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    Default Special needs child wrongfully taken by CPS

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    In February 2015, Bubby Everson made the news in Washington, and people from all over the world, including President Obama, sent him birthday cards to celebrate 9th year. Bubby became pretty infamous, after a local news station covered his story and his wish for birthday cards.He is a medically/mentally fragile child with a long list of diagnosis includes but isn’t limited to Congenital CMV; autism; brain calcifications; global delay; intellectually challenged; ODD; ADHD; sensory processing disorder; epilepsy; microcephaly; executive functioning impairment disorder; deaf with cochlear implants; G-tube fed a blended diet and formula; cerebral palsy; scoliosis; and compromised immune system.
    BUT NOW, he is one of the most recent victims of CPS Corruption.
    On Friday, May 22nd, the Everson's lives were torn apart as he was taken from his obviously loving parents, and the only home he knows, over allegations of medical neglect. The accusation?
    Mom rescheduled rehabilitation therapy (assessing his Cerebal Palsy and checking range of motion in his legs and feet). CPS is also "concerned" that she "MIGHT" get stressed out in the future and neglect him, despite zero instances in 9 years which she has ever been too stressed to care for her child.

    This started, two weeks ago, when a Child Services representative, Bridget Spence, showed up claiming CPS had a referral for “missed” doctor appointments. Bubby's mom, Brandi, let them in her house because she has nothing to hide. Ms. Spence interviewed her and claimed that she as Bubby’s mother ‘is tired’ and needs to ‘regroup’. When asked what the referral was for she claimed ‘medical neglect’.
    On Friday May the 22nd, 3 CPS social workers, none of whom were Ms. Spence, and 2 police officers removed Bubby from the home. They gave his Mother less then 5 minutes to pack him a bag. They didn't take any of his medical supplies, or formula for his special diet. They did not even have a car seat for him (he needs a specialized car seat). They claimed he was going to a hospital/medical facility (wouldn't say which one) and that they would have all of that. When asked if Brandi could call Thomas, they would not allow her to make the call, insisting that she needed to wait until they left. They gave her the “order to take child into custody and place in shelter care” from Pierce County Commissioner, Mary E. Dicke, with a yellow sticky note stating we have a “FTDM” on Tuesday at 9:00 am at 1949 S. State St in Tacoma, but did not provide evidence of abuse or neglect, or a copy of the petition filed for Bubby's removal.

    Washington State Law requires a Shelter Care Hearing in a court of law to review evidence. This hearing must be conducted within 72 hours of removing a child from their home, excluding weekends and holidays. Because Bubby was removed on Friday, on Memorial Day Weekend, his shelter care hearing may not be scheduled for up to 6 days after his removal, leaving him in Limbo,

    This is a case of medical kidnapping through allegations of anticipatory neglect, and Bubby's parents, Brandi & Thomas, don't know why this has happened because THERE ISN'T ANY EVIDENCE OF RISK OR HARM.
    (Which is required by Washington State Law to remove a child.)

    This forceful removal from his home is detrimental to this child’s health and well being, along with his mom and dad, causing them undue stress and anxiety over his safety and well-being. He did not understand anything that was going on.
    His Mom told him how much he was loved and that they were going to take him for a ride and she would see him soon. Because of his executive functioning impairment disorder, he got in their car with them without hesitation, despite being strangers, which is actually a dangerous situation for him. The social workers were ignorant of his medical needs, and he is now helpless, in a strange place, with strange people, likely receiving medical procedures with out the two people who have been a constant in his life for as long as he has ever known.
    If you google Bubby Everson, you will see a multitude of pages of an outpouring of love from and for this family!
    http://q13fox.com/2015/02/03/family-...his-only-wish/
    http://q13fox.com/2015/02/07/bubby-o...-and-stickers/

    Please Support Bubby and the Everson Family.

    It is obvious that these parents love their child, and without clear and concise evidence of immediate risk and harm, the only harm that is occurring here is the trauma inflicted upon this poor boy and his family by Pierce County Child Protective Services.





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    Wow...and I thought Child Protective Services in NJ were awful, but this story takes the cake and then some.

