Foster Mom Ordered to Stay Away from Teen

http://www.local12.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=71a342ed-2850-471e-a9da-...

A local foster mom has been ordered to stay away from her foster
daughter, after police say she left the 15-year-old in the car for 45
minutes. Investigators say the 15-year-old has Down Syndrome, and is now
in the care of MRDD.

Vivian Bell is charge with one count of child endangering. Investigator
say Bell went into the Kroger store on West Kemper Road on Saturday,
while her 15-year-old sat in the locked car. Another customer at the
store told police.

The child was unable to communicate with police, or unlock the car when
police arrived.

An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"

Child Protective Services Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of CPS.

every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...

Cousin tried to save toddler

http://www.projo.com/news/content/BUNNELL_TRIAL_13_05-13-08_84A491A_v47.3577925....

01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, May 13, 2008

By John Castellucci

Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE –– The night 3-year-old Thomas J. “T.J.” Wright was beaten to
death, a relative tried desperately to save him, only to have T.J.’s
foster mother snatch the child from his arms and curse him for dialing 911.

Jose A. Santiago said that, when he handed Katherine Bunnell the
cordless telephone, she hung up rather than stay on the line with the
911 operator and walk him through the procedure for CPR.

Instead of being grateful about the call, “it was more like she was
angry,” Santiago said.

“Why, why did I do that?” he said, describing her reaction.

“To me, it felt like disbelief.”

Santiago offered the testimony yesterday, at Bunnell’s trial on murder
charges in Superior Court.

Texas Shame
by BigJolly | 05/13/2008 3:56 pm

http://lonestartimes.com/2008/05/13/texas-shame/

Pregnant adult women held in captivity until childbirth so that the
state can take possession of the baby. Think this can’t happen in the
US? In Texas? Think again.

Texas Child Protective Services said today at a custody hearing for
a child born to one of the YFZ Ranch children that the agency no longer
believes the mother is a minor.

Today’s custody hearing was continued to Friday to allow attorneys
to prepare. The mother will need a new attorney because the attorneys
representing her also are representing other minors and were concerned
about conflicts of interest.

Knowing full well that this mother is an adult, what will the state
attempt to do when the hearing resumes?

When the hearing resumes, state officials said, they will continue
to seek custody of the infant.

State probes death of 7-week-old girl under foster care

Associated Press
12:02 AM CDT, May 12, 2008

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-fosterchilddeath,0,6686056.story

INDIANAPOLIS - Authorities are investigating the death of an infant
under state foster care, which a coroner said could have been caused by
the child being placed in an unsafe sleeping position.

The Indiana Department of Child Services said 7-week-old Destiny Linden
died on April 28. She was the fourth child to die while in foster care
in five months in Marion County.

Marion County Chief Deputy Coroner Alfarena Ballew said initial
indications point to unsafe sleeping as the cause of death, but the
final report will come after results of toxicology and other tests,
which will not be available for several weeks.

Ballew said the infant was found unconscious on an adult bed and, after
attempts to revive her, was placed on life support at Riley Hospital for
Children for about two days before being pronounced dead.

Everette Coleman, 43, who identified himself as the girl's foster
parent, said he called 911 when he discovered she had stopped breathing.

Foster child death is 4th in 5 months
Investigators are awaiting results of tests to find out what killed
infant girl
By Tim Evans
Posted: May 10, 2008

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080510/LOCAL18/805100477

The Indiana Department of Child Services is investigating the death of a
Marion County infant who died in foster care.

Seven-week-old Destiny Linden, who died April 28 at Riley Hospital for
Children, is at least the fourth child under DCS supervision to die
within the past five months in Marion County.

Susan Tielking, spokeswoman for the department, said the agency has
opened an investigation into the death.

She also confirmed DCS had an open case involving Destiny at the time of
her death but said she could not provide any details of that case
because of state confidentiality requirements.

FLDS mom speaks out after giving birth in Austin

http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=8319273

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- A woman who gave birth in Austin Monday
described her living conditions after being removed from a West Texas
polygamist compound.

Louisa Jessop and her husband, Dan, describe their family as normal.
There is one husband, one wife and three children. They said what's
happening to them is egregious, because Louisa Jessop has been separated
from two of her children and must live with her newborn, alone and afraid.

The South Austin motel where Dan Jessop is staying is a far cry from his
former life on the secluded Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado.

"Everybody there has a strong interest in each other and everybody's
children," Dan Jessop said. "Out here nobody cares at all from one
family to the next."

Yet the father of three said he hopes he'll be proven wrong as he
appeals to judges in Austin to keep his family together.

His 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son are staying at a shelter in
Austin while his wife and newborn stay at another.

I have had no experience with death and dying. My grandparents and a
few other friends and relatives died in my lifetime but I was too
young and not skillful enough to help them at the times of their
deaths.

The content of this article has been sourced from the Tibetan book on
Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche. This is a modern classic and
introduces the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in a way which can be
applied in our modern, westernized world. The chapter titled Heart
Advice on Helping the Dying is itself worth 50 times the cost of the
book. To obtain your copy please click on the link above.

A dying person at the time of death is in such a situation that he or
she is leaving behind all that he has clung to and been familiar with
all his life. Wealth, fame, prestige, family, friends, power...

I wonder is Aunt Esther gives Jimmy Obama a monthly beating just for
fun? LOL

The only thing that McLAME has going for him is that he will probably
run against an out-right socialist. Hillary would give McLAME a good
ass whipping. Jimmy Obama could make the original Jimmy look like a
great president. What a choice!

Outside of that phony scam artist Obama, I can't think of too many
people I wouldn't vote for against this stubborn self righteous ASS.
He continues to bite the hands that could elect him.