Mothers in Exile. This is an articulate group of mothers who lost their children through
force, coercion and lies. The case of Cathy Henderson,
occurred in Ontario.
An Ontario mother struggles with Children's Aid for five years, then loses four children.
She sidesteps the law against naming parents by giving only her maiden name, Lisa Spring
Sweet.
In the past we linked to two sites, babytameron.blogspot.com and
caskidnappers.blogspot.com, with the following blurb:
A Chatham Ontario mother stays within the law by telling her story on the internet,
without disclosing her family name, but includes names of social workers. CAS
humiliated her family by disclosing a disease to their friends. While the baby gets
substandard care, seven caseworkers have time to write reports on the case.
The blogs disappeared and we deleted the links. The linked pdf file discloses their fate
and includes some of the purged content.
A Georgia mother loses her child. This story is typical of parents who lose their child
in a hospital. At a certain point, a stranger appears asking new kinds of questions, and
all doctors previously supportive suddenly become cold and unresponsive.
Women's Justice Center based in California. This is a feminist site with a man-hating
bias. It shows that advocates of all points of view are justifiably suspicious of child
protectors.
Most all CPS/juvenile court Systems deal ONLY with Intra
familial Child Abuse. This schism between the way society
deals with child abuse perpetrated by a family member versus
child abuse perpetrated by an 'outsider' points out a
staggering hypocrisy in the rhetoric about treating child
abuse seriously. Behind the rhetoric is a child welfare and
police system that in reality works hand in hand to let most
child abusers walk free.
This page gives facts related to child apprehensions. The main story is by lawyer Janet
M Frederick detailing two years of experiences trying to save families from Michigan
child protectors. Walter Schneider has assembled a huge volume of data on family
destruction and divorce on other pages of this website.
A Hamilton Ontario father's 13-year-old daughter, while under care of CAS, gives birth to
a baby girl. That girl becomes the pretext for total family destruction.
American Coalition for Fathers and Children. This advocacy site, dealing with divorce
and separation, as well as child protection, respects high standards of
scholarship.
Dr Stephen Baskerville is the most scholarly author writing on the subject of family law.
The list of abuses on his home page includes many of the child protection problems found
by Dufferin VOCA.
This site is by John Dunn, born in 1970, who grew up as a ward of the Catholic Children's
Aid Society of Toronto. He is not allowed to see the records of his own
childhood.
David Witzel does not have a website but his story was summarized in the legislature by
Andrea Horwath. He is suing Hamilton Children's Aid for abuse during his
childhood.
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.
A social worker tests a boy for circumcision, by hand. The first link is his voice
(mp3), the second points to a collection of documents regarding his case.
A list of breaches of the peace committed by people under the
influence of psychotropic drugs (including the very hazardous
drug withdrawal). It includes a source for each incident.
Assembled by Sara Bostock, whose daughter committed suicide in
2002 after two weeks on Paxil.
This site posted by the Cook County Public Guardian (Chicago Illinois) contains numerous
accounts of child abuse at the hands of the foster care system. Unlike most of our
references, it is by a public officer.
This URL formerly pointed to an anonymous site, Operation Fight Back, now defunct. It
was redirected to point the the bizzi site of Jesse McVicar, but now points to the
Dufferin VOCA News site, though the domain name is not under our control.
This is a collection of articles assembled as a hobby, and unlinked from the commercial
site acting as host. Most are unrelated to family law, but under CHILDREN'S AID, note
the Aylmer and Mielke cases.
Rev Dorian Baxter was the first person to successfully sue Children's Aid. His
organization is the National Association for Public and Private Accountability. Rev
Baxter speaks Swahili, and appears on stage as Elvis Priestley.
Canada Court Watch. This organization deals with the entire family destruction industry
in Canada, including Children's Aid. The site is the work of Dorian Baxter, and
anonymous staff.
American Family Rights Association. Big-tent opposition to child-protectors, operated by
Leonard Henderson. This is now the most active opposition site.
Senator Anne Cools is the highest ranking political leader to
take a stand against the family court system. Her website does
not do justice to her position on the matter.
