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Thursday, June 22, 2017

Human Trafficking in Foster Care: Haiti v. United States

Now, where do you think these U.S. faith based, tax exempt, privatized, non-profits got the idea to
launder money through child welfare for human trafficking?

Why, of course, it was none other than the glorious Clinton Foundation!

If the Lumos foundation can engage in such extensive research in monitoring child trafficking through child welfare in Haiti, well, I guess they could do the same thing, right here in the United States....or just ask me.

Or, perhaps, they already did.

For those of you who are in that realm of cognitive dissonance when it comes to how "holier than thou" it is to do the work of God and save these poor, wretched souls of the innocent from a life of poverty, how about making money off it through the imperialistic morality parade.

In the U.S., we call these orphanages "foster care".

So, without further adieu, in my fuchsia spirit,  I shall provide my 2 cents for those people who have been duped to believe that moving a small human from a family, because they were made to be poor, is justified because they are doing the work of God, for a substantial amount of financial benefit, to prove that the peculiar institution of slavery has never, ever, gone away.

Today, slavery is coined in modern terminologies, called human trafficking under the guise of child welfare.



BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children living in hundreds of orphanages in Haiti suffer sexual and physical abuse and some are trafficked into orphanages for profit, according to a charity founded by "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling.

Children living in thousands of foster homes and residential institutions in the U.S. suffer sexual and physical abuse and some are trafficked into other foster homes and re-homed through adoption for profit, according to Beverly Tran, the first person, ever to talk about privatization and its Medicaid fraud schemes in child welfare to fund political campaigns.

 Many of Haiti's orphanages use deception to recruit children from unknowing and impoverished parents - a form of trafficking - and use those children to attract donations, said the report released on Thursday by the London-based charity Lumos. 

All U.S. Child Protective Services and Child Placing Agencies are immune from prosecution, given the Right To Lie in a court of law and in the filing of fraudulent cost reimbursements to Medicaid.  A state child welfare system does not need to use deception in the acquisition of goods (the future foster child), as it is a multi-billion dollar industry, used to launder false claims of fraudulent Medicaid billing to fund this industry of child trafficking, I have been reporting on for more than 15 years.

Donors, mostly from the United States and faith-based organizations, give $70 million a year to one-third of Haiti's 750 orphanages, it said.

Donors, mostly from the United States and faith-based organizations, give billions in tax write offs a year to anyone who come up with the best child abuse propaganda to launder the ill-gotten gain from trafficking children of the poor.

The Children's Defense Fund has over $35 million in assets to print out propaganda to market the latest programs to acquire and traffic tiny humans for profit.

 About 30,000 children live in orphanages in Haiti, even though four in five of those children have at least one living parent, Lumos said.

There are millions of children who have been trafficked through child welfare in the U.S., with the majority of them having at least one living parent whose parental rights were terminated by a court of law, where that parent was prosecuted as "guilty until prove innocent" by people who were only doing the work of the tax exempt God.

Most orphanages are privately funded. Impoverished families are frequently duped into giving up their children by orphanage directors who hire so-called child-finders and local pastors who also seek out children, it said.

Most child welfare state contractors are privatized and the child welfare system researchers and policymakers are privately funded to solicit federal grants to generate more revenue maximization schemes from the trafficking of tiny humans and their use as human test subjects for the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries, where they filed for Medicaid cost reimbursements to conduct the experiments and publish for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  States hire so-called child finders into positions called Child Protective Services.  Local pastors help encourage their congregations to report "abuse and neglect" through financial incentives in numerous forms and appointments to child welfare boards.

 In some cases, families had been paid $75 to give their children away, the report said.

In some cases, families have their assets seized in court judgments to pay child support to the States, where the States collect Title IV-D while billing for Title IV-E and Medicaid, contemporaneously.

 "Many parents are deceived into giving up their children, purely so that unscrupulous individuals can make a profit," said Lumos Chief Executive Georgette Mulheir in a statement.

Many parents are told to give up their children to foster care because they have no other choice, just to ensure a Child Placing Agency can meet its monthly quota to keep its doors open and paychecks flowing.

 "Well-intended donors give vast sums to orphanages.

Well-intended donors give vast sums of money to foster care and adoption programs in the U.S. for tax write offs and money laundering.

But 80 percent of children living there are not orphans," she said.

But over 80 percent of children in U.S. foster care and adoption are not orphans.

