#OpExposeCPS Mississippi June1st 2018

Protest of Hancock County CPS in Mississippi

June 1st 2018 Transcript

#OpExposeCPS our event today is to fight and remember the children that have suffered from an agency that says they are protecting our child and to let these victims know that justice is coming we are fighting today for.

The Little Family-false claims

Austin Watkins - Dieded from starvation

Olivia Y - a 3 year was severely neglected by foster family by the time cps intervened she weighed only 22 pounds

The Martin family child with disability removed on false statements Shattered Jaw

The Faye family - kids in cps custody both of the Toddler's sexually assaulted and given std

The Stiglet family cps forgery by case worker

The Gill family Falsifying records to steal their children

The Berry family false statements by cps worker

In May 2018 there was 5,403 children in the states care by June 30 2018 cps will have 574 children adopted out

In the first four months in 2018 cps had 15,693 open cases. Mississippi has 845 caseworkers.

A starting salaries for a case working in Mississippi is $26,000 to $30,000 a year

Cps founding for 2019 is $110 million

We the people of the United States are ruled by law, not by feelings.  If the courts allow states and their agencies rule by feelings and not law, we become a nation without law that makes decisions based on subjectivity and objectivity.  CPS has been allowed to bastardize and emasculate the Constitution and the rights of its citizens to be governed by the rule of men rather then the rule of law. It is very dangerous when governmental officials are allowed to have unfettered access to citizens home.  It is also very dangerous to allow CPS to violate the confrontation clause in the 6th Amendment were CPS hides, conceals and covers up the accuser/witness who make report. It allows those individuals to have a safe haven to file fraudulent reports and CPS aids and abets in this violation of fundamental right.  All citizens have the right to know their accuser/witness in order to preserve the sanctity of the rule of law and that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.

We are calling on the Attorney General Jim Hood to step down because Mr.hood is not protecting Mississippi by preventing and prosecuting crime Mr.Hood and CPS is hindering a police investigation our children are being hurt while in cps care and no one one is being prosecuting for hurting our children in foster care our children are be sexually assaulted and giving an std and no one is in jail. Mill creek shatter a child's jaw no one is being held accountable instead of prosecuting the people that a committing these crimes instead he is protecting the people that are hurting our children because of the states negligence to protect our children that have been stolen from good loving and caring families WE WANT JUSTICE

Perpetrators of Maltreatment

While In
Custody of:Physical  
AbuseSexual  
AbuseNeglectMedical
NeglectFatalities
CPS160112410146.4
Parents5913241121.5
         Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the United States.  These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) in Washington.

         Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the agencies that are supposed to protect, and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children.  CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents to, no judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty for more harm and death than any human being combined.  CPS nation wide is guilty for more human rights violations and death of children then the homes they took them out of. When are the judges going to wake up to see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes at the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers.

#OpExposeCPS Hancock County Mississippi June 1st 2018

Mississippi has one of the highest POVERTY rates in the nation with 22% of there population income falling below the POVERTY line according to the center for American progress Mississippi is ranked at #51 with a population of 2.984 million with 637,128 of them citizens earning less than $24,250 annually within a family of four the national coalition for the homeless reports Mississippi as 46th in the nation Hancock County CPS has the most kids in there coustdy than any outher county in Mississippi

closed-door youth court hearing

Hancock County has the state’s highest number of children per capita in foster care.  there are 74.4 foster children per 10,000 residents. The statewide average is 17.2. Only two other counties have more than 50.

Let me share these families that where destoryed by Hancock County CPS lies from a case work frouger by a case worker DHS worker Simms had a record of criminal charges from two states, including two counts of making false statements to law enforcement.

We will start with a family who lost there kids by this case worker lies DHS investigator Fegee Simms as one of the defendants. It accuses Simms of “unlawfully” searching their home and initiating removal of one of the couple’s children without “a court order .”also accuses Simms of questioning the couple’s children without their consent and willfully ignoring evidence from mental-health professionals that the Berrys were good parents.

