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Showing posts with label Noble Rick Pendland. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Kansas Gives Teacher Permission To Assault


According to Eyewitness News 12, a Kansas teacher and foster parent named Noble Rick Pendland was charged with sex crimes against three children, but the court accepted pleas to assault on the three charges, instead. His name does not appear in the sex offender registry, or even the violent offender registry. Each sentence is six months, eighteen months in total; and because he was held for over eighteen months in lieu of bond, his sentence was time served. He is no longer allowed to serve as a foster parent or a teacher, though. 

How backwards can Kansas possibly be? Pendland should at least be required to register in the violent offender registry, so that parents have access to his dossier when he teaches Sunday School or decides to become a priest! And telling him not to teach is useless because he does not need a teaching license to work as a para. He will probably move to Marshall County Kansas and find employment immediately at Frankfort! 

Friday, December 13, 2013

Why Is Kansas Trafficking The Children Of Veterans?




Kansas has a new source of marketable children for the adoption mill: the children of veterans and active duty military! No kidding. In it's ongoing search for healthy white children to target and grab, marketing them for the profit of the elite and up-and-coming Kansas version of "yuppies", Kansas is now grabbing the children of those who are either deployed military, or injured and retired military. Children born to drug addicts and children who have been abused are not as marketable in the adoption auction as healthy children, so Kansas is now grabbing healthy children who have not been abused for this money-maker. A recent investigation involving an adoption scam in southern Kansas features a judge who made this comment concerning a faux investigation he initiated when too many people realized that Child Protective Services in that part of Kansas had catered shamelessly to a Christian organization, Faith Builders, in relation to foster care placements and adoptions. Recommendations had been made by a supervisor, and these recommendations had led to adoptions, which had taken place without the appropriate due process that keeps adoption from becoming human trafficking: “I’ve asked DCF to review decisions made by Ms. Bidwell to see if that is still the direction the DCF wants to take, to try to avoid unnecessary litigation,” said Henderson, the presiding judge of the county’s four-member juvenile court. “It’s always important to get our children to adoption as quickly as possible.”........Wichita Eagle

It's always important to get children to adoption as quickly as possible? That's interesting, because children with behavioral problems are not adopted as quickly as possible. Neither are children with developmental delays or disabilities. The children who are auctioned off as quickly as possible are healthy children, and healthy children generally come from healthy parents and healthy homes. Actual complaints about the treatment of children who are wards of the court are usually ignored. Noble Rick Pendland, a foster parent who molested children in his care, is a prime example. His victims were ignored when they complained, the natural parents of his victims were also ignored. Now, a few of Pendland's victims have reached the age of majority, and have filed their own cases against him. Judge Henderson's statement about "getting children to adoption as quickly as possible" probably refers much more to money that is waiting to be made, rather than protecting children.

It's time for Daniel Gilyeat to get his children back, and it's time for Kansas to find some way, other than human trafficking, to fund it's up and coming christian yuppie-morons. A recent fatal shooting near Wichita is yet another example of an adoption of two young boys that was not well orchestrated and ended up horribly out of control. They started as foster children who were pushed into adoption rather than reintegrated with their natural mother. The older of the two boys found his real mother shortly after his eighteenth birthday. One thing lead to another, a fatal shooting occurred, and now the young man is charged with the first degree murder of his adoptive female parent, Melissa Bluml. The adoptive male parent is still in the hospital, at this writing, because of injuries sustained in the above mentioned incident. At the very least, counseling should have been available to all parties in this case, at the time of the adoption. No one should have been stripped of constitutional rights, and no one should have been deprived of natural family.

If a child is truly alone in this world, adoption should be a consideration, but why isn't Kansas even trying to keep families together? Is human trafficking just too lucrative? While Kansas may be able to do enough damage control on the situation involving Faith Builders to cover it up, and may be able to buy the silence of the witnesses against Noble Rick Pendland; expressions of rage, such as the violent murder of Melissa Bluml are harder for the rest of the world to ignore. Is Kansas smart enough to learn from it?
 

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Should Foster Parents Handcuff Foster Children?




Perhaps a better question would be: should foster parents handcuff foster children to front porches with dead chickens around their necks? Or should a foster parent who is employed as a registered nurse in a local emergency room handcuff his foster child to a porch with a dead chicken around his neck? Maybe we should all want to know this; should a foster parent who, not only is employed as a social worker, but the supervisor of the social worker fiefdom in her county, as in the "Grand Poobah" of socialworkerdom and Child Protective Services in Union County, South Carolina, handcuff her foster child to a porch with a dead chicken around his neck?