 Taking children from their parents through deception, coercion or purchase is a form of human trafficking going largely unchecked, said the report released at Haiti's first anti-trafficking conference this week in Port-au-Prince.

Taking children from their parents through false claims, deception, coercion, threats or just being poor is human trafficking as it is exempt and excluded from any form of external scrutiny.



 In a country where one in four people lives on $1.23 a day, extreme poverty drives families to sell or give their children to orphanages on false promises they will receive an education, food or care, Lumos said. Lumos interviewed 44 children who had been raised in orphanages as well as former orphanage volunteers, health care workers and government officials.

In the United States, where child poverty is the highest for developed nations and continues to increase with each passing day, extreme poverty drives Child Protective Services to remove children and place them in foster care on promises they will receive an education, food or care.  I have listened to the blood curdling screams of hundreds of children in foster care, where some did not live to make it out the child welfare system, as well as the cries of parents, grandparents, and anyone else of a degree of sangunitity or affinity to these trafficked tiny humans, as well as current and former employees, volunteers and government officials affiliated with the U.S. Child Welfare System.

 Some children reported beatings and cold water being dumped on toddlers who were forced to sleep on an orphanage floor.

There is a multitude of reports, public testimonies in governmental hearings, and court filings, documenting children being beaten, raped, drugged, tortured, murdered, attempted & successful suicide, who were forced to live in the most inhumane conditions of foster care.

 One 19-year-old man with a physical disability told Lumos he was regularly beaten at an orphanage that he left in 2015."

One 23-year old man can testify, in a court of law, or in a congressional hearing, on the bloody beatings, torture, medical experimentation, rapes in a child welfare institution in the name of God.



They would use a stick or an electric cord to hit you, wherever on your body," he said.

They would use prone restraints then put you in a 3 feet by 5 feet ceramic room, with an hole in the floor, for days, with the lights on, taunting over the intercom if you complained about being raped and beaten.

"Sometimes they would hit you and you'd bleed."

Sometimes they would hit him until he died, which happened multiple times.

 Lumos said it found evidence in the past two years that sexual abuse in orphanages occurs, saying such cases "rarely come to light."

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services does not maintain records on sexual abuse in foster care.

Even if such cases are reported and investigated, they rarely result in justice for victims, it said.

Even if such cases are reported and investigated, the U.S. Department of Justice nor the States Attorney General will lift a damn finger to take down these nefarious people in authority who have nefariously promulgated the reanimation of the peculiar institution.

(Ok, I am going to give my #Superfans a pass because I know you know, that I know you know, that I know.)

 The charity urged donors to redirect funds away from Haiti's orphanages.

I am flat out saying to shut the entire thing down by snatching the federal grants, putting the States child welfare systems in federal receivership, and prosecuting each and ever human who has intentionally benefitted from personal inurement of public office advocating for the U.S. system of human trafficking under the guise of child welfare.

 It suggested spending money instead on improving foster care and local adoption programs and helping families look after their children by funding schooling and housing projects.

I am stating that the people be made whole, compensated for the theft of their property and children.

 Lumos founder Rowling is author of the hugely popular Harry Potter fantasy book series.

Beverly Tran is on a mission...

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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Will The Lumos Foundation Push Into Global Child Welfare Include The U.S.?

The recent illumination of the Clinton Global Initiative and its child welfare programs in Haiti and
The Lumos Foundation
 Africa
, along with the Foundation's move to restructure, has piqued my interest into a foreshadowing of nonprofit oversight.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is also demonstrating an interest in addressing the issues surrounding child welfare, but if it is willing to deal with the U.S. child welfare system, is another story which has yet to be written.

If the Lumos Foundation can take on such a daunting task as to end the orphanage system in Haiti, where there are plans to close at least 150 of such institutions, then, one can only hope that this type of action can be imported to address similar ills right here in our own backyard in how we deal with children in poverty.

The 'similar ills' of which I refer to in the U.S. child welfare system deal with revenue maximization schemes, lack of oversight, devoid of civil rights, codification of poverty as abuse and neglect, and the omission of reunification, termination and reinstatement of parental rights.

Think about it:  If foster care wouldn't be good enough for your child or a child you love, why would it be good enough for a child in the U.S.?

Stay tuned.

Ten Years Later: Lumos Foundation’s Push into Global Child Welfare

Think about it: If an orphanage wouldn’t be good enough for your child or a child you love, why would it be good enough for a child in Haiti, or anywhere else in the world?

