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Friday, April 22, 2011
Wiki Leaks
As you know, many attempts have been made to thwart the free speech of Wiki Leaks. Our original post may be viewed in the Wikileaks archives at this link:
http://www.wikileaks.ch/wiki/Michigan_Catholic_Social_Services_foster_care_agency_adminisration_fee_fraud
http://www.wikileaks.ch/wiki/Michigan_Catholic_Social_Services_foster_care_agency_adminisration_fee_fraud
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Good information
Nothing here should be considered legal advice. We speak about our own experiences and have found a wealth of other good stories. Here's one I read today with very good information:
http://nfpcar.org/References/DOnDont.htm
http://nfpcar.org/References/DOnDont.htm
Monday, May 18, 2009
Lillian's Timeline
On May 14, 2007 Susan went to the court file room to pull a copy of court order for Dwayne (biological sibling) to travel to Jamaica with our church. There in the file was an order terminating the parental rights to a sister, Asiah Simone Jones, born November 2006. She was placed in foster care under Methodist Children's Home Society (MCHS) Redford, Michigan on November 17, 2006.
On September 27, 2007, Judge Hartsfield signed a court order naming us as prospective adoptive parents (PAP) and clearly ordering "VISITS BETWEEN CHILD AND PROSPECTIVE ADOPTIVE PARENT (PAP) SHOULD BEGIN WITHIN 7-14 DAYS."; "VISITS SHOULD BEGIN WITH PAP WITHIN 7-14 DAYS." MCHS FAILED to comply with this court order.
On May 12, 2008, Judge Hartsfield signed another court order naming us as PAP and ordering transitioning of Asiah to our home. MCHS FAILED to comply with this court order.
On August 8, 2008 at Asiah's court hearing, Judge Hartsfield was not content regarding lack of PAP visitation, also ordered the MCHS worker subpoened to face possible contempt charges for failing to obtain infant mental health screening (ordered February 19, 2008). Judge Hartsfield documents in court order "THERE HAVE BEEN NO VISITS WITH THE PROSPECTIVE ADOPTIVE PARENTS, CONTRARY TO COURT ORDER". Court also orders our "PROGRESSIVE VISITATIONS" with Asiah.
August 11, 2008 Asiah gets first PAP visit.
August 19, 2008 Asiah has infant mental health screening, six months after court order.
August 23, 2008 Asiah has first overnight in our home. She cries quite a bit. Susan is her fourth mother, but Mark is her first daddy. She decides daddy is a good thing and she readily accepts comfort from Mark.
October 24, 2008 Asiah moves to our home forever.
October 27, 2008 we file the petition to adopt and are given legal adoptive placement of Lillian Asiah.
November 12, 2008 Lillian celebrates her second birthday.
March 10, 2009 at court hearing for "Asiah", L-GAL and Adoption worker recommend final order of adoption within two weeks and waiving the six month period. Our completed adoption file is hand delivered by our adoption worker to the adoption unit.
April 27, 2009, the six month adoptive placement statutory requirement has been accomplished, but no final order of adoption is issued.
May 4, 2009 we contact our agency because we have not received the final order of adoption.
May 4 - 6, 2009 our adoption worker calls the adoption department at the court and speaks with several people, but the questions about our final order of adoption remain unanswered.
May 6, 2009 our worker goes in person to the court. The court clerk is in a meeting. She waits and eventually sees the court clerk face to face.
Paraphrase of May 6th conversation between our adoption worker and the court clerk, who excused the missing paperwork by telling our worker that she didn't give our adoption file to herself--
Worker: Why isn't theSweetman adoption processed?
Court Clerk: We never received their paperwork, must be lost in the mail.
Worker: I hand delivered it mid March.
Court Clerk:Well, the person you gave it to never gave it to me.
Worker: I hand delivered it to you.
Court Clerk: Well, I don't have it. They cut our staff. We are over worked. I'm inexperienced (despite doing adoptions for over three years).
Worker then faxed the court everything the same day, but the clerk STILL claimed she didn't have our paperwork.
May 7, 2009 our attorney paid a visit to the adoption unit and in a "miracle" the file appeared.
