Nancy Pelosi Kicks the Ladder Out from Under Another Qualified Woman
By Ani on November 13, 2009 at 3:30 PM in Current Affairs, DNC, DNC idiocy, Democratic Party, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Universal Health Care
Well, folks, we have a winner! I’ve been pondering which government official most deserves to sit at the left hand of Lucifer and at last I have found her! Speaker Nancy Pelosi did her level best to kick the ladder out from under Hillary Clinton last year, truly the most qualified of the bunch, in 2008. Now Politico tells us the following:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be endorsing Rep. Michael Capuano in the Massachusetts Senate special election, choosing her House colleague over Attorney General Martha Coakley, who is seeking to become the first female senator in the state.
Pelosi will be heading to Boston tomorrow morning to make the formal endorsement.
In her statement, Pelosi noted Capuano’s support for the historic health care legislation that she shepherded through the House. Coakley said she opposed the legislation that passed through the House because it contained a provision restricting federal funds from going to abortion providers.
“Saturday the House of Representatives passed a historic health care bill that was a great victory for the American people,” Pelosi said. “Mike Capuano not only cast a courageous vote for this historic legislation, but was a constructive force in improving this bill and moving it to the Senate.”
This would be the “historic” bill featured the Stupak amendment which has pro-choice legislators, feminists and organizations like NOW and NARAL furious. And here’s why. According to Planned Parenthood:
“…This amendment would violate the spirit of health care reform, which is meant to guarantee quality, affordable health care coverage for all, by creating a two-tiered system that would punish women, particularly those with low and modest incomes…
“While Rep. Stupak claims that his amendment simply applies the Hyde amendment to health reform, nothing could be farther from the truth. The Stupak/Pitts amendment would result in a new restriction on women’s access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market, undermining the ability of women to purchase private health plans that covers abortion, even if they pay for most of the premium with their own money…
“Rep. Stupak’s amendment would dramatically shift current federal policy related to abortion coverage and would undermine the principle of abortion neutrality in health care reform. A vote for Rep. Stupak’s amendment is a vote to weaken women’s access to comprehensive reproductive care and to take away private benefits that women currently have.”
Once again, women are the first to be asked to make “compromises” so the man can get his “historic” legislation passed. Where have I heard that before?
And let me get this straight – Capuano’s payback for voting for this thing is the endorsement of the Speaker of the House?
Attorney General Martha Coakley is a fierce advocate for women, children and working families. She’s squeaky clean, tough, and principled but that’s not good enough for Ms. Pelosi? Is she so threatened by having another tough woman in a position of power in government? Could this be more payback for the fact that Martha Coakley endorsed Hillary and refused to give up her vote at the Convention? Or that Coakley has her own ideas about health care and refused to endorse Pelosi’s 2,000 page monstrosity because of the Stupak amendment?
Here is AG Coakley’s statement regarding her opposition:
The House’s vote is in many ways a significant step toward the goal of health care reform. However, I am deeply disturbed that the House adopted the Stupak/Pitts amendment, which would deny millions of women access to reproductive services. The inclusion of the Stupak/Pitts amendment violates the very intent of health care reform, which is meant to guarantee quality, affordable health care coverage for everyone. I believe that the Senate has a responsibility to fix this by eliminating the provision in whatever reform legislation moves forward.
Boston Globe weighed in on the issue pointing out that Capuano is mired in the typical Washington wheeling and dealing, supporting the Stupak Amendment but now that Pelosi is taking a great deal of heat for her action, Capuano now looks to be waffling:
…Capuano’s message to voters quickly became mired in inconsistency.
“You deserve leaders that don’t try to thread the needle,’’ he said at his Monday night rally. Yet, in this case, he threaded it, and then blasted Coakley for saying she wouldn’t do the same. Then, instead of sticking with the principle he said he believed in, Capuano shifted. He said he would vote against health care legislation if a final version included the restrictive amendment.
So he was ‘for’ it before he was ‘agin’ it? I prefer Coakley, who did not feel the need to equivocate and stated, “I do not believe we have to take a step back on women’s rights to get health care reform.”
