PA Authorities Seize Newborn Infant from Mother at Hospital Due to Husband's 22 Year Old Guilty Plea to Rape
"I thought I was living in America"
[Editor's Note: There is a rapidly growing industry in child trafficking, prostitution, auctioning, slavery, and satanic sacrifice that is being abetted by children seized by state child protective agencies and placed into foster care, an 'industry' that is rife with corruption and perverted individuals who are themselves often abusing seized children. It's outrageous enough that an anonymous complaint to a child welfare office can bring state child protective services and police to your home and literally take your children away from you without bothering with an indictment, jury trial, or conviction for any anything! NOW, day old, newborn infants are being taken from their mother while still in the hospital under the pretext of a 22 year guilty plea of the husband and a "doctor's report" of the mother (surely given in CONFIDENCE to that physician) ALLEGING previous drug use and prostitution!THESE OUTRAGES AGAINST CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS BY STATE AGENCIES MUST STOP!
This mother is also fighting to regain custory of her 21 month daughter, also taken by the state and turned over to a foster family in Maryland, on the same pretest of the father's alleged 'unfitness'. If you are reading this, please get INVOLVED on some level to help this woman and join in with those organization who are trying to bring courtroom and legislative pressure to end this Orwellian nightmare of state sanctioned piracy of children! I'be listed the names of the principles below. ...Ken Adachi]
Principles
Hearing Location: Potsville, Pennsylvania
Next Hearing Date: October 31, 2005
Mother: Melissa Wolfhawk (31)
Father: DaiShin WolfHawk (53)
Rep. for mother at hearing: Mary Catherine Roper (ACLU)
Parent's Attorney in Fed lawsuit:Paula Knudsen
Hearing Judge: Charles Miller (Court of Common Pleas)
Seizing Agency: PA Schuylkill County Children and Youth Services (SCCYS)
SCCYS Executive Director: Gerard Campbell
SCCYS attorney: Karen E. Rismiller
Hospital: Jennersville Regional Hospital (West Grove, PA)From CNN
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/pachildwelfaretakesnewborn22oct05.shtml
October 22, 2005http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/22/sexoffender.custody.ap/index.html
Original Title
Officials seize sex offender's baby
Mother fought to keep custody of infant son
POTTSVILLE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Child welfare authorities seized a newborn from a hospital Friday and placed the baby in a foster home because his father is a convicted sex offender.
A judge granted the mother supervised visitation rights but prohibited visits from the father.
"There's no happy ending in these things. It's what we think is the best interest of the children," said Gerard Campbell, executive director of Schuylkill County Children and Youth Services. The agency took custody of the baby over the mother's objections.
The baby was born Tuesday and the agency obtained an emergency court order Wednesday authorizing it to take the infant. Child welfare workers argued the infant boy's safety is in jeopardy because the father pleaded guilty to rape and sodomy two decades ago in New York. The agency also cited the mother's alleged history of drug abuse.
Another hearing is set for October 31. Melissa Wolfhawk , mother of newborn
"I think they're sending the message that if you or any member of your family screws up, you can kiss your parental rights goodbye," said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Mary Catherine Roper, who represents the mother, Melissa WolfHawk.
WolfHawk, 31, declined to talk with reporters after a hearing before Common Pleas Judge Charles Miller.
The 53-year-old father, DaiShin WolfHawk, did not attend the hearing but said he was "just shocked" by the judge's decision.
"I thought I was living in America," he said.
Officials try to seize sex offender's baby-
Pennsylvania hospital refuses to hand over newbornhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/21/sexoffender.custody.ap/index.html
Friday, October 21, 2005
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Child-welfare officials obtained an emergency court order to seize a baby just 24 hours after he was born, contending the infant would be unsafe because his father is a convicted sex offender.
The hospital, however, refused to hand over the infant so soon after birth, according to a lawyer representing the mother, Melissa WolfHawk.
WolfHawk, 31, is due in court Friday for a hearing, said Mary Catherine Roper, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing the mother.
The child was born Tuesday, and Schuylkill County Children and Youth Services was granted the order Wednesday.
The agency expressed concerns that the boy could be in danger because his 53-year-old father, DaiShin WolfHawk, was convicted of rape and sodomy more than two decades ago in New York.
