During the evening of Nov. 12th I received visits from some of the other children who attended school with Tylor. Some of the older ones came alone, while the younger came with their parents. For a few hours that night I sat and listened as those kids told me of the events that had taken place in the school concerning Tylor.
They told me how Tylor was treated by the staff at the school, both in class and out. They told me how Tylor's school day routine had been changed after a month or so of school, and the subsequent change in the staffs attitude towards him. They told of the screaming and crying they heard as corporal punishment was applied. And, they told me of his first grade teachers exaggerated interest in Tylor's undergarments.
The older kids seemed to know what was wrong with what they had witnessed happening to Tylor. While the younger ones knew what they had witnessed was wrong, they didn't seem to understand what it was all about. It was clear though that they were afraid of the same thing happening to them. So, by the way, were their parents.
It was from the older children that I learned how the CSD caseworkers had to fight with Tylor to try and get him into the car to leave school, and finally in desperation told him they were taking him to see his father. They told him that I had sent them for him and they were going to take him to me.
From what the kids told me, the CSD workers had to lie to him to get him to go with them.
Aren't these wonderful, responsible, honest, caring, devoted employees of the state? Shouldn't we put them on a pedestal and praise the wonderful job they are doing protecting our children from abuse?
In a pigs eye, they are!
At 9:30 the next morning CSD and the Juvenile Dept. were in Court to get the blessing of the Court for their actions. They got it. I was told not to be there by Nancy Cochran because, "There isn't any need for you to be there, it's only a formality, don't waste your time."
As it turns out, it was a waste of my time to be there. The CSD had plenty of time to make up their case, and I do mean "MAKE UP". Their evidence was a concoction of unrelated incidents written into an affidavit. While all the incidents did take place, they were all singular and separate incidents. But to read the affidavit they were repeated and consecutive, on a daily basis.
The truth is that each incident happened once. It took years to live the reality from the first to the last, not a matter of months as the report indicated.
Why then did the Court not throw the whole thing out when it was pointed out that the so called evidence was a falsification, and was based on truth but corrupt with obvious inaccuracies. The CSD's own supporting documentation proved that.
Could it be that the Courts part in the proceedings really is just a Formality, and the Court is powerless to control the CSD? It would appear that way to this writer. After all, all the Court has ever done with this case is apply their stamp of approval to whatever CSD wanted to do. No matter how extreme, untimely, or nonproductive for Tylor it appeared to be, and ultimately will prove to be.
It would be no problem for me to go into a tirade about the CSD and its acts of child, nay, family abuse. But since when did acting the same way as a bully make any one right? It never did, it just makes us a bigger bully.