AXJ-INTERNATIONAL FORUM

SPEAKER IN CONGRESS TODAY AGAINST CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ( CPS )



Good afternoon Members of the House and Senate today I come before you with an epidemic of astronomical effects of our children and families lives that hold a negative for them when children are removed from the home.

Statistically I want to speak of Child Protective Services and how they are not for the best interest of protecting our children in the United States or any other country.

It is with great honor I stand before constituents and you to do this....

While an incentive for removal of a child allegedly abused, neglected, and or dependent is given to each state agency known as Child Protective Services under the guise it is being done so for the best interest of the child. All to often it ends up as not being such for that child or children removed and entrusted to Child Protective Services care.

The National Center Abuse And Neglect at one time sited that of 100,000 per children removed from their homes 6.4% would while in the care of those our courts were entrusting the children to known as Child Protective Services suffer these crimes, sexual assault, maltreatment, physical abuse, under education, and death.
That statement was also followed with this statistic for 100,000 per children remaining within their home that only 1.5% would be subjected to sexual assault, maltreatment, physical abuse, under education, and death.

While we know of cases such as the Marcus Fiesel and Logan Marr, whom died while in the foster care system most are kept secret for where abuse stands for our children in a public manner once removed from their home's. This is due to how our juvenile courts are designed to be closed courts.

The rate of children within the agency listed was ... Ver másreported by ABC News as being 32.3 million abused and in care as early as this spring in 2010.

And it is now believed the National Center Abuse And Neglect can add not only the above mentioned but suicide as well to the equation of our children entrusted into the Child Protective Service statistics.

State foster care programs and child protective services have had mixed success addressing the pervasiveness of the removal of a child or children as well as dosing their clients with prescription psychotropic drugs as you have just recently heard from Mr. Fields. Using federal Medicaid money to purchase dangerous prohibited prescriptions for children, which cost the government up to $600 per dose,and is technically a violation of the law.

Social workers have oversized caseloads of foster children, who are often shunted between families and prescribed anti-psychotics from doctors unfamiliar with their medical histories. Without a case history, experts and foster care alumni say, doctors are more likely to add medications than take them away, resulting in record numbers of children dispensed several anti-psychotic medications at once. In many cases, the drugs are prescribed off-label to youngsters with behavior problems

Social workers have oversized caseloads of foster children, who are often shunted between families and prescribed anti-psychotics from doctors unfamiliar with their medical histories. Without a case history, experts and foster care alumni say, doctors are more likely to add medications than take them away, resulting in record numbers of children dispensed several anti-psychotic medications at once. In many cases, the drugs are prescribed off-label to youngsters with behavior problems when removed from the parents.

A Texas state study in 2004 revealed that 34.7 percent of Texas foster children were prescribed at least one anti-psychotic drug -- and 174 children aged 6-12 in the care of the state were taking five or more psychotropic medications at once.

Last April, an investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution exposed several companies operating foster care homes in Georgia repeatedly used anti-psychotic medications to "subdue" children in their care. Despite being cited repeatedly, none of the agencies were fined more than $500.

In a 2008 study of the Texas foster care system Dr. Zito found that 41 percent of the children prescribed psychotropic drugs received three or more different medications. She told Politics Daily what little research has been done suggests children in foster families are rarely assessed properly, a failure leading to serious effects. There has been no research on multiple-drug regimens, Professor Zito explained, and "blitzes" of medication have become a pervasive way of dealing with behavior problems in foster care. "We've expanded the medication practice in response to children not getting better," she said, and children who fail to improve, "are getting more medication."

Pharmaceutical companies manufacturing psychotropic drugs have played a major role in encouraging their increased use on foster care clients. Drug companies participate in aggressive marketing, conduct misleading research about efficacy and safety, and in some cases, "bribe" psychiatrists to prescribe their drugs, according to Zito and Jim Gottstein, an Alaska lawyer and founder of the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, who has mounted several lawsuits against pharmaceutical corporations.

Seroquel is the top-selling anti-psychotic drug in the United States, with more than $4 billion per year in worldwide sales. Astra Zeneca recently paid $520 million to settle lawsuits -- some brought by doctors who had been offered swag in exchange for prescriptions -- over its illegal promotion of off-label uses for Seroquel. Other drugs used for keeping the children controllable while in Child Protective Services care once removed from the only loved ones a child knows also can become lethal cocktails when administered in combination's.

Recent findings from last year show, a Justice Department action against Pfizer led to 2.3 billion dollar settlement, the largest in the department's history. Companies convicted of major health fraud are barred from participating in Medicaid and Medicare. But worrying that a conviction would cause Pfizer to fail and cost its employees their jobs, the government allowed Pfizer's shell company, which exists solely to plead guilty in lawsuits, to be charged instead, and the drug company paid a fine. Pfizer maintains that it did not break the law.

Cause of Child Acting Out:

Many children removed from families or the only loved one they know go through emotional distress when placed into a strangers home.
While there are programs designed to keep families in place by having the child live with another member of the family known as the Kin Ship Care Program all to often those family members are denied by Child Protective Services to care for the children all to often sighting non-legitimate reasons as the cause for those wishing to care for the child.

In this action by Child Protective Services of denial to use the program designed to keep families intact the incentives continue to flow into this entity from both angles being that of Federal Funding and our Pharmaceutical Companies.

Solution for the Problem:
Obtaining accountability for the issues for the agencies by creating hearings to be more fair for families.

A Citizens Oversight Panel should be instilled for every state Child Protective Service Agency in the United States where closed Juvenile Courts exists is needed to ensure alleged abuse is substantiated and proven beyond a doubt by the accuser when seeking custody or termination of a child. As well as having the Citizens Oversight Panel gather data of children in foster care for statistics in order to evaluate the issues of drugging, sexual crimes, maltreatment,

A Public Congressional Hearing is needed for Child Protective Services to address the issues of the factual number's missing for the alleged abuse that children suffer while in the foster care system and the issue of psychotropic drugging for children while placed into their care on the issues of suicide, murder, sexual crimes, etc showing this issue to be open and transparent issue for resolution to be gained before anymore federal incentive funding can be obtained.

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