UPDATE- Nov 23... One of AFRA's lawyer friends is looking into this. It is a fact that the passage of the Fostering Connections to Success and Improved Adoptions Act in October, 2008 was supposed to provide for the foster care victims until the age of 21. We believed at the time this was for no other reason than harvesting their Title IV funds for another 3 years. So we will see.
Anybody with authority who cares? Yooo-Hooo Let me know
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Subject: Give your child Voice
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:08:20 -0000
From: REDACTED
To: Leonard Henderson <leonard@familyrights.us>Dear Mr.Henderson,
I am a former foster youth and I am twenty years old. I will make this as short and painless as possible. I was physicaly abused in foster care and when I tried to report the abuse they shoved pills down my throat to get me to "shut up and quit complaining", their words exactly. My brothers were seperated from me because they were trying to report the abuse also. CPS are trying to say my brothers were trying to parent me. I think my brothers had every right to interfere when I'm leteraly pissed on while asleep. Thrown around by the throat across rooms. and then medicated to get me to shut up about it. I'v even tried telling the police. I missed out on 7 years of education because of this medication that I was forced to take to cope with abuses taking place.
I was slave labored 12 hours a day 6 days a week. I ran away when I was fifteen. The most recent drug I was on was paxil. I must have collected at least 20,000 dollars in medical bills while sleeping in ally ways ending up in hospitals every few weeks from alcohol poisoning. Suicide attempts almost succeeding. Waking up in jail every week about not knowing how I got their. For three years after leaving foster care. They would tell me services don't exist I can't get voluntary services. no such funding exist to help me get into school.
Finaly about a year ago, the last time I was in jail for blacking out and getting into trouble. My court appointed attorney had to threaten Child welfare so that I could get services. They even tried turning him down untill he threatend them.
When I initialy tried requesting my records they gave me a very small portion of my records and said they could not find the rest. I recently just sent a FOIA request, but we'll see how well that goes.
I was deprived of my Life, Liberty, equal protection of laws. I was tortured and will have to live the rest of my life knowing that its a neverending Political War in my head between those that are fortunate and those that arn't such as myself.I've tried just about everything I can and I have an obsession with building a case and It won't go away. no matter how many times I box my work up and lock it away in a closit It keeps haunting me and I just pull it out the next week. I have a strong argument with Primary scources, Secondary scources,
Statute of limitations gives me up to 6 years after the age of 18 to file a case. I should not have to have the word Victim written on my forehead in perminant marker anymore. I would like it to instead say free atlast.
If there is an attorney out there who will help me get money for college or anything please contact me. Thats he least they owe me since they took my right to an education as a minor.
Well, is there? See the deal is, this kid can't even join the military because the state has destroyed his entire future in his record and denied him an education.
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Comments
My GOD I DO CARE, unfortunately I haven't even started Paralegal training yet. My family and I are going this route Good Moms Fight DYFS .com (can't use URLs) Ms. Melendez is drafting our Notice of Claim, and then is going to help us find our attorney. She is very passionate and knowledgable. Maybe he can atleast call her (908) 925-5030. She has provided me with much emotional support as well as telling me that YES There Is something I can do! Hugs and Prayers!!
I too know the sting of being forced to "bury" what happened to me as a child and my youngest is now going through it too. At 3 YEARS old she was molested in foster care and she was made to say that nothing happened when she had already told me what happened. Now when it happened again she was too scared to really say anything. CPS or DFS whatever they want to call themselves feed on the poor and most don't know any better. I went through the system and I have educated myself. I was almost arrested for protecting my rights and I have temporarily lost my youngest. We go to court next month and thanks to AFRA and JFF I now know that I CAN ask for and receive a Restraining Order against the state, which I WILL be asking for when I go into court. I am pretty sure that when the judge finds out what is going on that he WILL agree to it. (Judge is the one who married me and my husband, AND has seen what they have been doing for the past almost 8 years.)
I care, and that's why I'm running for the state house in Ohio. I would like to know Redacted's state of residence. Please, contact me and I will assist in any way I can!
ram7275a@aol.com
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