Here's another question, and this one's been asked in Kansas before. There's a foster parent named Noble Rick Pendland who is out on bond in Kansas, awaiting trial for molesting quite a few of the children of whom he had custody over the years. The childrens' natural parents begged Kansas courts to allow the children to come home, or live elsewhere, but Kansas only told the parents who did not want their children raped that they were bad parents for not wanting their children to cohabit with Pendland, and that if they did anything to stop Pendland from sexually exploiting their children, they would be arrested, go to jail, and that their parental rights would be terminated. So should a natural parent be allowed to tell the court not to grant a foster parent permission to have intercourse with a foster child, and should a natural parent be allowed to tell the court that his child should not have to wear handcuffs and dead animals while in foster care?

Your call, folks. Start getting involved with your community and government at your earliest convenience.

 

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Third Reason Why Kansas Schools Should Consolidate

To further discuss reasons why Kansas public schools should consolidate, instead of operating in "unified" districts, a misnomer because school districts in Kansas are not unified at all, a third reason is unequal and selective hiring practices and selective application of the law in relation to teachers and other employees of the "unified" school districts. The Renwick school board, near Wichita, has terminated the contract of Troy McChristian, principal of Garden Plain High School, pictured to the left; because he was arrested in the recent past for DWI. Officials cited that McChristian was "not setting a good example" for students, and was not reporting criminal activity, both prosecuted and unprosecuted, to the board in order to ensure proper decision making! Okay; driving while intoxicated does not set a good example....no argument there, but what about Noble Rick Pendland? He taught in a different public school in Southern Kansas, and was a foster parent, to boot, yet it took years to get rid of him, and his school isn't even responsible for the decision: Pendland was arrested and jailed for sex crimes against children, and was not granted work release pending bond or trial so that he could continue to go to work at the school where he met some of his victims. Terminating Pendland's contract was simply necessitated by circumstances, and would not have happened if law enforcement had not removed his presence from his forced audience, the students. This is a glaring example of unequal, and possibly selective, application of Kansas law, used to make or break a school employee's contract with a "unified" school district's school board.

 
If public schools in Kansas were consolidated, it would be much easier to insist that the same laws be followed by all Kansas teachers in public schools. Parents would have a basic notion of what to expect from their childrens' teacher; Rick Pendland and his ilk, favored by conservative Christians, would have to curry favor with a school board governing the public schools in all of Kansas, rather than just brown nosing the republicans on the school board in one locale. There would not be teachers who get away with drunk driving or showing up to teach classes while drunk (yes, Frankfort, you covered for a teacher with addiction problems) in one part of Kansas, while the same is not tolerated in other parts of Kansas. Children would have more stability, as well, through knowing what to expect. As things are run at this point, each unified district is allowed to play picksies/choosies with which laws it will respect and which laws it will ignore, at the ultimate expense of the children.
 
Another problem with laws, and the applications thereof, that could be cleared up with consolidation of public schools in Kansas is not only the favoritism employed by unified school districts, but the favoritism employed by local judicial systems and county prosecutors. When a teacher commits a serious crime, especially a person felony against a student, and a parent steps forward with a complaint, terminating his contract should be the next logical and acceptable step. According to the Kansas Department of Education, prosecution for a crime is not what determines breach of contract. Breach of contract is setting the bad example in the first place. It should not matter if the policeman responding had the teacher for eighth grade social studies, or if the teacher's parents also taught at the same school and donate money to the school, or if the county attorney has personal problems with the child's parents and denies justice out of personal prejudice. Once the state school board hears about a teacher who criminally endangers a child, such as Tom Schroeder, pictured on the right, who abandoned a fourteen year old girl along a highway in Marshall County Kansas, that teacher's walking papers should be forthcoming. There should be no exceptions made because of political or personal favoritism, and if all of the public schools in the state of Kansas answered to one school board, instead of un-unified  unified districts, equality, justice, and common sense would have a stronger chance of prevalence in such decisions.
 
Has anyone noticed a difference in skin complexion between the two teachers cited in this post who did not get sanctioned by their "unified districts", and the teacher who did? In other places, this might be chalked up merely to coincidence; but in Kansas, it deserves consideration.
 

