News of Family Interest
News of Family Interest
CHILD "PROTECTIVE" SERVICES DESTROYED MY FAMILY
By Carmen Rodriguez B.S.N., R.N.
December 07, 2007
I home schooled 7 children and raised them in the Christian faith.
My middle daughter (then 19 years old) walked across the street in January 2006 and told the neighbors that she was sexually molested with power tools, beaten with crow bars and burned alive. This all supposedly took place between the ages of 8 to 16 years. Never mind that there is no physical evidence of any of this (because it never happened).
Not one of these neighbors bothered to come to my door to ask me if these
things were true. My husband was arrested but subsequently released on
bond.
The "protective" order drafted by this daughter disarms us for 2 years. We
live out in the country where predators threaten our livestock. None of us
has ever pointed a gun at a human being, yet, this daughter "dreamed"
that her father pointed a shotgun at the family and told them to get on the
floor or he would kill us all. She later mentioned that the dream
seemed "so real". Yes, it was real enough to make sure we
wouldn’t even be allowed to have ONE bullet in the home without fear of
arrest. She told the investigating detective on January 6, 2006,
that she mentioned "guns because it would get their attention." It
sure did!
My 2 youngest were taken away from me without a court order. CPS
just walked in… and took them- NOTHING was done to keep them in the home.
REMOVAL was the first and only choice of CPS.
The law states that a child can only be removed from their home as a LAST
resort, and only when the child is at imminent risk of serious harm. Removal
of my two daughters, non-abused children, from their home was perceived by
them to be an act of emotional and psychological terrorism. CPS does
not follow established law and policy. They face no consequences for their
illegal behavior. Law enforcement routinely submits to the whims of social
workers as they did in our case as they accompanied CPS into the home and told
everyone to get out of the house so CPS could "interview" me.
Normal, innocent people do not tend to be suspicious and defensive, so they
usually cooperate when social workers knock on their door. This mother
offered no resistance believing that truth and justice would prevail and that we
had done nothing illegal and therefore had nothing to hide. Citizens
should NOT be removed from their homes and family members based on nothing more
than hearsay.
The case dragged on with my 19 year old feeding CPS all kinds of lies...and they
believed her. I asked this daughter HOW did she come up with these
horrifying events that she told the authorities about. She responded
that she did research on the internet and read case histories of sexual abuse.
Then she said she "fantasized about it" to "make it more real…more
believable".
Well, her lies, fantasies and dreams destroyed our lives. And she has
been rewarded for it as well. She is going to school to become a social
worker so she can join the ranks of CPS and "save abused children"- her words,
not mine.
This daughter even perjured herself multiple times during our trial but there
were NO consequences. There were also NO consequences when she failed to
show up for the final day of our trial, even though she was under a subpoena.
A legal system that tolerates perjury and the subornation of perjury can
NOT produce justice.
CPS told my 2 youngest (that they wrongfully abducted on January 11, 2006)
that "your mother doesn't love you", "she chose her husband
over you", "it's all because of her that you're here",
"where's your God now?", "why don't you pray to Him and see if
He'll get you out of here".
My 2 youngest are now Satanists...or something. They hate God for not
getting them out of CPS. They paint their eyes up black like ghouls, wear
black nail polish, cuss like sailors, the youngest dresses like a slut. I blame
the public schools for this...and CPS!!! I am not allowed to say anything...they
have rights don't you know!! I have NO rights--just shut up and keep paying
taxes so CPS can abduct MORE kids tomorrow.
We were subjected to a highly irregular "civil" proceeding that made a
complete mockery of our judicial system. We were not allowed to speak
or present exculpatory evidence at the June 21, 2006 hearing regarding anonymous
e-mails sent to our CPS caseworker.
The case degenerated into an exercise in character assassination and slander by
neighbors who we have never met. Actual acts of child abuse or neglect
that place the child at "imminent risk of serious harm" were not even
discussed. Vague, obscure, and twisted allegations about our personalities as
well as hearsay comprised the bulk of the "evidence", including our "being
in denial" and "anger problems".
Our family was put under a powerful, and distorted, microscope. Social
workers asked bizarre and invasive questions. We were asked whether or not we
had "explosives and missile launchers", whether I intended to "run the pick up
truck thru the public school, kidnap my daughters and take them to New Mexico
and drink poisoned Kool-Aid and commit suicide". I’d laugh my head
off if this weren’t so serious.
Do the parents ever argue? Do they ever raise their voices? This was
documented as "domestic violence." The majority of the
funding for domestic violence programs is channeled through CPS so this was no
revelation to us.
