| DADDY WHY DONT YOU LOVE ME NO | | | | sexual abuse, sources say the foster family's |
| MORE?The true Story of the Crowton FamilyUnited | | | | "grandparents rights" were terminated. It seems quite |
| States citizens who are naive to the ways of the Child | | | | odd that the State of Michigan would end the |
| Protective System and the courts, or perhaps not | | | | Grandparents rights of this foster family partly |
| wealthy or connected, may inadvertently find | | | | because of their failure to protect this little girl but then |
| themselves subjected to a nightmare. Many entities | | | | approve the placement of David's children in this same |
| profit from the time a child first enters the system . | | | | home.The Ombudsman, a state-appointed office set |
| What are some of the techniques CPSEvery day | | | | up to oversee the state's Child Protective Services, |
| across America, citizens of the United States log onto | | | | reviewed this case and subsequently recommended a |
| the internet and inquire whether there might be child | | | | policy change forbidding this from occurring in the |
| molesters and other kinds of sex offenders living | | | | future [ Read report ].In spite of all this, steps are now |
| somewhere in their neighborhood. Yet, the State of | | | | being taken for this foster family to adopt these |
| Michigan has made sure that David and Hege | | | | children. They refused to grant adoption to the |
| Crowton's children get to live with one.After taking | | | | children's Norwegian grandparents who are available |
| away David & Hege's children with a false petition and | | | | and waiting with open arms to adopt them. The |
| keeping them away because he admitted to needing | | | | adoption to the foster family is VERY close to being |
| help with drug use and because of the State's failure | | | | finalized. Their fate is to ultimately be decided by the |
| to provide the services required for them to have their | | | | same judge that allowed the placement of these |
| children returned, the State of Michigan refused to | | | | children into this foster home, judge Elizabeth Pezzetti. |
| remove their children (including their 5 year old girl) from | | | | Pezzetti was recently re-elected as a probate court |
| a home where the children would cohabit with a child | | | | Judge in Oakland County.State Representative Tim |
| molester. The biological son of the foster parents | | | | Pope, who was on the Health and Human Services |
| assigned to the Crowton children was convicted of | | | | Committee in the state of Oklahoma and has vast |
| Criminal Sexual Conduct (Second degree multiple) for | | | | experience in dealing with Child Protective Service |
| doing something very sick to an innocent little 5 year | | | | laws, has investigated and reviewed the entire file. He |
| old girl. Sources say that the foster family had gone to | | | | found that State and Federal laws have been broken |
| court to acquire "grandparents rights" and force the | | | | by the State of Michigan Child Protective Services |
| visitation of their grand-daughter. They were granted | | | | (FIA). Click here to read one of the letters he wrote |
| under the condition that the child be under | | | | asking a Michigan State Representative for help. The |
| supervision.According to the police reports (which are | | | | following is a statement from Tim Pope about this |
| public information available through the Livingston | | | | case:"I have gotten to know David and Hege Crowton |
| County courthouse), at least one visit resulted in the 15 | | | | pretty well and I am convinced that they have been |
| year old biological son of the foster parents inviting the | | | | dealt a very bad hand from the Child Welfare Agency |
| visiting 5 year old girl up to his room. There, he had his | | | | (that title is a real joke). David and Hege have had their |
| way with her while his parents and David's children | | | | rights repeatedly violated and I hope that somehow |
| were in another room. For one reason or another the | | | | justice can prevail and they can get things put back |
| State of Michigan doesn't believe he ever touched | | | | together. Unfortunately, to make these kind of people |
| David's children.They apparently also are putting a lot | | | | accountable for their actions you must get them in |
| of stock into the idea that he never will.Amazingly, the | | | | court and that takes a lot of money - money that they |
| State of Michigan believes that the same child | | | | do not have. I served for a number of years on the |
| molester who sexually abused a 5 year old girl who | | | | Oklahoma Department of Human Services committee |
| visited the home never once touched the 5 year old | | | | in our State House and I can promise you that, if |
| girl he lived with and babysat on numerous | | | | something like this had happened here, heads would roll |
| occasions---David's daughter. They believe this in spite | | | | and the people who perpetrated this crime in the name |
| of the fact that a police report shows a "similar | | | | of the state would probably be put in jail."Tim Pope, |
| complaint" about sexual molestation coming from | | | | Former Oklahoma State RepresentativeThis is an |
| David's 5 year old daughter. They have chosen to rely | | | | OUTRAGE and must be stopped!To read more about |
| on "forensic interviews" by total strangers (rather than | | | | this horrific tragedy you can go to to order a copy of |
| someone the child would trust) to determine he had | | | | the book by Author David CrowtonThe author of this |
| not abused her.Note: A Study of 630 cases of alleged | | | | artical has been an activist for family rights for many |
| sexual abuse of children from 1985 through 1989: Using | | | | years and has had many victories for families around |
| a subset of 116 confirmed cases, findings indicated that | | | | the country. David has now written a teel all book |
| 79 percent of the children of the study initially denied | | | | called: |
| abuse or were tentative in disclosing. Of those who did | | | | Destruction of the American family.Please go too to |
| disclose, approximately three-quarters disclosed | | | | read more about this case. |
| accidentally.Source: Sorensen & Snow, 1991.After the | | | | |