Schizophrenic and Bipolar Woman Granted Legal Guardianship
[Three generations tragically affected by Social Services ... When will it stop?]
Perhaps I am just overly emotional tonight as I write about this next story; Nevertheless, I am profoundly moved and deeply troubled by so many aspects of this case. 15-year-old Ciara Jobes, an African American girl from Maryland, was beaten and brutally raped while in the care of her court appointed legal guardian, Satrina Roberts. Ciara began living with Satrina at the request of her mother, Jackie Cruse, who was dying from AIDS. Other reports have stated that Jackie also battled drug addiction before succumbing to her illness – which would explain her impaired judgment and decision to select Satrina as a viable guardian to begin with. According to records, Satrina had a long and consistent history of mental illness – As a result, she would be clinically diagnosed with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder and subsequently approved for federal disability.
Just two months before a Circuit Court judge decided to appoint Satrina guardian of Ciara, with no courtroom objection by the social services caseworker who attended the guardianship hearing, Satrina was favorably being considered for foster care licensing – More likely than not, she would have been approved. Buried in a caseworker’s file were reports that Satrina “Had been cooperating with the foster program and that her application looked promising …;” However, due to some unexplained reason, Satrina voluntarily ended all contact with the agency … which led to her application being terminated. Worth emphasizing, her application was not terminated for lack of sufficient income to adequately support two people while on disability … it was not terminated because of her clinically diagnosed mental condition … it was not terminated because an investigation, to include a home study and perhaps interviews with friends, family, and neighbors unearthed disturbing findings … her application to become a foster “parent” was simply terminated because SHE chose to remove herself from the application process … WOW! It was reported that Satrina’s mental state was not an issue for the courts or social services because “It is not their policy,” when making guardianship determinations. It must have been by the grace of God and the protection of his angels that this woman was prevented from following through with her ‘I wanna be a foster parent too application!’ I can only imagine how many foster children would have been abused and raped in her home before Ciara’s death forced the close of her torture chamber! But what would it have taken to prevent Ciara from being tortured and killed?
The agency that claims to “oversee” Social Services, The Department of Human Resources, believes it is the Baltimore court’s responsibility to set, regulate, and enforce guardianship standards … not social workers, responded a spokesman for the Department. According to Sue Fitzsimmons, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, “Guardianship is not an issue we deal with” – this coming from the very agency ‘dedicated’ to “protecting” children. It appears that although guardianship is not an issue for their agency, dirty dishes, a messy home, a parent who drinks too much, verbal abuse, and spankings are! Perhaps it was The City Council who summed it up best by “passing a resolution” stating that Ciara was “neglected by school officials, ignored by neighbors, and abandoned by the very system that had a moral and legal obligation to protect her.” An enrolled student at Patterson High, Ciara had not been in school all semester. Perhaps if social workers weren’t wasting precious time trying to “build a case” against decent, innocent, hard working families they could have taken a trip to Patterson High, picked up a truancy report, spoken to her teachers, and attempted to locate the MIA student before she was killed! According to police reports, Ciara was “savagely beaten, denied food, and locked in an unfurnished and unheated room for months” while being forced to “use a hole in the wall as a toilet.” It was just before Christmas that Ciara was found by police who report that she “had as many as 700 wounds – most of them whip marks” and there were signs of “recent violent sexual abuse.”
The collaborative and conspiratorial efforts by social workers, teachers, medical personnel, psychiatrist, attorneys, judges, and foster care providers to fabricate stories, violate every civil and constitutional law known to man, complete falsified reports to be submitted to a juvenile judge in a court of law, attend court just to commit felony perjury … and just the sheer time, energy, and money used to cover their butts could and should be spent protecting children … like Ciara Jobes, Rilya Wilson, and Nixzmary Brown. But to the honest, trustworthy, hardworking, teachers … medical doctors and nurses … psychiatrist … attorneys … and judges who still respect and honor their professions, thank you and please join us in this modern day battle between good and evil. We must join together in our demand that our government immediately stop funding and therefore supporting the rape, molestation, and murder of our nations’ children. After all, is a junky house, dirty dishes in the sink, and spankings really THAT serious? For those of you that answer yes, let me say that I would choose a messy home and alcoholic parents to rape, molestation, broken bones and skull fractures any day of the week! Remember that God has a way of making sure that the pain you intentionally inflict on others is returned to you tenfold – that would be moira, karma, or kismet for all nonbelievers. I apologize but I absolutely must make one final biblical reference … Pharoah regularly issued orders to kill the first born of the Hebrews … but it was not until God took ‘his’ firstborn that he saw the error of his ways. So to you social workers who nonchalantly and with reckless abandon continue to terrorize innocent families, and continue in this profession for the pay, government benefits, excellent work schedule to include every-other Friday off … and the job security that Absolute Power allows … God will ‘personally’ hold you accountable for your actions. Having made a personal and spiritual plea that you end the violence against our children, the rest is up to you.
