Court Blasts State’s Strip Search of Children

http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3655 enters Christian school without cause, tells kids to remove clothing

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By Chelsea Schilling
WorldNetDaily

Two children who attended a private http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3683, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Monday.

In Michael C. v. Gresbach, the court said state worker Dana Gresbach violated the children’s Fourth Amendment rights to freedom from unreasonable search when she entered Good Hope http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4565, Wis., had the children pulled from the classrooms and told them to remove their clothing when she suspected the parents of spanking in February of 2004.

Stephen Crampton, http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1152’s vice president of legal affairs and general counsel, represented the parents of 8-year-old Ian and 9-year-old Alexis when they sued the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare and the caseworker.”We are obviously pleased with the result, but candidly, we wish they had been more harsh on this renegade department that has ruined the lives of so many well-intentioned families already,” he told WND.

Crampton said this type of overstep is common among http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1247, and they often do not give it a second thought.

“The social worker performed these strip searches as a matter of routine, estimating that in perhaps one-half of the 300 or so cases she handled every year she subjected kids to a partial disrobing,” he said. “In fact, she testified that she considered it so routine that she did not bother to discuss her intentions with her supervisor, even though she spoke to her on her way to the school.”

The state had several social workers file affidavits saying they would have followed the same procedure. Crampton said, “That is an alarming admission, and we suspect you would find a similar pattern in social service offices all over America.”

When Gresbach entered the school, she handed her business card to Principal Cheryl Reetz and told her she needed to see Ian and Alexis. Reetz asked the social worker if she could call the children’s parents, but Gresbach refused to allow it, saying she would contact them at a later time. The principal then asked if she could remain in the room to observe the interview, but she was denied permission to do so.

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From a reader: In the United States, the term “Christian schools” means schools organized by http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4149.

The social worker looking for “victims of spanking” appears to be one of those who has been indoctrinated by political correctness. Such people are trained to be more “concerned” about things like traditional white (and, for that matter, black and hispanic) family disciplinary practices than about the endemic malnutrition and other real abuse ignored by a government system that is unwilling and, more importantly, TOTALLY UNABLE to address the consequences of a Third World population.

2008-05-21