DCFS Scouting
Here's an alert to those of you in Illinois. DCFS is at it again and obviously needs to snatch more kids.
Today I was coming out to my car and there was a "henchman" from DCFS with a little boy who was trying to go to school and the DCFS shark had just gotten the boy to tell him where he lived.
I stopped in my tracks because I knew it didn't look right and who was this man on our apartment complex. My daughter said it was DCFS.
He then took the boy to the school bus and came back in his car and started to go into the building obviously looking for the parents.
I took the opportunity to roll down my car window and call him a home wrecker, which he heard - good! I do not know the boy well enough to have taken him with me and do not know his parents only have seen him.
Anyway, I then learned from my daughter that DCFS had been at my apartment complex last week and took two little girls from their mother.
There is nothing wrong with this little boy - appropriately dressed, etc. and we see him each day - he's 5 and does not know what is about to hit him. There was nothing wrong with the girls either.
I was told they were taken because they were in the middle of a fight by the parent and her boyfriend.
I intend to put up signs in the other buildings on my complex alerting parents, because I know they love to prey on single parents, apartments, those that are less fortunate, etc.
I didn't confront the DFC henchman further because I still have 5 months to go until my daughter turns 18 and don’t want to invite any more encounters with them on myself. (My daughter has learned not to talk to them).
So, anyway warn your kids not to talk to them and beware - Illinois DCFS needs clients again!
Labels: child snatching, DCFS, foster care, Illinois
posted by Annette M. Hall @ 2/13/2008 12:28:00 AM
6 Comments:
How do you really know that nothing was going on with this little boy when you admitted yourself that you don't really know him that well, and do not even know his parents at all. Just because he is well dressed does not mean that he is not being abused.
CPS workers cannot just remove a child because they feel like it, something had to be going on -- and the fact that the family might have been poor or a single parents home is also not enough to remove a child.
You are making HUGE assumptions here with very little information..
CPS can do whatever it likes. It is understandable that for those children who are actually being abused, the "take action first and ask questions later" attitude can be a life-saver. However, for the children of parents who are loving, caring and non-abusive, this attitude has the potential to tear them apart.
You obviously have never had the displeasure of being a loving, caring parent who is the focus of a witch hunt. Be grateful for that. Feel blessed. Because being on this side of things is hell.
Until you have walked in my shoes and seen the hell that CPS can put an innocent family though, you have no place to speak.
You better pray that no one calls in a false report on you. Children are carted off every single day -- almost 1,000 children are physically Kidjacked from their parents EVERY DAY in this country.
CPS doesn't even investigate first in many cases. Until you've been forced to sleep in a strange bed, with people you don't know because CPS has stolen you -- you don't have a clue what it's like.
For every one good social worker, doing her job well there are ten who are lazy, just working for a paycheck, untrained, unskilled and uncaring social workers who should be locked up for their abuses of children.
Illinois DCFS can walk into your home, with police if necessary, with no identification other than a business card that says DCFS on it.
Then, *IN THEIR OPINION*, if they feel that the child is in any kind of danger, will wrest your children from your arms.
They do not need a WARRANT. They do not need ANYTHING. ***THEY WILL WALK INTO YOUR HOME AND TAKE YOUR CHILDREN AWAY***. They took mine away for 12+ years, until they were old enough to find me on their own. *** THEY PUT MY CHILDREN IN THE HOME OF A CHILD MOLESTER, WHO IS NOW SERVING 2 80 YEAR CONSECUTIVE TERMS IN PRISON ***.
There were never any charges, nothing "Founded". I was told in confidence by one of the workers that my "children had been in the system for so long, that DCFS couldn't return them without admitting they made a mistake." SO THEY COVERED THEIR OWN BUTTS, and kept my children from me. To the point that they threatened me if I didn't terminate my parental rights.
DCFS MOST CERTAINLY CAN remove a child "because they feel like it", over an ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL, or just because you TICK THEM OFF. It doesn't matter. If you have a single dirty dish in your sink, they'll go into court and claim you're an "Unfit parent". They made me go through batteries of tests, parenting classes TWICE, a complete (8+ hour) MMPI (the old LONG test), and still couldn't find anything wrong.
Excuse after excuse. "We're afraid your dog will hurt your children" (No, my dog barked at THEM when they were ripping my children out of my arms!) "You don't spend enough time at home" (Because I was working 2 jobs to support us!!) "You're starving your daughter" (Except medical tests showed she suffered from GE Reflex, so she couldn't hold down more than 4oz of formula at a time!) Oh... and this great one, told to me by a judge.... "I'm not going to give your children back BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CONTROL YOUR WIFE." (Umm...excuse me? So, I ended up divorcing her, and then what did they say?) "We won't give your children back because you'd be a single parent."
EXCUSE after EXCUSE.
I missed my children growing up. I cried when I heard the news about them being abused. I cried again when my (now 21 year old son) testified in court against his abuser.
My three grandchildren were - we live in an upscale neighborhood. The children needed services, asked, denied. They waited until we had few, if any, resources left before turning on the machine. EVERYONE is subjected to this abuse. I do agree that they prey on the less than fortunate in our society. But they also are very good at ensuring that you become less fortunate. They bank on the lack of knowledge and resources, use a system that is fully in their pocket, and rake in the federal funds to augment their budget.
Everyone aware of our case is in shock. The realities are just too overwhelming for them to process emotionally. Many step away from support because they just do not know what to do.
Until this happened to me, I had no idea of the abuses of the system. While I have been doing all I can to fight, the simple fact is that they all too easily use false allegations, inferences, and innuendos to support their case. The actual case workers are VERY inexperienced, many with less than 3 years. They come to the homes as "experts" and their testimony is "valid" regardless of how many holes you can punch into their assessment.
Like many on this site have said, I will never look at a missing child's picture the same again. DSS routinely abuses their power and uses it to harm rather than help the prescious lives entrusted by our society to their care.
For all of the reports of abuse, can you explain why the numbers of actually founded cases is so low for in home abuse? And being so low in the home, how is it the foster system can have so many founded cases of abuse without inquiry? Yet, in many states, these "poor, wonderful, people" are about to get a PAY RAISE!
The montra of keeping the public ignorant and the machine moving has got to stop! I can only hope and pray that the Texas case will help to do just that. The arrogance of the system for far too many years of going unchecked has got to have its day. We live in a society where too many people look to the government as a "big brother." How many times have I hear that "at least DSS has the children, they will be safe."
For years, folks around the country have suffered needlessly due to perception, inference, and innuendo. Nothing has to be founded, only inferred. No validation, only assumption. They are so arrogant that they are now even telling parents that the children "should go quickly" in the adoption cycle which gets even more funding. If the child is so unfortunate as to be disabled, more funding still.
For all of you that work with the system, isn't it about time that you became human and work from the inside to help correct this awful outcome?
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