The Legalized Kidnapping of Black Babies through Cps
The Manatee County Sheriff`s Office “completed an investigation in March” after receiving information via a helpline about a child at Johns Hopkins All Children`s Hospital “suffering from severe malnutrition/stunting,” said Randy Warren, public relations manager for the Manatee County Sheriff`s Office. in a statement to E! News of August 13. “You don`t feel anything? You people, I am a human being. It`s my baby. My babies have days – and you`re taking my baby away from me,” a weeping Mercado can be heard in the terrifying clip before starting to sob as four child safety assistants make their point. Mercado received a barrage of support after accusing authorities of racial discrimination on its GoFundMe page, which raised more than $250,000 for “Bring Ra Home.” She wrote that she and her partner Tyron (who she says is an educator and youth worker working in the care system) need support to raise awareness about “the legal abduction of black babies by the CPS.” “When that mother gets pregnant again, the fetus is essentially already in the system and then evaluated and the family monitored,” Sussman said. “What I saw was this kind of suspicion. Continued with the family [Mercados]. They`ve been through so much. It`s just another traumatic interaction with the system. ANWO, mothers and others come together to create local, national and international action committees whose task is to organize legal advocacy, political actions, fundraisers and promotional materials.
All this with the aim of reinforcing state-sponsored kidnappings as an urgent problem. Three of her four children were adopted. The four youngest were admitted to CPS in 2018 when she divorced and three weeks after starting a summer day camp, someone reported them to CPS. At the recent press conference, Mercado burst into tears as he relived this heartbreaking experience. She often referred to the way the CPS took in her daughter “legal abduction.” Mitchell, who has created a Facebook group for his newly formed organization and a petition Change.org to end CPS`s “legal abduction” of children, is helping other parents get their children back while pursuing his own business. He plans to file an injunction in early June to shut down the Minnesota CPS. “Minnesota has the sixth-highest child removal rate in the country,” Mitchell Atlanta told Black Star. “We`re basically going to put a stake through the heart of CPS,” he added. The Minnesota Department of Social Services has an annual budget of $16 billion, Mitchell says, $10 billion of which comes from the federal government. The state retains 25 percent of administrative costs, he says, and the state builds its programs to maximize federal funding. On Tuesday, the 34-year-old mother shared a video on Instagram revealing that the Child Protective Service took her son on March 11 amid false allegations and “racist” interviews. She also revealed that she had set up a GoFundMe to help pay her legal fees and raise awareness about “CPS`s legalized abduction of black babies.” “For 22 months, I was not allowed to speak on the phone, no visits, no letters, absolutely nothing.
It`s been 22 months of lost smiles, lost hugs and lost family time. Almost two years without seeing or hearing my youngest son. I wasn`t even told where he was, so I fell asleep every night not knowing where he was,” Mitchell said at a recent news conference on Capitol Hill in Minnesota with lawyers, parents and Sen. Andrew Matthews (R), calling the CPS`s abduction of his children “the most traumatic experience” of his life. At first, I went through a series of emotions: shock, disbelief, and eventually overwhelming frustration and despair at something as simple as ordinary parenting discipline. It`s still hard for me to believe that something like this happened to me. I am well educated, Christian, proprietary, well travelled, clean, I have my own business and I was an honest member of society for 53 years before this incident,” he added. At the time of the separation, Mitchell`s once open-minded and confident son had retired. Black mothers are targeted and criminalized, children traumatized and entire families torn apart. Ultimately, the community is negatively affected, with no solution in sight. Mothers struggling with state-sponsored child abduction are isolated in part because our communities do not understand the extent of this widespread abduction and it is assumed that black mothers are incapable, incapable and automatically guilty of everything the oppressive state accuses them of.
#ArrestCPS is here to tell the true stories of the families and fight for the return of all our children #ArrestCPS is a campaign of the National Organization of African Women (ANWO). The goal of our work is to expose the parasitic nature of the health care system and the devastating role it plays in the lives of Black families. We want children to return home and resources allocated by the state to go directly to families to ensure successful reunification. Everything else is an act of genocide. “My family and I are just one of countless other legal abduction stories that go unnoticed.” During the ongoing battle for their son`s return, the couple asked that all interactions with social workers be facilitated by their lawyer, said Deener, a youth worker who works in the care system. When CPS investigators came to her home after learning that Mercado was giving birth to her daughter without alerting her, they were denied entry and referred to the lawyer. At that time, the agency reportedly received permission to conduct an animal welfare investigation and remove her newborn. In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed in Minnesota, a black father says child welfare services kidnapped his children and tried to terminate his parental rights, highlighting the different racial treatment of black parents by state authorities in the child welfare system.