No One Cares: Another Corporate Parental Commodity Is Destroyed In Michigan Child Welfare

Cornelius Fredericks
A typical Medicaid cost reimbursement
situation in foster care

No one cares about what goes on behind the iron curtain of child welfare, particularly Michigan, because it all started here.

Cornelius got lucky because he no longer has to scream.

Ricky Holland got lucky, too.

This is what Black Lives Matter is covering up, the children, because slavery was never abolished.

Gretchen knows well of the horrors of the Michigan Child Welfare System.

She got desensitized by the screams because the screams of children is an industry.

Someone needs to go ask her about her history with the Michigan Catholic Conference and the Archdiocese of Detroit, because Cornelius died by Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.

I am quite sure the facilities carry indemnification insurance coverage....and a life insurance policy on Cornelius....

#maytheheavensfall

Michigan teen died after screaming 'I can't breathe' while being restrained by staff member, lawsuit claims

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) - A civil lawsuit filed Monday following the death of a 16-year-old in a Michigan youth facility says he screamed "I can't breathe" as at least one staff member placed their weight on the Black teen's chest for nearly 10 minutes.

The lawsuit filed in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court names Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo and Sequel Youth and Family Services as defendants.

Cornelius Fredericks died May 1 after going into cardiac arrest April 29. At the time, authorities said he was being restrained by staff after throwing a sandwich.

His death came nearly a month before George Floyd died May 25 in Minneapolis with a white police officer's knee pressing his neck to the ground.

Floyd's dying words, "I can't breathe," have become a rallying call for people protesting police violence against Black people and racial injustice during demonstrations across the U.S.

"The excessive use of restraints and the lack of concern for Cornelius's life draw an eerily similar comparison to that of George Floyd's death," according to the lawsuit, which alleges negligence and says Lakeside staff improperly and wrongfully used restraints on Fredericks.

Authorities have not provided details of the race of the staff member or members involved.

"Video from Lakeside Academy even shows a staff member placing his/her weight directly on Cornelius's chest for nearly ten minutes as Cornelius lost consciousness," the lawsuit states. "Cornelius's scream of `I can't breathe' was not enough to get the staff members to stop the excessive restraint."

Detroit attorney Jon Marko, who filed the civil rights lawsuit, said he has yet to view the video, but that he spoke with the mother of another child in the facility.

That child "claims to have heard Cornelius scream `I can't breathe,"' Marko said, adding that a state Health and Human Services Department report confirmed that account.

The lawsuit seeks damages allowed under the Michigan Wrongful Death Act. No financial amount was specified.

The Associated Press left a message Monday seeking comment from Lakeside Academy.

Sequel Youth and Family Services told The AP in an email that it cannot comment on pending legal matters, but that it has terminated all staff involved and removed the former executive director of Lakeside.

"We have been in regular contact with law enforcement and state officials to help ensure justice is served and have accelerated the work that was already underway across our organization to move to a restraint-free model of care," the company said. "We take our obligation to meet the significant behavioral health needs of all our students incredibly seriously and remain focused on our mission of providing the absolute best care and treatment possible."

The foster care system or parents placed youths in Lakeside Academy, a residential treatment facility about 140 miles west of Detroit, to receive behavioral health services after being abused or neglected.

Fredericks was a ward of the state, Marko told reporters Monday.

His aunt, Tenia Goshay, is named in the lawsuit as the representative of Fredericks' estate. The teen's mother is dead. His father and rest of the family were not in a position to care for him, Marko said.

Fredericks had been at Lakeside Academy about two years, Goshay told reporters.

"I want to know what happened to my nephew," she said.

The state last week terminated its contracts with Lakeside for youth in Michigan's foster care and juvenile justice systems and said all 125 youth at Lakeside were placed in other "settings based on their individual needs."

The facility also had its license to operate suspended.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has told the department to cut ties with Sequel Youth and Family Services, which provided staffing to Lakeside Academy.

After Fredericks' death, Lakeside Academy officials said what happened didn't reflect the institution's mission to "serve and care for our clients with excellence."

But Michigan's Health and Human Services department has conducted more than 30 investigations since 2016 on maintenance, staff qualifications, discipline, behavior management, resident restraint and staff sufficiency at Lakeside Academy, the lawsuit said.

Six months prior to Fredericks' death there were six separate violations pertaining to improper use by staff of deescalation techniques, including improper restraints, according to the lawsuit, and at least eight employees had been fired since 2016 due to improper use of restraints, failure to use proper deescalation techniques or improperly supervising youth.

Michigan Health and Human Services officials have said an investigation of the for-profit academy found 10 licensing violations, including a failure to follow rules related to resident restraint and discipline.

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Foster care teen's death prompts state to pull Michigan group home's contract, license

LANSING, Mich. — Prompted by the death of a teen who was wrongly restrained by staff, a Michigan facility for teenagers with behavioral problems on Thursday lost its contract with the state to care for youth in the state’s foster care and juvenile justice systems and its license to operate.

