Parents Jessica and Shawn tell the story of how their son, Stami, ended up in a coma for over a month. CPS took all four of their children who were unvaccinated and homeschooled. The Nevada CPS judge mandated they be fully caught up on the childhood vaccine schedule. After the second round Stami’s health deteriorated and has now been in a coma for over a month as of this interview. Stami has been diagnosed with ADEM.
Please pray for this family and help fund their fight for Stami’s life and the safety of all four of their children.
On Feb 20, 2024, Our son Stamwulf, who we call ‘Stami’, suddenly fell unconscious while asleep, after not feeling well the day before, and was rushed to the local emergency room, where doctors decided to take him by life-flight to Sunrise children’s hospital for emergency treatment, not knowing what was happening to this otherwise happy, healthy six year old who had only been sick with a cold one time in his life, and that was several years before. After being put into a medically induced coma in order to intubate him on a life support ventilator, doctor’s ran so many tests over the next few days, it was hard to keep track of them all: spinal tap, MRI, CAT scan, blood tests, viral and bacterial tests, etc.
After almost a week, we received the devastating news that our son had massive swelling of the brain and spinal cord, a rare but sometimes deadly condition called ‘Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis’ or ADEM, is an immune-mediated, inflammatory, monophasic, demyelinating condition that affects the white matter of the brain and spinal cord. As a rapidly progressive post-infectious encephalomyelitis, ADEM is characterized by demyelination in the brain and spinal cord as a result of inflammation following infection or immunization.
The Power Struggle: Parental rights and state intervention
In a series of deeply troubling incidents, the Child Protective Services (CPS) has overstepped its boundaries, resulting in traumatic separations of children from their families and questionable medical interventions.
The ordeal began for Shaun and Jessica when their children were forcibly taken by CPS and vaccinated. This led to their son, Stami, being hospitalized in a coma for over a month. The emotional toll on the parents due to the unjust removal of their children by family members and the misuse of mandatory reporter laws was immeasurable.
Legal battles ensued parents were confronted by armed police officers without a warrant. Despite their objections, a court ordered the children to be vaccinated and attend public school against their parents’ wishes. The parents faced bureaucratic hurdles, including discussions on religious exemptions and the difficulties of navigating a complex legal system.
In a particularly alarming case, a CPS judge in Nevada misinterpreted the law, ordering children to attend public school and be vaccinated based on personal beliefs rather than legal grounds. This incident raises serious concerns about the potential for abuse of power by CPS judges and the undermining of parental authority. The judge’s refusal to reschedule hearings and lack of due process further exacerbated the situation.
In a heart-wrenching account, Jessica recounted her son’s emergency room admission and subsequent coma. Frustrations mounted as CPS mandated vaccinations and her lawyer’s lack of action resulted in her children receiving vaccines against her wishes. Then she was left to navigate the legal proceedings alone after her lawyer quit unexpectedly during a court hearing.
The challenges of court battles over health care decisions for children (discussed at minute mark 24:15) emphasize the devastating impact on families and the lack of understanding from authorities. The legal system pits parents against each other, undermining family unity and perpetuating destructive systems that inflict trauma on children.
Caseworkers Assumed Knowledge In a series of deeply troubling incidents, the Child Protective Services (CPS) is overstepping its boundaries, resulting in traumatic separations of children from their families and questionable medical interventions. Caseworkers often assume expertise in various fields, including medicine and law, leading to uninformed decisions that can have detrimental effects on children’s well-being.
Financial Strain for Families The financial burden placed on families by CPS is unreasonable. Required classes recommended by caseworkers can cost families over $1,000 per person, adding to the stress of dealing with a child’s medical emergency. Families may also struggle to afford private attorneys, further complicating their situations.
SUPPORT THIS FAMILY THROUGH THEIR FUNDRAISER
Financial Incentives for System
Financial incentives that benefit government-funded systems like CPS are tearing families apart. The system’s reliance on children being in school creates challenges for homeschooled children and parents.
There is a pressing need for advocacy for a child’s well-being within the child welfare system, especially amidst medical emergencies and bureaucratic challenges.
The community is urged to support families facing government intervention, emphasizing the need for collective action to address systemic issues and provide assistance.
These incidents underscore the urgent need for accountability within the CPS system, as families continue to suffer due to the abuse of power and lack of proper assessment in CPS interventions. The emotional and financial toll on families is immense, highlighting the devastating consequences of a system that is supposed to protect children but often causes more harm than good.