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Noble Rick Pendland Sneaks Out On Bond

How did I miss this? After almost two years in jail for molesting foster children placed in his care by the state of Kansas, Noble Rick Pendland is out on bond. There is still no reported trial date set for him. I wonder why this isn't a big story, here in Kansas......? After all, Pendland WAS a foster parent, abusing children day and night with the blessings of local schools, child protective services, and the third party contractors who managed the cases! Citizens of Kansas should be outraged about this! Pendland should not have been able to leave the jail without an angry mob following him.....but no one seems too alarmed about people who abuse their positions to take advantage of others. So as of May 30, Pendland has been out on bond. It's really hard to get Kansas to pay attention when a teacher abuses children.

 

Monday, June 17, 2013

Resume Of A Teacher/Preacher/Lecher

 

Below is the resume of Hugh Cranford, Lutheran vicar and youth pastor of Topeka, Kansas, who got into some trouble last year for sexual assault of two boys in the congregation. He and his attorney are planning to be in court this week to file motions in his case. Something that is worth notice about his resume, which Hugh had publicly posted on the internet,(a lot of silly details, such as "counting change", and "ability to use multiline phones", has been deleted) is that he, like many other individuals who get charged with sexual assault of minors, took jobs at schools and daycares whenever he could, and ingratiated himself to parents at almost all times when he was not working. Noble Rick Pendland, also of Kansas, did the same thing, and got away with it for almost a decade. So did Eric Toth, who used to be on the FBI's most wanted list, until the found him in South America. Beware of teachers, preachers, or other adults who seem incredibly eager to volunteer around children and of those who ingratiate themselves to school faculties and leaders of youth groups.
 
 
Hugh Cranford's Overview
Current
  • Intermittent Summer Help at Shawnee County Public Works
Past
  • Sales Associate at Cracker Barrel
  • Vicar at Faith Lutheran Church
  • IT Help Desk at Concordia Seminary St Louis
  • Assistant Manager at Lane 4 Swim & Run
  • Teacher at Humble ISD
  • Bus Driver at Durham School Services                            
  • After-School Childcare Worker at YMCA of Greater Houston
  • Delivery Driver at Pizza Hut                            
   
Education
  • Texas Tech University
  • Concordia Seminary           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Hugh
Cranford's Experience                

Shawnee County Public Works                                 

June 2013 – Present (1 month) Topeka, KS
- Worked with road and bridge crews transporting materials, cleaning equipment and using hand tools in general maintenance work.
- Operated tractors and mowers.
- Acted as flag-person
- Performed other duties as assigned.

Sales Associate

Cracker Barrel                                                               

November 2012 – April 2013 (6 months) Topeka, Kansas Area                                     

Stocking items to sale
Assisting cashiers
Packaging sales

Vicar            

Faith Lutheran Church                                 

July 2011 – July 2012 (1 year 1 month) Topeka, Kansas Area                                     

Planning major evangelism projects.
Planning, teaching and maintaining Bible studies.
Assisting and teaching confirmation classes.
Managing mileage, hours, and time schedule.
Preaching and leading worship.
Assisting with funerals and weddings.
Assisting choir and musical worship teams.
Visiting shut-ins and people in the hospital.
Assisting with local Lutheran Schools; teaching and leading chapel.

IT Help Desk            

Concordia Seminary St Louis                                                      

Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Religious Institutions industry
August 2008 – May 2011 (2 years 10 months) Greater St. Louis Area
Answered phone calls from students and faculty at the school.
Trouble shooting technical questions both with PC and Mac.
Worked in tangent with other IT workers.
Basic hardware networking.
Worked with both hardware and software side of computers.
Contacted computer companies when needed.
Was the liaison to the Student Government Association for one year.

Assistant Manager            

Lane 4 Swim & Run                                 

March 2008 – July 2008 (5 months) Kingwood, TX       

Sales Person.
Maintained Supplies .
Ordered special items for customers.
Set-up Work Schedule.
Supervised sales representatives.
Maintain money account; deposits, checking cash register daily.

Teacher            

Humble ISD                                                        

June 2004 – June 2008 (4 years 1 month) Kingwood, TS       

Teaching Middle School (6th-8th) Mathematics, Computers, Study Skills.
The Faculty Advisor for the Student Council. The School was the Vice President and President School for the Texas Association of Student Councils District 7/13.

