Articles Archives - AbleChild

Connecticut Smashes Spending Cap as $5.8 Million Fuels Drugging of Babies Under Medicaid

Written by Sheila Matthews on May 20, 2025. Posted in Articles.

BREAKING:

Connecticut has shattered its own constitution by breaching the spending cap for the first time in nearly two decades—an unprecedented move that raises alarms about government accountability. The Democratic majority forced through the cap override, while Republican Chairman Ben Proto’s failure to field candidates for many open seats has left the state facing a crisis of taxation without representation.

Beneath this fiscal crisis lies a disturbing reality, Connecticut’s Medicaid program spends $5.8 million a year on psychiatric drugs for children—including hundreds of babies and toddlers. Nearly 400 kids under age four, and even some infants, are prescribed powerful medications like Prozac, often with little oversight. Even the industry, fraught with human rights abuses and coercive practices, cannot justify these actions. As Dr. Andres Martin, a child psychiatrist at Yale, put it: “I can’t make any sense of why a 1-year-old would be on Prozac.” Foster children are especially at risk, being four times more likely to be medicated.

FBI Under Fire: Explosive Questions Surround Trump Assassination Attempt Investigation

Written by Sheila Matthews on May 18, 2025. Posted in Articles.

BREAKING

Fox New Host Maria Bartiromo had the opportunity during her Sunday show to inquire of the new FBI Director Kash Patel and his Deputy Dan Bongino whether there was some update of the FBI’s investigation into the shooting at Butler, PA. To say their response was less than enthusiastic is putting it lightly.

Patel advised that the investigation into the Butler assassination attempt on President Trump is ongoing and that he and Bongino have reviewed evidence and have been briefed by officials on the attack. Whoop-de-do! How bout you share that information with the American people?

When exactly does the Director of the FBI figure the American people will get to review the evidence in the case? When will the American people get to review the physical evidence, like the autopsy of the alleged shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, the DNA and fingerprint data and the complete ballistics reports on Crooks alleged weapon and the weapons of the Secret Service and Pennsylvania State police?

That Bongino went off on some weird tangent about how some Americans believe that there is some kind of international connection is completely irrelevant. It doesn’t matter what people think. Just complete the investigation and provide the evidence to support the FBI’s findings.

Mass Shooter Parents at the Mercy of Selective Prosecution

Written by Sheila Matthews on May 18, 2025. Posted in Articles.

May 18 2025

Another parent of a school shooter was hauled into court and charged with murderous violence caused by his 15-year-old daughter, Natalie Rupnow. The question that nobody seems to want to ask is why school shooter cases are becoming selective prosecution, especially in light of law enforcement’s refusal to consider the shooter’s “treatment” and psychiatric medications.

Jeffrey Rupnow is charged with giving a dangerous weapon to a person under 18 causing death. Rupnow’s daughter, Natalie, killed a student and teacher at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin in December of 2024 before taking her own life.

Natalie was the child of divorce, was not handling the separation well, began cutting herself and threatening to kill herself. Natalie was subsequently enrolled in therapy in July of 2022. In an effort do an activity together just months prior to the shooting, Jeffrey Rupnow and his daughter joined a gun club with Natalie posting she “loved every second of it.” Apparently because of Natalie’s positive interest in shooting, Jeffrey provided his daughter with the combination to his gun safe where Natalie’s firearms were kept.

While law enforcement in Madison seemed filled with delight at bringing these charges against Rupnow, one can only wonder if anyone is curious about what role Natalie’s “therapy” may have played. For instance, who was Natalie’s therapist and why hasn’t the public heard about Natalie’s “treatment” plan? Had Natalie been prescribed prescription psychiatric drugs? And, if so, what were they? Had Natalie been on a cocktail of drugs and for how long? Did the teenager experience any adverse effects from the drugs?

DailyMail Must Apologize and Provide Correction for Dangerous ADHD Misinformation Article

Written by Sheila Matthews on May 12, 2025. Posted in Articles.

May 13, 2025

On May 5th an article that ran on the Daily.mail.co.uk website for nearly a week and was so filled with misinformation about the alleged psychiatric disorder ADHD that AbleChild is calling out the writer and asking the publishers to print an apology and a correction.

The article written by Cassidy Morrison (Senior Health Reporter) titled “I learned the horrifying risks of ‘miracle’ ADHD drugs and stopped taking them…but it was too late,” provides information about the alleged ADHD disorder and its alleged treatment. The problem, though, is that Morrison is just wrong on both counts. Too often the press gets away with writing information about mental health diagnosing and drugs that simply is not based in science. Enough is enough. The misinformation must stop.

Morrison’s article focuses on a woman who reportedly did not have the alleged ADHD disorder but took ADHD drugs like Ritalin, Adderall, and Vyvanse and later regretted taking the drugs as the subject of the article believed the drugs caused her heart damage. Fine. But the problem isn’t with the subject of the article. The problem is with author Morrison’s explanations of ADHD and its alleged drug “treatments.”

Homeschoolers Hammer Connecticut with FOIA Requests, Expose Pattern of State Corruption from Sandy Hook to Waterbury

Written by Sheila Matthews on May 11, 2025. Posted in Articles.

May 11, 2025

Connecticut’s homeschool community is once again making national headlines as leading groups, represented by attorney Deborah Stevenson, have filed a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with state agencies demanding specific information about the tragic case in Waterbury of the young man held captive for years. This action is in response to a long-standing pattern: whenever a high-profile tragedy exposes failures by state agencies responsible for child welfare, blame is assigned anywhere but where it belongs – and homeschoolers take the brunt of the blame game and are forced to seek transparency through FOIA requests-only to repeatedly be met with resistance and stonewalling.