"Melissa is leaving the hospital tonight," Roper said Thursday. "Schuylkill County is going to show up at the hospital sometime tomorrow morning to pick up the baby, who will be released when the hospital is ready to release him."
A hospital administrator said Thursday he couldn't talk about the issue, citing patient privacy rules.
Roper said the child services agency also raised concerns about the mother's alleged history of drug abuse.
The WolfHawks had already gone to court because county officials were asking about the pregnancy. A federal judge placed a temporary restraining order on county officials to keep them from doing so.
DaiShin WolfHawk said he and his wife were "appalled" at the county's actions.
"Here's a baby being breast-fed by its mother, and they're saying that the mother's a danger to the baby," DaiShin WolfHawk said. "What were they doing? They were trying to grab the baby before it even had its shots, circumcised, anything."
The boy, whose name he declined to disclose, was born at Jennersville Regional Hospital in West Grove, about 60 miles south of Pottsville, where Melissa WolfHawk lives. Mother and child were still together at the hospital as of Thursday morning.
DaiShin WolfHawk pleaded guilty under the name John Joseph Lentini in 1983 to rape and sodomy in a case involving two teenage girls.
At Monday's hearing, the county produced a doctor's report that Melissa WolfHawk had acknowledged using cocaine and methamphetamine and working as a prostitute. The county also submitted a New York parole document indicating DaiShin WolfHawk sexually abused his daughter.
The WolfHawks have vigorously denied those allegations.
Sex offender's wife fights to keep unborn son
Woman must notify child welfare officials of birthhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/11/unborn.custody.ap/index.html
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
POTTSVILLE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Melissa WolfHawk, due to give birth any day, lives in fear that her baby will be taken from her by the government.
The county child-welfare agency believes her child won't be safe because her husband is a sex offender who spent more than a decade in prison for rape in a case involving two teenage girls.
But WolfHawk, 31, says her husband of three years, DaiShin WolfHawk, is no "monster."
She won a federal court order last month keeping child-welfare workers from asking about her pregnancy, at least until a hearing next week.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which has taken her side, argued that the county was too aggressive in monitoring her pregnancy and will ask a judge Monday to block the agency from taking the baby.
Melissa WolfHawk also is fighting to regain custody of another child, a girl now 21 months old living with a family in Maryland, in a case that also began with questions about her husband's fitness as a father.
Despite the restraining order she won last month, Melissa WolfHawk is still required to notify the Schuylkill County Department of Children and Youth Services within 24 hours of giving birth.
"I am living every woman's worst nightmare -- that when your child is born and you close your eyes for one second, if that baby isn't sleeping on your chest, you open your eyes and that child isn't going to be there," she said in an interview at her modest row home.
She said she is not worried about her husband's past.
"If he was this miserable monster -- and I've dealt with miserable monsters -- I wouldn't be able to close my eyes at night, knowing I was carrying his child," she said.
DaiShin WolfHawk, 53, was known as John Joseph Lentini when he pleaded guilty in New York in 1983 to rape, attempted rape, sodomy and attempted sodomy.
"I'm not saying I was an angel. Maybe more like a Hells Angel," he said.
DaiShin WolfHawk, who is unemployed, said he lives about 20 miles from the home his wife shares with her father. He described himself as the chief of an American Indian tribe, the Unole E Quoni, which he says has 175 families in eight states but is not recognized by any state or by the federal government.
The ACLU argues that officials in Pennsylvania have no right under state law to question Melissa WolfHawk about her unborn baby, and that DaiShin WolfHawk should not be punished further.
"There's just no evidence in this case that Mr. WolfHawk has engaged in criminal acts against very young minors," said attorney Paula Knudsen. "And while the charges that were lodged against him in the early 1980s are not excusable, he certainly has paid his time for those crimes and has moved on."
Melissa WolfHawk's federal lawsuit, filed in Harrisburg, says county officials violated her due-process rights by threatening "to 'take' her baby" and leaving notes on her front door saying they were monitoring her pregnancy.
Schuylkill County Children and Youth Services confirmed in a September 23 letter to WolfHawk's attorney that the department may seek custody of the boy once he is born.
"Schuylkill County Children and Youth Services believes this child's physical and emotional health is in danger because of the abuse perpetrated by the natural father against other minor children," wrote agency attorney Karen E. Rismiller.
Rismiller said confidentiality rules prohibit her from commenting further.
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