Michigan: Parents Flee With Their Infant To Avoid CPS

I really don’t like to read stories like this.

Last Friday a couple felt compelled to leave a hospital in Michigan with their newborn infant because CPS social workers in Saginaw asked Lucas County CPS social workers to interview them.

If I remember right, CPS in Michigan is called FIA – the Family Independence Agency – or have they changed their name again?

My feelings are always so divided when I read about things like this. I scanned the article for clues to what led this couple to make this life-changing decision.

The results so far: The couple and baby are on the run. CPS now has legal custody of the baby according to a Toledo police sergeant, William Wauford, though before they left CPS had tried to get a court order and failed. And there are warrants out for the arrest of Fredrick and Margaret Badenhoop.

Why my feelings are divided:

I never advise parents to run with their children because I know, over the years, that in most cases where this happened, the parents were apprehended and the children ended up in foster homes anyhow. Plus I have a policy of never advising a parent to do something illegal, or something that would get them in worse trouble with the law. I believe that staying firm and fighting CPS in a court of law is a better choice. But this may be one of those cases where it wouldn’t have worked to do so. At the end of the article it says, “Child Protective Services had taken at least one other child from Margaret Badenhoop.”

According to a law passed in 1996, the Adoptions and Safe Families Act (ASFA), if anyone has had their rights to another child terminated, CPS can take future babies without benefits of any kind of service plan or visitations. This can lead to incredibly cruel and heartrending scenes in hospitals where CPS workers have walked in and pulled infants from the arms of loving mothers, for no reason except that another child was already taken.

I swear I cannot help but hate social workers who allow themselves to be the agents of such cruelty. Why on earth would anyone want the bad karma associated with someone who would do such a deed?

I don’t know what the issues are with the Badenhoops, or what their motivation was, but I do know that their problems are severe and they need all the prayers we can give them and their child.

I really, really don’t like it when things like this happen. My heart hurts so much for the people involved.

Source: Parents take their baby, flee hospital, face charges by Lania Coleman for The Saginaw News published on July 23, 2007.

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Apparently the newborn had tested positive for cocaine. Now these parents are in more trouble than they would have been because they are also looking at charges of child endangerment since they left with the baby before it was discharged.

Comment by Jenni — July 24, 2007 @ 4:57 am

DHS stole my newborn baby too! They had no case against her whatsoever, just that my other 2 kids were given to my mother & her ‘partner’ under false allegations. I am NOT a drug or alcohol abuser and never have been! I’ve passed every UA I have ever taken! I’ve never even been arrested! None of my kids have ever been in any sort of immediate danger. Later CPS hired one of their ‘expert’ goons to observe us with the new baby during a supervised visitation. Of course, he found stuff wrong, like ‘not bonding enough’ and other BS like that! In my case, where WE ARE INNOCENT of any abuse or neglect, despite the fact that we were pressured into pleading guilty of neglect, these ‘
child protective services’ evil monsters will get back ten fold what they did to myself and other innocent families! If that family who fled with their newborn were drug abusers, then they need treatment and maybe place the baby with relatives until they are clean & sober for a substancial period of time!

Comment by Susan — July 24, 2007 @ 6:50 am

Linda, I believe CPS Michigan has changed their name again from FIA to keep us from finding them!!

There’s plenty of money to change paperwork within the CPS system.

CPS is about full employment in an economy which is undergoing wrenching changes.

I totally agree with you that the young folks should not have fled with the infant.

I pray they can get treatment and try to understand that even more than money ( CPS is about the JOBS!!!)

It is about full employment for those who cannot do much else.

However, fleeing with the child only compounds their problems.

Moms, drugs are NOT the answer!!

My hope is that the family of the couple can obtain custody. And that Mom and Dad can have visitation.

After all, familiial bonds are crucial.

And the usage of illegal substances is a medical disability that not even repressive regimes such as China and Iran have not been able to curb.

Regardless, it is an unfortunate and wrong choice.

Comment by fern — July 24, 2007 @ 8:32 am

Who would use cocaine when pregnant? If she did, she deserves to get caught. However there’s the possibility that this was a false positive. I’m reminded of a case in Bakersfield where a mother gave her child a cough medication and the hospital staff accused her of giving the child meth. That woman never did get her child back, and was devastated.

