THE TERRIBLE TRUTH ABOUT CPS AND DCS

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BY GARY FINEOUT AND CAROL MARBIN MILLER gfineout@MiamiHerald.com

I SURE HAVE NEGLECTED MY JOURNAL!

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:31:58 GMT

I was filling out a site where it asked for my web page and when I entered it and came to my page, I was amazed that I had not made an entry since July!!! So much has gone on and some things I choose not to put in my journol, due to fragile subject matter.

One thing is certain, though, my grandchildren still need me. I have guardianship of the oldest boy due to so much conflict with his Mom and step-dad, but, praise the Lord, my daughter is divorcing the dirt bag! This has helped my grandson so much he "wants to go home to "Mommy!" This is wonderful. He still has so many issues, but is in counseling and so is my daughter. For some reason he doesn't like school. My daughter is seriously thinking about home-schooling him and she will be good at it, I just hope the other 2 will not let this influence them, they are on the honor roll and love school!

CPS made a visit this week and I am almost certain the school made a referral due to the days the oldest grandson has missed, so many days due to illnesses and just not wanting to go. We have even taken him to school and he gets out of the car and starts walking home. I know this interprets to his being stubborn and a total lack of respect for authority, and you're right, but he is also depressed, anti-social, withdrawn, and we are at a loss as to how to best help him. He says some of the kids "bully" him by kicking him, etc., I am concerned they discovered his problem with incontinence of his bowels. He had an EGD with biopsies and a Colonoscopy, but no news from any findings. We had an evaluation on the 12th by a psychologist the school got and we haven't heard what his report is yet. I just hope it gives an accurate view about how he really is and not put him in a "box". He is complex and difficult at times, but has so much potential. He likes skateboarding, music, art, science, but sometimes has low self-esteem, and he truly is trying to use coping skills when things don't go his way or whenever there is a conflict. I feel sorry for him being so young and seemingly having so many "burdens". He almost never seems to have fun or to enjoy things to the point of laughing unless I try to get him to by my acting silly and goofy, then we have a good time! I try to let go of the past but it's so hard to do, knowing all that has happened that contributes to his complex personality! His Mom doesn't have a problem with forgetting, sometimes I think she doesn't have a clue about all she has done to contribute to his behavior. Espcially where men are concerned (she already has a "boyfriend" living with them and she isn't divorced yet and her ex has only been gone about 6 weeks!!!! I don't get it. I don't even try any more. I keep trying to get him to come back and stay with me for a while, but I understand it's "boring" here, we don't have as much drama going on like there is at Mom's and I read where people who are Bi-Polar can't stand "order", so they are good together in that respect! God, could you take it from here?

I SURE PLAN TO BE THERE, FRONT AND CENTER!!!

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:59:28 GMT

Welcome to the Home Site of the DCRally2007
AUGUST 18, 2007

We are individuals , families, organizations, businesses and churches united nationwide. We represent varied cultures, religions and ethnicities. We are parents, mothers and fathers. We are children. We are grandparents, aunts and uncles. We are veterans. We are lay people. We are professionals. We are America.

We meet in Washington DC , to peacefully exercise our first amendment right to assemble and to respectfully petition our government for a redress of grievances. Our grievances relate to governmental interference with and the destruction of our nation's family structure. DCRally2007 will take place at the historic site of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.

DCRally2007 commemorates the 44th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement. DCRally2007 is the extension of the Civil Rights Movement. DCRally2007 addresses the state's failure to recognize and protect our Fundamental Rights. It's time for our Federal Congress to recognize and protect our Fundamental Rights.

DCRally2007 is coming to Washington DC; because the states condone and allow the abduction of children from their homes and the placing of children into the adoption market. The states have opened this door and allow illegal step-parent adoptions without the knowledge and/or consent of fit and loving parents. This outrage is breaking the hearts of good, fit, loving parents and America's children.

DCRally2007 is coming to Washington DC; because the states under the color of law utilize destructive and unnecessarily punitive methods for child support collection and refuse to adopt shared parenting legislation for fit and loving parents. Children are alienated from loving and fit parents. The net result is a squandering of precious federal and state tax revenue, hostile and dysfunctional men and women who have contempt for the system and children who exhibit every social ill imaginable.

