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Child Protective Services, CPS, has devastated and destroyed hundreds of thousands of families in America during the last thirty years leaving a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, and shattered childhoods.
Rather than helping families, government agents have used unconstitutional laws in Juvenile Court to rip children away from their loving parents, break asunder God-given, natural, parent-child bonds, and adopt the children of the grieving out to others who profit financially with large monthly adoption subsidy payments.
Child Protective Services must be stopped! The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed. We must work tirelessly to inform the public of this very dangerous travesty of justice. We must keep faith knowing that if there is a God, there is an answer and a way to end this heartache.
Child Protective Services Agents - please come to your senses! Family destruction on false or trivial grounds is wrong, reprehensible, and inhumane.
Fosterers - be aware that for the money you get you are holding much-loved children away from their grieving families while the parents are forced to perform a service plan that is anything but a service to them. I call this hostage holding for the government. This is not kindness - to help misguided government agents destroy family relationships and break loving bonds.
CPS workers and fosterers - I ask that you now let the children of the innocent return to their homes where they are truly valued, adored, and loved by the parents God gave them.
Family rights are God-given rights. And they should not be ignored or postponed. Every moment these loving parents and children spend separated from one another is a torment beyond what anyone should ever have to bear.
It is unworthy of human dignity to allow this terrorism and torture of families to go on without saying something, speaking out, and trying to make a change.
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Fighting Child Protective Services False Accusations
June 14, 2007
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 Josh Nelson, Courier Staff Writer, June 12, 2007
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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!
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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 (“IDCSâ€) 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 limbâ€, 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 issueâ€).
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
My Case Worker Emee Drews Lied About Me All The Time And It Completely Blew My Case Out Of The Water. Judge Believed Her, I Lost My Kids How I Have Because Of Her. And Now My Carter Thinks I’m A “Mean Mommy” Because That’s What They’ve All Told Him. Yet Her Lies Are My Saving Grace Because It Gives Me Grounds To Appeal. Check Out My Website For More Information. Its Very Heated, Not Nice. I’m Angry As I Should Be And I Pretty Much List Everyone Who Stands To Lose Something When I Get My Kids Back. My Case Worker Was Paid To Help Me, Didn’t Help Me, And Then Petitioned To Terminate My Rights When I Didn’t Comply. My Own Lawyer Didn’t Believe In Me Either _ “Your Evalutation Can Only Hurt You Now.” Too Late, Time To Tear The Brothers Apart & Devastate Their Lives Forever Because A Caseworked Without Kids Stood To Advance Her Career & Make A Big Chunk Of Money When I Had To Give Up My Kid Because She Didn’t Help Me. I Love This Website By The Way. Its Nice, Yet Heartbreaking To Know I’m Not The Only Victim. http://www.adopteeconnect.com/d/a/139182
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Comment by Shanni Sullivan-Einer — June 14, 2007 @ 1:17 pm
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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.
…
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
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
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 excessivelyâ€. 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 http://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 http://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 http://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:
http://www.commonsenseindependent.com
Comment by Terrilyn Simpson, editor of Common Sense Independent — January 30, 2008 @ 8:57 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
Marin Chomeau,
Please contact me..CC Tillett
I am a family Advocate and vice-president for Washington Families United
My office is in Silverdale Wa.
Close to Port Townsend
we may be able to help.
moderator can refer you.
cc tillett
Comment by CC Tillett — July 26, 2008 @ 1:05 pm
Samathia you and me should get togther and protest downtown toghter if you live in Iowa down at the nollen plaza before summer over anybody else wants to lets do it and I want some help I want to do a you tube on DHS tell what they done and give out names and show the world my children pictures of DHS took from me under false pretenses. and that the courts knew that they where lieing @ of the Judges at the DesMoines courtthouse where being bribe by my exinlaws they wanted my children for the money that is all to it these lawyers here in DesMOines they are on big joke they are scared of their own shadow.
Comment by Terri Rote — July 29, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
have any of you heard of an ombudsman? I finally got one to listen to me and he was hot under the collar about all the lies the CPS worker said about me and all the things that have gone on these past 2 years with my family. He is gonna open “pandora’s box” OMG SHIT IS GONNA HIT THE FAN AT DHS! HAHAHAHAHA
look up yours and make phone calls and it may take a few for you to get his/her attention but keep trying. i had to! It finally paid off cuz the investigation begins! Now i have to file a petition for adoption to get my granddaughter.
Comment by Joyce — August 1, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
Joyce I did contact theOmbudsman bldg Angie who works there said they couldn’t do nothing because DHS is following the rules i told them no their not the lady said she couldn’t help me.
Comment by Terri Rote — August 2, 2008 @ 9:19 am
How many of you are from Iowa I still wants us to have a rally downtown before this summer is up at Nollan Plaza we need to picket give me a holler if anybody knows where Mr Kevin Cannonnann works at 5th floor Hoover bldg we all should pay him a visit we all need to go to DHS office and have a rally Iowa supreme court knows that DHS has violated our rights Iowa supreme court also has violated our rights I guess they don’t believe in the constition because they do take oath under the constition and they still go against constitional rights.
Comment by Terri Rote — August 2, 2008 @ 9:25 am
My sisters child was recently taken out of her home. I am willing able and have done everything required by the state to assume custody of my niece the social worker bold face lied to me and my sister stating that they couldn’t give me custody because i am not licensed. I know for a fact that a blood relative does not have to be licensed and I start foster parenting and adoptive classes in about a month. they placed my niece in a foster home knowing there were family members that could and would take her. What do I do?
Comment by Sirena Leach — August 14, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
let me know when the protest is i am tired of them violating everyones rights
Comment by Sirena Leach — August 14, 2008 @ 2:54 pm
Lisa Mikhail, or lying lisa as we call her – twisted and perverted many things we said.
Our son said he was too bad to go to heaven. I disagreed and asked him to go pray about it. We have a prayer table and some religious art.
Lying lisa said we had an altar. I don’t do any sacrificing in my home – too messy
Any way she said I forced him to kneel and beg God about why God made him so bad that he couldn’t go to heave and God had forgotten him.
I tried to therapy for this sick kid and met with social workers who can’t read their notes or something.
So Lying lisa said we didn’t really want help – we were just sucking up. I did call the 241-kids line and reported myself and asked for a therapist. It was denied. But it was on tape – hee, hee.