Comment by Linda — July 24, 2007 @ 9:02 am

Is this Family involved in Drugs? or are they under false allegations saying they are? Who told the story to the Media News, CPS or ??? That alone tells me something which CPS are still capable of:
Lying and covering up.
This Family could very well be innocent. They could have been taking Pencillin or Amoxicillin which would also give false positive for drugs.

If they did not do anything wrong, they are probably in Mexico or somewhere else, not in the USA. If they did indeed take Cocaine, then they need treatment but who told the story to the Media News? CPS or ????

Who knows? Who is telling the truth?
Yes Indeed….It is one thing telling something different to the News and the opposite in their case files. It is not always the same story, what we got is “half of the Story.”

What I would like to hear is from The Bardenhoops Family (forgive me for the spelling for their last name). If they come forward and tell their part of the story. No person with Drugs just would take off with a Baby without help. If they are indeed drug users, they would have stayed behind and use their own money to suppor their drug habits, you can’t get it somewhere else especially when you have an infant to support such as diapers, milk and clothes and stuff and food. It costs money to flee than it is to stay. But then again, it costs alot of agony and pain to stay behind, and lose the family all together. It goes both ways. JMO.

Even though if they went to Court, they will still lose because CPS always make sure they are powerful above the Law, no matter what. That’s the problem. I wouldn’t trust them with my Life. The question is not what you can do, it is the chance of gambling and other things. I don’t know what the outcome would be and I would not advise this either, but desperate measures comes to desperate moves. Any Mother would do it to protect their infants/child. It is a gambling situation where they think they have a greater chance to keep their child by fleeing to another country, but if they stay in USA, there is no chance of any winning, but they will lose. I don’t know, like Linda, I am very disheartened by this story and greatly saddened. I want to know the whole story and I would like to hear from the Family themselves to get the other side of the Story. I would not believe CPS’ Story in the media news. Sorry.

Comment by Frustrated — July 24, 2007 @ 3:13 pm

This is a very common scenario in CPS when a family knows they are going to lose custody of their new born, they flee the hospital. It is very sad to have to go through that, especially when you’re innocent. I would just be careful with who you tell your business to, never admit to drinking alcohol, using drugs, feeling mentally ill, and better yet, don’t do these things. However, if you are prescribed to take a drug by your doctor, keep records of your prescriptions- they can show up in a drug screen. The state can’t take your kids away if you need the medication and are following doctors orders-that means you are being responsible. Do not take drug screens without a Court order. Because the key is, if it’s not documented, it didn’t happen. So, if you did not take a drug test, the state doesn’t have any evidence that you abuse drugs. Keep copies of your drug screens, and if you believe there is a false positive, demand to have your specimen sent to a lab for further testing, and a re-test. I know someone who did this, and the second test came back negative.

Comment by Kelly Power — July 24, 2007 @ 5:27 pm

I live in Saginaw County MI it is called department of human services but cps is still under the that department the parents were from saginaw and fled to ohio . Frustrated hade a very good question about this and other stories. Who is giving out these stories ? I think that it is DHS . Most of these stories show when these parents screw up but not when DHS is wrong that only happends when the parents are accused falsely that is when we as parents need to stand up. Go to the media. My children were taken by Ingham county (lansing MI) after told the kin could take them this is because I was at an ob appt at 7 wks preg. and I had left and not known that dad was feeling sick and our 2yr old got after the 9 yr old that we were haveing problems with left for school. We have since moved back to saginaw where we have support down there we did not.

Comment by barb — July 25, 2007 @ 2:35 am

That’s why it is very important that we hear from the Bardenhoops Family themselves so they can tell the other half of the story. What is their reasoning to flee?
To protect their new born? or is it because they knew they were guilty?
We can put all this to rest once we hear from them. CPS has been known to lie to the Media and fabricating stories for years. That’s why we don’t hear from families all that too much because CPS has elimianted the truth from its stories from the media just like CPS eliminated stories from the Internet.
Just recently, CPS has tried to eliminate a story that was posted on the Internet threating the Host to shut it down, but it got transferred to 20 different hosts around the world. I guess the Truth always win. Always. Like we used to say from our Bibles, the Good always beat the Evil. Always. And it will be like this way. The truth shall come out and there is nothing CPS can do anything about it.