Since we denied domestic abuse or child abuse, we were told that we are
"in denial", and this is all "part of the syndrome."
One of my daughters CPS took from me "aged out" and returned home in
April 2007. At one minute after midnight on her 18th birthday, we
gratefully received her back into our arms. No one from CPS came out
to our house to make sure it was "safe" for her to return.
The day before she turned 18, she wasn’t even allowed to receive a
phone call from us. The day after she turned 18, none of them cared.
They don’t care because the Federal funding ceased when she turned 18.
My 15 year old is not allowed to receive or make phone calls to us either.
I am "allowed" a one hour a week, heavily supervised (by CPS) visit. She
is not allowed contact with her brothers and sisters at all- with the exception
of the sister that was abducted along with her in January 2006 (the one that returned home to
us recently).
If social workers "care" so much for children, I have 2 questions for them:
1- Would you work without pay and sacrifice for the child? I did. No one paid me to be a mother, to carry the child for 9 months under my heart, to be there many sleepless nights when they had teething pain or were sick, prayed for them, taught them right from wrong, fed them, clothed them, educated them, gave up my time, and put off buying things for myself because I always put them first, just to name a few things that come to mind.
2- If a life-or- death situation arose, would you give your life for the child? I would. No questions asked.
Which of us REALLY has the "best interests of the child" at heart:
parents or Social Services?
The financial incentives for shredding families, warehousing children until the
barriers to adoption (parents) can be eliminated and children farmed out, are
lucrative. CPS is part of a $14. billion dollar a year, tax payer fueled, child
abuse industrial complex which provides jobs for caseworkers, judges, lawyers,
bailiffs, various court personnel, psychotherapists, foster homes,
pharmaceutical vendors and a host of others.
This is a HUGE growth industry that provides private profit through
Medicaid.
This writer is 57 years old and has been married to the same man (the biological
father of our 7 children) for 32 years. I am a registered nurse, do not
drink, smoke, never did drugs, don’t even have a traffic ticket. I have
never abused my children nor has my husband sexually molested any of my
children. My husband has worked for the State of Texas since 1979. WHY
is this happening to us?
Do you, dear reader, have any idea WHAT it feels like to have a child taken away
for NO reason? Can you imagine the pain and anguish that comes in
unrelenting waves as you try to figure out why this is happening? How
would you like to be falsely accused of child abuse? What would it feel
like to have your reputation destroyed? How would you like it if neighbors
driving by your house slowed down and stared? And every time you walk in
the gas station or the feed store where the ranchers gather for coffee, they
suddenly stop talking and stare at you? Did it ever occur to any of you to
come to my door and ASK me if these things were true? Or was it more fun
to gossip and believe the madness because it’s more exciting than reality?
Now, we’re just collateral damage in the war against children, just
another family chewed up and spit out by the State.
Families are coerced into participating by intimidation and the threat of
losing their children. In return for the fraudulently collected profits, contracted vendors provide manufactured
"evidence" of child
maltreatment to support CPS claims that they need to keep the child in foster
care. In return for this they receive more federal funding. It's rigged from
start to finish.
On May 21, 2007 the CPS trial on the merits began in the Caldwell County
Judicial Center in Lockhart, Texas. It consisted of 6 days of persecution
and mockery of my lifestyle and personal beliefs and made a complete travesty of
our judicial system.
Their "evidence" consisted of hearsay
and e-mails allegedly authored by my 19 year old daughter. Constitutional
violations were rampant throughout this ordeal.
The Guardian Ad Litem testified that it wasn’t "safe" for my 15 year old to
return home "(even if the father were removed)" because she would "suffer
thru abuse rather than report it"- "even if she continued going to public school
because when she got back home, her mother would deprogram her."
WHAT abuse?
DEPROGRAM?
We USED to be home schoolers. Evidently, the State of Texas has a resocialization program underway to destroy my daughter’s belief system since apparently it’s a crime to be a Christian and to home school.
It is socialist ideology that children should be raised by the
State. Dr. C. Henry Kempe, author of the Battered Child Syndrome
and an open supporter of the Communist party stated: "We must remove
children from the crude influence of their families and, frankly, nationalize
them."
On June 26, 2007, after 6 days of "trial", I was
adjudicated as an unfit mother in spite of NO evidence of abuse and with the
civil court’s full knowledge that "the criminal charges against my husband
(which were fabricated by my 19 year old daughter) would be dismissed any day
now because of lack of evidence".
Indeed, criminal charges WERE conveniently dismissed June 28, 2007--2 days AFTER CPS court rendered their decision. This is CYA (cover your afterburner) in operation.