She said I was emotionally unstable, physicallly, emotionally, verbally and spiritually abusive.
I have been given a child with problems I said I didn’t want – two things out of a huge list – and they give me a kid with attachment disorder. The other was blindness since I am a bit flakey and didn’t think I could be counted on for keeping the house right for a visually impaired kid.
They promised help and all turned on us like a pack of hyenas when the trouble started.
I am a decent person – little kids and dogs who are shy or afraid of others will interact nicely with me. I have babysat a 10 year autistic boy the first night his family would sleep in their new house.
I have been considered by some folks to be a good friend and nice person. Lying lisa said that I too isolated and didn’t have enough friends.
You name it – if it is a good point about me, Lying lisa twisted it into some kind of perverse lie.
She actually made feel like I had to apologize for being a devout Catholic. Really!
She has considered another family’s smoking of cigarettes to abusive – the child is healthy and doesn’t have pulmonary issues. She is just a lunatic with power.
I take comfort knowing that our magistrate, the GAL, and the prosecutor were not happy with thise woman and they will tell others, too.
Comment by Denise — September 7, 2008 @ 9:21 pm
I am from Colfax iowa. My ex husband lied about me to get me into trouble and it even shows in black and white in the report that he contradicted his story. He called in saying I allowed our 11 year old to have sex knew and approved it, and then on the next day April 29 for their in person interview, when they asked him he said no he did not think I was doing that that I did not give her permission to have sex, well his lies is what got it started. Yes I was stupid and left her home alone a few times for no more then 4 hours at a time. I was coming to Colfax to see my husband. Kim my girl looks and acts 16. When she was home I would call her and check on her or would drive back to Newton to make sure she was alrigh while taking dog out. I made sure she had food and had her home work complete. My ex husband told me on the phone he was going to call me in because I was with my husband. Over the years he has threatned it for no reason so I figured this time he was just making noise as usual, well thanks to him and DHS my life has been turned upside down. So DHS goes off his initial call in can clearly see he lied but continued. 90% or more of the report is lies. I get my appeal by phone Wednesday and when I spoke to the judge before hand he said go settlement, no way. I am not going to say I did something I never did. I am not going to say this report was founded. The lady who did the report her name is Andrea Borsche. I think I spelled her last name wrong. When I was catching errors in the report I even told her, and she did nothing but make it worse. At first I could not even see my child, and when I called DHS and asked why they said I took her to a boys house to have sex new and approved and knew of a pregnancy scare. I knew nothing until after the fact. My ex gives her wine coolers smoked pot around her and Andrea did nothing but make things worse. To DHS Settlement means say the report is founded and they will take my name off of the child abusers list well thanks to this I can no longer server in childrens ministry something I love. Yes I made a couple mistakes but never took her nor knew of her having sex. DHS is making the ex go to rehab though. My appeal is Wednesday afternoon. Should I write our senator? Has Andrea ever hurt anyone else here besides me?
Comment by Kathy Risinger — September 8, 2008 @ 6:47 am
Do parents ever win the phone appeals?
Comment by Kathy Risinger — September 8, 2008 @ 10:12 am
In my case it would be more like what did ANY social worker tell the truth about? They lied about the medical history of my children, about the social adjustments of my children. They tried the ‘they’re homeschoolled, they must be dumb’ approach. The ‘Mom’s medicating the kids for attention’ approach. And when those backfired, they went with Mom’s schitzophrenic.
The only ‘evidence’ disappeared. The same statements that were made about abuse included grandiose complaints that I have seven children. I have a relationship with my four children, I’d really like to meet the other 3.
All of the attorneys, social workers, social workers supervisors and key members of 2 state departments are cculpable in my case and if the judge truly doesn’t know perjury was committed, then he’s too stupid to sit on a bench. He promised an inquiry (so did my attorney) and none ever occurred.
If parents win phone appeals that’s news to me.
Comment by Char — September 8, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
I have a dhs worker named pam who from day one has done nothing but lied to the judge and to my face this worker stated that i have never had unsupervised vists with my son witch is funny when she set up the vists she gets up on the stand and says one thing and then tells evey one something else i have prof of hear lies i need advissse on what to do to stop hear?
Comment by jennifer lillie — September 11, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
we have had a similar situation as some of the ones on this site this is in indiana i gave birth to our youngest on aug 2, 2008 i couldnt get prenatal care as this is the 6th
c-section the hospital did a drug screening didnt tell me they was doing one they told me that night that i tested positive for pcp and opiates they said they was sending the sample that day off for a second screening but it didnt get sent till tues the 5 in the evning wendsday the 6th the hospital had secuity outside my room and the social worker told me they called idcs that they was just goning to “talk to me” when they did get there they had writ in hand and was sending another worker to remove the three that was at home with my husband to get the writ the dcs worker stated to the court that the baby tested positive but he never did test positive took them for almost 3 wks had placemet outside the family which they never gave me the opption of leaving the home till all was cleared up which only took till that friday that they removed them my husband neve tested positive they wouldnt let the kids stay with him long story short we got an attourny which got the case dismissed almost 4 wks after they was taken and got them returned almost 3 wks after being taken and being placed thank god with family after all i called my sister-in-law and had her waiting there with me at the hospital to take the kids as i had a bad feeling about it i told them i have the right to place them in relitive care so they had no choice if they was willing which they was willing it has affected my kids one of which is autistic and thier kids as well as they have become verry attached to the kids and has destroyed thier lifestyles and having to learn about autism first hand and our lifestyles as now the kids for thier own good go over and spend alot of time with them and there is gonna be a lawsuit against idcs and the hospital and the original case worker will be prosicuted for perjury as he lied on court documents
Comment by beckie and robert — September 16, 2008 @ 5:10 pm