The worker visited the couple’s home, claiming she had received an anonymous complaint that there was no food in the house. The worker searched and photographed the contents of the home without the couple’s permission. When the Berrys protested the search, Simms “threatened to initiate proceedings against the family if they did not comply with her requests,” Without permission, absent a warrant, and against Mrs. Berry’s protests, Defendant Simms took each child into a private room for questioning,”

Four months after child-protection workers showed up at their home to investigate an anonymous complaint, Jennifer and Scott Berry began packing — they couldn’t get out of Hancock County fast enough.

The Berry family endured what they say was the most traumatic experience of their lives, a nightmare that still keeps Scott, Jennifer and their five children awake at night.

Simms made false statements to the Hancock County Youth Court leading to the emergency removal of the couple’s five children. Simms falsely told the couple the court had ordered them to have no contact with their children, despite the order specifically stating, “Scott and Jennifer Berry, shall have visitation with the minor children,” the suit says.

The U.S. District Court in Gulfport dismissed all claims against DHS and the employees, Tequila Hall and Patricia Piazza, finding the agency “enjoys sovereign immunity” and the employees enjoy “qualified immunity” under statutes that shield state departments and their workers from lawsuits.

The lead plaintiff, Marie Gill, filed the lawsuit after her encounter with DHS’ child welfare division, now known as Child Protection Services. The suit repeated claims Gill made in a report to the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office in February 2015

Gill’s report came on the heels of a similar report made by Mindy Stiglet just weeks before and prompted Sheriff Ricky Adam to launch an investigation into employees at Hancock County’s DHS office. Both cases were included in the Sun Herald’s investigative series, Fostering Secrets.

Gill’s situation began when she had an argument with her husband at her Gulfport residence. Emergency services were called after she threatened suicide by pretending to drink nail polish remover. Gill later said she let a small amount of the substance touch her lips and immediately spat it out, according to court records.

Gill was taken to Garden Park Medical Center in Gulfport. Doctors and staff found her to be healthy and not suicidal, and she was soon discharged, according to her hospital records.

Gill’s husband had taken their children to his parents’ home in Waveland. When Gill went there and asked the paternal grandparents to return her kids, they refused to do so. Gill then contacted Waveland police, which in turn called Hancock County DHS workers.

Piazza went to the grandparents’ home and spoke to them, then informed Gill the children would remain in the custody of the grandparents. Piazza handed a DHS “Safety Plan” document to Gill to sign, and when she refused, “Piazza threatened to place the children in foster care” if Gill did not do so,

Two days later, Gill met with DHS to show them the results of her mental evaluation and drug screen. She was then provided a copy of the Safety Plan, but the document had been altered to include more allegations that made it appear she was unfit to care for the children. One of the changes contained the phrase: “mother stated she drank a bottle of fingernail polish remover.”

The safety plan was later presented to the Harrison County Youth Court, which placed the children in state custody fostered by their paternal grandparents. Gill regained custody of her kids about two months later.

Gill claimed the document was “falsified,” while the defendants claimed it was merely “updated,”

A single mother from rural Hancock County walked into the sheriff’s office in 2015 with a stack of documents and an allegation that sparked criminal investigations into what may be the most secretive government entity in Mississippi. The woman told investigators a child-services worker had forged a document and used it to take away her child.

The allegation, described as “disturbing” by Hancock County Sheriff Ricky Adam, was the first of several lodged against the Mississippi Department of Human Services throughout 2015. The other allegations included document tampering and children being sexually abused while in DHS custody.

It was Jan. 6, 2015, when Mindi Stiglet filed a criminal complaint on the alleged forgery.

The night before, she had attended a crowded town hall meeting hosted by state Rep. David Baria, D-Bay St. Louis, who was spearheading the formation of a local task force to deal with what he described as a “crisis” in Hancock County’s foster-care system.

Seating and even standing space were hard to find, prompting dozens, Stiglet included, to gather outside the county annex building. Documents in hand, Stiglet spoke briefly with a Sun Herald reporter.

“Look at these two signatures,” she said, pointing out prominent differences between them. “This one is forged.”

She later noticed Adam exiting the board room and approached him. Their conversation was short. The sheriff told her to drop by his office during business hours.

