Tag: Los Angeles DCFS
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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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Contested Hearing Scheduled for April 25 in “Robinson” Case, Part 2
“NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 18, 2017) — On Saturday, The Post & Email reported that a Good Friday status hearing in Edelman Children’s Court for a Los Angeles toddler taken from her mother last year and placed with her father resulted in an upcoming “contested hearing” to take place on April…
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Good Friday Status Hearing on Toddler Yields Contested Hearing Scheduled for April 25
WHAT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD? by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 15, 2017) — On Friday, the Edelman Children’s Court held a hearing about the future of a 27-month-old girl taken from her mother in March of last year by Los Angeles DCFS. The mother, Michelle Robinson,* was never accused of neglect or…
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California Attorney General’s Office Acknowledges Letter on State Child-Protective Agency
BUT WILL HE INVESTIGATE? by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 2, 2017) — On March 15, The Post & Email sent a letter by certified mail, return receipt requested, to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra regarding its observations about the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) agency based on information gleaned from three cases covered directly…
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Adoption Hearing for Third Child Scheduled for Tuesday in Williams Case
PARENTS CLAIM “ADOPTION WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 13, 2017) — A hearing will take place on Tuesday for the third child of Roosevelt and Kanika Williams at the Edelman Children’s Court in Monterey Park, CA to begin the adoption process by Kanika’s parents, Willie and Katie Grant. The two elder children…
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Do DCFS Social Workers Have an Agenda in This Case?
BOTH PARENTS INVOLVED IN ALTERCATION; ONE GETS CUSTODY by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 8, 2017) — Since reporting on the story of the Hendersons, whose eight children were ensconced in the foster system in 2011 and, to our knowledge, never returned to their parents despite no charges of neglect or abuse, The Post & Email has…
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Parents Appealing Impending Adoption Ordered by Judge Marguerite Downing
FEDERAL LAWSUIT APPEAL ALSO BEING PREPARED by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 24, 2017) — The parents of three children successively placed in a foster home by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) on a trajectory toward adoption are in the process of writing an appeal of the juvenile court judge’s decision ordering…
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Children’s Court Judge Accused of “Perverting the Law”
FATHER: SOCIAL WORKER PROVIDED “MANUFACTURED ACCOUNT” TO JUDGE IN CHILDREN’S COURT by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 3, 2016) — In the case of an Alabama couple attempting to regain custody of their three children from the state of California, the father, Roosevelt Williams, reported that he was denied a Marsden hearing requested in August of this…
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Parents’ Five-Year Struggle to Regain Custody of Children Replete with Twists and Turns
FATHER CLAIMS “DISCRIMINATION AND BIAS” ON JUDGE’S, SOCIAL WORKERS’ PART by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 28, 2016) — For approximately three months, The Post & Email has reported on a child-custody case originating with the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and what has been described to us by the parents as internal…
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Father Asks Why Child “Protection” Agency Took His Children While Another, Despite Ample Warning Signs, Found Dead From Neglect
“THEY DID THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE IN MY CASE” [Editor’s Note: The following letter relates to the case of the Williams family which The Post & Email has covered here. Philip Browning refers to the director of the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the agency which removed the three Williams children and…
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Parents Continue to Appeal Loss of Rights, Custody, Scheduled Adoption of Their Children
IN FIVE-YEAR-OLD SAGA by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 17, 2016) — A couple whose three children are in the custody of the mother’s parents by action of the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has appealed the termination of their parental rights over the eldest two children ordered by Judge Marguerite Downing. The…
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Who Oversees the Process in Child Dependency Cases?
“THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 8, 2016) — In a dependency case involving three children initiated by the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) in 2011, The Post & Email has reported that the children’s parents dispute the findings that they are unfit, claiming numerous procedural violations…
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Do Los Angeles DCFS and Judges Dislike Men?
TWO CASES, ONE JUDGE by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 5, 2016) — When The Post & Email was covering the case of the Henderson family whose eight children were removed from their custody and placed in various foster homes, Jeffrey Henderson told us that the judges at the Edelman Children’s Court in Monterey Park, who adjudicate…
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DCFS Spokesman: Adoption Not Normally Contemplated Six Weeks into a Dependency Case
“NARROW CONDITIONS” REQUIRED TO PURSUE ADOPTION EARLY ON by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 28, 2016) — On Wednesday night, The Post & Email reached Los Angeles DCFS Public Affairs Director Armand Montiel, who we had interviewed on two occasions in 2014 when we were covering the case of the Henderson family. Without identifying the family involved…
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Was Adoption Always the Intent?
“ONLY AFTER REUNIFICATION EFFORTS HAVE FAILED” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 28, 2016) — On September 16, The Post & Email published an initial article about three children removed from their parents’ custody by the Los Angeles DCFS and juvenile court beginning in September 2011 in what the parents say constitutes “illegal government interference with parents’…
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Los Angeles Juvenile Court Judge Continues to Wield Unbridled Power to Separate Families
MOTHER CLAIMS “HORRIFIC” TRAUMA SUFFERED BY THREE CHILDREN by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 16, 2016) — In a case hauntingly reminiscent of that of the Henderson family of Los Angeles, three children have been taken from their parents without any evidence of abuse or neglect, with two soon to be legally adopted by the mother’s parents…
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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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Jeffrey Henderson Uses Acquired Legal Knowledge to Fight for His Children pb
“STEALING KIDS LEFT AND RIGHT” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 22, 2014) — On Tuesday, The Post & Email spoke with Jeffrey Henderson, the father of eight children who were taken from his wife and him by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Families (DCFS) more than three years ago. Six of the children now…
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The Los Angeles Department of Children and Families Speaks on Foster Care, Adoption and Reunification pb
“REUNIFICATION IS THE MOST LIKELY OUTCOME” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 17, 2014) — Several weeks ago, The Post & Email interviewed Erica Henderson, the mother of eight whose children have all been placed in foster care and six of whom are scheduled to be adopted. Mrs. Henderson and her husband Jeffrey, who she is in…