Brave senator exposes social services "kidnapping" and drugging for profit policies

In Massachusetts, over 10% of children in the Department of Social Services are being forced to take at least three psychiatric drugs at a time. Also, 19% of
DSS kids are on antidepressants, 9% on antipsychotics, 21% on ADHD drugs and 13%
on mood stabilizers,

You can confirm the truth of this statement by clicking here: www.masspartnership.com/provider/index.aspx?lnkId=reports.ascx&imgID=Prov_ReportsPublications.jpg  

under this section: FY2006 MBHP Report on Patterns of Medication Prescribing for Children ...

Similar abuse of children as financial commodities through social services, a.k.a. child protective services, exists throughout the country. For example, Florida on damages about 10% of its children with at least three psychiatric drugs at a time. Texas sends foster kids out-of-state to be used for profit.

Unfortunately, few in politics have had both the awareness or courage to fight this gestapo-type practice of wrongfully stealing kids for profit which is why it was so encourage to see the attached email message from a Georgia State Senator this morning.

Please read this very informative statement and back her up as she's putting her neck on the line to do what's right: 

Subject: THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES

http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/

From the legislative desk of Senator Nancy
Schaefer 50th District of Georgia

November 16, 2007

THE
CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES

BY: Nancy Schaefer

     Senator, 50th District

My introduction into child protective service
cases was due to a grandmother in an adjoining state who called me with her tragic
story. Her two granddaughters had been taken from her daughter who lived in my
district. Her daughter was told wrongly that if she wanted to see her children
again she should sign a paper and give up her children. Frightened and young,
the daughter did. I have since discovered that parents are often threatened
into cooperation of permanent separation of their children.

The children were taken to another county and
placed in foster care. The foster parents were told wrongly that they could
adopt the children. The grandmother then jumped through every hoop known to man
in order to get her granddaughters. When the case finally came to court it was
made evident by one of the foster parent’s children that the foster
parents had, at any given time, 18 foster children and that the foster mother
had an inappropriate relationship with the caseworker.

In
the courtroom, the juvenile judge, acted as
though she was shocked and said the two girls would be removed quickly.
They
were not removed. Finally, after much pressure being applied to the
Department
of Family and Children Services of Georgia (DFCS), the children were
driven to South Georgia to meet their grandmother who gladly drove
to meet them.

After being with their grandmother two or
three days, the judge, quite out of the blue, wrote up a new order to send the
girls to their father, who previously had no interest in the case and who lived
on the West Coast. The father was in “adult entertainment”. His
girlfriend worked as an “escort” and his brother, who also worked
in the business, had a sexual charge brought against him.

Within a couple of days the father was
knocking on the grandmother’s door and took the girls kicking and
screaming to California.

The father developed an unusual relationship
with the former foster parents and soon moved back to the southeast, and the
foster parents began driving to the father’s residence and picking up the
little girls for visits. The oldest child had told her mother and grandmother
on two different occasions that the foster father molested her.

To this day after five years, this loving,
caring blood relative grandmother does not even have visitation privileges with
the children. The little girls are in my opinion permanently traumatized and
the young mother of the girls was so traumatized with shock when the girls were
first removed from her that she has not recovered.

Throughout this case and through the process
of dealing with multiple other mismanaged cases of the Department of Family and
Children Services (DFCS), I have worked with other desperate parents and
children across the state because they have no rights and no one with whom to
turn. I have witnessed ruthless behavior from many caseworkers, social workers,
investigators, lawyers, judges, therapists, and others such as those who
“pick up” the children. I have been stunned by what I have seen and
heard from victims all over the state of Georgia.

In this report, I am focusing on the Georgia
Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS). However, I believe Child Protective
Services nationwide has become corrupt and that the entire system is broken
almost beyond repair. I am convinced parents and families should be warned of
the dangers.