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    Well, before we go too far down this road, it sounds like the mother made up a lot of these illnesses. The child does not have the rare fatal illness that she claimed he had, has not been diagnosed with autism (though seems to be on the spectrum), and is not suffering from deafness, brain calcifications, immune deficiency or a bunch of the other stuff that she claims.

    Yet they pulled him from school and therapy, had him unnecessarily eating from a feeding tube and using a wheelchair, and even had him sleep in a bed with netting. The Mom has also been asking for a Do Not Resuscitate order in spite of the fact that the child does not have a life threatening or terminal illness. A doctor from Seattle Children’s even stated that Bubby’s mother "continues to present misleading, incorrect, and untrue facts, predictions, diagnosis and is actively working on plans related to his impending demise.”

    https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/why-...036690067.html

    This woman sounds like a lunatic and the husband is going along with all of it. There are psychiatric terms for what she is doing, but if someone didn't stop her she was very likely going to stunt his development or even kill the kid herself.
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    Maybe there are other sources but I do not see in that link what supports the case against her. Are they saying doctors gave him cochlear implants and a feeding tube because she asked them to?

    I don't see it, it is entirely possible that she is crazy, but then a whole bunch of doctors are crazy too.

    A bunch of 26 year olds with masters in social work make a bunch of decisions, I am willing to bet in their case load is some POS burning their kid with a cigarette while they spend resources on this.

    Like the recent Massachusetts case, where it was essentially two doctors/hospitals arguing over which one's dick is bigger and leaving a kid in limbo for over a year, there needs to be a much higher standard for the removal of a disabled child. Missing 'a' doctor appointment? Where is the paper trail? Suddenly it was an issue with no warning?

    It will play out in the future, and absolutely could be true that the parents are crazy, or not, but like the Pelletier case, the parents will never get that time back and the combination if an arrogant doctor[s] and zealous case worker can mean lots of damage to a child.

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    Oldster, I don't think that "crazy doctors" are the issue. In fact, it was the doctors at Seattle Children's Hospital who reported this and accused the Eversons of having "caregiver fabricated illness." It is also called Munchausen’s-by-proxy. It is a disorder which leads parents to seek attention for themselves by claiming that their child is very sick. Caregivers with this disorder take their kids to doctors unnecessarily and lie about, exaggerate or even induce symptoms in order to convince physicians or psychologists that there are problems.

    This is some scary stuff. Besides imprisoning the kid, who knows how many invasive and unnecessary procedures this kid has been subjected to. That feeding tube was implanted in him and I have no doubt that he has been subjected to a ream of other invasive procedures, all on the say so of a Mother who has already been proven to have lied about the severity of his various conditions in order to get attention (google Birthday Card for Bubby campaign).

    To be clear about where my sympathies lie, I normally detest the thought of any state getting involved in parental decision making. I don't trust many child welfare units and I think that, in some states, they are way too quick to try to justify their own existence by removing kids from their homes for specious reasons.

    But I am torn in this case as the evidence seems to suggest that the mother is a nut. The truth will come out in the wash soon enough, but I will be surprised if they get the kid back, at least without a third-party medical proxy being appointed by the court.
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    Default Re: Special needs child wrongfully taken by CPS

    As an aside, people should learn the difference between infamous and famous
    "There are different kinds of darkness. There is darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good."
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    Naturally the welfare of the child is what matters, so yes..lets see what the courts findings begin to uncover..should be interesting.

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    When I ask to have a feeding tube put in my kid the doctors always look at me funny...............same with the cochlear implants..........

    >>>>at least without a third-party medical proxy being appointed by the court. <<<

    Again,not knowing all the facts my question is why is this was not the first step instead of the last.

    In the Mass case it was clearly about power and control, the bureaucracy, once set in motion, fights to keep its prerogative. IOW once they take the kid, they get to make all the decisions, where if they went to court first, they have to ask. In the end they lost completely, and even it was obvious that they were going to lose, they continued to work tirelessly to keep the parents away form the child. Oh, and after 16 months in state care the child was no better off. And yes, her parents are probably nuts.

    Link to a story on that case:

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...X4J/story.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldster View Post
    When I ask to have a feeding tube put in my kid the doctors always look at me funny...............same with the cochlear implants..........

    >>>>at least without a third-party medical proxy being appointed by the court. <<<

    Again,not knowing all the facts my question is why is this was not the first step instead of the last.

