An Open Letter To Mayor Bill De Blasio By Aleah Holland

Editors Note: This is a guest post from activist Aleah Holland. -M.P.
Aleah Holland
Aleah Holland

As a lifelong citizen of New York, a registered nurse for seventeen years and licensed childcare provider, I find myself asking “Does the de Blasio Administration support acts of corruption or will your administration be the first to finally stand up to protect children from family court supported-ACS corruption in New York City?”

From Lisa Steinberg to Elisa Izquierdo to Myls Dobson, I am appalled by ACS.

Since 2012, I have been working with nearly 10,000 mothers to create a movement to bring awareness to the need of ACS reform as a child protection agency in New York City. The family court system has become a multi-billion dollar protected empire built on seizing children and separating families. There is no accountability for hurting families in this system. There are thousands of proven cases where the caseworkers and social workers are repeatedly found guilty of fraud, withholding, fabricating, and destroying evidence, or seeking to terminate parental rights unnecessarily for the reward money.

Poor families whose only crime is being poor are often targeted. With a $3 billion budget, taxpayers are fed up with secrecy, incompetency, and familial destruction by this agency known as Administration of Children’s Services, which is responsible for the violent death of Myls Dobson and too many other children under its poor pitiful care.

Cases that can be resolved in less than 90 days are litigated as long as 9 years or more with children growing up in the clutches of this a system. Just this week, I had a mother lose a child to a man that ACS knew was a child abuser. I met a mother who has been in court for 13 years and a father for who has been fighting for his children for 17 years.

With the continuance of having no consequences for their tactless actions – along with caseworker negligence in regards to the children – ACS is in danger of continuing a never-ending practice that will only lead to more deaths, destroyed children and youth which leads to destroyed adults. I have never witness ed such immoral human beings dealing with the lives of children and families.

The Administration for Children Snatching business has grown accustomed to having these billions of taxpayer dollars to balance the budget of state employees, court investigators, lawyers, judges, court personal, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, foster parents, adoptive parents, social workers, and on and on with a seemingly unlimited corrupt dependence on this legal kidnapping for money funded by the Social Security Administration Title IV grants and the Department of Health and Human Services.

As an upstanding member in my community and a member since 1997 of the largest church in Brooklyn Christian Cultural Center. I was unaware that this was actually happening to humans until I was captured in this child rigging custody for cash system.

To have been victimized and criminalized by this system – which I thought I could trust – has been beyond devastating, definitely life shattering and left me with a sense of betrayal. I am convinced that a system that functions as criminally as this do not belong in society.

In order for family court supported, ACS corruption has to end, there has to be a better way to create jobs without torturing families and children.  Asking the New York City Council to approve 362 more untrustworthy and unjust caseworkers that separates families for money is mind boggling and horrifying to me. Taxpayers already foot the bill for this child protection hoax and hustle that destroys family connections and heritage forever.

I urge you not to throw away billions of taxpayers money into ACS’ broken system. We must first address the humongous amount of fraud that has led to the deaths of four children in the first one hundred days of your administration. We must first address the removal of children and the lack the ability to protect children from their deaths.

It appears that more deaths of black and brown children lead to more money and more problems. There is no accountability in child protection services.

My heart dropped as I learned more money would be put into this system that has been failing children year after year. The preventative service budget has been slashed while ACS has doubled the number of children who will placed in residential mental health centers.

All I could think about was the Gestapo and more families being destroyed by this agency, more false documentation to support their bad misdeeds, more fraud-waste-and-abuse, more children being neglected, maltreated, and murdered, and 362 more incompetent- negligent- and fraudulent caseworkers to document whatever is need to keep their jobs or get overtime, that is a truthful fact.

Time and time again, taxpayers have heard blanket statements by ACS that heavy caseloads is what caused them to “fake document leading to removal of children from good parents or  pushed them to “invent fake visits which they are paid for to homes where children were endangered and murdered.”

It’s no longer a secret that a large amount of ACS’s budget is misused in a litigious fashion against mothers and fathers who speak out against their unorganized, unfair, malicious proceedings; which goes as far as to invent evidence, manufacture facts, and create issues to then strip good mothers and fathers of their children as a form of retaliation.

Many of ACS’s baseless fraudulent claims remain in litigation in the family court system for numerous years with everyone benefiting from the fruits of the labor of the “custody for cash” business except the family that just needed a little help.

This system can formulate a different strategy of how to traumatize and destroy any family to get to reach their ultimate goals, goals of creating business which are different then what most parents of NYC think the system is there for, which is “The Best Interest of The Child.” ACS has clearly disregarded “the best interest of the child” for a long time now.

It has demonstrated more of a “Custody for Cash” type module putting children in harm’s way and many bad actors from family court judges, social workers, attorneys, therapist, and psychiatrist and on will join in for the right amount of dividends or financial rewards.

Children torn away from their homes or placed in to foster care fraudulently are growing up traumatized in a catastrophic broken system, because it is fixed this way. Children that are torn away from their homes demonstrating emotional sadness or depression are then placed on Psychotropic drugs by psychiatrist, which is more pay for foster care agencies like children in Special Ed receive more funding.

As a registered nurse I know that in a hospital setting “mechanical restraints” such as psychotropic drugs is one of the last resorts into restraining a person, usually used a to prevent self-harm to self or to others, and if used abusively such as a form of control by a healthcare professional that professional can lose our job, we can face criminal charges, fines, or we can go to jail.

