Her husband said the way his daughter was taken, or “stolen” from the hospital was similar to how thieves work in the night. He recalls being in a rage and even at one point resorting to cursing. He warns parents-to-be to not let nurses take their newborns out of their sight. Goodson added that social services should not be trusted. “Don’t talk to them, don’t sign no papers,” she said. “They tell you they’re here for the benefit of your child; they’re not. They’re there to get paid extra for your child.”
Georgia senator lost seat after battling CPS
The same sentiment is shared by former Georgia Senator Nancy Schaefer in a message she delivered entitled “The System Cannot be Trusted.” While in office, she waged a battle against CPS and introduced a senate bill designed to bring that agency under stricter regulation but the bill was defeated, as was she when up for re-election. In her message, she spoke strong words about how the taking of children, particularly from poor families, has become a lucrative business for CPS.
“I have come to several conclusions … Poor parents oftentimes are targeted to lose their children because they do not have the wherewithal to hire an attorney and fight the system,” Schaefer said in the video message which, until late April, was freely available for viewing on Youtube. “The caseworkers and social workers are very often guilty of fraud, they withhold and destroy evidence, they fabricate evidence and seek to terminate parental rights unnecessarily.” She went on to say that the separation of families and snatching of children is growing because the money brought in by taxpayer dollars is needed by states and local governments to balance their budgets. She said the bureaucracy is “huge” as indicated by the number of people profiting from legalized kidnapping: state employees, attorneys, court investigators, guardian ad litems, judges, psychiatrists, foster parents, adoptive parents, “all are looking to the children in state custody to provide job security,” Schaefer declared.
Carberry gave an example of just how much money is at play when he said that FLMH charges anywhere from $1400-1600 per day for care of a child like Quentin, which amounts to nearly $500,000 per year, covered by taxpayers through Medicare/Medicaid. He suggested that the child’s mother would be “ecstatic” if given just $2000 per month to care for her child in her own home but Nash-Conner, in agreement with Schaefer, has concluded that the system is too big and is bringing in too much money for people who do not want their cash flow disrupted.
She shared that mainstream media outlets have refused to look at her story or others like it and that she has not been able to locate an attorney who is willing to stand up against such a machine. She has had no response from the offices of the governor or the mayor and was saddened by the reaction she received from Senator Peter Groff who did not take the time to hear her story or take her number to follow up. Groff, who is the first Black to become President of Colorado’s Senate, recently resigned to take a position in Washington, D.C. as part of President Barack Obama’s Department of Education.
Nash-Conner, Goodson and Rogers-El remain hopeful and confident that their children will be returned to them eventually but strongly encourage those who are apathetic or unaware of what is going on to become informed before it is too late and their own children are ‘kidnapped’ and caught up in the system.
One of Schaefer’s most startling statements is one which leaves little room for hope that things will improve any time soon. “I have witnessed such injustice and harm brought to so many families that I am not sure if reform of the system is even possible,” she said. “The system cannot be trusted, it does not serve the people, it obliterates families and children simply because it has the power to do so.”
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