Iowa: CPS Social Worker Charged With Perjury during TPR Hearing
The WCF Courier reported:
Marie Mahler, 39, of Cedar Falls, filed three reports between Aug. 27, 2004, and Oct. 7, 2004, used in a juvenile court case that she “knew or reasonably should have known were false” and that the reports would be used by a judge to make a decision in the case, according to court records obtained by the Courier.
Mahler repeatedly included misrepresentations of conversations, events and relationships of the people involved with the case, according to court records.
Court records say she claimed that Jesup police officers were called to the mother’s home for a drug investigation in August 2004. Records indicate an officer was called to the home not for drugs, but to prevent an altercation between two siblings. No signs of drugs were found.
Mahler, who has been a Buchanan County social worker since 1998, pleaded ‘not guilty’.
Roger Munns, a spokesman for her employer, the Iowa Department of Human Services, said “This is really quite unusual.”
Yes, we know that caseworkers lie in court documents and get away with it, and that having one criminally charged is unusual. However we hope that this will become common practice to stop lying CPS social workers everywhere.
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Would you like to see your caseworker charged criminally for lying about you? If so, keep this in mind:
While the offenses occurred in 2004, Bernau said Mahler is exempt from Iowa’s statute of limitations law because she is still a state employee. In most felony cases, charges have to be filed within three years of the offense. However, that three-year period begins for state employees only after they are no longer working for the state.
Perjury is a Class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
(This is per Iowa state law. Your state laws may be different - do the research.)
Source: Social worker charged with perjury, by
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If you have ever had a caseworker lie about you in a court document, please leave a comment to this post, and tell us about it.
I’ve seen way too many lies in social worker reports to the courts.
It’s time for this criminal practice to result in prison sentences. Every perjury conviction will be a victory!
Dwight Scroggins, the Buchanan County, Iowa prosecutor, deserves credit for seeking a conviction of Ms. Mahler. Perjury is perhaps the most difficult of criminal charges to prove. Iowa’s perjury statute (I.S. 720.2) is fortunately broad; some states require the perjured statement to be inconsistent with a prior statement, rather than simply false. Iowa’s statute also applies to a statement under oath that falsely denies knowledge of material facts.
On March 7, 2005, Indiana Department of Child Services (“IDCS”) Caseworker Tracy Strong swore a perjured statement to the court in a complaint against me alleging neglect of my son. I consulted with counsel who had spent years in the Marion County Prosecutor’s office as a prosecuting attorney; because there was no prior inconsistent statement with the alleged perjury, there was no case to make against this caseworker. The conduct also may have constituted Official Misconduct under Indiana state law, a class-A misdemeanor with a two year statute of limitations at that time. Official Misconduct is now a class-D felony with a five year statute of limitations in Indiana.
I exhausted all avenues to hold this caseworker accountable for the crimes she committed against my family; my son was removed without a judicial warrant, probable cause, or emergency circumstances as well. I drafted a complaint against her, using a charging instrument for the crimes of perjury, official misconduct, and criminal confinement, to be certain that I pled facts supporting all of the elements of these crimes, and then had that complaint notarized with a jurat seal (including my driver’s license number for identification to the notary public). I pled my case to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office and to the state Inspector General’s office.
Neither office would proceed with a case against the caseworker because the matter was before a court in the neglect proceeding, and they did not wish to disrupt that proceeding. The IDCS attorney sought repeated continuances in the case, eventually motioning orally for the Court to release wardship of my son and close the case without adjudication. The proposed order was given to the Court by the state’s attorney on March 6, 2007, and signed by the Judge on March 7, 2007, two years from the filing of the complaint against me and the day the statute of limitations tolled on the crimes of perjury and official misconduct.
Indiana’s criminal confinement statute has never been applied to a State DCS caseworker who removes a child without judicial warrant or emergency circumstances. The emergency circumstances under precedent of SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the the United States) which allow a warrantless removal of a child are “imminent danger to life or limb”, and many jurisdictions interpret this to mean that CPS agencies must respond within an hour to the complaint. Indiana’s criminal confinement statute requires proof of the element of fraud. The statute has been applied to a parent who deceived a supervised visitation provider about their travel destination in order to take her children back, leaving the visitation provider stranded on the side of the road.
During the pendency of the trial against me, and because such a suit must be filed within one year of the incident, I filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the caseworker and her supervisor for the warrantless removal of my son and the perjury (42 U.S.C. 1983). The Southern District of Indiana Court abstained and dismissed my civil suit, because it would disrupt Federal-State comity (“involving the federal courts’ willingness to rule on a state law in the absence of decision by a state court on the same issue”).
My conscience is clear. Under our form of government, private citizens have no right to prosecute crimes that are committed against them. I took every step possible to hold Tracy Strong, and her supervisor Peggy Surbey, responsible for the crimes they committed and the severe harm they caused my son, and my state failed me by ignoring my pleas. Neglect proceedings are required under Indiana statute to complete within sixty days, or one-hundred-twenty days with waiver by the respondent; the two years these individuals prolonged the proceeding utterly bankrupted my family, destroyed my enjoyment of life, and devastated my son.
IDCS was a criminal agency when I was a ward of the court for dependency as a teen-ager, and remains a criminal agency today under the direction of Jim Payne, the former elected Marion County Juvenile Court judge. My hope is to publish information that will assist others in holding CPS agencies accountable for their actions.
Sincerely,
Kevin Brown
Indianapolis, Indiana
Comment by Kevin Brown — June 14, 2007 @ 9:06 am
Yes, the case workers name is Andrea Parker. She lied on an affidavit that she saw drugs, cock roaches, dog fecies, and that the apt was a mess.
None of this was true. She later admitted to the Judge that she did not see these things.
However, the Judge is still using those lies to rule on the case and not give my daughter her baby back.
Comment by Diando — June 14, 2007 @ 10:21 am
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Comment by Shanni Sullivan-Einer — June 14, 2007 @ 1:21 pm
We actually have the court evidence on tape that our caseworker lied.
When the caseworker was on the stand our daughter’s lawyer asked her if she called our daughter at anytime to inform her of the hearing. She said that she did.
We were blessed with a really close friend of our daughter’s who paid for and obtained the cell phone records.
When our daughter got on the stand her lawyer asked her if the caseworker called her at anytime to inform her of the hearing. Our daughter told the lawyer and the court that she did not receive any phone calls from the caseworker. The lawyer then showed our daughter her cell phone records and asked her to verify if this was her cell phone #(she did not have a land phone).
Our daughter replied yes and he asked her if it showed any calls from her caseworker which it did not.
There were gasps from all of the cps workers and their lawyer and the caseworker. (Get this….their lawyer was one of the state’s assistant attorney generals’)
We also have on record all of the lies they told because we filed our Declaration of Facts. We went against the lawyers wishes. He wasn’t our lawyer and my husband was going to testify so we were allowed to file it.
The para legal helped our daughter file her Dec of Facts. The lawyer didn’t like that either.
Comment by Ruth — June 14, 2007 @ 4:41 pm
BTW, thank you for the info.
Comment by Ruth — June 14, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Parents:
If you are ever victim of a case worker lieing about you, or treating you badly, remember you do have rights. Get the name of their supervisor and report it. If the supervisor doesn’t help you, go to his or her boss, which is usually the Program Director. If the matter is not resolved, you can file a complaint with Client Relations through the state agency that pays the CPS agency to provide services. You can find that number by searching “Complaints against CPS” under the Child Welfare state website.
Comment by Kelly — June 14, 2007 @ 6:16 pm
Kelly, we did that and more. It didn’t work in our state. My two daughters and husband did a lot of the filing of complaints. I do know that it reached the very top of the agency.
Comment by Ruth — June 14, 2007 @ 6:35 pm
I’ve received a lot of help by writing to my state legislators from time to time regarding agency matters (not just CPS). The state legislator’s office is quick to help voters.
Comment by Linda — June 15, 2007 @ 6:22 am
I have had about 20 continuances and each court date had 1 or more lies told by: the welfare lawyer, the social worker, the so-called guardian ad litem. I have a huge stack of paperwork that when it boils down to what is actually true in any of it would maybe equal (at most) 4 pieces of paper (one sided) :p I am proceeding with reporting this county to the House of reps. and am pretty much doing this whole battle alone. There is not one lawyer in this county that I have found who aren’t tied tightly to the judge and the court system. the 2 people I had found who were fair and honest have both left (one retired and one went to work in Santa Rosa) I am working on declarations of facts, motions and things along those lines and have a major list and other bad behavior on the social workers part…you can contact me at the email address provided, if anyone can offer anything from moral support to a dang good lawyer, please contact
Comment by Starmama — June 15, 2007 @ 9:06 am
Starmama… just a note to say that the email addresses are hidden on this blog system for your own protection (from spam) however if anyone wants to contact you I will be happy to forward a request. Just leave your request here on this page.
Comment by Linda — June 15, 2007 @ 1:57 pm
While we’re on this topic I will tell you about a family I knew. A baby girl, Mathalena, was taken by CPS because of a household accident that did absolutely no harm to the child. The doctor called CPS because the mother was crying hysterically. She was worried about her baby, though as it turned out the baby was just fine.
The mother, Cindy, came to me with her court papers and I read through the list of allegations, which were truly absurd. One allegation was that the mother fed the child “inappropriate greasy food” during a home visit when she was one. I asked what that was, and the mother said it was a fried egg. Another allegation was that the mother gave the child a trike that was not age-appropriate. Well, I got a photo of the child sitting on her new toy trike, and had it published in the local newspaper with an article about the false allegations. The trike was exactly the right size for the one-year-old child, and had no pedals. It was meant for a child that age.