In the Boston Globe, Ellen Goodman stated:
“We now have pro-life Republicans and Democrats — most notably Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan — demanding that any health plan offering abortion be banned from the newly created health-care exchange. And guess what that will mean? More than 80 percent of private insurance plans cover abortions. But any insurance plan that wants to be eligible for the huge wave of new clients would have to drop the abortion coverage it offers.”
Guess Capuano doesn’t care to thread the needle on that one.
Pelosi led the charge last year saying Republicans would overturn Roe v. Wade if elected, thereby threatening Hillary’s Democratic holdouts if they failed to fall in line and support Barack Obama. The DNC made a big show of how they were the only party to protect women. Yet in order to pass this health care behemoth that most in Congress did not have the time to read, Pelosi’s first act was to throw pro-choice women under the bus. Here’s hoping Pelosi’s endorsement will not help Capuano’s sagging primary bid.
Capuano is lagging behind in the four-way Democratic primary against Coakley, according to public polling. A Suffolk University poll released today showed Coakley leading with 44 percent of the vote, Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca in second with 17 percent, and Capuano in third with 16 percent.
The special election primary will be held December 8 and the winner will be the favorite to fill the Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy. Sen. Paul Kirk (D-Mass.) is holding the seat on an interim basis.
Ultra liberal Massachusetts has never had a woman Senator. Now that we have a chance at someone who would really stand up for the working voter and for women, Pelosi says no deal?
What say you?
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I don’t think that this has anything to do with gender. It most likely had to do with the fact that once someone becomes a Senator they usually stay in that position for life.
I think there should be a max of 2 terms for Senators and 4 for house reps.
That would keep Congress fresh and without the Royalty status these scumbags demand from the public.
Sounds like she is endorsing a fellow Italian. Perhaps they belong to the same Family as in Godfather. Who knows?
Pelosi will be gone soon. I can’t hardly wait when she becomes and ex-speaker of the house or better still ex Representative from whence she comes from .
Why do you automatically assume that all Italians are in the Mafia? We are not.
I think we’ve had a revolution already: Republicans have been infiltrating Democratic party ranks for years and now they’re starting to show their true colors.
Seriously, Pelosi should just come out and say she’s switched to the Right to Life party and have done with it.
Feh!
What say you?
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SEND MONEY!!!
I can’t think of a better way to stick it to Pelosi Reid and Obama than to have Coakley (MA) and Sestak (PA) win their Senate primaries.
A win by Martha will the first step in reclaiming the Democratic Party from the Obamacrats.
Well said SHV!
And Excellent post Ani!! So glad you did this.
Geesh. Now, we have to canonize her because she is a woman? She chose to protect her well-heeled well-connected former colleague against my accusations the agency he headed misplaced a child and then, tried to cover this up by leaving him in the wrong home until they could move him without getting caught. In the meantime, the foster family was abusing and neglecting him. I reported this crime to then DA Coakley. She called the agency. ‘Are you abusing and neglecting this child and covering it up because you put him in the wrong home?’ No. AND THAT WAS THE SCOPE OF HER INVESTIGATION.
An angel from the baby’s birth hospital smuggled out the baby’s birth records a couple of years later. Now, I could PROVE he was once as healthy as a horse, notwithstanding court records submitted by the agency paint him as a sickly newborn brought back to health by this same foster family I can prove nearly killed him. Ms. Coakley could hve proved this, too, if only she had obtained his birth records when I reported the crime.
Ms. Coakley’s good friend, the former head of the agency, whom she described as her “mentor” is now a Superior Court Judge. And she would be the next U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
Ms. Coakley could have championed the cause of a rich white connected Republican or a poor black baby subject of a Care & Protection proceeding. She chose according to her best interest. I have no basis to assume, given even more power, she would act differently.
Thanks for the insight on Ms. Coakley.