So, how loosely psychotropic drugs are used in this administration against the parent’s objection is perplexing as there is severe long term effect from using these drugs, even more severe as boys growing breast but death. This type of chemical weapon is severely destructive. Removing children first then placed on drugs is a depraved and immoral action.

Moreover, research has shown death of a parent is number one most traumatic event for a child triggering everything from depression to PTSD, severe mental injuries, physical illnesses, and learning disabilities. Children constructively losing their good-loving parents not to a car accident, or a severe health event such as cancer, but to design by a court ordered answer and consequence as a result of homelessness, a sink full of dirty dishes, or something else of mediocre or false pretense must end. To pay for a residence for a homeless-family for a year is around $20,000 or less. To litigate a homeless family and place a child in care then family in shelter could easily cost taxpayers $500,000. I wrote the numbers out to really see the difference of taking a child and helping a child.

This system has clearly shown.

No children means no problems.

No problems=no business.

No business =no money.

No money=No Job.

When Amber Alerts are issued against parents trapped in this cruel, unusual, and untrustworthy custody-trapping system time, it’s time for reform. NYC children and parents should not be terrorized with fear due to this administration scare-tactics. ACS caseworkers, lawyers, therapists, and judges can waste millions a dollars a year off of one child in the system off  of bogus claims, which is a small fraction compared to what could have maintained and assisted in bringing optimal health, safety, security and keeping that family together.

I witnessed and wrote a book about ACS and the system aiding and abetting abusers with financial fraud, and other incentives while inventing false situations to steal children of their loving mothers that have experienced life hardships.

This agency changes its name but the waste, fraud, abuse and preventable endangering of children clearly remains the same. It is just further buried, and the name change is a distraction that is supposed to make people forget these murders and crimes of neglect to these children and families.

In order to prevent more senseless murders, and mitigate damages to families by this system, an intensive investigation into every case where children have been removed, or threats of children to be removed must be analyzed with parents voices included.

I wish I could be that good girl and turn a blind eye to this systemic atrocity of the enormous amount of wrong by this system, but I can’t. The only justified money is into a federal investigation into the fraud and trauma, and abuse in this system. We have to stop throwing poor and vulnerable children under the bus.

This will be the only true and honest ways to get to the bottom of what is really going on in this rigged, corrupt, and racketeering failed system, where case by case demonstrates practices and policies are easily based on false documenting, and poor documenting.

I would like to meet with you to discuss changes that are needed.

POINT ONE: Confidentiality and secrecy within ACS protects the wrong people. The courtrooms must be open to the public including the news media. The Family Court system needs more regulation and more accountability.

POINT TWO: Aiding and abetting abusers under the “Father Rights” while stripping mothers of preventative services must end. Children have a right not be abused for incentives.

POINT THREE: Fraud waste and abuse must end in this system that promotes their child stripping business.

Until you hold ACS accountable for the deaths and rapes of children in their care, your administration will continue to lose support of taxpayers and parents.

Aleah Holland RN, Founder of Heal Network Inc.

HEAL Mothers & Children Coalition

www.AleahRN.com

106 comments

  1. This is one of the most well-written articles I have
    ever seen on this subject, in any website.

  2. Thank you ‘Polite on Society’ for running this important
    statement by Ms. Aleah Holland. Ms Holland is speaking for the hundreds of
    thousands of parents who are experiencing this traumatic event in our nations
    history. Mothers have been protesting the unlawful removals of children
    by Department of Health and Human Services in States across the nation as they
    are known ACS, CPS and DPS for decades. There are as many removals for
    frivolous reasons that injure the family and cost tax payers hundreds of thousands
    of dollars unnecessarily as there are children left in dangerous homes or taken
    from fit, loving mothers who are trying to protect their right to parent and
    the right of their child from being beaten or raped by a known perpetrator.
    Judges across our nation are not following rules of law and by design
    these cases are being heard in family and dependency courts not criminal courts
    so that they use the preponderance of the law and best interest to hide behind
    and interfere with parental rights. Best Interest has become the guise
    for the state to remove children and make big money. Taking a child from
    a Protective Mother will insure that the parent returns to court for years as
    they are compelled by the evidence of abuse to try and protect their child from
    harm and resume their rights under the law. It is estimated that 58,000
    children each year are ordered into unsupervised contact with physically or
    sexually abusive parents following divorce in the United States. The
    courts, and social services are using federal funding known as AV funding,
    Tanf, and Responsible Fatherhood, to keep the protective mother on supervised
    visitation programs, they fan the fire of divorcing families and reward the
    abusers in an effort to make high dollar incomes for court professionals,
    mental health workers, social workers and the court itself. They are
    failing victims of abuse and is time for our elected officials to intervene on
    behalf of the children and their parents. As a concerned citizens of this
    state and a victim of the court ordered kidnapping, Ms Holland has put into
    words what so many have been are trying to articulate. http://mothersoflostchildren.org/ is so happy to have joined Heal Mothers and
    Children Coalition and appreciate your Advocacy on behalf of the
    children.

  3. Aleah writes it well. This corrupt judicial and political machine is about to fall down around you politicians and do not forget who put you where you are. The stolen Identities and life’s this fraud upon the very fabric of society will not let you get by with this blatant takings of children and destruction of life’s. Rest on that my word is my bond and I will help to see to it you are the ones imprisoned in your own industrial complex which will be prison. I and others like me will be dismantling you very soon. So just stop and reverse immediately because the deeds you have done are being revealed and looked at now.

