CPS Michigan Starved 10YO Disabled Johnny to Death After Mom Sought State Help

Disabled 10 YO Boy Starved 10YO Disabled Boy to Death by CPS After Mother Asked for Help; Financial Incentives Encourage States to Kidnap and Withhold Children, Johnny's Story Pt 1/2 April 2010, ABC7 Detroit Investigation into Michigans tragically-flawed foster care system. The heartbreaking story of a 10-year-old boy who starved to death while a facility banked cash to care for him. The state is quick to take kids from parents and put them in foster care, especially poor parents. The state makes it very hard to get them back. Experts say the state has a financial incentive to keep kids away from their families.
Johnnys mother, Elena Andron, dedicated her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound son. All she wanted was a little help. The states answer was to put him in a foster care facility. One year later, Johnny starved to death. Johnny, who was nine at the time, could not walk, talk or feed himself. He had cerebral palsy and epilepsy. When she lost her factory job she turned to the Michigan Department of Human Services, a decision she will regret for the rest of her life. The foster care facility where the state sent Johnny failed to feed him enough food. Andron says she watched her son waste away as she begged for help.
Why? Some say its because the state gets a lot of cash for foster kids. Termination of parent rights is very high in Michigan. But its also very high nationwide and it happened because of some laws that were passed by the federal government and encouraged states to terminate parental rights more often than they used to and promise to send them money if they would terminate rights and have the children adopted.
According to the states own figures, the federal government gave Michigan about $110 million last year for foster care. Thats compared to the $26 million in programs that help parents keep their kids. Foster facilities also have an incentive to keep kids away from their parents. In Androns case, the foster home got about $12,000 a month from the state for Johnny. "Youre getting paid, youre getting a lot of money," says attorney Arnold Reed, who represents Andron in a lawsuit against the foster care facility and several other state-contracted groups. Reed says the foster facility profited big time off of Johnny. "There is no shortage of money, plus youre getting a stipend, youre getting a clothes stipend and youre getting a stipend for food," says Reed. But not enough of that food made it to Johnny. "He started deteriorating so quick I could not believe my eyes," says Andron. "He had gotten so weak to where he was just shaking constantly."
She agreed to make her son a temporary ward of the state. She was supposed to bring him home after a year - once she got back on track financially.
When she complained about Johnny losing weight, she says the state turned on her. "They didnt care. None of my complaints mattered," says Andron. The Department of Human Services did not like Androns complaints or her efforts to get her son back. They took her to court and asked that she not be allowed to see Johnny.
Andron says the first time she met her court-appointed lawyer was that day in court. She says the lawyer didnt put up much of a fight. The judge sided with the state.
The next time Andron heard about Johnny he was dead. Johnny weighed 120 pounds when he went into foster care, she says. An autopsy report shows he was only 48 pounds when he died of malnutrition.
Were spending a ton of money for putting these kids in foster care," says Vivek Sankaran, an assistant professor at the Child Advocacy Law Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School. "But for these children we are irreparably scaring them by damaging the bonds that they form with their families."
Sankaran says only about nine percent of the 16,000 kids in foster care were sexually or physically abused. The majority were taken from their parents because of poverty-related neglect. "Removal is too often thought of as the first option for protecting children and child welfare rather than working with families, engaging with them, providing them services in the home," says Sankaran. His organization, Detroit Center for Family Advocacy, helps parents on the front end. "We need to create a culture where parents are willing to say, 'I need help'" says Sankaran. That is exactly what Andron tried to do, but with heartbreaking results. "I gave them my healthy child and to get him back in a casket. Hed still be a live today if he was home with me," says Andron.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/story/Investigators-Starved-to-Death-in-State-Care/3...