The caseworker that got away with telling these ridiculous lies in the court document was someone I knew personally as I had worked with her in the past. In fact, at one time I’d considered her a friend before she started working for CPS. But when I saw the lies and false allegations she wrote, I was shocked and disgusted. I exposed her lies and her name in the local weekly newspaper where everyone could see what she was up to.
That was done in around 1990 in Tulare County, California. By now, the child, who grew up in an adoptive non-family home, should be an adult.
Mathalena, if you’re out there, if you ever google your name and find this, I want you to know that your mother tried to get you back and suffered because you were gone. She did nothing to hurt or harm you.
Comment by Linda — June 15, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
The County of Riverside has lied and altered my husband criminal records stating he was convited of a drug trafficing and rape 41 years ago. Also, the county said our nephew didn’t want to live with us and our neighborhood was gang infested and our nephew did not know us. He has known us all his life, we would babysit for his father when he was living. All lies. Our nephew was bitten in the chest and a crank pipe found in the foster home. This has prevented us from adopting our nephew after his father’s death. And now he is going to be put up for adpotion next month.
Comment by Portia — June 16, 2007 @ 11:19 pm
I’m sorry, Portia… my heart aches for your tragedy. This is so typical of CPS smear jobs and lies. Anything to separate a child from his natural family. It is sick. This country is sick because of it. We have generations of children who don’t know that their families loved them, who are taught that their families didn’t want them. They grieve. The poor children are psychologically affected by the separation. There is no healing. I am so very sorry that your nephew is being caught up in this insanity and forced into an unnecessary adoption.
Comment by Linda — June 17, 2007 @ 2:58 am
I fought DCF/FIP for 3 years in St.Augustine FL-was acquitted by jury April 19,2005-moved back to Port Townsend WA and have just had a case opened for more unsubstantiated reasons, in which FL is involved. Please see archive article from front page of St..Augustine Record 4/20/2005-Mother Wins DCF Fight. I need support, advice, attorney, etc. This has devastated us spiritually, emotionally, professionally. Please view my paintings by going to any search engine -Elizabeth Marin-painter. I pray someone will see this and help us.
Comment by Marin Chorneau — June 19, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
Hi, I’m from Fort Collins, Colorado. I have been involved with CPS for 1 year now. My social worker Lori Metz, and the county attorney, Linda Connors, have a hand in this PERJURY thing. I recently had a baby girl, and went on maternity leave. I had her in a different State where guardianship was granted by a court, BUT Larimer County Social Services needed to meddle. Lori Metz gave false information to this State, and that state went and took the baby from the court appointed guardians, just so SRS could give her back to them, under the state’s eye. Lori Metz VIOLATED a court visitation order, and made me leave my recorder in the car with my purse. In the last court date, the county attorney had the grandparents of my son LIE and say that during my maternity leave I did not contact my son, at all. When I produced these records, his tuned changed, saying he must have been mistaken. Then I found out my therapist Dr. Gary Ranch who works for psychHorizons.com is Their expert witness against me, said horrible things on the stand, and then I found out he is MARRIED to a social worker!!! These people LIE and are encouraged to lie by the county Attorney on the stand, just to keep my children away. Larimer County Social Services need to stop LYING to get children taken away from Loving Parents like myself! They are given this power to protect children, and instead are using a heavy hand to LIE to the Judge under Oath and sign documents that they use as a key to lock our children away from their parents. Please, is anybody else in Larimer County going through this Hell?
Comment by Darlene — June 20, 2007 @ 8:49 am
we had a case worker that lied so badly and the commissioner let her.Her name is SHANNA SALAVIN….I live in the tri-cites of washington what she said about me is still hunting me and it is terriable that she still gets to work in the office here…..they tried to take my grand daughter on the things she said about me and i feel she should be brought to justice and i just don’t know how to do it she made me lose my job i can’t get a good job because of all that she said about me and i can’t seem to get past the lies at times i still cry…….she wrote a book on me and none of it was ture and she never has be help accoutable for all she said we never even got to defend our selfs in the court here she did all the talking and then we got a differnt lawyer and he got the ball rolling and we got a baby back but the commisioner told my daughter if they ever get a call again from anyone about us that our little girl would be removed for ever and i got contempted of court because i couldn’t stand the lies that was coming out of SHANNA SALAVINS MOUTH i stood up and said you all are liers and i got put in jail…..and fined 2500 dollars…..she was a witch hunt when we were in chicago to visit family she had a amber alert out for my grand daughter and we got back she had our baby taken for 2 months we did get her back though the grace of god…..but she just lied…..the things she said about me i can’t even put done just put it this way i’d reather have been a drug dealer theN what she said and the commissioner just let her lie and say it in court it made me so sick i had to say something i lost everyhing that day and little by little i have gotten something back but i can’t for get the lies and what my grand daughter must have gone through over her lies i want justice still she is still working for our cps offiece and still lieing about other good people …..i go to court to be suppoerter and give people there rights……well thank you for litening but what she dose is all wrong…..and our state lets case workers like her get by with it …….and comissioner MALONE IS JUST AS EVIL WHAT KIND OF SYSTEM IS THAT LETS A DEFENDER IN THE COURT ROOM BE DEFENDER AND PROSCUTER THAT IS WHAT COMMISSIONER MALONE LET HAPPEN AND HER DEFEDER/PROSCUTER HER NAME IS DAINE ANDERSON SO WHAT JUSTICE DO MOST OF US HAVE HERE……NONE AND KIDS ARE BEING TAKEN ON ALL LIES IN OUR AREA BECAUSE COMMISSIONER MALONE LETS IT HAPPEN….PEOPLE LIKE SHANNA SALAVIN NEED TO COME TO REAL JUSTICE……..THNAK YOU MELINDA BOCOOK….MY SON-LAW DID THIS TO ME BECAUSE I WOULDN’T PAY BILLS NO MORE FOR HIM AND MY DAUGHTER SO HE CALLED CPS ON ME WHILE WE WERE GONE …
Comment by Melinda — June 24, 2007 @ 7:19 am
Oh a social worker lie… couldn’t be! Yeah right! Get this one: she lied right in the petition on things that I have actual proof didn’t happen. First she put that a call came in Jan 06 that my 9 year old daughter sucked my boyfriends 6 year old daughter’s breast and it was “substantiated” and that we refused services. Wrong! The social worker that came to investigate said neither child indicated it happened when she spoke to them at school then she came to the house and saw the kids playing together and having a good time and I explained that the kids overheard a conversation on breastfeeding and the 6 year old’s mother made a stink about it and wouldn’t you know she was the one who called the complaint in. So the social worker sent us a paper saying “allegations of abuse neglect of were investigated” the child is safe in the home. No case was open at that time no services offered. So that is lie one that I can prove.
Lie two was when the next claim by the child’s mother came in but this time it was not only breast sucking it had graduated to fondling. So the investigation went on. They went to the school again, talked to the kids, but this time the 6 year old was better rehearsed by her mother so she said that she was touched but the 9 year old did not say she did anything wrong. This social worker (different from the first one) said in her letter that “abuse/neglect was investigated and that it was founded but child was still “safe in the home and future risk was minimal to low” a case was open but the social worker told be because there were 2 claims now they wanted to make sure nothing was wrong. I said I want to make sure it isn’t going on either and that is why I already put the 9 year old in therapy and the therapist doesn’t think it is going on either. However the court papers said that we didn’t cooperate with them when we did. They sent a social worker with something called “together in recovery” to the house who low and behold was the first social worker who investigated the first charge and she just got mad that they were putting us through this and helped us find an lawyer and filed reports that were very positive.
Third time the 6 year olds mom made a report was after the child went with the mom for the summer and the kid came on father’s day and had her older half sister with her. Also there that day were 2 other adults: a teacher, her aunt, and an uncle, a bus driver. Neither one of them saw anything wrong or were told this child was doing anything to these 2 kids but none the less a report was filed and the 6 year old was not to come back to the home for the school year. So she removed the child without a court order to go live with her mom. I later found out that she can’t remove a kid without a court order. So in 2 claims the child was safe in the home third time the child wasn’t in the home so it didn’t say one way or another. Then in the court papers it had my 4 kids listed with the older step sister and the 6 year old and all the papers (3 total) from cps say either that the allegations of abuse/neglect that were investigated were only on the 6 year old (2 of them) and the half sister (1 of them) So if no investigation was done on the other 4 kids why are they listed in there?
Plus there were a list of services that she put were offered but weren’t, and one of them doesn’t even exist! The whole thing should be tossed and according to the lawyer probably will be. Of course this will be after the $2,500 I’ve already payed in lawyer’s fees plus they made my 9 year old feel like crap because she now thinks nobody believes her.
Comment by Debbie — June 27, 2007 @ 5:35 pm
This has been happening for 15 months, and now while I am in my TPR trial, my children are starting to slip right through my fingers. It has been several people lying on my case and several workers. And during my trial I find out more information, that is false. I have way too many people against me to even win this thing. It has been an awful experience and I am not sure what will come of it. Read my blog on myspace, to get more details… http://www.myspace.com/bdaddiction choa…
Comment by startingover — June 29, 2007 @ 5:38 pm
I would suggest some of you to actually investigate these so called lies. Linda maybe you should talk to the bio father and maybe you would change your opinion on this trumped up charge of perjury. To the rest of you there was a reason why it was reported to DHS to begin with.
Comment by Darrin — July 18, 2007 @ 7:23 pm
Darrin, I just “love” these unrealistic ideas about what I should be doing with my time. Do you think I have nothing to do but sit around my house working on fightcps.com? Get real. I work for a living. I work two jobs. This site gets very little of my time - so when do you expect me to go to all the effort of tracking down a “bio father” (sick way of referring to a child’s God-given natural father) and interviewing him? Tell you what. It is YOUR idea. YOU take the time to find the guy and get his story, write an article, and get back to me about it.
