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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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Radio:
mp3 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.
Alex Jones (56 megabytes mp3). Alex Jones interviews former Georgia state senator Nancy Schaefer on May 14, 2009 starting at 193 minutes into the program.
Schaefer (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.
Glenn Sacks Glenn Sacks hosts a radio program His Side, defending the American male. Here are two programs dealing with child protection and one featuring Fathers-4-Justice Canada:

January 25, 2004 (mp3) with Wendy McElroy and Renee Sperling.

February 20, 2005 (mp3) with Gregory Hession and Donnalee Sarda.

May 29, 2005 (mp3) with Steve Osborne and Benoît Leroux of Fathers-4-Justice.

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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.
Dunn / Lafantaisie 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.
Mark Blackburn 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.
The Current A CBC program with Anna Maria Tremonti and Karin Wells, broadcast on The Current, January 4 2006. It deals very mildly with false accusations of child abuse, suggesting not that there are big flaws in the system, only small ones. Runs 23:33, real media format.
Annie Armen Annie Armen hosts a radio program AnnieBiotics™ dealing with all of family law, including child abuse and child protection. The following page has three programs on CPS:

Justice. Action. Busted!

Family Family Rights Radio, 24/7 internet radio program dealing with child protection. Thomas Lynn Rodgers webmaster.
Richar' Farr A 24/7 internet radio program dealing primarily with divorce, but also touching on child protection. The site has several different links for live feed, so you can use the one that works with your computer.
Dean Tong Dean Tong hosts a one hour radio program Tuesdays 11 am to noon eastern time on WTMY Sarasota Florida. This is available for live feed only, no archives. This link may be the correct feed, while the program is on the air.
Diane Booth (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.
AFRA AFRA has a list of radio programs organized by time. The program quality varies.
 
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Lisa Poovey on the brutality of child protection. Posted to YouTube December 22, 2009
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Part two. British MP Tim Yeo speaks in the House of Commons November 25, 2009. He gives details of a case in which social services kidnapped a newborn from a family based only 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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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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A Yellowknife boy coached by a social worker accuses dad of hitting his other son. Posted to YouTube April 16, 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 Dalhberg 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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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.

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A California couple have their child stolen by a camera-shy social worker because of a drug to control pain during childbirth. 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 describes how her infant daughter Sabrina was kidnaped by Arlington CPS
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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. A mother who has lost two sons to DHS and later death, fights 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.
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Oregon father Mark recorded a 16 minute meeting 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". Below is his 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 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.
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Posted to YouTube September 19, 2008. A father visits his son in an observation chamber. 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 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.
Colleen and Alvin Deroache (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.
deceit (flv) 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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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.
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May 4, 2008. Family Reunification Is Visitation Canceled Again. This is a follow-up to the video above.
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Same family as the above two, 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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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 grandfather Charles Roy Taylor has been jailed for two years for attempting to help his grandson in foster care. Posted November 30, 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.
Who Will Listen? January 24, 2007. YouTube video of graduates of foster care drugging.
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Posted to YouTube January 11, 2007 by bshattucknh (screen name) with the comment: This video was made and dedicated to my 3 kids that were placed in foster care in 2005...I love you Mikey, Mariah and Matt, Love Dad. On another YouTube daddyotosanthe (screen name) says the children were taken by Waterloo CAS.
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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
paperbag 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.
 
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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
mp4 Stephen Baskerville on the family crisis. August 11, 2009.
mp4 Dr Jayne Major was interviewed at Toronto's conference on parental alienation. Posted by Canada court Watch April 22, 2009.
flv 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.
Google 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. Posted to Google video May 21, 2008.
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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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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 part 1. The leading figures in family law reform criticize corruption in the court. Posted to YouTube December 2 2007.
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Deconstructing America part 2. 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.
wolf fairy July 17, 2007. Google video, audio only. Alex Jones interviews guest Gregory Hession. The child protection topic starts one hour 32 minutes into the program.
Alex Jones April 4, 2007. Alex Jones on CPS, YouTube.
DocOvious March 2007. YouTube. Doc Ovious Child Protective Services, what a farce.
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September 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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Google video of TV program, The ACS Kidnaps Children, including an interviews of parents Rolando Bini and Conchita Jones. Dated 21-Feb-2006, runs 28 min 31 sec.
 
