Posted on 07/09/2009 2:29:51 PM PDT by mombyprofession
MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) - Daniel Nichols, who accidentally ran over his 5-year-old son while the boy lay sleeping in a tent, says the state is threatening to take away his children.
A Muskegon County Department of Human Services worker visited Nichols' wife Thursday at the hospital, where his son is recovering, and told her a campground was no place for children to live, Nichols told 24 Hour News 8.
"She went to the hospital and told my wife that she doesn't think it's acceptable for us to be staying in the campground, which we weren't staying in the campground, we were just camping for a week or so, and then we were going to get a kitchenette," Nichols said.
Nichols' son, Mason, is recovering at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids. Mason suffered no permanent injuries, though he has fluid in one of his lungs, Nichols said.
"My son is going to be fine; he's smiling; he's happy about it," he said. "He knows Daddy's sorry. He tells me all the time -- I was there all day yesterday -- 'Be strong, Dad. It's OK. It was an accident. It was an accident. It's not your fault.' "
Nichols, his wife, Ardist, and their children, Mason, and Jasmine, 2, started staying in a 9-by-12-foot tent at the P.J. Hoffmaster State Park campground in late June -- on a rustic site, with no electricity -- for $18 a day.
They had no place else to stay, he said.
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This is what those evil people at Child Protection Services do.
They steal the children of the weakest among us so that they can run their children mills and have a new supply of kids for the gays.
As the economy implodes, this will increase. They don’t want to lose their CPS jobs.
You can rent a house here for that...
If he was illegal, he could get all kinds of aid. Don’t ya know. Ask Nancy Pelosi for a comment.
The social workers are ready for the feast. As people become unemployed and lose income sources, these scum of the earth will come and take your kids. And of course, you have no money so you have no resources for a lawyer.
BTW: When children are taken away, court appointed lawyers have one interest: give the judge whatever he wants, give the social workers whatever they ask for. Kangaroo courts in action. Even a paid lawyer has to be viewed with suspicion, especially one that is buddies with the other court appointed lawyers.
*SNORT*. People pay a lot of money to live in tents, to camp out with no electricity or running water. For God’s sake, our cabin in Maine has no running water - we lug it up from the lake and have graduated from an outhouse to a composting toilet - and we’ve spent every summer there for 4 generations now. During the Depression, hundreds of families lived in campgrounds while parents were on the move looking for work. Is it ideal? Is it a place you want your family to live indefinitely? Of course not. How about helping the family obtain some basic housing instead of taking the kids away?
Makes me sad and angry. I wonder if this gentleman has a place where he can take donations
The last thing that the clueless CPS workers want is a happy intact family.
Their jobs DEPEND on taking children away.
“They steal the children of the weakest among us so that they can run their children mills and have a new supply of kids for the gays.”
WORTH REPEATING
It has happened to our grandchildren. 16 months an counting. Total family lock out based on social worker lies.
Par for the course with the Dept of Human Services in MI. I used to work closely with them when I was a prosecutor in MI and had many a shouting match with a crazy social worker who did not understand that the rules of evidence or the fact that there was nothing there to take the kids away. Further, they try to take kids away to keep the foster care system greased.
You can purchase a manufactured home with VA. He may not know that.
You can purchase a manufactured home with VA. He may not know that.
If he is a disabled veteran, then the DAV or any of the service org.'s should be able to step in & help out& and ; start the paper work on getting his disabilities payments going! We need to step up as a community to take care of one of our own! SEMPER FI & carry on!
I completely agree with you, except I think it's a new supply of kids for anyone who can pay their price.
And many here will say you're overstating the case, but that is EXACTLY what they do: they steal the children of the weakest, for their children mills. I personally know several families who have been targeted by CPS.
another article w more info and a video:
http://military.rightpundits.com/2009/07/09/daniel-nichols-iraq-war-vet-custody-battle-after-a-michigan-campground-accident/
Lord, please put your hedge of protection around George from New England’s grandkids. Keep their hearts on your love, Lord. We know that you have them in your hand, and NO ONE can remove those who are yours, Lord. Release these innocents back to those who love them Lord Jesus, Creator of Heaven and Earth. Amen.
There are no churches in Michigan?
Summertime in Michigan is usually OK outdoors ~ I've paid good money to camp there like that.
He needs more than that though.
Sure there are churches, but they don't always hear of needy situations. Often churches don't even hear of the needs within their own congregations.
Not to be critical and I know you didn't mean it that way, but that sounds like Scrooge:
'Are there no prisons?"
'Plenty of prisons,' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
'And the Union workhouses.' demanded Scrooge. 'Are they still in operation?'
'Both very busy, sir.'
'Oh. I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,' said Scrooge. 'I'm very glad to hear it.'
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