In March 2022, a breastfed infant was medically kidnapped by St Lukes Hospital and placed in the custody of foster care. All records reveal that the hospital KNEW this child was not in imminent danger and still released him into the custody of the foster system under that guise. Mom was jailed because she respectfully refused to hand her child over to Meridian officers begging to go to the hospital with her son as he was looked at again by doctors. Her father called for public protests on the sidewalks in front of the hospital and the public offices of CPS. These protests drew attention nationwide as the family publicly shared the injustices happening at the hands of St Lukes’s and Idaho Health and Welfare Department’s Child and Family Services division.
You can read the story as reported by Health Freedom Idaho HERE
Because of the public outcry the baby was returned quickly. In addition, we are happy to report that Marissa, Levi, and baby Cyrus reunited, and all charges against her were dropped!
However, the saga continues for individuals and organizations that coordinated the public protests of the injustice for this young family, including the baby’s doting grandfather Diego Rodriquez.
St. Luke’s Hospital Suing Ammon Bundy, Diego Rodriguez, and Various Other Entities Regarding Protests
Idaho Dispatch asks Diego Rodriguez to describe the “Save Baby Cyrus” experience regarding his grandson and the lawsuit that has been filed against him by St. Luke’s Hospital as a result.
TRESPASS CHARGES TO BE HEARD AT ADA COUNTY COURTHOUSE
There was a criminal trespassing charge against Bundy regarding his presence at the St. Luke’s Meridian location the night Cyrus was removed from his parents.
The pretrial conference for that charge is scheduled for January 18, 2023, at 10 am at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise. The trial date is January 23, 2023.
JURY TRIAL St Lukes vs. Diego Rodriguez
A jury trial has been set for St. Luke’s Health System v. Diego Rodriguez on Monday, July 10, 2023. The trial has been scheduled for ten full days at the Ada County Courthouse.
LAWS NEED TO CHANGE!
Medical Kidnap is the wrongful removal of a minor or vulnerable adult from a parent or guardian by law enforcement and/or a social worker. Parents/Guardians should always have the final decision in the child or vulnerable adults’ medical care and treatment until those parental rights are terminated by due process in a court. In the wake of the #MedicalKidnap of Baby Cyrus (See Freedomman.org), several legislators have expressed the need for parental rights protection written into the statute. Well, the legislation has been written and now we need to get the support from the legislators to have it heard and voted upon!
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More than 83% of Idaho CPS investigations are based on bogus and false claims. The department says it must investigate every call.
CPS investigates 45,000 Idaho families each year- will your family be a target?
In every one of those cases, CPS has told the parents that they must submit to questioning and entry into their home. In addition, CPS investigators tell parents they must present their children for interrogation and examination of the children by government workers outside of the presence of the parents.
Idaho CPS social workers say that “nobody ever questions” these intrusions into the family home and the privacy of the relationship between parents and children.
Based on years of being with families as they walk through the CPS investigation, we determined that there are five critical steps you must take to protect your children during a CPS investigation.
Thea’s son Daniel was taken by CPS from his father, who lives in Idaho. Thea lives in Arizona and had no charges against her YET her son was kidnapped by Idaho CPS.
The state delayed the hearing, which should have reunited mother and son. Consequently, Daniel was placed into foster care. As if these events weren’t outrageous enough, the foster parents and the school 🗣 LOST DANIEL!
Daniel, has autism which gives him an IEP for his special needs at school. The state, including CPS, case workers, foster parents, and the school, should be well aware of Daniel’s needs. At home, with his mother, Daniel has a guide who stays with him all day to make sure he gets to where he needs to go. Now, in foster care, he is lost in the bus system, lost and confused, not knowing where to go. Brown Bus Co called Thea at 4:44 pm, who desperately wants her son back and has never had this problem, to let her know they had her son and he was lost. Thea reached out to the police for help. The same police who took her son returned Daniel to the foster parents, who already seemed to be neglecting him.
🙇♀Can you imagine if you lost your special needs child and they were found on a bus hours after school got out? CPS would definitely take your child and call it neglect. If a foster parent loses a special needs child, it’s swept under the rug, shrugged off, and the police return the child to the negligent foster parents. Sick! 😡
Thea was able to hire a private attorney due to your support. She is desperate to get her son back as she has been cut off from visitations, most like in retaliation for her speaking out against the corrupt CPS who has stolen her son. Please help her raise funds needed for her attorney and stay in Idaho. 💝
Daniel was taken by CPS from his dad, who has been homeless and has not given Daniel the meds, treatment, or care that Daniel needs for his autism. Thea lives in AZ, has crippling rheumatoid arthritis, and has now had a stroke due to the stress. Her next hearing is Aug 1st, and she is in desperate need of an attorney not on the government, taxpayer-funded payroll. Please donate what you can so she can hire the attorney she has chosen for her case. Time is of the essence.
