Nathan Larson, admitted pedophile, recommends adopting children for the purpose of using them as sex toys. Photo from his now-defunct website, NathanLarson.org.

by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

An independent candidate running for office in Virginia has admitted to being a pedophile. Nathan Larson is a 37-year-old accountant running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s 10th district.

As his extremely disturbing views on child rape, white supremacy, and more have come to light, the first reaction of many has been to hope that this was fake news.

Sadly, it is not. Huffington Post reported the story last last week, and since then, many media outlets from Newsweek and The Hill to Fox and CBS have covered the story of the admitted pedophile.

HuffPo‘s Jesselyn Cook conducted a phone interview with him and confirmed that he was the creator of websites suiped.org and incelocalypse.today, which Cook describes as “chat rooms that served as gathering places for pedophiles and violence-minded misogynists like himself.” The websites were taken down last week.

His campaign manifesto for his congressional run has since been taken down also, but an archived copy is available here.

Between the interview, the websites, and his manifesto, there are enough vile, disgusting, radical views to keep the media occupied for days. The level of depravity within his writings is difficult to comprehend, and frankly, it turns the stomach.

There is one aspect of his demented views that has garnered very little press. Yet, for readers who are concerned about the kidnapping of children for the adoption and foster care industry, it is an aspect that must not be overlooked. It reveals a very dark side to the industry that the media, even now, refuses to address.

He confirmed to HuffPo that he wrote under the pseudonyms Leucosticte and Lysander. Under those names he has written to his followers who are pedophiles like him that they should endeavor to make enough money so that they can adopt children – for the purpose of using them as sex toys.

Warning: Graphic and Disturbing Language

Huffington Post reported:

As Lysander on suiped.org, a forum for “suicidal pedophiles,” Larson wrote numerous posts endorsing child rape and other forms of sexual abuse.

Not long after this, Finn committed suicide. Larson only saw his daughter once, under supervision. The Colorado Springs Independent states that the maternal grandparents have custody of the baby.

While it is obvious that he has no business having custody of his daughter, it may not be so obvious that Larson’s views about adoption are not isolated. Most with his views don’t speak so openly about them, but the numbers make it clear that there are many who participate in fostering and adopting for the purposes of gratifying their deviant desires.

This is a very ugly part of the adoption industry that is difficult to talk about, and it is difficult for people to hear. But we must see it. Sick people who engage in such acts can and do foster and adopt children, and much of that happens through the Child “Protective” System.

Though certainly not every adopter shares views similar to Larson’s, there are many who do.

Health Impact News has long warned that part of the reason that children are stolen from their parents is to provide children for the sex trafficking trade. The more that we learn, the more that we realize how much more common this is than we ever knew.

Foster Care to Sex Trafficking Pipeline

Earlier this year we reported that Attorney Michael Dolce wrote an opinion piece for Newsweek in which he explained that the foster care system is basically set up to sexually traffic children. He wrote:

Here’s the ugly truth: most Americans who are victims of sex trafficking come from our nation’s own foster care system. It’s a deeply broken system that leaves thousands vulnerable to pimps as children and grooms them for the illegal sex trade as young adults.

We have failed our children by not fixing the systemic failures that have allowed this to happen for decades.

See:

Attorney Reporting in Newsweek: Foster Care is a System Set Up to Sex Traffic American Children

1000 Convicted Sex Offenders in LA Approved as Fosters

Filmmaker Sean Stone interviewed Tammi Stefano, Executive Director of The National Safe Child Coalition, in 2015. Tammi revealed some shocking information about the unholy alliance between Child Protective Services and the child sex trafficking trade:

Stefano replied that what she discovered, and what the Los Angeles Times was kind enough to publish, was that 1000 “convicted sex offenders” had been given a “green light” by CPS to become “approved foster parents” just in Los Angeles County.

Filmmaker Sean Stone interviews Tammi Stefano. Image from YouTube.

CPS Putting Children into Sex Trafficking is a Huge Problem

At around the 25:15 point in the interview, Stone and Stefano begin to discuss the child sex trafficking problem. When Stone asks Stefano if she has encountered sex trafficking among children, she replies: “We need to cover it a lot more.”

As an example, she mentioned a sex trafficking case with CPS in Orange County, California last year. Stefano says that of 105 sexually abused victims that were found in this case, 65% of those victims were in the foster care system under CPS control, and they were allegedly never reported missing. Stefano says:

What we are finding now is this trafficking is a lot bigger, and a lot more involved politically, than we care to look at, or the media won’t cover. Everybody is afraid, because there are some really big heavy hitters that are very influential that are involved.

Children have been sold, and there have been cases, where children have been sold up to 75 times in one day. 75 times in one day…. someone has abused this child.

The child trafficking industry, or human trafficking industry right now, makes more money than the illegal drug trade, and illegal arms trade, combined. 

So, children are definitely a commodity. They are a commodity to make money.

See:

Child Sex Trafficking through Child “Protection” Services Exposed – Kidnapping Children for Sex

State-Kidnapped Child Given to Pedophile

We reported the tragic story of beautiful little Devani of Arizona, stolen from her mother for bogus reasons, and placed by Arizona Department of Child Services (DCS) with a man who used her in his pedophile pornography ring and committed horrible acts of sexual violence against her.

Devani, “the little girl in the blue dress,” was a victim of a pedophile foster parent. Photo from AZ Childrens Lives Matter Facebook page.

Devani was not his first, or his last, victim. Despite obvious clues that he was raping foster and adoptive children, social workers continued to place innocent children with this monster, who is finally in prison serving a 17-year sentence for his crimes. See:

Arizona Child Removed from Loving Family and Placed into Foster Care Where She was Repeatedly Raped – then 80% of Body Burned

Arizona Foster Care System Revealed as Pedophile Ring: Former Foster Child Tortured for Years Sues for $15 Million

State Auditor Finds CPS Doesn’t Consider Sexual Abuse of Children Problematic

Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump was horrified to find that Child Protective Services in her state does not view child sexual abuse of foster children to be a serious problem:

Sexual abuse to children is not considered to be a critical incident, because DCF, in their own words, did not consider sexual abuse to cause serious bodily harm or extreme physical pain.

See:

Massachusetts State Auditor Finds Widespread Rape and Sexual Abuse in Foster Care but DCF Officials Won’t Report It

Our experience at Health Impact News in talking with children and adults who were in the foster care/adoptive system is that rape and sexual molestation is quite common in the system. Most reported it to their social workers, but very few saw any type of investigation. Most of the time the incidents were swept under the rug.

It Is All About the Money

Foster care and adoption have never been about what is best for the children. It is about the money – billions of dollars of federal money that come to the states, rewarding and incentivizing the taking of children. Because the bottom line is the money to be made, social workers, supervisors, attorneys, and judges turn a blind eye to the plight of children. It doesn’t matter to the system that children are placed with monsters who want to use the children as sex toys.

See:

The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking

Child Kidnapping and Trafficking: A Lucrative U.S. Business Funded by Taxpayers Called “Foster Care”

As long as there is money to be made by doing so, and as long as there is no one held accountable for the horrific outcomes to the children placed with traffickers and other child molesting fosters and adopters, the practice will likely continue.

People with views like Larson’s exist, in the shadows and on the approved adopter rolls. If his open views shock you, please understand that he is not alone. A growing segment of our society, including those in the entertainment industry, wants to normalize pedophilia. See:

Why I Canceled My Netflix Account and You Should Too: Promoting Pedophilia is NOT OK!

Isn’t it time we fight to end this evil, corrupt system called “foster care?”

We recently published an article rebutting Lisa Wheeler’s call in the National Review to have more churches participate in the Foster Care program:

State-funded Foster Care and The Church: Part of the Problem, NOT Part of the Solution

The comments we received in social media on this article were mostly from Christian foster parents defending their role in an admittedly corrupt system.

But instead of trying to recruit more foster parents from churches, should not churches and Christians nationwide be working together to abolish such an evil system, allowing churches and other Christian organizations to work directly with families and children in need without state funding?

The current government-funded foster care system is a failed system, beyond reform, and it needs to be abolished. This was the conclusion the late Georgia Senator Nancy Schaefer came to, but she was murdered and did not live long enough to try to accomplish this goal.

Senator Nancy Schaefer: Did her Fight Against CPS Child Kidnapping Cause her Murder?

Molly McGrath Tierney, the former Director of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, is another one who believes the system is completely broken.

She gave one of the most insightful TEDx talks about the problems with the “Foster Care Industry” – an industry where children become a commodity that profits doctors, lawyers, judges, social workers, advocates, and other organizations, an industry that can only exist by taking other people’s children, an industry that damages the very children it purports to be helping. She goes on to explain the trauma inflicted on children by the foster care industry, saying:

… we’re digging a wound so deep, I don’t believe we have a way of measuring it. This dismantling of families – it has enormous consequences. Kids that grow up outside of families – they don’t master the things that can only be learned in that context, like who to trust, how to love, and how to take care of yourself, and that frankly does more damage than the abuse and neglect that brought the kid to my attention in the first place.

Statistics show that up to 85% of children put into foster care are NOT for reasons of abuse. Statistics also show that children taken out of “troubled homes” fare far worse in foster care than if they had been left in their homes with their biological parents (source), most of whom are just simply poor.

Being poor should not be a reason for the state to take away your children and give them to others. Most of the billions of dollars spent on CPS, foster care, and adoption could be much better utilized helping poor families improve their living conditions and providing a better environment for their children, rather than removing the children and putting them into a system rife with sex trafficking.

For the few children that truly need new homes, local communities are in the best position to care for these children, with local institutions such as churches and other non-profits, who are held accountable to their communities and supporters.

We don’t need a multi-BILLION dollar federal foster care system that is nothing more than a child trafficking business.

Note: If the videos on this page do not work, it probably means they have been removed from Facebook and Youtube. Several people are downloading them as fast as possible, and we should be able to replace them should that happen.

This article contains graphic videos and graphic language in the videos! Not suitable for younger audiences.

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

A few days ago, a group of veterans based out of Tucson, Arizona, known as Veterans on Patrol (VOP), stumbled upon what they have good evidence to believe is a child sex camp. The group was searching for homeless veterans, part of their mission in trying to prevent veteran suicides. This is a worthy mission, considering the fact that more soldiers die by suicide than by combat. (Source.)

On May 29th, the group was out with another organization called American Rehab Campuses, trying to pull drug addicts off of the streets, particularly those caught up in the opiod crisis.

Image from Facebook.

They stumbled upon something by chance, and it was in a known human trafficking corridor with ties to the Mexican Cartels.

This is apparently the first report published by VOP’s Lewis Arthur on what happened that night:

When they found a structure powered by solar lights, they knew right away they had found something that certainly was not constructed by homeless people or drug addicts.

They found an underground chamber where young children apparently had been imprisoned, presumably as part of a pedophile sex trafficking ring. Here is a video recording of the underground chamber:

The group alerted local law enforcement and Homeland Security to investigate, and to bring out “cadaver dogs” to look for bodies, but they would not respond.

After nearly 24 hours of no Investigator showing and the Department of Homeland Security making a PHONE ASSESSMENT declaring that no Human Trafficking was occurring in our area… Alpha Company invited Fox News to come get a first hand look at rape trees, an underground child prison cell, and new construction going in to expand child holding capabilities. This is occurring not on our Border… but in our own City… Tucson, Arizona.

The Child Sex Traffickers took a hit when VOP and ARC discovered their secret Camp… but they will just move on and start again elsewhere (unless we find them first, and we are looking.)

The mission was named Operation Backyard Brawl, #operationbackyardbrawl.

As of last night, Sunday June 3, 2018, Lewis Arthur and another American veteran were in a stand-off with local authorities who were trying to stop their investigation, and they fully expected government forces to execute them.

But things began turning around for them today, Monday June 4th.

Child Sex Camp was Allegedly Built by a Company Called Cemex

After two days with no response from anyone with the government, law enforcement, or the people owning the property, a clearly irritated Lewis Arthur of VOP posted the following video stating that his team was taking over the land to prevent further sexual abuse of children, and that they were going to disassemble the camp and drop it off at the door of DHS headquarters

“We will do what the Government fails to do… We will stop undeterred Child Sex Trafficking by occupying Cartel Territory.” (Source.)

Caution! Graphic material in this video, including images of “child rape trees” and graphic language.

On June 1st, local law enforcement did show up, but NOT in response to VOP’s complaint. The company that had provided a 30 year lease to a Mexican company for the property, which was an abandoned strip mine, had a female representative make an official complaint and asked the police to remove VOP from the property. She claimed that the Mexican company leasing the property, itself also allegedly a mining company, was simply bringing rock and other material to dump on the land. Since VOP had thoroughly investigated the property at this time, they saw no evidence for their claims.

In fact, VOP was cleaning up the land, fixing the fences, and securing the property – a free service any land owner would be happy to receive.

VOP responded to the police that they were not going to leave, and that they were in an official “stand off.”

VOP finally found out the name of the company who owned the property, and it is Cemex. Cemex had their attorneys make a complaint to the police asking them to remove VOP, or else they would send their own security to remove them.

Who is Cemex? Others have investigated the company and found out some things about them.

They have connections to powerful people such as the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation:

According to Bizapedia, the address of Cemex is 1501 BELVEDERE ROAD WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33406.

But a search finds 186 companies using the exact same address. (Source.)

Other, more sinister things are being reported on the Internet, but Health Impact News has not been able to verify those claims yet.

Local Media Finally Shows Up

On a June 2nd update, Lewis Arthur reported that people were starting to come to the camp, and those who did so, had no doubts about VOP’s claims that the area was being used for child sex trafficking, as the evidence was overwhelming.

Things were beginning to heat up on social media, and on June 3rd a local media station sent out a reporter. Apparently, someone had contacted their news station reporting that someone was just building shelters for the homeless and that VOP was making a big deal out of nothing. When the reporter arrived, she allegedly did not even talk to anyone on the VOP team who had done all the investigating work, nor come to their headquarters to view the evidence.

At the conclusion of their “investigative report,” the reporter said:

“So is this a homeless camp, or is it a camp that was trafficking children? We don’t know. But we’ll find out for you, and let you know.”

Here is VOP’s version:

Pleas for Help!

By day five, Larson’s voice is obviously tired and frustrated. He talks about how they have been abandoned by our government who refuses to send out help, leaving them in harms way in a known cartel sex trafficking corridor as they stand guard to ensure no more children are molested.

He appeals for help. He asks people to share their story, and to call the sheriff department to grant their request to have cadaver dogs (to search for buried dead bodies) come out.

He makes it clear that federal agents are not welcome, and will be considered as trespassing. All local law enforcement are welcome to come.

Approved for immediate release:

Walking for the Forgotten Ministry, on behalf of its Veteran Suicide Prevention Program called Veterans On Patrol, is calling on Sheriff Mark Napier of Pima County to:

Declare a County State of Emergency for:

The expansion of human trafficking, child rape, child torture, and child murder going undeterred by Coyotes working for Mexican Cartels, MS13, and Independent Contractors.

The failure of the Federal Government to secure newly discovered Child Sex Camps and investigate Cemex’s dealings with a “Company” who has turned over Leased property to both Local and Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

The failure of the Federal Government to enforce existing Laws and Regulations which prohibits a spent and abandoned mining property from being unsecured.

In addition:

We request our Elected Sheriff to assist us in searching the I-19 Corridor for a network of underground holding cells and hidden Child Sex Camps.

We request our Elected Sheriff to utilize his Constitutional Powers to prevent the Federal Government from taking any action against VOP and its Allies who have joined in the SAR Operation.

We request our Elected Sheriff to lead all negotiations as they relate to VOP’s occupation of the Private Property Owner and Leasee who are complicit through neglect or willful participation that lead to the trafficking, rape, suspected abduction, and potential murder of children (and possibly women.) Source.

The sheriff office apparently declined to help, as VOP posted this:

Our Sheriff’s Office informed our Teams that Mark Napier does not respond to calls requesting him to come out and the Sheriff’s Department doesn’t respond to calls within Tucson City Limits. Please call 520-351-4900 and demand our Elected Official to listen to his Constituents which include both Federal and State Employees who have taken huge risks to stand up against this evil. CALL and SHARE.

As of early June 3rd, VOP was asking the public for support. They invited the public to come out and see the evidence for themselves, and make phone calls to their local elected officials if they live in Arizona.

The rush was on now to gather and secure as much evidence as possible, before it is destroyed. They are finding lots of children items such as jewelry, clothes, toys, etc. They have reportedly found bloodied items like women’s panties, and other gruesome things that totally disproves the theory some in the corporate media want to promote as a homeless camp.

Throughout the videos posted on their FB page, Larson makes it clear that they do NOT want to fight the government. They just want the local government to either come out and help them, or stay out of their way until they finish their mission.

Opposition Increases

By June 3rd, Facebook videos began to disappear, and it was obvious that efforts were in place to suppress the evidence they had gathered. A SWAT team was brought to the property. So they began moving some of the evidence to other locations.

Here is one video that apparently disappeared from their Facebook Page, but is available on the Internet in other places.

Larson invited families from Tucson who have lost their children to come out and look at their collection of child items that they had gathered to see if they could identify them as belonging to their children:

Police Move In – Arrest Gate Guards

On a June 3rd post, Larson explains how two of their volunteer guards at the entrance to the property, a father and son team, were arrested. They were just standing there letting people through, and offered no resistance.

The police apparently locked everyone in, and tensions began to rise. They began to make plans to evacuate all of the children.

Larson gives an impassioned plea for help:

A Desperate Plea to Americans to Help as They Expect Local Authorities to Execute Them

As of Sunday night, only Larson and one other member were on the property. Here are the updates by Larson from Sunday night, June 3rd.  He makes it clear that they are unarmed, which puts them in danger from the cartel.

In each video his voice is fading. People are coming by and shooting guns trying to intimidate them. Other local Hispanics actually support them. He has been up for more than 24 hours. They have solar power to keep their camera phones charged and keep broadcasting.

New Developments Today, Monday June 4th

In a video recorded early Monday morning, Larson explains that they might finally get their cadaver dogs. He reveals that he received a call from Washington D.C. explaining that the reason all of this has been happening is because the Indian reservation bordering the property is allegedly holding a key cartel leader, and that they might have to kill him if he keeps up his occupation and media coverage.

Larson is not totally convinced, and makes it clear he is more concerned about saving kids than saving a drug cartel leader. He calls on other veterans who are considering suicide to come out and help them uncover and guard the evidence, to help stop child sex trafficking, which would give their lives great meaning.

Later in the morning, Larson’s voice is visibly hoarse, and it is hard for him to talk. He states that volunteers are on the way with their own cadaver dogs. He appreciates all the support people are showing, and states he got 3 hours of sleep.

This video shows many people showing up to help and talking to him, and police are apparently no longer hindering him.

The last video posted just before publication of this article, shows Larson explaining that local law enforcement is no longer hindering them, and allowing people to come and help VOP continue their investigation. Their two team members who were arrested, were reportedly released.

How did this dramatic turn around happen? Apparently Larson cannot publicly reveal that at this time.

Things are still changing by the hour, and updates can be found at the VOP Facebook Page.

But for now, it appears that Larson’s persistence and faith in God have prevailed. Throughout the videos he expresses his faith that God was protecting and leading him.

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Other stories about pedophilia in Arizona:

Arizona Places 2 Year Old Child in Foster Pornographic Pedophile Ring – Foster Mom Burns 80% of Her Body

Arizona Child Removed from Loving Family and Placed into Foster Care Where She was Repeatedly Raped – then 80% of Body Burned

June 8, 2018, marks the one-year anniversary of Baby Steffen’s death. Photo source – Reunite the Rivenburgs Facebook page.

by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

Friday, June 8, 2018, marks the 1-year anniversary of the tragic death of medically kidnapped Baby Steffen Rivenburg at Vanderbilt Hospital, under the care of Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (DCS). His big sister, Annalise, remains in foster care and DCS is, again, trying to terminate parental rights.

There will be a march and candlelight vigil in Baby Steffen’s honor on Friday, June 8th, at the Nashville State Capitol building, followed by a Saturday afternoon event with several speakers discussing judicial accountability, family integrity, and other issues important to families. The public is invited to attend.

Baby Steffen’s story was one of the most heart-wrenching stories that we have covered at Health Impact News, and there still remains no justice for the family.

At times, over the past year, it appeared that Annalise might be coming home.

The family is still fighting to bring Annalise home. Photo source – Reunite the Rivenburgs Facebook page.

However, about 2 weeks ago, the family received a letter in the mail telling them to be in court on Monday, June 11, because DCS intends to file to terminate parental rights and accuse parents Steffen Rivenburg Sr. and Patricia Thornberg of “dependency and neglect.”

See their original story:

Medically Kidnapped Baby Scheduled for Execution TODAY!

The grounds to TPR remain the same as they were in the beginning. As we reported in the first article:

His parents missed 3 doctors appointments due to car troubles. Each one was rescheduled. One of these was for a voluntary visit with a Down Syndrome clinic.

Annalise missed some school in the meantime. Patricia and Steffen Sr. were in the process of searching for an “umbrella school” – a homeschool cover school that they could use in order to legally homeschool in the state of Tennessee. They recognized that the baby’s heart condition and upcoming surgeries created conditions under which homeschooling would work better for their family.

We spoke with grandmother, Lisa Rivenburg, who is the unofficial spokesperson for the family. She said that, though the parents have done everything that has been asked of them by DCS, Annalise is still not home. The family is devastated by the letter.

