Confidentiality Protects State
State workers often turn deaf ear to abuse reports made by parents who's children have been Kidjacked by the state and reside with strangers in foster care.
I am sitting here tonight stunned beyond words; my own anger and frustration rises up and threatens to overwhelm me. I can't put myself in the mother's shoes, it just hurts too much. I'll try to explain, please forgive me if I fail to clearly convey the real horror of it all.
I've been in contact with a woman, who is brave and very desperate. Her children have been removed and placed in two separate foster homes. I call her brave because she has sent copies of e-mail correspondence to me that are considered "privileged" by the state she lives in. Privileged for good reason.
Her children were well cared for while in her home and while under her care. She now has irrefutable documentation that at least one child is being beaten and abused while in the states care. Yet, this tiny two-year-old child is being kept from her and held against his will. Today the child is being moved to the home of yet another set of strangers. Denied the comfort of his mothers arms.
The mother sent an e-mail to her caseworker yesterday detailing the injuries inflicted upon the child:
- bruising from the buttocks all the way to the ankle of one leg
- deep tissue bruising of the thigh with hand and finger impressions that are consistent with being grabbed or tugged
- over 20 various other bruises on one-side of the body
- a bite mark was found on one buttock, the skin was punctured
- another line of bruises extending from the ankle to the bottom of the foot
- a clear bite mark was even visible on the the cheek of the face, consistent with a dog bite
The injuries were documented by the mother and the visitation monitor on film.
I suppose the caseworker should be commended for responding to these allegations. All too often allegations such as these are covered up and ignored all together. The response came with a disclaimer of course:
The information contained in this electronic message is legally privileged and confidential under applicable law and is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above.
Let me get this straight. The child in question is knowingly being abused while in state care, yet the mother is being told she can't talk about it or do anything about it.
The caseworker response:
I returned to the office from court and became aware of the situation with XXXXXX. Please know that I am also distressed by the marks on XXXXXX and we have taken all necessary steps to correct the situation. XXXXXX is, as we speak, being moved to a new foster home and we have initiated a full investigation into what occurred and have filed an IIU (Third Party investigation of a Provider) Referral on the foster home.
I am deeply sorry that whatever occurred did and will do everything I can to find out the situation and rectify it. Unfortunately XXXXXX placement cannot currently accommodate the sibling.
We have to wonder why the child wasn't taken to the hospital to have the wounds attended to. Could it be that the caseworker was concerned with what a doctor would have to say in court about the injuries? The state was notified on several occasions that this child was being abused, yet no investigation was initiated on behalf of the mother's concerns, until the situation had escalated to the point where the child's health was in serious jeopardy.
When a friend, neighbor or perfect stranger is convinced that a child is being abused, every state in the country provides a toll-free number to report the alleged abuse or neglect. You aren't even required to leave your name. However, if you are a parent with concerns regarding the safety of your children, while in state care, no amount of calling with initiate an investigation. After all a parent will say anything to get their child returned, even make allegations they know to be false.
My point is that complete strangers have more rights, where your children are concerned. In my book this is just wrong. Anyone making a claim that a child is being abused should have to go on record with the complaint and be subpoenaed into court to testify. Every credible allegation should be required to be investigated by state workers, regardless of who is making the complaint. Lastly, these crazy confidentiality laws that protect the state need to be abolished post haste.
Child abuse is against the law, no matter who is committing the abuse. Protecting state workers, who cover up child abuse, is wrong, they need to be held accountable for their actions. These workers should be held to a higher standard of conduct, not a lower one. We can not continue to condone a system that is stacked against parents and gives credence to state paid workers who are negligent in their duties.
