03-12-2015, 03:15 PM
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">"The mother at the center of a year-long child abuse case in Michigan is </span>now being petitioned by the court<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> to provide information on her whereabouts, despite charges against her being dropped. “It’s a bogus, coercive petition” that amounts to “social-worker terrorism,” Elizabeth Warner, attorney for mom Brenda Burns, tells Yahoo Parenting. “CPS does this — holds a child hostage — in order to get parents to comply with their wishes.”</span>
<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">The petition, which will have Burns back in court next week, is just the latest in a long and harrowing struggle for the mother to retain custody of her infant. It all began in March 2014, when baby Naomi, then two months old, allegedly fell off her father Josh’s knee, hitting her head on the floor. The fall resulted in a bruised cheek, but when Naomi began projectile vomiting the next day, her parents took her to the emergency room. That began a near two-week stay in the hospital during which time doctors witnessed seizures, retinal hemorrhaging, and ran a battery of tests on Naomi, according to a timeline of events on the Burns’s website, </span>TornFamily.com<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">. It also kicked off a CPS abuse and neglect investigation into the parenting skills of Brenda, a registered nurse and stay-at-home mom, and Josh, a commercial airline pilot.</span>
As a result, Naomi was placed into foster care and there were two trials — a family court trial, which found that Brenda was not responsible for Naomi’s injuries but that Josh was, and a separate criminal trial, in which a jury convicted Josh of abuse. The dad says he’s not seen his daughter for a year and now faces up to 10 years in prison; he will be sentenced on March 19. In the meantime, CPS is demanding that Brenda tell them where she and Naomi are living."
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This is crazy. When I was about 6 months old I fell off my dad's lap and landed on my head on a concrete floor (we lived in a basement apartment and the floor had a thin rug so it was like my head hit concrete). They had to rush me to the hospital and I had holes drilled into my head to relieve pressure. I flatlined several times and the priest was brought in to read me my last rites. At no time was the 70's version of CPS crawling up my parent's butts crying abuse. Nor were the cops called. Sometimes freak accidents happen.
It's ridiculous that this family can be hounded for a year for an accident yet CPS can't be bothered to follow up on real cases that leave young girls with kidnappers for YEARS. It makes me sick. CPS has NO reason to demand to know where this woman and her child lives. Government interference on a level that is beyond.
<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">"The mother at the center of a year-long child abuse case in Michigan is </span>now being petitioned by the court<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> to provide information on her whereabouts, despite charges against her being dropped. “It’s a bogus, coercive petition” that amounts to “social-worker terrorism,” Elizabeth Warner, attorney for mom Brenda Burns, tells Yahoo Parenting. “CPS does this — holds a child hostage — in order to get parents to comply with their wishes.”</span>
<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">The petition, which will have Burns back in court next week, is just the latest in a long and harrowing struggle for the mother to retain custody of her infant. It all began in March 2014, when baby Naomi, then two months old, allegedly fell off her father Josh’s knee, hitting her head on the floor. The fall resulted in a bruised cheek, but when Naomi began projectile vomiting the next day, her parents took her to the emergency room. That began a near two-week stay in the hospital during which time doctors witnessed seizures, retinal hemorrhaging, and ran a battery of tests on Naomi, according to a timeline of events on the Burns’s website, </span>TornFamily.com<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">. It also kicked off a CPS abuse and neglect investigation into the parenting skills of Brenda, a registered nurse and stay-at-home mom, and Josh, a commercial airline pilot.</span>
As a result, Naomi was placed into foster care and there were two trials — a family court trial, which found that Brenda was not responsible for Naomi’s injuries but that Josh was, and a separate criminal trial, in which a jury convicted Josh of abuse. The dad says he’s not seen his daughter for a year and now faces up to 10 years in prison; he will be sentenced on March 19. In the meantime, CPS is demanding that Brenda tell them where she and Naomi are living."
Read more at the link.
This is crazy. When I was about 6 months old I fell off my dad's lap and landed on my head on a concrete floor (we lived in a basement apartment and the floor had a thin rug so it was like my head hit concrete). They had to rush me to the hospital and I had holes drilled into my head to relieve pressure. I flatlined several times and the priest was brought in to read me my last rites. At no time was the 70's version of CPS crawling up my parent's butts crying abuse. Nor were the cops called. Sometimes freak accidents happen.
It's ridiculous that this family can be hounded for a year for an accident yet CPS can't be bothered to follow up on real cases that leave young girls with kidnappers for YEARS. It makes me sick. CPS has NO reason to demand to know where this woman and her child lives. Government interference on a level that is beyond.