Our children are given to us BY GOD, and our inherent parental rights need to be protected from state departments that have claimed authority over the lives of families. Medical Kidnap is the wrongful removal of a minor or vulnerable adult from a parent or guardian by law enforcement and/or a social worker. Parents/Guardians should always have the final decision in the child or vulnerable adults’ medical care and treatment until those parental rights are terminated by due process in a court.
CPS – CAUSING TRAUMA TO FAMILIES
As a result of CPS investigations, almost 2000 Idaho childrenare taken from their parents each year and are placed into the Department’s custody, and of those, 66% were eventually returned to their homes but only after much trauma inflicted at the hands of the law enforcement, social workers and judges on the family.
In almost every CPS case, especially the 83% that are unsubstantiated, the parents and the children suffer various forms of shame, fear, stress, trauma, self-doubt, and even depression as a result of the investigation.
Kristine knows firsthand the impact of St Lukes’s CARES Department (child at risk evaluation services) and the harm they cause families in the Tri-State area. It is possible that this hospital department is responsible for more than 500 children being placed in foster care via medical kidnap!
TURNING PERSONAL TRAGEDY INTO A CATALYST FOR CHANGE
Listen to Kristen’s story and support the bill that she has put together in the wake of the medical kidnap of her son for 16 months facilitated by St Luke’s Doctors and Idaho’s Department of Health Child Protection Department.
Detailed Reading of the Stop Medical Kidnap Bill
This is a very comprehensive bill. It was introduced by Senator Christy Zito and Representative Tammy Nichols at the 2022 session. It received a print hearing and is available for review on the Legislative website. In this video below, Kristine reviews each section of the bill, its purpose, and its significance. In her case, CPS violated its own policies and procedures and ignored the input of experts and professionals favoring only those few opinions that would support the wrongful removal of her son. Then clerical errors left her without contact with her son for 2 months. As a result, her child was at greater risk of medical complications and suffered many downturns physically and mentally while in the state’s care.
I used to believe, as most still do, that Child Protective Services only interfered in the sanctity of the family if there was extreme abuse or neglect. I remember hearing stories of children who, for example, had cigarette burns or were locked in closets with no food. Of course, we would want children rescued from situations such as these. Every child deserves to be loved, cherished, and nurtured. Then, I started to read stories of families that claimed to be loving parents but were having their children taken for something as simple as wanting a second opinion when a doctor recommended chemo. My heart would break. I imagined that I, too, would want a second opinion and maybe even a third when it came to something as serious as agreeing to chemo for any of my children.
When I read these cases, I often thought, “there must be more to the story.” So I looked for any other info that I could find to support CPS intervention. I did not want to believe that they were getting involved in issues such as medical decisions for children.
DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE BOOKLET: What To Do When CPS Knocks. Protecting Your Children in a CPS Investigation
“Neglected” means a child: (a) Who is without proper parental care and control, or subsistence, medical or other care or control necessary for his well-being because of the conduct or omission of his parents, guardian, or other custodian or their neglect or refusal to provide them…
16-1602-(31) NEGLECT Medical Reasons
In Nov 2017, I received a call. ‘A newborn baby is being removed from the care of his parents.‘ The father claimed that “everything changed” with the medical staff at Kootenai Health Hospital when he declined the Hep B vaccine for baby Elijah. Sure enough, when I read the police report, this was listed as one of the reasons they believed Elijah to be in imminent danger. Another reason they cited was that the father continued to allow his baby to sleep on his chest against medical advice. These new parents had to go to court to prove their ability to care for their new son. Baby Elijah was returned to his loving parents after 10 days of separation. He was never unable to breastfeed, therefore missing out on precious bonding and vital nutrients for immune system development. We will never know the full impact on his precious life.
Health Freedom Idaho reported on this medical kidnapping case, and I mistakenly thought that this was a rare case. Soon people from all over Idaho and even other states started calling me about their interactions with CPS. I was overwhelmed with grief for these families. And for the children who no longer had the safety of their homes and families.
