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Child Protective Services, CPS, has devastated and destroyed hundreds of thousands of families in America during the last thirty years leaving a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, and shattered childhoods.
Rather than helping families, government agents have used unconstitutional laws in Juvenile Court to rip children away from their loving parents, break asunder God-given, natural, parent-child bonds, and adopt the children of the grieving out to others who profit financially with large monthly adoption subsidy payments.
Child Protective Services must be stopped! The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed. We must work tirelessly to inform the public of this very dangerous travesty of justice. We must keep faith knowing that if there is a God, there is an answer and a way to end this heartache.
Child Protective Services Agents - please come to your senses! Family destruction on false or trivial grounds is wrong, reprehensible, and inhumane.
Fosterers - be aware that for the money you get you are holding much-loved children away from their grieving families while the parents are forced to perform a service plan that is anything but a service to them. I call this hostage holding for the government. This is not kindness - to help misguided government agents destroy family relationships and break loving bonds.
CPS workers and fosterers - I ask that you now let the children of the innocent return to their homes where they are truly valued, adored, and loved by the parents God gave them.
Family rights are God-given rights. And they should not be ignored or postponed. Every moment these loving parents and children spend separated from one another is a torment beyond what anyone should ever have to bear.
It is unworthy of human dignity to allow this terrorism and torture of families to go on without saying something, speaking out, and trying to make a change.
Site mission: To provide information and support for families attacked by Child Protective Services and child welfare agents, especially those families facing false or trivial accusations of child abuse or neglect; and for researchers working to protect natural family rights.
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Fighting Child Protective Services False Accusations
February 9, 2007
If you’re a parent living in the USA with young children, and if you don’t know what the Fourth Amendment is, please pay attention. This information could save your family.
The Fourth Amendment states that government workers can’t enter your home without your permission, unless they have a warrant based on ‘probable cause’.
Here’s the exact text of the Fourth Amendment:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
It has been established that this protection applies to Child Protective Services (CPS) caseworkers just as it applies to law enforcement officers. Despite the clear text of this section of the Bill of Rights, many caseworkers still think they can force parents to allow them into their homes.
Recently, near the end of January 2007, a child protection caseworker showed up at the door of a Michigan homeschooling family. She would not read a paper the mother handed her regarding her rights, and yelled at the mother, insisting that she should be allowed to enter immediately to do a “strip search” of one of the children. She was basing her intrusion on an anonymous tip stating that the children listened only to Christian music, that they “ate their cheerios dry”, that their only socialization was through the church, and that the mother pinched and hit her children in church to keep them quiet.
Since when is listening to Christian music or socializing in church a form of child neglect? And eating dry cheerios – is that a crime? If the caseworker had kept her complaint to ‘pinching and hitting’ she wouldn’t have lost her credibility and we wouldn’t be laughing at her now. However remember, this was all based on an anonymous tip, and who knows what the motivation of that phone call might have been?
The mother contacted an attorney, Chris Klicka, of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA). He sent the caseworker a letter regarding her rude and unprofessional behavior toward the family. He noted that she obviously hadn’t received the social worker training in the Fourth Amendment. A year and a half earlier HSLDA helped pass a law in that state which requires all caseworkers to be trained in their “duty to protect both statutory and constitutional rights of those being investigated.” Klicka also informed the caseworker that she would be held liable for violating the family’s civil rights.
Meanwhile the mother responded to the investigation by getting a statement from her children’s doctor indicating that her children were not abused. She also got letters from people who stated that they were good parents to their children.
The caseworker continued to try to interview the children and strip search them, and threatened to get a court order to do so. Klicka informed her that she had no ‘probable cause’ for a warrant because anonymous tips don’t qualify as credible evidence. The caseworker insisted she would get a court order, but instead, a few days later she contacted the family saying she would drop the case.
I guess she finally figured out what the Fourth Amendment was, and what ‘probable cause’ meant.
HSLDA, the Home School Legal Defense Association, serves mostly homeschooling Christians, but will provide legal defense for any homeschooler regardless of religion, so long as the dues are paid. This defense extends to homeschooling families facing accusations and investigations from Child Protective Services. HSLDA lawyers have been instrumental in going to court for homeschooling families with CPS problems, and have managed to establish very positive case law protecting anyone facing false accusations of abuse. For that, HSLDA lawyers should be praised by all families, forever.
