Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of children
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State Rep Mike Kiegerl, Chair, Joint Committee on Children's Issues
Compelling stories told by parents and grandparents in Topeka on Monday need to be heard outside the hearing room of the Joint Committee on Children’s Issues. Kansas has some serious problems with the placement and removal of children from homes, and the legislature needs to fix the problems.
Listen to the audio clips of these parents and grandparents below. Read through the selected quotations if listening takes too much time for you. In some of the cases, the prepared statements are also included below, if you want even more details.
Earlier this week the Kansas Watchdog reported about parents and grandparents asking why children were removed from homes and this blog posting extends that coverage.
Listen to opening remarks by State Rep Mike Kiegerl (R-Olathe), Chair of the Joint Committee :
SRS Secretary Don Jordan explains policies
Kiegerl asked SRS Secretary Don Jordan to describe policies, procedures, practices that deal with foster care placement, child removal, adoption and family restoration.
“This is by far … the most sensitive and emotional area in which we deal.”
Jordan’s comments here are limited to what he said about the removal of children from the home (his full comments were about an hour long):
Kiegerl gave this introduction for the remaining speakers:
“The Committee has been contacted by about 60 individuals, parents, grandparents, foster care givers, and guardians ad litem, who experienced substantial problems in how children were removed, placed, and handled. Some of these people will testify today, and some of their assertions will be troublesome and critical. They will be highly critical of the delivery system as it is currently in place. Indeed, some of these stories are hard to believe.” …
“The stories we are going to hear today that are troubling — there’s always two sides to each story.”
Chair Kiegerl asked SRS Secretary Jordan to look one more time at these cases and respond to the committee so both sides of the story may be known.
Chair Kiegerl asked those testifying to stay with factual information and avoid opinions not supported by facts:
“Explain your experience. Tell us what happened. And what response you got to your inquiries. Or, whether you did get a response. Do not mention case workers’ names, do not mention supervisors’ names, do not mention SRS employee names, … do not mention the contractors’ name. … This is a fact finding mission, where we need to find out what has gone wrong in these particular cases and to prevent that type of situation to recur for the children’s sake. for the sake of the Agency, for the sake of society as a whole.”
The entries below are listed in chronological order from the presentations on Monday
“Valros”
Valros: "because I reported the abuse I got my children taken from me and they were sent back to their abuser"
“I went to file for a divorce to get out of a domestic violence situation … to get me and my kids out of a domestic violence situation … “
“… because I reported the abuse — I didn’t report it my son did — I got my children taken from me and they were sent back to their abuser … Now they’re in SRS custody …”
Chair Kiegerl: “What went wrong?”
Valros: “I think it began with the case manager having too much authority in this case. She was able to write court orders … There was never a 72-hour hearing. “
Kiegerl: “… If I understand you correctly, the breakdown occurred mainly in the judicial administration…?”
Licensed Master Social Worker, Debbie Wilson, testifed in support of Valros
Debbie Wilson: “… It’s almost as if they want to brush everything under the rug …”
“… All I know is what didn’t happen…”
Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau (D-Wichita): “It says that Valorie could not report abuse or neglect of the boys to the school. What was the reason … ?
Wilson: “I think at that point they felt she was leading the boys, but I don’t know how the case manger came to that conclusion. It wasn’t just Valorie making those reports. It was an independent therapist …”
…
“You’re talking about two little boys who have told and told and told … and no one has done anything about it.”
Kiegerl: “… The system has broken down and really hurt these little boys. It’s something we just need to make sure never happens again.”
Listen to ValRos:
Listen to Debbie Wilson:
Marilyn Dilley
Read details in written statement.
“A three year old boy was placed in our home …”
“In the winter of 2009, our agency lost the contract with the state of Kansas to provide foster care services.”
“A case worker at the new agency was assigned ….”
“… we realized that … [the] caseworker lied to the judge …”
“She lied to us & she lied to this 4 year old boy.”
