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