DETRIMENTAL CPS INTERVENTION IS NOT RARE
A father called me one afternoon while I was on vacation. I remember enjoying the sun by the pool when I received his call. My day and life changed when he told me his heart-wrenching story. In Idaho, by statute, everyone is a mandatory reporter. In Idaho, every citizen is REQUIRED to call CPS if they suspect that a child is being abused or neglected. His neighbor had called CPS because the children often played outside, and she claimed that the mother was yelling at the children.
CPS came to her door, and she made the mistake of letting them in. They cited dirty dishes, laundry on the sofa, and the toilet seat up as imminent danger and reasons to remove all three children. I learned that when children are taken, they are immediately whisked to a doctor’s office for a full physical.
Even if there is no allegation of sexual abuse, they are still looking at every part of your child’s body. We raise our children with the knowledge that no one is to be looking at their private areas, and there they are without their parents being looked over and examined by a perfect stranger.
There is no parental consent given, and yet the parents will be sent the bill for this assault to their children. After we hung up, I lay there listening to children laugh and play while tears ran down my face in the grief of what was happening to precious children who did nothing wrong but would never be the same after this violation.
Even though these children were returned to their parents after several months, they will never again believe their home to be a safe place or that their parents can protect them from the overreaching hand of the government. This family would be broken beyond repair. The parents ended up divorcing. One of the children, who was under 12 at the time, threatened suicide. I would later learn that this is a common outcome when CPS intervenes on unfounded claims.
In Idaho, 72% of cases investigated by CPS each year are allegations of neglect, and 83% of those are unfounded.
The fact of the matter is that over 80% of the calls that are called into CPS are false and bogus. But CPS says all calls have to be investigated. In Idaho statistics reveal that almost 80% of the children removed from their parents are returned to their parents. The reality is any visit by CPS should be taken VERY seriously.
The most significant mistakes made by parents are usually in the very first encounter. If you can understand how to handle the very first encounter with CPS, you can increase your chances of maintaining your family’s rights and freedom.
I have received multiple phone calls from parents about CPS being used as coercion at Kootenai Health. Health Freedom Idaho and Idaho CPS held a protest at this hospital due to the overwhelming amount of stories from this particular hospital.
One of the more horrendous stories was from a mother who had taken her 21-day old baby for a well-baby check and found herself in the emergency room with three attempts at a spinal tap on her newborn. Her husband was at home with influenza A, and when she relayed this to the pediatrician, he sent her straight to the emergency room. Once there, the doctor decided it was imperative to attempt a spinal tap on a 21-day old baby with absolutely no symptoms. The mother requested to wait on such interventions after the blood tests came back to see if there was any indication of infection. With no informed consent or any consent at all, they gave her baby antibiotics and attempted the spinal tap three times. She adamantly refused the fourth attempt, and CPS was called. This particular hospital considers it medical neglect if you dare to question or disagree with the doctor and will call CPS. This action begs the question, how can a CPS caseworker determine whether or not the mother should have allowed the fourth attempt at a spinal tap? What training do they have to decide such things? I can imagine that it would be a very uncomfortable position for a CPS caseworker to be put in between a mother and a medical doctor to determine what medical neglect is.
Parents tell stories of increased overnights at the hospital, tests they would never have agreed to, and interventions that they would have otherwise declined. However, they agreed to such things against their better judgment after the threat of CPS being called. After recording these parents’ stories, the logical question that we asked was, “Is Kootenai Health using CPS to increase their profits?”
We know that this isn’t just happening at Kootenai Health. We are getting phone calls and messages from families all over Idaho and the US. Scaring parents into complying with doctors’ orders by using the threat of CPS is a national problem, so we have a job to do.
PARENTAL AUTHORITY: We have a biblical responsibility for our children.
[1] … Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. [2] “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: [3] “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”
Ephesians 6:1-3 NKJV
[6] “And these words I command you today shall be in your heart. [7] You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. …
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 NKJV
I’ve selected only these two from multiple scriptures throughout the Bible that direct children to obey their parents and call parents to teach their children. The Bible clarifies why children should obey their parents; it says that life will go better for them. Nowhere in the Bible indicates that children should obey the government because it was never God’s design for children to be subject to the government. These scriptures also direct parents to teach their own children. YES! That is our God-given authority and also our duty.
PARENTAL AUTHORITY: Protected as a Constitutional Right
We frequently treat the Constitution as the creation of our rights. But, citizens, we have natural rights given to us at birth by our Creator. Let’s remember that our Constitution was designed to protect and support our natural rights.
