Young boy in state custody regardless of court orders to return him to his family

anyone who believes this cant happen is BLIND and DEAF just look and listenwe are in a nightmare with our grandchildren. you think you are doing great your family is happy and BAM here they come with annonimous accusations and you are GUILTY period 15,000. in 2 months and just starting took the kid they have still NEVER spoke to ONE of our witnesses would've taken 30 min to straighten this out but we have pretty babies not messed up (till now) Easy to get rid of Workers do get BONUSES for ADOPTIONS I had a worker tell me himself 6 yrs ago. we protected our kids raised them to be independent and responsible kids. SO DONT TELL ME THERE IS 90 PERCENT ABUSE ANYONE THAT THINKS THAT NEEDS TO HAVE THEIR KIDS PICKED UP AND LEARN THE HARD WAY

I've told my children "not to have children in America the way America exist today."

Is it any wonder?

Extortion, racketeering and embezzlement now routinely couched upon best interest of the child.

In my opinion, the "empty vessels" for "perceptions and biases" of the "masses" have never so readily been so lucrative. (FN1)

Likewise, crime has never before been so easy AND lucrative.

But, in my further opinion,
It should never pay to hate, discriminate and invigorate ill-will.

Yet, tis such
The state,
Of our State(s),
On the Dole.

How can anyone try to tell us that money was/did not play(ing) a role in this matter?

Remarkably, as with most other addicts, public acknowledgement represents as the most important, but difficult, step.

If you have any questions regarding the level of depiration that "authorities" will venture to sustain their insatiable access to da junk and their kingpins; please feel free to send a message and I'll further elaborate off-line.

Regjoeshmo, great post and keep the lantern lit. For sure, there is great need to further illuminate the abyss of which your posting "brings to light."

IV-mainliners do indeed need be brought to further light.

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FN1 - Best interests operates as "an empty vessel into which adult perceptions and prejudices are poured." Hillary Rodham, Children Under the Law, 43 Harv. Ed. Rev. 487, 513 (1973).

Yes, "an empty vessel" of which many of "civil" community NOW readily enter for lending of bias and prejudices; more especially by which to obtain more of "da junk" via the suspect IV-mainlines that have been tapped into their "Candy Mountain" of our Social Security for utter pillage of the Federal Dole.

Someone said in an article that if someone wanted to start up a business in organized crime, to model their system after CPS. They are literally legally kidnapping and selling our children out of the foster care market. Do you want to know why so many children are dying? CPS doesn't care. The children who are really being abused are allowed to remain in their homes (Emma Thompson, Danieal Kelly) because they're too damaged or too ethnic to bring in much money. The very children that the Adoption and Safe Families Act was designed to help, they're the ones still languishing in the foster care system. Nowadays there's a form you fill out online, to special order a child. Then social workers go out and look for children to remove just to fill their quota. Do you think I'm making this up? I most definitely am not. Here's a link to just one site where you can put in your order...

http://www.adoptuskids.org/

I cannot comment on this particular case. However, I can vehemently comment on the issue of federal funding to a state agency based on a "price per child". This is tantamount to slavery or extortion! Funding should not be based on a per child formula, as it puts staff and administrators in a biased position regarding decisions. The staff is now under pressure to seize children as a key performance indicator of their job function. Outrageous!

If you don't know what you're talking about, don't say a word cos all you're doing is sticking your foot in your mouth. That comment was ignorant. Social workers are sociopaths. They get off on the power trip. They love making families pay for the sins of their own parents. I guess all these children who are dying while in foster care did something horrific to deserve that kind of treatment. I guess it's okay with you if they're killed in foster care, just so long as they're not killed by the big, bad bio parents. What's the excuse for that? What's the excuse for bio parents who kill their children all under CPS's watchful eye? How many more children are going to have to die before you get it? One? 100? 1,000? Give me a number that's acceptable to you cos quite frankly, I'm about sick of CPS screw ups. Name one case where they've gotten it right. I can certainly show you proof of their f**k ups. I guess thinking social workers are these good people makes you sleep better at night. I hope for your sake that you never have to personally find out differently. So until you've dealt with this corrupt agency, don't go judging us.

This event deserves much more attention than it is getting. I've visited the links and researched it online (but it isn't getting enough coverage), and, while I'm no expert on the subject, this seems very wrong to me. I need to see real, solid evidence that the parents are unfit. I'm not finding that anywhere. I find it devastating that they don't even know if the child is even alive. Any parent should be allowed to know that much... This is a travesty. If you have the evidence to change my mind, please submit it.

