Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy New Year 2014


Happy New Year!

Resolution:

Bring our daughters home

Change laws to better protect American children from corrupt CPS and juvenile courts

Change federal laws so US Congress will protect American children from the corrupt state governments and courts    

 

Monday, December 16, 2013

Christmas and New Year’s Wish


  Our family’s Christmas wish is to be back together and corruption in Kansas be stopped. The corruption is in Department for Children and Families, Foster Care agencies, and County Juvenile/Family Courts. There are investigations going on at this time.

 Holiday time is to talk about positive solutions.  In my investigations, I uncovered areas in our communities which need help. I decided to find a way to start a community project. David (my husband), family, friends, and supporters have given me ideas of what our community needs. Our niece came to visit and brought a friend who was pregnant. Out of curiosity, I asked what classes she has taken getting ready for the baby. She told me that no classes are free. There are low cost classes. I even added up the classes David and I took when preparing for our daughters. We would have spent over $300 if we were not in the military. I could not find any free classes. New parents cannot afford to pay for classes and buy what is needed for the baby to come home.

 Here is the details of the community project:

  1. Free classes for parents-to-be
  2. Free birthing class- I would like to get nurses or midwives to volunteer their services or just accept a small amount of money for their service.
  3. Free class and support for parents who just found out they have a child or children with special needs.
  4. Reopen ROCKO- respite group for families who have children with special needs. ROCKO is 3-4 hours long, children with special needs and siblings have a fun time while parents go on a date night or whatever they need to do without the children around. The volunteers are paras, physical therapists, occupational therapists, special education teachers, nurses, and high school students. Some of the high school students decide to become a nurse, therapist, teacher, or a career where you work with children with special needs. ROCKO was mainly in Sedgwick and Butler County. I would love to see it expand to all of the state. I would love to find a way that ROCKO would not need state funding. Money for ROCKO is for supplies- food, plates, cups, napkins, crafts, games, music, decorations, medical, paper, etc.
  5. Support for families who had their children wrongfully removed from their home.
  6. Free parenting classes
  7. Music and drama for children with special needs, home schooled children, and children who attend a school which has cut music and drama or music teachers only want the best singers in the chorus or choir (the teacher makes the other students hate singing or music).

Lobbying

Some of the money will go for lobbying in Kansas and US Congress to make and pass bills which will protect children better than the children are protected right now. In Kansas, pets are better protected than the children are. I have asked US Congress members from Kansas why American children are second to children in other countries. US Congress should have a bill which would allow the US Congress to step in when the states are harming the children to receive money from the federal government.

There is a big election in 2014. I want the ability to have people running for office to answer how they would stop the corruption, make sure it never happens again, what you are willing to do for Kansas children and families harmed by the corruption. I also want to know how they plan to make Kansas more family friendly and help bring in the jobs.

Newsletter

  I want to do a quarterly newsletter to keep parents and families informed on what is happening in the Kansas and US Congress on family issues and protecting children issues.

My goal is to have the community come together and work together to protect the children of Kansas and of the United States.

 

  To make this community project a reality, I have started an online fundraiser. Below is what the money will go for:

We need $20,000 or more. My husband, David, and I have been fighting almost three years to bring our daughters home. We have been trying to save up the money to hire an attorney. The prices have been from $3,000 to $20,000. Our daughters were wrongfully removed and kept out of our home. Our family’s Constitutional Rights are being violated. States are violating a federal program called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). CAPTA gives money to states for foster care. States found ways to violate CAPTA to gain the most funding from the federal government not caring how this will harm the children. The children who are being removed from their homes were not being abused. The children who were victims of life threatening abuse will either be rescued by law enforcement or killed by their abusers. CAPTA money is for children in foster care who are victims of life threatening abuse. The state must send home about 85% of the children. In Kansas, less than 25% of the children go home. Our county is less than 5%. Our daughters are victims of Kansas violating CAPTA.

We need money for legal help. We want to pay it forward by using left over funds, additional funds we get from a book I am writing, and 40% of the money David and I receive for damages from filing law suit against social workers, foster care agency, county, and state.