The termination of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ contract with Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo came in the wake of the death last month of Cornelius Frederick. The 16-year-old went into cardiac arrest while being restrained on April 29 by Lakeside Academy staff. He died May 1. At the time, authorities said the teen was being restrained by staff after he threw a sandwich.

In announcing the termination of its contract and suspension of the operating license, Health and Human Services said an investigation of the for-profit Lakeside Academy found 10 licensing violations, including a failure to follow rules related to resident restraint and discipline. The agency contends the revocation of the license of a child caring institution is rare and occurs when there are serious licensing violations that make closure necessary to protect children.

More: Foster care teen's death draws scrutiny to group home outbreaks: Who is looking out for these children?

Lakeside Academy officials did not immediately return calls for comment.

“MDHHS continues to mourn the loss of this young man’s life, which came needlessly to an end at the hands of those meant to care for him” said JooYeun Chang, executive director of the MDHHS Children’s Services Agency, in a prepared statement. “We are committed to protecting children and will not accept the completely unnecessary death of a youth who is deprived of the opportunity to grow up, complete his education, begin a career, and start a family.”

Kalamazoo County Prosecuting Attorney Jeff Getting said Thursday his office is reviewing completed investigations to determine if criminal charges are authorized in Frederick’s death.

"If charges are brought, my office will be prosecuting the cases,’’ Getting said.

At the time of Frederick’s death, Lakeside Academy officials said in a statement the incident didn’t reflect the institution’s mission to ``serve and care for our clients with excellence.”

However, Assistant Chief David Boysen of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety has said in the weeks leading up to Frederick’s death there were numerous calls for false fire alarms, runaway students and assaults. In addition, three chaotic days followed the boy’s death, as students fought and fled the facility.

Just before Health and Human Services announced its moves, the Legal Rights Center in Minneapolis called for Hennepin County, Minnesota, to stop placing children in Lakeside Academy for juvenile delinquency matters.

The county removed all Minnesota children from the facility after Frederick's death. However, center officials said that was is enough. They contend it is time to end the practice of removing children from local communities and confining them in correction facilities "under the pretense of providing therapeutic treatment."

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Lakeside Academy was ‘out of control’ prior to student death, police say

In the weeks leading up to the incident, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety received an increase of calls for false fire alarms, runaway students and assaults, Assistant Chief David Boysen said.

No one ever listens to the silent screams.

Slavery was never abolished.

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Denby Salvation Army Detroit Foster Care House Of Horrors For Sale - Again

The walls of Denby Salvation Army House of Horrors for children Legally Kidnapped by Child Protective Services can not talk, but the children who survived can.

Denby was a temporary, 30 day emergency shelter of Child Protective Services for children over the age of 10 years.

When taking a tour of the property, as you consider your acquisition, close your eyes and imagine the gang rapes, beatings, drugging and torture of a little 8 year old boy, for nine months, all funded through Medicaid, and no one cared.

Always remember, the bloody screams of children can always be silenced with higher doses of psychotropic medication when running human lab rat research.

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Denby Center in northwest Detroit hits market again, this time for $2.95M

The over 90,000-square-foot campus has been vacant since a Salvation Army facility closed in 2016

A long Tudor mansion with different sections of brick, stone, and stucco. A large yard with to straight cement paths intersect in front.

The Denby Center at 20775 Pembroke Avenue totals seven buildings. Photos by Stylish Detroit
The Denby Center has had trouble finding a permanent owner and use. The mansion and grounds have changed hands multiple times since the Salvation Army Denby Center for Children & Family Services, a facility for at-risk youth and teens, left in 2016.

The nearly four-acre, 92,875-square-foot campus sold to Southfield-based IDG Holdings LLC for $515,000 in 2017. This year, it sold to ARI Management LLC—also registered in Southfield—for $1.8 million after sitting on the market for over a year and first listing for $3 million.

Once again, it’s back on the market for $2.95 million.

At the time of the last sale, Crain’s Detroit Business reported that new owner Ieshula Ishakis was looking to build a facility to house and serve homeless veterans. Many of the windows are still boarded up and it’s unclear how much if any work has been done. IDG told Crain’s it spent around $250,000 on maintenance and upkeep.

The Denby Center was at one point just a Tudor Revival mansion designed by Jameson & Graves and built in 1931. The gorgeous building has a stucco and brick facade with some stone accents, bay windows, half-timbering, and a turret. It contains classrooms, sleeping quarters, a chapel, and offices. A cafeteria and gymnasium were added later.

Today, it takes up a whole city block with paved paths between seven buildings and a surface parking lot. Three, one-story cottages were built between 1980 and 2010. They’re between 6,000 and 8,000 square feet and all contain office space, laundry rooms, common rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms.

Want to own an entire campus? 20775 Pembroke Avenue near 8 Mile Road is listed with Kim Page of Front Page Properties for $2.95 million.

The brick front entrance and second-story wood deck.
Front entrance to the original Tudor mansion.

