Journalism about Child Protection

Journalism

	Page Contents: General Infamous Cases

General
	These journalists report on many child protection cases, or deal with the system as a whole.
Deaths	December 2006. A San Francisco Chronicle editorial shows that child protectors conceal deaths of their wards, even when there is a state law requiring full disclosure.
Lethal Lapses	November 2006. An American newspaper discovers that in cases of child death, child protectors alter their records to cover their mistakes.
Aliah	Mother Jones exposes how drug companies collude with government agencies to force psychotropic drugs on children.
Troy Anderson	Los Angeles reporter Troy Anderson has written a number of articles on foster care in California. The link is to a collection of his articles by AFRA, some annotated.
Stephen Baskerville [1] [2]	Professor Stephen Baskerville in two video interviews, the first in 2002 primarily on divorce, the second in 2005 to a fathers conference in Detroit on the impact of family law. These are long files suitable only for high-speed internet connections.
Dave Brown	Dave Brown is a now retired reporter for the Ottawa Citizen. We have stored a collection of 34 of his articles on the subject of Children's Aid.
California	An editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle shows the futility of a 2004 law requiring disclosure of the records of children dying in foster care. The law has little effect in the face of determined foot-dragging by social services.
Cavendish	July 2008. A series in the London Times by Camilla Cavendish on the secrecy of family law, the the resulting injustices.
Nancy Crane	This 1998 article describes the relationship between Children's Aid and the press, including large amounts of concealment by child protectors, and successful efforts to plant suggested "reforms" in newspaper articles.
De Sá	(2008) Karen de Sá comments on the railroading of children through family courts, and resulting legislation to alleviate the problem.
Durham	(August 2008) Durham Ontario newspaper reports on children's aid, actually propaganda for social services.
Eddy	Mad Nazi Dream of Racial Purity Revealed by Melissa Eddy (May 2007). An article about two survivors of the Nazi Lebensborn program to breed the master race.
Fenske	Arizona journalist Sarah Fenske on the secrecy of child protection. (September 2007)
FI	A Swedish political party proposes to abolish marriage.
Franklin	Robert Franklin opines on the use, and misuse, of the phrase: "best interest of the child".
Foster- carceration	A report from Washington state that showing that foster care is just another form of prison.
Freedom sidebar	The Church of Scientology reports on child protection.
Gordon	Akka Gordon was a caseworker for New York ACS for a year in 1998-99. She writes of her experiences. Workers are pressed to classify every child's home as dangerous. The main condition for hiring is that the applicant is alive. A caseworker gets fired for telling a judge the truth.
Graff	EJ Graff, The Lie We Love. A researcher exposes the corruption in international adoption.
Grigg archive Grigg	Beware the Child Protectors by William Norman Grigg in the New American, publication of the John Birch Society.
Heleniak	(February 2007) Lawyer David Heleniak describes the methods prosecutors use to end marriages in domestic violence cases. He does not deal with the other kind of shotgun divorce, initiated by the child protection system.
Hession	This is Child Protection? Massachusetts family lawyer Gregory Hession writes in the July 23, 2007 issue of the New American. Following that is the cover story, Families Separated by the State. Yet another cover story, September 17, 2007, Behavior Worth Medicating, deals with forced drugging of children under pretext of treatment for psychiatric disorders.
Cassandra Jardine	Cassandra Jardine writes on England's secret family courts.
Arthur Kane	(2008) The Denver Post reports that outside agencies hired to provide an independent review of problems with child protection are not at all independent.
Rick Kern	A religious journalist comments on Child Protective Services and Children's Aid.
Donna Laframboise	Journalist who writes on Canadian family law. This link is now dead. We hope to restore it to a current link to her work.
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]	Wendy McElroy.
Nev Moore	Nev Moore in the Sierra Times describes the processes that amount to defrauding the appropriations for child protection. (October 2002)
Newcome	An interview with a former caseworker giving a candid view of child protection from the inside.
Palmer	June 2008, Secret Justice, Private Hell, a survey of injustice in Britain's family courts.