[Note: I am not a member of HSLDA and never have been. I am not trying to get new memberships for them. However I very much appreciate what they've done for families facing false child abuse allegations.]
References:
Homeschooler Listening Only to Christian Music Turned in for Child Abuse
US Constitution, Fourth Amendment
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Let me first say this. When ANYONE, including HSLDA, wins against lawless perverters of justice, I rejoice and thank my God. We’ve been homeschoolers since our first child and have teens now. However, one caution about HSLDA… They refuse to help homeschoolers who are not currently dues-paying members. If you have a CPS problem right now and you just found out about HSLDA, sorry, folks, you are just out of luck. Find an attorney on your own; HSLDA will not only not offer you legal help (beyond a referral), they will snub your family’s application as a member family.
That last part is hard to understand. Why kick a family when they are already down? Isn’t that what HSLDA claims to be for, rights of all homeschoolers? And doesn’t what happens to my neighbor affect me, including snubbed non-HSLDA homeschool families? I can understand the decision not to represent a family for free or even at all when they are new to HSLDA and currently going through a CPS mess, but why bar a family from even being members of the organization at all until the CPS mess is cleaned up? Weird, that’s all I have to say. At the very least, allowing families into the organization regardless of status with CPS would help give many innocent families emotional and spiritual support. I thought HSLDA was more than the legal defense part. I can’t imagine the National Rifle Association turning anyone away because they are currently having legal problems. It’s simple enough; the NRA remains neutral and allows their members the freedom to deal with the courts about their own private matters. I can’t imagine the NRA would be the powerful organization it is if it turned away potential members that easily. And another thing is the dues part. If HSLDA only wants families who are NOT going through the CPS grinder, it seems what they DO want is a lot of families paying dues who aren’t now or may never have problems. That tips the balance toward dues payers who never need their services. Something stinks with that.
Our family chose not to become members of HSLDA because of this matter. I’m also learning they are not as influential as they may appear to be to new homeschool families, and some of their political lobbying may not speak for all families. They certainly don’t speak for us, and they don’t speak for the majority of homeschool families, as is backed up by the number of homeschool families vs. number of HSLDA member families.
OK, off the soapbox. Rejoicing in another victory. Thanks for posting.
Comment by Renee — August 7, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
Renee, I had the same result as you when I had a CPS problem and wrote to the HSLDA attorneys about it. They wished me well and said they wouldn’t help. However I didn’t try to join their organization, so I didn’t get the resounding slap in the face that you got. I side with you in that matter. To refuse your application at that time was heartless, and yes, probably an indication that their business profit is more important to them than the rights of families.
Any other comments on this, anyone? Maybe you would have to be a homeschooling family to chime in on this… maybe not. I homeschooled my children for nine years.
All the best to you, Renee.
Comment by Linda — August 7, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
Hey Linda i have to agree with you about the 4th amendment. To what ive gathered C.P.S angencies(workers) are trying to disclude themselves from the amendment its not the case they are included. Like with my sons case the worker fabricated the accusations for the warrant to remove him from my care. Whats sad the worker didnt have real facts to represent her case but we had a dishonorable judge that went on strickly hearsay for this worker to terminate my rights. It should be ilegal to fabricate just to get a warrant and to lie under oath isnt that called perjury if it is then the judge on my sons case should be accountable just as well as the worker herself do you agree.
Comment by Johnny — August 8, 2007 @ 7:45 am
i agree renee, lida and johnny
Comment by Christy — August 8, 2007 @ 1:04 pm
Johnny, the judge isn’t guilty of perjury – only the people who filed reports with misrepresentations of the truth. In a CPS case the judge decides on the preponderance of the evidence. If the caseworker files reports and you don’t, they have the preponderance. That’s how most cases are lost…. people don’t realize that they have to file legal documents and evidence showing their side of the controversy.
