Activist response request (autism issues)

February 8, 2005

>From: " Ingri Cassel " <vaclib@...>

Ingri Cassel, director

Vaccination Liberation

P.O. Box 457

Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869

(208) 255-2307 / (888) 249-1421

vaclib@...

Everyone:

This is Don, Ingri's husband. The following is urgent and, with a little

investment in time from each of you we may be able to turn a bad thing

around. There are several ultimately revealing background points to this

case. One is the relationship of the Northwest Autism Foundation to the

flow of money into organized allopathic autism " research. " Another is the

possibility that a few people working for the state of Oregon may be seeing

the light in this case.

Thanks for hearing me out and, if you are moved to do so, send an email or

make a phone call to the folks whose contact information is found at the

bottom of this post.

A little backgournd from my perspective

Oregon Health Sciences University has a very close relationship with the

state's child protection industry. My own investigations and first-hand

knowledge of Oregon's state Offices of Services to Children and Families

(SOSCF) has proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Oregon runs one of the

most invasive, discompassionate and injurious child protection rackets in

the country. In fact, the work we were doing while I was at The Oregon

Observer from 1995-1996 was directly responsible for Oregon Child Services

Division (CSD) changing its name to SOSCF in 1996 and hundreds of angry

parents and grandparents burning of CSD/SOSCF Director Kay Toran in effigy

on the state capitol building steps in 1997.

Below is a recounting of the life of 7-your-old Kristopher Dunn--a boy born

into the most nightmarish circumstances imaginable to a mother who managed

to escape those circumstances with her baby, but not before he had suffered

severe injuries that have resulted in chronic symptoms.

With the support of her family and friends, Dunn sought help for

her son by seeking out what she thought was the most qualified physicians

available. She is now days away from a judge deciding to let the state take

Kristopher away from her so SOSCF can place him in foster care so he can

available for whatever treatment OHSU physicians/researchers decide is

best. One can expect that OHSU's interest in gaining custody of the child

is not the same as those of his mother and extended family members fighting

to maintain custody.

The purpose of this missive is to let OHSU and its colleagues in SOSCF and

the courts know that the fate of this medically-challenged little boy is

not to be decided in courtroom with only a few people the wiser. We want

them to know that the case is being monitored by a lot of concerned people

all over the country. Contact information for the various players in this

travesty, and a suggested line of questioning for each, is provided at the

end of this post.

Keep in mind also that the case of Kristopher Dunn is not likely an

isolated one. A private investigation into how OHSU is being funded to

" treat " chronically ill children that it receives through court order is

being initiated. OHSU even employs social workers to scout for children it

can remove from homes and have judges order them placed in that hospital.

The OHSU social worker in the Dunn case has twisted the system in an effort

to undermine 's capacity as a parent as a means to have the state

order that her parental rights be terminated and custody be awarded to

OHSU. It has been reported that contact information for the OSHU social

worker, Joan Kruse, has recently been removed from the OHSU website. The

story I have received indicates this woman has stretched her boundaries to

construct a case against so OHSU can justify a legal argument that

the state should terminate her parental rights.

It is bad enough that the state claims ownership of our children and allows

us to parent their " property " on good behavior only, but for state

employees to steal them through the court system for " medical research " is

on of the most horrific crimes the state can commit against children and

families.

We have to act fast on this one. will be in court defending her

right to care for her own child Friday, Nov. 11, 2005. As it stands now,

's attorneys have tried unsuccessfully to negotiate a better fate

for Kristopher. It is OHSU's opinion that it has no need to negotiate

anything because it holds all the cards. I, personally, want OHSU to know

that there is are factors here their bureaucratic minds have not considered.

Out of our own love for children and in defense of the right of parents and

families to raise their own children each one of us is a factor that can

turn the tide in this case just by making OHSU, et al, aware that good

people are on the outside looking in on them.

A group close to the case is planning to mount and advertising campaign to

locate other families whose children have been wrongfully removed from

their families and ORDERED into state custody so OHSU can have easier

access to them. The preliminary stages of this investigation indicate that

the world of decent people will be shocked when the pattern of

state-sanctioned abuses of children and families through OHSU is exposed.

Thank you for your time. If you have any questions, please feel free to

call me.

No matter what,

Don Harkins

The Idaho Observer

(208) 255-2307

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

OHSU TO TAKE CHILD AWAY FROM MOTHER

OHSU threatens to take an autistic child from his mother: her crime -

seeking medical treatment for her son.

