Foster Care Class-Action Lawsuit

MaryAnn

The current foster care system acts as a deterrent to working families who could provide a stable environment for foster children. The foster care system does not provide enough funding for childcare. Many working families with children who pay for daycare, afterschool care etc for their own children are unable to foster children due to the lack of financial resources for childcare. People can work everyday and still provide a stable home environment for a child.

Rosa

I’m not sure what your experience has been, but DCF provides child care vouchers for children in foster care.
- Profwoman4u2
  
  The truth is the USA system is a failure to humanity. Children should not be sold to strangers because the fact is children are not paychecks and too many children die in the system because of paychecks. Stop mentally abusing biological parents Please sign my petition to the White House: http://wh.gov/UXOx and share this link for more signatures.
- Marianna
  
  I’ve been a foster parent for 4 years, have adopted one child out of foster care, and now have his younger brother whom we will adopt if he’s ever freed for adoption. I have never in that time received any childcare financial assistance. Between the two kids, we pay $1900/mo for childcare, and none of that is covered by DCF. Never has been. Childcare subsidies were discontinued many years ago during one of our many fiscal crises, which we’re trying to solve by breaking the backs of working families and – apparently – children in DCF.
  - Jane
    
    I beg to differ with Maianna, DCF pays at least $550 per month per child, clothing allowances, free lunch, food stamps , christmas and birthday monies plus masshealt which means no deductables and copays. Free college education as well.
    - Oreo_boston
      
      I have been a foster parent for 5 years. I have done such a great job, the kids that have left to go home, come and visit and call. Yes, we get paid for our services. However, alot of work comes with being a foster parent. The love and caring are easy. However, there are many docter and therapy appt.’s, school activities, meeting with social workers, review boards,biological visits with family members, etc… Yes, the clothing and birthday money help to supply the children with what they need.
      Granted, I will agree that there are some foster homes that are bad apples. It is like that with anything you do. However, please keep in mind that there are alot of us that are foster parents that are helping the children. It really isn’t our fault that the biological parents (in some cases) didn’t take care of their children as they should have. I was a single parent for most of my life and worked full time outside the home and it is not easy to raise children too. However, I did not do anything that would cause DCF to take them away. My feeling is that usually when children are taken away it has to be really bad.
      To the best of my knowledge, at present. my DCF is working with the families to have the children remain in the home. Even sometimes when I feel they should not go back.
    - humansubjects
      
      Are you doing this for extra pay and child tax credits for many reason children are killed in the system over pay?
    - HumanSubject
      
      The DCF and their strangers NEED to stop condemning biological parents over paychecks (the reason more children are murdered) and social worker’s bonuses. Shut off paychecks to strangers as this is worse than the welfare.
      
      Help biological parents, and stop abusing and neglecting biological parents.
    - humansubjects
      
      The college is not free, any parent can put their children in college. College is done by filing FAFSA. All that money should be paid to biological parents to help them and their children instead of strangers. Kids are not born to be strangers paychecks. Worst than the welfare. People complain about the welfare because of taxes. People now have to complain about this welfare with strangers and with much more children dead and abused.
      
      Fight for shutting off strangers’ paychecks and do to them what the government does to biological parents.
    - HumanSubject
      
      College is not free; any biological parent can file the FAFSA as well. The FAFSA only pays up to a Bachelor’s degree.
  - HumanSubject
    
    The $1900/mo. is paid back to you and you are capable of obtaining that money through child tax credits where biological parents use that money for braces and the best camps; including Universal Studios, Disney, and so on.
- HumanSubject
  
  DCF should just pay biological parents as biological parents are told by social workers that they (DCF) does not pay biological parents. The foster (stranger) monopoly is worse than the welfare. Remember, biological parents are forced to go from bus to bus down the highway to work. If biological parents don’t get funding help, then why should strangers?

Marianne from Boston

Thank you for drawing attention to this issue. I’m the parent of two non-biologically related children adopted from the foster care system here in MA. The kids are great, but they have been through a lot. We all, as a society, need to remember that the kids are in this situation not through any fault of their own, but because of adults who were unable to parent them appropriately.

One of my kids was not too harmed by the system. She was in just one foster home before being placed with us. Her foster mom was a great advocate with a ton of experience, so I believe that’s why she kind of “lucked out.” Her paperwork was a mess, documentation was missing, and they didn’t even really know what her name was. Her workers varied from totally incompetent to bright and caring.