The Department of Child Protective Services,
known as the Department of Family and Children Service (DFCS) in Georgia
and other titles in other states, has become a “protected empire”
built on taking children and separating families. This is not to say that there
are not those children who do need to be removed from wretched situations and
need protection. This report is concerned with the children and parents caught
up in “legal kidnapping,” ineffective policies, and DFCS who do
does not remove a child or children when a child is enduring torment and abuse.
(See Exhibit A and Exhibit B)

In one county in my District, I arranged a
meeting for thirty-seven families to speak freely and without fear. These poor
parents and grandparents spoke of their painful, heart wrenching encounters
with DFCS. Their suffering was overwhelming. They wept and cried. Some did not
know where their children were and had not seen them in years. I had witnessed
the “Gestapo” at work and I witnessed the deceitful conditions
under which children were taken in the middle of the night, out of hospitals,
off of school buses, and out of homes. In one county a private drug testing
business was operating within the DFCS department that required many, many drug
tests from parents and individuals for profit. In another county children were
not removed when they were enduring the worst possible abuse.

Due to being exposed, several employees in a
particular DFCS office were fired. However, they have now been rehired either
in neighboring counties or in the same county again. According to the calls I
am now receiving, the conditions in that county are returning to the same
practices that they had before the light was shown on their deeds.

Having worked with probably 300 cases
statewide, I am convinced there is no responsibility and no accountability in
the system.

I have come to the conclusion:

• that poor parents often times
  are targeted to lose their children because they do not have the
  where-with-all to hire lawyers and fight the system. Being poor does not
  mean you are not a good parent or that you do not love your child, or that
  your child should be removed and placed with strangers;
• that all parents are capable
  of making mistakes and that making a mistake does not mean your children
  are always to be removed from the home. Even if the home is not perfect,
  it is home; and that’s where a child is the safest and where he or
  she wants to be, with family;
• that parenting classes, anger
  management classes, counseling referrals, therapy classes and on and on
  are demanded of parents with no compassion by the system even while they
  are at work and while their children are separated from them. This can
  take months or even years and it emotionally devastates both children and
  parents. Parents are victimized by “the system” that makes a
  profit for holding children longer and “bonuses” for not
  returning children;
• that caseworkers and social
  workers are oftentimes guilty of fraud. They withhold evidence. They
  fabricate evidence and they seek to terminate parental rights. However,
  when charges are made against them, the charges are ignored;
• that the separation of
  families is growing as a business because local governments have grown
  accustomed to having taxpayer dollars to balance their ever-expanding
  budgets;
• that Child Protective Service
  and Juvenile Court can always hide behind a confidentiality clause in
  order to protect their decisions and keep the funds flowing. There should
  be open records and “court watches”! Look who is being paid!
  There are state employees, lawyers, court investigators, court personnel,
  and judges. There are psychologists, and psychiatrists, counselors,
  caseworkers, therapists, foster parents, adoptive parents, and on and on.
  All are looking to the children in state custody to provide job security.
  Parents do not realize that social workers are the glue that holds
  “the system” together that funds the court, the child’s
  attorney, and the multiple other jobs including DFCS’s attorney.
• that The Adoption and the
  Safe Families Act, set in motion by President Bill Clinton, offered cash
  “bonuses” to the states for every child they adopted out of
  foster care. In order to receive the “adoption incentive
  bonuses” local child protective services need more children. They
  must have merchandise (children) that sell and you must have plenty of
  them so the buyer can choose. Some counties are known to give a $4,000
  bonus for each child adopted and an additional $2,000 for a “special
  needs” child. Employees work to keep the federal dollars flowing;
• that there is double dipping.
  The funding continues as long as the child is out of the home. When a
  child in foster care is placed with a new family then “adoption
  bonus funds” are available. When a child is placed in a mental
  health facility and is on 16 drugs per day, like two children of a
  constituent of mine, more funds are involved;
• that there
  are no financial resources and no real drive to unite a family and help
  keep them together;
• that the incentive for social
  workers to return children to their parents quickly after taking them has disappeared
  and who in protective services will step up to the plate and say,
  “This must end! No one, because they are all in the system together
  and a system with no leader and no clear policies will always fail the
  children. Look at the waste in government that is forced upon the tax
  payer;
• that the “Policy
  Manuel” is considered “the last word” for DFCS. However,
  it is too long, too confusing, poorly written and does not take the law
  into consideration;
• that if the lives of children
  were improved by removing them from their homes, there might be a greater
  need for protective services, but today all children are not always safer.
  Children, of whom I am aware, have been raped and impregnated in foster
  care and the head of a Foster Parents Association in my District was
  recently arrested because of child molestation;
• that some parents are even
  told if they want to see their children or grandchildren, they must
  divorce their spouse. Many, who are under privileged, feeling they have no
  option, will divorce and then just continue to live together. This is an
  anti-family policy, but parents will do anything to get their children
  home with them.
• fathers,
  (non-custodial parents) I must add, are oftentimes treated as criminals
  without access to their own children and have child support payments
  strangling the very life out of them;
• that the Foster Parents Bill
  of Rights does not bring out that a foster parent is there only to care
  for a child until the child can be returned home. Many Foster Parents today
  use the Foster Parent Bill of Rights to hire a lawyer and seek to adopt
  the child from the real parents, who are desperately trying to get their
  child home and out of the system;
• that tax dollars are being
  used to keep this gigantic system afloat, yet the victims, parents,
  grandparents, guardians and especially the children, are charged for the
  system’s services.
• that grandparents have called
  from all over the State of Georgia
  trying to get custody of their grandchildren. DFCS claims relatives are contacted,
  but there are cases that prove differently. Grandparents who lose their
  grandchildren to strangers have lost their own flesh and blood. The
  children lose their family heritage and grandparents, and parents too,
  lose all connections to their heirs.
• that The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in 1998 reported
  that six times as many children died in foster care than in the general
  public and that once removed to official “safety”, these
  children are far more likely to suffer abuse, including sexual molestation
  than in the general population.
• That
  according to the California Little Hoover Commission Report in 2003, 30%
  to 70% of the children in California
  group homes do not belong there and should not have been removed from
  their homes.

