In 2004, an order was placed for my children to Child Protective Services by my Aunt, Barbara Wiedebusch. My Aunt could not have children, but wanted children, and quite specifically wanted my children for herself. She has a reputation for being particularly self righteous, and a history of being psychologically obsessed with other peoples children... As a result, my three daughters were abducted by CPS on Sept.5, 2005, and given to her...
This was based on the allegation that I was responsible for a bruise on my six year old daughters forehead… Courtney would come to tell me that she had hit her head on the monkey bars at school, but when she was called into the office, and interrogated by CPS and school officials, she was scared, and told them she did not know how she got the bruise... However, CPS would not accept her answer, and insisted to her that her Daddy had hit her until scared little, six year old Courtney would allegedly agree. All three of my daughters, including ten month old Emily, and eight year old Megan were ripped from their mother's arms later on that evening by CPS workers and police officers. They were all four screaming and crying... It seems to me that the "child savers" had a total lack of regard for my children's "best interest", and in fact caused severe traumatic and emotional abuse to my children, right from the get go!!!
Also I should mention that an investigation by CPS revealed that not only did I not cause the bruise, but that my work records proved that I was out of town, and kept me from even having contact with my daughter for five days prior to the injury.
I was told by the department that their permanency plan was family reunification, and that I would have my children back within thirty days, by the states attorney... This was a lie and tactic to try to keep me from obtaining my own attorney. This was my aunt, Barbara Wiedebusch...
Then I was told that if I ever wanted to get my kids back alive, I would have to successfully complete a "service plan", which I did. They claimed that this "service plan" which consisted of personal counseling, family counseling, psychological evaluation, drug evaluation, home evaluations, batterer intervention program, anger management program, and parenting classes, would help me to become suitable to get my children back. But in actuality they were using their team of paid professionals to build a case against me…
During this first year under the state's "protection", CPS maximized their federal funding by labeling my children “special needs children" CPS'S funding increases substantially when they label a child as being a "special needs child," so they diagnosed my children with ADHD and forced them to take dangerous psychotropic and stimulant drugs. In the state of Texas 2 out of 3 Children under the states "protection" are used to maximize profits in this manner. Some kids as young as two years of age are forced to take multiple, mind altering psychotropics with no regard to the fact that their young minds are still being developed... "The best interest of the child"??? Who are they kidding? (Refer to an NBC report entitled "Child Protective Services Destroys Kids & Here's PROOF.flv" on youtube) here's the link... http://youtu.be/nnNyA3v7U80
These drugs along with the emotional abuse of being ripped away from her parents, and the emotional abuse of my psychotic Aunt and her husband forcing my kids to call them Mom and Dad, led to Courtney being admitted into a psychiatric hospital with thoughts of suicide, which is a common side affect of these drugs... Who protects the children, when their God given protectors have been stripped away, and CPS is given absolute power to abuse children for profit? (Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely!)
At the last second, CPS changed their permanency plan from "family reunification," to "termination of my parental rights"... I now know that this was their plan all along, and they only stretched this out for a full year to the maximum time allowed, so that they could capitalize on every federal dollar that they could possibly rake in... And also to manufacture as much "evidence" against me as they possibly could through psychiatrist's, counselors, and therapist's, whom work for them, negative evaluations ... In any case, with God's help, I was able to totally take CPS out of the picture, and off the case all together, through a "mediated settlement agreement" that gave my Aunt "PMC," Agreeing to this settlement would mean that my Aunt would keep temporary custody, but I would have a graduated visitation schedule, and I would be allowed to petition the courts, at a later date, to regain custody of my children without CPS being involved. Also, my Aunt would no longer have the luxury of the "State of Texas" and all their resources backing her wicked plan to destroy my family... This settlement was agreed upon by my self, and the state, and was brought into court record.
Shortly after this, My children made an outcry to me that they were being physically abused by my Aunt's husband and when I took my oldest daughter to the Sheriff's Department, during a visitation, with multiple bruises and belt marks all over her body, CPS was forced to investigate the integrity of their own placement. It is no surprise that CPS's findings were "no signs of abuse or neglect" in the home they placed them in. But, I have documented photos, a sheriff's report and a statement from my daughter, that says she was physically held down on a bed by my aunt's husband, and was beaten black and blue, with a belt, while she lay kicking and screaming and with no clothing on her legs (or her daddy) to protect her. All for leaving a car door open upon returning home...
Shortly after this, my Aunt hired her own attorney, took me to court, and tried to have my parental rights terminated on her own. Which, thank God, had to go before the District Court Judge, not the corrupt CPS Judge, because CPS was no longer involved... At the conclusion to this hearing, the District Court Judge scolded my Aunt and her attorney, and told them they had no grounds to terminate my parental rights... This was a glimmer of hope, right??? Wrong ! When my Aunt lost her case against me, she knew that she was going to have to get CPS back involved if she was ever going to permanently steal my children away from me... So what does she do??? She turned to her old friends, and up and GAVE my kids back to CPS!!!