Our second daughter’s story is much worse. She first came to the attention of the system when she was just 5 days old. DCF (or DSS for part of the time) was in and out of the home for four years before she was permanently removed. By that time she was so damaged they thought she was autistic or retarded. She was, in fact, a trauma survivor. During a foster care review, a DCF supervisor admitted, “This child was not well-served by us. We did a bad job.” Fortunately, with a stable home, a lot of clinical support, and a caring school system, she’d made a lot of progress in the four years she’s been with us, but we do fear she’ll have permanent deficits that will affect her the rest of her life.

We all own these situations. More of us need to step forward to be foster parents, or to provide support for families having trouble caring for their children. We need to be willing to ensure that DCF has adequate funding, and is held accountable for managing these funds wisely. Good workers need to be supported in the system, not forced out by incompetence or the sense they can serve kids better in other jobs. Our politicians need to be asked about what they will do to protect vulnerable kids and families when they are running for office, and then we need to make them keep their promises. Agencies that work with foster children deserve our donations and volunteer efforts. Schools serving foster children need the resources to attend to the complex needs these children present with. And the kids need to be allowed to be kids–not treated as pariahs.

Harold

Unfortunately the better workers at DCF leave the agency or get burnt out due to incompetence of management and all the red tape that doesn’t allow the children to be cared for in the right way. Also, the truth at DCF is, the better worker you are, the more traumatic cases you get, while the bad workers get easy cases. Main reason why DCF can’t keep their strong workers, most can only take so many mangled children. Its very sad.
- Profwoman4u2
  
  Most Social workers just do not know how to help, that is the real problem. They make wrongful accusations most of the time. The DCF contradicts the welfare reform system accusing biological parents of being abusive because they have to work. When in fact, millions to billions of dollars are being paid to strangers, that is why we have a finanical crisis in the USA. Let’s shut off the foster strangers paycheck and time for them to work work work as well, just like biological parents Please sign my petition to the White House: http://wh.gov/UXOx and share this link for more signatures.
- HumanSubject
  
  The reason why the good social workers do not stay is because the system is an abusive system towards biological parents. There is more abuse and killings among children in the strangers’ homes than there is in biological parents loving care.
K – adoptive mom

You are a saint and you are right -we all own this. Agencies like MARE are wonderful and so many foster homes are great but our own experience makes it tough to encourage others to foster and/or adopt from the system. These kids need a ton of love and care and it truely does “take a village” for them. But – I can’t imagine our family without our youngest. For all his challenges, he’s made every family member grow in faith, patience, gratitude and love. We are grateful for the good attorney’s and the invested social workers but they were few and far between.
- HumanSubject
  
  Good, refuse the monthly pay and the clothing allowances that biological parents do not receive. And, refuse the child tax credits since you think you are saint. STOP condemning biological parents as there is more abuse and child killings in stranger’s homes.
HumanSubject

Foster strangers need to stop condemning biological parents. DCF is not as good as what you say. Some kids are removed because their parents have alcohol and drug problems; well let’s look at the Kennedy’s; they had these issues but was not condemned for their diseases. The problem with DCF and putting them in stranger’s homes is that DCF does not offer parental training and pay them $500 plus a month along with giving children clothing allowances. I know one case, the biological mother was putting her children in the best camps, provided in fashion clothing without child support. The mother asked for help because of a preditor stalking 14/15 year old teens (female). DCF mentally abused the biological mother and put the 14/15 year old teen (female) in what he calls a speicalize home where the lady’s (stranger’s) husband and older son at the age of 24 violated the young teen. In fact, the stranger’s son had and has a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship. Now, is that ethical?

K – adoptive mom

how do we lend our story to this fight? Our youngest child is “out of the system” – 5 homes before us (we got him at 15 months). His last foster home was spanish speaking only but both birth parents were english speakers (only one with an hispanic background). State was so negligent in “moving the case” toward adoption the birth mother apealled the termination decision claiming the judge couldn’t possibly remember testimony 18 months later. This had to go to the SJC and our son was not “legally free” for adoption till he was 5 1/2 years old (despite being removed for neglect at 6 weeks) – absolutely SINFUL! The state is harming these kids because of the libral mindset that we need to “wait”, “give the biological parents as much time/help/support” they need – meanwhile, the child is being permanently damanged because …he has no permanent home and family. I have long felt guilty for not sueing the state on behalf of our child. Way to go!!!!!!

