Our Voice in Washington
Learn how to lobby your legislator for change.
I'm watching a Dateline story about a man who was wrongly accused of murder, emotionally devastated by family deaths, then lied to, in order to obtain an Alfred Plea. As I listened to his story and all that his supporters did in their fight for him, I began to ponder the issues we face.
As a previous legislative director in the fight for homeschooling freedoms, I learned the importance of posturing, public image and perception, and our duty to stand up for family and freedom.
Kidjacked is a major success bigger than I ever could have imagined. Traffic to the site is steadily on the rise and my next project should propel us further. I need two volunteers from each state. The qualifications of the individuals selected are very specific. I need volunteers with a background in: the legal profession including paralegals; businessmen and women or authors. You will assist others in putting their stories down on “paper.” These must be well written because they will be used for lobbying purposes.
I need you to contact everyone you know who has had contact from CPS. We want stories and lots of them. I will be creating a nationwide database of cases with lists of persons willing to testify before congress. I can't do it alone folks, but I can train you be more effective in Washington. I've never had a CPS case, so I can't assist you working your case. I will continue to provide information that you can use to win your own case.
If you are working a case, be sure to check out the state pages for current information. If you know of a news report that is not listed in the Kidjacked News section, be sure to send it in.
Some states are still a little shy on details and I'm not certain why that is. Every link that is submitted is evaluated for possible inclusion on the site. Old links (those more than a year old will not be considered eligible for inclusion on the site, unless it contains information deemed relevant in possible future disputes.
If you are mad as hell and tired of being pushed around, now is the time to stand up and speak out.
As far as your submissions:
- Articles will not be considered for publication that are submitted in all CAPS or all lowercase.
- Submissions with more than 5-spelling errors and major grammatical errors will be held until someone is available to review them (and it won't be me).
- My time is divided between working enough to support my family and updating the many other sites we maintain (I've lost count.). I simply can't afford to spend hours proofing articles. Have a friend check yours out. I have many stories being held now that should be up.
- Include a statement with your submission giving Kidjacked editors permission to print. Please include any photo's you wish to share; the children's faces can be shielded for privacy upon request.
- Send in links of your personal web site, web pages and blog postings. Be sure to tell me what state you are in and I need a name to publish – it doesn't have to be your own -- just a way to identify the post. If you include your name and phone number we can contact you personally about your case and if you are so inclined; please include the actual caseworkers names and job titles; also include any judges names or prosecuting attorneys involved in your case. The more names we can list, the easier it will be to track them and their activities. This will be used as evidence against them.
I have switched over one of my other sites to server as Kidjacked's new e-mail group. You can sign up now by using this link: Join Kidjacked This new page will be used to share information and communicate future plans.
We are going to make a stink in Washington.
Labels: freedom, parental rights, volunteer, Washington D.C.
posted by Annette M. Hall @ 6/19/2007 02:17:00 PM
3 Comments:
1. I, Anna, state:
2. I am the mother of two teenage children: Medena and Danaweg.
3. On October 12, 2006, a Health and Human Services Agency employee interviewed my children at their schools without notifying me in advance.
4. The school office personnel told me that the police took my children from their schools.
5. On October 11, 2006, after grounding Medena only for 59 harassing and threatening e-mails from Medena to one child, disrupting class, and vandalizing the school bathroom, I administered three swats with a belt for Medena’s defiance and aggressive posturing to verbal reprimands for wearing another person’s eyeliner and kissing and fondling in front of school. The corporal punishment was not applied out of anger as Renee Beverly-Archangel depicted in Health and Human Services Agency’s Juvenile Detention Petition. The corporal punishment was applied as a quick correction to Medena’s inappropriate behavior and defiance. I was unaware of any bruising and did not intend to mark Medena.
6. Health and Human Services Agency’s Juvenile Dependency Petition, filed by Renee Beverly-Archangel contains numerous false allegations, omissions, and errors. The most notable are the discrepancies between the description in Health and Human Services Agency’s Juvenile Dependency Petition and their pictures. When Ms. Karen Richter, Health and Human Services Agency, was questioned on November 2, 2006 about the discrepancies, she responded that their pictures were not good. Renee Beverly-Archangel’s other fabrications include the existence of a huge lump and bruise for a month on Medena’s face, a child welfare history, and a criminal history. It is pertinent to note that anyone can have a “child welfare history” and not know it as Ms. Karen Richter also presented pictures, first made known to me on November 2, 2006, of Danaweg in 2000 showing a skin condition resulting from swimming in the apartment complex pool. Danaweg also had a skin condition called, “slap cheek“ about the same time. All can be substantiated by her doctors’ reports.
