The Road To War Crimes: Live: Cardinal George Pell sentenced for child sex abuse in Australia

He was sentenced to 6 years.

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Michigan Water Decisions Intentionally Targets Poor Kids

First, Michigan intentionally poisons the children of Flint, then it turns around and starts sending out water shut-off notices.

The worst part is not that these state people knew what could happen to the children, nor is it the fact they knew what was happening to the children; they lied.

Flint, second to Detroit, has an astronomical rate of child poverty.

I guess Michigan is reinventing the concept of Targeted Populations.

Welcome to Michigan's child welfare policy.  #DOJ

#DanWyant engaged in a massive action of generational mutation under the guidance of nefarious special interests, just to profit from child welfare.

Year before water change, state knew of risks in Flint

State and local officials knew in 2013 that without proper treatment of water drawn from the Flint River, they risked subjecting the people of Flint to lead-contaminated drinking water.

But the next year, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality OK'd Flint's plan to pump water from the river, and into residents' homes, without adding an important chemical that would prevent contamination from lead in old pipes.

A report commissioned by Flint in 2011 evaluating the Flint River as a long-term source of drinking water, and delivered by the city to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality two years later, included that chemical — phosphate, often referred to as corrosion control — on a list of chemicals required to make river water safe to drink. Two years later, a Flint employee emailed the report to an MDEQ drinking water official, who passed it along to another state staffer, documents obtained by the Free Press via a Freedom of Information Act request show.

For water treatment professionals, the importance of phosphates is obvious: More corrosive water is more likely to degrade the interior of service lines, allowing dangerous substances from those pipes to enter the water. By forming a barrier inside service lines and plumbing pipes, phosphates limit the corrosive effect of water, and stop lead from contaminating the water.

It's also common knowledge that river water, subject to constant changes of temperature and makeup, tends to be more corrosive than lake water — and is likely to require treatment with phosphates. Nor is it a mystery that an aging, broke city like Flint would have older homes with lead plumbing, or that its water distribution system would include lead service lines or welds.

And this is why the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's public response to the drinking water crisis in Flint — a spike in lead levels that's resulted in an increased number of lead poisoned kids — doesn't add up.

By the time MDEQ acknowledged that Flint's water supply was compromised, it was September. The city never started corrosion control. It rejoined DWSD last month.

Warnings unheeded

The report certainly didn't alter the outcome in Flint. But it doesn't even seem to have caused drinking water managers at the city or the state to question the city's water treatment plan, to wonder whether perhaps river water should be treated for corrosion control.

And that, perhaps, is the most shocking part of Flint's water debacle. None of these warnings — not a report listing corrosion control as a requirement for using Flint River water, not test results showing rising lead levels, not an EPA memo calling the city's findings into question — moved the state to action.

Not even a local pediatrician's analysis of blood-lead level screenings for hundreds of Flint kids — finding that an increasing number had elevated blood-lead levels, a reversal of a decades-long trend — caused a sense of urgency among state regulators. For more than a week, spokespeople for Gov. Rick Snyder and MDEQ downplayed and discredited the results.

It's incomprehensible.

MDEQ is charged with overseeing compliance with environmental regulations across the state, with ensuring that companies and cities follow local, state and federal guidelines.

In Flint, there was another layer of state oversight — that city spent the last two years under the oversight of a state-appointed emergency manager, brought in to resolve the city's budget deficit. An emergency manager, with the approval of then-state Treasurer Andy Dillon, OK'd Flint's decision to join the Karegnondi Water Authority, the new regional system. And an emergency manager approved Flint's decision to use river water.

Finding out what happened in Flint will be complicated. Gov. Rick Snyder has appointed a task force to investigate. U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee and state Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, both Flint Democrats, have asked the EPA to investigate. Ananich is calling for a Senate committee to hold public hearings.

There's one more thing the city, or MDEQ, might have learned from that 2011 report about Flint River water: Phosphates are cheap. To prevent lead from contaminating Flint's water, to protect children from the lifelong damage caused by lead poisoning, wouldn't have cost much.

Just $60 a day.

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Mich. lawmakers far apart on cutting caseworkers

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Republican lawmakers on Tuesday approved vastly different plans to fund public assistance for the poor and protect children from abuse and neglect, with a House panel voting to cut more than 1,000 state jobs, or nearly 9 percent, from the Michigan agency that handles welfare, food stamps and foster care.

A Senate subcommittee later approved a Department of Human Services budget with 270 fewer funded positions than in the current fiscal year. That version is closer to Gov. Rick Snyder's proposal — which would trim about 30 jobs — and the Senate's job reductions in the child protective services division would not happen if the state has trouble meeting caseload-to-staff ratios required under a court-ordered mandate.

Differences must be resolved after the spending plans clear the full House and Senate and before lawmakers' June deadline to pass the next state budget.

"This is a pretty hard body blow when we've made significant inroads here over the last couple years across all programs and platforms of this agency," DHS spokesman Dave Akerly said of the House budget. "We don't feel that it's in any way, shape or form a realistic budget."

