[Many of you read the article IFA shared about the disturbing findings of abuse and neglect under the authority of the Child Protective Services department in the Bay Area of California.  Many of you have prayed.  Thank you.  Parents now are rising up to make their situation known, and bring attention to the broken system that allowed their children or grandchildren to become victims while they were supposed to be protected.  Please pray for this demonstration–happening in Sacramento on October 4th.  And pray that where similar evil is happening in other CPS departments around the nation, it would be uncovered so that changes can be made.]

Parents will stage a mass demonstration at the California State Capitol in Sacramento to protest perceived injustices on the part of Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies against families across the United States of America.

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Bay Area Families United is partnering with more than 30 groups nationwide to stage the Oct. 4 rally, which organizers hope will shine a light on the disenfranchisement of parents by what they view as a profit-driven system incentivized to place children in foster care. The rally is slated for noon Pacific Time.

“I started protesting after I got my son back,” Adolfo Gonzalez, the chief rally organizer, told The Epoch Times, saying that “CPS conspired with the mother and the police department to take my son.”

“I expect thousands” of parents at the event, Gonzalez said. “Right now we are at 35 groups and growing. So many people want to come from L.A., San Diego, Fresno. I have so many strong advocates flying in,” including a documentary crew.

“Recent reports have consistently indicated that a large number of victims of child sex trafficking were at one time in the foster care system,” stated the 2019 U.S. State Department report on human trafficking, emboldening parents’ fears about the system.

“People don’t want to get involved until it happens to them, because they don’t get it,” Katherine Lester, a mother of an addict who lost her grandchild to a closed adoption after a prolonged fight with CPS, told The Epoch Times. “Why isn’t anyone in Congress bringing this up? I took in six families for a meeting with (Democrat congressman) Jimmy Panetta. He said he would get back to me. He never has, but he’s doing work on behalf of illegal immigrant families.”

“I keep writing Kamala Harris. I keep writing Dianne Feinstein,” Lester said, but with no commitment from lawmakers to advocate for families.

“Every single parent that I have worked with who has a viable case ends up having a gag order placed on them,” expert Breeauna Sagdal, a regional director of the parental rights advocacy group Punished 4 Protecting and a speaker at the event, told The Epoch Times. “When it is abundantly clear the state has made a mistake, the judge will admonish the court and prevent any further disclosure so even if any identifying information is removed. The story itself is still considered a breach of privacy, and so really what the court is doing is covering for Child Protective Services. I think my biggest concern in all of this is we’re seeing a breakdown of trust in our justice system and our government in general with the general public.”

“Children are put on multiple psychotropic anti-psychotic drugs. When children come into this system with any kind of behavioral thing, they are pumped full of meds,” Sagdal said.

“I see such a consistent pattern of abuse,” Sagdal said, referring to children being placed in out of state facilities where they can oftentimes not be contacted by their biological families. “Our state is not only benefiting significantly from out of state facilities, these children are going missing without a trace.”

The state of California records all missing foster care children as “runaways,” with no possibility for the children to be categorized as kidnap victims.

(Excerpted from The Epoch Times, article by Patrick Howley.)