Corruption in Allegheny County Office of Children Youth and Families - The need for a Children's Ombudsman
These are some of the complaints CYF involved families may have:
Lost custody of a children and children are placed in kinship care.
Complied with case plan, but children still
remain in State care.
Dissatisfied with kinship care placement because placement preference was not given to a relative caregiver.
Victim of false accusations of child abuse.
Witness policy violations by agency staff.
Treated poorly by agency staff.
Resentment over an agency’s service or intervention.
Breakdown in communication with caseworkers and service providers
Auditor General, Eugene DePasquale, regarding “State of the Child” report:
"What I found...is appalling. I'm talking about wholesale system breakdowns that actually prevent CYS caseworkers from protecting our children from abuse and neglect. Children are being horribly abused and neglected in Pennsylvania every day. In recent months, we've heard of toddlers being kept in cages, newborns left home alone and starving school-age children locked in filthy rooms. There are heartbreaking stories every week. How do you have any continuity of care for these vulnerable kids and families? The answer is you don't - and the kids suffer because of it. What really disturbs me is that nearly half of the children who died were in families that were already known to CYS."
Testimony from the executive director of the Support Center for Child Advocates, Frank Cervone, before the House Children and Youth Committee in Harrisburg:
“If you believe that the child welfare system is self-correcting, that it is sufficiently safeguarded with regulations and the oversight of the licensure process, that its ‘good people’ are good enough, perhaps there is no need for the children’s advocate. The experiences of countless families and children tell a different story. “
While there are many government officials working to improve the situations for at-risk children and families, these vulnerable populations need an advocate who can act independently within the system and whose sole concern is what is in the best interest of children. Currently, unless a child or family has a court-appointed attorney, or can afford to hire a private attorney, they have no one who can act on their behalf outside the child welfare system. Scandals might have been avoided if a child advocate were in place.
“ One has to ask, what are they afraid of? My concern is that secrecy protects bad systems, bad practices and bad actors.”
Founder of the Center for Children's Justice, Cathleen Palm:
“While federal and state laws provide the framework for how child welfare services are to be delivered, by and large, critical decisions affecting a child's safety and connection to a stable family can be quite random varying dramatically from caseworker to caseworker and county-to county. Pennsylvania's child welfare structure too rarely lends itself to transparency or accountability undercutting the identification of systemic issues that impact, not just one child, but also the collective community of children."
House Children and Youth Committee chairwoman, Kathleen Watson:
There are those who say we have more folks who are dissatisfied with the way their local children and youth has operated and they don’t feel they have the appropriate mechanism to complain or to see that things change,”
OCYF Family Court Corruption
Corruption has filtered through all manner of government and related agencies
Families are being abused by State CYF and Family Courts throughout the United States of America, this is a major issue that needs to be addressed. Families that have had their civil rights violated through family court proceedings and the fact that all due process and constitutional rights are violated and manipulated by family court judges, District Attorneys, and Commissioners of social services departments as well as CYF workers, and court appointed attorneys that are not working for the clients but have helped incriminate parents. Also of extreme interest, is obtaining names/phone/location of CYF workers who are falsifying or have falsified documents in court and who have lied in a court setting. The people of the State of Pennsylvania and the People of the United States of America demand a full investigation of all departments, and the termination of department until further the people also wish to sue for government entrapment as well as a suit brought against the case workers, family court judges, and district lawyers. The People through discovery have found:
1. The imbalance of funding is creating corruption.
2. Corruption has filtered through all manner of government and related agencies.
3. Judicial decisions violate the public trust.
4. Laws are created and passed that give parens patriae unlimited power not provided by the Constitution.
5. The pendulum has swung to create a monopoly strategy of funding extracted from dwindling Social Services that have been set up to help families in need is devastating families across America.
6. Children's lives are at stake while in the care of government funded agencies, such as physical, sexual and mental abuse. Statistics show our children are being killed while in government placements outside of the parental home/or close relatives.
7. That the states are not following guidelines placing children with relatives, but are screening them out using different criteria with foster families. Falsifying documents to entrap parents and not keeping the children in the home with parents. Removing the children without due process or any true purpose other than to incriminate parents/family members and to insure family is unfit.
8. That pockets of tyranny are going unchecked without recourse.
9. Congress, local government, civil and family courts is not responsive to The People.
10. That The People have been turned away from civil courts, and from family courts higher court of appeals, only to remain battered and bruised by the tyranny of these local government funded courts as the judges, caseworkers/commissioners and district attorneys mock the outraged parents and children of which they so willingly strip of their civil rights and liberties.
The People are declaring a public health crisis and human rights violation as well as their Civil rights are being stripped and taken from them and their families, as a result of these above atrocities and also In addition, The People find the Parens Patriae to be more than a doctrine but a specialized position created by the government for the government that violates Article 1 Sec 9, 10: No title of nobility or honors shall be granted by the United States. The title extends to the courts, Children's Administration and public education violating Amendment 14 depriving persons of life, liberty and property without due process. The position applies as a collective.
The People are ordering an investigation of the departments as well as family courts throughout the United States of America and most important in the State of Pennsylvania. The people of the United States ask that all family court files, case files, court tapes, and videos be put into the investigation, as well as there be a federal lockdown on all CYF and family courts so that no tampering of documents can be done by such agencies. The fact is family court documents will show that they are mishandled and manipulated by these agencies to insure incriminating charges are inevitable and due process is not being carried out. Civil rights are violated. Human rights are violated and the United States Constitution is not on the agenda of these agencies. The people of the United States of America are being abused by these powers
Lost custody of a children and children are placed in kinship care.
