It’s time to end this re-victimization of the victims.

Certainly, child adoption could have potential for any corrupt family court Judge and could run the gammot from helping friends adopt a child to selling kids – all the way into trafficking in child slavery and prostitution.

The potential for corruption of the child support process had not been epidemic until recently when the federal government began to match funds and to reward the States with the most increases in child support payments. Profits made by Judges in child support orders has become common now that Title IV-D Child Enforcement program are in place nationwide providing federal funds to states based on increases in child support. This program is a welfare program with the intended result of saving the taxpayer from paying for welfare moms, but make the fathers to pay for the support of their own kids.

Since this IV-D enforcement effort began providing matching funds, they do not ask and do not tell where the funds go, nor do they require a lot of accounting or verifications. The money can go to increasing the Judges salaries and to pay the custodial parent. Rather than it being used as the welfare program that it is, they use it, instead, for the benefit of the middle and even the upper class litigants as these clients increase child support payments to a far greater degree than welfare moms could. Normally, programs like this are strictly for the poor. But in the case of this child support program, income is not being checked nor are the assets and virtually anyone can be signed up under the new welfare program at least in regards to child support. The proceeds can be used to pay for anything including tax credits and attorneys fees payed to middle and upper income litigants or custodial moms. The welfare application does not even ask their income nor enquire about their assets. In New York, all that is required is that they enroll the custodial parent in Social Service Law 111G which makes it welfare and makes it qualify for matching federal funds automatically.

I had never heard of this before my own personal research. Never saw it written in my local news paper or seen it on the nightly news. This is a huge program to have so few people who know anything about it. Did you know that it doubled the amount of child support non custodial parents have to pay and at the same time it has increased the money required from taxpayers to run it with its bureaucracy ballooning up ten fold in costs and expenses. More parents are going to jail for child support crimes.

You can search Title IV-D Enforcement or even find the application forms that do not ask and do not show income or assets, as i did. I think it would be wise to take away the incentive for this dishonest activity.

Please correct this summary of the story (which is understandably quite confusing). The children in question are not my own. I have never even met them.

I began researching the case, examining documents, and interviewing neighbors, teachers and others after people in their hometown contacted me, horrified that these girls had been removed from their mother, home, schools, church and town. They have been held in Rhode Island state custody (primarily in a shelter) for 21 months, since they were five and nine years old, with no charges filed against the mother. The younger one has now been given to her father, whose alleged sexual abuse she described, drew and re-enacted since she was three.

DCYF’s attempt to suppress this information and to ignore dozens of letters sent by neighbors, teachers, and others who learned of the case gave rise to the blog as the only way to get legislators to pay attention.

I will attempt to send you the Freedom of Information report we released on this case in October. We welcome your concern and interest.