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UPDATE: Doped up foster child in Florida hangs himself. He was seven.

By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
06/04/09 12:05 AM EDT

Seven-year-old Gabriel Myers was found hanged in the bathroom of his foster home in Margate, FL. He had been taking Symbyax, an anti-psychotic medication. Here's the link:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090602/COLUMNIST/906021041/2127?Title=In-another-tragic-death-another-lesson-for-DCF

Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon confirmed that the agency had no parental or court permission to put Gabriel on this highly potent psychotropic drug, as the law requires. DCF didn't have any record of the boy's prescription, even though the drug's side effects include "increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents and young adults."

Sheldon's subsequent investigation revealed that more than 2,600 foster children in Florida are being doped up - with one in six lacking the legally required consent forms. Children trapped in these state-run "child welfare" programs are being doped up to keep them docile and easy to manage while the adults in charge thumb their noses at the law and cash the checks.

This is beyond disgusting. It's criminal.

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Jun 8, 2009

My grandson told that he was being sexually abused by his father and because a Wichita Detective was a friend of the father - my grandson was removed on falsified doucments and placed in the custody of the state where he was drugged without EVER seeing a doctor to prescribe the psychotropic drugs. He was placed with the step-grandmother who beat him - the CPS system called it altercations between an 8 year old and the grown woman. He was placed by the court in the 'sole custody' of his abuser -where he rips his hair out and self-inflicts. He has deteriorated from 75% percentile height and weight at the age of 6 when he told for the first time - to 16% percentile on his birthday on May 20th, 2009. Drugged for no reason - except to keep him quiet about the abuse. They are destroying children for favors.

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UPDATE: Doped up foster child in Florida hangs himself. He was seven.

By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
06/04/09 12:05 AM EDT