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For Frances Schulz, the mystery of what happened to her foster daughter Cherie Westell has been painful."Not knowing is full of anxiety,” Ms Schulz said.The 15-year-old was days away from celebrating her 16th birthday when she went to the dentist in Wantirna South, in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, on December 12 2000.She attended the appointment, then walked to a phone box to call home.That was the last time anyone heard from her.Read more ... Add new comment
ACLU of Illinois reacts to 35 DCFS employees accused of falsifying reports and testimony since 2014
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- Created: Wednesday, 03 April 2019 18:43
- Written by Alecomm2
A recent media investigation looked at the past five years of Inspector General reports on the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and found 35 employees had actions taken against them for either falsifying information or falsely testifying in court.
The below statement can be attributed to Claire Stewart, Staff Counsel at the ACLU of Illinois:
“The public reporting that 35 employees working for or on behalf of DCFS have been disciplined in recent years for falsifying reports and testimony is appalling. How could the Department fail to address its chronic failure to retain a sufficient workforce, and its inadequate supervisory practices, after uncovering such wrongdoing? The answer is that leadership has careened from one crisis to another rather than doing the hard work to fix its fundamentally broken practices.
ACLU of Illinois reacts to 35 DCFS employees accused of falsifying reports and testimony since 2014
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- Category: Child Protection USA media and newspaper articles
- Created: Wednesday, 03 April 2019 18:43
- Written by Alecomm2
A recent media investigation looked at the past five years of Inspector General reports on the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and found 35 employees had actions taken against them for either falsifying information or falsely testifying in court.
The below statement can be attributed to Claire Stewart, Staff Counsel at the ACLU of Illinois:
“The public reporting that 35 employees working for or on behalf of DCFS have been disciplined in recent years for falsifying reports and testimony is appalling. How could the Department fail to address its chronic failure to retain a sufficient workforce, and its inadequate supervisory practices, after uncovering such wrongdoing? The answer is that leadership has careened from one crisis to another rather than doing the hard work to fix its fundamentally broken practices.
When CPS kidnaps children for money
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- Category: Child Protection USA media and newspaper articles
- Created: Thursday, 13 February 2020 23:37
- Written by Selwyn Duke - New American
“If I have it my way, you’ll never see your mommy and daddy again.” These cruel words were reportedly uttered to eight-year-old Jaxon Adams by a Missouri doctor working closely with Child Protective Services. While we don’t know if this statement will prove prophetic, the fact is that some children will never see their parents again — or, at least, not for a very long time — because of CPS.And it has been alleged that many of these youngsters are essentially kidnapped — for money.
Over 1,200 Minnesota parents are suing to shut down Child Protective Services
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- Category: USA Child Protection
- Created: Friday, 08 June 2018 17:18
- Written by Carey Wedler
(CW) — A group of parents in Minnesota called Stop CPS From Legally Kidnapping Children has filed a request in federal court to “shut down the state’s child protection services, stop serial abuse of families and overturn the unconstitutional laws by which the agency operates,” according to a press release published Tuesday.The group, led by Dwight Mitchell, a father who says his son was illegally taken from him for 22 months, first filed a civil rights complaint in April, and this week they vocally publicized their call to shut down the child services agency, which they claim engages in systemic lying, withholding information, and fabricating evidence. They are asking the federal court to suspend the state’s agency from enforcing child protection laws, and according to a petition signed by almost 5,000 people, are also demanding changes to the laws themselves.
ACT child protection laws 'well short' of human rights standards, Human Rights Commissioner says
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- Category: Child Protection ACT media and newspaper articles
- Created: Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:18
- Written by Dan Jervis-Bardy - Canberra Times
The ACT's child protection laws "fall well short" of human rights standards, a Legislative Assembly inquiry has heard.
ACT Human Rights commissioner Helen Watchirs delivered the damning assessment during evidence to the Assembly's inquiry into information sharing in the territory's child protection system.The inquiry was sparked by the ACT government's wrongful removal of five Aboriginal children from their mother in 2013. The case was settled in court early last year, ending the mother's five-year battle to have her children returned to her care.
New child abuse claims about former Families SA staff
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- Category: Children in residential care facilities Australia
- Created: Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:12
- Written by Stephanie Richards - In Daily
New abuse allegations have emerged from the former disgraced Families SA, including claims children in residential care were asked to film sexual activity between peers and staff, and told to have an abortion because of their race.
The allegations are revealed in a report published by Guardian for Children and Young People Penny Wright following interviews her office conducted between 2017 and 2019 with children and young people in state residential care.
According to the report, one young person said she was subjected to “significant and consistent threats to safety by residential care workers, particularly with regard to sexual safety” sometime between 2006 and 2016 when Families SA was the authority in charge of child protection in the state.
“This young person described several incidents of being sexually threatened by workers, including one worker saying he would like to get into bed with her,” the report states.
