NEW YORK - Fear ran through the scattered crowd of desperate parents and protesters, at an emergency rally to stop forced drug experiments on Black and Latino babies last Saturday.

“Recent news reports have exposed the NYC Administration for Children Services (ACS) in a conspiracy to force experimental and lethal drug treatments on Black and Latino Children who, after testing HIV positive, were taken from their mothers at the hospital and forcibly placed in foster care,” claims Rolando Bini, President of the organization Parents In Action (PIA).

The British Broadcasting Company (BBC), after a nine-month investigation, recently aired a documentary called “Guinea Pig Kids,” which reveals how the government has supported the ACS and enabled the Incarnation Children Center in Washington Heights to approve of these life-threatening experiments.

Mr. Bini went on to say, “The ACS operates on an annual budget of $2.5 billion, that’s a lot of power. Their crimes are deeply rooted in our communities, like forced foster care, and now they are experimenting on our children.”

PIA said they have appealed to the parents for answers but many are just dazed from the lose of their children. Others don’t know where in the system their children are located, and in fear of losing their children permanently, won't speak up.

“We know the Mayor and the Human Rights Commissioner for the first time have made tremendous progress within the bureaucracy of the ACS,” said Bini.

PIA said they are very pleased with the vision of ACS Commissioner John Mattingly, who is in the process of implementing long overdue changes in the child welfare system.

Planned changes include the closing down of those foster care agencies with unsatisfactory performance, the reduction of the number of children in foster care, the redirecting of funding from Child Protective Services to Family Preservation Services, and the obeying of the Tenebaum Federal court decision in letter and spirit by the ACS—which means getting a court order before taking children away from their parents.

Among protestors at the scene was Vera Shara, Director of the Alliance for Human Research Protection. “Its a heartbreaking story. We don’t know the number of children involved, nor how many have died or become paralyzed or maimed for life,” said Shara, “the ACS refuses to release these records to us. We demand to know the contents of those records held by ACS.”