The Truth about U.S. Foster Care

Exposing the injustice, corruption, criminal, and unconstitutional acts of Child Protective Service Agencies and the Juvenile Court - Please see: http://www.fixcas.com/parody/tomb.htm; www.squidoo.com/abolishcps/; http://abolishcps.blogspot.com/2006/06/call-to-action-my-personal-story.html; and http://www.fightcps.com

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Hi, this is Ty and he was "legally" kidnapped by CPS on January 1, 2005. To view his photo log, please visit http://abolishcpsnow.blogspot.com/ As his mother, I will continue praying and fighting until he is returned home. To see what you can do to help put an end to family and juvenile court injustice, please visit www.squidoo.com/abolishcps/. There are several petitions that you can sign and a host of additional information. Working together we can end the abuse of power, lack of employee accountability, and remove the umbrella of immunity that shields their deliberate and intentional felony acts! If you feel that the decision to remove your children was based on race, please reflect on the beautiful and encouraging words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I believe that ‘unarmed’ … truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” IF YOU HAVE A PERSONAL STORY TO SHARE, PLEASE SEND TO: victimizedbycps@hotmail.com.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Tigers Den or Foster Home - You Be the Judge

Many of you will remember the story of a New Yorker caught with a 400-pound Siberian tiger living in his apartment. Actually, it was not until the man was "severely bitten on the leg by the tiger" and forced to seek medical treatment that his little secret was revealed. But here's what many of you may not have known ... after this story aired, child welfare authorities also became involved. However, their involvement was very 'hush hush' and you may not have heard anything on the news or read anything in the newspaper. If you, like many Americans, were left in the dark and are now wondering why child welfare was involved in what appears to have been a case of 'some nut' attempting to domesticate a wild animal in his urban high-rise apartment, please read on.

According to an NBC-4 news report, Antoine Yates was the proud pet owner of both a tiger and an alligator and his apartment "may have also been home to city foster children." Yes, you read correctly ... please do not re-read ... the agency created to protect abused and neglected children may have really screwed up if/when they approved this home for foster child placement.

An Investigation was conducted to determine whether "several foster children in the city's protective care were living in the apartment with these dangerous wild animals." Investigators would also like to know "how the city could not have known about it."

"Records show beginning in 1998, and until 2002, the city placed several foster children ranging in age from 4 to 10 in the apartment in the care of Martha Yates, 68. Yates is the mother of Antoine Yates ... the man arrested after being attacked by his pet ..."

News Channel 4 was able to ascertain from sources familiar with the case as well as several foster children that "they lived not only with the tiger and the alligator, but also with a lion." Wow, can you spell S-A-F-E-T-Y and protection??!! I sure can and it does not equate to placing little abused and neglected children in a home with wild animals! Let's not discuss the fact that the foster home was a Housing Project in Harlem! When you consider the fact that many children are removed from their parent's home due to unpaid utility bills (neglect) ... the parents fought with one another while the children were in the home (emotional abuse/Domestic Violence) ... the child was spanked (physical abuse) ... or the mother failed to prevent the child from being spanked (failure to protect), it is amazing that child "welfare" authorities would place children in this type of environment or would be unaware that dangerous animals were being kept in the apartment with the children. For many, many, years the public has been led to believe that once children are "rescued," they are placed in the safe embrass of loving caregivers who have their best interest at heart. Additionally, once placed in the home of strangers, their care is well supervised by social workers with child protective service agencies.

Quite naturally, the foster care giver denies the children's allegations and city records "indicate that no animals were viewed in the home." Although not "viewed" in the home were the animals "present" in the home -- this sounds like a play on words to me. I would also like to know if any of the children reported the presence of wild animals to social workers -- if so, why wasn't immediate action taken . With the constant and continuous media reminders that social workers, and others in child protection falsify documents, pretend to conduct mandatory home visits that never took place, and tamper with agency and legal documents, this very serious oversight by the department of child welfare should have been handled by an independent investigative agency determined to uncover the truth. The very lives of these children were seriously compromised under the guise of 'protecting' them, if reports are correct. If child welfare agencies are not concerned with the safety and protection of the children under their care, all rational beings are left to question or ponder why children are being removed from their homes to begin with, barring extreme circumstances of abuse or neglect -- to shed some light on this, please research the American Safe Families Act (ASFA).

Many of you know that social workers are required to make mandatory and regular child welfare checks on children living in the homes of strangers. If these visits were in fact being conducted, how could the animals have gone undetected? Especially when neighbors reported "a stench over recent months." Common sense leads me to believe that if social workers were actually conducting regular welfare checks or home visits, they may have heard the mighty roar of the lion behind closed doors. And they most certainly would have received some type of verbal or non-verbal indication from the children that the animal(s) were there.

How did the 'big wigs' in child protection deal with what could have easily been a tragic yet predictable outcome? It was stated in the NBC 4 report that directors are reinforcing the need for caseworkers to "always open all doors when visiting a foster home." So, here's my advice ... STOP SNATCHING CHILDREN FROM INNOCENT PARENTS!!! If they would stop stealing children on trumped-up allegations, if not completely fabricated, and throwing them into the homes of strangers, the current epidemic of foster children being beaten, molested, raped, and even killed, would drastically decrease.

I hate to say this, but Mr. Yates was left barely able to "walk on a leg that was almost torn off;" I'm just happy to know that the foster children still have all limbs intact and were able to 'walk on their legs' right out of this potentially deadly display of 'protection gone wrong.'

I don't know about you, but I have not heard anything about the outcome of their "investigation."

For more details, click on the title, Tigers Den or Foster Home ... above or visit
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/2542068/detail.html