IOWA DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS and these are the most crooked people in IOWA on election day don’t vote for these crooked Judges they are Judge Constance Cohen, Judge Birkenholz,Judge Linda Reade,Judge Ramano, Judge Nickerson, Judge Edgry,Judge Cohen takes bribes so does Judge Reade, the DHS crooks,Iva Burkett,Kevin Cannonnan,Stephanie Reinheart,my exinlaws who are hateful and spiteful people they only wanted my children because of the money,Kathy Sheehey,her husband left her years ago for another women Kathy is porky,Dean and Phyllis Rote the bitch is very wicked and the rest of that family and the crookes of county attorney,Andrea Vitzthum.Olu Salami, and the very cooked lawyer Carmen Jannessan,and the bitches offour oaks who lied to the courts Jenny Moore,and Gina Schuller they stab people in the back,and the worst crooks attorney General Charles Phillips, Katherine Miller Todd, Bruce Kemepes, Casa Kevin Schoebelon and the back stabbing bitch of CASA Jeannie Stoner and the lieing making up stuff bitch Jackie Stanley, and Child Guideance center therapist Mary McNeeley who is brain washing my children against me she is friends of my exinlaws, and you got Amy Keepes and Jessica Miskimins they think they know everything they where playing favorites everyone of these people where sitting with my exinlaws they none would talk to me they all went by what my exinlaws was telling them so that my exinlaws could get my children for the money they none wanted to hear the truth and the postitive things abbout me all they wanted was hear the lies and the negtive stuff about me and you got the IOWA SUPREME COURT who are just as guility they all have knowledge that these Judges takes bribes and that DHS lies and court and the courts has very much knowledge knowing that my exinlaws has been doing horrible things to me for 16 years and always having strings poured in the court system when my exinlaws was alive he went to the Judge house question what waw my exhusband doing at the Judges house with his family and his laywer looks pretty supusios (not spelled right) the Judge that Put a no contact order on me and my children who are minors Judge Cohen my daughter still minor age 16 and my son age 19 Judge Birkenholz put a 5 year no contact order on me against my son whatever my exinlaws wants something all these people will jump for them I was charge harrassment 3rd degree My exinlaws and county attorney and attorney general had me arrested because I contacted on his 18 Birthday these Judges has violated my rights to my children and they have violated my children rights one person from four oaks name Kathy Woody told the courts that my children told her that they wanted to live with me my exinlaws lied and said they smelled beer on Ms Woody breath there where mad because she was saying nice things about me so Ms Woody got fired when my exhusband was alive he was complaining saying that Ms Woody wasn’t doing her job right because she was saying nice things about me and 2 or 3 other people where saying nice about me and the courts didn,t want to hear it all these people including the JUdge went to my exhusband funeral and I wasn’t allowed to go after my exhusband death the follwing day DHS and my exinlaws where in the Judge office stealing my children from me I wasn’t aware there was a meeting that day everything was keep hush hush these people aren’t follwing the law they are making up their own law. Judge Cohen had no business telling my exinlaws if they wanted to adopt my children they can she would help them she said that in the courtroom when I was there you compain about these Judges and nothing gets done this is one big fraud and the Iowa Supreme Court is fraud so is the federal courts they are saying that the district court wasn’t wrong well I am telling them that the state district court is wrong.
Comment by Terri Rote — September 26, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
These Des Moines laywers they are lazy they are scared of their own shadow they don’t want to help you then why are they laywers then and they say they are ethically committed that is a lie they aren’t ethically committed even Al Parrish only help rich people I been to him twice to him I am a white nobody he help only black people and that is the fact.
Comment by Terri Rote — September 26, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
Lisa – are you a parent wronged by CPS or a CPS worker?
Comment by willfightforjustice — October 1, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
wtf.
why didn’t you guys delete that?
Comment by I hate this website. — October 7, 2008 @ 11:27 am
What did you want me to delete? I always delete things whenever people ask me to, if I can find what they want deleted. If something shouldn’t be here – just send an email to me at the webmaster link below and include a link to what needs to be deleted. The last thing I want to do here is hurt anyone for any reason. Sorry you are unhappy.
Comment by Linda — October 8, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
I am writing to all of you as a God willing sourc of encouragement. I know that alot of you people aren’t lying about what DHS of Iowa does to people. I fought the Jerico Mile with DHS and even though I won my children back I still have a wrongful “Denial of Critical Care” on the registry because they gave my attorney and I one date for the appeal hearing and they supposedly had it on another date. acording to them I “abandoned” my claim on fighting my appeal and would not reopen the appeal even though everything was done within their time ly fashion. I am going to give you all the just of my story but I am going to leave the names out because I plan on sueing DHS for what they did to me and my kids. It was all about a DHS worker that doesn’t want her dirty little secret out that she has 2 convictions for substance abuse and a conviction for not having a tax stamp(which shows she was dealing). Even though this DHS worker had a felony she got on welfare while she was pregnant, went to school for her social workers license, and became a DHS worker which she should have NEVER been able to do any of this. After doing my homework on this worker the TIME HAS COME FOR MY RETRIBUTION. She is still working for the state taking peoples kids and I am going after her in hopes that her cases will be null and void and some of these people will get their children back. I had to take a rest break of going thru 2 years of lies and hell from DHS. even though the lies could be proven false the courts didn’t want to hear it. they said my kids made statement that I and my kids know they didn’t even make, they still gave my kids no voice and my kids went thru more hell in the custody of DHS than they ever would at home. M son was in a facility where he was “choked out against a lamp post”, along with other abusive things like having a ear infection to the point his ears were dripping “green pus” and they still didn’t take him to the doctor. Now tell me how come that facility wasn’t charged with abuse. DHS and the worker should have been charged with abuse, but through the grace of GOD even if I have to fight till my dying day, I’m going after DHS. My case began with me working on another womans DHS case. Well there was alot wrong with her case, so the other worker was released and the worker that got put on her case turned out to be a friend of hers from school. I continued to help with her case and to make a long story short found out that the DHS worker and the client were “partying” together. During one of the visits my child witnesssed the client shooting dope in the bathroom so I confronted her and removed myself off of her case. I tried to contact the worker about the problems but she wouldn’t call me back. Being disabled due to illness I ended up being put in the hospital almost Died. My mother said when the ambulance had just left from my house DHS was putting a card in my door and for what? This DHS worker fabricated a case against me afraid that I was going forward with what I knew about her. The joke of it all was she was assigned to my case as my worker. While in the ICU unit the DHS worker told me that I needed to sign my kids into the “Custody of my mother” I was heavily sedated which anything I signed wouldn’t have been legal but she tricked me and I ended up signing my kids “INTO THE DEPARTMENT OF DHS”. I after a 2 week hospital stay get home and started calling for my kids to return home and that is when this DHS worker told me what I had done (also with a laugh). I was furious!! everywhere I turned everyone (state