Organized Crime Operating in the Child Protection System

September 6, 2002

From our new friend, the SOCIOLOGIST:

The following may be of general benefit. You can distribute it to whomever

you wish. You may want to read the six part series I did on organized crime

in the child protection system. The following address is also in the text

of the Advisory:

http://www.eighthcity.com/Articles/brown/rogerbrown.htm

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NATIONAL ADVISORY ON ORGANIZED CRIME OPERATING IN THE CHILD PROTECTION

SYSTEM

The recent horror story of a fifteen-month delay in Florida officials

discovering that foster child Rilya had apparently been kidnaped by

persons knowledgeable of the inner workings of the child protection system

was due to the systematic falsification of child protection system records.

This falsification of child protection system records is part of a national

pattern of organized crime. It is not an isolated incident.

The Rilya case is the tip of a criminal iceberg. Beginning about

1973, criminal elements in the mental health and social work professions

began cooperating to construct an organized criminal enterprise that

exploits children behind the legislated secrecy of the child protection,

juvenile justice, and mental health systems. The contemporary end result is

a nationwide organized criminal operation that uses everything from

sophisticated science-fraud-based " evaluation " instruments structured to

produce false positives to third party state service contracts written to

sustain a system of structural corruption in which state employees and

contract service providers must falsify records and testimony or they will

not continue to be employed or paid.

To maintain their existence, organized criminal operations must construct

management bureaucracies with policies and procedures necessary to sustain

daily operations, just like any other bureaucracy. The only adaptation

required to run criminal operations in the government and quasi-government

agencies which constitute the child protection system is that they must be

integrated into the policies and procedures of the umbrella agency and not

be detected as components of a criminal bureaucracy.

The existence of organized crime in the child protection system of any given

state is not that difficult to detect. Prominent among the indicators are:

(1) the annual number of founded child abuse allegations can be predicted

from the number of conditional federal grant and reimbursement salary fund

dollars needed to balance the state child protection agency payroll (the

number of children taken into state custody each year will be the number

sufficient to generate the federal fund claims necessary to balance the

agency payroll); and (2) third party contracts to file state child

protection agency federal fund claims will contain provisions that only

compensate the contractor for increases in federal funds paid to the state

over and above the amount paid in the previous contract for such claim

filing services. The latter creates a system that will only result in

compensation to the contractor if the number of children taken into state

custody constantly increases and/or the total claims generated from each

child in state custody increases each contract cycle. The net result is a

system in which everyone stays employed only if the number of founded child

abuse cases and children taken into state custody always increases and never

decreases. An important byproduct of this criminal process of exploiting

children independent of the true child abuse rate is the blind political

support for the criminal operations generated by the constant flow of

conditional federal funds into the respective State's economy. In the Rilya

case, even the Mother continued to receive and accept payments

for the care of Rilya over a year after the child disappeared. Caseworkers

reportedly told her to take the money.

There are similar lessons to be drawn from the embarrassment of the Bush

Administration over numerous ignored warnings that Osama bin Laden planned

to hijack planes and fly them into buildings and the embarrassment of

Florida Officials having to explain fifteen months of falsified child

protection records, sworn court testimony that Rilya was in Florida

State custody and doing fine, and falsified federal fund claims for services

delivered to a child that may have been dead the entire time. After the

collapse of the World Trade Center, both the American Public and terrorists

worldwide now know the United States is vulnerable to attack, due in large

part to corruption, incompetence and mismanagement in intelligence and law

enforcement agencies. After the Rilya case in Florida, the Public

and every child molester, pornographer and other criminal who need children

for their misdeeds know that the corruption, incompetence and mismanagement

in the child protection system can be exploited as cover to acquire children

for their own illicit purposes. What happened to Rilya in Florida

can happen in any state where the current organized criminal exploitation of

children is allowed to continue. Sooner or later other criminals, including

child molesters and child pornographers, are going to become sufficiently

aware of the mechanisms the current organized criminals are using to manage

their criminal bureaucracy that they will also be able to exploit the

system, as were the people who reportedly kidnaped Rilya and returned

a week later to collect her clothes. Among the obvious possibilities is

obtaining information about the criminal activity (falsifying federal

claims, official reports, insurance claims, etc.) of individual state

employees or licensed professionals, like psychiatrists and psychologist,

and blackmailing them to allow access to children for criminal exploitation

or perversion.