A law professor from my alma mater suggested I should talk to her husband, an ADA in Ms. Coakley’s office. In the end, he urged me to take whatever civil steps I could to free the child from the custody of the state. ‘This is much too political; no one in this office is going to touch this.’ I tried; but I was no match for a popular DA, and a famous judge, and…
Add that she keeps “finding” money that she and her husband “forgot” to list more than $200K from a savings account on her financial reports and this isn’t the first time she “forgot.” She’s ethically challenged enough to make you think she’s Charlie Rangel in drag.
That said, they’re all yelling vote for me, I’m going to be like Teddy and I’ve had enough of that. I’m voting for none of the above.
Thanks jbjd for your personal insight.
I am SO disappointed in Nancy Pelosi.
Why? What did you expect?
and let’s not forget that massachusetts went for hilary in the primary and then kennedy and kerry threw us under the bus in favor of the great obobo. i’m thinking that most likely coakley was a force behind the support of hilary, along with many massachusetts women and men.
so is this a kind of payback, via pelosi, to the women of massachusetts for not supporting the hopey one? smells fishy.
coakley is so the person who ought to sit in teddy’s old seat. and she is not one to be bullied by the red hats of the catholic “leadership” who would just love capuano in their pocket.
just what we need…a harvard business school grad in the senate, while the qualified woman speaks truth to power.
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Coakley refused to relinquish her support for Hillary even at the convention where Pelosi and Obama were applying all kinds of threats on state party chairs to bring their people in line. So queen bee Pelosi hates her for that reason too.
Capuano is losing ground; he should be her biggest competitor, but he has lost support while the two unknown, self-funding businessmen have gained as much support as he has fallen to. Pelosi is his hail mary pass–the kiss of death I would say.
Honestly, is an endorsement by Nancy Pelosi really worth much these days?
I mean, who actually likes her, except maybe hardcore liberals? But even with liberals I’ve not heard any of them say positive things about her.
HAHA! I was just about to say that Pelosi’s endorsement probably means nothing or worse now a days! Maybe Sarah Palin will endorse Coakley! She doesn’t worry about party anymore! I have to say, the biggest shame is that Palin wasn’t elected. She truly meant it when she said country first! I’m not sure why McCain is so silent these days!
OMG, SOHNP even surprises me. At least she’s consistent. She always back the weaker compromised person, which usually is a man.
This should be a good sign for Ms Coakley, as SOHNP is bottoming out with her approvals at historic lows. And fitting, so is the person.
I am beginning to think it’s not a simple case of, you know, thugs like thugs, because they always have something on them. I started to think it may be more sexist, that NP wants to be Queen woman in power, kill the competition. But I think it’s just her character that we’ve seen in action these past few years.
I think she’s poison and most of the country agrees and they probably see it a positive sign that she’s backing the brawn instead of the brains.
That calls for another donation to Attorney General Coakley! Even though I don’t agree that the Stupak amendment denies reproductive services. It denies funding for abortions, period. But she obviously in her principles believes they should be provided.
https://coakley.zissousecure.com/contribute/FEC
Thanks for this link.
so much for the sisterhood.
pelosi will always disappoint citizens with the exception of a dwindling small amount of far left. good luck folks(dims)! you had the chance of a lifetime and blew yourselves out of the water. we the american people won’t forget or forgive.
Pelosi will be heading to Boston tomorrow morning to make the formal endorsement….
Who knew her broom could fly that far on one charge.
And when she gets there, she can write with smoke in the sky, “SURRENDER MARTHA!”
Do the taxpayers have to pay for her Flying Monkey escorts?
Where’s a bucket of water when you need one…
Y’all are all so funny!
And your little dog too.
I for one will be supporting Coakley. Nancy endorsed Capuano because he’s pliable and she most likely detects that Coakley is not.
Exactly why she kicked the ladder out from under Hillary.
And that’s exactly what I was thinking, Ani - well said, and great post!
I’d love it if Nancy’s constituents would kick the ladder out from under her. She is a detriment. But, that probably won’t happen.
Nancy’s insecurities about other women having power are costing the country.