Ackgirl88

My son was taken from me because I was clinically depressed. At the time I was 5 yrs sober. Three months after he was put into foster care I lost our home. I did everything I was asked to do by DCF even though @05df7f555bef0b91aa81ee16fa6346b1:disqus a drop of a hat they would change the rules. I couldn’t get into a family shelter w/out custody & they wouldn’t help me find a family shelter. I had never struck my child, emotionally abused him, & had changed my life by getting sober in order to make his better. My only crime was being poor & unable to find work in the middle of this economy. I found & maintained housing after a year & they decided it had been to long & the goal needed to be changed from reunication to guardianship. I continued to fight & went through 8 different workers, one by even DCF lawyers account, was out to get me. I after 2 1/2 yrs & deciding to bring this to trial regained custody of my son. They knew they could not prove me unfit in a court room. They couldn’t admit they were wrong or that any of btheir workers were either. If I had rolled over like they expected me to someone else would be raising my son. Some families need more time then others & shouldn’t lose their children because of it. Also sometimes DCF is as much to blame & should be held accountable when their wrong. I am grateful for one thinh my son was with a good family who we are close to & who is part of our support. I don’t deny needing help when they came into our lives but there many things , more then I have mentioned, that were done by them that made problems worse then better. In the end I did have a few workers who did their jobs well & I would be remiss if I did not mention that. Thank you
Profwoman4u2

Please sign my petition to the White House: http://wh.gov/UXOx and share this link for more signatures.

Elyse Ted

It’s so sad the way children often get shuffled through the system. Consider opening your heart and home to a child today: http://www.kidspeace.org/services.aspx?id=3596

Jre26

There is definitely no accountability in DCF. A story I’m following has a perfectly fine relative of a child being labeled as inappropriate with children despite the fact that a CORI check was passed, positive character references and no evidence actually provided to support such a claim. The label was only given in retaliation after the individual filed a complaint with the Ombudsman against DCF asking for accountability. So instead of a child being cared for by a relative that has done nothing wrong, they sent the child off to a neglectful foster home, don’t have the child in therapy and didn’t allow the child to go to summer camp.

humansubjects

That is true. Take control and take it to court by representing yourself. The more cases brought to court, maybe something will change.

Quentin Clarkhairston

It’s Sad Because this isn’t only happening in Massachusetts �
I’m from West Virginia
I’m 21, I’ve Been in system
pretty much all of my life and the things I’ve seen
are unbelieveable.
I was adopted at 12
and i lived with my foster-mom for 8
yrs.
I was mentally and physically
abused. That still effects me until today
the way i think my confindence and depression.
I really do belive there’s some good parents out
thier but the system doesn’t care
it’s all about the MONEY!

humansubjects

Have you tried contacting or finding your biological parents. Biological parents are abused by social workers because that is how social workers get paid and recieve big bonuses?
HumanSubject

Try talking to your biological mother; she probably loves you dearly and was tossed up just like all the biological parents over MONEY! So sad. So sorry.
- Mavis
  
  Human, putting your problem onto someone else’ situation doesn’t help.
Mavis

I’m really sorry, hope you know what you’re worth, having survived.�
If it were about the money, I think they’d find easier things to do. Dealing with government agencies cannot be “easy money” and from what I remember, it wasn’t much.

Mislilwolfz

I need help in R.I no one will help me and my grandchildren. I had my grandchildren from birth. Someone mad a complaint about my daughter the mother of the children, and guess what she never had the children. They took my grandchildren and made up all kinds of sick lies about me. I even went into court and they gave me gurdianship of one child. They would not let me explain anything. Now my daughter has died and I am still fighting to get my grandchildren back. They are scattered all over MA, and RI. No lawyer will hep me because I can’t afford one.

Only Mark72

My prayers are with you, sincerely! for four years they have instilled more fear in me than i could ever have imagined.
humansubjects

You need to prove that the social worker lied in writing and file slander and/or defamation in civil/libel court.

Mislilwolfz

Here we are 12/2012 still fighting for my grandchildren. 6/14/2012 my son died 6/20/2012 my daughter died. The mother of the children in DCYF. Still no lawyer to help me. No lawyer to help my grandchildren. All this based on a lie by DCYF. My grandchildren scattered all over R.I. and MA. Just imagine a Lawyer for Casa calling me up screaming at me we know your dame son is dead. Now tell me what hospital your daughter is in. On top of that I’m not allowed to cry for my dead children. If I do they will use it against you as unstable. Not one lawyer will help. Why I don’t have the money to pay.

