Phil,
I wonder if this is true, or one of those hoaxes?
Vinny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:26 PM
Subject: Fw: Help They're Taking My Baby!
> This is worth reposting. I have no idea if it is true but I wouldn't
> doubt
> it for one second.
>
> Phil.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luis Guerra" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:21 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Help They're Taking My Baby!
>
>
>> To all of you Blind moms, blind dads, even sighted moms and dads that
>> know
>> the capabilities of the pareninting of your blind spouse, and anyone else
>> interested, I read about on the blind handy girl list from a lister named
>> Trinh trinh martin [log in to unmask] It's about the very sad
>> experience that this lady Rose is going through right now, as an agency
>> is
>> threatening to take her baby when she is born. Feel welcome to writing to
>> Rose, understandably she needs all the support she can get. If you
>> experienced a simular experience when your children were young, when we
> get
>> appropriate addresses together especially in Canada where she is, you can
>> relate those experiences in a letter. This type of situation has happened
>> way to much to many blind parents through the years, so we can do our
>> part
>> by flooding the agency and other appropriate places with letters in
> support
>> of Rose and her boyfriend to keep ther daughter, and to relate
>> experiences
>> that are simular that you may have had, and pass this information to
> others
>> that you think that would be interested in assisting. I'm putting simular
>> experiences in a file of which I've received so far from the blind handy
>> girl list. I suppose it wouldn't hurt for those of us in the states to
> write
>> to nfb andACB as they may have good contacts to pass her information
>> along too. God only knows that there may be simular situations going on
>> right at this very time. You may remember last year there was a situation
>> where the hospital was not going to let the blind parents take their baby
>> home. It's extremely heartbreaking, discriminating, let alone the
>> questioning of one's capabilities of daily life. I too will write to Rose
> to
>> extent my support, and see if she could provide this agency's address,
>> the
>> canadian council of the blind of which she's getting support from, and at
>> least some local tv and radio stations we can flood with letters in hopes
> to
>> correct and change the decision that this agency has made.It's so very
>> heartless and insensitive amongst all the details, with a cold heart to
>> inform Rose and her boyfriend that they had a foster couple in line
> already
>> to take their baby. God Bless you, Rose. My heart truly goes out to you.
>> I'll directly right to you after I've sent this message. Rose, know that
>> many of us have you in our prayers, so your baby can always be at home
> with
>> her own mom and dad, meaning you and your boyfriend. Everyone, here's
> Rose's
>> message. Even if you pass Rose's message to others, that could be a great
>> source of support.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "trinh martin"
>> <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent:
>> Sunday, March 04, 2007 2:42 AM Subject: [blindhandygirl] this is the
>> email
>> from rosey the girl i was writng about
>>
>>
>> Hi all: This is just Rose writing in with a concern and am wondering if
>> anyone can think of anything that can be done. I don't know if I told
> anyone
>> on any of these lists or not, but I'm expecting a baby. I'm almost at the
>> fourty-week mark, so I could go in at any time now. For anyone that's
> either
>> from Canada or is familiar with the Canadian law, I have a question for
> you.
>> The children's aid society of Brantford, where I am presently residing,
>> is
>> involved with me because of the fact that they say they have concerns
>> because of my visual impairment. I am considered partial, so I do have a
>> little bit of vision, though not enough to read print. CAS first told me
>> that they were involved because they felt that my baby would be at risk
>> because of my visual impairment. They've been involved since early
> October,
>> perhaps early November. They had drawn up a service plan for me in
> December,
>> which was signed in early February. This service agreement stated that I
> had
>> to be willing to participate in parenting classes after the hcild was
> born,
>> that I was to go to all my appointments after the birth, and that I was
>> to
>> report any problems I felt I was having with either myself or the baby.
> They
>> also said that as long as I did everything they'd asked me to do, such as
>> going to parenting, prenatal as well as postnatal classes, that I was to
>> keep my child. It has gone from that to not being able to keep it. They
> are
>> now trying to say that they have other concerns. I will have you know
>> that
> I
>> am living with my boyfriend who is otally blind. We both have extensive
>> experience with children. CAS is also saying that I have little to no
>> knowledge of what it takes to raise a child. They are also telling me
>> that
>> neither my boyfriend or I can look after ourselves, much less a child.
> They
>> are also saying that I have refused to go to my docor's appointments.
>> There's never been one time I didn't go to my appointments, with the
>> exception of ast Monday, because of the fact that my care was transferred
>> over to the midwives at the birthing center where I'm going to be giving
>> birth. I went to see a lawyer today about my case, and I found out that
> CAS
>> had written a letter to him saying that they had other concerns. That's
>> where all the junk about me not being able to take care of myself came
> from,
>> was the letter they had written to my lawyer. From what my lawyer is
> telling
>> me, there's nothing that can be done at this point until CAS has
>> presented
>> me with documentation saying that the baby is going to go into foster
> care,
>> which they have not yet done. CAS is also telling me that I have not
> gained
>> enough independence. They are also trying to say now that when I was
> staying
>> at a maternity home for a while, I had refused to use my cane, thereby
>> endangering the infants that were there. They are lying through thei
>> teeth
>> here, because never once did I leave my cane somewhere whenever I was
>> walking around in the house. They are also saying that I have been
> refusing
>> assistance. This is also not true. I have been trying to ask for
> assistance,
>> and have gotten a lot more than was expected. I gues what I'm trying to
> ask,
>> is do you know if there's anything that can be done to try and prevent
> this
>> agency from taking my child? They have said to me that this is going to
>> be
>> for a minimum of six months, perhaps longer. If it goes beyond one year,
> my
>> child will then become a crown ward of the CAS, by which time I'll be
>> screwed, because there will be little to no hope of me getting her back.
>> I
>> will also have you know that my caseworker had first made this foster
>> care
>> idea sound like a suggestion, then when I was on my way to the birthing
>> center, she'd dropped the bomb on my head that she had already had foster
>> parents lined up for my baby. When we got to the birthing center, she
>> told
>> the midwives there that after the baby was born and I was ready to go
> home,
>> the foster parents were going to come and take the aby to their home from
>> there. As I said, they have not yet presented me with any documentation
>> stating that this is going to happen. I do have the Canadian Council for
> the
>> blind advocating on my behalf about their concerns, but for anyone in or
>> from Canada, what I'm trying to ask is if there are any more advocacy
> groups
>> or something that I could possibly get to advocate for me on my behalf
> about
>> all of this? Any suggestions anyone has will be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
>> Rose her msn and email address is this
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> please let us just bring her in prayer every time we think of her and her
>> boyfriend and baby!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> because of the love of god, may we always have a special smile, a
>> sprinkle
>> of love and kindness to shower upon those who god brings into our lives
>>
>> because of the love of god, may we always have a special smile, a
>> sprinkle
>> of love and kindness to shower upon those who god brings into our lives
>>
>>
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