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Current Affairs 2007 - Seized Children (18 items)
| Dec 21, 2007 | Where Have All The Grow Op Kids Gone? Real estate agent Tammy Wing Yan Tsui and her husband Clement Kin Keung Cheung were charged with two counts of production of a controlled substance and two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking as a result of the July 17 raids at 4382 Blair Dr. ( where the children were found ) and at 7471 Minoru Blvd.
It is unknown at this point to what happened to the five children.
"We don't know what happened to those kids," said Linda Korbin, executive director of the B.C. Association of Social Workers.
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| Dec 21, 2007 | Are The Kids All Right? What kind of parent would subject toddlers to the dangers of living in a marijuana grow operation? We would suggest they are parents who may not have the basic moral or intellectual capacity to care for children.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | No Laws Needed To Protect B.C. Children Found In Grow-Ops Social workers in the Fraser Valley were called in last week to deal with three young children found in a grow-op. Despite the wearying familiarity of the scene, they had to make a child-protection decision in the absence of any specific policy.
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| Dec 14, 2007 | Police Pull Children From Abby Grow-Op Police officers were conducting the search warrant in the 3200 block of Firhill Drive, but while investigating a marijuana grow operation, they became concerned about the levels of carbon monoxide.
The carbon monoxide levels were found to be in excess of 100 parts per million [the hazard increases dramatically above 30 ppm, according to experts].
Police also found three children under the age of 12 in the home, who are now under the care of non-parental family members.
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| Nov 5, 2007 | More Calgary Children Seized From Grow Ops More than 60 per cent of all children seized from drug houses in Alberta under the year-old Drug Endangered Children Act were in the Calgary region. Alberta Children's Services figures show 23 of the 38 children apprehended under the act came from the Calgary area, which includes Banff, Cochrane and High River.
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| Oct 25, 2007 | Burnaby Grow-Op Raises Child Welfare Concerns B.C. social workers are calling for a code to investigate children living in houses with marijuana grow operations, after Burnaby RCMP found three children under 5 in a Burnaby operation this month.
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| Jul 20, 2007 | BC: Five Children Detained Five children have been detained by the Ministry of Family and Social Services after they were found in a large marijuana grow-op. Police yesterday said the children, all younger than 16, were at a home in the 4300-block Blair Drive when police raided the premises Tuesday and found over 1,000 marijuana plants. A man was arrested at the scene.
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| Jun 16, 2007 | PUB LTE: Protect Children By Ending Unproductive War On The article, Drug house parents face charges ( SP, June 5 ), illustrates perfectly what a complete disaster our drug policy has been for families.
In response to the dangers posed by "toxic marijuana grow operations," Alberta passed legislation that allows removing children from dangerous situations posed by drugs.
The Drug Endangered Children Act is a Band-Aid. If we are truly sincere in our desire to protect children from the dangers of a house full of plants, legalizing marijuana would be the best way to achieve that goal.
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| Jun 13, 2007 | Children Who Call Grow Ops Home At Risk ...But there is another element about illegal drug growing operations which causes concern. These operations do not run by themselves. There are people behind at each of those plants. Some may be taking the risk entirely on their own; however, sometimes there are innocent victims - children living in these homes. Children living in grow-ops can be exposed to chemicals, electrical fires and mould. It is clearly not a healthy environment. The Alberta government has taken the lead and recently laid the first charges against parents whose children were allegedly found living in homes with marijuana grow operations. Called the Drug Endangered Children Act, it allows police to immediately remove children from homes where drugs are sold or produced. A current case involves charges against the parents of a four-year-old and an 18-month-old.
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| Jun 5, 2007 | AB: Parents Charged in Drug Den Cases PARENTS CHARGED IN DRUG DEN CASES - Police Use New Law for First Time..."Police officers wearing full protective suits with respirators are walking into rooms with kids playing, watching television, with no protection at all. The moulds, the smells, the risk of electrical explosions . . . you just shake your head."...The Southern Alberta Marijuana Investigative Team found 120 pot plants...
[Reefer Madness on steroids] |
| Apr 5, 2007 | Cops Take Kids In Drug Raid A toddler and a newborn were apprehended by police Thursday under new provincial legislation designed to protect children from families involved in the drug trade.