Annalise crying with her mother at Baby Steffen’s funeral. Photo source – Reunite the Rivenburgs Facebook page.

They currently have no attorney. They have talked with many possible attorneys, but without money, no one will take the case. Most lawyers told them that they “don’t handle” DCS cases.

They recently found one attorney who sounded very confident that he could get Annalise back, until they discussed money. He needs $4,500 to represent them. They don’t have it. Lisa tearfully told us:

There’s nothing else to sell.

The Rivenburg family is facing what many families face when their children are taken by the system – they do not have the money to fight the system, a system that has unlimited funding at its disposal, paid for by tax dollars.

This is a major reason that the poor are disproportionately represented in the numbers of families whose children are taken away from them to be placed in foster care and/or adopted out to strangers. They simply don’t have the money to fight back.

They want to file a malpractice lawsuit based on the results of Baby Steffen’s private autopsy, but they cannot find an attorney willing to go pro bono against Vanderbilt and DCS.

Court on Monday, June 11th, will be before the same judge who ruled that Baby Steffen could be taken off of life support over the wishes of his parents, Judge Wayne Shelton of the Montgomery County Juvenile Court in Clarksville, Tennessee.

It will take a miracle to bring justice to this heartbroken family and bring Annalise home.

March and Candlelight Vigil on Friday, June 8th, in Nashville at 2 p.m.

From the Tennessee JAM (Judicial Accountability Movement) for Families Facebook event page:

Baby Steffen Rivenburg was killed while in DCS custody June 8, 2017. This event has been scheduled to coincide with the anniversary of his tragic death. His story was covered extensively by Terri LaPoint on MedicalKidnap.com –

Tennessee Family Seeks Lawsuit for Malpractice, Negligence, and Wrongful Death Over Down Syndrome Baby Taken Off of Life Support

We are planning to meet up [in] downtown Nashville at 2:00 p.m. Friday, June 8, and march on the sidewalk on Charlotte Pike from the Supreme Court Bldg. 401 7th Ave. N, Nashville, to the Capitol, to the Historic Courthouse then across the Woodland Street Bridge to the Juvenile Justice Center 100 Woodland St., Nashville, 37213.

At 8:00 p.m. June 8, we will be having a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Baby Steffen and all the people who have died or who live in constant pain because of judicial corruption. We can reconvene at the sidewalk between Legislative Plaza and the Capitol Building.

I want this to not only be a remembrance of a tragic death, but also a celebration of family.

Photo source – Reunite the Rivenburgs Facebook page.

According to the organizers of the event:

What happened to Baby Steffen was the most horrible abuse by court order I have ever heard of. People need to understand what happened and that we have to rein in the judges.

Lisa Rivenburg requested that supporters wear blue and yellow, in honor of Down Syndrome.

More information about Friday’s events can be found at the Facebook event page – Nashville March on the TN Capitol and Candlelight Vigil here.

Saturday Educational Event

Tennessee JAM (Judicial Accountability Movement) will be hosting a free event the following day, which will bring together speakers involved in various aspects of the family rights movement. The public is invited to attend.

One of the speakers is Lisa Belanger, a Massachusetts attorney and contributor to Health Impact News on the topic of the medical kidnapping of senior citizens and guardianship abuse.

She began her fight against this corruption when her own father was medically kidnapped. While she still fights for him, she now fights for other families and has become a leading voice on the topic of adult medical kidnapping.

Attorney Lisa Belanger. Photo source.

See:

Massachusetts Senior Citizen and Attorney Medically Kidnapped – Estate Plundered – Represents National Epidemic

Adults Medically Kidnapped: 3X More than Children in Foster Care – $50 BILLION in Assets Seized

Tennessee JAM For Families has issued a press release about the event:

Date- June 9, 2018

Time–12:30-4:30

Location-Nashville Public Library, Goodlettsville Branch,

                2025 Rivergate Pkwy, Goodlettsville, TN 37072

The purpose of the event is to support family integrity and strong communities by identifying and exposing problems in our judicial system and other areas of government, and by developing and implementing solutions to those problems.  We encourage citizens of all ages to join us in our efforts to effectively address these issues that, either directly or indirectly, affect us all. Our collaborative efforts echo the timeless lessons by Dr. Martin Luther King,

“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”

This event is “family friendly” and there will be childcare and activities available for young children and light refreshments will be served.

Presenters:

-Terri LaPoint, from Alabama, is a passionate advocate for families and for pro-life issues. She writes for Medical Kidnap, a division of Health Impact News, working to reunite families and expose injustice that is destroying families all across America. She is a contributing author to the book, Medical Kidnapping: A Threat to Every Family in America. http://www.MedicalKidnap.com

-Lisa Belanger, Attorney-at-Law from Massachusetts, addressing court interference in the relationships between adult children and their elderly parents, or the “medical kidnapping” of adults.  http://www.FreeMarvin.com

-Victoria Onorato  From Chicago, IL., Victoria Onorato will be speaking on judicial corruption that is destroying our families and our country; how we need to work together to protect our children and stop the judicial abuse; and how to encourage reunification and healing. http://www.FamilyLegalActionFoundation.com

-Connie Reguli, Attorney-at-Law, LawCare Family Law Center in Brentwood, TN, http://TennFamilyFaw.com/ and founder of the Family Forward Foundation, which is a national organization dedicated to the rights of familial integrity, and the rights of parents and children to be free from unreasonable intrusion of the government, as protected by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.  Connie will be speaking on “How Federal Funding Corupts the Child Welfare System” and “Advocacy In Child Welfare and Family Courts” https://FamilyForwardFoundation.com

-Tammy Bennett-Daughtry, MMFT, is the Founder and CEO of Co-parenting International, Nashville, TN, launched in January 2004 as a resource to address the critical impact of co-parenting on children of divorce. Since 2004, co-parenting seminars, evening classes, newsletters and one-on-one sessions have helped change thousands of lives.

Co-Parenting Works! Working Together to Help Your Children Thrive is Tammy’s newest book on the critical topic of co-parenting.

https://CoParentingInternational.com/

-Jay Daughtry, MMFT (Center for Modern Family Dynamics) from Nashville–will be speaking on GRIEF AND LOSS

The Center for Modern Family Dynamics is a counseling-based organization committed to the restoration, support and edification of individuals and families. We offer mental health services, products and seminars to adults, children, and families; we also focus on pre-marital therapy, single parent support, remarriage and stepfamily, divorce adjustment, and co-parenting between mom’s house and dad’s house. http://ModernFamilyDynamics.com/

-Brian Kinter (JAM Judicial Accountability Movement) from Ohio. The Judicial Accountability Movement (hereafter, “J.A.M.”) Is a professional, politically neutral, national activist organization headquartered in Springfield, Ohio.  The J.A.M. work towards accountability of and from our judiciary, in a concerted effort educating everyone on equal gender rights and a system of fairness that benefits all, by ensuring a fair, unbiased, competent and responsible judicial system. https://www.facebook.com/groups/jam2016/about/

-Mattie Shay Mitchell, Nashville, TN, with Liam Changed the World, Their Mission: To fund medical bills for sick children in hospitals, and provide basic hospital needs. They will also fund funerals, flowers, and headstones for children who pass away.  http://www.LiamChangedTheWorld.com

-Lydia A Hubbell, Nashville, TN, Facilitator.  Working to help bring people of all ages together to restore and maintain the integrity of the legal system and to support the right of families to be free from unwarranted government interference.  Tennessee JAM (Judicial Accountability Movement) TennJAM.com and CCLJA (Children Campaigning for Liberty and Justice in America) CCLJA.org

Musical Guest

Joyce the Voice, a singer/songwriter from CT, writes a mixed genre of songs to Live, Love, Laugh and Protest by. She has dedicated about 1/3 of her songs to be for the promotion of the Family Rights movement and for healing of herself and for others. She is co-administrator of the Facebook group, with Lydia A. Hubbell, called “Music and Arts for Parental Rights and Alienated/Foster Care Children”.

For more information, see the Facebook event page here.

Video below.

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Earlier this week, we reported that a local veterans group based in Tucson, Arizona, Veterans on Patrol, uncovered a child sex camp while out on patrol looking for homeless veterans to pull off of the streets. See our previous story:

BREAKING: Vet Group Finds Pedophile Child Sex Camp Near Tucson – Local Law Enforcement Refuses to Help as Tensions Rise

The corporate media, local law enforcement, and even many in social media have criticized the group for “making a big deal out of nothing.” Local police mocked them, asking them where their evidence was and where the victims were, in spite of the fact that they had been presented with much evidence that clearly contradicted the official police story that this was a “homeless camp.”

But today, Thursday, June 7th, events took a dramatic turn as VOP’s patrols uncovered a decomposing child’s skull and bones.

This child’s skull (size shown by putting a man’s shoe next to it) was reported still decomposing with an obvious stench. Image source VOP Facebook Page.

Here is the archived, originally live-streamed, video:

VOP Asks Some Questions of Tucson Police Live on Camera

By Monday this week, police were telling the local media that they had investigated the site, used a cadaver dog, and “found no evidence of child sex trafficking,” and concluded it was simply a homeless camp.

This “official story” was then fed to the local media. (See: No evidence to support child sex-trafficking claims at Tucson homeless camp, police say.)

Lewis Arthur of VOP then decided to visit the Tucson Police Department to ask them some questions about their conclusions, and to let them know of their own plans to continue “search and rescue” operations in the area.

He gives an invitation to the media who are constantly calling him:

This is what we are going to offer you. If you want to know what’s going on and what’s really happening, then you’re allowed to come down, and you can volunteer for one week. You go out and do a post. I am going to put you out on search and rescue.

The only way you are going to get the opportunity to even talk to me, is if you come down and you do one week’s volunteer service. You’re going to be in the heat with us…

So if you want to try and find a way to discredit us, the gate is wide open.

Arthur states that the questions he wants to ask the police are:

Do you have video evidence that a cadaver dog searched the area? Do you have credentials on the dog showing it has received proper training? They want to know why the property was bulldozed. Are they or are they not securing the property?

After waiting several minutes, Lieutenant Brian Parker received the task of talking to Arthur and his group.

The entire conversation was recorded and live-streamed on their Facebook Page. Here is a YouTube copy you can also watch:

It is obvious from the interview that both parties know each other well. The Lieutenant makes it clear he does not want a vigilante group operating, and that any crime found is to be reported promptly. Arthur replies by reminding the Lieutenant that this has always been the way they operate.

The main point of contention seems to be surrounding the “evidence.” The police acknowledge that they received the evidence VOP turned over to them, but that they are still examining it and no report has been issued yet.

This is obviously in contradiction of the local media reports that state the police looked at the evidence and already determined the scene was not a child sex crime scene.

Arthur challenges their claim that this is a homeless camp and explains that his group is the best authority on homeless camps, since that is their job: they go out and find homeless people and get them off the streets.

Who knows homeless camps better than me? We go out, and we’ve found thousands. When the city is trying to track them down, who do they send out? They send out VOP.

So you have the foremost authority on homeless camps in our city giving a report to the police that this is not a homeless camp.

Lieutenant Parker then makes this statement which is perhaps quite revealing:

What I understand is that the people who built that camp, the bunker, and the lady or child that was in there… that the people who built had a soft spot in their hearts for the homeless, or not the homeless, I’m sorry, the people who are coming up from Mexico….

The Mission Goes On: Request for Horses and Dirt Bikes to Cover More Ground

After today’s discovery of a decaying child’s body, VOP has made it clear that their search and rescue efforts will go on. They are calling on people to join them to help, including those who have horses and dirt bikes to cover more ground.

They might be racing against time. As they live-stream their efforts to let the world know what is going on, before anyone potentially has a chance to come in and shut them down and potentially bury all the evidence, they are also giving notice to any potential enemies in the area involved in pedophile sex trafficking, which may or may not include local authorities as well.

Now that photos and videos of the child sex camp are available online, Arthur calls on hackers to infiltrate child sex trafficking sites to try and find images of victims who have been in this camp.

A Word to Naysayers

Besides local police who are claiming this is not a child sex camp, and the corporate “mainstream” media, which in general only publishes their “official” version of the story, there are plenty of people on social media also expressing doubt and that this is simply a media show over nothing.

Some of this doubt is understandable among those who have no real knowledge of the depth of the problem of child sex trafficking in the U.S. Arthur has stated, and other sources confirm, that unaccompanied minors coming across the border are, by far, the single most valuable commodity coming across the border, as children fetch a higher price than illegal drugs and illegal firearms combined.

First of all, child sex trafficking through cartels coming up out of Mexico is not a fact that is in dispute.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) published a six-month investigation in 2016 looking at 125,000 unaccompanied minors who have crossed the U.S. borders into the United States since 2011, reportedly fleeing violence and unrest in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

This U.S. Senate report concluded that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has failed to protect these children from human trafficking, leaving them vulnerable to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers.

U.S. law requires HHS to ensure that unaccompanied alien children (UAC) are protected from human trafficking and other forms of abuse.

However, this is not happening.

The fact that the United States is a popular destination for child trafficking has been well documented:

The causes of the surge of UACs are disputed, but all stakeholders, including HHS, agree that one reason UACs come to this country is that they are ‘brought into the United States by human trafficking rings.’

According to the State Department’s 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report, ‘[t]he United States is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, transgender individuals, and children—both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals—subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor.’

Human trafficking involves transporting or harboring human beings, often for financial gain, through the use of fraud, force, or coercion. (Report)

If this fact is confirmed by the U.S. government, why is it hard to believe that this happening near a city in close proximity to the Mexican border?

The problem is so huge that it is actually harder to believe that it is NOT happening anywhere near the border.

A simple search on the Internet will find many of these victims who have suffered in sex trafficking and who have managed to speak out about the horrors of this lucrative sex trafficking coming across the border. Here is one report the Al Jazeera news organization has investigated and reported. There are many more.

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by Christina England
Health Impact News

According to a growing number of reports, thousands of children are simply disappearing from the UK Care System (the equivalent of the “Foster Care” system in the U.S.) every year, and what is said to be happening to them is too awful to contemplate.

On May 7, 2018, an article published in The Independent, titled Hundreds more children ‘farmed out’ to care homes miles from where they live despite pledge to cut number, reported that the number of children in the UK who were being sent to residential homes hundreds of miles away from where they live had risen by 64 percent. 

The Independent reported that, last year alone, over 9,000 of the children who had been sent away to these homes had gone missing. She stated that:

There has also been a surge in the number of sent-away children going missing from their care homes, with the number of incidents more than doubling – from 4,380 in 2015 to 9,190 in 2017.

What is even more worrying is the fact that, according to their report, Labour M.P. Ann Coffey has stated that she will be arguing in a parliamentary debate that:

…vulnerable children who are sent far away from where they grew up are more likely to be targeted by pedophiles and drugs gangs.

According to The Independent, Coffey had stated that:

The government promised to curb the growing practice of farming out children to homes that are sometimes 100 miles from where they live.

Shockingly, the rise has not stopped at all, but has got worse. Despite the pledge, record numbers of children are being sent away to places where they are more vulnerable to exploitation.

Coffey, who is the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults, stated that: 

These children are running away at a faster rate and are being targeted and preyed upon by pedophiles and criminals who know they are vulnerable.

The farming out of children to areas where they have no friends or family circles or local social workers has created a perfect storm where it is increasingly difficult to protect children.

If she is correct, and there is no one to protect these children, what exactly is happening to them?

Maggie Tuttle Believes She Knows the Answer

Maggie Tuttle, children’s campaigner and founder of the action group, Children Screaming to be Heard

Maggie Tuttle, children’s campaigner and founder of the action group, Children Screaming to be Heard, has been concerned about the thousands of children who have gone missing from the UK Care System for many years. 

In an interview, she told Health Impact News that she has evidence to prove that many of the children are being deliberately sent to residential homes hundreds of miles away, so that they lose contact with everyone that they know.

She told us that this makes the children vulnerable and therefore easier to be targeted for prostitution.

She told Health Impact News that to understand the true extent of what is happening, readers need to understand the history behind it. She stated that:

The lost children go back long before the work houses that were organised in 1576. Then in 1619, immigration of the poor kids started and again in 1834 the poor houses were organised. Then in 1929, these were shut down.

There were also the Duplessis orphans, which were healthy children, living in sanctuaries, who were hastily diagnosed as mentally incompetent, psychotic patients.  

So the British children have always been slaves for untold years and of course untold thousands of kids sold off to Australia, Canada and many other countries, after World War II as can be read in this link, tens of thousands of more stolen children sent abroad.

The earliest recorded British child migrants left Britain for Virginia in 1618, but most of them were sent in the late 19th and the 20th centuries.

Exact figures are hard to come by, but it seems that between 130,000 and 150,000 children – usually orphaned, abandoned, illegitimate, or just poor – were sent to live in foster homes and institutions in the colonies: mostly Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

In the last big post war wave, which ended in 1970, at least 3,000 children were sent to Australia.

For a range of reasons, British officials wanted to reduce the costs to the state of looking after destitute children. There were also labor shortages in the colonies, and the imperial authorities were keen to populate them with “good white stock.”

“If we do not supply from our own stock, we are leaving ourselves all the more exposed to the menace of the teeming millions of our neighboring Asiatic races,” said the Archbishop of Perth, welcoming child migrants to Australia in 1938. 

Many of the organisations that ran child migration, however, did so for benevolent purposes; to provide children with a better life in the colonies. In 1870, Dr Thomas Barnardo spoke of rescuing children from “abominable filth” and “atmospheric impurity.”

When we asked her how the children were being removed from their families, she stated:

Boys and girls, mostly between the ages of seven and ten, but some as young as two, were shipped overseas by charitable and religious organisations including the Fairbridge Society, Barnardo’s, the Church of England and various Catholic groups.

The consent of a parent or guardian was sought in some, but by no means all, cases.

Many children were removed without their parents’ knowledge, and told they were going to a “land of milk and honey,” to enable them to make a new start, it was seen as being advantageous to cut family ties: some children, wrongly told they were orphans, were separated from siblings and deprived of basic details about their identities.

Birth certificates were often shortened to omit details of parents. As a result, many migrants regard themselves as having been “stolen.”

We asked her if this practice is still happening today. She replied that, to her knowledge:

The so called 10,000 kids, in 2018, that have gone missing are now being trafficked from care by Government bodies and their self-made army known as the Social Services, who also control the nation and as we know thousands of kids are stolen from care for the pedophiles.

She continued:

Therefore, it is easy for Governments to say kids are running away from care…what rubbish…yes, some do run away, but I will say again, kids from care are being trafficked and used for the Pedophiles.

For details of Ms. Tuttle’s tireless efforts to protect the thousands of children in government care, please read her website titled Children Screaming to be Heard, where you will find hundreds of documents to support her claims.

Retired CID Officer Bullied Out of His Job for Exposing the Truth

Whistle-blower and retired CID officer, Jon Wedger

We continued our investigation by getting in touch with whistle-blower and retired Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officer, Jon Wedger, who has a background working in the vice squad and in child abuse cases, and who had recently stated to the Daily Star that:

I investigated a pimp known as Foxy, who sold a 14-year-old girl called, Zoe, for sex and got her hooked on crack cocaine.

We asked Wedger to describe some of his experiences and he told us that:

Whilst working on the child abuse team in the early 2000s, I was shocked to discover that no one took responsibility when a child went missing from the care system.

He stated that:

Although the child was reported as missing, when it came to accountability for the care of that child, everyone passed the buck. It always became someone else’s responsibility to follow up [with] what had happened to that child.

He explained that while working in Haringey, one of the largest boroughs in London, he had asked his officer in charge, how many children’s homes were in the borough.

At first, he appeared evasive, but eventually he was informed that there were 26 homes in total. Wedger asked him whether or not there was a problem with prostitution in any of the homes, and he was informed that no problems had been reported.

However, he soon discovered that this was far from the truth. He told Health Impact News:

I obtained a list of the homes and rang each and every one of them. I asked them whether or not they had any problems with prostitution. At first, I was given the names a few youngsters who were regularly going missing from the care homes and who were known to be involved in prostitution.

Wedger explained that, sadly, these names were only the tip of the iceberg, because, over the next three days, he was given the names of fifty youngsters who were known to be regularly involved in prostitution.

He told Health Impact News that:

Not only was I given the names and details of the fifty children who were regularly going missing, I was provided with the registration numbers of the cars that were picking them up, which I later discovered were attached to several local brothels.

We asked him whether or not these children were being paid for their services and he told us:

Yes, they are being paid. Most of them are becoming addicted to cocaine and heroin whilst they are in care and are being paid to fund their habit.

He continued:

I was shocked to discover that when I reported my findings to my superiors, I was met with a wall of silence. No one was the slightest bit interested in the fact that children from the UK care system were regularly being used for prostitution!

Officer Threatened for Exposing Child Trafficking

Wedger told us that he had expected to be supported by his colleagues, and that he had expected them to be as outraged by the atrocities happening in the UK care system as he was. However, instead of the support that he had expected, he found himself bullied out of his job by his co-workers for exposing the cover up.

In April 2018, during the ITNJ Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking and Child Sex Abuse conference, Wedger explained that when he exposed the truth to his superior, he was told that the inquiry had been shut down because they no longer had funding.

He stated that he was later told by a Scotland Yard detective that:

When you investigate any crime, and you do well in it, you get praised, but when you look into child abuse cases, the opposite happens. You have to be very careful.