DCRally2007 is coming to Washington DC; because the states in fact, profit financially from the child support collection procedures they implement. Hence, states have an incentive to maintain an adversarial environment and a ‘winner take all' agenda whereby one party is empowered and one party is disenfranchised and forced to pay into the state's collection mechanism. The states are manufacturing ‘dead beats' and are turning fit and loving parents into felons often times making it impossible to gain meaningful employment.

DCRally2007 is coming to Washington DC; because the states while ignoring Fundamental Rights are wrongfully affecting corporate America and costing America untold billions of dollars annually in lost productivity. Anxiety, depression, anger, pre-occupation, physical illness, absenteeism, and much more are the result of the policies and procedures utilized by the states and the result is dysfunctional citizens, less product and higher prices.

DCRally2007 is coming to Washington DC; because the states are destroying families and relationships and allowing their respective state agencies to medicate our children senselessly without regard for long-term effects and without the permission of fit and loving parents.

DCRally2007 is coming to Washington DC; because the states have usurped the parental responsibility to discipline children and inculcate moral values. The result is parents are wrongfully punished. Children are drugged, running out of control and becoming self-destructive. Our society as a whole is suffering.

DCRally2007 is coming to Washington DC; because when paternity fraud takes place, the states refuse to recognize it as fraud, continue to collect child support from parents with no biological connection to a child and further refuse to spend the necessary time and resources to locate the biological parent.

DCRally2007 is coming to Washington DC; because the states treat America's veterans with disrespect and contempt in matters relating to familial issues. Veterans are the backbone of America; however the states continuously ignore with calloused indifference the fundamental rights of veterans and their families.

The present environment for the American family and all those individuals within is beyond dismal. It is a deep abyss. The states of this nation ignore and trample upon Fundamental Rights with impunity. Yet, Fundamental Rights are God given and Fundamental Rights are recognized by the United States Supreme Court and are guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Accordingly,

AMERICAN CITIZENS OF ALL RACES, COLORS AND CREEDS ARE COMING TOGETHER AND DECLARING:

THE STATE GOVERNMENTS HAVE COME INTO OUR HOUSEHOLDS AND WE WANT THEM OUT. WE ARE DEMANDING THAT THE GOVERNMENT LEAVE OUR HOMES. IT IS TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO RECOGNIZE AND RESPECT AND PROTECT OUR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS.

"GOVERNMENT HAS COME INTO OUR HOUSEHOLDS AND WE WANT THEM OUT"

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Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:39:21 GMT

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Anything to Take Children

No aspect of life is too remote, and no angle is too obscure for the state to investigate in its fanatic desire to get children away from parents. Neil Howard and his wife Heidi lost their three children to the Massachusetts DSS in October of 1999, when DSS alleged that their home was too messy. Neil had gutted the kitchen, and the new cabinets and flooring were in boxes waiting to be installed in the next few days.

Their severely brain-damaged baby, Faith, was about to come home from the hospital, and DSS took upon itself to send a visiting nurse to their home prior to the child returning. The nurse took a look at the kitchen project, and noted that the home was “the messiest she had ever seen,” without mentioning the remodeling. Things went downhill from there, with DSS interviewing the children, who made vague “disclosures” like the father tapped the son on the head with a book once.

But that was enough to get DSS to swing into action. First, they demanded that Heidi throw her husband out and get a domestic-abuse restraining order against him, even though she told the judge that there was no abuse and DSS was making her do it. After Heidi decided to defy the agency and remove the order, two DSS agents walked into their home without permission, got the police to arrest Neil for violation of the non-existent restraining order, and took the distraught Heidi to a locked hospital psych ward, after promising her she could come right back. Then, of course, they took their two boys, eight-year-old Christopher and four-year-old Ethan, into captivity. For two years.

As happened to the Bennett/Tranberg family, the Howards’ court-appointed lawyers told them to waive their custody hearing, without explaining the consequences. When I later began to represent them, much damage had been done that could not be fixed.

