Nazi-inspired names lead to children being taken away?

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

Parents of 'Adolf Hitler' Lose Custody of Newborn

By Alyssa Newcomb

Heath and Deborah Campbell, the New Jersey parents of three children with Nazi-inspired names, lost custody of their fourth child 17 hours after he was born, the Express-Times of Lehigh Valley, Pa., reported.

Hons Campbell was taken into custody by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services late Thursday night after the doctor who delivered the baby called the agency, the paper reported.

“There’s no legal binding court order. It’s basically a kidnapping, but they use different terms,” Heath Campbell told the Express-Times.

The Campbell family stepped into the spotlight in December 2008 when a ShopRite grovery store declined to decorate a birthday cake for their son Adolf Hitler Campbell’s third birthday.

The state took custody of Adolf, along with his sisters JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Himler Jeannie Campbell, in January of 2009. The three children have remained in foster care ever since.

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I think it is sick to name your child something holocaust related. But then I wonder if CPS would have caught on to suspicions of abuse if the kids were named Mary, Bob, and Billy...etc. I hear this and just a week ago I read about a mom in Ohio who let her 13 year old disabled daughter starve to death. And CPS was called 2 years before but didn't bother to check on the child. 

Comments

[sugarskullz.livejournal.com]

It's sick to name your child that, sure, but to get your child removed from their household when there are children with 'normal' names who are not taken care of, raped and/or abused on a regular basis in other homes is even more sick to me.

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

I agree with that.

Similar to the mother in Cincinnati who was letting her 13 year old starve to death. It is disgusting. I mean I know that NJ and Ohio have different CPS's but really? If CPS in Ohio couldn't check on a 13 year old with cerebral palsy because they couldn't be assed in 2009 then in 2011 the girl ends up dead - I imagine there are many other children being neglected and abused.

While I don't like when people name their kids disgusting things like that. Or even "Optimus Prime" naming your kid something sick/strange/weird =/= rape, starvation, and physical abuse.

[sugarskullz.livejournal.com]

Well said!

This whole thing is just bizarre to me. I'm not understanding under what basis they had to take the child out of the home. At least in Seattle, Washington you cannot just remove a child unless there is more than suspicions. Yes, CPS will check up on someone if there is a report, but they will not come and remove the child unless something is actually found.

[mommyaubrey.livejournal.com]

It says in the article that they weren't taken away because of their names.

[sugarskullz.livejournal.com]

Alright, but the child was screened more than likely because of their name, which is what the OP is saying.

[vanish.livejournal.com]

Not too long ago, it was discovered that a little girl was dead for, I think, two years before anybody even fucking noticed. Hello?? Now, I'm sure that the system is just overrun with an overwhelming amount of cases, but no child should slip through the cracks. And dead for two years? wth??

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

Why is everyone assuming that the allegations of neglect and abuse are unfounded? Am I the only one in this post who actually wants to give the state of New Jersey the benefit of the doubt over Neo-Nazis?

[sugarskullz.livejournal.com]

I guess so. If they were founded, it would have been stated at some point.

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

If they were founded, it would have been stated at some point.

Not necessarily. I don't think the CPS is under any obligation to release that kind of information to the public.

[ma-ee-uh.livejournal.com]

Nope, that info is confidential.

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

I don't like neo-nazi's either.

My gripe is that articles I've pulled about this say "reported suspicion of abuse." Back home I reported an abuse case to CPS in Ohio - when I saw a child on multiple occasions being bullied/teased/and burned with cigarettes by his parents. CPS never even checked on the family, or saw the boy. Until a family member reported it a few years later. Since I was just a tutor at the school he went to apparently my tip didn't count. I'm generally just irritated that CPS may just be coming down on this family for giving their children ridicule magnet names. If their is no actual abuse happening and just the names then they should ask the parents to change the names.

Or maybe we should just make it so that if you want to name your child that then someone can refuse to put those things on a birth certificate.

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

Remember, because these are minors, and the nature of CPS reports is so sensitive, the actual CPS findings may not be open to the public. So all the press has to go on is what the original calls were about.

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

While it is really really horrible that not all cases are investigated as fully as they should be by the CPS, it's focusing your energy in entirely the wrong direction to complain about the times when the CPS does intervene.

Or maybe we should just make it so that if you want to name your child that then someone can refuse to put those things on a birth certificate.

There are countries where you are required to get a name approved before you can give it to your child. (Related to this post, Germany is one of them, and every single name that this couple has tried to give their kids would have been vetoed all the way to Jupiter.) I don't approve of all of the regulations in Germany, but I wouldn't mind a list of "banned names," including Adolf Hitler, Garbage, names like the ones mentioned in this post (http://baby-names.livejournal.com/5827102.html)*, and others along those lines.

*Spotlight surge! I had to go back more than 200 entries to find that!

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

I'm not complaining about them intervening. My original post was asking for your opinions on the situation. I only posted comments of times when CPS did nothing with cases involving normal names.

In fact, I say many times that I am not saying that they had no reason to take these kids away. I'm glad they did. I would also take kids away from neo-nazis. So in no way am I complaining. At all.

I agree with you on the naming thing though.
I believe in Mexico they also have a law that you can't name your kid words. Like "Azul," and "Llueve"