Media

The subject of child protection is not often in the media, and when it is, it is usually to print puff pieces or stories planted by the child protection industry itself. Here we have carefully selected those media sources that report seriously on the subject.

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Australian mother Janette discusses the demise of her family after she asked Campbelltown DOCS for help with her children. Her 13-year-old daughter got pregnant in foster care. Posted July 10, 2013.

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The British program UK Column Live devotes a half hour to the apprehension of a one-day-old baby from its parents. The first half is video in the home. Posted April 5, 2013, the incident occurred the day before.

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A father-to-be interviews mother-to-be Lexi about the social services threat to seize their baby at birth. Posted to YouTube November 26, 2012.

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British Columbia MCFD terminates parental access to a child because the parents published their story. Posted to YouTube by Dayna Meng on August 24, 2012.

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Social workers have a mother arrested for trying to film her own daughter, and preserve evidence of injuries sustained in foster care. There is no provenance for this incident posted to YouTube August 5, 2012.

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Memorial to Victoria (Tori) Stafford, an innocent girl who fell to a CAS-trained killer. Posted May 16, 2012.

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For reasons still unknown to us F.A.C.S. (Family and Children Services) tried to impose a visit on our family. Now of course this was NOT going to happen. Enjoy the tale of what went down and how they closed the case rather than have to deal with me ;) Don't mess with a lioness' cubs would be the lesson in this :) A playful take on a serious topic with the timeless moral of standing with each other and obtaining self empowerment ツ Uploaded by LiftingVeils on Mar 22, 2012. Agency is Niagara FACS.

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A mother who lost three children to CAS tells her story, then adds before and after pictures of the children. Uploaded by Kyle Colley on Mar 25, 2012

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This is a short video taken this morning in Stratford, of how corrupt the CAS is with their legalized kidnapping. I have voluntarily handed my 3 yr. old Grandson over to them this morning, as a Cancer Patient they did not offer me any help in the care of him other than telling me if I wanted help I would have to apply for Welfare, which I'm not on. They have alienated these 2 brothers against each other who have lived with their Mother since birth, without assistance from either of the boys Dad's. CAS and the Lawyer involved have denied my Daughter her Charter of Rights and failed this Family on every level possible.

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This little guy and his 5 yr. old brother were taken from their Mothers home, because it was messy, yep, from a Mother that has raised them their whole little lives.

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Notice how the workers protect themselves from families behind bullet-proof glass. As soon as the boy sees social workers, he runs back to the safety of grandmother.

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Chad Wells. After almost two years of fighting and exposing the corrupt Muskoka CAS, my three children were able to come home in March of 2011. I know this will be very painful for the CAS workers to watch, but for all the families that are fighting and exposing these demons, I hope this video brings you the strength. Never give up, you have children that are counting on you. Posted February 23, 2012.

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Tarrin Lupo discusses the CPS case of Kathleen Dearinger. Recorded 2012.

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A mother went to pick up her her 14-year-old daughter from the foster mother, who is also a lieutenant for the Sterling Colorado Correctional Facility. As you can hear, she carries her professional attitude over to her home. Uploaded by lverdugo77 on Dec 10, 2011

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One thing I find in my travels is that there never is a shortage of stories, some funny, about the CAS from people I just meet for the first time on the street. The stories come both from parents, foster parents and from children who have been in care of the CAS. Almost all want to speak up.

— from a Facebook posting by Vern Beck on November 16, 2011. The video must have been recorded near Muskoka Ontario during the spring leaf-out. best guess: Nov 16, 2011.

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William and Ana Solomon plead for the return of their children Anriela, Raven and Bill Jr, taken on a non-criminal domestic incident on October 24, 2011.

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Niagara FACS worker Cindy Mitchell intimidates a pregnant woman to compel her to accept "services" even before the baby is born. Posted October 2011.

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Ella, a frantic caller to Alex Jones, reports that CPS is in the process of stealing her son. October 2011.

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A mother's story contains many common CAS elements: When mom complained to a school, they called CAS to retaliate against her. Mom only found out when her kids did not come home on the school bus. CAS boasted of their power. CAS breached confidentiality by letting everyone else in the small community know of the abuse allegations. When it was all over, the children had continuing fears of strangers. From Canada Court Watch August 22, 2011.

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Yvonne Craig tells of the loss of her two sons Julian and Kieran to foster parent Helga Wales (spelling unknown) of Bruce CAS. Her sin? Allowing a pregnancy to go to term after her husband abandoned her.

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Niagara FACS worker Joel Dirks, assistant to Chris Steven, (falsely) claims CAS is part of the government, not a private corporation. Posted September 11, 2011.

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Jessica Beagley (or Bigley) disciplines her Russian-born adopted child. More at news link.

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Niagara mother Shannon Horner-Edsall tells of years of unnecessary intervention by CAS. She was driven out of her home. Posted June 8, 2011.

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Pat Niagara created this video from three CBC radio broadcasts. The young person identified as "David" in the reports is the same person identified on Facebook as "Jessica Larabee". The CBC did not mention it, but David/Jessica asserts endless persecution by children's aid on account of his homosexuality.

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Canada Court Watch interviews two young clients of Muskoka children's aid at Bracebridge Ontario, May 19, 2011. The first is Gordie Merton.

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Mother Sarah's personal experience with California CPS deceit, and pastor Wiley Drake's account of hundreds of similar cases. February 23, 2011.

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Silent Children (LSFF)
From: childrenslegal | February 04, 2011

In the United Kingdom Children should NOT be SEEN OR HEARD. This is a true documentary about Children Removed from their families for no genuine reason. The UK seeks 4000 children for adoption in 2012. If your parents are considering bringing you to the UK in 2012 for the Olympics, take our advice - DO NOT COME. They steal your parents here, give you to strangers, make you unnameables. Silent Children, unheard, unseen.

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Listen to the dictatorial tone of voice of social worker Rhonda Bailey in addressing the father of her ward. An affidavit of the same worker gives some of the (biased) facts. Road Kill Radio May 31, 2011.

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Mother Terry Wheeler lost her children over ten years ago to Muskoka CAS.

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A young man fails to get a social services director to understand the abuse he received growing up in British foster care. Posted to YouTube August 31, 2010.

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Canada Court Watch interviews William Mullins-Johnson. He served over twelve years in prison after false conviction on expert testimony by Dr Charles Smith. Posted August 29, 2010.

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Canada Court Watch on CAS membership. Samuel Fragomeni was turned down three times for membership in the Sudbury children's aid society. July 18, 2010.

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Chris York discusses his victory over Niagara CAS in a speech in front of Queens Park, probably at the rally on May 17. Canada Court Watch posted the video on May 18, 2010.

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Julian Ichim does not say whether he was the father or stepfather of his partner's child, but after a few years living with mother and child CAS ordered him out of his home on pain of child removal. He thinks it was on account of his membership in the Marxist-Leninist party, but the same fate has befallen apolitical fathers. Queens Park, May 17, 2010.

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Jackson County Georgia takes three children from mother Alice Samantha Thomason. Posted to YouTube April 29, 2010.

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Where do adult literacy programs get their clients? One of the two clients featured in this video, Calvin Nantais, is a graduate of children's aid. Uploaded April 23, 2010.

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Teresa Copper tells her story of restraint and drugging during her teenage years in foster care at Kendall House, Kent England. Posted to YouTube April 16, 2010. The audio of the second half has been lost.

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Take a rare look inside social worker school to see the recruits being indoctrinated. Technical warning: You will have to adjust the sound level while playing. Posted to YouTube March 18, 2010.

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Social workers try to return a three-year-old boy to his (foster) home. The boy is adamant that he does not want to go. Social workers claim to not understand when he says "I don't want (foster) mommy kill me". You can't fool a three-year-old with "best interest of the child". Posted to YouTube March 15, 2010

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Alden Tillet's relatives get the family death penalty. According to CC Tillett, vice-president Washington Families United, Alden, born March 15, 1999, was adopted by a family of strangers in Spokane Washington. Posted to YouTube March 11, 2010.

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Bill Maloney reports on the case of parents known only as A and B who lose their baby in secret court proceedings, and are even scared away from speaking to the press. February 2010.

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barcoded girl Don't have a mother? Not to worry. You will be scanned monthly by Florida's new GPS equipped time-stamping laptop demonstrated by counselor Danielle Emerson from Family Support Services in Jacksonville. Posted to YouTube February 10, 2010.

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Mother Lisa Poovey on the brutality of child protection. Posted to YouTube December 22, 2009

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British MP Tim Yeo speaks in the House of Commons November 25, 2009. He gives details of a case in which social services kidnapped newborn Poppey from Carissa and Jim based on the possibility of future emotional abuse.