Comment by Linda — July 18, 2007 @ 8:32 pm
And by the way, Darrin… CPS social workers DO lie. I’ve seen it way too many times in court documents. It is pathetic, but real. Why do you think I’m so incensed I started this site and keep maintaining it year after year? I’m tired of seeing poor defenseless young people slandered and lied about, and their kids ripped from them unjustly. It is inhuman cruelty of the worst order. I can’t tolerate it. How can you?
Comment by Linda — July 18, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
Linda, GET REAL. You are definately part of the problem, and have no sense of a solution. Darrin suggested that you may be misinformed. No one should just take the word of an “injured” party without checking out the facts. The point is that you DON’T have the time to check out whether someone might be coming onto your site and lying about their case. You just allow people to come onto this site and put their perspectives on without checking them out. How do you KNOW they aren’t lying? Prison’s are overflowing with innocent victims. Oh, yea, it only matters if the person is attacking CPS.
And by the way Linda… we all know the media always tells the truth. Again, GET REAL!
Carla
Comment by Carla — July 19, 2007 @ 7:21 am
Hey Darrin! Keep those balanced and realistic perspecitves coming.
Carla
Comment by Carla — July 19, 2007 @ 7:26 am
Carla, if you don’t like the site you can turn your back on it and forget about it. I suggest you do that before I’m forced to ban your IP number, which I’ll do as soon as I’m tired of your behavior here.
Comment by Linda — July 19, 2007 @ 8:34 am
By the way, Carla, don’t you have children to take care of? Who’s watching them while you’re playing around on the internet? Is this a case of child neglect? Should someone report you?
Comment by Linda — July 19, 2007 @ 8:37 am
State officials are backing a social worker charged with filing false reports in a juvenile court case in Buchanan County.
Marie Mahler, 34, of Cedar Falls, faces three counts of perjury for allegedly providing incorrect information between Aug. 27, 2004, and Oct. 7, 2004. The reports were used to determine placement of a girl and two boys.
Included in her reports were misrepresentations of conversations, events and relationships of the people involved with the case, according to court documents obtained by the Courier. In one instance, Mahler allegedly reported Jesup police searched the home of the mother of the three children for drugs in August 2004. Police were called to the home, but to prevent an altercation between two siblings, according to records. No signs of drugs were found at the time, court records state.
The Iowa Department of Human Services maintains Mahler did nothing wrong, and the agency’s director, Kevin Concannon, offered to have the department pay Mahler’s legal fees. The Iowa Attorney General’s Office, however, advised that the human services department does not have legal authority to do that.
“It is the department’s position that Ms. Mahler has not committed any crime that we’re aware of, and as a result, Director Concannon believed it would be appropriate to use department funds for her defense,” spokesman Roger Munns said.
Munns noted the case was reviewed two years ago when DHS officials received complaints about Mahler. Those came from Rick and Debbie Morris of Cedar Falls, aunt and uncle of the children in the case.
Two children, a boy and a girl, were placed with the Morrises after the youngsters’ mother, Denise Gander, tested positive for methamphetamine in 2004, according to court records. The third child was already 18 years old at the time.
The young boy and girl had signs of methamphetamine in their systems, records indicate. The state initiated legal proceedings as a child-in-need-of-assistance case in Feb. 2004.
The girl’s father, Allen Gardner of Tripoli, said he doesn’t believe Mahler will be convicted. Allen Gardner won full custody of the couple’s daughter, but not until after a protracted legal battle.
Allen Gardner said the atmosphere between the opposing sides in the case at times was so foul the Morrises — Denise Gander’s relatives — and Gardner could only communicate by trading a notebook with information about visitations with the girl.
Besides Mahler, three other social workers were also involved in the case, Allen Gardner said. He and his wife, Tammy, said they thought Mahler and the other social workers treated everyone the same.
“She was so by the book…. ,” Allen Gardner said. “There’s no way she’d turn around and lie to a judge about this (stuff.”
Allen Gardner said he didn’t know about the perjury investigation until recently. He said some of the people involved in the initial custody case, specifically the Morrises, are “just being vindictive.”
Calls by the Courier to the Morrises seeking comment were not returned.
Mahler is actively working on cases in Buchanan County, according to DHS records. Her trial is scheduled Aug. 8 in Buchanan County District Court.
Delaware County Attorney John Bernau was appointed special prosecutor in the case because of a potential conflict of interest for the Buchanan County Attorney’s Office, which represented Mahler’s cases in juvenile court proceedings.
Perjury is a Class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Comment by Darrin — July 19, 2007 @ 8:33 pm
Linda as you can see that the paper has changed her age twice and alot of the info has not been investigated by this reporter. I was just trying to point out that when people make accusations without researching the problems just continue to grow. I’m sorry for any issues you may have had but not everyone that works for Social services lie. By reading both articles I believe that the Bio Father and child are doing well with one another. What do you feel is so unjust about a child being placed with a bio parent?
Comment by Darrin — July 19, 2007 @ 8:42 pm
Darrin, like most people, I believe people should abstain from recreational drugs while raising children. However I also believe that CPS caseworkers should abstain from lying about the families they destroy.
Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtue. Lying is an evil deed, especially when used in this type of situation, in court, against parents who don’t know how to defend themselves and who can’t afford to get good lawyers.
My concern here is that I’ve read many CPS social worker court reports, and I’ve almost always found them to be full of misrepresentations, inaccuracies, misunderstandings, twistings of the truth, and yes, at times, outright lies.
Should families be torn apart in the legal system because some hot-shot in a county office can twist the truth and make anyone look bad? I don’t think so. So if they can start convicting the liars in the system, I’ll be very pleased, as will any parent here who has ever gone to court and had to face a report full of disgusting, shocking lies written by a so-called professional social worker.
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I was very interested in the article you posted because it mentioned the head of social services, Kevin Concannon. WOW… did that name ever ring a bell with me. I wrote a letter to the editor of a Maine newspaper about that man a few years ago.
You see, he was the head of social services in Maine at the time that a five-year-old girl named Logan Marr was killed by a social worker who’d quit her job so that she could be a foster parent to Logan and her sister. She intended to adopt the two girls.
Logan died after being duct-taped to a high chair in the social worker’s basement. Apparently there was duct tape on her mouth and she suffocated. Some child-saver that social worker turned out to be!
Logan Marr was the subject of an absolutely amazing documentary program on Frontline, a PBS program. The entire show with lots of supplementary information is available online: The Taking of Logan Marr.
Here’s a link to the letter I wrote about Kevin Concannon after he insulted the dead child’s grieving mother by saying it was her fault: Letter to Maine Today about Kevin Concannon. Apparently he quit that state and moved to another. Sick, sick, sick. But that’s probably the kind of compassionless mentality they want in a state social service director’s position.
To give a little background information - the girls were taken because their mother had been under CPS radar for years since the children were babies, and when she had a relationship with a boyfriend the caseworker didn’t approve of, CPS workers swooped in and kidnapped the children. There was absolutely no child abuse or neglect involved on the part of the natural mother. They intended to terminate the mother’s parental rights so the social worker could adopt the girls.
After the social worker killed five-year-old Logan Marr, she went to prison (but not for long enough) and eventually the natural mother got her younger daughter back.
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And you asked my opinion on the “bio father” having custody. First of all, we are not “bio” parents. We are PARENTS. That’s all you have to say. I am happy to hear that one of the children is with her father. That’s so much better than being placed with non-family foster caretakers. However if she was taken from her mother on the basis of lies, it is unjust. If this is the case, I cannot help but hope that the mother-child bond will be restored.
Comment by Linda — July 19, 2007 @ 11:17 pm
The social worker who has lied in court about me on more than one occasion is Jennifer Yuan. She works for Tioga County CPS. She has never investigated me but yet finds that I have “mental problems”. When I took my Psychologist to court to testify she stated that I DO NOT have “mental problems”. But the judge took the work of the case worker not the PSYCHOLIGIST! Hmmm, who would know about my mental being a trained professional or a case worker? There have been many other lies she has made findings of and was never investigated. While in court I did not get a chance to talk nor my witnesses. I have been fighting CPS for 2 years. I will continue to fight until my babies are home where they belong! CPS needs to be stopped. The courts need to realize that some of the caseworkers are on power trips and think that they are God. I don’t understand why it is okay for them to rip your children out of a loving home?
Thank you Linda for this site. It is nice to know that I am not the only one who is being unjustly accused and having my children unjustly taken from me. It is really sad that when your children are placed in an abusive home and you have proof and take it that you get stuck with the same case worker and she doesn’t check the reports and then turns around and files another FALSE accusation against you. Who do you turn to?
Comment by Lisa Stauder — July 20, 2007 @ 8:39 am
This is to the comments.
All of the DSS social workers I have worked with have lied, so there.
I have a friend who worked for DSS after college. Well, she is a big ass liar and use to talk about what she would do to people.
Lastly, when I was in court I wear suits. DSS workers thought I was an attorney and would talk about how they lied to take children away.
So, from my experience if 100% of the workers I have dealt with lie, than I am sure most of them lie on a statistical level.
Besides, you don’t know about false allegations till it has happened to you. Don’t comment unless you have experienced the other side.