We need to approach any interaction with CPS from this position. If you don’t understand your God-given authority over your children (supported by the Constitution), your rights can be trampled on and violated. You must understand these rights as you are the chosen protector of your children.
RETHINKING FOSTER CARE. An alternative for families in crisis.
As you read the information, I am providing here, keep in mind that they must pay the staff, rent, keep lights on, and make a profit. They make this income by taking your children and making as much money on them as possible while in foster care with a dangling carrot bonus if they reach the goal of adoption.
HISTORY OF THE FUNDING OF CPS
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 doesn’t receive nearly the attention that ASFA does, yet it is the piece of legislation that established Child Protective Services in all 50 states.
CAPTA was written into law, giving power to the social workers to direct law enforcement to snatch children from their families and ask questions later. This action is a violation of due process!
Though CAPTA funding doesn’t reach the levels of ASFA, it still opened the door to federal funding for states to take children and place them into foster care. CAPTA also encourages states to enact mandatory reporting laws. As a result, Congress periodically renewed CAPTA, and this legislation remains the foundational force behind the federally-funded CPS state today.
ASFA – the Clintons’ Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 provides billions of federal dollars to states to place children in foster care and adopt them out to strangers. Where once the emphasis was placed on trying to eventually reunite children with their biological parents, state and federal guidelines now favored fast-tracking adoption of children in foster care. This requirement changes the focus to terminating the biological parent’s rights. Some counties are known to give a $4,000 bonus for each child adopted and an additional $2,000 for a “special needs” child. Employees work to keep the federal dollars flowing in.
The subject of taxation is often debated between those who say taxation is theft and those that believe taxation is a duty. Wherever you land in this debate, we can all agree that our tax money should not be used to remove children from happy homes and enter into a government program with more risk of harm.
Child Welfare collects Title IV E Funds afforded by a 1997 Act signed by then-President Bill Clinton, which allows states to get rich while keeping kids under state care.
FOSTER CARE IS FUNDED BY SOCIAL SECURITY.
Are you ready for this? They are robbing your social security account and using it to steal our children.
No wonder there is continual talk of Social Security money running out by the time my generation is of the age to use the money that we have paid in. Should we continue to allow our Social Security money to be robbed to fund a government program that is ineffective and harmful to children and families, and the community?
FOSTER CHILDREN ARE LOST BY CPS
We know, from a review of federal records, that child welfare agencies throughout the country have closed the cases of at least 61,000 foster children listed as “missing“ since 2000, and an additional 53,000 were listed as “run away.” So, since the year 2000, we have over 110,000 children unaccounted for that have been in the care of CPS.
Idaho CPS has acknowledges they have lost almost a dozen children in one year
Idaho listed 10 children as RUNAWAYS! Did CPS lose ten children?
According to a chilling NCMEC report compiled from FBI data and their own, of nearly 25,000 runaways reported to NCMEC in 2017, 1 in 7 were likely victims of child sex trafficking. Of those, 88% were in the care of social services when they went missing. This is not a one-time event. The data shows that CPS is a consistent source of children for child sex trafficking. In a 2013 FBI 70-city nationwide raid, 60% of the victims came from foster care or group homes. In 2014, NY authorities estimated that 85% of sex trafficking victims were previously in the child welfare system. In 2012, Connecticut police rescued 88 children from sex trafficking, and 86 of those children were from the child welfare system.
FOSTER CHILDREN BECOME VICTIMS
Sadly, foster children are likely to be medicated and the health and welfare department is incentivized to do so.
Foster children receive psychiatric medications up to 13 times more often than children in the general population.
8% of these children on medications received neither treatment planning or medication monitoring. Children under one are twice as likely to be prescribed a psychiatric drug compared to non-foster children.
Keep in mind that the more medications the child is on and services they need the more money this agency brings in. Once again the incentives are not set up in the best interest of the child.
Children who stay with parents who are accused (but not arrested or convicted) of “abuse” or “neglect” do better than most of the children being put into foster care. USA Today reported on the largest study done at the time to look at the effects of foster care.
The study confirms that children who can remain in their homes do better than in foster care. Children whose families are investigated for abuse or neglect are likely to do better in life if they stay with their families than if they go into foster care, according to a pioneering study. Kids who stayed with their families were less likely to become juvenile delinquents or teen mothers and more likely to hold jobs as young adults, says the study by Joseph Doyle
Doyle performed another study, one year later, comparing children left in troubled homes with foster care children to see which group was more likely to be arrested as adults.