Complied with case plan, but children still
remain in State care.
Dissatisfied with kinship care placement because placement preference was not given to a relative caregiver.
Victim of false accusations of child abuse.
Witness policy violations by agency staff.
Treated poorly by agency staff.
Resentment over an agency’s service or intervention.
Breakdown in communication with caseworkers and service providers
Auditor General, Eugene DePasquale, regarding “State of the Child” report:
"What I found...is appalling. I'm talking about wholesale system breakdowns that actually prevent CYS caseworkers from protecting our children from abuse and neglect. Children are being horribly abused and neglected in Pennsylvania every day. In recent months, we've heard of toddlers being kept in cages, newborns left home alone and starving school-age children locked in filthy rooms. There are heartbreaking stories every week. How do you have any continuity of care for these vulnerable kids and families? The answer is you don't - and the kids suffer because of it. What really disturbs me is that nearly half of the children who died were in families that were already known to CYS."
Testimony from the executive director of the Support Center for Child Advocates, Frank Cervone, before the House Children and Youth Committee in Harrisburg:
“If you believe that the child welfare system is self-correcting, that it is sufficiently safeguarded with regulations and the oversight of the licensure process, that its ‘good people’ are good enough, perhaps there is no need for the children’s advocate. The experiences of countless families and children tell a different story. “
While there are many government officials working to improve the situations for at-risk children and families, these vulnerable populations need an advocate who can act independently within the system and whose sole concern is what is in the best interest of children. Currently, unless a child or family has a court-appointed attorney, or can afford to hire a private attorney, they have no one who can act on their behalf outside the child welfare system. Scandals might have been avoided if a child advocate were in place.
“ One has to ask, what are they afraid of? My concern is that secrecy protects bad systems, bad practices and bad actors.”
Founder of the Center for Children's Justice, Cathleen Palm:
“While federal and state laws provide the framework for how child welfare services are to be delivered, by and large, critical decisions affecting a child's safety and connection to a stable family can be quite random varying dramatically from caseworker to caseworker and county-to county. Pennsylvania's child welfare structure too rarely lends itself to transparency or accountability undercutting the identification of systemic issues that impact, not just one child, but also the collective community of children."
House Children and Youth Committee chairwoman, Kathleen Watson:
There are those who say we have more folks who are dissatisfied with the way their local children and youth has operated and they don’t feel they have the appropriate mechanism to complain or to see that things change,”
OCYF Family Court Corruption
Corruption has filtered through all manner of government and related agencies
Families are being abused by State CYF and Family Courts throughout the United States of America, this is a major issue that needs to be addressed. Families that have had their civil rights violated through family court proceedings and the fact that all due process and constitutional rights are violated and manipulated by family court judges, District Attorneys, and Commissioners of social services departments as well as CYF workers, and court appointed attorneys that are not working for the clients but have helped incriminate parents. Also of extreme interest, is obtaining names/phone/location of CYF workers who are falsifying or have falsified documents in court and who have lied in a court setting. The people of the State of Pennsylvania and the People of the United States of America demand a full investigation of all departments, and the termination of department until further the people also wish to sue for government entrapment as well as a suit brought against the case workers, family court judges, and district lawyers. The People through discovery have found:
1. The imbalance of funding is creating corruption.
2. Corruption has filtered through all manner of government and related agencies.
3. Judicial decisions violate the public trust.
4. Laws are created and passed that give parens patriae unlimited power not provided by the Constitution.
5. The pendulum has swung to create a monopoly strategy of funding extracted from dwindling Social Services that have been set up to help families in need is devastating families across America.
6. Children's lives are at stake while in the care of government funded agencies, such as physical, sexual and mental abuse. Statistics show our children are being killed while in government placements outside of the parental home/or close relatives.
7. That the states are not following guidelines placing children with relatives, but are screening them out using different criteria with foster families. Falsifying documents to entrap parents and not keeping the children in the home with parents. Removing the children without due process or any true purpose other than to incriminate parents/family members and to insure family is unfit.
8. That pockets of tyranny are going unchecked without recourse.
9. Congress, local government, civil and family courts is not responsive to The People.
10. That The People have been turned away from civil courts, and from family courts higher court of appeals, only to remain battered and bruised by the tyranny of these local government funded courts as the judges, caseworkers/commissioners and district attorneys mock the outraged parents and children of which they so willingly strip of their civil rights and liberties.
The People are declaring a public health crisis and human rights violation as well as their Civil rights are being stripped and taken from them and their families, as a result of these above atrocities and also In addition, The People find the Parens Patriae to be more than a doctrine but a specialized position created by the government for the government that violates Article 1 Sec 9, 10: No title of nobility or honors shall be granted by the United States. The title extends to the courts, Children's Administration and public education violating Amendment 14 depriving persons of life, liberty and property without due process. The position applies as a collective.
The People are ordering an investigation of the departments as well as family courts throughout the United States of America and most important in the State of Pennsylvania. The people of the United States ask that all family court files, case files, court tapes, and videos be put into the investigation, as well as there be a federal lockdown on all CYF and family courts so that no tampering of documents can be done by such agencies. The fact is family court documents will show that they are mishandled and manipulated by these agencies to insure incriminating charges are inevitable and due process is not being carried out. Civil rights are violated. Human rights are violated and the United States Constitution is not on the agenda of these agencies. The people of the United States of America are being abused by these powers
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