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From: "Connecticut DCF Watch"
Subject: Organized Crime Operating in the Child Protection System By:
James Roger Brown, Director - The Sociology Center

NATIONAL ADVISORY
Organized Crime Operating in the Child Protection System

January 20, 2005 Release

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http://www.thesociologycenter.com/GeneralBibliography/NationalAdvisory
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CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM INTELLIGENCE
When reviewing this intelligence about internal child protection systems methods, procedures, and decisionmaking processes, note the general absence of such key terms as "organized crime," "exploitation," "science fraud," "science crime," "corruption," and "structural corruption." Also note the close working relationship between elements of the child protection system and nonprofit organizations that are proxy organizations for the special interests of mental health and social work practitioners. Proxy nonprofit organizations function to channel increasing numbers of children into mental health counseling, mental health medication, and social work counseling and supervised family interaction.

When the organized crime and structural corruption in the United States Child Protection System is finally revealed it will make those responsible for the Swiss Verdingkinder scandal look like pikers.

Assessing Risk in Child Maltreatment
Children and Youth Services Review Volume (issue): 22 (11-12) 2000


Attorney General's Review of the Role of the CPS in relation to deaths in custody: A statement by the United Families and Friends Campaign FILE SIZE: 19.6 KB
United Families and Friends Campaign


Brief No. 7: Alternative care: Placement decisionmaking
Australian National Child Protection Clearinghouse
Australian Institute of Family Studies FILE SIZE: 183 KB


COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE USE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT RISK ASSESSMENT MODELS IN CPS DECISION MAKING PROCESSES: NDACAN Dataset Number 84: USER'S GUIDE AND CODEBOOK FILE SIZE: 4.2 MB
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
Family Life Development Center
Cornell University


DECISION-MAKING IN UNSUBSTANTIATED CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES CASES: A SYNTHESIS OF RECENT RESEARCH FILE SIZE: 396.7 KB
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
National Adoption Information Clearinghouse


Excerpts from Domestic Violence: A National Curriculum for Child Protection Services FILE SIZE: 19.2 KB
Family Violence Prevention Fund


The California Children's Advocacy Institute Executive Summary of the 2002-2003 State Budget summarizes the treatment of California youth emancipated from State Foster Care at age 18. This information about youth emancipated from California and Washington State foster care should be compared with the accounts of adult survivors of the Swiss Verdingkinder child slave trade scandal (1850-1950) reported in the media.

"Emancipation from Foster Care.
Helping foster youth transition to independence at the age of 18 has become politically popular. New funds are promised from federal and state sources. But the scale is insufficient given the population and need. The optimistic amount available for living expenses from state and federal accounts promised will provide about $250 per month. For many emancipating youth, such a sum may not be of any effective assistance at all for vocational, college or other higher education. If one must earn $400 to $700 per month for rent, another $180 per month for food, $150 per month for utilities and other essentials, assistance of $250/month may still not allow higher education opportunity. TANF assistance for these youth before the age of 18 is $520 for a mother with one child, plus $150 in food stamps. These now emancipated youth are not eligible for such aid unless they have children themselves. It is difficult for most adults who come from homes and families to be fully aware of the reality facing someone who is about to turn 18 years of age and has been told to leave a group home or other caregiver. There is no home or family to fall back upon. No room and board continuation. There is little safety net, and none that would allow deferral of full-time immediate work—on the disadvantageous terms available to an 18 year old lacking higher education. The help that a responsible parent provides for a child of 18 remains missing from the state (and federal) budget for these "children of the state.""
Washington [State] Department of Social and Health Services: Children's Administration: Management Services Division: Office of Children's Administration Research (DSHS Children's Administration Publications)

Final Report: Factors That Influence the Decision Not to Substantiate a CPS Referral: Phase I: Narrative and Empirical Analysis FILE SIZE 1.0 MB

Despite an extensive literature review regarding child abuse investigation decisionmaking, noticeably absent is any reference to the experiment reported by Thomas M. Horner and Melvin J. Guyer in "Prediction, prevention, and clinical expertise in child custody cases in which allegations of child sexual abuse have been made: Prediction rates of diagnostic error in relation to various clinical decisionmaking strategies." Family Law Quarterly, 25(2), 1991.(Horner and Guyer, p. 228)

This Washington State study tends to confirm suspicions that caseworker decisionmaking is dominated by the logical fallacy, "If we must err, we must err on the side of the child."