Comment by Sabena — July 24, 2007 @ 11:14 am
The lies they use are well used.cps does it over and over again. remember they do this for a living so they are good at it.our social worker was found to have been unprofessional in our case. she let our case go to another worker after that. it was harder for her to misinform the court after that so she moved on.we had the older kids removed some time ago. the youngest were taken from birth because of an open cps case on the older kids.now the older kids are home but they do not want to return the little ones.we are facing a termination trial for the youngest 3.they are adorable 2 year old and 1 year old twins.the twins we were told both had genital herpes.since then we found that not proven but it was not looked at by a docter for 5 weeks.we complained for many months that the “rash was horible and down to their knees.my husband got false charges in his refferals so it looked to the provider that he had a history of assault charges.he has no criminal record.the foster placement was told that I was on drugs while pregnate and that I physically abused my infant-neither is true but that is what she told the docter in the medical records .the court ordered that the medical records be corrected but they were not.the foster placement also told the docter that we wanted to give up our newborn twins for adoption-we would never.this foster placement has called our kids by other names since they have had them .the court ordered them to stop but they still do.cps does “foster care retention”that promotes bonding with our kids in the foster home.It is a sick system-the machine that destroys families. the kids were not “better off” when they came home. it is sick people who would want to steal other peoples kids
Comment by elaine jo — August 4, 2007 @ 12:30 am
What do I do if I can prove my innocents and that no one ever investigated me? My child was dropped off at daycare at 7 AM and they called DHS accusing me of abuse at 3:30 PM which is eight and a half hours later. This was also after they claimed that my 17 month old fell off a ladder at 10:15 AM. The findings they turned in to the DA were confirmed injury from spanking and threat of harm to my 4 yr old. I am waiting on a hearing now, because the DA filed a petition in juvinille court. If DHS doesn’t request any medical information about my kids which is required by policy, isn’t that neglect or child endangerment? I have so many questions, but I don’t know where to turn. My lawyer did not want to hear any of this because she said if we tried to fight it they could take my kids for longer. They won’t let me appeal the findings because the court has already filed a petition. The only way they could justify this is by lying in their documentation, but they say I can’t get any of the documents and it is not covered by the Freedom of Information Act. How can they keep my kids if I can prove I never hurt them? Please if anyone has any information, send it to me or post it here. All I can do now is keep searching.
Comment by Josh — August 29, 2007 @ 4:29 pm
Yes CPS lies. My severely handicapped child was taken recently not for abuse, not for neglect but “just in case”.
We have been harrassed for 6 yrs. by anonymouse complaints all unfounded. Yes I pissed the county off I stood up to them demanded they do their jobs and since then they have tried every trick in the book.
We have written proof and documents and made these avail. right away. LOL
We were not allowed to speak at either hearing. Nothing was addressed.
My daughter grows weaker everday she has not been fed orally for a month. Why? she has a feeding tube for supplements and they force feed her now. She begs for food and drinks. Its horrible. She was fed to much and yesterday on my husbands visit with her he found she had aspirated as a result. We have prevented this by meticulous care in feeding her for 3 years. Everyday she will get sicker and weaker because they refuse to listen to us on how to feed her properly.
The petition to remove her is based on lies and half truths.
ie we missed 50% of her drs. apts at UCDavis. Truth: She had 1 apt we missed that apt. but called an hour before and said we couldnt be there. We rescheduled it for 2 days later and attended.
She is malnourished 12 yrs old. 5′0 tall 47lbs.
Truth: She is 4′0 57 lbs 12 yrs old. She was 19 ozs. when she was born.
Mom was 4′5 90lbs as an adult.
Her chances of reaching 6′0 anytime soon are slim.
She has spastic Cerebral Palsy which burns more calories than you can consume normally hence the supplements. She had major spine surgery and lost 3-4 lbs. She has steadly gained weight every month for 7 months. (all documented).
They say we endanger her by feeding her real food.
Truth: She has eaten by mouth for 10 yrs!!!!!!!!! Had numerous swallow studies and been cleared by 5 different doctors.
This is typical of the complaint afew other idiots accusations all along the same caliber.
So Im more than happy to provide copies to this board.
People wake up! This can be you. And btw I am white middle class America. (the accusations will enevitably be we are low income black or trailer trash, crack heads etc). My income clear each month $4000.00 after taxes.
I do not have a record, although I have a couple unpaid tickets. Our life is devoted 100% to her care. No vacations, no dates, no golf, no parties etc.We have full family support and physicians also.
Yet my baby is gone and will probaly die before anyone intervenes.
Thank you PLACER COUNTY CPS
Comment by Suzy Taylor — November 29, 2007 @ 10:15 am
Read this!
2 measures target caseworkers
By James Thalman
Deseret Morning News
Published: November 6, 2007
Two bills targeting child abuse caseworkers who make false claims were approved Monday by the Legislature’s chief child welfare oversight committee.
One would change state law to require that the mandatory education and training of caseworkers by the state Division of Child and Family Services include programs in recognizing and responding to attempts to manipulate or misuse the system to favor one side or another.
The second revokes the usual immunity granted to state government employees for any child abuse caseworker who knowingly or willfully provided false information or fabricated evidence in the conduct of an abuse investigation.
People such as private detectives or neighbors who assist in an abuse inquiry and who provide false or misleading information and knew it was false at the time would also not be immune.
Despite concern that the two bills were essentially restating what is already routine operation of DCFS, the lawmakers ultimately agreed that specifically stated language would allow some recourse for someone who is victimized by the irresponsible behavior of a caseworker.
There may be duplication within the law, said Tom Vaughn, general counsel to the Child Welfare Legislative Oversight Panel. “The existing statutes talk about good faith,” Vaughn said. “This clarifies and actually spells out what exactly is bad faith.”
“What if someone is just wrong?” Rep. David Litvak, D-Salt Lake, asked the panel, noting that a wrong medical diagnosis or just misreading a situation might lead to a conclusion of willful misconduct.
The standard of willful and illegal is the key, said panel chairman Rep. Dan Eastman, R-Bountiful. “I think it makes sense to reiterate the law and provide an alley for civil lawsuits.”
State Health and Human Services Director Lisa-Michelle Church said the bills could have a negative effect on recruitment of abuse caseworkers. Recruitment is “always open. That means there are never enough people for the job. They are trained and know that false or misleading information is not permitted whatsoever. They are getting $13 to $15 an hour, and now we tell them here’s another thing you have to live up to.”
She said the message might also discourage full participation of other family members, teachers, community members and friends involved in helping a family rebuild after abuse has occurred. “That doesn’t seem like that’s necessary or what we really want to do when we’re trying to build a consensus around that family.”
E-mail: jthalman@desnews.com
© 2007 Deseret News Publishing Company | All rights reserved
Now if the people of Utah have been treated fair by CPS, DCFS, then why is this bill being passed? I have been saying this for 6 Months hears my story with other case histories
1Dec07
Kathryn Holt, Assistant Attorney General,
Karla Staheli,Guardian ad Litem
CPS, DCFS Staff
Celina M. Cavazos
DCFS Case No.531809
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution includes this text:
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
1. When did CPS, DCFS, CCPD, other Government Agency, Privet Agency, Privet Attorney, know that Jacob Newel Johnson 11/09/89, raped my Daughter Celina M. Cavazos? If anybody knew before my early evening meeting w/ the Johnson brothers on 13 Jun07, they have voilated my rights of, equal protection under the law.
Was Daniel Bateman Johnson Jr. 11/15/85, and Jacob Newel Johnson 11/09/89 coached by CPS, DCFS, other Gov. Agency, Privet Agency, or Privet Attorney? Did they ask them to call me the Morning of 13 June 07, to ask for that afternoon meeting. Why did he ask me to keep scaring his brother Jacob, and state that I was doing a good job? Were they told by CPS, DCFS, other Gov. Agency, Privet Agency, or Privet Attorney, to use these Tactics on me? Was this a attempt to manipulate or misuse the system to favor one side or another?
Who escorted those boys to that afternoon meeting, Were there recordings of the meeting that took place between Joe Cavazos, Celina Cavazos, Daniel Bateman Johnson Jr. 11/15/85, and Jacob Newel Johnson, on the afternoon of 13 June 07, at 284 Torrey Pine Circle, Cedar City, Ut.84720 ? Does the DCFS Gate Keeper Have a copy of the recording or Transcripts? Who is the gatekeeper? Each office in the state has a designated Gatekeeper. The gatekeeper has responsibility for storing audio recordings on compact discs and processing of transcription requests. When did the gatekeeper have last regional training on policy, use of the equipment and use of the tracking form.
a. Were the Johnson boys coached by CPS, DCFS, other Gov. Agency, Privet Agency, or Privet Attorney, to try too get a reaction from me, by answering my questions with answers that they new would Get a reaction from any Father, Faced with the same situation?
b. Was Chris Whitten, who is 22yrs old, told to call me by, CPS, DCFS, other
Gov. Agency, Privet Agency, or Privet Attorney? Right after Johnson boys
left my House. Was that to get me out of the house or to get a reaction from
me too? Or Both?
2. These Johnson Boys that are Minors that were living in that house on 61 N. 4000W. Where my Daughter was Raped, in a DCFS Program, Government Polygamy Relocation Program, Witness Protection Program, or some other Privet Program? Why else would Daniel Bateman Johnson state to me that these government programs just don’t work? Why else would my arresting officer say, these Johnson boys were way up there in the Warren Jeff group?
a. Has CPS, DCFS, been involved with these Minor’s, before the 13 June 07. If so, who is the counselor? If so, the statements on the stand by DCFS, Doug Spencer was a false statements, and perjury. Thru the freedom of information act, and fourteenth Amendment, I have a Constitutional right to know, equal protection of the laws .
b. The House That Jacob was living at, where the Rape took place, on 61 N.