Ms. Iva Cruse, Ciara’s then 54 year old grandmother, lovingly remembers many discussions with her granddaughter about music and her dreams for the future. Ciara wanted to attend either Georgia Tech or the University of Georgia, with hopes of becoming a pharmacist. A student who had earned A’s in middle school, she definitely had talent. Her grandmother, who worked nights at a factory, was determined to do whatever it took to help Ciara realize this dream … even if it killed her! Grandma Cruse was also determined to “make good” on a promise she made to Ciara when she was 11 – “to throw her a fabulous 18th birthday party!” Grandma Cruse would wait outside of Ciara’s now abandoned row house for relatives and other invited guest; wearing a red dress which was her granddaughters favorite color, in anticipation of keeping her promise. While waiting, Iva expressed her extreme sadness to be celebrating Ciara’s 18th birthday without her, “I’m still hoping to wake up and find it was all a bad dream,” said Iva. If you are wondering why such a loving, thoughtful, caring, and attentive woman was not granted guardianship of her granddaughter -- it is because she too lost her children to social services for “leaving them alone and unsupervised,” and therefore did not “qualify”… although Satrina Roberts DID meet the qualifications! I am left to ponder whether the decision to take Iva’s children, many years earlier, was the catalyst to Ciara’s mothers drug addiction – one can only speculate. Iva, who visits Ciara’s torture chamber once a year, when asked if she will ever get over her pain, responded by saying “I don’t know if I can ever really get over it until I can get inside that room. I want to feel her pain, her agonizing pain, her bruises. Nobody can understand what a mother feels,” – perhaps also reliving the hurt and pain of losing her children to ‘the system.’ In an act that epitomized Ciara’s short existence, no one came to join Grandma Iva for her honorary 18th birthday celebration – which prompted her to say “Aint nobody here but me, baby – just goes to show, nobody but grandma remembers.” A few cousins did, however, show up as Iva was preparing to leave and said they were stuck in traffic. After prayer and a few brief discussions the cousins encouraged Iva to stop returning to the torture chamber, as they piled back in their car to leave. After they left, grandma Iva remained standing, staring at the boarded window of the room where her granddaughter had spent the last years of her life.
To Ciara Jobes, if you are looking down on us, I would like to say that you are not alone and WE ARE HERE. We acknowledge your worth and value. We recognize you and so many others as true gifts from God that were not treasured, appreciated, cherished, and cared for by some. I want you to know that we are fighting in your honor … we will continue shouting as loud as we can … and praying incessantly and fervently that if our government will not stop voluntarily, that God will make them stop soon!