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flv In this Connecticut news video, turn off the sound and watch the cattle-grading of the children as they enter school. January 2010.
flv 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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A mother finds her baby's picture on an adoption scam website. She gets sympathy from the press, but most mothers don't, because the state is posting their child's picture. August, 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!

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Children Will Die. After toddlers Skydawn Word and Raymond Palmer died in Oklahoma foster homes in one week, CPS 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. 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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Orwellean response to the Luzyn case by Ray Smith of CYF. Posted to YouTube July 11, 2008.
YouTube 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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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 2006. Australian police raid a family to take a baby because of gossip.
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2002 (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.
Kids in Crisis 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.
WLKY Louisville Kentucky television station WLKY had to win a court battle before airing this program dealing candidly with the realities of the child protection system. There is no video, but a transcript survives on their website.
kiwi (1997) A series broadcast on New Zealand television deals with the apparently false allegations of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) in England.
 
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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.
Frontline 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).
lobotomy January 2008. The Lobotomist, on PBS, entire program available online. 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.
Gary Null 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:

1 hr 43 min 4 sec - 20-Oct-2005

www.garynull.com

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.

Duplessis Orphans 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.
 
Movies:
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
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.
The Yarn Princess
Movie about child protection, not available from any known source.
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.

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.
 
Blogs:
Here are sites on the internet where you can find news about child protection and family law.
Elvis Canada Court Watch
AFRA AFRA Newshawk, automated news page generated by emails from AFRA members.
rss html Protected to Death, consolidation of RSS feeds.
Weaver Daniel Weaver in the National Examiner.
Henderson Leonard Henderson in the National Examiner.
rss html Adoption News, Monday to Friday.
rss html Disgusted with the System by Louise Uccio.
talkCAS Discussion board operated by ex-social worker.
rss html Blog by British MP John Hemming, who is pushing to reform family law. Daily
rss html Glenn Sacks' blog, daily.
rss html Men's News Daily by Mike LaSalle
rss html Reliable Answers / Kidjacked, Annette M Hall.
Muskie Muskie School of Public Service, weekends.
Goudge Goudge Inquiry into Pathologist Dr Charles Smith.
CAICA Institutional abuse, inactive since November 2007.
rss html News page by Walter Schneider
ACF News from New York City ACF, roughly monthly.
fassit Family and Social Services Information Team, inactive.
rss html Massachusetts News. Formerly containing articles on child protection, but now focusing mainly on same-sex marriage. Inactive.
Coroner Schedule of Ontario Coroner's Inquests
rss html Our own news page.
Personal blogs
rss html Patrick Rafferty, Maine, Legally Kidnapped.
rss html Wendy McElroy, Ontario, ifeminists.
rss html John Dunn, Ottawa, Foster Care News
rss html Richard Wexler, USA.
rss html Brenda Alexander, Durham NC.
rss html Daily bastardette
rss html Harold Levy, a retired reporter for the Toronto Star, blogs on Pathologist Dr Charles Smith.
rss html Pam Roadch, Washington State Senator.
rss html Mary Janiga, Ontario, about one post per week.
rss html Zabeth Bayne, British Columbia.
rss html Almost Tuesday, Texas-based blog.
rss html Bill Bowen. Infrequent high-quality posts.
rss html Eugene Weixel, a New York City social worker calling himself "fat old formerly Jewish guy who lives in the projects" spills the beans on his own organization.
rss html Connie Brauer and Vic Harris, based in Nova Scotia, roughly weekly.
NS Nova Scotia blog, unknown author
Ed Allen Ed Allen, Ontario, infrequent.
 
Email Groups:
One of the best ways to stay informed about child protection is to join some of the email groups dedicated to the subject. They give you an opportunity to discuss the matter with other interested persons, and many of them have users who post regular news, often of the kind that you can never find in the press. Our listing of Canadian groups is shorter than it should be. Readers knowing of others should email us at < rtmq at fixcas.com >.
after foster care For Canadians, we can suggest the afterfostercare group, created by John Dunn. It's main emphasis is on survivors of foster care, but deals with child protection issues as well.
justicenews This Canadian group is part of Canada Court Watch. You can subscribe by following instructions on the linked page.
AFRA Email groups within AFRA.
yahoo Yahoo email groups not affiliated with AFRA.
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