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Michigan To Pretend To Let The Public Know Why Kids Die In Michigan Foster Care - Drugging, Rapes, Tortures, Suicides & Child Trafficking Still A Legislative Tautology

Here we go 'round Michigan Drugging Kids,

Rapes and Death,

Rapes and Death, 

Here we get 'round getting indicted

In another legislative tautology. 

FUN FACT! A DEATH IN THE MICHIGAN CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM IS CALLED A STATISTICAL "ERROR".

Ricky Holland never got a chance to sing this song because he was murdered in Michigan's Child Welfare System.

The other little boy was too doped up being used as a lab rat, to understand what it is like to sing.

Here is a perfect method to stop deaths in Michigan's Child Welfare System.

Shut it down.

Federal receivership.

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Ricky Holland's death saved the lives of two little boys.

Dismantle the Office of Children's Ombudsman and let local peace officers make referrals for
assistance, like calling one of the relatives or someone who cares to step in and help the family.

Stop stealin' the children, the land and the votes.

Stop making people poor.

If there is a crime, put it through law enforcement channels of due process.

Take a big red marker and rescind the entire Child Welfare Law in Michigan, but you will have to start with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, first.

Prosecute everyone at the Michigan Children's Institute in a federal jurisdiction, where I can come up with lots of antitrust law violations to start, and I would not dismiss the idea of war crimes.

Revoke the licenses, dissolve contracts, prosecute and recover every single last penny from these foreign corporate, privately contracted Child Placing Agencies, where you can start with the Michigan Catholic Conference.

Every "Elected One" who has taken political campaign funding from child welfare NGOs should be defrocked of office.

Commence federal asset forfeiture for every pharmaceutical which has engaged in drugging of Michigan's drugging of children, including every use of Foster Children as lab rats.

I understand that these concepts of trafficking tiny humans for revenue maximization of foreign corporations in Michigan are going to be difficult to understand, but that is why we have a justice system and hand held devices to watch as it goes down, in real time.

What about the Foster Children who are raped, denied education, beaten, tortured or will these continue to be omitted from the public discourse as "Valid-Not-Opened" category of investigations of the Children's Ombudsman Office?

Anyway, this is not the first time the concept of fixin' to do somethin' has come up in legislative initiatives because this has been going on since the Emancipation Proclamation because it all started here, in Michigan.

I believe the public should be able to see the billions upon billions profited off children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) and the faces of those "Elected Ones" who did absolutely nothing but take another fashion show selfie.

Will Nancy Edmunds do anything besides let Michigan drop another $100 million to the people who already got $200 million for a antiquated SACWIS that needs to be sent back to the 20th century from whence it came?

Probably not, but I bet more children will be beaten, drugged, raped, tortured, attempt suicide and successfully execute suicide to escape from Foster Care, while Nancy Edmunds allows the case to linger another decade in her courtroom.

This may be a tall order but it is always best to understand that not everyone can eat an entire bowl of rice at one time, and, in this instance we shall start with two grains of rice, the first being Ricky Holland, who died, brutally, and another little boy, who used to die, then come back, and die, and be drugged more, raped, beaten, tortured, die, then come back to survive a life of hell in Michigan's Foster Care System.

No one cares, so have a great day!

Panel: Public should see findings on child deaths in Michigan welfare system

Lansing – A legislative oversight panel says the public should see the results of state investigations into the deaths of children who are involved with Michigan’s child welfare system.

The recommendation was included in a report adopted unanimously Thursday by the House Oversight Committee. It stems from lawmakers’ review of an audit released in April that found that the state Department of Health and Human Services did not notify the Office of Children’s Ombudsman of 206, or 20%, of child deaths from 2014 through 2017 because workers did not check a box in a cumbersome software system.

The office independently investigates complaints involving children who are under state oversight for reasons of abuse or neglect, and checks to see if public or private agencies followed laws and policies.

Current law only lets people who can file complaints with the ombudsman’s office – including parents, guardians, their attorneys, mandated reporters or legislators – get the written findings, recommendations and DHHS response to the ombudsman’s investigation. The House panel recommended that the ombudsman be required or allowed to publicly release the information.

A similar recommendation was made by the children’s ombudsman in her most recent annual report.

“This is an issue of transparency. It’s an issue of accountability,” said Rep. Matt Hall, a Marshall Republican who chairs the committee.

Another recommendation would give the ombudsman discretion to do preliminary investigations – not full reviews – in child death cases, freeing the agency to focus on complaints involving living children who remain in the system.

Children’s Ombudsman Lisa McCormick, who was appointed to the post by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in January, told lawmakers in June that there is value in looking at every child death but her office should have leeway, particularly because some deaths are accidental and not the result of violence.

“When you have the discretion to make those decisions on which cases you fully investigate, you can focus your attention on the real issues in child welfare and address those,” she said.

Rep. David LaGrand, a Grand Rapids Democrat, said there are instances where “death happens for some tragic reason that had nothing to do with good parenting. To put those parents through a complete investigation when early on you are confident that this was not anything the parents could have or should have done differently is to put traumatized people through a really crummy experience.”

