FightCPS Guestbook for June 2007

This is the guestbook for June 2007. You’re welcome to tell us about yourself and why you’re here.

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In 2001 while I was finalizing plans to
divorce, my wife filed a false allegation of sexual abuse against me
subsequently I was kept away from my
children for the next 4 1/2 years without even supervised visitation,
illegally. My fight continues to this day
however, my children are in my life now and I, if nothing esle, want to encurage others not to quit and that there is hope nomatter how small it seems to be.

Comment by Rod Lynn — June 3, 2007 @ 4:34 am

I’m abused by our system for telling the truth. Corrupt Politicians honor themselves and cover-up the corruption aganist ordinary citizens.
WE HAVE A LEGAL SYSTEM WITH NO JUSTICE.
WHEN T. ALEX HICKMAN WAS ELECTED JUSTICE MINISTER IN SEPTEMBER 1966, IT STARTED A LEGAL SYSTEM WITHOUT JUSTICE, WHICH REMAINS IN PLACE TO THIS DAY.

Politicians names and faces change in Ottawa, Ont. and St. John’s, Nl. but the Corruption continues to rule our country. I spent from April to October, 7 months, in Ottawa, on Parliament Hill, with permits, handing out 12,000 information sheets, and 7000 more in Newfoundland, about what happened to my family, and a sheet with each, on a Book about my family, PLAYING WITH THE DEVIL, by Martha Jetta, of Paranormal Books, and still no-one has resolved this INJUSTICE. A simple DNA test would see Justice served. The system protects itself, not the public.

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handout

If T. Alex Hickman, the Justice Minister and then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, from 1966 to 2000, rapes and impregnates your 12 year old child, how do you get justice in this Province when the reports go back to the criminal who did the crime? I’ve reported this cime and other incest and abuse in my family, for more than 40 years, to all authorities and RCMP who ignored us as children, but they admit they still have 3 of my reports but won’t release them. Many other reports of abuse were made by 3 sisters and one brother. We are left in Canada without even basic human rights or protection under Canadain Laws. No lawyer will represent us and the last lawyer I acked told me, if any lawyer, in this province, tried to represent you, it would be the last job they ever do as a lawyer in this province. The Legal System has done nothing to help, it’s been completely controlled here by T. Alex Hickman, for 34 years and he still, in retirement, has control.

Please ask our Prime Minister, Mr. Stephen Harper, at pm@pm.gc.ca and ask our Premier, Mr. Danny Williams, at premier@gov.nl.ca to give our family justice. Visit our information website at http://maxpages.com/sexualabuse for seven more pages about abuse of our family, letters from family members and police statements, and no justice to this day. Mr. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, you said during the election you would put families as a priority on your Government Agenda, please help mine, in your letters to me you said you would. Visit our website and sign our guest book with your support.

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These are the people on the committee who approved my right to protest on Parliament Hill with my signs and handouts with all this content for 7 months:

1. Mr. K. Macleod (Ceremonial & Protocol) Tel #994-3647
2. Mr. Raymond M. Lambe )PCO) Tel #957-5363
3. Mr. Serge Gourgiue (Senate) Tel #943-0183
4. Ms. Audrey O’Brien (House of Commons) Tel #992-2637
5. Mr. Charles Maier (Public Works) Tel #990-6769
6. Mr. Roger Brown, Chief Supt. (RCMP) Tel #993-8839
7. Mr. Marc Graveline (National Capital Commission) Tel #239-5510

Newfoundland & Labrador MHA’s who came to see me and took my handout:

1. Mr. Tom Marshall - Justice Minister
2. Mr. John Ottenheimer - Inter-Government Affairs
3. Mr. Jack Harris - NPD Leader
4. MHA - Tom Oaborne came by but didn’t speak or take a handout
5. NL Liberal Senator Bill Rompkey tried several times to have the RCMP remove me and my signs from Parliament Hill
6. NL. Liberal Senator George Baker and his wife, he said he would speak with me the following day, the following day never came.
7. Conservative M.P. Mr. Norman Doyle did his job and I thank him. My member came out to see me and delivered my full information package to the Justice Minister, Mr. Vic Towes, himself in person and came to see how I was doing several times. Thank you Mr. Norman Doyle for your concern and your help.

Byron Prior
Tele# 709-834-9822
66 Readers Hill Cres.
Conception Bay South, NL.
A1W 5B4
alltrue@nl.rogers.com
http://maxpages.com/sexualabuse
http://justicehickman.com

Comment by Byron Prior — June 4, 2007 @ 9:46 am

yea im new to this and it has been a trying year and a half for me but i KNOW i was completly wronged by lasvegas c.p.s involving my child sick- and twisted father who used during our case

Comment by holly — June 4, 2007 @ 6:06 pm

one more thing im 22 and in need of some serious help if you know of any but i wont give up till i prove im right ask for info if able to help me thank so much…desperate for answers here in california

Comment by holly — June 4, 2007 @ 6:07 pm

i am a victim of cps i will continue to fight these injustices. i cant believe this agency is this corrupt. i always thought you had to be on drugs or like really abusive for your kids to be taken but now i know that is not the case! for all who dont believe that check out my site and see my sons doctors records and cps so called complaint. thanx Rod I am a member of goodmomsfightdyfs.com i visit all the time

Comment by kwanie — June 5, 2007 @ 1:53 pm

my husband and i have been in an ongoing battle for 1yr. we got into a fight not even in the presence of my son and in the state fl. they automatically take your child we have since got him back it took us 2 weeks thank god. we have complied with all case plans yet still they will not give up we lost everything trying to battle them house,cars jobs etc..and had to move from fl. to texas now they are saying we are violating a court order by leaving fl and they are going to issue a pick up order for my son to be taken back to fl. while in custody my son recieved numerous bite marks a black eye and a cut across is forhead.. he now suffers from bad dreams and he will not let us leave him at any time they put him in an orphange (which i did not know still exsist) they used gloves to change and feed him and they think this is the best interest…we are good loving parents who had a fight during our first year of marriage. they have almosted destoyed my marriage due to the fact they say we can’t have our son but we can not live together. we have lawyers and they are not of much help and we are at our witts end and any advice would be wonderful i for got to mention my son is only going to be 2 june 23
thank you
desperate loving parents

Comment by andrea & keonakhone prakhin — June 7, 2007 @ 8:43 pm

I want to thank you when i was going through my cps dilemma this site helped me out, i got my kids back and now i pray that we find a lawyer to sue cps for all the illegal acts they commited. I published my story on my blog at http://mychildprotectiveservicestory.blogspot.com/, if you know a lawyer that might want to take that case on please let me know…once again thank you

Comment by Leo — June 8, 2007 @ 2:27 pm

My kids where taken from my husband and I on april 17, 2007. My husband was arrested and ordered no contact with his family. My kds where placed in protective coustody by the state of oregon. There is no allegations of abuse by me. They took them away from me because they say i failed to protect them. I know nothing of abuse, and haven’t been able to talk to my son or husband about it. My husband is their step father and has raised them since they where 5, 2 and 8 months old. they are now 13,10, and 9. he is the only father they know. DHS contacted their biological father and after 8 and a half years of him not being in their life’s he came to my court date. i was shocked. This man is the one who was abusive. He has not tried to or has not seen them in so long. He owes me thousands of dollars in suppport. They say he has rights to them, but my husband is only the step parent and he has none. What makes a dad a dad? I think that they are agasint the fact that my kids and I are white and my husband is mexican. They made the statement to me that their is no way your kids could think your husband is thier real father., he is mexican and they aren’t. It will be 90 days that my kids are in coustody, when i finally get to go to court and fight my case. I have not done anything wrong, i have never been in trouble before, i don’t drink, smoke or do drugs. I have had steady employment for years. We have a great home, the kids each have their own rooms. The system is wrong. They can just take kids away for no reason. They are ruining my bond with my children. I have never been away from them in their whole lives. I get one hour a week with them, and it is wrong. I will fight them unitil the end. I want my kids back. If anyone knows of any thing that could help me, please let me know. We have tried to have the children placed with my husband’s parents, who the kids see as their grandparents, but DHS determined that they are not blood related, and cannot be placed with them.

Comment by angela — June 9, 2007 @ 1:00 pm

I need help … my grandchildren were taken by DCFS in February of 2007 due to an accident … my then 5 month old granddaughter fell from my arms and hit the side of her head on a V-Tech light show musical mobile inside the rail of her crib … at that time she didn’t seem to be injured … she didn’t cry, there was no mark, or swelling at that time … late the next evening, my oldest granddaughter noticed very bad swelling on the side of the baby’s head … the first mistake we made was in not taking her immediately to the hospital … instead because the weather was cold and we had all been sick, I just called the hospital and spoke to doctor on call … I told him exactly what happened, when and what her head looked like … he asked me several questions about her and how she was acting … I had to tell him the truth … she was acting totally normal … he said it sounded like a soft tissue contusion … and she should be OK … just to put ice on it for the swelling … and if she developed any of the symptoms he had asked me about I was to take her immediately to the hospital … this was on a Friday night … my daughter and I decided to just wait and see if she developed any of the symptoms the doctor had asked me about … although she never developed any symptoms, since the swelling hadn’t gone down, we called the family doctor on Monday morning and took her in there that afternoon … the physicians Assistant … said she tended to agree with the doctor on call … she left the room supposedly to talk to the doctor about it … instead, she called DCFS, who told her to arrange for a cat scan … she couldn’t get her in until the next afternoon … but when she came back in the room she said she had decided to schedule a cat scan to be sure everything was OK … Mistake #2 was we should have just taken her to ER ourselves … the next afternoon after the cat scan, the technician told my daughter that the baby did have a hairline skull fracture, but she would be OK … before my daughter could leave the hospital, the tech called the doctor for orders … and the doctor told the tech to have baby sent to a big hospital for the trauma for more tests … at the next hospital, there were never any tests
done .. they just kept the baby there for observance … DCFS went to my home while I was with the baby and took my grandson into ‘protective custody’ … they had hospital release my granddaughter into their care … now we can’t get them back … the court appointed attorneys are nothing but a joke … I hope someone on here can help me get my grandchildren back home where they belong … thank you

Comment by Kathy Herron — June 11, 2007 @ 9:22 pm

Kathy, log onto the message board if you haven’t already. People there will be glad to offer you ideas on what to do next. None of us are lawyers, but most of us are ordinary people who took legal matters into our own hands when we had similar problems with CPS.