The study looked at 23,000 children, and it found that “children placed in foster care have arrest, conviction, and imprisonment rates as adults that are three times higher than those of children who remained at home.”
In 2019 Idaho’s HB 170 attempted to put the citizens and CPS on equal footing with notification of parental rights bill.
PROTECTING PARENTAL RIGHTS
HB 170 was a transparency bill, requiring the disclosure of already established rights. It does not place any limits on CPS, law enforcement, or prosecutors to investigate reports of child abuse, neglect, or abandonment. But, frankly, the Bill of Rights is precisely a shield between citizens and an overreaching government. The nation’s founders thought it was a good idea in the constitution to create legal obstacles to the state’s unwarranted intrusion of citizens’ homes, persons, and relationships with their children.
I would highly recommend that citizens start requesting bills like this because we have found that most parents do not understand their rights when CPS is at their door. They often make mistakes that they regret later due to a lack of knowledge. The irrevocable harm of not knowing your rights can be as large as losing your child permanently within a matter of months. If any citizen of any state would like to see the verbiage of this bill we would be happy to share it with them.
(You should have already taught your children to NEVER EVER open the door for strangers, even if one of those strangers is a police officer.)
Be polite. Firm. Say as little as possible.
~ Do not let them into your home without a warrant.
~ Record the conversation.
~ Get the investigator’s and supervisors’ contact information.
~ You can ask for the details of the allegations. Don’t settle for abuse/neglect, those are categories, not details.
~ Say as little as possible. If you say nothing to them, you have taken away their greatest weapon, which is their ability to twist your words.
~ Let them know that you will contact your attorney and that any further communication is to go through your attorney.
~ Don’t sign any papers. Signing documents, even a case plan, will put you into contact with them.
~ Close the door.
Keep in mind that the caseworker is there to find evidence to support what he/she already believes to be true, that you abused your child. I have heard of at least two stories directly of parents being served with invalid warrants. Educate yourself on what must be on a valid warrant because, if it is invalid, do not let them in.
The IV and XIV amendments support your God-given rights:
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment XIV
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
We know that God has given our children to us as our property and this is supported by the Constitution. Unfortunately, we have allowed local, state, and federal governments to become increasingly involved in that relationship. Our creator has called us to love and nurture our children, raising them in keeping with His word. The belief that the government knows better is being pushed by the media and other sources but the facts do not support this baseless notion. The facts show that the community is, in fact, harmed when the department of health and welfare interferes.
Know your rights:
You have the right to remain silent and to refuse to answer questions.
You have the right to refuse entry to your home or other premises if there is no warrant of a court.
You have the right to consult with an attorney and to have an attorney present during questioning.
You have the right to refuse the questioning of minor children in your home or on your property if there is no warrant to examine your children. Hiring a private attorney who understands your constitutional rights and will help you stand on them is imperative. ~ If you waive your rights, and change your mind during the investigation, you can inform the department immediately of your desire to exercise your rights.
If CPS takes your child:
Contact an attorney or other constitutional parent advocate.
Do not sign anything.
Do not agree to anything.
Do not accept a public defender or any other attorney who says, “it’s easier if you just do what they say“.
Demand due process!
Bring every possible witness to the first shelter care hearing. This is a crucial hearing, although they will try to convince you that it is insignificant.
In the wake of the #MedicalKidnap of Baby Cyrus (See Freedomman.org), several legislators have expressed the need for parental rights protection written into the statute. Well, the legislation has been written (see below) and now needs to be heard and voted upon!
Contact the legislators to vote YES on HB 821
It is CRITICAL that our parental rights are protected. Our children are given to us BY GOD and these inherent rights need to be protected from state departments that have claimed authority over the lives of families. Medical Kidnap is the wrongful removal of a minor or vulnerable adult from a parent or guardian by law enforcement and/or a social worker. Parents/Guardians should always have the final decision in the child or vulnerable adults’ medical care and treatment until those parental rights are terminated by due process in a court.
Our parental rights must be protected. Our children are given to us BY GOD and these inherent rights need protection from state departments that have claimed authority over the lives of families.
REPRESENTATIVES
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Here’s the Bill HB 821 sponsored by Senator Zito and Rep. Nichols
It is CRITICAL that our parental rights are protected. Our children are given to us BY GOD and these inherent rights need to be protected from state departments that have claimed authority over the lives of families.
