TESTIMONIAL

Letter from an anonymous, scared mother.

I am writing you this letter regarding one of your articles. The article "Abuse... and Abuse of Power" was a good learning experience knowing that there were others in Ontario who are or were in the same situation as we are in now.

Two years ago, the CAS had taken away my son from me. At school, my son had received scratches from a rugby game at school. Some one from the school notified the CAS about the scratches and that same day, without notifying me, they took my son in a foster home after school. The only way I found out was through my daughter who noticed that he was not on the bus. The only reason that they didn't take her was because she was of age.  I did not get to say good-bye.

That night, my son called home four times crying. We were informed that he had not had a wink of sleep that week.  In the past two years, me and my husband had done everything that our local CAS has asked us to do. We still do not have our son back. We have gone to parenting courses and had asked for help before from the CAS and others and received nothing.  Now that my son is in a foster home, he is receiving help that we could have only dreamed about before.  At the current foster home, he is mistreated. He is not fed enough and he is worked to the bone. Before he went in the foster home, he was a healthy 165 lbs. Now that he is in a foster home, his weight has declined to 135 lbs and he is easily prone to sickness.

At the foster home, the foster parents tell him that he can't have his right that he deserves. His foster parents tell him that he is not allowed to call us as well as many other things. We have tried to work as well as we can with the CAS and every time we do something, they condemn us and if we do what they say, they condemn us as well. All we are sick and tired of the CAS and wondering if you could get us in contact with others who also in our situation so we can all band together and find a was to stop CAS.  I am currently setting up a Anti - CAS website with a message board where people can put their ideas for stopping CAS. Thank you for all your help.

Tired and Angry at CAS

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Thank you for writing back so quickly. Yes I am currently a reader of your newsletter IMPACT and we receive your IMPACT four times a year.

I did not put my name because if one of the CAS workers ever saw our real name, we would be condemned. We are condemned for everything. The CAS lie and cheat about anything but condemn us for loving our son.

As soon as this thing is over, which is going to seem like forever, because the CAS is currently seeking a paper stating that we cannot get my son back, we will give you our names. You can publish parts of our letter. As soon as we have our son back, I will give you our name but right now we are in a court process and we have to be very careful. The CAS are like snakes.

You are more then welcome to send us a e-mail. The problem with he CAS is that they have the public thinking one thing and they do another. They try to convince the public that they are taking children from bad homes and putting them into good homes when they are doing the exact opposite.  I used to think that CAS wasn't that bad until this happened.

Thank you for all your help in getting the informed in what the CAS is really like.

Thank you once again for all our your support