Angelini Looking Into Jackson DYFS Case
By Art Gallagher
Prompted by our post this morning, Assemblywoman Mary Pat Angelini (R-Monmouth) is looking into the DYFS case of the Jackson family. Angelini’s office called this afternoon seeking contact information for the Jackson’s, which MMM tracked down.
Angelini serves on the Assembly Human Services Committee which overseas DYFS.
While I have not heard the DYFS side of this story, the more I hear of the Jacksons’ story the more disturbing this becomes. Major and Mrs. Jackson have been separated from their children, and their children separated from each other, since April of last year without the benefit of due process, if what I am hearing is accurate.
The Jackson’s took one of their children to an emergency room last April. The child was dehydrated and had elevated sodium levels. DYFS says the child was poisoned and removed all five of the Jackson’s children from their custody the following day. The Jackson’s doctors say the elevated sodium level is medically normal for the condition the child was suffering from.
At an administrative hearing yesterday, DYFS objected to the Jacksons’ doctors tesitfying. The hearing has been adjourned until February.
That’s what I’ve heard so far. MMM will stay on top of this story. We are pleased that Angelini is looking into it.
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I am glad to hear that Ms. Angelini is looking into this. I hope for the best outcome for the Jackson family and pray for the children.
I hope the Rodney Frelinghuysen also follows suite, and begins investigating this injustice since it is taking place in an area he represents!
DYFS seems very corrupt. It’s sad that it’s not only NJ, but DYFS all over the country needs help on how to do their work correctly. Now that we know, we should put a stop on DYFS’ abuse of this family and our tax dollars.
Such a shame that injustices like this can happen in the United States, to such a lovely family. I pray it ends.
I ask all God-fearing, God believing christians to join me in binding the works of darkness being forced upon this family. It is my hope that all will agree with me that it is God who we desire to intervene and that includes the political figures that have been mentioned, if that is how He chooses to perform His Word.
Since when does journalism involve reporting on one side of a story based largely on hearsay? Any intelligent person should pretty much stop reading once they reach the sentence, “While I have not heard the DYFS side of this story…” I am no Sherlock Holmes but perhaps Mary Pat can begin her query by picking up the phone and asking DYFS why they actually removed the children from the Jackson’s custody. Her second question should address the child whom died while in the Jackson’s care.
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All you have is one side of the story b/c of confidentiality issues. It’s not as simple as “calling and talking to “The Division” about a client. That would be like calling a Dr.’s office and asking the Dr. to disclose a patient’s health info. Not quite how things work. I can say that I have worked for the Division for a few years and there are many times where they fail miserably at “helping the families” they claim to be serving. I have witnessed first hand the deception and plain lack of accountability that this state agency is plagued with! They have been given entirely too much power when they can destroy a family’s life in a moment and they have a court system to back them up! We are in desperate need of people with integrity that will strive to restore and help our families rather than destroy them! I’ve witnessed first hand how DYFS workers can storm troop our homes, hospitals, schools, and threaten our families at the most vulnerable moments of life. Not sure what the answer is but rest assured…you should never trust any DYFS worker! I have seen many families helped but have also seen just as many families ripped apart by DYFS! I would absolutely take this family at their word in a heart-beat before I would trust any information that was given by the Division. When the people have to fear the government “agency” that is put in place to protect them…it’s a scary day! I will be praying for this family to be restored!
DYFS (Division of Youth and Family Services) is dividing families all over the state of New Jersey. Parents are crying for help from these sadists who take children because of anonymous calls and unwarranted complaints. DYFS threatens family and uses stall tactics to keep and claim children. They are authorized to enter your house and take your children for unset lengths of time. DYFS officials blatantly lie to judges, doctors and police officers to humiliate and harass innocent parents, most of who do not have the funds to hire lawyers to fight. Each child adopted brings the state up to $8,000 and DYFS is abusing their authority to get rich.
For years, DYFS has tortured and tormented families on taxpayer’s dollar and is backed by the Stalinist government of New Jersey. They are given higher authority than police officers, in many cases. The time to investigate DYFS is now. A simple Google search with reveal literally thousands of disgruntled parents who spent years and thousands of dollars fighting unwarranted claims by DYFS. These parents are too scared to speak out, in fear that DYFS will take their children and further destroy their lives.
There are some real cases of abuse and neglect of children that really need the attention of a child welfare agency. Having said that, I think it is time that DYFS is investigated by the proper authorities. Let’s clean out all these representatives who have nothing better to do than harass parents and ruin lives. DYFS needs to re-evaluate their definition of abuse and neglect. This case is a clear example of personal bias and overzealous reaction.
Stop DYFS from abusing their power by demanding a full investigation by Gov. Chris Christie: Sign The Petition.
http://realsparano.com/2011/02/supreme-court-rules-almighty-dyfs/
I’ve started a petition on behalf of the Jackson family, and Angelini is a recipient, as well as the Governor and other Assemblypeople on the DYFS oversight committee.
http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-nj-dyfs-to-reunite-the-jackson-family
We’ve got about 370 signatures so far. Please sign and help us make a big impact on these policy makers.