Comment by Frustrated — July 25, 2007 @ 6:32 pm

i’ve been told by a sick-o, i mean social worker supervisor that the fcc protects them from being filmed. because they lie they would not allow anybody to dispute their lies in the media otherwise you would have a flood of people telling about the horrors of what happened to their children while in state care, the parents might even tell how they themself expericed discrimanation, plotted against threated and victimized by cps. i have heard you can go to the newspaper sometimes and put an ad in the paper.

Comment by Christy — July 25, 2007 @ 7:07 pm

There is a similar story out in Toronto, where a Parent flee to protect Baby:

Mother Flees to Save Baby
July 11, 2007
Police are looking for a mother, Jessilyn Paulhus, who has left Toronto with her baby. If she is found, her baby, Ryan Tenhave, will be taken and she will likely never see him again. If she keeps the baby, she will have to live in the shadows where it will be hard to get food for him. Will anyone suggest an amnesty to save this boy?

Police Search For Mother And Missing 5-Month-Old Boy

Tuesday July 10, 2007, CityNews.ca Staff

He’s just an infant, too young to know the fuss his presence – and absence – has caused. But Toronto Police have issued a notice about him, and are hoping you know where he – and his missing mother – is. They’re concerned about 20-year-old Jessilyn Paulhus and her son Ryan Tenhave. The reason – the boy is only five months old and but weighs just 12 lbs. The Children’s Aid Society had been monitoring the child until June 29th – when the mother and the kid suddenly disappeared from the Sherbourne and Carlton St. area.

Police aren’t accusing the young mom of anything, but say they’re worried about the welfare of the baby. “There’s a warrant to apprehend the child,” Detective Hugh Wong tells CityNews.ca. “The child would be taken into custody” as a safety precaution so the C.A.S. could continue to reassure itself the infant’s in good condition.

Paulhus’s mother lives out west and police here think she may have gone to either Calgary or B.C. But they need to find little Ryan to be sure he’s O.K. The 20-year-old shouldn’t be hard to spot. She has several distinguishing features that would be hard to hide. She’s described as:

White,
5’7″,
115 lbs.,
Light-brown hair shaved on the left side and longer on the right side
Pierced tongue.
The 5-month-old is:

White,
2′,
12 lbs.,
Light-brown hair,
Blue eyes
Fair complexion.
Cops were only informed of their absence a few days ago when the C.A.S. confirmed they were gone. If you know where they are now, call (416) 808-5100 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at (416) 222-TIPS.

Source: Website of City-TV

Addendum: Police have found the pair. As usual in this kind of case, they were astonished to find that the mother had not harmed her own baby.

July 13, 2007

Missing mom and son found

By DOUG MCINTYRE

Cops have located a Toronto mother and her infant son reported missing earlier this week.

Toronto police enlisted the help of their Calgary colleagues after Jessilyn Paulhus, 20, and her five-month-old son Ryan Tenhave went missing last Friday.

At the time, it was believed the pair were headed to, or already in, Calgary or B.C.

Although police initially had concerns about the welfare of the infant, both mother and son were found unharmed.

Source: website of the Calgary Sun

Comment by Frustrated — July 25, 2007 @ 7:53 pm

Frustrated, the problem with the Badenhoops posting here is that their location could be tracked by the IP number used. I know there are ways to get around that but have no idea how. And if they leave a comment then government agents could force me to give them the IP number.

I’ve been through that before and was emailed by the FBI for the information. I gave it to them, because I have no desire to get arrested or go to court or have this site taken down. I don’t know what happened to that family; by that time they’d stopped posting here months before. I never heard of them or their case again, but the father had been fairly sure that he was using an offshore service that would cloak his IP number, so possibly the information I handed over did no good for the FBI anyway. That family was in another country by the time they started posting here on the message board, and I told the father right away that his IP cloaking better work because I was not going to refuse to give the IP number if asked for it.

So my recommendation to the Badenhoops is not to post here if they are trying to keep their location a secret.

P.S. – Normal parents who are not fugitives on the run don’t need to worry. I’ve never been asked for anyone else’s IP number.