  4. The truth is out, now let’s see what the newly appointed Mayor will do. Its clear and obvious to anyone with minimal education to see the issue. The letter was written really well and I pray that help comes soon for these ACS victims. Mayor do the right thing and listen and act on the issue that affects our future as a society. The children are our future. Dont let our future leaders be mentally morderfied by abuse parents that our good Neighbor ACS is arranging through our current family court system. Thank you Ms Holland for a excellent article.

  5. Thank you Aleah for speaking up and being a voice for so many children who have been abused by a corrupt system. Our children our paying a huge price for these money hungry beast. The whole system needs to be exposed and changed. I for one will not stop until all are held accountable for the abuse they have inflicted on, children, fathers and mothers.

  6. Thank you Aleah, for shedding light in this dark area of our failing system.

  7. As a former foster child I second that. For too long the abuse children have suffered at the hands of child protective services have been silenced.
    Was cps not created to protect children from abuse. Then why would everyone so blindly follow along and allow child protective services to keep so much of our lives a secret.
    We were/are treated as second class citizens. And child protective services is so riddled with corruption and criminals that they have created a system that perpetuates abuse.
    Abused children need a voice. Someone needs to be that voice. But that someone is not an agency….. But we the people!

  8. cps took our child away because we have a learning disability which is discrimination elizabeth cora tracy was born 3/13/2002 cps took her 6/8/2002 we have been in-out o0f court since 2002 = brian and lori tracy from rockland county

  9. Mother of one, survival twin abused by Family Court for seeking help to protect
    my son & myself from our abuser faced greater abuse by judges CPS workers

    false reports all for reporting the truth to governmental authorities seeking protection as a woman against violence myself & my son, not knowing that we were falling into a trap a web of lies & deception where my son & I most freedom of speech Freedom to speak our native language depriving my son & I to communicate from our hearts
    Silence painful silence to even tell what has happened to my son & I being separated from each other per court order. -Bergen County, family court, New Jersey.

  10. The most comprehensive article written on Family Court to date! There is no doubt this has and will catch the attention of all New Yorkers! It’s time…. thank you, Ms Holland for all you have done for families across America.

  11. From the time that I have known Aleah, she has been a dedicated advocate to end corruption within New York State’s Family Courts, CPS agencies etc. Too many women & mothers (usually survivors of Domestic Violence) have suffered & have become demoralized because of the CIRCUS ACTS that continue to occur behind the closed doors of these “Houses of Corruption” is what I call them! Unfortunately, fear & ignorance consumes these women AND so only very few of them speak out, but not A. H. Her mission may have seemed impossible to others, but perseverance is the key! I knew that one day she’d hold her arms up high & claim VICTORY! She fights for her children & yours as well!!!

    Yours truly,
    Nichole Martin

  12. So elated and proud of you Aleah Holland !! Well written and to the point. I am hoping Texas can make some changes soon! I too talk to hundreds of parents a month who have or are are suffering due to corruption, and the kids are hurting so badly. PEOPLE IN AMERICA NEED TO WAKE UP AND MAKE A STAND, PLEASE! XOXOXO

  13. Thank you Thank you Thank you for exposing the corruption that is in the child protection system and family court! We need all the help we can get to end legalized child abuse!Li

  14. Ms. Holland writes effectively and in a distinctive voice. Her points and recommendations should be strongly considered. Kudos to her for being brave enough to call out the elephants in the room.

  15. Exposed!!! This letter speaks volumes for the lost souls of the CPS system. After reading this, Bill de Blasio would be negligent if he does not investigate and eradicate the Corrupt Payment System known as CPS. Aleah this letter will hold him accountable during the next publicized tragedy. You’re speaking for those whose cries go unheard. THANK YOU!!!!!

  16. I’m asking Mayor Bil De Blasio to reach out and help. Parents and children have been ignored for far to long and you have the power to get things moving in the right direction. Each year 58, 000 children are sent to live with their abuser, while countless others are stripped from their parents loving arms and placed for adoption. Research the facts for yourself and please read about Senator Nancy Schaefer efforts to bring these things to light. I hope and pray that you will take this matter seriously and act swiftly.

  17. Family Court Custody… the courts will first take your all your money then your child – even if just for the foster care system.

  18. THANK YOU Polite on Society for publishing this amazing open letter written by Aleah Holland, RN. Blogs like yours which is read daily by NBC Today Show’s Tamaron Hall and other influential reporters are so important in helping the public become aware of the massive corruption inside of New York City’s ACS.

    If Chiara de Blasio – the mayor’s daughter – got pregnant and gave birth to a child in New York
    City, the Administration for Children’s Services would take her child
    away because she has a mental illness. To get her child back, Chiara
    would be forced to live as an in-patient at a drug rehabilitation center
    most likely outside of the city limits while seeing her newborn just
    two hours twice a week. That would be her plight if she wasn’t the
    mayor’s daughter.

    This happens every single day to mothers and children in New York City family courts.

    70% of children with mental illness in NYC are foster care children who
    are over-diagnosed on a regular basis say angry parents and mental
    health advocates like NAMI (National Alliance on the Mentally Ill). They
    also point out that Mayor de Blasio is turning a blind eye while
    allowing ACS and Family Courts to use the controversial DSM-5 method and
    book to diagnosis parents and children at the courthouse despite the
    National Institute of Mental Health abandoning the method because it is
    unreliable and over-reaches.

    Just two weeks before DSM-5 was due to appear, the National
    Institute of Mental Health, the world’s largest funding agency for
    research into mental health, indicated that it was withdrawing support
    for the manual.