I have started the process of taking our case to the Kansas Court of Appeals.  I found an article about a mother taking her case to the Kansas Court of Appeals. She did it Pro Se (without an attorney). I am trying it Pro Se. The forms are fairly easy. I have supporters and the mother helping me with getting our case to The Kansas Court of Appeals. Sedgwick County DA and Sedgwick County judge have been admonished by the judges on the Kansas Court of Appeals for violating people’s Constitutional Rights and violating laws. David and I have hope this will help us to bring our daughters home. All of the money from the fundraiser can go straight to starting the community project.

 Another benefit, from starting this community project, is making the state family friendly and hopefully Constitutional Rights not violated as much so then our community’s economy can finally recover and jobs will be available. Economist have stated the economy cannot rebound until Constitutional Rights are not violated by the state and federal governments.

  Please help me get the story out about the fundraiser to help improve our community.

 

Teresa A. Owen


316-295-3386

Website for the fundraiser is igg.me/at/taoprotectchildreninkansasandintheUS-now/x/5605737

 

PS.  Sierra Scott did a story about ROCKO which was aired on KPTS 8. I was one of the parents she interviewed. Ms. Scott knows how important ROCKO is to many families who have children with special needs. ROCKO allows high school and college students to volunteer. Many of these students decide to become a special education teacher, physical therapist, occupational therapist, doctor, and other occupations which work with children who have special needs. ROCKO allows parents to have a date night, bubble bath, and complete college assignments, run errands, house work, and other activities they need to complete without their children home. Many parents are unable to find someone qualified to care for their child or children who have special needs.  We cannot find a person to care for our oldest daughter because of all the health issues and being autistic. I am angry with myself for not keeping up with what was happening to ROCKO. This is a program Kansas families need.

Friday, December 13, 2013

May Have Found a Way to Bring Our Daughters Home


 

 I was looking through an old newsletter. I found a story about a mom who went to the Court of Appeals Pro Se (without an attorney) to fight for custody of her daughter. I thought you had to hire an attorney to go before the Court of Appeals. Here is the link to the article:


I have sent messages to Karen Williams. I am very grateful for her help with filing the forms for Kansas Court of Appeals. I have found other articles where the judges on the Court of Appeals has been admonishing Sedgwick County DA and courts for violating laws and people’s Constitutional Rights. People, who have been following DCF and Sedgwick County Juvenile Court, have told me Sedgwick County Juvenile Court and DCF will not want our case to be heard in the Appellate Court. They explained everything in the juvenile and DCF file will be placed in the case file for the Appellate Court which will not be confidential. This would also make it easier for investigators to look at our case for laws and Constitutional Rights which are still being violated. The judge and DCF will send home the children to stop the case from going before the judges of the Appellate Court.

 I have been wondering why the social workers, attorneys, court works, does and judges believe they can violate laws and rights with no consequences. One of the laws which we are trying to change gives e immunity to the judges, attorneys, social workers, and court workers. The only way these people can be punished is in the federal courts. At this time there is no way to remove an elected judge who is violating laws and Constitutional Rights. I am looking to see if there is a way to remove the new DA because he is not protecting the children as he promised when he was running for election. I did remind him he promised to meet with me after he was elected. I told him to find the news footage from two of the news stations in Wichita because the footage shows him shaking my hand after stating he would meet with me and other concerned citizens.

 Many people have been asking me why our case is still open even though, by Kansas law, the case was to be closed. I have been told to look up a form which shows how much money the county and the judge   receiving from our daughters still being in custody. Our case will show DCF and Sedgwick County Juvenile Court do not do what is best for the children. The GAL never met with us so she would know about our daughters’ medical needs and our religious beliefs. She did not protect any of their Constitutional Rights. Our daughters are medically neglected- not seeing their specialists, Angel is failing to thrive, Angel hospitalized from over dose of mediations by social worker and foster parents, their vision is negatively affected, Angel ran to the hospital by ambulance, taken off their medications prescribed by their specialists, not following doctors’ orders, Angel is not talking very much-mostly cries, their ankles are turning inward when they walk, and leg muscles are too tight. I am hoping their new GAL will finally do what is best for our daughters. The CSO will not tell the judge, state’s attorney, or the GAL about their health. He stated he tells everyone their health is still improving. I thought courts were where only the truth is to be accepted by the judge.