Wedger said that he had expected to be praised for what he had found out, and each day a new child would be found and the situation was just spiraling. He stated that he brought the matter before a very high ranking officer who told him:

If you ever expose what you have found out, you will lose your home, your children and your job…you must shut the f’ up. You will be thrown to the wolves; you have no idea who and what you are dealing with. I am warning you now, you must back away.

To listen to his talk, please click on the video below:

Children Have Disappeared Out of the Care System and Nothing is Being Done

Another angry campaigner, who wanted to remain anonymous to protect her family, told Health Impact News that:

There seems to be an agenda in the UK government, running with every party that takes power, to compromise children. This has been going on for decades, and whenever people speak out about it, they are shut down whatever way the puppet string pullers see fit. 

Over 160 MPs demanded that child abuse was looked into, an enquiry began initially with Dame Butler Sloss, followed by Fiona Wolf, both not trusted by the public they had to step down.

Next was NZ Judge Dame Lowell Goddard, she stepped down under mysterious circumstances, defamed by the press, the public has not had a good reason for her leaving even until this day. 

In conclusion, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse appears to be yet another failed attempt at exposing the level of this massive problem in the UK.

More children being taken into care, more children disappearing in the care system and nothing really constructive being done about it.

We will look back in these times as heinously shameful with the betrayal of our young still happening and so many authoritative bodies complicit.

She also told us that:

Sex rings are popular in all governments, but pedophilia is primarily in British parliament & Saudi Arabia, and that’s why HRC and BC love foreign donors so much. They get paid in children as well as money. Dig deep and you can find it. It will sicken you.

One of the cases that she gave us, to highlight how children are being snatched from loving parents needlessly and put into care, is the case of a pregnant woman who was sedated and had her baby forcibly removed by caesarean section prior to the child being taken into care.

The Telegraph, who wrote about the story, stated that:

Mid-Essex NHS Trust obtained a Court of Protection order against the woman that allowed her to be forcibly sedated and her child to be taken from her womb. Essex social services obtained an interim care order as soon as the baby was born.

According to the report, the reason that was given for taking this child into care, was the fact that prior to the baby being born, the woman had had a mental breakdown. They stated that:

The baby girl, now 15-months-old, is still in the care of social services, who are refusing to give her back to the mother, even though she claims to have made a full recovery.

Our informant explained to us that the buying and selling of children in the UK is a lucrative business and social services will do anything to take children into care. 

From our research, this certainly appears to be true.

Conclusion: Children in Government Care Need to be Protected from Sex Trafficking

It is clear that something needs to be done to protect these children. The UK care system was designed to protect vulnerable children, and yet, instead of the love and protection that these children so desperately need, they are becoming addicted to drugs and are being sexually abused.

From our interviews, it is clear that those professionals who have tried to expose the truth have not only been bullied, but they have had their careers destroyed because of their actions. Why is the UK government failing in their duty to protect these children and allowing this atrocity to continue?

We would like to thank Jon Wedger, Maggie Tuttle and everyone who was willing to speak to Health Impact News about what is happening to the UK’s most vulnerable children.

Edward Thomas, an Iraq Veteran, spent a year stationed within a combat zone in Baghdad and suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by what he witnessed during that time. He chose medical cannabis over strong addictive psyche drugs, and lost custody of his daughter as a result. Story here.

Commentary by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

Drug addiction and the opioid crisis are big news. It seems that policy makers and legislators on just about every level are discussing the problem and what to do about it.

Certainly, child welfare agencies have been quick to jump on the bandwagon, removing children from their families at the mere mention of the word “drugs.”

But is the issue as straightforward as it appears, or is it more complex than meets the eye?

Richard Wexler is the executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. He argues that the issue is not so black-and-white, and he criticizes “child welfare’s typical, knee-jerk take-the-child-and-run response to the opioid epidemic.”

Wexler recently wrote an article, “Child Welfare Policy Around Opioids Driven By Ignorance and Arrogance,” for Youth Today, in which he examines a “research brief” published in March 2018, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which looked at parental substance abuse and children being taken by Child Protective Services.

Wexler was not impressed by the methodology or conclusion of the HHS brief and calls the child welfare policies “enormously dangerous to children:”

Indeed, the most important takeaway from the research brief is that child welfare policy on this issue lives at the intersection of ignorance and arrogance and that is enormously dangerous to children.

Before delving into his analysis of the report, Richard Wexler points out 3 key points regarding child protective services and substance abuse.

1. The alternative to leaving children with parents who have substance abuse issues — foster care — usually is far worse for the children. This is not just the case for foster children in general. Research from the last great “drug plague,” crack cocaine, found that even infants born with cocaine in their systems typically developed better when left with birth mothers able to care for them than they did when placed in foster care.

This is a point that we have stated many times at Health Impact News – that children who are placed into foster care are at least 6 times more likely to be abused, raped, molested, or killed in foster care than they are if left in their own home, even in a troubled home, such as a home where the parent is a drug user.

By removing children from parents who have drug issues, social workers are more often than not taking children out of the frying pan and throwing them into the fire. Many of the children taken from their homes end up being trafficked into the child sex trafficking trade. Social workers, judges, GALs, and society at large must reexamine CPS “protection.” At what cost are these children being protected?

Dangers of Drug Use Often Exaggerated by Social Workers and by Media

Wexler continues:

2. Not every parent who uses drugs is overdosing on heroin in the car while driving the kids to school or running a meth lab in the basement. Some parents can function even with a drug problem.

Indeed, social worker Nico’Lee Biddle recently wrote movingly in Teen Vogue about two such people — her own parents — and why she should have been allowed to stay with them instead of being consigned to foster care.

The terms “substance abuse” or “drug use” can vary wildly in their meaning. While there are certainly parents who are strung out in a crack house and are completely unable or unwilling to care for their children, the reality is that many average parents are labeled “drug users” by social workers. The workers paint a picture for the judge that doesn’t remotely resemble the true situation.

We have seen stories of children taken from their parents for using properly prescribed pain medication. CPS shows up at hospitals, regularly, to seize newborns from mothers who showed just one positive drug screen during pregnancy.

The positive screen could have occurred before the mother realized she was pregnant, and she completely cleaned up her act before baby arrived.

It could be from taking a pain medication previously prescribed to them for a different issue. One mother had a backache from overworking, before she knew she was pregnant. She took a pain pill that she had left over from having dental work done.

Another mother was given morphine at the hospital following a car accident, for which she (obviously) tested positive.

Much more frequently, a parent tested positive for marijuana. Sometimes it was used for medicinal reasons, such as chronic pain, seizures, or anxiety.

Yet, for even one positive drug screen, some social workers will take the child away. Our reporters have seen many such cases.

The incident may have no affect on the parent’s ability to care for their child, yet some of the families are given the equivalent of the death sentence for a relatively minor crime – their parental rights are terminated and the child is placed for adoption.

The punishment in these cases is excessive compared to the crime. The children are subjected to far greater risk than they would be under the care of their biological parents. Social workers congratulate themselves for rescuing the poor little “crack baby,” when that is not at all what happened.

Wexler’s third observation:

3. When the problem is addiction, the best first option is drug treatment. And when the problem is addiction to opioids, the most effective solutions include medication-assisted treatment. That means the parents are prescribed medication such as methadone or buprenorphine, drugs that curb cravings for opioids and ease withdrawal. As the HHS report itself notes, when this is combined with “counseling and behavioral therapies” it is far more effective than counseling alone.

Excerpts from Wexler’s analysis of the HHS report:

The HHS report combined statistical data with the subjective perceptions of people in the child welfare system and those involved in substance abuse treatment. But, for child welfare, the interviews did not appear to include current or former foster children, birth parents or their lawyers. Instead, it appears to have been dominated by child protective services workers and supervisors, prosecutors and judges.

The problem with that is it contributes to the hype and hysteria surrounding the issue, something I’ll discuss below. The upside is it offers us a glimpse into the mindset of some of the people who dominate the system in some parts of the country — and that mindset is ugly.

Consider the very first sentence in the section headed “Challenges of Treatment”: “Assessment of parents’ substance use was often cursory and lagged behind placement decisions.” Translation: We take the children first and ask questions later.

MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT

Then there’s the attitude toward medication-assisted treatment (MAT). Many child welfare professionals didn’t understand it or know how it works. Worse, although these views were “not universally held,” the report found that:

“Many professionals we interviewed expressed skepticism about the use of methadone or buprenorphine for extended periods and opined that clients receiving MAT “were simply trading one addiction for another.” We also heard about substance use treatment programs that refused clients on methadone or buprenorphine because of their view that “you’re not actually in recovery until you’re off medication.” This view was shared by some judges and caseworkers as well.”

This suggests that these “professionals” don’t really believe drug abuse is a disease at all. They see it as a moral failing. Therefore simply taking medication that allows one to be a good parent is not enough. Unless the parent quits in exactly the way the censorious professionals want them to quit, they are not worthy of keeping their children.

… So what the interviews summarized really give us is more evidence that child welfare is a parent punishment system, not a child protection system.

Combine that arrogance with ignorance about what foster care does to children — including substance-exposed infants — and it’s no surprise that the HHS report also found this:

“In many sites, the child welfare staff at the nexus of these issues believe that cases involving serious substance misuse or disorders overwhelmingly require the removal of children from the home and are very likely to end in termination of parental rights. The strong inclination in many places is to remove children from the home in cases with significant parental substance use, often regardless of other factors. This view is particularly prevalent among judges, district attorneys, and court personnel, especially regarding substance-exposed newborns.”

SCOPE OF PROBLEM

That, in turn, explains another important, if obvious, finding: There is a desperate shortage of treatment, especially what the report calls “family friendly” treatment. According to the report:

“Because of widespread treatment shortages, treatment matching (that is, referring each client to a specific treatment program that matches the client’s therapeutic needs) was virtually nonexistent in the communities that participated in the study. Clients received available services, whatever they may be. … The lack of timely, appropriate treatment set families up for failure.”

Of course the child welfare establishment blames that on lack of money. But there’s always money for more foster care — just as there’s always money for more jails. (Emphasis added by HIN.) What we don’t fund is help for people we hate; and the hatred of these child welfare “professionals” for families with substance use problems oozes through the findings of the report.

This hatred also taints many of the report’s findings about the scope of the problem.

The report authors accept at face value claims by the “professionals” they interviewed that the current drug plague is worse than any other drug plague.

There are several problems with this:

First, the authors only talked to professionals in places with unusually high rates of substance abuse.

Second, if you follow child welfare long enough you know that the people in the system always claim that the current drug plague is the Worst. Drug plague. Ever.

And third, given the high turnover among people who work in child welfare, it’s hard to believe that many of those interviewed were even in the field when crack cocaine hit more than 30 years ago — so it’s hard to see how they can reliably compare the effects of the crack plague and the opioid plague opioids.

The report’s own conclusion that “higher indicators of substance abuse correspond to more complex and severe child welfare cases” is based solely on the fact that “higher indicators of substance abuse predict a greater proportion of children with maltreatment reports that are removed from their homes.”

But the report itself has established that caseworkers rush to take away children in these cases without doing meaningful assessments — and they admit to a strong bias toward removal. So the correlation tells us only that, if you say the magic words “drug abuse,” the people in power in many child welfare systems are more likely to take the child and run. (Emphasis added by HIN).

The suggestion at the heart of the report, that rising rates of drug addiction is the cause of increased foster care, is questionable for similar reasons. The attitudes of those questioned suggest that the real cause of the increase is the fact that so many professionals hate parents with substance abuse problems and resist alternatives to foster care.

This is further indicted by the fact that the correlation is far from universal. Another HHS report includes a map, on page 4 showing how often rates of drug abuse and rates of foster care correlate — and don’t correlate.

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The dark blue counties are places where the number of children taken from their homes was above the national median but drug abuse was not exceptionally high, using the report’s measure of choice. The orange counties are places where drug abuse was high, but entries into foster care were not above the median.

So are we looking at a map of the actual extent to which substance abuse requires child removal – or are we looking at a map of caseworker and court biases? If, as I believe, it’s the latter, it also gives reason for hope: It means there may be places across the country where child welfare professionals don’t share the deep biases and vile attitudes that the HHS researchers found.

Read the full article at Youth Today.

Chelsea was still legally in foster care when her baby was born February 26, 2018. He was taken from her at just over 24 hours. He is still not home. See her story here.

by Terri LaPoint
Health Impact News

According to a recent study published in June 2018, 1 out of 4 newborns born to mothers who are in foster care themselves are seized by Child Protective Services (CPS) within their first week of life. According to American Academy of Pediatrics, by the time the babies reach 2-years-old, almost half of them, 48.8%, are taken from their mothers.

At Health Impact News, we have seen a clear pattern of CPS involvement with parents who were in foster care themselves, whether their babies were born while they were in foster care or after they aged out.

Many such parents have reported that they feel targeted by CPS. Some have had children taken by the same social workers who took them from their families when they were younger, and some even appear before the same judge as both child and parent.

This is the first study that looks at the numbers of children taken from mothers in foster care, and the results are shocking. They reveal massive failure on the part of the foster care system to help the children with whom it is charged with protecting.

According to the study:

The biggest differences were seen for children taken into care within 7 days. … those in care at the birth of their child (regardless of whether they were in care at conception) had more than 11 times the odds of having their child placed in care.

Foster Children Are Not More Sexually Active than Non-Foster Children

Interestingly, the authors of the study noted that teens in foster care were not engaging in sexual behavior any more than teens who are not in foster care. However, they are twice as likely to become pregnant:

Although adolescents who are in and out of care of child protection services (CPS), such as foster care, have similar patterns of sexual intercourse (ie, age of initiation, number of partners), those in the care of CPS are more likely to engage in risky behaviors such as unprotected sex or inconsistent contraceptive use. This results in young women in foster care being more than twice as likely to have an adolescent pregnancy.

Thirty percent of the mothers in the study were not in foster care when they became pregnant:

Of the 576 mothers in care at the birth of their child, 403 mothers (70%) were in care at conception, and of the 5,366 mothers not in care at the birth of their child, 83 mothers (1.6%) were in care at conception.

AAP – Two Companion Articles, Vastly Different Conclusions

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) posted a summary of the study on their website, entitled, “Half of Children Born to Mothers in Child Protective Custody Also Taken Into Care by Age 2.”

The summary links to the study entitled, “The Cycle of Child Protection Services Involvement: A Cohort Study of Adolescent Mothers,” which examined data from the Population Data Research Repository at Canada’s Manitoba Centre for Health Policy.

At the bottom of the AAP summary, the editor adds that they asked for commentary on the study:

Editor’s Note: The solicited commentary, “Understanding the Intergenerational Cycle of ChildProtective Service Involvement,” accompanies this study.

The study lists Elizabeth Wall-Wieler as the first author of the team of authors, who are primarily PhDs involved with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. The conclusions they reach are vastly different from those reached by the authors of the commentary piece solicited by AAP.

Avyonna was taken from her mother, a former foster child, at 2-days-old. Her older brother and sister were born while her mother was in foster care. The system kept them. After a long battle, and public exposure of their story, Avyonna is home. Photo provided by Prince family. See story.

The commentary article is written by the Deputy Director of the Allegheny County Department of Human Services in Pittsburgh, Erin Dalton, as well as two Child Abuse Specialist doctors, Dr. Rachel P. Berger, Director of Child Abuse Research at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Kristine A. Campbell, Child Abuse Specialist at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.

The study authors write:

The high rate of children of adolescent mothers in care being taken into care has been attributed to higher surveillance of these mothers and western middle-class values among social workers.

Young mothers who themselves are in care often feel as if they are under constant scrutiny by their social workers and are constantly needing to prove to everyone that they are able to parent.

Receiving expectant parent services from CPS can also lead to more scrutiny; we saw that 42% of adolescents who were in care received these services, compared with 27% of mothers who were not in care.

From many case workers’ perspectives, the cycle starts with adolescent motherhood (which is deemed as bad), and the only way to “break” the cycle is to take that child into care. This is different from the view of adolescent mothers who often see the removal of their child as a continuation of the cycle of trauma in their lives.

These statements are consistent with what we have seen at Health Impact News. 

See:

Is Foster Care “In the Best Interest of the Child”?

One mother told us that her social worker told her that CPS would follow up on her daughter when she grows up and has children, even though she was adopted out after CPS medically kidnapped her. The mother grew up in foster care herself, and was devastated to learn that CPS intended to scrutinize her and her family until the end of time.

She saw no hope of any of her children ever getting out from under the strong arm of CPS control.

Her story is certainly not unique, unfortunately.

Tanaieah’s mother is a former foster child. Tanaieah was taken from her mother at 6-weeks-old and adopted out to people who wanted a baby girl. The multi-generational cycle continues. Photo provided by the Maney family.

The study authors acknowledge the immense importance of the mother-child bond:

Whenever possible, mothers and children should be placed together. Dual placement provides the opportunity for secure infant attachment; providing parenting supports, such as the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up program or the Circle of Security program, could enhance mother-child bonding.

The study concludes:

Adolescent mothers in the care of CPS are much more likely to have their child taken into CPS care. By separating a quarter of young mothers from their infant within the first week of life, and almost half before the child turns 2, the cycle continues. For adolescents in CPS care who give birth, more and better services are required to support these mothers and to keep mothers and children together wherever possible.

We agree that parents and children need to be kept together as much as possible, but we believe that the extended family, community, and churches should play a much larger role than any government agencies or programs.

Child Abuse Specialists – “Foster Care May Be Best Outcome”

While the authors of the study seem to be coming from a perspective of examining what is good for families overall, the authors of the commentary piece appear to believe that separating parents and children is a desirable outcome, as evidenced by this statement in their article:

The outcome measure selected for this study (placement of the infant into foster care) is not the most important outcome for children and young mothers. Avoiding unnecessary foster care placement is a worthy goal, but placement of an infant, a young child, or an adolescent mother in foster care is not a bad outcome per se.

Here is their conclusion, one which is decidedly at odds with the conclusions of the study, as well as with the views of the families whose stories we cover and supporters of family rights:

Placing the infant of an adolescent mother in foster care into foster care may not be a negative outcome, but rather the best outcome of all: safety and support for the adolescent mother, safety of her child, and an end to the intergenerational cycle of child protective services involvement.

See:

The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking

Sources:
The Cycle of Child Protection Services Involvement: A Cohort Study of Adolescent Mothers
Half of Children Born to Mothers in Child Protective Custody Also Taken Into Care by Age 2

See some of the stories we have covered of children taken by CPS from mothers in foster care or formerly in foster care:

Alabama DHR Destroys Another Family: Baby Taken Away Because Young Mom was a Foster Child Kidnapped from Loving Parents

Should Foster Children who Become Parents as Adults Automatically Have Their Children Seized? Alabama Mother Fights to Get Children Back

Baby Seized at Birth from Breast-feeding Alabama Mother to go Home More than 1 Year Later

Alabama Newborn Baby Kidnapped at Hospital with No Warrant, No Court Order, No Emergency Circumstances

Medical Kidnap? Mother Loses 3 Children Because “Daughter is Too Short”

Mad Angel: Former Foster Child Now Parent is Creating an Army of Victims to Fight CPS

CPS Defies Doctors and Police to Take Young Children Away from Mother

Medical Kidnapping in Kentucky: Mother Coerced to Give Up Daughter to Adoption in Order to Keep Son

Some of the fathers who lost their children wrongly to Child Protection Services that Health Impact News has covered.

by Terri LaPoint
Health Impact News

It is Father’s Day. The day that we honor dads. The holiday began decades ago as a day to celebrate the strong, heroic, protective men who inspire, encourage, and push us to be the best we can be.

Most of us have a beautiful, nostalgic image of what today is supposed to be like, but for too many of our readers, that image is a painful reminder of what could be, what should be – but isn’t.

Children and parents are being separated by the hundreds of thousands in the United States. There are many fathers who want nothing more than to be with their children today, but a judge or a social worker has decided that they can’t be.

If they had done something wrong, the bitter separation might be somewhat easier to bear, but many dads today are in a situation that was created by a false allegation or by asking for a second medical opinion. They wanted to protect their children and give their best, but people who see their children as little more than dollar signs have stolen that basic human right from them.

We say in our culture that we value fathers, but attitudes in our courts, media, and entertainment reflect otherwise.

Fatherhood is the noblest calling that a man can have. It is the opportunity to impact and shape the lives of those who follow in his footsteps, as he provides for, protects, and comforts his children.

To a young child, a dad is bigger than life, even better than Superman. To the child who is now an adult, father is still the person who we turn to when life doesn’t make sense or we need strong arms to guide or comfort us.

The presence of a child’s father in one’s life impacts that child in countless significant ways, and the impact is lifelong. The absence of a father also makes a profound impact in a child’s life.

The very concept of fatherhood, once celebrated and embraced on all levels of society, has been shattered and the role of father has been undermined by changes in culture and in policies.

Many men have learned after encountering the strong arm of Child Protective Services that being a father sometimes no longer means that a dad can protect his children or have a voice in the decisions that affect his children. It may mean that he must watch, helpless, as forces stronger than him abuse or torment his children. It can even mean that he cannot even see or visit his own child.

There are fathers today suffering unimaginable pain – dads who would give anything just to hear their child’s voice, or have the joy of chubby little hands placing a construction paper card in their hands with the words “I love you Daddy” scrawled in crayon.

There are children today missing their fathers, wondering if they ever think about them or miss them (they do), who are longing to sit again in their daddy’s lap.