Please continue:

(See Final Remarks below)

FINAL REMARKS

On my desk are scores of cases of exhausted
families and troubled children. It has been beyond me to turn my back on these
suffering, crying, and sometimes beaten down individuals. We are mistreating
the most innocent. Child Protective Services have become adult centered to the
detriment of children. No longer is judgment based on what the child needs or
who the child wants to be with or what is really best for the whole family; it
is some adult or bureaucrat who makes the decisions, based often on just
hearsay, without ever consulting a family member, or just what is convenient,
profitable, or less troublesome for a director of DFCS.

I have witnessed such
injustice and harm brought to these families that I am not sure if I even
believe reform of the system is possible! The system cannot be trusted. It does
not serve the people. It obliterates families and children simply because it
has the power to do so.

Children deserve better. Families deserve
better. It’s time to pull back the curtain and set our children and
families free.

“Speak up for those
who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak
up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and the needy”
Proverbs 31:8-9

Please continue to read:

Recommendations

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Call for an independent audit
   of the Department of Family and Children’s Services (DFCS) to expose
   corruption and fraud.
2. Activate immediate change. Every
   day that passes means more families and children are subject to being held
   hostage.
3. End the financial incentives
   that separate families.
4. Grant to parents their rights
   in writing.
5. Mandate a search for family
   members to be given the opportunity to adopt their own relatives.
6. Mandate a jury trial where
   every piece of evidence is presented before removing a child from his or
   her parents.
7. Require a warrant or a
   positive emergency circumstance before removing children from their
   parents. (Judge Arthur G. Christean, Utah Bar Journal, January, 1997
   reported that “except in emergency circumstances, including the need
   for immediate medical care, require warrants upon affidavits of probable
   cause before entry upon private property is permitted for the forcible
   removal of children from their parents.”)
8. Uphold the laws when someone
   fabricates or presents false evidence. If a parent alleges fraud, hold a
   hearing with the right to discovery of all evidence.

