Domestic Violence vs. Physical Violence
Stacey and Claudia Hill lost their newborn daughter Selena shortly after her birth. Why was little Selena ripped from the loving arms of her mother just days after entering this world? Were drugs detected in the newborns system, indicating drug abuse by her mother? Or perhaps one or both parents had a history of abusing other children in their care?
Based on published reports, little Selena was taken from her parents because of "concerns that her parents ... had physically abused each other and didn't seem capable of caring for the baby." It was also reported that the couple had "two older children in foster care." If in fact they had other children in state custody, this would explain little Selenas' abduction. Once child protective services (CPS), for whatever reason, take possession of one child they will without a doubt seize any additional children you have or will have. This, I feel, is a method used by the agency to "punish" parents that have taken a stand and refuse to jump through their ridiculous hoops because their Constitutional and civil rights were violated while being denied due process. CPS is the best example of Big Brother gone mad!!!
Well, once little Selena was "protected" from her own parents based on implied domestic violence in their home, she was placed in a foster home free from "abuse" and "neglect" ... right? If not, what justifiable reason would the state have to rip a newborn child from the loving, safe, nurturing arms of its parents? Please research the American Safe Families Act (ASFA), signed into law in 1997 by then President Bill Clinton.
Selena Hill's parents were "replaced" with foster parents Scott and Deborah Brown; And her natural siblings, also being held in foster incarceration, were replaced with the Brown's two children. Here's what I found to be extremely interesting with this story ... after Selena was removed from her home because her parents "abused each other ...," she was placed in a home in which police had investigated "reports of violence ..." "three times this year before" Selena was "placed there ..." It was also reported, by neighbors of the Browns' that "they knew about the police visits ... and said Deborah Brown told them her husband had physically and verbally abused her." So, just to put things into perspective ... little Selena was taken from one home with 'domestic violence' and placed in another home with domestic violence.
According to the news article, potential foster care providers are prescreened for felony convictions but not misdemeanors. And the agency is not required to check police records to see if they were ever "dispatched to a home for domestic disturbances." So if the police are called to a home every weekend because the husband drinks too much and likes to slap his wife and kids around, this home could potentially pass the agency's pre-screening process ... assuming charges were never filed. Now compare just how thorough an investigation is conducted on biological parents once their children have been stolen.
Once children are removed from their biological parents, social workers will talk to their neighbors, co-workers, estranged family members, and anyone that may have spent five-minutes in their presence, or that will listen to them, in an attempt to determine your "character." It really makes you wonder why the same effort isn't exerted before placing our children in the homes of strangers. Is it because the child "protection" agency is more concerned with generating federal funding than the safety of the very children they claim to protect? Perhaps if half the effort to "build a case" against Selena's parents was used to investigate the Browns, Selena would not have been thrown into a violent home where she was allegedly beaten. Naturally, the authorities responsible for her protection "will not comment on wether they knew of the reports of domestic violence."
"On Sept. 21, 7-week-old Selena was rushed to Children's Hospital in Oakland with a fractured skull and other injuries that almost killed her." Yes folks, at only 7 weeks of age, little Selena had a fractured skull and almost lost her life!!
Based on published reports, Scott Brown, the foster "father" quite naturally "pleaded not guilty" and was released on bail. It was also reported that "Deborah Brown left the child with him while she attended a class even though he was not licensed as a foster parent. Police say he said Selena received a burn when he pulled her across a carpet so he could change her diaper. He also reportedly said his 4-year-old son dropped the infant from a height of less than a foot." Please lets not forget that Selena was only 7-weeks-old while being "pulled" across the carpet for a diaper change and while being handled by the couples 4-year-old.
For additional disturbing details please click on the title, Domestic Violence vs. Physical Violence, above to be redirected to Susan Ferriss' article or visit: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1995/11/20/NEWS2888.dtl
There is sooooooo much more to read that will shock you and leave you with more questions than answers, for example:
1) "Deborah Brown reported that during an argument Scott hit her in the face several times ... " a claim that Scott would deny although accepting responsibility for "hitting" and pushing her and slapping her "lightly across the face."
2) Neighbors ... "were critical of the decision to license the Brown residence as a foster home" and stated "I honestly don't see how that house could have passed inspection. I was really surprised (authorities) didn't know more about what was going on." The comments obviously supported by local police who commented that visits to the Brown's home "are a matter of public record."
3) "The city Department of Social Services said its employees appear not to have violated any rules in their care of Selena. A county social worker was supposed to visit Selena at least once a month, although not necessarily inside the brown home." Isn't this typical CPS jargon ... 'we are unable to comment' ... 'we have not violated any rules' ... 'its unfortunate that the child was beaten or killed,' or we "cannot discuss details of the case because of confidentiality policies," blah, blah, blah.
4) "Anything more extensive, such as a review of local police records or interviews with neighbors, is not mandated." You'd better believe its not mandated because if they review police records or interview neighbors, their qualified foster caregiver pool would be cut in half ... they know it and so do we. They refuse to look because they do not want to see. They refuse to ask because they do not want to hear. They do not inquire because they do not want the truth revealed ... they are much more comfortable simply rolling the dice and gambling with little lives because this generates money from Uncle Sam!!
5) "Catholic Charities, one of 10 agencies under contract ... to certify foster homes, also declined to discuss most details and refused to say whether its social worker had ever met Scott Brown ..." A spokesman for Catholic Charities commented "We have complied with all the requirements. We went beyond the requirements ... We are looking at what we can do to do better."
6) "I think it would be possible to write guidelines where you wouldn't deny a license based on phone calls to police, but where the licensing agency would do more to check out the family ... The guidelines could strike a balance between civil liberties and the protection of children." For all parents that have lost their children, this is an amazingly odd comment when you consider the fact that civil liberties nor Constitutional rights are issues for the agency before making the decision to remove children from their biological families. And children are removed from their homes based on anonymous phone calls to those in authority.