May 13, 2009 Judge Leslie Kim Smith signed the final order of adoption. PRAISE BE TO GOD!
On September 27, 2007, Judge Hartsfield signed a court order naming us as prospective adoptive parents (PAP) and clearly ordering "VISITS BETWEEN CHILD AND PROSPECTIVE ADOPTIVE PARENT (PAP) SHOULD BEGIN WITHIN 7-14 DAYS."; "VISITS SHOULD BEGIN WITH PAP WITHIN 7-14 DAYS." MCHS FAILED to comply with this court order.
On May 12, 2008, Judge Hartsfield signed another court order naming us as PAP and ordering transitioning of Asiah to our home. MCHS FAILED to comply with this court order.
On August 8, 2008 at Asiah's court hearing, Judge Hartsfield was not content regarding lack of PAP visitation, also ordered the MCHS worker subpoened to face possible contempt charges for failing to obtain infant mental health screening (ordered February 19, 2008). Judge Hartsfield documents in court order "THERE HAVE BEEN NO VISITS WITH THE PROSPECTIVE ADOPTIVE PARENTS, CONTRARY TO COURT ORDER". Court also orders our "PROGRESSIVE VISITATIONS" with Asiah.
August 11, 2008 Asiah gets first PAP visit.
August 19, 2008 Asiah has infant mental health screening, six months after court order.
August 23, 2008 Asiah has first overnight in our home. She cries quite a bit. Susan is her fourth mother, but Mark is her first daddy. She decides daddy is a good thing and she readily accepts comfort from Mark.
October 24, 2008 Asiah moves to our home forever.
October 27, 2008 we file the petition to adopt and are given legal adoptive placement of Lillian Asiah.
November 12, 2008 Lillian celebrates her second birthday.
March 10, 2009 at court hearing for "Asiah", L-GAL and Adoption worker recommend final order of adoption within two weeks and waiving the six month period. Our completed adoption file is hand delivered by our adoption worker to the adoption unit.
April 27, 2009, the six month adoptive placement statutory requirement has been accomplished, but no final order of adoption is issued.
May 4, 2009 we contact our agency because we have not received the final order of adoption.
May 4 - 6, 2009 our adoption worker calls the adoption department at the court and speaks with several people, but the questions about our final order of adoption remain unanswered.
May 6, 2009 our worker goes in person to the court. The court clerk is in a meeting. She waits and eventually sees the court clerk face to face.
Paraphrase of May 6th conversation between our adoption worker and the court clerk, who excused the missing paperwork by telling our worker that she didn't give our adoption file to herself--
Worker: Why isn't theSweetman adoption processed?
Court Clerk: We never received their paperwork, must be lost in the mail.
Worker: I hand delivered it mid March.
Court Clerk:Well, the person you gave it to never gave it to me.
Worker: I hand delivered it to you.
Court Clerk: Well, I don't have it. They cut our staff. We are over worked. I'm inexperienced (despite doing adoptions for over three years).
Worker then faxed the court everything the same day, but the clerk STILL claimed she didn't have our paperwork.
May 7, 2009 our attorney paid a visit to the adoption unit and in a "miracle" the file appeared.
May 13, 2009 Judge Leslie Kim Smith signed the final order of adoption. PRAISE BE TO GOD!
Sunday, May 17, 2009
It's official, the Judge signed Lillian's final order of adoption on Wednesday May 13th. Two years ago this month we found her in the court file, and immediately offered to adopt her and give her a permanent home. The law is in the best interest of the child, the statutes support keeping siblings together, and the policy is to get children permanency quickly.
In the real world it doesn't happen like that, and we now have two adoptions to prove that the best interest of the child is just rhetoric, there is no meaning behind those words. Unless and until those who make decisions contrary to the law, policy and best interest of the child are held accountable for their bad job performance, it won't change.
God knows everything, corrupt and pure, and HE made the decision for this child to be ours. Praise to the Lord that she was protected throughout the entire process. May all the glory go to Jesus.
In the real world it doesn't happen like that, and we now have two adoptions to prove that the best interest of the child is just rhetoric, there is no meaning behind those words. Unless and until those who make decisions contrary to the law, policy and best interest of the child are held accountable for their bad job performance, it won't change.