Comment by Linda — July 26, 2007 @ 12:25 am

I too felt the need to run and protecty my baby girl from cps clutches.You may remember the Amber Alert in Wasshington state in M

Comment by Rebecca Forrester — July 26, 2007 @ 10:39 am

I understand and probably that’s for the best under difficult circumstances. That’s why I agree with you, it is rather disheartening and sad.
However, this is not the first time many families had run from CPS’s clutches, there were 100 Families who had fled at night from Alymer, Ontario, once the CPS (CAS) had seized all 7 children from one Family. All (almost) 100 Families in one night had fled Ontario and moved to live in Ohio, and some lived in Mexico. Some others not revealing locations to protect their family interests, which I do understand very much. I am a Mother too, I would have reacted the same way to protect my children from overzealous government who wants nothing more but hold the children for monetary reasons. But like you said, the results for fleeing, is not always a happy ending, it always ends up being seized anyways. Just like that example I gave about the Toronto Mother with 5 yrs old Baby. I don’t know about the outcome of that story either. But for the sakes on both sides, I hope it will end to happy endings when they will fight with all their mights to get their children back as deserved. I disagree with their ideology that it takes a Village to raise a Child, which means it takes the Government to raise a child. No, it all comes down to one Mother, one Father raising a child because that is a natural way of doing it. But today, it is all messed up. We have different kinds of families now, from all over, not all in one ancestry line, but thousands different others and all have become adopted or became the Government’s State Custody. That alone can mess up a Child’s Life in a second. Like that Study you have given is indeed true, the kids who were in their care would turn out (not happy ending) but either criminal, young mothers, pregnant, or on drugs/and/or alcohol. and among different other things. It is sad indeed. That’s why this Parent wants the best for their infant, so it would not become a statistic.

Comment by Frustrated — July 26, 2007 @ 1:49 pm

INCIDENT:
Our 5 and 3year old sons were playing by our 9 yr old, who was fixing his bike.
The little ones snuck out of our very large yard.
They have NEVER done that before.
Later I found out they wanted to find our 11year old son, who the 5 year old thought was down the road at a friendâ€™s house, but he was in our house.
When the neighbor brought them to my home. I was shocked and went about making changes so it didnâ€™t happen again. I use the â€œLove and Logicâ€ parenting style.
****
DHS sent a man out.
He was rude and he made a lot of damaging assumptions about me.

?DHS man asked because I was employed.
(I take the boys to church, the library, fun activities, educate them and get them to doctors appointments. I do not have time for a job!)

?He asked if my sons had all the same Father?
(My husband and I have been married for 13 years and our sons are 11, 9, 5 and 3! Apparently, he is bad at simple math.)

?He asked is the Father involved?
(My husband, their Father is the Cub Master, T-Ball Coach, Basketball Coach and assists with football.
Plus he works 6 days a week!)

?Then DHS man said my behavior was â€œsuspicious.â€
(I was talking to my 11 year old son when his brothers snuck-out.
I donâ€™t know why caring about your children is considered â€œsuspicious?â€)

He threatened me by adding, â€œIf this happens again we WILL take your children away! Let this be a wake-up call for you!â€

We live in a low-income part of town and another neighbor just had her children taken so I take his threat VERY seriously.

DHS man is coming over to question my husband on Monday about the incident.

Please send us all your prayer energy to get through this.
TY and God bless!

There is a march on Washington D.C. August 18, 2007 for parents terrorized by CPS/DHS. If you have the resources GO! We want to keep families together and NOT tear them apart!

Comment by Paula Fekken — July 27, 2007 @ 8:22 am

Paula, I am so sorry for you and your children.

I think your hubby should decline to answer any of DHS’ questions. ( Not be available)Th

The more you say, the more ammo they have.

Does someone dislike your children in your neighborhood?

Or hubby?? Or you??

Sounds like the neighborhood is a hotbed of gossip. Either that or there really are NO JOBS at all in your state.

There is no excuse for rudeness on the part of a case worker.

Remember they have to open new cases, so they can plead they are over-worked.

Comment by Fern — July 27, 2007 @ 1:09 pm

IN REGARDS TO THE BADENHOOPS CASE Cps is good on building cases on a foundation of lies. Weres are freedom that our 4 fathers fought for or is that a another lie this country came up with. The italians in italy have more rights as being parents as we do in the so called land of the free we dont have that so called freedom when it comes to parenting in this messed up country im suprised we have the right to make love with our spouces to have children.Im ashamed to to an american because of cps ther is alot foreigners that want to live in the us its ok if they dont want children its sad but true id rather live in italy at least there country has parental rights im realy starting to hate this so called land of the free.Ther is no freedom in tthis country when it comes to us being parents.I think cps needs to be investigated for once not parents. I dont blame the Badenhoops for fleeing because cps is lies after lies and these so called judges loves to hear those lies. This country is starting to make me very sick.

