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In part 1 we were discussing the definition of “Child Abuse” now let us continue; We had told you in another article we were asked to assist biological parents along with foster parents.
You see, a couple of years ago we were approached by an assistant to a Assembly woman in California asking if our organization assisted biological parents too, what we do for foster parents only on behalf of biological parents.
Our response was; We assist, as advocates, (nfpcar.org) anyone who needs help in learning the basics, legal phrases that they need to understand, and how to put their “pro se” cases together. If they are fortunate enough to have the financial assets they already have an attorney, however we are discovering that CPS seems to target the poor, undereducated, or those who otherwise do not have the financial wherewithal to defend themselves against the storm called CPS.
- In assisting these biological parents we realized something, as in the statement in the first part of this series; Not all biological parents lost their children for valid reasons!
Quoting a very wise man, Gregory Hession an attorney out of Mass. Who coined the phrase; “Elastic term” in referring to child abuse, he said something like; “Child abuse has become an elastic term, that CPS can stretch to cover just about anything a parent can do these days”. www.massoutrage.com/ma/
What did he mean by that; here are few examples taken from our files, Allegations of “Child Abuse” that we have seen filed; These cases dealing with foster parents but idiotic allegations apply to biological parents too.
• 1. A foster mother; charge “neglect” and “failure to protect” when her Foster son fell asleep in his high chair.
• 2. A teacher who became a foster parent to help a student, charge; “failure to protect”, “neglect” because a teenager walked a half mile to school with her friends on a rural road. She walked to school because this foster parent to teach the girl a lesson in responsibility took her bicycle helmet.
• 3. A foster parent refused to allow a 13 year old go out with her 19 year old boyfriend after curfew on a school night. Charge inappropriate touching, violating this child’s space. The foster child called this one in to the hotline.
See part three to see other cases.
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