“We still want to adopt him”
Listen to Marilyn Dilley:
Amanda Coppenbarger
Kids of abused mom Amanda Coppenbarger are now in foster care
“My daughter [said] my stepfather had sexually molested her”
“My husband choked me … I told him to leave and filed for divorce”
“I kept in contact with Child Protection Services and followed their recommendations”
“My kids were taken into protective custody based on a report … that my ex-husband and two stepsons made allegations that I coached them about the sexual abuse”
“I have not received a 30 day deposition hearing and reintegration plan”
My 11 year old daughter “asked to talk to the judge when she was 10 and she was denied”
Chair Kiegerl: “Was he [your husband] arrested as a consequence of his actions?”
Coppenbarger: “I didn’t file a police report — I was scared.”
Earlier “I did file a police report, it was dropped. Regardless of the bruises on my back, the scar on my leg, they dropped it.”
Vice Chair Sen. Julia Lynn (R-Olathe): “You believe the ball was dropped by the DA’s office?”
Coppenbarger: “It was”
Kiegerl: “Where are your children now?”
Coppenbarger: “They’re in foster care”
Listen to Amanda Coppenbarger:
Clarence Wonsetler
Clarence Wonsetler spent $10,000 on legal bills to get his granddaughter back
Read details in written statement.
“We believe SRS and CPS Private Contractor have violated our civil and constitutional rights”
“Even though my wife and I were approved for placement of my granddaughter, agencies in Kansas place her in approximately 8 different foster homes”
“We were told that we could not have our granddaughter because we were too old”
“We were finally able to get [her] back into the home but only after having to payout approximately $10,000 in legal fees”
“These are crimes against humanity and should be stopped and changed so it never happens to another family”
“Our case is no longer in court, but we … are here to bear witness to the atrocities that continue to occur to thousands of children in the state of Kansas”
Listen to Clarence Wonsetler:
Cecillia Arnold
Abused mom Cecillia Arnold lost her parental rights. She wants her kids back.
“I did all court orders and my girls were placed back home with me”
“The case workers changed many times. I couldn’t get through to them sometimes.”
“The reintegration itself … was going well”
“I had stability. I had a home. I had a job. I had everything that they would ask someone to do for reintegration to occur.”
“My abuser … was going to jail at the time at the time the girls were removed from home. He was incarcerated for, I think, it was two years for the crime he committed against me.”
“The girls were removed from home for the second time.”
“The assistant [Sedgwick County] DA … filed a petition for termination [of parental rights], and after … the trial termination was granted.”
“As of now I have not seen my children since March of this year”
“During the trial I had testimony from different people — the foster care parents … — their testimony was overlooked.”
“… bad experiences with DCCA …”
“They said the reason for termination was … me not following the reintegration plan. That was not true.”
“… the ball got dropped on me from the Agency that was contracted through the courts … They didn’t do the job that they were supposed to do, which resulted in my girls being removed from home”
Senator Oletha Faust-Goudeau: “Her parents are in the audience … They have been denied custody of their grandchildren, too, and told there were too old; they were too sick.”
State Rep Bill Otto (R-LeRoy): “Your rights are severed?”
Arnold: “My rights have been terminated … I have no rights to my children. I have not seen them since March. I filed an appeal that didn’t go anywhere. I’m here today because I want my children back.” …
Otto: “Where was your lawyer?” …
Arnold: “I had court-appointed attorneys … I feel I could have done a better job representing myself” ..
Otto: “This should not happen to anybody … I’m so sorry.” …
Chair Kiegerl: “Your problem mainly is with the courts, although, I’m sure, the agency’s testimony was instrumental in the decision. … My heart goes out to you …I wish there were a magic wand that … we could use to solve your problem.”
Arnold left in tears.
Listen to Cecillia Arnold:
Watch this Kansas Watchdog YouTube Video of Arnold explaining her case.
Sadie Carpenter
Read details in written statement.
“Our great granddaughter …”
“Her mother was arrested for prostitution and child abandonment and put in jail. [She] was turned over to SRS, who placed her into foster care.”