- Abusers Organisation:: Families SA
- Type of Abuse:: Sexual
The little known dirty tricks of DCFS/CPS/DSS that are hidden from view
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- Category: Tactics caseworkers will use against you
- Created: Saturday, 05 November 2011 20:13
- Written by Alecomm2
You will not find this “DIRTY TRICK” section in any DCFS/CPS/DSS manual, but it ought to be. These tricks are well known by all DCFS/CPS/DSS agents and they use them and pass them on as oral tradition. Forget the law and regulations. They do! Their tactics are questionable and they have all the power. They don’t fear the law and DCFS has everyone, even the judges and lawyers, scared of that power. DCFS/CPS/DSS doesn’t seem to know the difference between “actual abuse” and “minor harm.”
The code of ethics visited upon the foster caretakers is far different than those enforced for biological parents. True…there are those few foster homes that practice abuse to the children they serve and it is agreed that these homes should be closed and the caretakers dealt with severely. But that is NOT the norm with foster caretakers.
Governments removing children from families on inadequate and fraudulent grounds
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- Category: History of Child Protection
- Created: Saturday, 02 December 2017 13:34
- Written by Christoper Booker via SaveYourChildren.in
Since the 1980s, Britain has been at the cutting edge of experiments with child protection laws – it was one of the first countries to introduce public-private partnerships in child protection, and today its child protection system is heavily commercialised.
Britain has also been a leading proponent of “forced adoption” which is the adoption of children to non-related third parties even when they have parents or other family willing, indeed begging, to raise them. Britain is also the first country to propose a law against unloving parents – a Bill, popularly called “Cinderella’s Law”, was introduced in the British Parliament about two years ago that would make parents criminally liable for such things as ignoring a child, making it feel unloved and comparison with siblings. Many questionable theories of medical diagnosis of abuse, such as Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy, where children falling ill repeatedly for no apparent reason, are diagnosed as “abused” by their parents, or “Non-Accidental Injury”, where parents are blamed for unexplained injuries or deaths of their infants, have either originated in Britain or found wider acceptance there than in any other developed country. In this essay, the well-known English journalist Christopher Booker surveys the dark consequences of these experiments with child protection. India, as a country that is in the process of implementing a Western-inspired child protection programme, has much to learn about the dangers of this system. A version of this article was originally published on 2 December 2017 by the Sunday Guardian under the heading Corrupt practices disguised as child-welfare campaigns as part of our weekly series called Global Child Rights and Wrongs.
State Govt announces plan to curb "concerning" child protection stats
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- Category: Child protection propaganda
- Created: Tuesday, 03 December 2019 21:00
- Written by Stephanie Richards - InDaily
State Govt announces plan to curb "concerning" child protection stats. ???Seven government ministers, including Premier Steven Marshall, Child Protection Minister Rachel Sanderson and Attorney-General Vickie Chapman, have signed the whole-of-government “Safe and Well” strategy released this morning.
Qld women sue over foster child abuse
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- Category: Children who were raped and beaten in foster care
- Created: Tuesday, 15 December 2015 17:13
- Written by AAP
A Cairns judge has found child safety officers did not properly warn a family of teenage girls about a foster child, who sexually abused them after raping a three-year-old girl.
The teenagers, who are now women, were awarded $800,000 on Tuesday, after successfully suing the Queensland government.
Cairns District Court Judge Brian Harrison found the abuse, committed in the girls' family home north of Cairns in 2006, could have been avoided if officers from the Department of Child Safety (DOCS) had "exercised relevant care and skill".
Report shows improvements to state’s child protection system
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- Category: Child Protection Queensland media and newspaper articles
- Created: Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:00
- Written by Di Farmer - The DIShonourable Minister for Child Safety Queensland
Minister for Child Safety, Youth and Women and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence
The Honourable Di Farmer[This is the same woman who sat idly by as the Watter Twins were sent back to live with the man they identified as their rapist. The same woman who ignored the pleas and the testimony of Australia’s most prominent child sexual abuse expert, Professor Freda Briggs and blocked the emails of other advocates who were desperately trying to have the voices of two innocent children who were being regularly brutally assaulted in the “care” of their father - whom was awarded full-time custody of these kids after their continued disclosures of sexual assaults went unheard by all those tasked with protecting them from harm. And you really think this thing could actually accomplish any positive changes, when she couldn’t even protect two kids let alone ten thousand.]
Queensland’s child protection reform program is seeing results with the latest Report on Government Services (RoGs) showing encouraging signs that Queensland’s reforms are working.
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To date, that we are aware of there has been three Georgian senators murdered to cover up child protective services crimes by the state. These are Senator Nancy Schaeffer and her husband, Senator Robert Brown, Senator Bobby Franklin. Then former marine turned child abuse industry documentarian Bill Bowen died, followed later by Martin Burns. Another year later a former foster child Ashley Harris disappeared two days after releasing youtube videos detailing the corruption by Santa Clara County caseworkers and judges.