Jlostumo3

that is horrible ! those people ought to be put behind bars, nevermind holdinga position of authority !! Something needs to change ! How dare they be allowed to be so cruel to a grieving mother, & those poor sweet children !! they are just heartless cruel abusers !! getting paid to be cruel , with tax payer dollars !! When is the state going to wake up & stop these atrocities?!! The Governor should step in & help !! or be voted out of office !!
Jlostumo3

so sad to hear such a sad story, God bless you, it is such a grievous tragedy that those people are so heartless & cruel !! The Governor should do something about this abusive agency !! Or be voted out of office if he continues to ignore so many cotizens being victimized by this corrupt agency !!
humansubjects

You have to get to the tax payers who are paying for the stranger’s paychecks and the DCF workers bonuses. I know that the social workers are writing the human subjects up wrongfully; slander and defamation. Show the courts that you are stable. For example, Social Worker Michael G. Costa license #3031197 of the Attleboro/Taunton division broke a federal law and a DCF policy by not doing his routine visit as discussed with one of the strangers where Costa #3031197 failed to do his required visits. It is a job, that is how social workers get paid. It is not human. Costa also neglected to put viable information in his reports to the judge, that is also a violation.

What you need to do First is obtain the social worker’s license number. You can do so by typing in social worker ***(name) and the city and state. For example: http://license.reg.state.ma.us/loca/locaRange.asp?profession=Social_Worker&city=Taunton

You can also represent yourself in the courtroom. For example, in the case with Costa, his team also manipulated the judge that a mother was mental, and that was the sole reason….. I have Marty Kenney’s also of Attleboro/Taunton confession in writing.

You have to act just like a lawyer. You do not need one. You just need to be strong. Hope that helps.
HumanSubject

File a civil case in the courts. You do not need an attorney.

Soon, I will be operating a nonprofit advocate for biological parents because of DCF abuse.

Profwoman4u2

Stop Abusing Biological Parents. The DCF contradicts the welfare system. The USA has a financial problem because millions to billions of dollars are paid to strangers. Stop The DCF from selling kids. Kids are not paychecks. The president should do what the welfare reform does, work work work for the strangers and end their sit back and receive a paycheck not caring about kids. Famous words of Marty Kenney, “Hey a lot more than just two kids have died in the system.” When is politics going to wake up and see the abuse with DCF? Please sign my petition to the White House: http://wh.gov/UXOx and share this link for more signatures.

HBwells

Are you aware how much foster care parents are “paid” for taking care of a child? By your post above, obviously not. Let me assure you that it is not a pay check, how anyone is supposed to take care of a child with what DCF gives is beyond me. While I can imagine others might do so, it is not the case everywhere. Please do not lump together all foster parents just because you have had a bad experience. A foster parent is a volunteer, who opens up their home and family to children who have been neglected and abused. My husband and I are professionals with a home and we opened our house to various children. During the time they were with us, they went on vacations, restaurants, Christmas specials, piano lessons, play dates and many more things. We also paid for the schooling, their clothing and toys. We provided them with love, caring, and above all a safe environment. When the children left our house, they cried because they did not want to their parents. With us they saw what a stable and safe home was. Please do your research and speak to people who have actually done this before venting without have any real foundation.
- HumanSubject
  
  Then I am sure that you will refuse on penney for other peoples’ kids who does not get one penney for assistance. Don’t you believe that biological parents are putting their kids in basketball camps, LPG golf camps, christmas specials, waterrafting, and many more things just be taken out to turn to illegal tattooing, drugs and alcohol in strangers’ homes like yours? Prove your words by not taking one penney and refuse that child tax credits that biological parents use for braces for their children.
- deMillette
  
  Koodos to good foster parents, but I’m sorry , there is not enough of the good ones. Only 2 people in my 60 yrs of living told me they were better off with foster parents all the other’s were horror stories, the facts.

Jlostumo3

the Boston DCf is bias against men, they do not recognize the equal rights of the fathers as parents, they knew a false accusation was made, from a vindictive x girlfriend, who is also a drug addict, & the accusation was proven to be false, but instead of letting the children go be with the father, or the grandmother, or the great aunt, who aall asked for the children, they insisted on keeping the children with strangers . The children constantly asked for their daddy, but DCF did not care, they traumatized our children which is emotional abuse to the children. Theu were rude, arrogant , unethical, & unprofesional. This agency, should not be allowed to hurt any other families in this way, they should be regulated., because they abslotuely have abused their authority, & victimized families as a result of this.