Comment by Linda — June 11, 2007 @ 10:13 pm

well cps removed my 2 boys in nov 2002 and terminated my rights in sep 2003 they were originally removed for my sons dad breaking my babys leg he had never been abusive toward us so i didnt think he did it on purpose but he had i immediatly retain a restraining order however they were never returned home at the time i was 19 young and dumb i turned to drugs and my rights were terminated my oldest son was placed with my moms 2nd cousin whom had raised me since the age of 6 and my youngest with his bio father well my mom had my oldest son almost 2 yrs when they decided (dhs) that he should be adopted my “mom” started the classes and then they told her she couldnt keep him it wasnt her bio grand child the day she found this out the in home worker came to her house and told her she had just quit her job that she needed to find a good lawyer they wanted joey (my son) my mom had limited money and could not afford a lawyer so she lost my son after my case which lasted less than a year my Dhs worker Quit her job and noone will give me the case file. I was again pregnant at the time this all happen with my daughter Nevaeh i went to treatment and had her with me till she was a month old then she was removed for my being kicked out of a halfway house not for drug use either i went to court and got her back in my care finally a year later i then had another child in 2005 still involved with dhs all was well they hadnt even involved the youngest in services because i was doing so well i was suppose to b done with dhs nov 1st 2006 how ever reports were made and they removed my girls oct 19 2006 they ran hair stats and my girls came up positive for crack cocain my drug of choice at 19 was meth not crack they did my hair stats and they were clean for everything not even been around it however my dad had a problem with crack in the past and later found out he had been doing it in my house w/my brother while i wasnt home and he was babysitting my kids again i fucked up wasnt paying enough attention to the warning sighns that he was using i have cut all ties w/ my father and brother and started returnin to aa meetings and counseling i drop clean random ua s every other day and i have suppervised visits 1 time a week since oct and ive been told no matter what i do they re gonna teerminate my rights my in home worker and lawyer tell me this because i have an extensive back ground with dhs and cps which i do however shouldnt they be telling me what i can do to get them home my girls are bonded to me i was a single mom and i know i made mistakes i ve tried to make it so it doesnt happen again but if u cant trust your dad with your kids who can u trust i didnt know he had relapsed he hadnt done drugs in years and my brother i would never have thought would. and now that theyre out of my life done moved out of state why shouldnt they get to come home i ask them every week what do they want me to do what can i do to get my girls home and keep them home and its always the same answer nothing they arent coming home and their job is suppose to be to reunite familys isnt it? maybe there right and im not maybe my girls shouldnt be with me but i know in my heart they should i let my guard down i made a mistake ive done whats nessecary to ensure it never happens again now what? if anyone has any suggestions please i need help i dont want to lose any more children im willing to go to any lengths to keep them

Comment by Rosanna — June 13, 2007 @ 10:40 am

Why Didn’t Anyone Save Those Children ?
Juvenile court judges and child welfare workers were making fatal errors both ways. They returned children to unstable parents. They entrusted children to foster parents who shouldn’t be allowed to watch houseplants. Children died as a result.
With power comes responsibility and accountability, which most officials ignore. The grown-ups in their lives failed them. We failed them. Their horrible deaths are a black mark against us all. We need to do better.

Those Children Were Failed by the System ! Please, don’t wait for new name on this page . http://suncanaa.com/in_memory_
This page is in memory of children died of neglect or abuse while under the care of the social service agencies! Many died suspiciously or from neglect. Most of their lives and deaths went unnoticed. Until now. But you likely never heard of them. The deaths of these children — and what government agencies did or didn’t do to save their lives — Even when they die, their stories are rarely told. Let’s NOT allow these precious children’s death to be in vain - in the newspaper one day, forgotten the next.
THESE ARE OUR CHILDREN! We owe them something.

As all people say, the children are our future. Well, it’s about TIME, we started nurturing that future, protecting and cherishing each and every precious child that is upon this earth.

The only way to create change is to bring it to the public’s attention. It is about the children! Please hear the childrens’ cry ! http://suncanaa.com/

Please sign PETITION
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/986173347

I am just one voice. Please help my voice be heard so we can prevent any more needless tragedies. Please spread the word and forward this email to your friends and family members.
Please Remember Us http://protected-to-death-by-cps.memory-of.com/
Suncana Sesic Alvarado

Comment by Suncana Sesic Alvarado — June 13, 2007 @ 12:30 pm

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Comment by Shanni Sullivan-Einer — June 13, 2007 @ 10:28 pm

I am happy to read all this succes: you deserve it completely. Proud to work with you in Boston, next june. Please, take all the good thoughts streaming from my heart to you…

Comment by Mistifica — June 14, 2007 @ 4:24 am

I had problems with drugs in my past and I am now on methadone. 3 days before my 3rd child was born I threw up my methadone and used drugs to not get sick. When I went into labor 3 days later I told the hospital about it and they called CPS and they ended up taking all my children because I tested positive for opiates. CPS has made up all kinds of lies about my husband and I and are even saying that my 2nd child was born addicted to heroin and she was not. CPS is trying to ruin my marriage, my children’s lives, and mine and my husband’s lives. My 4 year old thinks she’s not at home because I had a new baby and now she had to go bye-bye. I hate these people and when this is over I will find some kind of civil suit to file!

Comment by Rebekah — June 17, 2007 @ 7:29 am

Rebekah, congratulations on taking the methadone to try to recover from addiction. My experience is that drug cases can go either way. Sometimes drug users get their children back sooner than others, and sometimes not. Keep doing the service plan, and write your affidavit telling your side of the case to the judge.

This reminds me of a man I knew online a few years back, Nehmo. The letter from Susan is still available on the web and there are some links at the bottom of that page to more information.

Their baby, Blaze, was taken because she was using methadone while pregnant. The couple split up and Nehmo tried everything to meet the expectations of Missouri CPS but in the end, Blaze was adopted out anyhow.

That was one of the saddest cases of injustice I’ve seen.

Comment by Linda — June 17, 2007 @ 9:40 am

Hi,
I just found out tonight 6/16 from my two youngest children that childrens services showed up and interviewed them at school on Friday. I don’t know what to do. My husband and I lost our home 2 weeks ago and we are currently homeless. We are staying in a motel with our kids. My sisters, who are total bitches, reported to CPS, and accused me of doing drugs (I don’t even drink). Is there anyone out there who cares to give me some advice?

Comment by Laura — June 17, 2007 @ 10:17 pm

Laura, first of all, don’t panic. Stay calm. If children’s services thought your children were being abused, they would have taken them from the school last Friday when they were interviewed. Obviously they found no reason to detain them on an emergency basis, so you’re doing good so far.

The caseworker probably has to fulfill a certain procedure which probably includes interviewing everyone who lives in the household. When they arrive at your door be calm and explain that your sisters lied. Don’t say too much and don’t give them any leads.

You might want to take the kids to see a doctor to prove they’re in good shape. Don’t tell the doctor why you’re there or that CPS is in your life. Just get a well-child checkup if you haven’t had one recently, then request the doctor records in writing. If CPS decides to detain your kids, you’ll have evidence that you can take to court showing that your kids are A-OK.

I don’t know what else to suggest. I personally would not submit to a drug test without a court order but that’s because I’m 54, never have taken a drug test, and feel it is a violation of my Fourth Amendment rights. Your feelings on this may be different than mine and I’m sure you want to avoid court entirely, so use your own intuition to decide what to do if she requests one.

And I would not sign any type of “service plan”. You might want to see an attorney about this ASAP. Having a good attorney on your side on Day One will often turn CPS workers away because you’re no longer an easy target.

If you sign a “service plan” they’ve hooked you and you’ll be jumping through their hoops for a long time.

See my What To Do page. And remember, I’m not a lawyer and can’t give legal advice. I’m talking from the perspective of someone who’s experienced CPS as a parent.

To talk to others who have been through this, log onto the message board here at FightCPS.

Comment by Linda — June 18, 2007 @ 6:45 am

Please pray for REBECCA

I am writing to let you know that on June 29, 2007, my beautiful blue-eyed two year old baby daughter Rebecca is scheduled to be put up for adoption by Child Protective Services.

Rebecca’s mother is developmentally disabled, and we are not married. My mother and I have been involved in a court battle for custody since Rebecca was 3 months old. The baby’s maternal grandparents do not want their daughter to have a child, so Rebecca was referred to Child Protective Services. Because I have a previous criminal record from 15 years ago, CPS is using this as an excuse to prevent me from being awarded custody. I have paid my debts to society and therefore should not have a previous record held against me. CPS is determined to have my daughter put up for adoption because we have learned that the government will award them $30,000 if this takes place. I have done extensive legal research with our attorney and have found that CPS has broken numerous laws and policies in my case so that they will proceed with the adoption and receive the monetary award. However, CPS is very difficult to fight in court.

The court has mandated that Rebecca be placed in foster care on and off for the past 2 years. Her mother and I were awarded custody on 10/21/2005 but because Rebecca’s mother was unable to properly care for the child while I was at work, CPS became involved again and took my child again on December 22, 2006 – right before Christmas. Constantly being placed in foster care has been devastating to Rebecca, myself and my mother, as Rebecca is her first grandchild.

