Associated Press reporters recently exposed a story of illegal practices by Child Protective Services social workers in one North Carolina county.Social workers in Cherokee County have been reportedly coercing parents and taking their children illegally, bypassing the court system by threatening to adopt out their children or throw the parents in jail if they refused to sign paperwork known in NC as a CVA – Custody and Visitation Agreement. (Source)The same paperwork is known in other states as a “safety plan” or other such name.
Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR) has another name for it – blackmail.
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