A Grand Jury's Conclusion

About two weeks ago, I have discovered that there is an index that people's names are submitted to at the Department of Justice. After reading about this index on the DOJ's website, and on many other websites, it appears that people can be put on that index without that person knowing, and many times, that person may be innocent. This is an index that does not appear to afford a person due process, and it can effect someone very seriously as anyone reading this blog can see. On the DOJ website, it states and makes it clear that the DOJ does not have any responsibility for the accuracy about the information kept on that index and throws that responsibility back to the "reporting agency." I don't know if I am on that index, I have never seen it on paper, but I am suspecting that I am because of the way DCFS and the dependency court has treated me and my case with my grandson.

Take a look at what a grand jury concluded in the year 2009-2010 about the Child Abuse Central Index. It does not make one feel, well, comfortable at all about all of our Civil Rights. The link is:

http://cams.cogov/Wed_Publisher/Agenda08_24_2010_files/images/O00110-001241E.PDF

(If you really want to see this link you may have to physically copy it and then put it in the browser window to be able to pull it up. If that doesn't work google: "child abuse central index". You will find all kinds of information that is very distressing and well it should be.)

I know there has to be a legal remedy for this. It's just finding it could take years while my grandson grows up, who knows where? It is very distressing. It is just unbelieveable. I thought that we were all afforded due process in these United States and I thought we had Civil Rights, but I am rethinking that. And it could happen to any of us at any time.

County loses $4.9 million lawsuit over lying social workers

This is a big win for all of us. Please see the link below. This case could set precedent! I have been a victim of the same thing. This is why I am in law school. I can hardly wait until I can call all of them to answer for their lies.

hppt://taxdollars.ocregister.com/2011/04/21/county-loses-4.9-million-lawsuit-challenge-over-lying-social-workers/81039/

So I'm thinking......

Unconstitutional Seizure of a Person, 4th Amendment; Malfeasance Action Re: Governmental Employees; Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress; Defamation Action; and the more I study the more I find. I have one other thing that they were so wrong about, but I just can't find what kind of action it fits into, but I know I'll find one, and probably many more. It won't be just myself filing these actions. I now have so many others who have contacted me. It has to be the worst secret of shame this Country has.

Lifting Governmental Immunity

I have been thinking that Governmental Immunity needs to be lifted, and people need to be held accountable, maybe not just in the dependency courts, but in all things. I have been reading cases against governmental agencies for wrongful death and the victim's families are awarded damages. Why isn't the foster care system held to this same standard when they inflict emotional distress on a child or a family? I know of a case right now, I think I've written about it before, where a man got an Appellate Court Order to return his child. He has now spent over $1million and attended over 130 court hearings on. It has been more than 30 days. WFT!!!! Are they above the decision of an Appellate Court? Three justices of that Court concurred that the child should be returned. Why hasn't CPS complied? I have come to believe that they love to inflict emotional distress because they can. I'm not saying that all social workers do, but from what I've seen, and the people that have contacted me both the family and the children now, I believe it is common. I have heard from dozens and dozens of children that were taken by CPS and still bearing the emotional scars. So I think Governmental Immunity must be lifted and these children (many of whom now are adults) be heard in our Courts.

4th Amendment to the US Constitution

I am studying the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution this morning and am wondering if the seizure of a child from a biological family would be considered an unreasonable seizure, especially when there were family members willing and ready to care for the child. I am also wondering about false imprisonment of children. I wonder if these things could apply to what I am questioning? My law professors tell me that everything is arguable. I guess time will tell.

Take a look at this, just another family they've destroyed.

www.mywellbriety.com

I've just realized that I know so many people that this has happened to. How is that possible? My next thought is: "because it happens a lot." I will be working toward personal liability for the children that they've destroyed.

PLEASE SUPPORT THIS ASSEMBLY BILL

www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-open-court-20110302,0,3169777.story

Please support AB 73 to save our children.

The People who did this need to be held PERSONALLY LIABLE!

www.msbp.com/dale.htm

I have started into law school because of what is posted here in the previous two years. I will fight this fight for the rest of my life. $800,000 was not enough for the life of this child. The People responsible need to be held PERSONALLY ACCOUNTABLE for this. It should never happen to a child.

Take a look at the link below. This is exactly what is needed!

www.contracostatimes.com/crime-courts/ci_17294439?nclick_check=1











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The Circle Game

My grandson was 20 months old a couple of days ago, and he and his sister remain in the foster care system. I have started law school so that someday, hopefully by the time I die, I may help this world by changing this horrible system. I also met a man today with the exact same views and problems that I have had with DCFS. We are now playing The Circle Game.....and the seasons they go round and round, and the painted ponies they go up and down, we are captive on the carosel of time........

Another Year!