But if I ruled the world, I would order both Nancy and Barack to undergo complete mental health evaluations with intelligence tests included. Perhaps they can rule the floor of the mental hospital they would most likely end up in.
Great article Ani!
Now it’s our turn to make it happen.
Please do what you can for Martha- If you live in Massachusetts of course vote in the primary on Dec. 8th -and sign up to help out: http://marthacoakley.com
If you can donate: http://www.actblue.com/page/mc2010
Send a message to Nancy and her gang and let’s get this one for Hillary!
I went to her website and sent her a message that I was giving her money because she stood by Hillary. I told her that a lot of people are doing that now - if someone wasn’t there for Hillary, we’re voting them OUT! Then I added that if Pelosi is endorsing her opponent, that SHE must be the best choice for the job!
The inclusion of Stupak is typical cynical politics. It allowed those in the House who wouldn’t have voted for healthcare reform because of anti-abortion pressures to do so, proclaiming later that they backed an anti-abortion amendment. The cynicism lies in their doing so in the knowledge that it’s all for show. Stupak is extremely unlikely to survive reconciliation. The democratic leadership knows that if it did, they would pay heavily at the polls.
I don’t know anything about Coakley, but like the fact that she’s apparently a straight-shooter. She seems to be staying what she really thinks about the amendment. Would that all politicians had the courage to always say what they’re really thinking!
Pelosi’s endorsment will hurt Capuano.
If Hillary had endorsed Capuano, then I would be upset.
I understand and appreciate the betrayal felt by womankind regarding Pelosi. How ironic, considering she is the first female Speaker… That being said:
Perhaps in a twisted way Pelosi has helped Coakley: Massachusetts was for Hillary and had their votes made meaningless by the evil criminal Pelosi/Dean/DNC/Obama amalgam. I tend to believe the citizens of the Commonwealth might view the first woman Senator in that light — and would have been turned OFF by a Coakley endorsement by Pelosi.
Coakley is the front runner anyway. I don’t believe an endorsement either way will affect the outcome.
I think you are right about that. My post is more about pointing out how true to form Ms. Pelosi is in her actions. Her betrayals are continual and consistent.
Yep, that’s why I prefaced my remarks as I did. Good post Ani - My apology: I tend to drag in related issues as they pop into my noggin. Seems to happen all the time!
No apology necessary — thanks so much for your comments.
The state healthcare programs in “Tea party” state are not well recieved. The governor of the state is “just words” recycled.
Ani, thanks. Other what jbjd stated, and in keeping with it being an “under the bus” free for all food fight, Nancy is just a wet kiss on pig night.
May her words come back to haunt her;
as she accepted the gavel.
Sell out. At this point I’m asking “Who is we?” or is talking about the roots of socialism in America?
Pelosi’s position on Coakley makes her even more insidious than could be imagined. After Stupak this move is strictly to shore up her pro Catholic position on making woman’s choice the sacrifice Pelosi willingly gave up with Obama’s approval.
Pelosi and Democrats will pay the price for this sellout. And since when have Democrats forgotten about the separation of powers of Church and State?
Pelosi is entirely off the wall and the current bill is unacceptable. The Senate will mangle it more with good ole Joe. Reid, who knows if he has any guts, and if he wants anything to really happen? Democrats in leadership have failed miserably.
Pelosi has ruined any possibility of a decent bill. Along with Obama’s help and with his Drug Deal as well as taking political cover in silence.
Pelosi’s treachery regarding women’s rights won’t be forgotten by Democrats she’s shafted. The House will pay at the voting booth for this.
Jim S — you mentioned the story that appeared in the Globe today about undeclared assets by Coakley. It did strike me as a pretty lame excuse, but in the last year stranger things have happened. I have a feeling there are plenty of skeletons in Capuano’s closet, too. I believe if we scratch the surface, we’ll find that this tidbit was leaked by a “friend” of BO and Nancy. It’s so similar to the way BO won his Senate seat in Illinois by eliminating Ryan.
