Case Study: Making False Allegations

The worker contacted Susie Hansen; who stated she was a mentor and mother figure for Mindy Cottier. Mrs. Hansen stated she didn’t have any concerns for Mrs. Cotter’s family, but she knew why she was being contacted by DHS. Mrs. Cottier stated “Sam and Maddie were having a birthday party at my house and Samuel was having a meltdown, you see Samuel has Oppositional Defiance Disorder and takes medication to keep it in control so every no a then he has these meltdowns and it hard to get him back under control, anyway Sam was having an episode at his party and Chris Mindy’s husband and Sam’s step dad was telling him to stand in the corner until he calms down. Sam refused and was yelling and thrashing around on the hard tile floor in front of the

Some children are in foster care, because they were physical abuse by one or both parents. The parents have physically abused the child

Martin Proctor, a father of two, was recently accused of abusing his baby and eight-year- old daughters, placing them in Highland District Hospital. The children then were transferred to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital later being released and put under the care of Child Protective Services and placed in foster homes. During the stay at the hospital, the children had fractures of several bones, placed into a coma after having several seizures, and doctors found evidence of previous abuse. The father is currently held on a “50,000 bond and his case will go before a jury in the upcoming weeks. (Abernathy, 2017) The major questions that are being raised regarding the children’s safety are: are the children getting the proper care to help their

Justice for Gabriel Fernandez can mean justice for all children. In order to protect our children from negligent and irresponsible social work major changes need to take place in not only the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), but all Departments of Children and Family Services statewide. The four Los Angeles County DCFS workers should be found guilty of the criminal charges brought against them for failing to protect Gabriel Fernandez, which led to his untimely death. Our children are dying, because the people entrusted to care for our most vulnerable children are failing

Foster child, Annalisa Carrion, was replaced from the non-kinship therapeutic foster home of Carmen Arvelo and Miguel Quiles (Ms. Arvelo’s husband) on June 22nd, 2015. A report was received on June 26th, 2015 with the allegation of laceration, bruises, welts, and inadequate guardianship regarding Annalisa Carrion against Miguel Quiles.

EREPORT # 18782 stated the following: The incident happened on 1/20/2016, evening. Joshua stated that his adoptive mother choked him when he accidentally closed the door on her foot in the doorway. When she heard her husband walking into the room, she turned on Joshua and said for him to stop - as if he had tried to harm her. I found out about the situation because the student confided. The child told the school personnel. This couple holds a current DHS Foster Home license. They have previously had children removed from the home due to similar incidents. (Leah & John Stanley, former foster children) Also, another foster child was removed this home last week because he had used a horse needle to stab another student while at school. (Christopher

IRTC spoke with assigned CPS, Tannisea Tracy, who reported that the subject child was interviewed today and she mentioned that she was raped twice by a previous foster father; subject child couldn’t recall who, where, or when the incident occurred. CPS was provided with no additional information pertaining to the extent of the incident or identifying factors for the perpetrator. CPS voiced that the subject child stated that she does not want to talk to CPS again. Subject child is residing in a psychiatric facility for suicidal ideation and is not currently in a foster home. At this time, additional information is required before this case could be enhanced to an IRT. CPS will attempt to converse with the foster care agency regarding the subject

The reporting party (RP) stated the foster mother Yolanda Walker recently began caring for foster child Kylie Jane' Davis age 3. According to the RP the child began exhibiting behaviors resident to sexual abuse. The foster mother stated the child would go into a fetal position during diaper changes. Initially the foster parent believes it was due to her new environment, however the behavior continued. Subsequently the foster mother spoke with the foster child's biological mother Teena Pitts who disclosed of finding her daughter sitting on her ex-boyfriends lap wearing no diaper or bottoms. Consequently the mother did not have the child examine.

Under the qui tam and provisions of the False Claims Act, The lawsuits were filed by Dr. Michael Mayes and other three whistleblowers. Also, two of the lawsuits separately were against the previous CEO Phillipe Goix of Berkeley as responsible for the scheme.

In 2002 there was estimated to be nearly 3 million referrals to Child Protective Services (CPS) in the United States, and about 5 million in the year 2000 (McWey & Mullis, 2004). Children who are living in environments that put them in harms way, depending on the situation are generally removed from their home and placed into a foster home in attempts to keep them safe (Carlson, Egeland & Lawrence, 2006). Common examples of Child Protective Service (CPS) referrals include physical abuse, sexual abuse, and psychological maltreatment (McWey & Mullis, 2004). In 2001 it was estimated that nearly 542,000 children were in foster care in the United States and that the number of children in foster care exceeded the number of available foster homes by nearly 30-40% (Carlson, Egeland & Lawrence, 2006). For many children in foster care, reunification with biological parent or parents is the ultimate goal (McWey, Acock & Porter, 2010). In 60% of foster care cases, reunification with biological parents occurs (Carlson, Egeland & Lawrence, 2006) .In order for reunification to be possible, or to help determine whether reunification can occur, children and biological parents have scheduled visits with trained supervisors who monitor the visits (Haight, Kagle & Black, 2003). The duty of the supervisor is to look at the parent child interactions and determine whether or not they are appropriate. Supervised visitation has been shown to have positive and negative effects on children who are

In the article, Kassin describes three types of false confessions: voluntary, compliant, and internalized. I believe that there are two types of false confessions present in the video, those being: compliant and internalized. I also think that the two types apply to both groups of young men. Compliant confessions take place when a suspect is anxious or nervous and is trying to escape a stressful situation and avoid punishment, I believe that this took place when after the boys were taken in and they were scared because they were only 14-year olds. I think that this situation is similar to the one discussed in the discussion post from last week, where all juveniles should have an adult present with them, preferably a lawyer. Internalized false confessions come from vulnerable suspects, which majority of juveniles are, and they confess because of highly suggestive interrogations.

Bose may file a additional claim of “Injurious falsehood” because in this case the defendant is not privileged when he makes a specific false allegation about the plaintiff’s product, like he did in the Bose Corp. case. Where the defendant wrote a false statement “Instruments that tended to wander about the room.” The court concluded that the defendant published a false statement of material fact with the knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of its truth or falsity.

Charles explained purpose of the meeting and started with reading a statement from Holly Langley, regarding first allegation. Charles talk about other statements that they are not included because wasn’t relevant to the allegations.

She asked this worker if we can review her case and see why they cancelled her foster parent certification and

I believe these people use their power to intimidate the children into believing what they are generally unable to understand. Therapist and investigators can assume a major part in children making false allegations and for the most part sketchy intentions energize its course within the governmental system. This provides false allegations on the account that the children are already terrified when they are being badgered until the response is what they want it to be. At the entry point of a false allegation one quite often finds a parent who has scrutinized a child in indeterminate ways and also regularly exposed the child to effective emotional messages (Miranda & Pastor,