 CAPTA is funded by Social Security. Social Security is struggling with money issues. Would Social Security still have the money issues if the states did not violate CAPTA? I have communicated with my representatives in the US Congress to stop CAPTA. If the US Congress has a program, to help states with foster care, there has to be substantial punishment for the state, agencies, and people who violate CAPTA. Write your US Congress members to stop CAPTA.

 

Monday, December 2, 2013

Update on Our Family Crisis and the Investigations


The last month has been very busy. We are still looking for an attorney. We do have some law firms looking at helping us.

We have been wondering if Sheila Crabtree had taken our oldest daughter of her seizure medications. She took Angel and Catrina off their medications for Mitochondrial Myopathy. She will not allow them to use their medical equipment. Once we found this out, we started looking to see if it was violating our rights, judge had not assigned a court appointed attorney after the last two were no longer handling our case starting February 2012. This does violate our Constitutional Rights. The DA sent me an email which stated the law. Here are excerpts from two emails:

DA email (November 2013): Second, I am aware that you and your husband are currently represented by counsel – whether or not you have been in touch with your respective attorneys of late.  I am not aware that the representation by Mr. Hagan and Mr. Dickson has been formally terminated.

Third, because you are both still represented by attorneys, under Rule 4.2 of the Kansas rules related to the discipline of attorneys, I cannot communicate with any person represented by an attorney about matters concerning the subject matter of that representation.

Court Service Officer(CSO) email: Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:25 AM
Subject: RE: court case file

 

Teresa,

You are correct at this time the judge has not appointed a new attorney to represent you and David unless we go back in to court for some reason.  I do want to make it clear that there have been no court hearings held without your knowledge.  The only action taken by the court was the Administrative Review held this January then there is another one scheduled for January 2014.  At this time the next scheduled court date is an Administrative Review set for January 2014. 

We are working to get them home now because Angel had a grand mal seizure since being taken off all of her medications. She does not spend much time with the adults in the home. Angel and Catrina must stay in the basement. They are only to come upstairs to eat meals, use the bathroom, and get ready for bed; otherwise they are punished. Angel and Catrina are being treated like property. If Sheila Crabtree had spent any time with Angel, she would know what her petit mal seizures and partial seizures look like. The grand mal seizure could have been prevented. Can Sheila Crabtree, social workers, and the court workers explain why our daughters’ health are getting worse not better? Can they explain the dramatic change in their vision? Can they explain why Angel is having seizures because she does not have epilepsy? The court violated laws by refusing to read the requests sent by their specialist stating they need to go home for medical reasons. The Crabtrees, social workers, and CSO are guilty of medical neglect; possible criminal medical neglect. Does the state attorney and GAL know about our daughters’ health? The CSO did tell us the judge will not accept any doctors’ reports which states their health is not good. He obviously is not interested in doing what is best for our daughters. Sheila Crabtree is also using our daughters as pawns. Here are some statements from her emails:

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 4:07 PM PST Jeff Crabtree wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I wanted to let you know that last night Angel had a grand mal seizure.  It didn’t last very long but I did call 911, better safe then sorry.  It is the first time since she has been with us that she has had a grand mal seizure.  She was fine by the time we got to the hospital. 
>
>Since her last EEG was normal and she hadn’t had any seizures in a long time they had at one point taken her completely off the one anti-seizure medication.  They did end up putting her back on it at a much lower dose then she had previously been on after she had an incident of the small seizures similar to the type she was having when she stayed with us back in September of 2010.  With what happen last night they have now raised the level of that medication again, although she is still on much less then what she was on at the time she came to stay with us in June of 2011.  They are working on finding the right balance of medication to be enough to control the seizures but not more than she needs.  I will let you know if any other major issues occur.
>
>Sheila Crabtree
>


Nov. 30 

Sheila just gave me the proof she is using our daughters as pawns.

Teresa,

 

As I recall and understand it, agreeing to abide by the safety contract was a requirement for visitation with the girls.

 

For clarity on the issue now, are you going to abide by the safety contract?

 

Sheila Crabtree

 

Here are the issues with this email:

1.    A child with seizures from a genetic disease cannot have a normal EEG after their first seizure. I also have insurance paper work which lists no EEG or blood tests for seizures.

