A “DICKENSIAN” foster mother who carried out a decade-long catalogue of abuse against children in her care has escaped a jail sentence.

Any closure these victims had from winning their case has now dissipated with the absurd,disgusting sentencing.I don’t believe for one minute her husband was unaware of the abuse,only so much can be hidden and to say the case was historic from only 20 years ago is ridiculous.The legal system is a disgrace.Plenty of people cope with diabetes,how idiotic this decision is!!!

Ruth Johnston, 62, who fostered children for 11 years, beat children as young as two while treating her own young children like royalty.

Johnston forced one girl to lick a dirty carpet and left her so hungry she had to eat from bins.During her trial at Paisley Sheriff Court it emerged she hit youngsters with a slipper, pinched them until they bled, dragged them by the hair, force-fed them, put them into freezing showers and forced them to sit outside in the freezing garden for hours on end.She also rubbed a little girl’s soiled bed sheets in her face, made another run up and down the street in her nightdress and confiscated any sweets given to the foster children and gave them to her own youngsters.

As Sheriff James Spy found her guilty, he said the conditions the children had described in her Paisley home “would match a Dickensian description of life for deprived Victorian children”.Sentence on Johnston had been deferred so social workers could compile a report on what punishment would benefit both her and the community the most.The court heard Johnston, who walks with a crutch, had become a target since details of the case were published in the press.

Louise Arrol, defending, said jailing Johnston would affect her husband Gordon, a former church elder, who suffers from type-1 diabetes.At an earlier court hearing Gordon, who was charged alongside his wife, suffered from a diabetic episode and proceedings had to be adjourned for a short while for it to pass.

Charges that he assaulted three children were found not proven.Sentencing, the sheriff let Ruth Johnston walk free from court.He said the amount of time he could give her behind bars was “severely limited” by the historic age of the offences, dating from the 1990s, and the fact it was prosecuted at summary level – which only allows for a 12-month prison term.

Rather than jailing Johnston he placed her on probation and ordered her to carry out unpaid work.

One of her victims burst into tears as Johnston left the dock and walked free from court.

CPS Corruption and Human Trafficking Exposed in San Luis Obispo

CPS Corruption and Human Trafficking Exposed in San Luis Obispo
Republicans Sam Blakeslee and Able Maldonado have teamed together for a child charity in the greater San Luis Obispo area named “The Family Care Connection”. While promoting this charity both politicians refuse to review corruption in the local CPS office.

Legislation gives states incentives under Title IV-E to increase the number of children adopted out from foster care. Title IV funding provided to local CPS offices is being used for capturing and adopting out children. However, not all of these children are abused or neglected. Many children who are taken by CPS are not at risk or in any danger thus our Government is creating a form of “child trafficking”. Children are becoming a very “profitable commodity”. Under section 1962(b) of the RICO Act it unlawful for a person to acquire or maintain an interest in an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity. Since a RICO claim cannot be made in the absence of criminal activity many parents are being unjustly prosecuted in kangaroo courts so that children can remain in the “system”. Almost half of the children taken by CPS are being adopted out using this technique. Assemblyman Blakeslee and Senator Maldonado’s actions are protecting this practice by not responding to innocent desperate parents who have sought their assistance from improper removals by overeager Social Workers. These politicians have turned a blind eye to the CPS practices and to the children and families who are being abused by the CPS system they support.

Assemblyman Blakeslee’s office claims they have no involvement with CPS procedures, yet has contacted them when children from the “Family Care Network” are at risk of escaping foster care. Senator Maldonado thinks some parents are “terrorists” if they seek his help. Some children have chaperones with them at all times so they don’t try to run away to return home to their loving parents. The benefit of these unethical practices include: increased funding, full staffing, and support of their share of over 1.6 billion dollars would be lost if this corruption were exposed. This does not include the block grants exceeding 200 million dollars annually and other incentives. In a recent publication supported by Senator Maldonado and Assemblymember Sam Blakeslee The Family Care connection is asking people to write to Governor Schwarzenegger to speak out against a budget slash of 5% in foster care funding; while knowing the author of this article has been seeking their assistance for close to 6 months.