They’re waiting to come home: Four daughters of Heidi Tranberg (back) enjoy a family outing in Lexington, Massachusetts, prior to being taken into captivity by children’s social services because a doctor had reported the parents for not immediately following her advice after one child was found to have low calcium levels.

Poor little Faith died in the hospital on her first birthday, alone because the parents were prohibited from visiting her. The gracious DSS personnel gave custody of Faith back to the parents after that. The two boys, Chris and Ethan, were kept at foster homes, where Ethan was consistently abused. While in custody, Ethan suffered a broken arm, bruises in many places, wounds on his face, and other medical problems. His day care reported that the bruises were covered up by makeup. Despite all this being reported to DSS, it was all swept under the rug.

In order to provide a pretext for continuing to hold the boys, the DSS bored in on Ethan, who had a pervasive developmental disorder, and worked him over. Therapists hired by the agency elicited patently false and absurd “disclosures” from Ethan, like his daddy cut off his “peewee” with scissors. After continual badgering by another therapist, Chris also made some equally fatuous disclosures.

Meanwhile, Heidi had another baby named Jessica, and DSS wanted her, too. The Howards decided to not turn over the child, so DSS used high-tech GPS and a helicopter to locate her and take her from the arms of the Howards’ pastor, with whom she was staying. The judge also threatened to put me in jail for refusing to disclose Jessica’s whereabouts.

Halfway through a trial, after much of the DSS wrongdoing had been exposed on the witness stand, the three remaining children came home. What started with a bang, ended with a whimper, as most of these cases do. The family will never forget their experience, and they mourn Faith each year onher birthday.

No Checks and Balances

How does this happen? Virtually no checks and balances are in place to ensure that these rogue agencies are accountable. Courts are supposed to perform that function, but rarely dare to defy the plans of child protective services. Although laws in every state comply with the federal requirement that CPS use “reasonable efforts” to keep children with families before taking them, CPS rarely does so.

In my 12 years of doing CPS cases, I have seen enough mockery of the law and harm to families to dissuade even the most hardened believer in the effectiveness of government intervention and to convince any honest person that such a system is incapable of reform.

Fraud is never far away in child protection practice. Kay and Slade Henson were persecuted by CPS in Wisconsin when Kay spanked her disobedient 10-year-old boy with her hand. As a result, Walworth County Department of Health and Social Services took her four school-aged children from their school, and their two toddlers at home. Reports indicated that someone else re-spanked the 10-year-old, in order to exaggerate the damage. After some complicated legal machinations, Kay was jailed for four months.

Kay stood up and spoke out on the abuses perpetrated on their family by Walworth County CPS. She brought a film producer, Suzanne Shell, to Walworth County so she could investigate and document the case in March of 2003. Shell uncovered tampered evidence in Kay’s criminal file, which she filmed. Shortly thereafter, as she was quietly interviewing Kay in a hallway of the courthouse, she was assaulted by deputies, falsely arrested, and her tape confiscated — all of which was captured on videotape. I represented Mrs. Shell in a lawsuit in federal court, where she won a settlement against the county for its officers’ brutal treatment of her based on the video evidence.

Although the six children were returned home in 60 days, they exhibited signs of sexual abuse, which had never been an issue prior to their abduction by CPS. Slade and Kay remain vigilant against further attacks on their family.

The System Attacks Its Own

Many families who try to help children in the system get ground up by it themselves. Kevin Cross, a Baptist minister living in semi-rural Wales, Massachusetts, and his wife Linda have adopted seven children through state social services in several states, including Massachusetts. Records show that they are an exceptionally loving, nurturing family to their multi-cultural adopted brood and their two biological children, and that myriads of social workers had praised their parenting over the years.

Continuing their commitment to helping children, they took in a Russian foster child, who had some behavioral difficulties stemming from early mistreatment. While hospitalized for psychiatric treatment, the child accused Kevin of hitting him. The hospital immediately called the Massachusetts DSS, which concluded that the troubled young man was telling the truth, even though all the other nine children in the home were interviewed separately and denied that there had been any abuse, as did the parents. To CPS agents, disclosures are almost always true, no matter how implausible.