ombudsman,Iowa protection & advocacy,Legal Aid, Children &vFamilies of Iowa) and even more agencies acknowledged the wrong doing but wouldn’t do anything to help me. When I finally got a court date 3 months later the DHS worker hadn’t done anything on my case to help me and she had poisoned the Judge and everyone at the “court tables” against me. I always had clean drug screens, lead a quiet life, very respectable, lived a right responsible life. This courtroom case was a disaster. I was painted as a needle addict, house ran like a shooting gallery, said I was dealing and shooting drugs all times of the day and night. The DHS worker said I was noncompliant and the Judge reprimanded me harshly infront of everyone and MY KID!! i WAS IN A STATE OF SHOCK! I then knew I was in the fight of my life. Everytime dhs called for a drug screen behind their backs I was having my Doctor’s office do one. I got the dhs worker off of my case and a new one assigned. My child fired his attorney from them and got a new one assigned. He fired the attorney after she wouldn’t let them go home for thanksgiving. My child even tried to hang himself after they wouldn’t listen to him and he was tired of the abuse. A 13 yr old shouldn’t have to contend with those issues especially after tis was suppose to be their “saving grace”. After I got a new worker I thought things would change and it didn’t. All of the professionals on the case said my youngest child could come home. He was home for 3 weeks and when he went to have the judge sign the order for him to stay home, she called an emergency hearing and had him reremoved stating to the adlitem “until you can go through every closet and drawer in the house and report to me that there are no drugs, this child will not be allowed home”. I as well as the inhome counselor begged Dsm Police to invade my home or do a “surprise investigation” whereby they can report nothing found and they said it was against my rights. There was no way I could prove my innocence and even though the adlitem did her surprise inspection the county attorney and the Judge didn’t want to accept what she was saying. The new dhs worker wanted to get the State Attorney Generals’ office involved but the dhs supervisor didn’t want to make waves against the county attorney since she was operating on her own and not for dhs. She and the Judge would only admit what was bad against me, nothing good. All of my civil, ethical, and human rights were violated. I paid and hired my own attorney as well as a civil rights attorney, he took my money and he set on his butt too and did nothing. I couldn’t believe it. every involved in this “WITCHING” should have had their licecnses revoked, brought up on criminal charges and prosecuted. My kids were even abused by their father inwhich they have no visits, rights, nothing. My kids were mentally damaged because they wouldn’t listen to me or the written evidence against them and they were forcing them into a relationship with them. There is evidence of major sexual abuse convictions and domestic abuse convictions numerous to both and the Judge was forcing this contact. I fought for almost 2 years and after I started investigating “the professionals” you wouldn’t believe how quick my kids came back home. I entered into therapy and tried to adjust, mainly absorb what just happened to my family and now I am MAD AS HELL!! It has been a year since my last child came home and now that I am semi rested but still feel mentally exausted, MY TURN HAS COME!! any and all I can go after, I’m going after. All I can give as support and advice is DON’T GIVE UP ON YOUR KIDS NO MATTER WHAT THEY CHARGE OR HOW HARD IT IS. YOUR BABIES ARE COUNTING ON YOU-YOU ARE ALL THEY HAVE AS A VOICE!! THEY NEED YOU NOT STRANGERS. YOU MAY THINK YOUR BABIES ARE SAFE AND THEY ARE NOT!! SOME OF THEM ARE IN WORSE SITUATIONS AND GOING THRU MORE ABUSE THAN WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED AS PUTTING THEM IN!! I have been thru countless of cases and when a worker thought her secret was out she attacked me, character and all. NOW HER SECRET WILL BE OUT SOON!! The way they investigate you, investigate them. That was how I found out this workers felony convictions and here I don’t even have a traffic ticket!! You know this worker has no right to take anyones kids and the real joke of it all is the Judge on my case the parole violations case against the dhs workers husband a few years back, so what is really going on? Because of this worker having major felonies her testimony in any case is not valid, and I’m hoping this will be the saving grace for some of you to get your kis back. The damage is already done to my kids and I’m trying to heal them of this nightmare. I know how low this makes you feel, jus HOLD ON, KEEP FIGHTING AND MOST OF ALL DON’T GIVE UP.~~THANK U~~GOD BLESS U & I CARE:)
Comment by someone that has won her kids back — November 30, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
I needed to correct something~The judge on my case did and heard the parole violations case against the dhs workers husband. that is what I meant to say but I left the word “did” out. Sorry
Comment by someone that has won her kids back — November 30, 2008 @ 11:07 pm
my brother and his wife got drunk one night and got into a job related (he wanted to become a over the road truck driver & she didn’t want him away that long though the money was good) argument she threw a pan hit him and he slapped her and then in the end they arrested him and two months later she went back to the house she was “Removed” from and was forced to go to her mothers house 2 countys away the mother later threw her out of the house and the kids also turning off the heat to the house so they would leave she came to live with us for a shore while before returning to her home and he was staying with a friend there case worker claimed mother was not allowed to return to her home which the social worker who visited her the week before said was OK she return home because she “claimed ” that my brother lives there and they took the kids though my brothers friend supports the fact my brother lives with him so she went to her home lose the kids for nothing
now to top all of that the caseworker is falsifying reports saying that my mother told them he was there and also saying that my mother said they are together though we are wittiness to what happened the nigh the social worker came she forced a “answer” (Not That He Was With Her) then she implemented her own view on what happened then she applied that he is with her and the kids are in danger
so they removed the kids and sence then the caseworker has made multiple lies including that the kids were abused though no physical evidence was shown (NOTE: the lady couldn’t even spell my mothers name or the kids let alone claim my mother said he was with her).
key note there the kids were sleeping when the fight happened no danger to them once so ever he left the house after the argument with her he was arrested at my home sleeping they dragged him out without so much as a fair warning also note that the police officers claimed it was a misdemeanor he would be home the same day yet he was place in county jail for 2 weeks (they lie a lot in this county) not to mention the judge who presided over the case was charged with cocaine possession and had a leg bracelet on when he had my brother arrested ( anyone smell corruption in this county).
now onto the issue at hand
my mother has also attempted to attain legal custody of the kids yet when she tried to bring the matter up in court she was silenced now every time they go back to court the caseworker calls for the date of the court to be dated further in the future and she has no evidence the kids were harmed or are in danger i believe shes attempting to make evidence on her own as she made false statements already it would not be a surprise she is adding to it trying to cover up what she knows she did wrong.