The standard practices of CPS offices throughout California and other states have been under scrutiny for the last several years. Since President Clinton placed into effect The Adoption Safe Families Act blockgrants have increased the number of children who are in the system. The state pays extra incentives for adopting out children over the age of 9 years old and additional funds if they require mental services or have other special needs. As a result of these block grants almost 50% of all children in CPS’s care are between the ages of 13-19 years old. Every day 36 children an hour are taken by CPS throughout the United States. In California alone more than 20% of all children are in foster care.

Read more here   http://www.awakeawareandpartofthesolution.com/blog/2013/03/29/CPS-Corruption-and-Human-Trafficking-Exposed-in-San-Luis-Obispo.aspx

Child Protective Services Believes They Have The Right To STEAL Our Children

Well, I think the system held up in one regard. You are guaranteed a jury of your peers and she is a moron and they found 12 other morons to form a Morons Baker’s dozen down there “
~ Dennis Miller

A Free Country?

 If you live in the United States you live in a country where you can never be sure your children are not going to removed from your home, from their school or a bus, to be mistreated and abused, very likely to never be seen by you again. Does the fact that this is done in the guise of “protecting” children fool you into thinking it is anything other than kidnapping and trafficking in children?

If you were not already convinced that America is no longer a free country by the fact that thugs of the DEA can take your property without ever even charging you with a crime, that CPS can take you children on virtually no evidence at all should not only convince you America has become an oppressive police state, but it should terrify you—which, of course is exactly their intent.—Reginald Firehammer

 What would you call a country where terrorists enter the homes of totally innocent people, take their children on groundless accusations and give those children to people and institutions where they are physically, sexually, and psychologically abused, and frequently die, and commit these crimes with complete government protection and immunity from prosecution, and do this regularly in every part of that country? These child kidnappers and abusers go under the euphamistic banner of Child Protective Services, and the country where they carry out these atrocities is The United States of America.

This horror in the land was unleashed in 1988 when the Federal Government enacted CAPTA, The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act under which the Federal government provides the funding, by means of grants, that support state Child Protective Services (CPS).

Since that enactment, CPS has become a growth industry that seeks more and more children because the size of their grants is determined by the number of children they kidnap (“rescue”). What happens to those children is no concern of the government, the courts, or least of all, CPS. This description is no exaggeration. It is, if anything, an understatement

Former CPS SUPERVISOR Files False Complaint on Man

CORPUS CHRISTI — A former Child Protective Services supervisor took a plea deal Friday for probation for falsely accusing a man instrumental in helping convict child abusers of molesting a child himself.

Grizelda Lopez-Hess, 38, pleaded guilty to a charge of making a false report of abuse. She still could be sanctioned to jail time. Lopez-Hess was accused of making a call to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services on Oct. 9 and making a false indecency with a child report. The false report was made months after Lopez-Hess no longer was employed by CPS, which falls under that department.As part of the deal prosecutors recommended she be sentenced to two years in state jail, which was suspended for three years probation.

The agreement includes the conditions that while on probation she stay at least 200 yards away from the man she falsely accused and his family, and not work with any child abuse victims. She also must attend anger management, complete 100 community service hours, pay a $1,000 fine and give $50 to the Nueces County Children’s Advocacy Center.Prosecutor Angelica Hernandez also asked District Judge Tom Greenwell to impose one more condition — that Lopez-Hess serve 90 days in county jail. She said the jail time is warranted because the allegation prompted a CPS investigation and disrupted the lives of the man and the child he was accused of molesting.Defense attorney Eric Perkins argued jail time isn’t appropriate for his client.

That issue will be decided by the judge at a June 1 hearing.Hernandez said after the hearing that the falsely accused man approved of the plea deal and likely will testify along with the child at the next hearing.

A department spokesman has said Lopez-Hess had worked for CPS since 1997 and was the supervisor for the local sexual assault unit, until she was fired in May 2008 for sharing confidential information, which damaged her credibility.