One of the many untold stories of the family court and Child Protective Services system is the power trip that so many of the court actors get on when given power over parents and their children.
There is one especially notorious example from England; a social services case worker was caught gloating about removing children over Facebook.
A social worker gloated about having three children taken into care on her publicly accessible Facebook page.
Siobhan Condon, 41, bragged about the power she felt at breaking up the family and revelled in the judge giving the parents a ‘massive rollicking’.
She even referred to the solicitor in the case complimenting her ‘fine nails and shoes’ before saying she was about to ‘do the mammoth grim task’ of removing the youngsters from their home and signing off with three kisses.
I received audio of several managers at the supervised visitation center in Miami-Dade Family Crossroads Services Incorporated (FCSI) berating a case worker over her treatment- too good in the manager’s estimation- of a dad on supervised visits.
It is their job, the managers argue, to keep dad in line with his kids.
In another case, covered primarily by Megan Fox at PJ Media, a guardian ad litem named Shannon Moreau forced children in a case she was appointed to into an interview with her over the children’s vociferous objections and then told the dad’s attorney this in an email.
You and your client do not have authority to require such terms by which the GAL gets to interview the children. There are no legitimate concerns about the children being at my office. This is just his way of protesting and interfering with this process. I also agreed to record the interview with a protective order that covers everything. So far you have not provided that. I do not believe your client will abide by what you say below, nor do I understand what you mean by “disseminated outside the scope of the pending proceedings.” This is insufficient, considering your client’s atrocious behavior and what seems like your continued enabling and attempts to justify that behavior. If 3pm comes and they are not here, I’ll just report what happened and move on. I prefer no further discussion about this unless you are sending me a proposed protective order.
The audio I just received may be the most prime example yet.
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