When a normal person wants a child to finish their dinner, complete their chores, or lower their voice, they foster an environment of respect so they will be listened to. This is what children need and deserve, but thanks to the corrupt foster care system too often this is not what they get. We, Kathleen and Robert Raskin, are here to fight to put an end to this, and we need your help.

When foster parent Ogilvia Pineda and her son Kyle Edgar Macias wanted the foster children who were placed in their household to do those things, they allegedly punched them in the stomach, shoved socks in their mouths and made them bleed, and forced them to eat food out of the garbage. And this is just the beginning of the charges that have been levied against them, which include causing a gash that required stitches to one child when she hit him in the head with a Mason jar. This injury was listed on the search warrant the Jefferson County Sherriff’s Department used to gain entry to the home.

Foster siblings who included a seven-year-old boy and four- and three-year-old girls were warned against telling their grandmothers or caseworkers about the abuse, but the brave children spoke up anyway. Now this woman, an anger management counselor who seems to have trouble managing her own anger, have been formally charged. The pair were arraigned on Monday on felony child abuse charges, and they are currently in custody in the Jefferson County Jail. So far Pineda has given plenty of excuses for the injuries, but whether or not those hold up in court remains to be seen next week when the cases go before a grand jury.