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Honor student placed in jail for tardiness and truancy at school

HOUSTON—A judge threw a 17-year-old 11th grade honor student from Willis High... more

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Parents in Shock as Priest Displays Gay Porn Images

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Modern American Heroes

The citizens of Flora, Indiana said their final farewells to Cody Green, a proud United States Marine, on May 5, 2012. News of his death sent shockwaves through the blogosphere. He was simply too young to die. While he bravely faced death on three separate occasions –and never lost his cheerful spirit– the final engagement with an intransigent enemy proved fatal. His adversary was not a member of the Taliban, as you are probably thinking, it was leukemia. While the disease might have taken his life, it did not rob him of his cheerful attitude and generous spirit. There is something else about Cody which makes his story all the more moving. He was only 12 years old at the time of his death and is most likely the youngest Marine, even if only an honorary one, that has ever existed.

Cody was first diagnosed in 2001 with Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a form of cancer that appears most often in children. He was two months shy of his second birthday at the time. Over the next eleven years he would endure aggressive treatment which, on three separate occasions, sent this fast growing cancer into remission. Each time it came charging back until March 2, 2012 when he was admitted into Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, Indiana.

His online obituary describes him as a person who, although very young, had an indomitable and upbeat spirit. He never asked “Why Me,” and “fought the illness with grace and humility”. It also pointed out how he never complained about his treatment and always thanked the nurses who cared for him.

This solicitude for others was also shown towards his mother Tracy. In August of 2011 she was seriously injured at the Indiana State Fair grounds when a freak storm whipped up and toppled a concert stage, killing seven people. In spite of the fact that he was fighting a life and death struggle, Cody was always more concerned about his mother after the injuries she sustained that day. Her well being came first and this included the times where chemotherapy caused young Cody severe nausea and vomiting. Forgetful of self he would apologize to her for holding bucket.

Full Story: http://www.modernamericanheroes.com/tag/cody-green/#The citizens of Flora, Indiana said their final farewells to Cody Green, a proud... more

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Why Michigan Gives CPS Immunity

UPDATE: Judge Michael J. Kelly used to sit on the Board of Advisors for St. Vincent... more

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Why Michigan Gives CPS Immunity

Michigan Court of Appeals recently ruled that CPS agents are immune from liability... more

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4-year-old Texas girl taken from parents and heavily drugged by Child Protective Services

The parents of a 4-year-old girl are outraged after their daughter was placed under the care of Child Protective Services and then heavily medicated with psychotropic drugs.
Christina and David Harrison were heartbroken when Child Protective Services took away their daughter, Rachel, when she was only three. At the time, authorities suspended their parental rights after the child’s mother tested positive for cocaine, something she now says she heavily regrets. When she finally got to see her daughter again, however, she noticed some serious changes with Rachel.
The next time the Harrison’s saw their daughter, it was Rachel that was on drugs.
"She was never abused or neglected in any way except by CPS," Debbie Flores, Rachel's grandmother, tells a Fox News affiliate in Houston.
"They actually testified in the first hearing that Rachel was never neglected, never abused and she was a happy healthy child," Christina Harrison adds. When the CPS sent Rachel to a doctor, however, a physician wrote a prescription that would soon change all of that.
"There's paperwork saying she was screaming for mommy and daddy," says her mother.
"And the easiest way to handle her acting up was to medicate her," her father adds.
To Fox 26, Rachel’s parents say their daughter was drooling and appeared emaciated.
"Every time we would go visit her at visitation she was skinn[i]er and she'd just be lethargic not wanting to move not wanting to say hi just sit in the corner and keep to herself," her father claims.
"She was also writing prescriptions," her mother tells the network. "They might play doctor but she was writing prescriptions on paper, ‘Here take your medicine.’"
The Harrisons asked CPS if their daughter was put on drugs, to which the agency allegedly replied no.
Six months after continuously asking, though, it was finally revealed in a court hearing that their small daughter was being prescribed heavy medication that the US Food and Drug Administration says shouldn’t be given to a child under the age of 10.
"3-years-old, given psychotropic drugs, there's no reason for it none at all," David Harrison tells the network.
Rachel, at only three years old, was hooked on Risperdal, a drug used to treat Schizophrenia and Bi-Polar disorder. Sadly, she isn’t the only one either.
A report from ABC News published in November 2011 reveals that around one-fourth of foster children examined by the Government Accountability Office were prescribed at least one psychiatric drugs, with thousands of youngsters forced to take doses higher than what the FDA approves.
“And hundreds of foster children received five or more psychiatric drugs at the same time despite absolutely no evidence supporting the simultaneous use or safety of this number of psychiatric drugs taken together,” ABC adds in their report.
The network adds that in Texas, home of the Harrison Family, children are more likely to be prescribed psychotropic drugs than non-foster children in four other states examined — Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan and Oregon — and not just by a little.
“In Texas, foster children were 53 times more likely to be prescribed five or more psychiatric medications at the same time than non-foster children,” the ABC report reveals. Nationally speaking, children in foster care are nearly five times more likely to be prescribed psychotropic drugs than non-foster children.
In the case of little Rachel Harrison, her parents say a CPS-appointed physician filled out a Risperdal prescription for their daughter, but only after he met with the girl for 16 minutes. Dr. Osagie ignored attempts from Fox to comment on the issue, the station reports, which very well be because he is very busy — they network adds that he has so far treated 755 children in CPS foster care.
“When a parents messes up, you call CPS. Who do you call when CPS messes up?” asks Christina Harrison to Houston’s Fox 26.
“There’s nothing you can do.”
http://rt.com/usa/news/parents-child-daughter-rachel-619/The parents of a 4-year-old girl are outraged after their daughter was placed under... more

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TIME TO TAKE CHARGE

I think it is high time we all stand up and tell the bunch of jokers we call Congress... more

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Rep. Hansen Clarke Asks Attorney General To Investigate Michigan Child Protective Services

U.S. Representative Hansen Clarke's Letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder... more

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Skyscraper: Exclusive Biography of DJ Mona-Lisa (Famous Celebrity

She defied all odds to become a global phenomenal superstar. Mother of 13, molested -... more

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Halmark Holiday's Are Offensive To CPS Victims - Baby LK Report For May 13th 2012

Baby LK recaps the week in news for the child protective industry.

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Mother's Day Letter to Michigan DHS Director Maura Corrigan

Disturbing rumors have met me with the possibility that you may be soon resigning from... more

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Reflections of motherhood

The hardest most rewarding experience any woman could ever have. My personal... more

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Tell G8 leaders not to forget the fight against hunger and poverty

Millions of people are locked in a vicious cycle of hunger and poverty. Poverty means... more

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The Cool of a Generation: S&R honors Maurice Sendak | Scholars and Rogues

If there could be any one person responsible for the “cool” of my... more

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Michigan Moves To Close Kiddie Jails

Michigan has the highest rate in the world for incarcerating, not just for life,... more

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Appalachian women put strip mining on trial

It's been almost 35 years since Lois Gibbs became an environmental activist after... more

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An amazing music video made by children at Seattle Children's Hospital

This is really inspiring. The song is by Kelly Clarkson http://youtu.be/ihGCj5mfCk8

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Michigan families torn apart illegally and billed to Medicaid?

This is child welfare fraud and the result is billions of tax payer dollars being... more

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Corporations aren't People, People are People.

Obama Corporations Not People

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Delay Is First Convicted In U.S. On Child Welfare Fraud

Tom Delay is the precursor to corporate funding being "legally" funneled... more

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