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Colleen Deroache interviews veteran RCMP officer Sheilah about her experience with child protection. At age 5 her son engaged in risky behaviors requiring him to spend a month in British Columbia respite care at the mother's request. At age 12 Sheilah's work took her to Saskatchewan where she found her son had stolen $700 on her VISA bill. Resorting to tough love she reported him to the local police, expecting an overnight detention followed by a court hearing. Instead a social worker intervened and kept mother and son apart for nine days until their first meeting, and three weeks in foster care. When Sheilah showed the social worker her bulky file on her son's mental health problems the worker said: "I'm not interested in anything you have to say". When the boy tried to use the bathroom at night, his unexpected discovery of another boy already inside led to his punishment as a sexual deviant. According to Sheilah, child protectors deny parents the protections that the RCMP allows to accused offenders. Posted to YouTube November 9, 2009.

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A mother is ashamed of Canada after six years of struggle with children's aid. Posted by Canada Court Watch November 7, 2009. The second video is her advice on making (secret) audio recordings of meetings.

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Straight-arrows Paul and Zabeth Bayne discuss the condition of their children after two years in Ministry care in British Columbia. Posted to YouTube September 17, 2009.

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Audio of British police seizing a baby and arresting the father, who tried to keep the peace. Posted to YouTube September 15, 2009.

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Child protectors place girls Fantasia and Sabrina with their grandmother. She is led to believe she can adopt the girls, so cooperates with termination of mother's parental rights. Once termination is complete, Bethany Christian Services sends police to retrieve the girls. This video, taken on the day of removal (probably autumn 2008), was posted to Myspace August 8, 2009.

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El Paso County Colorado DHS worker Dimitra interviews the Lawson Family. The prime target is teenager Amanda Lawson, younger children are Benjamin, Franklin (age 5) and Elizabeth (still younger), Father Chad Lawson and the unnamed mother are also in the video. Dimitra is the usual confident, dominating social worker until at 4:54 in the video the mother announces her intention to record the private interview between Dimitra and Amanda. The social worker calls her lawyer for help and leaves without conducting the interview. Posted to YouTube June 27, 2009. Part two appears to be missing.

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A phone call between an expectant mother and social worker and baby harvester Anita from Ely Family Centre, Cardiff Wales. Posted to YouTube by MrBagwandeen81 May 28, 2009.

Addendum: Here is a picture of the baby.

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Two girls speak about their humiliation when CAS interviewed them at school. Posted by Canada Court Watch May 18, 2009.

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Brant CAS criticizes a mother in court for using baby oil on her baby, and feeding him yogurt, but a public health nurse says these things are good for a baby. Posted to YouTube April 25, 2009.

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Attila Vinczer reports on how recording all conversations saved him from years in jail and an exorbitant legal bill. April 10, 2009.

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Police remove two boys from a Wayne Pennsylvania father. A thirteen-year-old girl (not shown) was also taken. Posted to YouTube April 10, 2009.

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Father Chris Dahlberg visits his three-year-old son Logan at the Jan Stirling Building in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. In this video posted April 2, 2009, a Yellowknife Health and Social Services social worker instructs the boy to lower his voice. Dad sticks up for his kid.

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A Yellowknife boy coached by a social worker accuses dad (sounds like Chris Dahlberg above) of hitting his other son. Posted to YouTube April 16, 2009.

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Kim and Craig MacNearney's children, Gilgamesh and Berendon, were apprehended when an anonymous tip about a closet marijuana garden brought GNWT Child Protection Workers to their door with 4 RCMP officers without a search warrant. Despite having never been accused of mistreating their children, Child and Family Services kept the children in foster care for 13 days and then returned them battered and traumatized. The parents were only allowed 3 hours of contact with their children in 2 visits.

This is a video taken during the second visit that occurred on day 8 of the 13 days. Kim and Craig were required by Child and Family Services to dress and load the children into the minivan so they could go to the foster home.

Following some normal kid play, notice the reaction of the kids when they realize separation is coming. Also notice the torture inflicted on the parents. Posted to YouTube March 20, 2009. Since it has real names, child protectors will bully it off YouTube soon.

From another source, the intervention occurred because the MacNearneys were medical marijuana users.

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A California couple, Jason and Cassidy McIntire, have their child stolen by a camera-shy social worker Laurie Lee because of Vicodin to control pain during childbirth. Cameo by Roger Weidner. March 12, 2009.

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January 10, 2009 Citizen Speeches to Northern Virginia General Assembly: Psychologist Susan Backus, PhD. describes CPS harassment

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January 10, 2009 - Citizen Speeches to Northern Virginia General Assembly: Christopher Slitor describes how his daughter Sabrina was kidnaped by Arlington CPS.

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January 10, 2009 - Citizen Speeches to Northern Virginia General Assembly: Nancy Hey, wife of Christopher (Kit) Slitor, describes how her infant daughter Sabrina was kidnaped by Arlington CPS. Here she is again, speaking at a father's day demonstration at the US Capitol, June 19, 2011. YouTube (and

local copy mp4).

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Video authorized and approved by both parents of Umholtz children. Pearl L. Bryan witness to corroberate Adam and Kim Umholtz authorization to video children during their visitation in 'public park'. Posted to YouTube November 15 2008. The website FloridaCorruption.com is already defunct.

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Mass deportation of children from Tony Alamo ministry, in Texarkana November 11, 2008.

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Posted to YouTube October 9, 2008. Dana Lawhon who has lost two sons to DHS and later death, fights Oklahoma DHS for custody of her only grandchild.

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Posted to YouTube October 6, 2008. This Childrens Aid Society's group home victim speaks of the hell he went through and the suicide of another group home victim. He states that it is the unnecessary brutal isolation from family that causes a lot of the damage and directly led to this friends suicide. He says that we need people in the system who actually give a shit. Cathy Norris is one of the voices.

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Posted to YouTube October 6, 2008. According to this graduate, CAS means Criminal Apprentice System. Lots of children get in trouble with the law after entering group homes. Cathy Norris interviews.

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Oregon father Mark recorded a 16 minute meeting with CPS. It illustrates the futility of discussing a case with CPS. They could not justify their seizure of his baby with a single past or future action of the father. CPS got YouTube to remove the video on grounds that it violated "privacy". It was uploaded to hugedrive.com by Michael Garibaldi. Below is Mark's letter from jail, following his arrest on October 2, 2008.

Hello. My name is Mark. My baby was kidnapped by CPS on July 16, 2008 with no claim of abuse or neglect. I have informed CPS, and proved on the record, that they do not have authority or jurisdiction over this baby to remove him from his parents. It is a blatant invasion, without cause, onto the sanctity of family. The CPS workers ignored me, and conspired with the "judge" to rig the game so it looks legitimate - i.e. - covering up their crimes. I have exposed their crimes. Now they have retaliated by getting me arrested. They have altered court records, falsified my name and address and residency status, and thereby have caused me to not be included in their kangaroo court process. I caught them in this deceit and exposed them and the judge on the record for fraud. On Oct 2, at 9:30pm, 4 armed police and a dog attacked me outside my home. Without announcing their purpose or intent they physically attacked me, threw me around the deck area, hit me, tossed me over a table and generally demonstrated their violent inclinations. It is 6 days later and my wrists are still bruised from the vindictive over-tightening of the handcuffs. AFTER all this, they informed me they had a warrant for the arrest of the false name that they assigned to me. The charges: "Intercepting Communications" - A MISDEMEANOR! And they executed it with this much violence? I later discovered CPS workers are so desperate that they falsely accused me of threatening to blow up the court house! These people are sick, psychotic and VERY dangerous. As promised, I will continue to speak out, even from jail. CPS must be abolished. And, the criminal agents must be put in prison for kidnapping. Join the battle to expose them.

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Posted to YouTube September 19, 2008. A father visits his son in an observation chamber. The circumstances are the same as for fatehr Mark in the October 2 video above. The man posting the video comments:

The last visit of Dad with his baby. CPS cut off visits after receiving a "psych eval" that was nothing but regurgitated rhetoric handed to the doctor by the social worker. Notice "The Room" that is the same "Room" all over the globe! This poor little baby doesn't even have a name yet! Can any sane human even think that this poor baby is better off in "foster slavery" than with his own parents? He has a happy 2-parent home with a mother and father that love him with all their heart. There is no claim of abuse or neglect! The "State" didn't even know this baby existed for certain until they hijacked the mother in a parkinglot and ripped the baby away from her. On accusation from a social worker from another state that there are other children being held hostage, so this baby might be at risk!? Might? Possible? Can we say "prior restraint" and "denial of due process"? How about "failure to provide pre-deprivation hearing"? How about outright "Kidnapping"!?