Comment by JOHNNY — July 27, 2007 @ 2:50 pm

I live in Michigan as well and have been “rooked” by this system. Saginaw is the very next county over, and I can certainly understand why some people would run. CPS caused so much pain for me, and it will stick with me forever. They so far, have cost me 10 years with three of my children, and we still have five to go, if they even want to be in our lives. They have caused so much pain for all of my family as well. There was no type of abuse of any form, my older two children got to come home. This brings me to ask, “how can you be a good parent to two children, and not the other three?” This is a question that will never be answered.

Comment by Christy Parent — July 28, 2007 @ 11:19 am

This for that mother its just another cps lie. Im sick and tired of these cps bastards and ther lies and fibbs they need a f-ing reality check about the real picture this is for all the parents of whom were vicimnized by cps i cant wait to see the skelotons that are waiting to come out of there closets. Im sorry for the outspokeness i am the way i am when it comes to my children

Comment by Johnny — July 29, 2007 @ 12:28 pm

christy i understand the same thing happend to my boyfriend and myself we were able to keep our baby becuase he’s breastfed while they say we’re abuser’s witch we are not. why would anybody leave a baby with someone if they felt they were a danger, 15 months later we got our toddler back but, they refuse to give back older child witch they plan to terminate on, everone i know stumped over this but luckly i have friends, that knows what cps does is wrong.

Comment by Christy — August 4, 2007 @ 3:39 pm

There is no Hague convention in Guatemala. There are many good countries to live in, I hear Cuba is very nice.

Comment by Dee — October 1, 2007 @ 3:12 pm

In 1994, My husband and I were the proud parents of a baby boy who happened to have been born with a birth mark on his butt that looked like finger prints. Whenever I went in to Social Services for his shots I would get the questioning look and I would have to tell them to look through his file, they are birthmarks. I would have to mention to his daycare lady the first day that they were birth marks and NOT bruises….

The one time that I asked a babysitter to watch my son and failed to mention his birth mark (he was 6 months old and a sweet, happy baby) she called CPS and reported us for abuse. She didn’t even ask me first or let me know she called and put in a complaint against us.

We got home and there was a message on our answering machine from CPS telling us that they received a complaint and to call them first thing in the morning. My husband and I weren’t going to get any sleep, so we called the 800 number and requested a call back that evening.

The woman that called us said that the babysitter reported my son has bruises on his butt. I said that they are birthmarks and have been well documented. She told me that if the report is unsubstantiated this report will still be considered “Open” and I was forced to report each and every scrape and scratch he received for 3 years.

We were presumed guilty without any facts. Even when we provided all of the necessary proof to the CPS we were still “guilty” in their eyes. I treated my son with the greatest care and lived 3 years in constant fear that he accidently fall or hurt himself and the State might take him away.

I thought I would share this story with you all. I still have much bitterness with how my self and my husband were treated.

CPS needs a to be held to a higher standard. These are peoples lives they are messing with. I totally understand if a child is being abused but there are signs to look for in abused children. One second with my happy, gregarious son, NO ONE would have said he was abused. We were treated unfairly and ultimately my son was affected because I wouldn’t let him play like the other kids.

CPS needs to have an Internal Affairs division.

Comment by P Q — February 12, 2008 @ 8:22 pm

If we wanted to live in Cuba then we would, but we live in the US where we are suppose to be better off then those countries. If, YOU or anyone else hasn’t lost or is in a open case, now then STOP bashing us who have.
Be of help and encouragement.

Comment by Carly's mamaw — February 13, 2008 @ 8:05 am

The couple that got the hell away from the CPS interrogation squad did the exact right thing.

As for the “drugs” allegation? Bull. It’s a fairy tale. Who, exactly, do you think told the media that the parents were on drugs? If a CPS worker told me the sky was blue, I’d have to go outside and look up.

According to CPS, everyone’s on drugs. It’s a catchall because it requires no solid proof. If a CPS worker says someone’s on drugs, that’s enough to prove to a court that they’re on drugs. When CPS started their jihad against me, the first thing I did was start shelling out fifty bucks a week for urinalysis at the hospital clinic, because I just knew it was coming… and it did.