God knows everything, corrupt and pure, and HE made the decision for this child to be ours. Praise to the Lord that she was protected throughout the entire process. May all the glory go to Jesus.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Six Months Post Adoptive Placement
Yesterday marked Six Months since Lily was placed in our home for adoption. Last week our worker contacted the court, she was told that the Final Order of Adoption was on the Judge's schedule to be signed April 27th. We now are waiting for that little piece of paper to come in the mail, and if everything is on the up and up, it should be post marked today and we should get it tomorrow. Yesterday also marked Three Years since Ben's adoption. Lily's 17 month journey to adoption was small potatoes compared with Ben's journey. Some day Lily will know how we struggled to make sure she got a permanent family, and I got an education in the meantime. All in God's plan, I am sure. God is truely good, and He will see us through. Praise be to the Lord.
Monday, January 26, 2009
16 Dirty Tricks (aka The Method)
Another Author wrote the following:
THE LITTLE KNOWN “DIRTY TRICKS” OF DCFS/CPS/DSS THAT ARE HIDDEN FROM VIEW
http://www.nfpcar.org/References/DirtyTricks.htm
THE LITTLE KNOWN “DIRTY TRICKS” OF DCFS/CPS/DSS THAT ARE HIDDEN FROM VIEW
http://www.nfpcar.org/References/DirtyTricks.htm
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Lillian's Adoption Story
Lillian Asiah is not 100% ours until the final order of adoption, should be around April. The seventeen month pursuit of adopting her involved all the same crap we endured with our adoption of Ben, only since we were not foster parents they couldn't launch "special investigations" against us!
A year ago the ombudsman closed their administrative review of her lack of sibling visits, concluding the adoption was in process, then the attack from Methodist resumed. I don't know HOW they network and can dictate to other agencies what to do, but at that time we were working with Judson Center who decided that the home study they had completed on us in September 2007 was "incomplete". Too bad for them the unsigned 9-page version had been introduced into evidence, so when they gave us the signature page in October 2007, which was page 12, it was obvious fraud.
We found another agency through friends, they didn't want to get involved with two other agencies involved. That was December, and the Ys who adopted a sister stepped up and said THEY would adopt her. MCI's William Johnson (Michigan's legal guardian for permanent wards) sent us a nice letter that we were NOT being considered. We told the court we were NOT competing in the adoption, and the new agency was free to study us for a MARE child. They were also able to point out the incomplete nature of the Judson study, since started and incomplete home studies MUST be disclosed in Michigan, so thanks to Judson for calling it INCOMPLETE!
By May the Ys were fed up with the nonsense, because they were foster parents approved for a borrowed bed but Methodist would NOT transfer Asiah as a foster child, Methodist pulled some paperwork crap on the Ys (child doesn't qualify for subsidy - a lie) and the Ys decided it was enough. They didn't have any fight in them, I don't have the whole story but I can't blame them. They had endured the same crap in 2005, and Mr. Y ended up leaving for a time, so if they didn't have to fight why should they?!
So in May Methodist was back to NO ADOPTIVE FAMILY IDENTIFIED, and a court date lombing with an ANGRY judge. Quite a problem for an agency that had a FOUR-Month-old when she became a permanent ward! William Johnson must have felt his butt was on the line, because he knew two things, the Sweetmans will FIGHT to the bitter end, AND the Sweetmans had been at ALL the child's court hearings for almost a year. So the day before her May hearing he called our agency to confirm we were still interested in adopting the child, which we were, and with the MCI request to take over the adoption case our agency could officially get involved (Methodist kept Foster care).
The May court order for adoptive parent visitation went ignored (as did the previous Sept court order), so in August the judge threatened the agency worker with CONTEMPT, called for another hearing in thirty days, and therefore we started getting ADOPTIVE PARENT VISITATION. Should NOT take THREE COURT ORDERS.