This began the second CPS case, would give them a second chance to terminate my parental rights, and landed my children in a Foster home, where they are 6 times more likely to be physically, sexually abused or murdered... Besides the fact that children are much more likely to be abused in Foster Care, over 1000 children are actually tortured and murdered under the "protection" of CPS every year! Essentially, they are "protected" to death! (Refer to Bill Bowens documentary "Inocence Destroyed" on youtube) here's the link... http://youtu.be/48YF1uEuCUA
So now with my children back in CPS custody, CPS was requiring me to begin a second service plan, even though their permanency plan was admittedly to terminate my parental rights... But how could I have failed as a parent during this time when the access I had to my children was limited to supervised visitation? And if the states permanency plan is to terminate my parental rights, why do they want me to begin more counseling? Remember, that one of the reasons why CPS is so successful, is because they create the illusion that the counseling is to help reunite the parent with their children. This is a hoax! The purpose of the "counseling" by the states team of "professionals", who are on their payroll, is to manufacture negative progress reports to be used against the parent during the termination hearing! Also remember that the way the current system is set up under Bill Clinton's 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act,(ASFA) there is no financial incentive for CPS to reunite children with their parents, the department only gets paid when they keep the children in their custody as long as possible, then the department receives huge cash adoption bonus INCENTIVES, when they terminate parental rights and adopt their children to strangers... They are called "Federal Adoption Bonuses" for God's sake!!!(Refer to "CPS Crimes Against Children" on youtube) here's the link...http://youtu.be/P9OoWRPHs24
At this time my visitations were court ordered to take place in a town almost two hours away, however I have documented the violation of these "court orders" by CPS, because my kids were not being brought to these visits, with no regard to letting me know they were not going to be there, therefore letting me take off from work and make the trip for nothing. I later learned that this is common practice among CPS workers, to not bring the kids to the scheduled, court ordered visitations. They purposefully try to induce the parent to show signs of hostility or anger to be used against them in court. However State CPS workers are free to violate court orders, commit perjury, and even destroy and manufacture evidence without having to worry about consequences because States employees are protected by immunity laws...
In another instance, According to the book, Out Of Control, Who's Watching Our Child Protection Agencies, by Brenda Scott, during a visitation, a little girl asked her mother, "Do you want me Mommy?" The CPS worker reportedly refused to allow the mother to respond. A Denver social worker confirmed that hostility or anger on the part of the parent over loosing their child is considered a sign of guilt. But if social workers, many of whom do not even have children, had any knowledge of parent/child relationships, and if they were truly interested in family reunification, shouldn't they be more worried if the parent was not upset???
The nightmare continues... During one of these wasted trips I spent in the waiting room without even getting to see my kids, someone shared a seemingly believable story with me, about a parent who was able to pay CPS and got their children back... When I told my CPS case worker about this story and inquired about weather this was possible, she blatantly lied, twisted my words, and said that I offered money directly to her. The department filed "Felony Bribery" charges on me. I was soon after arrested, and am currently out on bond, awaiting trial, and could face up to ten years in prison for this felony charge... CPS would later use these allegations, which they fabricated, against me in my termination hearing... Imagine that...
So now after almost three years, and with approximately two months before my "termination hearing", the corrupt CPS Judge tells me I have to get another attorney, because the one I had was representing myself and my kids mother... I still don't understand this ruling... However my new attorney who was not familiar with the case was no match for the "State of Texas", whom I’d like to point out, now had three years to prepare their case.
On September 11, 2008, Against my children's and my will, and by using unlawful tactics, the state obtained a verdict terminating my parental rights. The department promptly scheduled what they proudly call a "final visitation." I have not been allowed to see, talk to, or write my children sense that visit in October 2008. I am not even allowed to send them a birthday card...
My case has been in appeal for the last year and a half...We have filed our appeal brief, but had to wait for the state to file theirs, which they finally did 15 months later in December 2009. The appellant court finally has all they need to make a ruling, however there is no news to date. The basis for our argument is that the court allowed the state to retry the first case even though we had come to a mediated settlement agreement, and the fact that mistreating my children was impossible, when they were not even in my care...
As you can see, there are many injustices in my case. But this is not an isolated incident, in fact, this is a world wide political and criminal phenomenon. I continue to pray and hold on to my faith that God is in control. I find inspiration in Nehemiah 4:14, the scripture that says, "Don't be afraid of the enemy! Remember the Lord who is great and glorious, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes." This is my family. According to Psalm 127:3, God gave them to me, not the state!!! Please pray for their safe return…
On May 13, 2010, the Texas 11th District Court Of Appeals rendered their opinion which states, "We find that the evidence is legally and factually sufficient to support the court's findings on termination."
On June 10, 2010, my motion for rehearing was denied.
On July 6, 2010, I accepted the states plea offer to reduce the felony bribery charge to a lesser misdemeanor of improper influence. Based on my attorneys recommendations, and his inability, and/or unwillingness to fight the state, I could not risk being sentenced to prison if the judge decided to believe the lies of my lesbian CPS case worker. Note: She does not have any children.
Megan, Courtney, and Emily, I love and miss you so much. Keep in mind that God had your best interest at heart when He choose your Mom and Dad. Remember to always seek His guidance, and trust Him in all situations. Daddy prays for you every day, pray for him too... Till I see you again, stay joyful, peaceful, and safe... I love you always and forever... Dad
