Police in Louisville, Kentucky, discovered heroin in the purse of a woman who works for the state’s Child Protective Services department, and this led to the discovery that she has been smoking methamphetamines with her own 14-year-old son. When interviewed, the boy admitted they had used drugs together on multiple occasions. We, Robert Raskin and Kathleen Raskin, are dedicated to protecting children and families against corruption in the CPS and DHR systems, because organizations that can’t screen their own employees have no business making these decisions about children’s lives until they get their own acts together.

The Case Against Stephenie Chism

Ms. Chism is a 39-year-old woman from West Point, and she was stopped by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as she left her home. When it was discovered that she had heroin in her car, she said she had “found” the drug and didn’t know what else to do with it but to keep it. After getting a search warrant, police entered the home just in time to see her son throw a meth pipe and a bag of meth out the window.  When he was questioned, the teen said his mother permitted and even encouraged his meth use, to the point that she had offered it to him in the past only to have him decline. The woman has since been arrested.

While it is unclear if CPS in Kentucky drug tests their employees, it is very clear that they will make parents who have no basis for the drug use allegations made against them submit to repeated drug testing, even if the results are consistently negative. We, Robert Raskin and Kathleen Raskin, are disgusted by the hypocrisy in this system, and we need to put better safety precautions in check. After all, if this woman does drugs with her own child, how is she to be trusted with anyone else’s kids?