There are also adults missing elderly fathers who are held captive by Adult Protective Services and guardians, adult children who want nothing more than to hear their dad’s voice again telling them that everything is going to be ok.

The father-child relationship is one of the most fundamental, crucial relationships that exists, and when anything happens that interferes with that relationship, for whatever reason, it leaves a deep gaping hole in the soul. The pain – in the parent and in the child – goes to the core of one’s being.

I understand some of that pain. I grew up not knowing my father at all. I used to dream of my real father riding in like a knight in shining armor on a white horse to rescue me. I longed for that wonderful daddy/daughter relationship that many of my friends enjoyed. I started trying to find him when I was in junior high. I didn’t understand why he didn’t look for me.

I attended a concert in Greenville, South Carolina, during my senior year of college. A group called “Harvest” played. Near the end of the concert, they sang a song that changed me forever. The lead singer Jerry Williams talked about how he would tuck his little girl into bed and tell her that he would protect her and take care of her – those things that a father does, things that I didn’t really understand.

He said that no matter what kind of relationship that we have with our earthly father, God is our Father who loves us unconditionally. Even if our father cannot be there, God is there, and He promises never to leave us or forsake us.

When he sang “I Am Your Father,” I began to understand, really for the first time, a little bit about what the love of a father means. That love is for all of us, no matter how old we are. That day, I began to heal.

It is an old song, but it still touches my heart deeply even today.

My prayer for you is that, whether you are a father longing to be with your children, a child missing your father, or one of those blessed individuals who is privileged to have a great relationship with your children and your father, that you will know the love and comfort today of your heavenly Father, the father who loves you, and your children, more than any force on this planet.

May God soon bring about the day of restoration of families, and may He hold and protect all of the children, and comfort every one who is missing a loved one today.

Lyrics to “I Am Your Father” by Harvest:

In the morning I hear you calling
Calling my name out loud, my child.
I am your Father.
The struggle you had last night
And the battle that seems to forever rage
I’ll fight
‘Cause I am Your Father.

No matter how dark it seems,
I will forever be guiding each step of your way.
I’ll never leave you
And I won’t forsake you.
I’m here to stand in your place.

When the morning begins to fade
And the courage you had within your heart
Goes away,
I’m still your Father.
When the struggle is raging again
And you’re thinking there’s no hope
No reason no way to win,
I am Your Father.

No matter how dark it seems
I will forever be guiding each step of your way.
I’ll never leave you
And I won’t forsake you.
I’m here to stand in your place.

If you’re broken-hearted and full of pain,
Haven’t got the heart to make it one more day,
Oh, just call on my Holy Name.
I’ll be there.

If you’re broken-hearted and full of pain
Haven’t got the heart to make it one more day,
Oh, just call on my Holy Name.
I’ll be there.
I’ll be there (I’ll never leave you)
I’ll be there (I won’t forsake you)
I’ll be there.

Belle crying to go home with her father during a supervised visit. (Image courtesy of Michael Chambers) – Source.

BY MEGAN FOX
PJMedia

Americans are in an uproar about illegal immigrant parents and children separated at the border. The level of hysteria surrounding this topic has reached a fever pitch with senators like Chuck Schumer mugging distraught for the cameras at every opportunity.

While the shrill voices shriek loudly about the rights of Mexicans and other assorted border jumpers, American parental rights are being stripped from them, unconstitutionally, every single day. (Chuck Schumer has yet to freak out about it on national television.)

American parents have lost their due process and Fourth Amendment rights, and most of them don’t even know it. Most anyone who has been visited by Child Protective Services can testify to the absolute terror that the state can inflict on a family for very little or no reason at all.

Right now in the state of Mississippi, Michael Chambers is missing his little girl, Belle. When Belle was around two years old her mother abandoned her in the care of her grandmother. Chambers took custody of her after that.

Lacking resources and the ability to track down his ex to serve her with custody papers, Chambers just took care of his daughter like a father should. Like many single parents, personal disputes often result in one parent harassing the other through any means possible.

Belle’s mother would occasionally call Chambers and shortly after the calls CPS would show up knocking on his door. The social workers where he lived understood the nature of the calls but when he moved to Warren county, things changed.

His nightmare began when a Mississippi social worker, Kyra Reed (who also goes by Kyra Carson), knocked on his door demanding entrance without a warrant. Chambers was never told what the charges were.

“She didn’t tell me what I was accused of and demanded to interview my 6-year-old daughter without my presence,” Chambers told PJM.

“I told her that was unacceptable, but she was more than welcome to talk to her with me there without me interfering. She seemed perturbed, but accepted that. She then told me she wanted to search my house,” said Chambers.

“I told her I had no problem with that, but wanted her to get a court order or a warrant as I am a bit of a constitutionalist and would just feel better having that respected.

She was immediately angry. She hopped in her car without another word and drove off.”

An American asking for a proper warrant signed by a judge to search his private property is 100 percent within his rights to do, or so we thought.

“The next day, I got my daughter early from school and went to the CPS office with her to speak to a supervisor to make sure they understood that I wasn’t hiding or attempting elusiveness of any sort,” said Chambers.

“I allowed the supervisor to look her over and explained my concerns about my insistence on a warrant before the search. I was told that the warrant wasn’t a problem to get and that they would do that so we could close the case and finish out the interaction.”

But that’s not what happened.

“I returned home and got a call from my new landlord, saying that they had contacted him demanding that they be let in,” continued Chambers. “He told them that they needed a warrant.”

CPS did not stop trying to get around Chambers’ insistence that his Fourth Amendment rights be invoked.

“A different supervisor then called me and once again demanded entry,” said Chambers, exasperated.

“I again explained that I needed a warrant before I could allow this and reminded her that, according to their own statements, this was easy for them to get and I would prefer that they did.”

It is perfectly reasonable to ask for a government agency to obtain a warrant before searching someone’s home.

“The original worker [Kyra Reed] showed up at my door again, this time with two sheriff’s deputies,” said Chambers.

“She said that she didn’t need a warrant and I needed to let her in,” he said incredulously.

“At this point I became afraid, but I pointed out to her that if she didn’t need a warrant, she wouldn’t be asking for entry. The officers would simply force me to let her in.”

Luckily for Chambers, the police officers knew better.

“The officers stated that they would not [illegally search his home] as she had no judge’s order,” he said.

According to Chambers,

“She [Kyra Reed] told me that if I made her get a warrant, she would take my child instead.”

Reed left again, unable to obtain illegal entry.

But she didn’t stay away.

“She returned with another sheriff’s deputy,” said Chambers.

“I answered the door thinking that surely she would have [the warrant] this time and hopefully, we could just get this done and over with. I was instead handed a subpoena to appear in court in the morning and was told that they had taken my child from school.”

No warrant was ever obtained.

PJM reached out to the sheriff of Warren County and was told that no warrant is necessary for CPS to take a child, but they would need a warrant to search a private home.

This is an outrageous abuse of Fourth Amendment rights, which are supposed to protect citizens from unlawful search and seizure.

Why are children, a parent’s most valuable and cherished possession, not protected from illegal seizure without due process? Do children belong to parents in the United States? Or do they belong to the state that allows parents to care for them and assume all financial and emotional burden while retaining no ultimate authority?

The state would not be able to seize your car without a warrant, but your child is fair game.

It seems that in most states, any CPS worker has the power to claim that a child is “in danger” without specifics and then remove the child with no hearing or judge’s oversight. The parents are then put in a defensive position where they must fight the state for the return of the child instead of the state having to prove why the child needs to be removed from the home in the first place.

This is done to babies who are still nursing and even children with special needs! Some of them end up dead.

Chambers was separated from his daughter for over two months before his hearing and allowed only thirty minute supervised visitation with her where she reported abuse from the other children in the foster home where she was placed.

Chambers made a secret recording of Belle reporting the abuse to CPS workers, but CPS refused to tell Chambers if they would do anything about the reported abuse.

PJM reached out to Mississippi CPS for comment on the behavior of their agent and the abuse allegations and received no response. Multiple phone calls during business hours went unanswered, voicemails were unreturned, and email inquiries came back “undeliverable.”

How is this possible in America?

Look to the Clintons for a law passed during their time in the White House. Hillary Clinton, in particular, fought hard for the passage of this terrible law.

The Daily Kos reported:

“The law is called the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). But that’s one of those Orwellian titles Congress loves. It’s not about adoption and it’s not about safe families. Passed in 1997, one year after the welfare law, it had exactly the same target. ASFA was about demonizing impoverished women, especially women of color, and taking away their children.”

According to Richard Wexler of Daily Kos,

Here’s what ASFA did:

• ASFA encouraged a take-the-child-and-run mentality on the frontlines of child welfare. Thousands more families, overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately families of color, were destroyed by wrongful removal of the children.

• Instead of reducing the foster care population, ASFA increased it, trapping thousands more children in a system that, according to one major study, churns out walking wounded four times out of five.

• ASFA effectively turned the child welfare system into the ultimate middle-class entitlement: Step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own.

• And when the army of childless yuppies didn’t show up to adopt in anywhere near the numbers predicted, ASFA created a generation of “legal orphans” with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive homes either — probably at least 100,000 more such “legal orphans” than had ASFA not become law.

Michael Chambers works four jobs to keep his child clothed and fed. He is exactly the type of person this law terrorizes.

He can’t afford decent legal representation. His first lawyer never even gave the judge evidence that CPS appeared to have lied in court about Chambers’ behavior.

On his first court date, CPS claimed that he had gone to Belle’s school and caused a scene, screaming, “I love Hitler!”

The judge did not ask for evidence of this disturbance, but removed the child from his care until further court appearances.

Chambers denies ever doing anything like this. In fact, he investigated this alleged incident himself and the school could produce no records of it.

PJM attempted to submit a FOIA request to the school district for a record of a disturbance but was given false contact information more than once.

Calls to the school were met with stony silence and refusal to comment on the incident or correct the FOIA contact information.

Further, the sheriff of Warren County produced a signed letter stating that he also had no record of any such incident happening involving Chambers. This letter was never given to the judge and this alleged “incident” was the only reason for the removal of Belle from her father, according to Chambers.

Even more mind-blowing, the judge, John Price, dismissed all charges of abuse and neglect against Michael Chambers in a subsequent hearing but placed Bell with her mother, whom she has not seen in four years, with no explanation or investigation into her suitability as a parent.

Lawyers involved in the case said they had never seen any action like it and that the judge’s order might even be illegal. Chambers’ daughter was taken on false premises without cause, put into a foster home that caused her great distress, and then placed in the care of a stranger with a history of abandoning her.

She has been taken out of state by her mother and neither the judge nor CPS arranged for any visitation or even a way for Chambers to contact her. Chambers has spent his last dime on the legal battles so far and is struggling to come up with more so he can continue to try to recover his child.

Entire websites are dedicated to reporting on this type of abuse like Medical Kidnap, which sees something even more sinister in the AFSA law–child trafficking for profit.

“For instance, in the case of foster care, the present reimbursement to state and local government for each child taken into foster care is approximately $6000/month. Yet the foster care provider (the foster parent) receives only somewhere around $600/month. Allowing about the same for administrative costs, each child in foster care is worth about $5000/month; that’s pure profit on the bottom line!” Medical Kidnap explained.

The foster care system is monetized and it’s not just foster parents profiting.

“The money goes to tens of thousands of a) state employees, b) collateral professionals, such as lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and c) DSS contracted vendors such as counselors, therapists, more ‘evaluators,’ junk psychologists, residential facilities, foster parents, adoptive parents, MSPCC, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, YMCA, etc. This newspaper is not big enough to list all of the people in this state who have a job, draw a paycheck, or make their profits off the kids in DSS custody,” says Medical Kidnap.

Anita reads to Aniya at a recent visitation. Photo supplied by family.

by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

A trial began this week for a mother who was separated from her baby after the 4-month-old mistakenly received a Gardasil-9 vaccine intended for her older brother. The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services seeks to convince a jury to terminate the parental rights of Anita Vasquez for her now 22-month-old daughter, Aniya Blu Vasquez.

Jury selection began on Monday, June 18, 2018, for the trial which is expected to last up to 2 weeks.

We originally reported their story in June of last year:

Infant Accidentally Vaccinated with Gardasil – Mother Blamed for Vaccine Injuries and Baby Medically Kidnapped

The previously healthy baby, Aniya, began showing symptoms of problems almost immediately after getting the shot, a vaccine which is not approved for use in children under 10 years of age.

Her mother sought medical attention for the symptoms that her daughter exhibited, asking each practitioner about the connection between the symptoms and the Gardasil-9 shot that her baby should not have received, but her concerns were rebuffed at every turn.

No doctor that saw her daughter wanted to admit that the shot could have any kind of side effects.

The doctor who made a medical error in giving her the vaccine has suffered no consequences, but the baby’s family has been ripped apart.

Previously health baby Aniya’s health declined after her doctor mistakenly gave her the Gardasil-9 vaccine. Photo supplied by family.

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Accusation to Cover up Gardasil Injury?

Instead, the mother was accused by doctors and social workers of Munchausen syndrome by proxy (today usually called “factitious disorder”), a diagnosis that has become a convenient scapegoat to accuse parents, usually mothers, of children who are vaccine injured, medically complex, or victims of medical malpractice.

It is a difficult accusation to fight, since even Munchausen experts recognize that the symptoms of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, or “medical child abuse” as it is sometimes referred as, are remarkably similar to those of parents who are seeking medical help for children with difficult medical conditions.

Dr. Marc Feldman, who is considered to be a leading authority on the subject of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, says that the very fact that a mother protests and defends herself and her child is perceived as a further indication of her guilt. It is a lose/lose scenario, he told Health Impact News. (see article).

The very criteria for diagnosing MSBP are prejudicial, according to Dr. Helen Hayward-Brown, a medical anthropologist from Australia. The profile criteria “lacks scientific credibility” and “is being used by medical practitioners to hastily condemn women.”

In a paper entitled, “False and Highly Questionable Allegations of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy,” which Dr. Hayward-Brown presented to the 7th Australasian Child Abuse and Neglect Conference in Perth, she lists behaviors that are listed among the diagnostic criteria for MSBP and shows how these could actually apply to any normal, innocent parent, especially one with a medically complex child.

See also:

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy – A False Diagnosis to Blame Parents for Vaccine Injuries and Deaths

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Label Destroys Families – Covers Up Vaccine Injuries

As we continue to report at Health Impact News, the safety of the Gardasil vaccine has come under fire by many countries around the world. The lives destroyed or ended, after the vaccine, continue to stack up while mainstream media and doctors ignore the dangers. A recently published study linked the Gardasil vaccine to infertility.

In this case, a family could be forever-separated as a side effect of the shot, unless the jury finds in favor of the mother.

Baby Aniya and her mother Anita Vasquez. Photo from Justice for Aniya Facebook page.

The Victoria Advocate is covering the story of the Vasquez trial.

Excerpts:

Jurors began hearing a case Monday that will ask them to determine whether a toddler’s illness was the result of endangerment from her mother or the accidental injection of an HPV vaccine.

Attorneys for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services are suing Victoria mother Anita Vasquez, 36, to terminate her parental rights for 22-month-old Aniya Blu Vasquez. They claim the child struggled to gain weight and was hospitalized for severe medical problems because of her mother’s actions.

“I would like a hashtag movement (called) #KeepAniyaSafe,” said Shelly Merritt, an attorney representing the state, to jurors. “It’s what she deserves.”

Note: this seems to be in response to the #BringAniyaHome twitter hashtag that family and supporters have been using as they post in social media and share the story of the medical kidnapping of Aniya.

But Vasquez’s attorney, Chris Branson, of Houston, told jurors the allegations against his client were “nonsense” and based on “an assumption.”

He also asked jurors to hold state attorneys to the strict burden of “clear and convincing evidence” that they are required to meet when the custody of a child is at stake. That burden, one lower than the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt requirement used in criminal cases, is the highest available in civil court.

Anita and her daughter during a recent visit. Photo supplied by family.

During the jury selection process Monday morning, Judge Jack Marr said the trial could take as long as two weeks.

Branson said he planned to call as many as 14 witnesses. Attorneys for the state and Barron declined to comment, and a Texas Department of Family and Protective Services spokeswoman did not answer phone calls Monday.

Anita Vasquez, who is a registered nurse, first took the stand after jurors were selected, describing Aniya’s battle with persistent health problems in 2017.

Vasquez said those problems manifested after a Victoria doctor accidentally administered to Aniya an HPV vaccine meant for her 14-year-old son.

After the mistake, Aniya suffered not only physical symptoms such as fever and weakness but also psychological changes, such as lip smacking and staring spells, Vasquez said.

Doctors don’t know the cause of Aniya’s illness and have no reason to accuse Vasquez of endangerment, she said.

Note by Health Impact News: Although CPS has argued that her health problems disappeared, there is evidence that she continued to experience health issues after going into state custody.

There was at least one occasion that the fosters took Aniya to the emergency room that the family learned about. The mother has been denied medical information about her daughter in foster care.

The photo below was taken during a visit while Aniya was in state care. Her family described her as lethargic that day, and her eyes showed that she was not feeling well.

Grandma Mary holds baby Aniya on her 1st birthday during visitation. Photo provided by Vasquez family.Read the full article at Victoria Advocate.

Supporters have set up a Facebook page called Justice for Aniya for the public to follow Aniya’s story.

See additional coverage of Aniya’s story:

Texas Mother of Daughter Injured by Gardasil Vaccine Fights to Get Daughter Back as Attorneys Betray Her

Texas Mom Blamed for Baby’s Accidental Gardasil Vaccine Injuries Fights to Get Medically Kidnapped Daughter Back

The Verzosa family in Florida lost their 7 children because the mother had a learning disability. It took years of fighting the Florida child welfare system to get their children back home. Original Story.

Commentary by Terri LaPoint
Health Impact News

“It’s here too.” That is the cry of parents and advocates all over the United States as they watch the media frenzy about the separation of parents and children at the border.

They had a similar response as they watched the outcry about Baby Alfie earlier this year and Charlie Gard last year, both in the U.K.

Parents are frustrated that the media and the public virtually ignore the fact that these forced separations and medical kidnappings happen here too. Hundreds of thousands of families are separated here, to the sound of crickets from the media.

This week, Richard Wexler, the executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, wrote a piece for Youth Today exposing the harsh reality that the media in Florida is responsible for escalating the numbers of families separated by the child welfare system.

More children, not fewer, have been placed into greater danger than they were in before by the very system purported to protect them. On his blog, he introduces the article thus:

Young children torn from their parents, sleeping in a different bed every night. Families torn apart needlessly – and illegally — over and over again.

But this time it’s not the U.S.-Mexico border.  This time it’s Florida.

Who says it’s illegal? A report commissioned by the state itself.

Why is it happening? In part because caseworkers are terrified of “media consequences” if they leave a child in her or his own home and something goes wrong.

It has been a long-standing American principle of justice that we, as a society, would rather see a guilty man go free than an innocent man be punished for a crime he didn’t commit.

The very foundation of justice states that citizens are “innocent until proven guilty.”

Yet when it comes to families, the prevailing logic of the child protective system is that children are separated from their families “just in case” the parents MIGHT harm them.

It’s “for the children,” of course, and “in the best interest of the child,” they say, but how many children are destroyed as they are ripped out of the arms of loving parents and family members?

In the family court/child welfare system, parents are presumed guilty even when they have evidence of their innocence. They can be sentenced to the equivalent of the death penalty for a family – termination of parental rights – and that sometimes happens based on the societal fear that something might happen to the child in the future.

In the Tampa area of Florida, a peer review team appointed by the head of the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCS), Mike Carroll, found that fear of media consequences has led to illegal seizures (we would call those “kidnappings”) of large numbers of children “needlessly.”

According to Richard Wexler’s article, “Tampa Child Welfare Puts Too Many Kids in Foster Care Due to Media Fear, State Report Says,” social workers take children they shouldn’t take and place them in harm’s way out of fear of repercussions to themselves:

The peer review found that workers in Hillsborough County are so terrified of having one of their cases land them on the front page after a tragedy that they are illegally taking large numbers of children needlessly. According to the report:

Professionals in the system of care are often unnecessarily risk adverse due to the fear of child fatalities and media consequences. … [E]xtreme caution and risk aversion responses do not guarantee that tragic results will be avoided, and can cause unnecessary trauma to children.

Indeed, as WFLA documented in this tragic case, it can cause a child to die in foster care after being taken from a mother just because that mother is poor.

What “risk averse” really means is that child welfare investigators, supervisors and officials are increasing the risk to children in order to decrease the risk to themselves. (Emphasis added by HIN)

The report confirms what many families have reported to us at Health Impact News. The number of children taken by child protective services tends to increase drastically after a publicized tragic death of a child. In the effort to prevent such tragedy, innocent families are traumatized. It is much like comments made by doctors defending a high unnecessary cesarean section rate:

The only c-section I have been sued for is the one I didn’t do.

How many innocent families are destroyed, how many children are subjected to the horrors of bad foster homes or group homes, how many children die in state custody, in order to prevent one tragedy at the hands of abusive parents?

Social Workers Take Children Unnecessarily

According to the article:

The report found that investigators in Hillsborough County rush to remove children “without sufficient exploration, consideration, or conversation around reasonable efforts to prevent removal …”

The report notes that violates state and federal law. Yes, such illegal behavior is routine across the country — what is unusual is when it gets so flagrant that a child welfare system’s “peers” can’t look the other way.

