CPS Takes a Couple's 2 Children, Hospital 'Puts Down' the Sick Baby, and Foster Care Keeps the Other Child

in #familyprotection6 years ago

Imagine your baby child had a heart defect, on life support after many surgeries, and the hospital took them off life support against your wish (practically euthanized). Then to compound on that horror, the hospital and CPS worked to keep your other child away from you. This is a trauma that no parent would want to experience, but it's a reality for a Tennessee family.


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Steffen Rivenburg Jr. was born with Down Syndrome and congenital heart defects. Doctors advised the parents he would need surgery at 6 months old, but was doing well at home with his family so far. Patricia and Steffen Sr. had missed but rescheduled 3 doctors appointments due to to car troubles. Their daughter, Annalise, in 1st grade also missed some school during that time.

They were looking at homeschooling as a better way to educate their children, but while at a doctors visit, the DCS (CPS in Tennessee) had seized Annalise over truancy allegations. No one in the family was told, as her grandmother frantically search for her granddaughter who didn't get off the bus at the end of the day. Then CPS came to medically kidnap Steffen Jr. over abuse allegations for missing 3 doctors appointments.

Immediately after being stolen from their parents, the children were forced into receiving vaccines, and Steffen's feeding fromula was changed. Two weeks later while in foster care, Steffen was brought to the Vanderbilt hospital for reportedly choking. He was a doing fine at home with his loving parents, but now he was diagnosed with metapneumovirus which he was infected by while in foster care.

The infection damaged the Steffen's frail heart, and the surgery scheduled for 6 months of age was needed then at 4 months old in a weakened state. He received 4 heart surgeries with weeks, all done without parental consent. Patricia says the hospital made mistakes, and baby Steffen was in an extracoporeal membrane oxygenation machine (ECMO) for 5 weeks.

The hospital had refused a heart transplant, and instead wanted to put him on a cocktail of narcotics to "keep him comfortable" and unplug the machines keeping him alive. Legal and court battles ensued, but baby Steffen was let down by the failing legal system and doctors who saw fit to terminate his life. Steffen was put down with a fatal dose of propofol, the same drug that did in Michael Jackson.

The parents were threatened with arrest for trying to record their son's last moments of life. Steffen Sr. was later arrested while visiting his stolen daughter for refusing to undergo a hair follicle drug test that wasn't issued under a court order.

The family has been through hell orchestrated by corrupt individuals who have abused their authority. One year after the death of their son, the Rivernburgs are still fighting to regain custody of their daughter Annalise.

They were supposed to be in court on June 8th, but they were told the court was closed. Then on June 19 for a scheduled foster care review, but were told of the date being changed to July 23. When they went to file paperwork in court on July 2, they learned the July 23 date was changed to July 9. They weren't told about it, and wouldn't have known about it if they hadn't gone to do that paperwork.

They are being played with by a system that feeds on wrong doings and lets them persist, especially when the authoritarians in power are doing the wrongs. Many parents who fight to regain custody of their children go through these shenanigans. Court dates, visitation dates and times and doctors appointments change without notice. The child welfare system is a headache for families to deal with at best, and otherwise a corrupt organization. If a parent doesn't show up to a court date that they don't know about, they can lose the chance to regain custody forever.

The parents are representing themselves in court. They want to tell their story and be heard,b ut they were told to show up early as the hearing for their custody case would likely go go quickly. Does that mean it would be in their favor, or the court and judge already decided to keep their daughter Annalise away form them? The judge is Wayne C. Shelton. He is the same judge in their case against the hospital, and who did nothing to stop the hospital from putting down their son.


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What a horror! Folks who haven't been roped into the rodeo before probably have no idea of how endemic corruption and coercion are in court. One statistic that gives a clue to how terrible the problems are with courts is that over 90% of criminal cases are pled out, rather than go to trial.

This isn't because they're all guilty, but because the extortion that is brought to bear is so severe that up to 25% of those that do plead out aren't even guilty. Adding the CPS and it's even worse corruption doesn't make things any better.