A social-worker intern at the hospital where the foster son was taken told DSS that the parents were “overwhelmed with the care of their nine children and day-to-day tasks.” However, this intern had never met the family and never been to the home. She also noted that the family home-schooled their children and that the father was (horrors!) a Christian minister.

A unified front: Kevin and Linda Cross and family with their attorney Gregory Hession (left). Though the parents received many accolades from social service workers in the past, one child’s allegation of abuse would have resulted in all the children being abducted by child protective services if the children hadn’t supported the parents 100 percent.

When a DSS investigator demanded to again interview all the children, I got involved. We arranged all nine children and the parents in a circle around the living room, and when the DSS social worker came in, she was greeted by the silent stare of all 12 of us. After just a few minutes, she could tell there was strength in numbers, and she departed, never to be seen again. Although their children were not removed from the home, it was a terribly unnerving experience. “We truly felt like we were in a communist country,” sighed Linda.

All of these stories are true, and happened to families who never expected the club of the state to come crashing down on their heads. The feelings of heartache that these parents experienced can never be fully expressed by mere description in an article. Nor can the sense of disillusionment and betrayal by a system that they thought they could trust.

A lawyer who fights these agencies, rather than simply giving up his clients’ rights (as their previous attorneys often did), is a lonely figure. The one thing that continues to supply me with energy and hope is the knowledge that I can save some families from losing their children, and can help reunite other families that have already been torn apart, for no reason other than the state decreed it be done.

For more on Child Protective Services and the need to preserve families, click here.

Gregory A. Hession practices constitutional and family law in Springfield, Massachusetts.

"IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD?"

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:12:21 GMT

AP Texas News

July 7, 2007, 3:42PM
Foster child says she had sex with her caseworker

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — A 37-year-old former caseworker for Child Protective Services has been charged with having sex multiple times with a teenage girl he supervised.

Fredrick Shavers remained jailed Saturday, facing six charges that he had sex with the girl over a two-year period. Police said the girl, now 17, told them she was 15 when the relationship began and that they sometimes had sex in front of her infant son.

"We have a mountain of evidence to prove this occurred," Grand Prairie police Sgt. Alan Patton said.

Shavers posted $300,000 bail Saturday on three sexual assault charges in Dallas County but remained held on three of the same charges in Tarrant County, according to the Dallas County jail.

Shavers has declined comment, and it was not immediately clear if he had an attorney.

Authorities said the girl told police she and Shavers had sex when he picked her up for court appearances or visits with her infant son. The sex typically occurred in Shavers' car, police said.

Shavers resigned from CPS in April after 13 years on the job. He has supervised about 600 children whose names have now been turned over to police.

"We hope that the criminal justice system will be able to determine whether the allegations are true," said Marissa Gonzales, a CPS spokeswoman. "These allegations describe behavior that will not be tolerated."

The girl entered foster care in 2003 after she was molested and became pregnant, police said. Her first encounter with Shavers happened in January 2005, a month after he became her caseworker, police said.

According to affidavits, Shavers kissed her before a court appearance and then took her to a lake in Rockwall County, where "they had sexual intercourse in his vehicle for the first time."

Shavers had been investigated by CPS before, including one incident in which a 12-year-old girl said he kissed her. State investigators could not confirm the allegation, but gave Shavers a warning, according to CPS officials.

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Information from The Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com

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CASE THAT COULD END IN ADOPTION-SO SHE DROPPED IT

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:00:45 GMT

This is a DCS scenario that is common.. DCS social worker did not think a report of possible molestation/rape warranted further investigation. I am one who believes there are too many false reports called into CPS, but I also believe that there certainly should be guidelines as to which ones are definite priorites and I would think this one should be at the very top! What goes through a social worker's mind(most are not college educated in the social worker field and some are not even licensed)when she decides a possible sexual abuse case does not warrant further investigation? Probably that "DCS has no right to place the child into foster care, if the incident did not happen in the home, and if they can't place the child into foster care, then DCS won't benefit at all with this case. Let the parents call the police and let them handle it." That's probably what she thought. What about "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND, VIOLA MILLER?" Of course, DCS will categorically deny such a claim and they ALWAYS do what is in the best interest of the child, right? ABSOLUTELY NOT! This time, like so many others, they got caught with their pants down.