The whole "evaluation" crap is a complete fraud. How is it that a father should have to prove himself fit to raise his own children? Are the "caretakers" and "foster parents" subject to these evaluations? Why is a Parent forced to undergo stricter criteria than a complete stranger to the child?

The social worker's husband is DIRECTOR of the county corrections department. He came knocking IN PERSON on Friday to intimidate and harass! He has a staff of psuedo-cops that do in-person contacts for probation matters, but he comes 15 miles in person? The Director of the department? Tell me this isn't harassment! No contract = criminal conduct. They are trying to use Baby to coerce and intimidate Dad and Mom into a contract! "Just sign this agreement for visitation requirements..." CRIMINALS!

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September 1, 2008. Carline VandenElsen has given birth to four children, all taken from her by force and placed with genetically unrelated caretakers. In two video folk songs, she laments her ordeal.

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My First CPS Visit, posted to YouTube June 11, 2008 by EmmanuelMontelongo. A CPS tries to bully a father into relinquishing his baby. The blurb says: My mother in law is putting cps on me because she is psycho.

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Don't Mess with Texas CPS, posted May 30, 2008. Following a report by Austin TV station KVUE on baby Jocelyn snatched from mother Shirley Houser in the delivery room, Alex Jones comments on the Houser case.

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Posted by Canada Court Watch May 28, 2008. Foster children spent Christmas locked in a basement while the foster family feasted above.

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Posted by Canada Court Watch May 25, 2008. A teenaged girl discusses her experiences with the Office of the Children's Lawyer.

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(May 19, 2008). A British Columbia couple recounts five years of experience dealing with local child protectors. This material is in seven YouTube videos: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].

Since controversial material disappears quickly from YouTube, we have local copies: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] (all in flv format). Only the first is technically awkward.

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April 28, 2008. Family Reunification Is Visitation Canceled. Robert Coleman records an encounter with a caseworker, but professional prevaricators fear accurate publicity above all else.

Phone call recorded May 4, 2008. CPS is doing everything they can to cancel and manipulate the courts to keep us from seeing our children. This social worker was fired from Child and Family Services after we had filed maney complaints on her only for to be hired by Marquette County CPS.

Third recording posted May 8, 2008, no date of the incident is given. A girl in foster care gets at least three vaginal exams.

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A standard technique of family destruction is to falsely tell both parent and child that the other does not want you. In this case, a mother caught evidence of the scam on audio tape. This video was posted April 29, 2008 to the blog It's Almost Tuesday. The family is not identified.

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February 25, 2008, YouTube. A mother raped by the psychiatric drug Zoloft eventually catches on and weans herself. Her next baby is kept out of the reach of doctors with a home birth.

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December 14, 2007. YouTube. The story of a Florida family wrecked by DCF. Also, see the Douglass blog.

CPS, CIPS, DCF, DSS, DCFS, or whatever name they go by in your area, have taken children away from parents because of unfounded accusations. Municipalities also "put people in their place" to protect the drug trade!

Friends of mine have been to scared to take their children to the hospital because of an injury that occurred. Due to the corruption of DCF and CPS.

One story of a friend had a four wheeler flip onto his 14 yr old son.

He split his head and was bleeding, wanting to go to sleep. The Father and mother cried for hrs while doing everything they could to help the wound, because they were afraid they would lose their children to DCF.

There are MANY more stories like this all over Florida that are happening everyday.

Another friend has a 3 year old daughter who was spinning in an office chair, fell down and put a bump on her head, the Father and Mother were to scared to take her to the emergency room because they were afraid of DCF stepping in and taking their children on unfounded accusations.

Until we have honest employees, or at least an internal affairs group for DCF, people's children are in danger of suffering at the hands of lying DCF employees. What will happen to these children who need medical help and the parents are to afraid to take their children to the hospital because of being falsely accused and losing their children.

A missionary friend was to fly in to Florida to preach in our area. He had been praying for our family with his family. An 8 year old son was going to fly in with him, but the day of his flight leaving, his son found out they were coming to Florida and would not get on the plane. He said, "I don't want to go where people take children from the Dad and Mom's." He cried excessively until his father told him he did not have to go.

SOMEONE WHO CAN....HELP SAVE THE AMERICAN FAMILY!

DCF is Destroying Children and Families.

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British stepgrandfather Charles Roy Taylor has been jailed for two years for attempting to help his teenaged grandson in foster care. The grandmother got a sentence suspended for two years. The sentences are a pretext for keeping the boy in care past his sixteenth birthday. Posted November 30, 2007.

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Swat Team Raids an Amish School. Bergholtz Ohio, September 18, 2007.

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November 25, 2007 YouTube. Five harvested mothers discuss their experiences.

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Three sisters separated for months express their opinion of their foster homes. British Columbia MCFD punishes the family by ending their visit. Posted to YouTube June 29, 2007.

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Stolen Baby! A young mother and grandmother have a baby girl stolen in Lancaster County Pennsylvania without cause. Only embarrassment from a film-maker gets the child returned. Posted December 4, 2006.

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The video is lost, but the audio tells the story of two Connecticut families reporting their experiences with child protectors, including:
  • lawyers who do not represent their clients
  • a mother had to attend court alone, without family members or a lawyer
  • gag orders preventing parents from reporting their case to law enforcement or political representatives
  • sexual abuse of a boy in foster care

Posted August 10, 2006.

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This is an audio/video clip in wmv format of a woman speaking to the camera with a paper bag over her head to protect her identity. She describes the flight of her family from child protectors. This clip is authentic because it came from Leonard Henderson of the American Family Rights Association. With a low-speed connection, download the file before playing it. Later news showed that this video was by mother Lynnae Lake protecting her daughter Emily.

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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.

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[25:10] Officer Webber: Eugene, sign it buddy, or we're gonna go down and git your wife. You want us to do that?

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(wma). Radio interview of Diane Booth by Gary Null, broadcast on WBAI radio New York on June 13, 2003. It is the tragedy of a mother who fled to Canada with her son to save him from child-protectors.

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Life in Foster Care is Like a Subway Ride. John Dunn told his story of foster care on the CBC program Outfront in 2002. Later, John found his father.

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Police commit child abuse by forcing fourteen-year-old Michael Crowe to falsely confess to the murder of his sister Stephanie.

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Recording made November 20, 1991 of Ottawa police sergeant Thomas Callaghan and Lanark Children’s Aid Society social worker Barbara Erb interviewing Raymond Kerr on his fourth birthday. This boy, later adopted with the name Raymond Paquette, sued children's aid shortly after reaching age of majority. The Jack referred to in the recording is Jack Hepworth, the boy's stepfather.

mp4. Barbara Erb continues interviewing the same witness on December 14, 1992. She is coaching him to be more incriminating.

mp4 Sergeant Thomas Callaghan and Lanark CAS worker Denise Unhola interview the boy again on April 27, 1992. Callaghan is lying when he says he recently talked to Jack. When the boy gives the answer the interrogator wants, he praises the boy saying "That's right!".

mp4 Barbara Erb and Ottawa police sergeant Jill Skinner continue the interviews December 2, 1992. Raymond can now respond that Jack sucked on my dink.

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Former foster child Arthur Gallant and Hamilton CAS executive director Dominic Verticchio debate on CHCH-TV March 31, 2015. Captured by Pat Niagara.

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Advertisement for 2014 incumbent Arizona Democratic congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick criticizing Republican opponent Andy Tobin for cutting funding for child protective services.

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Former Los Angeles Social worker Julian Dominguez is interviewed by Tami Stefano. He says that affidavits sworn by social workers are not written by the worker herself. One professional writes the affidavits of all staff from notes provided by the worker. That writer makes the real decisions about what the affidavit will say.

Mr Dominguez's observations coincide with those of fixcas. Affidavits under the names of many workers in Dufferin CAS all showed the same literary style.

Posted to YouTube May 8, 2014. The first minute of video is technically awkward.

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Carlos Morales was a CPS worker in Texas for a year. In this interview he explains the dysfunctional child protection system from the point of view of an insider, and gives advice on what to do when CPS strikes.

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What R U having? A billboard and TV campaign in Queensland Australia promotes same-sex marriage. July 2013.

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The American police state has grown to such proportions that Sesame Street finds it necessary to teach pre-schoolers about it. June 2013.

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Anonymous warns CPS in the United States.

