Texas Supreme Court Affirms Ruling Against CPS

The Texas Supreme Court has just affirmed an appeals court ruling that Texas’s Child Protective Services (CPS) illegally seized more than 400 children whose parents belong to a strange religious sect.   CPS cared poorly for the children it seized.  Three children of one couple became ill and had to be hospitalized, while another couple’s 2-year-old daughter apparently suffered from “severe dehydration and malnutrition” after being seized.   As Jacob Sullum noted in Reason, “There was never any evidence that their parents abused them, but there’s plenty that the state did.”  Unwarranted CPS seizures of children are on the rise nationally.  Such seizures often cause children great harm.



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  1. Kamy J. Crawford says:

    Is nice to see that someone finally admits how pathetic CPS is. We have problems with the system here in California wherein CPS workers milk the system for their income, fail to properly perform their jobs, if at all and hide their ignorance and conduct behind juvenile protection laws. Its disgusting and only getting worse here. All the wonderful agencies who are suppose to be making sure everyone is doing everything properly just sweep the pathetic conduct of CPS under the carpet here in Calaveras County, California.
    Congratulations on the ruling that CPS is overstepping their boundaries, etc.

  2. cheryl says:

    This is a wide spread problem. When will we join forces and save our children. My 6yr old girl is adopted by molesters who abused theyre own kids and lost custody. CPS did not care. I was a good mom and never harmed my kids. I wish I had not conformed to any of theyre services. I thought they where meant to help me stay with my kids. I was a single mother and got a job full time and they said I was absent/ or incapacitated. I had never been away from my children until they made me sign a agreement in which my sister had temporary guaurdianship. Then my sister turned them over and I was never able to have unmonitored vuisits aftwer that. I was never as danger to my kids. I became homeless because DCFS made me call my sister because the babys dad wanted me to get out of my house and called dcfs who said no case would bwe opened and urged me to call someone and I called my sister. Just for one noght and my sister said I could stay one night but agreed to help with my kids. I got a good job the next day. I never abused my kids. DCFS made me homeless and said I was absent and wherabouts unknown. I got a stable home and they still made me have monitorde visits at a monitoring facility. then when I was allowed visits at my home. I got one and then they put that child ion a plane in a nother state for a christmas visit with prospective adoptive parent's who are in the data base for abuses including sexual abuse of both her children and she fled the state of California after pleading the fifth as to her childrens allegations that she and her husband did sex acts repeatedly to both of them amoung other abuses. I had no record and still dont. I am desperate. I hired a expensive attorney who did nothing and actually hurt my chances and alloew ther adoption to go uncontested. My daughter pkleaded that she wanted me to visit after saying a boy keeps hitting her and dont like it and he wont stop. i was never allowed to talk to her again they filed a restraining order against me saying I was arrested for armed robbery and made threats,that is a lie. I wish I I had some recourse but no one will help because she is adopted as of 9/29/08

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