Pam Roach is a member of the Washington state senate, a
Republican first elected in 1990 representing a district area
between Seattle and Tacoma. On her blog, starting with the
August 26, 2008 entry, she deals with her state's child
protection agency.
Lawyer's memo about child killed by child
protectors. While this memo presents only one
side, the claim was ultimately settled for most
of the amount of the county's insurance
coverage.
Massachusetts lawyer, attorney for Nev and Tom
Moore. Click the tabs under DSS outrage. The
laws he cites apply only to Massachusetts, but
the tricks are the same everywhere.
A Michigan family sues child protectors. The first six pages of
the document are not a family's accusations, but a judge's
findings, about the method of invading a home.
Site titled Get your kids back from CAS! by the Windsor
Ontario law firm of Pearce, Ducharme and Associates. We express
no opinion positive or negative of this firm.
Protecting Our Families. Most Canadian CAS sites disappear in
less than a year. This, hosted by Yahoo, has a chance to last
longer. In case the website disappears, here is the family story.
Rob Ferguson and Kalena Mallon are controversial CAS opponents
in Brantford Ontario. The link is to his business site, with
little about family rights.
Family Aid, faith-based opposition centering on the Aylmer case,
by Ryan Kidd. Mr Kidd is very well informed about Children's
Aid, and is a good source of help for any Ontario families
affected.
I have been a victim of Jewish Family and Child Services
injustices. I was charged with assaulting my youngest son in
May, 2003 and subsequently had my two youngest children
removed from my care, without trial. It took me three years,
much heartache, money and wasted time to even begin to
overcome the tyranny that this supposedly helpful agency has
inflicted upon my family and self and to clear my good name.
I had to hire both a criminal lawyer and family law lawyers as
well as a private investigator. I eventually ended up
defending myself in court. You may be asking, "why the
private investigator?" Well, I was not even present when my
son, who was 80 percentile deaf at the time of his injury,
fell and banged his ear. The private investigator was hired
in order to interview the five witnesses. At the time of this
intrusion into my life, I was a successful landlord, artist
and entrepreneur. I had been blessed with five beautiful
children as well. The ripple effects of what Jewish Family
and Child service did to my family was devastating. I was
forced to jump through many hoops of imposed meetings,
courses, court appearances, mental health assessments not to
mention supervised visitations with my children. I had to
take parenting courses (i am a mother of 5) and anger
management courses, (who wouldn't be angry in such a
situation?). My elderly parents suffered, my three older
children suffered, my business suffered. I lost everything
material in order to fight these tyrants - my real estate, my
business, my marriage and almost my sanity. My youngest
children, then aged 6 1/2 and 5, were traumatized and still
suffer from flashbacks.
The Norris link is to our account of the case.
The casinternment site was established by two
children taken from their mother and forced into
foster care. The site was taken over by their
mother and expanded. The site is now gone,
ended by court order. The next two links are to
mirror sites in Russia and France. We have a local copy,
showing what was created by the children. The
mother spent time in jail for keeping this on
the internet. The final link is to a new site
started by Cathy in March 2007.
Matthew Reid, three years old, was murdered in
his Welland Ontario foster home by another
foster child, possibly mentally handicapped, on
December 15, 2005. An unknown person has
assembled material relating to his
death.
What would you do? The website is attributed to Alana Lubenkov,
Christine Rutherford, Francis Daigle, Jennifer Ford, Linda
Cullen, Lori Gauthier, Michelle Glover, Roy Sullivan.
Linda Youngson has spent years researching child protection in
Nova Scotia. Among her conclusions are:
Many rights are extinguished unless claimed at the first
hearing, three days after snatching the child. Since most
families cannot find a lawyer in that time, their rights are
lost. As for finding a lawyer, she says: "To date, we have
not found any Nova Scotian family lawyer we would recommend
to anyone".
Lawyers never represent children in child protection cases,
though they are permitted, sometimes required, by law.
Social workers prevent parents and children from discussing
their case at visitation, so neither can learn that the
child's wishes were never presented in court.
When a family proposes placing children with relatives,
those relatives are subjected to psychiatric evaluations
that are biased and unprofessional. The professional
society is ineffective in handling complaints.
After CAS has destroyed a family, the courts can compel the
victims to pay for their own destruction.