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Enumclaw.com sat down with Senator Pam Roach to discuss her new bill 5504, requiring government employees to tell the truth. Uploaded on Feb 28, 2013

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Massachusetts Lawyer Scott P Brown speaks on what you should do when CPS comes to your door. Posted to YouTube January 17, 2013.

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Dr. Marty McKay, former Psychologist with the Children's Aid Society for 33 years, talks about how children in foster care are unethically drugged into a stupor for profit. Posted to vimeo by Esther Buckareff December 2012.

Dr McKay is an example of an expert who gave a report unfavorable to children's aid, and got no more referrals as a result. The CBC videos on J are at [1] and [2].

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Abused in Care: Suing the CAS | Q&A with lawyer Loretta Merritt. Posted to vimeo by Esther Buckareff October 2012.

List Of Questions (With Timecode)

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Introduction (Who do you normally represent?)
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Do you ever represent natural, foster, or adoptive parent(s)?
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How does the court define "negligence"?
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Do you have to prove the CAS was negligent?
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How do you prove fault?
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Is the CAS contracting out to group homes to avoid being sued?
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How does the law apply if other children (in a group home) abused the survivor?
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If a file has been sealed for 20 years, or the CAS claims there is no file, can a survivor still sue?
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How much money can a survivor sue for?
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Is it harder to sue the CAS if the child was damaged before they went into care?
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Is it worthwhile for an abuse survivor to sue for damages?
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Are gag orders normally part of the settlement?
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Do the claims cost tax payers when the CAS loses?
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Would you encourage kids - teens or young adults - to sue?
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To apprehend a child, the Children's Aid requires a warrant, though they rarely get one. Criminal and Family lawyer Brigitte Gratl discusses how and why the CAS apprehends children illegally, and gets away with it in court. Part 2 discusses the subjectivity of why many children are apprehended by the Children's Aid Society. She questions whether a worker's perspective becomes skewed to the point of making irrational decisions, and the unfair scrutiny that a mother and/or father is often subjected to. Posted to vimeo by Esther Buckareff September 2012.

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If Keri Malcolm could speak to the Minister of Children and Youth, she would tell him about children that should be with their families and aren't. She would beg him to return her son to her, while he is still at a vulnerable adolecent age. Posted to vimeo by Esther Buckareff September 2012.

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Native Grandmother Lina Desmoulin addresses the state of Dilico - the Native branch of the Children's Aid Society in Thunder Bay, Ontario. As one of the founders of Dilico, Lena implores the Chiefs of Ontario to "back up" and relook at "the monster" the organization has become. The situation Lina describes is referred to as "The Millennium Scoop" - thousands of children taken from Native homes and either adopted out or placed into non-Native foster and group homes. Over 70% of all children in the care of the Children's Aid Societies of Ontario are Native children. Posted to vimeo by Esther Buckareff September 2012.

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A Discussion about the Ontario College of Social Workers & Social Service Workers. A conversation between politician Frank Klees, former CAS adoption client Edward Hickey, and family lawyer Alfred Mamo. Woven through the conversation is the director's visit to the College (to take footage of their wall) and her encounter with the the College's in-house legal counsel and Director of complaints, Marlene Zagdanski. Critical issues include the College's current policy not to enforce its mandate, and the Children's Aid Society's unethical practice to circumvent the law by employing unregistered social workers. Posted to vimeo by Esther Buckareff September 2012.

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Georgette Mulheir breaks stereotypes on orphanages. Most of the children have living parents who want them. Well behaved children are a symptom of the most severe abuse. Misbehavior gets treated with drugs. Outcomes in later life are abysmal. While she talks about poor countries, the increased institutionalization of children in wealthy countries produces the same maladies. TED talk, August 2012.

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The communicizer advertisement promotes adoption. Today there are more parents willing to adopt than children available, so there is no point in recruiting adopters. The ad is really promoting the view that adoption is a good thing, an act of charity.

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John Storm interviews Niagara CAS worker Denise Collins and foster parent Cathy Austin. These are the same folks who take children from obese parents. Program Taking Niagara by Storm captured by Pat Niagara, posted August 31 2012.

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Alex Jones interviews Lenore Skenazy, editor of Free Range Kids, on the mollycoddling of children. August, 2012. Here is Lenore again, interviewed by the less incendiary Reason TV (mp4).

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Tim Robbins gives his thoughts on the routine drugging of children. Posted to YouTube August 25, 2012.

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An occasional child suffers and adverse reaction to vaccination. The child protection system cruelly accuses the parents and seizes the injured child along with any siblings. Mentions Elwood Sadowsky, accused of killing daughter Amanda. Posted August 20, 2012.

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Lemn Sissay: A child of the state, filmed Jun 2012.

Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many parentless children feel compelled to hide their pasts? Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay tells his own moving story. (Filmed at TEDxHousesofParliament.)

An award-winning playwright and popular broadcaster in the UK, as well as the author of five poetry books, Lemn Sissay has a way with words.

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Anonymous targets Australia's child protection system.

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Maryanne Godboldo is awarded by the CCHR. Posted February 12, 2012.

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Monday September 19, 2011
Motherhood Interrupted
She was 19 years old, pregnant and unmarried and the world was unforgiving. It was the sixties and Sharon Pederson was literally tossed out in the snow and turned into a domestic slave. She was lectured and demeaned. And when her baby was born, social workers forced her to sign her away. Hundreds of young women were forced to hand over their babies for adoption in Canada. Today in our documentary, we bring you the story of one woman who can't forget. — CBC blurb from The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti.

In common with many exposés of past abuse, there is no mention that the same practice continues today, with only the justifications altered.


Thursday September 22, 2011
It's mail day. And we have been overwhelmed with responses to the story of Sharon Pederson, a woman shunned, alienated and forced to give up her baby for adoption because she was young and single. That story unleashed a flood of similar stories from other mothers, children and adoptive parents alike. And according to The Current's Kathleen Goldhar, they're just the tip of the iceberg. We hear from her and also get to some of your letters on the entitled generation, erotic capital in the workplace and an update on a asbestos story and the Von Palleske family

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When police are equipped with non-lethal weapons, they use them at a rate over a thousand times higher than when they have only lethal weapons. Normal use is not where the life of the policeman is in danger, but where a subject is not complying with orders. The ideal non-lethal weapon, one that causes pain without leaving marks, is the perfect torture device. TED talk by Stephen Coleman, September 2011.

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Chain of obedience. The mechanism of atrocity, posted to YouTube October 13, 2011.

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Lawyer Harvey Silverglate advises using a recording device when FBI agents conduct an interview. Uploaded Aug 31, 2011.

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Absolute Power. Forceful child removal coupled with haughty judges.

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Christine Aphrodite interviews Mary Callahan. The program starts nine minutes into the recording. When Mary told the legislature of the abuse handed out in foster care, they were bored. They have heard hundreds of similar stories. April 12, 2011.

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The first link is Minister of Children and Youth Services Laurel Broten speaking at One Kids Place in North Bay Ontario on November 5, 2010. She says almost nothing, but says it with great enthusiasm. Compare her delivery to the sales-girl in the second video soliciting support to ban dihydrogen monoxide.

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At a debate held October 7, 2010 in Sioux Falls between South Dakota gubernatorial candidates Dennis Daugaard, Republican, and Scott Heidepriem, Democrat, a reporter asked about funding of child protective services. The only parent figures mentioned are "parents [ who ] have been rehabilitated" and "abusive boyfriend". The candidates are clueless.

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Call to action from Linda Plourde.

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Finally, a client who loves CPS even less than we do. August 2, 2010.

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Sugata Mitra shows the real way to teach children. TED, July 2010.

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Social science research is biased. June 2, 2010.

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Adoption Law Doesn't Just Affect Babies. Adult adoptees are frustrated by law in efforts to find their origins. Uploaded by Jean Strauss April 28, 2010.

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Nadir Siguencia takes his objections to CAS to the streets, Queen and John in Toronto April 20, 2010. Try his website.

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Dominique Garay compares discipline to labeling. Posted to YouTube April 28, 2010.

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April 12, 2010 — In PHC's [Patrick Henry College] first annual Real Hope for the Future speech contest, junior Aaron Kamakawiwoole won the $1000 first prize with his speech on the importance of defending parental rights in the United States, describing his lobbying efforts in his home state of Hawaii to pass the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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The Right to be a Father. Swedish documentary on social policies breaking the bond between fathers and children. Stephen Baskerville explains how the documentary came to be created and suppressed. February 23, 2010

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Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much as to teach. A prolific short story writer and blogger since age seven, Adora Svitak (now 12) speaks around the United States to adults and children as an advocate for literacy. Filmed February 2010.