Comment by Linda — August 8, 2007 @ 10:00 pm
This situation gives air to my point about anonymous tips or calls to CPS. You never know what a persons motives are. For example: I could be disagreeing with an associate about the way she handles the well being of her children (just giving her advise and offering to help) but, she takes it an offensive way and may feel that i would call CPS on her so she calls in and makes false accusations on me.. This is not something that happened to me BUT IT DOES HAPPEN ALOT, especially to those of us who really do live our lifes for our children and there are jealous and revenge seeking people out there who will try to hurt you in the worst possible way ie. TAKE CHILDREN AWAY WHO ARE VERY MUCH LOVED. In refrence to the law if someone were to tell on another about a crime, their own personal credability is also examined, ANONYMOUS CALLS SHOULD NOT HAVE CPS KNOCKING AT OUR DOOR, THE CALLER SHOULD BE ASKED QUESTIONS AS TO WHO THEY ARE, THEIR INFORMATION, AND THEN WE OR THE ACCUSED SHOULD BE ABLE TO FACE THEIR ACCUSER..THERE SHOULD BE NO WAY AROUND THAT. If i knew that a child was being brutaly beaten or neglected i would tell the parent face to face and do my part to protect that child..The acuser should have nothing to hide, therefore unless they are just trying to be hateful and cause problems when in fact it is probebly their own children who need attention or help….something needs to change.
Comment by Ronni — September 25, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
CPS in our area thankfully has brains and are good solid people who truly investigate accusations. Ex-spouses with a grudge seem to like to make lots of false allegations. I was accused as a step-parent of being neglectful because I “ran out of milk” during a weekend visitation. Unbelievable. Only someone who is mentally ill would regard such a comment as viable.
They also seem to like to manipulate their children into “confessing” about things. This is psychological torture.
Thank God CPS here has decent people with more than an ounce of sense.
Comment by joe — October 10, 2007 @ 6:53 am
i am fighting cps now–carver county, chaska,minnesota..my son & i live in an apt and SUPPOSEDLy
Comment by janet — December 24, 2007 @ 9:37 am
oops !! some neighbor heard my son & i ( 8 yrs old ) argueing so someone called cps and unknown to me yhe police showed and a cps worker showed up at my son’s school asking him and his teacher all kinds of questions about me and his home life and that was about 2 months ago—they’ve got nothing but they keep digging & digging–contacting my family members–the cps worker ( sarah ) keeps and always tthreatens me that she has the power to take my son away and i just get the feeling that she is out to prove and determeined to take my son away–i thought cps does what ever they can to keep the child in the home–but this girl is doing everything she can to remove him..i kept my son home from school sick one day and she found out ( how i don’t know ) but she said that she was knocking at my door fot 20 minutes and i didn’t answer–she said she heard us talking and the tv on…the bottom line is–she was not at my home—but she reported to her supervisor nothing but lies-lies lies
Comment by janet — December 24, 2007 @ 9:51 am
I have practiced my right to the 4th amendment and all it got me was a card indicating that I would have to be at the court house in 5.5 hrs at a hearing to have my children removed. It also granted me a visit to be drug tested, due to false allegations from my ex and his wife, within 6 hrs. My lawyer was not available on such short notice and suggested I ask for a court appointed attorney for the hearing. I found out later, that my case was rated at a category level 5 (lowest) – no harm to child, no removal necessary to a category level 1 – immediate removal of child because I would not cooperate with the social worker sent to my home to investigate the allegations. Without proof, my daughter was legally stripped from my arms in a matter of hours.
Comment by Heather — July 14, 2008 @ 12:46 pm
It got us served with a preliminary protective order and a court date, which then turned into a full protective order. CPS’s own information brochures, however, state that we do not have to allow them into our home. Makes no sense to me.