Rebecca has not received good care while in the foster care system. During visits with her, she has been voraciously hungry and screams and cries when taken away from me. I was giving her cottage cheese and bananas during my visits which she ate readily because she was so hungry. CPS is no longer allowing me to feed her in order to break the emotional and parental bond with me. She has had chronic diaper rash, and as you can see by the enclosed photographs, a mysterious red rash on her face. She did not have any of these problems when she was in my care.

CPS has refused to allow placement of Rebecca with a family member. There are several family members who are very suitable to take care of her, but CPS has made excuses why each is unsuitable so they can move forward with the adoption and receive the monetary award. My mother is very willing to obtain custody of Rebecca and that would be an excellent solution.

We are pleading for your help to influence the California Superior Court to have Rebecca’s custody awarded to a family member and not to a stranger. As a mother yourself, I know you can understand how devastating it would be to have your child taken from you and adopted out. This is a gross injustice to me and my family. We have provided a loving and caring home for Rebecca and will continue to do so. We beg of you to please help us to stop the adoption proceedings. We have very little time.

If you could give me 5 minutes of your time on the telephone, 408-401-1400 I would be eternally grateful.

With Heartfelt Thanks, Grandma Marliese Jamison 408-401-5660

Paul Jamison Father
Case No. xxx-xxxxx

Comment by Marliese Jamison — June 22, 2007 @ 10:43 am

On April 17, 2007 CPS came to my home and took my 4 children 3 boys 9,7,5 and my new born daughter of 2 months… 9 days later they where placed with my half sister Angela who has since turned on me like a viper!!! They have no proof of anything just he said she said…. I am so hurt and alone I miss them so much I can hardly stand it at times.. I know I will get them back…. but at what cost? they will not be to same happy children I raised.. they’ll be jaded..
I am really trying not to hold hate in my heart but I know CPS is trying to keep my little girl…. I really dont know what to do or what else i can be doing to speed this prosses….

thanks for listening 832-794-5566

Comment by Rebecca — June 22, 2007 @ 12:16 pm

If everyone got together with other people in thier state as a group started a civil suit against cps, they can’t argue with more than one person about the same thing.

Comment by star — June 26, 2007 @ 11:15 pm

visiting this website always helps to give me strenghth as i continue to fight for my children… it will be 8 months as of the 4th of july… yet there will be no freedom for us to celebrate that day…

Comment by stephanie laning — June 30, 2007 @ 8:48 am

Our family is currently dealing with cps . Due to an opinion of a doctor that is not familiar with Autistic children and their sensory issues. Now my husband and my kids father has been removed from our home. I do hope there is information out there to find. I am constantly in contact with all of the workers involved and now we are floating around in the paperwork shuffle. Our case keeps changing hands because I was told CPS is afraid they are going to mess up or do something wrong. Too late….. Good luck and best wishes to the families that are being destryed hope they make it through.

Comment by Jennifer Nolin — June 30, 2007 @ 6:37 pm

I’m A Big Fan Of This Website Because CPS (Or As My State Utah Calls It DCFS Division Of Child & Family Services) Destroyed My Family “In The Best Interest Of The Children” And All My Sons Talk About When It Comes To Each Other Is How Much They Miss Each Other & Wish They Could Be Together. I Have A Story To Tell & I’ve Told It. I’m Here Tonight Because I Want People To Join Me In The Fight To Bring Our Families Back Together So I’ve Started A Blog Network Called The Family Advocates Network Just For People With These Issues Like Me To Fight It Out. Sites Like Yours And Others Who Advocate Like I Do Just Piss Me Off, Get Me Fired Up & Get Me Motivated To Work With As Many Of You As Possible For The Same Common Goal - Bringing Our Kids Home. They’ve Done The Same Heartless Things To Thousands Of Families As I’ve Seen & I’ve Joined User Group After User Group Full Of Stories & The Same Heartbreak. I Want To Help. The Caring People In The Government Needs To Be Aware Of What’s Happening & Change This. How Can We Do This? Join Me PLEASE!!!!!!! http://familyadvocatesnetwork.21publish.com http://myspace.com/familyloveconquersall
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Comment by Shanni Sullivan - Einer — July 6, 2007 @ 10:22 pm

My son. Croix Andrew-kekoa bermudez-bain, was taken from me because I am an american indian that happens to be an alcoholic. I am a great person. I was told by the CPS people that I was to sign over my son or else. I didnt know what to do. People need to know their rights. Please call or E mail Peter Hughes @ rubiconmarketinggroup at gmail.com let him know how much this is effecting us. Trust ME

Comment by pamela — July 12, 2007 @ 11:05 am

My daughters child was taken due to false statements by her stepgrandmother an former CPS worker.
When she requested I call with her there, I told her they could not do anything, because no one saw my daughter drunk or abusing my grandchild. The CPS worker I spoke with said just that and did not even take my name. Suddenly the next day the CPS worker shows up at the stepgrandmothers home and confronts my daughter on leaving her child in the car while she pumps gas.
CPS tells her she has no other option but to sign the child over to the step grandmother (of only 2yrs). The stepgrandmother informs my daughter that I am the one who called. Seven months later the case has been unfounded and still my daughter can not get her child back.

Comment by gayle — July 13, 2007 @ 6:15 am

Pamela, the Federal government has passed a law for people like you. Its called the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1994. If your child is not carded, get it done immediately. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE CUSTODY OF YOUR CHILD IN ORDER TO GET HIM CARDED. THAT IS HIS BIRTHRIGHT. It is the right of the Tribe to AMMEND anything or CONTEST ANYTHING concerning a member. There are people who are willing to help you. http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/downloads/information_packets/icwa-pkt.pdf

I understand that this isn’t much, but it will help you understand YOUR RIGHTS as being an American Indian. My suggestion is to contact the human resources of your Tribe, they will assisst you anyway possible.

Comment by Naomi — July 19, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

please pray for myself and my daughters I went though post-partum spycosis last year. I could not even leave my home, I was so bad. Just recently about six or seven months ago I was diagnosed with boderline personality disorder. After awhile of being on major medication one for phsycotic and mood stablizers and panic disorder. I ended up relapsing with my anxiety unware of a relapse i thought it was just tress I had a few drinks thinking it would calm my nerves. With my grandmother just passing and my relationship going nowhere,I was falling apart fast and before I knew it I was in the hospitol because I overdose and almost died. I have alot of guilt and regrets because of my beautiful daughters and I have no one to blame but myself.I take my diagnosis more seriously now,and I want my daughters back. CPS makes up lies they say i am alcoholic which i havn’t drank in afew years. My daughters even tried to tell Lori the same thing but she won’t listen to us then she tried to accusse me of crack cocaine addict, I said would I have all this if i was I live on a beautiful lake by the way.I just got lucky. then she tried to accuse me of abussing my presription medication. she will try any thing to keep a case against me. sincerely,Rose Mattson

Comment by Rose Mattson — July 19, 2007 @ 6:47 pm

CPS and Investigating Officer Lied to the Court

My name is Nina Starns. I am a mother to 4 children, 2 biological and 2 step kids. In April 2007 my 2-year-old stepson returned home from his biological mother’s house with bruises covering his bottom. I took my stepson to his doctor whom reported the abuse to CPS. From that point, CPS and an officer began conducting an investigation that they botched from the beginning.

A CPS investigator, (Ed Dillon) and an officer (Kevin Hawley) came to our home and interviewed my stepson and my stepson told them 3 times that his biological mother hit him with a belt. CPS and the officer interviewed my stepson’s daycare provider because my stepson told the daycare provider that his biological mother hit him with a belt. Nonetheless, CPS and the officer could not determine where the abuse took place. CPS and the officer asked everyone (the biological mother, myself, and my husband) to submit to polygraph testing. My husband and I spoke with an attorney who advised us not to submit to polygraph testing and per his advice declined. The very day that we declined, CPS and the police officer removed my stepchildren from our care and placed them into protective custody.

The lies begin

CPS and the officer then reported to the court that the biological mother had submitted to polygraph testing and had passed with flying colors. In addition, CPS and the officer claimed to have a doctor’s report by Dr. Kenneth Feldman of Chidren’s hospital that had dated the bruises to have occurred when the children was in our care. Per this information, the children were returned to their biological mother and an Order for Protection was put in place against my husband.

In May 2007 I privately submitted to Polygraph Testing with the same examiner that the police use and the same that conducted the biological mother’s test. I passed. When we provided copies to the officer and to CPS they told us that the test was not important.

From the beginning, we did not believe that Dr. Kenneth Feldman had written any such report dating the bruises, and when we asked the police and CPS refused to make any report available to us. We ordered the CPS file and were told that we would receive it within 2 weeks. 1 ½ months later I called CPS to ask why we had not received the information. At first, I was told that we had never requested the information (even though my husband had physically gone into the office and completed the request form). Then, we were told that they had lost the file. Finally, on July 16, 2007 we received the file.

Included in the file is the biological mother’s Polygraph test result…. She DID NOT pass her polygraph test.
Included is Dr. Kenneth Feldman’s report and he DID NOT place any timeframe on the bruises and even specifically states that one cannot determine the age of bruises by their color.

The police officer and CPS lied to the court and as a result, the court has held the children from us for nearly 4 months now. We will be getting them back shortly however I feel that attention needs to be drawn to this matter. I have all of the documentation, including our countless attempts to seek information, all of which went unanswered by the officer and by the investigating CPS worker. We have letters, reports; we have all the facts and want CPS and the Officer held accountable for intentionally misrepresenting information to the court. There is more information to this story that I would like to tell; I was trying to keep this short for the time being.

