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