Police know best?
"Hardened criminal" Treffly Coyne, shown above with her husband, Timothy Janecyk, has been cleared of child endangerment charges filed against her by police in the Chicago suburb of Crestwood. Her crime: Briefly leaving her 2-year-old asleep in her car, within clear sight, while she and her older kids dumped some money in a Salvation Army kettle outside a Wal-Mart store last December. We've all heard horror stories about mothers or dads who leave their kids in a sweltering vehicle while they get liquored up in a bar or play slots at a casino. This was clearly not the case here, and the police just as clearly overreacted. Coyle had locked her car, activated the alarm system and turned on her emergency flashers, and she was never more than 10 yards away from the vehicle. Turning on the flashers was probably a mistake, because it drew the attention of police officers who spotted the toddler and started interrogating Coyne. Coyne called her husband, who told her not to say anything to the officers until he could get to the scene. She said she was afraid and just wanted to wait for Janecyk to arrive, but before he could get there, she was under arrest, and police added an obstruction charge because she wouldn't immediately cooperate with them. A prosecutor dropped the charges before trial, and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services found no evidence that Coyne was abusing or neglecting her children. It's another case where a smidgen of common sense could have saved people a lot of time, money and embarrassment.
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posted by Brant at
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At least some states in the US and in other countries, there is an Ombudsman for parents to seek help from. In Indiana, we live under corrupt court systems, law enforcement, and very corrupt Child Protection Services, as the goal is not to protect, but gain many children into the system, in order to, gain federal grants, programs, and incentive bonuses, and then the adoption re-imbursements. Children die under state care, but no one is prosecuted and the deaths usually are never reported. DCS does not want anyone to know the truth. This is why they want to keep their actions against families as secret. Parents have the right to know what they are accused of and judges are responsible to make sure there is evidence for a probable cause before children are removed from their homes.
However, Juvenile courts are used in order to violate the rights of both children and parents, as DCS workers just take children from safe homes to place them into danger and leave children in danger in danger to suffer. This agency lies, commits perjury, falsification of court documents, and willing violate human, civil, and constitutional rights. In Indiana, citizens have no rights, and if anyone attempts to fight for their rights, the governmental agencies in Indiana will make you pay, as they will pull you over (by the police), and forced you to strip in front of 4 male officers, in the name of searching the person. So all women in Indiana, if you are driving alone, you are a candidate to be pulled over because your,'tail lights may not be working". And if you are a single mother, you will be a prime candidate to have DCS remove your children, just because you are single, and you have no rights.
Pursuant to: The crimes of Child ProtectionServices, who is allowed to walk about as a god without any justification,accountibility, or responsiblity, of the crimes they commit, that our federal government is aware of, but does nothing, as our soldiers are dying to protect the rights of others in other countries, that we, American Citizens are deprived of and denied by our own governmental officials.
Deprivation of Rights under the Color of LawViolation of Civil Rights under 42 U.S.C.*1983
State law cannot provide immunity from suit for Federal Civil Rights violations. State law providing immunity from suit for child abuse investigators has no application to suits under *1983. Wallis v. Spencer,(9th Cir. 1999)
Social workers and all other governmental employees may be sued for deprivation of civil rights under 42 U.S.C.*1983, if they are named in their official and individual capacity. Hafer v. Melo,(S.Ct.1991), as DCS used malicious intentions and all other governmental officials’ who either refused or failed to respond to the multitude of reported violations of DCS. Social workers are not immune for coercing or seizing a child from the parent without a warrant. Calabretta v. Floyd (9th Cir. 1999)
Persons may not be seized without a court order or being placed under arrest. Children may not be removed from their home or seized from their parent by social workers/DCS, without notice and a hearing unless the officials have a reasonable belief that the child is in ‘imminent danger’, defined as loss of life or limb. Immunity is defeated if the official took the complained of action with malicious intention to cause a deprivation of rights, or the official violated clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known. McCord v. Maggio,(5th Cir. 1991)
The rights of many parents and children, alike, are violated without any concern, as our Attorney General, Steve Carter and our Governor, Mitch Daniels, turns a deaf ear to the crimes committed by the CPS, Dept of Children, DCS staff. When parents attempt to testify to the crimes done th their families, the courts send a court order to make them quiet. Freedom, liberty, justice, democracy, and civil, constitutional, and human rights are not given or honored in the state of Indiana, in the US
At least the police have some form of rules to follow and held accountible to them. DCS, Dept of Children as known in Indiana, but is still CPS, Child Protection Services, can commit crimes, violate laws, ignore civil, constitutional, and human rights, and even refuse to report the deaths of children under the state' care. CPS causes more harm to children than any other source, yet we pay for them to harm our children.
Treffly Coyne is a fine mother who happened to be out on an excursion planned by her children to donate to charity. A lesson we would all do better to be taught by her kids. Unfortunately the government, very concerned about the welfare of her child stepped in. Somehow the officer saw that a sleeping two year old in a warm and safe locked car with the alarm activated would be better off without the mother who cares for her.
The police would not listen to her story, they refused to listen to witnesses, they did not investigate by going into the store to look at the security video.
Instead, they arrested Treffly Coyne, took custody of her two year old child, broke up her family, and most disturbing, the police abandoned three little girls at the Walmart… left them to their own luck, crying on the curb.
All because the government decided Treffly Coynes family needed its “protection.”
Her children were never in any danger until the representatives of the government showed up.
The police chief of Crestwood, Timothy Sulikowski, knew that there was no evidence that Ms. Coyne had done anything wrong, yet he still decided she needed to be charged and prosecuted.
TO COVER UP THE HORRIBLE MISTAKES AND MISCONDUCT OF THE CRESTWOOD POLICE.
For 97 days she was labled a child abuser by the state, investigated by the DCFS or CPS, paid expensive legal bills and suffered the public humiliation brought on by the unsubstantiated charges of the Crestwood Police.
Even when the prosecutor dropped the charges for lack of evidence, the police chief and Mayor Robert Stranczek continued to make public statements against Treffly Coyne.
Treffly Coyne is now suing the Village of Crestwood, police officers James Ciukaj, Forrest Wondolowski and Angel Brudnicki in federal court.
She would have preferred to have won in criminal court.
All she asked for was an apology and that the charges would be dropped. Thousands of dollars later, and hundreds of thousands of posts on the internet, the Crestwood Police cannot even give her that.
A terrible mistake was made that night at the Walmart and the Crestwood Police and Mayor Stranczek refuse to acknowlege it. Until they do, all citizens, all families in Crestwood are in danger of these kinds of police abuse.
Her fight is not over. The federal Judge will hear the case and has the power to direct the Crestwood Police to make changes in their policies and procedures.
Hopefully she will prevail in her fight, which is a fight for all of our civil rights and her case will create stronger boundaries between the family and the police.
It was wrong to arrest that mother and subject her children to witness in terror the actions of the police.
What is more wrong is that the woman has to fight such wrongdoing in federal court.
A victory for Treffly Coyne will be a victory for all American Families. The civil rights she is fighting for our your civil rights as well.
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