A Child Legally Kidnapped in Broward County, Florida, as Systematic as it is Tragic

Genny Werner is a caring and kind mother who works very hard to meet her needs. She has held steady, high pressure jobs and is a kind person who no one has ever made an allegation against. A few years ago, she got married and later had an extended vacation in Florida with her husband. That’s where her nightmare began.

Yomin Postelnik is a rabbi and activist who used to live in South Florida and connected Genny with Shulevitz. A former foster parent, he’s the only one to have actually filed a report against JAFCO with the state, detailing multiple cases of religious discrimination.

Postelnik relays credible and exact accounts of habitual and gross discrimination or other bad play on the part of JAFCO.

Raizy Iskowitz was taken with her three siblings when she was 10. She had met Sarah Franco when the latter was a guidance counselor at her school. Raizy’s parents were told that they could see the children omce a week. Efforts were made to prevent each and every visit and months would go by before the parents could actually see their children.

There was, however, a problem – at least for JAFCO. Raizy’s parents maintained an interest in their children.

The author does not like JAFCO. Other than that, there is little or no context. It is impossible to figure out exactly what is going on.

Which children were taken from which parents, for what reasons? How old are the children now and when they were taken originally?

This story is soooo poorly written it is indecipherable. Doesn’t explain why a child was taken from this married woman. So much is not said

I don’t know if this group is a legit entity or not. This story doesn’t help me be able to decide

It’s certainly extensive but it does have a lot of facts and about three different stories in there. Here is the cliff notes version:
- Mother gives birth in hospital
- Social Service agency decides to take baby because they claim mother is slow, even though she’s not and holds a steady job.
- acceptable foster parent found, social service agency rejects them and puts kid with their donor
- social service agency gives mother tasks as per state law, she completes all but they keep adding tasks
- they tell potential foster parents that the mother is never getting the child back right at the beginning, when the legal goal was still reunification
- they’ve done this in other cases
- they have a deep animus to religion - taking the child from a religious mother and forcing them into a secular family
- they hoard teens and fundraise off of them, refusing to place them in any homes
- they took 4 children and falsely accused the father of abuse in order to keep them and adopt one out to a rich donor
- those kids really were abused in their foster home

Don’t know why people would skim through it and then complain that something of that magnitude should be written in 300 words or less.

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