Comment by Nina Starns — July 19, 2007 @ 8:50 pm

Hello,
i was told that CPS can do whatever they want becasue the laws are so fague and get away with it. Is this true? Everyone says I am good mom and even my social worker but they refuse to give my kids back becasue I want say my husband is guilty. How can I say that if I did not see anything? There is no physical evidence and her hymen is intact. He has not even found guilty in criminal court yet. His court date has not yet arrived but he thinks that the system is so corrupt and he is lawyer is not doing a good job and we have no more money so he is stuck with his lawyer and he is afriad that he will be found guilty because people believe that kids don’t make stuff like this up.

Comment by Dawn — July 21, 2007 @ 6:08 pm

Hello,
My kids are in foster care. My dad asked to them. They refused to give them to him. My brother wanted them and they won’t give them to him. They won’t let my family take them becasue they are supportive of me. Is there anything I can do. I had lawyer I wanted him to ask the court why in the permancy plan they tried to give them to family members, but that is not true. They never asked before splitting the kids up and putting them in foster care. My lawyer is not doing anything. He says CPS can do anything they want. i don’t know why I gave him all my money. He did not do anything for me.

Comment by Dawn — July 21, 2007 @ 7:25 pm

is your attorney court appointed or a private pay

Comment by immc6 — July 21, 2007 @ 9:51 pm

My husband and I were falsely accused of child abuse by his family. The accusations were ridiculous and outrageouse to say the least. Our case was determined “unfounded”. While going through the process of being investigated, the investigator herself told us that it was an open and shut case, she could clearly see that there were no signs of abuse. We asked her what our legal rights were, such as, can a person call again and again with these false allegations?, what happens after the case is determined “unfounded”? What does unfounded mean? What upsets me is that no information was given to us. She basically told me that I can be investigated over and over again. I’m not sure how other states work, but as for NY, in the letter informing us of the outcome of the case, in no way or form does it give us any information about expunging the case prior to my child becoming 18 years of age. So I looked on the website and there is no information regarding expungement either. Even though my case is unfounded it is still on record. Needless to say, I am livid. We who are falsely accused should be informed of all of our rights, especially if we ask for them. If anyone can empathize with me, please join me in writing to the Office of Children and Family Services requesting that information on expungement be provided on their website and in their letters. Their e-mail is info@ocfs.state.ny.us

Comment by Michele — July 21, 2007 @ 11:15 pm

i had two of my cusions living with me in foster care they where born in Geogia I live in Michigan me and my husbend was trying to adopt them till on March 23 2007 cps tolk them out of our home and sent them back to Georgia on lies my hubends family told cps they where telling them he was beating on me,we had a hearing down in Georgia on July 19 the judge told us we will not get them back they will stay in foster care till they turn 18 our cps report was clean no evidense of abuse was ever found…/ the judge did a phone interview from the person who told these lies and believed her over our story and our cps findings..Its not over we are going to fight to get this throughed out of court and fight this judge ( Roundtree) we want give up on these children please support our fight, if we have to fight till their 18 so be it..no law can make me and my husbend Stop Loving and Fighting for these children,if you know anyone who has been through this please or maybe yourself please point us in the right place thank You parents who want give up!!!!!!

Comment by odessa g. — July 22, 2007 @ 7:58 am

please feel free to contact me at mothergooseof2 -at- att.net or phone 517-763-7076

Comment by odessa g. — July 22, 2007 @ 8:00 am

As each case comes and goes, nothing is changing in this system. These people go to college get hired and receive pay with benefits and retirement plans for their future/ Since I lost my grandson thru tactics and I look back I want advice on how to write a book on my experiences and along with individuals tell their stories. The pain of these precious children lost, I fee thel need to come out. The public need to know what it was like to deal with these workers. What these experiences were like! These families are not saying there were no problems but the system is full of tactics and it need to be in the open. Remember our histroy lessons from school, the country france, cutting off people’s heads was considered a favorable pass time until people who yell and cryed and yell they did not want to died! Peopel did not thing it was fun to watch any more! Well the public do not know what kind of pain we go through unless they feel what we are feeling. Sure people are judgemental think we probably deserve to lose our love ones! But some people will wonder if there are ways to work around the problems and maybe help change the reform of these agencies! We are flesh made of flesh and blood and we can feel pain!

Comment by Arlene Allen — July 23, 2007 @ 4:35 pm

Since I am new at learning to type on this computer please forgive my typing skills!

Comment by Arlene Allen — July 23, 2007 @ 4:39 pm

HELP!!!!!!!!!!
my daughter was taken from me a year ago and they falsly accused me of child abuse they placed her in the care of my mother and and never even checked her out and if they had and still would they would find her very unstable seeing she allowed her husband to put me out when i was 8 mos pregnet anyway back to the point they put me into a position were i had no other option but to terminate my rights becuse they said if i dident they would terminate them and i couldent have no children they would take them from me they placed me in jail for abuse and rushed the case so i had no oppertunity to set up a decent lawyer and foundation for my self they all but killed me the same jude for my family case was the same judge for my criminal they backed me up into a corner and made me feel like i had no choice they influenced my 4 yr old child i was bad and gave her a physc evul that was compleatly off the wall since my mother wont allow me to speak to my daughter or allow anyone to even speak my name around her and my sister went up there to visit and snuck a call to her just a week ago my daughter sarted crying profoundly saying how bad she misses me and loves me and cryed herself to sleep saying i want my mommy it hurt so bad so iv decided to find a lawyer to help me reinstate my rights pleas pleas if you have any helpful information pleas e-mail me at brown_precious_angel@hotmail.com

Comment by Roxanne — July 23, 2007 @ 7:16 pm

Dear Kathy, Thank you for sharing your pain with us on this guestbook. I lost my grandson thru an quick 20 page homestudy report full of untruths 85% worth, not having money and a lawyer who told me to stop. But I want to know did you ever connect with the kinship program, Because for a year and ahalf they provided me with endless information and help me to come up with ideas. The lawyer who help me did not communicate much with me. So this agency works with families who are fighting to get their love ones. Yes they support child protective services yet they try to come up with ideas to help you. In this area where I am from, this agency might as well come from the planet Mars! Maybe where you are from they stand for alot more!

Comment by Arlene Allen — July 24, 2007 @ 5:10 pm

Iam still fighting C.P.S. in Brunswick Ga.Got a phone call last Friday by the new director for C.P.S in Ga. he told me that one of the children was going to be adopted and the other one was going to his father who just got out of jail and has a drug problem,what is wrong with this system?Have these people gone crazy no brains?Why would a judge put a child in a home with a drug additict?That supposely married the mother of the child who gave up both children at birth!!!! Judge got to be blind and doesn’t have any feelings of children,just push them under a rug and move onto the next case,and this new director called my husbend and told him he knew for a fact he was a wife beater! How can someone judge a person they have never meet?They do this so people will stop fighting,guess what I can keep figting as long as I got a breath in me,they will not get rid of me any time SOON….if you are fighting these systems,keep fighting call your governor,call someone in c.p.s. over everyone esle don’t give up,thats what they want you to do! Don’t stop fighting for your children,Iam not I will fight till they come home where they belong!God Bless You in Your Fight!

Comment by odessa g. — July 31, 2007 @ 7:58 am

This for all the parents above. It makes me wonder if the history of america isnt a lie to. Ive been watching and keeping a close eye on campaigns for elections and what i gathered by doing so its plain to see that our politics that run in this event they tell the public what the public wants hear so that they get the win over us. When they get into the gov. seat to were the election is being directed to weather its the presidental seat, or congress. what ever the case might be that person changes his character afterwords that is what i call self-centered egotisticle politics. Us as americans needs to realy look at that point of view they all change somehow after the fact. We need to pay more attention to this matter to get our government back to where our 4 fathers intended to be.

Comment by Johnny — July 31, 2007 @ 8:05 am

I live in Oregon, I’ve been to this site many times over the years. I enjoy Linda’s post and comments. I’ve contacted many State Reps and Senators in this state. State Reps say the Senators are in control of DHS. The Senators claim the State Reps are in charge. The Truth is DHS is in control and none of the state officals what change the policy or hold DHS accountable. To scared of the big, bad, child snatchers! This is one of the worst when it comes CPS, CSD, DHS or SCF, whatever name they choose to go by these days.

Comment by tlwaggoner — August 3, 2007 @ 3:19 pm

In 1999 the easthartford police department snatched my son Okari Wright from me during a insident in which I locked my keys in my car at a doctors appointment. The police said they thought I was a fugative from jamaica and incarcerated my son in the CPS sytem in Hartford Conneticut were he still presides. I’m a American citezen that had never even been to jamaica and was a University of Hartford student at the time. The problem comes were I moved back with my family in Rochester, NY and my son was suppose to be interstated and the Mob who runs the Department of Children and famlies in Conneticut illegally adopted him off. Then I had two more children in Rochester, NY in 2005 Imani Wright tehn in 2007 Nyashia Wright and this state and city decided to be copy cat criminals. I have already contacted the White House who are informed of the situations and have told me that I have a lawsuit out of this world. What can your orginization do to help?Please feel free to write me at Christine Wright P.O. Box 30707 Rochester, NY 14603

Comment by Christine Wright — August 8, 2007 @ 11:07 am

Christine, Fight CPS isn’t an organization. It is only a website that gives basic legal information to parents, points the way toward research opportunities, and provides a social networking self-help message board at http://forum.fightcps.com - that’s where you should go if you’re looking for help on this site. I never help people one-on-one because this site gets around 500 hits a day and there’s no way I could effectively help that many people individually. So I put all my Fight CPS energy into improving this website so it has the information that people need. Hope that helps. I suggest that anyone needing more help go to the message board where you can network with other victims of child protective services.

