Tag: child protective services
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Grandmother Relates Harrowing Experience with Tennessee DCS
“THEY WANT A ‘GUILTY’ VERDICT” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 7, 2020) — Last week, The Post & Email interviewed the grandmother of an infant taken from her parents this past February after the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (DCS) accused the parents of child physical abuse, an allegation the parents and grandmother deny and say…
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Jack, They Want To Take My Baby
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2019 (Jul. 28, 2019) — “I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence and no sympathy for leaders who fail…
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Atty. Vincent W. Davis Discusses California Child-Protective Services
WHAT RIGHTS DOES AN ACCUSED PARENT HAVE? by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 7, 2019) — In Friday night’s broadcast of “The Secret: How to Fight Child Protective Services and Win,” host and Atty. Vincent W. Davis of the Law Offices of Vincent W. Davis & Associates of Southern California hosted two guests specializing in child-protective service…
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Is Government Destroying Our Most Precious Resource?
CHILDREN ARE SUFFERING, BUT WHERE IS THEIR “#METOO” MOVEMENT? by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 5, 2018) — On Tuesday, someone using a “US Senate” ISP accessed three different articles about a Tennessee mother who lost custody of both of her daughters in what she described to us as a web of corruption, deceit, and unconstitutional acts…
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Father Anticipating Eventual Reunion with Sons Hospitalized
CATASTROPHE STRIKES AFTER JUDGE ORDERS HOME ASSESSMENT by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 5, 2018) — The Post & Email has learned that a litigant in the courtroom of Las Vegas Eighth Judicial District Family Court Judge Sandra Pomrenze is hospitalized at a Veterans Administration (VA) facility with a very serious condition. In accordance with an order…
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Evidentiary Hearing to be Held in Las Vegas Court After More than Two Years
FOLLOWING TODDLER’S DROWNING DEATH, JUDGE SAYS “FLOATIES ARE FOR BABIES” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 24, 2018) — On July 15, The Post & Email published an initial article concerning the custody of two young boys whose younger brother drowned in a hot tub while under the supervision of their mother nearly three years ago. Although…
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Parents of Three Children Taken by DCFS Enjoy “Bittersweet” Reunion
“I KNOW I DID EVERYTHING I COULD” by Sharon Rondeau (May 5, 2018) — In a stunning development, the mother of three children set to be adopted by her parents in Southern California reported on Thursday that she and her husband were able to visit with their children after two and one-half years of no…
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Boy Returned to Parents by Norwegian Child-Welfare Authorities
BUT HOW MANY MORE “KAIS” ARE THERE? by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 22, 2018) — A 12-year-old boy taken from his parents by Norwegian authorities on February 9 as a result of their homeschooling him for several weeks has been returned to their custody with conditions. The Kristiansens had taken their son out of the school…
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Has a Restraining Order Been Terminated or Not?
COURT ORDER APPEARS, BUT WITHOUT A SOURCE by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 22, 2018) — Last Thursday, The Post & Email published an article reporting on an October vehicular incident between the parents of a three-year-old girl taken by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) from the mother in March 2016 and…
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Parents Petition Appeals Court to Halt Adoption of Third Child
AT HANDS OF DCFS, JUDGE MARGUERITE DOWNING by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 14, 2017) — The parents of three children scheduled to be adopted by their maternal grandparents have just filed an appeal brief to the Second Appellate District, Division Four in Los Angeles in the case of their third child. As The Post & Email…
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Contested Hearing Scheduled for April 25 in Los Angeles Child Custody Case, Part 3
“I’M NOT GOING TO BARTER MY CHILD’S LIFE” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 23, 2017) — On Tuesday, The Post & Email published a second article summarizing a hearing held on April 14 in the Edelman Children’s Court concerning a now-28-month-old girl removed from her mother’s care after receiving a referral from a police detective about…
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Radio Show Discusses Attacks on Parenting, Families by Child Protective Services
ERICA HENDERSON TO APPEAR AS GUEST by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 8, 2015) — A new radio show on the IPM Radio Network will host Erica Michelle Henderson, mother of eight children taken away by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), on which The Post & Email has reported extensively. Initially, six…
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Jeffrey Henderson on Law School, Legal Processes and His Children’s Custody pb
“THEY’RE TELLING THE KIDS THAT I’M DEAD” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 26, 2014) — In our recent interview with Jeffrey Henderson, a father of eight children attempting to secure their release from state custody and impending adoption, he shared with us the knowledge he has acquired in law school which has assisted him in writing…
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Update on the Henderson Family pb
SIX CHILDREN TO BE ADOPTED DESPITE MOTHER’S STRUGGLE TO REGAIN CUSTODY AT ALL COSTS by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 9, 2014) — For nearly two years, The Post & Email has followed the story of the Henderson children, who were taken from their parents’ custody in May 2011, sent to three different foster homes, and are…
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April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month
THOUGH THOUSANDS CONTINUE TO SUFFER, BOTH IN AND OUT OF CPS CUSTODY by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 18, 2014) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau sponsors a “National Child Abuse Prevention Month initiative” every April. In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon signed the first federal legislation aimed at raising the awareness…
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CA Assemblyman Holds Press Conference on Proposed Child Welfare Law
IS CPS TOO POWERFUL? by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 8, 2014) — California General Assemblyman Tim Donnelly will hold a press conference at 11:00 a.m. PDT/2:00 p.m. EDT at the State Capitol to publicize a proposal on which a vote is expected later on Tuesday. The presser will take place in Room 127 of the Capitol…
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Update on Case of Child Kidnapped by Massachusetts DCF
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE LAND OF PAUL REVERE? by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 24, 2014) — On Monday evening, The Post & Email received an update issued by Liberty Counsel on the Pelletier family, whose 15-year-old daughter was placed into the care of Massachusetts child protective services approximately one year ago after Boston Children’s Hospital…
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Jeffrey Henderson: “They Don’t Care About the Damage They’ve Done”
FATHER DEPRIVED OF HIS CHILDREN BY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICE VOWS TO FIGHT ON IN FEDERAL COURT by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 15, 2013) — In an article on Saturday, The Post & Email published an interview with Jeffrey Henderson, who has been struggling with his wife to regain custody of their children from the Los Angeles…
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Five Henderson Children Now in Adoption Process
“SEPARATE THE FAMILIES” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 14, 2013) — The father of eight children who have been in foster care for nearly three years despite no evidence of abuse or neglect has told The Post & Email that the adoption process has begun for his five elder children. Jeffrey and Erica Henderson have been…
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Update: Mothers Protesting SEIU’s Demands for Pay Increase, More Hires Assaulted pb
LOS ANGELES CHILD PROTECTIVE AGENCY WORKERS TOLD TO “DO YOUR JOB“ by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 5, 2013) — On October 1, a rally for higher wages was held by members of Local 721 of the SEIU labor union which included social workers employed at the Los Angeles, CA Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).…