7. Upon meeting Kenneth Wayne Brooks, the attorney initially assigned to defend me, he yelled accusations in a room full of people outside the courtroom that my mother and I wanted to take my daughters to New Mexico to abuse them! He also stated that corporal punishment is illegal in California and throughout the United States.
8. Judge Cynthia Bashant denied my mother’s Motion to Intervene and Motion for Order Appointing Temporary Guardian on October 23, 2006 without a hearing on the matter.
9. Debbie Bayliss, Health and Human Services employee, stated that Medena has an IQ of 78 (mental retardation) and that maybe my mother just expected too much of her. She added that families repeat their bad behaviors from generation to generation.
10. Health and Human Services Agency immediately returned Medena to inferior Ray Kroc Middle School where Medena’s defiance originated and denied Danaweg the opportunity to attend Lindbergh/Schweitzer Elementary School where she and Medena had thrived.
11. Health and Human Services Agency and Judge Cynthia Bashant initially ignored Danaweg’s pleas to come home. My mother and I were warned that we could not discuss the case with her or assure her that she would come home. Danaweg stated that her group home roommate scratched and hit. During a visit at the group home, Danaweg showed me a bruise caused by another child’s bite.
12. Health and Human Services Agency quickly obtained a court order to administer medicine for Medena’s depression and a sleep disorder (no indications prior to detention) and deprived Danaweg of her ADHD medicine from October 2006 through January 2007 despite eight written requests for status from my mother to Diana Ojeda, the caseworker, and Candi Mayes, guardian ad litem; despite letters from Danaweg’s school nurse and teacher; and despite her doctors’ evaluations that she has “classic indications of ADHD.”
13. Health and Human Services Agency allowed Danaweg to come home on November 6, 2006 after I moved out of our home and my mother installed alarms on the courtyard/pool side windows of our apartment in order to qualify as a foster care provider.
14. On January 6, 2007, Dr. Yu Song Yen did a small resin restoration on the interproximal surface of one of Danaweg’s maxillary central incisors. The location of the breakdown and the fact that this was Danaweg’s first restoration lead me to believe it was caused by her not having dental floss available in the group home. Resin restorations tend to wash away. A larger cavity preparation (drilling) will be needed to accommodate each new restoration and, at some point, a crown may be needed.
15. On January 29, 2007, caseworker Diana Ojeda notified my mother for the first time that Danaweg had a tuberculosis test on October 16, 2006 with a 9mm x 8mm skin test reaction and that a second test was needed. A 5mm skin test reaction for a child can denote a positive skin test reaction and a second tuberculosis test can reintroduce the bacteria. Health and Human Services Agency’s inability to measure may subject children to potentially harmful tests.
16. On February 12, 2007, I completed effective parenting courses.
17. Damaris G. James, Child Advocate Investigator, Public Defender, visited Danaweg at school on March 8, 2007. According to Danaweg, Ms. James led Danaweg to believe that she could go on excursions with her sister without her grandmother or me. Under the circumstances, Ms. James’ statements and suggestions to Danaweg were inappropriate and irresponsible.
18. Lorraine C. Craig, Candi Mayes’ delegate, falsely asserted to Judge Cynthia Bashant on March 12, 2007 that Danaweg and my mother visited Medena and that my mother was “hostile.” My mother and Danaweg did not visit Medena as Medena refused visits with all family members, her godparents, and her priest. The staff at the group home repeatedly declared that they could not “force” Medena to talk to us and they seemed quite pleased to inform us of her refusals. Judge Cynthia Bashant did not acknowledge my mother in the back of the courtroom or direct that Lorraine C. Craig’s false statement be stricken from the record.