With visitation and overnights in process, in September the paperwork games started, same subsidy issue as the Ys. Claims that the baby was not the sibling of our other FOUR adopted children. We gave our agency a truck load of documents proving they were siblings, same case number etc, just a stupid excuse. Two weeks ago we called our legislators, and in 24 hours Lansing gave up the "fight", we got the next available court date, and on MONDAY October 27th we filed the petition and got adoptive placement. GOD's hand at work.
I never really thought we would adopt her, the whole thing was very anti-climatic, Mark and I just felt led by the Holy Spirit to make sure she WAS adopted and had a permanent family. The only drama at the end was that Methodist kept calling the foster mother in the week before we filed the petition, telling her that they HAD to do a final visit on Monday, our agency said "NO", we know of course that was their last ditch effort to find "something" or make up something, we have been there and done that crap with Ben's adoption. Since we are NOT foster parents, Methodist had NO authority over us. After all, it was their decision in June 2007 to NOT work with us. Lillian Asiah is in our home, PRAISE GOD!
A year ago the ombudsman closed their administrative review of her lack of sibling visits, concluding the adoption was in process, then the attack from Methodist resumed. I don't know HOW they network and can dictate to other agencies what to do, but at that time we were working with Judson Center who decided that the home study they had completed on us in September 2007 was "incomplete". Too bad for them the unsigned 9-page version had been introduced into evidence, so when they gave us the signature page in October 2007, which was page 12, it was obvious fraud.
We found another agency through friends, they didn't want to get involved with two other agencies involved. That was December, and the Ys who adopted a sister stepped up and said THEY would adopt her. MCI's William Johnson (Michigan's legal guardian for permanent wards) sent us a nice letter that we were NOT being considered. We told the court we were NOT competing in the adoption, and the new agency was free to study us for a MARE child. They were also able to point out the incomplete nature of the Judson study, since started and incomplete home studies MUST be disclosed in Michigan, so thanks to Judson for calling it INCOMPLETE!
By May the Ys were fed up with the nonsense, because they were foster parents approved for a borrowed bed but Methodist would NOT transfer Asiah as a foster child, Methodist pulled some paperwork crap on the Ys (child doesn't qualify for subsidy - a lie) and the Ys decided it was enough. They didn't have any fight in them, I don't have the whole story but I can't blame them. They had endured the same crap in 2005, and Mr. Y ended up leaving for a time, so if they didn't have to fight why should they?!
So in May Methodist was back to NO ADOPTIVE FAMILY IDENTIFIED, and a court date lombing with an ANGRY judge. Quite a problem for an agency that had a FOUR-Month-old when she became a permanent ward! William Johnson must have felt his butt was on the line, because he knew two things, the Sweetmans will FIGHT to the bitter end, AND the Sweetmans had been at ALL the child's court hearings for almost a year. So the day before her May hearing he called our agency to confirm we were still interested in adopting the child, which we were, and with the MCI request to take over the adoption case our agency could officially get involved (Methodist kept Foster care).
The May court order for adoptive parent visitation went ignored (as did the previous Sept court order), so in August the judge threatened the agency worker with CONTEMPT, called for another hearing in thirty days, and therefore we started getting ADOPTIVE PARENT VISITATION. Should NOT take THREE COURT ORDERS.
With visitation and overnights in process, in September the paperwork games started, same subsidy issue as the Ys. Claims that the baby was not the sibling of our other FOUR adopted children. We gave our agency a truck load of documents proving they were siblings, same case number etc, just a stupid excuse. Two weeks ago we called our legislators, and in 24 hours Lansing gave up the "fight", we got the next available court date, and on MONDAY October 27th we filed the petition and got adoptive placement. GOD's hand at work.
I never really thought we would adopt her, the whole thing was very anti-climatic, Mark and I just felt led by the Holy Spirit to make sure she WAS adopted and had a permanent family. The only drama at the end was that Methodist kept calling the foster mother in the week before we filed the petition, telling her that they HAD to do a final visit on Monday, our agency said "NO", we know of course that was their last ditch effort to find "something" or make up something, we have been there and done that crap with Ben's adoption. Since we are NOT foster parents, Methodist had NO authority over us. After all, it was their decision in June 2007 to NOT work with us. Lillian Asiah is in our home, PRAISE GOD!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
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