Posted on 10/17/2005 12:14:30 PM PDT by Carry_Okie
Interested Parents,
Tuesday, October 18th at the Biltmore Hotel & Conference Center – 7:00 – 8:30pm, we are holding a meeting to inform, educate, and rally the public around the egregious abuse of power by the Santa Clara Social Services, Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) – Child Protective Services (CPS) as they attempt to rip my family, and many others apart. The Biltmore is located just south of Montague Expressway, east of highway 101 at 2151 Laurelwood Rd, Santa.
At issue are three key points that will be of interest to you as a parent:
Because we are home schoolers, we initially consulted the HSLDA who advised us not to allow CPS into our home or to interview our children unsupervised. We were further advised to seek the services of a local attorney to ensure that our rights as parents were not violated as we work to clear our names related to the allegations of child abuse, which we did.
The DFCS, as a result of our refusal to allow them to interrogate our young children without supervision, together with the fact that we home school and therefore they are unable to gain access to our children without our permission (as is commonly done when children attend school outside of the home), went to court and swore out a Protective Custody Warrant to force themselves into our home, to have their way with our children, and to remove my oldest son into their protective custody. Today, my wife and children are in hiding to protect our family, in a location not even know to me, while I have been engaged in a very distressing and disruptive court battle in an effort to have the Protective Custody Warrant quashed, a request that was denied last Friday.
To date, no one at DFCS has been interested in understanding our unique parenting needs, the resources we have used and the third parties who can speak to quality of our parenting, and love that we have for of all of our children. Their action, based on our stance of “tell us what you are concerned about so we can give you reasonable access to our family to resolve them”, has been to take the child and ask questions later. They have leveraged the courts in this effort.
Since DFCS has no interest, nor apparent requirements to ascertain the facts before they have ripped our family apart, we’ve decided to share them with you. Perhaps when you speak out someone in the agency will finally listen to how they are about to destroy yet another family in an effort to “protect” a child that does not need protection and initiate policy based changes. This is why I urge you to come out Tuesday evening! This is a completely free event paid for out of my paycheck.
Thank you for your support,
Mark I. Johnson
And, why wasn't the baby sitter herself clued in that her little charge might decide to go pee in his room rather than visiting the toilet?
And the father of the child is being extremely reticent with those facts.
The Father is not on this thread that is a few hours old. It appears to me that you made the assumption/speculation that the father is "reticent with those facts."
Thanks for further highlighting The Point: So much speculation emanating from so little preliminary facts.
B.S.? Oh, maybe.......but I highly doubt it. I've seen and heard enough horror stories of CPS abuses that make this example pale in comparison.
$15/hour bureaucrats with minimal education given the sort of power allowed CPS units around the country tend to abuse of such power on a regular basis. They haven't a clue what they're really in their positions to do; most have the IQ of yer average burger flipper.
The devastation wrought by these so-called "social services" types is incredible. Yet.....REAL abuse abounds underneath their noses and goes unchallenged.
B.S.? Hardly.
"The Father is not on this thread that is a few hours old."
No, but his email is, and it is rather devoid of facts.
"Thanks for further highlighting The Point: So much speculation emanating from so little preliminary facts."
And the father's email did nothing to establish any but the sketchiest facts.
To be fair one ought to look at the overall statistics - even given the cuckoos in the mix, per capita a child at pubskewl is at greater risk than the same in home school. Also the record of these CPS-appointed foster homes is scarier than Halloween.
it's not just that. the kid has a quack diagnosis that usually leads to quack treatments.
It is just that which the CPS took action on. I repeat what that is: "This case: A 16 year-old babysitter that was in the house one time smelled urine and saw inconsistencies. in the boy's room. Inconsistencies could be anything. Perhaps the room was spotless yet the smell of urine was inconsistent with that."113
You're tightening the noose.
You're obviously not a homeschooler. We've homeschooled our kids since LONG before it became popular (about 21 years now; we have seven kids).