Note: my mother brother and his wife received papers from court about a list of things they about what supposedly happened to the kids each of them were false lies such as the kids were not fed properly (the oldest is picky eater what kid isn’t now a day) tho all were always well fed if they did not have food my mother herself would buy them food ( that the kids were sick supposedly the middle aged kid had ear infections in both ears yet no medical report was sent) the list of lies builds.
also now adding that the second time we phoned the oldest boy he was saying he had no parents now (kids don’t just say that unless they were told it) .
the day the social worker come to the house to have fill out the papers about the kids being placed with my grandfather and his now wife she filled the papers (papers contained carbon paper) the social worker claimed she dont have any copys of the paper she could leave with the mother (fishy if you ask me being its done on carbon based 3 sheet paper) then after she signed the paper 8 days later the court paper arrived with the information she agreed to sign and it was “CHANGED”
without ever notifying anyone .
this as i understand it is vary illegal and is a class-c felony offense
my mother personally called this caseworkers cell phone to call her a ****ing lier and later the mother of the kids forcefully kicked the social worker out of her home because the social worker was illegally searching the house without a warrant police or permission.
(the social worker seen a man in her home she admitted to cheating on my brother which the social worker should not have legally said because it places her in danger)
the social worker claimed it was my brother though she never seen a face or got a name or even talked to the man.
now to end this i note no i am not in any way in a legal career path however i was schooled personally by a now retired judge who was vary respected in his time as a judge and i can tell you everything this person has done is vary illegal
contact me if anyone is willing to help
Comment by daniel — December 31, 2008 @ 10:00 pm
I live in Clinton, Utah. I have filed a Federal Lawsuit [Davis Vs. Judge Wilkins] on November 26, 2007. The caseworkers’ through the DCFS and CPS falsified court documents that is evident in my Fedral complaint. The caseworker said in Juvenile court document that I did not complete the service plan,which was false.Their activity records stated that I have completed the service plan. The caseworker said in another juvenile court document, “daddy dont hurt mommy and daddy dont make mommy sad” in a tape recording, which was false, the tape did not say such a thing. This is just some of the false and misleading information that they used. Criminal charges should be filed. I am an African American Male and my wife is White. I believe this is the motivated factor becasue they threatened my wife using racial threats. This behavior from caseworkers should be delt with in a crimminal setting., State agencies should be responsible to the citizens.
Comment by Kelvin L. Davis — January 6, 2009 @ 4:14 am
So it is really quite unusual for a Iowa DHS worker to knowingly and with malice lie under oath? HA HA HA,
Janine Howard of the Iowa CSRU knowingly,wrongfully under the color of law and with malice falsely swore notarized written oaths to the Court. She did these criminal acts on multiple occasions and when crooked ol’ Concannon discovered this information he promoted her rather than filing criminal charges.
The State of Iowa & DHS always likes to have someone who can be relied on to lie under oath in their bullpen!
Comment by IowaJoe — February 15, 2009 @ 10:15 am
A little follow up note to DHS and the rancid departments of the State of Iowa:
1) The crooked,ultra feminist,out of state judge I endured was publicly sanctioned 3 times for wrong doing and tossed by the voters
2) The crooked court trustee lost her job and a subsequent election for a higher post and now I hear is filing bankruptcy
3) The corrupt out of state menopausal wench of a DA was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis the same year their criminal activities towards my family originated
4) The vile out of state DHS type attorney who falsified records is now working at a small town bank handing out toasters for the opening of accounts,quite a step down for from crooked DHS attorney to bank teller!
These are four outcomes of your out of state conspirators,you do reap what you sow in life,not even the nefarious Howard can escape that outcome.
In case you departmental types have forgotten the laws here they are:
42 USC 1383
42 USC 1385
18 USC 1001
Comment by IowaJoe — February 15, 2009 @ 10:26 am
What I have noticed the most in the year that I’ve been going to court with my case workers is that they lie about my actions and my words spoken in an effort to support their case. They twist my words around and manipulate my actions in their journals inorder to present a picture of me that best fits their purposes. They lied in their first submission to the court to take my children from me in April of 2008. They are complete liars!
Comment by Heidi Kielser — March 5, 2009 @ 1:44 pm
I am from Iowa, and I am willing to do what it takes to get my kids back, and to help others.
Comment by mpo2624 — April 11, 2009 @ 3:42 pm
Yes my case worker T. A. perjured herself in reports & on January 6th 2009. I have the proof in m y hands, and they are terrified! No they are stalling my Court dates. Guess what…in NJ the penalties are severe! Not even Judges survive the qualified immunity claims.
When the case worker told me in the beginning of my case that, “your duaghter is going to be the cause of me loosing my job.” I corrected her by saying, “No you b***h, you will be the cause of making your children go hungry – don’t you ever blame your filth on my daughter.” ;-P
Comment by NAPALMFACE — April 12, 2009 @ 8:14 am
Dear Iowans, Please let me know if we can get a class action lawsuit going here?
Comment by mpo2624 — April 23, 2009 @ 4:43 pm
I am interested in finding an activist in my area and what Iowan senators and legislators are listening to us? I am working on my letter to the President and want to send this letter to many others as well. The CPS workers have lied, threatened, failed to perform a proper investigation, broken laws, and even their own policies in my case. Please let me know these things!?
Comment by mpo2624 — April 27, 2009 @ 6:10 am
Dear mpo2624, I can relate. Your situation sounds just like mine. It sickens me to know that they can get by with this. I would love to file a class action suit. How do I get a hold of you? Just another poor iowan.
Comment by tay — April 29, 2009 @ 5:05 am
Tay, My phone number is (563) 519-2285.
Comment by mpo2624 — April 30, 2009 @ 8:11 am
On that note I would like to get a hold of Terri Rote. You seem to know the down low here in Iowa. Thank you!