    In the Mass case it was clearly about power and control, the bureaucracy, once set in motion, fights to keep its prerogative. IOW once they take the kid, they get to make all the decisions, where if they went to court first, they have to ask. In the end they lost completely, and even it was obvious that they were going to lose, they continued to work tirelessly to keep the parents away form the child. Oh, and after 16 months in state care the child was no better off. And yes, her parents are probably nuts.

    Link to a story on that case:

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...X4J/story.html
    And almost insanely difficult to remove them from the system once in..its almost like we have to face these things with a certain sense of poisoned rationality.. I hope the kid survives emotionally all of this, I really do. What a mess.

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    I'm sure everyone was rightly concerned when a woman with a history of presenting "misleading, incorrect, and untrue facts, predictions, diagnosis" about her son, as well as related attnetion seeking behavior, started "actively working on plans related to his impending demise.” [quotes from a doctor at Children's Hospital].

    She was trying to obtain a DNR for a kid that has not been diagnosed by anybody, except of course by the mother, as being terminal. So yes they stormed the house and took the kid. Right or wrong, they were no doubt concerned that this was going be a self fulfilling prophesy.

    I am amazed that I am sitting here taking the side of a state child welfare agency, but it sounds very much like this kid needed someone looking out for him, preferably someone who is not trying to prevent doctors from saving the kid's life if he ever needs help.

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    I guess what I am saying is that I am not buying any of that, because I have basically seen a very similar scenario, where Doctors basically calling out the parents in a similar fashion, go completely to shit.

    Think,why is this information public? Question motives of everyone

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    ^ That she sought (or at least "discussed") a DNR for the kid, which she even testified about, is not in dispute. That she told everyone who would listen (Facebook, media, social workers, etc.) that he was terminal is also not in dispute. These are matters of public record. So too is the fact that the parents could not provide a doctor's diagnosis to CPS or the court substantiating their claim that the kid was terminal.

    Even if we knew nothing else about this and thoroughly disbelieved anything that those evil doctors over at Children's Hospital had to say about the mother or her treatment of the child, those things alone would be cause for grave concern. All the rest of the stuff posted about unnecessary restraints, treatments, etc., just fill in the picture a bit more.

    Anyway, this is my last post on this topic as I've made my points and don't want to be repetitive.

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    The Eversons lost the shelter care hearing. No surprise there. Virtually nobody in the media reported on it. I'm guessing that they feel duped after the whole "Birthday Cards for Bubby" nonsense a few months back, where the Eversons were telling everyone who would listen that Bubby was terminal and it could be the kid's last birthday.

    The only reason I know is because I looked at their Facebook page. Now the wingnuts are claiming that they lost the case because multiple parties withheld medical records. They are also claiming that Bubby is sustaining injuries in foster care, but the one picture that I saw of a minor bruise was not exactly compelling. Kids get little bruises all the time through normal play.

    This whole thing is so sad. The kid doesn't understand everything that is going on and no doubt misses his parents, but his parents are nuts. At least the kid is sleeping in a normal bed, is no longer confined to a wheelchair and is being fed normally, and, oh yeah, their is no ridiculous DNR hanging over his head. I believe that taking him was the far lesser of two evils, but this whole mess just sucks.

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    if his mother or both parents really have Munchausen’s-by-proxy then thank god he was taken away. a little boy just died from his mother putting poison in his IV in the hospital..she ran this blog about her "sick" child whom she was slowly killing and its just the most disgusting thing ever. i'm glad that kid was taken away because sooner or later his mother would have killed him. and wtf is this with "do not resuscitate", what kind of a mother would be so eager to do that. the whole thing reeks and i gotta say after hearing that i think the whole does need to be sorted out without him in their care for now. if his parents aren't the nut cases they seem, i hope he is returned but just to be safe i think they did the right thing. of course i dont know everything about the story either, but i've just heard so many horror stories about that mental illness it makes my skin crawl.

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    ^^^^ I can see wanting a DNR even in the case of a child, if there is terminal illness. Resuscitation & related complications can be super-ugly, I wouldn't blame a parent for wanting to spare the family + the sick child all that nonsense. But that's in a normal situation, & this mess from Bubby's parents is clearly not normal

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