Comment by Lynne — July 14, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
I just lost my kids on Friday. My 14 yr old was watching my 11 month old and when my 8 yr old got home from school she was to watch her also. Well the 14 yr old went in her room and locked her door to take a nap when the baby did(the baby was in my room next to her room)the 8 yr old thought I left her and the baby alone. This neighbor I did not like anyways as I found out the night before(I let my 8 yr old go to her house to play with her toddler) this woman according to my 8 yr old had given her a shower at her house, fed her, given her shorts and a t shirt to wear and washed her clothes! Who does that! My daughters shirt was clean when she went to school..anyway the 8 yr old went and told this woman I left em home alone and this woman went into my house and took the baby and the 8 yr old to her house and called the police, who in turn call CPS. They said I had no food in the house, which was not true and I had went to the bank and then to buy the costumes and groceries. There was the pot of beans in the fridge we had the night before. This woman also lies and tells cps that she had fed my daughter, bathed my daughter and washed her clothes! I was home! I never knew she was doing that stuff! I had cps in my life here in cali before and they threatened me with what they called too much history with cps! They then dropped the court the night before we were to go but said if I got in trouble again they are taking me to court. I find out today as it is Monday since they were taken this past Friday(Halloween). I am scared..I am supposed to be moving back to AZ where I am a nurse and I am getting a divorce(they were in my life before due to his hitting my 12 yr old, and I co-operated). I really think this is it. I am gonna fight though..
My 14 and 8 yr olds are supposed to go stay with their Grandma and Grandpa in Washington til the Summer while I get on my feet..I would have my 12 yr old and 11 month old with me. I have no idea if CPS is gonna let that happen now. They leave this Thursday! I am scared I will be stuck here in Cali where I feel like I cannot make it. I am sure they are going to threaten me again with my past…I was never taken to court before by CPS..I do not even have a criminal record, never been in trouble!
Comment by Noel — November 3, 2008 @ 6:27 am
(((Noel))) … please register at the message forum where there are advocates who can give you feedback on your case.
Comment by Linda — November 3, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
A few months ago my sister was charged with Domestic VIolence for spanking her 9yo daughter. CPS said she would be found not guilty if nothing happened within 60 days. My sister isn’t an abuser and nothing happened within that time frame. Meanwhile her daughter had been in foster care for a month. During that time she was sexually assaulted by another boy in that home. She is now having issues including violent tantrums and does not want to go anywhere that she is not with her mother. My sister homeschools her but cannot drop her off for activities outside the home without her getting VERY upset. She will hit and kick adults and children alike and my sis is the ONLY person who can talk to her and the only person she feels safe with.
My sister has gotten her daughter counseling but its like she isn’t the same kid. Yesterday, CPS told her if she cannot modify her daughter’s behavior they will remove BOTH of her children from her home. They are the cause of this whole mess in the first place and their actions have left a 9 year old girl afraid and angry. They have also told my sister that she must send her child back to the public school system. Her daughter doesn’t want to go and is terrified of being left there with other kids. My sister doesn’t want to send her. She works the evening/night shift and the only time she gets to see her is when she is at home during the day(when she homeschools her.)
She has been found not guilty of domestic violence against this child but CPS continues to threaten, harass and abuse her.
Comment by Amber — November 22, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
The problem with juvenal court is heresay and false accusations are accepeted as evidence when they should not be aloud to be intered as evidence in the first place.
Rember in juvenal court you are gulity untill proven inocent!
Comment by Dan Brooks — November 22, 2008 @ 9:53 pm
Amber, contact the Home Schooling Association.
http://www.americanhomeschoolassociation.org
Comment by MaggieC — November 23, 2008 @ 6:17 am
how do we get the state or cps to invasgate real chald danger . my sister had a baby die in her care . the other boys she has had had cuts to heads , left a lone , black eyes , home smiling of piss . but the state will not do any thing even had police called to home over 35 times . I have beg for some one to do something be fore the other 2 kids die . if any one can help plases e-mail me
Comment by thomas — December 29, 2008 @ 11:57 pm
NEW SALEM WITCH HUNTS
The purpose of learning about history is to avoid the mistakes of the past in order to improve our future as humans and as Americans. At least that is what we were told in school. However, in my years as an adult, I have come to realize that we have not learned anything from our past. Rather, we have found ways to cover our repetition by giving our mistakes a different name. For example, back in the 20s we called the stock market crash and the hardships that followed, The Great Depression. Today, we call it an Energy Crisis.