Portland, Oregon

February 7, 2005

Imagine taking your child to the doctor, asking for a second opinion, and

getting referred to Child Protective Service instead. This is what

happened to Dunn. Instead of getting much needed medical help for

her chronically ill son, is in the fight of her life for her child.

Dunn has a seven year old child who was born with several medical

issues. For the past four years she has been taking him to OHSU to meet

these special medical needs because she was under the impression that this

was the best medical facility in the state. OHSU has diagnosed him with

Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Autism Spectrum Characteristics, Mildly

Mentally Retarded, Disruptive Behavior Disorder, Laryngomalacia, Behavioral

Feeding Disorder, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Allergic Rhinitis, Hyperflexia,

Dyspraxia, Medically Fragile, the list goes on and on. Every time he sees

a new doctor he is given a new set of diagnosis, or they just add on to his

current list of diagnosis. Even the doctors he has seen cannot seem to

agree on an exact diagnosis. She has done everything they advised her to

do, whether she agreed with the treatment or not, ranging all the way from

having a g-tube placed in his stomach to psychological treatments for him

to even advocating for social security and special education with the

public school system for him. She even postponed her plans to move to

Eugene to marry because OHSU told her that she had to remain living in the

Portland area for her son’s ongoing medical care.

In the fall of 2004 Northwest Autism Foundation (NWAF) informed her that

Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital/LADDERS Program had

developed a new protocol for testing children with autism who have

Gastrointestinal problems. NWAF just donated approximately one million

dollars to OHSU so they could start providing the same protocol of tests

on children in the northwest. NWAF told Dunn that her son would be

a perfect candidate for these tests with his frequent throwing up,

diarrhea, constipation, self-limiting diet, as well as his autism spectrum

characteristics, and that she should request OHSU to do these tests on her

son. Taking NWAF’s advice she asked OHSU if they would do the

gastrointestinal testing on her son at which time they stated that they

would possibly refer Kristopher to the LADDER’S program.

Traditionally, Autism and disorders on the spectrum, such as ADD and ADHD,

have been viewed as psychiatric, rather than biomedical issues. Recently,

however, institutions like Harvard University, Massachusetts General

Hospital, and The University of Washington Medical Center, which are part

of an organization known as the Autism Treatment Network (ATN), have found

many of the children suffering from autistic spectrum disorders, suffer

from inflamed bowels, and immune response disorders, and have been treating

them, often with surprising results. Finding these conditions is often the

first step towards recovery. Many autistic children show dramatic

improvement after being treated for disorders of the stomach and

intestines. Because the cause of the autistic enterocolitis is

controversial - some studies suggest it is related to mercury and measles

from childhood vaccination - the medical profession itself is divided over

how to treat this condition.

In June of last year, ATN sponsored a conference announcing that OHSU would

be joining the ATN team, including Harvard, Massachusetts General.

Believing her son Kris qualified for this investigation, asked for

a procedure called endoscopy, to scope her son’s intestine to determine

whether Kris was suffering from these problems. Dr. Buie, of

Harvard University, has been instrumental in implementing this procedure

and has identified a distinct condition called Autistic Enterocolitis, a

severe inflammation of the bowel, which appears in the intestines of many

autistic children.

On November 17, 2004 when took her son in for a routine check up.

One of OHSU’s social workers attempted to trick/coerce her into signing

over custody of her son to Children’s Protective Services (DHS) claiming

it would be a great way to force the state of Oregon to pay for

counseling”. When refused to do it she informed her that OHSU

filed child abuse charges against her claiming she had Munchausen syndrome

by proxy because was trying to make them do Gastro-Intestinal

testing on her son when there was nothing wrong with him. Munchausen

syndrome by proxy is a controversial disorder, lately in vogue, in which a

mother will actually cause or keep a child sick, in order to receive

attention for herself. It is the worst accusation that can be made, short

of murder, about a mother’s relationship to her child. this social worker

also threatened in front of a witness, that if she tried to fight

“them” on this that it would get really “ugly” and DHS would take her child

away. At that time Ruth from DHS entered the room and informed

that the State of Oregon had taken custody of her son, but they

were allowing Kris to reside in her home, for now.

On November 18, 2004 It was brought out during the temporary custody trial

that NW Autism had offered to cover all expenses to send ’s son back

to Harvard to have the gastrointestinal testing and evaluation performed.

Ruth flatly refused to allow Kristopher Dunn to undergo any

further testing stating it was pure child abuse. then on December 8, 2004,

DHS had Kristopher Dunn tested alone with the therapist for an hour and

forty-five minutes. Why is it abuse for the mother to have her child

tested, but not for DHS to have the child tested?

