x-Palisade cop suspected of *** assault on a child
By AMY HAMILTON
The Daily Sentinel
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
A former Palisade police officer faces 34 felony charges for *** assault
on a child and *** assault by a person in a position of trust in the
alleged assaults on two girls formerly entrusted in foster care to the
officer and his wife for more than a decade, according to the Mesa
County Sheriff’s Department.
Patrick Casey, 51, of Clifton, was arrested May 29 and remained in
custody Wednesday on a $250,000 bond.
The assaults occurred between January 1997 and April 2008, according to
an arrest affidavit.
Casey was employed with the Palisade Police Department during this time,
the affidavit said, but his specific dates of employment were unclear
Wednesday. A phone message to Palisade’s human resource director, Amy
Palmer, was not returned Wednesday, and Police Chief Carroll Quarles is
out of town.
Investigators learned of the allegations during an interview May 2 at
the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department after the alleged victim’s mother
contacted the child on her MySpace.com account.
The girl told her mother in the e-mail she was afraid of further
assaults by Casey in the home, and the girl was placed in protective
custody that day by the Mesa County Department of Human Services, the
affidavit said.
The girl, who is now a teen and is estimated to have been molested since
she was 8, described multiple incidents in which Casey would make her
take her clothes off, touch her “private parts” and make her touch
him,
and “if she doesn’t do it … she won’t get to eat except bread and
water,” the affidavit said.
The girl also told investigators Casey would hit her, throw things at
her or bribe her with sweets if she refused to take her clothes off and
let Casey molest her, the affidavit said.
The affidavit outlined several incidents in which the child began to cry
and would be hit by Casey when he asked her to do “things I didn’t
want to.”
The affidavit said: “Pat told her he would hit her and she would get a
real bad spanking if she told anyone. When she was real little Pat would
tell her this was their ‘little secret’ and if she didn’t tell he
would
give her candy every day but he did not.”
After the allegations arose, Mesa County Investigator Peter Burg,
Quarles and a representative from the Mesa County Human Services
Department met May 6 with another girl who had lived in the home as a
foster child when she was 2 or 3 years old and stayed there on weekends
until she was about 9 years old.
The teen is no longer in foster care, the affidavit said.
The girl told police Casey would molest her and become angry if she did
not touch him, telling her she would not get dessert if she didn’t touch
him, the affidavit said.
The girl’s biological mother told investigators her child was allowed to
stay weekends at the Casey house until she began having “night
terrors”
and the girl disclosed the allegations.
The mother called the Palisade Police Department to re****t the abuse,
but was told the case was past the statute of limitations, the affidavit
said.
Casey will be advised formally of his charges today.
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E-mail Amy Hamilton at ahamilton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"
Child Protective Services Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of CPS.
every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch...
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com
Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Wa****ngton. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS
Perpetrators of Maltreatment
Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
***ual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5
Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and ***ual 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 too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.
THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST
Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally
guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other
agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central
intelligence agency wiretaping programs…
THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia
http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/articles.php?filter=6
This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.
http://www.jbs.org/node/4632
Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-callahan16oct16,0,5019944.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILURE:. A Brief Analysis of the Casey
Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler
http://www.nccpr.org/re****ts/cfpanalysis.doc
HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN
http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html
Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News
http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2000/5_May/mayds4.htm
A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster care:
30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed
Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children
not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems,
including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and
impaired social relation****ps. Some experts estimate that about 30% of
the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various
studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care
tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school
compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their
education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment
than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Sup****t
80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.
The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn
of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child
psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should
just be blown up.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991
Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s
foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent
housing.
This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would
have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in
the first place.
Front-page story in USA Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-02-foster-study_N.htm?csp=34#Close
Read the studies online.
Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Care: Findings from the
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study,"
www.casey.org/Resources/Publications/NorthwestAlumniStudy.htm
MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects
of Foster Care,"
www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fosterlt_march07_aer.pdf
Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" re****ts:
www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren
The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system
for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than
walking wreckage...
CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY
GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER
AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS....
CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...
BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLI****NG CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
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