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Alex Jones interviews John Hemming February 2, 2010. The second link is to a radio interview with Angela Wileman, posted August 18, 2009.

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Jamie Oliver speaks to TED, February 2010. The diet American schools feed to children amounts to child abuse.

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CBC radio program The Current broadcast January 8, 2010. Country star and guest-host Shania Twain, interviews Katreena Scott, professor in the Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto, and Jeanette Lewis, Executive Director of the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies. This discussion by three believers omits mention of the armed police escort used on every visit to a new client, and many other atrocities.

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Developmental disorders in children are typically diagnosed by observing behavior, but Aditi Shankardass knew that we should be looking directly at their brains. She explains how a remarkable EEG device has revealed mistaken diagnoses and transformed children's lives. Aditi Shankardass is pioneering the use of EEG technology to give children with developmental disorders their most accurate diagnosis.

— blurb from November 2009 TED talk. This talk shows that psychiatrists are in the dark ages when it comes to diagnosis of pediatric behaviors.

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Five women discuss social services, totally clueless as to its true nature. From the tv program 100 Huntley posted to YouTube October 2, 2009 featuring guest: Ronnie Littlewood, Brantford Children's Aid Society Social Worker, www.homesforkids.com

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Stephen Baskerville on the family crisis. August 11, 2009.

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Cameron Herold proposes teaching children to become entrepeneurs. TED talk March 2010.

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Alex Jones profiles CPS, ending with an imitation of a family court judge. Fun to watch, though based on Ontario experience, pure fantasy.

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(56 megabytes mp3). Alex Jones interviews former Georgia state senator Nancy Schaefer on May 14, 2009 starting at 193 minutes into the program.

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Dr Jayne Major was interviewed at Toronto's conference on parental alienation. Posted by Canada court Watch April 22, 2009.

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Former Georgia senator Nancy Schaefer addresses the Eagle Forum March 12, 2009.

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On the Edge, Theo Chalmers interviews John Hemming for two hours. This is the first of thirteen YouTube parts, links to the other parts are on the YouTube page. Posted March 4, 2009.

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Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan speaking at Cooley Law School Grand Rapids provides an overview of a lawsuit settlement regarding the foster care system in Michigan. She speaks of the child protection system, not as a party at arms length, but as a collegue. Posted to YouTube October 23, 2008.

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Dr Phil show, September 18, 2008. Dr Phil interviews mother Treffly Coyne who was arrested and separated from her children for walking 30 feet from her car while leaving a baby inside. The program continues with mother Lynn DeJac who spent 13 years in jail falsely convicted of murdering her own daughter Crystallynn Girard. Dr Phil, an advocate for the CASA system, ends with terrible advice: When falsely accused, cooperate with the investigators, but discuss the case only with your lawyer. Far better to tell nothing to the investigator, and to make contact with advocates who can help in the political opposition that is the only real salvation for families.

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We could not find a video titled "Don't Talk to the CAS", so here is the best we could find. Talking to CAS is even more dangerous than talking to the police. Professor James Duane, posted to Google video May 21, 2008.

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Officer George Bruch responds to above talk. He starts by observing that he can follow anyone and find an offense, but ends by claiming that he does not convict the innocent.

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April 20, 2008, YouTube. Michael Savage on the FLDS raid. The radio program was augmented with video not from Savage.

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(26 megabytes mp3, starts with 15 second commercial). Georgia state senator Nancy Schaefer speaks with Ron Smith and others for an hour, recorded March 27, 2008. The senator has found that reform at the state level cannot occur as long as the federal government offers large funding incentives to the states to separate families. She recently announced that she is running for the US Congress.

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February 28, 2008. Keep the bastards honest. Dr Lynne Wrennall pleads to end secrecy in family courts.

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February 19, 2008. How To Deal With That Dirty Worker (YouTube). Most social workers have less education than a high school graduate, yet think of themselves as experts in psychology, medicine and law. To deal with them, pretend to be at their intellectual level. Not everybody can do this, but the advice might work for some.

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Dr Jeffrey Schaler Professor of Psychology describes psychiatry as a pseudo-science. Posted to YouTube February 8, 2008.

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January 4, 2008. YouTube. Indian leader Russell Means on the destruction of his nation by child adoption, drugging of children and medical experimentation.

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Deconstructing America. The leading figures in family law reform criticize corruption in the court. Two parts posted to YouTube December 2 2007.

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November 7, 2007 YouTube. A former caseworker for the Toronto Children's Aid Society criticizes his former employer.

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Adoption promotion. Don't try this if you are a natural parent. October 2007.

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A web-only radio program dealing with the experiences of adoptees. The second link is to a gem extracted by John Dunn - a social worker herself adopted is forbidden to look at her own case file.

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September 9, 2006. Raynard Price "Ask A Foster Parent Anything - Destroying Kids". A candid foster parent exposes the malfeasance of foster parents social workers and therapists.

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John Dunn and Michele Lafantaisie were guests on this CH TV Hamilton program broadcast March 10, 2006. In case of expiry, here is a local copy.

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Google video of TV program Hardfire, The ACS Kidnaps Children. Stephen Finger interviews parents Rolando Bini and Conchita Jones. Dated 21-Feb-2006, runs 28 min 31 sec.

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Steven Levitt on the value of car seats. TED, July 2005.

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Mark Blackburn did two programs for CBC Ottawa on Children's Aid, only this one survives. It presents the view that permanent separation of children from their parents harms not the parents, but the children. Until these broadcasts, Marie Bountrogianni stonewalled requests for information on the five-year statutory review of the Child and Family Services Act. This 1.6 Mb mp3 file has running time 6:52. February 6, 2005.

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Dr Mark Vonnegut defines ADHD at the NIH Consensus Development Conference on ADHD, November 16-18, 1998.

Technical note: Dr Vonnegut requires that behaviors be "several standard deviations different" to qualify as ADHD. Surmising that "several" means three or more, of the 75 million Americans under age 18, only 100 thousand are more than three standard deviations above normal. But "almost 4 million children 3–17 years of age (7%) had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)" according to the Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Children: National Health Interview Survey, 2002 issued by the Centers for Disease Control.

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A news channel discovered a baby factory in Abia Nigeria where teenaged girls are kept pregnant to product adoptive babies peddled as foundlings.

Published on May 6, 2013 The Abia state police command has apprehended a fake social worker; Ngozi Nkwonu, who under the pretense of operating an orphanage, runs a baby-making centre, where teenage girls are impregnated and the babies sold off. For more information log on to www.channelstv.com.

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It is not just children who are seized to make a claim on public funding. After Bonnie Crosby had a stroke, her brother Kenny Hein cared for her until a state agency got a tip. KRNV October 15, 2012.

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Sergeant Tyler Ruble of Chariton Iowa uses a taser on 34-year old Amy Storm after she is cuffed on her hands and feet and hog-tied. The incident occurred in 2010, but was only broadcast by WHO-TV on May 30, 2012. The officer was also shown to be a wife-beater.

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Mother Kristina Fowler has to watch helplessly as her children are abused and tortured by their adoptive mom Kelly Morris. KFSN-TV Fresno California May 30, 2012.

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Schools in Franklin Township New Jersey sic DYFS on parents who advocate too strongly for their children. May 2012.

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rubber stamp WXYZ Detroit tried to track down the story of children apprehended with court orders rubber-stamped with the name of Leslie Kim Smith. They were stonewalled. Broadcast May 9, 2012.

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When Webster Texas mother Natalie Ruiz got a mistaken visit from police she refused to let them into her home. They reported her to CPS saying she was intoxicated, slurred her words, the home was in disarray and filthy and had cats on the loose. She says she was sober and has no pets. The parts of her home shown on camera show no signs of disarray. March 2012.

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Indiana foster girl Quinnasha Henderson has cancer with poor prospects. Her little chance of survival is impaired by the delays imposed by child protection bureaucracy. WISH-TV February 14, 2012. Quinnasha died September 5.

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In two and a half minutes this interview with Commissioner Ron Richter of New York City ACS averages one error of fact every 15 seconds. How else can you get the public to support child snatching? December 2011.

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Dr Kelechi Iheagwara shows that advocates of junk science can look convincing. Years after the scientific and legal repudiation of shaken baby syndrome, she touts a hand-held device measuring one of its purported symptoms, retinal hemorrhaging. The device was funded by a donation of undisclosed origin. Cui bono? November 14, 2011.

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When foster mother Vicki Lambou lost her wards, a news report brings out tears, tears rarely shed for real parents. The reporter never lets on that part of the foster mother's grief could be for loss of her pay. The children are returning to their natural family. September 2011.

