Glen Burdue, "Even one child needlessly traumatized or abused while in the SRS system is too many"

Jan. 3, 2012, Glen Burdue spoke before the South Central Legislative Delegation.

Glen asked the legislators for their support to provide new legislation to provide statistics and identify problems with child protective services.

Glen Burdue, "Even one child needlessly traumatized or abused while in the SRS system is too many". 

Protective Parent Valerie, "Children turned over to their sexual abuser, their father"

Jan 3, 2012, Protective Parent Valerie spoke on the wrongful removal of her children and how the state gave custody of her children to their abuser. Wichita Children's Home reported three times to EMCU and SRS that the children were being abused. The system has reinforced and helped the abuser retain custody of the children. Valerie's parental rights were severed for reporting what her children told her and professionals.

Marlene Jones, Penn State Sandusky Scandal Has Nothing On Sedgwick County

Jan. 3, 2012, Marlene Jones spoke before the South Central Legislative Delegation.

Marlene has been coming to the legislative forums for several years and speaking on the wrongful removal and failure to reunify the children with the parent.

Last year the citizens were told there was going to be a new committee to address these issues and that didn't happen.

Marlene requested that the legislators support and cosponser the protective parent act that will be reintroduced this year as protective parents are losing custody of their children after reporting abuse.

Donna Roberts, The Shameful Secret In Our Own Backyard, Sexual Abuse Of Children In Sedgwick County

Jan. 3, 2012, Donna Roberts, ACRA, A Childs Rights Association, spoke before the South Central Legislative Delegation.

Donna Roberts' concern is regarding the sexual abuse of children in Sedgwick County and the coverup by professionals, law enforcement, SRS, therapists, and how the Judges are failing these children. Donna said that Kansas needs a major investigation by the feds and the people who have covered up the abuse of these children need to be prosecuted.

The bottom line is that sexual abuse is a crime and it is being covered up in Sedgwick County.

Protective Parent Larry, lost custody of his child in Sedgwick County, KS

Jan. 3, 2012. Larry spoke before the South Central Legislative Delegation.
Larry lost custody of his daughter after reporting that his child was being abused. Larry tried to file a motion in Sedgwick County Juvenile Court to be heard and was denied.
The real question is why aren't children being protected in Sedgwick County? Why is the Sedgwick County DA's office filing false petitions against protective parents to remove children from from their custody and then recommend that those children be placed in the homes of their abusers?

Wendell Turner had to make a lot of noise at Youthville to protect his grandchildren from Pendland

Rick Pendland who worked for Youthville was also a sponsored foster parent, former school teacher and he worked at the Wichita Children's Home. Pendland, who now sits in the Cowley County Jail for allegedly raping multiple children, wanted to be the foster placement for Wendell Turner's grandchildren.

Wendell Turner had to make a lot of noise with Youthville to keep his grandson's from being placed in Rick Pendland's home.

Wendell Turner spoke Jan. 3, 2012 before the South Central Legislative Delegation:

Pendland hasn't been the only individual that has raped children under Youthville's watch. This is what Youthville calls "Giving children back their childhood":

Year 2011, Who's watching the children in Youthville's facilities? Man was charged with having sexual relations with one of the children.

Marshall allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old Youthville client several times between Oct. 16, 2009, and Jan. 14, 2010, Ford County Sheriff's investigator George Brown told the Globe. Marshall was not an employee of Youthville, but he was working at the agency's Dodge City campus at the time.
http://www.dodgeglobe.com/news/x1408088016/Cimarron-man-charged-with-unlawful-sexual-relations-with-Youthville-client

It's very concerning that children are not being protected and they are being placed in the homes of pedophiles by Youthville, the Sedgwick County DA's office and the Juvenile Judges. Protective parents in Sedgwick County have not only lost custody of their children but had their parental rights terminated after reporting the sexual abuse of their children.

Year 2009, Reported by the Kansas WatchDog here are a couple stories of parents who lost custody of their children after reporting that their children were being abused.

http://kansas.watchdog.org/2010/compelling-stories-about-problems-with-placement-and-removal-of-children/

Year 2004, Another Youthville employee charged with sex crimes. 

