11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony Charge for Parents

> How the hell did this happen?

Standard: Some bad parents actually do exist. So, with a few such examples, some people who want to get attention get some laws passed and set up CPS with some really big powers, e.g., ones that violate little things like due process. Some of the laws mention felonies.

Then the CPS department gets created, funded, and staffed. Then a phone call comes in, and CPS swings into action.

Then, CPS wants to look busy, do their job, believes that they are now responsible for the child, wants to make sure nothing goes wrong where they could be blamed, so take full control of the life of the child, as their rules say, and to heck with anything like due process, the actual good of the child, the good of the family, etc. Instead, CPS becomes just law and rules driven.

So, CPS is brain-dead, dysfunctional, dangerous, destructive, demented, deranged, etc. Why? They are just following the law and their rules to avoid any blame.

So, CPS put a torpedo just below the waterline of that totally innocent family. They did psychological damage to the child; they harmed the sense of security of the family; they wasted the time of the family; the may have wrecked the family finances due to the legal costs.

Earlier tonight I watched the Nova program on the June 6, 1944 Normandy landing. I was reminded of all the death and destruction fighting Hitler.

But then with something like CPS and US police shooting unarmed Blacks in the back, etc., we are creating disasters out of nothing, nothing at all, disasters, out of nothing, for no good reason.

The judge? He should have found a way to charge the CPS thugs, laughed their case out of court, and put the family back together. Since he didn't, he should get a new career cleaning sidewalks with a tooth brush -- "Nice and clean, now, y'hear?".

CPS must report to a mayor or governor, etc. Well, with enough such stories, the mayor or whomever should ensure that the head of CPS and everyone involved in that case should join the judge in brushing the sidewalks.

Part of the solution is sunlight, e.g., on the Internet.

Too often our government has become just a dangerous enemy of the citizens. The citizens should vote for the needed changes. Due to CPS, every family with children is at risk of essentially just thugs from CPS wrecking their families, a greater risk than a bomb from a terrorist and comparably dangerous.

TSA? Sure, they can steal money and valuables from your luggage and molest your wife and daughters.

Gee, when I was 10 or so, I got a three speed bicycle, and then, especially during the summers, I was gone for hours at a time, sometimes 20 miles round trip. No problems.

I was big for my age: If some CPS types had tried to do something to me, it would have been a fight, a real fight -- I would have defended myself from the CPS attackers. Sure, if I could have found a club, I would have beat them to a bloody pulp -- just ordinary self-defense.

Government wants to grow, like poison ivy or worse. Have to cut it back. The key way: Just cut their budgets. How to do that? Sure, vote. Then get rid of the government thugs who attack citizens and get lower taxes.

Read. Complain. Vote. Solve the problem. That's what our democracy is for and some of why we really need democracy. Else the government will grow and grow and become a hostile occupying force in our country like Hitler occupied Poland.

In Normandy is a cemetery with, as I recall from the Nova program, 9000 graves of US soldiers who fought for our freedom. Well, we should not let out of control government do to us what Hitler would have done.

Agreed, in the summers (in small town america), when i was that age i was kicked out of the house after breakfast and not allowed back (unless it was raining) until lunch, and then kicked out again until dinner. I loved running around outside with my friends, our dogs, horrendously constructed forts, and our bb guns. The "bad" parents were the ones that let their kids stay home and vegetate in front of the TV. What happened?

Per the details in the original post, she is employed by a school, and has been suspended and told to not to talk to media until this is over:

http://www.freerangekids.com/boy-11-plays-basketball-in-own-...

And given the steady stream of well-documented, actual and equally ridiculous cases like this on Free Range Kids, I doubt this is a prank.

They want to make an example out of her.

Maybe the parents simply contacted the author with the story and asked not to be named. It's kind of pointless journalism though if you have no verifiable facts. In some other stories she uses real and full names; she has a TV show and is a published author; I don't feel like she made this up.