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You state yourself, you would not let CPS demand free access to your home, same as Mr. Johnson in the story did. This in turn would bring the wrath of this grossly overfunded arm of government after you with everything they have to throw at you. This is, presuming you are a law-abiding citizen. If you were a drug dealer and/or felon, you'd be left alone because the CPS worker would be afraid she might get killed dealing with your truly abused children. But, if you're a regular joe, unlikely to resort to violence, God help ya.

Me, I wimped out and signed the documents and gave them free access to my home. I could not afford an attorney to deal with them, but more importantly, my health and well-being coudn't survice openning another front in the child custody battle. It's utter crap that I had to waive my constitutionally protected rights just to stop government from destroying my family.

How about we unfund these unconstitutional Federally mandated organizations and go back to letting local law enforcement deal with these problems? They'll be a lot less homeschoolers and law-abiding citizens being shaken down and harrassed by government. In many counties, these agencies exist to serve the whim and will of divorce attorneys. This "for the children" notion is utter B.S.

Look, this Mr. Johnson might be totally innocent. But we don't know, and there are a bunch of indications that perhaps he is not.

What indications? All we know is a teenage girl alleged the abuse and the police found nothing. Did I miss something else?

How about we unfund these unconstitutional Federally mandated organizations and go back to letting local law enforcement deal with these problems?

Fine with me. There needs to be some provisions for dealing with abusive parents, but I don't see why detective units dedicated to it who operate under normal criminal law can't take care of it.

What indications? All we know is a teenage girl alleged the abuse and the police found nothing. Did I miss something else?

Look, this is a message board, not a court of law, and: Babyitter says room smells like urine and is furnished weird. Dad, in his email, gives clintonian statment about room furnishing. Dad refuses access to CPS. Dad says kid is diagnosed with a syndrome that is so exceedingly rare that it is usually a quack diagnosis. Dad sends kids into hiding. Sorry, I understand that CPS operates in an unconstitutional manner, but it sill sounds like somewthing is wrong here (besides CPS)

"How about we unfund these unconstitutional Federally mandated organizations and go back to letting local law enforcement deal with these problems?"

The problem is that local law enforcement did a really bad job of dealing with these problems until there was a dead child.

A dead child, in my opinion, is a suboptimal outcome. If there is no mechanism to prevent it...well, when it happens, then public retribution must follow, and said retribution must be swift and merciless--on a par with shooting the parent right there in the courtroom, right after the verdict is read.