The 24-year-old is no stranger to DHS, having herself grown up in the state’s custody until she turned 18.

“They made my life a lot worse,” she said of DHS in an interview in February. “Snatched me from my parents. Snatched me from my grandparents. Just in and out of the (group) home, from this place to this place, bouncing me around.”

Seating and even standing space were hard to find, prompting dozens, Stiglet included, to gather outside the county annex building. Documents in hand, Stiglet spoke briefly with a Sun Herald reporter.

“Look at these two signatures,” she said, pointing out prominent differences between them. “This one is forged.”

She later noticed Adam exiting the board room and approached him. Their conversation was short. The sheriff told her to drop by his office during business hours.

The 24-year-old is no stranger to DHS, having herself grown up in the state’s custody until she turned 18.

“They made my life a lot worse,” she said of DHS in an interview in February. “Snatched me from my parents. Snatched me from my grandparents. Just in and out of the (group) home, from this place to this place, bouncing me around.”

Seating and even standing space were hard to find, prompting dozens, Stiglet included, to gather outside the county annex building. Documents in hand, Stiglet spoke briefly with a Sun Herald reporter.

“Look at these two signatures,” she said, pointing out prominent differences between them. “This one is forged.”

She later noticed Adam exiting the board room and approached him. Their conversation was short. The sheriff told her to drop by his office during business hours.

The 24-year-old is no stranger to DHS, having herself grown up in the state’s custody until she turned 18.

“They made my life a lot worse,” she said of DHS in an interview in February. “Snatched me from my parents. Snatched me from my grandparents. Just in and out of the (group) home, from this place to this place, bouncing me around.”

the DHS worker who handled both the Berry and Stiglet cases also has a criminal record.

Simms was employed as a state child-services worker despite having been arrested four times on multiple charges in Louisiana and Georgia. The charges include submitting falsified information to police, simple battery, probation violation and other misdemeanors, according to records from law enforcement agencies.

DHS spokesman Paul Nelson could not provide any information on Simms’ hiring but said criminal history does not always disqualify a prospective employee.

“Occasionally, a person with minor or very old criminal history — an old misdemeanor or a few traffic tickets — is hired, when the person’s qualifications and positive attributes are significant and the person appears to have been sufficiently rehabilitated,” Nelson said. “However, many persons with criminal history, misdemeanors included, are denied employment

The lawsuit says MDHS determined from the exam that the children had been sexually abused but could not identify who was responsible.

The suit claims Hancock County DHS and MDHS failed to follow agency protocol by not doing background checks on those serving as foster parents. The suit also says DHS failed to "fully and diligently investigate and screen the foster home" where the children lived.

The suit says DHS also failed to properly monitor, direct and supervise the foster parent's home and failed to properly screen its employees and investigate current and former employees. In addition, the suit says, Weary failed to properly monitor, direct and supervise her home while the children were there.

Faye alleges negligence on the part of Hancock County DHS, MDHS and Watch Me Grow Learning Center.

In addition to treatment at Garden Park Medical Center, the children underwent exams and other treatment at Coastal Family Health in Gulfport and Children's Hospital in New Orleans.


One defendant named in the suit, Tequila Hall, is a defendant in a separate lawsuit involving Hancock County DHS filed Sept. 9. In that suit, plaintiff Marie Gill alleges Hall and other DHS workers falsified documents in an attempt to take her children into state custody.

Both lawsuits come amid increasing scrutiny of the state's child protective services system and specifically Hancock County's Division of Family and Children Services office.

State and local officials began investigating the office in early 2015 when the county was found to have the highest per-capita foster-care rate in Mississippi with more than 450 children in custody. It was 10 times higher than the state average, prompting MDHS to send more employees and resources to the county.

Though the foster-care rate has since improved, some current and former DHS employees remain under investigation by the Hancock County Sheriff's Department, the state attorney general's office and MDHS internal affairs. In March, Sheriff Ricky Adam announced his office had launched a probe after receiving complaints of DHS workers forging or falsifying documents in child-custody cases. A Hancock DHS worker was later fired, but no arrests have been made.