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In the drug war, CPS removes Rachel Harrison from her parents on account of recreational drug use, then drugs the girl into a stupor. The parents claim the action is retaliation for their earlier exposure of CPS. May 19, 2011.

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KOCO reports on a low-bidder adoption by John and Sonya Kluth. February 23, 2011.

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Who's your mommy? CTV reports on adoption of older children. Same-sex couple Andre Fontaine and D'Arcy McPherson adopt John Daly. Posted to YouTube January 11, 2011.

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Drugged-out zombie up for adoption. November, 2010.

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Alison Stevens of PAIN works 24/7 to reunite families separated by British social services.

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British investigative journalists Russia Today expose abuses in adoption, with investigative journalist Christopher Booker and father John Fowler. Posted to YouTube July 4, 2010.

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Johnny Dragomir starved to death in Michigan state care while his foster carers collected $12,000 per month. Broadcast by WXYZ in April 2010.

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Can you trust a politician who smiles when discussing the death of a child? Ed Balls demonstrates, April 2010.

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CBN reports on Germany's Jugendamt. Posted to YouTube March 22, 2010.

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After Donald James Lockwood stabbed a children's aid worker, this news clip focuses on two heroes who came to the aid of the distressed woman. The presentation diverts attention from the question of why a man would want to harm a children's aid worker. Broadcast March 19, 2010.

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March 10, 2010. Anglia News, Los Montesinos, Spain. Families Flee Britain to keep their babies.

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Bakersfield California DHS and surrounding streets were shut down because of a bomb scare. Cause: box of nature and wildlife VHS tapes. March 2010.

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CPS makes Munchausen allegations against Jennifer Weber (mother of Landon) and Devona Burt (mother of Byson). Both had severe medical problems at birth. Jennifer is promised her boy back, the Devona is slated for termination. Posted to YouTube March 2, 2010.

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Oklahoma DHS child welfare specialist Kristaline Danee Sands is arrested on February 3 2010 for drunk driving and the next day for altering a prescription.

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In this Connecticut news video, turn off the sound and watch the cattle-grading of the children as they enter school. January 2010.

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A report broadcast by KOB-TV Albuquerque on October 13, 2009 about a town hall meeting in Valencia County New Mexico. The level of anger toward CPS shows why social workers prefer invitational meetings.

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In a case that shows pedophiles don't have to lurk around playgrounds, long-term CPS worker Mark LeVrier is arrested for sexually molesting a child. October 21, 2009.

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Jenni Brennan finds her baby Jacob's picture on an adoption scam website, drawing sympathy from the press in Boston. Most mothers in the same situation get no sympathy because the the state is posting their child's picture. August, 2009.

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A TV report found over 370 Texas child protection workers with criminal convictions. KEYE Austin, posted to YouTube February 20, 2009

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Adoption agency Focus on Children lied to Samoans to get their children, then lied to American adoptive parents to get their money. On February 25, 2009 the operators got non-jail sentences.

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February 27, 2009. Mother Genine Compton faces a fine and jail time for driving while breastfeeding. From WDTN-TV Dayton Ohio.

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Wednesday's Child, broadcast on KDRV Medford Oregon, January 21, 2009, advertising two toddler girls, Arianna and Addison, for adoption. Not mentioned in the story: where the cute girls came from.

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Posted to YouTube December 27, 2008, from KRIV Fox-26 Houston.

CPS in Texas filed an affidavit with the courts stating, "Baby's mom was positive for illegal drugs." CPS said the house was unclean and unfit for the baby. CPS LIED! For once, their lies did not work. Drug test - NEGATIVE Condition of House - Judge wanted to know why this statement was in the affidavit if known to be untrue.

In seven weeks infant was in foster care she came home with a severe sunburn, diaper rash with pustules, asthma requiring breathing treatments throughout the day!

There is more and as time permits, we will post more.

This baby is so fortunate to have a mother and father who love her dearly, and a grandmother you do not want to mess with!

The baby is Rachel Harrison, daughter of David and Christina Harrison.

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Children Will Die. After toddlers Skydawn Word and Raymond Palmer died in Oklahoma foster homes in one week, DHS spokesman George Johnson said "children will die", and blamed parents for the conduct that gets kids into foster care. True, even children are mortal, but they become ten times more mortal when they enter foster care. From a TV broadcast July 2008.

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Mother Nicola Luzyn fled New Zealand taking her three youngest children Rebecca Jonathan and Julia to safety in England when threatened by CYF. Father Andy and their oldest son Michael stayed behind in New Zealand.

The second video shows the Orwellean response to the Luzyn case by Ray Smith of CYF.

Both posted to YouTube July 11, 2008.

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In July 2008 Californians Chaudhry Sharif and Fakhere Afzal took their baby daughter to the emergency room. CPS took both their daughters and terminated parental rights while ignoring medical evidence of innocence. From KTXL.

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Posted May 29, 2008. When hundreds of children were seized from the FLDS ranch near Eldorado Texas in April, 2008, the press reported that sixteen-year-old Sarah, was forcibly married as the seventh wife of Dale Barlow, gave birth to his child at age 15 and was pregnant again, she was beaten by her husband while other women held her baby, children were locked in closets and deprived of nutrition, there was a conjugal bed in the temple where marriages were consummated and most of the teenaged girls were pregnant or already mothers. Eventually every one of these accusations was found to be false. When the Texas courts ordered the children returned for lack of evidence of abuse, Nancy (dis) Grace added new accusations of voyeurism, exhibitionism, sadism, incest, beating, brutality and waterboarding of babies.

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CBS-TV Los Angeles, posted to YouTube May 22, 2008. Foster children are given psychotropic drugs, not for their medical needs, but to shut them down and increase funding.

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Investigative reports by WLKY Louisville Kentucky on the state's child protection system.

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November, 2006. 17-year-old Tammy is reunited with her mother Yvonne Coulter after a sham adoption. The pretext was a bruised cheek on the baby girl from an accidental fall.

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October 24, 2006. Australian police raid a family to take a baby because of gossip.

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April 21, 2007 (YouTube). Fox News reporter Douglas Kennedy exposes the connection between school shootings and SSRI drugs.

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Video news report of Jessica LaBoy, mother jailed for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of her children to child protectors. The undated report is probably from year 2005. Posted to YouTube July 20, 2006.

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This MS-NBC report follows the story of a family from the time a teenaged girl accuses her stepfather of abuse. The authorities convince the parents to admit abuse on promise of getting their kids back, then double-cross them. In the end, the family is permanently destroyed. There is no video, only a transcript. October 9, probably 2005.

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Forced Adoption UK. Published on Mar 23, 2015

Great Britain is one of two European countries where “forced adoption” takes place, whereby a child’s biological parents are given no say in the decision. The alleged motive for the practice is putting the child’s interests first but opponents insist that social workers often abuse their powers simply to meet targets. Many families have been forced to flee the country, just to keep their kids.

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Exposure - Don't Take My Child. Broadcast on Britain's ITV on July 15, 2014. This documentary exposes the adoption of thousands of British children annually without parental consent. One case mentioned is that of Lucy Allan.

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Divorce Corp. A professional documentary movie exposes corruption within the family court system. The magnet link is for bittorrent, the movie website is Divorce Corp.

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The Stealing of American Children. A documentary on CPS in Washington State. It includes interviews with state senator Pam Roach, mother Kris Warren, former Spokane councilman Bob Apple, judge DeAnn Salcido, attorney Gary Treble and CPS worker Everett Hunter, A corrected version may be posted.

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Don't mess with BACA. Bikers Against Child Abuse stick up for abused children. Posted November 25, 2013.

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This is a documentary done by Carla Reid and Franny Plumridge, two university students who were raised in the country 16,000 kilometres apart (Carla in Australia, Franny in Canada), but both encouraged by their parents to actively explore and experience their world. Their rural Free-Range upbringing and shared passion for filmmaking inspired them to investigate the important issue of overprotective parenting in a documentary film. ‘Playtime’ explores raising Free-Range kids in this wonderful, seductive, and fast-paced technological world. The film was produced for Documentary Production, Ryerson University 2012: Carla Reid – Director, Cinematographer & Co-Editor Franny Plumridge – Producer & Co-Editor. April 2013.

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Torn Apart: Forced to give up child. Global TV broadcast May 5, 2012. Unwed mothers were compelled to give up their babies at birth. Some were drugged into submission, others were falsely informed that their baby had died.

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Protecting Our Children (BBC), January 2012. BBC video is not available to Canadians but the magnet link will work with bittorrent.