Wexler links to an article from 2016 citing a report from Alaska:

Yes, the reasonable efforts clause has lots of loopholes. But it does not say “make reasonable efforts unless you don’t have time.”

Unfortunately, the federal government does almost nothing to enforce this law, so it’s often ignored.

The penalty for ignoring the law is losing federal aid for that case. But to “prove” it has complied with the requirement a child welfare agency need merely show that a judge has checked a box on a form.

Wexler continues his analysis of the Tampa report:

The bias extends to extended families. The report found a disturbing “lack of effort” to place children with relatives even though kinship care is the least harmful form of foster care.

This finding is consistent with what our research has shown. We have had many cases where relatives are lined up to care for their family member, yet social workers lie to the courts saying that there are “no suitable kinship placements.”

The children are placed into the more profitable (for the state) stranger placement, bypassing even relatives who are caring for other foster or adopted children. The relatives were deemed acceptable by the system to take in other unrelated children, just not their own family members.

This is not the first official confirmation of needless removal of children in Hillsborough County. In December, 2017, a representative of the Florida Attorney General admitted that, as WFLA put it, some children in the county “are separated from their parents due to poverty and nothing else.”

Report – Social Workers Afraid of Media Attention

Wexler describes the “peer review team” appointed to conduct the investigation into failures by the Hillsborough County child protective services:

As the name suggests, the group was made up of people who are or were themselves key players in running various aspects of child welfare — in other words, a group likely to identify less with the victims of the mess than the perpetrators.

But even this highly sympathetic jury of system peers couldn’t look away.

Their report indicts just about everyone involved in the child welfare system in Hillsborough County (metropolitan Tampa), Florida. By extension, it’s also an indictment of the state’s two most prestigious newspapers, the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times, since their shoddy journalism set off the foster-care panic at the root of the problems and has kept that panic going.

The report found significant problems within the system as it honed in on the “why” of children being needlessly seized from their families:

As stunning as the findings is the candor with which the peer review team zeroed in on the real problem: the fear caused by misleading journalism from the state’s two most prominent newspapers.

About a decade ago, Florida had been making impressive progress transforming what had been among the worst child welfare systems in the country. Needless removal of children had been curbed and independent evaluations found child safety improved.

Then the Miami Herald decided to scapegoat efforts to keep families together for deaths of children “known-to-the-system.” That effort began in 2011. My organization set up a website to respond. Those efforts reached a fever pitch with the publication of a series called “Innocents Lost” in 2014.

As we noted in our full rebuttal to “Innocents Lost,” the Herald distorted data, took information out of context, got time frames wrong and systematically left out facts that contradicted the reporters’ point of view.

The stories had the intended effect. The number of children torn from their homes soared. That led to one tragedy after another. And, of course, children “known to the system” kept right on dying. The only people who benefitted from “Innocents Lost” were the reporters and editors at the Herald.

Then the Tampa Bay Times joined in, with editorials demanding that more children be taken away. So it’s no wonder the peer review report found that everyone in Hillsborough County child welfare is scared of “media consequences.”

As the horrors caused by the foster care panic became more apparent in Hillsborough County, the Tampa Bay Times showed little interest in the suffering it caused. It was only the reporting of WFLA-TV that brought the crisis to light, and forced the state to name the peer review team.

As WFLA led, the Times usually would follow with a weaker version of the story the next day. And when the peer review team issued its report, the Times story left out entirely the findings about widespread needless removal of children, the violation of state and federal laws and workers’ fear of “media consequences.”

The proposed solution to all this from the DCS head appears to be bureaucratic pretense. According to Wexler:

As for the DCF Secretary, Mike Carroll, he has responded to the peer review team report with decisive action! Nope, just kidding again.

He’s demanding a “corrective action plan” from the private agency that’s sort of in charge of child welfare in the region, Eckerd Connects. (I say “sort of” because one of the other report findings is that no one is really in charge of child welfare in Hillsborough County.)

So allow me to save everyone a lot of time and paperwork. Here’s the corrective action plan: Stop letting two newspapers effectively run child welfare in Florida. Because they’re running it into the ground.

Read the full article at Youth Today.

7 home-schooled children were forcibly removed from their home and parents in 2015 even though their parents had committed no crime (not even charged with one.) Story here.

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

The corporate sponsored “mainstream” media has been fixated in recent days with reports that children are being separated from their parents at U.S. borders.

For the news sources that are critical of the current administration, one is led to believe that this is a recent problem that just started.

However, this limited and biased view is not even close to the truth.

Health Impact News has covered the issue of child trafficking of minor children coming across the U.S. borders since 2016, when Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) published a six-month investigation into the matter during the Obama administration.

Focusing on a couple of thousand children currently in border facilities without their parents also ignores a far greater problem, one that is a national crisis, and that is the 400,000+ children who have been taken away from their parents, and the practice of child trafficking that is continuing to happen in every U.S. state every single day.

The overall real problem in this tragedy is one of child trafficking, and it is time that this issue gets public attention.

The Border Issue of Minor Children Separated from Their Parents

2014 photo of children at the border kept in chain link “cages” with tin foil being used for covering during the Obama administration. Source – Daily Caller.

The problem of children separated from their families crossing the borders illegally is a problem that has plagued all of the modern-day administrations, and it certainly did not begin with the current administration.

There are conflicting reports that the current administration is doing something different to force the separation of children from their parents, but published reports of investigations into this issue clearly show that the vast majority of minors entering the U.S. illegally are “unaccompanied alien children” (UAC).

In other words, most of these children were separated from their parents before they ever reached the border. Senator Portman’s 2016 report looked at 125,000 unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S. borders into the United States during a 5-year period (2011 – 2016), reportedly fleeing violence and unrest in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

This U.S. Senate report concluded that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has failed to protect these children from human trafficking, leaving them vulnerable to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers.

U.S. law requires HHS to ensure that unaccompanied alien children (UAC) are protected from human trafficking and other forms of abuse.

However, the 2016 report conducted during the Obama administration clearly showed that this had not been happening.

The fact that the United States is a popular destination for child trafficking has been well documented:

The causes of the surge of UACs are disputed, but all stakeholders, including HHS, agree that one reason UACs come to this country is that they are ‘brought into the United States by human trafficking rings.’ According to the State Department’s 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report, ‘[t]he United States is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, transgender individuals, and children—both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals—subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor.’

Human trafficking involves transporting or harboring human beings, often for financial gain, through the use of fraud, force, or coercion. (Report)

The Senate report noted several “Systemic Deficiencies” in the government’s failure to protect these vulnerable children from organized criminal trafficking, and all of these existed prior to the current administration:

• HHS’s Process for Verifying a Category 3 Sponsor’s Identity and Relationship with a UAC Is Unreliable and Subject to Abuse
• HHS Is Unable to Safeguard Children from Sponsors Attempting to Accumulate Multiple Children
• HHS Failed to Require Background Checks on Non-Sponsor Adult Household Members or on Backup Sponsors
• HHS Policy Allowed Non-Relatives with Criminal Histories to Sponsor Children
• HHS Does Not Ensure a Sponsor Has Adequate Income to Support a UAC
• HHS Approves Placements with Sponsors Who May Not Remain in the Country
• Sponsors Often Inflict Legal Harm on UACs by Not Ensuring Their Appearance At Immigration Proceedings

The claims that over 2000 children have recently been separated from their parents at the border should be carefully investigated if it is to believed as true. As the 2016 report under the Obama administration clearly found, documentation for these children, including who their parents are, is seldom present to even verify that the adults who are accompanying the children are, in fact, their parents.

Whoops! Turns out Time Magazine did not even bother to investigate their portrayal of this crying girl as being separated from her parents. The mother eventually spoke up and claimed they were always together.

The fact that the media is hyping this issue for partisan purposes, and not always conducting journalistic investigations to determine the truth to back up their claims, was exposed last week when Time Magazine portrayed a young, crying girl as being separated from her parents at the border due to the policies of the current administration. Turns out they made a mistake, and it was later learned that the young girl had been with her mother the entire time since they crossed the border.

Children being separated from their parents and crossing the U.S. border illegally is a very serious problem, and should not be taken lightly nor used for partisan politics.

As the 2016 report published under the Obama administration clearly shows, the tragedy of these unaccompanied minors is that they are being sexually trafficked as a commodity, and this human trafficking problem is such a lucrative market in the U.S. that it exceeds both the illegal drugs and gun trade combined.

This issue of sexual child tafficking is the real tragedy the media should be focusing on and exposing.

But even this issue, as horrible as it is, pales in comparison to the separation of children and parents of U.S. citizens that occurs through Child Protection Services and the Foster Care industry, where most children are routinely sexually abused, and many of them are sexually trafficked to that lucrative trafficking market that includes pedophiles.

Sexually Trafficking Children Through Foster Care

Young Devani (not an immigrant) was taken away from her mother who had never harmed her, and put into the home of a pedophile and child pornography operation in Tucson Arizona. Story here.

Just as the Senate report in 2016 clearly showed that minors crossing U.S. borders where being sold into child trafficking rings, so too it is well-documented that the vast majority of children sexually trafficked into pedophilia rings in the U.S. come through the U.S. taxpayer-sponsored foster care system.

Attorney Michael Dolce, from the law-firm Cohen Milstein, wrote an opinion piece published by Newsweek earlier this year addressing this problem.

Dolce, who speaks from experience from representing children abused in foster care, writes:

Here’s the ugly truth: most Americans who are victims of sex trafficking come from our nation’s own foster care system. It’s a deeply broken system that leaves thousands vulnerable to pimps as children and grooms them for the illegal sex trade as young adults.

We have failed our children by not fixing the systemic failures that have allowed this to happen for decades. (Story here.)

If you are tempted to think that this may not be a real problem, or that it is being exaggerated and sensationalized, see these previous articles:

Attorney Reporting in Newsweek: Foster Care is a System Set Up to Sex Traffic American Children

Publicly Open Pedophile Running for Office in Virginia Reveals How Foster Care is a Pipeline to Adopt Children as “Sex Toys”

Texas Judge: CPS Still Unconstitutional – Foster Care Sexual and Physical Abuse Still the Norm

Massachusetts State Auditor Finds Widespread Rape and Sexual Abuse in Foster Care but DCF Officials Won’t Report It

Arizona Foster Care System Revealed as Pedophile Ring: Former Foster Child Tortured for Years Sues for $15 Million

Texas Sheriff Blasts CPS for Allowing Man Accused of Sexual Abuse to Foster 180 Girls

“Pedophile Farm” Alleged in Lawsuit Against Washington Foster Care Home for Boys

Florida Foster Parents Charged with Hundreds of Sex Crimes Against Children in Alabama

Child Sex Trafficking through Child “Protection” Services Exposed – Kidnapping Children for Sex

The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking

Child Kidnapping and Trafficking: A Lucrative U.S. Business Funded by Taxpayers

Tammi Stefano of the National Safe Child show was interviewed by filmmaker Sean Stone in 2015 and reported about child sex trafficking, and how Los Angeles County was placing thousands of foster children with known sex abusers. Story here.

If one reads through all the links above, it will become rather obvious that we were able to write and publish articles about sex trafficking through foster care, with clear evidence and examples given, starting around the midway point of 2017, during the current administration’s first year after the elections.

Prior to this time, the best evidence we had that this was a wide-spread problem was a 2015 interview of Tammi Stefano of the National Safe Child show by filmmaker Sean Stone. (Child Sex Trafficking through Child “Protection” Services Exposed – Kidnapping Children for Sex)

That article and video was shared by hundreds of thousands of people in social media, but the only real evidence we could publish that this was happening was the older 1989 “White-house Call Boys” scandal that managed to break through into the corporate media at that time, although it quickly died down.

So what has happened that has allowed more evidence of these horrific practices of child sex trafficking happening here in the U.S. to be published and exposed to the public?

Arizona: Battleground State for Exposing and Fighting Child Sex Trafficking?

David Frodsham, a military veteran and former Arizona state-approved foster parent, was convicted of running a pedophile pornographic operation out of his home with foster children. Story here.

For Health Impact News, the key event that turned the tide, where we could start publishing real current examples of state-sponsored foster care being used to sexually traffick children, was a case out of Sierra Vista, Arizona, the home of Fort Huachuca near Tucson, where David Frodsham was arrested and convicted for running a child pornography pedophile ring out of his state-approved foster home in June of 2017.

Because he was arrested and prosecuted, Health Impact News (and all other media sources) was able to access court records and publish the story, as protected by our First Amendment “freedom of the press.”

This story was significant for several reasons.

First, Arizona has the highest percentage of children removed from their parents and put into foster care of any other state in the U.S.

Our MedicalKidnap.com website and topic was started in 2014, due to the sheer volume of parents from Arizona who were contacting us and telling us their stories of how their children were being kidnapped by the state and put into foster care.

What we were learning from our interviews and investigations into child social services in Arizona was truly appalling, as the corruption being reported reached to the highest levels of government. There were very few attorneys who even wanted to try and fight the system, and the few who did wanted huge retainer fees.

For most of these families, there seemed to be little hope for justice. We discovered that local judges were motivated by the federal funds available to the state when a child is placed in foster care, with little regard to actual justice.

When we exposed their deeds through the articles we published on behalf of the families, they threatened the parents with gag orders and even ordered Health Impact News to take down our articles (which we have never done.) See:

Arizona Judges Continue to Threaten Parents and Restrict Free Speech

One famous retired Arizona Judge (now deceased) even documented how corrupt the judicial system is:

Retired Arizona Judge Reveals Corruption in Legal System

Besides the corrupt judicial system, we learned that all the Arizona state legislators, upon being elected and taking their oath of office, were told to never deal with their constituents on child protection or foster care matters, but that all cases were to be referred to the Director of the Arizona Legislative Office of Family Advocacy, an unelected bureaucrat by the name of Maria Hoffman.

Ms. Hoffman used intimidation and threats to try and scare off anyone who dared to ask questions about court-ordered child abductions. See:

Why is the Arizona “Family Advocate” Threatening People Asking About Children in State Custody?

With such a concerted effort to subvert justice and keep children in state-sponsored custody, where we now know some of these children were placed with known child taffickers and pedophiles, how did David Fordsham get arrested and convicted?

The answer: President Trump’s federal ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) intervened and made the arrest.

Somebody at the federal level, obviously outside of the corrupt state of Arizona, decided “enough is enough,” especially after Frodsham had already been disciplined for deviant sexual behavior while serving in Afghanistan, and had even been previously arrested in Arizona, and yet still was allowed to run his pedophile pornographic ring out of his state-approved foster home.

In court-filed documents, submitted on behalf of one of Frodsham’s victims, we learn how federal law enforcement had to get involved to put this guy away:

John Doe is a victim of the State of Arizona’s failed child protection practices and policies.

John Doe, who is now 18 years old, suffered over 12 years of shocking physical and sexual abuse because of the State’s refusal to protect him.

John Doe was born in September of 1999 and before his fourth birthday was placed in foster care. The Frodshams were approved by the State to have John Doe in their home in 2004 and John Doe was subsequently adopted by David and Barbara Frodsham in 2012.

The Frodshams were licensed foster parents with the State of Arizona from 2002 to January 2015. The Frodsham license was not suspended until David Frodsham was arrested at the DES office for felony drunk driving with toddlers in the vehicle.

The State and its employees ignored actual notice of the abuse of John Doe and numerous warning signs that the Frodsham home was dangerous.

The State did not remove John Doe until ICE, a federal agency within the Department of Homeland Security, arrested David Frodsham for operating a pornographic pedophile ring based in the home. ICE identified John Doe as a victim of Frodsham’s pedophilia.

John Doe suffered sexual, physical and emotional abuse for over 12 years in this home, despite numerous red flags of abuse and neglect. This abuse was no secret to CPS/DCS and well documented yet no investigations were undertaken.

See:

Arizona Foster Care System Revealed as Pedophile Ring: Former Foster Child Tortured for Years Sues for $15 Million

Here at Health Impact News, we have no political party affiliation. We stand for the truth, and we stand against corruption, especially corruption that is censored by the corporate-sponsored “mainstream” media. And there is corruption in both parties.

For example, much of the legal basis that allows these horrendous acts to occur in foster care is the result of a law passed by Bill Clinton, and said to be mainly crafted by Hillary Clinton, the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act.

The Clintons get a lot of blame (and rightfully so) for this very bad piece of legislation, but few bother to report that it was a Republican majority of “conservatives” that controlled both the House and the Senate, and led by Newt Gingrich, that passed this law and handed it over to President Clinton to sign.

But there is clearly something that has changed since President Trump has taken office, and we see it in Arizona.

More recently, we reported on the group Veterans on Patrol in Tucson who discovered a child sex camp in an area where known cartel members traffick women and children.

The leader of the group, Lewis Arthur, began live-streaming their operations in trying to shut down this human trafficking corridor in Arizona, which originally seemed to be met with opposition from local law enforcement.

At one point, they evacuated all the women and children from their camp, as it looked like local law enforcement was going to act on a trespassing complaint and try to remove them.

Arthur and another man stayed up all night in locked up in a tower, and they seemed to expect that they were going to be executed.

But the next morning, as Arthur live-streamed an update, he related how he allegedly received a phone call from Washington D.C. He could not give details or names, but after that, he and his crew of veterans and volunteers were allowed to resume their patrols in Arizona, seeking to find human traffickers and stop child sex crimes from those coming across the border.

Again, why the sudden change of events? If the call was from D.C., was it from someone on Trump’s team that cleared the way for them to resume operations? They are continuing their operations today, although many still oppose them and are trying to stop them.

See:

BREAKING: Vet Group Finds Pedophile Child Sex Camp Near Tucson – Local Law Enforcement Refuses to Help as Tensions Rise

Conclusion: Let’s Fight the REAL Problem of Children being Separated from Their Parents and Being Trafficked

This media frenzy over children supposedly being separated from their parents, due to policies of the current administration, whether valid or not, is obscuring the real issues facing our nation today, which are not being addressed.

The larger issue here is child trafficking, much of it the lucrative sex trafficking, and we won’t gain much progress in stopping it if partisan political fighting continues.

Facebook meme created by supporters of the Vasquez family.

by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

A Texas jury decided Thursday afternoon, June 21, to terminate the parental rights of a mother whose 4-month-old baby was injected with the Gardasil-9 vaccine in error.

Anita Vasquez is devastated. She and her friends and supporters are shocked that this could happen.

Instead of doctors and social workers considering the possibility that the symptoms her daughter, Aniya Blu Vasquez, experienced could be related to the vaccine that is not approved for children under 9-years-of-age, Anita was blamed, and her daughter was taken from her by Child Protective Services (CPS).

See their original story:

Infant Accidentally Vaccinated with Gardasil – Mother Blamed for Vaccine Injuries and Baby Medically Kidnapped

Anita tells us that there was important information that the jury did not hear before making their decision. There were things that she believes her attorney should have presented but did not. When she was on the stand, Anita reports that the judge threatened her with contempt of court when she tried to give complete answers. Of CPS and the doctors who testified, Anita says:

They lied and they lied and they lied.

Aniya’s health declined after the Gardasil 9 vaccine. Photo provided by the family.

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy – Diagnosis or Cover-Up?

A Child Abuse Specialist doctor from Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston reportedly diagnosed her of having Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a extremely rare mental condition where a parent, usually a mother, makes a child sick in order to gain attention. Anita told Health Impact News:

I wasn’t even their patient!

A later psychologist, one who does psychological evaluations for CPS, reportedly based his diagnosis on the previous diagnosis from the doctor at Children’s.

This is a common scenario that we have seen in our research at Health Impact News. The “diagnosis” of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy appears to almost universally be a cover up for vaccine injury or medical malpractice.

Instead of medical professionals admitting that a vaccine could be causing symptoms or that a doctor made a mistake, it seems to be easier to deflect blame by accusing the mother of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, or the newer refashioned title for the same thing – “Medical Child Abuse.”

See more on the Medical Child Abuse diagnosis and the doctors responsible for influencing policies and practices from coast to coast in this article:

California Christian Homeschool Family Torn Apart as Children are Medically Kidnapped, Forced into Public School, and Mother is Forced out of Family Home

The very fact that the mother blamed the Gardasil vaccine for Aniya’s illness was used as evidence of her having Munchausen. Doctors and investigators seemed determined to deny that the vaccine could have caused harm. Because of their belief system, Anita must have been mentally ill, because the vaccine, in their opinion, could not have made Aniya sick.

Doctors refused to associate Aniya’s health problems with the vaccine that she was given, a vaccine that is not approved for use in children under 9. Photo supplied by family.

It appears that the belief that all vaccines are safe all the time for everybody was a forgone conclusion in court.

According to the Victoria Advocate:

A Texas Children’s Hospital physician testified on the second day of trial that he did not think a mistakenly applied HPV vaccine was the cause of an infant’s recurring illnesses.

Dr. David Paul, an endocrinologist or hormone specialist, said of the estimated 100 documented cases of babies receiving the HPV vaccine, the most severe symptoms were “fever and fussiness.”

Anita wanted to bring in expert testimony from doctors who challenge the doctrine of complete vaccine safety and rebut these claims, but her previous court-appointed attorney told her that the judge would only allow local expert witnesses.

