A Day in Court vs Schyulkill County CYS

We arrive at 8:30 am as requested by court petition.  We meet bio mom, bio aunt and bio dad at the courthouse.  This hearing is being held because the social worker removed our foster daughter without good reason and with NO court order.  As common way to do business in CYS agencies social workers have children nabbed then manipulate the law to fit their intended ending.  Child was removed February 28th court hearing for the removal March 25th.  In the interim she places the child in a group home where she was not to be placed.  She came to us under strict supervision and was not permitted to be placed with other children.  Guess that didn't matter with her mission to once again seclude the child and deny her bonding, adoption and again not care about her safety or well being.  Keep in mind this is the same social worker that left this girl and her 3 siblings in a home where they were horrifically abused and tortured.  Also remember that CYS and Dept of Welfare reported the abuse as unfounded.  A PA state trooper and a District Attorney filed the charges against the foster mother, father, son and cousin that abused the children.  Why not CYS or DPW??  That would open too many cans of worms both agencies prefer to keep closed.  Remember also this same social worker brought her choice of attorney to the criminal trial for the abusers and together they threatened the girl that if she testified against her abusers she could go to jail.  Who does this??  and gets away with it??
Upon arrival we spot our foster daughter in the hall and I go right to her for a big hug and tears along with my husband, her mom and her aunt.  We have about 10 minutes of bonding before the KidsPeace social worker yanks her from us and removes her from the building.  Like we were going to harm her or just to make a point that they are "in control."  We remained in the hallway of the Pottsville courthouse all day hearing story after story from other parents and relatives regarding the horrific treatment of their families and children by these same characters.  Bio mom's lawyer meets with her and bio dad's father meets with him.  The guardian ad litem informs us only after being confronted by the aunt, that he has moved himself to the position of attorney for the foster child and another guardian has been appointed.  He claims this was to protect the child and he would be in a better position to do what was best for her and or what she wanted.  We know she wanted to come home with us.  His motives we believe were not in her best interest but rather, like in most CYS cases, in the best interest of doing what he is told by CYS.  This was a guardian that had never met his client until we forced him to in November of 2012. 
The fathers lawyer met with me and she appeared to be in agreement with us taking custody of the child and proceeding with adoption.  With both bio parents present any further paperwork needing to be completed could have been done then and there.  The bio mom's attorney never approached me.  She made him aware of her wishes for the child to come with us.
What a circus sitting in the hallway listening and watching just how these agencies operate and how mean, disrespectful and unprofessional everybody involved in these cases are.  Of course, out of spite I'm sure they held our care until 4:30pm, the end of the day.  Now the real carnival starts.  First and for most I am denied access to the courtroom.  Even though I have 100% standing in this case I suppose letting me in and having to let me submit my proving documents and testify wouldn't work in their favor.  So we remain in the hallway.  Lawyers come in and out with questions and to report what is going on in the courtroom.  First thing we learn is that during the social workers testimony she claims the child was not permitted communication with her bio family which we allowed.  We allowed that contact because KidsPeace told us it was OK and the CYS social worker never told us it was not OK.  Both KidsPeace social workers knew of the contact (it is in the weekly recordings) and the KidsPeace supervisor new as well.  This contact consisted of emails and phone calls with mom, phone calls with dad, and phone calls and 2 visits with her aunt.  All emails were saved and appropriate, visits were with us in our home with her aunt and family.  CYS managed to keep all of them apart and when they would try and get visits CYS threatened to take their children if they kept calling the CYS office.  There was NO court order or any instruction by anyone involved in this case that there could be no family contact.  Fostering rules promote you supporting a good relationship with the bio family without prejudice and mail and phone calls may not be monitored.  We learned that these agencies change or ignore all rules to fit their motives and cover up their wrongdoings.  Also with the family contact I began learning all the illegal things Sch County CYS and this same social worker did to the bio mother and father and to all 3 children involved.  It is disgraceful that this kind of abuse of power and downright illegal activity can go on under the watch of our government. 
The social worker also lied on the stand by claiming I made the girl apologize to her father.  Totally ridiculous because I never thought the father did anything wrong.  But social workers are given immunity (can't be prosecuted for lying on the stand) which is a HUGE part of the problem.  They can lie as much as they want and not be held accountable like you and me for perjury. 
