Christine, CO - DHS case

HI!
My name is Christine.  I have been lurking here, reading posts, and making a few fax and email advances on the judicial criminals in some of the cases here, over about the last two weeks.  I want to post my case information: (If you aren't interested in the details, the contact information is all at the bottom of this letter)

The basic story is: My daughter is 32 and learning disabled, high functioning, you would likely just think she is a little immature for her age.  She has a daughter who is 8. The Child Savers of Fremont County took her child into foster care on January 6, 2003, in concert with the school "health tech"(not a nurse) and the school principal (both women have biases against my family- I have publicly challenged them in years past)The claims were "head lice, refusal of the mother to treat the lice, filthy neglected child, filthy environment, injurious invironment".  The Dependency and Neglect process is a
joke, not even vaguely constitutional, and warped and abused
mercilessly by the leeches of the family court system (this is true all over the country, not just here). They kept the child for 6 months, giving her back on June 1. My daughter demanded a jury trial, to force the social worker to PROVE the lies she placed in the record to gain the order for foster care in the first place. This has enfuriated them all, and they have come after her with a vengeance. Her name was added to the Central Registry of Child Protection almost immediately, based on a claim of a social worker who LIED. It was sustained,
upon appeal, STILL based on the absolutely subjective and twisted DHS records. When my daughter asked for copies of the records that they cited as the basis for the listing, they agreed, for the sum of $254. She lives on disability. Where the hell is she going to GET $254 ???? She STILL has not been to trial, they have put it off and put it off, and at this very moment, we have the child in our possession, but the court order states that she is "in the custody of the state, and placed with the parent, pending trial". The social worker has stated AGAIN this week, that she would like to just close the case, but can't because there is a pending court trial. Her insinuation, made MANY times before, is that if my daughter would agree that there WAS a "condition of compelling state interest" and that the interventions (treatment plan) have remedied the problem, if she would withdraw the demand for trial, they would close the case now. If she were to do that, the record would reflect that she DID neglect the child, all the LIES were true, and they "fixed" her with their services, giving them the head counts that they need to continue gaining Federal funding. She has already, as a result of her disability, been under intense scrutiny of these UNprofessionals for 8 years. In that time all sorts of things have been entered into her record that were patently false. She has to stand her ground, and demand that they either prove their lies, or take them OUT of their records, or chance the NEXT attack, which would be based on the claim of her "admitting" past guilt. MONEY is the name of this game, and the power to destroy families and children should not reside in people who enjoy total immunity from any accountability. The Dependency and Neglect process, within the Child Protection Service, is the most incredibly dishonest and loop hole riddled process I have ever encountered. NONE of the generally assumed rules of legal process apply to this charge. The sad thing is, it vicitimizes the people of our society who are least able to fight back, the kids and low income, uneducated parents. It isn't reserved for the low income bracket, but they are the easiest targets, and the most easily defamed. For information and proof of my points above, take a look at:
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or
<A HREF="http://www.profane-justice.org">http://www.profane-justice.org</A>

The TRUTH will astound you. The thing I would like to see happen, resulting from this post is:  I would like it if people would contact the judge and clerk, and court administrator as well as legislators, just to inquire about this case, and let them know that the dependency and neglect charge is too vague and poorly written, and  that you wish to monitor cases of this type, in the hopes that people entrusted to guard the JUSTICE in our courts would have the integrity not to destroy a family just because the statutes allow it. If you find it in your schedule to do so, there are some legislators who could stand to take a look at this also. It is my fervent hope that we can force, by our sheer numbers and our crys of outrage, the reform of this system. Coupled with the overall judicial and legal sham, the rampant dishonesty and  criminal activity, dependency and neglect is a scary vehicle for their hands to be upon without accountablility.

I live in Colorado, but the system is the same across the country. The enabling laws are at the Federal level. The states largely parrot the Federal funding mandates.  Our case information is:

The County Case is captioned:
Case # 03 JV 3  Fremont County District Court, Division II.
The People of the state of Colorado In the interest of Ashley Fields, a child, April Fields, Mother, Respondent.

Fremont County Courthouse
136 Justice Center Road
Room #103
Canon City, Colorado 81212
Clerks Office:
Phone:719-269-0100
Fax: 719-269-0134
Judge:     Julie G. Marshall
           Phone:(719)269-0116·
           FAX - (719) 269-0134

Clerk: Debbie Stingari
  EMAIL:deborah.sather-stringari@judicial.state.co.us
Court administrator-11th Judicial District:Walter Blair
  Email:  walter.blair@judicial.state.co.us
CHIEF JUDGE: Kenneth M. Plotz
Chaffee County Judicial Building
P.O. Box 279
142 Crestone
Salida, Colorado 81201
(719)539-2561

NEW Court appointed Attorney (we got the first one dismissed, this one is more of the same stuff)
Roger B. Larsen, Office in Colorado Springs, CO
phone: 719-632-3455  Fax: 719-632-3295
Toll Free #: 888-771-6593



My personal web site, where there are pictures and details:
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Thank you in advance for the chance to vent, and to spread the word about Dependency and Neglect. These people seem to think that as long as they give the appearance of acting within the law, and as long as they can say that their actions were "within the scope of the statutes", anything they do is justified.
The factor that makes it really scary is the pervasive belief, amongst these cretins, that they have some exalted right, through their superior understanding of the world, to redistribute kids to "better" homes. The bias against low income people, people with disability, uneducated people is so thick you could slice it. The JURY instructions for a case like this will make your hair stand up. Check out the difference between the phrases, "A preponderance of the evidence" and "Clear and convincing evidence". The concept of "reasonable doubt" is totally left out, intentionally. The child savers justify this by the claim that if they don't HAVE this huge latitude, they will be forced to leave abused kids in bad homes, the laws will hamper their ability to save kids. This is patent BULL. NO one, no matter how altrusitic their claims, should EVER be immune from having to PROVE the accusations they claim. In most cases, the children are LESS safe and cared for in foster care, than at home, and in more and more cases, they are absolutely abused BY the foster care family. PLEASE read and check out my claims. Don't take my word for it, look for yourself. The reality should chill you. Thanks again, Christine, in Colorado.