2.    Saturday was the visitation. She did not tell the social worker about the seizure as stated in the rules. This email should have been a phone call.

3.    She did not time the seizure. How long was Angel seizing before Sheila found her? Catrina has been told to ignore Angel when she is doing any twitching or shaking because she just wants attention. The twitching is petit mal seizures. Is this the first? Angel’s first grand mal was July 4, 2002. Her next grand mal was August 2, 2010. This is eight years between seizures. Sheila Crabtree is claiming there has been more grand mal while at home. This was not true. There have been two EEGs done while Angel was in custody. The doctor told the court in letters and testimony that these EEGs are very bad. They do not follow the progression of the disease like the previous EEGs did. These EEGs show signs of status epilepticus (fatal seizure, no medications can stop it) and the previous EEGs did not show this as a possibility. He explained the longer Angel is out of the home, her life is at risk. The last grand mal was Nov.22, 2013. This is only 3 year 3 month span. This scares me.

4.    Angel and Catrina are not seeing their specialists.

 

We know that there has been meeting and possibly hearings held without our knowledge and no attorneys for us. This also violates our Constitutional Rights. Here is part of the email from the CSO which talks about the meetings:

CSO email:  I do want to make it clear that there have been no court hearings held without your knowledge.  The only action taken by the court was the Administrative Review held this January then there is another one scheduled for January 2014.  At this time the next scheduled court date is an Administrative Review set for January 2014.  Those are not in court hearings, but they are done administratively by the judge.  If you hire an attorney and they file a motion then the judge can set the date for that motion to be heard before January. 

 

The investigations of DCF and Sedgwick County Juvenile Court has been in the news. The judge is blaming DCF. DCF is blaming the judge. What about the children?

Kansas officials investigate complaints about Wichita child welfare group


Legislators and others concerned that FaithBuilders organization is overstepping boundaries

 


 

 “What really upsets me about this is that it appears that DCF and FaithBuilders are picking on people who are the most vulnerable, people who have no one who’ll fight for them,” said Mary Dean, a social justice advocate in Wichita.

— State officials say they are investigating a faith-based group’s role in some child welfare cases after a Wichita legislator raised concerns that the organization might be undercutting efforts to reunite some of the children with their parents.

“The Kansas Department for Children and Families has more than 6,000 children in its care,” Theresa Freed, a spokesperson for the agency wrote in an email to KHI News Service. “The safety and security of each child is our number one priority. When concerns of their welfare are brought to our attention, we take those concerns seriously. DCF has been made aware of accusations regarding FaithBuilders. We are looking into the matter at this time.”

Freed said, “no time estimate is available for when our research will be complete.”

FaithBuilders is a nonprofit organization with about 30 foster homes licensed by the state in and around Wichita.

According to the group’s website, its mission is “…to be the hands and feet of Jesus to children and families in crisis here in our community. Our goal is to honor God’s desire that we serve the least of these.”

Andrea Dixon, the founder and director, said FaithBuilders' efforts were backed by more than 30 Wichita-area churches.

She said she was aware of the agency inquiry, which apparently began after State Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, a Wichita Democrat, relayed complaints from constituents and her own concerns to DCF officials.

Dixon declined to say how many children were in FaithBuilders’ foster homes or to respond to the allegations.

“I work hard to serve kids and families all day long and I go to bed at night with peace, knowing that I did the best I could for that day. And I move on,” she said.

Complaints


Faust-Goudeau said she began receiving complaints in August that Dixon was encouraging at-risk families to circumvent the state’s foster care system by putting their children directly into FaithBuilders’ homes before or without a judge’s order.

 

Generally, when children are taken by the state and ordered into foster homes as the result of parental abuse or neglect, court-appointed attorneys represent them in a confidential hearing. The parents also are allowed legal representation in the custody cases. A judge then decides where to place the child based on evidence presented during the hearing.

Faust-Goudeau said she had three constituents tell her that after they had informally agreed to let FaithBuilders temporarily care for their children due to family crises, Dixon soon urged them to sign away their parental rights so FaithBuilders’ families could adopt the children.

Parents who declined, she said, were told their children likely would end up in state custody anyway with slim chances of being returned.

The state’s policy is to promote the return of foster children to their parents whenever that is considered possible and appropriate for the child’s well being.