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!
Based on published reports, little Selena was taken from her parents because of "concerns that her parents ... had physically abused each other and didn't seem capable of caring for the baby." It was also reported that the couple had "two older children in foster care." If in fact they had other children in state custody, this would explain little Selenas' abduction. Once child protective services (CPS), for whatever reason, take possession of one child they will without a doubt seize any additional children you have or will have. This, I feel, is a method used by the agency to "punish" parents that have taken a stand and refuse to jump through their ridiculous hoops because their Constitutional and civil rights were violated while being denied due process. CPS is the best example of Big Brother gone mad!!!
Well, once little Selena was "protected" from her own parents based on implied domestic violence in their home, she was placed in a foster home free from "abuse" and "neglect" ... right? If not, what justifiable reason would the state have to rip a newborn child from the loving, safe, nurturing arms of its parents? Please research the American Safe Families Act (ASFA), signed into law in 1997 by then President Bill Clinton.
Selena Hill's parents were "replaced" with foster parents Scott and Deborah Brown; And her natural siblings, also being held in foster incarceration, were replaced with the Brown's two children. Here's what I found to be extremely interesting with this story ... after Selena was removed from her home because her parents "abused each other ...," she was placed in a home in which police had investigated "reports of violence ..." "three times this year before" Selena was "placed there ..." It was also reported, by neighbors of the Browns' that "they knew about the police visits ... and said Deborah Brown told them her husband had physically and verbally abused her." So, just to put things into perspective ... little Selena was taken from one home with 'domestic violence' and placed in another home with domestic violence.
According to the news article, potential foster care providers are prescreened for felony convictions but not misdemeanors. And the agency is not required to check police records to see if they were ever "dispatched to a home for domestic disturbances." So if the police are called to a home every weekend because the husband drinks too much and likes to slap his wife and kids around, this home could potentially pass the agency's pre-screening process ... assuming charges were never filed. Now compare just how thorough an investigation is conducted on biological parents once their children have been stolen.
Once children are removed from their biological parents, social workers will talk to their neighbors, co-workers, estranged family members, and anyone that may have spent five-minutes in their presence, or that will listen to them, in an attempt to determine your "character." It really makes you wonder why the same effort isn't exerted before placing our children in the homes of strangers. Is it because the child "protection" agency is more concerned with generating federal funding than the safety of the very children they claim to protect? Perhaps if half the effort to "build a case" against Selena's parents was used to investigate the Browns, Selena would not have been thrown into a violent home where she was allegedly beaten. Naturally, the authorities responsible for her protection "will not comment on wether they knew of the reports of domestic violence."
"On Sept. 21, 7-week-old Selena was rushed to Children's Hospital in Oakland with a fractured skull and other injuries that almost killed her." Yes folks, at only 7 weeks of age, little Selena had a fractured skull and almost lost her life!!
Based on published reports, Scott Brown, the foster "father" quite naturally "pleaded not guilty" and was released on bail. It was also reported that "Deborah Brown left the child with him while she attended a class even though he was not licensed as a foster parent. Police say he said Selena received a burn when he pulled her across a carpet so he could change her diaper. He also reportedly said his 4-year-old son dropped the infant from a height of less than a foot." Please lets not forget that Selena was only 7-weeks-old while being "pulled" across the carpet for a diaper change and while being handled by the couples 4-year-old.
For additional disturbing details please click on the title, Domestic Violence vs. Physical Violence, above to be redirected to Susan Ferriss' article or visit: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1995/11/20/NEWS2888.dtl
There is sooooooo much more to read that will shock you and leave you with more questions than answers, for example:
1) "Deborah Brown reported that during an argument Scott hit her in the face several times ... " a claim that Scott would deny although accepting responsibility for "hitting" and pushing her and slapping her "lightly across the face."
2) Neighbors ... "were critical of the decision to license the Brown residence as a foster home" and stated "I honestly don't see how that house could have passed inspection. I was really surprised (authorities) didn't know more about what was going on." The comments obviously supported by local police who commented that visits to the Brown's home "are a matter of public record."
3) "The city Department of Social Services said its employees appear not to have violated any rules in their care of Selena. A county social worker was supposed to visit Selena at least once a month, although not necessarily inside the brown home." Isn't this typical CPS jargon ... 'we are unable to comment' ... 'we have not violated any rules' ... 'its unfortunate that the child was beaten or killed,' or we "cannot discuss details of the case because of confidentiality policies," blah, blah, blah.
4) "Anything more extensive, such as a review of local police records or interviews with neighbors, is not mandated." You'd better believe its not mandated because if they review police records or interview neighbors, their qualified foster caregiver pool would be cut in half ... they know it and so do we. They refuse to look because they do not want to see. They refuse to ask because they do not want to hear. They do not inquire because they do not want the truth revealed ... they are much more comfortable simply rolling the dice and gambling with little lives because this generates money from Uncle Sam!!
5) "Catholic Charities, one of 10 agencies under contract ... to certify foster homes, also declined to discuss most details and refused to say whether its social worker had ever met Scott Brown ..." A spokesman for Catholic Charities commented "We have complied with all the requirements. We went beyond the requirements ... We are looking at what we can do to do better."
6) "I think it would be possible to write guidelines where you wouldn't deny a license based on phone calls to police, but where the licensing agency would do more to check out the family ... The guidelines could strike a balance between civil liberties and the protection of children." For all parents that have lost their children, this is an amazingly odd comment when you consider the fact that civil liberties nor Constitutional rights are issues for the agency before making the decision to remove children from their biological families. And children are removed from their homes based on anonymous phone calls to those in authority.
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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