The video by the BBC is sympathetic to social workers, but manages to show many abuses of the child protection system. The opening announces correctly that social workers are the most hated professionals. The BBC elected to film the case of a culturally downscale family with an obese mother, minimizing viewer sympathy for the targets, Mike, Tiffany and their three-year-old son Toby. Mike catches on immediately with his statement "You are out to wreck us", though it takes the workers themselves and the BBC a lot longer. When parents can't explain a bruise it is a point against them. Experts who have seen the child for minutes claim more authority than parents who have watched a child for years. The family has to put up with new people entering their home regularly. At a case conference, the two unassisted parents have no chance of prevailing in a meeting staffed with a half-dozen professionals from social services. Workers in the meeting use the word "services" to indicate orders delivered under threat. "Only a judge can decide to remove Toby from his parents" says the narrator, though in hundreds of real cases examined by fixcas, all child removals occurred before the parents had an opportunity to defend themselves in court. Social workers say the home is dirty, yet the parts shown by the camera are sanitary. Social workers try to sucker dad into giving his son up for one night of foster care while Tiffany is hospitalized, but he refuses. Toby is never fooled, he knows it's trouble when the workers try to take him. "See you in court" says the defiant dad. No way. The court acts ex parte, and he never sees anything. The workers have fresh evidence of abuse: dad put Toby's shoes on the wrong feet. Toby goes into foster care and the parents are reduced to three hours visitation a week, visitation with a social worker taking notes on a pad. Tiffany gives birth after Toby is seized, and that baby, born two months premature, goes into foster care immediately on exit from the hospital. Following the loss of their children, the marriage dissolves. In the end Tiffany capitulates and consents to adoption of both children. The social workers show pride in their accomplishment. January 15, 2012.

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Expecting Trouble.

The second episode goes after another family with little to offer. You won't find it hard to dislike father Shaun. The narrator says he has a history of criminal violence, he is riddled with tattoos, has a chip on his shoulder and can't stop drinking, the camera even catches him taking a few swigs. The social workers act in a way that would drive any man to drink. They have already taken three children from the family and have their eyes on the one not yet born. Social workers strive to keep the baby safe. In their world view that means eradicating all traces of masculinity, even the canine variety. Through inducements not shown on camera they get Marva to leave Shaun. When the baby boy, named Beep, is born, social workers let Marva care for him in a shelter. But weeks later Marva returns to Shaun. Social workers shed tears over the failure of their shotgun divorce, and place baby Beep for adoption.

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I Want My Baby Back.

In episode three the principal case is of mother Louise and her baby Mercedes. There is no need to break up mom and dad in this case, Louise is already living with stepdad Wayne. Once again, these parents have nothing to offer, and will draw no sympathy from the viewer. Louise is a long-term drug abuser. Social workers demand not only that she give up illegal drugs, but her prescription medicine as well. In her case, the social worker looks like a wicked witch. Of course the mother cannot satisfy the demands of the workers, and Mercedes is placed with her grandmother.

A sidebar concerns a 14-month-old baby boy possibly sexually abused. The man in the house was interviewed by police who took no action, and a medical exam found no sexual abuse. But he changed nappies/diapers. Q.E.D. Social workers spend 15 minutes threatening the mother, but she holds her ground. The baby is removed.

In a second sidebar, a child is removed from a home with a clogged toilet.

Overall from all three episodes, the attitude of social workers when dealing with parents is accurate, based on comparison with the experiences of hundreds of real families subject to intervention, though social workers clean up their act when they know the camera is watching. Workers repeatedly assure parents "We are not here to take children", but they do nothing else. The discussions of social workers among themselves lack credibility. On camera, they show a lot more concern for family reunification than in actual practice. The video shows social workers saying on camera that they do not have the power to remove a child on their own, they need court approval first. But it shows them doing the opposite. The selection of clients is not at all accurate. In the real world most targeted families are headed by single mothers. There are few of the hopeless misfits selected by the BBC.

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Michigan's Wendrow family fell for the junk-science theory of facilitatied communication as a means of helping their autistic daughter. When the daughter, through a novice facilitator, accused the father of rape, the children were seized by child protectors and the parents were arrested and jailed. Broadcast by ABC 20/20 on January 6, 2012.

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The DSM: Psychiatry's Dealiest Scam. Uploaded December 9, 2011. Produced by CCHR.

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Powerful as God. A documentary on Ontario's children's aid societies by Esther Buckareff. Available through bittorrent and the blakout website. Links for reviews: [1] [2] [3] [4]. IMDB page.

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Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb -- from the lilt of our native language to our soon-to-be-favorite foods. Annie Murphy Paul investigates how life in the womb shapes who we become.

Babies learn who their real mother is before birth. July 2011.

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ABC 20/20 broadcast this program on psychotropic drugs administered to foster children on December 2, 2011. It does a good job of showing the problem, but it suggests the solution is a treatment center and adoption. Richard Wexler has a scathing

commentary on Kentucky's Maryhurst Treatment Center (pdf). A better solution is not putting kids in the care of strangers or institutions.

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A three-part NPR radio series on the seizure of native American children from their families in South Dakota. It deals with the separation, the effects, and the financial incentives and conflicts of interest. Broadcast October 25-27, 2011.

The report was criticized a year and a half later.

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Overruled. Documentary showing how state protection of children conflicts with parental rights. ParentalRights.org November 18, 2011.

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Deutsche Welle on the forced separation of parents and children in communist east Germany. May 2011.

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DEAD WRONG - How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child

The CCHR produced this story of the mayhem caused by psychiatric drugs, told through the voice of the mother of Matthew Sean Steubing, a teenager who committed suicide on July 18, 2003 after receiving a prescription for Lexapro. The documentary includes the views of professionals and parents of other children adversely affected by drugs. While the psychiatric industry pays lip service to close observation of patients, families consistently report getting a prescription after only 15 minutes of consultation, with little follow-up. The paragraph below is the blurb accompanying the YouTube posting of April 16, 2011.

Psychiatric disorders are not medical diseases. There are no lab tests, brain scans, X-rays or chemical imbalance tests that can verify any mental disorder is a physical condition. The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging and The Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane? comes this searing new documentary, exposing how devastating—and deadly—psychiatric drugs can be for children and families. Behind the grim statistics of deaths, suicides, birth defects and serious adverse reactions is the human face of this global drugging epidemic—the personal stories of loss and courage of those who paid the real price. Psychiatrists claim their drugs are safe for children? Once you hear what eight brave mothers, their families, health experts, drug counselors and doctors have to say instead, you will come away convinced of one thing... Psychiatrists are DEAD WRONG.

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Trailer for DHS - Give Us Back Our Children. Because of the copyright monster, we will not be able to post the whole video.

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Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking vision. — blurb for February 2010 talk from TED.

The first step is separating children from their parents. In institutional care, they are isolated from normal life and lead an existence inferior to the glory awaiting them in martyr's paradise.

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Innocence Destroyed. This is a professionally produced documentary. Mr Bowen passed away in August 2010 before completing his planned expansion to a full-length documentary. Posted to YouTube September 14, 2009. Local copies: [1] [2] [3] all flv.

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Kids Jailed for Cash? ABC 20/20 broadcast March 27, 2009. Two Pennsylvania judges are convicted after sending large numbers of juveniles to jail in exchange for kickbacks from the private prison.

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January 8, 2008. The Medicated Child, by PBS Frontline. A generation of American children is now being used as experimental animals for improvised psychiatric experimentation to determine which if any psychotropic medications can improve behavior. Local copies: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] (all flv).

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January 21, 2008. The Lobotomist, on PBS, with magnet link for bittorrent. This is a TV biography of Walter Freeman, 1895-1972, pioneer and messianic practitioner of lobotomy, severing the connection between the frontal lobe and the rest of the brain. Removing their human characteristics turned patients into docile zombies. The first psychotropic drugs were welcomed by psychiatry because they achieved the same purpose as lobotomy.

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Failing Jeffrey, broadcast April 12, 2006 by the CBC Fifth Estate. Jeffrey Baldwin was removed from his parents by Toronto CCAS and placed with his grandparents. The grandparents starved him to death. After the fact, journalists discovered the grandparents had been previously convicted of killing a child. The html link shows the program in a small window, copy the wvx link into a media player for a larger picture. Pat Niagara captured the mp4 version.

