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Where
are Govs. Cellucci and Swift?
DSS
Tells Child He Is Being Adopted Before
Any Hearing Is Held
Nine-Year-Old
Is Told He Will Never Go Home
March 2, 2001
The
nine-year-old son of the woman who was shackled in Lowell court
last month (because
she didn’t want her newborn baby being cared for by strangers)
has been told by the DSS that he is going to be adopted and will
not be going home to his parents.
This
was discovered by the parents after they received access to DSS’s
own records, says Atty. Greg Hession.
“It’s
outrageous that these people in DSS would tell nine-year-old Christopher
that he will never be seeing his parents again,” said Hession.
Atty.
Hession will be joined today by the civil rights lawyer, Chester
Darling, at a hearing in Lowell about the newborn girl, Jessica.
This
hearing is required because DSS will not allow the mother, Heidi
Howard, to breast feed her baby when she visits the child, who
is in DSS custody, because the mother is taking sedatives during
this emotional time in her life. The DSS is spending its time,
the court’s time, the parents’ time and the necessity of their
hiring lawyers even though the baby’s pediatrician sees no problem
at all for the infant.
Further
time will also be taken today because the DSS is trying to remove
the father’s attorney, Gregory Hession, from the case. It says
that because he represented both parents until it, DSS, forced
the mother to obtain her own attorney, there now is a conflict
of interest.
“Their
obsession with these tiny details, just as though it were the
Microsoft case, shows their grand strategy of always exhausting
the money and patience of any parent. That is their strategy for
always having their way. They don’t care about the facts. They
just want to get possession of these children so they can adopt
them out and obtain more federal money,” said Atty. Hession.
The
Howards believe that five-year-old Ethan is being abused in his
foster home. They have noticed bruises, missing teeth, chipped
teeth, crushed fingernails on both hands and a broken arm. They
later discovered in DSS files that daycare workers also noticed
that there were marks on the boy’s buttocks and back covered with
make-up. A 51A notice of abuse was not filed against the foster
mother, but the call from the daycare center was logged into DSS
records. Fresh marks were again discovered later. Neil [Howard]
says this is around the time his son was telling people that “Charlie”
was hurting him.
A
72-hour hearing will be held concerning the newborn, Jessica,
on March 14. It is called a 72-hour hearing because it is supposed
to be held within 72 hours after any child is taken from a parent.
The Howards have not yet received a hearing on any
of their three children even though their two oldest were seized
over a year ago. This is the normal procedure in Massachusetts
where the judges permit DSS to show total contempt for the state’s
72-hour requirement.
Although
the state spends millions of dollars on lawyers for the poor through
a system controlled by the Supreme Judicial Court, neither Chester
Darling nor Gregory Hession will receive any money from them for
helping this poor family because that money is given only to feminist
causes, and helping two parents keep their family intact is not
one of those causes.
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