Three juvenile justice facilities also would close and the youth offenders sent to private facilities under the House plan, which is in stark contrast to what the Republican governor proposed. The proposal drew criticism from Democrats who said caseloads would rise 7 percent for already stressed workers and warned the budget would hamper Michigan's ability to comply with a legal settlement mandating that it improve conditions for children needing foster care and protective services.

"We cannot afford to have any more children under our care killed or abused or neglected. It's our responsibility as a state," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat.

The cuts to the 12,000-worker agency are needed because Republicans will not support Snyder's call for a surcharge on all power bills to cover emergency energy aid for low-income residents, said Rep. Peter MacGregor, a Republican from Kent County's Cannon Township and chairman of the House human services budget subcommittee.

"The governor wants a surcharge. My caucus will not support a surcharge," he said. "So we have to find the money within the budget, and that's what I did."

He said the detention facilities for juvenile offenders are too expensive and money can be saved by turning over their care to private operators. The facilities are in Escanaba, Grayling and Whitmore Lake.

MacGregor also said DHS managers could handle overseeing more front-line caseworkers.

Sen. Bruce Caswell, a Hillsdale Republican and head of the panel in charge of the Senate's human services spending plan, said he found a way to cover most of the $60 million cost of the low-income heating assistance program without Snyder's proposed surcharge on energy bills. His plan would shift federal money into the program, avoiding the amount of cuts proposed by the House.

The Senate proposal also would not close the three detention centers.

"Intelligent people can differ. That's why we have the process in place that we have. The governor has a budget — the House, the Senate. We'll reach compromises and come up with the best ideas from all three," Caswell said.

Ray Holman, spokesman for United Auto Workers Local 6000, the union for many DHS workers, said Michigan should not eliminate jobs of caseworkers charged with protecting children from abuse and neglect along with employees who determine eligibility for Medicaid and other safety-net programs.

"We're just getting stabilized now on child welfare issues. This budget is regressive and puts us back in a place where kids are going to be at risk," he said.

A March report by monitors appointed by a federal judge found that Michigan had reduced the number of child welfare caseloads per worker, thanks to a hiring blitz in 2011. The report also said the state had trouble determining how many children are living under one roof.

A 2006 lawsuit by New York-based Children's Rights led to an agreement to make changes at the child welfare agency.

House Bill 4217: http://1.usa.gov/149B7Xm

Senate Bill 192: http://1.usa.gov/16NQAYQ

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Another CPS Propaganda Lie

Another pathetic public fraud exposed by Legally Kidnapped.  

See how people will use images of children to lie just to raise money.

These people should be sued for unauthorized usage of the image of a child and defamation of character of the child.

This image is being passed around Facebook by the Anti-Abuse mob.  It's a horrible image of what appears to be an abused child.  The image is being used to incite hatred against you, the victims of CPS by providing a horrific image that will pop into the heads of the normal people when they hear the words abuse or neglect. 

The only problem I have with this is that this is not an abused child.  This is the result of a fight at a daycare.  The injuries were inflicted by a 2 year old girl.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8971712/Girl-two-beat-up-our-daughter-in-nursery-say-parents.html

Just another example of the bullshit that is being spread across the internet.

LK: http://legallykidnapped.blogspot.com/2012/09/another-cps-propaganda-lie.html#ixzz26Mm9SK5D
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If you think this is bad, just wait until you see what they do in child welfare with Medicaid!!!

Feds charge 18 with bilking Medicare of $28M in unneeded services

 The federal government today charged 18 people with bilking Medicare of $28 million in separate health care schemes that billed the government for services that weren’t necessary or never provided, including hundreds of psychotherapy treatments for dead people.


The defendants charged in the schemes include three physicians, four clinic owners and managers, two clinic employees, one nurse and four physical therapists and physical therapy assistants. Fifteen of the defendants were arrested this morning; one defendant was arrested in July; two remain missing.


According to court documents, the defendants paid kickbacks to beneficiaries and others, and falsified medical documents in order to deceive the Medicare program.


The charges show fraud schemes in Detroit — one of the nation’s top regions for Medicare fraud — have branched out to newer areas, such as psychotherapy services that prey on vulnerable residents in adult foster care homes, said Maureen Reddy, a Detroit-based FBI special agent.


The charges also suggest that home health care scams, which are prevalent in regions such as Miami, are on the rise in Detroit, Reddy said.


“Home health fraud is the number one fraud in Detroit now,” Reddy said in an interview Wednesday. “It’s very unregulated.”


Today’s indictments come one month after the federal government charged 26 people in Metro Detroit in a massive prescription pill scheme that billed the government for more than $57 million worth of bogus prescriptions for OxyContin, Vicodin, Xanax and cough syrup with codeine.


In that case – which included 12 pharmacists, four doctors, an accountant and a psychologist -- doctors got kickbacks for writing prescriptions, as did patients who agreed to let their insurers be billed for the drugs that weren’t necessary, the indictment said.


