- Signatures: 1,099
- Goal: 5,000
- Deadline: Ongoing...
Text of DeLay's farewell address -June 8, 2006
Perpetrators of Maltreatment
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More than 75% of care leavers have
For every child that can get adopted, there is a bonus of $4,000 to $6,000.
Information provided by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, in Fiscal 2003, 30 foster children died in our state's care; in Fiscal 2004, 38 foster children died; and in Fiscal 2005, 48 foster children died.
Last year over two million American families were falsely accused !!!
It is not in any one individual state but is now a worldwide epidemic.
Since the Adoption & Safe Families Act, with states in competition for the Federal Funds offered for promoting adoptions, Walter Mondale expressed concerns that states could create a business in dealing with children.
In the name of "child protection" children have been beaten. In the name of "children's rights" children have been raped. And in the name of "erring on the side of the child," children have been murdered. These are the stories of some of those children: In memory of Children protected to DEATH by CPS. 
PETITION # 2 :
In The Name of Those Children
We are asking For:
-Victims of Child Welfare Memorial Day-
to remember those who have died as a result of Child Welfare in their lives. -
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/986173347
"When will justice come? When those who are not injured become as indignant as those who are." -Leon Tolstoy
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| Number | Date | Name | City | State | Zip/Postal Code | Country | Send A Message to the UN |
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| 1,105 | 7:04 am PDT, Aug 28 | Vicki Rivera | Arlington | Texas | 76006 | United States | I have no experience with CPS in TX...but I do in Alabama. They do not listen to the children...the people they are suppose to be protecting. CPS in Alabama desperately needs REFORM!!! |
| 1,104 | 1:03 pm PDT, Aug 14 | Anonymous | Newcomb | Tennessee | 37819 | United States | Praying that we are successful. |
| 1,103 | 2:25 pm PDT, Aug 12 | Kenya Toliver | Detroit | Michigan | 48204 | United States | I am a victum of Child Protective Services. My children were held hostage by the system. I faught day and night for 2 years to get my children back. I want to put a stop to this legalized human trafficing |
| 1,102 | 6:10 am PDT, Jul 28 | Tiffany Albright | Keizer | Oregon | 97307 | United States | Please protect our children! |
| 1,101 | 10:30 am PDT, Jul 13 | Paul Darling | South Portland | Maine | 04106 | United States | I have been falsely accused of Molesting my 3 year old daughter. This allegation was brought forth by a Therapist who was working with my son who is Autistic. During the course of this in-home therapy, my daughter would frequently interupt because she ws curious and wanted to be included. In order to better facilitate Camerons therapy, I would bring her in to my bedroom with the door open and watch a movie. Evidently the first allegation was that I sexually molested my daughter while my son`s therapy was going on not more than 10 feet away. It was also erroneously alleged that she came from my bedroom stating, "My pee pee hurts" and that I came from the bderoom with my pants undone. It was also alleged that Cassidy, (My Daughter) came from my room with her shirt on inside out. And that I answered the door for this same accuser in my shorts. Well, I DID NOT MOLEST MY DAUGHTER. Why would somebody be that stupid to sexually assault their daughter with somebody who reports to DHHS. And wouldnt my daughter of made some kind of noise. As for my pants being undone, I think my belt wasnt fastened. As for my daughter coming out with her shirt inside out. She is always dressing herself and doesnt have it quite right yet. I feel my daughters discomfort comes from the fact that she is nearly 4 years old and still isnt potty trained, thus she is susceptible to either a yeast infection or a urinary tract infection. I can tell you this, I havent seen my children for 4 days and I am dying inside, my heart has been ripped out. Whats worse is that my wife actually believes I could be capable of this monstrous act. I want these people to pay for their arbitrary removal of my children from my life and there erroneous persecution of a heart-broken and loving father. Please help me |
| 1,100 | 7:32 pm PDT, Jul 7 | Moma Smad | Tullahoma | Tennessee | 37388 | United States | End Child Abuse! |
| 1,099 | 11:27 pm PDT, Jul 6 | Shannon Doyle | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | 53221 | United States | Take action now!!! |
| 1,098 | 10:19 pm PDT, Jul 6 | Anonymous | TULSA | Oklahoma | 74110 | United States | IT IS A SHAME SO MANY ARE FALSELY ACCUSED OF CHILD ABUSE AND OR NEGLECT IT RIPS HOMES APART LAWS SHOULD BE MADE TO PROTECT THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FALSLY ACCUSED AND PUNISHMENT FOR THE ONES MAKING THE ACCUSATIONS |
