Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 11, 2011

When Karin Hasemann was 16, she underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor from her brain. No discernible complications resulted from that procedure ? until six years ago, when the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (or DCF) cited that childhood trauma to justify seizing Karin?s children.

Each of Karin?s two youngest children was taken into state custody shortly after birth. Their parents haven?t seen them since 2008. To justify this abduction, the DCF has cited what it calls the doctrine of ?predictive neglect? ? which supposedly authorizes termination of parental rights on the basis of anticipated harm that may someday come to a child. Karin?s surgery was depicted as evidence of unspecified mental ?deficits.?

The father of those children was forced to undergo a psychiatric evaluation that resulted in a diagnosis of ?personality disorder not otherwise specified.? Since no specific affliction has been identified, he cannot be rehabilitated.

The court system terminated the couple?s parental rights, claiming that they cannot challenge the finding of neglect because they have never been custodial parents.

As long as the child-grabber bureaucracy exists, all parents and children risk falling prey to this kind of immaculate abduction under the color of supposed law.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.