Montana parents have daughter, who thinks she’s a boy, taken by the state: How does this happen?
Because the American people have allowed “legal” kidnapping by Child Protective Services
In 2023, Republican Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill to ban gender transitioning surgeries for minors in his state.
Gianforte and other governors that have signed similar laws in their states have been heralded and applauded by conservatives who somehow think more and more laws are what’s needed.
Nothing could be further from the truth, and the story of Todd and Krista Kolstad proves it.
Reduxx detailed their story of their 14-year-old daughter who allegedly expressed suicidal ideations in school in August of 2023. She is the daughter of Todd Kolstad, who had her during a previous marriage, and Krista Kolstad is the stepmother.
The Kolstad’s were visited by Montana’s Child and Family Services (CFS). The daughter allegedly told CFS that she consumed painkillers and toilet bowl cleaner in an attempt to kill herself. The Kolstad’s found that “highly unlikely” since their daughter didn’t have access to those items and she never showed any signs of illness or abnormalities.
Still, the daughter was admitted to a hospital. Paperwork from the hospital confirmed that she had not consumed the painkillers or cleaner. However, the paperwork said she “identifies as male” and wished to be named “Leo,” instead of her real name, which is never stated in the piece. She is referred to as “Jennifer” to hide her real name.
And since the tranny craziness is now sweeping the nation, we now have a new wrench to throw into the story.
The Kolstad’s are Christians and do not support coddling the delusions of their daughter. But CFS says they must. So, long story short, CFS “legally” kidnapped their daughter last month.
It should be noted, the Kolstad’s have said their daughter has acted out in attention-seeking ways in the past. Both the false claims of taking painkillers and cleaner to kill herself as well as claiming to be a boy are clearly cries for attention. But CFS doesn’t care.
The daughter has apparently been moved around several times. She was put into a group home in Montana before allegedly being moved to a facility in Wyoming where she could receive the mutilating surgery that is banned in Montana. Now, it appears there’s an effort to send her to Canada to live with her birth mother who supports her being mutilated.
To top the kidnapping off, a Montana judge put a gag order on the Kolstad’s who now face potential arrest for speaking publicly about the crimes committed by the government.
“The parents have spoken publicly about what happened with their daughter in violation of a judge's order for them to remain silent about the case.
In an interview this week with The Christian Post, Krista Kolstad said the couple learned from a legal source that they would likely be arrested upon returning to Montana. The pair received notice about their potential arrest while caring for a sick relative in Ohio.
The stepmother said the couple has been talking with their public defender, but as of now, it remains unclear what will happen as it depends on the judge's interpretation of the gag order and how the pair may have violated it.
‘Our rights were taken away, and we were disrespected as her parents,’ she said. ‘And as a result, our relationship with our daughter has been damaged, and our daughter ultimately has been damaged, and she's the most important one here.’”
CFS, according to The Christian Post, has made several unproven allegations against the Kolstad’s. What is known is that the state has never charged them with any crime. There has been no due process. There has only been a state agency that has come in to “legally” kidnap a child from parents.
And Gianforte is defending the state’s kidnapping scheme. He said that CFS and the courts “have followed state policy and law in their handling of this tragic case.”
A family member of the 14-year-old has set up a GiveSendGo page to raise money for the Kolstad’s legal defense. From the page:
“I am setting up this GiveSendGo campaign for my brother and sister-in-law, who have fallen victim to the forced trans ideology, government and medical tyranny that resulted in the medical kidnapping of their 14-year-old child in Montana, facilitated by Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, MT, along with Montana CPS. They have been threatened, intimidated, mocked, had their characters attacked, and custody is being stripped from them because they did not consent to transitioning a 14-year-old child in mental crisis. They need our help to meet the mounting expenses and legal fees as they fight to get their daughter back in a system that has become corrupt and weaponized against families. Will you please help us and stand with them? If this can happen in Montana of all places, none of us are safe, and neither are our children.”
CPS is a kidnapping criminal outfit
“Everything is connected: the government, the schools, the medical establishment, the military industrial complex, big-tech, etc. – it’s all just this giant megalodon syndicate that the people allowed to take root, and are perfectly content with; being poked and prodded around like cattle with no rights.