The panel also said whatever software replaces the failed MiSACWIS system should provide a more efficient way for child deaths to be reported to the ombudsman.

The state is pulling the plug on the network that was rolled out in 2014 and which has cost more than $200 million to build and service.

In March, U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds told state officials to come up with a solution after an expert reported an “unmanageable backlog of defects, incidents, and data fixes” that might never end.

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Baby LK Is Back With CPS Horror Stories Of Being Legally Kidnapped

http://legallykidnapped.com.

A few years ago, Baby LK was Legally Kidnapped by Child Protective Services and put in foster care.

After years of filing legal actions under the False Claims Act, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. House Judiciary & Oversight Committees reunited Baby LK with his mommy and daddy by saving him from being another victim of the industry of trafficking tiny humans.

Now, he is back to report on the horrors of the Child Protection Industry, as an original source.

For all the latest dirt on the Child Protection Industry, go to http://legallykidnapped.com.

For more in depth analysis of CPS, go to http://cpsfiles.blogspot.com/.

Just remember, it can happen to you.

Have a great day!

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All Hail The Whistleblowers: George Dudney Tells His Story On The Trafficking Of Tiny Humans In Foster Care

George Dudney
An Original Source

Instead of listening to media-backed NGOs and their chosen "Elected Ones" who are notorious for highjacking any narrative in dealing with children being separated from parents, distorting it or following those who are into making jest of the tortures of children of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) through their 15 minutes of social media fame, disturbingly reducing the horrors of child welfare into some sensationally manipulated platform, meme or hashtag, just to get Patreon contributors, a vote in an election, or any other forms of questionable intrinsic rewards, why not listen to the children?

Children are the original sources, and so are the original guardians.

Have a great day!

George Dudney & Johnna Furman

Reported by Johnna Furman, an original source:

Crying outside of Judge Gooding courtroom with George Dudney they are taking him 3 hours away to the group home even though the foster dad he has been staying with wants to keep him.

The adoptive parents who were abusing him do not want to give up their rights and want to be reinstated.

He will have another court date next Tuesday and may be able to come back to Jacksonville to be with the current foster dad.

He was threatened buy judge Gooding for the video he made.

It breaks my heart knowing this could be my son one day or my two daughters who are also in the system due to fraud.

The lady who adopted my children sometimes in and out of the hospital with bad health what if my children went to a group home and this happened to them dear God please teach us how to be a voice for these children please help us fix these laws please help us show the world that children are not a paycheck they are our future in Jesus name we need you guys more then ever no child deserves to feel scared of where they sleep at night I don't care where they come from it's not their fault and they don't deserve it

UPDATE:

Jacksonville, Florida Judge of Trafficking Tiny Humans,
David Gooding

I went to court watch Judge Gooding today and he sent this 15 year old boy away today who was raped under his watch.

They sent him to another group home that is known for problems and the same thing could happen.

When he was just placed in the 1st home he felt safe in a month ago and doesn't want to leave 3 hours away.

Last year three children in foster care killed themselves on Facebook live and of course that did not make the news but the Parkland school shooting of another foster child did if we do not listen to the issues of the children we can look forward to more school shootings and even if your child is not in foster care you can expect they will be affected by it we don't want money we just want you to like comment and share please for the love of God help us.

Bruce Nathan for Florida Governor 2018 is our only chance against corrupt judges like this one who is number one in the entire country for taking children from homes and adopting them out.

Bruce Nathan for Florida Governor 2018 Will clean up DCFs mess!

He's Our Only Hope in Florida's ugly corruption

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Why Abortion Kills Jobs: Biomedical Research, Cloning & Patents

While there are groups pitted against each other like the Hatfields and McCoys, in a bitter rival over some generational, archaic, color coded, heirarchial belief system that has been perpetuated as a form of distractionary socioeconomic propaganda to enrich those who came up with this crafty format of politically campaigning to pass law and policy so they can steal from the very same groups who are carrying the pitch forks and torches, taxpayer dollars are funding the colonial expansion of corporate parental rights through the patent.

Below, I have provided a few snippets to introduce plausible explanations as to why the U.S. Patent and Trademark First Satellite Office is in Detroit, why cloning is the new term for human trafficking, which is in biomedical research, cloning & patents.

Always remember, corporations do not adopt, they acquire ownership of the goods through intellectual property, because they own us right down to the genome, which is legal to conduct biomedical research in other countries, because it always starts with the best interests of the child, because no one cares, unless there revenues are maximized to fund more political campaigns to fund more of human R & D.

FBI Busts Baby Selling Ring, Then Sits Back On Its Arse While Human Trafficking Continues

Trafficking Tiny Human Banking Models: Michigan Neonatal Biobank & Its Trust Fund

FBI Human Databaking: CODIS & Biometric Birth Certificate Patents

Patents Are The New Birth Certificates For Growing And Selling Tiny Humans

Conyers: The Elijah J. McCoy USPTO Satellite Office Opening in Detroit Will Create Jobs and Help Address the Patent Backlog

USPTO Satellite Office Opening Creates Jobs and Sends Message to the Nation that Detroit is a Center for Technological Development and Innovation

Ranking Member Conyers Opening Statement at Full Committee Patent Reform Hearing

Happy World Intellectual Property Day & Child Abuse Propaganda Month

DOJ Busts Former IBM Employee From China In Economic Espionage Of Humans

Open Research Human Cloning

Can genes be patented?

A gene patent is the exclusive rights to a specific sequence of DNA (a gene) given by a government to the individual, organization, or corporation who claims to have first identified the gene. Once granted a gene patent, the holder of the patent dictates how the gene can be used, in both commercial settings, such as clinical genetic testing, and in noncommercial settings, including research, for 20 years from the date of the patent. Gene patents have often resulted in companies having sole ownership of genetic testing for patented genes.

On June 13, 2013, in the case of the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that human genes cannot be patented in the U.S. because DNA is a "product of nature." The Court decided that because nothing new is created when discovering a gene, there is no intellectual property to protect, so patents cannot be granted. Prior to this ruling, more than 4,300 human genes were patented. The Supreme Court's decision invalidated those gene patents, making the genes accessible for research and for commercial genetic testing.

The Supreme Court's ruling did allow that DNA manipulated in a lab is eligible to be patented because DNA sequences altered by humans are not found in nature. The Court specifically mentioned the ability to patent a type of DNA known as complementary DNA (cDNA). This synthetic DNA is produced from the molecule that serves as the instructions for making proteins (called messenger RNA).

STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND ON THE CRISPR PATENT PROCESS

April 30, 2018: The Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in the appeal on Monday, April 30, 2018. A ruling is expected later this year.

Based on the oral arguments today, we are even more confident the Federal Circuit will affirm the PTAB’s judgment and recognize the contribution of Broad, MIT and Harvard in developing this transformative technology.

As this patent issue is resolved, and as new patents related to important uses of  CRISPR are issued to the many institutions, including UCB, we call on UCB and the companies that control its IP to join our ongoing efforts to simplify, share, and open the IP landscape.

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Happy Foster Care Month: Bill Clinton Has Never Apologized For Setting Up Foster Kids As Lab Rats

This is a video of Bill Clinton apologizing for the United States engaging in human subject research without consent in radiation testing.

The U.S. continues to engage in human subject research without consent in the realms of psychotropic medication and orphan drug research, but this time they use children in foster care because you do not have to ask the state for consent, when the research is reimbursed through state Medicaid costs.

What you are witnessing in this video is the moment of creation for the Adoption Safe Families Act which was nothing more than a transposed model from the residuals of the peculiar institution to create the international child welfare system as we know it, today.

OUR MOST PRECIOUS TREASURE

By Beverly Tran

May 3, 2007

“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”

Adolph Hitler, 1943

Dr. Q & Lab Rats

There have been much heated discussions in the area of the psychological well-being of children. Children are time and time again found in our government’s rhetoric as the most precious resource of our nation, and this responsibility of protecting children is entrusted in our government.[i] Unfortunately, attention is strictly focused on the aftermath of adopting these policies for mandatory psychological screening, evaluation, and the medication of children. Diatribes from supporters for mandatory psychotropic medication of children (i.e. pharmaceutical industries, psychiatrists, social workers, educators) are embroidered on waving banners in the lobbying charge on legislatures promising the glorious victory of children growing up to better function in society. The other voice in the battle against mandatory psychotropic medication of children hails from the parents. Parents cry out their stories of horror of watching their children mentally and physically deteriorate, to the point of life long suffering and even death, from the side effects of these medications, and in many cases, unnecessary and overmedication of our children. The time has come for both professionals and families to reconcile for the “best interests of the child” and redirect national perspectives to preserve the “best interests of the family”.

The genus of the “best interests of the child” philosophy has classified federal policy into a taxonomic category of ranked organisms, where these “ranked organisms” are better understood as federal agencies.

FEDERAL RANKED ORGANISMS

The Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children[ii] and Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics[iii] were created to co-integrate federal statistic and research agencies to produce an “annual compendium” of the most important indicators of the well-being of the Nation's children and families to be published by the Forum in collaboration with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Since then, the Task Force added environmental health in schools and coordinated federal efforts to highlight the importance of protecting children's health during Children's Health Month in October 2002.

National Children's Study and Children's Health Month were incorporated into its interagency activities. The National Governor's Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices, supported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), examines the relationship between smart community design and improved public health. With Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) support, NGA is building on this work to help strengthen the connection between state smart growth initiatives and the protection of children's environmental health.

In an unexpected move, the Office of Children’s Health Protection was dismantled and reorganized as a “national security and intelligence”[iv] operation in the new reorganization under the regulatory authority of the Environmental Protection Agency under the auspices of the environmental education bureau.