Rabun	A newspaper reports on a child protection agency running out of control in Rabun County Georgia. June 2006.
Riben	Big Business In Babies: Adoption, The Child Commodities Market by Mirah Riben (April 2007). A thoughtful and well-researched article on the failings of today's adoption system.
Ratalin	Ritalin's reign and Doctor's orders. These unsigned sidebars from the Globe and Mail (June 2007) give many facts about psychotropic drug use by children in Canada.
Andrée Ruffo	CBC's The Fifth Estate does a profile of Quebec Judge Andree Ruffo in March 2006. She incurred the wrath of the social services bureaucracy by failing to give them everything they demanded.
Saroian	Guest columnist Jenifer Saroian describes child protection in Oregon.
Shell	Colorado-based Westword magazine profiles family advocate Suzanne Shell. It includes cases of excessive harshness to families as a means of discrediting their advocates.
Margaret Talbot	The New Yorker Magazine of August 9, 2005 has an article "The Bad Mom" debunking Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP or MSP). It includes a narrative of the case of the Ottawa Ontario deSousa family.
taser	Let's Talk About Tasers, also The Taser and Men's Rights
Ray Thomas	A blog devoted to child protection, centering on Colorado.
FOI	An article by James Wallace of Osprey Media displays the kind of investigative journalism normally only seen in the American press. Ontario's government agencies at all levels routinely deny requests for information from the public, even routine requests. Freedom of information requests are stymied with legal exceptions.
Weintraub	Unusual Suspects by Pamela Weintraub in Psychology Today (October 2007) A profile of a mother falsely accused of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, deliberately harming a member of her own family.
Wexler	Richard Wexler describes three ways not to solve the child abuse problem, August 2006.
Woffinden	In this article in the New Statesman published in January 2000, Bob Woffinden shows how secrecy laws ostensibly protecting children really facilitate the destruction of the lives of children and their families.
Word	Word Magazine, based in Buffalo New York, on Freedom Village.

Infamous Cases
	The following articles deal with infamous cases of child protection.
Alexander	Sue Reid follows twenty years of the life of Lawrence Alexander seized from his parents as a baby on a junk science theory of abuse and subject to medical experiments that may be responsible for turning him into a permanent invalid.
Alice	Cassandra Jardine describes what life is like in foster care. Note the policy of separating a child from foster parents once they become attached to the child.
Anonymous	Salon on a family raped by therapists.
Jeffrey Baldwin	Christie Blatchford's in-depth report on the death of Jeffrey Baldwin, placed in the home of his incompetent grandparents by the Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto. The page includes some articles on the sentencing of the foster parents, and a commentary.
Bayne	Christina England writes at length on the Bayne case, three children removed from parents on shaken baby allegations.
Lisa Bierly	Lisa Bierly had her children stolen in Utah. A child with medical needs was neglected in care, the mother was not allowed to give evidence to the court, the family lawyer did not bring out important points in defense, the lawyer for social services vilified the family. A functionary of the child protection system tried to use it as a source of a child for her own adoption. And even after acknowledging that the removal was unjustified, the state would not give the kids back. The children identified by the pseudonyms Michael and Katie appear in other sources as Jordan and Leigh. You can reach Lisa Bierly at lsbierly @ yahoo.com (but remove the spaces around the at sign).
Blackman	A case in which hysteria over child-abuse destroyed a teenager.
Candace more	Story of a girl's removal by child protectors and murder by therapists.
Chalupowski	Writer Mac Koch-Lebel details the reduction of the Chalupowski family from millions of dollars in accumulated net worth to nothing through a conspiracy of lawyers and judges.
Sherry Charlie	Sherry Charlie was taken from her mother by child protectors in British Columbia and murdered at the age of nineteen months.
ChildNet	The FBI raids the offices of ChildNet in Florida finding evidence of corruption.
Clark	A young woman, Katrina Clark, born of an anonymous sperm donation, draws attention to the fact that reproductive technologies are not just about satisfying the needs of parents.