But, you know, it’s so depressing! Isn’t there one SINGLE person in politics who can be trusted to be honest and have integrity? What’s wrong with these people? Maybe we have to elect farmers, small business owners, social workers, bus drivers…. forget the lawyers (no offense to any good lawyers), forget the people rising up from local or state office - something about politics or power is apparently just too corrupting. Maybe we’ll have more good luck if we elect these regular people, and then have term limits to get ‘em out before they go bad!
Hockey Moms maybe?
“(no offense to any good lawyers)”. I’m sure neither one of them would be offended.
Well, jbjd is one, and I didn’t want it to sound personal, because it’s not. But after reading part of that health bill, I’m thinking maybe lawyers can’t read real English anyway, and wouldn’t be able to see that I may have dissed them!
You’ve only got one good arm, and you’ll more whole than they’ll ever be!
Pelosi’s endorsement of anyone these days is the “kiss of death”. I wouldn’t worry about Coakley. I’m sure Pelosi has helped Coakley like Obama helped Christie win the N. J. governor’s race. I guess it’s the “Midas touch” in reverse.
The best thing that could happen to Martha Coakley was to have axis sally pelosi endorse her opponent.
If nancy is against her she must be good for the country and her state.
Which name do you think fits nancy better?
backstabber nancy or back alley nancy since thanks to her there will be back alley abortions again?
WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
MORE ABOUT NANCY PELOSI AND THE US NY HOUSE OF REP “WINNER”:
In Neil Cavuto’s interview w/Hoffman on 13 November 2009, Neil was told by Hoffman that there are still 10,000 votes to be counted, and Owen’s lead is down from the original 7,000 to 3,000. I think an important part of this report is that Hoffman tells us that Nancy Pelosi was told that Owens had not been certified by the state election board…and yet she still had Owens sworn in as the Rep. from NY.
http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2009/11/13/
Nancy Pelosi certified the results of NY-23 for Bill Owens before the state of New York certified the race
pelosiclown.jpg
Doug Hoffman appeared on the Neil Cavuto show today and told Cavuto that the race for the NY23 Congress seat is still open. It seems that Nancy Pelosi decided to certify the results of Bill Owens ‘victory’ before the state of New York certified the race. Isn’t something wrong here or am I off base? Doug Hoffman also got a shot in at Owens for breaking 4 of his campaign promises his first week in office including voting for the Democrat’s nationalized health care plan WITH the public option that Owens claimed he would never vote for.
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Hope you can open the link to see Neil’s interview with Hoffman on YouTube. Why no info on this at NoQuartersUSA???
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the
oppressed.” –Steve Biko
PLEASE HELP FIGHT THE ABUSE OF OUR CHILD AGAINST DPS =Child Protective Services WRONG DOING !.
elect Social Wokers ?? think not !
Bill Bowen’s documentary Innocence Destroyed about kids murdered while in custody of CPS is powerful
Hundreds of children die every year in the custody of Child Protective Services. That’s not something the general public is aware of. But that lack of awareness will hopefully end this winter when the full length documentary, Innocence Destroyed, is released.
Innocence Destroyed is not being produced by a half-witted conspiracy theorist but by former firefighter and federal law enforcement officer, Bill Bowen. Bowen, as you can see in the shorter version of the film he has posted on YouTube and which I have embedded below, is intelligent and articulate and just the sort of man needed to produce such a documentary. When you listen to Bowen, you instinctively know that here is a man you can trust–here is a man who tells the truth.
If the short version is any indication of what the full length version will be like, then this film should be entered into competition at Sundance, Slamdance and other film festivals. It is incredibly professional, and the original musical score, particularly Adriana’s Theme by Steve Berkowitz is gorgeous.
But behind the beautiful music is the ugly reality, so ugly the movie is not recommended for anyone under sixteen, of children being tortured and murdered while in the care of the very people who are supposed to protect children, Child Protective Services. Particularly difficult to watch are some of the autopsy photos.