To: Ahmad King, (GA); Amira Brown, (PA); Arieale Daniels, (FL); Billie-Jo Jenkins, (UK); Brian Clark, (NJ); Caprice Scott, (FL); China Davis, (AZ); Christal Jones, (NY); Christopher Simpson, (MI); Ciara Jobes, (MD); Clayton Miracle, (GA); Connre Dixon, (OH); David Jones, (IL); Diminiqua Bryant, (AL); Dominic J Williams, (MO); Donte Woods, (FL); Dontel Jeffers, (MA); Evan Watkins, (NV); Gladys Campbell, (NJ); Heaven Mann, (FL); Jacob Miller, (GA); Jonnie Wood, (AR); Kameryn Fountain, (GA); Kyle Anthony Ross, (MA); LaTasha Bush, (TX); LaTayna Reese, (FL); Leron St John, (MI); Letia Harrison, (OH); Liam Thompson, (OH); Lorenzo Johnson, (AZ); Lorenzo Wilson, (WA); Luke Evans, (IN); Martin Lee Anderson, (FL); Mykeeda Hampton, (DC); Nixzmary Brown, (NY); Quartrina K Johnson, (MD); Riyla Wilson, (FL); Rufus Manzie Young Jr, (MI); Sabrina Green, (NY); Shaquella Mance, (SC); Sierra Odom, (TX); Stephanie Ramos, (NY); Talitha Brooks, (CO); Tajuana Davidson, (AZ); Terrell Petterson, (GA); Timothy Thomas, (NC); Travis Adams, (OR); Travis Parker, (GA); Walter Jackson, (IL); Willie Wright, (TX); and Yasmin Taylor, (NJ). Also, to all of the children from my state (CA), which is definitely one of the top offenders: Andrew Setzer, Angelic Clary, Dakota Denzel Prince-Smith, Denzel Bailey, Desiree Collins, Dylan George, Edwardo Calzada, Elijah James Johnson, Jamie Mayne, Johnathan Reid, Julio Gonzalez, Kameron Justin Demery, Kerry Brooks, Kristal Mayon-Ceniceros, Laura Fleming, Mario Cano, Maryah Ponce, Rita Foster, Rodrigo Armando Rameriez Jr, Sara Eyerman, Sarah Chavez, Shane Devell Washington, Tiffany Eilder, Tiffany LaVerne Mason, Tommy Stacey; and to ALL foster children, past and present, we salute you … we celebrate what your lives should have been, if they had not been torn apart or cut too short … we fight in your memory and WE HONOR YOU! You are very much loved!
My special ‘shout out’ to Ty, in CA, … mommy loves you baby! And I can’t wait until you and so many others are released from foster incarceration … keep praying!
TMajor
If you believe that foster care should be reserved for children that are orphaned, or have TRULY been abandoned by their parents and ALL extended family members; If you believe that children in foster care should actually be victims of abuse and/or neglect, once proven by a judge and jury NOT a social worker with a God complex; If you believe in the Constitution and civil rights for all, no matter what their economic, social, or cultural group may be – Please sign the petitions referenced at www.squidoo.com/abolishcps/ (scroll down to Get Involved!!!). Thank you in advance for your participation!
Perhaps I am just overly emotional tonight as I write about this next story; Nevertheless, I am profoundly moved and deeply troubled by so many aspects of this case. 15-year-old Ciara Jobes, an African American girl from Maryland, was beaten and brutally raped while in the care of her court appointed legal guardian, Satrina Roberts. Ciara began living with Satrina at the request of her mother, Jackie Cruse, who was dying from AIDS. Other reports have stated that Jackie also battled drug addiction before succumbing to her illness – which would explain her impaired judgment and decision to select Satrina as a viable guardian to begin with. According to records, Satrina had a long and consistent history of mental illness – As a result, she would be clinically diagnosed with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder and subsequently approved for federal disability.
Just two months before a Circuit Court judge decided to appoint Satrina guardian of Ciara, with no courtroom objection by the social services caseworker who attended the guardianship hearing, Satrina was favorably being considered for foster care licensing – More likely than not, she would have been approved. Buried in a caseworker’s file were reports that Satrina “Had been cooperating with the foster program and that her application looked promising …;” However, due to some unexplained reason, Satrina voluntarily ended all contact with the agency … which led to her application being terminated. Worth emphasizing, her application was not terminated for lack of sufficient income to adequately support two people while on disability … it was not terminated because of her clinically diagnosed mental condition … it was not terminated because an investigation, to include a home study and perhaps interviews with friends, family, and neighbors unearthed disturbing findings … her application to become a foster “parent” was simply terminated because SHE chose to remove herself from the application process … WOW! It was reported that Satrina’s mental state was not an issue for the courts or social services because “It is not their policy,” when making guardianship determinations. It must have been by the grace of God and the protection of his angels that this woman was prevented from following through with her ‘I wanna be a foster parent too application!’ I can only imagine how many foster children would have been abused and raped in her home before Ciara’s death forced the close of her torture chamber! But what would it have taken to prevent Ciara from being tortured and killed?