Jlostumo3

here is my petition, for the above post here, please sign & pass it along if you be so kind, thank you.http://www.thepetitionsite.com/262/927/335/abuse-of-authority-by-the-boston-dcf/

Jlostumo3

here is my petition corresponding to the comment post below, please & thanks if you would sign it, & also pass it along to others, thanks-…http://www.thepetitionsite.com/262/927/335/abuse-of-authority-by-the-boston-dcf/

Only Mark72

i am in my 4th year of my own DCF nightmare! my daughter was a victim of a horrible crime. she started hanging with that crowd that does not judge. withn a couple months she turned to alchohol on 3 different occasions, all of which ended in 51A’s. both my children were removed from our home, like something right out of one of those movies that leaves you with both tears in your eyes and a hole in your gut, something ou could only imagine happening in a movie. it is now four years later, my son has never met with them once but i feel as if a predator is after my daughter and they are not going to stop until they take her. she has grown so much the price i have for her after all they have dragged her through in unexplainable. does great in school, every counselor she see’s speeks nothing but good of her. well she made a mistak and had a couple of drinks a couple weeks ago, no proof, she admitted to it on her own. they put her in a 14 day detox where she read half of the bigbook, enjoyed the groups that came in to speak and cant wait to start attending some meetings with myself(dad). i’ve raised my kids to know right from wrong, never make fun of or pick on someone less fortunate, respect adults in your life. they are incredible loving children, they have a loving family that has been involved in ther lives at all times, and they have parents that love them so much it hurts. i feel like i’ve been filled from head to toe with cement. i have always filled every moment i could with their presence. everytime they send her somewhere it is Trauma all over again.. she adapts to where she ends up but the sadness is unbearable. my children love their home life and love their parents. they have awsome memories of all the family events and vacations that as a family we all took together where ever we went. NOW i just need to know why this supervisor, who i thought was supposed to work with families solve problems and see family together, why is she filing for a care and protection so they can have full custody?????? of all the troubled children out there that truely need help and need to experience some love and compassion, WHY is she going after a little girl that has constant open arms waiting for her and has had a wonderful life, with the exception of her Trauma, then DCF trauma’s, and now the fear that they want to rip her away and send her off to strangers. NONE of it makes sense, PLEASE if you can help my family before it is destroyed, maybe forever. Please

humansubjects

They are doing it for their own financial being and bonuses is why.
sue alley

I understand your pain, all too well. At 5 yrs old an older kid in the neighborhood started to groom my little girl. He molested her, @ 6yrs. old she had such anger and violent behaviors she went to crisis and was placed at the Italian Childrens Home, for a ten day period. Upon d/c she continued the behaviors. I approached dss at the time and was informed that as i had private insurance i would have to bear the cost. I then proceeded the long list of counselors, psychiatrists, and many trials of drugs, on my little girl, to no avail, the anger was intolerable, and when she was 8 yrs old it surfaced that she may be getting molested by this now 14 yr old boy. the police in our town said it was a matter for the next town as we lived across the line, and the other town claimed it belonged on the other town…anyways my daughter was threatened by her perpetrator and as it was brushed away, the records claimed she recanted, making her the storyteller. well, at 11 yrs old she let me have her old phone and low and behold she was being exploited on the internet! How did i know? i turned on that phone and my daughter was masturbating online, at 11 yrs, when i confronted her, she went ballistic and asked me if i had ever been thrown up against a cement wall and had someone shove their c*** in your ass, and be told she was a liar and not only was he still getting away with this, now she had to go on the internet for whatever reason that was given. The phone had msgs from older men, very graphic. I reported this to police and upon completion of a sane (forensic) examination (one of three), it was determined that she is a known liar. after a few 51As, steph was put in the crisis for weeks and months until she was placed in a girls home in f.r. we reunified and the next 51A was when she slept over a friends house and the 18 yr old brother slept w/ her and that case,also got dropped , due to stephanie lying. Then we moved and stephanie had an emotional break and stayed in bed for four weeks total, back to girls home, and another reunification. she was by this time cruising the internet for guys and she was actually meeting them. then one sat nite she went to babysit w/ a friend and the police call saying she claimed to have been raped, beaten and almost run over by a 27 yr. old guy. Went to station, then hospital for forensic rape kit, exam, the handprints on her face and body and because she was given a cell phone by me, yep 51A and removed from my custody…reunified…by this time she was more aggressive, intimidating refused to move to a new apartment with me, i called dcf and said she would not live with me ,f her she was housed til they found a foster home, the foster family became so unbearable, and nothing was being done (this whole time rejecting my fathers plea for custody) stephanie reached out to school officials and got immediately placed again in a program, then placed back at the girls home. the idea has been dismissed of her ever returning to my care, and asking and asking for family members she could live with besides my dad. My daughter has become a beautiful young lady, looking forward to a bright future as a lawyer…so she can fight for the children being taken out of good homes and put in worse places than they could have ever thought. But as usual, she is fighting only to be with family…we’ll see…thank you for listening my heart goes out to the suffering children and the parents who can do nothingn but watch.