TALKING POINTS:
PARENTAL AUTHORITY: We have a biblical responsibility for our children. Regardless of the family stance in medical intervention, it is a God-given right of parents to determine the modality that they use to pursue wellness for their children. PARENTAL RIGHTS come from God. Even under the most supreme intentions, no government department or hospital staff member should attempt to circumvent parental responsibility
PARENTAL AUTHORITY: Protected as a Constitutional Right.
MEDICAL TREATMENT & INFORMED CONSENT: These are never black and white; they are multifaceted decisions that need to be weighed with informed consent by parents.
MEDICAL TREATMENT DOES NOT GUARANTEE HEALTH. Conventional medical treatments are not a “gold standard,” nor do they the one-size-fits-all treatment that results in 100% success.
Unfortunately, the fight is not over. Levi and Marissa only have Cyrus with them because they agreed to a measure of state oversight and intrusion. Meaning, CPS has to go with them to all appointments and have unlimited access to “pop in” on Levi and Marissa unannounced and all that. If they decide they don’t like any little thing, they can kidnap him again. But the most important thing is that Cyrus is with Marissa and Levi NOW. His health and wellbeing depend on it!
The adjudicatory hearing is on April 8th, and if we don’t continue this fight non-stop through then, it is still possible for the state to take him away again! 🥺
However, for now, we just want to celebrate the blessing of having Baby Cyrus back with his parents. Only through Jesus Christ and his mercy and by your constant, unceasing prayers and support, have we been able to witness this miracle!
We will send you more updated information tomorrow, including an important update regarding a momentous rally we are planning for next week (clear your calendar for March 26th)—but for now, let’s just celebrate together and give God thanks!
Diego Rodriguez Freedom Man Press
P.S. Protests at the Department of Health and Welfare are canceled indefinitely—and we will not be calling for any more protests there unless they forcefully take Cyrus away again—but we are not anticipating that happening. Pray with us…
Idaho’s legislative session lasts almost four months, we are about one-quarter of the way through. Health Freedom Idaho volunteers are busy at work behind the scenes watching committee agendas, bill introductions and even attending hearings and testifying against rules that violate the State and Federal Constitution. Here are bills we are in support of and are watching closely right now.
All Idaho state bills introduced this session can be viewed HERE
Health Freedom Idaho is in support of the following bills:
CBD BILLS 1253 & 1241
S1253 that basically differentiates between medicinal marijuana products and hemp-derived cannabinoid products. Clarifying the legality of CBD with less than .3% THC. (not mind-altering ). It appears this bill will allow for the farming of (non-mind altering) Hemp products in Idaho.
This bill was brought by Senator Mary Souza. Status as of Feb 9, 2020: It was referred to the State Affairs Committee but is not on the schedule yet to be heard.
S 1241 changes the Idaho Controlled Substances Act to exclude Hemp.
This bill was brought by Representative Dorthy Moon and Senator Mary Souza Status as of Feb 9, 2020: It was referred to the State Affairs Committee but is not on the schedule yet to be heard.
This bill would prohibit an employer, including a licensed health facility, that work with the State of Idaho from taking adverse action against an employee or an applicant based on their immunization status. This bill was brought by Representative Giddings. Status Feb 9, 2020: It was referred to the Commerce and Human Resources Committee but is not on the schedule yet to be heard.
This change removes the penalties thus decriminalize parents who birth their children at home and choose not to supply the state with newborn screening data.
Decriminalize Parents who opt-out of newborn testing H 438
Eliminates sections of code make it a misdemeanor offense if newborn screening data is not provided to the state. This change removes the penalties thus decriminalize parents who birth their children at home and choose not to supply the state with newborn screening data.
This bill was brought by Representative Giddings. Status Feb 9, 2020: Referred to Health & Welfare not on the schedule yet to be heard.
Training for CPS Workers regarding Constitutional Rights of Parents under Investigation H 402
This bill would require government CPS workers to receive training that would make them aware of the constitutional rights of families, children, and others while under CPS investigation. Families under investigation have the constitutional right to refuse entry, refuse interviews and refuse to allow their children to have full-body examinations and have a lawyer present at any/all interactions with the department. *Keep in mind that 83% of families that are investigated by CPS are innocent as cases are closed as unsubstantiated. Many of those families have their constitutional rights violated by this government agency.
