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

[pixietangerine.livejournal.com]

The article doesn't say why the doctor called Family Services about the newborn, so you can't really assume it has anything to do with the name. I used to know a couple who named their daughter Aryan (I think they might have spelled it Aryanne, but it was pronounced like Aryan and the father was an outspoken Neo-Nazi) and no one called CPS on them because of it. A lot of times extremism like white supremacy is a sign of severe mental instability caused by heavy drug abuse. Perhaps the mother was drug tested or the baby showed signs of withdrawal and tested positive for an illegal drug, it's not uncommon for a hospital to contact CPS in situations like that. The names are irrelevant except that they are the interesting part for the media, otherwise it'd just be "parents lose custody of some kids" and that happens all the time. I think it's kind of awful that the kids' names were released publicly, they had enough to deal with before the nation-wide humiliation.

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

I agree with you, but let the records show that the kids' names weren't released publicly when the CPS stepped in. Little Adolf Hitler has been in the spotlight ever since his parents sued Wal*Mart for refusing to put his full name on a birthday cake. It was definitely the Campbells' choice to have their children's names known to the entire nation.

[ghostpassenger.livejournal.com]

My post title was for attention grabbing purposes.

I was just asking a baby-naming community if they felt that the names were part of the reason the family was quickly screened and what would happen if they had different names.

I agree that it is sad that they released the names. Hopefully these kids will have a different mindset then their parents and get a chance to change the names and start over.