Continue to Exhibit A

EXHIBIT A

December 5, 2006

Jeremy’s
Story

(
Some names withheld due to future hearings)

As told to Senator Nancy Schaefer by Sandra
(XXXX), a foster parent of Jeremy for 2 ½ years.

My husband and I received Jeremy when he was 2
weeks old and we have been the only parents he has really ever known. He lived
with us for 27 months. (XXXX) is the grandfather of Jeremy, and he is known for
molesting his own children, for molesting Jeremy and has been court ordered not
to be around Jeremy. (XXXX) is the mother of Jeremy, who has been diagnosed to
be mentally ill, and also is known to have molested Jeremy. (XXXX) and
Jeremy’s uncle is a registered sex offender and (XXXX) is the biological
father, who is a drug addict and alcoholic and who continues to be in and out
of jail. Having just described Jeremy’s world, all of these adults are
not to be any part of Jeremy’s life, yet for years DFCS has known that
they are. DFCS had to test (XXXX) (the grandfather) and his son (XXXX) (the
uncle) and (XXXX) to determine the real father. (XXXX) is the biological father
although any of them might have been. In court, it appeared from the case
study, that everyone involved knew that this little boy had been molested by
family members, even by his own mother, (XXXX). In court, (XXX), the mother of
Jeremy, admitted to having had sex with (XXXX) (the grandfather) and (XXXX)
(her own brother) that morning. Judge (XXXX) and DFCS gave Jeremy to his
grandmother that same day. (XXXX), the grandmother, is over 300 lbs., is unable
to drive, and is unable to take care of Jeremy due to physical problems. She
also has been in a mental hospital several times due to her behavior.

Even though it was ordered by the court that
the grandfather (XXXX), the uncle (XXXX) (a convicted sex offender), (XXXX) his
mother who molested him and (XXXX) his biological father, a convicted drug
addict, were not to have anything to do with the child, they all continue to
come and go as they please at (XXXX address), where Jeremy has been “sentenced
to live” for years. This residence has no bathroom and little heat. The
front door and the windows are boarded. (See pictures) This home should have
been condemned years ago. I have been in this home. No child should ever have
to live like this or with such people.

Jeremy was taken from us at age 2 ½ years
after (XXXX) obtained attorney (XXXX), who was the same attorney who
represented him in a large settlement from an auto accident. I am told, that
attorney (XXXX), as grandfather’s attorney, is known to have repeatedly
gotten (XXXX) off of several criminal charges in White County.
This is a matter of record and is known by many in White County.
I have copies of some records. (XXXX grandfather), through (XXXX
attorney’s) work, got (XXXX), the grandmother of Jeremy, legal custody of
Jeremy. (XXXX grandfather) who cannot read or write also got his daughter
(XXXX) and son (XXXX) diagnosed by government agencies as mentally ill. (XXXX
grandfather), through legal channels, has taken upon himself all control of the
family and is able to take possession of any government funding coming to these
people.

It was during this time that Jeremy was to
have a six-month transitional period between (XXXX grandmother) and my family
as we were to give him up. The court ordered agreement was to have been 4 days
at our house and 3 days at (XXXX grandmother). DFCS stopped the visits within 2
weeks. The reason given by DFCS was the child was too traumatized going back
and forth. In truth, Jeremy begged us and screamed never to be taken back to
(XXXX his grandmother) house, which we have on video. We, as a family, have
seen Jeremy in stores time to time with (XXXX grandmother) and the very people
he is not to be around. At each meeting Jeremy continues to run to us wherever
he sees us and it is clear he is suffering. This child is in a desperate
situation and this is why I am writing, and begging you Senator Schaefer, to do
something in this child’s behalf. Jeremy can clearly describe in detail
his sexual molestation by every member of this family and this sexual abuse
continues to this day.

