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Did California just legalize child abduction?
American Thinker ^ | 10/16/25 | Kevin Finn

Posted on 10/17/2025 7:24:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Imagine going to pick up your child from school and being told that he’d already been picked up earlier in the day. The school doesn’t know who the person was that took your child with him, but he filled out the state-required paperwork, and so the school was required to release your child into his custody. The police can’t help because it was all legal.

This situation is now entirely plausible in California, where Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 495 into law on October 12. This bill has sparked outrage among conservatives, parental rights advocates, and religious leaders, as it clearly endangers children and undermines God-given parental authority.

This legislation was ostensibly framed as a safeguard for immigrant families, but it opens dangerous loopholes that could facilitate child-trafficking and abuse. It demands urgent action from parents and concerned citizens.

AB 495 expands the use of the Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit, which allows any adult claiming kinship “within the fifth degree” to make medical and educational decisions for a child without parental consent or verification. The California Family Council notes that this affidavit requires no notarization or background checks, meaning any stranger could easily claim to be a relative, access a child, and even enroll him in another school.

Kristen Waggoner of ADF Legal warns that this could enable predators to exploit children, including separating them from parents who oppose controversial medical interventions like chemical castration or the surgical mutilation of their genitals. Pastor Jack Hibbs has called the bill “demonic,” urging parents to flee California’s public schools for homeschooling or private alternatives to protect their children.

This aligns with broader concerns about California’s policies under Newsom, which conservatives (normal Americans) argue prioritize ideological agendas over child safety, especially given the lack of safeguards against fraud or abuse.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: ab495; abduction; california; childabuse; children; crime; intercession; kidnapping; newsom; newsomfornia; parentalrights

1 posted on 10/17/2025 7:24:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Insane. Creating laws to protect illegal aliens that also place children at of predators. Liberalism is a mental disorder.


2 posted on 10/17/2025 7:30:58 AM PDT by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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To: SeekAndFind

Scary.


3 posted on 10/17/2025 7:33:48 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“The bill’s supporters claim that it protects immigrant families from deportation-related separations...”

How?


4 posted on 10/17/2025 7:42:57 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: SeekAndFind

It also emboldens child removal when the parents don’t vote the right way.


5 posted on 10/17/2025 7:44:29 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOOOOOOOOPID!..................


6 posted on 10/17/2025 7:48:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Made In The USA

Also enables abortions or sex changes. “... to make medical and educational decisions for a child without parental consent or verification.”


7 posted on 10/17/2025 7:59:17 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: Made In The USA

Liberalism is EVIL. But they gotta have something small to stick it in.


8 posted on 10/17/2025 8:01:46 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: SeekAndFind

When President Trump shut down the border, the democRATS lost access to hundreds (thousands?) of young children. They had to replace them somehow. It comes as no surprise that Newscum signed the legislation. Like many Leftists, without a conscience or a soul, anything is possible.

Remember, one of the staunchest democRAT supporters is N.A.M.B.L.A.

After I type out the meaning of each letter above, I will probably have to be excused, and also obtain a new keyboard.

Well, here goes

North American Man Boy Love Association

Excuse me while I puke.


9 posted on 10/17/2025 8:12:54 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: Made In The USA

“Insane.”

I generally shrink from the radical and hyperbolic but it’s gotten to the point where I would say, at least rhetorically, that sending one’s child to public school is insane.

Stupidity alone doesn’t adequately explain it.

And it probably applies to private schooling in places like CA.


10 posted on 10/17/2025 8:17:43 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

At this point in history, why anyone would want to live in CA is beyond me to comprehend. Washington, Oregon and California all need to be cleaned out of their immoral and bankrupt leadership. Those states have clearly adopted the communist manifesto as their guidebook.


11 posted on 10/17/2025 8:32:39 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: SeekAndFind

California just legalized sodomite abduction of children


12 posted on 10/17/2025 8:33:55 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SeekAndFind

YES.


13 posted on 10/17/2025 8:44:43 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: SeekAndFind
Did California just legalize child abduction?

They legalize child rape a couple of years back.

14 posted on 10/17/2025 9:39:24 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: SeekAndFind

One word to parents in California...MOVE!


15 posted on 10/17/2025 9:51:10 AM PDT by lula (God is in control.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like somebody really screwed up in Newsom land. This needs to be corrected NOW & the guilty punished.


16 posted on 10/17/2025 10:07:21 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

If those involved in these abominations do not repent they will find out the hard way exactly what Our Lord thinks of their antics....something about millstones and eternal wrath....


17 posted on 10/17/2025 3:08:23 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jack Hibbs has been fighting for kids in California public schools for a while. A few months ago he was exposing the porn books for kids in the school and public libraries. I don’t know how that turned out but here’s the podcast about it.

Evil is on the move
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G7gKMACXQUo

American Christians need to take a stand and start fighting back. We’ve been brainwashed to sit back and watch events happening around us, munching popcorn like life is a TV show or movie. We wait for Trump or someone else to fix everything. The truth is we are allowing evil to take over by our inaction. We can’t even be bothered to vote in midterms.


18 posted on 10/17/2025 4:05:31 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi
I find it interesting that they keep on being lit on fire and they have not gotten the hint.


19 posted on 10/17/2025 5:12:28 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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