Child 'Protective Services': Single man allowed to adopt 9 boys despite felony sex abuse charge; rapes, tortures them

Eliyahu Tulshinski

March 4, 2023

A woman raising two sons alone, after their father committed suicide, was told by Child Protective Services (CPS) that the government must take custody of her boys due to the mother's alleged drug and alcohol use and “neglect”.

Their new home was with an unmarried man housing nine adopted boys together with as many as three foreign exchange students. Years after that man was charged with the sexual assault of one of the exchange students, the children continued to live in his home, where he whipped them with a belt, assaulted them with pepper spray and threatened to kill them as he repeatedly raped most, if not all, twelve boys.

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CPS has not shared what led to the neglect claims against the mother, though the use of drugs and alcohol (even marijuana and wine), or being at work when children return from school, could be considered neglect. As is generally the case, a judge accepted the CPS recommendation, determining that it was in the boys' “best interests” to be placed with a non-biological parent.

Biological mother scrutinized; single man adopting for profit not

CPS went ahead with the placement putting the two boys, who were not raised Jewish, with an unmarried man who was also not Jewish. This non-Jewish man, born in Odessa, Texas, changed his name from Jeffrey Vejil to Hayim Cohen, without going through any conversion process, moved to Houston, falsely claimed that the two boys and seven other boys he adopted were from Jewish families, and described himself as a Yiddish speaking Hasidic rabbi.

In actuality, Vejil/Cohen was immediately revealed as a fraud by the local Orthodox Jewish community, its leaders noting that, contrary to his claims, he could not speak a word of Yiddish, had no rabbinical ordination and was not affiliated with any congregation.

Most importantly, Vejil/Cohen had an open 2019 felony indecency charge for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy living in his house as a foreign exchange student, together with two other exchange students and the nine adopted boys, as detailed in the April 2021 civil lawsuit by the abused exchange student.

A call to local orthodox rabbis would have revealed Vejil/Cohen's fraud. A check with the local Houston police department, criminal and civil courts, without any need to check with authorities in far away jurisdictions, would have revealed the open felony charge and civil lawsuit. In fact, a simple internet search would have brought CPS investigators to the April 2021 report of the felony indecency charge as well as the civil lawsuit which was itself posted that same month.

CPS staff members thus had time to look into the drinking habits of the biological mother of the boys but not the publicly posted pedophile charges against the unmarried man given the children, a man who received money for each of the adopted children and exchange students he hosted.

Cash for adopting “parents”

Accoding to the Children’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, adoption and guardianship assistance programs provide monetary benefits to adopting adults.

Benefits vary by State but commonly include monthly cash payments, medical assistance, and nonrecurring adoption expenses, among others . . .

[In] Texas . . . if the family and child require assistance in the future, the family and DFPS will negotiate specific agreements for benefits including Medicaid or monthly financial assistance . . .

Adoption assistance payments and benefits may begin in Texas the first month after the month of adoption placement. Medicaid and monthly benefits may begin prior to the finalization of the adoption. [Emphases added].

Budget for CPS salaries

Tax dollars are not only turned over to adopting parents. Monetary incentives and conflicts of interest face CPS agents as the billions of dollars that fund their salaries are tied to how many child removals are carried out, with more money provided for longer or permanent removals.

State Departments of Human Resources (DHR) and affiliates are given a baseline number of expected adoptions based on population. For every child DHR and CPS can get adopted, there is the bonus of $4,000 or maybe $6,000. But that is only the beginning figure in the formula in which each bonus is multiplied by the percentage that the State has managed to exceed its baseline adoption number.

MSM blackout

Rather than expose the conflict incentivizing the removal of children, which often leads to strict scrutiny of biological parents while avoiding even the most minimal investigation of adopting parents, legacy media ignore even sensational stories of abuse by adopting and foster parents, leaving the public generally unaware that children are much more likely to die or be abused in foster care than under parental care.

The online Know Your Family Rights Handbook created the following table comparing abuse by biological parents with that by foster parents using statistics gathered by The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN). Children are more than 8 times as likely to be abused sexually after CPS removal than with their biological parents:

No post-adoption follow up?

The Epoch Times, though, has covered one of the outrageous cases of adoptive parent abuse, where a 14-month-old baby girl adopted from China was put in a dungeon, beaten, and enslaved by a married heterosexual couple. In a complete lack of post-adoption oversight, the girl was returned to the couple multiple times by none other than the local police, who made reports of several runaway attempts, including a description of the torture she endured, reports which CPS could and should have reviewed and investigated.

Frontlne News, as well, previously reported on the repeated rapes and forced prostitution of boys by a same-sex adoptive couple.

Please see each of our previous articles on CPS: