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Abused Swan
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Comstock Park, MI 49321
United States
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Child Protective Services
The Terrible Truth About
Child Protective Services and
Organized Crime Management
in Government
by James Roger Brown
"Beginning about 1973, criminal elements in the mental health and social work professions began cooperating to construct an organized criminal enterprise that exploits children behind the legislated secrecy of the child protection, juvenile justice, and mental health systems."
The contemporary end result is a nationwide organized criminal operation that uses everything from sophisticated science-fraud-based "evaluation" instruments structured to produce false positives to third party state service contracts written to sustain a system of structural corruption in which state employees and contract service providers must falsify records and testimony or they will not continue to be employed or paid.
To maintain their existence, organized criminal operations must construct management bureaucracies with policies and procedures necessary to sustain daily operations, just like any other bureaucracy. The only adaptation required to run criminal operations in the government and quasi-government agencies which constitute the child protection system is that they must be integrated into the policies and procedures of the umbrella agency and not be detected as components of a criminal bureaucracy.
The existence of organized crime in the child protection system of any given state is not that difficult to detect. Prominent among the indicators are:
(1) the annual number of founded child abuse allegations can be predicted from the number of conditional federal grant and reimbursement salary fund dollars needed to balance the state child protection agency payroll (the number of children taken into state custody each year will be the number sufficient to generate the federal fund claims necessary to balance the agency payroll); and
(2) third party contracts to file state child protection agency federal fund claims will contain provisions that only compensate the contractor for increases in federal funds paid to the state over and above the amount paid in the previous contract for such claim filing services. The latter creates a system that will only result in compensation to the contractor if the number of children taken into state custody constantly increases and/or the total claims generated from each child in state custody increases each contract cycle. The net result is a system in which everyone stays employed only if the number of founded child abuse cases and children taken into state custody always increases and never decreases. An important byproduct of this criminal process of exploiting children independent of the true child abuse rate is the blind political support for the criminal operations generated by the constant flow of conditional federal funds into the respective State's economy.
There are similar lessons to be drawn from the embarrassment of the Bush Administration over numerous ignored warnings that Osama bin Laden planned to hijack planes and fly them into buildings and the embarrassment of Florida Officials having to explain fifteen months of falsified child protection records, sworn court testimony that Rilya Wilson was in Florida State custody and doing fine, and falsified federal fund claims for services delivered to a child that may have been dead the entire time.
After the collapse of the World Trade Center, both the American Public and terrorists worldwide now know the United States is vulnerable to attack, due in large part to corruption, incompetence and mismanagement in intelligence and law enforcement agencies. After the Rilya Wilson case in Florida, the Public and every child molester, pornographer and other criminal who need children for their misdeeds know that the corruption, incompetence and mismanagement in the child protection system can be exploited as cover to acquire children for their own illicit purposes.
What happened to Rilya Wilson in Florida can happen in any state where the current organized criminal exploitation of children is allowed to continue. Sooner or later other criminals, including child molesters and child pornographers, are going to become sufficiently aware of the mechanisms the current organized criminals are using to manage their criminal bureaucracy that they will also be able to exploit the system, as were the people who reportedly kidnapped Rilya Wilson and returned a week later to collect her clothes. Among the obvious possibilities is obtaining information about the criminal activity (falsifying federal claims, official reports, insurance claims, etc.) of individual state employees or licensed professionals, like psychiatrists and psychologist, and blackmailing them to allow access to children for criminal exploitation or perversion.
Austin, Texas DHS Supervisor committed suicide after allegedly being caught running a foster child prostitution ring from his office computer. In a recent Arkansas Legislative Session, a bill drafted by Arkansas Department of Human Services employees was discovered to contain provisions that would have required employees to lie about records and facts, even if subpoenaed. The bill was withdrawn once the Legislator duped into being the primary sponsor was made aware of its contents. In a June 6, 2002, opinion, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that an infant Arkansas citizen had been illegally transferred to Florida State custody in what was essentially an interstate criminal conspiracy to seize and transport children in complete disregard of State and Federal law. (See Arkansas Department of Human Services v Cox, Supreme Court of Arkansas No. 01-1021, 349ark, issue 3, sc 9, 6 June 2002 http://courts.state.ar.us/opinions/2002a/20020606/01-1021.wpd)
The important point being that these child protection system criminals will be pushing the envelop on what they can get away with, as in these examples, and sometimes that envelop will rupture, as in the Rilya Wilson case, exposing not only the criminals but government officials and private citizens who were indirectly benefiting from the criminal activity. The important question being how sophisticated, brutal and embarrassing will organized crime in the child protection system be allowed to become before it is addressed.