The agency that claims to “oversee” Social Services, The Department of Human Resources, believes it is the Baltimore court’s responsibility to set, regulate, and enforce guardianship standards … not social workers, responded a spokesman for the Department. According to Sue Fitzsimmons, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, “Guardianship is not an issue we deal with” – this coming from the very agency ‘dedicated’ to “protecting” children. It appears that although guardianship is not an issue for their agency, dirty dishes, a messy home, a parent who drinks too much, verbal abuse, and spankings are! Perhaps it was The City Council who summed it up best by “passing a resolution” stating that Ciara was “neglected by school officials, ignored by neighbors, and abandoned by the very system that had a moral and legal obligation to protect her.” An enrolled student at Patterson High, Ciara had not been in school all semester. Perhaps if social workers weren’t wasting precious time trying to “build a case” against decent, innocent, hard working families they could have taken a trip to Patterson High, picked up a truancy report, spoken to her teachers, and attempted to locate the MIA student before she was killed! According to police reports, Ciara was “savagely beaten, denied food, and locked in an unfurnished and unheated room for months” while being forced to “use a hole in the wall as a toilet.” It was just before Christmas that Ciara was found by police who report that she “had as many as 700 wounds – most of them whip marks” and there were signs of “recent violent sexual abuse.”
The collaborative and conspiratorial efforts by social workers, teachers, medical personnel, psychiatrist, attorneys, judges, and foster care providers to fabricate stories, violate every civil and constitutional law known to man, complete falsified reports to be submitted to a juvenile judge in a court of law, attend court just to commit felony perjury … and just the sheer time, energy, and money used to cover their butts could and should be spent protecting children … like Ciara Jobes, Rilya Wilson, and Nixzmary Brown. But to the honest, trustworthy, hardworking, teachers … medical doctors and nurses … psychiatrist … attorneys … and judges who still respect and honor their professions, thank you and please join us in this modern day battle between good and evil. We must join together in our demand that our government immediately stop funding and therefore supporting the rape, molestation, and murder of our nations’ children. After all, is a junky house, dirty dishes in the sink, and spankings really THAT serious? For those of you that answer yes, let me say that I would choose a messy home and alcoholic parents to rape, molestation, broken bones and skull fractures any day of the week! Remember that God has a way of making sure that the pain you intentionally inflict on others is returned to you tenfold – that would be moira, karma, or kismet for all nonbelievers. I apologize but I absolutely must make one final biblical reference … Pharoah regularly issued orders to kill the first born of the Hebrews … but it was not until God took ‘his’ firstborn that he saw the error of his ways. So to you social workers who nonchalantly and with reckless abandon continue to terrorize innocent families, and continue in this profession for the pay, government benefits, excellent work schedule to include every-other Friday off … and the job security that Absolute Power allows … God will ‘personally’ hold you accountable for your actions. Having made a personal and spiritual plea that you end the violence against our children, the rest is up to you.
Ms. Iva Cruse, Ciara’s then 54 year old grandmother, lovingly remembers many discussions with her granddaughter about music and her dreams for the future. Ciara wanted to attend either Georgia Tech or the University of Georgia, with hopes of becoming a pharmacist. A student who had earned A’s in middle school, she definitely had talent. Her grandmother, who worked nights at a factory, was determined to do whatever it took to help Ciara realize this dream … even if it killed her! Grandma Cruse was also determined to “make good” on a promise she made to Ciara when she was 11 – “to throw her a fabulous 18th birthday party!” Grandma Cruse would wait outside of Ciara’s now abandoned row house for relatives and other invited guest; wearing a red dress which was her granddaughters favorite color, in anticipation of keeping her promise. While waiting, Iva expressed her extreme sadness to be celebrating Ciara’s 18th birthday without her, “I’m still hoping to wake up and find it was all a bad dream,” said Iva. If you are wondering why such a loving, thoughtful, caring, and attentive woman was not granted guardianship of her granddaughter -- it is because she too lost her children to social services for “leaving them alone and unsupervised,” and therefore did not “qualify”… although Satrina Roberts DID meet the qualifications! I am left to ponder whether the decision to take Iva’s children, many years earlier, was the catalyst to Ciara’s mothers drug addiction – one can only speculate. Iva, who visits Ciara’s torture chamber once a year, when asked if she will ever get over her pain, responded by saying “I don’t know if I can ever really get over it until I can get inside that room. I want to feel her pain, her agonizing pain, her bruises. Nobody can understand what a mother feels,” – perhaps also reliving the hurt and pain of losing her children to ‘the system.’ In an act that epitomized Ciara’s short existence, no one came to join Grandma Iva for her honorary 18th birthday celebration – which prompted her to say “Aint nobody here but me, baby – just goes to show, nobody but grandma remembers.” A few cousins did, however, show up as Iva was preparing to leave and said they were stuck in traffic. After prayer and a few brief discussions the cousins encouraged Iva to stop returning to the torture chamber, as they piled back in their car to leave. After they left, grandma Iva remained standing, staring at the boarded window of the room where her granddaughter had spent the last years of her life.