Faye's lawsuit represents only one side of the story. The defendants have not yet filed a response.

The lawsuit says MDHS determined from the exam that the children had been sexually abused but could not identify who was responsible.

The suit claims Hancock County DHS and MDHS failed to follow agency protocol by not doing background checks on those serving as foster parents. The suit also says DHS failed to "fully and diligently investigate and screen the foster home" where the children lived.

The suit says DHS also failed to properly monitor, direct and supervise the foster parent's home and failed to properly screen its employees and investigate current and former employees. In addition, the suit says, Weary failed to properly monitor, direct and supervise her home while the children were there.

Faye alleges negligence on the part of Hancock County DHS, MDHS and Watch Me Grow Learning Center.

In addition to treatment at Garden Park Medical Center, the children underwent exams and other treatment at Coastal Family Health in Gulfport and Children's Hospital in New Orleans.


One defendant named in the suit, Tequila Hall, is a defendant in a separate lawsuit involving Hancock County DHS filed Sept. 9. In that suit, plaintiff Marie Gill alleges Hall and other DHS workers falsified documents in an attempt to take her children into state custody.

Both lawsuits come amid increasing scrutiny of the state's child protective services system and specifically Hancock County's Division of Family and Children Services office.

State and local officials began investigating the office in early 2015 when the county was found to have the highest per-capita foster-care rate in Mississippi with more than 450 children in custody. It was 10 times higher than the state average, prompting MDHS to send more employees and resources to the county.

Though the foster-care rate has since improved, some current and former DHS employees remain under investigation by the Hancock County Sheriff's Department, the state attorney general's office and MDHS internal affairs. In March, Sheriff Ricky Adam announced his office had launched a probe after receiving complaints of DHS workers forging or falsifying documents in child-custody cases. A Hancock DHS worker was later fired, but no arrests have been made.

Faye's lawsuit represents only one side of the story. The defendants have not yet filed a response.

Social worker who received a telephone accusation of abuse and threatened to remove child from the home unless the father himself left and who did not have grounds to believe the child was in imminent danger of being abused engaged in an arbitrary abuse of governmental power in ordering the father to leave.  Croft v. Westmoreland Cty. Children and Youth Services (3rd Cir. 1997)

         Plaintiff’s were arguable deprived of their right to procedural due process because the intentional use of fraudulent evidence into the procedures used by the state denied them the fight to fundamentally fair procedures before having their child removed, a right included in Procedural Due Process. Morris v. Dearborne (5th Cir. 1999)

         When the state deprives parents and children of their right to familial integrity, even in an emergency situation, the burden is on the State to initiate prompt judicial proceedings for a post-deprivation hearing, and it is irrelevant that a parent could have hired counsel to force a hearing. K.H. through Murphy v. Morgan, (7th Cir. 1990)

         When the State places a child in a foster home it has an obligation to provide adequate medical care, protection, and supervision.  Norfleet v. Arkansas Dept. of Human Services, (8th Cir. 1993)

         Children may not be removed from their home by police officers or social workers without notice and a hearing unless the officials have a reasonable belief that the children were in imminent danger.  Ram v. Rubin, (9th Cir. 1997)

         Absent extraordinary circumstances, a parent has a liberty interest in familial association and privacy that cannot be violated without adequate pre-deprivation procedures.  An exparte hearing based on misrepresentation and omission does not constitute notice and an opportunity to be heard. Procurement of an order to seize a child through distortion, misrepresentation and/or omission is a violation of the Forth Amendment.  Parents may assert their children’s Fourth Amendment claim on behalf of their children as well as asserting their own Fourteenth Amendment claim. Malik v.Arapahoe Cty. Dept. of Social Services, (10th Cir. 1999)

         Plaintiff’s clearly established right to meaningful access to the courts would be violated by suppression of evidence and failure to report evidence. Chrissy v. Mississippi Dept. of Public Welfare, (5th Cir. 1991)

         Mother had a clearly established right to an adequate, prompt post-deprivation hearing.  A 17-day period prior to the hearing was not prompt hearing. Whisman V. Rinehart, (8th Cir. 1997