Missing my son

DCF is an Agency with no oversight and no one to whom they report. They are an Agency mired in ineptness. My son (who has schizophrenia and frequently hallucinates) accused me of hitting his brother. Without doing any investigation, DCF came into my home and took my foster child, who was not the one who had supposedly been hit. They immediately shut down my childcare business. I was shunned by society. I asked for a fair hearing to contest the allegations and they sent me an 18 page ruling saying that I “looked” angry in the hearing and so they knew that the allegations were true. My life has never been the same.

HumanSubjects

The children need to return to their biological parents.
- Kiki
  
  that’s too pat a response. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
- Mimig747k
  
  sorry but depends how they treat them and how they treat themslves.
  a foster parent.

HumanSubject

The Massachusetts DCF puts ads in papers and Craigslist “Stay at home mom position, $500 sign on bonus; free training” while biological parents suffer. STOP ABUSINES BIOLOGICAL PARENTS. Commissioner McClain does not care about other peoples’ children. Angelo McClain mom put him in a special school when he was walking the wrong road, that is where children need to be, like the McDonald house giving biological parents rights. Too much money spent taking away from education.

HumanSubject

If McClain cries he wants to help people, then why does he not help biological parents instead of wrongful accusations against them? Why do social worker get away with not conducting their routine visits; it is a federal law and DCF agency that McClain allows workers to get away with YOU (biological parent) and your children (biological children) are being abused; and strangers are getting paid.

Definitely an unethical type of business called immoral acts toward the human subject.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002035780490 Marie Boyd

so if we can prove that a social worker lied to have the children removed, and we can. two of them have, that we can prove, that the supervisor filed a 51a after the children were removed,the night before the children were removed. crossed her name out,but was caught at a fair hearing. Then an adoption worker lied numerous times, i as a grandmother got her to recant on the stand in front of the judge. My grandson was born healthy,except a Dr. at SSH in Weymouth induced my daughter guarenteeing us,his lungs were going to be completely matured, Wrong again. He got sick,because of it, and the social worker,who walked away from the reilly girl’s house,because dad told her to,went around saying my grandson,was sick from drug use. Wrong,Dr. From SSH in Weymouth , Pedi from NICU present at birth,said mom and baby were both clean at birth, and even if it were drugs and it wasn’t drug’s would have nothing to do,with what was wrong,with the baby. baby was healthy at birth, two year old never missed an appt. My daughter is in recovery, and they said they took her children because of history. These are just a few of the charges. So who do we call,how do we get involved in a class action suit,how do we get our babies back.

Human Subject

File an electronic law suit with proof to USDC-BostonInfo@mad.uscourts.gov E-mail for documents as a PRO BONO and have proof.
Mimig4747k

hi marie im so sorry this is happening to you. this is a very broken system. i had 2 foster children here and one day was accused of abuse and they were immediately removed. it turns out that one of the fost er chileren (4 year old ) told everyone in school, the social worker,etc. that was abusing her with a belt of regular beatings.
body no bruises. Now im being investigated, going to a psychologist, then psychiarist , taking classes, etc. i dont get to see them noting . How and who is her mother she will wind up having an identity crisis and who knows what will happen to her. I want to adopt her but for some reason I havent beengood enough. all i want to do is to help her. It takes 8 weeks to get an investigation done. why is that? The System of taking care of our children is broken….hello???no one seenms to understand or hear me.

Mavis

I heard about this on the news for months. It took till now to dare read up a little. I don’t see the concrete damages I had in these stories. Guess I had the wrong lawyer (none). My foster parents were scammers. I don’t know what they were doing but afterward, people told me they were suspected of murder and fraud. They skipped town fearing prosecution. Around the same time, my DSS worker was fired. I called and left messages, I was on the street, my stuff was getting taken off the curb. I had no one to call, no number to leave to return a call for, and no placement, no home, no food, no transportation, no money, nothing. Nobody answered a phone. I was on the streets, again, raped and screwed up, again. My abusive and neglectful parents only viewed it as proof they were better than DSS and welcomed me back eventually, with some pretty harsh penalties. I couldn’t take it. Went on to work three min wage jobs just to survive, never made it back to school. I will never be normal. DSS lost me in the system. I’ll never be able to sustain myself, I’ll never have a home, I worked three jobs at a time to survive and tried to save up for college, sleeping on the floor, having little nutrition, and really no clue what happened to me except that nobody cared.

I am older now, and the few times I have wondered with more schooled people than myself what could be gained, I have come to the conclusion that the only difference one can make is to care about someone around them. I have no faith in the government to do the job of parents, I never will.

Human Subject

Explain further Mavis, what do you mean by “pretty harsh penalties”? If you would please so we can understand. Do you have a drug and alcohol problem?