To Ciara Jobes, if you are looking down on us, I would like to say that you are not alone and WE ARE HERE. We acknowledge your worth and value. We recognize you and so many others as true gifts from God that were not treasured, appreciated, cherished, and cared for by some. I want you to know that we are fighting in your honor … we will continue shouting as loud as we can … and praying incessantly and fervently that if our government will not stop voluntarily, that God will make them stop soon!
To: Ahmad King, (GA); Amira Brown, (PA); Arieale Daniels, (FL); Billie-Jo Jenkins, (UK); Brian Clark, (NJ); Caprice Scott, (FL); China Davis, (AZ); Christal Jones, (NY); Christopher Simpson, (MI); Ciara Jobes, (MD); Clayton Miracle, (GA); Connre Dixon, (OH); David Jones, (IL); Diminiqua Bryant, (AL); Dominic J Williams, (MO); Donte Woods, (FL); Dontel Jeffers, (MA); Evan Watkins, (NV); Gladys Campbell, (NJ); Heaven Mann, (FL); Jacob Miller, (GA); Jonnie Wood, (AR); Kameryn Fountain, (GA); Kyle Anthony Ross, (MA); LaTasha Bush, (TX); LaTayna Reese, (FL); Leron St John, (MI); Letia Harrison, (OH); Liam Thompson, (OH); Lorenzo Johnson, (AZ); Lorenzo Wilson, (WA); Luke Evans, (IN); Martin Lee Anderson, (FL); Mykeeda Hampton, (DC); Nixzmary Brown, (NY); Quartrina K Johnson, (MD); Riyla Wilson, (FL); Rufus Manzie Young Jr, (MI); Sabrina Green, (NY); Shaquella Mance, (SC); Sierra Odom, (TX); Stephanie Ramos, (NY); Talitha Brooks, (CO); Tajuana Davidson, (AZ); Terrell Petterson, (GA); Timothy Thomas, (NC); Travis Adams, (OR); Travis Parker, (GA); Walter Jackson, (IL); Willie Wright, (TX); and Yasmin Taylor, (NJ). Also, to all of the children from my state (CA), which is definitely one of the top offenders: Andrew Setzer, Angelic Clary, Dakota Denzel Prince-Smith, Denzel Bailey, Desiree Collins, Dylan George, Edwardo Calzada, Elijah James Johnson, Jamie Mayne, Johnathan Reid, Julio Gonzalez, Kameron Justin Demery, Kerry Brooks, Kristal Mayon-Ceniceros, Laura Fleming, Mario Cano, Maryah Ponce, Rita Foster, Rodrigo Armando Rameriez Jr, Sara Eyerman, Sarah Chavez, Shane Devell Washington, Tiffany Eilder, Tiffany LaVerne Mason, Tommy Stacey; and to ALL foster children, past and present, we salute you … we celebrate what your lives should have been, if they had not been torn apart or cut too short … we fight in your memory and WE HONOR YOU! You are very much loved!
My special ‘shout out’ to Ty, in CA, … mommy loves you baby! And I can’t wait until you and so many others are released from foster incarceration … keep praying!
TMajor
If you believe that foster care should be reserved for children that are orphaned, or have TRULY been abandoned by their parents and ALL extended family members; If you believe that children in foster care should actually be victims of abuse and/or neglect, once proven by a judge and jury NOT a social worker with a God complex; If you believe in the Constitution and civil rights for all, no matter what their economic, social, or cultural group may be – Please sign the petitions referenced at www.squidoo.com/abolishcps/ (scroll down to Get Involved!!!). Thank you in advance for your participation!
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