My grandchild and his sister are still in foster care. Nothing has changed. This week, I didn't even get my one hour Court Ordered visit because of the holiday. I was told by the supervisor that it would be made up next week. And there is nothing I can do about any of it. This last year I paid an attorney $4800 and got nothing done. My mother has come to live with me last July because she was diagnosed with Mixed Dementia. She has been coming with me on the one hour visits each week. After our last visit, she sat in the back seat with the empty car seat and said: "I miss him already" as she cried on the way home. How awful.

A RUMOR TODAY

There was a rumor today that the two year old and five month old were going to be moved from the current foster care to another foster care. I heard my son tell several social workers and his attorney that he wanted the children place with me, his mother. I don't know how it turned out. I couldn't bear to stay and listen. It is too painful. These bunch of idiots have the power to control these children's lives. Endless Court hearings where nothing gets done. Week after week of seeing the children for my one hour monitored visits, that they never get the kids to on time and occasionally miss. I need endless money to fight this all too powerful huge corrupt abomination of an agency that is ungoverned by anyone. It is the feeling of many people who sit out in those halls of the Court house that this matter is being dealt with in, is that CPS sells babies. I wouldn't have believed it, until now. I saw a 13 year old (that is what I overheard her age to be) out in the hall crying because she wanted to be returned to her family and the judge wouldn't even let her talk in Court. How awful. I believe someone that old should have the right to address the Court, especially when the outcome has to do with her. She had many family members around her, who looked just like people I used to see at my parent's church, trying to console her, one was an aunt and one was a grandparent. What could possibly have been the reason that she couldn't have gone with one of them? And if not, why couldn't the Court talk to this child and explain, instead of leaving her to cry in the Court House hallway. We treat our dogs in shelters better than this. I have recently read two articles by Kim Christensen and Garrett Therolf in the Los Angeles Times about the number of children that die while in the custody of CPS in Los Angeles County. It is alarming, very alarming to say the least.

HORRIBLE VISIT WITH THE KIDS AT THE CPS OFFICE TODAY.

The kids continue to be in the same foster care placement. The visits have been all messed up, every single time I go to visit them. Last week, CPS didn't get the kids to the office for my visit. My son had told me that he had noticed something in the peri area of the two year old. So yesterday, when I went to visit, I took the two year old along with the Public Health Nurse, in to a private area to look for what my son was telling me he saw in his visit last Monday. There was bruising to the pelvic and coccyx area and some kind of rash on the inner thigh areas. The child was being taken to the County Facility to be examined by the SCAN unit (sexual abuse unit) yesterday after I left. I have been so upset I can't think straight by this. It is abominable. How can the County of Los Angeles, State of California allow this to go on? A State investigator with the Department of Social Services called me last Monday. The foster home that the children have been placed in is being investigated, and yet the County continues to have them in that placement. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE????

INQUIRY FROM CPS AS TO IF I WOULD ADOPT THE CHILDREN

On Friday, October 9, 2009, a social worker from CPS called inquiring if I would adopt the children. I replied that I would be willing to adopt my grandson. The two year old little girl has two siblings that have already been placed with her grandmother in Kentucky and that grandmother has indicated to me that they are excited and would gladly welcome this child into their home. In light of the fact that my son, the father of this child, was so difficult to raise and continues to be to this day, I have decided that should the child be placed with me, he may need my undivided attention, not to mention that raising two children at my age would be difficult as I have no one else to help me in this endeavor. I would be doing this alone, very alone this time, as my father who was there with me raising my children before, passed away in 2003. So in light of this, I am hiring an attorney, and will proceed to adopt if that is what comes to be. Please pray for these children that the paths that are chosen for them, will be loving, caring, and with people that are truly devoted to their bests interests.

EVEN MY WEEKLY VISITS ARE TORTURED

CPS is so inconsistent, that even my weekly visits have become a torture. It seems that every single week something happens. Today when I get there, the social worker is not there and so the visit is being monitored by the foster parent, the same foster parent that clipped the end of the child's nail too close, the same one that the child was in the care of when the possible bump on the head took place. So.....today, we had to sit out in the lobby with this person. About half-way through the childrens' mother comes in to the lobby and starts to come over to us. At that point this foster mother announces that we are not to be together visiting the kids. I am not aware of anything that says anything like this, and in the past we have been allowed to have the visits together. I have nothing against having the mother there when I visit with the kids. This was very disruptive and upsetting to the two year old. She doesn't understand why her mother can't come over and give her a hug and kiss. It seems like this agency does whatever it can to cause hurt!

I have now had, I don't know how many, foster parents contact me with the same kind of inconsistent stories about CPS. It's not just parents and families. It happens on both sides.

