Child protection services and family courts are seen by many as a purely positive force in society. They are supposed to be the state saviors of abused children, and step in to remove children who need to be removed from the danger of their incompetent or malicious parents. But the reality isn't so clear cut and dry. CPS and family courts aren't the angels they are believed to be. They are also creating much harm towards families and the children they are supposed to be helping.
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Tammi Stefano exposes much of the corruption at the hands of CPS and family courts as the Executive Director of the National Safe Child. This organization looks to protect the rights of children from being unjustly taken from the custody of their safe parents or families. In an interview on Buzzsaw, she exposes some of the information about child trafficking in Los Angeles county, California.
Child protective services may have a good intent in what they claim to be for, but the execution is botched and presents failures to safeguard children's lives. Social workers in CPS are not properly trained to truly investigate child abuses crimes. Law enforcement is better trained, but even they call CPS for assistance in investigating crimes.
Children Murdered in Placed Homes
In 2013, Los Angeles had thousands of children taken away from their parents that were deemed as being in "unsafe homes", allegedly. Yet, 570 of those children were murdered in the homes they were placed into. How unsafe were the homes of their parents really? At least by comparison, they were much safer with their parents who had an innate connection to them than with strangers who often care much less about them by default.
Sex Offenders as Foster Parents
In Stefano's investigations, she found that about 1,000 convicted sex offenders were given a green light to become foster parents. By some people's standards, molesters are not considered so dangerous if they have been rehabilitated, which can mean they just went to classes or completed mandatory therapy sessions. But a child molester will reach dozens of children to molest, and they may only get caught for one. Many end up abusing children again after they are released and are allegedly "rehabilitated".
Family Court Corruption
In cases of domestic abuses, parents might divorce, with one parent desperately trying to get custody. But whoever is friendly to the court and judge will tend to win custody, while the desperate parent who is trying to keep their child safe may lose custody and the child remains in the hands of the abusive parent.
If you complain or make allegation during divorce, you're not "friendly" to the court. There is no jury, its all the judge who decides. 85% of parents that report abuse to courts will lose custody and get placed under supervised visitation in order to see their children. They also have to pay for the visitation, between $40 and $200/h in some cases.
Kids as Commodities - Kids for Cash
Judges have been caught having conflict of interest when dealing with so-called troubled children. In Pennsylvania on judged was deeming children to have behavioral issues, and then sending them to a juvenile delinquent facility that he was part owner of. They have been making money by kidnapping and exploiting the lives of children as commodities. This is human trafficking under the cover of law.
It's a big business to be involved in, as the cost for state care of children can run up to $1,000,000. Doctors make claims that a child is unstable and needs "extra care", such as the need for constant supervision, to be placed in some facility, to need psychotropic drugs, or need whatever they say in order to get money from the state and taxpayers.
Brainwashing Camps
Stefano's investigations had her uncover one case of a judge sending children to behavioral modification camps, which is a euphemism for a brainwashing camp. This is done because a child is deemed to not be "behaving" or doing what they are told. On child had shock treatment applied with payments forced onto mother at $7,000 per week. That mother was still paying for it after their child had reached 23 years old. She was forced to pay for treatment she didn't know about or where it was, only the judge knew.
Political Power
Judges can seal cases so no one -- not the parents or public -- can know what happened in the case. The power judges hold over children is a recipe for corruption. Kids are turned into cash-cows as abuses in power permit children to continue to be abused while they are allegedly being protected and made safe from their parents or themselves.
The corruption is hard to deal with, as their are heavy hitters in society that are involved and the media is pressured to stop covering stories after they first hit the air:
"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... The child trafficking industry, or human trafficking industry right now, makes more money than the illegal drug trade, and illegal arms trade, combined."
Stefano also believes that people inside the foster care system are involved in helping child trafficking and sexual abuse from continuing. Of the children that leave the system after 18 years old, it's estimated that 65-70% of them end up being captured by human trafficking syndicates. This could only happen with concerted effort and information obtained about these children. Where else could they get it if not from the foster parents or organizations like CPS?
You can listen to the whole interview here starting form the 9m mark:
The Slap, True Abuse and Corrupt Child Protection with Tammi Stefano
References:
- The Slap, True Abuse and Corrupt Child Protection with Tammi Stefano
- Child Sex Trafficking through Child “Protection” Services Exposed – Kidnapping Children for Sex
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really sad 😔 @peekbit
I have actually been thinking about covering this type of issue but from a anti-drug war angle. You touch on the children who are murdered while in foster care. It becomes more infuriating (to me at least) when one realizes that some of those dead kids were taken from their homes because their parents smoked cannabis. If they had been left alone, as they should have, those kids would be alive but our society's inability to move past the idea that all drug use is abuse overrides good sense and we are left with a broken and dangerous system.
This was interesting. I was not aware that the rates of child trafficking were so high in the foster care system. It really is shameful.