The film opens with a heartrending interview with Tausha Cram, mother of Adriana Cram, the subject of the movie’s theme song. Tausha did not even find out her daughter had been murdered until a month after her death and then found out that she was murdered and buried in Mexico–that’s correct, not New Mexico, but Mexico.
Why
http://suncanaa.com/why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kaVjBi8tcw&feature=player_embedded
Why are these children dying ?
http://suncanaa.com/in_memory_
Children Protective Services have failed these children. Are there more? Of course there are. We just haven’t learned their names or seen their faces.
http://suncanaa.com/stories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48YF1uEuCUA&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhGz5NEPoGs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0D85vhY-M&feature=player_embedded
Bill Bowen’s documentary Innocence Destroyed about kids murdered while in custody of CPS is powerful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kaVjBi8tcw&feature=player_embedded
Should it be any different for CPS?
America’s dead children and Child Protective Services
In this country when someone breaks the law, whether it is a police officer, a doctor, or an ordinary citizen they are charged with a crime. Should it be any different for CPS?
When a doctor is negligent in performing his duties and his patient is injured or killed because of that negligence he is held accountable. Should it be any different for CPS?
When a child dies, and there is even the suspicion that the other parent could have known of the abuse, that parent is charged with failure to protect. Should it be any different for CPS?
When a government agency in this country isn’t following the law, and performing its duties as required, they are investigated and if needed, the Federal Government intervenes to make them perform those duties or shuts them down. Should it be any different for CPS?
The list is long and heartbreaking, the children on it have been beaten, broken, drowned, burned, strangled, starved or neglected, and all of them are dead. Headlines have drawn attention to the cases of some of them, Danieal Kelly, Erin Maxwell, Kayla Allen, and Christopher Thomas, but there are many more, Phoenix Jordan Cody-Parrish, Brandon Williams, Elizabeth Goodwin, Logan Marr and Alexis (Lexie)Agyepong-Grover, just to name a few.
The children on this list died in very different settings; some died in their own homes, some in foster care, while others were killed by their adoptive parents. Yet, all of these dead, abused, children had one thing in common, Child Protective Services.
Statistics
Bill Bowen in his short documentary film, Innocents Destroyed, states that, “Over 1,000 children die of neglect or are tortured and murdered each year, in the care of an entity where children are up to 600% more likely to die a horrific death, CPS.”
According to Child Welfare Information Gateway, “The National Child abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) reported an estimated 1,760 child fatalities in 2007.” All of these deaths are attributed to child abuse or neglect.
The math of these statistics is alarming, if these numbers are to be believed roughly 57% of all child abuse deaths in America have some type of Child Protective Services involvement.
In a report released by Every Child Matters, titled, “We Can Do Better”, there is a list of 51 children that died between 2001 and 2009. During research on the children listed in this report, this reporter found the following:
27 of them (53% percent) had prior Child Protective Services involvement before their deaths
19 had no evidence or no evidence was found of prior CPS involvement
4 had previous investigations or convictions for child abuse on children other than their victim, 1 of these had a report of abuse made to the police and 1 was a known sex offender
1 was a police officer who killed his girlfriends child
The numbers are eye opening; more children are dying in this country with CPS involvement then without it.
How is this allowed to continue?
The pattern of these types of deaths has become the norm in this country. A child dies of abuse or neglect and then it is later discovered that CPS was already involved with the family, that the child was a foster child, or had been adopted by the parent who killed them. CPS is rarely held accountable in these cases, even when negligence is proven; there is no punishment for the agencies that are legally obligated to perform the duties of Child Protection.
The director’s and social workers in these cases hide behind confidentiality laws, that were initially implemented to protect families and children, but that now seem merely in place to protect CPS. They also hide behind immunity laws that make it nearly impossible for them to be held accountable for these children’s deaths.
Criminal prosecution for these workers is almost unheard of, even with proof of forged documents, perjury, failure to perform statutory duties, and in some cases a complete and total disregard for the well being of the children entrusted to their care. These workers, their supervisors and all involved, walk away from these deaths free and clear without any ramifications for their behavior at all, often times right back into the office and back to work, like nothing ever happened.