Faust-Goudeau said officials at the DCF regional office in Wichita appear to have the endorsed FaithBuilders’ methods, preferring that children, most of them living in poverty, be adopted by well-to-do FaithBuilders’ familes rather than rejoined with their biological families.

“I want to know how much power these people have,” Faust-Goudeau said of FaithBuilders. “And I want to know who gave them that power.”

She said a DCF official from the agency’s Topeka headquarters notified her earlier this week that the situation was being investigated.

Sen. Forrest Knox, an Altoona Republican who has said he plans to introduce foster care reform legislation for the 2014 legislative session, seconded Faust-Goudeau’s concerns.

“I don’t like that people might feel like they’re being forced to sign over their rights to their children,” he said. “It sounds like there ought to be some formal procedures for helping families and for helping them get their kids back, because if those kids aren’t in state custody and the parents can’t get them back, I call that kidnapping.”

Knox and his wife, Renee, have nine biological children, two of whom still live at home. The couple adopted four brothers — then ages 5, 7, 8 and 13 — two years ago after having cared for them for two years as foster parents.

The foster-care system


In keeping with state and federal laws, DCF is charged with investigating reports of child abuse and neglect and with sharing its findings with local prosecutors. In cases in which a judge decides to place a child in foster care, DCF is responsible for the actual placement.

The laws are meant to protect parents’ rights while also ensuring safe environments for children to grow up in.

In Kansas, most foster care services were privatized in 1996 after the then-Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services failed to settle a lawsuit that accused the state of not doing enough to protect foster children.

DCF currently has foster care contracts with two nonprofit, nongovernmental agencies: St. Francis Community Services, based in Salina, and KVC Behavioral Healthcare, which is headquartered in Olathe.

St. Francis and KVC, in turn, have subcontracts with several organizations that have affiliated foster homes.

In Wichita, FaithBuilders homes are affiliated with DCCCA, a Lawrence-based organization that until July had administered a statewide contract for family preservation services. That contract has since been taken over by St. Francis.

Colleen Pederson, contracts administrator at DCCCA, said Dixon is well known for her ability to rally quick and substantial support for low-income families in crisis.

“She has an extensive system for getting whatever a family needs, whether it’s housing, money for utilities, diapers, cribs — whatever,” she said. “She knows lots and lots of people.”

'Hearts in the right place'


But some Wichita-area social workers said they were troubled by what they considered a too cozy relationship between Dixon at FaithBuilders and top officials in the DCF Wichita office.

“They are a very Christian-based group. They try very hard to help families and there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that their hearts are in the right place,” said Connie Mayes, a 20-year social worker who supervised the Wichita DCF office’s foster care liaison operations until she retired in May.

“But there have been concerns about them in regards to boundaries — it’s enabling versus accountability,” she said. “By that I mean that they put so much into these families, but, at the same time, they don’t hold them accountable when it comes to making positive changes. Once they begin working with a family, the perception is that that family belongs to FaithBuilders and that FaithBuilders will be the primary voice for that family.”

 

Mayes said Dixon had an unusually close working relationship with Diane Bidwell, who runs the DCF office in Wichita. She said Bidwell often took a direct role in decisions regarding FaithBuilders’ homes in instances that typically would be left to lower ranking social workers and their supervisors.

In separate interviews last month, four licensed social workers in Wichita told KHI News Service that they suspected Bidwell had inappropriately shared confidential information with Dixon and that she allowed Dixon to overrule case workers’ recommendations on where children should be placed and whether children in foster care could return home.

Bidwell did not respond to a request for an interview and DCF officials would not discuss details of their investigation, so it remains unclear if the social workers’ specific concerns are being looked into by the agency.

The social workers also said they believed there were cases in which DCF, at Faithbuilders’ behest, had not done enough to place children with other family members willing to care for a relative’s child.

Each of the four social workers asked for anonymity, saying they feared DCF reprisal.

There need to be some clear parameters on what their role is,” Mayes, the former DCF supervisor, said. “No one has a problem with their being faith-based or with FaithBuilders being a church-run organization. The problem begins when they start running a case and when DCF lets them.

“I know these are well-meaning people,” she said. “But they’re not child welfare professionals, and the decisions that are being made in these cases need to be made by professionals who are responsible to a code of ethics and policy.”