Being clean didn’t do a damn’s worth towards getting my kids back, but it was gratifying to make them look like the bottom-feeding lowlifes they are.

If you’re embroiled with CPS, save the money you would waste on a lawyer (who can’t help you, trust me) and start getting yourself drug tested every week. Trust me, it will go a lot farther than having someone sit in his office and cower on your behalf. In fact, everyone in possession of a CPS target (otherwise known as “your children”) should pony up for a weekly drug test. It only takes one self-important busybody to ruin your life.

Comment by MJ — February 26, 2008 @ 8:16 pm

I HAVE 2 CHILDREN AGEG 6 AND 1. MY OLDER CHILD IS BY A MY EX HUSBAND.AND WAS BEING RETURNED TO ME FROM ONE OF HER VISITS FROM HER FATER . I TOLD HER DAD TO RETURN HER TO A NEAR BY REST. NEAR HIS HOME WHERE ME AND MY FIANCE AND 1 YEAR OLD WERE HAVING DINNER.. AN HOUR WENT BY I CONTINUED TO CALL HIM HE FINALLY ANSWERED , NOW DURING DINNER ME AND MY FIANCE HAD 1 GLASS OF WINE EACH WITH DINNER MY EX TOLD ME I SOUNDED INTOXICATED AND TOOK MY 6 YEAR OLD TO OUR LOCAL POLICE DEPT. WHEN I ARRIVED MY MOTHER AND MY AUNT WERE THERE WHOM THEY ALL DISLIKE MY FIANCE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT HIM TO ADOPT MY 1 YEAR OLD WHICH HE PLANS ON DOING HER FATHER LEFT ME WHEN I FOUND OUT I WAS PREGNANT AND I NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN. I AM 34 AND MY FIANCE IS 48 NEITHER ONE OF US HAVE EVER BEEN CONVICTED OF A CRIME OR EVEN HAD A SPEEDING TICKET MY MOTHER HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONTROLLING OF MY LIFE AND MY CHILDRENS AND I FEEL BECAUSE MY FIANCE CAN SUPPORT MYSELF AND MY CHILDREN AND HE OWNS A RESPECTABLE BUSINESS FOR 30 SOME YEARS AND HAS A VERY NICE HOME I FEEL MY MOTHER IS INTIMIDATED BY HIM … YOU WOULD THINK SHE WOULD BE HAPPY BUT THAT IS NOT THE TYPE OF PERSON SHE IS … NOW BACK TO WHAT HAPPENED MY EX HUSBAND CALLED CHILDREN SERVICES.. THE COPS SAID ME AND MY FIANCE WERE INTOXICATED I BEGGED FOR THEM TO GIVE ME AND MY FIANCE A BRETHALIZER THEY REFUSED THEY SAID MY EYES WERE BLOOD SHOT EVEN THOUGH I HAD BEEN CRYING FOR OVER 20 MINUTES I EVEN ASKED IF BEFORE THEY TOOK MY CHILDREN THEY WOULD TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL TO PROVE I WAS NOT INTOXICATED THEY AGAIN REFUSED. THEY ASKED IF I WANTED MY KIDS TO GO TO A FOSTER HOME OR WITH MY MOTHER EVEN THOUGH I HATE MY MOTHER I OF COURSE DIDNT WANT MY CHILDREN WITH STRANGERS . SO THEY WENT WITH MY MOM . THEY THEN TOLD ME AND MY FIANCE TO GET IN OUR CAR AND LEAVE NOW OUR MAYOR SAID THAT IF THEY FELT WE WERE SO INTOXICATED THAT OUR CHILDREN WERE TAKEN AWAY WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHARGED OR GIVEN A DUI .. BUT NOTHING WE WERE NEVER CHARGED THAT WAS DEC 29, 2008 IT HAS NOW BEEN OVER 2 MONTHS SINCE MY CHILDREN HAVE BEEN HOME … I HAVE GONE TO 3 HEARINGS MY MOTHER STOOD ON THE STAND AND LIED AND CONTINUED TO LIE… JUST TO KEEP MY CHILDREN I HAVE GONE FOR 2 DRUG AND ALCOHOL ASSESSMENTS BOTH SAID NO TREATMENT NEEDED … I HAVE GONE TO A PSYCHIATRIST HE ALSO WROTE A REVIEW TO THE JUDGE THAT SAID THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME…. MY NEXT HEARING IS MARCH 19, 2008 I PRAY MY CHILDREN ARE GIVEN BACK TO ME I ALSO TOOK 8 URINES ALL NEGATIVE.. I AM HEARTBROKEN AND HELPLESS..
IF ANYONE HAS ANY ADVISE PLEASE EMAIL ME MARIAH1225-at-NETZERO.NET