It is hard to get a District Attorney or the Police to investigate the people they work so closely with on a daily basis, who they may even consider friends.
Kayla Allen
Take for example the North Carolina death of Kayla Allen, Onslow County had received numerous reports of abuse on Kayla, they even received pictures of bruises on Kayla taken by the Michigan Police Department after Kayla’s grandmother out of desperation to protect Kayla from the blatant abuse that was being ignored by Onslow County, kidnapped Kayla and took her home to Michigan.
Kayla’s grandmother was arrested, and Kayla was returned to North Carolina into the care of Carolyn Furtell, Kayla would be dead 14 months later and Carolyn Furtell was eventually convicted of involuntary manslaughter in her death. Kayla’s Grandmother committed suicide after Kayla’s death because she had promised her beloved granddaughter that no one would ever hurt her again.
The Onslow County Department of Social Services was not held accountable for their failure to protect Kayla, in fact, Roger Penrod, Onslow County Director of Social Services stated, “I’ve reviewed the case, and no one has found any fault in what DSS was involved in,” he said. “That doesn’t satisfy some people. They are free to say what they want, but I can’t comment on it.”
“Allowing Child Protective Services to investigate themselves, is akin to allowing a murderer to be the judge and jury at their own trial, of course they will find themselves innocent of all charges.”
How to end these needless deaths
The needless deaths of these children have to stop and the only way to do that is to change the laws that govern Child Protective Services.
In this country when someone breaks the law, whether it is a police officer, a doctor, or an ordinary citizen they are charged with a crime. Should it be any different for CPS?
When a doctor is negligent in performing his duties and his patient is injured or killed because of that negligence he is held accountable. Should it be any different for CPS?
When a child dies, and there is even the suspicion that the other parent could have known of the abuse, that parent is charged with failure to protect. Should it be any different for CPS?
When a government agency in this country isn’t following the law, and performing its duties as required, they are investigated and if needed, the Federal Government intervenes to make them perform those duties or shuts them down. Should it be any different for CPS?
Evidence shows that Child Protective Services isn’t working in this country, it is a broken system not merely full of cracks, but riddled with big gaping holes that America’s children are falling into. Hasn’t the time come to change this department?
Complaints about Child Protective Services at the federal level are met with the assertion that CPS is not a federal issue, but a state issue. How can that be when children in every state are dying with Child Protective Services involvement? Children dying in America are not just a state issue, it is a national issue and until these American children’s deaths are viewed as an American problem, the deaths will continue.
Social worker elected ?NOPE, don’t think so!
Bill Bowen’s documentary Innocence Destroyed about kids murdered while in custody of CPS is powerful
Hundreds of children die every year in the custody of Child Protective Services. That’s not something the general public is aware of. But that lack of awareness will hopefully end this winter when the full length documentary, Innocence Destroyed, is released.
Innocence Destroyed is not being produced by a half-witted conspiracy theorist but by former firefighter and federal law enforcement officer, Bill Bowen. Bowen, as you can see in the shorter version of the film he has posted on YouTube and which I have embedded below, is intelligent and articulate and just the sort of man needed to produce such a documentary. When you listen to Bowen, you instinctively know that here is a man you can trust–here is a man who tells the truth.
If the short version is any indication of what the full length version will be like, then this film should be entered into competition at Sundance, Slamdance and other film festivals. It is incredibly professional, and the original musical score, particularly Adriana’s Theme by Steve Berkowitz is gorgeous.
But behind the beautiful music is the ugly reality, so ugly the movie is not recommended for anyone under sixteen, of children being tortured and murdered while in the care of the very people who are supposed to protect children, Child Protective Services. Particularly difficult to watch are some of the autopsy photos.
The film opens with a heartrending interview with Tausha Cram, mother of Adriana Cram, the subject of the movie’s theme song. Tausha did not even find out her daughter had been murdered until a month after her death and then found out that she was murdered and buried in Mexico–that’s correct, not New Mexico, but Mexico.
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