Corruption in Child Protective Services
Linda Saunders
SOC 120
Prof. Erin Schouten
July 15, 2012

The purpose of this paper is to bring to light a very serious moral dilemma. It is a dilemma that not everyone is even aware exists. Child Protective Services is guilty of kidnapping and child trafficking. Some workers are also guilty of abusing our children. I myself am a victim of this corruption. My children were taken in the middle of the night by force for no reason. I cannot find them, their birth records do not even exist. Why is that? All you have to do is go on you tube and type in CPS Corruption and the list is endless. On Facebook, there is page after page of victims of these crimes committed by CPS, their stories, petitions, and lawsuits. It is very heart wrenching. When you watch the videos on You Tube about this corruption, most of them are news clippings or proven cases, you would be shocked at what you will find. Not only are they stealing children but some of them are abusing the children. Jones (2009), states “ One of their favorite things to do is take your children and rape them, then blame it on you. There is no group more dangerous, than a truancy officer, a CPS worker, or a foster parent period. Their bullies they like hunting children” (clip1). Roberts (2009) states that,”Files can disappear. It is all based on illegal grounds and no one is doing anything about it. (para.1). What is worse is that some of these children are stolen from great parents and abused by the ones that are there to protect them. CPS is kidnapping, stealing, abusing, and trafficking our children for money. This needs to stop. Child Protective Services is supposed to be there to protect children and to help families. Garneau and Allen (2012) state “ Typically, CPS is an agency of a state’s social services department and may also be known as the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). CPS social workers are responsible for accessing, identifying and documenting cases of abuse or neglect among children and finding the appropriate services to enhance child welfare. CPS social workers must be able to identify immediate threats made to a child and provide arrangements that comply with state and federal laws and agency procedures. These duties may include, but are not limited to: Providing counseling and support services to children and parents, Referring children and families to other services if necessary, placing children in foster care, and Finding adoptive homes for children with no adult care takers” (p.1). Notice it says that they must be able to identify immediate threats made to a child in order to remove them from the home. So why is it that they do not have to prove anything? Why is it they can just come in your home and ruthlessly, without cause, take your children to never be seen again? J.M. (2010), states that “The CPS story is very hard to believe for most people who do not have any experience with CPS. In fact, it is so hard to believe that most people won’t believe it and will instead believe that there is something wrong with you not CPS. Most people who have heard of CPS believe that they protect children and are doing good. They may never realize that 95% of children taken by CPS have suffered no abuse or injury of any kind and are in no danger in any way except from CPS” (p.1). This is true. I used to think like that. I used to think CPS was good and if they took someone’s children then they must have had a good reason. Now I see much differently. There are too many cases and too wide spread to believe them. J.M. (2010), goes on to say ”The first thing you need to know is that CPS and the juvenile court is a criminal conspiracy to steal children for the money. Do not be fooled into believing that they actually care about you or your children. They do not! It is all about the money” (p.1). CPS gets paid bonuses every time they adopt a child out of foster care. They also sell our children but call it adoption. They steal them and wipe their real existence clean, leaving the children and parents permanently scarred. Nancy Schaefer was a congress woman who was exposing CPS for kidnapping and child trafficking. She and her husband were killed in their own home. She was shot in the back, him in the chest. They tried to put it off as a murder suicide. Was it? Or was she right and silenced? Schaefer, (2008), states “In nearly every state, I am convinced there is no accountability in Child Protective Services. Six more times children die in foster care. They are also more likely to be abused, neglected, or sexually abused” (para.1). Ted Gunderson is a retired FBI Agent. He says he has seen with his own eyes pictures of congress, senators, and dignitaries using children in sex orgies. He says it was all covered