'Lawsuit waiting to happen'


Another allegation raised is that DCF officials in Wichita were steering children ordered into state custody to FaithBuilders’ foster homes with the goal of seeing them adopted rather than reunited with their families.

Many, if not most of the children placed in FaithBuilders homes, according to the social workers and others, were black, many of them infants. And most of the foster parents were white.

Letter to PPS Director Teresa McQuin    Go to KHI website to view the letter.

 


 

 “What really upsets me about this is that it appears that DCF and FaithBuilders are picking on people who are the most vulnerable, people who have no one who’ll fight for them,” said Mary Dean, a social justice advocate in Wichita, who is black.

“We keep being told these people are doing God’s work, but I think that’s a misplaced concept,” Dean said. “I don’t think God wants these families separated.”

Dean communicated her concerns to DCF Protection and Prevention Services Director Teresa McQuin in phone calls, then following up with a lengthy Sept. 3 letter.

McQuin is head of the Division of Prevention and Protective Services at the DCF central office in Topeka.

Lynette Herrman, a former Sedgwick County prosecutor who now represents parents and foster parents in custody cases in juvenile court, said the issues raised by the social workers warranted thorough investigation.

“Child welfare investigations are closed,” Herrman said. “That’s federal law. If DCF is talking about these cases to anybody but law enforcement, that’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.”



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Head DCF official in Wichita resigns abruptly

Investigaton of complaints continues

 
By Dave Ranney
KHI News Service
Originally published Oct. 14, 2013 at 7:05 p.m., updated Oct. 15, 2013 at 6:05 a.m.

 

Diane Bidwell — who runs the DCF office in Wichita — and Rep. Forrest Knox in a photo posted on Twitter in early 2012 by the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services.

WICHITA — Diane Bidwell, the head of the Wichita regional office of the Kansas Department for Children and Families, resigned today.

She “…resigned voluntarily. Her last day (is) Friday,” Theresa Freed, a DCF spokesperson in Topeka, wrote in an email to KHI News Service.

DCF officials in Topeka earlier this month confirmed that they were investigating complaints that the Wichita office was steering children at risk of entering the foster care system toward FaithBuilders, a faith-based group that some parents said was undercutting their efforts to be reunited with their children.

The accusations prompted Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, a Wichita Democrat, to ask DCF officials to investigate.

“All I can say at this time is that I don’t know if Ms. Bidwell’s resignation and my requesting an investigation were related to one another,” Faust-Goudeau said. “But if they weren’t, it sure seems like a major coincidence.”

Faust-Goudeau said she was contacted by a DCF investigator last week.

“All I know is that an investigation was, in fact, being conducted by the (DCF) secretary’s office,” she said. “And that there seemed to be a lot of interconnectedness between FaithBuilders and the DCF office here. As I legislator, I have to say I’d like to know more. All any of us want, I think, are facts.”

Attempts to reach Bidwell for comment were unsuccessful.

FaithBuilders has about 30 licensed foster homes in and around Wichita.

According to the group’s website, its mission is “…to be the hands and feet of Jesus to children and families in crisis here in our community. Our goal is to honor God’s desire that we serve the least of these.”

Bidwell’s resignation was the subject of an internal memo circulated shortly after 2 p.m., even though DCF offices were closed for Columbus Day. It read: “After serving the Kansas Department for Children and Families for two and a half years, Wichita Regional Director Diane Bidwell is moving on. An interim director will be named shortly.

“We would like to thank Diane for taking on the tremendous responsibility of leading our Wichita office. She was involved in many successful endeavors, including the Business Process Redesign of Economic and Employment Services that has significantly improved client care. She also played an integral role in the collaborative effort to encourage employment through the Green Leaf CafĂ©. Most recently, she has done a great deal of work to facilitate a move from the Finney State Office Building to improve safety and efficiency for clients and staff. These are just a few of her many contributions. We wish her well.”

The memo was unsigned.

 

Article on Judge Henderson sent by email

are you kidding me? Henderson drawing attention away from himself ? he's the gatekeeper - he is required to apply the law on cases before him - not take recommendation without "clear and convincing evidence" to prove a parent unfit


 

DCF is refusing to give the reports of this part of the investigation to Kansas Congress and news media. This violates laws.