“Facts about the foster woman:
* She is in her late sixties
* She has no visible means of support, other than caring for foster children
* She is a long time smoker, and is an oxygen user”[She] is being denied the right to grow up with her blood relatives.”
Senator Roger Reitz (R-Manhattan): “This one should not be here. The others were so complicated.”
Secretary Don Jordan: “We’ll look at it right away.”
Listen to Sadie Carpenter:
Claudine Dombrowski
Claudine Dombrowski: An abused mom victimized again by the Kansas Courts
Read details in written statement.
This is an truly incredible story that should never have happened in America.
Parts of the Kansas Judicial system should be disciplined for how it has victimized Ms. Dombrowski, who was an abused mom.
Instead of quotes from the audio, please consult these pages that document Dombrowski’s long and difficult battle to protect her daughter:
As you view these photos keep in mind that the court awarded FULL CUSTODY of their daughter to the “man” who did this to Claudine.
- Courts Have Continued Abuse of Manhattan Women, Manhattan Free Press, July 12, 2001.
- Manhattan resident fights custody battle for daughter, Kansas State Collegian, July 26, 2001.
State Rep Bill Otto: “No crime? You haven’t been guilty of anything? This is a court order that says you can’t go to any school functions?”
“I was under court order till 2004 to not even call the police after I was being beaten because … I was not ‘co-parenting’”
Dombrowski: “These friends of the court make recommendations to the judge. The parents … don’t have a right to see these documents. They do this behind closed doors.”
Otto: (To Secretary Jordan): “You have no rights as a parent …?”
Secretary Don Jordan: “This would be something extreme … I’m not familiar with the situation.”
Otto: “Can a judge do that? … Is that legal… ?”
Jordan: “Under the right circumstances … I hesitate to speculate.”
Sen. Roger Reitz: “This is something that only … the judicial system can really answer … It would be helpful … to have someone … representing the judicial system … to give us some ideas how this could happen.”
Dombrowski: “When you are a victim of domestic violence, and suddenly there’s a child involved, the typical …. power of control is that ‘I’ll take your children from you’. They will and they can the way the laws are setup.” …
“I was told that I’m not to talk to my daughter about the violence. That’s why I don’t see her. That’s why I see her supervised. He was criminally convicted. “
“When women try to get away from people who hurt them … I heard somebody say it’s really hard to believe you won’t call the police … I tell people not to contact the police, because as soon as you walk into court with a DV (domestic violence) and children, you’re already cutting your throat. You will lose your children. That’s the way it is right now.”
“… on the 16th of this month I’ll probably go to jail for breaking the gag order and talking about [being the victim of] violence as it relates to my case.”
Reitz: “… someone ought to be able to deal with this in a way that would address her problem. It doesn’t seem like we’ve done the right thing with regards to this little niche of the law.”
Dombrowski: “The criminal convictions are completely tossed aside and they don’t have any bearing on the family court … The eight criminal convictions that my ex had before getting custody of my daughter were completely dropped [in family court]“
Chair Kiegerl: “I cannot believe that abuse is totally ignored. I cannot believe you can prohibit a person from speaking about their own case.”
“The one thing [where] … I disagree with you is abuse should always be reported.”
State Rep Peggy Mast (R-Emporia): “Domestic violence is a control issue. Sexual abuse is a control issue. Is there any correlation between domestic violence and sexual abuse? Why is that not something that is considered when we take someone to [family] court that has a history of domestic violence?”
Dombrowski: “Yes. That is something I’ve asked myself for 16 years. … It comes back to the family court that has a veil of immunity. … They don’t fully understand the impact of the violence. What battered women have … if they report the abuse, then they’re failing to protect their child … if they don’t report the abuse, they’re still failing to protect their child. So, both ways, they’re going to lose their children …”
For anybody who abuses their wife … [from] a 1996 presidential task force … there is a 70% increase that those children will be abused and/or sexually abused after there’s been battery with the mother.
Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudea: “In 2004 …. I talked with the homicide department in Sedgwick County…. During that time there had been 21 homicides in Sedgwick County and 18 were due to domestic violence …”
“A lot of women do make those phone calls and unfortunately, sometimes it ends in their death.” …
“I want to apologize to you for being treated like a pedophile … not being able to go to a music concert.”
“I commend you for what you’re doing.”
Dombrowski: “I have not talked to my daughter in 10 years [except] for the confines of supervised visits. I’m not allowed to talk to her about anything. All she knows is what her dad has told her.”
See this video: Abused Mom Wants Unsupervised Visits with Daughter
Listen to Claudine Dombrowski:
Larry Sneary
“There is significant evidence that my daughter has been abused. This has been downplayed by the courts.”
“Professionals in this case … have used hearsay of one side”
“I feel the main reason my daughter was taken from me was because I reported abuse, my wife reported abuse. My daughter herself reported abuse.”
“My wife and I had to complete psychological evaluations … these evaluations proved my wife and I have no mental illness precluding us from being fit parents.”
“The courts determined that my psychological issues make me an unfit parent and granted guardianship to the maternal grandmother.”
“The grandmother will not allow any type of visitation, not even professionally supervised visitation. ”
“As a father, who previously took care of her from birth, this is pure agony.”
“I will keep fighting for her”
“please pass the protective parent reform bill into law”
Sen Oletha Faust-Goudeau: “There needs to be something presented … to tell him the definite factual reason why he can’t have his wonderful daughter.”
Secretary Don Jordan: “…I believe the petitions that are filed, the orders by the court, are about as specific as you can get…”
Faust-Goudeau: “Excuse me, Secretary. Seriously, I hear that the judge, and the case workers, everyone’s passing the buck.”
Jordan: “The parents should get a very clear reason ….”
Sneary’s wife, Annette: “The only reason the judge determined … because he had a couple of angry incidents. … Everyone has psychological issues. We are not mentally unfit. We are angry. We are emotional. Would you be? …”
Sneary: “No judge in his right mind is going to give custody to a drunken, drug addict. But little did I know what grandma had up her sleeve.”
Listen to Larry Sneary:
Kathy Winters
Grandmother Kathy Winters fights system for custody of her grandchildren
“… daughter’s oldest child, her father wanted custody”
“He gave information to CPS. They admitted, a supervisor admitted to me, that they had helped him financially for this information. We found it was all unsubstantiated.”
“The case worker … filed charges, and took my daughter’s children away.”
“We asked them to look at my daughter’s evidence but they never did. They said they didn’t have to.”
“Two court appointed attorneys … said the judge has already made a decision. She has read the reports, which we are not allowed to see. … The GAL (guardian ad litem) had never talked to me or my daughter about her case. He had never investigated on his own.”
“The attorneys told us that she needed to plead ‘no contest’. If she pleaded ‘no contest’ she would get reunification with her children immediately.”
“My daughter plead ‘no contest’, that was three years ago, … and they have severed her rights. She never got her children back.”
“At the first of the case … the CPS worker told me I [the grandmother] would get the three youngest ones — they were involved in the same case.”
“She asked my background. She got all my information. She said we would go to court. The children would be brought to my house. If my house checked out, I would get those children.”
“The little girl … was given to a dad who was on probation for domestic violence. They didn’t even check him out.”
“And even though I was approved for placement for the two boys … they were placed in two separate foster homes. “
“I went back to court and asked for placement of those children …. I got the children out of foster homes … They were in foster care for a week.”
“I had the children for 15 months … “
“In Jan 2008 the case worker told me they were thinking about severing my daughter’s rights.”
“In two meetings the contractors stated the only reason …. was they would lose their grant. “
“To the case worker outside the court room, I said then I want to adopt my … grandsons.”
“They said you can’t because of your age and disability.”
At a mall “the authorized baby sitter had gone to the bathroom and left the two little boys with the 12 year old sister.” …
“When SRS came out to my house they said ‘no problem’”
“My dad became ill. I had to go to Arizona, so the little boys went to their aunt’s … and stayed for a week.”