| 1,097 | 9:26 am PDT, Jul 5 | denise king | severn | Maryland | 21144 | United States | yeah - i have a message for the UN and the Federal Government - get the hell out of our homes and our personal lives. leave our children alone. we don't need your freekin village !!! you idiot lawmakers and CPS therapists are the ones that should be held accountable for crimes against families and children. every time the government gets involved in taxpayers personal lives , the only thing they do is screw everything up. we don't need your help or opinions on how to raise our children. CPS is nothing more than legalized kidnapping and needs to be abolished. |
| 1,096 | 9:09 am PDT, Jun 30 | Ellen Scusa | California City | California | 93505 | United States | CPS took my children and they did it without a investigation. They violated all of my rights!and no one is saying anything about it! |
| 1,095 | 7:15 pm PDT, Jun 25 | Christopher Pond | Pinellas Park | Florida | 33781 | United States | No government authority should abuse anything |
| 1,094 | 1:26 pm PDT, Jun 20 | Jeanie Buerger | Newburyport | Massachusetts | 01950 | United States | I was abused as a child so I know |
| 1,093 | 6:09 pm PDT, Jun 16 | Felice Eliscu | Platteville | Wisconsin | 53818 | United States | "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy- bodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), British novelist |
| 1,092 | 7:00 am PDT, Jun 8 | michelle dinwiddie | Narrows | Virginia | 24124 | United States | My husband and I have been married for 20 years . We have 5 children ages 10,12,14,16,and 17 1/2 . All of whom are now in foster care after CPS received false information. Four of my younger children are begging to come home daily and I have proof through emails and phone calls. I also have a video on youtube.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4peNBmntwQ of two of my children stating that we were lied to by CPS and that they want to come home. In court CPS and the Guardian ad Litum lied to the Judge and said none of them wanted to come home. It didn't matter to the judge though. We now have to wait until Oct. 9, 2008 for our next hearing. This is ruining everyone involved. Our children now know first hand how cruel adults can be and feel as if they can't trust anyone. They are being exploited by the very agencies that were designed to help them. This is human trafficking. I cannot tell you the extent that I personally will go to to prevent them from being adopted out and if more people would stand up and make that clear in unabounded ways even if it resulted in self sacrifice then we might someday see an end to this madness. Where did the US go ? My children aren't even allowed to call us from foster care. |
| 1,091 | 2:31 pm PDT, Jun 5 | Janis Ciofalo | Bronx | New York | 10466 | United States | Children are being taken away from GOOD parents because CPS does not investigate if allegations made against a parent are true. They take the children first then make the parents go to court for months and even years before they get their children back. CPS is not helping our children, they are emotionally scaring them for life. Something must be done NOW! |
| 1,089 | 7:00 am PDT, May 9 | Ginger Geronimo | Birmingham | Alabama | 35235 | United States | I had no idea it was this bad. It's past time for a change. |
| 1,088 | 4:28 am PDT, May 9 | Anonymous | blue ridge | Texas | 75424 | United States | We were given custody of my nephew then age 13 mon. through CPS. We raised him, loved him and treated him as our son, then in May o5 he had his first bi-polar episode, during which he called the sheriff and reported that I had beat him. He had hurt himself to show the sheriff. I was arrested aand the nightmare began. It took a year abd many humiliating experiences to get him returned. During the course of that year, we discovered that the CPS worker that gave us the custody initially had only given tempory custody and that ih had never been finalized. For thirteen yrs we raised this child and never knew we didn't have guardianship of him. But that is not the worst for us, even though he was returned, the nightmare continues. You see for thirty yrs. I have made mt living as a montessori pre-school teacher, recently, the school I worked for sold asnd the new owner had to re-run a criminal background check on all employees and my name came back, on the CPS abuser list. I was told there would be an investigation. I gave the CPS rep a copy of the letter from the D.A. stating that the charges againest me were dropped. It has been a week and the CPS rep is not returning my calls or my employers e-mails or caklls, I cannot return to work until my employer gets the O.k. from the CPS rep. Meanwhil. I not being paid and I am the sole support of my family. This agency sould be shut down and re-structured. There is not enough space to list all the reasons why, but some of thease stories should give you a good idea. This agency is NOT "for the children". |
| 1,087 | 11:49 am PDT, May 6 | kristin peddicord | hurst | Texas | 76053 | United States | Dehydration is not a "Natural Cause" of death. And Shame on the Texas Mediacl examiner and CPS who think it is. |
