CPS Accuses Mother Of Child Endangerment For Letting Her Son Play Alone Outside

CBS Houston ^ | 09/18/2014 | staff

[Kid Shelleen]

A South Austin woman says she was “humiliated” and wrongfully accused of child endangerment by Child Protective Services, after she let her children play just a short distance from her home. She also accuses CPS of initiating a sexually suggestive line of questioning with her kids. Kari Anne Roy tells KEYE-TV that she is comfortable letting her children play outside. “They play just out in this green grass area over here. There’s a walking trail, they come out here and walk around the trail,” she told KEYE.

[Kid Shelleen]

Sending a child hundreds a miles across a desert with a coyote is an act of love but letting your child play outside alone is child endangerment.

[NonValueAdded]

Gawd, my whole neighborhood — nay, the entire town — would be behind bars in this day and age.

[Vaquero]

There ya go, you’ve got it.

[Grams A]

Gawd, my whole neighborhood...would be behind bars...”

Mine, too. We live on a cul de sac and right now there are at least 12 little boys ages 4-10 out playing in the pouring rain without umbrellas, rain boots or a rain coat and having a wonderful time! We are in Texas also but thankfully not in Austin.

[FreedomStar3028]

I've been saying on here for awhile THOSE KIDS WERE NOT ALONE. IT WAS A MAJORITY OF FAMILIES. THE PARENTS TELL THEIR KIDS TO TURN THEMSELVES IN. WHILE THE BORDER PATROL LEAVES PARENTS CROSS AND GO TO A MAJOR CITY WHERE THEY HAVE FAMILY. THEN THE KIDS TELL INS THAT THEY HAVE FAMILY IN THEY GET SENT THERE. NOBODY CHECKS. 90% OF THOSE KIDS WERE WITH ADULT FAMILY MEMBERS. BUT THEY ALL KNOW ADULTS GET ARRESTED, CHILDREN GET LET IN.

[sportutegrl]

CPS probably needed to accuse some white people to ‘even out the numbers’.

[pierrem15]

The woman has an ex or neighbor with a vendetta: the fact that the kids were questioned about pornography and many other potential issues suggests that CPS was on a fishing expedition or that they were lied to thoroughly by someone with bad intent.

[FreedomStar3028]

Yea, they are nazi's. My mom's sister had a husband that was beyond nuts, always stirring stuff up. I was about 8 my brother 5, we got called to the principals office and were asked a ton of questions about my mother and touching/abusing me. I laughed in their face, I even knew then. I said straight up "Who said that? ?" The principal at least had some smarts. Because after I said that they released us.

[Dallas59]

Go into an “ethnic” neighborhood...No CPS there..FREE FERGUSON!/s

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

But as her 6-year-old son played alone on a bench about 150 yards from his home, an unidentified woman spotted the boy and brought him home and contacted Austin police. Child Protective Services showed up to Roy’s home and began to question her children – some of which was very sexual in nature.

Sounds like a kidnapping to me.

[Jane Long]

That comment needs to be posted at the link.

This is beyond absurd...and, scary to think what CPS/government can do to a family.

[Kid Shelleen]

>> That comment needs to be posted at the link. <<<

I wish some of the nit wits in Congress would make these points. I had to build a fence around my yard because a lawyer told me it was an "attractive nuisance" and I would be held libel if child was hurt trespassing on my property.

[Rusty0604]

My 8-year-old was very concerned about the questions that were asked, like had she seen people’s private parts or those types of movies, and those are things she had not really thought of or known existed,” ...

I guess it’s “not fair” that some kids get to actually be kids.

[TigersEye]

Sending a child hundreds a miles across a desert with a coyote...

Until my brain finally caught a gear and remembered that 'coyote' is also a euphemism I was wondering what "dingo ate my baby" story you were referring to.

[TigersEye]

And what kind of person doesn't like hot links?

[bog trotter]

Vendetta-yep!
I once had a really nasty neighbor who sicced CPS on me because my 2-year old picked up a bread crust I had tossed out for the birds.
Told’em I was starving my little girl.

[LearsFool]

We’re seeing more and more of this type story, and the trend will likely continue.

Wise and loving parents will take every care to ensure their kids never have an encounter with Child Protective (sic) Services, while other parents will just complain about how their kids were “victimized”.

It’s no different from public schools, television, music, etc.: Once you know your children are in danger, you have no excuse for the harm done to them.

Parents want to claim the right to raise their kids the way they deem best. Well and good. They better also claim the responsibility for protecting them against known dangers. That’s what a loving parent does - no matter the cost.

[Pontiac]

This is beyond absurd...and, scary to think what CPS/government can do to a family.

Civil government is at its best when it is reactive (responding to a crime that has been committed).

Civil government is at its worst when it is proactive (trying to prevent crime).

In this instance CPS is being proactive. Trying to prevent children from coming to postulated harm given the absence of an adult in their immediate vicinity at the park.

In the past 40 years state governments have taken it upon themselves to be the protectors of children. As often happens in the case of government assuming new powers an industry has resin up to take advantage of government’s new power.

These industries consist mainly of group homes, family law firms and child psychology companies.

Naturally the close working relationship of these companies, CPS and the family courts lead to a symbiotic relationship. The companies feed upon the government and the government supports the industry because the judges become investors in the companies and the companies provide retirement jobs to the CPS employees. They all become friends.

Then you have the support offered by the Federal government. The amount of money the Fed provides CPS depends on how many kids are in the system. So the CPS has the perverse incentive to find more kids that “need protecting”.

The more kids in the system the more money there is for everyone.

The more proactive the government becomes the more despotic it become.

So when you see a problem in society the last thing you should ever say is; “Why doesn’t the government do something about that?