Case of Wrongful Removal Caught on Tape

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> Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:42:02 -0400 (Eastern

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> Case of Wrongful

> Removal Caught on Tape

>

>

>

> Case of Wrongful Child Removal Caught on Tape -

> Typifies Nationwide

> TakeTheChildAndRun Mentality, Child Advocacy Group

> Says

>

>

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?ReleaseID=34963

> 8/20/2004 10:00:00 AM

>

>

> National Desk

> Contact: Richard Wexler of the National Coalition

> for Child Protection

> Reform, 703-212-2006 or rwexler,

> http://www.nccpr.org

>

> ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- There

> are only two differences

> between the case of Christopher Henry, a

> three-day-old infant in Springfield

> Mo.

> needlessly torn from his mother's arms, and

> thousands of other such children

>

> according to a national liberal child advocacy

> organization:

>

> --The violence of the removal.

>

> --The fact that it was caught on videotape.

>

> In every other respect, it is typical of thousands

> of cases across the

> United States, according to Richard Wexler,

> executive director of the

> National Coalition for Child Protection Reform.

>

> " The ethos of most child protective services

> agencies can be boiled down to

> a single sentence: Take the child and run, " Wexler

> said. " In this case,

> that's literally what happened.

>

> " Based on nothing more than questionable drug tests

> suggesting the parents

> smoked marijuana and the parents' own efforts to get

> help with marital

> problems, police kicked down the door and grabbed

> the child, " Wexler said,

> citing a front-page story in today's editions of the

> Springfield, (Missouri)

> News-Leader.

>

> " The only time this infant was in danger was when

> child protective services

> and the police decided to 'err on the side of the

> child' and tear him away

> from his mother. First he was endangered when the

> door fell on the mother as

> she was holding the child. And now he is in danger

> of lifelong emotional

> harm because he was torn from his mother during the

> most important days of

> his life -- his first, " Wexler said.

>

> Wexler noted that two years earlier, in the same

> county, two- year-old

> Dominic James was taken from his birth parents.

> " That removal also was

> unnecessary, and Dominic wound up dead, killed by

> his foster father.

>

> " But this is not simply a rogue county and this kind

> of wrongful removal is

> not an aberration, " Wexler said. " On average, 827

> children are torn from

> their parents by U.S child welfare agencies every

> day. Sometimes, it's the

> right thing to do. Some children are truly in danger

> and really must be

> removed from brutally abusive parents. But far more

> common are cases in

> which a family's poverty is confused with 'neglect.'

>

> " Not only do such cases do enormous harm to the

> children needlessly taken,

> they overwhelm child welfare agencies, leaving them

> even less time to find

> children in real danger. "

>

> Wexler said a few model child welfare systems have

> " broken this cycle of

> destruction and despair. They have embraced safe,

> proven programs to keep

> families together. Even as the number of children

> taken away has declined in

> these communities, child safety has dramatically

> improved.

>

> " These few communities have figured out that the

> only way to err on the side

> of the child is to err on the side of the family. "

> http://www.usnewswire.com/

>

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

> Even in the zoo they do not break the bond of mother

> and infant, knowing it

> will destroy both lives, yet every day hundreds of

> infants are removed from

> the breast, no crime at all by the mother, many only

> lost a child at some

> previous point in their lives and every future child

> is automatically taken,

> then the robot assessment list of " risk

> factors " ..... it is vultures who do

> this, not humans, and they have to be stopped. NOW.

> We are dealing with

> women every day terrified that they know the state

> is going to take their

> baby and usually does ... no one can imagine the

> reality of this unless they

> have lived through it and survived it.

>

> Please go to www.avoiceforchildren.com and put

> " Oregon Children Plan " and

> Stealing Infants " into the search engine there and

> read alot more

> information about the legislative funding streams

> associated with the

> stealing of infants from the hospital. The

> collusion of the medical

> industry with the state agencies, shared databases

> shredding all vulnerable.

> .. the state removes infants now for " failure to

> provide " among hundreds of

> assessment " risk factors " .... Please put " risk

> factors " in to the search

> engine on our site and read the criteria they use to

> remove the children, we

> are ALL at risk to their " no wrong door "

> policies..... New lock down jail

> security at hospitals and the ankle bracelet sets it

> off it parents try to

> take their children..... Amber alert? Not about

> lost children - more than 2

> 300 Ashcroft says go missing EVERY DAY in the

> USA..... no, it is about

> children who the state has intervened on and the

> parents have " reposessed "

> their stolen children ..... and right now federal

> money to the states was

> DOUBLED to increase the adoption of the stolen

> children to the open market

> for pedophiles and state child jails called child

> protection and foster

> homes.

>

> One positive note is that this article was posted on

> the USNews page, that

> the media are finally starting to print the TRUTH

> about what these agencies

> are doing... that it has NOTHING to do with " child

> protection " at all, in

> fact the abusers are the state agents. In 99% of

> the seizures of children

> NO ONE COMMITTED A CRIME OR IS CHARGED WITH A

> CRIME....THEY CANT DO THAT...

> ITS AGAINST THE LAW......

>

> We have to STOP them NOW, in their tracks, suing

> them and exposing them

> everywhere they are.... this originates in the

> legislatures and agencies

> and BAR associations writing their own rules and

> using them for court

> process, totally unconstitutional, total conflict of

> interest, bar agents in

> every office in a monopoly along with big corp and

> agencies and legislatures

> These agencies must be shut down NOW, stolen

> children released, shredded

> families REUNITED.

>

> pamela gaston

> www.avoiceforchildren.com