When is someone, capable of bringing about change for the better in CPS/DCS, reform, going to come forward and cry "FOUL"?

June 12, 2007
Convicted child rapist Jeremy Duffer’s list of abuse victims could be longer
than the young boy he was found guilty in a trial last week of molesting.

Documents contained in Duffer’s criminal court file and obtained by The City
Paper show the convicted child rapist admitted in an interrogation with
Metro Police to molesting at least two more victims.

According to court records, Duffer told police the alleged molestations
happened in 2004 — the year after the Tennessee Department of Children Services
was first alerted to Duffer’s behavior concerning the boy he was eventually
convicted of having a two-year-long sexual relationship with.

The confession by Duffer — documented by narratives in police reports in the
case — were never used in open court during Duffer’s trial.

DCS officials have admitted to receiving a phoned-in tip in June 2003 about
Duffer’s suspicious behavior with the boy he was eventually convicted of
molesting — then a 13-year-old. The 2003 complaint, made by Christopher Hand, a
patron of the game store where Duffer worked — sat untouched for over a year
until the fall of 2004, after Duffer’s rape victim finally told authorities
about his former relationship with Duffer.

Reports written by detectives who solicited Duffer’s statement in the case
where he was convicted last week show that when Duffer confessed to police to
having a sexual relationship with the boy who eventually came forward, he
also told detectives that he had had sexual contact with two additional boys.

“During the suspect interview, Mr. Duffer mentioned two other boys that he
had sexually assaulted,” according to a Sept. 20, 2004, report filed by the
lead detective on the case, David Zoccola.

Duffer provided Zoccola with the names and the telephone numbers — which he
stored in his cell phone — of those two boys.

The report says that Duffer admitted to sexually fondling a young boy living
in the Hermitage area sometime in the spring of 2004, just a few months
before his arrest.

Metro police never learned that Duffer was suspected of being a danger to
children until the victim from Duffer’s trial came forward.

Following Duffer’s September 2004 arrest, police made a routine inquiry to
DCS to see if the state agency had any records pertaining to him. It was only
after that request did Metro Police receive a copy of the June 2003 DCS
report on Duffer, officially recorded but marked “screened out” of the
investigative process by a DCS supervisor.

DCS, through its spokesperson, has repeatedly defended its decision to
screen out the tip as having not relayed enough specific information to have the
agency believe that any child was in “imminent harm.”

“As we have said in the past, we believe this was handled completely
appropriately,” said Rob Johnson, DCS spokesman, who added that he could not comment
on any specific aspect of the complaint.

A copy of the page-long DCS report contained in Duffer’s court record shows
that the complaint against Duffer was “screened-out due to no allegation of
harm or imminent harm” on June 18, the same day it was recorded.

But in addition to the detailed complaint against Duffer — which noted that “
Jeremy and [the victim have been observed in the store’s office with the
door closed,” and that “referent overheard Jeremy Duffer make the comment, ‘
[The victim] was too tired to take his own clothes off so I took them off for
him’” — the complaint documents that the “referent has noticed during these
interactions Jeremy’s preference to the younger [males] at the store.”

Last week, Duffer was convicted of seven counts of rape of a child, four
counts of statutory rape and two counts of especially aggravated sexual
exploitation of a child, all as a result of his relationship with the victim named
in the June 2003 tip to DCS.

In an e-mail to The City Paper sent last week, the mother of that victim
castigated DCS for its lack of action on the tip provided by Hand — a tip she
believes could have prevented the continued abuse of her son.

“I still cannot make any sense of why DCS did not follow through on the
report Mr. Hand provided to the agency,” wrote the boy’s mother. “I was stunned
at their lack of action.”