Bus Driver            

Durham School Services

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry
August 2003 – December 2003 (5 months) Lubbock, Texas Area
School Bus Route Driver
Teaching In Class training to New Drivers

After-School Childcare Worker            

YMCA of Greater Houston                                                        

September 1999 – July 2001 (1 year 11 months) Kingwood, TX

Delivery Driver            

Pizza Hut                                                        

October 1998 – October 1999 (1 year 1 month) Kingwood, TX

Hugh Cranford's Volunteer Experience & Causes      

Volunteer Experience

  • Volunteer/Coach

    Christ Community Lutheran School                        
  • Education - 6th Grade Boys Basketball Coach
  • - Leading Chapel Services
  • Actor

    Concordia Seminary St Louis                       

Coach/Board Member

HAK LAX                         Children

    Coaching Middle School Lacrosse
- Maintaining the Website for the organization
- Liaison to near-by Schools       
 

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Jury Selection Begins Today For Noble Rick Pendland

Noble Rick Pendland, Kansas-chosen and Kansas-approved teacher and foster parent, should have a trial date soon for his teaching methods, which involved sex crimes against children. For a few years, no one listened to parents or children when reports were made, and Pendland's smug fellow Kansans covered for him. Apparently, not anymore. Someone lost the "magic touch" of intimidating witnesses. Thank the Gods! Jury selection will begin on Tuesday for this upstanding example of a Kansas teacher.


Friday, June 8, 2012

Noble Rick Pendland Bound Over For Trial

Here is an update to Noble Rick Pendland's adventures with the judicial system: today, he was bound bound over for trial in a case involving five victims and five counts of aggravated sodomy and three counts of indecent liberties with a child. Another victim came forward, and that will be a separate case. It will not be a big surprise if even more victims come forward, since a lot of parents, students, and foster children complained about him, while Kansas essentially told them to shut up and bend over for Mr. Pendland. The arraignment will be at 3:30 PM on June 21 in Cowley County Court, Kansas. What a way to celebrate Summer Solstice!

If you can stand one more update, here is a short clip of what happened in court today:


This is what the superintendent of USD 470 (Kansas Public Schools) did not want anyone to know. This is also what social services in Kansas, or social rehabilitative services, does not want the rest of the nation to know about foster care placements for children in Kansas. In fact, a foster child who later became an adoptive child in Kansas, Adam Herrman, has been missing since 1999, and no real efforts have been made to find him. His biological father was never contacted before SRS decided to allow the people who "lost" him to adopt him, either. It is time for the Kansas foster care industry to go into receivership.

Noble Rick Pendland In Court Today

Noble Rick Pendland, Kansas teacher, counselor, and foster parent, is finally in court today for his preliminary hearing. Hopefully, he will not get out on bond, and force Kansas to look for his unsightly posterior parts again. That might be harder than Pendland initally thought, anyway, since yet another victim has filed in court against Mr. Pendland; this time concerning Pendland's parenting skills. This new victim was a foster child of Noble Rock Pendland.

Where does Kansas find these people? Why does Kansas think children are better off in the homes of unqualified babysitters than with their own parents? Now that some of the foster children who survive are aging out of care, what will Kansas do about the lawsuits they will most likely win because of the abuse they incurred while children in foster care? If the cases against Noble Rick Pendland are any indication of a trend, it looks like time will tell. Maybe the division of Social Rehabilitative Services in Kansas that manages foster care placements for children should be in receivership.


Suppose you were a foster child in Kansas. How would you feel about this monster having a state granted right to sexual relations with you, any time he pleased?

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Noble Rick Pendland's Court Hearing Postponed

His Supreme Ugliness, Noble Rick Pendland, was scheduled to a hearing in Kansas yesterday, but one of the witnesses was sick, so it got continued. He is back in jail now, waiting to go to court on June 8 of this year in Cowley County, Kansas. For those who missed all of the excitement, Rick Pendland is a foster parent and a group home counselor for children, and because Kansas authorities did not listen to complaints from parents and children, he got away with abuse of his clients for years. The parents were brushed off, especially parents whose children were in foster care, because the social workers always "know best".  According to the Arkansas City Traveler, the charges read thus: "Pendland, who has a background in social services, foster care and education, has been charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and five counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child." But in Pendland's case, a "background" in social services, foster care, and education really just means that he has had illicit experience with children at the office, in his home, and at school. What a guy! Could Kansas possibly have found a better employee?


Sunday, October 2, 2011

Update On Noble Rick Pendland

Noble Rick Pendland was arrested this past Wednesday and moved to Cowley County, Kansas, on Thursday. Someone who knew who and where he was decided to tip off the police, and the police responded. Now, his lifestyle may have something in common with the lifestyles he is said to have imposed upon the children in his care. There are three cases pending against him so far, and possibly three more. It will not surprise me at all to see this get even bigger. How did it happen under everyone's noses?