THE END OF THE BABY'S FINGER WAS CUT

Today when I went to see the baby and his little sister, the end of his finger had been cut, like a little oval circle right at the end of the nail, and the little tiny nail was almost gone. I mentioned it to the social worker and she said that it had been cut too close when they were cutting his fingernails. I just cringed when she said that, and cried when I got to the car. How can they do this to a baby and allow the baby to stay with the same inefficient foster caregiver? I didn't take a picture this time, although I should have. I will document it with a letter and ask that a photograph be taken of it for the record. I went to the Court and obtained all of the forms to do what they call a 388 Petition to return placement to me. At least the Court will have all of the documentation and information that I have mentioned previously to review in making this decision. Again, how awful!!!

LOS ANGELES COUNTY CIVIL GRAND JURY

I have just printed out the form and will be compiling all of the mass of paperwork to file with this form, regarding all that you have previously read in prior weeks, in a Citizen Complaint to the Los Angeles County Civil Grand Jury. I also have issues with the decisions of the Family Law Court that took the older child away from the wonderful foster mother, who wants to be a mother, and who took the younger child out of my custody, subsequent to which he appears (according to a note in a medical record and a picture that I took) to have gotten a bump on the head in the foster placement that he is in, but that is dealt with in another forum. Then CPS allowed the two children to stay in that foster placement even though there was a question as to whether or not the injury occurred. They always say that they lean toward the side of caution. They didn't in this case. I have the pictures, and I have the medical record.

IT JUST OCCURRED TO ME THAT IF....

THEY WEREN'T GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES THEY WOULD ALL GET FIRED BECAUSE NO PRIVATE EMPLOYER WOULD PUT UP WITH THIS!!!

JUST MORE INCONSISTENCIES

I went to visit my grandson yesterday and his two year old sister at the CPS office. I arrived there at my scheduled time 0830. When I got there the two kids were sitting with someone that I had never seen in the lobby. Because of all that has happened, I didn't approach them, however the two year old did come over to me and I gave her a hug. The person that she was there with told her that she didn't know who I was, and I assumed that meant not to come close to me. At 0845 I went back up to the window and told the attendant that the social worker had not come out to "monitor" my visit. Usually we go into one of the visiting rooms with one of the social workers or someone who is an employee there. At 0900 I went back up to the window and asked that the supervising social worker be called. He did come out and said that he didn't know what was going on and that he couldn't find the social worker on our case. At 0920 I was finally taken to one of the visitation rooms with a "monitor" who is someone that I have seen there before and talked with before.

Subsequently the social worker on our case did come in to the visitation room and informed me that my visit had started out in the lobby but that the girl that the kids were with wasn't aware that she was supposed to monitor the visit. I was informed that she is the daughter of the foster mother.

First of all, I don't need to be monitored, especially by people who are so incompetent. The same kind of thing had happened last week, when I went to visit at my scheduled time of 1230 and the kids weren't there. No one knew what was going on. The social worker on the case couldn't be reached, the supervising social worker was in "training" and the "worker on duty" knew nothing about this visit. I was standing in one of the rooms, when I saw the kids get out of a car at 1300, a half an hour late.

So my question, as always is: how can such an incompetent agency have so much power over children?

An article in the Daily News in Los Angeles

I just read the following article in the Daily News in Los Angeles:

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_13274571?source=rv

The comments tell another story. I haven't forgotten my grandkids in fostercare, it's just that it is very painful to deal with and I am trying to figure out what to do next. I am waiting for my house in KY to close so that I will have the funds to proceed.

In an interesting twist, I received a letter from my grandson's (the one in foster care) great grandmother. I am considering the possibilities of asking her to come out to California from West Virginia and help me raise these kids. We have not always seen eye to eye about things, but I do believe Hillary when she said "it takes a village" to raise kids. I will need all of the help I can get. Maybe I and she have it in us to raise two more kids. Maybe we've learned alot over the years. I know I have. So I am thinking of writing her back to ask her if she would consider coming to California and living with me to raise these kids. She was wonderful with my kids when they were young, and in the letter, if she is being honest, she may welcome the opportunity to be the grandmother and greatgrandmother that she describes her mother to have been (and she was).

I have continued my one hour a week visits with my grandchildren. My son and his wife seem oblivious to the dangers of foster care. I still have not received the "records" alleged about the "hits" on my past on the DCFS data base even though I sent the paperwork back to the County Counsel's Office weeks ago requested this information. I don't believe anything like this exists. Although the SW told me that what she saw in the record was that I was frustrated by my son and my difficulty in handling him at the time was reflected in a report that she had read. And I will admit to that. He was difficult and he is the same son whose children are now in foster care. So maybe it wasn't me.

I have come to believe that the difficulties that two of my sons have in life are genetic. Their father has never fully recovered from these same difficulties, and I've been observing this since 1979. I have also come to believe that people, such as my children's grandmother and my grandson that is in foster care's great-grandmother (same person) and I have more insight into these difficulties because we have now dealt with them for all of these childrens' entire lives. She is an R.N. and so am I and we have seen first hand the outcomes. We may even be experts on these behaviors, although not recognized by any educational institution, we have lived it.