You're a lot braver than I am. Just thinking about my kids spending even a weekend with someone I don't know and handpicked by the state, and their track record terrifies me. All the little girls molested in bad foster homes. My daughter is 8. My son who's 9 would be devastated. He'd need therapy for months. He'd always worry that it would happen again, since they don't need any proof, just an anonymous e-mail. Story after story of children being removed because the house was dirty, mom and dad hit each other, or the dad smoked pot, so they put the child in a better place for "safety reasons and they wind up like Dominic James. Dead.
http://protected-to-death-by-cps.memory-of.com/legacy.aspx
Or Logan Marr who was killed by her foster mother who was a former CPS worker. The woman planned to adopt Logan whose mother was never accused of abuse.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fostercare/marr/
Hopefully they wouldn't go here...
http://forums.gumtree.com/topic330011.html
The last time I played with my son Luke, he had only just turned two, and was a healthy little baby, apart from the scratches on his face. I was only allowed 2 hours a week with him for the last six months of his short life which ended on the 18th of January, 2009. Luke died at the age of two years and four months.
Two days after this photo was taken his mother had her 2 hour visit. Only after her discovery of more severe fresh scratches, thiis time on his penis, and after Lukes's mum insisted, was he taken to a doctor for medical attention. These injuries and others, including severe burns, multiple scratches and bruising were a constant in Luke's life, while he lived with his Queensland Department of Child Safety sanctioned foster carer.
Luke was left with a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain, and a blood clot, unconscious for six hours. Only after I rang the foster home a third time that day to check on his wellbeing, was he properly looked at and an ambulance was rung. By the time he got to hospital his brain had been so starved of oxygen that half of my little Lukey Pukey's brain was dead.
The first time I rang the house I was informed Luke had surrered a head injury and gone to sleep. I asked her to be very careful with his head as he had received a knock on the head before. She was awful to me, a 74 year old who already had 3 foster children in her care, two boys aged 4 and 6, and a girl aged 9.
I know many feel it's ok to take kids based on unproven, anonymous accusations in case they might be true, but it's illegal and it scares the carp out of me.
I believe that if LE hadn't come to the parent's defense the state would still have these kids and she probably would never have gotten the baby back.
He would have "bonded" with the foster parents. The state would have received a ton of federal funding, and the mother would have been destroyed.
It happens all the time. New laws mandate that if a child isn't returned home in 12-18 months, the child will be adopted and CPS workers aren't much help to the parents trying to get their babies back.
In divorce cases, they're giving kids to their molestors and accusing mothers of parental alienation for trying to keep her kids from being raped by their fathers.
Again, you're much stronger than me. I wish I had that kind of faith in the system.
