Dirty Tricks by DSS… NO KIDDING!!!

A very good online friend turned me on to this great site with some real insight on how DSS really works. The site that my friend Jeff from WormTown Taxi turned me onto is MassOutrage. This site is a godsend to a blogger going for the jugular of an agency that sucks the life out of good families simply because they can.

Here I was thinking that honesty is the best policy when you have nothing to hide. Was I stupid! Apparently, the best advice when dealing with DSS is to shut the hell up. Everything you say is going to be used against you to take your children from you simply because they can.

Frankly, if this is normal untold policy of DSS then we have the Gastapo of WWII Germany alive and well and flourishing in our state government. Replace Jews, Gypsies, and the mentally ill with innocent parents and you have the equivalent of the Holocaust here in Massachusetts and an agency out of control looking to separate children from their parents that have done nothing wrong.

Apparently, dirty tricks are alive and well at DSS and Mass Outrage has a list of misdirection that DSS will use…


Dirty Trick No. One -
The DSS will pretend to help you, when they are really gathering evidence to take your children. It's a new police state out there.

Dirty Trick No. Two -
The DSS will try to get you to talk. SHUT UP!! Everything you say will be used against you in a court of law to take and keep your children.

Dirty Trick No. Three -
DSS agents will abuse and traumatize your children themselves.

Dirty Trick No. Four -
The DSS will try to get one parent to say incriminating things about the other, especially about domestic abuse.

Dirty Trick No. Five -
The DSS will try to get your child to make ‘disclosures' about you, using manipulation, coercion, and fear.

Dirty Trick No. Six -
The DSS will try to make sure you get a lawyer who will work with them, not against them.

Dirty Trick No. Seven -
After DSS takes your children, the court must give you a hearing within 72 hours. They rarely do. At the hearing, DSS will rarely meet the legal standard for keeping custody of your children, but will do so anyway.

Dirty Trick No. Eight -
The DSS agent will try to get into your home to do an assessment, but will use the evidence gathered there against you to take your children.

Dirty Trick No. Nine -
The DSS has a network of "mandated reporters" everywhere your child is, to snitch on you. All helping professionals are required to report you to DSS if they suspect abuse; The people you think will help you will now betray you.

Dirty Trick No. Ten -
If DSS takes your children, they will keep them a year, and try to adopt them out - They earn up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year per child taken, and keep a lot of cronies in work.

Dirty Trick No. Eleven -
The DSS will try to get you to sign a "service plan" that will incriminate you, and help them get information to make their case against you.

Dirty Trick No. Twelve -
The DSS will withhold key records that you need to make your case, even though they are required by law to give them to you.

Dirty Trick No. Thirteen -
The DSS allows you to challenge their findings of abuse - But their own agents do the review, and call it a "Fair Hearing".

Dirty Trick No. Fourteen -
The DSS will rarely let you visit your children, and will not let you show affection when you do.

Dirty Trick No. Fifteen -
Although the law requires the DSS to place your children with relatives, if available, they will try to stop it.

Dirty Trick No. Sixteen -
The DSS will keep you from any legal challenge to their custody of your children for a year or more.

Dirty Trick No. Seventeen -
If the DSS can't get you for abuse or neglect, it will get you for not stopping abuse and neglect by your partner i.e., "Safety issues".

List courtesy of Mass Outrage

I'm outraged! Here I was thinking that I was working with professionals that care for kids as much as we care and understanding our lot in life. I don’t think so anymore. The ACLU mailed us a list of lawyers that will work pro-bono to help us. We plan to use it.

Note to Governor Patrick, if you care about child abuse then know all the facts about an agency under your watch that is out of control!

Papamoka

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Latest on DSS Hack Patrol

When you lose your 2600 square foot home and have to move into a three decker apartment at say 1300 square feet here in Worcester it is kind of hard to find space for all of your stuff. Especially, when some of that stuff is from your near breakup of your marriage where you then combined a bachelor pad into the existing home too!

DSS Social Worker Advice, store it somewhere! That would be all well and good but I lost my job and unemployment isn’t my old paycheck so to speak. She then suggested a yard sale for our “Clutter”. Would that clutter include my fathers burial flag from his service to America in WWII and Korea? His war medals including a Purple Heart stored in a box that we just don’t have any closet space left over for? Don’t quote me on that one but when Dad died I gave many of the things he cherished to my brothers in Florida but some of his house is here too.

I’ve contacted and ACLU lawyer and I will be following their advice. I didn’t know that I could refuse DSS entry into my home without a court order or warrant? DSS would have to prove neglect before a judge, a one sided argument I’m sure but nothing they have shown us to date is neglect so what do we have to loose? Granted, we have nothing to hide. There was no abuse of any of our children and there never will be. DSS has not proven any guilt and I’m not about to let them walk over me or my family. Then we have the news that we just might have a case against DSS for defamation! I need to contact another lawyer for that case and that is on my high priority list of things to do. First on our agenda though is to attend the burial of my children's Grampy from their mothers side of the family. The girls are kind of upset about that. DSS takes a back seat for the momment.

On the flip side of the coin, DSS has some pretty big mistakes to explain while they are terrorizing innocent parents. Check these pages for those results in the coming days.