“My father passed away. The day I cam back from my dad’s funeral, the contractor called me and said ‘I have bad news. We’re severing your daughter’s rights, and we’re removing the boys from your home’.”
“I said, ‘why?’”
“They said, ‘because of the mall.’”
“I said, ‘I didn’t break that safety plan.’”
“She said, ‘it’s not up for discussion. The decision has been made, we’re removing the boys.’”
Winters says she has 11 instances of mistruths under oath in the hearing.
“They took the boys”
“I have made complaints with Don Jordan’s office.”
“I have made complaints about the perjury … with supervisors, contractors, Behavior Sciences Regulatory Board, the FBI …, Office of Civil Rights …, Kansas Attorney General …, Don Jordan’s office …, Johnson County DA’s office … “
“The children have been placed in four different homes.”
Chair Kiergerl explains that Winters is one of his constituents, and he has been to her home, and does not understand why the boys were removed, and not returned, even after his investigation. “Even I couldn’t get a straight answer from the contractor, and frankly I’m disgusted with them. …. I have no reason to believe that Ms. Winters is misstating the case.”
Winters (in response to question from State Rep Bill Otto): “You’ve got to understand: With me the contractors make $0 from the federal government. From foster parents they got $2000/month.”
Sen. Julia Lynn: “This has been going on for …. years. I believe that if we didn’t push this issue, and keep pushing it and pushing it, on behalf of all the people who are here, we would still have business as usual. … I’m hoping we can find some things to solve some of these problems.”
Listen to Kathy Winters:
Related
- Kansas legislators weigh changes to child-custody laws, Kansas City Star, Dec 7, 2009.
- State Joint Committee on Children’s Issues Discusses Foster Care System, WIBW, Dec 2, 2009.
- Fines proposed for foster care contractors, Kansas Health Institute News Service, Dec 1, 2009.
- Parents, grandparents ask why children removed from homes, Kansas Watchdog , Dec 1, 2009
Posted under Accountability, Breaking News, Children, Kansas Government, Legislature.
Tags: Battered women, Bill Otto, Child Protective Services, Domestic violence, Don Jordan, foster care, Julia Lynn, Kansas Joint Committee on Children's Issues, Mike Kiegerl, Oletha Faust-Goudeau, parental rights, Peggy Mast, Roger Reitz, Social and Rehabilitation Services
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[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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Shawnee County, KS Family Guidelines K.S.A 60-1610 et K.S.A 60-1616 for Custody et Visitation of Minor Children -KS Joint Committee Testimonies « Silent No More!
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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Kansans’ Give Testimonies of ‘Child Abuse for Profit’- KS Joint Committee on Children’s Issues « Crisis in the Family Courts; Our Children are at Risk~!
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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Kansans’ Give Testimonies of ‘Child Abuse for Profit’- KS Joint Committee on Children’s Issues « Battered Mothers Rights – A Human Rights Issue
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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Kansans’ Give Testimonies of ‘Child Abuse for Profit’- KS Joint Committee on Children’s Issues « M. Jill Dykes GAL (just another court whore)
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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Kansans’ Give Testimonies of ‘Child Abuse for Profit’- KS Joint Committee on Children’s Issues « KS-Family Court Reform Coalition
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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Kansans’ Give Testimonies of ‘Child Abuse for Profit’- KS Joint Committee on Children’s Issues « Kansas Court Corruption Exposed
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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Kansans’ Give Testimonies of ‘Child Abuse for Profit’- KS Joint Committee on Children’s Issues « Silent No More!
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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Kansans’ Give Testimonies of ‘Child Abuse for Profit’- KS Joint Committee on Children’s Issues « Whos Killing Families?
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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KansasWatchDog.org- Testimony by Claudine Dombrowski: An abused mom victimized again by the Kansas Courts « Battered Mothers Rights – A Human Rights Issue
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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KansasWatchDog.org- Testimony by Claudine Dombrowski: An abused mom victimized again by the Kansas Courts « Crisis in the Family Courts; Our Children are at Risk~!