| 1,086 | 11:01 pm PDT, May 2 | Pennie Waldrip | Spring Branch | Texas | 78070 | United States | i AM a SURVIVOR OF CHILD RAPE. STOP THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS THAT LASTS A LIFETIME |
| 1,085 | 9:12 am PDT, Apr 30 | Leslie Basilio | Stockton | California | 95209 | United States | More has to been done with our legal system! Our children aren't being protected enough! We have to fight for them, because they can't fight for themselves! |
| 1,084 | 8:55 am PDT, Apr 20 | ELISHA COLLINS | detroit | Michigan | 48228 | United States | I PRAY FOR EVERYONE WITH CHILDREN THESE ARE SUCH SAD STORIES |
| 1,083 | 2:20 pm PDT, Apr 17 | Mark Timpson | Centennial Park | Arizona | 86021 | United States | Respect rights!!! |
| 1,082 | 11:28 pm PDT, Apr 15 | dana forbes | El Paso | Texas | 79936 | United States | I am also a victim of CPS. |
| 1,081 | 8:04 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Anonymous | Clio | Michigan | 48420 | United States | No education should ever take the place of a god given right to have a child. Parents are the only ones that know what is best for their children. Some kids are put in harms way. Numbers only have increased since we formed an agency. Educations of four to six years do not create a human being that can be held accountable. It is just a book and a test. No one should be able to create a disaster in anyones family only to never release their grip again. Lies are justified by multiple workers and in most cases there is no way the families can escape. These agencies need to be totally eradicated. If there is a severe intent to commit a crime, then it needs to go through the court system Not every incident of a bruise or a parent hollering at their child should be possible reason to pull children. Also, a parent that accuses the other of sexual abuse only to have the child removed from both parents. The agency has gone over board. Most of us do not want to live in this type of environment or we would move to another country. Also, all workers need to have the same scrutiny as the foster families if they are dealing with children. ALL should be popped in on at their homes the same as foster families have to live with. They should have FBI clearances as well as make sure their own children can be communicated with to find out what type of person they are. If we are going to go overboard for some we need to do it for all. Some foster families have more education than the workers, only to be treated as a second class citizen. If it isn't acceptable to the workers then they shouldn't remain in employment with children in this type of field. I would love to visit a few social workers families on a pop in visit and make it public what kind of horrible things are going on not on the abuse side, but on the social work side. |
| 1,080 | 12:39 pm PDT, Apr 14 | Anonymous | Los Angeles | California | 90038 | United States | This is truly a disgraceful abuse by Texas state government power and tyranny against peaceful happy religious people and freedom in America!!!! |
| 1,079 | 7:25 pm PDT, Apr 13 | DK Bolen | St Petersburg | Florida | 33709 | United States | Speechless. |
| 1,078 | 10:50 pm PDT, Apr 12 | sandra donahue | Troy | Texas | 76579 | United States | Bell CO Texas had six fatalities in the year 2007. We have personally experienced the lack of protection by the CPS system here for the innocent victims, the children. the CPS system here is more about protecting the abuser, lying and covering up the abuse of the child,than trying to help them. The CPS system consists of the CPS caseworker,CASA,AD litem attrney,CPS attrney, and yes even the judge!Even though the facts and evidence were presented of the abuse, all of the adults that were supposed to be protecting the child took him away from a safe and happy environment illegally, and put him back with his abuser, and her abusive boyfriends.I can only imagine the terror and fear our grandson lives with on a daily basis, and hope and pray he does not become a fatality in the year 2008! This whole CPS system here in Bell CO needs to be overhauled and investigated to find out why they do not follow the law when they are supposed to be protecting our children, and don't! |
| 1,077 | 3:45 pm PDT, Apr 12 | Wendy Lockman | Marietta | Georgia | 30067 | United States | My sister's grand daughter was beaten to death with a stick by her foster mother in Philly at 1 year old. We never even knew the child was in foster care. Now I am fighting to adopt the child of another family member who was born 7/07 and here, 9 months later the state of GA has not responded to the ICPC they received from PA in August 2007. The "best interest of the child" means something totally different to CPS/DFCS than it does to the rest of us. When you have loving, capable family members who want to take a child, how can leaving them in foster care, or being adopted out of the family, constitute "the best interest of the child?" Each day, our children and families are put through hell by these agencies. They have a good idea, but they need an overhaul in their methods and means of action. |