4000W. Which is owned by Coby Zobell,,, 586 5629, involved with
DCFS, a lost boys safe house, or Government safe house?
c. If DCFS was involved with these Minor’s, why was that house they were
Staying in, able to get to that point of wildness?
d. Why didn’t DCFS just come to my door, and say that they knew about my
Daughter being Raped, instead of playing all that cloak and Dagger
Stuff? That would have defused everything, instead of inflaming everything.
e. I was under the impression that CPS, DCFS was here to help the families,
Reunify them, not Divide, Concur, and then reunify them. Flora Jessup did
Say to me the other day that she is looking into this case.
3. I have complied with CPS, DCFS request, and am at present, attending an Anger Management Class. All I’m asking for are these questions to answered, in order To receive a fair understanding of my situation. If I’m so Delusional, what is the Harm in answering these questions under a Court of Law? People can be held
Accountable for false statements, if any are made, hiding evidence if any is
Hidden, and my feelings will be put to rest.
a. Or just tell me the truth, and say that;
You made some mistakes; I am one that knows that mistakes are made, but
We can fix them together, but by try to bury me in order too cover up a
Mistakes that were made, is not the way to handle this. I would have
Understood, From the beginning, and I willing to still forgive, but we need to
Stop this Finger pointing.
b. From the beginning I have said something was wrong, but what was said by
your Staff was that I was Delusional. I find it hard to believe that the chief
Legislature’s of the Child welfare oversight committee, would waste the time
to pass two bills, dealing with The same issues I have been stating all this time.
Two bills targeting child abuse caseworkers who make false claims were approved Monday, 5Nov07, by the Legislature’s chief child welfare oversight committee.
One would change state law to require that the mandatory education and training of caseworkers by the state Division of Child and Family Services include programs in recognizing and responding to attempts to manipulate or misuse the system to favor one side or another.
The second revokes the usual immunity granted to state government employees for any child abuse caseworker who knowingly or willfully provided false information or fabricated evidence in the conduct of an abuse investigation.
People such as private detectives or neighbors who assist in an abuse inquiry and who provide false or misleading information and knew it was false at the time would also not be immune.
Despite concern that the two bills were essentially restating what is already routine operation of DCFS, the lawmakers ultimately agreed that specifically stated language would allow some recourse for someone who is victimized by the irresponsible behavior of a caseworker.
There may be duplication within the law, said Tom Vaughn, general counsel to the Child Welfare Legislative Oversight Panel. “The existing statutes talk about good faith,” Vaughn said. “This clarifies and actually spells out what exactly is bad faith.”
Celina Cavazos never had a no contact order in place, these were false written, and verbal statements made to me and the court. If Celina did not want to see me at the time, then her therapist should have worked with us on that. CPS, DCFS, Assistant Attorney General, Guardian ad Litem, should not have kept making false written and verbal statements to me and the court. There are court recordings, transcripts, and written orders by your staff to prove that fact. In a five month period I have seen my Daughter once. I think this was to try pressure me into settling This Case. Again false statements, and attempts to manipulate or misuse the system to favor one side or another, examples of bad faith. I want to appoint Helen B. Johnson to be our Therapist , somebody I trust.
Niphaporn Cavazos, My Wife, has a language bearer, and by twisting her statement around, to fit what you wanted to hear, is hateful, hurtful, and criminal. Why didn’t CPS, DCFS, just record her statement? They recorded My daughters, or does the gatekeeper have one, and is just not presenting it? Again false statements, and attempts to manipulate or misuse the system to favor one side or another, examples of bad faith.
Case History
HEADLINE: PREPARED TESTIMONY OF TESTIMONY OF JAMES B. WADE SENATE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES SUBCOMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES HEARING ON CHILD PROTECTION; BALANCING DIVERGING INTERESTS
BODY:
I am a retired Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy. I proudly gave twenty years of my life and my family’s life to defend a way of life that I believed in and I repeatedly swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, a document that I understood ensured the rights of the individual against the kind of institutional abuses, in the name of my Government, that my family has endured. On the morning of May 08, 1989, I was stationed aboard the USS INDEPENDENCE home-ported in San Diego, California. I didn’t know it then, but that was the last sane day I was to know for a very, very long time.
(For some reason this sounds familiar)
On May 9, 1989 my eight year old daughter was discovered to have been viciously sexually assaulted. This was discovered during a medical examination at a health care facility that my wife and I had taken Alicia to after she complained of pain. She said nothing at the time that would have given any clue as to the true nature of her injuries. The Child Abuse Division of the San Diego Police Department was notified and we were all taken to the Childrens Hospital, this was the last time we were allowed to see our daughter for some time. Alicia informed the doctor and police detectives that someone had taken her out of her brother’s window and had put her in a green car, drove to a secluded area and had hurt her, threatening to kill her if she cried out. Alicia gave a very detailed description of this individual including what color clothes, hair and eyes he had, down to describing a pimple on his lip. Alicia’s injuries were such that she was immediately admitted and was surgically repaired that evening.
Alicia was placed with a therapist who immediately expressed her conviction that I was to blame and that Alicia was obviously covering up for me. The therapist did everything in her power (which is boundless) to convince the court that she had Alicia’s trust and that the only way to ensure Alicia’s safety was to severely restrict her family’s access to her as much as possible. When we first went to court the “attorneys” made us sign a piece of paper that stated in part that we would be responsible for any and all fees for attorneys and for foster care rising from this case, even if the charges were dropped. We were then told that in Juvenile court, you were considered guilty, until you could prove your innocence. They seemed very proud of this distinction they enjoyed.
By early June of 1989, Joshua had been added to the list of my victims by the social worker on the case by submitting a charge to the court that “Joshua had been sexually molested and that he was in danger of being molested again.”
Joshua was never interviewed or examined by anyone, the social worker needed Joshua to be part of the case to ensure our cooperation and compliance with their directives, the penalty being that Joshua would also be removed from our home if we balked at their authority. As a result of these additional charges concerning Joshua the court ordered that I not be allowed to be alone with Joshua ever, and that any contact with Joshua must be constantly supervised. Additionally, we were not allowed to discuss or explain this order or any other aspect of the proceedings with Joshua.
In July of 1989 my wife and I were taken to trial on charges of sexual abuse and failure to protect charges for both Joshua and Alicia. They kept us there all day and finally at the end of the day, they told us that a plea bargain had been offered and it was put to us thusly:
(1) the prosecuting attorney admitted that they had no way of achieving a conviction on any of the counts, but since they knew I was guilty and that my wife was covering for me, they were willing to go through with what would be as lengthy a trial as they could manage. This would take up to as far as November 1989 and at that time, since Alicia would have been out of the home for over 6 months, (6 months seemed like a long time then) it would require another 6 month adjustment period, during which the family’s behavior would be closely monitored and evaluated and Alicia would be slowly integrated back into the home ….
OR..
(2) My wife and I could plead no contest to a charge of neglect and after complying with several conditions, (all of which we were assured were only formalities) Alicia would be returned home. They never intended to return Alicia to us, they blackmailed us into submitting a plea of no contest, (guilty) by promising to return our daughter, we did and they then told us that Alicia’s therapist had told the court that if they returned Alicia to us, I would kill her. Alicia was not returned but the plea bargain stood, we lost our day in court. The therapist was not required to justify that or any other remark she cared to utter about me.
The therapist and social worker were finally successful in isolating us from Alicia. The social worker violated court orders by refusing us court ordered visits for a month. When we finally got a court hearing to seek redress, the social worker, and the therapist told the judge a series of lies and half truths which ended with the judge severing all contact. My wife went for 11 1/2 months without seeing my daughter, I went from October 1989 till October 31, 1991 without any contact with my daughter. During this time the therapist and the social worker told the court that I was trying to see my daughter, or that I had been making threatening phone calls to the foster parents, or that ! had so severely frightened the social worker that she had a guard at the Juvenile court escort her to her car. Any lie would do, and all they had to do was utter it and the judge bought it.
Among the many unreasonable things that happened, the following come to mind:
We had to get Joshua’s tonsils removed, so we did, when we mentioned it to the social worker we were severely reprimanded for not seeking her permission first;
After that we had to get permission from the court to take Joshua to Missouri to attend my maternal Grandmother’s funeral, and we almost didn’t get it;
Joshua had to have ear surgery, we had to get court permission;
We wanted to take him to 70 miles away to Polomar Mt., we had to get court permission; we couldn’t take Joshua out of San Diego County without permission;
We discovered early in 1990 that the therapist and the foster mother had been telling Alicia that the only way she could come home was to tell them that I was the one who had hurt her. Alicia had complained to the social worker and asked for help, but her plea fell on deaf ears. After 13 months of isolation and intimidation in June of 1990, they succeeded in getting Alicia to say, “Daddy did it” The hippocracy of those people. The social worker called us down to her office and told us that Alicia had identified me as the assailant, and that Alicia was going to be adopted away from us, and that I was going to go to jail. The social worker looked at me and told me with all sincerity that they “had to believe the child” I asked her “what about the other story Alicia was telling you, why didn’t you believe her then?” She just smiled at me. We left her office completely devastated and lost.
During the course of these proceedings I was required to attend and “successfully” complete the following;
(*) individual therapy, twice a week, the object of which was for me to admit my guilt;
(*) group therapy in what was called a Denier’s Group, with other men who had the misfortune to have been “accused” and found “guilty” of molesting children, typically their own and not being able to prove their innocence. The ground rules for this group is for you to “act” as if you are guilty, the only acceptable graduation from this therapy is for you to admit your guilt
(*) therapy with my wife in concert with other families who have been accused of similar crimes, twice a week. Again the only acceptable conclusion to this group is to admit your guilt.
Each of these groups required me to take a battery of tests, most of them similar, except in the case of the Denier’s Group, they wanted me to take a penile plethismograph, a test which when administered will measure your level of physical arousal to certain stimuli.