Jlostumo3

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/262/927/335/abuse-of-authority-by-the-boston-dcf/

Jlostumo3

Boston DCf abuse of authority, caaused emotional trauma to our children, please sign our petition, thank you http://www.thepetitionsite.com/262/927/335/abuse-of-authority-by-the-boston-dcf/

Jlostumo3

The Boston DCF abused their authority, & therefore caused emoitional trauma to our children, please sign our petion, & thank you . http://www.thepetitionsite.com/262/927/335/abuse-of-authority-by-the-boston-dcf/

Jlostumo3

Boston DCF abuse of authority, caused emoitional trauma to our children, please sign this petition, & thank you. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/262/927/335/abuse-of-authority-by-the-boston-dcf/

Jlostumo3

BOSTON DCF ABUSE OF AUTHORITY CAUSED EMOTIONAL TRAUMA TO OUR CHILDREN PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION, & THANK YOU VERY MUCH. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/262/927/335/abuse-of-authority-by-the-boston-dcf/

Poopy123

For everyone reading HUMAN SUBJECT’s Ridiculous Comments… 1st of all, she was the worst biological mother who deserved to get her children removed from her house. She was abusive and neglectful…….. Consistently physically and emotionally abusing all of her children.

Don’t feel bad for her, all of her children are extremely happy with out HER. She also continues to harass all of her children who want ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with her. Shows that the problem is with HER, not DCF!

deMillette

I was and 5 siblings were in foster care from 1959-1963 and we were all subjected to many forms of abuse. 4 boys and 2 girls. I was moved to several different foster homes. Only one of the foster homes bought me new clothes the other’s bought me used clothes from Morgy Memorial. They received about $60 dollars per child back then and on foster home had 8 of us. Never let us out to play. Made us clean the house all the time, cook all the meals do the dishes. I was constantly told that my parents did not love me or I wouldn’t be in foster care. I was told that I came from “bad stalk” or I wouldn’t be a state ward. My oldest brother was in one foster home for 4 yrs till he turned 18 he has been in Mental institutions since he was 26, he is totally insane. Another sibling committed suicide at age 18. Another went off to war and came back with additional PTS. I have my DSS records, many names have been whited out, and many lies were included in the document. My older sister was molested by a 36yo foster brother that was a biological foster parent to us. Instead of turning this man into the authorities ,the foster mother blamed my 14yo sister of misconduct. We all eventually ran away from foster home. My sister ran away while I was 12 and I was threatened by my foster parents that they would take her run away out on me. So I was so afraid and soon ran away myself. My mother willingly turned us over to the state with the promise that we’de be safe and well provided. One of my deceased brother’s was struck with a garden cycle in the calf of his leg. He attempted suicide many times. I have been in therapy 40 or my 60yrs of life. I’m also Native American “Algonquin” non status but have documents to prove I’m Native. I have 5 Algonquin Clans of ancestry. I’m trying to find out if any of us can be compinsated for the abuse and neglect. Our social worker’s only once a yr came out to visit us but lied in their documents that they made frequent visits, not true. I was promised many times if I was not happy with my foster parents DSS would replace me, never happened. I complained many times and nothing was done, instead the social workers’ COA themselves. There are 3 of us mentally capable of testifying as to our experiences in foster care in MA. My older brother (not alive) told me his foster mother would walk naked around him when he was only 12 and told him “there is a place in Heaven for people like me”And there is much more to this story than can be told on this page. Lawyers can contact me anytime via my email. or fb profile page.

one of the lost ones

in 1978 i was in a foster home in Abington, Massachusetts. this foster home was to receive the award for foster home of the year. Instead a week before they were to receive the award the state shut them down. They shut them down in two days. How bad do you thing it would have to be to go from foster home of the year to closed within 2 days. I stepped forward as a scared 10 yr old boy to tell of the beatings, whippings with electrical cords, coathangers, tree branches, belts, whatever was close by or was thought up. They fed us corn meal and cold water, oatmeal and cold water to force us to vomit as a punishment. We were sent to school with pajamas on under our clothes so when we got home we could take off the school clothes and sit at the kitchen table writing whatever, however many thousands of times. Sleep deprevation (keeping 5,6,7 yr old children up until 2-3 in the morning at this table. Beatings for anyone who fell asleep. no pillows at night because we might have pillow fights like normal children (not for a night or 2, i didnt have a pillow for 6 yrs. Contact paper over the bedroom windows so we couldnt see them come home if they went out. Then they could sneak up on you and catch you playing (let the beatings commence.) I tell people that the closest thing ive ever read that would vest describe my time as a foster child would be the experiences of American P.O.W.’s at the Hanoi Hilton in Vietnam. These foster parents recently died and their children actually put in their obits that they provided loving care to many foster children over the years. This is just the tip of the iceberg, i wont go into the sexual abuse, being tied into beds at night, etc. My social worker wanted to have them arrested for child abuse but her superiors covered it up instead. What a shock, they didnt want that publicity. Shortly after being moved to my next foster home my social worker took me to childrens hospital so they could run ekg’s on me to determine if i had brain damage from all the beatings. My foster father took me to the barber and the barber took him outside and told him he had two minutes to tell him what had happened to me (due to all the cuts/scabs/scars on my head) and then he was gonna beat his a++. I guess fortunately for him the barber believed his story. I recently celebrated my 15th wedding anniversary and i have two beautiful girls ages 10 and 13. As an x-Marine i cant tell you how many body bags you had better bring to my house if anyone ever showed up at my door with the intent to put my children into foster care.