Given the untimely deaths of child abuse industry advocates, we are now dedicating a section to our still alive advocates. We pray for their safety and that of their families whilst getting their hands dirty in an effort to save our innocent families from fate of the state.
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Everyday state child protection authorities knowingly place innocent children with sex offenders, murderers, bank robbers and known child abusers. They refuse to intervene in family law matters when they should be protecting children, because they cannot be bothered taking the time to really protect a child. Part of the blame lays on the oversight authorities because they blatantly refuse to prosecute workers who practise unethical and unlawful work ethics, in fact we are unable to find one single case in the past two decades.
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Mothers who died because of Child Protection
This section is dedicated to the mothers who lost their lives because of the torture to themselves and their children at the hands of the state child protection authorities.
Mothers in every state in Australia have been unnecessarily lost dir to there being no rules or laws that child protection are forced to abide by.
Innocent children are being drugged, raped and murdered under the care of the state, whilst child protection workets turn a blind eye - because it doesn’t suit their agenda or the “perfect” family they created to make up for their own mesed up childhoods.
How many more mothers have to die at the hands of child protection before the government acknowledges what is happening.
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Many newspaper articles relating to child protection disappear. This section is designed to keep an archive of relevant articles, so that even when they do go missing, there is evidence that the article did once exist. Registered users can upload relevant child protection media or newspaper articles to this section, to assist with the archiving of records the government wants to see gone.
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Medical kidnapping is part of a larger problem of State-sponsored child kidnapping. State-sponsored kidnapping is where the State steps in and decides that they know what is best for a child or group of children within a family, and then removes the children without any formal charges being brought against the parents. The parents lose their children immediately, often without any warrant being issued by a judge. They are assumed guilty by social services of something worthy of losing their children, usually with no formal charges filed in a court of law, and no trial by a jury of peers as is afforded by the Constitution of the United States of America. They must spend significant resources to try and get their children back from a family court system that is cloaked in secrecy with little to no accountability. Sometimes the parents are able to get their children back, but sometimes they do not, and the children are adopted out. Even in the instances where the children are allowed to return home to their parents, they are severely traumatized.
Source : http://medicalkidnap.com/2016/03/02/medical-kidnapping-a-threat-to-every-child-in-america-today/
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Manmeet Bhullar says no enquiry is needed. Manmeet Bhullar, who will take over the portfolio when the newly shuffled cabinet is sworn in next week, said Wednesday December 18 2013 he doesn't see the need to hold an independent public inquiry into the matter, as demanded by all three opposition parties. Great concerns the 33-year-old Bhullar, who is moving from the Service Alberta portfolio, lacks the experience to shepherd Human Services, which handles child and youth issues, social programs and homelessness.
No inquiry means we do not think these children's lives matter, so much so that we can not even be bothered to look into their deaths. There are no words to describe how disgusted I am.
Whatever it takes to keep this out of the public's view. This government's actions speak far louder than their words will ever speak. People with nothing to hide DO NOT act the way these people do. They've been everything but forthcoming with information and openness.Sources:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/minister+Bhullar+says+inquiry+into+deaths+kids+government+care+needed/9275775/story.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmeet_Bhullar
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Currently, Child Protective Services violates more civil rights on a daily basis then all other agencies combined, including the NSA / CIA wiretapping program.... CPS does not protect children ...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of Child Protective Services. every parent should read this pdf from Connecticut DCF Watch : http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com
Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
(These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington (NCCAN).
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS
*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*
Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5
Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children.
CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect and sexual abuse, and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too.
No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined.
CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers.
CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENTFAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...
BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEYARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...(Source : http://www.parentingbanter.com/showthread.php?t=57107)
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Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. This produces a feeling of discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes, beliefs or behaviors to reduce the discomfort and restore balance, etc.
For example, when people smoke (behavior) and they know that smoking causes cancer (cognition).
Festinger's (1957) cognitive dissonance theory suggests that we have an inner drive to hold all our attitudes and beliefs in harmony and avoid disharmony (or dissonance). This is known as the principle of cognitive consistency.
Cognitive dissonance was first investigated by Leon Festinger, arising out of a participant observation study of a cult which believed that the earth was going to be destroyed by a flood, and what happened to its members — particularly the really committed ones who had given up their homes and jobs to work for the cult — when the flood did not happen.
While fringe members were more inclined to recognize that they had made fools of themselves and to "put it down to experience," committed members were more likely to re-interpret the evidence to show that they were right all along (the earth was not destroyed because of the faithfulness of the cult members).
Saul McLeod, updated 2014
Further reading : https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html
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Cherie Westell: The 17-year mystery of the missing Melbourne teenager
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- Category: Children disappearing in fostercare
- Created: Sunday, 30 July 2017 10:52
- Written by Jonathan Kearsley - 9 News