1692 in the small New England town of New Salem a gruesome crusade called The New Salem Witch Hunts reflected the masochistic side of Americans. Driven by preconceived notions and assumptions, this stain on America will forever haunt the history of our great nation. A stream a false accusations lead to scapegoat slaughtering to prove a point, that certain behaviors will not be tolerated. But, at what cost did that point become clear? The loss of innocent lives, the disparagement of human reputation and the embarrassment of anyone assumed to be guilty. The truth was irrelevant because the story was given dramatic representation. It was not justice, but show business that brought these unfortunate citizens to the gallows. The accusers were merely children suffering from a range of affliction, from teenage boredom to ergotism that was an illness caused from the local cash crop of that time. Whatever the explanation, the price was too great. The judges, a band of so-called experts who knew as much about witchcraft as I do about rocket science. The village put their lives in the hands of these officials with the idea that they would seek the truth. But instead, they earned a page in history. We claim, when we re-tell the horrific tale, that we remember in order to avoid the mistake again. This is not the case.
In 1692 we called the incident a witch hunt, today we call it “Erring on the side of caution”. In 1692 we called the culprits judges; today, we call these officials Child Protective Services and Law Enforcement Officers. And they are making the same mistakes as were made in 1692. In an age where we put a man on the moon, these people are still running things like a witch hunt. Yet we are expected to put our trust in them to ensure the truth is found. However, it is not the truth they are looking for, but someone to take to the gallows in order to earn them a place in history. The accusers have not changed either. They are still children, giving a dramatic story. Whether it is confusion based on overheard banter, or merely a bit for attention. No evidence needed beyond an accusation and the fate of the scapegoat is sealed. With no fervor for any explanation other than the obvious and fueled with nothing more than a pointed finger, the law enforcement officials and Protective Services set forth to destroy lives. As in New Salem, there is NO defense and no chance of proving innocence when an accusation is enough to end your life. The only choice for freedom is to point the finger in another direction. When does this madness end? How far will we go, this time, to prove that it is better to be safe and wrong?
In 1710 petitions were submitted to the governor of the territory requesting compensation for the suffering, death and humiliation caused by the trials of 1692. A sum of 578 lb. and 12 shillings were paid in damages to the families of the accused. A sum that would be hundreds of thousands of the dollars in comparison today. If these mistakes are still being made, shouldn’t the penalty for the mistakes be comparable as well? It is a travesty that the accused are the victims and they are persecuted in the same way as in primitive times. Instead of a litteral gallows, it is a legalized form of torture that doesn’t have an ending, but a never-ending suffering from which there is no escape. Who will stand up and fight these giants?
Comment by Amanda Zudell — January 10, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
Amanda Zudell – WE have to stand up to these giants , so others can ” see us standing up to these giants” just like Linda has done with this Website over the years.It can not be limited to whining on the Internet , from what I hear in the last to years the number of parents filing law suit against th Giant went up by 265%. Why don’t people demonstrate in streets when their kids are illegally taken – I don’t know , but gallon can of red paint tossed on the CPS main door could go a long way,adds in the paper ,sometimes freebes ,
Comment by Milos Leubner — May 14, 2009 @ 3:41 am
I have to say some of this page sounded good so I worked very hard geting my paper work,funny thing is your court appointed attorney’s here in klamath falls don’t work for you.they get info from you
and then they give it to DHS and they put
words that you never said in the paper work.it cost me a lot of money and yet
I have not got and of my paper work.
and the paper work the I do have has changed over the last 4 years and still changing for the worst ever..
so I tell you all in klamath falls you have know chance of ever geting your children back what so ever,I have DHS workers
theatening me everyday as if you are native
american the indian child welfare act does
not apply in your case but yet they say It does…I have the paper work that states it
attorney’s in klamath falls work with DHS
then it is used against you in court
everything on this fighting child welfare sounded good be it does not work
attorney state they can’t do anything it’s
won’t do anything…
well my child is being abuse abused by the foster parents and state does not care
foster mother takes shower with my child
he’s 9 years old and DHS workers tell my child to shut up and stop lieing be did they look in to it NO they did nothing my child had changed in foster care he tells me to
shut the f up.he don’t have to leasin to me.
and tis is a safe home states DHS and the
courts state the some as the klamath tribe
states the same…
Comment by joe — June 12, 2009 @ 8:44 am
Joe, sorry to hear you’re having such a hard time in Klamath Falls and with the ICWA. I take it you’re a member of the Klamath Tribe. Does the tribe have its own social workers? Is your child placed with a Klamath Tribe family?