This question is at the center of the work Lumos, the nonprofit started by J.K. Rowling in 2005, has been doing for over a decade. Named for the light-giving spell featured in the Harry Potter books, Lumos works to redirect the care of disadvantaged children away from orphanages and toward more supportive settings with their families or in the community.

Through advocacy, coalition-building and on-the-ground implementation of changes to the care provided for children without families, Lumos is helping to establish new approaches to global child welfare. These new approaches include reunifying institutionalized children with their extended families and providing more support to those families to remain together, and creating healthier community-based placements for children whose parents are truly not able to care for them.

As we reported last September, five months after Lumos officially opened its U.S. office in April 2015, the goal is to end the institutionalization of children by 2050. It’s an ambitious goal, and one the organization has already made steady progress on, moving forward with strategies on several fronts. Recently I caught up with Georgette Mulheir, CEO of Lumos, to find out how progress is going.

In Haiti this work is particularly needed; poverty is high, and Mulheir said others warned them work there would be very difficult.

“People told us not to go to Haiti,” said Mulheir, which gave Lumos all the more reason to invest its time, resources and expertise there. Over 32,000 children reside in orphanages in Haiti; so far, Lumos has begun work with two institutions to move children into families and communities.
“We’ve got lots of really well-intentioned but misguided people who are putting money into orphanages in Haiti and what we want them to do is not to stop supporting Haiti, but to look at whether they can do something different with their financial and human resources,” Mulheir said.

“Could they be helping to do economic strengthening with those families so those families can keep their children?”

Lumos has been meeting with the government of Haiti, which has now established a national action plan to get children out of institutions and to establish community-based services.

Mulheir emphasized the importance of alliances in ending the practice of putting kids into orphanages. She sits on the governing council of the Global Alliance for Children (GAC), an organization that mobilizes targeted investments in childhood as a core component of a nation’s social and economic progress. GAC has been a major player in bringing together the resources and helping to collaborate on this work, she said.

About to visit Haiti, Mulheir expects to meet with a number of individuals and groups, including staff from the Clinton Foundation, to talk about ways in which their strategic agendas may intersect.

The Clinton Foundation began work in the island nations several years ago, and is now making a bigger push with its climate and women’s empowerment agenda there by launching the Women in Island Leadership Network. The network brings together young leaders in the STEM fields in the island nations, and helps them mentor and build skills to rise in leadership roles.

Mulheir has been impressed with the warm reception Lumos has received from U.S. nonprofits and foundations. She pointed to the Annie E. Casey Foundation in particular, which Lumos has met with to discuss strategy and learn from its “groundbreaking strategies for how to help local government officials change their policies.”

Another significant piece of Lumos’ strategy in coming to the United States involves forming alliances with religious organizations that support orphanages, and helping them to fund alternatives. Much of the funding of orphanages in the Caribbean comes from the evangelical Christian church community, and so Lumos is working with faith-based organizations–including the Faith to Action Initiative and the Christian Alliance for Orphans–and is also having discussions with Catholic Relief Services. Mulheir said one of the goals is to “get very senior members of different churches around the world to highlight this issue and make sure their congregations are aware that the best of intentions in orphanages are not going to result in the best of outcomes.”

“A century ago, the U.S. was challenging the orphanage model,” Mulheir said. “Western Europe got rid of this system decades ago,” she added. “But now we’re exporting this outdated model to other countries.”

Another key strategy that Lumos is using to end orphanages involves getting the European Union to change its funding regulations. The European Union had been spending money on renovating institutions that served as orphanages when Lumos began advocacy about six years ago to get them to end that work and invest in better options for kids.

“Now it’s a very high priority for the EU,” Mulheir said. As of January 2015, the EU is prohibited from spending EU money on the renovation of institutions, and instead the EU is investing in community-based care.

Also high on the strategic agenda for Lumos are the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, which, despite their promise of leaving no one behind, do not include children in institutional care, or children without families. Mulheir said Lumos is continuing to advocate for data collection on children without families, since without any effort to count these children, there is no way to measure their progress on health and education or other outcomes.

Within the decade since its founding, Lumos has helped guide a historic shift away from orphanages and toward healthier living situations for vulnerable children. As the organization connects more with philanthropy’s power brokers in the U.S., and expands into Latin and Caribbean regions, it continues to do systems-level advocacy and cross-sector collaborative work to change the way children without families are treated, and raise the bar for providing quality care for the most vulnerable children across the globe.

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