Comment by mpo2624 — April 30, 2009 @ 8:13 am
I too am fighting CPS in regards to my granddaughter whom I have had since she was 20 days old until one month ago, she is now 4yr4mo now. I would really like to join in on the class action suit as well.There isn’t enough room here to tell all of the horrendous lies that the social workers told in regards to my granddaughter’s case over the last 3 years I produced evidence to show proof of these lies both with a paper trail and with actual witness testimony and on video tape(because eventually I refused to talk to them without a video camera present) but to no avail my granddaughter is now in Minnesota and I have motions before the court presently, for all the good it will probably do! I am at my wits end and really don’t know where to go from here but I can’t give up because my granddaughter is in very grave danger where she is presently. HELP!!!!!
Comment by worried grandmother — May 5, 2009 @ 5:28 pm
Dear Worried Grandmother,
Please get into contact with AFRA Helpline online, they are being of great help to me.
Comment by mpo2624 — May 12, 2009 @ 7:53 pm
I had my children kidnapped from me by CPS last May, and after contacting the governor’s office, mayor’s office and state representative, I was basically told to deal with it. I have my children back now, but have court reports dating all the way back to May that were full of lies, and nobody cares to listen to reason. No steps were taken to see if there would be a way to keep my children in their own home, they were gone before I was even interviewed by a caseworker. When I called by caseworker’s supervisor because the worker was not returning may calls, I was called a liar, and it was all down hill from there. I have learned that you have to smile and jump through the hoops. I am now being forced to pay back child support (ransom, I assume), and as a single mother of four, every penny counts. I would like to join any advocacy group out there that is bringing attention to the corruption in the Department of Human Services, and especially Child Protective Services. My children were in foster care for 10 months, and I was never charged with, or even accused of abuse. How is this possible, and who is going to stop this from happening? My children now feel like they were punished, and we have lost almost a year of their childhood because of an angry, bitter, dishonest caseworker. If there is something we can do to help stop this from happening to another family, please contact me. I have also been placed on a child abuse registery, and will never be able to be a foster parent, as I had hoped to be since I was a child.
Comment by Karin Marr — May 20, 2009 @ 2:09 pm
Karin, why not try to get a lawyer to sue the agency for you? Here in CA there was one case where the children were gone only a very short time but they still got a settlement.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — May 21, 2009 @ 10:10 am
Linda, can you help us here in Iowa. We are trying to find an attorney who will help us sue. I am still fighting for my older two girls.
Comment by mpo2624 — May 22, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
MPO – look on the attorneys page . . . there may be some Iowa attorneys listed. (I’m not sure…) And if not, try the message board. You can also look at the database at your local courthouse to find out which attorneys have sued CPS. Try the courthouses in nearby counties too. Sometimes an out-of-county attorney is the best bet.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — May 23, 2009 @ 7:05 am
we need help here in iowa. Iam so scared pleases help me
Comment by tay — May 24, 2009 @ 9:15 am
Thank you Linda
Comment by mpo2624 — May 31, 2009 @ 6:44 am
I had a social worker…Vicki Leau come to my home on allegations that my cat litter box was overflowing, my garbage was overflowing, my dishes were overflowing, my daughter had lice and had scabs all over her scalp, etc. These reports were made by 1 of 2 people, in which one would have been my ex-step father, whom I still let visit after my mom and him divorced….his kids had the head lice and yes my daughter and my self got the lice….I treated us many times before finding out where it was coming from and that my ex-step father had not been treating his kids and that was why we couldn’t get rid of it. Needless to say, I told him to quit coming around. Guess what, got rid of the lice. So there’s one suspect that was in retaliation, the other would have been my (at the time) mother in law or sister in law. They were both not speaking to me and my (at the time) husband. They could have been in retaliation…So, Vicki Leau shows up at my door, I answer it, let her in….she inspects my house, my daughters head etc. Nothing was found. Since I had told my ex step dad to quit coming around, he was driving by constanty , checking out my house and to see if we were outside. We decided, that we were going to be gone at other family member’s houses for awhile b/c we felt safer. So for a week, we were constantly gone, we would stop home to pick up a few things and drop a few things off. So the house was not very orderly at that time. We left unexpectedly, so in my bedroom was a glass of juice that had sat there all week. A day after we decided to return home, because we thought he was done stalking us, Vicki shows up AGAIN! This time with the house in some disarray. I was in my bedroom, folding laundry, my daughter on my bed, and 2 at that time. I explained to the Worker what was going on. This worker, as I could tell, was totally out to get us….she entered my bedroom and smelled the glass of juice and insisted it was alcohol…She told me to smell it and I did. Yes it was fermented juice, she argued with me about what it was. SO needless to say this was a founded report. But, this worker LIED LIED LIED….whoever did this to me, knew what they were doing, they knew I loved working with kids and wanted to continue my education in nursing. They knew they could ruin my life by doing this. After completion of their family services program, I thought that was the end of them. NOPE, they’ve been back three times. Once I didn’t even answer the door, the others, I did, just to prove to them that there was nothing to be founded….and there wasn’t, they found absolutely nothing! Now it has been two years since my founded report, I’m wanting to go into nursing for a stable job and better life for my daughter, but I can’t do that because of these people. This is on my record for ten years. Any suggestions? I would too , love to get in on the class action lawsuit!!! I’d love to see these lying filthy people go down for what they have done to many Iowan families. I’ve read stories and they are so sad and heartbreaking. I’ve never had my daughter taken away from me. Thank God…I couldn’t imagine. My heart goes out to those who are dealing with their children being taken away. i must mention that this isn’t the only trouble I’ve been having with Iowa DHS. I am on medical/food assistance and my worker Diana Bollin, is always sending me statements saying that I am canceled from benefits because I did not return the completed forms on time, when I don’t even receive these forms. Or once I left them in their drop box in their building and she insisted that she didn’t get them. Now I make sure I have copies of everything that I hand deliver to their office, with the persons initials and date on the paperwork. i’m not letting these people do this to me anymore. MPO, i’m interested in this lawsuit and your letters to the president. Ya know, before I got on here, I too was thinking about writing to state legislators and the president.
Comment by Tiffany — June 3, 2009 @ 4:11 pm
Tiffany,
You can send your letter to the President anytime you want even though we found out he never requested our letters, it will still help. I am in the process of finding an attorney who will handle our Federal Lawsuit. Make sure to document and record everything CPS/DHS does/says. My email is mpo2624 @ yahoo.com for anyone interested in helping me find an attorney for a Federal Lawsuit. Thank you!
