Another Outrage from Child Protection Services

Emial | 10/17/05 | Mark I. Johnson

[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:

1. Our rights as parents to raise and educate our children as we deem appropriate within the law, free from the harassment and abuse of Social Services,

2. Our rights as adoptive parents / families to seek and utilize resources that will help solidify the bonds of attachment which are essential to a successful adoption, and

3. The need for change in the policies of DFCS that will position them to embrace and support families rather than vilify parents and destroy families.

Synopsis of our Situation – The Johnson Family (my family) - is currently under siege by the Santa Clara Social Services, Department of Children and Family Services (DFCS) – Child Protective Services group (sometimes referred to as Emergency Response). The department’s intense interest in my family stems from an allegation of child abuse related to our oldest son who was adopted at birth, and who suffers from drug and alcohol abuse in-utero and a condition called Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). It is my understanding that the mother of a baby sitter made the report after talking with her daughter who has never met my adopted son, and only sat one time for my two younger children for one day in our home. The sitter observed inconsistencies the furnishing of my oldest son’s room and observed the smell of urine. On this basis this, the mother, who has never met any member of my family, or stepped foot in our home, or discussed the circumstances surrounding our son, reported us to the police as child abusers.

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

[JudgemAll]

In your thinking hidding Jews under a Nazi regime is illegal if it does not follow some "professional" and "accountable" protocol, then you need to get a clue..

These people came for their child and should have presumption of innocence there. They'll come for you too.

That said, in the current climate forbidding juries to decide cases in "closed door 'privacy' family courts", parents letting Cps touch their kids are either incompetent, don't know better, are outright irresponsible cowards or are people courageously testing the system for the rest of us.

These people fit in the latter category, but it depends what your intentions are. If your prior intentions are not to test the system, then obviously you have an agenda.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Well, with you reduced to blubbering about Nazis, I hereby invoke Godwin's Law, and you lose.

That's right, JudgemAll, you lose! And let me tell what you didn't win: a twenty-volume set of the Encyclopedia International, a case of Turtle Wax, and a year's supply of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat. But that's not all! You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people! And you brought shame and disgrace on your family name for generations to come! You don't get to come back tomorrow! You don't even get a lousy copy of our home game! You're a complete loser!!

[70times7]

I am never bothered with a debate supported by facts. A spirited disagreement is a chance to find weaknesses in your ideas, seek critical documentation, test new ways of framing a concept, and learn what motivates your opponent. With a credible person like Rodney, the differences are usually a matter of emphasis rather than principle. Such instances are often opportunities to find real solutions.

It's what this forum is supposed to be.

You have pinpointed what I enjoy the most about this forum. Very well said.

[razorback-bert]

placemark to finish reading later

[JudgemAll]

1. Ah! Make me feel responsible for Godwyn. Man. you're irrelevant.

2. And this is not about winning or losing the argument either.

3. The real losers are those who not merely lose to CPS but lend their otherwise untaxable arts and hearts to their unilateral powers.

[JudgemAll]

, I can corroborate (and have already posted) that children in inner cities do not get the services they need while middle class parents undergo a systematic shakedown.

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You can say that again and again. CPS will squeeze for easy money to be squeezed: the regular working taxpayer. They won't go after dangerous dealers who hide well their illicit earnings, and in fact they might hire them for foster care! The reason is that a child made sick by the system creates custodial troubles down the line which allow them to yet come back to unwitting adoptive parents. It's a child meat business and easy side-taxes for their employ. Problem children or other members of the family become agents of the squeezing business: what they cannot get they let CPS get. It's institutionalized bigotry and racism through deresponsibilizing themselves and true abusers.

[Bear_Slayer]

I personally know of a russian fellow whose 8th child was removed by CPS, because they felt the family was unable to care for so many children. The 8th was premature and needed extra care.

While the child was in foster care, CPS began secret procedings to adopt the child to an english speaking family. The russian found out in time and was able to secure a Christian attourney and force CPS to cancel the adoption. However, CPS canceled on the condition that the child remain in foster care, until CPS determined that the family was qualified to receive the child. The family agreed, if the child could be placed in a relative's home. CPS reluctantly agreed and the child was placed with a SIL, over 12 hours away.

CPS sucks.

[Carry_Okie]

To put a face with a story, here is a video site wherein Mr. Johnson expresses his gratitude to his many supporters.