The Governor’s response is the typical blasé, ‘he-don’t-care’ and ‘couldn’t-be-bothered’ response. His aids probably let him know what was going on and was advised to make some empty statement that tries to play both sides.
More and more as the days pass I continually await and long for the fierce judgment on this destitute nation.”—Jacob Thompson
In the interview with The Christian Post, Krista Kolstad said:
“We, as far as we know, we’re the first and only family in Montana this has happened to. But I feel like our family is damaged now, and the system broke our family. And you know, we'll come together as a family and make the repairs to that. But we have to speak up, or this is going to happen to other families.”
Unfortunately, that statement is not exactly true. It may be true that this is the first time Montana’s CFS has kidnapped a child concerning transgender delusions, but like every other state, it kidnaps children all the time without ever giving them due process. There was even an effort in 2022 in Montana to at least require a judge’s order before kidnapping a child.
By the way, are kids safer once the government snatches them? Well, a 2021-2022 Montana report showed that during an 18-month period, 14 kids died in the government’s custody after being kidnapped.
The Kolstad’s are facing the same story that has happened to parents across the country time and time again. The details may be different. The results are the same. Child Protective Services (CPS), or CFS as its called in Montana, snatches kids without charges ever being filed against parents. And the parents then need to prove their innocence. Due process is nowhere to be found.
CPS receives tens of billions of dollars a year from taxpayers alone. Kidnapping is big business. And it’s thought of as “legal” when the government does it.
According to the Family Preservation Foundation (FPF), nearly half a million kids are snatched from their parents annually. Over 9 million kids have been separated from their families in the last two decades.
And what are the results for kids snatched by CPS and thrown into foster care? The FPF has the stats:
All the government agencies work together. Often, a government school teacher or a doctor (and let’s be honest, the medical industry is a government agency) make reports to CPS of this or that “offense,” and CPS goes in to kidnap. And parents are left with an uphill battle to get them back. If you have money or know your rights, you’ll probably fair better. But that’s why CPS generally targets the poor.
And what are parents often targeted for. Well, homeschool families are targeted. Families that simply question vaccines can be targeted.
Heck, if your child has a toy gun visible in their room during “remote learning,” you may be targeted. In that case, it was armed cops who showed up to the home, not CPS. But you know CPS was watching during “remote learning.”
And like all government bureaucrats, CPS has qualified immunity. That means that even if CPS is found to have taken a child unjustly, they are almost assuredly not going to be held accountable. Even if there is a lawsuit and parents win, it’s the taxpayers who pay for CPS’s mistake.
Many CPS Horror Stories
I’ve covered or referenced several cases of CPS abuse for my Substack and for The Liberty Loft:
https://sethhancock.substack.com/p/discernment-in-an-undiscerning-world
https://sethhancock.substack.com/p/recent-legal-wins-in-medical-kidnapping
https://sethhancock.substack.com/p/medical-murder-lawsuit-set-to-face
One of those cases was that of Baby Cyrus in Idaho in which Cyrus was kidnapped simply because the parents called to cancel one doctor’s appointment for the child.
Side note, just want to note there are good reasons why parents might not want to bring their baby to the doctor:
https://sethhancock.substack.com/p/15-month-old-dies-two-days-after
That story has a happy ending in that Baby Cyrus was returned to his family. However, the nightmare continues from it as Baby Cyrus’ grandfather and Ammon Bundy, a family friend who helped get Baby Cyrus back, have faced an outrageous legal battle for their roles in fighting the kidnappers.
You can hear the story from Ammon Bundy:
Also, family rights attorney Lucrece Bundy (no relations to Ammon) also covered the case:
In that case, a child was kidnapped for not going to the doctor. In the case of Syesha Mercado of Florida, it was for going to the doctor and refusing a shot for her son. Lucrece Bundy also covered that story:
And hey, the doctors make a mistake. No problem. Blame the parents and take the child. That was the case for Anita Vasquez, a mother from Texas, whose 4-month-old was mistakenly given a Gardasil shot by the doctors and was injured by it. It was the hospital’s mistake, but CPS blamed the mother and took her child.