When the KidsPeace social worker took the stand she told the truth about not knowing that there could be no family contact and allowing the girl to enjoy communicating with her family.  This proved the CYS worker lied.  The dad's attorney questioned me while standing in the hall with dad about the so called apology and we both said "it never happened."  She also asked if the father was interested in visitation.  This made no sense considering CYS was trying to prove their case using the no family contact issue and yet here is dad's atty. asking about visitation.  Now I am really confused. 
We were told that bio mom and bio dad's attorneys were on our side to take the girl home.  A letter was presented from the therapist that our home was the best place for the child.  We had all excellent KidsPeace and CYS reviews and a recent placement hearing presented on January 21st to the judge and written by CYS said that the child was safe and happy here and doing very well.  She was on the honor roll, healthy and healing in therapy.  It also states adoption to hopefully be completed by July 2013.
Then the social worker used the fact that our KidsPeace contract was expiring at the end of the month.  This was fact but the judge never bothered to ask if we had another fostering contract.  We also told the lawyer for the girl that we wanted to take kinship of the child and we do not need to be foster parents to do so.  The family was present to OK that decision. 
Then it was time for our foster daughter to take the stand.  What I am told by 2 of the attorneys involved is that they manipulated the girl over and over on the stand.  The guardian questioned her twisting the facts to make it appear that it was a secret about contact with her family.  Of course we don't want children in the system keeping secrets, right???  That is what they do force and threaten children over and over again to not tell and not have contact with people that love them.  Not to protect the child only to protect themselves.  Although this didn't seem very substantial because the real reason for the child's removal was retaliation.  Our helping her move forward in prosecuting her abusers from the former foster home.
By now it is going on 6pm we are exhausted but feeling positive because every angle CYS used to keep the child from us we felt was combated with proof, testimony or a reason to over rule CYS.  Finally the lawyer (the girl's former guardian) approaches me and asked what I want.  I said I want kinship of the girl and we plan on adopting her as soon as possible.  I told him we did not care about the money of being foster parents we cared about the child.  He acted confused and like he couldn't believe we would consider taking the child without any compensation.  He returned to the courtroom.
Within 10 minutes everyone was exiting the courtroom.  Not one person approached us and told us what the ruling was.  Another 10 minutes and mass confusion and the bio mother tells us the judge ruled to keep the child in foster care.  Claiming our expiring foster contract as her reasoning.  In shock and tearful I we turned to leave when the CYS social worker calls us back and starts berating my husband and I.  She is yelling and standing around her is the director of CYS and other co workers.  She proceeds to tell us that we are to have no contact with the girl or her family.  I explained that we have Constitutional Rights and their are laws in PA that she is overstepping.  She laughs and tells us "I don't give a f*#K about your Constitutional Rights.  You lost today and this case is closed as far as you and your family are concerned.  I replied that I was not giving up on the child, ever.
We turned away from the CYS posse and left.  We were both in shock most of the way home.  Although through all the corruption in the 7.5 months of dealing with CYS it only makes perfect sense that the hearing was just for show there was only one outcome.
What I know today:  There were 4 lawyers all on our side, a therapist recommending us, the 15 year old child testifying that she wanted to come home with us, both mother, father and aunt wanting us to take custody of the child.  One lying social worker and one cooperating judge to keep the child hostage of the "system."  There is no justice!!
So now the child has been made to sign an agreement that she will not contact us.  She has been moved 1.5 hours away.  CYS continued to allow visits and phone calls with her aunt and she called her dad on Father's Day.  It wasn't about family contact it was RETALIATION!!  She remains in a foster home with a single foster mother and I pray everyday that she is safe and happy.  I continue to try and find the right attorneys to help proceed with her adoption and to sue CYS and KidsPeace for abusing all of our rights and the laws of the Commonwealth of PA.
I do continue to be a foster parent through a much more professional and uncorrupted agency.  KidsPeace has way to many issues and I refuse to ever work with them again after witnessing first hand the way they treat children, their bankruptcy issues and hiring child molesters as counselors. The fact that they stole the girl's memory box is just another ill directed harmful way they harm children and get away with it.

