A VERY Enlightening article wrote by, Barbra Hollingsworth of the Examiner

Is it child protection or legal kidnapping?

"Children being taken from their homes, based on tips from anonymous telephone callers alleging abuse or neglect, has been cast in a harsh spotlight in the Texas polygamy case, and there’s growing evidence that more than a few of the 510,000 children placed in foster care annually don’t belong there.
In February, Georgia state Sen. Nancy Schaefer released a blistering assessment of the bureaucrats entrusted to protect children there: “I believe Child Protective Services (CPS) nationwide has become corrupt and that the entire system is broken almost beyond repair. I am convinced parents and families should be warned of the dangers.”
Armed with court orders and protected by confidentiality statutes that function as bureaucratic shield laws, CPS workers need just one anonymous phone call to a hotline to swoop in and remove children, regardless of the facts.
Such calls can be legitimate, coming from a legally mandated reporter such as a doctor or teacher. But it could also be a fabrication from a vindictive ex-spouse, a nosy neighbor, or a disgruntled relative.
Since no laws clearly define child abuse and neglect, parents have been accused of these serious crimes when what they actually did was yell, withhold TV privileges, or “repressing” their children by supervising them too much.
Dr. Steven Krason, professor of political science and legal studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville, is writing a book on CPS wrongdoing based on two decades of research.
Krason says CPS itself now poses “a grave threat” because “it is almost impossible to fully insulate one’s family from...a system that on very little pretense can simply reach into the home and take away one’s offspring.”
He’s convinced the number of real child abuse cases has remained fairly steady over the last three decades; what has been growing is an unprecedented government assault on innocent parents.
And if it doesn’t take much to have your children placed in foster care, getting them back can be another story. An anonymous call about a 10-ounce weight loss by their then 3-week-old daughter triggered a legal avalanche that buried Arlington residents Nancy Hey and Christopher Slitor.
Their parental rights were terminated last year by Arlington Judge James Almand even though Hey and Slitor had been exonerated by of all neglect charges nine months earlier.
In another local case, Georgetown residents Greg and Juliana Caplan had to spend $75,000 on lawyers and wait two weeks before their children were returned, even after five doctors confirmed that an injury sustained by one of their twin daughters was not caused by abuse.
The Caplans are still listed as possible child abusers in D.C., however, because they refused to submit to psychological counseling. Despite the stigma, that might have been a wise decision.
The psychological evaluation trap is one of the least expected obstacles facing parents snared unfairly in the CPS system. Most panicked parents promise to do anything to get their children back, often agreeing to a battery of psychological tests they naively believe will prove their parental competence and end the nightmare. But it doesn’t always work out that way.
Arlington social workers told Hey that she had to undergo psychological testing before she could get her baby back, so the longtime Federal Communications Commission employee readily agreed.
She was diagnosed with two clinical disorders by Dr. Giselle Hass at the Multicultural Clinical Center in Springfield. This psychological evaluation was cited in the court ruling terminating Hey’s parental rights.
But an independent, expert analysis of the report obtained by The Examiner included scathing critique of the methodology used to evaluate Hey, saying it “...reads more like advocacy than a professional psychological assessment... clear and frequent evidence of error... Any graduate student who turned in as poorly scored and interpreted a test as did this evaluator would probably have failed the first semester.”
Besides violations of standard practice and professional rules of ethics, the analysis noted numerous illustrations of bias in the psychological profile and “a consistent failure to include data that would be favorable to Mrs. Hey,”including 17 computer-generated scores on the Parental Stress Index that were all in the normal range.
This was a significant omission, given that Judge Almand cited Hey’s tendency of “freezing...in times of stress” as one of the main reasons she could not be trusted to raise her own child.
Hey – who has never been convicted of either abuse or neglect – has had no contact with three-year-old Sabrina since Judge Almand allowed her to be adopted by the same foster family Arlington CPS workers originally selected to care for her baby.

Barbara F. Hollingsworth is The Examiner’s local opinion editor. "

I’m Innocent No Need To Worry

Sure, bet you believe in Santa an Unicorns as well. Don’t fall victim to that way of thinking. You are in for a fight from day one, the entire Social Service System/Children’s Division of Missouri an other areas as well is to puppy mill kids. It rakes in MILLIONS & MILLIONS each year. Not just for the Children’s Division/ The State, but for Doctors who do exams, layers to prosecute and defend, the courts to receive transcripts filing fees etc. and counselors. It is quite an industrial racket, and who regulates it why your House & Senate, they are who give the Division the laws they use to do these thing and always slant the system in the favor of the division and against the parent/perpetrator because it makes them look good, it creates jobs revenue and they can beat there chest at election time and say how they did such a good job protecting the children.
So oh well, I go in front of a Judge to tell my story and its all over, I’m Innocent! Wrong again the Judge your going in front of is employed by the county the same county that receives CASH each month to have your child in the “system” it is this same robe wearing, gavel wheeling, hypocrite that knows nothing about you except what they are being told by a GROUP of people who don’t know you as well. But you can bet your ass they know each other.
Our case for example the Judge on the case Charles Curless of Barton County Missouri, was stupid enough to write in his order how he and the other parties discussed the petition prior to being filed. Naughty Naughty, of course complaints were filed and nothing done, he was recently appointed Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar, even with the Governor, Missouri Bar and The Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline of Judges knowing full well the inside workings of the case, its know wonder now why the complaints were ignored and swept under the rug. Money producers get promotions, its only good employer/employee relations.
That Judge in front of you will solely decided yours and your children’s fate there is no Jury Trial as there should be. You and your lawyer will be at a disadvantage as it will most likely be stacked 4 lawyers to your 1.
They will use laws like RSMO 210.150 to keep there file from you, so you can not prepare. They will leave the investigation open past there mandated deadline to keep you from retrieving the file as well. And why because the systems purpose is to beat you, to use your children to benefit them and cash flow in to the State. And that noble Judge is on that payroll.

Child Protective Services Is At The Door What Do You DO?

This video is in regards to California’s Children’s Services, but the advice and tactics can be utilized in about any State. She is VERY correct when she says that the workers can not be trusted, they will lie falsify documents and do what ever needs to be done to start collecting that bounty on your children.
There are VERY FEW legitimate social worker and they usually don’t last long because they want to follow policy while there co-workers and supervisors influence them to break them.