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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KansasWatchDog.org- Testimony by Claudine Dombrowski: An abused mom victimized again by the Kansas Courts « KS-Family Court Reform Coalition
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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KansasWatchDog.org- Testimony by Claudine Dombrowski: An abused mom victimized again by the Kansas Courts « M. Jill Dykes GAL (just another court whore)
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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KansasWatchDog.org- Testimony by Claudine Dombrowski: An abused mom victimized again by the Kansas Courts « Kansas Court Corruption Exposed
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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KansasWatchDog.org- Testimony by Claudine Dombrowski: An abused mom victimized again by the Kansas Courts « Silent No More!
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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KS Leads Suit Against US: Declaration Of Crimes Against Women And Children By The United States Of America « Crisis in the Family Courts; Our Children are at Risk~!
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… By Earl Glynn On December 4, 2009 [...]
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Warrant out for mom who testified at hearing about losing custody of children
[...] year we reported compelling stories from parents and grandparents who had problems with placement and removal of chil…. These parents travelled to Topeka to testify at a hearing of the Joint Committee on [...]
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Kansas: Domestic Violence Survivor & Mother who Testified Against the State has Felony Warrant Issued Against her for Wanting To see Her Babies!! « Battered Mothers-A Human Rights Issue
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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Kansas: Domestic Violence Survivor & Mother who Testified Against the State has Felony Warrant Issued Against her for Wanting To see Her Babies!! « Battered Mothers Custody Abuse
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr… [...]
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A Battered mother has two Felony warrant’s issued for wanting to ‘ see her kids ‘ « Battered Mothers-A Human Rights Issue
[...] Last year we reported stories from parents and grandparents who had problems with placement and removal of children by the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS). Those parents travelled to Topeka to testify at a hearing of the Joint Committee on Children’s Issues. [...]
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Fox 4 KC: Report Slams Kansas Foster Care System
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr…, Kansas Watchdog, Dec. 4, 2009. [...]
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KansasWatchDog: Fox 4 KC: Report Slams Kansas Foster Care System « Battered Mothers- How Do You Want to Die?
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr…, Kansas Watchdog, Dec. 4, 2009. [...]
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KansasWatchDog: Fox 4 KC: Report Slams Kansas Foster Care System « Claudine Dombrowski a Battered Mother Survives
[...] Compelling stories from parents and grandparents about problems with placement and removal of childr…, Kansas Watchdog, Dec. 4, 2009. [...]
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Kansas Joint Committee Hearings on Children’s Issues-Testimony by Claudine Dombrowski « Battered Mothers-A Human Rights Issue
[...] Click here for the rest of the stories! KansasWatchDog.org [...]
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Rights for Mothers | Resources and Support for Noncustodial and Custodially-Challenged Mothers « MamaLiberty's Weblog
[...] This is from Earl Glynn, the Kansas Watchdog: [...]
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(KS) Battered Mother Who Lost Children and Appealed to Kansas Legislature, jailed for 12 days!! OUTRAGEOUS! KSWatchDog « Nikitas Justice's
[...] trip back to Texas was after she testified before a Joint Committee on Children’s Issues at the capitol in Topeka about losing her daughters to foster care when she was an abused mom [...]
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(KS) Battered Mother Who Lost Children and Appealed to Kansas Legislature, jailed for 12 days!! OUTRAGEOUS! »h Parenting News Network™
[...] trip back to Texas was after she testified before a Joint Committee on Children’s Issues at the capitol in Topeka about losing her daughters to foster care when she was an abused mom [...]
4:26 am on December 5th, 2009
This is a worldwide issue now where abused mother are being abused again by the very system designed to protect them and the children.
I call it Matri Genocide simply because it is mostly LOVED children that are stolen by state corporations and DELIBERATELY TRAUMATISED in a human experiement in controlling humans from birth to death.