    The wrong diagnosis is responsible for thousands of New York City
    parents losing custody like Ashley Dobson, whose son Myls Dobson, 4, was
    brutally tortured and murder during the first week of Mayor de Blasio’s
    time in office. After the death, Mayor de Blasio made sweeping
    statements about change and reform promising the moon and the stars but
    didn’t deliver say parent advocates.

    In the end, Mayor de Blasio skipped the funeral for Myls Dobson – as did
    his wife and ACS Commissioner Gladys Carrion. Oddly, a couple months
    later, Mayor de Blasio actually boycotted the St. Patrick’s Day parade
    to show support of the gay community making it clear where his priority are.

    Taxpayers pay billions of dollars for ACS to protect children,but the agency is failing to do the bare minimum. ACS can and MUST do better. And we have to make them. Publishing this open letter is a great first step so we applaud PoliteonSociety.com for forcing this conversation and standing up for children.

    DID YOU KNOW: 98.4% of child neglect/abuse cases in New York City are decided in ACS’ favor!*
    That means judges are intentionally denying parents access to due
    process and fair hearings. F.A.M. believes that it’s time for a change
    to happen. We’re working with a student designer to create a logo that
    reads, “I AM THE 1.4% Help us prosecute false child neglect filings.”
    We hope that when the T-shirts, buttons and flyers are
    finished, you’ll support F.A.M. by wearing the shirt and distributing
    the flyers or posting to your social media network.

    In
    New York City alone, over 60% of all cases filed are false and
    malicious reports done by someone the parent knows. ACS has to reform its hotline and do a better job of screening callers for false and maliciously filed reports. Generally, the cases
    are called in to harm the parent but the people who end up paying the
    price are the children. We hope that you’ll help us PROTECT CHILDREN by
    posting this flyer on your website, distributing to your social media
    network or becoming our partner in protecting children. In addition, we’ve made some exciting changes to our website. Please take a MOMent to visit us at http://www.FalselyAccuseMoms.com

    Together, we can end this unpatriotic practice of
    denying falsely accused mothers access to fair trials and the protection of their rights. Call Christopher McKniff, ACS’ spokesperson and demand that he stop stonewalling the press and preventing the public from knowing the truth. His email is christopher.mckniff@dfa.state.ny.us and his number is 212-341-0886.

    It’s time to call out Michael Arsham, the former CWOP director who betrayed children and parents by becoming ACS’ Director of Advocacy but refusing to get involved with helping parents and children get due process. Email him at michael.arsham@dfa.state.ny.us or his boss Benita Miller at benita.miller@dfa.state.ny.us. Tell them you support F.A.M.’s efforts to end family court corruption.

    Thank you,

    F.A.M. Falsely Accused Mothers
    http://www.FalselyAccusedMoms.com

  19. A recent comment from a CPS and Social Worker on my pages stated, “Sounds like a bunch of disgruntled Mothers who lost their children.” It is more than a few thousands of Mothers are making the trek across America to hold candle light vigils and demonstrations in front of the White House for “abuse of power…..and being robbed of their due process of law.” Social workers and CPS need to be honest and also admit to the pressure of meeting federal guide lines for receiving funding to be paid and the bonus system that exits for “re-locating and placing children in foster care and homes and for adoption.” Judges just follow the recommendation of CPS; without a through investigation. In exparte court actions Voiceless children are automatically transferred to hostile ex husbands as the litigants and pedophiles and abusers for “alleged mental illness for battered mothers”…..Nothing has changed for women in thousands of years for women. Culturally, Sin By Silence still exits for women-mothers standing up in courtrooms where the Patriarchy reside and from laws passed from England to the new colonies…giving men the right to punish women. This attitude of punishing Mothers in the courtroom also happens with female Judges on the bench. Are mothers and children safe on the bench? No is the answer.

  20. A recent comment from a CPS and Social Worker on my pages stated, “Sounds like a bunch of disgruntled Mothers who lost their children.” It is more than a few thousands of Mothers are making the trek across America to hold candle light vigils and demonstrations in front of the White House for “abuse of power…..and being robbed of their due process of law.” Social workers and CPS need to be honest and also admit to the pressure of meeting federal guide lines for receiving funding to be paid and the bonus system that exits for “re-locating and placing children in foster care and homes and for adoption.” Judges just follow the recommendation of CPS; without a through investigation. In exparte court actions Voiceless children are automatically transferred to hostile ex husbands as the litigants and pedophiles and abusers for “alleged mental illness for battered mothers”…..Nothing has changed for women in thousands of years for women. Culturally, Sin By Silence still exits for women-mothers standing up in courtrooms where the Patriarchy reside and from laws passed from England to the new colonies…giving men the right to punish women. This attitude of punishing Mothers in the courtroom also happens with female Judges on the bench. Are mothers and children safe on the bench? No is the answer.

  21. Now that this well written article has captured the attention of an executive official, as supporters and/or like minded individuals – we have to follow through with it. Stand firm – look those legislatures in their eyes & let them know that WE DEMAND CHANGE! The unethical behavior of the Homeland Security Agents, judges, referees, law guardians, court appointed lawyers, legal aid reps & CPS/ACS workers is appalling & needs to be addressed! Perpetrators walk & in many cases, they walk with the children only to cause more damage! To the system, a child is a # and $$$. To us, our children are everything! This is why we fight!

    THIS WORLDWIDE FIASCO HAS TO COME TO AN END!!!