All of this was court ordered by way of a Reunification plan, which stated that if I did not successfully complete all of the steps, we would lose Alicia. I hope you can see the predicament I was in, I could stick to my guns and lose my daughter or I could lie, say I did it and presumably get her back. Something that is not without precedent according to my therapist. Hell of a system.
I was at work at the Air Anti-Submarine Warfare Headquarters on the 13th of December 1990 when they came for me. I was handcuffed and led away. I was hooked and placed in jail with the other accused thieves, murderers and rapists of San Diego County. The guard who hooked me told me that when the other prisoners found out what I was in for, they would kill me, that after my arraignment, I would be given a piece of paper listing among other things, the charges I was facing. He told me that they would get that paper and read it, so if I wanted to live, I had better either eat it, flush it down a toilet or shove it up my ass, but just be sure to destroy it.
At the court hearing in February of 1991 I remember the anger and frustration at having to sit in the court room, the absolute insanity of sitting there listening to my daughter tell a completely fabricated story of her assault with me as the assailant and not being able to say anything to her, or them not even letting her look at me because it would “influence her, or terrify her” The really sad thing was though, that even with her sitting in a witness box, facing away from me, telling a made up account of me raping her, this was the very first time in 1 1/2 years… 1 1/2 years that I had seen my daughter or heardher voice, she looked and sounded great to me, it was heartbreaking. I wanted to tell her that it was ok, I wasn’t mad at her and that I understood why she was saying what she was saying. I really wanted to tell her, it was ok to tell the truth, just tell them the truth sweetheart, but I was forbidden, by the very people who were actually doing all of the things to her that they were accusing me of.
Throughout this nightmare we had to rely on my parents for financial support and my mother specifically for emotional support. Many times my mother would fly out from Missouri on literally a moments notice to stay with Joshua. Remember I could not be alone with him, and there were times that this would have caused them to take him away also, if not for my mother. Once Denise had an appendicitis attack and had to be hospitalized ‘for surgery. I was able to leave Joshua with some friends from our church until my mother could get there; she always came. Also remember, we were forbidden under pain of losing Joshua, to discuss or explain any of this to him. Kind of makes you proud to know that this sort of blackmail and intimidation is going on in this great country of ours doesn’t it?
When it became known to the Juvenile authorities that DNA evidence was soon likely to clear me of this awful charges they moved quickly. In August of 1991, we were summoned to Juvenile court where the social worker, the therapist and the County Counsel tried to have Alicia adopted away. If they hadn’t made a small mistake in their filing procedure they would have succeeded. Our attorneys fought to have the case put on hold until the pending DNA results were known, the Juvenile court judge refused. The judge told them to file the proper paper work and the adoption could go forward. The blood sample reports that we had back at that time proved that it was not Alicia’s biological father who had assaulted her and that whoever had assaulted her was sterile, the county counsel then said that it hadn’t been proven that I was the biological father and that it was entirely likely that I had a vasectomy reversed, I had spent time in a hot tub, and other equally ridiculous theories, ending with the statement that it was immaterial to them who had actually perpetrated the rape, Alicia was being adopted out solely because we had pled guilty (no contest) to a charge of neglect back in November of 1989.
With the intervention of the San Diego County Grand Jury, in the person of an angel named Carol Hopkins, and the public support generated by a series of newspaper articles written by Jim Okerblom and John Wilkerson, Alicia was returned home. Even when it had been proven I couldn’t have been the one, they kept trying to adopt Alicia out. The County Counsel said that I could have just been holding Alicia down for a friend and that is why the semen didn’t match me. I was, by the way, proven to be Alicia’s biological father.
The price of this kidnapping into the compassionate world of Child Abuse Prevention is difficult to calculate.
My wife tried to commit suicide and was hospitalized for 9 months in a locked psychiatric ward.
My children are afraid of police. men and other’s in authority, they have learned to fear those whom they should most be able to trust.
My maternal grandmother died in December of 1989, long before I was proven innocent, not knowing how it came out.
My son lost all of his friends and was told by their parents that he could not play with their children because his father raped his sister. Joshua was 6 years old at the time he was told this. My parents spent their entire life savings trying to keep me out of jail, money they had no reason to expect to ever get back, much less to be successful in the attempt.
We spent 2 1/2 years not knowing from one day to the next, what they were going to take away next, just knowing and dreading the inevitable fact that more was coming.
We were put through a literal hell of contempt and accusations by evil manipulators bent on destroying me and my family, why, because we had the misfortune of being the recipient of a random criminal assault.
I could go on forever ….. but
Above all, and by God most of all, ….. I lost 2 1/2 years of my daughters life and my families life, that we nor she will ever get back, and nothing that is ever said or done will ever make up for that.
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HEADLINE: Wade tells Senate panel of his life of literal hell’
BYLINE: DORI MEINERT Copley News Service
In emotional and often tearful testimony, James Wade told a Senate subcommittee yesterday that San Diego County social workers destroyed almost three years of his life.
Wade, wrongly accused of the 1989 rape of his then-8-year-old daughter, said his life and that of his family were turned upside down.
“We were put through a literal hell of contempt and accusations by evil manipulators bent on destroying me and my family,” he told the Senate Subcommittee on Children and the Family. “Why? Because we had the misfortune of being the recipient of a random criminal assault.”
His daughter, Alicia, was placed in foster care and put up for adoption. Wade’s wife attempted suicide, and his parents spent their life savings trying to keep him out of jail.
Just before Alicia’s adoption was finalized, DNA tests on semen stains found on the girl’s clothing excluded Wade as the perpetrator of the Serra Mesa assault. Albert Carder Jr., a registered sex offender on parole, was convicted of the rape.
The Wades, who now live in Missouri, eventually received a $3.7 million settlement from various agencies.
His family sat behind him as he testified. His wife, Denise, leaned forward to pat him on the back when he found it difficult to go on.
“I don’t want to see what happened to us happen to anybody else,” Wade said later, explaining why he chose to tell his painful and personal story once more. “If this will help do that, it’s worth whatever it takes.”
Wade said he supports a change in federal law to limit the absolute immunity from civil liability that social workers and other child abuse prevention workers have.
The subcommittee is considering reauthorizing the 1974 Child Abuse Protection and Treatment Act (CAPTA), the only federal program specifically aimed at child abuse prevention.
Subcommittee Chairman Daniel Coats, R-Ind., said the panel will try to balance the desire to protect children from abuse with “legitimate concerns about the fact that two-thirds of all reported cases do not end up being substantiated.”
However, Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., warned that “we have to be careful we don’t get so anecdotal in approach” that the sub- committee loses sight of the need to protect children.
Experts from around the country agreed that the law is in dire need of revision but disagreed on how it should be changed.
Carol Hopkins, who was deputy foreman of the 1992 San Diego County grand jury that criticized how numerous agencies handled the Wade case, said an unintended consequence of CAPTA has been the emergence of a child abuse industry more interested in perpetuating itself than in protecting children.
She called for more uniform training of child protection workers, who she said are given too much latitude in deciding families’ futures. She also called for eliminating federal funding for child abuse-prevention conferences and advocacy groups and capping funding for foster care so that states will have more incentive to pay for family preservation programs.
However, Betty Spivak, who directs the pediatric intensive-care unit at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn., criticized the San Diego grand jury report for implying that protecting families is more important than protecting children.
Spivak said no changes should be made that would reduce requirements for reporting or investigating child abuse.
Its not going to easy to fix these problems, but thur the freedom of information act we can find out all the information needed to fix the system, and we hear today, can start the praccess.
Other Ref:
http://helpthechildbrides.com/
To Contact Flora Jessop
brkway1@aol.com
Leave a message for Flora at (602)373-0793
Thank You
Joe J. Cavazos
US Navy
Ret.
PS. where is the FBI, and why are they not looking into case cover ups.
Case workers have lied on the stand here.
Comment by Cavazos — December 7, 2007 @ 8:47 am
the corruption of child protective
services,court, juvenile court judges,attorney’s,foster parents
and so on.in Klamath Falls oregon,
I know this because I have been fighting for my son for almost 2 years
I have got through so many class
and still DHS will change something
in court,all my DHS papers states that my child is white and adopted,
and I am Native American as well as my son and disable I know because
my son has (Opitz-G/BBB Syndrome)
and no DHS worker has ever heard of this,I have been raisning my son
by myself from day my son was born
and in jan,6,2006 I lost my child because I let this white women and her child stay in my home because
she had nowhere to stay,and it was winter and snowing out,this women
started to abuse her son,and I called
the Klamath tribe DHS and I was told
that there was Nothing they can do!
now this is child abuse now,then I called DHS in klamath Falls about this women and again I was turned
down then I called 911 and was turned down then findlly they came
and got this child took him to the ER
and get this this boy’s mother would
not go with her child to the ER
they I was trying all day call the DHS worker,and the next day they came and got my son at school on the 6 of jan 2006 then I was charged with child abuse that night,I have been asking for all my paper work from DHS
they tell me that I can not have it
I have no right to any paper work on me and my child my court appointed
lawyer I had did nothing to help
I was forced to sign paper work
and get this my Attorney’s wife works
for DHS in Salem Oregon,
when I asked him about it he lied to me about it,then the day i had court
he told the judge I fired him(not)
then they got me a New attorney
and he has had my file for almost
5 months and he has done nothing for me,I have sent him letter’s,fax’s
and still he has done nothing on my case.he’s best friends with the case
worker on my case,my child is in this foster home being abused and the foster mother is taking a shower with my son,DHS states that the foster
parents are taking good care of my son,I have pictures of my chid with bruse on him a black eye and finger
marks on him,and DHS states that they don’t know anything about this?
well it’s still going on and I am losing my child as it states in DHS paper work that my child is adopted?
it’s a big cover up in Klamath falls Oregon,about Native American children,klamath tribe as well covering it up as well as the BIA in portland Oregon about Native American children how can they adope Native American children
we have proof of this
well I hope this gets out and I hope
one day the truth about DHS will get out its people like us that can get the law changed.thank you!!!
joe
Comment by joe — December 7, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
JOE WHERE IN OREGON ARE YOU E-MAIL ME SO I CAN HELP. THE SOCIAL WORKERS HAS TO GIVE YOU THE FINDING REPORT AND THE NARRATIVE STORY OF YOUR REPORT. YOU HAVE TO PUT IT IN WRITTING OR THEY WONT GIVE IT TO YOU. READ MY E-MAIL AND E-MAIL ME OK AT: MSDCAMPOS@HOTMAIL.COM.