up. Gunderson (2004), states that “They were taking children out of Boys town orphanages and foster homes and driving them 184 miles away, placing them in private jets, and flying them to Washington D.C. for sex orgies with congress and senators and dignitaries” (para.2). He goes on to explain that they trusted someone outside of the government to take pictures of the filthy sex acts. What they did not know was that he was keeping copies of all the pictures because he was planning on ousting them and letting the truth be known. Supposedly, they found out he was keeping the pictures and blew up the plane he was on. They did not know however, that he had the pictures with him. Gunderson says that the pictures were spread out everywhere and he saw some of them with his own eyes. Child Protective Services has laws and rules it is supposed to follow just like everyone else. I guess they feel they are above the law. Nolt, (2005), states that “We have to be able to prove and swear before the judge that the child is in imminent risk of death, serious injury, or sexual abuse, something that is just begrevious” (para.2). Burns, (2011), states that “Child Protective Services is supposed to “protect” our children from bad, neglectful, and abusive parents. Sadly, it’s good parents who are all too often victims of having their children wrongly kidnapped by CPS” (para.3). Schaefer (2008), I have witnessed such injustice and harm brought to these families that I am not sure if I even believe reform of the system is possible! The system cannot be trusted. It does not serve the people. It obliterates families and children simply because it has the power to do so. Children deserve better. Families deserve better. It’s time to pull back the curtains and set our children and families free” (p.4). I agree with Schaefer. Children and parents deserve much better. This crime they are committing is hurting people very badly. It is destroying parents that were truly great parents. It is unfair and unjust and needs to stop. When this happens to you, you feel like you are dying a slow, suffering death. It hurts every single day and never gets easier. Faulconer, (1994), states that “ The purpose is to apply criteria that reflect the victims’ experiences and definitions of abuse better than a so – called “objective” age criterion that may obscure cases of actual abuse” (p.261). What I feel like she is saying is that each case is different and should be treated as such. I agree with her. Each case is different. Each set of parents and children and their situations are different. Thus every case should be reviewed separately. Things have gotten so out of hand that you can actually order a baby. Moore (2007), states that “The concerted effort to take children away and put them up for adoption was so brazen, she actually saw someone successfully place an order for children” (p.1). This is so wrong. It makes no sense. Someone orders a child so they steal it from innocent parents and give it to the purchaser. What is this McDonald’s? Hoose & Dortch (2007), state that “ Pat Moore said she was a state social worker until she was fired for not ignoring half a dozen allegations of abuse in a foster home. When Moore found that two foster parents had criminal records, a son living with them had multiple felonies, and a convicted sex offender visited and, sometimes, cared for the children, she refused to arrange an adoption. Her supervisors responded to her complaint with a memo suggesting that adoption proceed quickly. After she was fired, Moore filed a lawsuit, and last month, the Commonwealth paid $380,000 to settle it. “I did what I felt I had to do,” Moore said. “It was the right thing to do and I stand by the complaint” (p.1). Now I am going to tell of some comments made by victims of this CPS corruption. I got these comments from: Abolish Child Protective Services. It is by Fighting for What’s right (2012). “The court system they use is a kangaroo court with no real justice, and they use threats and intimidation to kidnap children from loving homes, merely because they can, it has to stop” (Fighting for What’s Right, 2012). Perez (2011), states that “Cps is a systematic crime program that removes kids via their designated hotline. The children really belong to the government and not to us, that is why they have that hotline. You are only the care taker of your children, but they have ownership of them, as you can see how they remove them and keep your case in the system. They just take the kids without charging you with a criminal offense, and trial, jury, just come in your home giving orders to do whatever is demanded and then you are scarred for life” (para.1). That is so true. It scars you for life. Nelson (2011), states that “My children were taken based on fabrications