Of major importance to prosecutors is that the systematic falsification of

records by child protection system crime participants in psychiatry,

psychology, social work and child abuse investigation units results in the

systematic falsification of evidence used in child related criminal and

civil judicial proceedings. While it may be tempting not to look to closely

at experts and evidence which make convictions easier, relying on criminals

who help conceal their nefarious enterprises by providing convenient

services to the people who should be prosecuting them is a house of cards

that will collapse locally or nationally at some point. We have the

contemporary examples of the falsification of evidence in the Los Angeles

Police Department and the newly documented error rate in death row

convictions.

Unless something is done to shut down the organized criminal activity in

every state in which it exists, Rilya is not going to be the last

horror story to capture national attention. Careers will be ruined, as they

have been in Florida, and people will end up going to prison for crimes far

beyond what they thought they were getting themselves into by falsifying a

few reports to get federal funds into the state or for insurance claims.

Prosecutors, Legislators, and other state officials who thought they were

benefiting their state by looking the other way because federal funds were

coming into the state's economy, may end up having to face situations far

uglier than they ever thought. Former Arkansas State Senator Nick is

now in federal prison for his sponsorship and participation in one such

legislated criminal enterprise to exploit children. Other Arkansas

attorneys involved lost their licenses to practice law. An Austin, Texas

DHS Supervisor committed suicide after allegedly being caught running a

foster child prostitution ring from his office computer. In a recent

Arkansas Legislative Session, a bill drafted by Arkansas Department of Human

Services employees was discovered to contain provisions that would have

required employees to lie about records and facts, even if subpoenaed. The

bill was withdrawn once the Legislator duped into being the primary sponsor

was made aware of its contents. In a June 6, 2002, opinion, the Arkansas

Supreme Court ruled that an infant Arkansas citizen had been illegally

transferred to Florida State custody in what was essentially an interstate

criminal conspiracy to seize and transport children in complete disregard of

State and Federal law. (See Arkansas Department of Human Services v ,

Supreme Court of Arkansas No. 01-1021, 349ark___, issue 3, sc 9, 6 June

2002 http://courts.state.ar.us/opinions/2002a/20020606/01-1021.wpd)

The important point being that these child protection system criminals will

be pushing the envelop on what they can get away with, as in these examples,

and sometimes that envelop will rupture, as in the Rilya case,

exposing not only the criminals but government officials and private

citizens who were indirectly benefiting from the criminal activity. The

important question being how sophisticated, brutal and embarrassing will

organized crime in the child protection system be allowed to become before

it is addressed.

In the hope that my documentation of how the organized crime bureaucracy

functions in the child protection system will help prevent any repeats of

the Rilya horror story, I draw the material to your attention. Below

is the master link page address for six articles I have written on how crime

in the child protection is created, organized and managed. The six articles

will provide an overview of the context in which a child's kidnaping can be

concealed for over a year. Although written for the popular media, each

article contains detailed instructions on how to detect various mechanisms

used by organized criminals operating in the child protection system to

sustain their operations. Part II contains a formula for determining if the

annual number of founded child abuse allegations can accurately be predicted

from the number of conditional federal salary fund dollars needed to balance

the child protection agency payroll.

See links to Parts I-VI of " Crime Management in Government " at:

http://www.eighthcity.com/Articles/brown/rogerbrown.htm

I sincerely hope you will use this information to determine if the child

protection system in your state has an organized crime problem. I do not

want to see any more stories like that of Rilya , when I know they can

be prevented by ending the influence of organized crime in the child

protection system.

If I may be of further assistance, please contact me at:

Brown

Director

THE SOCIOLOGY CENTER

P.O. Box 2075

Little Rock, AR 72115

(501) 374-1788

thesociologist@...

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