As of this writing, we are appealing to the Third District Court in Austin, Texas. Our brief was filed on October 26, 2007 and we await CPS’ response before it can go forward to the Judges for review. CPS wants us to produce a transcript of the trial (which was recorded on the Judge’s lap top, there was no court reporter present).
SOMEBODY in this universe needs to
investigate the corruption going on in CPS.
My youngest child (age 15 at this writing) will remain in permanent managing
conservatorship of the State and continue to reside in foster care against her
will and despite her telling the judge, Guardian Ad Litem and all the rest of
these people--on multiple occasions since her wrongful abduction by State actors
known as CPS on January 11, 2006, --that she was never abused and just wants to
return home.
It doesn't matter how many times you tell CPS there was no abuse, they just
tell you that you are in "denial" and "not cooperating".
Children should NOT be held as indentured servants or held in thrall
to others for acts they have not committed.
The Judge said that "REGARDLESS of the outcome of the criminal case, my
husband has to take sex offender therapy" and our daughter can’t come back
home unless recommended by THEIR CPS contracted, bought and paid for,
psychologist. We tried to offer another expert opinion to testify that it
was safe for her to come home, but the Judge practically RAN him out of the
court room. They don’t want to hear anything that doesn’t agree
with their paradigm. They certainly aren’t interested in the truth. Citizens
should NOT be censured by public officials for crimes they have not committed.
I’d like to know how Caldwell County even GOT an indictment in the first
place. All the so called "evidence" is whatever my daughter told them. There
is no physical evidence of "sexual molesting with power tools, beatings with
crowbars and burning in the fireplace"…BECAUSE IT NEVER HAPPENED.
My husband’s criminal lawyer told us the "grand jury rubber stamps
indictments presented to them by the District Attorney". Maybe
that’s why this D.A. was voted out of office and replaced in January 2007.
This man indicted several people during the same time span (that my husband was
indicted) that also never should have been indicted. One particular, well
known individual that comes to mind, put an ad in the Luling Newsboy newspaper
apprising the people of Caldwell County that his charges were dropped by the
D.A.’s office.
My husband and I took all the court ordered parenting classes required by the
State of Texas and attended weekly psychotherapy sessions thru CPS contracted
vendors. These sessions consist of nothing more than coercive persuasion
designed to interrogate, break down your will and cause you to believe the
unbelievable.
In the end, it’s all for nothing. CPS tells you that you’re "in denial" and being "uncooperative".
It feels more like
Nazi Germany and the Soviet gulags every day. I know a little of their
barbarism. My mother is a German war bride (WWII). She taught me
much about national socialism, which is one reason why I chose to home school.
My father served in the U.S. Army during WWII, Korea and Viet Nam and I remember
well the stories he would tell of Communist atrocities and their brainwashing,
which reminds me of CPS indoctrination techniques.
CPS routinely employs unconstitutional actions, fraud, extortion, deceit,
kidnapping, and conspiracy in an ongoing criminal enterprise designed to cheat
the public and destroy families of the United States of America for profit, for aggrandizement
and to delude the public into thinking their actions are for the general welfare
of this nation. Unconstitutional summary judicial proceedings designed to
perpetrate for-profit crimes against humanity, family dismemberment and human
trafficking, and to defraud the Federal Government for Social Services Agency
operational funds have been perpetrated upon many families in America.
Child Protective Services, in taking children who do not meet the statutory
definition of abuse or neglect from loving homes is creating more throwaway
children than they are legitimately saving.
CPS actors merely decide that children are "at risk" and that abuse or neglect may occur in the FUTURE. These are POLICE STATE TACTICS that are routinely deployed against citizens of totalitarian regimes.
What happened to due process? What happened to the Constitution of the United States of America? Where is the Bill of Rights?
Dismembering families
and creating artificial orphans by means of fraud and/or deceptive trade
practices is NOT legitimate government business.
CPS engages in for-profit crimes against humanity consequent to the unlawful
dismemberment of families to create human trafficking victims from which the
County earns Federal funds with which to fund it’s operations. The
exploitation of men, women and children for financial gain is the definition of
human trafficking, which the U.S. Secretary of State Condolleza Rice states is a
modern day form of slavery- http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/global_issues/human_trafficking.html
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in Fiscal 2003, 30 foster
children died in our state's care; in Fiscal 2004, 38 foster children died; and
in Fiscal 2005, 48 foster children died. Data shows that while the number of
foster children in our state's care increased 24 percent from 26,133 in Fiscal
2003 to 32,474 in Fiscal 2005, the number of deaths increased 60 percent- Comptroller
Carole Keeton Strayhorn Statement On Foster Care Abuse given Friday, June 23,
2006 in Austin, Texas
DFPS statistics themselves underscore the fact that my 15 year old daughter
is in FAR GREATER DANGER in the custody of CPS than she is in the care of her
falsely accused biological parents.