by the state of NY’s so called “protective workers” ! They should be called bounty hunters” (para.2). Bowers (2011), states that “I have been truly falsely accused of a crime I did not do. CPS does nothing but lie and are using our children as weapons to get my wife to give a false confession to get the kids back” (para.1). This too is extremely wrong. James (2011), states that “Someone needs to get control of the organization or abolish it” (para.1). Rising (2011), states that “CPS needs to end. Here in my county, CPS will take your kids for a dirty home, but leave them with someone who physically abuses them. Love your kids and be cleaning when CPS comes to the door gets your kids removed, but beat your kids and leave bruises you get to keep your kids, what a joke. This is unjust and wrong. CPS needs to end” (para.2). Brianne (2011), states that “CPS ruined my life by not putting my abusive father in jail” (para.1). Shannon (2011), states that “CPS is a corrupt organization that uses children as a commodity. A failed experiment that destroys children and their families” (para.1). These are some comments from just a few of CPS’ victims. Now I will tell you of some case studies. Beltram v. Santa Clara County, 514.F.3d906, (9th Cir. 2008) Beltram sued two case workers under 42 U.S.C. 1983, changing constitutional violations in removing child from their custody and attempting to place him under the supervision of the state by fabricating evidence. Court overruled Doe v. Lebbos, and reversed the district court’s ruling that defendants were entitled to absolute immunity. Calabretta v. Floyd, 189 F.3d 808 (9th Cir. 1999). This case involves whether a social worker and a police officer were entitled to qualified immunity, for a coerced entry into a home to investigate suspected child abuse, interrogation of a child, and strip search of a child, conducted with a search warrant and without a special exigency. Can you guess what the answer was? An unlawful entry or search of a home does not end when the government officials walk across the threshold. It continues as they impose their will on the residents of the home in which they have no right to be. Croft v. Westmoreland County Children and Youth Servs., 103 F.3d 1123 (3d Cir. 1997). Holding that “a state has no interest in protecting children from their parents unless it has some reasonable and articulable evidence giving rise to a reasonable suspicion that a child has been abused or is in imminent danger of abuse.” Good v. Dauphin County Soc. Servs. For Children and Youth, 891 F.2d 1087, (3d Cir. 1989). “Physical entry into the home is the chief evil against which the…. Fourth Amendment is directed, ‘the Court explained, while adding: “It is a ‘basic principle of the Fourth Amendment law that searches and seizures inside a home without a warrant are presumptively unreasonable.” No qualified immunity claim to be found here. Kelson v. Springfield, 767 F 2d 651, (9th Cir. 1985). “Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedent establish that a parent has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in the companionship and society of his or her child. The state’s interference with that liberty interest without due process of law is remediable under section 1983.” Lopkof v. Slater, 103 F.3d 144 (10th Cir. 1996). Defendents do not dispute that the law was clearly established that a warrantless search of a private residence is per se unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment unless one of “ a few specifically established and well – delineated exceptions” applies. Defendants maintain that because they had “received specific information questioning the safety of the children,” they acted in an objectively reasonable manner when they entered Lopkoff’s private residence. Wrong, and no qualified immunity for these officers. As I was researching this issue, I found that there are a lot of people working for CPS that have criminal records. Jenny Hopps (2011) states that “ Mark Le Vrier, former CPS worker, admitted to child molestation. The officer believes there are more victims in Central Texas”. “Yolanda Fryson, a Yuba County Child Protective Services worker was arrested for extorsion, accepting a bribe as a public official, and possession of stolen property, according to the authorities. She is now looking forward to doing nine years in prison”. Codette Eldrige, a former Columbia County Social worker could spend more than 200 years in prison for allegedly sexually assaulting two boys. She is charged with six counts of sexual assault of a child, one count first degree child sex assault, sexual contact with a person under the age of thirteen and two counts causing a child under the age of thirteen to view/ listen to sexual act”. Maricruz Torrez, a Merced County