My humble apologies to DSS workers that are not hacks but policing yourself is the first priority of any organization and being a public paid for department you face a greater need to weed out the people not living up to your profession. We sleep with a clear consience, I wonder how many people at DSS are looking for a kill count even if it isn't justified?

Papamoka

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Mass DSS Has Some Hacks!

*****This post was originally posted on 5/25/2008 and taken down by myself in order to give the parties involved time to contact our family. The only contact we have had has been a DSS worker looking for any excuse for turning up the heat on the open case she has against our family. Thank you Governor Patrick for contributing nothing. You just lost my political vote and backing.

In the past I used to respect Social Workers for the hard job that they have to do. Who wants to be the person that has to take a child away from an abusive parent? You couldn’t pay me enough to do that kind of job but people do it and most of them do it well. “Most of them” is the key words in that last sentence. What is truly scary about the job they have to do is that sometimes the investigators miss the obvious signs of child abuse and that is when you read about the screw ups in the newspapers or in blogs like this one read by thousands per month.

I happen to be one of those people that loves his children so much that if it were my life or theirs I would give mine up for them in one single heartbeat. No questions, my babies no matter what age, my life for theirs is not a question in my mind.

DSS is not perfect and while they are witch hunting good parents they tend to really screw up when it comes to animals that claim to be parents. Time and again the failures are evident that the system that DSS social workers go by is broken or the criteria of a perfect world is looked at differently from one case worker to the next. Meanwhile kids get abused while on their watch and The Enterprise has this on the latest Mass DSS screw up…

No more apologies for failures of DSS

The Enterprise
Posted Mar 21, 2008 @ 11:11 PM

BROCKTON — It is no longer open to debate: the state Department of Social Services is a dysfunctional agency whose collective actions and systemic negligence are intolerable and border on criminal.

The case involving the 7-year-old Middleboro boy who was beaten and burned by someone is just the latest fiasco that has DSS officials admitting they made errors.

Snippet

But DSS had visited the family following allegations of abuse and never found a problem despite Rebecca’s father awaiting trial at the time for rape of a minor.
Yeah, we missed the boat on that one, DSS said after Rebecca’s death.

Haleigh Poutre, Aidyn Hudson, Dontel Jeffers, the Warren, Mass., home where 10 children were beaten and sexually abused for a decade; the list isn’t endless but it is maddening and, when one thinks about the pain and suffering inflicted on helpless children, heart-wrenching.

DSS’ actions in the Riley and Poutre cases triggered a legislative investigation and recommendations. Among those was the recently passed bill that allows DSS to collect and maintain information on unsubstantiated reports of child abuse and neglect to assist in future risk and safety assessments of children and families.

But admitting problems after the fact is no longer good enough. Children are dying and being maimed for life because of – take your pick – budgetary underfunding, politicized administration, inept training and overwhelmed case workers. - Enterprise News

No matter how you look at it as a parent that loves your children you too can be accused of child abuse anonymously. I for one would hope and pray that they would investigate any neglect even if the accuser is unknown. Every child is important and needs to be protected. BUT!!! Big old BUTT, fat and flabby butt! What if the parents are innocent?

Take the for instance this scenario where your child just left a locked mental health state institution after ten months where she was diagnosed with all kinds of interesting mental health issues. Hearing voices, cutting herself, multiple personalities, and tried swallowing a couple of batteries during her stay to try and kill herself. Medication had her stabilized enough to come home and go back to public schools. The underlying issues of her illness are still there and she accuses both parents of neglect at school.

One year later, DSS is still involved in our lives and looking for excuses to punish us because there are four sisters below her. There is no legal proof of abuse but DSS comes every single month and looks at us as guilty first and we need to prove our innocence over a year later still. Kind of reminds me of France in the 1800’s where you are jailed for stealing a loaf of bread till you pay for the stolen loaf of bread.

There is no abuse of children in this home and there never will be. I recently was laid off from my job and the DSS worker accused me over the phone of neglect and abuse because I could not pay the $1200 per month for medical insurance from my former employer. Note for the record, my oldest that was discharged from DMH has her own insurance from Mass Health. To which I called her on the carpet and told her to file her 51A on Mass Health for holding up our family insurance two months after my layoff. Hack! None of our other four daughters are on any medical prescriptions needed for any medical condition. Hack!

Our DSS worker is looking for any excuses to attack my family and I happen to have a rather large blog in Worcester. I have my voice locally and I have my voice nationally on many other blogs of note. If they want to come after my family, I will defend my honor and my family name. I can come up with more buffoonery at DSS than they think ever possible. This is war!

You do not threaten a good mother and a good father with neglect and abuse and not expect repercussions when they are innocent. Live by the sword and all that stuff. I’ll forsake the sword for the keyboard and bury them with bad publicity that will be picked up nationally by many main stream well read publications. I’m looking forward to the challenge. DSS is a public servant and they tend to mess up pretty much every day. That doesn’t look well in the public eye. I’m done being the nice guy and working with these public servant hacks showing up in my home with a noose and not one solid form of evidence to show neglect. I’m up for the fight.

Anyone with a story relevant to Hacks at DSS please feel free to comment. I’d love to talk with you and post your DSS horror story.

Papamoka

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****Note! This was emailed to the Governors office on 5/25 and my family has not been contacted by his office. However??? State agencies are checking this website. I'm checking out ACLU websites.

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