Couple are jailed for killing child because he was not perfect (A whopping 5 year sentence)

Sad to report it was a horrible experience which affects me to this day, despite years and years of active work on the damage done to me by the infant adoption system in 1968 - 69.

Mine was one of those forced adoptions in the 1960s where I was locked up into an unwed mothers' "home" by my parents, stripped of everything - freedom, clothes, money, all contact with the outside world , even my real name - and exposed to random psychological attacks on my core self.

My labor was induced and my child was pulled out of me with forceps while I was tied with chemical and leather restraints to a delivery table.

My child was taken away immediately and secreted somewhere.
I never saw or even heard my baby cry.

Since I had plans to raise my child myself, and was refusing to sign away my rights, I was threatened with even more harm to my physical well being if I did not sign surrender papers. I was threatened with removal of any of my further children if I ever told anyone what happened.
I was fifty years old before I actually knew in my soul I was not going to lose any more children to adoption...of course, by then, my kids were already all grown.

Now my kids are all out on their own and I am telling my story.

I have spent all the intervening years working on simple recovery from the damage done to me by the infant adoption system. Needless to say, my husband and children - who had absolutely nothing to do with my original trauma - have suffered as well, because I was damaged and in constant pain.

I can not even begin to tell you how hard it was on my child to have been adopted. My child was ruined by separation from our family and placement by an incompetent, psychopathic social worker with sexual issues of her own. My child was sold to people who had no business caring for a pet rock - terrible morals, and plenty of psychosexual and criminal issues of their own.

My interest in CPS is an extension of my own experience.
CAPTA turned up about the same time as Roe v Wade. As the number of unwed teens placing babies took a dive, the folks who had been employed in the maternity homes and adoption agencies moved out of that arena and into the
pursuit of intact but poor families.

These people need to be held accountable to the communities they purport to serve.

You and I know what the game is, but the public does not.

Until the public takes steps to protect itself, IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE.

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