On December 8, 2004 Dunn was tested and found not to have

Munchausen syndrome by proxy by a psychologist chosen by DHS, but instead

of returning medical custody of Kristopher Dunn to his mother, DHS tried to

get to plead no contest to at least one of their charges because

they wanted to stay involved in her life. when she refused to do that they

dropped the Munchausen syndrome by proxy charges and have now charged her

with failure to obtain proper medical treatment and failure to provide

proper education for her son, as well as failure to admit that she has an

undiagnosed mental problem, and no legal father. DHS claims they will have

to charge her with something because OHSU will not let them drop the

charges against her.

This whole situation is very confusing. How can Dunn be originally

charged with trying to get too much medical attention and too many

educational rights for her child to now being charged with not getting

enough medical or education for him? If she has been following the medical

treatment that OHSU has been recommending and administering on her son for

the past four years and because of their treatment she’s been charged with

child abuse, why hasn’t OHSU been charged with the same?

January 5, 2005 there was a status conference in court on this case.

Dunn’s attorney, Mead, and Sonya Heinsch case manager with

DHS both requested a postponement of the trial date to have a round table

discussion with OHSU and other experts to try to come to a resolution

without going to court. This meeting never occurred.

On January 28, 2005, Mead tried to mediate the case with Sonya

Heinsch. She would not agree with their requests stating DHS had to remain

in control of the case, that had to be under supervised long term

psychiatric care, and that would need to sign that she agreed with

one of their charges against her.

At this point DHS and OHSU have had all their accusations disproved, yet

they still insist on pursuing it by making up new charges. Dunn

takes these charges very personally. What could be more personal than

someone trying to take your child from you? It is hard enough trying to

raise a child with special needs, but it’s even more difficult when you are

being harassed by someone in the system. She feels that this is a form of

pure harassment, and wants to know what someone in her position can do when

facing such a devious, inconsistent and unfounded attacks by someone

empowered to take their child?

No parent should have to fear seeking appropriate medical treatment for his

or her child.

Contact Information:

, M.D. C.E.O.

OHSU/Doernbecher Children’s Hospital

Mail Code 3181 SW Sam Park Rd.

Portland, Oregon 97239-2901

(503) 494-8362

Ask this man to justify his hospital's position that the best thing for

Kristopher is to terminate his mother's custody so he can receive their

treatment when he was receiving their treatment when 's parental

rights were not being threatened.

Joan M. Kruse, LCSW Primary Social Worker at CDRC

Pediatric Social Worker working with child’s treatment team

Doernbecher Children’s Hospital

Mail Code 3181 SW Sam Park Rd.

Portland, Oregon 97239-2901

(503) 494-2273

email: krusej@...

Ask Ms. Kruse to explain why she has been manufacturing a case to prove

's dis-proved mental problems make her an unfit parent; explain how

she can accuse of being negligent of seeking medical attention for

her autistic child when her employer has been providing the child's

healthcare for the past four years.

Ruth /Sonya Heinsch, HB DHS Social Worker Specialist

Dept. of Human Services

Child Welfare program

Washington County, Hillsboro Office

5920 NE Ray Circle, Suite 110

Hillsboro, Oregon 97124

(503) 681-6947 Fax (503) 681-6901

(503) 598-6102

email: Heinsch@...

This woman seems to have clear insight into the issues involved. Encourage

her to follow her heart in this case.

Northwest Autism Foundation

Joe - Dave Humphrey

519 15th Street

Oregon Ciy, OR 97045

(503) 557-2111 Fax (503) 557-2156

email: director@...

Ask these people to explain why they would support autism research programs

funded and administrated by organized medicine when they know that the

vaccines institutions like OHSU recommend and routinely deliver to our

children are at the foundation of the nation's autism epidemic.

The Mead Firm, P.C.

W. Mead

9900 SW Wilshire, Suite 100

Portland, Oregon 97225

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Ingri Cassel, director

Vaccination Liberation

P.O. Box 457

Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869

(208) 255-2307 / (888) 249-1421

vaclib@...

www.vaccinetruth.com

www.vaclib.org

Free Your Mind.....

From the Vaccine Paradigm

" When we give government

the power to make medical decisions

for us, we, in essence, accept that

the state owns our bodies. "

~U.S.Representative Ron , MD

(503) 296-1390

This man is the Dunn's attorney. Thank him for sticking with and

Kristopher and encourage him to continue.

The following physicians are involved in the case. Their contact info

should be retained for future correspondence but could also contacted so

they can understand that many good people can see that OHSU's position in

this matter is out of line:

C. Winters, M.D. Fellow in Child & Adolescent

Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Psychiatry