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

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

No one said, "these children are any less deserving of being helped."

I'm not denying that there was no "reported suspicion" but a doctor who delivered the 4th child called. And no article listed his reasoning for it either. So it is likely he felt that the parents were neo-nazi's and therefore unfit to be parents. Without needing evidence to prove mistreatment.

I would also probably make these parents change their children's names or think them unfit parents. But if I were controlling CPS I would also check out every single case of "reported suspicion" as well.

[taleofaredhead.livejournal.com]

"And no article listed his reasoning for it either. So it is likely he felt that the parents were neo-nazi's and therefore unfit to be parents. Without needing evidence to prove mistreatment. "

That's an enormous leap to make. It's quite likely that for confidentiality reasons, the allegations against the family couldn't be detailed in the news. Of course there's another angle to the story because of the names, and maybe the naming did tip them off, but in my mind that's a good thing. Like another poster commented below, it isn't as though there's a cap on the number of children they can take from their parents.

[imamaryanne.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Many cps reports are confidential, and because of the public nature of this family, cps are probably keeping a tighter lid on it to protect the kids.

Also, the doctor likely treated the mom throughout her pregnancy. It's doubtful he saw her for a half hour of pushing and decided to call cps based on that. I remember during the cake story, I saw the parents and was pretty sure they were meth addicts. In addition to white supremacists.

Sad situation.

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

I said it was 'likely,' and that isn't a huge leap.

A huge leap to make would be that the doctor called for no reason.

I'm not trying to defend them at all. I am Jewish and lost relatives in the holocaust, defending nazis is the last thing I want to do with my time.

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

And no article listed his reasoning for it either.

The fact that their other three children had been taken away and not yet returned is reason enough.

But if I were controlling CPS I would also check out every single case of "reported suspicion" as well.

So complain when the CPS does nothing, not when they do something, because whether it's what you meant or not this post/your comments are coming off a lot like you begrudge these children the help they got. I'm sorry, I just really don't see how jumping on the CPS and questioning whether or not they acted too swiftly in a case you don't know even the vaguest of details about is supposed to encourage them to act more swiftly in the future.

I am not denying that there are problems in the system. Not at all. And "name-ism" isn't one of the worst ones, from what I've seen. (Institutional racism and classism are pretty high up there.) But a lot of the comments here seem to come dangerously close to "these children shouldn't have been taken away" when not taking children away is apparently the very thing you're trying to take the CPS to task for.

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

I don't think in any of my comments I am saying that they judged too swiftly etc.

My question was I wonder if CPS would have done anything if their names were "Bob...Mary..."(?) I wanted your opinions. My comments gave examples of children with normal names where nothing was done.

I wanted people's thoughts on the situation.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

No one said, "these children are any less deserving of being helped."

Really? Because to me, that's exactly what it sounds like, coming from more than one person in this post.

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

Well, I apologize for the impression that everyone got. But some people got exactly what I was saying.

While I do with CPS would investigate most things. I'm not complaining that they did. MY QUESTION in my original post was: I wonder if CPS would have done anything if their names were "Bob...Mary..." that was it.

So stop getting all feisty.

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

*I do wish