"However, one of the most interesting findings associated with the finding decision is that risk factors over and above the incident factors are related to the substantiation decision. One would expect factors related to the incident to be the key determinants for the finding decision. The finding decision itself is to answer the question: "was this child abused and/or neglected or did this specific alleged incident occur?" One would expect the presence of physical injury (that was not accidental) to be the primary influence on the decision "did this happen or not?"" (p. 5)


FINAL REPORT: Factors That Influence the Decision Not to Substantiate a CPS Referral: Phase II: Mail and Telephone Surveys of Child Protective Services Social Workers FILE SIZE: 689.4 KB

FINAL REPORT: FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE DECISION NOT TO SUBSTANTIATE A CPS REFERRAL PHASE III: CLIENT PERCEPTIONS OF INVESTIGATION FILE SIZE: 462.5 KB

Foster Youth Transition to Independence Study: Second Annual Report 2003 FILE SIZE: 173.8 KB



The Law Society Response to The Attorney General's Review of the Role and Practices of the Crown Prosecution Service
The Law Society FILE SIZE: 56.1 KB


Past, Present, and Future Roles of Child Protective Service FILE SIZE: 153.1 KB
Patricia A.Schene
THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN – SPRING 1998


Rethinking the Paradigm for Child Protection FILE SIZE: 151.9 KB
Jane Waldfogel
THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN – SPRING 1998

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RESOURCES USED BY PROSECUTORS


American Prosecutors Research Institute


Compendium of Standards For Indigent Defense Systems: A Resource Guide for Practitioners and Policymakers, Volumes 1-5


LexisNexis Total Research System: Expert Witness Content


National District Attorneys Association


The Role of Law Enforcement in the Response to Child Abuse and Neglect
Author: Donna Pence
Charles Wilson
Published: 1992
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information


SATI Sexual Assault Resource Directory


Sexual Assualt Resources


Tools and Instruments
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information

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CHILD DEATH REVIEW METHODS AND PROCEDURES


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control: Child Maltreatment: CDC Activities


Child Fatality Review in the United States: A National Overview
Institute For Bioethics Health Plicy And Law
University of Louisville
M. Gabriela Alcalde, M.P.H. and
Nanette R. Elster, J.D., M.P.H.
Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law
University of Louisville School of Medicine

[NOTE: This purported "National Overview" literally contains no mention of "corruption," "organized crime" or "exploitation." As typical of the entire child protection system and allied nonprofit organizations, the impact of organized crime and exploitation of children by pimps, mental health practitioners, mental health institutions, social workers, State child protection system employees and child abuse investigators is not addressed. No one wants to deal with explaining how children taken into State protective custody end up in child prostitution rings or receive unnecessary medical treatment and mental health therapy, all of which produce child fatalities annually. As I have demonstrated elsewhere, detecting organized crime in the child protection system is not that difficult once you bother to look.]


Guardian Unlimited
UK firm tried HIV drug on orphans

GlaxoSmithKline embroiled in scandal in which babies and children were allegedly used as 'laboratory animals'

Antony Barnett in New York
Sunday April 4, 2004
The Observer

Orphans and babies as young as three months old have been used as guinea pigs in potentially dangerous medical experiments sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, an Observer investigation has revealed. British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline is embroiled in the scandal. The firm sponsored experiments on the children from Incarnation Children's Centre, a New York care home that specialises in treating HIV sufferers and is run by Catholic charities.

The children had either been infected with HIV or born to HIV-positive mothers. Their parents were dead, untraceable or deemed unfit to look after them.

According to documents obtained by The Observer, Glaxo has sponsored at least four medical trials since 1995 using Hispanic and black children at Incarnation. The documents give details of all clinical trials in the US and reveal the experiments sponsored by Glaxo were designed to test the 'safety and tolerance' of Aids medications, some of which have potentially dangerous side effects. Glaxo manufactures a number of drugs designed to treat HIV, including AZT.

Normally trials on children would require parental consent but, as the infants are in care, New York's authorities hold that role.