    A female of any species, in any habitat is a nurturer and/or a birth giver! He who destroys or tries to destroy a woman is a fool & will ALWAYS suffer!

    N. M. – creator (http://www.smilesforthefuture1.com) Suffolk County, N.Y.

  22. I hope that you meet with her and make your disgust with child abuse and abuse of the system known! I hope that you will begin the first step to making things right!

  23. Please help us. Good wonderful parents are having their children removed based on untrue allegations.

  24. Simply put the raw truth has come to you, the question that we face as individuals is what are you going to do next. If you continue to be silent after knowing this truth you become guilty…..because we are responsible for doing all the good we can while evil is spreading far and wide……..Truth has come to you~

  25. Put those SW-ers in the lions den and see how they fair… then send them back to their jobs.

  26. Thank you Polite on Society for running this. The corruption in family court reaches far beyond NYC. It runs rampant throughout NY state and beyond.
    It is past time that this corrupt system was brought to task for their crimes against children. We need to stand up and speak out against these atrocities.

  27. Mayor, please hold hearings and listen to the testimony of Me. Holland and other parents impacted by this corrupt system with perverse incentives. NY can and should be a model for reform for the rest of the country.

  28. Aleah H. Letter is one letter among thousands of parents who have realized the same thing. Our child welfare and protection system is broken and poorly overseen. The evidence of the failure of this program is easily attained within court and public record. From the lack of experience, training, and education of those acting within the position of Social workers, to the lack of experience, training and education within the judicial to recognize the dynamics of inter-family violence and dysfunction. The families of America under equipped financially in an economically strapped nation to find solutions to improve, heal and treat or even defend themselves within the court system filled with civil rights violations on a daily basis. Childrens’ services do not always save a child. Childrens’ services will, more than likely, simply dissolve a family and create future ramifications of a family without healing. From the federal incentives to move a child into adoption quickly, to the demand for adoptable children, to the dark network of sexual predators, Childrens’ services is ripe for corruption and blatant misuse of office as documented in public records. Yes, Childrens’ welfare and protection divisions need complete restructure and reform. I stand with Aleah H. in demanding a discussion on the failure and errors within the current programs under the Department of Children and Families.

  29. This letter expose the underground corruption within our family court system and Acs. The rapping of today’s family has to stop. This current system doesn’t help the best interest of the children. Its in the best interest of the employees who stand to benefit from doing the wrong thing. Generating money for their own pockets. I can’t wait to see what this current Mayor do in response to this horrible issue. If children are our future. Our future will be filled of adults with mental health issues due to molestation and abuse instilled in them by those nasty parents who have custody of them and the judge who placed them their being the ring leader. If we continue this vicious circle of deception , our future is grim at best.

  30. Thank you Ms. Holland for writing this article! In our case, it has now been 13 years of dealing with the court system. My children were taken from me and placed into the custody of the many they allege abused them; a man who happens to be their father. My children’s childhoods have been destroyed and I suspect it will take them a lifetime to overcome what they have endured in the system. So very sad. Thank you again for taking the time to speak out on this important issue.

  31. This is my third post, but they don’t seem to be showing up. Aleah Holland has the gift of succinctly summarizing the crimes against children and humanity being committed by government employees.

  32. You are welcome Wayne. Its important for this site to highlight issues such as this. I thank everyone for their comments.

    -Marc W. Polite
    Founder/Editor-in-Chief

  33. CPS is a joke. The family court system is a joke. They prey on innocent children to fatten their pockets. How they sleep at night is something I cannot even fathom. Taking kids away from safe homes and away from loving parents to be abused is abuse in itself. When is it going to stop? What if was your kids????

  34. “To have been victimized and criminalized by this system – which I thought I could trust – has been beyond devastating, definitely life shattering and left me with a sense of betrayal.”

    I could not have stated this better myself Aleah Holland. This is exactly how I felt and still feel today after having survived a very hostile custody battle from 2005 – 2009 in Houston, Texas.

    Thank You so much for speaking out and sharing your story as there are thousands who have similar stories across the nation. Thank You for being a VOICE for those who go unheard and are afraid to speak out!

  35. ACS in conjunction with Family Court – Otherwise known as “The legion of Doom” are now in the “Cash for Custody” and “Cash for Kids” business in New York City it is ACS and millions of children are sentenced to a life of death, due to majority of the children 90% being of Black or Brown descent nobody cares, but appears to, ONLY when child dies, but the puppet-masters use that death in their financial interest. I love Aleah-H! She has been helping for years and she always been out-spoken on social injustice. I look forward to reading more of her books. They are serious with amazing humor! found this video explaining some of the fraud dads receive in family court.

    This “system” has different evil-tactics of how to extract every bit from the multifaceted amount of people they deal with. Do not matter if you are rich-poor-White, Brown, or Black for everyone they have a TRAP! Tell them Aleah “The Rig is Up!”
    http://davis.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/california-family-court-corruption-reported-by-cnn-legal-view-with-ashleigh-banfield_20101490#.U3wqDPTDAwx.twitter

  36. ACS came to my house like the Nazis over 100 times for a false report. I NEVER let them in because I knew I was innocent, and I knew my rights!

    They would leave notes in my public hallway how they were going to have the police break down my door. My neighbors would bring me the letters it was so humiliating because they felt they would have never came if I was innocent, “So-I-Must-Be-A-Bad-Mother, or done something wrong. I was scared. Lawyers wanted $10,000 before we even knew the story. I found this video on Youtube

    I watch the officer friendly video and he said DO NOT let them in! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1JqdE0ZDA
    They kept coming and coming, and coming, and coming.
    I never answered the door.