Comment by mpo2624 — June 6, 2009 @ 5:26 pm
Dear Iowans, We are forming our own group http://www.familyethicsnotdestruction.com/ We are going to be exposing the corruption of CPS and helping with a General Defense Fund for those families needing help with attorney costs to fight CPS’s false allegations.
Comment by mpo2624 — June 7, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
My wife and I have also been
trying to find a federal attorney for two years now, with no luck so far.
Here ’s how you can read the story!
go to yahoo.com and type in Diana Owen- A mothers battle to be believed
Comment by Robert Owen — June 8, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Please Look in yahoo search for
Diana Owen – A mothers battle to be believed.
We have audio, video and medical records to prove they false reported ignored medical records , medical tests, hospital staff own reports of eye witness accounts of what our daughter was doing and yet they still accused me of munchausen.
There is a nationwide electronic registry if you have been suspected , falsely accused of munchausen and you can NEVER get your name off.
Comment by Robert Owen — June 24, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
To all the Iowans falsily accussed,
We have been fighting this same frustrations in Iowa. Vickie Leau lied over and over about us concerning a very damaged foster child we adopted in the fall of 2007. We are definitely interested in any federal lawsuits against these DHS workers, especially Vickie! There is alot of decitful happens in the whole Iowa DHS system!!! I believe the crooked happens the one lady mentioned. I too have witnessed it! Please keeps us informed on what we all can do next! Contact us! Thanks!
mcneillk[@]sendoutcards.com
Comment by Karen McNeill — December 10, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
Dear Karen,
I have heard of this Vickie Leau. You must be from Muscatine County Ia.? I think all parents/families that have been/are being hurt by CPS in Muscatine County need to band together in support of one another. I have been blessed by the Grace of God to have my children home and my case with CPS closed. I am currently hunting for an attorney who will help me sue.
If you are interested in helping me find the victims of CPS in and around our are please email me at mpo2624 @ yahoo.com.
Comment by Diane — December 28, 2009 @ 2:40 pm
Hi, I read some of this and am a foster parent. I can tell you many of the complaints the bio parents have are TRUE. I also used to not believe they were, but have come to find they are as the social workers will say any lie about you. If you can catch them at it, and I have, the agency still does not want to change the worker. However, they eventually did and I think I hurt his career by complaining and making it known at very high levels with CPS (I live in CA.) how this caseworker keeps lying. It was not really because I got his 3rd or 4th level supervisor up the chain to work with me but because I made the court aware. They don’t like this because they will have to come before the same judge many, many times in their career. I have found there are many, many tools the social workers have to discredit a parent. However, I have a list of many tools too, and have found them to be pretty effective against a caseworkers’ lies. But I should tell you, there were 2 more after him who also lied. Therefore, changing the caseworker will not change the supervisor (at maybe a 2 to 4th levels up) from telling the current caseworker to lie. Also, as far as I’m aware, it is not a crime for the caseworker to lie because it is within their scope of employment. They may say “sorry” after being caught, but unless they stick a gun in your face, or threaten to rape your wife, they can do it because their doing so is still within the scope of employment. Besides, they have access to attorneys and a lot of professional liability insurance.
The real way to stop the abuse may be to make complaints against their professions license. Their professional standards are subject to the mental health agency t(Board of Behavioral Sciences in CA) that licensed them which allows them to make more money than they would otherwise. However, be VERY careful in doing this BEFORE you get your kids back because my attorney advised NOT doing this during a current case. She didn’t say why but I think it is because they (the whole agency) will go after you even harder. As I say I have many tools so if you want to ask write a comment and I’ll likely respond. I say likely because I usually do not visit this site as my case is going well and my child cannot come home anyway currently due to his behavior.
I should explain I’m a licensed foster parent that has a child in the system. I have de facto parent status on my non-bio child.
Anyone comment if you’d like.
Bill Smith
Note: email address is not working. Only post here if you’d like.
Comment by Bill Smith — February 6, 2010 @ 9:16 am
Where is the professional liability for these people? Police must have people write their own statements, and/or use video/audio recording during interviews…. A CPW can interview your child with no witnesses and no proof of what was actually said!
they are allowed to let their opinions rule without any one else to back it up! this is absolutely crazy!
As a nurse, I am not allowed to use my opinion in any documentation, only report observations that are made, or exactly what a patient reports, if I disclude a symptom I find irrelevant at the time, I could be held liable, so if a CPW disregards information that say… makes a parent look better, why is that alright? They are allowed to sift through the information, and only use the things that help them build a case! This is insane! What other professional can do that that without any course of action taken to prevent misrepresentation or sense of liability! It is outrageous! They need to b e held accountable!