“Medicare beneficiaries and Medicaid recipients are being used as pawns for profit,” said Lamont Pugh, special agent in charge of the federal Office of Inspector General’s Chicago region, which includes Detroit.


To date, Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in Detroit have charged a total of 138 individuals in cases involving roughly $148 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare.


Charged in the latest alleged schemes were:

• Gerald R. Funderburg Jr., 31, of Southfield;
• Marcus Jenkins, 49, of Farmington Hills,
• Elizabeth Jenkins, 47, of Farmington Hills
• Dr. Alphonso Berry, 50, of Orchard
• Tausif Rahman, 36, of Canton
• Zahir Yousafzai, 41, of Canton
• Javed Rehman, 48, of Farmington Hills
• Muhammad aka "Sib" Ahmad, 33, of Ypsilanti
• Jawad Ahmad, 41, of Ypsilanti
• Dr. Dwight Smith, 58, of Detroit
• Dr. Paul Kelly, 74, of Bath
• Rehan Khan, 38, of Canton
• Nabeel Shaikh, 29, of Wixom
• Janaki Chettiar, 36, of Farmington Hills
• Jigar Patel, 27, of Madison Heights
• Anthony Parkman, 40, of Southfield
• Hetal Barot, 28, of Canton
• Srinivas Reddy, "Dr. Reddy", 35, of Bloomfield Hills,

"Health care providers should be aware that the days of stealing from Medicare with impunity are over," said U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade of the Eastern District of Michigan. "We are relentlessly investigating and prosecuting those who seek to profit from false claims for services that are medically unnecessary or, in some instances, not provided at all."

According to one indictment unsealed today, 14 individuals are charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud for their roles in a $14 million scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting fraudulent claims for home health care services.

The conspiracy, records show, was allegedly operated out of multiple home health agencies in Livonia, including Physicians Choice Home Health Care LLC, First Care Home Health Care LLC, Quantum Home Care Inc. and Moonlite Home Care Inc.

In a separate complaint unsealed today, a physician and two other individuals were charged with health care fraud and submitting false claims in connection with a roughly $11.5 million scheme to defraud the Medicare program. The scheme allegedly involved false billings for individual and group psychotherapy services at two Detroit clinics: Quality Recreation and Rehabilitation Inc. and Procare Rehabilitation Inc.

In another indictment unsealed Wednesday, the owner of a medical clinic in Southfield was charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and identity theft for a scheme allegedly involving $2.9 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare.

According to court documents, the clinic owner used the identities of Medicare providers and beneficiaries to bill for psychotherapy services that were medically unnecessary and never performed.

Since their inception in March 2007, federal strike force operations nationwide have charged more than 1,000 individuals who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for more than $2.3 billion.

Girl, 2, had twice the amount of anti-psychotic drug in her system as adult dosage

Girl, 2, had twice the amount of anti-psychotic drug in her system as adult dosage
Note from CCHR: Though this toddlers death is being investigated as an accidental ingestion of the drug, as hard as it is to comprehend, this is fact—the prescribing of psychiatry’s most powerful drugs, antipsychotics, to infants and toddlers has become commonplace. These drugs are so strong they can cause brain atrophy (shrinkage), tardive dyskinesia (involuntary muscle spasms that can be permanent), diabetes, cardiac events, and death. CCHR’s Drug Database contains the adverse reactions to psychiatric drugs that have been filed with the US FDA by doctors, pharmacists, health care providers and others over a 4 year period. For just this one antipsychotic drug alone (Haldol), the database contains 45 reports of adverse reactions for children 3 years old and under, 41 of which were reported to the FDA by medical doctors. One antipsychotic. There are many others. Keep in mind that by the FDA’s own admission, only 1-10% of side effects are ever reported to them. See the reports here: http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers/medwatch_psych_drug_adverse_reactions.php

Grand Rapids Press – December 10. 2010

by John Tunisun

Awtumn Minnema, 2, and her father, Nathan Minnema

WALKER — Awtumn Minnema, the 2-year-old who died Nov 15 from a prescription drug overdose, had twice the amount of an anti-psychotic drug in her system as a single adult dose, a pathologist said today.

Dr. Stephen Cohle, who performed the autopsy on Awtumn, said toxicology reports showed the girl died from too much haloperidol, sold as Haldol, in her system.

Haldol is anti-psychotic drug most often used to treat schizophrenia.

Awtumn was with her mother at a relative’s birthday party on Three Mile Road NW when she apparently ingested the drug.

Her father, Nathan Minnema, was not at the party but was told later that family members tried to make the girl vomit on the belief she had swallowed pills that fell from a broken shelf to the floor. She did not vomit, however, and was put in bed.

She was discovered early the next afternoon in her crib, not breathing.

Walker police say the investigation is open and say they do not know whether anyone will face criminal charges.

Cohle, a forensic pathologist at Spectrum Health Blodgett hospital, said Haldol is generally safe for adults. But it could cause the heart to slow or stop and impaired breathing in a child, he said.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/12/girl_2_had_twice_the_amount_of.html