Laura

Subject: my civil rights are being
denied

DCF Boston took my children from their mother. Told the judge there were
no court proceedings anywhere which would supersede his ruling. They with held
the truth in order to take my children the night they were leaving to come home
to Florida that morning. There was a court proceeding in Florida for both
paternity and primary custody by the father. They took the children from the
mother who has limited visitation. They refuse to allow me to talk to my
children on the phone and use intimidation to keep me from visiting MA to see my
children in person. They ignore all documentation proving the allegations were
falsely called in by a mentally unstable distant relative of the childrens
mother. Ms. Lavinia Wergen was angry at the childrens mother and told her she
will make her life miserable. Ms. Wergen threatened physical violence and Ms.
Sager the childrens mother felt unsafe and took herself and the children to a
motel. I had my daughter under a pediatric psychiatrists care for hyperactivity
for a year and a half up until the day Ms. Sager and my children visited Ma. I
also voluntarily took a polygraph test and passed with flying colors. I am being
completely ignored because I am a man/father. DCF refuses to let me speak to my
children on the telephone and has my children living with the very person who
made up all the false allegations. Please help, I have been sent around from
agency to agency and My children are being tramatised. I fear for their safety
and need my children back home where they are safe. Thank you, Christopher
Nuzzo

Laura

Subject: my civil rights are being
denied

DCF Boston took my children from their mother. Told the judge there were
no court proceedings anywhere which would supersede his ruling. They with held
the truth in order to take my children the night they were leaving to come home
to Florida that morning. There was a court proceeding in Florida for both
paternity and primary custody by the father. They took the children from the
mother who has limited visitation. They refuse to allow me to talk to my
children on the phone and use intimidation to keep me from visiting MA to see my
children in person. They ignore all documentation proving the allegations were
falsely called in by a mentally unstable distant relative of the childrens
mother. Ms. Lavena Wergen was angry at the childrens mother and told her she
will make her life miserable. Ms. Wergen threatened physical violence and Ms.
Sager the childrens mother felt unsafe and took herself and the children to a
motel. I had my daughter under a pediatric psychiatrists care for hyperactivity
for a year and a half up until the day Ms. Sager and my children visited Ma. I
also voluntarily took a polygraph test and passed with flying colors. I am being
completely ignored because I am a man/father. DCF refuses to let me speak to my
children on the telephone and has my children living with the very person who
made up all the false allegations. Please help, I have been sent around from
agency to agency and My children are being tramatised. I fear for their safety
and need my children back home where they are safe. Thank you, Christopher
Nuzzo

Laura

false accusations, proven false, by DCf themselves, (they did’nt know we had the original court papers saying the allegation of molestation was “unfounded” after their own physical & mental testing of my great niece, 7 years old. also, the father willing, voluntarilty took a CIA approved lie detector test about the false charges, & he passed with flying colors. A vindictive unstable distant relative of the mother, after they had a falling out, makde a false report about the father, (in which she had never even met in her whole life) so Boston DCf snatched the children., & lied to the Judge whe he asked if their were any other proceddings in any other staes inwhich would supersede Mass. for takeing our children, they answered no, & that was indeed a lie. Their was a parurnity & custody hearing allready filed in Florida before the mother visited this relative with the false accusation, who made the accusation after the falling out, as to where the mother had to flee this relative’s house after being threatened with physical violence>she is unstable, yet, the Boston DCf is forceing our children to live with this unstable, woman, who also abuses the children by yelling bad names about the children’s father right to the children. We notified Boston DCf of this abuse, but they did NOT care. The paternal Grandmother numwerously asked for the children, as did the great aunt, & we were flatly denied access to the children. Our civil rights & the children’s civl rights& the parents civil rights have been trampled on.

Laura

The or DCF or CPS, should be reformed, & regulated, this kind of cruel injustice does NOT belong in our country!

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