Comment by Linda — August 8, 2007 @ 9:17 pm

When I was almost 8 months pregnant I got Toxsemia. I didn’t know what it was at the time, and I took an over the counter cold/flu medicine. A two days later I ended up at the hospital, and my blood pressure was out of control. I was flown airevac to another hospital where they performed an emergency C-section. Somehow my baby’s hip was dislocated, but that’s another mystery of another story. After giving birth to my daughter, alligations were reported to CPS that I tested possitive for Methamphetamine. It was later determined as Amphetamine(which was the medicine I took). My daughter was removed from the hospital, later she was placed with my parents. My other children were left with me and their father. After false UA’s on both of us tested possitive for Methamphetamine, my other children were removed and placed with my parents. I requested copies of our UA results and was denied. CPS forced us to allow my parents Guardianship for 1 year, and to seek drug treatment, stating that if we didn’t follow this agreement they would come take our children and sever our rights. Then our case was closed as unsubstansiated. We are afraid to bring the children home because of the threats CPS made. We are are now going to seek legal advice. Please pray that the attorneys can turn this whole thing around so that CPS will be gone out of our lives.

Comment by Daya Colasacco — August 10, 2007 @ 2:41 am

CPS is a division of state and county that has been given too much power by people just like us.

We have allowed and supported social origanizations that lobby for the protection of children.

In some cases this has been good for the human rights we live by, but it has gotten to a point that social service agencies have been allowed to make alagations toward good parent that can’t be proven. But yet social services has become so powerful because good people thought they were protecting our children, but yet CPS has been allowed to convict the same people who supported them an gave them the power they have today.

It a sad day in the USA

Comment by Steve — September 1, 2007 @ 6:02 pm

Hello, My name is David Kranz. I have been involved with CPS since I was about 4 years old. I am not the one CPS was targeting I was the kid that was put in the middle of their acts…I am 18 years old now and finally got away from all the disasters. My parents divorced when I was about 6 years old. (give or take, mind you I was young.) And CPS has been in my life ever since because of my mom. Since I turned 18 both my parents finally allowed me to read all of the court transcipts and information regarding all the many of court cases me and my family were pulled into. After reading the papers (took a while but managed to get through it) I discovered that CPS wasn’t really there to help me and most of the problems in my past were because of them. I want to know who I talk to because to be honest, I want to go after them now that I am 18 and I need help as to where to start. I don’t want any other families or kids to have to go through what me and my family had to go through. So please someone help me out. Thank You.

David

Comment by David — September 3, 2007 @ 1:57 am

My experience with DSS was a long time ago but it totally destroyed my life. I was never the same afterward, as a person or as a mother. The internet was unheard of then, so I didn’t have a wonderful website like this to help me. I made every mistake in the book — I allowed DSS to enter my home, I gave them too much information, I kept trying to convince them that I was not a child abuser. I was so, so fortunate that my daughter was not removed from my home. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t have unendurable pain over being falsely accused. I signed a “service plan” agreeing to counseling and weekly home visits. I was told if I did not sign this plan, my child would probably be taken away. I felt as if I had just signed my soul over to the devil. My personal life was turned inside out; I felt so violated, so trapped and powerless. They took my life as it was then and made it fit their prototype of a child abuser. I was in the process of divorcing my husband, I was unemployed, I was extremely depressed, I was defensive and hostile, I had an anger management problem, I had no family or friends to lend emotional support. DSS wouldn’t even listen to my explanations. I was unemployed because I’d quit my job to stay home with my child because daycare cost more than I earned. Then I found out my husband was having an affair, so you bet I was angry. I was depressed, defensive and hostile because strangers had entered my home falsely accusing me of striking my child. I was without family support because they lived too far away geographically to be of much help. I was without a network of friends because we’d only lived in this town a year, and I’d been so busy with my job that I had no time to socialize. I was asked by DSS if my parents had beaten me, molested me, if I had ever used drugs or had a drinking problem. No, No, and No, but they just wouldn’t let up. I was asked if I knew how to cook healthy and nutritious meals, if I had problems with reading and writing (I only had a B.S. degree at that time, hello!), if I had ever committed an act of violence. (Not yet, but keep talking and I might). I was fairly certain of who had reported me and why, but I couldn’t prove it and I found out that if the report was made in good faith, there was nothing I could do, even if the charges proved to be false. Every Friday I lived in terror, waiting for the caseworker to make her home visit. She actually didn’t stay more than about 10 minutes, and I think now she knew the claims were false, but she had her job to protect. She told me she had been a high school history teacher before she became a social worker. She had no training or degree in social work at all. Yet she could decide whether my child was abused or not. A very hurtful part of this was my pediatrician. He had always been friendly to me before, but after I was falsely accused, his manner was cold as ice and he wouldn’t meet my eyes. Remember, I had volunteered too much information, and part of that was my pediatrician’s name. I actually thought DSS would be impressed that I took my child to the most prominent pediatrician in town. Yeah, right. I did have one bit of luck in the therapist they sent me to (one of theirs, they wouldn’t let me select my own). He was about to retire and I think he really didn’t give a crap about working with DSS anymore. He believed me, and he believed in me. He urged me to forget what had happened and to move on, but it remains something I have never quite been able to do. He disliked many of DSS’s methods, especially forcing people into counseling. He said, “How can we help someone who has been forced to come here? We can’t help people unless they want help.” After a few months, he wrote DSS a letter stating that he didn’t believe me to be a child abuser. DSS eventually closed my case, but as I said, I was never the same. I lived in fear for years, actually up until my daughter became a teenager, that I would be falsely accused again. I dreaded the normal bumps and bruises that come with an active child’s play because I was afraid someone would see them and think I did it. I stopped sleeping through the night, and often awoke with my heart pounding, thinking I heard DSS knocking at the door again. (For some reason, DSS never used the doorbell even though it was in plain sight. They knocked louder than necessary, perhaps to intimidate me.) When my child started school, I worried that if she had a bruise or bump from playing, a teacher would see it and turn me in. I was really, really paranoid. Once a car similar in make and color to my caseworker’s car turned into my driveway and I felt that terror wash over me again. But it was just a car turning around, not hers at all. Some of you may be wondering what I’m doing on this board since my case was closed years ago. I read the stories and postings with interest and wish I could help everyone. I don’t know what I advice I have to offer, because everyone’s case is different and really, it’s so much worse now that it was when I was accused. If I had anything to do differently, I would have consulted an attorney after DSS first came to my door. I believed then that since I was innocent, I didn’t need a lawyer. A different therapist who helped me over some rough changes last year said this to me: “Judy, it will end. It will be over.” I hope and pray that it will be over for all of you, soon.

Comment by Judy — September 3, 2007 @ 5:13 pm

CPS came to my door friday with totally false claims made by my sister (well, she denies it but its obviously her). They made no allegations of abuse, but instead attacked my husband and myself. I was accused of drug use, as was my husband. We were also accused of being homeless and unemployed–luckily these charges were immediately disproven. We readily let the social worker into our home–which if we were homeless, how did she even know where to look? duh! She said that the charges were unfounded and all we needed to do was to take a drug test and she would close the case. I know we will both pass as we do not do drugs or even drink. After reading all of your posts I’m so frightened that even after passing their test that this will not be the end of it. The worker went to my daughter (7yrs old) at school, pulled her out of class and interviewed her. From what I can gather she told the truth about everything, but I’m still scared to death. They have not taken my child, but I’m still on the verge of loosing my mind. My daughter is traumatized by this as well. She asked why the lady came to talk to her and I told her what her job was. Anyway, has anyone ever had an open and shut case? I trusted the worker–should I not have? Please help.

Comment by Laurie — September 3, 2007 @ 6:50 pm

Laurie, it sounds like you’re almost off the hook — once your drug tests come back clear, what else have they got on you? I would not trust any CPS worker, they may seem kind and sympathetic but they aren’t. I did not have an open and shut case, but a friend of mine did, I’ll call her Diane. She fired one of her employees and about 2 weeks later CPS came to her house with a “referral” on her. Diane was accused of hitting her children (who were 3 and 5), sending them to day care in filthy clothes, sending them to the church nursery on Sundays with bruises and scratches, saying she didn’t want them anymore. CPS came on a Monday morning, just when Diane had a week of vacation and was all set to enjoy it at home with her kids. The social worker threatened her with immediate removal of the kids if she didn’t cooperate. Diane told the worker that the accusations were false and totally ridiculous. She explained about the fired employee and said it had to be that person trying to get back at her. The social worker said maybe, but we still have to investigate. Diane had to give the names of her kids’ daycare, the caregivers at the church nursery, and 3 personal references who would attest to her character and parenting abilities. The worker didn’t take the kids away since they were clean, healthy, and showed no signs of physical abuse. Diane immediately called a lawyer, who advised her to sit tight and wait to hear from CPS. He also told her not to talk to anyone about it. He told her that since the children were not removed immediately, they probably wouldn’t be. Long story short, Diane’s case was closed in a few days because there was no evidence of abuse. But the damage CPS did to her character and reputation was irreparable. CPS contacted Diane’s daycare center and the caregiver of the church nursery. While these people told the truth (clean clothes on the kids, no signs of bruises and scratches), they also gossiped about it. Rumors and half-truths spread everywhere. Diane was treated like dirt by the daycare staff and the church nursery staff. She felt that everywhere she went, people were staring at her and talking about her, wondering if she was an unfit mother. She was positive that the fired employee had accused her to get revenge, but her lawyer told her she had no way of proving it since the call made to CPS was anonymous. But this fired employee knew her very well, she tried to destroy every part of Diane’s life that was meaningful to her — church, vacation, friends. It’s amazing what people will do to get revenge. The person Diane fired had been given every opportunity to turn herself around at work, but chose not to take advantage of it. Long story short, yes, there are open and shut cases.