Prosecuting Social Workers

For those stuck in the nightmare of Children and Youth Services we all share the frustration of dealing with lying social workers.  I still want to see the Schuylkill County social worker that lied in my case prosecuted for her criminal acts, threats and intentions.  Here is proof that they can and will be prosecuted if you can prove how they have lied in your case.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9pDUJzxR4WY.  Honestly 5 years is not enough for this woman considering all the lives her outright lying affected.  In my case the social worker actually brought in her own choice of attorney to threaten my foster daughter that if the girl would go on the stand that day in court and testify against the family that sexually, physically abused and tortured her and her 3 siblings that the girl could go to jail.  Can you believe this crap.  And to boot to date she has gotten away with causing the fiasco and delaying prosecution of this nasty family of abusers.  This happened in a court house where the District Attorney and State Trooper who were prosecuting the case were present.  Who allows this flat out misconduct by a social worker trying to cover her own ass for allowing the children to remain in a house being horrifically abused under her care for 4 years?  The girl immediately called the state trooper upon arriving home and told him she did want to testify but was afraid this social worker would have her jailed just to shut her up.  I have just learned the charges were refiled and the trial is set for December 2013.  Only after a delay in June of 2013 because Schuylkill County CYS was told that they had to produce all of the records from the case.  Well you know their response "confidentiality."  The same excuse they use to hide how they change facts and lie.  Well the judge in this case was not having their crap this time around and demanded the records be handed over.  I can just see the witch now working day and night to change, destroy, white out, and add to the records to cover her tracks. 
When she learned that the girl was having conversations with the state trooper she told myself and the child she could no longer talk to the state trooper, the DA or her siblings.  Guess she didn't want them discussing the case behind her deceitful back.  She didn't however take her away from her therapist who along with my family was backing the girl in prosecuting the abusers and getting some kind of justice for the hell she lived through because of this social worker and KidsPeace who were also involved in this case through the abuse.  The therapist proceeded to contact the state trooper, guardian ad litem (who never even met the girl all the years he was to be protecting her) and made it clear that the girl was going for justice.  When the social worker got wind of this plan she contacted KidsPeace.  I received a call on February 28th at 2:40pm that the girls KidsPeace social worker was coming to remove the girl from our care by 4pm.  Kidspeace took the girl crying hysterically.  They were well aware we were the first safe home this child has ever had.  We had excellent reviews and had just went through a placement hearing where we learned our adoption of the girl could be completed by July 2013.  The abuse and mental anguish I witnessed at the hands of KidsPeace and Schuylkill County CYS was worse than most kids experience in a lifetime and for what?  To cover their butts they had to get her away from people who were helping her and love her.  They removed her without a court order or justifiable reason to throw her in a group home and threaten her about talking.  Once again seclude, threaten and never let the children bond so they can continue to hold them hostage in the system.  We also need more social workers who leave their jobs to speak out about what really goes on in these agencies.  Here is a link to those who speak up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arVPZHgTcmA&feature=youtu.be
My next blog I will do a day in court.

Back at it

I've been to busy to keep up with the blog but school is in session and I am back at it.  I will be bringing you the latest local and statewide issues.  Please contact me if you have anything you want to unleash.  I will be covering all types of good and bad news and try to get your questions answered.  Please join and follow this blog.

Corruption within Children and Youth Services and the Department of Welfare

As many of you know I am a foster parent.  Dennis and I love giving teens going through a rough time in their lives a safe home and guidance so that they have a fighting chance to survive the “system.”  During this process I have learned a lot about just how corrupt and unfair the “system” can be.  I understand how people who are not involved with children and youth agencies and or foster care may not know just what a lot of these agencies are doing to keep the big wad of our tax dollars filling their pockets.  I have met people that have had children taken for simple things such as an unclean litter box, dirty floors, poor school grades and being mentally challenged.  Once these agencies take your children it can become nearly impossible to get them back.  You can also lose your children in messy divorce actions that play parents against each other with distorted tales of sexual, physical and mental abuse that one parent is accused of inflicting on a child.  Courts also like to use the terms: parent alienation, bi-polar, sociopath, and drug addict to rip children from homes.  Parents have also been promised the return of their children if they submit to drug testing for a 6 month period only to learn after 2 years of clean drug test they still cannot get their children back from these monster social workers. 