I can't imagine how I'd have reacted had one of my sons been killed in such a way. Pretty sure I wouldn't have access to the internet though.

Thanks!

Yeha, ppl brush it off, thinking the system is just and there are only rare cases. Then they care if it happens to them, just like vaccine injury...

Good point on the courts, charges are brought, and they scare ppl into thinking they will lose and to admit to being guilty when they aren't because the systemis rigged to try to send them away for longer if they try to fight for their innocence. It's so fucked.

Truly speaking sometimes i always feel that do we literally need all these cruel law system, why we should not create our own system, we can create but we are use to slavery that's why these evil system and cruel lawmakers can abuse us.

Particularly this case is heart breaking and i am doubting that those people are human beings and in my opinion they are inturn possibly evil people who are wearing masks.

Now cruel dimensions are increasing and goodness is decreasing and we can understand who are evil and what they want to bring in this world and they are targeting children because possibly they want to make younger generations slaves.

We have to understand one thing that we are free beings but nowadays we are suppressed a lot and we are losing the light of hope but we can collectively bring the light of hope because we are human beings and greatest beings on this planet.

CPS is an immoral assault on families. For every child I hear of them helping, I see dozens that are harmed, killed, or lost (sold?); and I have to say that they no longer serve the children's welfare.

I think that NOW they work for Profit, and to put money into their own pockets! May GOD have mercy on their useless souls; because I Can NOT forgive them!

>:(

They work to keep their jobs indeed, I wrote about that in a quote from a CPS division that took kids in order to keep their jobs and avoid the "public" getting upset with them for letting kids get harmed in rare cases...

They lost 1500 kids, so I am wondering if they have ANY reason to exist anymore! More kids were LOST than were helped! NO; STOP stealing kids!

How depressing to read. I wouldn’t wish this torture on my worst enemy yet it’s hsppening across the country to far too many innocent families. I wouldn’t be able to keep it together in this situation.

Yeah, seriously, I would go rage... but where... to be so defenseless and not able to do something... arg...

What abuse of authority on the part of CPS I can not imagine the pain of this family, my heart is filled with compassion, that justice is done and that this type of abuse can end!

A baby is born in October with congenital heart disease and the parents don't take him to the doctor until Feb of the next year....WHAT? Again a baby is born in October with congenital heart disease and the parents don't take him to the doctor until Feb of the next year. That's the real big problem I have with this story...healthy babies are seen within a couple weeks of being released from a hospital just to make sure things are going fine, that's why they call them well baby checks. Now given they had a seriously ill infant and never once took him to see a doctor for better of five months is telling that something is really off with these parents, in fact it wasn't until they took the baby to a hospital that CPS was called, meaning the baby was seriously ill and needed protecting from parents who neglected to take a seriously ill child to a doctor for five months! By that time it was already to late. I don't know what the success rate is on infants who need heart surgery but this isn't something you go home and write on a calendar to do in six months it's something that any parent on this earth would find a avenue to get their extremely ill child seen. You don't sit there and say oh he seems fine, the cars broken, he seems fine, the cars broken again, you just don't. I don't have any sympathy for these parents at all. They couldn't even get their healthy child to school, then try and explain it away as we kept her out while we looked for a way to home school her....no you send her while you look. It's the law, it applies to everybody. It's not just that they didn't send her to school but she's messed up mentally....that didn't just suddenly happen, that also happens at the hands of neglect. Any seven year old child needing psychiatric drugs is telling of the type of parents we are dealing with here. There is underlying causes to the problems these children suffered and it goes way beyond a broken down car. Their refusal and questioning of having to do drug drops is very telling of what these parents were more interested in doing than taking care of and paying attention to their parental responsibilities.

What a sad story, how impressive, how much badness from cps. I imagine the pain, the despair and the sadness of this family .. How much I feel it, I wish that they can recover the custody of their daughter

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