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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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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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November 9, 2008
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What Dpss does not comprehend? You cannot train Social Workers to behave in such an amoral fashion. This leads to corruption. What they are doing in the long run is going to backfire on them. When you abuse families, place children in despair. You are messing with lives on a very personal level. There are only so many innocent people you can burn. As that burnt number grows. Political clout and the power of the vote will speak. Cases will be reviewed. People will be held to account for their behavior (Just ask the republicans). The abusive tactics DPSS uses short change real victims of abuse and by Dpss actively participating in the abuse process is the greatest of ironies.
Comment by One Day — November 11, 2008 @ 3:50 am
Folks, apparently the bill recently passed by Congress has some monies dedicated to kinship care.
Grandparents please join Linda’s forums and fight for your flesh and blood.
Many folks communicate there successful strategies which will help you in your battle with CPS.
Please network within your states, and in turn, return the favor for the next hapless victims.
The bill is the Fostering Success……. piece of legislation.
BTW, it is becoming more and more obvious that *stranger foster care* is NOT the way to build stronger families.
Ask Barack Obama about Grandparent care. See Wexler’s blog on
http://www.nccpr.org
Excellent piece of writing, as always, Mr. Wexler!
Comment by Fern — November 11, 2008 @ 10:46 am
hi, this is my first time here, i need advise,i had cps called on me twice now,my life is being torn apart, the first call was made by my brother , he stayed with me for 4 mos. and we started gettin into arguments because he was disrepecting my house hold basically took over and when i put my foot down he didnt like it also i told my children how some personal info. about him to them but it was only to protect them,so my son told him and he was pissed so before he went to nyc he called cps i was investigated for over 3 months,also my son ran away on 8-5-08 so the worker told me to let him stay at my sisters until everything cools down ,he wasnt placed taken or court order there so then she forgot about us mind you the case was suppse to be closed by a week so i called her supervisor complaining so she closed it on neglectful guardianship, whatever that means basically my sister and her boyfriend had been lieing on me ,i’m gonna fight it because i never see my sister only on hoildays, also my son has been making up stuff as well, but im not guilty of this i sent for copies of the case almost a month now, also she closed the case with my son still staying at my sister house said to do thearpy he refuse so i’m the only one on it my son has changed so much from people negative inputs, he disrespectful, laughs in my face when i’m serious so i calld pins they said they’ll referr my to thearpy.they also went to his school to talk to them so he told my ister she called pissed telling me i’m wrong but he my son and his is out of control , and her boyfriend in the back round talking bulshit telling me to kiss his ass i’m not getting my son until the social worker said so but the case was closed i had no choice but to call the police and get my son, so out of spike again now my sister called cps on me , the advise i need is i did everything the first social worker said even let her in my home because i had nothing to hide and look because of family i’m gettting f—— what do i do now do i let this social in my house ,i know to reord or write down everything we talk about,i cant afford a lawyer so legal aid wont help on less theres a court date, there is alot more to this story but i dont think does enough space for it all
Comment by maria — November 12, 2008 @ 4:25 am
Who do you complain to about a CPS department you believe is corrupt? That is tearing a family apart minute by agonizing minute? I’ve already contacted the Ombudsman without success. I need answers! Please….
Linda
Comment by Linda Taylor — November 12, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
Linda, you need to register here & join the Message Boards and Chat Room.
Everyone has to network within his own state and take the legislators and CPS to task.
Even our legislator’s aides state that CPS is ARROGANT AND ANSWERABLE TO BASICALLY NO ONE.
People those of you who have been greviously wronged need to litigate and to lobby within your own state.
Illinois has a great site run by an attorney.
http://www.familydefensecenter.net
They conduct open meetings at least 1x a month for IL residents to learn their rights and possibly pursue a lawsuit.
Suits are the only way CPS will be tamed and shamed.
Comment by Fern — November 13, 2008 @ 6:42 am
Hey my name is Kim i was in the CPS for 5 years until i was returned with my mom. It was nothing like everyone makes it out to be. I felt more harmed with the 3 foster families i was placed with, along with my 2 sisters. We were treated worse there then anywhere. At one point i was actually accused of sexually harming my youngest sister, just so i could’ve been removed from the home. I just wish everyone can realize the true harm there is whenever you place the lives of your children to complete strangers and expect miracles to happen…
Comment by Kim — November 13, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
Where can i go to try and help these younger kids? who dont even know if and/or when they are being abused? if when they were being raised they were in a abusive situation?just to be placed right back into another one. How can you teach little kids they have rights…i want to help i know how it feels to feel helpless and lonely only wanting just to see the face of your mom before bedtime…if anyone knows a way to help let me know i really would love too thx…
Comment by Kim — November 13, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
god bless you kim,i am a nobody.but i love my baby that is in foster care,or adopted out shall i say….i don’t know what she has been through,i never even brought her home from the hosp,after giving birth.those nazii ba##Rds HAD HER SOLD so there was nothing i could do to satisfy them.