How sad. And as a social worker I can say this is why just about every social worker I know has fled CPS and/or refuses to work for them.

divotdawg, yes that is the same case. leesa worked very hard. we still do not know for sure if he is dead or alive. please feel free to repost. there are links in the comments to youtube videos and leesa's blog about this, plus the hope4kidz site that is listed above. i sent you an e-mail. thanks again!

unfortunately, cps does routinely take children for no issue, and money is a big issue. in addition to government money they make off of each foster child (more if they are special needs), in this instance they are also ripping off joshua's social security benefits and still continuing to get child support for a child they are illegally detaining, plus ripping off his medical benefits.

as to the abandonment issue that was brought up, how is it abandonment to leave your child with a registered nurse as the babysitter for a few hours. also there was an off-duty police officer and two ministers (there was a funeral prior that day).

in addition, there is the transcript from the sampson co nc cps supervisor who admitted that when she investigated, she found joshua completely safe and reported that back to carteret co (three hours away), but carteret co insisted josh be picked up.

and yes, this case is complicated. nc picked joshua up on emergency jurisdiction and has kept him for nearly four years on that. they also dumped him in a lock down facility for approx. 8 months in virginia where no parent resided, thus ending their emergency jurisdiction. when my husband was about to get the custody order enforced, joshua was transferred across state lines. this is federal kidnapping, but they get away with it.

and no matter what anyone may think personally, the courts have already ruled. nc's laundry list of complaints was addressed by the texas courts and my husband was adjudicated on all of it. carteret co nc was found to be abusing/neglecting/illegally detaining joshua by the texas court. in addition, the nc appellate court reversed everything and said there was no reason to address the other issues because nc had no jurisdiction.

who else in this country can get away with defiance of court orders like this? if it was a parent or another individual, the fbi would be all over it. but in this case, even when the fbi/us marshalls were court ordered to retrieve joshua (the writ of habeas corpus case), they refuse to do so.

the really sad thing is that we are not alone in this. this happens every day. for those people who live under the delusion that cps does not needlessly take children and are not corrupt, well all i can say is wait until it happens to you or someone in your family.

No matter what the personal feelings are. The higher courts have ruled and the boy should be returned immediately!!!!! This isn't a matter of what some social worker may think is best. The courts have ruled and now this is kidnapping.

As for parenting I do believe the boys father was on some board for autism. Who would know better of what to do for the child? Some bored housewife who is helping out by being a foster parent or a biological parent who has the knowledge and experience to help him one on one?

We also have to remember if we let the government get away with stealing one child how many more will they take? We have laws and those laws should be respected. And yes I do believe the state is doing something terribly wrong just because they way they are hiding the boy. Even drug dealers get to have supervised visits with their kids. This man doesn't even have a picture of his son. How does he even know if the boy is alive?

This is the nature of CPS corruption. They bankrupt the parents and then use poverty against them. They don't abide by the laws as they are never held accountable so why should they? Legally kidnapping children is a viable source of income from these people and they're not giving up their cash cows. It has nothing to do with protecting children from anything, it's all about the money. I also think some social workers are truly sociopaths and enjoy hurting families. I also think a lot of them get off on the power trip. Once they have your child(ren), they might as well have a loaded gun pointed at your head. They call the shots and you'd better do what you're told and shut up or the next time it might mean a bullet in your brain.

The father abandoned the autistic child while he attended to "important business". That fact makes a big difference.

It boils down to who do you trust more, the state of TX or NC.

This is one side to a no doubt complicated story - it is not news but a rant from a party with an obvious vested interest..

Why was the child removed? Abuse? Custody dispute? Negligence? CPS does not remove children without cause.

Having worked with at risk youth, when ever parents challenge child protective services I am highly skeptical. 99.9% of the time child protective services are right and the disgruntled parents are fabricating or being deceptive.

the links listed in the comments have much of the information you seek. joshua was taken illegally to begin with. joshua is a texas resident taken in nc. my husband has won a texas custody case (with writ of attachment for children) and writ of habeas corpus on behalf of joshua in texas (with yet another writ of attachment for children), and in the nc appellate court which reversed everything and ruled nc had no jurisdiction. if you want more information, we'll give it to you. don't assume that just because cps takes a child that they are in the right. in fact, the texas court ruled that carteret co cps was abusing, neglecting, and illegally detaining joshua. why are they allowed to get away with it when if a parent was found guilty of such, they would not only have their child taken away but be facing criminal charges?

While courts fights jurisdiction this family is suffering. Where is the best interest of this child? Why are families terrorized by government agencies that have all of the federal funding in their pockets?

The above seems missing the crucial points of what is going on. It's a lot of woe me, my poor husband - but why has the state got the kids?

just wanted to make one correction: i am joshua's stepmom.