Updates on Allison Quets

Check out Lisa’s Blog

Lisa has written another blog entry talking about Allison Quets’ situation with the abduction of her children, the challenges she faced while being pregnant and ill, as well as her continued challenges. Check it out!

 

What will McCain do for Natural Families?

Ibbaanika & Craig ROCK! May your family be soon reunited!!

http://www.theadoptionshow.com/home2.php

McCain Responses:

McCain’s Response:

I will be glad to examine your situation. Yes I strongly believe in adoption. I am a great believer in adoption. Those of us who are strong pro life people also believe that We should make adoption available in every way possible for young women who face a very very tough situation in their lives. All I can say is I would like to look at your situation and help you in whatever way possible. And I will continue my advocacy for the unborn and the born. I’ll look at the case and see what I can ascertain.

When Ibbaanika mentioned he did not really address her question…. What about the corruption? What will you do for natural families?

He states:

All I can tell you is I have supported faith based programs. I support adoption. I support fast track adoptions. I would have to know your particular case… but I support adoption.

SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING FAMILIES AND FAMILY VALUES MR. MCCAIN!!!! YOU’VE JUST ENDED THE LIE OF THIS REPUBLICAN LEGACY!!!

Missouri News:

 

The Drugging of Our Children

This is a story about how antidepressants and other SSRI’s have seriously harmed children across America. It has caused suicide, murder, depletion of nutrients, hallucinations, and so much more. What an important video for our times.

The Drugging of Our Children

 

Protected: Adoptive Parents Vs. Adopters

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Password:

 

Will Wake County, CPS and Children’s Home be Held Accountable for Sean’s death?

Thanks Robin for this blog entry update

It is my opinion that Wake County CPS, the Children’s Home Society, as well as Johnston County should be held responsible for the death of Sean Ford / Paddock. The Children’s Home Society as well as Wake County saw signs of abuse and neglect and failed to act on them. They both referred to people outside of themselves to shirk responsibility for their failed adoption experiment. This resulted in the abuse of several children, and the result of Sean’s death. In the medical world, a doctor would lose his license if he neglected a patient. These are serious injustices. How many more children will have to die before any of these parties are held accountable?

http://www.nationalcpsrallies.co.nr/

March 6, 2006 (HTML view)
PDF Format

Wake County Department of Human Services
220 Swinburne Street
Raleigh, NC 27620
Statement by Warren Ludwig, Director of Child Welfare Services with Wake County
Human Services

Re: Child Protective Services Involvement with Sean (Ford) Paddock

Children’s Home Society provided a detailed adoptive home study.

…On January 26, 2005, Wake County CPS received information about possible maltreatment of Sean, then age 3, on a visit the previous weekend to the prospective adoptive home. The supervising social worker asked for more detailed information. The information available on January 26 was screened as not sufficient to constitute a report for investigation. On January 27, additional information was received and was screened as a report of neglect–improper discipline….

…In early February, the decision was made to resume visits between the children and the Paddocks with the condition that the Children’s Home Society worker be present during the visits. A Wake County social worker and the guardian ad litem also attended the first visit, which occurred February 10, 2005…

…On March 9, Johnston County gave Wake County a verbal summary of their completed assessment. They found no evidence to support the allegations and were making a finding of no services needed for the Paddock children….

 

Allison Quets

My friend Allison is a great wonderful brave and very strong woman. She has been going up against the Shorsteins & Co. for almost three years now.

This is Her Story and you can sign her petition, to hold the guilty parties accountable for their fraudulent conduct and to ask for an investigation to return her babies to her.

I have known and worked with Allison for a couple of years now, and she has been through hell and fire to get her children back. She is a very capable woman, a professional woman, and had unforseeable complications during her pregnancy and shorty after which left her vulnerable to the wolves of Shorstein and Co.

Please support her in whatever way you can.

 

Amber James Update

I had originally wrote this article

The injustice of it all

And, I just found this update:
Judge won’t make ACS return girl to woman accused of suffering mental woe

BY JESS WISLOSKI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Monday, March 3rd 2008, 4:00 AM

A judge rejected a desperate bid last week by a Queens mom to get back from city custody the 6-year-old daughter she lost after being accused of suffering from a rare mental disorder.

Some six months after the Administration for Children’s Services took custody of Amber James, her family members finally got their day in Queens Supreme Court last Thursday – an uncommon venue for a custody case.

But the ruling by Justice Peter O’Donoghue to keep Amber in foster care for now was heartbreaking for the girl’s mother, Vanessa James, 41.

“Judge! If you leave my daughter in the care of ACS, she will die!” the distraught mom wailed in the courtroom. “They will kill her!”

Amber was taken from her family because a doctor feared Vanessa James suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy – a rare disorder in which a person believes a child is sick, or actually makes the child sick, to get attention.

Since the city took custody in August, Amber has been hospitalized for evaluation twice at mental health clinics. She has also been hospitalized three times for pneumonia, according to court records. And, she has been diagnosed with asthma.

Police officers stood by outside the courthouse last week for an anticipated protest by the family’s supporters, a court officer noted.

Moments before the decision, the family shared a prayer.

“Please give us the strength to endure this day,” said Amber’s father, Marvin James, 48, encircled by friends and supporters.

But O’Donoghue deferred to a prior decision by Family Court Judge Marybeth Richroath.

“[Her] decision tells me the parents are a serious risk to the child. I have no reason to disturb that,” O’Donoghue said in rejecting the appeal.