social worker was arrested on charges of having an ongoing sexual relationship with a fourteen year old boy in her care. She is charged with multiple cases of having unlawful sex with a minor”. Arthur Bracke, retired Middlesex County Social Services officer, has been charged with ten molestation – related counts after a month long investigation into his activities as a CPS Officer and Foster Home Operator. He is being held at the Middle Peninsula Regional Jails on charges of arson and first degree attempted murder related to a fire at his former home in Wake. He is accused of setting fire to the home Nov. 17th while his teenage son Joshua slept inside. He ran the New Beginnings Therapeutic Foster Home for Boys from 1975 – 1985”. Gary E. Anderson, a former supervisor with Child Protective Services, was sentenced to a minimum of ten years in prison after pleading guilty to first degree child rape and molestation”. Robert G. Rother was arrested for an alleged sex crime involving a teenage boy, Fairfax County police say Rother was screened for any criminal background before he was hired and had a clean record”. In 1995, CPS agencies investigated nearly two million reports alleging maltreatment of an estimated three million children. The national rate of children who were reported was forty three per thousand children. Nationwide more than half (58%) of the reports resulted in a finding that child maltreatment was not substantiated. When criminals masquerade as Child Protectors all one hundred percent of child “removals” become highly suspect and these criminals are the worst possible kind: Destroyers of children and families, hypocritically playing the part of saintly child protectors” ( Jenny Hopps. 2011). As you can see, the ones that are there to protect our children and keep them safe, are the ones harming them the most. It is unfair to take children form great, loving parents. It is hurtful, feels like you are slowly suffering. It leaves permanent scars. Well, my purpose for this paper was to inform others of this serious moral dilemma that is going on right in our own back yard. Not only that but we are helping to fund these criminal acts. To me this is a form of terrorism. They can come in our homes in the middle of the night and take our children by force without due cause. They do not allow us due process. They strip them of their true existence as to leave no trail. They use our children as commodities and sex toys. The worst part is that nothing is being done about this. There is talk of a national lawsuit, where all of us victims come together and sue. The money will never make up for our loss, but they need to pay. The one thing that would hurt them the most is taking their precious dollars. Well, I hope that I opened some eyes to this matter. We cannot fix something that we do not know is a problem. Child Protective Services, the ones that are supposed to protect children are guilty of kidnapping, child trafficking, and abusing our children. This needs to stop immediately.

References
James. (2009). Child Protective Services EXPOSED. (para. 1). http://www.youtube.com Roberts. (2009). Mass CPS Corruption. WLKY 32 News Channel http://www.WLKY.com Garneau & Allen. (2012). Child Protective Services Social Worker: Job Description and Requirements. (p.1). http://education-portal.com/articles/Child_Protective_Services_Socail_Worker_Job_Description J.M. (2010). The Truth About CPS. (p.1). http://www.beatcpsnow.com/page.html Schaefer. (2008). CPS Steals Children for Profit- Your Tax Dollars in Action. (para.1). http://www.youtube.com Nolt. (2005). CPS Kidnapping Special. (para.2). http://www.youtube.com Burns. (2011). CPS Kidnapping Special. (para.3). http://www.youtube.com Schaefer. (2008). Kidjacked. To Seize Control of a Child by Use of Force. (p.4). http://kidjacked.com/family/schaefer.asp Faulconer. (1994). In the Best Interest of Children?. Jstor. Ashford Online Library http://www.jstor.org/stable/585413 Hoose & Dortch. (2007). CPS Crimes. (clip 1). Channel WLKY News http://www.WLKY.com Moore. (2007). Social Workers Allege Child Protective Services Abuses.(p.1). http://www.WLKY.com CPS Case Law. (2008). Families Regulating Authority Under Duress. (pp.1-4). http://www.futureamericanhistory.net/cpscaselaw.htm Hopps. (2011). Austin News. Crime and Punishment: Child Protective Services Busted. http://www.youtube.com Some Extra References You May be Interested In
Facebook. Com. Pages as follows: Mothers who want their children back, Florida Mother’s Call to Action, Occupy Adoption, Desperately Searching for Aleena and Christian, and the list goes on.
You Tube. Just type in CPS and Corruption, Is CPS Involved in Child Trafficking?, Does CPS Hate Children, CPS Workers with criminal Records, The Truth About CPS. The list goes on