HEARTBROKEN IN PA

Comment by D DECRESCENZA — March 4, 2008 @ 12:12 pm

my heart goes out to all you parents struggling with cps i lost my son in 93 from down syndrome the hospital had him for three months n he came home n was having problems and then went back to the hospital n passed away but they got me for neglect and i was neve convicted of anything i love my kids and i feel bad about the parents out there in this world that are struggling and trying there best to take care of there kids and then trying to work to have a home for their families and then when they do what they have to cps steps in and says they arent doing there jobs or they have a nasty house or someone in general has to stick there nose where it dont belong
we need to stick together and beat the system and show these people that we are good people and we deserve a break and we love our kids alot.and would never hurt our kids
sincerly annoyed with cps

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Comment by Robert for change — October 21, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

hope fully i will be getting my babies back i have done what they asked of me and each day i strive to do my best.All i can say is if you are fighting for your children keep it up the best way to beat cps is to prove them wrong by the life u live.

Comment by Tamiko Lewis — January 26, 2009 @ 11:12 am

prayer changes things if you need a friend through this iam out here call me 313 9187455.

Comment by Tamiko Lewis — January 26, 2009 @ 11:14 am

I live in Michigan. I had a hospital in Flint call CPS, because they gave my child an unacceptable medical treatment for diabetes, they tried to turn the table. CPS found nothing. The next day, at a follow up visit, a social worker called her sister, an off duty Flint police officer, told her this was not my child and there was a warrant in another state for my arrest for molestation and kidnapping. It was all found to be false, but according to police & CPS, this social worker did not do anything illegal.

A few months later, Saginaw CPS received a call saying we were homeless & my child was not attending school. I was publicly humiliated in front of co-workers and was drug through the mud to prove that we had a home and my child was in school. The CPS worker filled her report with lies, that now coupled with the Genessee county report, I look like a poor parent. If there is another report filed, all the negatives in the lies for the first two reports come into play. I have no recourse to challenge the reports, as the Saginaw County director of CPS said “These are our reports and we can put into them whatever we want.” I asked if this meant including lies, he just repeated his statement, confirming that lies are allowed to be included in their reports.

Comment by Ted — April 1, 2009 @ 4:44 am

Ted, the word “lawsuit” comes to mind . . . have you consulted an attorney?

Comment by LindaJoMartin — April 1, 2009 @ 11:35 am

Ted , you need to tell the director ,that CPS can’t lie ( beltran V, Santa Clara County ) federal rulling.ask him to look it up.

Comment by Sam — April 1, 2009 @ 9:03 pm

Wow ok Thank you everyone who had Hope and Faith that not everyone are bad people! My husband and I have been clean for over 2 years! Yes we made mistakes, we needed help, we werent getting it! We have since had a third child and we lived out of state when we had him. I got sick after I had my baby and I asked to move back to Michigan to be closer to my family! When we did CPS took our third child, we went to court faught the fight and Little Jeremiah was returned to us Dec. 2010 a whole year after the date they took him. Fred and I have over 2 years clean, we dont drink, and we dont even smoke ciggerettes so we have totally changed our lives! CPS and the COURT gave us the credit we deserve for all our hard work! Please dont say we deserved getting our children taken from us forever……thats a long time we would love to be raising our children as christians who dont talk down on people and shove them away because they dont live like us…..I believe Jesus is coming and is here and lives in everyone Im sorry my children wont know just how painfully sorry I am and how much I miss them!

Comment by Margaret Badenhoop — February 8, 2011 @ 8:24 am

Margaret, thanks so much for posting to let us know your good news, that your baby has been returned to you! I’m so happy to hear you and your husband are doing well. I pray that your other children will be reunited with you.

Comment by Linda Martin — February 8, 2011 @ 1:08 pm

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