Expert Witness Not Allowed to Testify – Writes that Gardasil Can and Does Cause Harm

Dr. Toni Bark is one such witness who was not permitted to appear as an expert witness, because she is not a Texas doctor. However, she sent a letter that could have been presented in court but wasn’t. CPS was presented last year with a copy of the letter which reads as follows:

To whom it may concern,

The Gardasil vaccine comes with certain risks. From Merck’s own data, we know syncopal episodes, anaphylaxis autoimmunity and even deaths occurred at rates 3 times higher than the general public in their post surveillance studies.

The vaccine was tested girls and then boys, age 12-26 and then approved for those as young as 9. It is not approved for those younger than 9 and certainly not for infants.

The aluminum adjuvant content is higher than in any other vaccine and seems to be one of the true culprits for serious adverse reactions.

Many girls around the globe are documented as suffering from POTS or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. This syndromes due to the dysautonomia or abnormal autonomic tone which results from aluminum making its way into the brain. Part of the syndrome is the autonomic system’s in ability to regulate itself and therefore, many bizarre signs and symptoms can be found.

Currently, there are lawsuits against Merck in other countries which don’t give blanket protection from torte law. One example is Columbia where a law suit on behalf of 750 girls from one town who all suffered with this autonomic dysfunction syndrome. Another example is the government of Japan opened a government office just to keep an eye on Gardasil injury and the vaccine was removed from the list of recommended vaccines.

The government of Israel has also removed its recommendation of that vaccine as well as Spain and a few other countries.

It is very likely Gardasil could be causing poor regulation of electrolytes and fluid control in an infant who inadvertently received the vaccine but since the vaccine has never been studied in or approved for young babies, we have no published data on this issue.

Thank you,

Toni Bark MD MHEM LEED AP

Health Impact News has covered the Gardasil vaccine scandal for many years now. The fact that the vaccine, even when administered to the appropriate age levels it was intended for, does in fact have many side effects. This is a fact that is not even in dispute.

Learn more about Gardasil.

Some of the issues that Aniya suffered included electrolyte imbalances and low sodium levels.

Though doctors admitted to the court that they don’t know what caused Aniya’s sodium levels to drop to dangerous levels, they felt that somehow, it had to be the mother’s fault.

Child Got Better When Mom Wasn’t Around – Or Did She?

CPS and their doctors argued that evidence of Munchausen was the fact that Aniya got better when her mother was not around and that she is healthy and thriving now.

But is that true?

Anita has reported numerous times that CPS kept medical records from her. There were times that she would learn later than her daughter had been sick or taken to the hospital when she was in CPS care.

When CPS initially seized custody of Aniya on May 2, 2017, she was in Texas Children’s Hospital. Child Abuse doctors accused Anita of having Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

The following day, social workers with Victoria, Texas CPS reportedly told Anita that the hospital was going to run tests and labs to find out if she was still sick when her mother was not with her. If they found her to be ill, they would return her to her mother’s custody, but if they didn’t find anything wrong, they said they would need to investigate further and keep Aniya in their custody.

The baby was alone with no loved one to comfort her at the hospital for almost 2 weeks. Meanwhile, on May 14, Texas Children’s Hospital diagnosed Aniya with adrenal insufficiency, which can cause low sodium levels. It was only much later that Anita learned of the diagnosis. It was apparently not reported to CPS either, because Aniya was released to a foster home, not her own home, on May 18.

This was on her first birthday, in CPS custody. She was not healthy that day. Photo supplied by family.

She was again diagnosed with adrenal insufficiency on September 11, 2017, and prescribed steroids and medications. On October 15, she went to the ER for high blood pressure, fever, and refusal to eat. In November, she was referred to an ENT doctor, and in January, 2018, she was referred to neurosurgery. In March, she had surgery for tubes in her ears.

Yet, the Victoria Advocate reports that CPS and their witnesses testified that Aniya got better after she was removed from the care of her mother. The Victoria Advocate reported the jury verdict last Thursday. (Article link here.)

During his closing argument, [CPS attorney Allen] Lowe pointed to a timeline that showed Aniya’s health sharply improved when she was under observation and out of her mother’s custody. He described that timeline, despite its inability to explain exactly how Vasquez harmed her child, as clear and convincing evidence.

The timeline presented to the court left out a number of illnesses and diagnoses that happened after Aniya was no longer in the custody of her family. Anita asked her attorney to submit the complete timeline, but he did not. According to the Victoria Advocate:

[Aniya] is now healthy, happy and thriving, caseworker Megan Morales testified.

The alleged misrepresentation of facts convinced the jury.

Mother Not Charged with a Crime

It did not, however, convince the police department, who are charged with requiring actual evidence of crimes:

Although the department has forwarded their findings to the Victoria Police Department, Vasquez is not charged with a crime relating to harming her child.

Case Plan Sabotage

Anita was accused of not completing her “case plan,” a serious problem in the eyes of CPS that renders a parent unworthy of getting their child back.

According to testimony from social workers, Vasquez was ordered to follow the recommendations of a psychiatrist and a plan outlined by the department. She did not, a case worker testified.

That assertion is not true, Anita told us. The case plan, which she did not sign, stated that she was to go to a psychologist chosen by CPS, which she did. His recommendation was that Anita either receive counseling or take medication, and the choice was hers.

Even though she chose counseling, CPS never made the necessary arrangements to schedule an appointment. If they had, Anita says that she would have been there. If it meant getting her daughter back, she would have even taken medication. It was never set up.

This is consistent with reports by countless other parents whose children are taken by CPS. They are told that they must complete various requirements that social workers write on the case plan or safety plan, yet the social workers fail to schedule necessary appointments or secure the services demanded.

If parents try to do them on their own with providers they choose, many times they find that they don’t “count.” The services have to be the ones the social worker orchestrates with providers contracted through CPS.

If a parent fails to jump through the hoops, even if social workers fail to do their part, parents are held accountable. Some have lost their children permanently because social workers essentially run the clock out.

The Clintons’ Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 shortened the time that parents have to meet the case plan demands of CPS. If a child remains in custody for 18 months, parental rights can be terminated and children’s lives destroyed, simply for failure to complete the case plan.

Where Do They Go From Here?

Anita Vasquez told us that she is considering her options, but she doesn’t know yet what she will do. She does not intend to give up fighting for her baby girl.

Unless this decision can be overturned, Aniya Blue Vasquez has been cut off from her family. Because she had the misfortune of getting sick after she was given a vaccine that is not intended for babies, she continues to suffer the loss of being separated from her mom and her brothers.

This may seem like a case of “how can this happen in America?” Perhaps a better question would be: “How many more families will be destroyed by CPS before Americans demand change?”

To continue to follow their story, see the Facebook page set up by supporters: Justice for Aniya.

See additional coverage of Aniya’s story:

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The Coumpy family before they were torn apart by DCS. Photo source: Parents Protecting God’s Children Facebook page.

by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

A young Arizona boy wrote a heartbreaking letter to his teacher describing the horrors that he saw while he was in a group foster home.

Had the things that he talked about happened in his own family home, the teacher would have been mandated to contact Child Protective Services, and a social worker likely would have taken him from his home before the day was out.

However, the incidents happened under state custody, and it was almost a month later that the teacher told the boy’s mother about the letter.

As hundreds of parents have reported to Health Impact News, the real abuse and dangers in foster care were swept under the rug by social workers, while minor incidents or accidents that happen in loving family homes are turned into major catastrophes that Child Protective Services must rush in and address.

The children of Arizona mom, Aprilli Coumpy ,were taken from her by the Department of Child Safety (DCS) in March of 2015 over an accidental injury involving spilled Ramen noodles.

See original story:

Arizona Mother Loses 5 Children Over Incident Family Doctor Calls an Accident

The children spent almost 2 1/2 years in various foster and group homes before they were finally returned home. Their case was closed on August 15, 2017.

The separation traumatized the children and their mother, and they are in counseling as they try to heal and move forward from the harm caused by those charged with protecting families.

Aprilli still doesn’t know everything that happened to her children, but she does know that they are not the same. While certainly they are happy to be together again, shadows and scars remain.

Every now and again, something triggers painful memories. Something comes out of her children’s mouths that she knows did not come from anything that happened at home, or they exhibit a behavior that shows that they were exposed to things children should never be exposed to.

One of the Coumpy children after they were returned home. Photo source: Parents Protecting God’s Children Facebook page.

Disturbing Letter Written to Teacher

As the end of the school year approached, Aprilli got a phone call from her now 11-year-old son’s teacher who wanted to prepare her for something that she would see in the packet of papers that was sent home with her son that day.

It was a letter that the child had written and given to his teacher, and it described disturbing things that he had been through at a group foster home.

Aprilli called Health Impact News in tears when she read the letter. She knew that her children had suffered in foster care, but the letter brought that reality into sharp focus.

She later learned that her son voluntarily wrote the letter to his teacher disclosing what happened to him at a group home where DCS placed him. Aprilli asked that we correct his spelling in transcribing the letter:

… I have been through 2 years of complete pain.

I’ve been nearly caught on fire, 3 inches of being electrocuted, people of my group home for real in real life no joke try to kill me.

They did things you wouldn’t even wish on your worst enemy.

I know you people [at his school] wouldn’t even think about doing that stuff to me, which is why I try my best for you. I mean the best of the best. …

This is the letter that one of Aprilli Coumpy’s children wrote to his teacher. His name has been blotted out to protect his privacy. He and his family want people to see what he went through at the hands of the state.

We were able to talk with the child to learn more about what he experienced. He told us that the first group home was fine, but:

All the bad stuff happened in the second group home.

He said that older boys in the home would try to catch him on fire by throwing lit matches on him while he was in bed.

An older teen, around 16-years-old, liked to take things apart and make things with the electronic components. He said that the teen made some kind of device to shock people and that he tried to electrocute him when he was sitting on the couch. He was fortunately not harmed, but the device caught the couch on fire:

The couch was literally on fire.

He said that most of the staff paid no attention to what was going on in the group home and did nothing to stop the destructive behavior that happened.

One of the staff members reportedly allowed the older boys to buy condoms and cigarettes. The Coumpy child said that the boys were using the condoms as water balloons to throw on people.

We asked if his mother would have allowed these kinds of behaviors. His response was swift:

Definitely not!

He made it very clear that he feels much safer in his mother’s care than in Child Protective Services custody.

He told us that he tried to leave and walk away from the group home several times because it was so bad, but he would return because he didn’t know where he was or how to get to his family. No one looked for him, he said. Other children ran away as well, he continued, but most of the staff would not even look for the children.

A few of the staff, he said, would tell the boys to stop dangerous behaviors and would search for children when they ran off, including Dustin, Laurie, and Alexis. Another staff member, whose name he cannot remember, also seemed to care, but he was fired when those who run the home found out that he was allowing some of the children to call their parents.

Neither the child nor his mother know the name of the group home nor where it is located. The only information that we were able to track down was that the child was enrolled in Stevenson Elementary school in Mesa, Arizona, at the time. The group home is located somewhere in that school district. At the time the Coumpy child was there, it housed approximately 10 children.

Parents whose children are taken from them frequently have no clue where their child or children are being held. They are not privy to any information about the conditions their child is living in or the kind of people who their children live with. They find themselves in the frustrating position of being completely powerless to protect their children.

Most of the visits, Aprilli told us, happened in a small room that DCS used for visitation. She had 4 hour visits at a time with 4 of her children in the little room.

Other Abuse and Danger in Foster Care

For part of the time that the Coumpy children were in foster care, they were all together in the same foster home. At other times, they were separated. When the boy who wrote the letter was in the group home, his other siblings were not with him.

They were together in the beginning of their time in the system. Even then, Aprilli reported that the children would show up at visits with signs of being hit and abused.

In one of the first foster homes where they were together, the children told of the older children at the home throwing their then-1-year-old baby brother into the deep end of the swimming pool, “as a joke,” without any floaties or other safety device. The older siblings would have to jump into the pool and rescue their brother while the people at the house laughed at them.

The youngest Coumpy child was only a year old when he was taken from his family. Photo source: Parents Protecting God’s Children Facebook page.

The baby is now 4. He verified that they threw him into the pool. He said that they scared him and did bad things.

His siblings told our reporter that sometimes the foster parents were home when it happened, but sometimes they weren’t there, leaving older children in charge.

Ironically, “lack of supervision” was cited by DCS as a reason for them taking the children away from their mother.

As we have reported many times before, the standards for foster parents often seem to fall far below the criteria for real parents keeping their own children. The federal government even advertises that foster and adoptive parents don’t have to be perfect in the Ad Council‘s AdoptUSKids campaign.

The government recruits foster parents and adoptive parents who “don’t have to be perfect” but routinely takes children away from biological parents if they are less than perfect.

During our recent interviews with the Coumpy family, it is apparent that the children love each other and their mother. There was the sound of happy children playing in the background – children just being children.

As we stated in our original coverage of the Coumpy family story, the reason that DCS got involved with their family was over an accidental injury – something that could happen to any normal family. There was no abuse involved, nor was there anything that any reasonable person would conclude was neglect.

Aprilli’s 6 and 7-year-old children woke up before she did on a Sunday morning and decided to fix breakfast. In the course of trying to help their mom out, they accidentally spilled hot Ramen noodles on their 2-year-old brother’s leg.

Aprilli promptly called the doctor’s office. She herself is trained as a medical assistant and phlebotomist. She followed the nurse’s instructions to treat her son’s injury. She reports that she treated the burn with neosporin and aloe vera covered with a gauze dressing, as well as applied ice packs, per the nurse’s instructions. The nurse reportedly did not seem worried and told Aprilli to watch for signs of infection. They scheduled a follow-up doctor’s appointment.

It was the day care center that called Child Protective Services.

The family’s doctor wrote a letter to DCS stating that it was an accidental injury and that the mother acted appropriately, but to no avail. DCS was involved, and it took years of court battles for the Coumpy children to be returned to their mother.

Will DCS Continue to Get Away with This?

Aprilli is working hard to help her children heal from the trauma they endured in foster care. She is still searching for a civil rights attorney to help her file a lawsuit against DCS.

It is not about money, she says. She wants those who hurt her children, those who continue to hurt other children, to be held accountable for their actions.

The social worker who took her children, Lisa Millett, is reportedly still working for DCS. Neither she nor any of the other DCS workers who put the Coumpy through needless suffering have been held responsible. They continue to work at taxpayer expense with impunity.

The foster homes and group home that caused the “2 years of complete pain” to the boy who wrote the letter have not been held accountable for the pain they caused him and his siblings.

The name of the group home remains a mystery to the family, but it is not a mystery to DCS. The Department of Child Safety and social worker, Lisa Millet, surely have a record of the home.

We were unable to determine how many group foster homes there are in the Mesa, Arizona area, but we found that there are 26 different foster care licensing agencies in Maricopa County alone. (See link.) Mesa is a suburb of Phoenix. Both are located in Maricopa County.

Foster care is big business in Arizona, the state which takes more children than any other state in the United States.

There is virtually no accountability for those who take children from families or for those who profit from having the children in their custody. When will this untenable reality become egregious enough for the masses to call upon our leaders to put a stop to it?

How many other children will be separated from normal, loving parents all over the country, before those responsible are held accountable?

Will the people responsible for this little boy’s pain continue to get away with their actions, or will the people of the United States demand that they be held accountable?

How You Can Help

If you are an attorney willing to look into this case, or if you know of one, please contact Health Impact News or the Facebook page set up to support the family called Parents Protecting God’s Children.

Governor Doug Ducey needs be called upon to put a stop to the separation of children from innocent families by DCS. He appointed Greg McKay as the director of DCS. The DCS agency and the actions of the DCS workers are ultimately the responsibility of Governor Ducey. He may be contacted at 602 542 4331 or reached here. He is also on Facebook and Twitter.

Representative Kevin Payne represents the Coumpy’s district. He may be reached at 602 926 4854, or contacted here.

The Senator for their district is Senator Frank Pratt. He may be reached at 602 926 5761, or contacted here.

The number to the White House comment line is 202 456 1111. President Donald Trump may be reached on Twitter here.

See our continuing coverage of this family’s story:

Arizona Mom Still Fighting to Get Her 5 Children Back From the State 2 Years After Accident

Arizona DCF Tries to Stifle Free Speech in Medical Kidnapping Case – Demands Our Stories of Coumpy Family be Taken Down

Mom Who Lost 2.5 Years of Her Children’s Lives While They Were in Foster Care Seeks Attorney to Fight Corruption in Arizona

Marvin Siegel was proud of his youngest daughter when she followed in his footsteps and graduated from law school. Now, attorneys won’t let him see his daughter at all. Photo provided by family.

Commentary by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

Lisa Belanger says that she was always “Daddy’s girl.” She is the youngest daughter of Marvin Siegel of Boxford, Massachusetts, and she and her father have always been very close.

It has now been more than a year and a half since she has seen her father, not by her choice or the choice of her father. A court, guardians, and lawyers have medically kidnapped her father, essentially imprisoning him in his own home, and they have forbidden his baby girl from having any contact with him.

Lisa Belanger is an attorney who followed in her father’s footsteps, and she is not taking this cruel twist of life lying down. She has been fighting to get him back since he was taken under state guardianship in mid December 2011.

See original story:

Massachusetts Senior Citizen and Attorney Medically Kidnapped – Estate Plundered – Represents National Epidemic

Retaliation for Exposing the Truth

Now, in what she sees as retaliation for exposing the corruption in the guardianship system in and around the Boston area, an attorney, who has been fighting alongside the guardians against the family of Marvin Siegel, is attempting to have Lisa Belanger disbarred.

This attorney, Marsha Kazarosian, was hired by Mr. Siegel at one time, but just before he was medically kidnapped, he attempted to fire her. In a handwritten statement, he wrote:

I want to terminate your services for going against my wishes.

Attorney Marsha Kazarosian. Photo source.

Kazarosian refused to be dismissed. Now, almost 7 years later, Lisa Belanger is still fighting the attorney for one of the most basic of human rights – the right to have a relationship with her father.

She says that the complaint against her essentially boils down to this:

They’re saying, “We’re going after you because you dare to expose us.”

Because she dared to exercise her 1st Amendment right of Freedom of Speech by speaking out against corruption, Lisa says that they are trying to silence her:

This goes in the dictionary under “T” – for “tyranny.”

When it comes down to it, they know I’ve done nothing wrong.

No matter what happens, her message cannot be stopped. She says it is too late to stop the truth because both the local paper The Boston Broadside and Health Impact News have already reported what has happened to her father and to several other senior citizens in the Boston area. Their stories are out on social media like Twitter and Facebook.

You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.

Lisa says that her dad always taught her to fight for what is right, and that is what she is doing.

I’m exposing medical kidnapping, a systemic problem of them doing this to elderly people, and to people of all ages.

What I’m doing now is what he taught me to be. This is who he is, and who I am. We fought for other people’s rights, before this ever even started with my family.

She was not able to celebrate his 90th birthday with him on June 8. Instead, on that day, she joined the Memorial Prayer Vigil for Baby Steffen Rivenburg in Nashville, Tennessee, for the baby whose life was taken from him a year ago that day at Vanderbilt Hospital.

Lisa spoke at an event with the Tennessee Judicial Accountability Movement and the Family Forward Project the next day, educating attendees about the Medical Kidnapping of senior citizens through probate courts and guardianships.

Over and over during her speech, she spoke of things that her father taught her. It was clear to everyone who heard her that her beloved father was a huge influence in her life. She would not be who she is today as a justice warrior, if not for her daddy. [Link here. Lisa’s speech begins at the 1:27:00 mark.]

The impact of her father on Lisa Belanger’s life was readily apparent as she spoke in Nashville on June 9, 2018. Photo by Health Impact News.

Let Freedom Ring

In a recent interview with Health Impact News, Lisa told us that:

My dad was a warrior. He fought hard for “we the people.”

He taught me to have a moral compass and to have compassion.

He taught me to not be silent when wrongs are being done to others.

I’m just doing what my dad taught me to do. It’s my obligation as a human being.

Like most Americans, Lisa Belanger had no idea that this kind of thing could happen in the United States. She was shocked at the level of corruption that she saw and that she continues to see.

Instead of making her crawl into a hole and hide, what she has learned has ignited a fire within her. Lisa is determined to fight for what is right, just like her father taught her:

Everything that I’ve done is for my dad.

This is so much more than about just the law: it’s good over evil.

It’s about standing up and doing the right thing. It’s being loyal to your family.

I’m not just fighting for my father, but I’m fighting for every other person that’s been subjected to this inhumanity.

It’s about my moral compass. It’s about giving hope to other people.

Always “Daddy’s girl,” Lisa misses hugs from her dad. She vows never to stop fighting for him and others wronged by injustice. Photo supplied by family.

The Boston Broadside Continues to Expose Corruption

While many media outlets shy away from stories like this, the editor of The Boston Broadside, Lonnie Brennan, takes seriously the role of the press envisioned by the Founding Fathers. The cradle of the Boston Tea Party is home to a print newspaper that does not hesitate to hold government accountable to the people.

The most recent edition of the paper contains the latest chapter in Lisa Belanger’s fight for her father.

Excerpts from Governor Baker’s Appointee to the Supreme Judicial Court Nominating Commission, Atty. Marsha V. Kazarosian Attempts to Silence Whistleblower:

90-Year Old Marvin Siegel Remains Under 24/7 House Guard
as High-Profile Lawyers Drain Millions from His Estate

The Boston Broadside has previously detailed in a four-part series the systematic draining of the estate of 90-year-old Boxford resident Marvin Siegel by Governor Charlie Baker’s 2016 appointee, Attorney Marsha V. Kazarosian, and other lawyers.