She also wrote that “no one, and I mean no one, would call me back” after
she made repeated attempts at getting a satisfactory explanation from
officials at DCS.

But the victim’s mother was not the only one who felt outraged that the tip
was “screened-out” by DCS.

Hand himself, who testified during Duffer’s trial about the conversation he
overheard, but who was prevented from testifying about telling DCS about that
conversation, said he was so put off by the DCS response that he came to
believe that nobody, including the police, would be able to do anything more.

As it turns out, Metro police were able to do quite a bit, including
immediately arrest Duffer, but only after they were informed about the victim’s
allegations, which were first delivered to the Smyrna Police Department roughly
a year after Hand’s call to DCS.

After Zoccola was assigned the case, he immediately contacted DCS to find
out if Duffer’s name had ever come to their attention. In response, DCS
provided Zoccola with Duffer’s “screened-out” intake form the agency had received
the year before.

Zoccola contacted Hand, whose name and telephone number were listed on the
intake form.

“Mr. Hand states that he would be glad to talk with anyone concerned about
his actions and the information he gave or tried to give DCS,” Zoccola wrote
ina report he filed the day after he arrested Duffer. “He is upset at the
way this was handled by DCS and the lack of investigation.”
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ALMOST READY FOR CHRISTMAS!

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:31:34 GMT

I am so very much in the Christmas Spirit! I guess it's because my 3 angels are home for Christmas this year! They were with their Mom last year, but she didn't have full custody until May, this year. They are all hers now and I guess just the fact that they are "free" makes me feel better. I have their gifts, well ordered, just waiting for them to arrive in the "big brown truck!" That's what my oldest grandson, 10, always says, because since he was little, his gifts have been delivered, for the most part, by UPS. The good gifts anyway, not the Walmart ones. I tried really hard to limit each of them to one gift, one big gift, but I just couldn't do it! I got each one a big gift and 1 or 2 small gifts and some clothes; I don't count clothes as gifts, they don't either, lol.

My colors for decoration this year just kinda fell into place; burgundy and gold. Around October I ordered 2 gold trees. They have different sized balls and are strung with white twinkle lights. The 7 year old grandson got so excited when he saw them, he took everyone into my room , turned out the lights and said, "isn't it beautiful?" He is such a delight and so sensitive. He is the one that gave us a scare when the doctors thought he had Cystic Fibrosis a couple of months ago, but they think he has an immune deficient condition like Lupus now and Asthma. Thank God for this miracle! They had him diagnosed and all that was left was to do a sweat test and for it to be positive, well, it was negative. Prayers do bring about miracles, I know this with all my heart. This baby was spared from having Cystic Fibrosis because of the prayers of God's faithful!

My Christmas tree isn't very big, just big enough and the lights were already on it, what a wonderful thing. There are gold and burgundy ornaments and pears, apples, and old fashioned blown glass ornaments like we had on the trees when I was growing up. I got the gold trees and ornaments and tree skirt, mantle scarf, and table cover from Brylane Home. All gold and burgundy and really inexpensive. I enjoy shopping on that site. And of course, QVC! How did I live before QVC? Before Joan River's hand and foot cream or Bare Essenctuals or Maxx hand bags? And of course, Christmas presents! Oh, today a Kirby Vacuum salesman came around and we let him do his demonstration. He was young and enthusiastic about a product we have had demonstrated before and I had an aunt that had one and I hated it! It weighed a ton, a big beast of a thing! This new one though has power drive and is lightweight and we all know it is a good vacuum! Well, since ours was not working right and we have only had it a couple of months and since he vacuumed mites off of Emanuel's mattress, he bought it! So, I guess I got a vacuum cleaner for Christmas. I used it all afternoon cleaning. I have decided it's better to put up the tree and decorations and then CLEAN! Now my house is ready for Santa. I didn't use Pine Sol like Mother used to. We always knew when it was close to Christmas, everythingsmelled like Pine Sol. I sprayed the Fabreze Winter Snow fragrance, smells just like Christmas and Winter should. The Kirby demonstrator gave it to us as a prize for letting him demonstrate. I used it last year and had remarked I needed to get some and viola, here it is and it only cost several hundreds of dollars! Did you know, with a Kirby, you can spray paint, blow up balloons, shampoo carpets, wax and buff hardwood floors, wash your outside windows, and a lot more stuff I will never use.