I have hundreds of cases where the children were sent back to their abusers, to pedo rings etc and children left in druggie families.
THEY KNOW WHAT THEY DO.!!!
Next step will be – like Hitler plan- to remove ALL non elite children from mothers at birth and give them to brainwashed needy greedy foster carers, while the tax payers foot the bill.
Children have been a mere commodity to the patriarchal system for thousands of years- to the elite they are the future adults who are used to make money from.
Take away the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and then see who loves the children enough to care for them without state funding.
3:29 pm on December 7th, 2009
There is a definite problem with the SRS and I believe it starts with the social workers who lie and make up rules and don’t stick to the laws or guidelines that they are supposed to. They have too much power and usually are not making the right decisions about each case. They need to be held accountable for their mistakes.
12:14 pm on February 7th, 2010
I was contacted by several of your members. I have posted on my congressional blog my active support of the absolute and constitutional right of parents to both procedual and due process of law as guarenteed by our United States and Kansas Constitution.
I am actively in support and will do whatever I can to help ensure the state of KS and various entities remember we, the people are in charge of the various governments.
To the blog mod, great job. Call me anytime.
Thomas E. Scherer, the best candidate for United States Congress.
Why? Because I am listening. Doing my best to understand. And then taking action to earn your vote.
tdus
2:41 am on May 8th, 2010
I am a IL. grandmother with 3 grandchildren caught up in the nightmare of the Ks. fostercare. When I was shown the proof of the contracted facilities making thousands from the Fed. Gov. for adopting out and nothing if they were to go to a family member, I was shocked. Then to be in the courtroom with the casworker on the stand stating I needed to pay for something because TFI was BROKE, now I am very afraid!!! Makes me wonder how much will they make off my 3 grandchildren alone?!?! I would gladly pay it myself! I LOVE MY GRANDCHILDREN AND WANT THEM ALL BACK TOGETHER, with their extended family here in IL., and a paycheck or lining someones pocket is NOT FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!
4:13 am on May 8th, 2010
I am a IL. grandmother with 3 grandchildren caught up in the nightmare of the Ks. fostercare. When I was shown the proof of the facilities making thousands of dollars to adopt the children out, as to making nothing if they were placed with family members, I was shocked. Then to be in the courtroom and hear the caseworker state her facility was BROKE! Therefore I would have to pay for something myself, (which I stated I would) has now made me affraid, very affraid. I LOVE MY GRANDCHILDREN AND WANT THEM ALL BACK TOGETHER, here in IL. with myself and their extended family. When did it stop being for THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN, and become about someones paycheck or linging someones pocket?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8:34 am on May 8th, 2010
When did HUMAN TRAFFICING become alright in this country? I LOVE MY 3 GRANDCHILDREN AND I WANT THEM!!!!! All together again, and brouht back home here to IL. with myself and their extended family. When I heard that caseworker state in court their facility was BROKE, I knew BIG PROBLEM!!!!!
6:18 pm on August 1st, 2010
In 18 days thanks to the lies & incompatence of Raschel Nutsch, caseworker for The Farm Inc., (Concordia) Margaret Desaire, foster cargiver for TFI, (Plainsville) Lori Hertel, therapist for Turning Point Counseling Services, (Hays) my 3 grandchildren will be DOOMED & LOST to the MONEY HUNGRY SYSTEM OF KANSAS FOSTER CARE! How these people get up in the morning & can actually look at theirselves in the mirror is beyound me?!?! If anyone BELIEVES IN YOU REEP WHAT YOU SOWE – I DO! Do to what these people have done to OUR CHILDREN they are getting it right back, sad but they are REEPING WHAT THEY HAVE SOWN! I would quit a job before I would lie & do some of the low crappy things I have witnessed these people do, (oh, I did I worked for IL. DCFS for 5yr. & quit) wouldn’t stoop or ruin peoples lives for a paycheck. I CAN STILL HOLD MY HEAD UP & LOOK MYSELF IN THE MIRROR. I can say atleast the middle child is with a wonderful family & I believe will stay in touch, but the little girl & youngest boy will be kept from me for 9yr. & 14yr. til they come of age and can come find me and their brother (for they refer to the middle child, a boy, as their friend) who they have not seen in over 5-6 months. JUST ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN KANSAS, THAT THE MONEY GRUBBERS TURN A BLIND EYE TO!