Richroath, who denied the parents custody in November, is not mandated to explain her decision.

Vanessa James had rejected a doctor’s diagnosis that Amber was healthy, saying her daughter had unexplained fainting spells and chest pains.

In court last week, Vanessa James noted that Amber’s foster parents have also reported that the girl has had fainting spells and chest pains.

“If I have Munchausen by proxy, then all the mothers she’s been with in foster care have Munchausen by proxy,” Vanessa James said.

jwisloski@nydailynews.com

 

Searches… fighting adoption in Utah from California

Someone searched for this, and so, I researched it myself. Perhaps this was the story you were looking for?

Babyselling

UTAH ADOPTION STOMPS ON FATHER’S RIGHTS

Cody and Ashley conceived a child together in the fall of 2005. When Ashley told him of her pregnancy Cody made it very clear he wanted her to keep the child. (Cody was under the impression Ashley was contemplating abortion.)

Cody said he would take care of her financially and provide her with a place to live if her family kicked her out due to her pregnancy. Ashley had told him her family was going to “disown” her. Cody stressed at the time he was intent on raising the child.

 

Some old Florida DCF articles:

There has been a lot of good activist efforts in Florida, shining light on the evil activities of government child stealers in the Sunshine State! I’m happy to tell you there’s at least two good mailing lists for victims of DCF:

http://www.fightcps.com/oldsite/states/florida.htm

Florida DCF settles $1.3 million dollar lawsuit involving disabled teen repeatedly raped and impregnated by foster father

http://dcfabuse.com/

(and more)

ABUSIVE FLORIDA DCF SUED FOR $501 MILLION

http://www.whale.to/m/sbs10.html

 

Craig Lenz and Ibbaanika Bond’s fight for their son

myspace friends of Noah

Video

Full Story
Reported by: Keith King
Email: king@nbcactionnews.com
Last Update: 5/10 3:47 pm
Related Links

* Supreme Court Ruling

A metro man is in the middle of a bitter battle to raise his son.

An NBC Action News Investigation reveals that his fight could have a huge impact on other fathers and adoptions.

At the center of the battle is a child unaware that his biological father has been fighting the system to keep him from being adopted by someone else.

Like a proud dad, Craig Lentz shows off his son’s room to NBC Action News Investigator Keith King.

“We’re just keeping everything for him until he comes home,” Lentz said.

Since shortly after birth, Lentz has not been able to be part of his son’s life. “When he has parents that love him and want him, it’s ridiculous that a third party can come and take him away,” Lentz said.

Like many contested adoptions, the details are confusing, the legal battle is expensive and the feelings are bitter.

Lentz was there when his son was born in Dec. 2004. He and girlfriend Ibbaanika lived in different cities.

Lentz says the plan was for him to eventually reunite with Ibbaanika and his son in Kansas City.

But by February, just two months after his son’s birth, the young, unwed mother, too afraid to tell her family, made the painful decision to cut her parental rights. She agreed to give the baby up for adoption, against Lentz’ wishes.

“I had second thoughts on my own. He never agreed with it at all, from the very beginning, he was always against it,” Ibbaanika said

Lentz’ name was not on the birth certificate. He wanted proof, and a DNA test eventually showed he was the father. But that proof came too late and the adoption wheels were already in motion.

“I thought what I had done was a mistake. I was sorry. I never meant for things to be that way,” Ibbaanika said.

Court documents show Lentz filed a motion to intervene, and stop the adoption. But the Jackson County Family Court ruled that Lentz had not complied with the state’s requirements and therefore his consent was not necessary. The court then signed off on the adoption.

In Missouri, unmarried fathers have to place their name on the child’s birth certificate or go to court to establish their paternity. And they have to do it fast.

According to a little known state law, fathers have only 15 DAYS to do it, or risk losing their child.

“I was surprised. I thought that was not enough time,” State Rep. Leonard Hughes said.

Rep. Hughes, of Kansas City, says the 15 day rule affects unmarried dads all across the state. “And what’s best for that child is giving the time so everyone can go through thorough tests and thorough processes so everything is accounted for,” Rep. Hughes said.

Lentz appealed the family court’s decision all the way up to the Missouri Supreme Court.

His case brought an unexpected response. The court ruled unanimously that despite the 15 day rule, putative fathers can still challenge the adoption or termination of their rights in a timely manner.

It was a huge victory for Lentz but a short lived celebration. “And the Supreme Court said I did everything in a timely manner like I was supposed to do,” Lentz said.

The case went back to the Jackson County family court where a judge allowed supervised visits between Lentz and his son during the lengthy legal battles.

But last December, despite the Missouri Supreme Court’s ruling, the Jackson County Family Court still allowed another family to adopt the child, arguing that Lentz did not act fast enough.

“If I didn’t pay child support, I would be forced to go to the state penitentiary. Now I want to take responsibility for this child and they are telling me that I can’t,” Lentz said.

Now, Rep. Hughes wants to change the law. Instead of 15 days, he wants dads to have up to 60 days to claim their paternity.

That won’t help Craig Lentz. His battle to gain custody of his son continues in court. “We love him and we did everything we could to bring him home,” Lentz said.

When asked why he is speaking out now, Lentz said “This is what’s right for my child.”

The legal battle is not over. Lentz’ attorney is appealing the case back to the Missouri Supreme Court to appeal the lower court’s decision to let the adoption go through.

The family court judge told NBC Action News she cannot speak about the issue sinc the case is on appeal.

The child is now 3-years-old and living with the adoptive family.