Did you make an affidavit to give to your attorney for the court? Maybe you could get more help by joining our message board to request feedback on your case. Sorry to say most of the paperwork has to be done by you alone because the court appointed attorneys, as you learned, are unreliable for the most part and don’t really represent child welfare client parents well.
Note that on my Legal Disclaimer page I stated, “There’s no guarantee when dealing with these government agents. What works in one case may not work in others. Therefore there’s no guarantee that the suggestions on this site will work. I worked hard to give you the best suggestions I could, gleaned from over fifteen years of working with activists and victims of the child welfare system. However CPS agents and cases are unpredictable and don’t always follow a foreseeable pattern.”
As parents we are truly being abused by our government, and worse yet, the children we love are being abused too. You have my greatest sympathy for all the trauma you and your child have suffered.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — June 12, 2009 @ 8:59 pm
cps came to my house because my neighboors called because they are mad at me for calling the cops on them after they put shitty toilet paper on my plants. So they called cps making false statements giving dates and times they seen me do things to my kids in my yard but the funny thing is i wasn’t even home then. There needs to be a law agianst people making false statements that they do some jail time.
Comment by Jennifer — July 15, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
Jennifer, there IS a law against false accusations. Look up your state’s Mandated Reporting law and find out what the consequences are for those proven to have submitted a false report. You may have to sue them.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — July 16, 2009 @ 1:16 pm
I am in the middle of a Family Court action that should never have been started in the first place because the actions of my wife were lied about and my action were proper for what I am being charged with. CPS worker LC, here in Chautauqua County, New York lied to us and between her, the lawyers and the judge are doing their best to get my daughter away from me. It’s sad but my daughter told me once that she will never trust anyone in the government again. That sure isn’t going to help the hitler like activities of CPS and family court.
I need help with this because the lawyer I have isn’t doing very much.
Comment by Tom — July 24, 2009 @ 12:34 pm
Tom in NY
Read these comments:
http://fightcps.com/2009/07/17/learn-more-about-social-workers/#comments
Also sign up to join the Message Forum for the folks in NY.
There is at least 1 member from NY.
Read the NY stories linked on the R side of Home page.
Comment by fern — July 26, 2009 @ 6:05 am
is it legal for cps to pull my kids out of class and take them in to a room by them selves with out parents or any one else in the room with them they told me today i had to let them in my house and that there was a tip that i sold and smoked pot in front of my kids witch is false can someone offer any help thanks
Comment by cliff — October 3, 2009 @ 12:54 am
sorry i am in Washington state
Comment by cliff — October 3, 2009 @ 12:56 am
Cliff, CPS does that all the time (pulls kids from classes to interrogate them.) In the message board of this site there’s some information about the Federal Court of Appeals in the Seventh District saying that is unconstitutional. You’re in the Ninth District.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — October 3, 2009 @ 10:56 am
My ex wife acused me of molesting our 5 year old daughter right at the moment i won custidy a small investigation was done and of course there was no evidence and i was given custidy a month later well 3 months later her and her oldest daughter acused me of raping her this time they say its a credible acusation i faild a polly and passed a polly the public defender my 7th one the law firm sent a new one every court date was no help i was told in private by the case worker if i didnt sighn my daughter over to my mother she would drag this out for 2 years and put her in foster care and not with my mother and we all know what that means so i did and my mother adopted her it was an open adoption so after 2 years my mother had to have her knee replaced so i was taking care of her after a while i moved in why pay rent when your never there 4 and 1 half years later the state shows up and says my mother is putting her in danger leaving her wth me i was never charged or convicted of anything i told the state this was going to happen before it did the acuser told my mother if she dosnt like her moms new boyfriend she knew how to get rid of him my mother called and reported this to the state that day and my ex wifes ex wasw convicted of molesting her and srved 2 years i now believe this man was not guilty ther is a lot more i could say i have retained a lawyer and i am prepaird to fight to the very end i was not told i had to have supervised contact untill she was 18 i feel i was not givin all the information to make an informed decision so i should get a new trial well thats what im hopen for any way thats all for now thanks foe reading and in sorry for the spelling i needed to vent GOD BLESS
Comment by Chaz — October 8, 2009 @ 7:50 pm
Hi, my daughter gave birth to a baby boy nearly 4 weeks ago. when she was about 4 months pregnant she had considered letting my sister and her husband adopt him cause at the time she was staying with her dad and had previously stayed with me and she had no income at the time plus she has a 3 year old daughter and she wasn’t getting any support from her daughters father. me and my daughters dad were supporting her cause the babys daddy had abused my daughter and almost killed her.