| 1,076 | 7:15 pm PDT, Apr 2 | Manny Green | Non-USA | 2315 | Australia | It is true that it can go both ways, that they take away children from good mothers who someone makes a grudge on or is jealous of & give them to somebody who is unfit instead ("www.shreddedsociety.com") & the abuse begins there OR that to the other extreme they leave horribly abused children in the home that they should have helped the child more, like such as poor, poor little Nixmary in N.Y. whose news went global about that too late, as she was so savagely abused she ended up dead..tho people had reported.. Sadly, If less people would make false reports the system could be busier dealing with the real crimes to children..People should be aware that they should certainly report real child abuse & have it properly invesitgated fairly, but that making false child-abuse reports to remove children from good mothers, is a crime that also hurts other children who are really are being abused. | |
| 1,075 | 1:06 pm PDT, Apr 2 | Londa Zack | Winchester | Tennessee | 37398 | United States | Please, this is a stain on all humanity. |
| 1,074 | 4:03 pm PDT, Mar 26 | Anonymous | DETROIT | Michigan | 48214 | United States | I'M A FOSTER PARENT,I'VE BEEN 1 FOR 3YRS.I KNOW THE DEEP ISSUE WITH CPS. MANY NIGHTS I COULDNT SLEEP BECAUSE MY KIDS COULD'NT BE WITH THERE B-PARENT BECASE OF CPS AND THE PRIVATE AGENCIES. |
| 1,073 | 6:07 pm PDT, Mar 24 | DANIEL THERAULT | HOLLYWOOD | Florida | 33020 | United States | DCF CPS BSO ARE ATTACKING THEY ARE NOT CAPABLE OF DEALING WITH CHILDREN - THEY ALMOST KILLED MINE - THEY HAVE A GOOD IDEA - JUST HAVE THE WRONG PEOPLE FOR THE JOB |
| 1,072 | 12:23 pm PDT, Mar 21 | mary dotson | polkville | North Carolina | 28136 | United States | it is wonderful to know that there is others that feel the same way that i feel |
| 1,071 | 8:26 pm PDT, Mar 20 | kristina dotson | polkville | North Carolina | 28136 | United States | i think this is great what your doing! |
| 1,070 | 1:34 pm PDT, Mar 20 | Linda Brennan | Burlingame | California | 94010 | United States | Please help protect the defenseless children |
| 1,069 | 6:28 pm PDT, Mar 18 | Georgiana Eggers | Martinsville | Indiana | 46151 | United States | I will not sit back and see another child die because someone does not do thier job... Close those homes of abuse.. |
| 1,068 | 7:49 pm PDT, Mar 14 | D P Simmons | Mesa | Arizona | 85208-2536 | United States | There are way to many of our children being caught up in a world of vicious home life. They need our protection from CPS in order for them to survive the rest of their lives. I feel the CPS needs to be completely overhauled. |
| 1,067 | 2:06 pm PDT, Mar 14 | Anonymous | Mesa | Arizona | 85208 | United States | CPS needs to stop with the lies to the courts and honest people who do not deserve to be messed with. I think that CPS is not so good at hiding their lies as they think they are. We the people have been messed with and are not going to take it anymore. We take in children to help and then they refuse to pay us and act like it's our problem. We get paternity tests that are wrong thanks to there Lab Corp partners and people who lie to make a test work when it is not the father. We have been falsley accused and the test proved different because I figured it out. Check out Lab corp and paternity people wake up. |
| 1,066 | 1:07 pm PDT, Mar 13 | Anonymous | Fuquay Varina | North Carolina | 27526 | United States | My daughter has been falsely accused of 'sexual misconduct' of her 4 yr. old daughter. This was based on a comment that her daughter made to a substitute teacher at her day care. We were thrown into "CPS He!!" as you are guilty before proven innocent. They take away all of your rights. They coherce children to say things the way the want to hear them. They have their own child physcologist evaluate the child and you are not allowed to get a '2nd opinion' from a NON-CPS paid phsycologist. I have the CPS manual and they have violated their own policies and procedures since day one. I have read over and over the horror stories about CPS, they are OUT OF CONTROL. Most private companies and government agencies have to go through periodic audits. I do not understand why a 3rd party firm is not brought in to audit CPS investigations and make sure they are following the correct procedures instead of doing things the way they want to and playing God and destroying families. Until this nightmare, I thought CPS was the agency that protected children. Now, my opinion has totally changed. They do more harm than good. There are some cases where abuse is happening and needs CPS involved. But they seem to pick and choose what cases they want to pursue. |
| 1,065 | 4:56 pm PST, Mar 5 | Tracy Carrigan | Odessa | Texas | 79762 | United States | I'm still fighting for my children, whom they took away from home an consistently lied upon. |
