx of more money and social workers will never fix the problems of Child Protective Services. All that does is ensure that MORE children will be funneled into the terribly-broken system.
Auditor Suzanne Bump responded to the governor’s defense by pointing out that no one has been held accountable for the failures of the system. Even if the cases involved in the audit happened before the governor took office, his administration has not dealt with those who should have been held accountable.
“Those kids were victimized and nobody paid a price,” Bump told WBZ’s Ryan Kath. “That’s not serving children well. It’s not serving the agency well. And it’s not serving the public well.”
Governor Baker is no newcomer to the problems with DCF. He has a long involvement with the agency dating back more than 25 years. He was appointed in 1991 as Undersecretary of Health and Human Services, of which DCF is a part. In 1992, he was promoted to the head of the agency.
Abusers in Foster Care Going Unpunished – Change Desperately Needed to Protect Children
Suzanne Bump’s audit has revealed what parents involved in the system already know – that children in the system are being hurt in foster care and nothing is being done about it.
Those who fail to address the abuse of children in state care must be held accountable, and the abusers, who are committing crimes against children, must face consequences.
A simple way of protecting many of these children would be to simply not place them into the system in the first place. The approach of taking children “just in case” and sorting it out later during long, drawn out battles in family and juvenile court must end.
Many, more than half and possibly as many as 3/4 of the children placed into state care, are suffering abuse at the hands of the very system charged with protecting them.
All of them suffer from the trauma of being separated from their families.
Children are better off without this kind of “protection.” Those children who are truly abused at home often are the very ones left in their homes, due to not being “adoptable.” Child abuse is a crime, and must be treated as such.
Child “Protection” System is Really Child ADOPTION System
The public believes it is the “Child Protective System,” designed to protect abused children.
What most do not realize is that it has become the “Child ADOPTION System,” with the ultimate goal of maximizing federal funds. Therefore, the children who are truly in need of protection are not protected, because they are seen by those in the system as damaged goods who are unadoptable.
(end of report)
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They did fifteen hundred covers on Mother’s Day. It was a record for both stores. Bill would work for hours nonstop and have to change his apron four times. Each time the soiled apron was soaked with meat juices from where Bill had wiped his hands. He would sweat so much that he was wet all the way through his underwear and undershirt. He changed kitchen shirts twice out in the hall after Tommy went down to get him a clean one.
They came in at seven. Henry Lee and Bill went straight to the meat room to cut meat. They had already cut full inventory for twenty-five hundred covers. Henry Lee figured that would be enough for both stores, but he wanted to be positive they could cover everything, so he and Bill went right to work cutting more meat. They made even more trays of hamburgers and chopped steaks too. On a busy family day like this one promised to be, it was sure there would be lots of kids coming in.
They drank bourbon as they worked, but neither Bill nor Henry Lee got high. They both wanted to but they both knew they needed their wits about them. Even their drinking was in moderation. Henry Lee could drink more than Bill because he would be working all day downstairs in the meat room. He had been through this before and knew what they were up against. For Bill it was all theoretical, hypothetical. He was forewarned about it and intellectually he knew what he was about to face. IRL, he had no idea what it would actually be.
Leading up to the day there was a certain excitement about it. On the actual day, no one seemed to expend any extra energy. As they worked Mary and Bea spoke to each other frequently, communicating about everything they had and everything they needed. They would open at 11:30, serve dinner all day and close at 9:00 PM. After that came the cleanup.
Out in the hall the stack of lettuce cases was almost roof high. Bill had to help Bea get them down, and the first time they went to do so, he brought down four cases so that there were actually two stacks. To start, he carted in two of the cases and dumped them into Bea’s sink.
You would not have known that they had fought. While they did not pass what had been their usual pleasantries and did not banter back and forth, their interplay was cordial and professional. No longer was there any touching, goosing or anything like that. If Bea missed it, she didn’t let on. Bill was glad that part of their relationship was over.
One of the last things Bill had done last night before going home was wash baking potatoes, tons of them. Instead of a pan full, some 20 or 30 they usually baked for the start-up, today Mary filled the convection oven, all the shelves, and started them early because they would take longer since the oven was full.
Six prime ribs were in the ovens. They had slow-roasted all night long. One of the first things Bill saw when he came in were the towels tied hard around the oven handles. Of course he remembered—he could never forget—that one prime rib that had gotten away from him, from them, that had ended up as ash, that had crumbled when he poked it with his kitchen fork.
And so it went.
For the final set up, Bill and Henry Lee brought up double-stacked meat trays, each tray double-loaded as much as it could be. They double-stacked the trays of frozen goods too and left two extra cases of French-fries out in the hall.
Henry Lee’s job during the day, in part, would be to cart up things that were called for as they were needed.
