First, let's talk about the incident: a mother stands off a swat team in Detroit sent to seize her little girl because she refused to let her be medicated.
Yeah, I'm betting you're having my reaction: why the hell would you raise a kid in Detroit? Why the hell would you even think about letting your kid go to Detroit public schools when you've been homeschooling? Why the hell hadn't you gotten her immunized earlier?
Say what, now?
Little girl born with a birth defect that required the amputation of one of her feet tells Mom she wants to go to public school. I can't fault her mother for homeschooling the child, nor can I fault her for her protectiveness. However, she never bothered to get her child her immunizations. And the little girl apparently had some nasty bad reactions to it. When the family sought treatment, the little girl was put on an ADHD med—which she didn't need. The Department of Child Illfare has admitted she didn't need it. Mom refused to dose her daughter with it, and the courts stepped in to take the little girl away and forcibly medicate her. Mom didn't do as she was told and turn the kid over.* So, the cops are sent to seize the kid like she's the ill-gotten gains of a drug deal.** Mom not only refuses to hand her little girl over, she pulls a gun to defend herself, her home, and her family from those who sought to harm them (i.e., the government and Child Illfare). SWAT got called.
Mom is now a criminal, and little girl is now in foster care, despite Department of Child Illfare promises that she'd go to relatives.
Of course the government is stupid and abusive—that's a given, sadly enough. However, Mom did a lot of stupid things, several of which I addressed earlier: first and foremost, living in Detroit; not having her child immunized as an infant; even considering the girl's request to go to public school (which ranks up there pretty high); and seeking medical help while on government assistance in a big government nanny state.
Note that I never said pulling a gun in defense of your child was one of them.
Honestly, I think this family has grounds to not only get Mom's charges overturned, but grounds to sue the city of Detroit, the Department of Child Illfare, the doctors involved, the county health clinic that called Child Illfare, and everyone involved in scarring this little girl's psyche by ripping her from a semi-responsible, loving, non-abusive family.
*I wouldn't, either. I've lived through that mistake, and I won't make it with my kids.
**Given that it's Detroit, and there's no father in the picture, the kid involved might well have been the ill-gotten gains of a drug deal.
Like so many things the GOV does, the only thing that counts is the LAW and no 'emotional' issues can get involved.
ReplyDeleteThere is even more ugly involved here. The child while in care and custody of Child Illfare apparently contracted an STD. It is being alleged she was assaulted at Hawthorne, the inpatient psychiatric facility where she was placed by Child Illfare. http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/04/05/stand-off-daughter-allegedly-sexually-assaulted-while-in-state-care/
ReplyDeleteReally. That just puts the cherry on top of the shit sundae it already was.
ReplyDeleteChild Illfare needs to be charged as accessory to rape. Or maybe with conspiracy to commit said crime on a minor.
I do not have words harsh enough for those who failed this little girl.
Stories like this always (unfortunately) remind me of a
ReplyDelete4 year old little girl, who was my step child.....
Her Mom was struggling before
we got married and the child was in a SOCIAL SERVICES FOSTER HOME.
My work phone was an emergency number and got an AM call to go to the social services department.
The foster parents beat the holy shit out of this little girl.
I had to be restrained as I was demanding a confrontation
with these assholes!
If you want to see art imitating
life, watch a a few episodes of
LAW & ORDER, SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT.
Their biggest obstacle is the dumbass social services!
And just think, if she had gone to planned parenthood and gotten an aboration this would not have happen. Could have killed a baby and gov't would have helped her. Somebody please give the gov't its medication (a smart pill).
ReplyDeleteMr. Smith,
ReplyDeleteYou take the smart pill first.......
I was stationed in Michigan for 10 years and was involved in a battle between private/home scholars and the state with it’s ally the NEA. Michigan believes children are a resource of the state and therefore belong to the state; parents are only custodians of the children. What has happened here is typical of what happened to families back in the late 80’s when First Baptist Church of Bridgeport led the fight against the state concerning certification of teachers. On family who homeschooled their children had them taken and put in foster care because they didn’t allow TV in their house. These children all tested minimum 2 – 3 grade levels above their age group in public schools…TV was the issue that came out in court. What came out in court besides the state considering children their resource was control over the teachers by the NEA. Since the private school teachers and home school parents weren’t certified, meaning dues paying members of the NEA, they shouldn’t be allowed to teach. Quality of education wasn’t the issue.
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