    Then they sent me a letter in the mail saying the false allegations were unfounded. Im like who paid for those 100 wasted visits? They are really evil!

  37. I too have been a victim of this agency. A school my son never attended reported me to ACS. Claiming my son was not attending school. I explained to the ACS case worker that my son had never attended the school after he was accepted. Yet they continued to send absence letters. I called and left messages on the principal’s voice mail to no avail. The letters continued to arrive by mail. I explained that my son is enrolled in a private school, which I provided the info for and a contact person. But she wanted to turn the matter into a federal case. Came to my home interrogated me and my son. Inspected his body and my home. Asked for paystubs etc, which I showed her. I felt like a criminal in front of my child. I was six months pregnant at the time. She wanted names of people who can vouch for me as a parent. It was very humiliating to say the least. But all of that was not enough. Miss Figueroa then called my job the next week and left a message for me to call her saying it was about my son. I nearly had a heart attack because I thought something was wrong with my son. She could have called my cell phone, but claimed she misplaced the number. But I had never provided her with my job number, yet she choose to call me there and leave a message under the pretense that there was something wrong with my son. Like I said I was six months pregnant. Who leaves a message like that for a mother, especially an expectant one. I thought it was a low thing to do. She also wanted to come back to my home with some other person. I thought that was unnecessary since I had given her full access already any there was nothing left to see. It seems like she was looking for deficiencies to make a case from. So I decided enough was enough and refused to answer her calls. She also pretended that it was not the school but another entity which reported me. But I knew better. ACS can not tell me the kind of mother I am. I already know that I am a good mother.

  38. It is refreshing to see someone stand up for themselves and others in this tragic nightmare we are forced to live in.Thank you Miss Aleah for having the courage and tenacity to fight and keep fighting these heathens in this corrupt family court system. Calling each and everyone of them out, and calling on each and everyone of them who can fix this hot mess for our children and our fellow parents fighting this never-ending hail of hell we are put through.Keep building that platform Miss Aleah we will be heard and families will begin to heal and reunite.Thank you to “Polite Society” for supporting this imperative fight and running this open letter as ever bit of help is needed and very much appreciated. Sending love from Canada

  39. BRAVO ALEAH HOLLAND for being a strong voice and leader for those who have no voice–our innocent children. Mayor DeBlasio, please prove to us that you and your administration understand the negative impact this is having on New York, and commit to being a champion for the health and safety of our children. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice released a study (Saunders Report) that found the STANDARD and REQUIRED domestic violence training received by judges, lawyers, and evaluators does not adequately prepare them to handle abuse cases. Inadequately trained professionals (including CPS) tend to believe the myth that mothers frequently make false allegations. MOST contested custody cases are actually domestic abuse or child abuse cases in which abusers have been allowed to use the courts to regain control over their victims, and bankrupt the safe, primary care-giving, protective parent. In addition, the Center for Disease Control conducted a lengthy investigation into adverse childhood experiences. The ACE study is one of the largest medical investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being. They found that a child’s exposure to certain trauma’s, including domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and/or being separated from a primary care giving parent resulted in more illnesses and injuries to children in childhood through adulthood (i.e., social emotional and cognitive impairment; adoption of health-risk behaviors; disease, disability and social problems; and premature death). THIS STUDY CONDUCTED BY THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION DEMONSTRATES HOW A CHILD’S EXPOSURE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ABUSE, AND/OR BEING SEPERATED FROM THEIR PRIMARY CAREGIVING PARENT IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE. Mayor DeBlasio, I understand that you inherited this problem. You did not create it. However, you are now in a position of authority to do something about it. We call upon you to be a leader, and fight to keep New York’s children safe. Maybe then, the rest of the country can use your good deeds as a beacon for positive legislative change on a national level. The health and safety of American children must come before money and politics. I thank you in advance for your anticipated support.

  40. Aleah Holland is shouting from the rooftops that New York has a big problem on it’s hands–as does our country. The Children’s Justice Campaign is a not-for-profit organization based in New York City, dedicated to raising social consciousness as to the breadth and scope of iniquities committed against innocent children by the U.S. family court system. Through a massive media campaign, the CJC seeks to educate the general public about the health and safety risks to children exposed to current family court practices, using statistics, scientific research, and victim testimony. Our mission is to inspire fellow Americans to take action, demanding transparency and accountability within our courts, and ultimately creating new standards of practice that will honor the needs of a child by making their physical and emotional wellbeing the top priority in divorce and custody litigation. We would be happy to assist the Mayor De Blasio administration in any way we can. Please feel free to contact us. http://www.childrensjusticecampaign.org
    Facebook: Children’s Justice Campaign
    Twitter: #CJCTHISISNOJOKE

  41. Due to Government ties in Child Sex Trafficking: A Special Report Published on Aug 8, 2013

    More than 100 teenagers involved in sex trafficking and exploitation were rescued over the weekend in coordinated raids encompassing more than 70 cities, the FBI said Monday.

    The youngest child was 13 years old, the agency said.

    The raids resulted in the arrest of 150 “pimps” involved in the commercial exploitation of both adults and children, said Ronald Hosko, assistant director of the FBI’s criminal investigative division.