In the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook tragedy, Connecticut homeschoolers, alongside the national advocacy group AbleChild, filed FOIA requests for shooter Adam Lanza’s school and Department of Children and Families (DCF) records. Despite Connecticut statutes allowing for the release of such records in the public interest, every agency refused to provide even a single document at the time of the incident and continues to withhold those documents today.

Texas Officials Stonewall the Truth on Uvalde Mass Shooting, A National Security Crisis

Written by Sheila Matthews on May 9, 2025. Posted in Articles.

May 9, 2025

In a Texas courtroom, a judge cut through the government’s evasions with a searing analogy: “It’s like a bad dating relationship. You ask for an answer, and instead of saying ‘no,’ they say, ‘Technically, I didn’t reject you.’”

That line perfectly captures the state’s relentless campaign to keep the most crucial records about the Uvalde school shooting-specifically, the shooter’s school and behavioral health files-hidden from the public.

For more than two years, families, journalists, and the Uvalde community have demanded answers. What warning signs did Salvador Ramos show? Was he ever flagged for mental health intervention or prescribed psychotropic drugs?

Did the system fail him-and, by extension, his 21 victims? Texas agencies, including the Uvalde school district, sheriff’s office, and Department of Public Safety, have done everything possible to keep those answers buried. Even after Judge Sid Harle ordered the release of these records in July 2024, officials still failed to comply. Instead, state officials filed appeals, spinning the process into a bureaucratic purgatory where “technically, we didn’t reject you” still is the only response.

It’s Time for Experimental Mental Health “Treatments” to be Considered Deadly Weapons

Written by Sheila Matthews on May 4, 2025. Posted in Articles.

May 4, 2025

Last week the world was marked safe from Robert Crimo’s murderous proclivities with a sentence having been handed down, providing seven consecutive life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for each of the people Crimo killed during his 2022 July 4th parade assault in Highland Park, Illinois. And, to cover all bases, the judge added another 50 years to Crimo’s sentence for each of the victims wounded during the attack.

According to sentencing Judge Victoria Rossetti, Crimo had “complete disregard for human life…was irretrievably depraved, permanently incorrigible, irreparably corrupt and beyond any rehabilitation.” So that’s a wrap. Another bad guy off the streets. But is it that simple? Did the public learn anything from this mass shooting?

Tennessee Sets National Precedent with Passage of AbleChild Bill Requiring Psychotropic Drug Testing in Mass Shooter Cases

Written by Sheila Matthews on April 30, 2025. Posted in Articles.

Landmark Law in TN for Psychotropic Drug Testing for Mass Shooters

April 30, 2025

Nashville, TN – April 30, 2025 – In a decisive move to advance public safety and accountability, Tennessee has enacted HB 1349/SB 1146, a landmark law mandating toxicology testing for psychotropic drugs in deceased mass shooters. This legislation, championed by AbleChild -a national nonprofit advocating for informed consent in mental health and co-drafted with Amy Miller, former director of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Reform Pharma initiative, positions Tennessee at the forefront of a national reckoning at the intersection of mental health, pharmaceutical practices and mass violence.

Key Highlights:

Law Enforcement Fails to Consider Psychiatric Drugging Behind FSU Shooting

Written by Sheila Matthews on April 28, 2025. Posted in Articles.

April 29, 2028

Another school shooting another bogus psychiatric diagnosis. Luckily, it didn’t take years to find out that the Florida State University (FSU) shooter had been diagnosed with a mental disorder and “medicated.” But now that that information is out there, one cannot help but wonder when the shooter’s descent into deadly violence began. Given the history of these school shooters, it isn’t going out on a limb to suggest that he’d been diagnosed and drugged for some time.

Twenty-year old Phoenix Ikner, the stepson of a Deputy, killed two and wounded six others at the FSU Tallahassee campus. News accounts of the shooter explain that he had been suffering from “emotional dysregulation” and had “come off his prescription medication.” What medication? Once again, the reporters covering these shootings fail to ask the follow up question…what medication was the shooter prescribed that he was not taking?

How hard can this be? There are numerous examples of mass shooters who were “treated” for some alleged mental disorder and the psychiatric drugging information is, at some point, made available by family or legal representation. Why not ask the question? How can someone reporting that the shooter stopped taking the prescribed medication and not be curious about the reported “treatment?” It is completely unfathomable or simply incompetent.

US Government Funding Mass Shootings—China Cashes In

Written by Sheila Matthews on April 24, 2025. Posted in Articles.

April 24 2025

In a revelation that should shock every American, Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) —a global consulting giant with deep operational roots in China—has emerged as a central force in the rollout of the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA). Alvarez & Marsal’s direct presence in China is no secret. With offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen, and a client roster dominated by Chinese corporations and state-linked enterprises, A&M’s business interests are deeply intertwined with the world’s largest authoritarian regime. Its own reports reveal that more than half of its North Asia portfolio now comes from Chinese firms, and its rapid expansion in the region includes major investments in digital operations, supply chain management, and cross-border trade.

This sweeping, multi-billion-dollar mental health bill, passed with little public debate and buried in hundreds of pages of legislative text, has quietly transformed the nation’s mental health landscape and gun ownership policies—without the informed consent of U.S. citizens. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act was passed in June 2022 in response to a series of high-profile mass shootings, such as those in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, but it is important to note that the legislation was not directly shaped by public testimony; instead, it was negotiated rapidly among lawmakers without formal opportunities for the public to provide input or testify before Congress, highlighting that the process was driven by political negotiation rather than broad public participation or support.