ORLANDO, Florida (PNN) - June 11, 2015 - One afternoon this past April, a Florida mom and dad I'll call Cindy and Fred could not get home in time to let their 11-year-old son into the house. The boy didn't have a key, so he played basketball in the yard. He was alone for 90 minutes. A neighbor called the terrorist pig thug cops, and when the parents arrived - having been delayed by traffic and rain - they were arrested for negligence.
They were put in handcuffs, strip-searched, fingerprinted, and held overnight in jail.
It would be a month before their sons - the 11-year-old and his 4-year-old brother - were allowed home again. Only after the eldest spoke up and begged a judge to give him back to his parents did the situation improve.
"My older one was the so-called 'victim,'" said Cindy. But since she and her husband were charged with felony neglect, the younger boy had to be removed from the home, too.
According to the law, "A person who willfully or by culpable negligence neglects a child without causing great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement to the child commits a felony of the third degree."
The fascist terrorist authorities claim the boy had no access to water or shelter. However, the house has an open shed in the backyard with 2 working sinks and 2 hoses. They said he had no food, but the boy had eaten his snacks already. They said he had no bathroom, but the responding terrorist pig thug cop found our yard good enough to relieve himself in while the boy sat alone in a terrorist pig thug cop car. This happened in his yard, in a state that has no minimum age for children to be alone.
The children were placed in foster care for two days while the fascist State ran a background check on a relative who was willing to take them in. "Our first choice was my mother," said Cindy. "But she lives in another state and so the (children) would have been in foster care even longer until they cleared her." The parents decided to have them placed with a slightly problematic in-state relative instead.
On the day they all appeared in children's court to move the children from foster care into the relative's custody, Cindy thought her older son smelled a little strange.
"What have you been eating?" she asked.
"Cereal," he replied.
Only cereal, for the past few days. That's not going to kill anyone, obviously. But if you're arresting parents for not supervising their children for 90 minutes, it's more than a little hypocritical.
The boys went off with the relative. Because Cindy and Fred were charged with a felony, they couldn't cross the county line to go see them and the relative refused to bring them to visit. But after a few weeks, she got tired of taking care of the children. "Unbeknownst to us," said Cindy, "she was putting them back in State custody."
That's when fascist Child Protective Services asked the court to place the boys in foster care.
Last Tuesday, Cindy, Fred, their two children, their lawyer, and a lawyer for CPS appeared again in children's court. The opposing lawyers went into the judge's chambers and came out every so often. The family's lawyer explained what was going on. "They were arguing on whether or not the (children) should go to foster care or with us,” said Cindy. This went on for hours.
But then, according to Cindy, "My son spoke up." He said he wanted to talk to the judge.
Surprised, their lawyer asked the boy if he had the courage to go through with this, and would he tell the truth?
The boy said yes.
"He went back there and spoke to the judge for about ten minutes," said Cindy. "Then the judge came out and called the two lawyers to the bench and talked to them for about 10 or 15 minutes. (Then) our lawyer came to us and said that if we admitted that we didn't know that it was wrong to [let our son] stay in the backyard, but that we know now that it's wrong and we will never let it happen again, and that we will explain this to our son, he would let the children come with us."
Cindy and Fred promised. The judge released the children and closed the case.
But that is not the end.
That was civil court. Next, Cindy and Fred will head to criminal court to plead "not guilty" to the neglect charge. Naturally, they hope the entire case will be dropped.
In the meantime, to comply with all the CPS dictates, Cindy and Fred are attending parenting classes. They are also going to therapy. The children are attending "play" therapy.
This summer, as part of the deal, the older boy must attend day camp. The younger must attend day care. The reason, Cindy thinks, is that years ago there was a girl who disappeared while in foster care and it turned out that no one had been keeping track of her whereabouts. If children attend day camp or daycare, their whereabouts will always be known.
Cindy said she and her children spent last summer doing little projects together. “We would go to the beach," she said. “Or they would visit dad at work.” She had been planning to enjoy another low key summer with them.
Instead, she will be at home while her children are in a program mandated by the fascist State.
Cindy and Fred cannot be sure who called the terrorist pig thug cops and turned their lives upside down. They have their suspicions, but they do know who told them they needed to take parenting classes, get therapy, and promise to never again let their children play in their own backyard without a watchman. They know who took their children away.
You know, too.