Here’s one where CPS helped their friends in law enforcement. In 2018, 13-year-old Cooper Hill of Missouri was sexually abused by a sheriff’s deputy. The parents sought justice. CPS targeted the parents.
The Institute for Justice (IJ), which took up the case, attempted to get justice for the family, but the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take the case. The IJ detailed the initial story:
“This case started with a tragic incident involving a sexual assault of a minor boy by a sheriff’s deputy for Scott County, Missouri. The incident happened while the officer was on duty, so the parents (who are going by their initials in this case to maintain their son’s privacy) threatened to take legal action against the sheriff’s department. After all, it was known to the department that the deputy had been disciplined in previous law enforcement jobs. In response, the local child protective services investigator—who has worked with the department—opened a retaliatory investigation into the parents for child neglect. She claimed that the parents were the ones to blame for letting their son be sexually abused.
What followed was a nightmare for the family, involving multiple interviews of the already traumatized boy, a referral to a clinic for an inspection of the boy’s genitals and rectum, and a threat to take away the father’s law-enforcement license. The investigator only backed off from harassing the family after the family found pro bono lawyers to help them defend their rights. These lawyers helped the family appeal the investigator’s findings of child neglect, which were quickly overturned by the review board based on the lack of evidence.”
And then there’s the story of Jennifer Guskin. Brian Shilhavy wrote:
“Jennifer Guskin was sexually trafficked and suffered Satan Ritual Abuse (SRA) growing up as a child in the U.S. Foster Care system. She was trafficked by the rich and powerful politicians and business leaders in New York and the Washington D.C. area throughout her childhood.
Like many survivors of child sex trafficking in Foster Care, once she became an adult and had her own child, the system again came after her, this time by medically kidnapping her newborn infant daughter.”
Guskin has a GiveSendGo page. She detailed her story:
“As an infant, I was adopted by a family in NY who subsequently sold me to various individuals and entities throughout my childhood.
I’ve been to Epstein Island and on multiple Lolita Express types of flights.
I’ve witnessed high-profile individuals forced to rape children while being filmed under threat of death for themselves and their loved ones.
Shortly after going public with my story, Child Protective Services opened a Substance Exposed Newborn case, even though all drug tests came back negative, and took my child ‘In case of neglect’.
Their stipulation for her return?
Stop talking on Social Media.
The question becomes – How many other families has CPS done this to? How many times has CPS opened a fraudulent case, taking a child(ren) “In case of neglect”, and lie about key aspects of their case to the court to facilitate the termination of parental rights?
I am not the first.
My main goal of this lawsuit is accountability. If people know that they are going to be personally held accountable, they will be less likely to defraud the system.
I am seeking investigations. Criminal Charges. Revocation of Licenses. A complete revamp of the Child Protective Agency. Return of Children with support for families harmed.
I am seeking action against not just CPS as an agency, but the individuals involved as well.
Once again, if people know they are going to be held accountable for fraudulent cases, they will be less inclined to bring them.
While reading this, I would appreciate it if you’d take the time to consider that this case is not unique.
This is happening because, for years, CPS has been able to get away with opening fraudulent cases and taking children using questionable reasoning.
Many of those parents don’t get their children back.
The question becomes – What happens to those children?
They are often placed in the Foster/Adoption industries and lost to the system.
Many of them end up in families and situations like mine...
If they don’t stay in line, when they choose to have children of their own, their children are often targeted, and the Foster/Adoption/CPS industries thrive with a healthy cycle of Children to traffic.
This campaign is a request for assistance with the case.
I am completely Pro Se due to the fact that most lawyers will not pass my litmus test – a requirement that they obtain ALL records in relation to Iris' case for me to review.
Everything will be coming out of pocket.
Anything that people are able/willing to give, I am extremely grateful for and promise to use in a way that combats Child Trafficking and/or helps Survivors.
Please help me expose how Child ‘Protective’ services is a pipeline for predators like Jeffery Epstein, Ghislane Maxwell, and others in the upper echelons to obtain the children they abuse.”