but anyway after the baby was born she let my sister take the baby home with her cause she was considering the adoption but my daughter quickly realized she made a mistake and couldn’t live without her son so she called my sister and wanted him back after about 4 days. my daughter had cried everyday. anyway my sister got very upset. she finally told her she could come get him but she would have to have everything she needed cause she wan’t giving her nothing.
i took her and we got everything she would need to get started and then we went on our way to pick him up. my daughter tried to call her on the way and got no answer. after we got about half way there my sister calls her back and tells her they are in another county about 75 miles from where we were going to pick him up after she knew we were coming. well we went straight to the police because it was obvious she wasn’t planning to let us get him. the law got him back for us.
well after all that went down my sister told me i was a sorry individual and i was out of her life forever and she hated my daughter. well, a couple days after that dhr showed up at her door because they were told the children were in danger and that my daughter was neglecting them and abusing them.
a couple to 3 more days after that she was served with a summons to go to court because my sister and her husband were petitioning the court for custody. i forgot to mention that before the baby was born my daughter was able to get on assistance and got an apartment. my sister claims my daughter has no income an unfit home, no drivers license and no way of transportation and she had outstanding warrants on her. which at the time she didn’t have a license cause they were suspended and the warrants were from not being able to pay the tickets. in the mean time she was able to pay the tickets and get her license back and the warrants were recalled.
my daughter is a great mom. she has been raising her 3 year old daughter on her own. she had a good job at one time but lost it because she had to move cause her ex husband that had nearly killed her had found out where they were. it’s a very long and complicated story but the 2nd baby has the same daddy but she is rid of the ex for good now. she finally opened her eyes by the grace of God. her ex is in jail where he will probably be for a long time. oh i forget to say that they are only trying to get the baby back. they don’t want my granddaughter. they are saying she needs to be put in a home because she’s in danger. they are trying to get revenge. satan is on the war path.
i love my grandkids with all my heart and soul. i would never let them be in danger and me know about it. can my sister have these kids taken away by her false accusations? please somebody with knowledge about this answer me. my heart is so hurt. thanks in advance and God bless you.