Cleveland	In 1988 a junk-science anal dialation test justified removal of hundreds of children from their parents for sexual abuse. In case the link expires, do a search on "Cleveland scandal".
Dugay	A Main legislator is excluded by child protectors.
Dunsmore	A social worker loses his own children because of an accidental broken bone.
Duong	(July 2008) A Vietnamese couple living in Minnesota were suspected in the death of a child in 2001, but never charged. When they give birth again, the child was seized in the delivery room and their parental rights were terminated. The parents now regret their decision to live in "freedom" in the USA.
Finck / VandenElsen	Carline VandenElsen and Larry Finck were surrounded by Halifax police in a three-day standoff aimed at seizing their newborn baby. News reports on the trial. News reports on the trial aftermath. Halifax Herald series giving the full story of both families. Stephen Kimber comments on the case. Commentary blog by André Lefebvre. News blog by André Lefebvre. Blog by Connie Brauer. Book America's Most Wanted Mother
Fredrickson	A mother gives away a baby without informing the father of her pregnancy. When he finds out, he petitions for custody, and a DNA test confirms his paternity. The case becomes infamous when the mother's new car raises suspicion of illegal payments, and the family with custody requests child support payments from the father. Father Rick Fredrickson has his own website
Gagnon	(2008) A Sudbury mother, Lianne Gagnon, is exonerated by police in the death of her baby. A second more harsh investigation two years later also exonerates her. Nevertheless, her second child is taken by CAS based on the opinion of pathologist Dr Charles Smith, who later admitted his incompetence.
Gilbert	(2008) Alloma Gilbert writes of her experiences as a foster child. While not all foster parents are as bad as Eunice Spry, multiple foster placements make it likely that a foster child will encounter at least one foster mom from hell.
Gravelle	Annette M Hall has assembled a multi-media account of the case of Sharen and Mike Gravelle, accused of abusing eleven adoptive children by keeping them in cages. This is a dumping-ground case. Where normal people have to wait years to adopt one child, social services unloads large numbers of difficult children on one adoptive family. If it does not come to light, they are rid of their problems, but if it does, the adoptive parents make credible scapegoats. Watch the video and decide whether the Gravelles were monsters.
Haut	A former school in Jersey, Haut de la Garenne, was revealed to be a torture center for children during the 1960's and 1970's.
Hull	Homosexuals Paul Hull and Erwin Swender turn an Oklahoma orphanage into a pedophile paradise.
Krantz	The kidnapping of the Krantz children in Arkansas. In the video, you can watch cattle graders sorting the kids.
Montero Zook	Douglas Montero of the New York Post breaks the story of foster children used as guinea pigs in drug tests. A later article by Kristal Brent Zook in Essence magazine recaps the story. Eugene Weixel has a blog dedicated to this scandal.
Howard more more more more	Massachusetts News reports on shotgun divorce.
Stephanie Jobin	An autism advocacy group has collected newspaper articles on the death of Stephanie Jobin at the hands of child protectors. They also include the inquest recommendations.
Keys	A family suffers loss of children, falsification of records by social workers and shotgun divorce all apparently to satisfy goals for adoption.
Emily Lake	A girl is maced and removed from her mother. The US~Observer does not reach the journalistic standards of a daily newspaper, but the mainstream press has totally ignored this story. Our own news page also has two articles, the first on August 10, 2005, the second on August 14.
Liggins	The mother in a subsidized adoption abondons her children in Nigeria.
Lozano	(Feburary 2007). In this case from Texas the press gets away from the freak cases, and deals with the most typical child protection case, the single mom. CPS intervenes in a family with problems and makes those problems even worse. Child protectors offer the mother a "Sophie's Choice": You can have some of your kids as long as we get the rest. When a girl runs away and the family really need help, they get the cold shoulder. A digression shows how all problems, even intentional failures by child protectors, result in more money for the child protection system.
Liam Lucas	Tolerance allows pedophiles, masquerading as the now-protected homosexual, to infiltrate child protection agencies and foster homes, even classifying young boys as gay, in order to pass them off to their friends for sodomy.
