Who’s To Blame For Godly Justin Harris Dumping His ‘Demonic’ Kids? People Like You

[niyad]

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Who’s To Blame For Godly Justin Harris Dumping His ‘Demonic’ Kids? People Like You

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The power of Derp compels him

Everybody is being pretty mean to Justin Harris, the Arkansas state representative who just wanted to help some children have a good home and family, and show them some love and tenderness and stability before he decided that since even an exorcism couldn’t make them behave, they were way too much trouble, and so he “rehomed” them with a man who rapes children. They are saying really, REALLY mean things. They are saying things like “put him in jail” and “put him in jail forever” and “what a bad father” and “he should really resign” and also things that would get them banned from the comments section several times over for “violent ideation,” so we will pretend they did not say them.

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As usual in the saga of Justin Harris, we shall be pointing you to the work of the goodly folk at the Arkansas Times — or, in the Secretary of State’s words, a “vile socialist anti-Christian propaganda blog.” (Nope, not Wonkette.)



“Unless you have adopted a child and experienced what adoptive parents go through, I think there is very little you have a right to say. This judgement against the Harris’ [sic] is the most hypocritically self-righteous bull I have ever heard,” he responded.

“People like you are what makes people refuse to risk fostering or adopting. I believe it is people like you who are the problem. Not people who try and fail like the Harris’ [sic].”

Now, a few things about this: The Harrises most likely did not spend a lot of their “money” opening the home to the girls they adopted and whom they then GAVE AWAY LIKE SHELTER ANIMALS. When you adopt little girls, the state gives you money! (The Harrises claim to have passed forward all the adoption-support stipend to the families they “rehomed” the girls with — remember, after they were “rehomed” them to the man who raped one, the girls were “rehomed” to a third family, with whom they are reportedly doing well today. But the Harrises have yet to actually show the canceled checks.) That is, they probably did not spend a lot of their “money” unless they went with really high-end camera equipment for the purpose of surveilling their six-year-old daughter in her cell-like, toyless room.

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Read more at http://wonkette.com/579548/whos-to-blame-for-godly-justin-harris-dumping-his-demonic-kids-people-like-you#erRwWM2BwAXfCMSV.99

[Rebubula]

1. I do try not to hate anyone

But, my goodness, people like this guy (and his defenders\apologists) make it very difficult to maintain that line.

I hope that the girls are able to get past this and 'exercise' these demons that this asshole left them with.

[niyad]

2. exorcising the harris-caused demons is certainly going to be very difficult.

[phil89]

3. Isn't there a screening process

Of some kind? Anyone believing in exorcism and demons should not be a foster parent. Are we seriously not beyond this in 2015?

[niyad]

4. and please do not forget that this person is the CHAIR of the committee in ark. that

oversees dhs and child protective services.

[LiberalAndProud]

5. We are not beyond this.

We want to believe in faeries and goblins and vampires so we do.

[hifiguy]

9. Anyone who believes in "demons" is unfit to care for a

pet, much less a child.

The world will never progress until we leave Iron Age fairytales where they belong - in the dustbin of history.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. When a politician in charge of the budget pressures the department, screening processes disappear

The Harts also said the adoption was allowed to proceed despite their objections because of the direct intervention of Cecile Blucker, head of the Division of Children and Family Services, the arm of DHS responsible for child welfare. They say Blucker exerted pressure on the Washington County DHS office on behalf of Justin Harris to facilitate the adoption. The former DHS employee confirmed this information as well.
...
However, a source familiar with the workings of state-level DHS informed the Times that Blucker supposedly remarked in 2012 that "Harris threatened to hold up the budget for the division if he didn't get to adopt those girls."
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"At the hearing, the ad litem attorney — you know, the one who is representing only the interests of the children — said, 'When we met less than a couple of days ago, everyone's recommendation was for these kids to not go to this home. Now, what has happened in the last 24 hours that everyone's recommendation has changed?'

"Harris' face was getting all red," Cheryl Hart added. "And the ad litem asked him, 'Did you make calls?' And he finally said, 'I did what I had to do to get these girls.' I expected the judge would (stop the adoption) but she gave them the oldest girl." The younger two sisters soon followed.

http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/casting-out-demons-why-justin-harris-got-rid-of-kids-he-applied-pressure-to-adopt/Content?oid=3725371

It's a long article, but it gives a lot of necessary detail. Basically, the Harrises liked the idea of adopting (they had 3 children of their own), and thought they knew it all, even with traumatised children, because they owned the pre-school. The state department employees, and the foster parents, tried to tell them they weren't ready for it, and stop the adoption, but Harris, in charge of their budget, pressured the management and judge into overruling the employees and giving them the children. It then turned out their brand of 'tough love' (where 'rewards' for good behaviour meant feeding them) and exorcisms screwed the girls up, so they refused to go back to the department who had objected to the adoption, but instead handed the pair over to their employee, who then raped one of them.

[tosh]

6. "This judgement against the Harris’...

is the most hypocritically self-righteous bull I have ever heard.”



edited for punctuation

[bigbrother05]

7. Didn't know an adoptive parent was allowed to "rehome" a child unilaterally,

Doesn't the state have to be involved if they were the placing agency?

added:
Even pet adoption services strive to uncover sham owners to avoid animal abuse.

[niyad]

8. there is a reuter's article about the "rehoming" horror within christian adoptions.