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California girl removed from foster family over her Native American heritage
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:15 am
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:15 am
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(Reuters) - A 6-year-old California girl was removed from her long time foster family on Monday and will be sent to live with extended family in Utah who share her Native American heritage, according to court documents.
An appeals court said last week the girl was subject to removal from her foster family's home in Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles, under the Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law that seeks to keep American Indian children with American Indian families.
The child cried as Los Angeles County social workers carried her from the home on Monday, while dozens of supporters of the family lined the block to protest against the court's decision, the Los Angeles Daily News reported.
The child is 1.56 percent Choctaw Native American, NBC News and the Los Angeles Daily News reported. She has lived with her foster family for the past four years.
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Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:17 am to Darth_Vader
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The child is 1.56 percent Choctaw Native American,
Yikes. This is where those race identifying questions on forms can screw you- or your kids.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:18 am to Darth_Vader
Foster parents have little rights or say in anything concerning the children. They are needed badly, but with all the heartache, why would anyone want to put themselves through this? Sad situation for everyone.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:18 am to Darth_Vader
quote:What in the actual frick?
The child is 1.56 percent Choctaw Native American, NBC News and the Los Angeles Daily News reported. She has lived with her foster family for the past four years.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:19 am to Darth_Vader
Another example of the government creating a law with good intentions, only to have it be misused down the road.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:19 am to Darth_Vader
So they need to protect her heritage, which involves her people being torn from their families and normal lives, by tearing her from her family and normal life.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:19 am to PsychTiger
quote:yup
Another example of the government creating a law with good intentions, only to have it be misused down the road.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:22 am to MontyFranklyn
Here's another link about this story....
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It's fricked up what they're doing to this family. This girl is only 6 and has been with them for 4 years. They're the only family she's ever really known...
The idiot judge that ordered this bullshite should be tarred and feathered.
ETA. Just read this part...
Damn.
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It's fricked up what they're doing to this family. This girl is only 6 and has been with them for 4 years. They're the only family she's ever really known...
The idiot judge that ordered this bullshite should be tarred and feathered.
ETA. Just read this part...
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Social workers seized a hysterical six-year-old girl from the home of her white foster family on Monday because she is part Native American. The child, Lexi, sobbed, clinging to her foster father Rusty Page as he reluctantly fought through a crowd to hand the child over to the Department of Children and Families in Santa Clarita. In a disturbing video from KTLA, Lexi screamed, begging Rusty, 'don't let them take me away', as she was removed from her family. As Lexi was placed in the back of a black car with government workers, her foster mother Summer Page burst from the home screaming 'I love you, Lexi'. |
Damn.
This post was edited on 3/22/16 at 11:24 am
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:22 am to Master of Sinanju
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They are needed badly, but with all the heartache, why would anyone want to put themselves through this?
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Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:22 am to Darth_Vader
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The child is 1.56 percent Choctaw Native American,
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:22 am to PsychTiger
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Another example of unnecessary government involvement.
FIFY
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:23 am to Darth_Vader
Congrats. That girl is probably going to be fricked up later in life.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:26 am to TH03
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Congrats. That girl is probably going to be fricked up later in life.
But just think of how much she'll learn about her essentially non-existent heritage. That will be satisfying to her.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:26 am to Darth_Vader
Terrible application of the spirit of the law
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:26 am to Darth_Vader
This act came up a few years ago here in South Carolina with an adoption:
The case made it to the Supreme Court.
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl - Yes that is the name of the case
The case made it to the Supreme Court.
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl - Yes that is the name of the case
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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, 570 U.S. ___ (2013), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that held that several sections of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) do not apply to Native American (Indian) biological fathers who are not custodians of an Indian child. The court held that the procedures required by the ICWA to end parental rights do not apply when the child has never lived with the father. Additionally, the requirement to make extra efforts to preserve the Indian family also does not apply, nor is the preferred placement of the child in another Indian family required when no other party has formally sought to adopt the child.
In 2009, a couple from South Carolina sought to adopt a child whose father, Dusten Brown, was an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and whose mother was predominantly Hispanic. Brown contested the adoption on the grounds that he was not properly notified in accordance with the ICWA, and won both in trial court and on appeal to the South Carolina Supreme Court, and in December 2011, the father was given custody of the child. The case received extensive coverage in the national media, and spurred calls for Congress to review and make amendments to the 1978 law.
In October 2012, the adoptive couple petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case. In January 2013, the court granted certiorari and heard the case in April. In June, the Supreme Court issued a 5–4 decision, holding that a non-custodial father did not have rights under the ICWA, and sent the case back to the South Carolina courts for further hearings on the issue. In July 2013, the South Carolina trial court finalized the adoption of the child to the adoptive couple, but this was prohibited in August by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The stay was lifted in September 2013, and the child was turned over to her adoptive parents the same month.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:27 am to Darth_Vader
This is so fricked up. How in the hell can someone be 1.56% native American? There are a shite ton of kids in orphanages and foster care that have more native American blood that that. Are they going to rip them away from as well?
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:27 am to TH03
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Congrats. That girl is probably going to be fricked up later in life.
it only gets worse....
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Lexi, who has only ever know the Pages as her parents, is one-and-a-half per cent Choctaw Native American.
Because of the 'Indian Child Welfare Act' - a federal law passed in the 1970's aimed to protect the best interests of Native American children - she must live with Native American parents and will be placed with her father's relatives.
She was 17 months old when she was removed from the custody of her biological mother, who had a substance abuse problem. Her biological father, who is Native American, had an extensive criminal history, according to court records cited by the Los Angeles Daily News.
She will live with a Utah couple who are not Native Americans but are related by marriage to her father.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:28 am to Darth_Vader
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She will live with a Utah couple who are not Native Americans but are related by marriage to her father.
Oh my frick lol
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:29 am to idlewatcher
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quote:
They are needed badly, but with all the heartache, why would anyone want to put themselves through this?
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This. There are some good altruistic well meaning foster parents, but the vast majority are in it for the money. My wife worked for a brief time as a manager of a foster care office, and she quit because she could not take it anymore. People would take the money they were supposed to spend on the kids and spend it on other stuff, fake receipts, Abuse the kids, etc. pretty terrible system on the whole.
Posted on 3/22/16 at 11:33 am to Pax Regis
From the pictures, it looks like a pretty nice family in a pretty nice area.
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