Maricela Marcu [1] [2]	A refugee from communist Romania gets even harsher treatment from British Columbia child protectors in this case from 1998.
Logan Marr [1] [2] Suppression	In January 2001 5-year-old Logan Marr died at the hands of employees of the Maine Department of Human Services. These reports by Terrilyn Simpson, as long as a short novel, are in pdf. The first deals with the seizure and murder of Logan, the second, written four years later, describes the indifference of elected politicians to parents. She mentions this photograph of Governor Angus King brandishing duct tape. Here is another program by PBS.
Gordon MacRae	Dorothy Rabinowitz writes in the Wall Street Journal on the story of Father Gordon MacRae, a Catholic priest serving time for sexually abusing clients. According to the article, the acts of abuse never occurred, but were part of a successful design to raid the Catholic Church for damages. Dorothy Rabinowitz was the first journalist to question the truth of allegations of ritual satanic abuse in the 1980's, writing articles in the same paper exposing the cases of Kelly Michaels in New Jersey and the Amirault family in Massachusetts. Perhaps a similar series of articles could do in the child protection juggernaut.
Douglas Moore	Douglas Moore, a homicidal pedophile, was an assistant to a foster family in Belfountain Ontario. This two-part series from the Toronto Star describes his life. This is the kind of care your child could get from children's aid.
Osbourne	A mother unsuccessfully tries to kill dad, then children's aid gives her their daughter.
Owen	(November 2007). A mother is falsely accused of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy and her only daughter goes into foster care. Reported by the (mainstream) Boston Globe.
Arthur	(May 2008). Melinda Pillsbury-Foster describes a chilling visit from social services.
Christine Purcell	A British social worker avoids jail after found guilty of perjury. The judge found that no other social worker had been caught lying. This image may take some time to load.
Tember Rector	A foster parent is convicted of abusing a two-year-old boy.
Shaday	A baby girl is needlessly removed from her parents. Under the tab "Families vs Government" there are several more child protection stories, including the Stratton case.
Siler	On July 8, 2004 police went to the home of Lester Eugene Siler in Tennessee. They asked his wife to leave with his child so that they could speak to him alone. Before leaving, his wife turned on a tape recorder, creating the linked recording (19 megabytes mp3). It includes threats, probably now routine in police work, to harm the suspect's wife and child. This is a very disturbing recording, not for the squeamish. [06:12] Officer Franklin: No... You listen to me. You listen to me. Let me tell you what's gonna happen. If you don't sign, I'm gonna go right back there where your wife's at, and I'm gonna put her ass in jail. I'm calling the Department of Human Services and I'm gonna take your fucking kids from you today. and later: [25:10] Officer Webber: Eugene, sign it buddy, or we're gonna go down and git your wife. You want us to do that?
Smolin	When David and Desiree Smolin discovered the teenaged girls they adopted were stolen from their mother, they took an unusual course of action. They spent years finding the mother, eventually reuniting the girls with her. The story from ABC suggests adoptions of stolen children are rare, but in the US, Canada and the UK it appears most adoptions through child protection agencies fit this pattern.
Steiner	Dr Daryl Steiner of Cleveland diagnoses cases of subdural hematoma as shaken baby syndrome, even among newborns who got the injury during natural childbirth.
Stuth	Internet journalist Virginia McCullough reports on a case in which the state of Washington took a toddler from a mother and grandparents. They would have succeeded but for the intervention of a state senator and a television station.
Utah	A four-year start-finish tale of family destruction. In cases that end in adoption, real names can be used, since the children are no longer known by those names.
Wenatchee	The New American, a publication of the John Birch Society, describes the Wenatchee witch hunt. It contains a brief portrait of Robert Perez, shattering the myth that child-protectors are dedicated public servants motivated only to protect children.
Wanda Young	A social worker's career is destroyed in this story of a wolf devoured by other wolves. The article details the steps by which an unfounded accusation results in total destruction for the victim, the same process by which the wolves normally devour sheep.