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By Peter Weiss
Massachusetts State Auditor Finds Widespread Rape and Sexual Abuse in Foster Care but DCF Officials Won’t Report It (part 2)
Find this report in its entirety here: from Medical Kidnap
by Terri LaPoint
Health Impact News
Sexual Abuse and Trafficking in Foster Care is Common Today – Children Suffer far Worse in Foster Care Than in Their “Troubled” Homes
Tragically, this has been the experience of far too many families. In my research for the Medical Kidnap division of Health Impact News over the past 3 years, I have personally spoken with hundreds of families, including many of the older children and teens who were either returned home or aged out of the system.
In only one of the stories that I have covered were the children sexually abused or molested in their own homes before Child Protective Services got involved under the guise of “protecting” them. In that case, the family reported the rape to police, but police didn’t do anything about it until social services kidnapped the resulting baby from the young mother in the hospital and the story went viral. The family was not responsible for the rape. (Story here.)
However, I estimate that about 75% of the older children and teens that have contacted us were molested or sexually assaulted in foster care, and many of the younger children have been abused as well.
Most of these incidents were reported by the children to the social workers, yet in almost none of the cases did it go beyond that.
Law enforcement was not notified. No reports were filed.
In most cases, the children remained in that dangerous setting even after they reported the abuse. Many times, it was not until much later that the parents learned of the abuse.
The true abusers in the foster homes and group homes got away with it.
Most of the time, we have not reported the sexual abuse. The families prefer to keep it out of the media, understandably. However, among the cases we are familiar with:
- An elementary-aged little girl was raped by the “Christian” foster father. When she reported it to the social workers, she was moved to another foster home. It was never reported to authorities. The foster family continued to be foster parents for many years within the same county where social workers were aware of the rape, and they continued to be involved in children’s ministry at their church.
- A teenage boy was raped by a man in the neighborhood. There were tattoos and identifying features that would have helped police identify his rapist, had the social worker simply bothered to inform the police. She didn’t. And he remained in that foster home.
- A teenager was sexually trafficked by those who were caring for her. It was never reported. Her mother suspected something, but her daughter wouldn’t talk about it. Her fears were confirmed a couple of years later when she finally got some documents in which social services checked the box – “Human Trafficking” on a form listing what the child had been involved in.
- A teenager was gang raped by the foster’s nephew and several of his friends. When the social worker found out, she simply transferred the girl to another facility. The crime was never reported.
- Parents discovered their little boys (really young) who had been returned home performing oral sex on each other. The behavior had to have been learned in foster care. No abuse in foster care had been reported to any authorities.
The audit by the Massachusetts state auditor uncovered many similar stories. In addition, Bump’s office found many other kinds of abuse that DCF failed to report. According to CBS 4 in Boston:
The Department of Children and Families did not know about 260 serious injuries to kids under the agency’s care, including gunshot wounds, burns, broken bones and head contusions.
This is consistent with our findings at Health Impact News, where numerous parents have sent photos documenting injuries to their children that happened in foster care.
These injuries far exceed any that the children ever sustained in their own homes before being removed from their families “in the best interest of the child.”
See:
The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking
(to be continued)
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By Peter Weiss
His fiancé’s graduation came and went. He took time off for the ceremony and then went to work in the afternoon. Mother’s day was now just a week away and before the end of the month Bill would be officially married.
Very officially married.
Which meant he should stop messing around altogether. He honestly didn’t want to cheat, but of course he didn’t rationalize it like that. Just he was becoming a married man and married men didn’t mess around.
He hadn’t read Masters and Johnson.
Lorraine was easy. She fully understood. He and Lorraine would become what they started as, friends. Norma and Lexi were gone. Bea and he had fought out of it. Only Mary was left and Mary would be the one to take the initiative. Just before his wedding (he only took off the weekend for it), Mary took him to The Upper Room and gave him what she’d never given to anyone including Yulie. It was her farewell present and she promised him he would be the only one to have ever that.
Arlene was a different story. He and Arlene had their moments, but they had developed a close friendship. She kept him up to speed on all that was happening with her mother. That was a roller coaster ride. At the time she was most distraught she would seek comfort from him, and he, subjected to his own vulnerabilities, gave that comfort and took his own. It was complicated.
The kitchen started prepping for Mother’s Day, for what they knew was going to be one of the biggest days of the year, if not the single biggest day, the Wednesday before the Sunday. Mary’s prep, for the most part, was nothing special. However, she and Bill, very close together, breaded and maintained triple the amounts of inventory. They made an extra five gallons of Bordelaise sauce and froze it, then kept their regular inventory of the sauce doubled. They made four times the amounts of rice pudding, chocolate pudding and jello on the Saturday before and cooked off triple the amount of cocktail shrimp for salads and shrimp cocktail appetizers.
On and on.