During the past seven years, millions have been drained from the retiree’s estimated $9 million estate. He’s expected to be tapped out within a year.

Where has the money gone? To lawyers, lawyers, lawyers, elder service providers, and the like. Heck, the lawyers even charge one another to talk to each other and to send e-mails to one another, and then bill the estate. They also spend money on the daily care of Marvin, including their posted 24/7/365 “guards,” as Marvin’s daughter Lisa Siegel Belanger refers to his round-the-clock paid “caregivers,” whom she has detailed keep the senior isolated in his Boxford home. Lisa has also detailed how these “so-called medical providers have denied her dad his basic dignity: he can’t even use a cell phone to talk to his grandchildren!”

The Boston Broadside headlines corruption in the guardianship system. Photo source.

Fighting Back, Getting Betrayed

Marvin hired Atty. Kazarosian as private legal counsel in August of 2011 for the specific purpose of fending off a state “elder protective service” agency (Elder Services of Merrimack Valley) from unlawfully making him a ward of the state (assigning a guardian to him). He never envisioned that Atty. Kazarosian would quickly switch sides and work against the him, as has been charged by members of Marvin’s family.

In March of 2015, Marvin’s daughter, Attorney Lisa Siegel Belanger, filed an extensive federal civil action in which she claims that Atty. Kazarosian is part of a long-embedded insidious enterprise of corrupt lawyers and judges using the Massachusetts Probate & Family Court system to exploit elders—and any person of any age for that matter who happen to be vulnerably labeled as “incapacitated.” Lisa’s extensive, detailed complaint and accompanying exhibits can be viewed by the public free of charge at http://www.belangerlawoffice.com/free-marvin/federal-civil-action-2015/.

Soon after Lisa filed her racketeering action with the U.S. District Court, she provided a copy to Governor Baker. In her complaints to the governor, Lisa revealed a systemic pattern of elder abuse, money laundering, and embezzlement. Governor Baker refused to reply to Lisa and in less than a year from the first complaint, appointed Atty. Kazarosian to the commission that nominates Massachusetts’ highest court judges—known as the Supreme Judicial Court Nominating Commission. [See link here.]

On December 1, 2017, Lisa filed another formal complaint, this time directly to Governor Baker, Lt. Governor Karen Polito, counsel for the Governor, and the Executive Director of the Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission. In her complaint, Lisa extensively detailed what she termed the continuous, vicious exploitation of her elderly father and family by Atty. Kazarosian and her associates. As of press time, Governor Baker and the above-specified officials have not responded to Lisa’s complaint.

But it Gets Worse: Atty. Kazarosian Seeks to Disbar Lisa Belanger

Over the course of seven years, Lisa has fought to get her father released from what she terms the clutches of Atty. Kazarosian and associates. Lisa has filed numerous legal petitions, and has even received a court-ordered fine for speaking to her own father!

Marvin Siegel with his family in happier times. Photo supplied by family.

In response to her actions in defending her father, Lisa has informed The Boston Broadside that Atty. Kazarosian seeks to disbar her. Lisa claims this is to silence her from fighting for her father. She has detailed that now that Marvin’s plight has been publicized in The Boston Broadside, Atty. Kazarosian has “made it her personal mission and vendetta to maliciously and unlawfully thwart my continuous exposing of this long-embedded corruption in the Massachusetts Probate & Family Courts. At the behest of Marsha Kazarosian, on May 25, 2018, Adam LaFrance, Assistant Bar Counsel, filed formal charges against me,” Lisa shared.

As Lisa has summarized, “the Office of Bar Counsel documentation states that they are prosecuting me to silence my exposure of this corruption of epidemic proportions and for specifically having sought legal relief in the federal court. Conspicuously, LaFrance, fails to state how my substantiated allegations are in any manner false or dishonest as they charge. The Office of Bar Counsel seemingly forgets that truth is an absolute defense.” [Emphasis added by HIN]

Good for the Goose, But not the Gander?

In sharp contrast, the Office of Bar Counsel has blatantly and flagrantly ignored Lisa’s filing of complaints against Marsha Kazarosian and other specified counsel since 2012. Repeatedly, from 2012 through 2014, the Office of Bar Counsel wrote to Lisa stating that no investigation would be conducted due to matters being actively “pending” in the Essex Probate & Family Court.

Yet, even though matters are still actively taking place in the Essex Probate & Family Court, in May of 2017 the Office of Bar Counsel opened an investigation against Lisa as a result of a complaint filed by Marsha Kazarosian—the very first complaint initiated against Lisa from the time this matter commenced in 2011. One year later, the Office of Bar Counsel began formal procedures against Lisa (May 25, 2018).

Marvin Siegel expected that his wishes would be honored when he hired Kazarosian. Instead, he has been robbed of his family. Photo supplied by family.

Self-admittedly, Marsha Kazarosian has close and substantial inner-workings with those presiding in the Massachusetts judiciary—all the way up to the state’s highest court justices. In Kazarosian’s many self-published profiles, she boasts being appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Advisory Committee for Clerks of the Courts and having served on the Superior Court Civil Working Group; that in 2014, she served on the SJC’s Access to Justice Commission Committee on the Bar Exam.

Of particular significance, Marsha Kazarosian openly flaunts her having acted as a Hearings Committee Officer for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers for a 6-year term.

Kazarosian has also openly touted having been a part of the Board of Governors during Deval Patrick’s administration, along with documented big-dollar political contributions to high-profile Democrats including former Attorney General Martha Coakley, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Ed Markey, Joe Kennedy III, Barak Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Tom Daschle, and various Democratic organizations. [Boston Broadside Editor’s Note: So-called Republican Gov. Baker appointed a heavy-financial-donor to extremist Democrats? Then turned a blind eye on complaints against her?]

Lisa says, “It can be of no surprise by the outlandish backroom antics resorted to by Obama appointee U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs and First Circuit Court of Appeals Justices Sandra Lynch (Bill Clinton appointee), when they dismissed the federal civil actions I filed in 2015 and 2017.” Lisa added, “Kazarosian is high-profile and a big donor. Oh, and Judge Burroughs just happens to be one of the foremost, early-on federal judges to have nixed President Trump’s initial travel ban.”

Read the full article at The Boston Broadside.

How You Can Help:

Governor Charlie Baker may be reached at 617-725-4005 or contacted here. His Facebook is here.  His Twitter is here.

Representative James Lyons Jr. may be reached at 617-722-2460 or contacted here.

Senator Bruce E. Tarr may be reached at 617-722-1600 or contacted here.  Facebook is here.  His Twitter is here.

Attorney Lisa Siegel Belanger’s website is here. Her Twitter is here.

Robert Wilkes. Image source.

by DILLON KATO
Independent Record

Excerpts:

A District Court judge has overturned the 2009 homicide conviction of Robert Wilkes, marking yet another court victory for the Montana Innocence Project.

Wilkes’ 3-month-old son, Gabriel, died in October 2008. More than a year later, Wilkes was convicted in the baby’s death and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

The Montana Innocence Project began to look into his case in 2012, finding that Gabriel had no signs of abuse and that the prosecution relied on the theory of Shaken Baby Syndrome in Wilkes’ case.

The Innocence Project gathered a series of medical experts from around the country to review the case. They determined a number of other likely causes of his death. Also, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy had listed the cause of death as “undetermined,” something Wilkes’ defense attorney did not present at trial.

The Montana Innocence Project’s motion for a new trial for Wilkes was eventually appealed to the Montana Supreme Court, which sent it back down for further proceedings.

In an order issued Thursday, District Court Judge James Haynes of Ravalli County, who was brought in to oversee the Wilkes case, overturned the conviction. As part of his order the judge concluded that Wilkes’ attorney at trial had been ineffective in his representation of his client.

“The Court concludes (Scott Spencer) failed to subject the prosecution’s case to meaningful adversarial testing. … Wilkes has shown his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel was violated to such a degree as to jeopardize the fundamental fairness and integrity of his trial,” the judge wrote.

“I have been waiting, hoping, and praying for this moment for many years,” Wilkes said in a statement. “The Innocence Project works tirelessly on behalf of people like me, who are wrongfully convicted. The project gives us hope. I am very grateful for their amazing and dedicated work.”

In a statement, Innocence Project attorney Toby Cook said the medical evidence they presented was “overwhelming.”

“While we have always believed in Dave’s innocence, he can never regain the 10 years he has lost,” Cook said.

Read the full article at Independent Record

See Also:

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Opens the Legal Door to Retry All Shaken Baby Syndrome Convictions

University of Michigan Law School Awarded $250K to Learn How to Defend Shaken Baby Syndrome Cases

Swedish Health Agency Rejects “Science” of Shaken Baby Syndrome

World Renowned Neuropathologist has Career Destroyed for Disproving Shaken Baby Syndrome

18 Year Old Wrongly Convicted of Shaken Baby Syndrome Set Free After Serving 17 Years in Prison

Father Convicted of Shaken Baby Syndrome 16 Years Ago for Daughter’s Death has All Charges Dropped

Colorado Mom Accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome and Child’s Death Has Conviction Thrown out After 13 Years

Dr. Phil Exposes Medical Kidnapping and Shaken Baby Syndrome False Diagnosis with North Carolina Family

The Rivenburg need a miracle to bring Annalise back home. Photo source: Reunite the Rivenburgs Facebook page.

by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

It has been just over a year since the death of Baby Steffen Rivenburg Jr. at the hands of Vanderbilt Hospital, Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (DCS) and Judge Wayne Shelton’s court. Since his tragic, senseless death, his family has been fighting DCS and the court for custody of Baby Steffen’s older sister, Annalise.

See original story:

Medically Kidnapped Baby Scheduled for Execution TODAY!

On Monday, July 9, parents, Steffen Rivenburg Sr. and Patricia Thornberg, will again go to court over custody of Annalise. Maybe. They were supposed to have court on Monday, June 11. When they went to court that day, they were told that court was cancelled.

They again went to court on June 19 for a scheduled foster care review board hearing. When they arrived on that date, they were told that court was changed to July 23. They later received documents in the mail telling that that court was to be held on July 23.

Quite by accident, they learned that the July 23 hearing has been moved to Monday, July 9. Steffen’s mother, Lisa Rivenburg, the unofficial family spokesperson, told Health Impact News that they called the court this past Monday, July 3, about filing some paperwork. That was when they learned that their court date had moved up 2 weeks. If they hadn’t called the courthouse, they never would have known about the date change.

The hearing will presumably address motions filed by DCS, including a “Motion to Ratify Per Plan and Motion to Review Permanency” for Annalise.

On June 11, 2018, DCS filed for termination of parental rights over Annalise. The family has 30 days to respond to the TPR filing. They hope to address the filing in court on Monday, July 9.

This behavior by the courts is but one example of many told to us by parents who are fighting for their children. It is not at all uncommon for the dates and times for visitation, doctors appointments, and court hearings to change – all without any notice to the parents. It is another reason, on top of many, that parents and grandparents are immensely frustrated with the child welfare system.

The consequences of not stumbling onto the date changes can be devastating. In the case of a Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) hearing, “failure to appear” can result in parents losing custody of their child – forever.

Lisa Rivenburg says that they have been working night and day to prepare paperwork. They are working pro se, representing themselves in court. The judge will be the same one who presided over the death of Baby Steffen last summer.

Judge Wayne C. Shelton. Image source.

The hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. at the Juvenile Court of Montgomery County in Clarksville, Tennessee. When Lisa spoke with someone from the court, she says that they told them to be early and that the hearing would likely go quickly. This calls into question the ability of the family to have their side be heard and to assure due process. Lisa believes that:

They’ve already made up their minds.

The entire situation seems vastly unfair to her. She brought up the situation at the border and the masses of American people who are fighting against the separation of parents and children. Parents who try to enter the country illegally seem to be able to raise money quickly and to gather massive crowds fighting for them.

Where are these American people for us?

I just don’t understand how they get away with this.

Last year a court was able to rule against parents and allow Vanderbilt doctors to terminate the life of Baby Steffen. Now the same court is faced with the request by DCS to terminate the family connections of his big sister Annalise. Photo source: Reunite the Rivenburgs Facebook page.

She and her family vow never to give up fighting to bring Annalise home:

What level of cognitive dissonance do these people have that they kill my grandchild and now they take the remaining child?! They cannot have Annalise!

Some advocates were planning a rally at the Clarksville courthouse for July 23. The Rivenburgs hope that some people will be able to come to the courthouse this Monday morning instead.

June 8 marked a year since doctors pulled the plug on Baby Steffen and injected him with a fatal dose of propofol, the “Michael Jackson drug.”

See:

Family Seeks Answers on Baby’s Death – Threatened Arrest for Trying to Record Last Moments of Life

Prayer Vigil in Honor of Baby Steffen

Advocates and mourners gathered at the Nashville capitol that evening for a solemn Candlelight Vigil. They came from places like Ohio, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to show their support for the Rivenburg family and grieve the loss of Baby Steffen’s life.

Photo source – YouTube video by Joyce Catalano.

The Rivenburg prepared a written statement that was read at the vigil:

On behalf of the Rivenburg family, we would like to thank all of you for coming today and those that have traveled many miles to be here as well as those who worked to put so much effort into making today happen.

Without all of you, who have been there for us, who have helped guide us, who have prayed for and with us, who have heard our pleas, our cries and our story through others, today would just be a distant memory, although not so distant for us, as we still live it every day.

Sadly, there are others like us. They have also experienced unimaginable loss in some way.

The loss of a child by death is a hard cross to bear. Parents should never have to bury their children.

The loss of a child living, or a parent, as even our elders are being taken from us, and to not be able to see them, equally so.

Children, parents and families are suffering daily and at times there feels like no hope is available to undo all that has happened.

To all of you who have said we are a sign of strength and hope to you, know that you are a sign of strength and hope to us as well. Your beacon of light in our darkest moments is forever appreciated.

Today as we remember BABY STEFFEN RIVENBURG JR., let us also remember all the children and family members that were and are forever taken and let us continue to be the voice for the ones who have none or who have lost theirs.

May we continue to help one another, pray for and console one another and stand up for ourselves and each other and we continue to move forward to heal and make change.

Let us also celebrate the life of BABY STEFFEN RIVENBURG JR. and the joy he brought to his family and others in just the small amount of time he was here.

Thank you again for coming today.

How You Can Help

The public is invited to come to the Montgomery County Juvenile Court at Two Millennium Plaza, Clarksville, TN, 37040 on Monday, July 9, at 10:30 a.m.

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam may be reached at (615) 741-2001 or contacted here. Governor Haslam is also on Facebook.

The Senator for their district is Dr. Mark Green. He may be reached at (615) 741-2374 or contacted here.

Their state Representative is Representative Joe Pitts. He may be reached at (615) 741-2043 or contacted here.

Supporters have set up a Facebook page for the family called Reunite the Rivenburgs.

Jennifer Guskin and baby Iris. Photo provided by family.

by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

A Maryland couple followed the advice of their doctors, and now their baby has been taken away from them by Child Protective Services.

First time parents, Jennifer Guskin and Scott McFalls, were concerned about their baby’s weight, but none of the three pediatricians they consulted noticed that baby Iris had a tongue and lip tie.

By the time they found a doctor who figured it out, CPS had already decided to take their baby from them.

It is the kind of nightmare scenario that could happen to any family. Doctors may not always be able to figure out why a child isn’t gaining weight, but as soon as the baby is diagnosed with failure to thrive, Child Protective Services is often quick to blame the parents and seize the child.

Jennifer told Health Impact News:

It seems like the doctors were more interested in working with CPS than actually finding out why she wasn’t gaining weight.

Unlike most families, Jennifer Guskin and Scott McFalls know all too well what kinds of horrors possibly face children taken by CPS and put into foster care. Jennifer was adopted as a baby herself, and she has recently gone public with horrific details about her childhood and how she became a victim of child sex trafficking and experimentation.

Jennifer and Scott recognize the danger that their baby is in, and that thought terrifies them.

Accidental Homebirth

Jennifer and Scott have been together for 10 years, and they live in the home that Scott grew up in and bought from his parents. Their pregnancy was a surprise. Once they got used to the idea that they were going to be parents, they determined to do things as safely and naturally as possible.

They fixed up the nursery and ordered diapers and wipes that are chemical-free. They eat organic as much as possible. Jennifer planned to have a natural birth in a hospital and to breastfeed. She writes:

Breast milk is the healthiest form of food for an infant, and it builds a closeness that can never truly be undone. It’s health for mother and child’s not just physical health, but mental, emotional and even spiritual well being.

She didn’t realize she was in labor. She thought it was just something she ate, until the baby started to come. They called 911 and she gave birth to Iris at home.

The baby latched on for her first feeding in the ambulance on the way to Howard County General Hospital. All was good.

Iris was tiny but healthy, weighing in at 5 lbs 12 oz.

Newborn baby Iris started out life small. She was full-term, but weighed only 5 lbs 12 oz.

Because Iris was born at home, it triggered a call to open up a CPS case. Jennifer says social workers told her that it was state policy in Maryland that CPS gets a call for every homebirth to do a walk through of the home “to make sure it’s prepared for a baby.”

The walk through went well, and social workers told the parents that the case would be closed by the end of the month.

Breastfeeding Sabotaged by Poor Medical Advice

Jennifer said that she breastfed on demand, but she supplemented with formula during the first couple of weeks, because hospital staff had told her that she would need to do so until her milk came in.

Anyone who has studied lactation knows that this is not how breastfeeding works. It is supply and demand.

The more milk that is removed, the more milk is signaled for the body to produce the next day. Every bottle of formula, especially in the first few weeks when the supply is being established, tells the mother’s body that it doesn’t need to produce that amount of milk.

Jennifer didn’t realize that this advice would sabotage her milk supply. Iris didn’t like the formula and would spit it out. She gained back to her birth weight by the time she was a week old.

At her one week visit, with pediatrician Dr. Alvaro Ramos, Jennifer says that the doctor asked if there was any soreness with breastfeeding. She said that there was, but it was not something she was complaining about. She was determined to push through it, but she says that he recommended nursing less frequently. According to the medical records, the doctor:

discussed breastfeeding/adjust feedings to every 2 hrs as opose [sic] of on demands.

That advice was counter-intuitive to Jennifer, but she complied with his recommendation. Over the next few weeks, Iris grew in length and head circumference, but gained weight very slowly.

She was meeting her other developmental milestones, but her slow weight gain concerned her parents. They asked about it at every doctor visit, only to be told not to nurse as often and to space out feedings to two to three hours.

As time went on, Jennifer asked about going back to feeding on demand, but according to medical records, the doctor continued to recommend scheduled feedings.

By February 2, the parents decided to stop seeing Dr. Ramos and find another pediatrician.

Iris was described as an alert, happy baby. She rarely cried because either Jennifer or Scott held her most of the time. She had 10 to 12 wet diapers a day and a bowel movement every other day. There are no reports of dry skin or sunken fontanels. All of these are indicators that baby is getting enough milk, except for the fact that she was not gaining weight.

Clearly, something wasn’t right. Jennifer and Scott knew it, and they sought out answers.

Iris smiles as her daddy holds her. Photo provided by family.

Meanwhile, Dr. Ramos called Child Protective Services to report his “concerns about Iris’ weight gain and missing appointment,” the appointment they “missed” because the family decided to find another pediatrician. Dr. Ramos also called Jennifer’s number numerous times to repeat the PKU test.

Scott later expressed concern that the doctor’s office kept losing the PKU test and needing repeat heel sticks to get the baby’s blood. The blood samples collected from newborns goes into a national DNA database, something that many parents are not comfortable with. See:

Loss of Privacy: Government Collecting and Storing DNA Samples of Newborn Babies – Available to Law Enforcement and for Medical Research

It took a month for them to be able to get in to see another pediatrician. They had an appointment with Dr. Cheryl Parks of Blackwell White Pediatrics on Monday, April 2, 2018.

That doctor, as well, reportedly told Jennifer to schedule feedings and space them out at least every 2 to 3 hours. She also recommended supplementation with formula. During the visit, the doctor did not communicate any real concern. Later that day, she called Jennifer and left a message concerning supplementation with formula.

Things got strange after that, Jennifer reports:

A few hours after that, she called again to say that she didn’t think Iris would survive the week and we should bring her to the ER on Thursday.

The doctor told her to wait till Thursday, because she would have someone there who could evaluate her on Thursday, specifically.

That seemed very odd, because if it were truly an emergency, wouldn’t they have needed to take Iris to the ER that night, or at least the next day?

A real emergency would not wait 3 days. Jennifer and Scott decided then and there to seek a second opinion. They told Dr. Parks that her services were no longer needed.

Nowhere in any of the medical records is there any mention of advice to increase nursing or skin-to-skin contact. There is no mention of breast compressions being recommended, and the possibility of a foremilk/hindmilk imbalance was apparently not considered.

Jennifer says she was never counseled to utilize any of the herbs that are traditionally recommended to increase milk supply such as fenugreek or blessed thistle.

The tried and true methods of increasing a breastfeeding mother’s milk supply seemed to be notably absent.

CPS Shows up with the Police to Seize Baby with No Warrant – But Medic Clears Baby’s Health After 5 Hour Standoff

Jennifer and Scott immediately began searching again for a pediatrician, and Jennifer went back to nursing on demand. She was fine with her baby nursing “all the time” if that was what it took. They knew that their baby was small, and they were searching for answers.

They consulted an online lactation consultant and watched Iris closely for any signs of dehydration or illness.