What we need more of is for DYFS agents to be held accounable for the destructive action taken against families. You know what I am talking about but I never see it mentioned when I go to wesites like this one. What I’m talking about is this: Most often a DYFS agent bases their decision to remove a child or try to bring charges against the parents on an ‘attitude check ‘given by the DYFS agent. So the decision to remove a child or bring charges is a matter of how the parent responds to the ‘attitude check’. I was specifically told this by DYFS agent Brian Barneetz (Camden County) after he was so thorughly embarrased by my wife’s response to his intentional provocation of her when he made a snide remark about her race and nationality. You see my wife is Filipino. Clearly he thought that she was one of those steryotypical Asian wives that you see in old 1940’s movies or so. Well actually that kind of Asian woman doesn’t exist. I spent 9 years in the Navy in the Western Pacific and I didn’t find any such woman. Nor was I looking for that steryotype. Anyway, my wife shot right back at him with such sharp words that Barneetz was near tears. With a face redder than Rutgers’ uniforms he screamed out at the top of his voice that he was going to come back and remove all 4 of my daughters if there was any more allegations of corporal punishment. It was after this childish outburst that he tried to make a clumsy apology for his loss of self control by telling me about the ‘attitude check’. You see that those Collingswood foster parents got away with starving those boys for some years before a neighbor discovered it. You also see where the boyfriend of the mother of the boy who was killed in North Camden in 2009 got away with abusing him prior to that. In both cases DYFS was already involved with those families but they had passed the ‘attitude check’. This is the nonsense that if stopped would go a long way in eliminating the complaints against DYFS. But I doubt it will happen. When people of no real accomplishment in their lives get such power in their hands to decide the fate of a family’s future, they will likely choose to go on playing God, rather than relinquish such power. In my situation Barneetz tried to force my wife into anger management classes. He refused to backdown when I called him to plead my case the next day. So I called his supervisor the following day and told her that she would have to take us to court and bring charges aginst us because we were not going to attend the classes. She claimed she had to see the children again and I told her “no”. Within a few days we received the official notice that the case had been closed. So much for that ‘attitude check’ nonsense.
My adult daughter was abused by the man who was her fiance. She had a child by him and the last time she was abused by him was when she let him know she wanted to leave. During this attack she was able to call the police just before he ripped the phone out of the wall. His family who owns the house and lives downstairs knew of his abusive and erratic behavior, and even coddled and enabled him over his drug abuse. Once the police arrived my daughter showed one of the officers one of the places where she had just been hit. The officer commented she must have been rubbing the area to make it look so red. I found out later that several of the officers frequented the bar just around the corner and were bar buddy friends with my daughter’s boyfriend’s step father! My daughter was checked out by a doctor who diagnosed her injury as an internal contusion where that one officer had insinuated that she was faking an injury! During the episode, this cowardly “boyfriend” ran past the police as they entered the apartment carrying their two year old child, as my daughter screamed for the police to stop him because he had the baby. Instead they proceeded to question and harass my daughter as though she was the criminal and ignored the “boyfriend” who headed downstairs to his mothers and when the police came downstairs with my daughter, the boyfriend handed the baby to his mother who refused to let my daughter have her. Despite the fact that my daughter had every right to leave that situation and take her child with her, the police instead suggested that the boyfriends mother could call dyfs. Guess who got arrested for trespass? Guess who ended up with the baby?
Two years later, while still fighting for her little girl, she falls in love and has another beautiful little girl. She has a lovely nursery prepared for her, and what appears to be a very helpful paternal grandmother. We agree it wasn’t wise, but it happened. All is happy and my daughter is healthy until she has the baby. Guess what pigs show up at the hospital to take her baby straight from her arms? First her baby is put in a filthy foster care home, despite the fact that there was plenty of family support in the home were my daughter was living. So my daughter agrees to move out of the home literally with no-place to go, if DYFS would take her baby out of foster care and put the baby with the paternal grandmother, with my daughter thinking that the paternal grandmother would at least follow the rules that DYFS so loftily says it teaches resource parents on the proper care and provisions for a safe sleeping environment, for the baby. My daughter also felt this paternal grandmother would listen to her advice when it came to her baby’s care. Especially after my daughter got visitation in the home.
No. Under the auspices of DYFS my daughter’s baby DIED. She died on an over-soft couch with the paternal grandmother who stated that she had probably rolled over the baby. DYFS did nothing about my daughter’s concerns when she mentioned anything that she knew this paternal grandmother was doing wrong with the baby-DYFS just ignored my daughter, since in their eyes, her concerns were null and void. So did the paternal grandmother, whom my daughter told that she must not to nap on the couch with the baby on her chest since it wasn’t safe for the baby. This paternal grandmother suddenly was not so friendly and open with my daughter and persisted in ignoring the most basic safety and health concerns of infant care, while continuing to care with”carelessness” for my daughter’s baby. I guess the paternal grandmother suddenly liked the extra cash she would be getting and didn’t want to give that up in helping my daughter get her baby back.
I was the one that got that hideous call at 3:20am on July 19, 2009. I had to tell my daughter her baby was dead at the age of three months. My daughter was sleeping on a love seat when I woke her at at around 3:22am and watched something I pray I’ll never see again, that horrific look of terror in my child’s eyes; that no matter what you do or say, you can not take away.
I really feel for you and I hope you regain custody of your children soon and sue all parties involved. I agree this shouldnt have happened but you are not the only case out here especially here in Morris County NJ. I have dealt with DYFS 2 times and wouldnt let them into my home, attained an attorney and fought. They had no reason for an investigation. DYFS over exercises their power of authority, commit fraud and false documentations and yet they get away with it. I contacted Sen. Bucco’s office and was told they had 9 other cases they didnt know why DYFS was involved when they shouldnt have been. This needs to go much further to have a change in policy. I tired but got no where. A class action suit would be sweet!
Ma’am, I don’t know you, who you are, or what you do, but I know deep within that these are good God-fearing parents. I am extremely grateful that you are looking into this case. I know that justice will be served. May God bless you and guide you.
One more thing, to the DYFS worker who commented above, I want to say Thank You and God bless you for revealing the truth. I am thankful that God’s been on my side my whole life. I thank God for giving me wisdom and strength through my ‘battles’, but my sister went through false accusations and it damaged her for many years. She is now reunited with her grown daughters(except for her son). There relationships and broken lives are slowly mending. Once again, thank you for bringing those things that are in the darkness to the light.