Labels: child abuse, false accusation, foster care
posted by Annette M. Hall @ 6/07/2007 04:26:00 AM
3 Comments:
I have a copy of that e-mail, too, and have posted their story on my Blogs and sent numerous of her complaints out to many places. We should not continue to conceal mother and child’s identity here. Obedience to the State cover-up is not 'lawful', since we all deserve Equal Protection of the Law, being the PRC do not apply, their is no Constitutional Counsel of Choice in this matter that obedience is void of value. I have permission to use her photos and have done so. I bet you could post them, too. Angela gave me her photos for safekeeping and permission to blog them and visited my site and left this comment:
"excellent, now to get that blog of yours on every single news station in this country or better yet, maybe if this country the "cattle" that has been led,, needs to be woken up by another country to exploit out America really truly is?
just a thought.. wonder if that might be a good one for a change?
#5 Comment from angela777pc - 7/19/07 7:01 PM"
...So I doubt she would mind that her and her son's identity were posted here, too. I post their identities, with full blessing, because they are the damaged parties in need of Substantive Relief... There is no law when there is a conflict of laws, while Angela's children have the right to incommunicado from the State of West Virginia, instead of concealment of said facts pertaining to abuses they suffer at the hands of 'nonProtectors', which is not the mother or the public.
'We the People' need to be made aware, by your example, that 'Attorney Client Privilege' does not exist, between the CPS worker and the 'a Child', ill deemed 'a Client', were there is no licensed lawyer in the mix, being the State Agency is not a member of any Bar Association, but execute Power of Attorney by assign at DMV adhesion contracts. Said 'homage' to confidentiality is 'mock privacy' and is not law when covering their wrongdoing, where Angela is not charged with a crime, but the state claims incommunicado rights to their atrocity, which produces conflicts in the interpretations waver the application of investigative law at Due Process. Such, laws are applicable in the direction of the foster home, in which the child was placed, therefore removed. Now, Angela telling everybody this is a call where a jury might be bias if pre exposed to such photos and no body ever go sued or incarcerated for that because usually it is the media. Hence we must look to the journalist code to call this issue. I say, “EXPOSE THEM, they are immune enough to bounce back!” What they enforce, and the homage I see by your X-ing out all the personal ID stuff is something I am interested in discussing further, because it is not 'lawful', when you may be doing so under duress or out of the direction of an Attorney not representing either the damaged party or the accused, but only preventing your legal entanglements, possibly with a censoring team that demand your adherence to this unlawfulness. It is not Statute, but Administrative Hoop-ti-dupe-ti 'non'law, the, "Just say, 'Yes, Mass', because I am powerful with these forms lawyers created fro me to enslaved a nation with message.” This Administrative ‘hoop dupe' creates a relationship with the judiciary, within a relationship lacking in adherence to the Professional Rules of Conduct, wherin Privilege is defined and protected, but not where the State is master over the parent because the parent has no privilege with anybody and always forced into the position of obedient subject in this off balance system, where Uncle Sam is not really Your Uncle who is calling you ‘Mine’, because what is yours is always mine and 'Mine' alone'.
UCC 1-308
Marilyn LeBaron
judgethebench @ hotmail . com
on behalf of Angela Hawk and her son’s, ANGELA777PC @ aol . com, who, under duress, without proper representation or Proper Constitutional Advisement, are being abused by collusive agreements in violation of the Separation of Powers, by a team of lawyers, judges, public officials, AKA, bureaucrats, pursuant the pseudo nongod of the secular court process, while due to advertisement campaigns that erected the prognosis pursuant to, ‘Psychology the Wild Card’ as god over us...
P.S. from dogettydoggonedo, "So, whatever happened to "IN GOD WE TRUST?” A copy of this is being forwarded to Angela Hawk for her notice to your need to allow people to contact her as she has stated she would like to help other people and she likes to send them to me, too... We are here for you... Please contact us... We want to help, too.
Do you really think the CPS wants a Guardian ad Litem that has a successful business of their own...NOOO. They want one who needs the money and "job security" of foster care the same as they do.
And we were told that "grandparents have no rights in West Virginia" by the childrens Guardian ad Litem!!
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