The creation of the “national security and intelligence” function was soon to be placed within the Office of Homeland Security to advise the Administrator and other senior EPA officials on matters related to national security and intelligence; to serve as the principal Agency liaison to the U.S. intelligence community; and to coordinate with EPA programs and Regions on matters related to classified and other sensitive information. This expanded regulatory authority through these federal mandates in the states, for the issue of child abuse and neglect. In Michigan, this protective obligation was assigned to the Department of Environmental Quality, Environmental Science Board and the Department of Community Health, now, a state agency of Michigan Homeland Security[v].

THE FALLACY OF PARENTAL AUTHORIZATION

As parents and caregivers, it is a falsely assumed that parental authorization of medical care is an inherent, fundamental right. Federal policy for the Protection of Children From Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks supra, was formulated from a body of scientific knowledge that comported with abuse and neglect polices. It was at this point that the design of future child protection policies was to assume the nurturing role of the parent. Concerns of health and safety risks were broadly determined to be “attributable to products or substances that the child is likely to come in contact with or ingest (such as the air we breath, the food we eat, the water we drink or use for recreation, the soil we live on, and the products we use or are exposed to.) Under this interpretation, states have been able to usurp parental authorization under the guise of functioning for the well-being of children.

The federal government went a step further in circumventing parental authorization by allowing Institutional Review Boards to establish certain protocol for conducting human research on children. If a parent does not give consent for medication, waiver mechanisms are substituted for parental authorization. These mechanisms are to be found in policies of child protection as conditions of future risk of abuse and neglect. This means that if a parent does not consent to the medication of his and/or her child, there is nothing they may do about it because it would be considered an act of placing the child at risk of future health and environmental harms.

Children who are wards of the state, agency, institution, or entity, where entity has been identified as schools, camps, hospitals, or similar settings in which the majority of children involved as subjects are not wards, can be participants in human subject research without notification or authorization of parents. Authorization is then assigned, as previously stated as waiver mechanisms, to an institutional guardian. As stated in the Code of federal Regulations Title 45, Public Welfare, Department of Health and Human Services, Part 46, Protection of Human Subjects, 2003, requirements for permission by parents or guardians and for assent by children has made it possible to authorize and approve alternative mechanisms to obtain permission from an adult who would better represent the child’s interests, “The inability of obtaining permission from a parent or guardian could not be basis for excluding a child from research that held out the prospect of benefit to the child.” Simply put, there is nothing a parent can do but watch his and/or her child become a human guinea pig, if the parent is even lucky enough to be told what is happening.

REDIRECTION OF DISCUSSIONS

Instead of pitting the government’s side of “preventing future risks” against the parents’ and caregivers’ side of “present harms” of the children, we, as a nation, need to come to a general consensus and begin to address how the nation has been allowed to usurp the fundamental rights of parents in “the best interests of the child”. Children are not the most precious resources of a nation; children are the most precious treasures of OUR families. Until we, as citizens of the United States of America, stand up and hold our elected officials accountable for such egregious violations of the Constitution, the only ones to blame for the unnecessary death and medical torture of our children, is ourselves.

This article is dedicated to the brave souls of children who have lived the torture and life long suffering from unnecessary psychiatric medication mandated by our government. 

Adrian survived. Richmond did not.

[i] State of Michigan. Children's Memorial Day.

Whereas, Each day in America many children young people under age 20 commit suicide, are victims of violence, or are lost as a result of accidents or illness; and,

Whereas, Now, more than ever, when violence and tragic events are taking place in our schools with increased frequency, we should all reflect on our children and ourselves; and,

Whereas, We hold sacred the trust of our nation's most valuable resource, our children; and now therefore be it,

Resolved, That I, Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor of the State of Michigan, do hereby proclaim April 27, 2007, as Children's Memorial Day. Pursuant to Public Act 213 of 2003, I call upon the citizens of Michigan to recognize Children's Memorial Day as a day to remember those children we have lost this past year.

[ii] Executive Order 13045 of April 21, 1997. Protection of Children From Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks. 

1-102. Each independent regulatory agency is encouraged to participate in the implementation of this order and comply with its provisions. 

Sec. 2. Definitions. The following definitions shall apply to this order.

2-201. ``Federal agency'' means any authority of the United States that is an agency under 44 U.S.C. 3502(1) other than those considered to be independent regulatory agencies under 44 U.S.C. 3502(5). For purposes of this order, ``military departments,'' as defined in 5 U.S.C. 102, are covered under the auspices of the Department of Defense.

2-202. ``Covered regulatory action'' means any substantive action in a rulemaking, initiated after the date of this order or for which a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is published 1 year after the date of this order, that is likely to result in a rule that may:

(a) be ``economically significant'' under Executive Order 12866 (a rulemaking that has an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more or would adversely affect in a material way the economy, a sector of the economy, productivity, competition, jobs, the environment, public health or safety, or State, local, or tribal governments or communities); and

(b) concern an environmental health risk or safety risk that an agency has reason to believe may disproportionately affect children.

2-203. ``Environmental health risks and safety risks'” mean risks to health or to safety that are attributable to products or substances that the child is likely to come in contact with or ingest (such as the air we breath, the food we eat, the water we drink or use for recreation, the soil we live on, and the products we use or are exposed to).

