Christine_Devine's Blog

I was skeptical about the show so I watched it. Annie Lennox got me... her story about the plight of one family of brothers and her superb song brought involuntary tears to my eyes and at one point during her song I thought my heart might pop out of my chest. Winston Churchill once said that 'great people are people who make others feel great.'

In this country we have indeed been 'given much'. Some of us only seem to think that everything we have had a price and we paid it and earned everything we have... but like our 'frely given' place of birth and the'freely given' talents we are born with not only is 'much required' but as one great man once said,

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
- Jesus Christ Matthew 10:8

Christine,

Kudos to you for being very compassionate! I remember taking some kids through skid row many years ago...that was an eye opener to the kids I took with me. It is so easy to get caught up in taking things for granted. We will alsways have the poor among us, and we need to be reminded from time to time to look out for one another. So far, Statueman has the best response to your blog...yes, Jesus did remind us to have compassion for our fellow human being. Media is also right to remind us to be careful, and watch out for those who prey on us too.

Ms. Devince,

I'd like to shed some light on an issue which will be released to all the media in the next month or so. My sisters kids have been removed by Child Protective Services two months ago with false and frivolous allegations of neglect and abuse. Such accusation along with constant harassment from child case workers and their supervisors were used to removed the kids from my sister with out court order or probable cause. Constant harassment, including harassment during a case workers vacation day, were conducted and approved by the case worker's supervisors. Though these frivolous allegations and harassment complaints have been brought up to Gloria Molina's office, their own internal affairs, the mayor's office, the governor's office and private legal agencies they have resulted in no action with my niece and nephew of only 2 weeks and 1 year of age, respectively, being ignored resulting in our family being torn apart by the absence of such innocent lives. The child case worker who removed the kids lured my sister to comply with a "mandatory" drug test on a volunteer case plan before a long weekends in order to remove her kids. This was a result of my sister informing the case worker's supervisor of the harassment by the case worker on during her vacation day followed by the case worker's supervisor harassing my sister her self at my sister's home. Since the removal of the kids /at least three other cases based on false accusations have been opened against my sister, my mother and stepfather in order to delay the placement of the kids in a family member