7:36 am on August 11th, 2010
I was staying in a hotel in OP Kansas, I had called SRS for help with shelter for me an my 2 children. I had already called all homeless shelters an was on all waiting list to get into them. Not knowing what else to do I called SRS. Instead of helping me they turned on me an my children an took them and placed them into child in need. This was in dec of 2009 it is now Aug 2010 an the judge was trying to take my rights from me. Instead of taking my rights I signed permanent custody over so i could at least be able to talk to them once a week. On top of it my son (14yr) at my last visit with them that there foster dad had shoved him into his room, an another foster child got grabbed by his arm and was thrown up the stairs by the foster dad and the foster mom stood there and did not say anything!! The KVC worker still sent my 2 children back to the home in harms way for a week until they go to Texas….
11:46 am on August 28th, 2010
want do your do for a child in need of care case the court system will not bring forth evidence to charge you for nor release your child or allow you due process?
6:28 pm on November 10th, 2010
Bernanke and Sebelius and Fiat Dollars
Geithner and Bernanke (both members of Hillary’s and Soros’ shadow government) plan to continue their insane orgy of spending and looting our economy for their cronies and special interests pals. Bernanke’s move to flood the world market with another $600 billion in fiat money will further depress the value of the dollar. And bring massive inflation and cause unemployment to sharply rise, not fall. Read what economist Robert Higgs says about Obama, Geithner, Bernanke, Greenspan and the puppeteers that control these swindlers.
Instead, to lower unemployment (9.5%) and underemployment (18%), we could do, oh so easily, by:
• Repealing Obamacare, post haste….why spend a trillion dollars to buy health care for the 32 million Americans who are currently receiving it for free right now?
• Give current Medicaid and Medicare recipients vouchers and let them purchase whatever health insurance fits their needs…this would cut the cost of these corrupt programs by an amazing 70%. Enforceable deductibles and co-pays would return Medicare and Medicaid patients to the real world medical marketplace! And would simultaneously cut the cost of commercial health insurance by 50%.
• Issue a federal mandate that would allow patients to cross state lines, in order to purchase more competitive health insurance….in other words, break up those BCBS monopolies, like the BCBS scam that Kathleen Sebelius and her trial lawyer cronies ran in Kansas, for years and years.
• Scrap the wind farm and gasohol programs that our corrupt politicians and their flim flam puppeteers have forced down our throats. These programs are not, and never will be, cost effective. Just another Obama pipe dream that will never pan out.
• Tell OPEC where to get off by imposing an adjustable energy import tax. The less you charge us, the less we tax your products. And vice versa.
• Structure gasoline and diesel road taxes so as to encourage the use of our abundant natural gas resources for surface transportation.
• Remove all unions from all mass transit in America. Tell these people that efficient, privately run mass transit, free of unions, is a matter of national survival.
• Get the hell out of Iraq and Afghanistan right now! And begin the public trials of those politicians who corruptly got us into these hell holes.
• Call a halt to the phony war on drugs and the corrupt judicial-prison industry that it supports. Make those government lawyers, DEA, Sheriff’s Deputies, FBI, local and federal judicial employees, etc. go out and get a real job. Stop this insane prohibition of opiates and crime in America would plummet by 80%.
Do these things and bingo, our economy rights itself almost overnight. But continue to follow Soros, Greenspan, Geithner and Bernanke….continue as these swindlers have been leading us, and we will continue our ever accelerating national slide into the dark abyss.
To learn more about Sebelius’ role in Hillary’s corrupt shadow government go to http://www.sebeliuscoverups.com or just search:
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