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Yeah, how dare anyone take a substance for medical reasons without state approval... yoink, I'm taking you kid... :/
This is pretty much the biggest ‘unknown’ problem in the world. But unknown I mean you mention it to the average person and they have little to no clue about how deep this rabbit hole really is. It’s been going on for years and years, in the uk, USA... the groups have been exposed. It keeps returning and getting worse, and nothing gets done because the ones who control the prosecutions also control the child rape. It’s sickening... all we can do it try to keep exposing it and hope that people eventually read into it.
In the uk there is grooming gangs all over, children going missing for gov members, everyone at the top seems to have this satanic similarity. I would love to see the day where this all can fall through and the people can over run this. In England, it look like it’s overrun already and on the brink of falling through completely... the government seen like they want that with the way they’re acting too
Yeah, "CPS is good" they will say :/ Kidnapping kids from homes that only have minor issues and sending them to worse places... so great! It will fall when people care for truth and unite in the common awareness to do something about it.
Have never been a fan of taken a child from it biological parents to foster home especially for reasons of not conducive environment fir the child or financial issues . Instead of taking this kids while not help their parents create a suitable environment fir this kids.
In all it has done more harm than good to this kids ,the family and the society at large.
Awesome post
Indeed, a child should only be taken from a home when it's a truly bad place and there is a guarantee of a better location for the child somewhere. But no authority has the right to steal children really, this should be a community decision for the betterment of a child, not some powerful agency to determine.
Despite the many great services there may be you will always have the evil side filled with pain and anguish.
As the days go on it is painful to constantly be reminded how broken our world is. Blockchain can change things but some argue that once blockchain leaves its digital realm and touches the real world it is useless.
It is 100% true that most kids are seen as commodities vulnerable innocent entities that are bought and traded into poverty labour or be armed and used to fight in wars as child soldiers.
Even if we move away from those extremes children are used as weapons as they are used as leverage in arguments between couples, used to score points and agitate the others where the child's like crumbles as it is thrown around like a rag doll.
It's painful, yes, knowledge carries the weight and burden of pain and suffering from knowing, as opposed to the bliss of ignorance.
Yep, if you confront any of the officers of the court with truth and actually hold them accountable or cry out because they are ignoring said truth, you are definitely seen as unfriendly, uncooperative and more.
I learned the hard way.
Don't call out someone with authority as being wrong, hehe, as you will suffer their egomaniacal wrath :P
Fuck CPS and anyone who thinks a child should be taken from the biological parents period! My mother had some pretty crazy things going on when we were children but it is not in anyone elses business to judge. Parents should be able to raise their children without fear of big gov!
Anyone can judge others, but taking away children from parents is an extreme situation that should be done when only necessary, and not by the state, but by people who care in the family for instance, or community.
key point... not by the state, but by people who care...
thanks for the reply
I have never actually had my children taken away, but I have had to deal with Child Protective Services on three separate occasions due to false allegations from a vindictive ex-wife. Each time, the claims against me proved to be baseless, but the meddling that goes on in your life when you are put under the microscope is absolutely ridiculous. Any type of contested divorce in the United States is a matter of handing your sovereignty as a parent over to the state, and, thanks to "no-fault divorce" laws, one parent almost inevitably finds themselves dealing with the over-reaching family court system against his will.
It's a thing of shame, that the so called saying "no one is above the law" has now become something void and effective...Judges Now see the exploitation of kids as a perfect way of making money, since they see themselves above the law, and the "law" something they could control like a puppet
yeah, their laws are often pretty wack, but then they do't even uphold themselves to those laws... they just get away with murder as the saying goes.
they get more money for the amount of children in their care and if these children have any disease or disability this money multiplies. There are your true interests
Yeah, free money for taking crappy care of children and the money doesn't go to them... :/
That's ridiculous, I won't even get a home in a neighborhood where there are registered sex offender. Its a sickness that can't be treated by group therapy sessions.
It takes more than simple mandatory "therapy" if it can, that's for sure. A will to change.
Evil is temporary while truth is for ever! Child abuse always a topical issue that can be discussed all over again because the future rest in the hands of the children , so there is need for them to be mentally and psychological fit, I have a bad taste for Nigeria’s government because they don’t get to protect the life of our girl child, I wonder what the future will look like for this kids. Great post @krnel
a very interesting post after reading, should the child be protected, because a child can be the future of a nation.
thanks for sharing an interesting post, have a nice day
Child should be protected coz they are the future of our nation and thanks for sharing with us
buena publicación,aunque esta publicación me hace sentir mal,yo amo a los niños y pienso que nunca se deben de despegar de sus padres,aunque también he visto padres criminales
awesome familyprotection news
It is very sad to see that there are corruption anywhere in the world.
We must educate our children to be responsible for having sex, so as not to bring children into the world to suffer. It is very painful to bring a child to the world to be mistreated. let's be responsible.
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