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.

http://suncanaa.com/why

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.

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

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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

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

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.

You’ve only got one good arm, and you’ll more whole than they’ll ever be!

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;

“It is a moment for which we have waited over 200 years! Never losing faith, we waited through the years of struggle to achieve our rights,” she said. “But women weren’t just waiting, women were working. Never losing faith we worked to redeem the promise of America, that all men, and women, are created equal.”

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?