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UPDATE: CPS victim posts video on YouTube

POSTED June 20, 1:48 PM

This heart-wrenching video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTtUVii6x6k)
was posted on YouTube by Sonja De Vivo, the St. Louis woman I mentioned in my Special Report on CPS abuse.

If you missed it, here is the link: "Victims claim CPS officials guilty of 'ruthless behavior':
http://www.examiner.com/a-1413849~Victims_claim_CPS_officials_guilty_of_ruthless_behavior_.html

Here is a photo of Sonja with the daughter who was taken away from her at the age of 3 by corrupt CPS officials even though she was never charged with abuse or neglect.

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UPDATE: Foster care is not always an improvement

POSTED May 29, 11:18 AM

Here are the most common statutory grounds for terminating parental rights:

    Severe or chronic abuse or neglect;
    Abandonment;
    Parents' long-term mental illness, alcoholism or drug dependency;
    Abuse, neglect or removal of other children.

But even in situations where the abuse is real, children who are taken away from their natural parents and placed in foster homes don't always wind up in a better place.

Former foster child Margaret Iuculano had an alcoholic stepfather who beat her and labeled her "incorrigible," so pretty much anywhere should have been an improvement. But the five hellish years she spent shuttling to 15 different foster homes were just as bad - and sometimes even worse - than home. "Unfortunately for me, my foster experiences were almost or more abusive than the environment I was removed from," she told the The Tampa Bay News.

The author of "My God Box," Iuculano credits her religious faith for finally allowing her to escape the debilitating emotional pain she endured from feeling "unwanted and unloved" as a child, eventually becoming a successful entreprenuer despite - not because of - her time in foster care. Here's a link to her website: http://www.margaretlano.com/

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Where's the rest of the story?

POSTED May 9, 2:45 PM

Former GSA Administrator Lurita Doan's long-running battle with agency inspector general Brian Miller started when she tried to reduce his budget as part of a "cost-cutting initiative." Doan recently told Federal News Radio that the White House asked her to resign after less than two years on the job because she "refused to back down on my support for the four whistle blowers at GSA" who complained about Miller. But the Corporation for National and Community Service, which agreed to review the case, found no wrongdoing by Miller.

However, a high-profile investigation by Office of Special Counsel Scott Bloch found wrongdoing by Doan herself, who allegedly violated the Hatch Act by asking federal employees to help Republican election efforts and steered lucrative GSA contracts to friends and political allies.

Here's what doesn't make sense: On April 29, White House chief of staff Josh Bolton and counsel Fred Fielding summoned Dean to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and told her she was to resign immediately. Her unceremonious departure indicated that the administration wasn't buying her version of events.

If so, why is Bloch's head on the chopping block?

At a July 12, 2007 House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing, ranking member Tom Davis, R-VA, went after Bloch, asking him if he had authorized a leak of the GSA investigation, a charge Bloch denied. This week, Davis called for Bloch's resignation.

What the media hasn't reported is that Doan and her husband Doug just so happen to be some of Davis' major contributors. According to FEC records, the Great Falls couple gave more than $200,000 to GOP candidates and PACs since 2000.

Sources tell us the Tuesday raid of Bloch's office and Alexandria home was pay-back for being a straight arrow whose politically embarrassing investigation of the firings of the U.S. attorneys and other allegations of illegal political activity in the executive branch made him some powerful enemies in the administration, including Karl Rove, which is why the White House is now desperately trying to silence him.

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UPDATE: Another victim of overzealous Arlington social workers

POSTED April 23, 10:15 AM

In response to the April 18 Examiner editorial "Baby snatching by Arlington County" (http://www.examiner.com/a-1347693`Baby_snatching_by_Arlington_County.html) we got an email from an Arlington dad who has also tangled with CPS:

             "I wish I could say I was surprised by the heartbreaking story of the Slitors, whose
             child's disability led Arlington County to take their baby away, but I was not.

             "My child has arthritis, and we experienced a less severe, but no less unnecessary, ordeal.
             When he was in preschool, he was on a medication that made him bruise easily and
             impaired his ability to heal from bruises. That winter, he enjoyed sliding on the ice in our
             driveway, but fell and got a nasty black eye. Based on that injury, his teacher reported us to
             the county. She claimed that by law she was required t do so. I researched the regulations
             governing the mandatory reporting, and they actually leave quite a bit to discretion.
             Nevertheless, she felt bound to report us.

             "Based on that one person's report, we had to fill out forms and were subjected to multiple
             interviews from a caseworker. These involved her coming to our home and observing us with
             our child, and asking our child's relatives questions about our fitness to be parents. Based on
             a teacher's report of one black eye!

             "After we were 'cleared', we were told that we would be on a list for several years, so that if
             he got hurt and had to go to the ER for any reason, the investigation would be reopened and we
             would again be subjected to this invasive and humiliating process. There has got to be a better
             way."

Another Arlington reader told us about the Center for Individual Rights (www.cir-usa.org) which has information on similar cases in which social workers even presumed to tell parents which medical options they should pursue. In a particularly disturbing case in Idaho in 2002 (Mueller v. Idaho) a five-week-old baby girl was seized and given a spinal tap against her mother's wishes - even though the fever that had prompted the mother to seek medical care had already broken.

Parents are increasingly being subjected to this sort of harrassment by social workers who often have less experience with children than they do. But even for unwarranted intrusions based entirely on flimsy evidence, there's no accountability and no consequences for putting people through this hell. Judges who are supposed to throw these cases out often rubber-stamp whatever the social workers tell them, and confidentiality laws intended to protect children wind up protecting power-hungry government workers instead.

In the case cited in our editorial, the same former Arlington social worker who used baby Sabrina's "milk-stained" shirt as evidence of parental neglect argued in court that the baby had to be removed from her home because her mother wasn't feeding her! This would be laughable were it not for the terrible injustice done to this family.

If you live in Arlington, don't think it could never happen to you.