| 1,064 | 7:54 am PST, Mar 5 | Lisa Battiato | Reading | Pennsylvania | 19601 | United States | Please help all of us ! I too am like everyone else who children where takin . i worked with cps did what i was told to do but i got the shaft. they use false alligation against you these people go as far as telling our kids Mommy does not want you ! total lies and B.S! yet noting is done i work hard ! i don't abuse my kids never have. or did drugs or ever been in trouble with the law. yet becase a peson has a few beeeers every once in awhile they have a problem, or if they have depression cps uses that against them they should not be able to do these things to any of us this needs to be stoped we need a change i will fight these people till my last breath i love my kids truly and i refuse to lay down and die for cps .i will take this with me to my court date rub it under the judges nose . then i write articles call the news rally up people against thses monsters at cps lets let our voices be heard it's time i have enough ! give us our kids backkkkkkkkkkkk. stop the lies the evilness of cps their are real honest hard workin parents who care alot about their kids.are we going to have to continue being hurt by these evil people. thhey gone to far so let's ralley and rise up !!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 1,063 | 7:19 pm PST, Mar 2 | Alicia Moore | North Adams | Massachusetts | 01247 | United States | I too have fallen prey to these evilest of monsters I have tried my hardest to pretect my children from! |
| 1,062 | 4:35 pm PST, Feb 28 | Anonymous | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | 73142 | United States | There is no reason on this earth that we should allow children to hurt. Love can go along way to healing and helping a child. |
| 1,061 | 12:47 pm PST, Feb 28 | Jenifer Augustine | Overland Park | Kansas | 66221 | United States | We cannot continue to put these little innocent lives in danger. If people are going to be foster parents, they must protect not neglect theses babies. Make a change. Let show them there is love for them in this world. As a mother myself I can't imagine hurting my child and someone hurting them. I will fight for a change in our system. |
| 1,060 | 12:21 pm PST, Feb 26 | Donna Davis | Bend | Oregon | 97701 | United States | www.stop-the-suffering.com - we have posted our currently ongoing case in the hopes of educating you to the truth. Read it for yourself and ask yourself - are you really prepared to do this to our future? Remember, the children you hurt today, especially when it becomes so many - will lead the world tomorrow, and you'll be dependent on their kindness in your elderly years. Being neglected, forgotten and abused - is no way to treat ANY individual. |
| 1,059 | 12:38 am PST, Feb 23 | misty thelin | cda | Idaho | 83815 | United States | Protect our kids, enough is an enough.....Summer R.I.P. angel:) |
| 1,058 | 7:46 am PST, Feb 20 | RIVER FRANCE | Guelph | N1E 5L9 | Canada | I SAW FIRST HAND AND KMOW OF MANY HORROR STORIES INVOLVING CHIDRENS AIDE. THE DAMAGE THEY DID 2 ME AND MY 2 SONS BECAUSE OF ME BEING ASSAULTED BY MY HUSBAND IN FRONT OF THEM, OUR FIRST VICTIMIZATION, THEN 6 YEARZ OF THIER RE VICTIMIZATION OF MYSELF AND MY SONS BECAUSE OF A MANS VIOLENCE AND ABUSE OF US. THATZ NOTE RITE OR JUSTICE. | |
| 1,057 | 4:56 pm PST, Feb 14 | Anonymous | Dunlow | West Virginia | 25511 | United States | I don't see why action has not been taken earlier. As a mother I know that are children are our future. Shouldn't we do all that we can to protect them? |
| 1,056 | 5:16 pm PST, Feb 12 | Anonymous | Florence | South Carolina | 29506 | United States | I see these types of things going on and it breaks my heart I look at my little girl and I could never put my hands on her in ANY way! Something has got to be done about this no child deserves to be put through such torture. |
| 1,055 | 10:01 pm PST, Feb 9 | Jennifer Jagels | Granite City | Illinois | 62040 | United States | Do it for our kids! |
| 1,054 | 3:50 pm PST, Feb 7 | Mark Godbey | San Ramon | California | 94583 | United States | CPS is an agency out of control and is another example of government intrusion into the lives of good people, who for the most part have never hurt their children. CPS is another triumph for socialism in our country where democracy is slowing fading away to an autocratic government. |
| 1,053 | 4:37 pm PST, Feb 5 | Heather Horton Crossman | Virginia Beach | Virginia | 23464 | United States | The Juvenile Court is killing our children with their destructive rulings all under the disguise of "Confidentiality," especially in not allowing the assistance of Good Samaritans |
| 1,052 | 7:28 pm PST, Feb 4 | Jaime Trainer | White Sulphur Springs | West Virginia | 24986 | United States | Children have rights and the local CPS has allowed 3 children to die because when something is really wrong, they do nothing when they have proof. They tend to take children from parents who do care about their children. What gives you the right to do this? |
| 1,051 | 10:53 pm PST, Feb 3 | Dana Hoffman | Grand Rapids | Minnesota | 55744 | United States | This abuse of Powers by CPS needs to stop. I have known of it happening even in Georgia for over 25 years. |
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