LETS TALK OK. HAVE FAITH DON’T GIVE UP AND FIGHT HARD WITH YOUR HEAD UP. I NEED TO HEAR A LITTLE MORE OF YOUR CASE TO DIRECT YOU THE RIGHT WAY.
MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU ALWAYS. READ THE BIBLE ON SALM 109 EVERYDAY AND ASK GOD TO SHOW YOU THE WAY.
I AM HERE TO HELP IF YOU WANT ME TO OK.
I HAVE SOME INFO FOR YOU OK.
Comment by DAMARIS CAMPOS — December 7, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
I had two Emergency Workers, Lisa Austin and Valerie Scott, who work for Riverside County, CA, come into my hospital room and terrorize me, my baby and my whole family. Here’s what happened to me at Kaiser Hospital in Riverside, CA. This is a copy of the complaint I sent to the hospital. PLEASE NOTE: I HAD A HAIR FOLLICLE TEST PERFORMED ON ME DEC. 20, 2007 IN WHICH I TESTED NEGATIVE FOR ALL SUBSTANCES. MY BABY TESTED NEGATIVE FOR ALL SUBSTANCES AT THE HOSPITAL THE DAY HE WAS BORN:
I am literally OUTRAGED ABOUT WHAT YOUR HOSPITAL LET HAPPEN TO ME, MY BABY AND MY WHOLE FAMILY!!!!!!!!!! On November 14, 2007 I gave birth to a healthy baby boy at your hospital in Riverside, California. I deeply regret having chosen your facility as the doctors and nurses as well as your representative for Social Services are the direct cause for my baby being taken into protective custody by Riverside County DPSS. The following is an account of what transpired.
I began labor on November 11, 2007 and presented to your hospital on November 12, 2007 at approximately 8:00 a.m. I was assessed by a nurse and a midwife to be in labor yet only dilated to 3cm. Since with my first child, born at Kaiser Hospital in San Diego in December 1994, my labor took 36 hours, I opted to go home and wait out the time in a more comfortable place.
My labor pains grew much stronger so I presented to your hospital again on November 13, 2007 at approximately 10:00 p.m. I was still dilated to 3 cm and so the nurses on staff sent me home once more and the nurse instructed me to take Tylenol PM to help me sleep. For what reason, I do not know other than later I was told it was due to an anonymous phone call to the hospital accusing me of being under the influence of drugs, the urine sample I provided at this time was used to test me for drugs. Of course I was not advised of this anonymous phone call nor was I advised of the drug test. However, these tests proved NEGATIVE for any substances.
I returned to your hospital for the last time on November 14, 2007 at approximately 8:30 a.m. as my contractions were finally spaced evenly apart and only 5 minutes apart. I was dilated to 5 cm at this time. My pain scale was at 8 or 9 so your hospital administered Phentynol for my pain prior to my epidural. Again, there was another anonymous phone call about me being under the influence of drugs and, without my knowledge AGAIN I was AGAIN tested for drugs. This test showed a preliminary result of positive for amphetamines however to date, I have not seen any confirmation of a positive for amphetamines.
The hospital’s anesthesiologist appeared in my labor room at approximately 9:45 a.m. and it was at that time my nurse, I remember her first name only, Sharon, told me that I tested positive for amphetamines and methamphetamines. The anesthesiologist’s reaction was, “Oh a false-positive.” and he administered my epidural. I told my nurse that it was impossible for me to have tested positive. She advised me and assured me that they were going to test the baby and if he was negative that there would be no problem and that I would be able to take my baby home.
I gave birth to my baby at approximately 6:09 p.m. on November 14, 2007. He was very healthy and was given an Apgar Score of 9.9. He weighed 7lbs. 15 oz. Before letting me hold him, my nurse, Sharon, placed urine bag on him which to me, took forever.
At approximately 10:00 p.m., this urine bag was collected by another nurse in my recovery room. It was promptly taken to the lab for analysis. I constantly inquired to every nurse who was assigned to me if they had received the results of this drug test and no one knew anything. I also requested every hour, for the breastfeeding consultant to visit me or for a nurse to bring me a bottle to feed my baby. I was brought a few bottles but the nurse kept promising me that the consultant would be in my room shortly and to try and wait. They all encouraged me to breastfeed instead of bottle-feeding. It was not until the next day at approximately 3:30 p.m. that the consultant finally came in my room and showed me how to breastfeed. Minutes after the consultant left my room and I was preparing to breastfeed my baby, two social workers from Riverside County DPSS entered my room, without knocking and told me that they were taking my baby away because he tested positive for drugs. I told them they were lying and asked them to leave or show me proof. They remained in my room, looking at my exposed breasts, and told me that I better not breastfeed my baby because I tested positive for methamphetamines and that I was going to jail! One worker then left my room and came back with two pieces of paper which were the results of both mine and my baby’s drug tests. MY BABY TESTED NEGATIVE FOR ALL SUBSTANCES but they claimed that I tested positive for methamphetamines!!!!!!!!!!!! No I didn’t, I may have tested a false-positive for amphetamines, DUE TO THE FACT THAT I TOOK TYLENOL PM AS INSTRUCTED BY NURSES FROM YOUR FACILITY!!!!!
The social workers, Lisa Austin and Valerie Scott, asked me to take a saliva drug test and I willingly did so. They TOOK THIS TEST OUT OF THE ROOM and came back and told me I tested positive for amphetamines AND methamphetamines! They asked me where my husband and my daughter were and I told them that they were at home and they asked for his phone number and I gave it to them. They called him and told him that they wanted to talk to him and he let them come over. They showed up with two Hemet Police Officers and barged their way into my home despite the fact that my husband was going outside to talk to them, he did not want to let them in our home. The social workers told him that BOTH THE BABY AND I tested POSITVE for methamphetamines yet showed him those pieces of paper which showed the baby NEGATIVE!!! They asked him to take one of those saliva tests and he refused to take a test which was not admissible in court but that he would gladly take a blood or urine test so it could be cross-examined if necessary. They refused him that right and took my daughter, Kayla was 12 years old at the time, into their custody.
These workers did not assess our home such as cleanliness, security, or accommodations for the children. Their only basis for taking my daughter was the fact that my husband refused to take their saliva test.
After taking my daughter into custody, the workers returned to Kaiser Hospital and their goal was to take my baby into protective custody as well.
Meanwhile, at approximately 6:45 p.m. I allowed my baby to be removed from my room for the purpose of a circumcision. At approximately 7:15 p.m. Dr. Hartfield, the pediatrician who performed the procedure, entered my room and told me, “You’re baby is withdrawing from drugs and we don’t give drug addicts their babies back so I am admitting him to the nursery and you won’t see your baby again for a long time!” I was furious as I know my baby was not experiencing withdrawal symptoms. It was reported to me by the social workers that my baby was “shaking at rest” and “crying excessively”. I demanded that my IV be removed as I wanted to go to the nursery and see my baby. A doctor came in and told me that they would not take out my IV and that I had to remain in my room. I repeatedly demanded that the antibiotics that they were administering to me through my IV be given to me orally as I had already had 6 bags of antibiotics given to me through the IV. After about an hour my request was finally granted and a nurse took out my IV. The site of the needle bled a lot so the nurse instructed me to keep pressure on the cotton ball which I did. I was finally able to leave my room and I went to the nursery. I asked all of the nurses there if they saw my baby shaking at rest and they all said no. I asked about his vital signs and they told me that his vitals were very normal and he appeared to be a very healthy baby. They let me hold him for about a half an hour, the whole time a security officer was watching me and guarding me and the baby like as if they expected me to grab my baby and run or something. I felt humiliated!
The nursery closes for an hour and a half at night to change shifts and so I was told to leave. I went back to my room and on the way into the recovery room section I must have hit my hand on the door or something because my hand started bleeding profusely at the site where my IV was. The social workers, Lisa Austin and Valerie Scott, were there by the nurse’s desk with a baby car seat. They yelled at me about my baby withdrawing from drugs and they called me a piece of shit! The nurses just stood there while I bled all over the floor!
The baby was not being released from your hospital but they released me at approximately midnight. I immediately went to Walgreens Pharmacy and purchased an at-home drug test which I took in the bathroom of Walgreens. It proved NEGATIVE for all substances. When my husband and I got home all we did was cry and we were unable to get any sleep knowing that our family was being destroyed by your hospital and CPS and the anonymous phone caller.
The next day I returned to your hospital and received my prescription of antibiotics. Before leaving I called the nursery and asked if my baby was still there. I was told yes. So I went upstairs to the nursery to see my baby. Again, I was allowed to hold him but under surveillance from the hospital security staff. While I was holding my baby, Dr. Shaw, who was the pediatrician who gave the baby the 9.9 Apgar Score was there assessing the baby and giving his OK to release the baby. Moments later CPS showed up and told me to “Get the fuck out of here you drug addict, we are taking your baby!” I ran out of the nursery and broke down in one of the waiting rooms. I saw the social workers leave with my baby. Do you have any idea how that feels?