The city health department has launched an investigation into claims that more than 100 children at Incarnation were used in 36 experiments - at least four co-sponsored by Glaxo. Some of these trials were designed to test the 'toxicity' of Aids medications. One involved giving children as young as four a high-dosage cocktail of seven drugs at one time. Another looked at the reaction in six-month-old babies to a double dose of measles vaccine.

Most experiments were funded by federal agencies like the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Until now Glaxo's role had not emerged.

In 1997 an experiment co-sponsored by Glaxo used children from Incarnation to 'obtain tolerance, safety and pharmacokinetic' data for Herpes drugs. In a more recent experiment, the children were used to test AZT. A third experiment sponsored by Glaxo and US drug firm Pfizer investigated the 'long-term safety' of anti-bacterial drugs on three-month-old babies.

The medical establishment has defended the trials arguing they enabled these children to obtain state-of-the-art therapy they would otherwise not have received for potentially fatal illnesses.

However, health campaigners argue there is a difference between providing the latest drugs and experimentation. They claim many of the experiments were 'phase 1 trials' - among the most risky - and that HIV tests for babies were not a reliable indicator of actual infection and therefore toxic drugs could have been given to healthy infants. HIV drugs are similar to those used in chemotherapy and can have serious side-effects.

Vera Sharav, president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, said the children had been treated like 'laboratory animals'.

'These are some of the most vulnerable individuals in the country and there appears to be a policy of giving drug firms access to them,' she said. 'Throughout the history of medical research we have seen prisoners abused, the mentally ill abused and now poor kids in a care home.'

Sharav has urged the US Food and Drug Administration to investigate and has demanded full disclosure of all adverse effects suffered by the children, including deaths. Brooklyn Democrat councillor Bill de Blasio is also demanding that New York's Administration for Children's Services, which approved the trials, reveal who gave consent and on what grounds.

Glaxo has confirmed it provided funds for some of the experiments but denied any improper action. A spokeswoman said: 'These studies were implemented by the US Aids Clinical Trial Group, a clinical research network paid for by the National Institutes of Health. Glaxo's involvement in such studies would have been to provide study drugs or funding but we would have no interactions with the patients.

'Generally speaking, clinical research is carefully regulated in the US and it would be the responsibility of the appropriate authorities to ensure all subjects in a clinical trial provided appropriate, informed consent to conform with all local laws and regulations regarding legal authority in the case of minors.'

The Incarnation trials were run by Columbia University Medical Centre doctors. Columbia spokeswoman Annie Bayne said there had been no clinical trials at Incarnation since 2000 and that consent for the children was provided by the Administration for Children's Services, which uses a panel of doctors and lawyers to determine whether the benefits of a trial for each child outweighs the risks. 'There are many safeguards in the system. HIV is eventually a fatal disease, but drug therapy has lengthened life significantly,' said Bayne.

A spokesman for Incarnation said: 'The purpose of the trials was to test the efficacy of HIV medication ... These trials were based on scientific evidence of their potential value in the treatment of HIV-infected children.'

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004


Spokane County Child Death Review Committee: 1999 ADDENDUM TO REPORT OF ACTIVITIES, 1996-1998
Spokane, Washington December 2001


Florida is an excellent case study that demonstrates the central flaws in the United States Child Protection System. On paper, Florida has a sophisticated Child Protection System management structure. In January 2001 four year old Rilya Wilson vanished while in Florida State custody. Her kidnaping went unreported for 16 months because records in her case were systematically falsified. This case was not a fluke. The systematic falsification of case records and evidence in child abuse allegations and investigations is a nationwide problem. The sophistication and competence of any management system is rendered irrelevant when the information it uses to make decisions is falsified.

STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: Family Safety Desk Reference


STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: TALLAHASSEE, June 1, 2002: CF OPERATING PROCEDURE NO. 175-17: Family Safety: CHILD DEATH REVIEW PROCEDURES


STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: TALLAHASSEE, November 1, 1998: CF OPERATING PROCEDURE NO. 215-6: Safety: INCIDENT REPORTING AND CLIENT RISK PREVENTION


STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: Policies and Procedures of the Florida Department of Children and Families: Publications Master Link Page


[FLORIDA] UNITED FOR FAMILIES: Quality Assurance & Improvement Plan, June 2003

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STATE CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM INVESTIGATION REPORTS
ARKANSAS
United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Investigation of the Conway Human Development Center, Conway, Arkansas FILE SIZE: 3.8 MB
TEXAS
Forgotten Children: A Special Report on the Texas Foster Care System, April 2004


"They are everybody's children, and nobody's children. They are the forgotten children in the Texas foster care system.