Sec. 3. Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children.

3-301. There is hereby established the Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children (``Task Force'').

3-302. The Task Force will report to the President in consultation with the Domestic Policy Council, the National Science and Technology Council, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

3-303. Membership. The Task Force shall be composed of the:

(a) Secretary of Health and Human Services, who shall serve as a Co-Chair of the Council;

(b) Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who shall serve as a Co-Chair of the Council;

(c) Secretary of Education;

(d) Secretary of Labor;

(e) Attorney General;

(f) Secretary of Energy;

(g) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;

(h) Secretary of Agriculture;

(i) Secretary of Transportation;

(j) Director of the Office of Management and Budget;

(k) Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality;

(l) Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission;

(m) Assistant to the President for Economic Policy;

(n) Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy;

(o) Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy;

(p) Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; and

(q) Such other officials of executive departments and agencies as the President may, from time to time,

designate.

Members of the Task Force may delegate their responsibilities under this order to subordinates.

3-304. Functions. The Task Force shall recommend to the President Federal strategies for children's environmental health and safety, within the limits of the Administration's budget, to include the following

elements:

(a) statements of principles, general policy, and targeted annual priorities to guide the Federal approach to achieving the goals of this order;

(b) a coordinated research agenda for the Federal Government, including steps to implement the review of research databases described in section 4 of this order;

(c) recommendations for appropriate partnerships among Federal, State, local, and tribal governments and the private, academic, and nonprofit sectors;

(d) proposals to enhance public outreach and communication to assist families in evaluating risks to children and in making informed consumer choices;

(e) an identification of high-priority initiative that the Federal Government has undertaken or will

undertake in advancing protection of children's environmental health and safety; and

(f) a statement regarding the desirability of new legislation to fulfill or promote the purposes of this

order.

3-305. The Task Force shall prepare a biennial report on research, data, or other information that would enhance our ability to understand, analyze, and respond to environmental health risks and safety risks to children. For purposes of this report, cabinet agencies and other agencies identified by the Task

Force shall identify and specifically describe for the Task Force key data needs related to environmental health risks and safety risks to children that have arisen in the course of the agency's programs and activities. The Task Force shall incorporate agency submissions into its report and ensure that this report is publicly available and widely disseminated. The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science and Technology Council shall ensure that this report is fully considered in establishing research priorities.

3-306. The Task Force shall exist for a period of 4 years from the first meeting. At least 6 months prior to the expiration of that period, the member agencies shall assess the need for continuation of the Task Force or its functions, and make appropriate recommendations to the President.

Sec. 4. Research Coordination and Integration.

4-401. Within 6 months of the date of this order, the Task Force shall develop or direct to be developed a review of existing and planned data resources and a proposed plan for ensuring that researchers and Federal research agencies have access to information on all research conducted or funded by the Federal Government that is related to adverse health risks in children resulting from exposure to environmental health risks or safety risks. The National Science and Technology Council shall review the plan.

4-402. The plan shall promote the sharing of information on academic and private research. It shall include recommendations to encourage that such data, to the extent permitted by law, is available to the public, the scientific and academic communities, and all Federal agencies.

Sec. 5. Agency Environmental Health Risk or Safety Risk Regulations.

5-501. For each covered regulatory action submitted to OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) for review pursuant to Executive Order 12866, the issuing agency shall provide to OIRA the following information developed as part of the agency's decisionmaking process, unless prohibited by law:

(a) an evaluation of the environmental health or safety effects of the planned regulation on children; and

(b) an explanation of why the planned regulation in preferable to other potentially effective and reasonably feasible alternatives considered by the agency.

5-502. In emergency situations, or when an agency is obligated by law to act more quickly than normal review procedures allow, the agency shall comply with the provisions of this section to the extent practicable. For those covered regulatory actions that are governed by a court-imposed or statutory deadline, the agency shall, to the extent practicable, schedule any rulemaking proceedings so as to permit sufficient time for completing the analysis required by this section.

5-503. The analysis required by this section may be included as part of any other required analysis, and shall be made part of the administrative record for the covered regulatory action or otherwise made available to the public, to the extent permitted by law.

Sec. 6. Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

6-601. The Director of the OMB (``Director'') shall convene an Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (``Forum''), which will include representatives from the appropriate Federal statistics and research agencies. The Forum shall produce an annual compendium (``Report'') of the most important indicators of the well-being of the Nation's children.

6-602. The Forum shall determine the indicators to be included in each Report and identify the sources of data to be used for each indicator. The Forum shall provide an ongoing review of Federal collection and dissemination of data on children and families, and shall make recommendations to improve the coverage and coordination of data collection and to reduce duplication and overlap.

6-603. The Report shall be published by the Forum in collaboration with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The Forum shall present the first annual Report to the President, through the Director, by July 31, 1997. The Report shall be submitted annually thereafter, using the most recently available data.

Sec. 7. General Provisions.

