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  • Dad sues Fayette County for barring him from kids

    06/16/2008 10:12:12 AM PDT · by steel_resolve · 13 replies · 70+ views
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Monday, June 16, 2008 | Paula Reed Ward
    A Smithfield man this morning filed a federal lawsuit against Fayette County Children and Youth Services alleging that the agency removed his children from him -- and has forbidden contact with them for nearly a year -- even though there were no allegations of any kind of abuse against them. Filed on his behalf by the American Civil Liberties Foundation of Pennsylvania, the lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order that would prohibit CYS from placing -- or threatening to place -- his children, who are staying with his parents, in foster care. The plaintiff is listed as "John Doe" in...
  • "Saved" by the System (for all the Anti-CPS advocates)

    10/16/2002 1:04:32 PM PDT · by KimaraChan · 5 replies · 597+ views
    ColorLines ^ | Fall 2002 | Akiba Solomon
    It's been awhile since Rhonda* climbed out of the quicksand of child protective services. But the Washington, D.C., mother and wife is still reeling from the six months she was separated from her two-year-old daughter and her newborn twins. For starters, Rhonda, 21, is plagued by self-doubt. Any mother would be if she dropped a seven-week-old preemie fresh out of the hospital. "In retrospect, I wish I had just left him laying down and went and got his bottle out of the kitchen," she says in an exhausted monotone. "I was used to picking him up but I think I...