Child Protective Services can take your children too. CPS has come to believe they are above the law and the Constitution, that they do not need a search warrant to come into your home, label you as a child abuser for any reason and make you a criminal based upon their opinion alone, take your children away in a paddy wagon, and put your kids into foster homes pending a court hearing where CPS will try their best to win and permanently take custody of your kids. If CPS loses, they will continue to fight you, slandering your family and listing you as a child abuser in government databases.
CPS is an abusive government agency spiraling completely out of control. It’s time to shut them down.
The unlawful removal of 468 children from the FLDS ranch in west Texas, has put CPS under the microscope. That case has led others to wonder if they can do that to FLDS children, can CPS do that to my children?
CBS 42 investigative reporter, Nancy Wilson, shows us one family who says the same thing happened to them, and eight years later they are still trying to clear their names.
This is the Gates family, Gary and Melissa have 13 children, 11 of them adopted. They saw a need for kids from a variety of backgrounds who need love in a stable home.
Imagine their surprise when 11 government employees, 6 police officers and 5 CPS workers, showed up on their doorstep.
The school called CPS when they discovered that the Gates pinned a baggy with food wrappers inside the shirt of one of the kids that was caught stealing. It included a two page explanation and who to call if there were questions.
The school did make a phone call, to CPS. Gates was shocked to find CPS workers in his home uninvited, especially when CPS refused to leave.
“How can you take 13 kids? That opened my eyes to a whole new way of government.” – Gary Gates
CPS & Police completely ignored the 4th Amendment Constitutional rights of Americans, entered the Gates home, and took away all 13 of their children, without a court order, after a mere phone call. This is a very similar situation to the FLDS raid, except that the phone call that Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (CPS) used to kidnap the FLDS children was a hoax.
Later in court, the reason CPS gave for taking the Gate’s children was that CPS felt that Mr. Gates was uncooperative with them taking away his children, and his unwillingness to cooperate put the children at risk.
Fortunately, the judge ordered the children returned immediately. An independent psychologist conducted his own review and wrote a glowing report, saying, “I’ve never said this about anyone I have evaluated: I admire the Gates, I would not hesitate to place my own children in their care.”
However, even though the judge ordered the case dismissed, and the independent review was praiseworthy, CPS did not care. CPS called the praiseworthy review disappointing and continued to fight the Gates anyway, listing them in the state’s central registry as child abusers.
Even though the Gates were innocent, CPS claims that because their opinion is that the the father emotionally emotionally abused one child by punishing him, and since all the kids saw it, that equals 13 counts of abuse. And, because the wife did not stop it, that equals another 13 counts of abuse for a grand total of 26 counts of child abuse.
The Gates were never charged with any crime, they are guilty based solely on the opinion of CPS.
The Gates have spent the past 8 years and $175,000 trying to get their names removed from the child abuser registry after CPS unjustly listed them.
CPS’ unlawful and massive FLDS raid of the polygamist community’s children may actually result in more Americans becoming aware of these abuses within CPS and the government.
July 15, 2008 at 12:38 pm
“…their opinion is that the father emotionally abused one child by punishing him, and since all the kids saw it, that equals 13 counts of abuse. And, because the wife did not stop it, that equals another 13 counts of abuse for a grand total of 26 counts of child abuse.”
Gotta love their math skills. Using their own method, and given that they abused 460 FLDS kids, you have to multiply each case of abuse by all the kids that saw it And since all the kids saw it at the ranch (prove that they didn’t, CPS), that’s 460 times 459, or 211,000 cases of abuse. Ask for ten thousand per case, and that’s…oh, let’s be kind to the suffering taxpayers and round it down. Give the FLDS 2 trillion dollars and that should square things.
July 15, 2008 at 1:58 pm
CPS are the anti love squad.
In Ireland they remove a child for being too intelligent and they use electric shock therapy.
Yes, removing children like this is abuse and traumatising- but that is the idea.
July 15, 2008 at 8:25 pm
This isn’t just child abuse..this is family abuse.
They are evil, they are corrupt and they make their own rules up as they go.
Never bow down to them. Fight with all your might and MAKE your attorney do the same. They work for you, not the other way around.
I recently TOLD a PD in my own case, If you are not going to fight this case my way, you need to tell me now. I am sick of poor representation in a court setting. She wasn’t happy about it..but she did her job.
CC Tillett
Washington Families United
Vice-President
August 18, 2008 at 9:45 am
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