Some of them find homes with caring foster parents, or in treatment centers with experienced and caring providers. And some do not.

Some foster children have been moved among 30, 40 or even more all-too-temporary "homes." Some have been sexually, physically and emotionally abused while in the system; some have run away and joined the ranks of the missing. A few have even died at the hands of those entrusted with their care.

This report gives these children something they need—a voice."
Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Texas Comptroller

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HUMAN TRAFFICKING LAW AND ORGANIZATIONS
UNITED STATES FEDERAL LAW REGARDING HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000


Executive Order 13257 of February 13, 2002: President's Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons


Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)


Executive Order 13333 of March 18, 2004 Amending Executive Order 13257 To Implement the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003


Title 18 of the United States Code Chapter 77 sections:


1581(a) - Peonage; obstructing enforcement
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1581.html


1583 - Enticement into slavery
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1583.html


1584 - Sale into involuntary servitude
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1584.html


1589 - Forced labor
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1589.html


1590 - Trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1590.html


1591 - Sex trafficking of children or by forced fraud or coercion
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1591.html


1592 - Unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1592.html


1593 - Mandatory restitution
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1593.html


1594 - General provisions
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1594.html


Amendment to the sentencing guidelines
http://www.ussc.gov/2002guid/2002guid.pdf


The Mann Act
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/pIch117.html


Amendments to the Mann Act
http://wise.fau.edu/~tunick/courses/conlaw/mann.html


Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act of 1977
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/pIch110.html


PROSECUTORIAL REMEDIES AND TOOLS AGAINST THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN ACT OF 2003 -- (Senate - February 24, 2003)


Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998
http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm


Alien Smuggling (INA Sec. 274)(a); [8 U.S.C. 1324 a]
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1324.html


Sec.1557 Prevention of Transportation in Foreign Commerce of Alien Women and Girls
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1557.html


Importation of an Alien for Immoral Purposes (INA Sec. 278; [8 U.S.C. 1328].
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1328.html


Establishing a Commercial Enterprise for the Purpose of Evading Immigration Laws [INA Sec. 275(d)[8 U.S.C. 1325(d)].
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1325.html


Involuntary Servitude (18 U.S.C. 1584)
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/1581fin.htm


The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
http://www.usda.gov/agency/oce/oce/labor-affairs/ircasumm.htm


The Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1186a.html


The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint/page2/fp-104-208-immigration.html


Section 652 of The Illegal Immigration Reform. and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, (IIRIRA) regarding Mail-Order Bride Business.
http://www.goodwife.com/lawpages/ins.htm


The INS Report to Congress in Compliance with Section 652.
http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/repsstudies/Mobrept_full.pdf


Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/pIch96.html


Alien Tort Act
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=28&sec=1350


Child victims' and child witness'
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/3509.html


Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/22/ch32.html


Immigration and Nationality Act
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1101.html


International Emergency Economic Powers Act - 50 U.S.C. 1701
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1701.html



ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TO STOP HUMAN TRAFFICING
ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes)

FROM THE WEB SITE: "ECPAT is a network of organisations and individuals working together to eliminate the commercial sexual exploitation of children. It seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation."


INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION

FROM THE WEB SITE: "International Justice Mission pursues justice for the oppressed using two broad approaches:
Casework
IJM's legal and law enforcement professionals use investigation strategies, legal expertise, and cutting-edge technology to rescue individual victims of injustice and abuse around the world.

Education
Through its education initiatives, IJM provides people of faith with the training, mobilization tools and resources to translate their convictions into active engagement."


PROJECT PROTECTION

FROM WEB SITE: "The Protection Project is a legal human rights research institute based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. The project documents and disseminates information about the scope of the problem of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, with a focus on national and international laws, case law, and implications of trafficking on U.S. and international foreign policy. Under "Human Rights Report" link on main page see especially "Maps of Trafficking Routes.""
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Please send documentation and other objective verifiable evidence relating to criminal trading in children to:
Special Research Projects
THE SOCIOLOGY CENTER
P.O. Box 2075
North Little Rock, AR 72115-2075
Telephone: (501) 374-1788
Email: [email protected]


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