19. Lorraine C. Craig also tried to lead Danaweg to say that she didn’t prepare her request to change the court order; however, Judge Cynthia Bashant disagreed and permitted me to come home. Candi Mayes, guardian ad litem, didn’t facilitate Danaweg’s request to modify the court order. She didn’t facilitate getting Danaweg’s medicine. Although my mother submitted requests/inquiries to Candi Mayes beginning December 2006, Candi Mayes never met Danaweg.
20. Judge Cynthia Bashant requested my therapist’s report on March 12, 2007. Caseworker Diana Ojeda did not arrive in time to attend the March 12, 2007 hearing citing that she could not find a parking space. Diana Ojeda indicated to my mother that there wasn’t a written report from the therapist and added that the therapists provide verbal reports and the caseworkers write what is important. According to my therapist, she submitted her written report (recommending my return home) to Diana Ojeda. As of March 27, 2007, Diana Ojeda, still had not complied with the Court’s request for the report.
21. Judge Cynthia Bashant denied Daniel’s request to visit his daughter, Medena, following an arduous trip from Idaho to San Diego for the sole purpose of visiting Medena.
22. The group home therapist (name unknown) did not deliver a picture album with expressions of love to Medena from me. Diana Ojeda deemed the album, “inappropriate.”
23. Immediately prior to the court hearing on May 2, 2007, Diana Ojeda suggested that Danaweg’s case could be closed providing that I relinquish parental rights to Medena. As I had completed all classes and therapy and Diana Ojeda had previously assured me that Danaweg’s case was going to be closed on May 2, 2007, I was completely taken aback by her statement.
24. Health and Human Services Agency disobeyed the Court’s order again on May 2, 2007 eight months after Judge Cynthia Bashant initially ordered conjoint therapy. Judge Cynthia Bashant never used the phrase, “contempt of court.” My mother and I hadn’t been able to talk with Medena since October 12, 2006.
25. In the summer of 2007, after a few conjoint therapy sessions in which Medena, led by her therapist, was hurtful towards Danaweg and me, I requested an end to the “therapy.”
26. At the end of January 2008 and during the first week of February 2008, I received several telephone messages from a new caseworker requesting information regarding Medena’s Cherokee ancestry. Judge Cynthia Bashant dismissed Medena’s and Danaweg’s Cherokee heritage on November 6, 2006 and my mother provided ancestry charts to caseworkers Carmen Arronte and Diana Ojeda in 2006 and 2007.
27. A few days ago, I learned from Medena that the court hearing regarding guardianship has been set for February 26, 2008. Under the circumstances, I support Medena’s desire to live with her foster family and I support her foster mother as legal guardian; however, it is sad to me that Medena’s life-changing decisions are without knowledge of the facts because Health and Human Services Agency prohibits her natural family from discussing the case with her.
28. Health and Human Services of the County of San Diego; its Associates; the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Diego, Juvenile Court; its Associates, all acting under Color of Law, violated my family’s Constitutional rights; made fraudulent representations; disobeyed the Court’s orders to begin conjoint therapy for eight months; charged me for court costs in connection with their violations; irresponsibly administered medication to Medena; and misled a “developmentally delayed,” rebellious teenager to accept warped views and entitlements and to reject her natural family. Like the system and promoted by the system, Medena’s distorted perception of reality has resulted in outrageous stories about former caregivers, teachers, and foster siblings without accountability. This corrupt, greedy, and abusive system, Health and Human Services of the County of San Diego; its Associates; the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Diego, Juvenile Court; its Associates, is America’s dirty little secret.
On February 26, 2008, Health and Human Services Agency requested a six month extension on the guardianship matter. The Court (a new judge) cited Medena’s Cherokee heritage as the reason for postponing the guardianship matter for 60 days. The reason for the postponement doesn't make sense as Judge Cynthia Bashant dismissed Medena’s and Danaweg’s Cherokee heritage on November 6, 2006; the mandate to notice the tribe could have been handled in the last sixteen months; and, under the circumstances, Medena's natural family supports guardianship by the foster mother. Something smells fishy and it's probably the federal revenue stream. Ann Marie K. Marvin, Court Appointed Special Advocate (“Voices for Children”), handed a document to me during the February 26, 2006 proceeding without any opportunity to review it. The document, filed with the Court on February 25, 2008, perpetuated the fraudulent, defamatory statements in Health and Human Service Agency’s petition filed by Renee Beverly-Archangel in 2006.
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