The State of California published the
following statement: called the "perverse incentive factor". States and counties
earn more revenue by having more children in the system – whether it is
opening a case to investigate a report of child abuse and neglect or placing a
child in foster care." - Facts-at-a-Glance, Child Welfare in California,
09..09..2003 - www.dss.cahwnet.gov/pdf/facts.pdf
At the end of FY 2003, Texas DFPS had legal responsibility for 22,346
children. Of that total, 15,414 children resided in foster care. In the same
time period, there were 6,932 children in the Department’s legal custody who
were not residing in foster care. Texas, as does California, PROFITS FROM
HUMAN TRAFFICKING, which is a deplorable manner by which to fund County
operations.
Some statistics from the State and County where I live:
In FY 2003, CPS conducted 131,130 investigations of abuse and/or neglect in
Texas and confirmed abuse and/or neglect in 32,792 cases. In FY 2004, the number
of child abuse and/or neglect investigations is expected to increase by 10
percent over FY 2003. In FY 2005, the percentage is expected to increase by four
percent over FY 2004. http://www.hhs.state.tx.us/StrategicPlans/HHS05-09/final/pdf/Chapter08.pdf
In 2005, the child population in Caldwell County was 10, 258. There were 510
intakes alleging abuse/neglect, 448 cases were assigned to CPS caseworkers, 329
completed cases alleging abuse/neglect, 539 alleged victims in completed cases,
101 confirmed cases, 153 confirmed victims, and 131 cases opened for in home
services. (Source: The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services) www.capco.state.tx.us/Documents/inthenews/Caldwell_County_Community_Plan.pdf
-CALDWELL COUNTY FY 2007 - 2008 COMMUNITY PLAN FOR COORDINATION OF CRIMINAL
JUSTICE AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
In 2006, the number of child sexual abuse clients served at Roxanne’s House (a
program of the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center) was 73. 30 were from Lockhart, 17
from Luling, 4 from Maxwell, 5 from Martindale and 17 from other Caldwell County
areas. 26% of the child abuse clients served at Roxanne’s House were from
Caldwell County in that year. (Source: Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center 2006
Annual Report). www.capco.state.tx.us/Documents/inthenews/Caldwell_County_Community_Plan.pdf
-CALDWELL COUNTY FY 2007 - 2008 COMMUNITY PLAN FOR COORDINATION OF CRIMINAL
JUSTICE AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
Two of my daughters are statistics in the 2006 report. NEITHER were EVER
abused in any way, shape or fashion until they were abducted by the State of
Texas. This was emotional terrorism and torture of the highest magnitude,
conducted under the pretense of keeping my daughters "safe" from imaginary "risk".
I am frustrated beyond belief!! There is NO justice in the family courts. You
wouldn't believe what goes on in the secrecy of these horrible places. I wrote
channel 5 and 7 on your side MONTHS ago...but nobody gives a flip. I wrote the
FBI and OIG and governor, senators....they all just bounce it back to.....CPS!!!
It's like the fox guarding the hen house.
CPS destroys families every day. The kids they need to "save"-
they let die. The ones who don't need to be taken away---like mine---and
I AM NOT ALONE--they take away and destroy their lives and faith. They
are worth more tax money if they are on drugs (antidepressants etc,) too.
It’s all about the money. And there’s no money in family
reunification and returning my daughter home. For information about
CPS, drugging foster children for profit, and the social engineering of our
nation’s children, please check out my site at: http://texasroadrunner.spaces.live.com/
Citizens should NOT be more afraid of social workers than they are of
criminals.
To this end, I have uploaded over 1,200 documents in PDF format for your edification and enlightenment in the Public Folders section of my site (scroll down to the bottom of the page and you’ll see them). Knowledge is power.
Empower yourself so you don’t become the next victim
of America’s SS (social services).
Thank you for your time,
Carmen Rodriguez B.S.N., R.N.
texasroadrunner@hotmail.com
2698 Mule Creek Road
Harwood, Texas 78632 (Caldwell County)
Home: 830-540-3337
Fax: 830-540-3336
December 7, 2007
(As of this date, it’s been 1 year, 10 months and 27 days since CPS
wrongfully abducted my daughter Beaujolais and 797 more days to go under foster
incarceration until her 18th birthday and subsequent release after the Federal
funding stops. I pray daily for her strength to continue to bear up under
this State sanctioned evil.)