    It was the FBI’s largest action to date focusing on the recovery of sexually exploited children, and took law enforcement agencies to streets, motels, casinos and social media platforms, Hosko said. He said he hoped it would focus attention on sex trafficking, “this threat that robs us of our children.”

    The pimps preyed in particular on troubled children, including children from broken homes, authorities said. In some of the cases, they used a popular online classified site, Backpage, to sell the children for sex, authorities said.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGOsQRuCfw&feature=youtu.be

  42. There is a Problem in the USA and the Problem is YOURs.The “Price of Justice” ACS,CPS, and Family Court Licensed Abuse is a National Emergency . “Cash for Kids” Schemes and Family Destructionis the Norm. “Best Interest of the Abuser and Pedophile” is the new pollicy. ACS and Family court protects the aids, abets, and protects abuser, and goes after innocent parents vicious;y, connivingly, and with so much trickery and deceit. This has to End! Cooking the books is the normal for this agency. It has become a racketeering industry. youtube.com/watch?v=YZiJ8n50DYk … #FreeJustina

  43. Thanks @disqus_JMnRtcI7Rn:disqus . Looking forward to continuing the work!

  44. So many of these horror stories. Thank you for sharing amd educating us on what is really going on with ACS!

  45. My organization have personally communicated with over one thousand mothers in the last 18 months of LEARNING about this pandemic. I am now connected with approximately 6 organizations that are taking action to bring awareness. “As the Media INTENTIONALLY has blocked out these stories dating back over the last 30 years. Thank You “Polite On Society” for this platform. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rShllw2gMk

  46. Im hearing so much of these illegal stories of stealing children for no real reason. We wont give up and we are here for you!

  47. $50 billion dollar industry creating with 70% of money MISSING! $500 Billion dollars in hospital and Mental health needs due to lack of protection-fraud-waste-and abuse.

  48. 40 Faces of the Family Court Crisis Slideshow

    JANUARY 9, 2014

    Most people have a hard time believing that the good, decent parents are losing custody of their children in record numbers in America’s divorce or family courts. During the past eight years, CJE has focused on bringing forth the heart-wrenching personal stories of the real people behind the horrifying statistics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y0lm_DGb3A
    hhttp://centerforjudicialexcellence.org/2014/01/09/family-court-crisis-slideshow/

  49. Thanks for helping HEAL rescuing us and being there for mothers and families of children Kidnapped by ACS and the Courts.
    Without My Child: Aleah Holland’s Plight to Expedite Justice

    http://franbriggs.prezly.com/60

  50. Wow! Definitely feel like 3rd class citizens the way they are stealing children from Mothers!!!!

  51. Sorry false allegations against you! This is what this system do to hurt families unfortunately!

  52. Yes, this system has been the core in corrupting and disrupting society from what we see!

  53. I wish I knew “Officer Friendly before I let these feebleminded- evil women into my home to falsify reports against me and my children, and RETALIATE when I complained that it was not right. The Domestic Violence judge was following me ona Twitter and judge was faking evidence too. AleahRN http://www.ALittleLynched.com

  54. CHILDREN JUSTICE MOVEMENT- Let us know how we can help you, and Thank You!

  55. Thank You for your research and factual information on the bad things happening in this “system.” This is a Public Health issue Mayor De Blasio!!
    Thank you for helping HEAL @thenurturedparent:disqus !

  56. This letter is so serious, straight forward and nail on the head listen and read , this not a joke its our lives.Take the accusation seriously. I don’ t care how absurd or
    unbelievable the caseworker sounds. Understand that SHE is serious, and likely
    presumes – no, likely KNOWS that you are guilty as accused. Even if she doesn’
    t flat out say that she’ s there to take the children, she is quite possibly
    intent on doing just that. An example is in a testimony to Congress, Chris Klicka, senior
    counsel for the Home School Legal Defense Association, stated that a case
    worker with 30 years’ experience once confided in him that “When I started
    working, we tried to prove the family was innocent. Now we assume they are
    guilty until they prove they are not.” They are not our friends but the are demons , this country was said to have you presumed innocent until proven guilty now its the reverse in family court. open your eyes mayor this is real!!!!!!!

  57. HAVE YOU EVER HAD THE FEELING OF HAVING ALL THAT YOU LIVE FOR IN YOUR
    LIFE RIPPED AWAY BY A PERSON WHO SHOWS NO EMOTION? THE PAIN THAT IS FELT BY THIS
    SYSTEM IS NOT LIKE THAT OF REGULAR COURTS WHERE A PERSON IS FIGHT FOR A
    MATERIALISTIC OBJECT, OR A MATTER OF A DISAGREEMENT. THIS IS MY CHILD LIFE
    STOLEN FROM ME. AND ALL I HAVE IS CHILD SUPPORT TO PAY FOR A CHILD I CANT SEE
    BECAUSE IT WAS DECIDED FOR
    ME. THAT WAS MY FAKE SOON AS I WALKED THROUGH
    THOSE COURT ROOM DOORS. I FEEL MORE THAN VIOLATED, I FEEL TOURCHED. I LOVE MY
    CHILD SOO MUCH, AND TO HAVE SOMEONE TELL YOU THAT THE CHILD YOU RAISED AND IT A
    PART OF ME TO MY DEATH IS NO LONGER MINE TO HOLD, READ STORIES AT NIGHT. TUCKING
    IN BED ,KISS YOU GOOD NIGHT
    . WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE? WHAT AM I TO DO? I AM
    SUPPOSE TO TURN MY EMOTION OFF. IM NOT A ROBOT, I BREATH, I CARE, I WANT MY
    CHILD BACK. I WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE WHAT NO COURT ROOM GAVE ME. MY CHILD!!!!.
    JUDGE YOU NEVER CHANGED MY CHILD DIAPER. LAWYER YOU NEVER HELD MY CHILD IN YOUR
    ARMS WHILE THEY WERE SICK OR SCARDED OF THE THUNDER AND SHELTER MY
    CHILD. MY CHILD IS GOD GIVEN. AND I PRAY TO GOD EVERY NIGHT THAT HE MAKES YOU
    FEEL MY PAIN, THAT’S IN MIND HEART, MY MIND AND MY SOUL. MY CHILD WILL BE ALWAYS
    A PART OF ME. AND THIS COURT SYSTEM IS WHY MY CHILD IS LOST WITHOUT
    ME.