Comment by linda — October 24, 2009 @ 6:54 pm
Linda, I’m so sorry your family is being threatened by your sister’s anger. It is possible that her false accusations could result in a CPS detention of the children but since you are supporting your daughter it will help tremendously. I hope and pray that the judge will see that your sister is reacting out of anger.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — October 25, 2009 @ 4:51 am
thanks linda jo. i sure hope the judge can see by just looking at my grandkids how healthy and happy they are. those babies don’t lack anything. he have everything they need for proper care. my daughter keeps the cabinets stocked and refrigerator stocked with all kinds of nutritional snacks for my granddaughter plus other nutritious food plus my grandsons formula. she keeps her house clean as best she can. the 3 year old might strow it when she’s playing but it’s not nasty by no means. there is a difference between dirty and just strowed. thanks again. pray for us. God bless
Comment by linda — October 25, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
hello my name is eva i live in tampa florida i am so angry that dcf has been called so many time from people that are just angry , nothing has ever been found but this latest is ridiculous my daughter was hit by older children at the school; she is six years old and very petitte, she came home limping and with a bruise on the side of her face , i ased her if she had told the teacher she said no because she was afraid so the next morning i go to the school i speak to the teacher and the social worker i wanted to know why there was no supervision while this was happening to my daughter in the school hall way theses kids are in third and fourth grade , so i did not want my child to be a victim of bullying , the social worker was nice she said she would investigate it talk to my daughter and the others well she spoke to my daughter and because she could not tell her the time that it happened , like six year old pay attention to time anyway she did not believe my daughter so she proceeded to call dcf they showed up the day after my meeting with her stating that the incident happened at home so they came took pictures of my other children my daughter has never said any other story but it happened at school she even gave names no there is investigation on me for what i don’t know but where are my rights i called everyone in the school board but they are not going to go against there own they need to cover up there neglect when came down to protecting my daughter so they are trying to turn the tables around i wnat to know can i sue the school for false accusations this is crazy that a person can abuse there power just because she is a social worker my daughte is afraid of getting beat up at school she feels no bady is going to protect her where do i get justice for her
Comment by eva rosario — May 17, 2010 @ 5:26 am
Eva, yes, you can sue the school. But that’s probably not the reason they turned the tables on you and called CPS. They did that because the state’s mandated reporter law probably requires them to report every “suspicion” (That’s the wording here in California.) If they have a “suspicion” they have to make a report or if they don’t, they can be prosecuted. So they dumbly go along with this to protect their jobs, thinking “it is no problem to the families, if they are innocent nothing bad will happen.” They don’t understand (or care about) the stress they cause us, the fact that some children are removed from their homes unjustly. All they want to do is protect themselves.
For this reason, it would be wonderful if you could sue them. You must consult attorneys there, to get some valid legal advice; we can’t give you that on this site because we’re not attorneys. We can, however, provide information and support. You can probably have a session with an attorney before deciding whether or not to hire that person for the job. They will tell you the strength or weakness of your case. Take your daughter with you… they will represent her, actually, not you.
The school is allowing child abuse to occur on their premises. You might want to get your daughter’s statement on video. Do -not- coach her on what to say. Just say something like, ‘tell me what happened to your face.’
Comment by Linda Martin — May 18, 2010 @ 9:39 am
Need help in Michigan, would like to know who to contact to get help in protecting my family..Thanks
Comment by Jeanne — July 12, 2010 @ 10:00 am
Jeanne, there are several good Michigan lawyers listed on our lawyers page. Good luck finding one that is right for you!
Comment by Linda Martin — July 14, 2010 @ 11:23 am
where do i start? i have 3 kids. and they are 15, 14, and 8. i have been remarried for 3 years. my teens, well they are teens. my brother planned a trip for me, i am 33 and have nevr left my kids side. my kids dad knew of my trip, mind you it was for only 4 days to Fl. he had our youngest for those days and the oldes for one. they were either home or at a friends or at grandmas, mu husband was home all the time. 4 days later social work comes to my home and says that i was charged with leaving my kids home alone for 4 days. i was like, what was that? after 2 days of her talking to the kids, she said well after i atlk to her dad this will come to an end. and i would get a letter in th email with in a week. a few days later i get called into court, i had one hour to get there. my kids dad got an order of protection against me, i was like what did i do? i was not allowed to talk. he made up so much which mad me so angery. how does one get to do that? my kids now have a lawyer that they have to meet with and the social worker went to his home. i know that he was upset cause few months back i took hime for child support and he is hurting for money. but how can someone just listen to one person. i work full time both my husband and i. i have my own home. my kids have everything and the love. ive have been so upset that he is allowed to make stuff up and make me look bad, and put the kids through this for him self. i have not done anything wrong. i even took care of him for 3 years after him and i split up and i was married. i am so lost. my kids are my life. all i ever asked of him, was to help out when the teens got out of control, which he did until he got with someone and that all changed. my kids acted out more, i was my kids advocate. he felt he paid shild support and that should be it. there is no amount of money that can take the place of love of a father and child. i am all for fathers rights. and i am going through alot and because of his lies i may lose my kids. and everyday i feel as if i am being watched and i dont do anything. but yet people can just make stuff up and get away with it. that is sick to me.
Comment by joann — July 23, 2010 @ 8:49 pm