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}}}>Begin Cuttin' through the Bull #117 PROTECTING YOUR CHILDREN By Ray Thomas Copyright © 2002 Published 06. 9. 02 at 13:43 Sierra Time They forced the children to take Nyquil to make them sleep. The children were forced to live in one room that contained no furniture so they had to sleep on the floor. They had no access to bathrooms and were forced to "do their business" right there on the floor and live in the stink. They yelled slurs at them, and videotaped them being physically and sexually abused. Should the child protectors snatch these children from these abusive parents? Probably not, since they had already been snatched. The people who did this are the foster parents with whom they placed these children after they snatched them from their real parents. For that, Florida's Department of Children & Families will pay $5 million taxpayer dollars to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of six siblings who were physically and sexually abused while in foster care. In the suit, it was claimed that state workers "ignored clear signs of danger" and allowed them to be adopted by foster parents who starved them, locked them up, and beat them. Why would they do such a thing, you ask. My answer is simple: they don't care. They snatch children from guilty and innocent families alike because each child "in the system" pays them a set fee every month from the feds and the state. Plus they can get more fees when they can coerce the parents into "counseling" and "parenting classes" for which they (the parents) must pay. When they can place these children in a foster home that costs a little bit less, they're money ahead and staff, from workers on up to the director get bonuses that allow them to share in the bounty. It is my contention that these people involved should not escape from having to pay for their crimes. They should each be sued for personal assets, as is allowed when government agents violate the constitutional rights of the people they rape -- and violate the constitutional rights of these children and their parents they did, with abandon. Ordinarily, damages in state negligence claims are capped at $100,000 (you try "capping" claims against individuals and see how far you get), but since they evidently violated the civil rights of these children the state (the taxpayers, really) are subjected to a greater penalty (Unfortunately, the people who did the violating don't pay a penny of that. The worst that normally happens to them is to lose their jobs. More likely, they'll just be transferred until the public forgets their names.). Named in the suit were DCF chief Kathleen Kearney and five unnamed DCF workers (Why unnamed?). The reason the case was settled was to get rid of it, since the department is under intense criticism right now for "losing" 5-year-old Rilya Wilson, who had not been visited by a worker in 15 months, although the paperwork said she was. They're still searching for this child as this is written. The case for which they were sued, had many similarities to the Wilson case, in that caseworkers failed to regularly visit the children, and that various units within DCF overlooked problems in the foster parent's backgrounds and turned a "blind eye" to the children's distress. At least they didn't "lose" these children. The foster parents, Frank and Jackie Lynch, had one of their own daughters removed from their care in 1987 for sexual and emotional abuse, according to court documents. Jackie Lynch's other three biological children were put under protective supervision by the court, but were left in the home. DCF was aware that Frank Lynch "had abandoned his biological children," had been arrested for obstruction of justice, and had fallen $16,000 behind in child support payments. By the department's own standards, rules, and regulations, the Lynch's home should never have been licensed and re-licensed as a foster home. But the DCF not only licenses them and placed these children in their home, they promptly forgot them. The children's lawyer said that not a single DCF worker documented a visit to the Lynch home in the first 20 months of their care there. They left these children in the home even after learning that Jackie Lynch's 15-year-old son was arrested for indecent assault and videotaping a 14-year-old girl having sex with him. They ignored other signs, too. In 1992, the children's day care operator told DCF that Jackie Lynch refused to keep the children at home when they were sick and was "uncooperative." They neither investigated the allegation nor visited the children to see if they were well. In February 1992, a volunteer guardian appointed by the court to monitor the children told DCF that the children were withdrawn and cried easily. The guardian claimed that the oldest boy had "changed dramatically" and was like a "whipped dog." DCF did not investigate the claim, and demanded the guardian be taken off the case. The guardian was removed and the Lynches were allowed to adopt all six children. In August, 1997, the children were removed from the Lynches "because of the pervasive abuses they suffered while at their home," according to the court record. Later they were placed with a new adoptive family, which brings up a question: did DCF collect the $4.500 to $6,000 "adoption fee" from the feds when they were adopted the first time? And will they collect the fee again for the new adoption? If this is an example of how the child protectors "protect" our children, they should be disbanded and all their employees imprisoned for egregious child abuse. But will they? No. They'll plead poverty and not enough personnel. They'll be investigated, then they'll get a big budget increase and be told "go forth, and sin no more." Next year there'll be another scandal and they'll plead the same way and get yet another budget increase. Count on it. That's the way it works in Colorado. Then more children will die, be sexually and physically abused in foster care, and be "lost." This is the way they operate. I've seen it happen over and over again because I pay attention to these things. But they do an excellent job of keeping it a "local story," as a rule, so nobody knows just how pervasive this problem is nationally and even internationally. They're in it for the money, and they don't care what happens to the children they snatch so they can put them up for adoption, collecting money from the state and the feds all the way, ending with the $4,500 to $6,500 (or more) fees. The higher amount is for "special needs" children -- and guess who gets to define whether or not the child is "special needs." By the time they get to the point where they're adopted, they're all "special needs" because of the treatment they get at the hands of the child abuse -- protectors and foster parents. All you good foster parents out there, don't write me to complain. I know most of you are good people. The point of this article is that the child protectors just don't care if you're good or bad. All they want to do is get the children "in the system" and adopted, preferably as "special needs" children. That's how they all make their money. The information on this site is not legal advice. 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