There are hundreds of sites opposing child
protection in the United States. Here are a few
of the best alphabetically. For the most
complete list, refer to AFRA.
Website dedicated to saving a girl named Alexis, born ca 2005,
taken from competent and loving grandparents and placed with
neglectful foster mother Linda Gallez. This is the same girl
the blog of
Washington state senator Pam Roach calls Lisa.
In this mom vs dad case, an Arizona mother keeps a detailed
visitation diary showing her son's abuse in foster care,
confiscation of her gifts to her son and reversal of toilet
training.
A mother who refused to let her son be drugged
suffered an experience from the X-files,
including watching her son abused in an
institution, flight to a foreign country and a
term in prison.
Citizens for Change, based in Kansas. Under
Shock and Awe, it formerly included three
television programs by KOAM-TV. In Kansas at
least, TV has figured out what a sham
child-protection really is.
Address by foster parent and author Mary
Callahan detailing failures of the child
protection system. Her address applies to the
state of Maine, but the same failures are
widespread elsewhere.
Evelyn, daughter of 17-year-old Stephanie Bennett, was removed
from her family after mom signed away the baby under apparent
coercion. Link to a news story. This case was also the topic of the Adoption
ShowA for April 15, 2007.
Websites sympathetic to the over 400 children seized from their
parents during the April 4 2008 raid on the Yearning for Zion
ranch near Eldorado Texas.
This Oregon based site has a large number of experiences with
child protectors in both text and audio form, as well as some
links to other sites including scholarly references.
Chinese parents Jack and Casey He gave temporary custody of
their daughter Anna Mae to the Baker family in Memphis
Tennessee. When they asked for the return of the girl, the
Bakers refused and after five years the Hes lost all parental
rights.
Wally and Debbie Hines had a son afflicted with
brittle bone disease (Osteogenesis imperfecta or
OI), and had to flee to protect him from CPS.
This site gives their rather restrained
suggestions on how to deal with the child
protectors.
A high-functioning mom had her ten-year-old son stolen on false accusations, she was
served at a false address and could not read her file until months after her child was
taken by default. She has assembled many other instances of abuse by CPS.
After a divorced husband complains about a mother's care of
their child, CPS takes the girl. The guardian ad litem places a
lien on the mother's house, her lack of housing becomes a reason
to lose her child, who is adopted by strangers. When the mother
asks for documents relating to her case, CPS claims they have
been shredded.
Parent Guidance Center, 9600 Escarpment Blvd Suite 745-255, Austin Texas 78749, founded
by Johana Scot and Judy Powell. Former child-savers who discovered the real victims in
family law.
Nate Tseglin suffers from Asperger's Syndrome (genius
disorder). At home he learned to speak English and Russian, and
read Spanish and Hebrew. He was doing well until age 15, when
psychiatrists started treating him with psychotropic drugs. He
has gone downhill since. On January 12, 2007 four sheriffs
forcibly removed Nate from his parents' home at the request of
CPS. Since then he has been been forbidden to speak Russian and
has been forcibly treated with Depakote, Haldol, Ativan,
Cogentin, Abilify, Keppra, Celexa, and Benadryl. These have
induced convulsions and a grand mal seizure. Hospital staff
cannot understand why he exhibits bizarre and paranoid behavior
toward them.
Parents Abused by Social Services (PASS). A California family fights back.
Bogus Opposition:
In the litigation-prone United States, groups acting in the name of children sue
child-protectors for relief enhancing state power at the expense of families. Courts
favor amicable settlement to the extent that these suits can have more legal force than
legislation. This kind of bogus opposition may come to Canada.
Children's Rights Inc, New York, Marcia Lowry is the prime mover. This organization has
sued many child protection systems, exposing their abject failure to care for their
wards. The relief sought is more money for foster care.
Kentucky Youth Advocates. This organization suggests one way to prevent child abuse is
"Advocate for increased funding for family services". But it issued a report titled The Other Kentucky Lottery (2006) that
touched off a scandal in Kentucky.
Parental Defense, established by the state of Utah in response to child protection
scandals. Staffed by lawyers from the social services system, it contains some
information helpful for legal defense.