The so called money wheel works something like this.  Children and Youth Services received 1 billion dollars in 2012 to care for these children they have often legally kidnap from parents.  Then they pay a fostering agency anywhere from $400-500,000 per year who in return pays maybe $10-12,000 a child per year to a foster family.  This is without mentioning other kickbacks and payoffs that go to lying social workers, guardian attorneys, therapists and judges.  I can write about this with full knowledge as I watched it all unfold before me when I fostered for KidsPeace.  Not only did supervisors and social workers lie and cover-up criminal behaviors but they also steal personal belongings from the children in their care.  I have witnessed the worse kind of mental abuse inflicted by KidsPeace and Schuylkill County Children and Youth. Most children are way better off with their parents then these less than educated creepy agency workers.  They move children from placement to placement to cover up criminal behaviors by agency employees and keep children from bonding.  Then they attempt to hold foster families responsible for listening to their direction.  I would never recommend fostering through KidsPeace to anyone.  For more information on their corrupt organization this is a link to an article http://articles.mcall.com/2007-12-23/news/3936869_1_kidspeace-gravy-train-troubled-children that explains more.  The latest problems have been hiring sexual abusers and filing for bankruptcy mostly due to paying out lawsuits for children who die in their care.  I know of a child they have locked up and drugged in their KidsPeace hospital to keep him quiet about the sexual, physical abuse and torture he endured while in the care of Schuylkill County CYS and KidsPeace for 4 years.  He’s been held hostage at the hospital since October of 2012.  Then there are his siblings that are also being held hostage by SCCYS.  As being foster parents who wanted to adopt the oldest child we learned quickly just how far CYS agency employees and the Dept of Welfare will go to cover up criminal behavior. 

 

Senator Mike Folmer and State Rep Jim Cox demanded an investigation by DPW into my case and DPW just covered their tracks and those of the social workers.  They never did a full investigation.  For some sick reason ($) the DPW would rather hold these children hostage than let them go to loving safe families out of the system.  Although we are still pursuing the adoption of the oldest child the retaliation by these agencies can be brutal.  A local lawyer who has been helping many people with similar cases here in Berks has now had the agency threaten to take her children.  I have also heard of doctors and attorneys having their lives destroyed financially because they were involved in exposing what these agencies are really doing.  They are relentless.  They have destroyed many careers, families and children’s lives all for profit.  If you think the Luzerne County “Cash for Kids” scam was huge wait until the freight train coming down the track exposes more judges, social workers, attorneys and therapists who knowingly participate in this illegal, disgraceful behavior.  Judge Bucci was just slammed for his role in such cases.  Here is that info http://berkscountynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2013/08/judge-bucci-slammed-by-superior-court.html .  We have formed groups that are asking for an audit of all PA CYS agencies and reform to stop the falsifying of records, stealing children, immunity for social workers, and unfair illegal activity in family courts.  House Rep Mark Rozzi is also helping in our fight for justice and clarification so that families can reunite and children can be saved from the horror that often comes from living in the “system.” 

I recently was included in an article by Chicago crime reporter published in World News Daily that is exposing what is happening in PA and other states amid the corruption of these agencies.   http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/kids-snatched-without-warrants-without-evidence/#SXSzU6PUr1f51fhW.01 .  

I am determined to be part of change and most that know me believe I will make it happen.  With Obamacare soon to kick in these agencies will be permitted without warrant or substantial reason to come into your home and take your children.  If you find yourself stuck in the throws of CYS or DPW please call me at 610-693-9722.  You can also reach out to advocate Davis Sharp of National Foster Parent Assoc. @ 205-369-4167 or Kathy Ramper of PA State Resource Family Assoc. @ 800-951-5151  Attorney Mark Freeman @ 610-828-1525

Attorney Ben Picker @ 610-341-1073 Jim Cox @ 610-670-0139 Mark Rozzi @ 610-921-8921 Beverly Mackereth sec DPW 717-7872600 Sen Mark Folmer 717-274-6735 you can also call your county commissioners as they hire social workers and the media if you want to be heard.  If you want to know more I can do my best to direct you to the right people.  This is a long hard fight but we are going to win if we keep the stories coming and the pressure on.  We can get justice and end this abuse!

I am also including some very interesting facts on the subject through utube videos and news articles,

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TcDTJlPWbE

 

 http://berkscountynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2013/08/berks-county-family-court-facts-or-folly.html

 

http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/08/12/they-kidnapped-our-child-why-cps-needs-t

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/CSM/showMemoPublic.cfm?chamber=H&SPick=20130&cosponId=11363  some of the bills waiting to pass

http://legiscan.com/PA/text/HB1436/2011 more bills waiting

http://sarasotacrookedlawyers.com/parents-increasingly-turning-to-federal-courts-for-civil-rights-protections/  civil rights protection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E69NPvYlKek

Will post more as they come about.