7-701. This order is intended only for internal management of the executive branch. This order is not intended, and should not be construed to create, any right, benefit, or trust responsibility, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity by a party against the United States, its agencies, its officers, or its employees. This order shall not be construed to create any right to judicial review involving the compliance or noncompliance with this order by the United States, its agencies, its officers, or any other person.

7-702. Executive Order 12606 of September 2, 1987 is revoked.

[iii] Executive Order 13045: Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks, September 2, 1987 

[iv] CFR TITLE 45, PUBLIC WELFARE, DHHS, PART 46, PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS Effective June 23, 2005

(iii) Adequate provisions are made for soliciting the assent of children and the permission of their parents or guardians, as set forth in §46.408.

§46.408 Requirements for permission by parents or guardians and for assent by children.

(a) In addition to the determinations required under other applicable sections of this subpart, the IRB shall determine that adequate provisions are made for soliciting the assent of the children, when in the judgment of the IRB the children are capable of providing assent. In determining whether children are capable of assenting, the IRB shall take into account the ages, maturity, and psychological state of the children involved. This judgment may be made for all children to be involved in research under a particular protocol, or for each child, as the IRB deems appropriate. If the IRB determines that the capability of some or all of the children is so limited that they cannot reasonably be consulted or that the intervention or procedure involved in the research holds out a prospect of direct benefit that is important to the health or well-being of the children and is available only in the context of the research, the assent of the children is not a necessary condition for proceeding with the research. Even where the IRB determines that the subjects are capable of assenting, the IRB may still waive the assent requirement under circumstances in which consent may be waived in accord with §46.116 of Subpart A.

(b) In addition to the determinations required under other applicable sections of this subpart, the IRB shall determine, in accordance with and to the extent that consent is required by §46.116 of Subpart A, that adequate provisions are made for soliciting the permission of each child's parents or guardian. Where parental permission is to be obtained, the IRB may find that the permission of one parent is sufficient for research to be conducted under §46.404 or §46.405. Where research is covered by §46.406 and §46.407 and permission is to be obtained from parents, both parents must give their permission unless one parent is deceased, unknown, incompetent, or not reasonably available, or when only one parent has legal responsibility for the care and custody of the child.

(c) In addition to the provisions for waiver contained in §46.116 of subpart A, if the IRB determines that a research protocol is designed for conditions or for a subject population for which parental or guardian permission is not a reasonable requirement to protect the subjects (for example, neglected or abused children), it may waive the consent requirements in Subpart A of this part and paragraph (b) of this section, provided an appropriate mechanism for protecting the children who will participate as subjects in the research is substituted, and provided further that the waiver is not inconsistent with federal, state, or local law. The choice of an appropriate mechanism would depend upon the nature and purpose of the activities described in the protocol, the risk and anticipated benefit to the research subjects, and their age, maturity, status, and condition.

(d) Permission by parents or guardians shall be documented in accordance with and to the extent required by §46.117 of subpart A.

(e) When the IRB determines that assent is required, it shall also determine whether and how assent must be documented.

§46.409 Wards.

(a) Children who are wards of the state or any other agency, institution, or entity can be included in research approved under §46.406 or §46.407 only if such research is:

(1) Related to their status as wards; or

(2) Conducted in schools, camps, hospitals, institutions, or similar settings in which the majority of children involved as subjects are not wards.(b) If the research is approved under paragraph (a) of this section, the IRB shall require appointment of an advocate for each child who is a ward, in addition to any other individual acting on behalf of the child as guardian or in loco parentis. One individual may serve as advocate for more than one child. The advocate shall be an individual who has the background and experience to act in, and agrees to act in, the best interests of the child for the duration of the child's participation in the research and who is not associated in any way (except in the role as advocate or member of the IRB) with the research, the investigator(s), or the guardian organization.

[v] FR: February 6, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 24), Rules and Regulations, Page 6137-6178 and EPA, 40 CFR Parts 9 and 26 [EPA-HQ-OPP-2003-0132; FRL-7759-8], RIN 2070-AD57, Protections for Subjects in Human Research. The final rule also: (1) Categorically prohibits any EPA research involving intentional exposure of human subjects who are pregnant women or children to pesticides or any substances; and (2) adapts regulations of the Department of Health and Human Services providing additional protections beyond those of the Common Rule to pregnant women and children as subjects in EPA observational research--i.e., research which does not involve intentional exposure to any substance. (Research conducted by EPA is referred to as ``first-party'' research, and ``second-party'' research refers to research supported by EPA but performed by others.) Finally, this rule forbids EPA to rely, in its actions under the pesticide laws, on intentional-exposure human research that either involves pregnant women or children or is otherwise considered unethical, except in narrowly defined circumstances. For example, if children were at risk from unsafe exposure to a substance, the Agency would be permitted to rely on otherwise unacceptable research to justify setting a more restrictive standard to protect them. Proposed Sec. 26.408 adopted, essentially verbatim, the text of the HHS regulation in 45 CFR 46.408 establishing special requirements for obtaining permission by parents or guardians and for assent by children. Among other provisio

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