KS SRS contractor admits to underage sex

By Chris Strunk Newton Kansan
A former United Methodist Youthville employee has been charged in
Harvey County District Court with sex crimes against three former
residents of the Youthville campus in Newton.

http://www.thekansan.com/stories/021704/fro_0217040013.shtml

The story was removed, but you can read it on this link: http://www.mombu.com/medicine/medicine/t-ks-srs-contractor-admits-to-underage-sex-5455336.html

Year 2000, Youthville, Foster dad charged with 2-year-old’s death By The Associated Press — Associated Press  December 7, 2000 Social workers regularly visited the Johnson home and found no indication that anything was wrong, said Jane Alleva, an official with United Methodist Youthville, which sponsored the Johnsons as licensed foster parents.... The autopsy indicated that Niccol suffered significant internal bleeding and injury in her abdomen. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2000/dec/07/foster_dad_charged/

Kansas has a history of endangering children:

The recent legislative audit, dated July 2011,showed that a father who was convicted of child endangerment and sexual abuse was reintegrated with his children after being released from prison.

See page 33...  http://www.kansas.gov/postaudit/audits_perform/r-11-011.pdf

Year 2011, Sedgwick County, A state-funded residential program designed to teach young adults how to live safe, productive lives mixes 16-year old-girls in foster care with sex offenders in their 20s. http://www.kansas.com/2011/07/31/1955545/program-has-foster-teens-sex-offenders.html#ixzz1Th0Mkjge#storylink=cpy 

   

Year 2010, Sedgwick County, The Wichita, KS nurse who had alleged sex with a minor was never prosectued.

By Megahn Snyder (WICHITA, Kan.),
A nurse at a treatment center for teens could face charges for having sex with a 17-year-old client.
Wichita police tell us someone saw the woman leave the Camelot Center in Riverside with the boy early Thursday morning. The witness called 911. Police later responded to the woman's southeast Wichita apartment where they found the teen and the woman. She was booked on one count of unlawful sexual relations for allegedly having sex with the teen who was locked up at the facility. She could also face battery charges for fighting the officers who arrested her. http://youthvilleclaimstoreintegrate.blogspot.com/2010/03/juvenile-facility-nurse-was-booked-on.html

Then there was the settlement case of Brandon Blackmon,

Year 2009, Brandon Blackmon receives settlement for $875 for being placed in a facility where he was repeatedly raped. St. Francis staff opposed SRS because Blackmon would be the youngest child in the compound and his personal safety wasn’t assured. The Rev. Thomas Campbell, former vice president at St. Francis, predicted Blackmon “would be 'fresh meat’ and the 'target of sexual predators,’” court records say. http://cjonline.com/news/state/2009-07-07/state_agrees_to_pay_875k  

11/5/10 Does anyone ever wonder why Wichita is ranked as one of the top 5 cities in the US for human trafficking?  http://articles.kwch.com/2010-11-05/wichita-woman_24816984

Governor Brownback and The Kansas "Ways"

Haulmark and Kahrs, the "Department's Legs"



"Brownback hints at "style" problems with SRS secretary"

"Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback suggested this morning that “style” issues may have led to the undoing of Social Service Secretary Rob Siedlecki.

“There are a lot of difficult things that he did. I think a number of them were good. I think a number of them were not as good appreciation for style, ways of doing things in the Midwest,” Brownback told The Star’s editorial board."

Did he rub state legislators the wrong way?
“Style and ways of doing things in the Midwest,” the governor reiterated. “It’s just different…It’s a big country and you do things a little different in different places.”  http://midwestdemocracyproject.org/blogs/entries/brownback-hints-style-problems-srs-secretary/#storylink=cpy

As a US Senator, Governor Brownback claimed he couldn't assist families that wrote to him regarding the wrongful removal of their children. Brownback wrote, "I am limited in what I can do because it comes under the direct authority of the State of Kansas. Because I am a member of the federal legislature, I have no jurisdiction in state matters". 

Now that Brownback is Governor of Kansas and over SRS/CPS, even less children have been reunified with their families than when the previous administration was in office.   

The Kansas "ways" of doing things is to violate the rights of children and families, take children from good homes only to place them with abusers, hide behind secret courts and sealed records where parents don't receive due process. 

Read more here: http://midwestdemocracyproject.org/blogs/entries/brownback-hints-style-problems-srs-secretary/#storylink=cpy