The meat delivery was triple too. Bill and Henry Lee started cutting extra amounts of steaks on the Thursday, building inventory for both stores and making sure to rotate it well so nothing got old. They did not freeze any trays of meat, but made sure they could cover at least twenty-five hundred covers.
Bill and Henry Lee had a good time together in the meat room, a lot of time. Henry Lee worked late from Thursday on and he and Bill cut steaks all day Saturday until they opened for the dinner service.
Conversation was varied but covered everything. Henry Lee asked Bill if he planned to keep messing around. Bill told him no. Henry Lee talked about how in the end it didn’t mean much overall as long as his wife didn’t find out. Bill would discover first-hand that this was not true, not accurate.
Mostly, Henry Lee asked Bill how much longer he expected to be working at Suburban.
Bill had no intelligible answer for this. He and his fiancé had not finalized plans yet. So all he could say was that they might hang around another year, maybe a few months—who knew. His fiancé was looking at opportunities there in Columbus and also up in Cleveland. One thing he made clear was that the longer he could stay there the better he felt.
“I’d stay altogether if I was alone.”
“For real?”
“Well, I can’t get a job in the professional world cause of my record. A man gotta work and this is good a place as any.”
“Better than most,” Henry Lee said.
“I got friends here.”
“Yeah, you do,” Henry Lee said.
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By Peter Weiss
Massachusetts State Auditor Finds Widespread Rape and Sexual Abuse in Foster Care but DCF Officials Won’t Report It (part 1)
Find this report in its entirety here: from Medical Kidnap
by Terri LaPoint
Health Impact News
The theoretical function of Child Protective Services is to “protect” children from harm, removing them from their homes when they are being hurt. A deep-seated value of Western culture is that we need to protect children from abuse, and the public has overwhelmingly supported the use of tax dollars going to help the children who are being abused.
But what happens when the very agency charged with protecting children is, in reality, leading to or ignoring the physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and even deaths of the children in their care? Is anyone held accountable?
Where do their victims turn when social workers assigned to protect them turn a deaf ear and a blind eye?
Hundreds of parents who have spoken with Health Impact News about their child or children being taken from them have asked how they can lose their child though they have done nothing wrong, while at the same time the social workers routinely ignore the abuse of their children in foster care.
On December 7, 2017, Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump released an appalling audit of her state’s Child Protective Services, the Department of Children and Families (DCF). (See text of audit here.)
The audit, which covered 2014 and 2015, found that there were many instances where children in state care, whether in foster homes or group homes or other facilities under DCF care, were abused physically or sexually, but DCF failed to report the incidents to the proper authorities.
In the week following the release of the audit, many news outlets, both mainstream and alternative, have carried the story, and the ensuing political battle between Bump’s office and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker.
Conservative Review journalist Rob Eno references Michelle Malkin Investigates‘ coverage of the Medical Kidnapping of Justina Pelletier and compares it to the audit:
This new report raises serious questions on the motivations and ability of government agencies in general to protect children. Instead of kidnapping children for disagreements over medical treatment, these government child welfare agencies should focus on their core mission.
DCF – Sexual Abuse By Fosters Happening but “Not Serious”
The Ad Council tells us, “You don’t have to be perfect to be a perfect parent,” in their campaign to entice more people to become foster parents. The audit report in Massachusetts reveals that this statement is sometimes taken to the extreme with regards to even the most flawed of foster parents, while children can be removed from their parents for sometimes the slightest of imperfections by the real parents.
Some of the grounds that have been used by Child Protective Services to take children include disagreeing with a doctor, refusing vaccines, having dirty dishes in the sink or laundry on the floor in the laundry room, having a child that was “too short,” getting the electricity turned off for a day, getting a 2nd medical opinion, parents having a verbal disagreement with each other, being a foster child themselves, or having a home birth. The lists of allegations are often filled with made-up stories or minor incidents twisted into something much more serious than they were.
Yet, when it comes to children who are abused by the fosters that are paid by taxpayers to care for the children who are being “protected” from their “dangerous” parents, that abuse isn’t considered worthy to report.
DCF officials told Auditor Suzanne Bump that they don’t see sexual abuse as a serious enough problem that they need to report it. According to Western Mass News,
The problem: “Sexual abuse to children is not considered to be a critical incident because DCF, in their own words, did not consider sexual abuse to cause serious bodily harm or extreme physical pain. I can’t comprehend that response,” Bump added. Bump’s office found 118 incidents of sexual abuse of a child in DCF care that were not reported to the office of the child advocate. She said that reporting these incidents hinders the protection of children.
When Terri LaPoint and Kristi Devine met with Auditor Suzanne Bump in October to discuss the need to audit DCF, her office was already in the process of doing so. We discussed many issues involved with medical kidnapping and DCF corruption.
(to be continued)
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