This bill was introduced by Representative Heather Scott. Feb 9, 2020 status update referred to Judiciary, Rules & Administration but has not been scheduled to be heard.
H 403 a line of text added to 16- 1601 cross-referencing the Child Protective Act with the Parental Rights statute.
This bill was submitted by Representative Heather Scott. Feb 9, 2020 status update referred to Judiciary, Rules & Administration but has not been scheduled to be heard.
Public protest regarding CPS and Kootenai Health drew 85 concerned citizens and the attention of local media. Health Freedom Idaho has received many reports of Kootenai Health coercing parents into keeping their children in the hospital longer and agreeing to treatments or testing for their children that they would otherwise have declined. Some parents have reported being treated differently if their child is not vaccinated according to the CDC schedule. They strong-arm parents into complying by threatening to call Child Protective Services (CPS) if the parents don’t agree with the suggestions of the medical staff in relation to the medical care of their child. Even when the parents comply, CPS is still frequently called, and the parents are often visited by CPS social workers and police at their homes within days of discharge. #parentsrights#KootenaiHealth
Concerned citizens came to Kootenai Health to publicly protest the policies and practices of Kootenai Health. This hospital has frequently been coercing parents into accepting their advised medical treatment of their children under the threat that if they do not, Child Protective Services will be called. When the parents, out of fear, accept the treatments, Kootenai Health still frequently has called CPS.
Kootenai Health calls CPS on parents closed as unsubstantiated case
The families return home to face visits from a CPS social worker, and usually, uniformed police officers. The social workers and police officers who demand a home inspection and observation of the family, and interview all of the children in the home. This is always done without a warrant. The consent parents give to allow these government officials to enter the home and interview children is frequently obtained under duress.
Kootenai Health has claimed that their hands are tied by Idaho Code. They believe that they must contact CPS every single time there is the possibility of medical neglect. But, medical neglect is not clearly defined in the statute. Having questions about treatment, wanting a second, independent opinion, wanting to wait for test results, and wanting to explore alternatives does not constitute neglect. There are many hospitals in Idaho working with the same statutes that are not frequently threatening the parents of their patients with CPS, so the laws are hardly the problem. The problem appears to be a disregard for building trust in the doctor/patient/parent relationship. The hospital frequently resorts to coercion, extortion, and bullying, which destroys, rather than builds trust.
Also, there is the totality of Idaho Code, which includes the following statutes passed in 2015: What the laws ALSO say: 32-1010. INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE — PARENTAL RIGHTS. (1) The interests and role of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children are both implicit in the concept of ordered liberty and deeply rooted in our nation’s history and tradition. They are also among the unalienable rights retained by the people under the ninth amendment to the constitution of the United States. 32-1011. PARENTAL RIGHT TO THE CARE, CUSTODY, AND CONTROL OF CHILDREN. Parents who have legal custody of any minor child or children have the fundamental right to make decisions concerning their care, custody, and control.
CASE AFTER CASE OF UNSUBSTAINATED CASES OF CPS CALLED IN BY KOOTENAI HEALTH
Another case of an unsubstantiated claim made by Kootenai Health mother of a child with significant disabilities
Kootenai Health using CPS to enforce compliance midwife/parent advocate discusses Kootenai Health ‘policy’
Attempted Medical Kidnap after parent refuses unnecessary spinal tap on infant @ Idaho Kootenai Health
Parents and children from the Coeur d’Alene area took time out of their busy schedule to send a message to Kootenai Health on September 11th, 2019.
These are the demands of these concerned parents:
Kootenai Health IS using coercion of parents, threatening to call CPS, to get parents to keep their children in the hospital longer and accept treatments that may not be necessary for the health and welfare of the child.
Kootenai Health is using a limited view of Idaho Code to justify their threats and their calls to Child Protective Services even for parents that completely comply with the treatment recommendations.
Kootenai Health is not fostering a relationship of trust with the parents in the community. They should be operating from a position that trust must be earned and not extorted.
The limited resources of Child Protective Services should only be necessary for criminal abuse and neglect and not to build business revenue for the hospital.
Letter sent to the Kootenai Board of Health
Kootenai Health preempted the protest with an email to their employees in which they claimed that the “protesters” have a history of “videotaping interactions and misrepresenting them to advance their opinions.”
See the Kootenai Health email to their employees at IDAHOCPS.org Decide for yourself if they seem interested in healing the relationship of trust with these concerned parents, many of whom have had a personal and terrifying experience at Kootenai Health on the very subject of the protest.