Comment by Judy — September 4, 2007 @ 4:29 pm

As a child abuse investigator I can GUARANTEE you that we do not come out looking for reasons to take your child. You obviously don’t believe that we care about the children, so look at it this way - taking children creates MUCH more work for us and therefore I would certainly rather the children stay with their families so that I can go home to mine instead of working late. You are also very uninformed about how CPS works. We do not get any benefits from taking children, we do not have certain numbers of children we have to take each month. Every time we hear someone say that it makes us laugh because it is so rediculous. There is aboslutely no benefit to us in removing a child. It does nothing but create more work for all of us. You are doing a great disservice to children who are being abused, by encouraging people to be uncooperative and hide things from CPS. If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to talk to the CPI, show them medical records, take a drug test, etc. You clearly had something to hide which is why you had a bad experience with CPS. And by the way, telling the school in writing (or having your attorney tell the school in writing) not to allow CPS access to your child does not work. By law, the school has no choice but to allow us access to the children. And also, refusing to let your child talk to CPS can result in your child being taken away for no reason. If the allegations are serious enough, CPS can get a court order to take your child into custody just for the purpose of interviewing them. The best and quickest way to get rid of CPS is to answer their questions and show them you have nothing to hide. There will always be plenty of people like you, trying to convince the world that CPS is evil and does nothing but ruin people’s lives. It is sad because you are helping to place more children at risk and making it harder for children who need help to get it. There are many children who need CPS intervention in their lives. By encouraging their parents to lie and be uncooperative, you are responsible for those children being hurt. Yes, CPS gets alot of false reports called in by ex- husbands and wives or someone seeking revenge against someone. Very often I knock on doors and talk to people who are not abusing their children and should never have had a report made against them. It is unfortunate that people do that to each other, and I am all for prosecuting people who make false reports and waste my time. But you have no idea the number of children out there who are suffering at the hands of their parents. And it is for those children that I come to work every day. I am certain there are CPS workers who are insensitive and take children who may not need to be taken. But that is certainly the rare exception, not the rule. It takes concrete evidence to get a judge to sign off on the removal of a child. It doesn’t happen with no basis. I have done this job for 9 years and it certainly isn’t for the money, because I barely make enough to pay my bills. It is rediculous to suggest people do this for the money. The pay is pathetic and definitely doesn’t make up for the stress and abuse we tolerate in this field. I, along with most other CPS workers, are here because we believe every child deserves a safe home. Unless you have done this job (not just worked for CPS, but done the job of investigating child abuse) then you have no clue the horrible things we see every day that people do to their kids. You should be thanking us for looking out for those children because we do save lives every day. I have had children as young as 6 years old, thank me for taking them somewhere they feel safe. Just like in any other job, mistakes can be made and I’m sure there have been children taken that may not have needed to be taken. But I personally have never seen that occur in 9 years of doing this job. It is extremely rare. You would be better served focusing your energy on ways to make sure children are safe, rather than assisting the abusers in finding ways to impede the investigation. There are plenty of people ready to jump on the bandwagon with people like you, because I have yet to remove a child without having the parents in court insisting the are being harrassed and people are lying about them. However, nine times out of ten, no one is lying but the parents themselves. I work very hard at my job, and I care very much about the children I talk to every day. You are certainly entitled to have this website so you can vent your frustration and talk with other people who want to bad-mouth CPS. But all your rambling on this website doesn’t change the facts - CPS cares about children, CPS does not look for reasons to take kids. Every day we face uncooperative and obnoxious adults saying things like you have said on this website. Fortunately, none of us who do this job care about the opinions of people like you who are more concerned about spouting off their bitter feelings than they are about child safety. We here at CPS get a good laugh when we see websites like this, because the things said on them are so far from the truth that it’s funny to us. We will continue to do our jobs regardless of what people say. Our focus is on making sure kids are safe, and as long as we are doing that it does not matter to us that people like you have to bad mouth us in order to make yourselves feel better. Enjoy your site - enjoy venting and talking with other bitter people. Luckily for all of you, it won’t stop us from looking out for the kids.

Comment by Karrie — September 6, 2007 @ 7:49 am

Karrie, I have this website because I’ve seen outright LIES in numerous social worker court reports, because the courts don’t honor Constitutional Rights, and because parents in this situation need some legal knowledge and social support.

You DO receive a paycheck, so you DO do this job for money. There can be no denying it. If your paycheck doesn’t cover your bills, you need to learn better money management skills.

I don’t need or want your approval of my site. But you talk about ‘venting’ and being ‘bitter’. That sounds like a great description of what you just wrote.

Comment by Linda — September 6, 2007 @ 8:19 am

I know I’ve said this before, but this is a great resource!!! Keep up the good work!!!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/197433400

Comment by Dawn — September 6, 2007 @ 9:02 pm

Once again, it is so rediculous to say we do this for the money. If I were doing a job just for the purpose of getting money, I would surely be doing something else. My co-workers and I just got a good laugh out of that one. None of us are here for the money, that’s for sure. As for learning better money management, you have no clue how much I get paid or what it costs to maintain a home and care for my family. It has nothing to do with money management, but someone like you apparently cannot understand that. I’m not sure what part of my comment sounded bitter. I’d really like to know what I’m supposedly bitter about. You are the only one here sounding bitter. I am happy at my job and enjoy helping children and families, so I’m not sure exactly what there is to be bitter about. I’m certainly tired of people like you spouting off when they don’t know what they are talking about, but it’s part of my job and I’m surely not losing any sleep over it because I hear comments like yours almost every day. The important thing is, that there are people like myself and my co-workers looking out for the safety of children. Fortunately there are people like us who care enough to do this. You are right that people who lose custody of their children do need legal advice. But that is just it - they need real legal advice from attorneys. Things you have suggested on this site are actually things that could result in more people losing their children, so it is irresponsible of you to do that. People need to know how the system really works, and you (or anyone not working in the system) just simply do not have that knowledge and understanding. I don’t have any doubt whatsoever that there are incidents when caseworkers lie. In any job or any field of work there are people who don’t do their job correctly and should not be there, so it would be just as foolish for me to say no one does that as it is for you to say we all do that! But as I said before, that is the rare exception. So to encourage people to believe that all of us are like that is rediculous and immature. It would be no different than if I tried to say that every person I investigate is just the same and they are all liars. That is equally as rediculous. How can you not see that? If you want to point out particular people or situations in which you have specific knowledge of lies being told, that would be the more appropriate and responsible thing to do. As opposed to what you seem to do on this website which is try to suggest we are “all the same”. Can’t you see how that is so rediculous that it takes away from your credibility? Anyway, I just find it sad that this sort of website gives out so much inaccurate and false information. You guys should all be able to vent to each other and talk about how much you hate CPS. You have every right to that and it doesn’t bother me a bit. The problem I have with this website is that you utilize it to give people advice such as the “ten things to do if you are being investigated by CPS”. I do not want to see more people losing their children, and many of the things you suggested could result in that. I have done this job for nearly ten years and have handled hundreds and hundreds of investigations. I have actually removed children from their parents in probably less than10% of my cases. If you look into the numbers, you will see that that is generally the case. Taking people’s children creates more work for us and costs the system more money. We definitely do not want your kids - we want them to be safe at home with their parents. Sadly, there are times when that is not possible and only in those extreme cases are the children taken. Parents who lose custody of their children want to blame everyone else rather than take responsibility and do what they need to do to learn from the experience and become better parents. Which is why almost everyone who has lost their kids to CPS has so many stories about how it was all lies that caused the removal. That is nearly never the case. So please, vent all your frustration and talk about how you hate us all. Have at it. But be careful how you advise people, because if people take all of your advice they are greatly increasing the chances of losing their children. And try to remember, those of use who do this job are humans. We have all cried over situations we have seen. It breaks my heart to take children from their parents. I’m sure you will always choose to believe the lies that we don’t care and are wanting to take people’s children. I’m not looking to change your mind, because I don’t really care about people’s opinions. I’m just asking you to be careful - and consider that giving people advice when you do not have the knowledge to do so can be very damaging. If you find specific people in this sytem lying and doing things inappropriately, do everything you can to file complaints and report those people to the authorities. But stop making rediculous generalizations. I’m not kidding when I say that the things on this site are so far from the truth that we sat here in the CPS office and laughed at the idea that people actually believe we want to take kids and enjoy doing it. That’s just so rediculous. You can continue to believe that, and I am sure you will. But you are wrong.

Comment by Karrie — September 7, 2007 @ 10:16 am

karrie it is ridiclous that you and your terorists gang at the cps office sit back and laugh at other’s pain and it looks as though you enjoy seperating families. it also appears that you do care that families hate you, or you would not be on this site trying to justify the wrongs of cps on families. further more you are not doing any service by destroying families and wasting tax payer’s money and laughing about it when you should be doing a real service for families, not against them. god is watching you, when you meet your maker you beter hope your not still laughing.

