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Alabama State Trooper Arrested for Child Rape

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Alabama State Trooper Arrested for Child Rape

Robert and Kathleen Raskin are staunch advocates of fairness and justice for child foster care. They tirelessly point out ongoing breaches of justice by the family courts and most notably by the Department of Human Resources, the state body that oversees child protective services. Alabama alone has so many lawsuits directly implicating members of the DHR that there’s a class action suit naming specific individuals. After deeper research into this matter, it seems that the problem doesn’t stop with them.

In May of 2021, Christopher Bauer, an Alabama State Trooper, was arrested in Montgomery for the rape and sodomy of an 11-year-old-girl. If this isn’t bad enough, Bauer has previously been kicked out of the FBI for the rape of a coworker. However, a string of sexual assault cases didn’t stop him from getting accepted by the Alabama State Troopers because he used a forged document on FBI letterhead to give himself a clean record and assure he was eligible for rehire. What’s worse, Bauer was an Alabama police officer before joining the FBI. He was Air Force before that. Sensing a pattern here?

Let’s be clear: not only did all of these agencies get duped by the same guy, but all of them also checked in with each other and failed to detect a problem. The best detectives in the state didn’t detect a problem. If children in Alabama, foster or otherwise, are supposed to be protected by the DHR and the state police, it’s the FBI’s job to ensure that patterns of injustice are investigated for sex trafficking across state lines. Yet it seems none of these agencies are equipped to stop the perpetrators from joining their forces. It’s a classic case of hiring a fox to guard the henhouse, but of epic proportions.

While the Raskins are staunch advocates of state’s rights, they’re bigger advocates of the safety of children. This is why they wholeheartedly support the creation of a federal agency charged with overseeing the DHR to ensure they’re doing their jobs and protecting the children.

Please join us in fighting the corruption where you live.

For more information about the state trooper investigation, click here: https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-montgomery-new-orleans-alabama-police-8bd9d4cbe11cac4630e7057019d139a4

Another Shining Example of Alabama’s Failed DHR

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Another Shining Example of Alabama’s Failed DHR

While Rob and Kathey Raskin are ongoing advocates in the fight for rooting out DHR corruption in the cases of foster home scams, the systemic issue of DHR incompetence and abuse runs deeper than this. Alabama is notorious for its various examples of incompetence and dereliction of duty when it comes to upholding its oath to protect the children of its state. In this article, we see yet another lawsuit that names specific officers of DHR as directly responsible for the death of eight-year-old Lebrawn Rankin back in 2018.

According to Attorney Tommy James, a multitude of complaints from the boy’s school and neighbors indicated that he was emaciated, wore dirty diapers, and had cockroaches crawling out of his clothes. This triggered an investigation by the DHR, who are responsible for following up on all child welfare cases at the state level, foster care or not. The investigation led to the child continuing to stay with his mother, now indicted for the child’s death less than two weeks after the visit.

While DHR said there was nothing out of the ordinary, the police investigation found the boy’s lifeless body in a dilapidated apartment that stunk of urine and feces, some of which was smeared on the wall. The mother’s indictment, while perplexing and counterintuitive, especially given the fact that she’s the boy’s natural mother, gives way to the sheer disbelief in the failure of legally bound, duly authorized representatives of the state to follow through on their investigations, whether out of the goodness of their heart or not. At the very least, this is how they pay their bills.

If the DHR cares so little about the welfare of its children across the board, whether foster or otherwise, it follows that each member will be subject to criminal and civil investigational and consequences until the nature of the problem is finally revealed. Unless and until that day comes, you can count on the dedication of Robert and Kathleen Raskin to follow up on these cases. Stay tuned for more stories like this and more ways to learn your rights to fight this problem in your state.

Whether you or someone you know, or have seen, or even have the remotest suspicion about, contact the Raskins to learn the quickest and most effective way to take action. These children need all the help they can get.

For more info about this case, click here.

https://www.al.com/news/2021/08/alabama-dhr-failed-disabled-starved-8-year-old-who-died-in-2018-attorney-says-children-are-dying-needlessly.html

Alabama DHR Child Abuse Records Suddenly Harder to Access

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Alabama DHR Child Abuse Records Suddenly Harder to Access

Thanks to the ongoing efforts of Robert and Kathleen Raskin, we tirelessly investigate cases of DHR Corruption. As the DHR, Department of Human Resources, is the state agency that oversees child protective services, it follows that they are the first line of defense against child abuse and negligence. Here is an update on the most famous case.

According to WAFF news on channel 48 in Huntsville, the DHR changed a 21-year-old law making it more difficult to access child abuse records. Where the law previously stated that the records “shall be shared,” it now says the records “may be shared.”

This came to light when Attorney Tommy James, famous for representing the victims in the Spurgeon foster children abuse case, said that this happened two weeks after a Lauderdale County circuit judge required DHR to share abuse records with him. If this case is unfamiliar to you, the husband and wife foster parents, Daniel and Janice Spurgeon, were charged with over 700 counts of child abuse and neglect, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, and torture.

According to Attorney James’ research and subsequent lawsuit, “the DHR and its employees did not properly investigate numerous claims of abuse made against the Spurgeons.” Daniel Spurgeon already pleaded guilty and is currently serving a 25-year sentence for child rape and abuse. His wife Janice is awaiting a trial as of November.

Meanwhile, Attorney James is seeking damages of $175M, $25M per each of the seven victims, from the DHR for ignoring red flags, including not noticing the family left the state without notifying them several years earlier. The sudden resistance to sharing evidence crucial to the lawsuit is no surprise. Clearly, they’re about to lose more than a lot of money.

As always, you can count on Rob and Kathleen Raskins to fight tirelessly to bring this breach of justice and violation of the public trust to light.

For more info, click here: https://www.waff.com/2021/10/06/attorney-says-rule-change-will-cover-up-dhr-failures-make-accessing-child-abuse-records-harder/