Perpetrators of Maltreatment (04' now much worse) # Cases per 100,000 Children in U.S. from NCCAN. Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59; Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13; Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241; Medical Neglect CPS 14, Parents 12; Fatalities CPS 6,4, Parents 1,5. http://suncanaa.com/cps

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[mamasuntwinkle]

$30 Million Lawsuit: Foster Home Starved Quadriplegic 10YO Boy To Death. Nov 2008 clickondetroit (dot) com/news/17873493/detail.html

April 2010. Attorney Arnold Reed says the foster facility profited big time off of Johnny: “You’re getting paid, you’re getting a lot of money. There is no shortage of money, plus you’re getting a stipend, you’re getting a clothes stipend and you’re getting a stipend for food.” But not enough of that food made it to Johnny - ahrp.org/cms/content/view/698/­9/

[dclark12553]

I do not know how CPS can take children away from poor parents.

[mamasuntwinkle]

@dclark12553 - They only get $ from feds for increased removals over last year. Like everything else, its fraud. States compete (like sports) for trillions in federal money, divided up by who kidnapped most to who kidnapped least children, under Soc Sec Act Title IV, XIX (federal laws, look them up in google).

The Anatomy of Child Welfare Fraud: Part 1 - Targeted Case Management

/watch?v=YNTa7BksGkg

CPS Child Trafficking, Ga Senator Nancy Schaefer 2009, 3/2010 RIP Nancy

/watch?v=Lkt5zeYQ7-A

[peace091964]

This is really irresponsible journalism. Of course, this is horrific, but it's not representative of the norm. There are far more people responsible for harming their own kids than there are foster families responsible. Most foster parents are wonderful people who are love and take care of kids who were horribly abused by their own parents. I don't know about Michigan, but I used to work in the system and we NEVER took a child away for neglect. These kids were mostly raped or sold for drug money

[mamasuntwinkle]

@peace091964 - NO it is VERY responsible. IF they f'g reported every abuse, torture, rape, death in CPS custody there would be no time for other news. And why do none of these pedophile sociopaths go to jail. Because the f'g STATE defends them through AG office (CPS lawyers). I have many stories including now dead Ga Senator who spoke out about CPS' child trafficking. Its controlled by international pedophile banker cabals who we now know run the secret corp federal reserve.

[mamasuntwinkle]

@peace091964 - Perpetrators of Maltreatment (04' now much worse) # Cases per 100,000 from NCCAN

Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59

Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13

Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241

Medical Neglect CPS 14, Parents 12

Fatalities CPS 6,4, Parents 1,5

WHY ARE THESE CHILDREN DYING?! suncanaa . com / cps

[1m2f3m4wth]

I feel so sorry for these people! Even if a foster child ends up with good people, which these children didn't, you NEVER NEVER NEVER call dss for help! They DO NOT help!

[starkiss69]

@peace091964 ok but this is happening in michigan all the time dont talk about a state you know nothing about cps dont giv a shit about kids in michigan i know too many ppl who were in foster care and were treated worse then in there childs custody but not every cps worker is the same.

[STOPCAS]

Did you know that our money supports the Children’s Aid Society…and yet too many of our children are dying in the system that we depend upon to support them? It is time to go beyond the C.A.S review board-we need them to be transparent and held accountable for what happens to the children under their care. Join us on Facebook. We are a wealth of information. Facebook group: “Stop the Children’s Aid Society from abusing LGBTQ youth”.

[jacksparrowismydaddy]

@peace091964 the irresponsibility is not reporting it. most powerful news media seem afraid to touch it.

[chewbaca1989]

Judge ought to lose his job.

[dawneworswick]

I was raped for four years in foster care while porn was made while nobody stepped in to help us.We were 3-7!

[dianalynn1966]

something needs too be done about these /@@@@@@@/taking are children away from us/they think that they r god/someone have too put a stop too it/or its going too get worse/

[jollyradical]

How the hell is a child starved to death and nobody even talks about a murder investigation or a search for the killers?

[marysjoy]

Found out about this from the news service here- mostholyfamilymonastery(dot)co­m. For answers to WHO are the State/Feds see my playlist on the Communists and Freemasons Infiltrate. Credit for that info comes to us from REAL Catholics (vaticancatholic(dot)com) who condemn these atrocities and the pedophiles who call themselves Catholics but are not. The Dr. Wardner vid goes to the ROOT of this AGES OLD problem against the good in society. Also see mhfm1's youtube channel for more info!

[EuphrasieF]

@dclark12553

Simple answer: because they don't have decent lawyers.