I think I know what I'm talking about and you don't on this topic.
The call was proper given the circumstances.
You are lucky they use warrants in your area...
In mine, just suspicion of welfare of children get the cops into my house barging in with threats of calling my landlord to get me evicted and then get the key and enter the house by force.
As far as smell of urine, they can use anything. They used the fact in my case that my cat's litter box was not cleaned (it had just done its job).
The point is that we threaten their jobs. Raising awareness of the corrupt justice/education system yields to threat of their jobs. They'd rather see parents get whacked by robbers and them keep their jobs than parents alive and firing the whole lot of them.
What can we say? Ever since abortion for jobs, it's like that everywhere...kill or render miserable whoever threatens jobs of people or whoever could be harassed enough to cough up money to lawyers and to their system.
The best option so far is to raise awareness and prove that they are covering an agenda or something up, as related to raising awareness of government corruption and public school.
You would think that DCFS would be familiar with RAD and once investigating the documentation of his adoption and his medical situation, that would satisfy their concern. I hope there's nothing more to the story but it sounds like a busy body sticking her nose in where it doesn't belong. What a shame. There should be no ripping apart of the family once they see the medical info on the boy.
What I find funny is that the Left is quite happy with the right to privacy BEFORE the child is born, but not after? LOL!
Amazing. It borders on criminal that DCFS would have proof of the fas and RAD and prevent the therapist from testifying, the person uniquely qualified to verify the family's story and make them whole again. It seems like a homeschooling witch hunt. Just on the word of a busybody.
A teacher at my son's grade school went through a similar hell a few years ago when her youngest broke 3 bones in a short time. Her son has brittle bone disease, despite the testimony of experts appointed by the court (after her own medical doctors were prevented from testifying), they still pursued and hounded them for 3 or 4 years until declaring them not guilty.
What noose am I tightening? Baby sitter has concerns. Someone calls gov't. Gov't contact Dad who refuses them entry. Tells them that kid has quack diagnosis. Gov't knows that quack diagnosis leads to quack treatments. Dad hides kids from gov't. What do you expect them to do?
Since modern science isn't, why would you expect DCFS to be?
They do not give a hoot about child welfare or dead kids...
Welfare shmelfare, these CPS hoodlum women are pro-choice for their jobs yet go after a smell of urine in someone's house....
FOR THE NTH TIME!
ALL THEY CARE IS ABOUT THEIR JOBS!
Abortion for mother's job is the motto....persecute homeschooled kids and christians who raise awareness of the corrupt justice system is their second motto.
They suffer from Munchausen syndrome by proxy for the most part: A DEAD KID FROM TIME TO TIME MEANS NEWSPAPERS CALLING FOR MORE CPS FUNDING.
These are sick people. They are not normal. There is something wrong with their lack of consciousness of what truly constitutes abuse and what does not. The system is warped.
In my area there is so much cover up of true abuse and child exploitation by women with kids out of wedlocks, it's pathetic. Step mothers are also known to be on rampage, but domestic violence is called upon men, not kids whacked by stepmothers, only if the man tries to protect them.
These people are nuts.
So have I. But, CPS being abusive does not mean that abuse does not exist.
Therefore anyone that CPS investigates is innocent?
We expect them to use juries or fair investigations of all sides.
Give me a grand jury and I indict you 3/4 of public schools and Family court workers on charges of cover up, perjuries, obstructions of justice, child endangerment and abuse... PERIOD.
We don't even know that this kis has RAD. It is very rare and commonly misdiagnosed. Plus, a lot of people diagnosed with RAD wind up with quack therapy. The dad could clear all this up very quickly with a follow up email if he wanted to.
Look, I agree with you. I understand all the CPS abuses. However, it is not a logical statement that because CPS accuses someone, and CPS is guily of abuses, that the person is innocent. If someone is going to post an email looking for public support, than I am going to scrutinize it.
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