They were stunned at the knock on their door on Friday evening, April 6, at 6 p.m. Two social workers and 4 Baltimore County police officers showed up with a “writ” from CPS saying that they were there to take the baby.

There was no warrant or court order – nothing signed by a judge.

The doctor had called CPS telling them that the baby would be dead by the end of the week. It was a harrowing ordeal that lasted almost 5 hours. They recorded most of the ordeal on Facebook Live. (View here.)

Most of the police officers acted compassionately, and they were able to negotiate for a medic to come to evaluate the baby.

The medic said that the baby was indeed very underweight, but, otherwise, she was doing well. She would certainly need to be evaluated by a doctor soon, but she did not appear to be in any immediate danger.

The police decided not to take the child out of the home that day.

The social workers did not appear to be happy with the decision. Records show that they had come to the home with the intent of seizing Iris.

Vaccines Refused – Parents Threatened by Doctor

That Monday, they saw yet another pediatrician, Dr. Teresa Fuller. She recommended supplementing with formula every 3 hours, and they scheduled a follow up appointment in 3 days.

Baby Iris was not vaccinated, which presented a problem to Dr. Fuller. Jennifer told her that she would not agree to any vaccinations until her baby was gaining weight appropriately. Dr. Fuller informed her that if she continued to refuse vaccines, she would be dismissed from the practice.

Baby Had Tongue and Lip Tie

During Friday night’s Facebook Live recording, numerous people mentioned the possibility of tongue and/or lip tie. Monday afternoon, after the pediatrician visit, Jennifer took Iris to pediatric dentist, Dr. Robert Marcus.

None of the 3 pediatricians looked for or noticed that Iris had both a tongue and lip tie.

La Leche League, a recognized authority on breastfeeding, says that a short frenulum can cause pain, soreness, and plugged ducts in the mother and can cause slow weight gain in the baby. The baby may want to nurse constantly and still have difficulty gaining weight. (Source.)

The signs were there that this was a problem, but they were missed. No one checked for the tell-tale “heart-shaped tongue.”

It is not uncommon for doctors and nurses to overlook the possibility of tongue or lip tie. Mothers and babies suffer needlessly, and the milk supply may never be established adequately, resulting in babies being labeled “failure to thrive.”

“Failure to thrive” is increasingly a diagnosis used by Child Protective Services to take babies from their parents.

The solution is relatively easy. Dr. Marcus performed the frectomy, the surgical clip of the frenulums, on Monday, April 9.

Jennifer was relieved when she finally found out what was wrong. There was a reason for her baby’s slow weight gain, and it was something that could be fixed. If the tongue and lip tie are diagnosed early enough, breastfeeding generally resumes quickly.

Iris, however, was already more than 3 months old. La Leche League notes that it can take a week or two after frenectomy for baby to “adjust to his tongue’s greater mobility.”

One has to wonder how differently things would have turned out if the doctors had originally checked for tongue tie. What if the first pediatrician had tried to discover what was causing Iris not to gain weight instead of recommending spacing out feedings?

She and Scott took Iris to Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GRMC) that Thursday, April 12, for a follow-up evaluation. Doctors were very concerned about her weight and began supplementing via a feeding tube.

Iris was not really given a chance to relearn how to breastfeed effectively. A supplemental nursing system is an effective method by which a baby can learn how to suckle at the breast, but there is no mention of this solution in the medical records until they had been at the hospital for an entire week. It was finally started on April 20. Iris responded well.

She balked at first at being fed formula. Her mother said that she would spit it out.

The baby began gaining weight, and she was medically cleared to leave the hospital by April 22.

The hospital had a list of goals for discharging Iris, including conditions that the parents had to meet or agree to in order for them to take their baby home. The only one they did not agree to was to leave the baby in the room without them in order to meet with CPS and hospital staff for a team meeting. Jennifer and Scott refused to allow Iris out of their sight because they were afraid that CPS would take her.

They had every reason for that fear.

Child Abuse Specialist – Never Examines Child but Makes Recommendations

A report by Dr. Michelle Chudow, Director of the Child Protection Team at GRMC, appears to have played a big part in what happened next.

Dr. Michelle Chudow – Director of GBMC Child Protection Team, Photo source.

On April 25, CPS medically kidnapped Iris and kicked her parents out of the hospital.

The Shelter Care Authorization paper states as grounds for her seizure:

Caregivers, Jennifer Guskin and Scott McFalls are refusing to agree to follow through with the discharge agreement for Iris’ intensive follow up for medical care.

The document lists the plan that the parents allegedly refused to agree to.

However, the medical records clearly state that “Mom and Dad [are] in agreement with POC [plan of care].”

Dr. Chudow was consulted by CPS since Monday, April 9, the day that the baby’s tongue and lip tie were addressed. She admits in her report:

Of note, I have not examined this patient myself as of the writing of this note, nor have I had any direct interaction with the patient’s family.

She states that the parents “accused the SW of trying to take the baby away from the parents” on April 6, which is exactly what the records show the social worker was attempting. The parents’ fear was accurate.

Chudow took issue with Jennifer being caught co-sleeping with her baby:

The patient’s mother has been asked repeatedly to not place the baby on her breast in between defined feeding times, in order to fully monitor her intake, and to increase her ability at self-soothing, yet multiple nurses have commented that almost every time they walk in the room, the baby is on her mother’s breast.

She stated that she was concerned that if the parents are allowed to take their baby home, she might fall behind on her development.

Photo supplied by family.

Another major issue that Dr. Chudow seemed to have was Jennifer’s comments that:

CPS is trying to steal her baby for the purpose of trafficking the infant or in order to receive a bonus at work.

The patient’s mother even mentioned one time that she, herself, was sexually trafficked as a child….

Jennifer is on disability for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder because of the things that she has experienced, but an evaluation in the hospital for Postpartum Depression rated her at low risk for that. She has no other psychological diagnosis.

That evaluation apparently did not convince the Child Abuse Specialist. Dr. Chudow wrote that she was afraid that Jennifer has an underlying psychological illness that prohibits her from:

being able to trust and engage with both medical and child protection personnel, and not allow her to see past her own paranoid delusions regarding people trying to steal and traffic her infant. [Emphasis added]

In other words, without any evidence to the contrary, the horrors that Jennifer experienced growing up, things for which she has a recognized disability of PTSD, are chalked up as being “paranoid delusions,” used as justification for taking her child.

Mother Trafficked as a Child and Suffered Unimaginable Horrors  – “A Human Experiment”

Not long before Child Protective Services and the police showed up on their doorstep, Jennifer Guskin released the first two in a set of YouTube videos in which she had began to talk about some of what she went through growing up in foster care, and part of a nationwide pedophile sex trafficking operation.

The videos describe allegations of unimaginable horrors of child sex trafficking and experimentation, and a pedophilia network that allegedly reaches to highest levels of government and society.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT ABOUT TOPICS SUCH AS CANNIBALISM, CHILD SEX, TORTURE, MURDER, ETC. NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN

They are on YouTube on her channel, “AHumanExperiment.”

These videos reveal a dark underbelly of corruption and evil on a level that most of us cannot even fathom. They are things that should never happen to another human being, let alone small children and babies.

When a victim, such as Jennifer, decides to go public with such atrocities, most of the public, which is totally unaware that such things are happening in the U.S., will have a hard time believing that these accounts are true. The abusers and perpetrators of these child sex trafficking networks use their influence and power to silence the abused, and it is often difficult or impossible to expose them.

But during the past year or so, some of this information is finding its way to the public. Last year, for example, Dr. Phil had a woman on his show that explained how she was sold into the world of sex trafficking as a baby, and that it was the only life she knew. (See: Woman Claims Parents Sold Her To An International Sex Trafficking Organization – At Birth)

Here at Health Impact News, we have heard such stories for years, but only since last year have we been able to publish any actual cases of this happening in the U.S., as we (and other media sources) were able to publish the case of David Frodsham in the military town of Sierra Vista, where he was arrested and convicted for running a child pornography pedophile ring out of his state-approved foster home in June of 2017. (Story here.)

The fact that the U.S. foster care system is the #1 recruitment source for putting children into pedophilia child sex trafficking networks is not even disputed any longer. To learn more about this, see our previous stories:

Attorney Reporting in Newsweek: Foster Care is a System Set Up to Sex Traffic American Children

Publicly Open Pedophile Running for Office in Virginia Reveals How Foster Care is a Pipeline to Adopt Children as “Sex Toys”

Texas Judge: CPS Still Unconstitutional – Foster Care Sexual and Physical Abuse Still the Norm

Massachusetts State Auditor Finds Widespread Rape and Sexual Abuse in Foster Care but DCF Officials Won’t Report It

Arizona Foster Care System Revealed as Pedophile Ring: Former Foster Child Tortured for Years Sues for $15 Million

Texas Sheriff Blasts CPS for Allowing Man Accused of Sexual Abuse to Foster 180 Girls

“Pedophile Farm” Alleged in Lawsuit Against Washington Foster Care Home for Boys

Florida Foster Parents Charged with Hundreds of Sex Crimes Against Children in Alabama

Child Sex Trafficking through Child “Protection” Services Exposed – Kidnapping Children for Sex

The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking

Child Kidnapping and Trafficking: A Lucrative U.S. Business Funded by Taxpayers

Jennifer and Scott fear that their baby might be subjected to some of the same atrocities that Jennifer went through. Jennifer says:

For all I know, they’re planning to put her [Iris] through the same thing.

That is why I am fighting so desperately to get her back.

On the night that CPS came to their house in the first attempt to take Iris, Scott said:

We live in the state of Maryland, right next to good old DC, “human trafficking central.” So you’ll forgive me if I don’t want to let CPS walk off with my 3-month-old daughter.

9 Vaccines Given to Baby Who Went into “Full Code”

Iris was discharged from the hospital 2 days after CPS took her. Before they released her, they gave her a total of 9 vaccines, without her parents’ consent.

• Pediarix – diphtheria, hepatitis B, pertussis (acellular), polio, and tetanus vaccines
• DTaP – diptheria, tetanuss, and pertussis (acellular) vaccines
• Hib – Haemophilus influenzae type b

Jennifer was shocked to see in the medical records that her baby went into “Full Code” for which CPR was administered, the same day that she was given all the shots.

No one will elaborate on what happened to her daughter.

Yet, CPS and Iris’s guardian insist that they need to give her a second round of vaccines. Jennifer refuses to consent unless and until they get the full medical records and find out what happened to cause her baby to need CPR.

She said that when they were allowed to see Iris 2 days later, she seemed lethargic.

She was swollen, shaky, not making eye contact, or holding her head up the same way she was before. Her coordination had suffered and she had bruises on her hands, indicative of IVs. I knew on sight that they vaccinated her against our wishes, and she had an extremely bad reaction.

[Note: she didn’t have any IVs the entire time she was in the hospital.]

Why was baby Iris given an IV after she was taken from her parents? Why did she need CPR? Was it due to multiple vaccines given to her? Photo provided by family.

Next Court Date Is Months Away

The CPS investigation has closed. They still accuse the parents of refusing to agree to the conditions for release despite evidence to the contrary.

Iris was placed with a family member, but Iris’s parents do not believe that their daughter is safe.

The next court hearing is scheduled for October 25, but Jennifer and Scott plan to request an emergency hearing.

How You Can Help

They are begging for help to save their daughter. In one of the videos, Jennifer pleads:

If anybody can help, please help…. I don’t want her going through the same things I did. Nobody deserves to go through that….
I can’t let them hurt my daughter!

Larry Hogan is the Governor of Maryland. He may be reached at (410) 974-3901 or contacted here. The official governor’s office website contains contact information for the National Human Trafficking Hotline – 1-888-373-7888.

Deloris Goodwin Kelley is the State Senator for the family’s district. She may be reached at (410) 841-3606 or contacted here.

There are 3 delegates representing their district in the House of Delegates:

Benjamin T. Brooks, Sr. may be reached at (410) 841-3352 or contacted here.

Jay Jalisi may be reached at (410) 841-3358 or contacted here.

Adrienne A. Jones may be reached at (410) 841-3391 or contacted here.

Lewis Arthur is the head of Tuscon-based Veterans on Patrol, and is quick to testify that he is trusting in God to lead him to shut down cartel pedophile corridors near the border.

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Last month (June 2018) Health Impact News reported on the story out of Tuscon, Arizona, where a group called Veterans on Patrol uncovered a child sex camp that was believed to be used by cartels crossing the border from Mexico to traffick children in the U.S.

Local law enforcement refused to acknowledge that the camp was used in child sex trafficking, and just when it looked like they were going to remove the members of the group from continuing their investigations, something dramatically changed, and the veteran group, now joined by hundreds of volunteers coming in from all over the world, was allowed to continue their patrols in the area.

Their patrols have continued the past few weeks, and the group is claiming that they have shut down some of the human trafficking, as well as drug trafficking, as a result of their efforts.

See our original story:

BREAKING: Vet Group Finds Pedophile Child Sex Camp Near Tucson – Local Law Enforcement Refuses to Help as Tensions Rise

The leader of the group, Lewis Arthur, who once enjoyed a great local reputation for his work with getting veterans off of the streets, has come under increasing pressure and criticism from local law enforcement and the corporate-sponsored media.

He recently vented some of his frustration on a Facebook Live-stream broadcast, where he accused local law enforcement and the Tucson mayor, Jonathan Rothschild, for covering up known pedophile groups operating within Tucson, Arizona.

Throughout his broadcast, Arthur makes is clear that he is being driven by a mission he believes has been given to them from God, and his trust that God will protect him from those seeking to destroy him and his credibility.

He believes that their work is revealing the truth about human trafficking coming across the border, and its link to pedophile groups operating out of Tucson and elsewhere which is being covered up by bad law enforcement officers and political figures.

Watch the video:

How Bad is the Problem with Child Sex Trafficking in the U.S.?

Jennifer Guskin with her newborn baby before she was taken away from her. Story.

There has been more exposure in the past year about the problem of child sex trafficking than we have ever seen since Health Impact News was started over 7 years ago.

Some, including Lewis Arthur in the video above who himself states he supports neither Democrats or Republicans because the problem exists in both camps, are attributing this exposure to recent policies implemented under the Trump administration.

Earlier this week, we reported on the story of Jennifer Guskin, who claims to be a victim of a large pedophilia network operating in the U.S. where she was placed as an infant after being adopted out. She had her own child recently removed from her custody. See:

Mother Who Was Sexually Trafficked as a Child in Foster Care Has Her Own Baby Medically Kidnapped – Fears for Her Safety

The infant was removed for supposed medical reasons a short time after Jennifer decided to expose her own horrific experiences of being sexually trafficked on her YouTube channel.

The videos describe allegations of unimaginable horrors of child sex trafficking and experimentation happening right here in the U.S., and a pedophilia network that allegedly reaches to highest levels of government and society.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT ABOUT TOPICS SUCH AS CANNIBALISM, CHILD SEX, TORTURE, MURDER, ETC. NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN

They are on YouTube on her channel, “AHumanExperiment.”

These videos reveal a dark underbelly of corruption and evil on a level that most of us cannot even fathom. They are things that should never happen to another human being, let alone small children and babies.

Image from Veterans on Patrol (VOP) Facebook Page.

We thank Lewis Arthur and his group of veterans and volunteers in Arizona for their efforts to shut down these human trafficking corridors, something that local law enforcement is apparently unwilling to do, or is complicit with the problem.

Get updates on their mission on their Facebook Page.

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Photo from Reunite the Rivenburgs Facebook Page.

by Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com Staff

Could things start to be turning around for the Rivenburg family? At stake in the most recent court hearing was the termination of parental rights for the parents of Annalise Rivenburg, the big sister of deceased Baby Steffen.

While their family and many supporters around the world waited and prayed, Steffen Rivenburg, Sr. and Patricia Tornberg walked into Judge Wayne Shelton’s Clarksville, Tennessee, courtroom on Monday, July 9, 2018.

See:

Tennessee Court Seeks to Terminate Parental Rights for Young Sister of Down Syndrome Baby Euthanized by Vanderbilt Hospital

They had been in that courtroom many times, and every time they felt like they were walking into a lions den, facing attorneys, social workers, doctors, Guardian ad Litems (GALs), and a judge, all of whom seemed determined to tear them and their family apart.

This time, however, it was different. Grandmother Lisa Rivenburg, spokesperson for the family, told Health Impact News:

It was epic!

The judge LISTENED to the kids [Steffen, Sr., and Patricia] this time!

This is the first time, since their children were taken from them by the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) on February 2, 2017, that the family has felt that they were listened to in court.

Photo provided by family.

They don’t know why things changed, but they see this as a huge answer to prayer.

Annalise is still not home with her family, but her parents’ parental rights have not been severed. For now, she remains in the foster home that she was placed in by DCS, but she is not up for adoption.

The family has been frustrated with ineffective counsel from attorneys appointed by the court. Their voices have long been silenced, but not this time.

The parents represented themselves pro se on Monday. They came armed with a Writ of Habeas Corpus, a Motion to Compel for Discovery/Disclosure Inspection, and an 80-page Sworn Declaration of Facts, listing the facts of their case.

A complaint that we hear almost daily at Health Impact News is that the parents’ side is not heard in court, and exonerating evidence of the parents’ innocence fails to be presented by attorneys.

This appears to be the rule, rather than the exception, to the great frustration and heartbreak of parents all over the United States who cannot comprehend the injustice that they find meeting them in family and juvenile courts.

Annalise continues to ask her family when she can come home. Photo provided by family.

Many advocates have spoken of the importance of getting such facts and evidence on the court record. Numerous parents, who ultimately went to court pro se, have said that a way that they have found to get such information on the record is to file some kind of declaration, statement, or affidavit of facts with the court, detailing their side of the story and presenting corrections to information that is inaccurate that is presented by social workers and/or doctors.

Steffen and Patricia represented themselves on Monday, and in the words of Steffen’s mother Lisa, “they fought back” and “challenged the lies of DCS.”

Judge Shelton extended their time to fight to get their daughter back, reportedly telling them to come back to court in September, with an attorney next time. There are to be 2 additional days of hearings in November, during which the judge reportedly wants DCS to be under oath when they testify.

Lying and Fabrication of Evidence by Social Workers Common in Child Protective Services Cases

Unfortunately, it is a common practice for social workers to lie in court and on reports. In the groundbreaking case heard in 2017 by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel of judges ruled in Preslie Hardwick v. County of Orange that social workers do not, in fact, have the right to lie in order to take children from their parents.

See:

Judges Reject Orange County’s Claim That Social Workers Didn’t Know Lying In Court Was Wrong

In the same year, Representative Kelly Townsend of Arizona battled her fellow lawmakers over legislation that would provide basic, common sense measures for parents fighting the state for their children, including telling social workers that they couldn’t lie about parents, fabricate evidence, or withhold exculpatory evidence, and that they did indeed have to follow the 4th Amendment of the Constitution and obtain a court order or warrant in order to seize a child in the absence of true emergency circumstances.

See:

Arizona Lawmakers Block Bill To Protect Parents From Dishonest Child Protection Social Workers

Arizona Rep. Kelly Townsend. Image courtesy Arizona Daily Independent.

The only part of Rep. Townsend’s measures that made it into the final bill was the part about the 4th Amendment. (See law text here.)

Lawmakers rejected the provisions stating that social workers could not lie about parents, fabricate evidence, or withhold evidence that is favorable to the parents.

As incredible as that is, most states haven’t even made it that far yet.

Family Holds on to Hope

The Rivenburg family are thankful for the glimmer of hope they saw in court.

Like every other family whose story we have covered at Health Impact News, Medical Kidnap division, the Rivenburgs simply want the opportunity for their side of the story to be heard and to present evidence refuting what DCS has said about them.

They believe that if that can happen, and if the judge rules justly on the evidence (something that cannot be taken for granted given the depth of judicial corruption), Annalise will come home.

How You Can Help

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam may be reached at (615) 741-2001 or contacted here. Governor Haslam is also on Facebook.

The Senator for their district is Dr. Mark Green. He may be reached at (615) 741-2374 or contacted here.

Their state Representative is Representative Joe Pitts. He may be reached at (615) 741-2043 or contacted here.

Supporters have set up a Facebook page for the family called Reunite the Rivenburgs.

See their family’s original story and continuing coverage:

Medically Kidnapped Baby Scheduled for Execution TODAY!

Baby Scheduled to go Off Life Support Responding to Family – Rally and Court Date on Monday Morning

Civil Rights Abuse? Judge Only Gives Parents 24 Hours to Find Doctor Before Baby is Removed from Life Support

Family Seeks Answers on Baby’s Death – Threatened Arrest for Trying to Record Last Moments of Life

Judge Who Ordered Baby Steffen to be Removed from Life Support Orders Sister be Placed for Adoption

Tennessee Family Wants Daughter and Sister of Deceased Baby Steffen to Come Home

Tennessee Family Buries Baby Steffen as Social Workers Stop Photos – Sister Still in Foster Care

Tennessee Parents of Baby Steffen Jailed While Appearing in Court and Questioning Drug Test

Tennessee Sister of Baby Steffen Traumatized Seeing Dad Arrested During Chuck E. Cheese Visit

Tennessee Family Seeks Lawsuit for Malpractice, Negligence, and Wrongful Death Over Down Syndrome Baby Taken Off of Life Support

7-Year-Old Sister of Down Syndrome Baby Euthanized by Vanderbilt Hospital Still Not Returned to Family – State Wants Her Adopted