Comment by Christy — September 7, 2007 @ 11:59 am

Kerrie,
Your comments just go to show how insensitive CPS workers are. You say several times in both posts how you and your fellow workers are reading this site and laughing. Laughing at what people’s pain? Behind every post here is a family either torn appart by CPS or one going through hell because of them. If you feel your agency is doing such a good job then why when you look at the stats published on gov websites does it say children are more likely to be abused/neglected and murderd in the care of the state than in thier own home? Look some families on here do need some services but are they provided? Usually not, usually the state just jumps to take the kids. Other families on here don’t need the services and the services are pushed on them. Child abuse does occur no doubt and yes we do need to help those children but in some cases no abuse or neglect really happened yet people are raked through the coals and lives are distroyed in the process. I know so many people in my area who had to deal with cps it isn’t funny and only one would I say actually needed the help. The rest were good parents who took good care of thier kids. I have also met foster parents who have stated that several placements they have had obviously did not need to be taken from the parents and when they tried to do something about it they were threatend with being shut down. CPS around here also selectivly inforces it’s own rules. In one home they will pull a child for domestic violance occuring and in another home where the exact same thing is happening they do nothing and close the case. There are 3 kids that live in the house behind me, you can here the mom yelling at them, cursing them, smacking them, you can hear the dad beating them, these kids are violent, rude and none of the other kids around here are allowed to play with them. I’ve been to the cops twice and the other neighbor called cps. Nothing has been done at all. I’ve not even seen cps out there! This is a case where the kids need protection yet nothing is done. That is what your wonderfull system does ignores the kids in need and distroys the families of people who do not need the help. I have a social worker come to my house once a week from a cps contract agency who tells me nothing is wrong here I have good parenting skills I handle things like I should etc the one that came before her said the same thing and yet cps won’t give up and admit they are wrong. They still say I slap my daughter across the face and in therapy my daughter told the therapist when asked “does your mom hit you?” she said “I wish she would just hit me and get it over with instead of me having to write things like 10 reasons why I shouldn’t do … or an I’m sorry letter” They also say my daughter who was 9 at the time touched her 6 year old step sister when two therapist say there is no reason to belive this child was molested or is molesting others. My kids are also all on honor roll, clean, dressed for the weather, well fed, go to doctors and dentists regularly etc yet I’m still an abusive/neglectful mother. The doctors and therapist are just waiting to be called to court to testify FOR me. I know what your saying when you say that you see shuch horrible things in some homes I go to the school to volenteer allthe time and see kids I just want to take home with me and show what a loving family is like and it breaks my heart but I know I can’t. Abuse does exist but the system abuses too and until your agency can get it together you need to step back and look at the bigger problem and the bigger problem is you. Oh and if your working so hard on helping children why are all of you standing around reading this site and laughing when there are children needing your assistance out there. Now get off the internet and go do your damn job!

Comment by Debbie — September 7, 2007 @ 3:21 pm

Karrie. You DO get a paycheck. You DO work as a CPS caseworker for money. What’s so hard to understand about that? Why do you deny it? Where do you get your money if it isn’t from your pathetic family-destroying job?

As far as claiming there’s false information on this site, give specific examples. Give us links and direct quotes. I’m willing to correct any information that is proven false.

And I’m with Debbie - if your group of CPS workers sits around the CPS office laughing at a group of traumatized parents, you’re not only a bunch of wicked insane losers, you’re also stealing taxpayer money by wasting time on the internet, and not doing your jobs.

Comment by Linda — September 7, 2007 @ 3:50 pm

Kerrie, you mentioned caring for your family so I’m assuming you have children. How do you think you might feel if a social worker knocked on your door and said “we have a referral on you”. Wouldn’t you go into defense mode? What if your child had a bruise he’d gotten while playing, and someone thought you’d hit him and called CPS? And the more you tried to defend yourself against this false accusation, the more CPS thought you were guilty. I think this website is great and I only wish it had been around when CPS destroyed my life. If the posters are bitter, they have a right to be. No one’s life is ever the same after enduring the pain and humiliation of being falsely accused of child abuse. I applaud them for being willing to share their stories and maybe help someone else. I have never felt as trapped, powerless, and isolated as I did during the time I was subjected to home visits and forced into counseling by CPS. I had nothing to hide because I was innocent, but I was also a very private person. The more I tried to cooperate, the worse it got. Don’t judge the posters on this website until you have walked in their shoes.

Comment by Judy — September 7, 2007 @ 11:56 pm

The comments from the CPS worker sicken me. I’m writing from B.C. Canada,and I can tell you it’s the same here.It’s called the Ministry of Child and Family “Development”,or MCFD,but I think the”D”stands for “Destruction”!I might’ve had some sympathy for the worker if I knew of even one family (or child) who could say they got some help.But even the few I’ve met who acknowledge there was a need for help never got any. Now,I’m not here to vent my bitterness- I’m way past that point .What I want is to see a change.Yes,my children were abducted by the “system”,and my boys are home now,thank God,but they still have my daughter.This Christmas will be two years since she was taken by strangers in the night.The allegation was that my husband sexually assaulted her in the bathtub.She was 9 yrs old at the time,having a bath with her little brother who was almost 2 then.My husband went in to find out what was going on when he heard little one crying,and saw that my daughter’s hair wasn’t washed yet after almost an hour in there.So,he said,”Wash your hair,or I’ll wash it for you!”She yelled “No!Go away!Don’t touch me!”,understandably offended at the idea that she wasn’t capable of doing it herself.This incident led to a charge of sexual assault.Here’s how:Two months earlier,my 20 yr old stepson and his girlfriend came to stay with us.Their newborn baby girl had been placed with us because of concerns that they were using crystal meth and seriously neglecting baby.(They were.Baby was in terrible shape when she came.)After some weeks of partying,the young couple got kicked out of where they were.My husband and I agreed to let them stay with us,provided they stayed off drugs and did their best to help care for their own child. At first,it seemed like they were.But the girlfriend wasn’t happy with the arrangement,and started looking for a way to discredit my husband or me,or both.She gave my daughter the idea that if her stepdad was gone, maybe her real dad could come back, and the best way to get me to throw him out was to make me think he was touching her.My daughter started acting so strangely,I actually got suspicious.I voiced my suspicions to a couple of friends,and carefully questioned my daughter.Her responses struck me as odd,like asking what would happen if he was touching her,but not saying he did.I confirmed that if it had happened, he would absolutely be gone,immediately,and he’d likely go to jail,too,which is where child molesters belong.She said he’d never done anything and promised to tell me if anyone ever did.I watched my husband’s every move. Then, when the bathtub thing happened,my step-son’s girlfriend made her move and called in her report.She then told me that my daughter had told her about being abused by my husband,told my daughter that my husband had done things to her in her sleep(!!!)and told the police that he had confessed to me!When MCFD came to investigate,I co-operated with them completely.I had no idea at that point what was true,and if my husband had done anything like what was being said,I think I would’ve killed him myself!The worker questioned my daughter,and she denied anything had happened,so he said he would close the file.But instead he started questioning all my friends and neighbors,pressuring everyone for anything they could think of that might be incriminating.Naturally,some of them recalled my recent suspicions.Suddenly,every little thing started to sound like signs of abuse.Two days before Christmas,a social worker appeared at our home with two police cars and an ultimatum:Either my husband leaves,or they take my daughter.We complied.My husband left.The next day,my daughter asked me if her real dad could come back now.When I said no,and explained why not,she started crying and the whole story came out,how she thought she could just get him into a little bit of trouble so he would have to go.Realizing he could go to jail,she said”We have to help him,Mommy!” She insisted that I take his presents to him so he wouldn’t think she hates him.I tried to assure her everything would be okay,and made arrangements for her to stay at her aunt’s house,since the atmosphere at home was insane.It didn’t help,though.MCFD took her anyway,because her aunt panicked .My step-son and his girlfriend had accompanied my daughter to her aunt’s house at the insistence of MCFD and repeated their ugly story to her.(I still hadn’t clued in to the true source of it all).The aunt immediately called MCFD and put my daughter on a bus.Once they had her in custody, the police started their interrogation.They grilled her for over four hours in one session,three hours in another.They only taped a small part of it,and it’s heartbreakingly obvious from the transcripts how she was co-erced.Right at the end,after denying repeatedly that anything happened,begging over and over to go home,the cop asks,”Did he touch you?” She lays her head on her arm and says,”(sigh)Yes.Can I go home now,please?”(Just so you know,as I’m typing this,I can barely see the screen through my tears)I still can’t recount how they took my youngest son without weeping uncontrollably,ripping my 2yr old from his brother’s arms while slamming me onto the hood of a police car,my baby screaming in terror.There weren’t even any protection concerns regarding the boys, only that I had been seen in town with my husband when I dropped off his gifts.Two months later the courts ruled they’d had no grounds to take my boys and ordered that they be returned.While in “care”,my youngest got so sick,he was put on inhalers for asthma.After he came home,MCFD insisted I continue giving him these meds even though the side effects caused muscle tremors and bloating.I took him to our family doctor.He found no signs of asthma.I took him to a naturopath who found no signs of asthma,and finally to a pediatrician of MCFD’s choice who confimed-no asthma.All three doctors said my son’s symptoms were likely caused by diet and severe anxiety.They also confirmed that these medications can be dangerous to non-asthmatic children.More than a year later,my son is still terrified of police.What’s even more disturbing are things my daughter said during visits before we were cut off completely,such as being taken to a “clinic”where she has to take all her clothes off so they can take pictures to put on a computer screen.(These “examinations”didn’t start until she’d already been in care for 8 months.)She also said her fostermom’s boyfriend got so drunk he came in her room in his underwear.I’ve been denied all contact now because the visit superviser read my diary.In it, I had written all my fears and concens.I had kept it in the bathroom,and my daughter had started using it to write to me.At one point I wrote to her to tell the judge what she told me about wanting her real dad back,what my step-son’s girlfriend told her and how the police made her feel.As a result,the police came with a search warrant and seized everything in my house with my handwriting on it,including everything I had documented about MCFD’s conduct in our case.None of it was ever returned.When copies were sent to my lawyer, everything to do with MCFD was missing:Every page to do with visits,names,dates,conversations with workers,anything I could use in court to strengthen my case-gone.I was charged and convicted for Obstruction of Justice and am now serving 15 months on house arrest.My husband’s trial has been put off three times now,but not by his lawyer.It’s set to continue in October.I think they’re hoping to wear my daughter down enough so she’ll testify against him.So far,she has testified twice that he did not at any time sexually assault her.At this point,I don’t even care if he’s convicted,I just want the nightmare to end.I am heartsick over what is being done to my daughter.Even if he really had done what they say,(which she says he didn’t),the way they’ve handled this has traumatized every one of us deeply,especially my daughter,the one they’re supposed to be protecting.I know that no-one can actually help us except God Himself,so if you’re the kind of person who prays,please pray for my daughter(Elise).But maybe if we can somehow work together to expose the corruption and the glaring flaws in the system,other families could be spared from some of this agony.I’m sure plenty of workers out there really want to help children,but the fact is they are defeating their own purpose.Thank you for your time.And…DON’T GIVE UP!!!