The recent horror story of a fifteen-month delay in Florida officials discovering that foster child Rilya Wilson had apparently been kidnapped by persons knowledgeable of the inner workings of the child protection system was due to the systematic falsification of child protection system records. This falsification of child protection system records is part of a national pattern of organized crime. It is not an isolated incident. In the Rilya Wilson case, even the Foster Mother continued to receive and accept payments for the care of Rilya over a year after the child disappeared. Caseworkers reportedly told her to take the money.
If I may be of further assistance, please contact me at:
James Roger Brown
Director
THE SOCIOLOGY CENTER
P.O. Box 2075
Little Rock, AR 72115
(501) 374-1788
thesociologist@aol.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86IHL8L9tIo
State panel urges child welfare reform
Catherine Jun / The Detroit News
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Lansing
-- A state-appointed task force has identified serious deficiencies in
Michigan 's child welfare system and is calling for dramatic reforms.A new, 89-page draft report detailed systemic problems, including the state's over-reliance on outside-of-home placement of children, a lack of uniform screening of children and families for treatment and a lack of collaboration among agencies to provide uninterrupted help.
The report's findings, posted on the Michigan Department of Human Services Web site, present a rare, self-critical look at the state's safety net for children who are victims of abuse and neglect or caught in the juvenile justice system. The report was drafted by the Michigan Child Welfare Improvement Task Force, established last year by Ismael Ahmed, director of the state Department of Human Resources.
The report, which also makes ambitious recommendations to overhaul the department's priorities, is significant because many of its findings echo concerns some child advocacy groups have been citing for years.
"Over and over and over again, the report says what we say: Michigan takes away too many children who could have safely remained in their own homes had the right kinds of help been made available," said Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, based in Alexandria, Va.
The task force found that state funding was disproportionately going toward programs such as foster care or group living, which pull children from their homes, rather than funding abuse or delinquency prevention programs.
The task force said there is a disproportionate number of African-American and Native American children in the child welfare system. The situation in part reflects an apparent bias welfare workers have against black parents, while a lack of consideration of tribal sovereignty laws is cited for the latter group.
Several changes require cooperation from the courts and state legislators, like revising Medicaid policy to increase mental health treatment for children.
In some reform recommendations, funding could be the greatest obstacle. Gov. Jennifer Granholm has proposed $10 million in cuts to the department for 2010.
"You can take the same dollars and just figure out where to put them in the system," said Sen. Gilda Jacobs. "(But) there is going to be less of it."
The task force -- which consists of 85 lawmakers, child welfare advocates and university officials -- was formed last year in the midst of a class-action lawsuit against the state filed by the New York-based advocacy group Children's Rights.
"This is not an attack on the department," said Pat Babcock, co-chair of the task force and former department director. "This is to revitalize and give new direction to child welfare services."
Ahmed, who would be in charge of carrying out the recommendations, was not available for comment.
"The Michigan Department of Human Services is already undergoing child welfare reform as we seek to protect the state's vulnerable children, adults and families," said Gisgie Dávila Gendreau, spokeswoman for the department. She said the department has been working with the courts, for example, to increase the number of children who are moved to permanent homes.
Sheryl Calloway of the Association for Children's Mental Health in southwest
Detroit helps birth parents get counseling, drug treatment or suitable housing needed to reunite with their children. She said if the department focused more on keeping families together rather than relocating children, families may be more inclined to seek help earlier.
"People don't really feel like,
'They're here to help me,' " she said.
"They feel like the finger is being pointed at them."
Mass CPS Corruption
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Abused Swan
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United States
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