 One DCF head social worker and Interim head CPS social worker have resigned from this part of the investigation released to the news media.

When will DCF and Sedgwick County Juvenile Court start following the federal and state laws plus stop targeting children and violating Kansans’ Constitutional Rights?

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Protect America’s Children First

My new video on YouTube:
   www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB8enQPhh6Y


The United States has been talking about other countries abusing and/or killing their children. Why haven’t any other countries come forward to help save American children who are being abused and/or killed? Has the United States Government turned a blind eye as to what is happening to children at the hands of CPS, juvenile courts, and private companies who do foster care?

 I know there are federal investigations going on at this present time. One of the states is Kansas. Governor Brownback’s platform was to Protect Kansas Children, Protect Kansas Families. Changing the name of the CPS agency does not erase the toxic history under the other name. The agency-DCF- is running ads about Stronger Kansas Families. This is a lie. Children and families are still being harmed by DCF and Sedgwick County juvenile court. Below is what has and still is happening in Kansas:

1.       Children with special needs targeted by SRS/DCF for federal funds. Most of the children will not go home.

2.       Children who are really being abused are either being rescued by law enforcement or killed by their abusers. These children do not have special needs. SRS/DCF knew about the abuse and the abuse was life threatening. In some cases, SRS/DCF had evidence. How much does it cost a child to be rescued by SRS/DCF? - Adam Herrmann was a foster child who was adopted by his foster parents. SRS knew the foster parents were abusing him but still allowed the adoption to go forward. In 2009, he was reported missing by a person who was not his adoptive parents. He went missing in 1999. He has been declared dead. The adoptive/foster parents are in prison for money fraud. No one has been charged with Adam’s murder. Jayla was killed by her mother. There is a Facebook Page “Justice for Jayla”. The news stated that SRS social worker testified in Butler County Court that there was evidence of abuse and the abuse was life threatening.

3.       Youthville gets life insurance on the children in their custody (foster care). April 2011 a brother and sister went on a pass to see their family during the Easter weekend. Youthville knew that both children had gang issues. The brother was in a gang> the sister was dating a boy in a rival gang. The brother was ordered to kill his sister and her boyfriend. He only killed his sister. There are reports which states how much Youthville makes on the death of children. Are children worth more dead than alive?

4.        Sedgwick County DA’s office was investigated for tampering with court reports and evidence. The investigation did find evidence of this happening. Nothing happened to the DA (Nola Foulston) or her staff. She was allowed to retire in 12/12. Here are two articles in the Wichita Eagle which talks about the investigation:

a.       Child Welfare No Place for Bullying 9/1/09

b.       Audit Says Few Social Workers Pressured 8/29/09

 

My husband and I have been trying to get our daughters home and get Kansas Congress to make laws which will better protect the children and families plus hold the hidden predators accountable. The new Sedgwick County DA has not made any changes in the juvenile court. He gave speeches on how he was going to make changes which will help victims and protect children. The previous DA paid for most of his campaign. What did he have to agree to do for the money?

There needs to be intervention for America’s children. The states are not doing it until the state is caught by being investigated. Many people in Kansas have been writing, calling, and type of communication to get the governor and Kansas Congress to act. January 2011 Kansas Congress thought choosing a dog as the state dog was more important than the children.

 Extended family should be working to bring the children home instead of tearing the family apart. My father and two sisters told lies to keep our daughters out of our home. The goal was for David and me to lose our rights so my sister and her husband could adopt them. This will not happen. My sister cannot have children the natural way. She and her husband were thrown out of a surrogacy program for mistreating the surrogate. I have posted information about my family on my blogs. I do consider these three to be my enemy, my husband’s enemy, and our daughters’ enemy. They do not put the needs of the children above the needs of my youngest sister. When our daughters do come home, we plan on doing a time of healing then decide if we will allow these three back into our life.

 President Obama and US Congress: Are children in other countries more important than children in the United States? The actions of the US Government do appear to favor children in other countries.

 We support the military. David is a retired disabled veteran. He served our country for over 26 years.  This is the week of 9/11. The people who have fought for American’s to be free and rights not violated would be very disappointed that today the states are violating children and families’ rights.