After I left the hospital I immediately went to Sun Ray Addictions, the place who collects samples for the Courts, and gave a urine sample for analysis. I received the results on Monday, November 19, 2007 and they proved NEGATIVE for all substances.
The Petition that DPSS filed against me tells all kinds of lies and they claim that some “nurse” from your hospital claims that she witnessed my baby “jittery” and that she heard a “high pitched cry” but does not give the nurse’s name, credentials, what time she witnessed this nor do they have any evidence whatsoever to prove that I was under the influence of drugs.
Comment by Sharon Joyce-Burns — January 8, 2008 @ 11:59 am
thanx to all supporting goodmomsfightdyfs.com
in new jersey,a mother my friend
where i am still moderating at,get this
sh-t: D.Y.F.S.worker and the ONLY
assign WORKER to the case 1st did
CLEAR MOTHER SHA’KAARII MELENDEZ of child abuse with metal hanger assaulting her daughter abuse etc. with MULTIPLE PIX AND THIS “UN-substantiated abuse assault
report just all LEFT BEHIND,Guess where? at the POLICE STATION of all
places and right in their D.Y.F.S. NJ
office,she has VALID proof of all this
and now a criminal investigation into
this multi million suit and also one wkr
already is kinda “talkin”and the other
supervisor also admitting now the
worker messed up and should have BY LAW TURNED IN ALL DISCOVERY and NOT committ any perjury!
she has this ALL on AUDIO tape and
is preparing finaly to go back to the
court in n.j. to get her kids back by
MOTION TO VACATE PRIOR FN
FRAUD “substantitated abuse on the
child”
so keep fighting yall can win as she is
about to SO much MEDIA is calling us
at www.GOODMOMSFIGHTDYFS.COM
about this cause my friend is actually
PROVING THE FRAUD,AND WANT CRIMINAL CHARGE SOON PRESS
AGAINST THE WORKER,so if you
want reach us over there for support
anytime
keep fighting. you CAN WIN,our owner
admin sha’kaarii melendez at www.goodmomsfightdyfs.com
is living proof of this.
from
morgan.
rahway,new jersey
moderator at
goodmomsfightdyfs.com
myspace.com/BRINGCEEJAZZHome
Comment by miss morgan clark — January 18, 2008 @ 11:30 pm
lastly the pix in her POLICE FILE That
was NEVER SEEN BY JUDGE AND
NEVER OBTAIN BY CORRUPT CPS
WORKER DYFS IN NJ with my friend?
NEVER SHOWING ANY ABUSE
BY “METAL HANGER”which is what
CORRUPT cps worker(s)and D.A.G.
and the grandmother said and the dad girlfriend jennifer medford to the
cops,mom was NEVER ARRESTED
even spoken to by cops because
cop now is saying there was NO ABUSE AND THAT DYFS KNOWS
THIS,AND DYFS KNEW to turn over
their statements,and DYFS did clear
her and the pix are proof no injuries
to child but yet DYFS KEPT ALL OF
THIS MOST important information
and DISCOVERY from the judge.
at least we are pushing for arrest
of cps worker and also others
and suing.so keep fighting yall can
win as our admin/friend sha”kaarii
melendez over at www.goodmomsfightdyfs.com
will soon enough.
from
morgan.
Comment by miss morgan clark — January 18, 2008 @ 11:33 pm
There is more corruption then what people think Its is in Ct its known as
DCF many forms of such are unseen
and unjustifiable in the same aspects
there are civil rights and constitutional rights violations when it comes to parents are subjected to TPR
I feel that i was a victim of such
it rips your heart out when lies do damages not only to the parents but more so our childern. The social worker makes everyone to be a unfit
parent mostly the poor or Disabled I feel that we need to revamp such a system that Discriminates and the keep the families act. As Dcf dreams up evidence and twist true facts it to me is about money which leads to
corruption its a black market baby adoption agency not a service to help families to stay together these issues will not fix theisselves we need to stand up for our future in which is our children and to stop the culprits and that consist of such agencies through out the country new legislation needs to be brought in to play advocates should connect and remain my story would take two or three days to type and it is not a nice one it has a lot of acts of Discrimination involved many lie and cover ups
Comment by Daniel Heimann — January 19, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
In Kentucky state employees can be reimbursed for a portion of the direct costs incurred in the adoption process. What is that? That is a system that begs to be misused by the people who are supposed to protect children and who actually are in it for their own gain.
Comment by Martha Quigley — January 19, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
There is a link to the 28-page investigative article on the case of Logan Marr, the five-year-old girl who died while in the custody of the Maine Department of Human Services (during the period in which Kevin Concannon was Commissioner) on the following website:
www.commonsenseindependent.com
Comment by Terrilyn Simpson, editor of Common Sense Independent — January 30, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
please delete the comment about me on december 7, 2007 by joe cavazos. he realized he was wrong for posting it without my knowledge and i want it deleted for my privacy reasons. Thank you.
Comment by Celina Cavazos — February 25, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
am a mom who cps took my kids and went termanation of my rights and i did every thing asked of me eventhough they was wanting to me to mess up so bad they saw my daugther and saw dollar sign’s for her but did not take my son cause he was to old some thing has to be done about them seriously ther out of control
Comment by takisha — February 25, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
First I would like to say that my heart and prayers go out to all of you. My lieing case worker is Carla Miller in az. I have my four kids removed of an alligation of my live in boyfriend. Now she filed against me for failure to protect and drugs. Why wasnt he removed from the start and kids stay home. Could i sue for them being taken from me ? I have dedicated my life to my kids for the last 15 yrs. and the most ive been in trouble in once i got a no insurance ticket…and i definatly dont do drugs. Also i was told , by cps themselves, that acctually right now Carla Miller has no supervisor…WTF
Comment by anise — March 29, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
my problem is 20 years old but i’m still in trouble for it in the state of micigan wayne county help please
Comment by sandy — April 4, 2008 @ 6:17 pm
need help in wayne county michigan people and socical workers lied
Comment by sandy — April 4, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
The 2 social workers attached to my case have done nothing but lie, fabricate, exaggerate, etc.
Two of my personal “favorites” are the assertion that I cut my hair three times in one month to avoid a hair follicle drug test - all of this leaving plenty of hair on my head. I actually said in my answer to the court (I was pro se at the time) that perhaps the judge would recall the haircut I did get from the hearing just weeks before. The judge said - in open court at the next hearing - that she did in fact recall my ‘do and that in her eyes it hadn’t changed a bit. But the lie was allowed with no penalty or even ding in CFS’ ‘credibility’.
The other was a supposed referral that told her that I was using drugs and had been thrown out of the place I was staying because of my anger issues (!) The same day (and I was due in court) the lady I stayed with wrote a letter osensibly calling the SW a liar and saying that we had parted company very friendly terms and that the SW should have at least called her to investigate such horrible allegations. By the way, my friend is also a social worker with the county - just not through CFS. I turned that letter into the court that day - but no repercussions to the lying social worker - she was not even required to answer for it at all.
There are more - from beginning to end - documented lies outside the scope of her role…any suggestions on how I proceed?
Comment by T Faithe — April 5, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
These are the people that are involved in taking my children awayJudge Constance Cohen.DHS worker Iva Burkett,CPI Jackie Stanley,exinlaw Kathy Sheehy,exinlawPhyllis and Dean Rote,county attorneyAndrea Vitizthum,CASA Jeannie Stoner,Therapist Mary McNeeley,Guardian of litem Jessica Miskimins,Guardian of litem Amy Keepes,Lawyer Carmen Jannessen Judge Linda Reade,Four Oaks Jenny Moore,Four oaks Gina Schuller,Supervisor of Iva Burkett Stephene Reinheart,Casa Kevin Schoebelon,Assistant Attorney General Bruce Kemkes,Assistant attorney General Katherine Miller Todd,Head of DHS Kevin Cannonann ,Judge Nickerson,Judge Romano,County Attorney Olu Salami.Assistant Attorney General Charles Phillips. Linda I already know about Mr Cannonann. I want to get a rally going on down at nollen plaza sometime this summer IOWA DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS.
Comment by Terri Rote — April 22, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
CPS Worker Colleen Regan has stated, under oath, in an Affidavit filed with the Loudoun County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court that I stated my daughter was worried that she may hurt her baby. I never said any such thing. What I actually said was that my daughter was afraid of developing postpartum depression and that, because of all the stories you hear about women with severe postpartum depression harming their children, she was afraid of it happening to her.
Comment by Lynne — June 5, 2008 @ 11:57 am
My three granddaughters were taken away from my daughter over a small mistake she was careing for her two other daughters when her four year old got out of the apartment neightbors called dhs and they removed the childern and place them with me i had them for a year and social services did not work with my daughter My daughter lost her job cause of their demands and appointments after stressful efforts for two years and me loosing the kids after 1 year because they knew i was close to my daughter My daughter decided so the childern were not bounced around any more to sign her parental rights away, This was the hardest thing in the world that has happen to our family and my daughter and there is not a day that goes by that we do not think about them the oldest lives with her dad and my daughter still has contact with them and her other daughter lives with a relative and sarah we do not know where she is at. These girls should have never been removed or seperated dhs needs to do more things in keeping families together instead of tearing them apart.
Comment by sherry — June 15, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
yes her name is Sarah Beyer she works for the DHS office in Charlse city iowa she lies about every thing just to get kids to sale to other people
1 my kids have toys and things they need i never lived in tennesse and if i want ti live with my mom and dad for the rest of my life i can and will
Comment by Samantha McEachin — June 25, 2008 @ 9:35 am