Riverside County California Finds Child Pornography Ring in Foster Care but Does Nothing About it

by Brett Kelman
The Desert Sun

Excerpts:

The tip came in six days before Christmas. Someone called a child abuse hotline, reporting that a parent in Desert Hot Springs was molesting two boys. The caller said the man also kept pictures of boys posing in their underwear on his computer.

And so, as it often does, Riverside County sent social workers to investigate the man, a licensed foster parent. He lived in a two-bedroom house with two adopted sons, a preteen boy for whom he was seeking guardianship, and a neighborhood teenager who had moved in after an argument with his parents.

When questioned, the children denied the abuse. But the tipster, it seemed, had been at least half right. Searching the man’s computer, social workers found two photos of children, unrelated to the parent, posing in their underwear. The pictures had been taken by one of the foster parent’s friends, one of the boys said. Sometimes they spent time with that friend, the boy said.

To these social workers, these underwear pictures were concerning, but they were not concerning enough. Social workers classified the investigation as “inconclusive,” then closed their inquiry, according to Riverside County court documents.

The boys were left in the man’s home. His foster license was left intact.

Today, that same parent, John David Yoder, sits behind bars, a suspect in what officials have called one of the worst child pornography rings in Southern California in recent years. Yoder and three other suspects have been accused of victimizing as many as 15 children in Desert Hot Springs, including some of the boys that lived with him. Yoder was arrested in February as result of a separate investigation by law enforcement in Nevada. The charges he now faces are nearly identical to the allegations that were reported to the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services shortly before Christmas.

If social workers had acted differently in December, the boys in Yoder’s home could have been rescued six weeks earlier.

Read the full story at The Desert Sun.

See Also:

Foster Care Children are Worse Off than Children in Troubled Homes – The Child Trafficking Business

Child Sex Trafficking through Child “Protection” Services Exposed – Kidnapping Children for Sex

Published on October 1, 2015

4 Comments

Angel October 23, 2015 at 9:22 am - Reply

Mary said:
> Thanks for posting! RIverside is the county of Rosie Vincent, who is very active on facebook as a CPS advocate. For those who wonder how they can make an impact on the CPS situation, she is a great example. She goes to where the breaking news stories are and does protests. She did this for this case, and made the local news: http://www.kesq.com/news/activists-want-to-see-changes-to-foster-care-system-in-wake-of-child-porn-case/31347322

Exactly they deem foster parents now days are better than the biological family. It’s a sick system that needs to be stopped. I’m praying everyday someone finally says enough is enough. In the name of Jesus.  Set his children free.

Mary October 5, 2015 at 11:32 am - Reply

Thanks for posting! RIverside is the county of Rosie Vincent, who is very active on facebook as a CPS advocate. For those who wonder how they can make an impact on the CPS situation, she is a great example. She goes to where the breaking news stories are and does protests. She did this for this case, and made the local news: http://www.kesq.com/news/activists-want-to-see-changes-to-foster-care-system-in-wake-of-child-porn-case/31347322

Hildy Straightiff October 1, 2015 at 9:03 pm - Reply

Admin said:
> John David Yoder was a licensed foster parent. He lived in a two-bedroom house with two adopted sons, a preteen boy for whom he was seeking guardianship, and a neighborhood teenager who had moved in after an argument with his parents.
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> Someone called a child abuse hotline, reporting that a parent in Desert Hot Springs was molesting two boys. The caller said the man also kept pictures of boys posing in their underwear on his computer.
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> To these social workers, these underwear pictures were concerning, but they were not concerning enough. Social workers classified the investigation as “inconclusive,” then closed their inquiry, according to Riverside County court documents.
> 
> Today, that same parent, John David Yoder, sits behind bars, a suspect in what officials have called one of the worst child pornography rings in Southern California in recent years. Yoder and three other suspects have been accused of victimizing as many as 15 children in Desert Hot Springs, including some of the boys that lived with him. Yoder was arrested in February as result of a separate investigation by law enforcement in Nevada. The charges he now faces are nearly identical to the allegations that were reported to the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services shortly before Christmas.
> 
> If social workers had acted differently in December, the boys in Yoder’s home could have been rescued six weeks earlier.

Riverside county has been corrupt forever! If you can’t make it in San Diego or Los Angeles you get a job in Riverside because no one else wants you and the people who work for Riverside County for the most part are bitter hateful people who hurt others because they are such miserable people! People who live in the nice areas commute to San Diego and Los Angeles and live there simply for the cost of living. Everyone with a sick child in Riverside County is scared to death of the corrupt system!!!!!

Lorraine Phillips October 1, 2015 at 3:30 pm - Reply

Sadly, that our government social services agencies, (CPS) sends these kids to these foster homes, for the love of money. They don’t care about the safety of our children, just their own selfish needs, MONEY.  This is becoming more and more widespread, because the defect is within our system of things. A generation crooked and twisted !   We have parted from Our Father In Heaven, Jehovah’s laws of righteous. God’s sees the suffering of all, and they will all have to be accountable for their wrongdoings of EVIL.