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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Child Abuse in Mass Continued

This story in the Boston Globe sounded like a trumpet sounding out the call to go to arms and fight the dragon that is the Department of Social Services. That is not the case by any means. This is an extreme case of child abuse and I don’t think anyone will argue with me over that point. DSS when notified does what it has to do to protect the kids.

You actually have to read the entire piece over at the Boston Globe to not fully condemn DSS.

Doctor says DSS sought to send bitten girl home
No bail for pair accused in abuse

By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff
July 12, 2007

NEW BEDFORD -- A Boston doctor who examined a 3-year-old girl whose upper lip was bitten off said yesterday that hospital staffers had to persuade the Department of Social Services not to send the child home, where her mother had allegedly failed to stop months of physical abuse by her boyfriend.

Five days after the girl was brought to Children's Hospital Boston with black scabs on her mutilated face, DSS proposed sending her home, according to testimony by Dr. Alice Newton during the couple's dangerousness hearing in New Bedford District Court yesterday.
The injuries were so severe, Newton testified, that the girl will never fully recover.

The DSS proposed on April 30 to return the child to her home four months after she first came to the attention of the agency's officials in January, when she was seen at a New Bedford hospital for treatment of a broken tooth and bruises that a physician there called suspicious.

DSS officials said last week that they did not take action in the case in the months following the January hospital visit because they did not find the girl at home on several occasions.

“Snip-a-roo”

In a telephone interview yesterday, DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro called the disagreement over the child's release a miscommunication that was quickly cleared up by a conference call that hospital staff requested with DSS. DSS officials had not authorized a plan to send the child home, she said.

Doctors, she said "thought the [DSS] worker was going to pick up the kid and take the kid home, and that was not what was going on," Monteiro said. "That was not the plan. There was no plan to take the child anywhere."

DSS ultimately went into court and, on May 3, obtained legal custody of the girl and her 5-year-old brother. The boy has not shown signs of physical abuse, officials said. – Boston Globe

You really have to keep an open mind when it comes to the modern DSS intervention. When abuse at this level occurs then they will take children from the home and with good cause. I can’t say that I am a big fan of DSS but I am a supporter of what they do for the children abused beyond recognition as the child was in this case.

It is pretty obvious to me that the mother in this scenario was no Mother Theresa or even a reflection of her. This mom was just a womb vehicle with a growing cellular structure that just happened to come through the birth canal and after that point something else was on the television that was more important to pay attention too.

How she choose the boyfriend over the child is beyond my thought comprehension but then again I have five baby girls that I love to no end. Put a speeding out of control bus in their way and I would die trying to get them out of its path. That is just me though.

Was this mom to busy contemplating her navel while her baby girl’s lip was being bitten off? Where were her motherly instincts while the boyfriend was attacking this child like an animal? What kind of person would ever allow that to happen even once?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a die hard liberal, but when it comes to kids and someone abusing them like these two people did, I have no mercy in my soul for them. While one person bit this little girls lip off the other pretended it never happened.

Meanwhile, there is a little girl out there disfigured for life. She is safe now thanks to DSS, and I for one applaud the actions they took. As for Bryan James, the animal that bit this little girls lip off, making him a gelding is not even close to what I would like to do that monster!

Papamoka

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Invasion of Families by the State

This is a personal issue that I think should be played out here. My girls are my world and my family is my world but when you insert one child with a serious mental health issue into the equation and ask the state for help it can turn your life up side down. Anything your child says is a weapon for the state social services to use against you and you are guilty till proven innocent no matter what you do. That is the case in our lives today.

Would you see a problem with a sixteen year old that is reasonably stable watching her little sisters for an hour or so till Mom gets home from work? Apparently, the Department of Mental Health in Mass A Two Sticks has a problem with that. They filed parental neglect charges along with more idiotic accusations from the mouth of just on child. Missing one phsyc appointment is neglect too! Not accepting as realistic as a parent of that child stating two days later that she took enough of her mental health medication that could have killed a cow is serious neglect because you did not take her to the Emergency room two days after the fact is a viable charge. The laundry list goes on. I apparently pick up a six pack and drink and drive with my four little ones in the car. NOT! This is what society has become when the state has a voice in raising the child. She can state any fact and we are guilty. We are dirty and we are criminals in the eyes of the state till proven innocent accordigng to the words from a child on more mind altering drugs than Timmothy Leary would have ever dreamed about being available.

A good friend of mine slapped me upside the head the other day and told me to get a lawyer. My wife and I don't really need one because we have done nothing wrong. We are lucky that we have nothing to hide. Having a child that is diagnosed Bi-Polar is a rough road to travel and it comes with some serious dilemas if you ask the state for help. From that point on they own you and you live under a microscope as parents. Any accusation from the troubled child triggers by law an investigation by other state services and you are guilty till proven innocent. Yup, toss out the Constitution and insert social services rules and state regulations.

There is no abuse of any kind here in this case, and yet I fully back social services in cases where children are truly abused. They don't make enough money in my opinion for the job that they have to do. Given our situation, if the sixteen year old does not like the decicions of her parents then she can say what ever she wants to make our lives hell. We get investigated because we refuse to allow a sixteen year old to date someone that is twenty three? That is how the system works if your kid is part of DMH in Mass! Tantrums gone extreme with teeth.

I do have a problem with them telling me that they will be in our lives for the next three months and visiting every single week till the investigation ends. Last time I checked this wasn't France and you are in prison till you pay the fine. This is what Mass A Two Sticks is like if you dare to beg the Department of Mental Health for help with a troubled teen. The troubled teen becomes the overlord of the family and you are the prisoner of the system forever. No matter how good of a parent you are they make you feel dirty and wondering what you ever did wrong. Guilty till proven innocent is all that it is.

I've pondered this for a while and I am fighting back fire with fire. If the state wants to come after me based on the laws of the land then those same laws work for me as well. I'm not going to let the railroad of state agencies rule my life or my other childrens lives. I have to fight for my family and if the one is lost to the state agencies and the laws they have to live by then so be it. There are still four sister in the family that are my daughters that need a voice of reason from a father that has done his best to date.

If you find yourself in this same situation and you have nothing to hide then I seriously beg you to contact your state representative or anyone that will listen in your state government. Do not let them tell you that you have no rights. Nobody can suspend the Constitution of our country and that is a fact.

Fight for what is right and you will never be wrong. Fight for your kids and you are a true parent. Even if one is over the edge you have to take a stand.

I'm planting my feet square and solid and I have contacted my State Representative and the Governors office. I will not be railroaded by them. Not going to happen in this lifetime!

Round one: State Representative is in our corner

Papamoka

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