When Jeremy was 5 years of age I took him to
Dr. (XXXX) of Habersham
County who did indeed
agree that Jeremy’s rectum was black and blue and the physical damage to
the child was clearly a case of sexual molestation.

Early in Jeremy’s life, when he was in
such bad physical condition, we took him to Egleston Children
Hospital where at two
months of age therapy was to begin three times a week. DFCS decided that the
(XXXX grandparent family) should participate in his therapy. However, the
therapist complained over and over that the (XXXX grandparent family) would not
even wash their hands and would cause Jeremy to cry during these sessions.
(XXXX the grandmother), after receiving custody no longer allowed the therapy
because it was an inconvenience. The therapist reported that this would be a
terrible thing to do to this child. Therapy was stopped and it was detrimental
to the health of Jeremy.

During (XXXX grandmother) custody, (XXXX
uncle) has shot Jeremy with a BB gun and there is a report at (XXXX) County Sheriff’s
office. There are several amber alerts at Cornelia Wal-Mart, Commerce Wal-Mart,
and a 911 report from (XXXX) County
Sheriff’s
Department when Jeremy was lost. (XXXX grandmother), to teach Jeremy a lesson,
took thorn bush limbs and beat the bottoms of his feet. Jeremy’s feet got
infected and his feet had to be lanced by Dr. (XXXX). Then Judy called me to
pick him up after about 4 days to take back him to the doctor because of intense
pain. I took Jeremy to Dr. (XXXX) in Gainesville.
Dr. (XXXX) said surgery was needed immediately and a cast was added. After
returning home, (XXXX), his grandfather and (XXXX), his uncle, took him into
the hog lot and allowed him to walk in the filth.

Jeremy’s feet became so infected for a
2nd time that he was again taken back to Dr. (XXXX) and the hospital. No one in
the hospital could believe this child’s living conditions.

Jeremy is threatened to keep quiet and not say
anything to anyone. I have videos, reports, arrest records and almost anything
you might need to help Jeremy.

Please call my husband, Wendell, or me at any
time.

Sandra and (XXXX) husband (XXXX)

Continue - Exhibit B

EXHIBIT B

Failure
of DFCS

to
remove six desperate children

A brief report regarding six children that
Habersham County DFCS director failed to remove as disclosed to Senator Nancy
Schaefer by Sheriff Deray Fincher of Habersham
County.

Sheriff Deray Fincher, Chief of Police Don
Ford and Chief Investigator Lt. Greg Bowen Chief called me to meet with them
immediately, which I did on Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Sheriff Fincher, after contacting the Director
of Habersham County DFCS several times to remove six children from being
horribly abused, finally had to get a court order to remove the children
himself with the help of two police officers.

The children, four boys and two girls, were
not just being abused; they were being tortured by a monster father.

The six children and a live in girl friend
were terrified of this man, the abuser. The children never slept in a bed, but
always on the floor. The place where they lived was unfit for human habitation.

The father on one occasion hit one of the boys
across his head with a bat and cut the boy’s head open. The father then
proceeded to hold the boy down and sew up the child’s head with a needle
and red thread. However, even with beatings and burnings, this is only a
fraction of what the father did to these children and to the live-in
girlfriend.

Sheriff Fincher has pictures of the abuse and
condition of one of the boys and at the writing of this report, he has the
father in jail in Habersham
County.

It should be noted that when the DFCS director
found out that Sheriff Fincher was going to remove the children, she called the
father and warned him to flee.

This is not the only time this DFCS director
failed to remove a child when she needed to do so. (See Exhibit A)

The egregious acts and abhorrent behavior of
officials who are supposed to protect children can no longer be tolerated.

Senator Nancy Schaefer

50th District of Georgia