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A powerful video titled The Drugging of our Children, includes inteviews at all levels from senior administrators and psychiatrists to drugged children. The Google blurb is below:

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In the absence of any objective medical tests to determine who has ADD or ADHD, doctors rely in part on standardized assessments and the impressions of teachers and guardians while the they administer leave little room for other causes or aggravating factors, such as diet, or environment. Hence, diagnosing a child or adolescent with ADD or ADHD is often the outcome, although no organic basis for either disease has yet to be clinically proven. Psychiatrists may then prescribe psychotropic drugs for the children without first making it clear to parents that these medications can have severe side-effects including insomnia, loss of appetite, headaches, psychotic symptoms and even potentially fatal adverse reactions, such as cardiac arrhythmia. And yet, despite these dangers, many school systems actually work with government agencies to force parents to drug their children, threatening those who refuse with the prospect of having their children taken from the home unless they cooperate.

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Children's Rights Inc does an excellent job of showing the failings of the foster care system. Toward the end, their promotion shows some of the cooperation, or collusion, between state child protection systems and Children's Rights. A more recent effort by the same organization is If I Could Have My Childhood Back (mp4).

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Thousands of children were separated from their parents in Quebec and raised under atrocious conditions. When it suits their purposes, the CBC can tell the story succinctly as in the excerpt below from their web page on the Duplessis orphans. The purpose in this case is to place the blame for the tragic era on the Catholic Church. None of the outrage over past atrocities has altered today's policies of taking children from their parents.

During the reign of Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis in the 1940s and 1950s, an alarming number of healthy children living in sanctuaries were hastily diagnosed as mentally incompetent, psychotic patients. The diagnoses were always swift — the children went to bed orphans and woke up psychiatric patients. The reason? Shrewd fiscal planning; federal subsidies paid out more to hospitals than to orphanages. Some children allegedly endured lobotomies, electroshock, straitjackets and abuse. For the rest of their lives they would struggle to bring attention to their story and demand compensation. They called themselves the Duplessis Orphans.

Cardinal

At the age of 35, film maker Gil Cardinal, raised by foster parents, finds his natural roots.

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Rabbit-proof Fence

This is the best movie on foster care. In 1931 the Australian government took three part-aboriginal girls (half-castes in the jargon of the time) from a family into "care", actually a dormitory and training school for servant work. The three escape and the oldest, 14-year-old Holly, leads them home. When the other inmates realize at roll call that three have successfully escaped, they give a loud cheer.

How does a 14-year-old girl get across 1200 miles of desert? She has bush-smarts. She gets help from an assortment of passers-by, steals eggs from a chicken farmer, even finds a home with an aboriginal maid. When she has to go east, she looks at the desert sun for bearings, then heads in the right direction. In the end, two girls make it home, one is recaptured. The final scenes show the 85-year-old Holly, and tell of her own children being abducted into the system a decade later.

The movie faithfully depicts the bigotry of the authorities who are mystified by the aborigines refusal to accept their services.

Dear Zachary

Dear Zachary. This documentary tells the true story of a young Pennsylvania doctor. After he breaks up with his girlfriend, she murders him and flees to Canada. When she turns out to be pregnant with his child, the doctor's parents get the only grandson they will ever have. Canadian courts let the killer go free on bail while awaiting extradition and give her custody of the child over objections of the grandparents. This case exemplifies the total failure of the criminal and family court system. Perhaps, as the grandparents believe, the judges failed to recognize the character of the homicidal mother. Or maybe with their years of experience they did. Family courts direct revenue to their colleagues in the bar when they routinely give custody to a dysfunctional mother, requiring the father, in this case the grandparents, to expend large sums to right the wrong. Dear Zachary can be viewed online at supernovatube or YouTube.

Section 60

This movie, not yet released, can be previewed by text or youtube video.

The Handmaid's Tale

This movie made in 1989 shows a dystopic future in which fertile young women are conscripted to be child-bearers for influential couples. Real love is extinct, children are separated from the bio-parents at birth to be raised by their patrons. Feminist Margaret Atwood created this vision as a criticism of a world without feminine influence. An irony is that in the two decades since the movie, feminism has become one of the intellectual justifications for the construction of a world in which children are routinely separated by force from their birth families to be given to more politically influential individuals or groups. One difference from Atwood — today's religion is not that of the bible, but political correctness.

Unthinkable

2010, starring Samuel L Jackson and Michael Sheen. In this story of nuclear ticking bombs, the suspected bomber, Yusef Atta Mohammad formerly Steven Arthur Younger (Sheen), is tortured from the moment of capture in an effort to get him to reveal the location of his bombs. He resists standard hooded interrogation by military staff, then super-torturer H (Jackson) takes over. H smashes the prisoners finger with a hammer, applies a plastic mask to restrict breathing, attacks his testicles with a knife, applies stress positions, electric shock and a dental drill in his teeth, To avoid legal qualms, Younger's citizenship is revoked.

Real progress occurs only when the prisoner's wife Jehan is threatened. If she does not cooperate she will be charged with aiding terrorism and her children will be placed in foster care. H seats Jehan in front of Younger, then kills her by slashing her throat. Next step: bring in Younger's two children and seat them in front of Younger and the homicidal H. Younger reveals the location of the bombs.

This website has noted many times that threats against wives and children are not fiction, but are routine in US and Canadian police work. For a Tennessee case, listen to a 45 minute recording of the interrogation of Lester Eugene Siler.

The Yarn Princess

Movie about child protection, not available from any known source.

Men Don't Tell

A TV movie aired by CBS on March 14, 1993. It deals with the extremely politically incorrect topic of family violence committed by women. When wife Laura (Judith Light) initiates a fight, neighbors call the police. The cops blame husband Ed (Peter Strauss). Laura even attacks Ed in his sleep. Still, the story clearly shows that Laura is not a monster — she is a tragic woman with a fatal flaw. One event that was plausible two decades ago but not today: when Laura is revealed as the aggressor, Ed gets exclusive custody of the children. The whole movie, in a poor copy maybe from an old VCR tape, is on YouTube, at least until the copyright monster bites.

Juno

Review by Erika Klein:

Monday, February 25, 2008

Babies,Ipods and The Like..

I am sooo glad the movie Juno didn't win any major Oscars last night. Even though I champion Canadian actors and film makers, Juno was the 'jagged little pill' I just couldn't swallow. Though I'm sure the people involved in this film may very well possess talent - the storyline following a 16 yr old pregnant girl looking for adopters did not portray reality. Juno took only one award for best original screenplay.

The only people who seemed to enjoy the film were either people looking to adopt or people who have had no experience with adoption personally. The wise cracking teenager made comments like "You shoulda went to China lady they give away babies like Ipods". This was only the beginning.

The film seemed to sugar coat over the most painful and traumatic experiences a first mother goes through. Even when it is an informed choice, it does not take away the loss. Relinquishing children for adoption brings with it a life long loss that never seems to go away. The Hollywood happily ever after just doesnt wash with me.

Juno makes it seem like surrendering a child for adoption is a trendy even cool thing to do. While the shame of pregnancy out of wedlock is slowly being taken away - a new set of ideals are being presented to us via movies and the media.

These new ideals are what continue to pervade adoption. They are just more myths. The myth that a 16 yr old cannot be helped to raise her own child. The myth that a mother can choose adopters and have an 'open adoption'. The myth that a young mother could walk away without any grief or anguish. The myth that babies are property and can be exchanged to someone 'better'. The myth that giving your child away does no damage. The myth that a bond between a mother and child isn't of any value.

At the very least, Juno did provide an opportunity to parents to openly discuss sexuality and related issues with our children. If anything this movie served as a warning. Tell your daughters adoption does not look like this. Juno was a far cry from what most first mothers go through. I'm elated Juno did not take home a major win.

Case 39

Filmed 2006, US release 2010. Before getting to the plot, this movie introduces the main character, social worker Emily Jenkins (Renée Zellweger) through the distortion of political correctness. Hopelessly overworked, Jenkins is driven solely by the motive of helping children and families, and is their last resort in a crisis. Jenkins enters the home of an abusive family without a policeman to serve as bodyguard. Efforts to intervene are constrained by fear of lawsuits from aggrieved parents. Jenkins risks her life to rush to the home of an abusive family just in time to keep them from killing their child. Instead of a foster home, Jenkins takes the fearful child into her own apartment. Restraining orders? They are good for families because they give both partners time apart to work out their problems.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

A musical fantasy released in 1968. The villain is a character Child Catcher played by Robert Helpmann. When two children enter the kingdom of Vulgaria where the ruler has banished all children, Child Catcher has the job of snatching the newcomers. He searches their quarters unsuccessfully, then lures them into his cage with lollipops and slams the gate shut behind them, then transports them to a cell in a tower. When this movie was made Child Catcher was a fantasy. Today he is not.

Journalism:

These articles date from before the fixcas blog existed.

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.

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.

Nev Moore

Nev Moore in the Sierra Times describes the processes that amount to defrauding the appropriations for child protection. (October 2002)

Logan Marr
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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.