I just recently spent 4 days in the mountains, by myself, so that was a Christmas present from me to me. It snowed the 3rd night I was there and I went shopping in Gatlinburg. I had a very peaceful 4 nights, 5 days and didn't want to come back, but since I hadn't told anyone where I was, I figured I needed to come home and face the music! My sister blessed me out, but I think she understands. She is getting old too. lol

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT !

DON'T TAKE "CHRIST" OUT OF CHRISTMAS, JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON, HE IS OUR FIRST GIFT

NOW THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT

Wed, 23 May 2007 06:41:03 GMT

FOGARTY-HARDWICK v. COUNTY OF ORANGE, ET AL.
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF ORANGE
Case No. 01CC02379 (Trial before Hon. Ronald L. Bauer, Dept. CX103)

On May 14, 2007, Orange County Superior Court Judge, Ronald Bauer (Dept.
CX-103) issued an injunction against the Orange County Social Services
Agency requiring the agency to obtain "reasonable and articulable evidence"
prior to initiating dependency proceedings alleging abuse, neglect or
abandonment of a child.

The injunction follows on the heels of an earlier and unprecedented jury
verdict of $4.9 million against Orange County and two of its social workers
Marcia Vreeken and Helen Dwojak for violating the parental rights of Deanna
Fogarty, as guaranteed under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the
United States Constitution.

This case was brought by Deanna Fogarty against the County of Orange, Marcia
Vreeken, Elaine Wilkins, and their supervisor Helen Dwojak to recover
damages arising from Defendants alleged violations of Ms. Fogarty's
constitutional rights to raise and associate with her children, free from
governmental interference.

On March 23, 2007, an Orange County Jury found against Orange County, social
worker Marcia Vreeken, and social worker supervisor Helen Dwojak and awarded
monetary damages of $4.9 million. A third social worker, Elaine Wilkins was
found not liable.

In addition to seeking damages, Ms. Fogarty also sought to enjoin the Orange
County Social Services Agency from continuing its allegedly unlawful
practice of making allegations of wrong doing against parents in dependency
proceedings without supporting evidence.

Lead trial attorney Shawn A. McMillan states: "Ms. Fogarty is very pleased
with Judge Bauer's decision to issue the injunction. This is a very
important issue to my client, and the court's decision today clearly
demonstrates that sufficient evidence was presented to convince the court
that the customs, policies and practices of the agency were unlawful. This
injunction is expected to have incalculable and far reaching effects for a
great many families presently experiencing the vagaries of the Social
Service system in Orange County, and perhaps throughout the state. The
injunction will force a change that is long overdue."

An electronic copy of the permanent injunction are available at:
Orange County CPS Injunction

San Diego Lawyer Shawn A. McMillan, of the Law Offices of Shawn A. McMillan,
was trial counsel in the case.

For additional information, contact:
Shawn A. McMillan, Esq.
THE LAW OFFICES OF SHAWN A. McMILLAN, A.P.C.
4955 Via Lapiz
San Diego, California 92122
Telephone: (858) 646-0069
Facsimile: (206) 600-4582
Website: www.mcmillan-law.com
E-Mail: attyshawn @ netscape.net

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THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH ABOUT THE HORROR STORIES!

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:50:47 GMT

THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH ABOUT THE HORROR STORIES! :

LET ME SEE.........CHICKEN LITTLE, THE LITTLE BOY WHO CRIED "WOLF",NOAH, ME,,,,,,JUST A FEW EXAMPLES WHERE THE GENERAL POPULATION REFUSED TO BELIEVE THE MESSENGER. OF COURSE THERE IS THE PROVERBIAL "ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM", WHICH MAY BE A CLOSER MATCH TO THIS STORY AND THOSE OF MANY , MANY MORE.