    STAY
    STRONG I HOME THIS ADMINISTRATION LOOKS INTO THE CASES AND JUST PEER INTO WHAT
    EXACLTY WENT WRONG TO A PARENT SEEKING HELP, BUT BEING SLAYIN BY A SYSTEM
    DESIGNED ON THE PREMISES OF CURROPTION. THIS MY LETTER MAYOR

  58. MONKEYSEE MONKEY DO. ACS I HATE YOU. SOUNDS LIKE A LITTLE CHILD POEM. YET ITS SO TRUE. I BEEN IN AND OUT OF COURT ROOM AFER COURT ROOM. I SEE NOTHING BUT THE SAME CRAP ALL THE TIME. GOOD COP BAD COP THE JUDGE AND 18B LAWYER COURT APPOINTED OFCOURSE. A DASH OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST. THATS THE RECIPE TO DESTROY ANY FAMILY. THIS SUCKS. THE LETTER IS THE BEGGINING OF THE END DIRT BAGS , HOPE SATAN MAKES ROOM FOR ALL OF YOU IN THE PIT HE IS GOING TO. I TRUELY SEE THE MARK OF THE BEASTIN THE COURT. ONLY THE DEVIL AND ONE WHO IS A LIAR AND A MANSLYER WEAR THE ROBE WITH PRIDE IN A SCAM LIKE FAMILY CURT. YOU KEEP PUSHING ALEAH , WE ALL KNOW THEY ARE NOT OUR JUDGES. THEY ARE UNDERCOVER REPEARS.

  59. I’m the author of this letter. I do not know what to say. You just made me cry. My son was stolen August 15, 2012. Due to the scandal and corruption if I reach out to my son . “I WILL BE ARRESTED” I have not seen my son yet I know how demonic this system is. No one helped me. I FEEL FOR YOU!.
    You can email me anytime at HEALNYC4ME@aol.com We can talk. I know how you feel. Foreword from my book:

    “When domestic violence judge Esther Morgenstern rigged Aleah’s custody case, she did not know what to do. The judge’s ruling was inexplicable and beyond the weight of all legal authority. For no legal or truthful reason, Aleah’s case was fixed. Judge Morgenstern and her partners in crime somehow decided that a 4 year old child growing up without his safe, loving, drug free, primary care giving mother, was in his “best interest.” Sole custody was then given to an unemployed father that was reported to be abusive, and was a documented drug and alcoholic addict with an extensive rap sheet. As if this wasn’t bizarre enough, this father had an Open CRIMINAL CASE for ABUSING a CHILD at the time SOLE CUSTODY was awarded to him by Judge Morgenstern.”

  60. Dirty Secret! Lots of money to be made. The judges that racket through the courts support numerous political campaigns, so, most turn the other way out of corruption, out of trust, out of disbelief. I met Mayor De Blasio he seems like a “Try To Do The Right Thing” type of guy.

    He inherited this mess, I don’t blame him, but he has to do something about this. Dr Drew investigated this:
    http://davis.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/california-family-court-corruption-reported-by-cnn-legal-view-with-ashleigh-banfield_20101490#.U3wqDPTDAwx.twitter

  61. Children go in healthy and come out mentally -ill! 95% of children in placed foster care became mentally-ill as a result of ACS and Family Court.

  62. All that we go through to have our children- this Administration for Child Snatching business against good mothers and fathers have to end!

  63. Excellent article. The facts are shocking. I’m thankful folks like Aleah are bringing these things to our attention. At the end of the day, WE the PEOPLE have to stand up and do something about all of this or efforts like this will be all in vain.

  64. This “Custody for Cash” Concept” that is happening in New York City is purely unacceptable. Especially that the court system is all in it together from the social worker down to the judge. Many of us are oblivious to this disgusting act that is destroying the lives of mothers and children all because of this “custody for cash concept”. What bothers me about this is that the courts can resolve cases in less than 90 days and litigating for 9 years is totally unnecessary. This was a great read because before change, we must acquire the knowledge of how the court systems in new york city are formulating this illegal multi billion dollar empire without anyone exposing this and publicizing secret thats has been going on for at least 30 years!

  65. First, I’d like to thank “Polite On Society” for posting this open letter by Aleah Holland, RN. This piece reveals so much about the society and different cultures in the US that fly under the radar and the “good face” put out to allow the world to “perceive” the US as a role model nation. This is a new form of the different actions we’ve seen (figuratively) during the slavery years, and the years of convict leasing system that followed, in this country – the tearing apart of families, the devaluation of human lives, legal trafficking, and endangerment of the lives not considered for value by the “system” within this country. I do hope that more will read this and join in to take action against this injustice.

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