The American Corporate Church’s Role in the Kidnapping Ring
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.—James 1:27
The moral decay and cultural rot that is America today is an indictment on the feckless, weak church.
In so many areas of life, the church has stopped fulfilling its role and handed it over to government. Not only do they hand it over to government, they often assist the government in its crimes.
“…I have exposed the Corporate Christian Church’s participation in child sex trafficking by receiving government funding for the U.S. Government’s child welfare programs, including foster care and adoptions.
This child welfare system is the main pipeline for child exploitation and sex trafficking, and the entire evil system would be crippled and brought to its knees if the Christian churches just stopped participating in it, and stopped receiving government funding to parent other people’s children….
Almost every single Christian church in America today believes they are doing ‘God’s work’ by participating in the government child welfare system and taking children away from their biological families, where they are often called ‘orphans’ even though in almost every single case that child still has family members who would willingly care for them if they were just allowed to do so.
And for the very few children who truly are orphans and have nobody to care for them, why does a non-profit church have to receive government funds and enter into their Satanic child welfare system, where the State has total control over that child even while in the custody of a foster family, rather than just take care of that child themselves without being paid by the Government?”
By the way, the government is openly hostile to real, Biblical Christianity. Several states will not allow Christians to be foster parents unless they deny their Biblical beliefs.
So, why would the corporate churches continue to assist a government that is hostile to their stated beliefs? Could it be that most of these churches aren’t actually preaching the word of God but rather worldly things?
Shut Down CPS
CPS is a criminal racket. It must be shut down. Just because it is the government doing it doesn’t make it legal.
I recognize that there are parents who abuse their children. In the rotten CPS system that we have, whether the parents are abusive or not, those children oftentimes face worse abuse in the foster system.
There is absolutely no need for CPS, or government-run foster care. If a parent is accused of abusing their child, the appropriate approach is to gather evidence and charge them with a crime. If, after due process has been met, the parent is found guilty, then that parent can lose custody.
From there, every effort should be made to place that child with family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.) or a close family friend instead of being placed with complete strangers in the foster system. In the vast majority of CPS kidnappings, there are family members or friends of the family who are ready, willing and able to take the child, but CPS won’t let them.
In those very few cases where there is absolutely nobody to place a child who is family or friends of the family, where the child legitimately has become an orphan, there should be orphanages. And those orphanages should be privately run, specifically by the church. And there should be absolutely no connection, or taxpayer dollars, associated with it.
Yet, we face conservatives looking to write new laws that will solve nothing. Shut CPS down. Don’t write new laws. Kidnapping is illegal. Charge the CPS workers who unjustly steal kids from families with kidnapping.
But what almost always happens when conservatives write new laws, they either are not effective or they come back to bite them.
I’ll give an example, unrelated to CPS.
Recently, Florida Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis were proud to advance some of the most Orwellian and unjust hate crime laws in the nation.
https://sethhancock.substack.com/p/florida-republicans-target-the-first
https://sethhancock.substack.com/p/florida-gov-desantis-denounces-blogger
Those laws were pushed under the guise of combatting “antisemitism.” And of course, legitimately disagreeing with actions by the government of Israel can get you labeled an “antisemite.”
But guess what? Now a 19-year-old, Dylan Brewer, is now facing the possibility of felony hate crime charges for doing a burnout and leaving skid marks on the pro-sodomite painted roads in Delray Beach, Florida.
The Delray Beach Police Department statement:
“The Delray Beach Police Department has made an arrest in the recent incident of intentional vandalism at the LGBTQ Pride intersection on NE 2nd Avenue. Dylan Brewer, 19, of Clearwater, FL, has been arrested and charged with felony criminal mischief over $1000 and reckless driving.
On the evening of Sunday, February 4th, 2024, witnesses reported that Brewer was observed intentionally performing multiple burnouts with his vehicle over the LGBTQ pride crosswalk at the intersection of NE 1st Street and NE 2nd Avenue. The reckless action caused significant damage to the streetscape painting, which serves as a symbol of unity and inclusivity for the LGBTQ community.”
So, he’s already facing a felony and could get a felony hate crime added for doing a burnout. Thank you Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans. You’ve just done the Democrats’ work for them.