Comment by Anna Wood — September 9, 2007 @ 1:29 am

P.S. If you are in B.C.,and want to contact me,call me @ 604-869-2822

Comment by Anna Wood — September 9, 2007 @ 1:42 am

Although i have never met you Karrie,,,, it appears to me after reading your comments,,,, you are a very evil person. And enjoy causing a great deal of pain to people. And like to laugh at this. Was your great great grandfather”s name Hitler???

Comment by Wendy — September 9, 2007 @ 6:23 am

We are in San Diego, CA. We are looking to start a support/advocacy group within our area. If you are being victimized by CPS, contact us. There is strength in numbers! (619) 966-8369

Comment by Kesha — September 11, 2007 @ 1:20 pm

Also, if anyone can offer any advice or resources to help families & children in SD, CA. Please call too! We are glad to hear from anyone that will give support.

Comment by Kesha — September 11, 2007 @ 1:28 pm

Kerrie,
I have been coming to this web-site for roughly two years. I have not posted much in the last few months. You talk about CPS being a good organization, your freaking nuts. I don’t know what state or county you may work for, but I’m in California. CPS in California is instructed to place children in foster homes if they can get way with it. Your people do it for the federal funds. You know that as well as I do.
I have deal with CPS. I have spent thousands of dollars for attorneys to defend my grandchildren and myself from the false allegations made by your people.
I had a CPS manager lie to a judge. She stated she had the evidence to support the allegations she was making against my family. My attorney asked her to provide him with the evidence. The case was postponed 38 times in 26 weeks, then the federal funding for the foster care ran out so she withdrew the charges against my family, saying she made a mistake. My grandchildren were returned to me late that day and we have not heard a word from them for 10 months now. Now you tell me that CPS is good for our citizens. BS

Comment by Steve — September 14, 2007 @ 9:43 pm

Just heard the most heart-breaking story at my knitting group today. Lynne has been trying to get her 7 year old grandson back for months. Her daughter abandoned him when he was a year old & Lynne raised him until he was removed from her home by DSS. Apparently when she picked him up from a birthday party, he had a total meltdown, refused to leave, kicked and screamed, and Lynne spanked him. Not abusively, but a few swats to his rear. Someone reported her and he was taken away from her. It is the worst travesty of justice that he was not returned to her. She went through what everyone on this board has — having her entire life turned inside out, accused of abuse which she had not committed. Yes she spanked him and probably if she’d realized how unwise it is now to spank a child in public, she wouldn’t have. But in her day, spanking was appropriate. Not abusively, but enough to let the child know that his behavior was inappropriate. DSS said that the child needed to be with his “real” parents but Lynne’s daughter is an alcoholic and the child’s father doesn’t want him. Lynne has spent thousands of dollars in legal fees and said today she was broke and can no longer pay her attorney. She put her head down on the table and cried, and we all tried to comfort her. She has lost so much weight and looks horrible. I gave her the name of this website and told her she could find information that would help her. She is allowed to see her grandson under supervision only. He cries and asks her when he can come home. I hope somehow she can get him back.

Comment by Judy — September 15, 2007 @ 4:41 pm

Dear Judy:

Thank you so much for this example of how CPS runs amuck.

THEY ARE AN INDUSTRY.
And think of how much bewilderment and pain her Grandson must be experiencing!

I do not know what state you live in, but this kind of treatment is INHUMAN.

Suggest your knitting group contact your local poltico. Or Grandmom does!

She must hook up with someone in her state. Suggest looking at http://www.familyrights.us for Members and Friends in your state.

There is also a URL for local groups which AFRA lists on the Website.

Let us hope the grandkid is not fodder for this destructive industry.

Comment by Fern — September 16, 2007 @ 6:58 am

i am a aunt thats nephew is in foster care, and have been ignored and lied to from the state workers about me beable to take my nephew in our home, and have it in emails of there comments, now they just ignore me when i send an email because they now know i keep all emails. he has been in foster care fro over a year now he is now 2 years old and calling the foster parents mommy and daddy and the social worker says thats ok !!. the foster parents lied in court and said that my nephew was uncomportable when he was over last… when it was them that was uncomportable because he called the foster mom mommy and i said no its amy not mommy. and she didn’t like it. there is so much more, can anyone help me please. my email is available davidtawnyh -at- yahoo.com,,, please , they are now putting him up for adoption and the foster parents want him.. this has been the states (welfare)agenda all along. because when he first went in the head lady in my welfare office in my town said we don’t want him to “get used to me” for when he goes up for adoption i don’t want him confused. and this was in the beginning. so it was what they wanted, they told me i had to go threw this foster home programm i did, and still nothing.

Comment by tawny — September 19, 2007 @ 4:43 am

I’m just being investigated by cps and already i can tell its all about money, everyone needs to make money thats what its all about

Comment by heather — September 19, 2007 @ 7:45 am

Oh my god, CPS workers will avoid any and all contact from any of us. beleave me, this is the words of experence. Our Grandbabys were taken illeagally. (per the judge) we were lied to, deceived, forced into supervised visits, after the judge said it was not neccessary. I spent over 100k on attorneys, we went through CPS home inspection. We were told we would get custody. they streched it out for over a year. my daughter had it moved to a different county and we finnally go the kids out of foster care. the system is a joke. these people are trained to lie to everyone, and they get away with it. scary, very scary. this is no different than dealing with the mob. I am sorry iam so negitive, I just hate the bastards for what they did to my family.

Comment by Steve — September 19, 2007 @ 8:27 pm

Please know that the same problems experienced with CPS also happens with APS (ADULT Protective Services) and that is my situation.

I have an adult son, disabled since birth, who NO State or Federal Agency would help me for his many, many special needs over all these years. Now, because of a lady who had tried to become his rep-payee (SSI$) and failed, she was angry and made horrible accusations. They were proven false. But, while I had APS’s ATTENTION, I begged for much needed services like dental treatent and a Day Care Program etc.(There’s no funding in my state for that but APS has the funding to help fill te gap)

BUT-NOTHING! They refuse to help. I guess I need to call and report myself for not meeting his dental care and other needs to get help. (BTW- I AM ALSO A DISABLED ADULT ON SSDI)

Prior to THAT- I myself had called APS to report that my disabled adult son had been physically beaten in a group-home. There was MUCH evidence and witnesses. APS NEVER FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH ANY OF THAT.

This site is the only one I found that offers so much information/education and tips. Even though it’s for CPS, much of it applies and I feel very supported.

Thanks for all the info. and support!

Comment by Glory — September 21, 2007 @ 1:37 pm

Our CPS case happened around six years ago. Due to one malicious false accusation, which soon was expounded by social workers who made up and added new delusional accusations of their own to assist in prosecution of our family, we had two of our four children abducted from the school and spent 1 1/2 years in foster homes, and my wife and I were “founded” of abuse by a group of deluded social workers and a judge who never questioned CPS’s word. There was no evidence ever found or presented, and we were never allowed to speak in defense. Our lawyer claimed that it would be best if we held our tongue, and fought CPS with kindness. Our children were finally returned after CPS and the courts had drained our life savings. I wanted, so much, to sue the S.O.B.’s for the injustices we suffered, if only to reassure my faith in our court systems, but as time went on, I found the impossibility of doing so due to the “self-protection” CPS imposes in league with the court system.

Even though it happened so long ago, I still hate CPS. Our indoctrination to the CPS agency was truly an eye opening and life changing event, and will not ever be forgotten.

The reason I’m posting is to show support for the people here struggling with CPS’s wrongdoings. Don’t give up the fight.

I want to add, just for laughs, some of the accusations CPS accused us of. Keep in mind, the abducted kids were 13yrs and 14yrs old.

1. Not insuring brushing of teeth.
2. Over-feeding
3. Under-feeding
4. Forcing them to go out and play.
5. Forcing them to stay inside the house.
6. Not allowing them to feed their fish.
7. Making them go swimming in the pool.
8. Not allowing them to go swimming with friends.
9. One of the kids reported we bruised her kneecaps, don’t know where this came from, it came up after she had spent a while in a group home comparing stories with other kids. Guess she felt left out since she didn’t have any horror story to tell.

I really can’t think of any other accusations that occurred, but based on those, we were founded of “cruel punishment”.

Comment by Philip Gray — September 26, 2007 @ 7:27 am

about four yrs. ago i had two children taken from me after i reported sexual abuse done to my dhtr. he got 7 yrs. probation and i was left with no children and a past that seems to huant me now. not to mention that his family now has custody of my two children who get to have no contact with me. i find it amazing that cps can say i neglected my children when i tryied to do what was right. i had little knowledge about the law and an attorney that said he could get my kids back if only i had more money. now im trying to find someone to help me get my children back. i have been looking all this time but seem to run in to dead ends.

Comment by terrestia moore — October 2, 2007 @ 2:24 pm

our children were kidnapped by cps in mendocino county california march19 2004 we still havent got them back .Destiny Hogan, Annalea Hogan Ayla Martin Richard Martin. We lovr our children we will fight cps till our deathday if any one knows where our children are please get in touch with us Alan and Bonnie

Comment by alan hogan — October 4, 2007 @ 2:18 am

I have had my 3 kids taken away when I was in the hospital after having a baby. CPS came to the hospital and took my newborn and I didn’t eve

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