Comment by allisyn — March 11, 2010 @ 4:27 am
That is true my 4 children were placed in foster care because I was in a domestic situation and trusted a family member to help keep my children until the school year was up her n I got into a disagreement because she allowed my cousin to babysit for them and was smoking pot and having sex in front of my children she then turned around and said I abandoned my children while in her care my aunt and her husband were abusing my children with belts and fly swatters where my son 12 yrs old hid his sisters under his bed n told them he will shoot my aunts husband if he beats them anymore I complained to the social worker the counselors and visitation person to where I was the bad person and took my visits down to twice a year I got to see my children for 2 hrs a year. They keep saying to me we got my son convinced just not my daughters they still wanted their mother I lost my children for 4 yrs and finally got them back thx to a wonderful therapist I again have to deal with the human services because they have founded me for abuse on my grandaughter I was a victim of abuse as a child and adult I know the pain of the abuse on my being and in my mind I would never in my life ever hurt a child in any way shape or form I love all children I went to see an attorney and bottom line the department of human services do not like me no matter if I’m a good person or not I’ve dealt with alot of things in my life and have a lot of wisdom to share with people who are going threw the same or similar things I’ve been threw I’m tired of being beat down for nothing but control just because they r a DHS worker doesn’t mean they r God and I’d really like to know how many of them have mental issues themselves because to hurt and betray the people they have there has got to be something wrong with them anyone from Johnson co. Ia look me up if you’ve been abused by the system the more people we can get the more people we can get to listen
Comment by Lori — May 9, 2010 @ 11:29 am
My family, best friends, DHS, West Des Moines Police Department, Polk County Courts and who knows who else kidnapped my 3 kids from me in June 2007. I’m living with the effects every day and I have no money for a good lawyer. It has ruined my life can’t even get a job. I need some one to lisson and help me. It all had to do with and ex boyfriend who in 2003 DHS said it was ok for him to be around my kids. Then 2007 kids healthy, A B students, never missed school, clean home, plenty food, never introuble it wasn’t ok any more. DHS allowed him to be around them after going through the whole deal with them in 2003 when i was getting a divirce. My ex husband said I had my childeren around someone who could seriously hurt them or kill them. W/o talking to me, my kids or anyone founded me of failure to provide proper supervision with unlikly to ever happen again. Then we went through everything and it was ok for us to live together. And when I asked were they got info they said newspaper. Everything turned out to be true about him being abusive to wemen and I was a victim of him as much if not more and DHS made me out to be a mother who didn’t care about her children. He never physicaly abused my kids but mentaly yes and I was trying to get away . The system let me think my kids were kidnapped. Have proof they were missing form 6/9/07 til my grandpa died 8/2/07 when emergency china hearing was served for the next day to me so i couldn’t take my kids from funeral. They said it was Denial of Critical Care and Failure to Provide Proper Supervision, for 15,14 and 10 yr olds. I filled 3missing persons reports 6/11/07 with west des moines police cause on 6/9 my kids left my house with my brother to go camping at lake he drove my trooper with all fishing and camping thing and my kids and i went to the store to get food and was going to meet them there. He call and said he was brighing them home cause his mom didn’t want all those kids there(he has different mom). I went back home and waited for them, like i teld him I would and never new anything about my kids again till 8/2/07. Was told by DHS they didn’t have any idea what i was talking about the police let me think they put missing persons. when they, wdmpd, gave escort to my brothers ex girlfriend with my kids to her moms. The police said they would take me to jail if i went to places i though my kids were and would not go to the places with or for me. Even though supposely they were reported missing. I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone! Yet nothing was put on Missing and Exploied childerens website til 8/1/07 not 6/11/07 when reported. But 8/1/07 all 3 of my kids had kidnapped by family member then for 9/07 bulliten they were listed as found. My oldest is going to 18 and he got adoped in 9/08 to be out of DHS my daughter will be 17 can’t talk to or see her and my youngest is 13 can’t talk to or see him either. I love my kids more than anything in the world. When I last talked to DHS I was told that I will never talk to or see them til they were 18 if she had andthing to do with it. When I asked what I did that was so terrible that I can’t even talk to my kids? She said I aloued them to be around Kelly Hilpipre. I then told her They aloued him to be around them and she said she knew nothing about it she was new. Please HELP!
Comment by Lisa — June 1, 2010 @ 2:37 am
I guess I should add that yes my kids getting out of my house was best but … It could have been handeled different. I was stuck trying to get away for 2 more years. See he was suppose to go to prisone as i understood it sometime in the summer of 2007 for 25 years so his att. told me and I didn’t want to loose my house my kids and I worked so hard for and at. But I promised that if he didn’t do I would move my kids and me to Texas. IMy daughter made me sign a note stating that. Noone gave me a choice so when all came ouy in Augest 07 I jumped to the defenceive sill knowing it was best for my kids but why couldn’t someone say something to me or ask me or help me. Insted DHS, my family, friends ext. were my enemies. And I went throuth 100 times more abuse from him after that mentaly and physicaly no terror movie could come close to touching. And with all the court things DHS was involved since 12/2006. I mean what the heck. Court papers don’t add up. some have been whited out and things wrote in and I have both copies. Nothing is right.I think I have a Law suite. I need someone to help pro-bono. PLEASE!
Comment by Lisa — June 1, 2010 @ 2:54 am
I have had a somewhat similar occurance only not in court… The case against me started when I had double ear infection on top of the flu and was bed ridden for a couple weeks… If I don’t do it the housework doesn’t get done.. I have 4 kids ages 7,6,5,and 3 at the time and a husband who works night shift. I have kept my house clean with the obvious dishes and laundry as a family of 6 should have.. Our case has been open for about a year now… Thinking the miserary of having to plan 2-3 days out of my week to plan for the caseworker and social worker to come in and just chat… Believe me maybe only 10 mins is spent saying this is what I want from you for our next visit the rest was chatting about the kids, school, and what my plans are for the summer.. So considering my case was only supposed to be open 12-18 months instead of backing out the case worker add yet another person to the case to be here 2 days a week and the case worker is going down to once a month… now 4-5 days out of the week every week has to revolve around them… When I called to rescheduale my home visit with the social worker I was sent to the case worker’s phone… I told her my sister flies out later that day and I was still camping/visiting my family 45 mins away.. She threw a fit that this was my normal visit time and my sister wasn’t more important than an appointment to sit and chat… My sister lives in Florida and this is the first time I had seen her in about 2 years and I was meeting my 18 month old niece… I am sorry but not only is 4-5 days a week too much but I can’t take time to visit family? I have caught the case worker in a lie before… She had an appointment for Wednesday at 4pm…. The time came and went and she never showed up… When she showed up Thursday at 4:30pm I wasn’t there so she left a note saying she stopped in for her home visit… So a week later she showed up without saying so and automatically started accusing me of not being there for the appointment and not showing an inniative to want to get this over.. I then said hey my appointment was this day right? Your paper says this day? How is that missing my appointment …you were the one who didn’t show up…. Oh well something important came up.. from that time on she has had it out for me… Is there anything I can do to get out of this situation? I have thought about moving to a different county and living with my family cause I can’t take the harassment… husband has no part in any of the appointments
Comment by Maie — July 12, 2010 @ 9:31 am
Maie, the problem is that if you rock the boat the caseworker may try to take your kids. You are really in a difficult situation! I’m so sorry, because I know what a pain it must be to put up with all this crazy interference in your life.
If you want to rock the boat a little, you could try contacting your state legislator to report the situation, or filing for an administrative hearing to have the situation reviewed by an administrative law judge. But like I said, there’s a risk with whatever you do.
Seems that this has been ongoing for a long time and she hasn’t found anything yet, but… she’s probably taking a lot of notes and fishing…
Comment by Linda Martin — July 14, 2010 @ 11:19 am