The joint EPS/RCMP Green Team took down a marijuana grow operation at 9:15 a.m. in a home near 190 Street and 83 Avenue. Officers seized 210 marijuana plants, worth about $210,000, and arrested three adults.
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| Mar 7, 2007 | BC Must Protect Grow Op Kids - Social Workers Last December, Alberta passed the Drug-Endangered Children Act, which establishes that having kids in a grow op or meth lab environment can be considered abuse.
An association representing social workers in this province said similar guidelines are needed here.
[It is a very dangerous precedent to term something "child abuse" when it could be nothing of the sort] |
| Jan 25, 2007 | Four Kids Seized In Grow Op Bust AB: Police arrested a pregnant mother and seized her four young children after a drug raid on a home in the northeast Calgary community of Temple.
The search of the marijuana grow operation marks the third time children have been taken into custody since Alberta's Drug-endangered Children Act came into effect in November.
Two of the children, who range in age from two to nine, were taken from the home on Templeton Circle N.E. The two older children were in school at the time of the raid, but were picked up later by Child and Family Services officials.
[This trend of seizing children of people busted with illegal substances is deeply disturbing at many levels.
While many parents have the gut feeling that this makes a bad situation much, much worse, there is no evidence or data they can look at to support or dispute that families are hurt far worse by the state mandated separation than any other factor. At the very least, can society not demand some accountability in this matter?
We know from our history that removing children from their homes has gone on since the beginning, for very despicable reasons, usually racial in nature. Could that happen against a backdrop of voter disapproval? No, society as a whole is complicit in these crimes against humanity.] |
| Jan 25, 2007 | Living In Grow-Op Danger BC: As many as 30 per cent of the 150 grow operations inspected and shut down by the City of Abbotsford last year may have housed children living in dangerous conditions.
"In many searches we've located hazardous equipment and chemicals in areas that children often pay around and in some cases, sleep," he said...."Parents and others who expose children to such risks need to know their behaviour is unacceptable, and there are consequences.
[If parents can legally grow cannabis, then it is not hazardous. If parents grow hydroponic vegetables it is not hazardous. But if parents grow some unauthorized plants, it is hazardous. More proof the drug war is illogical.] |
| Jan 24, 2007 | Family Sues Door-Busting Cops ON: Henry George McCool Sr. accuses Toronto Police of being negligent for barging into his home on Sept. 15, 2005 in search of his son, who did not live with his father at the time of the arrests, in a gang crackdown dubbed Project Flicker, a statement of claim filed yesterday said.
The family wants $2.75 million in damages for the incident, which they say has left the mother and father coping with depression and their 8-year-old granddaughter with a "continuing fear and distrust" of police officers that has led to frequent nightmares.
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| Jan 24, 2007 | Drug-Endangered Children Will Get Help AB: Twenty-five police officers from the Capital Region are being trained in a course on investigating drug-endangered children....
The program focused on how to deal with the children that police sometimes find living in the drug houses and marijuana grow operations they've raided.
[The trend of removing children from homes will be monitored throughout the year as it violates logic, reason and basic human rights] |
| Jan 19, 2007 | Drug Endangered Children Act Gives Police Tool To Halt AB: As a member of Edmonton's green team, RCMP Cpl. Ian Gillan has seen too many heartbreaking cases of young children being neglected or abused because of their parents' drug activity.
The father of two wholeheartedly supports Alberta's Drug Endangered Children legislation, which strengthens police power to seize and hold children found living in homes where drugs are sold or produced.
"I've been pushing the DEC agenda since 2003 when I first became aware of it," Gillan said Thursday, during a break in an RCMP-hosted investigator training session at K-Division headquarters.
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| Jan 18, 2007 | Reefer Madness' No Reason to Seize More Children BC: Why is the B.C. Association of Social Workers beating the bushes to have more children taken into care?
Association spokesman Paul Jenkinson has been stumping the provincial media urging that the government start seizing children found in homes with marijuana-growing operations. There's "a crisis" out there, in his opinion, and fast action by Victoria is required. ... Jenkinson is peddling reefer madness. His suggestion that we begin seizing more children and putting them in provincial care would only exacerbate what is already a bad situation.
[Hooray! Sentiments from a perspective outside the status quo] |
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