i jumoed through all of there hoops and did not miss a one.they still termd my parental rights. i worry every day and night wonddering what she has been through.whos doing what to her ,cause there aren’t very many good people left in this world.
when she was only 8 mos old i had a visit and she had an infection of some sort in her privates,she also had what looked like a slice around her neck,i don’t know how to describe it.i complained but nothing done for a few months,the foster father asked me what nationality she was cause she had a big but,according to him,
this baby was only a few months old..
i complained every chance i could.
my point being,no telling what innocent children go through while in the system.i would love to have baby girl checked by a dr to see if she has been molested.but i haven’t seen her in eight years.
i feel she was violated while in the foster system. god bless the children
Comment by margie meeks — November 13, 2008 @ 6:02 pm
Please tell me how I can get my girls back due to lies by sister , courts , dss and the judge not letting me prove I’m innocent I want to sue there asses off now my girls are drinking doing bad and hate school having sex had surgery I didn’t know of and all the lies are making them think I gave up on them and now my sister wants money and has tried to get support I never was told she d get to keep them their mine I don’t even want to live how can I turn this around and win them back
Comment by sharon pritchard — November 13, 2008 @ 8:34 pm
Hello. We are going to “MARCH” on the Federal Building and the
Mayor’S Office in SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA NOVEMBER 25th, 2008.
It starts at 10:45AM . We are going to PROTEST CPS. PLEASE JOIN US. THERE WILL BE SPEAKERS, BANNERS, MEDIA, PRESS, LOGO TEE SHIRTS, CELEBRITIES (I’M STILL WORKING ON THIS PART).
415-863-6306 OR 415-756-9589
Comment by susan smith — November 13, 2008 @ 11:52 pm
RIGHT FRIKEN ON!! I ONLY WISH I COULD BE THERE, BECAUSE THATS WHERE CPS TOOK MY BABY.
SACRAMENTO ,CA
I AM NOW 7 STATES AWAY.
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE.GOSH I WISH I COULD BE THERE.
Comment by margie meeks — November 14, 2008 @ 7:01 am
HELLO LINDA, YES, SOON WE WILL HAVE MAP AND THE ADDRESS OF WHERE TO MEET ON THE 25TH. WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO MAKE THEIR OWN SIGNS, BANNERS, TEE SHIRTS..IF THEY WANT TO. WE ARE WORKING ON THE PERMIT. PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO SPEAK IF THEY WANT TO. IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME AND
ASSISTANCE TO PRE- MARCH PREPARATIONS,
PLEASE CALL 415-756-9589 OR 415 863-6306
Comment by susan smith — November 15, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
Well,here I am again,on this website wishing that I didnt have to be on.Like so many other I am sure. So CPS came and took 3 out of 6 of my children from me, and put them into custody of thier father. They are 4, 4, and 14 months old. I am in a middle of a divorce, and now CPS is being used to his advantage. Even the he didnt contest the divorce or anything I put in there,well with the exception that he wanted his riding lawn mower. My water got turned off last friday and CPS somehow found out. Must have been when I called him to ask to pay the bill. So they came into my home when I was not even home, my mother was watching the kids and started taking pics,because my house was dirty. DUH>I had no water until monday to clean. So they took my kids until monday so I could clean up! But on monay they came back in took pics. and said thatit once again looked great, but they would not be returning my three smaller children too me,because I guess I lock them in thier bedroomrooms,so CPS says. It has now been two weeks since I have saw my babies. I found out this last friday that I am supose to be served with papers, which I still havent recieved. For CPS to take me to court for some reason. Wasnt explained to me. I know I havent done anything wrong, and I also know that my soon to be ex told me today that one of the twins said she didnt want to come home to be locked up. How in the world can anyone tell a child that. why is his family doing this to me, and why are they doing this to my babies. She is terrified to even see me now. Can a four year old honestly be told that to where they believe it? I know he doesnt want a divorce, but is using my children the right way to come back home? Can someone please give me some advice, or insight on this? Because I am totally lost, heartbroken, and miss the other part of my family. I love all my children the same, but at the same time, its killing me not being able to see my three babies. I hav to make myself now get out of bed. I dont know what to do. Please help. Please. I live in west Virginia, and I am so starting a petition against this state. so if anyone wants to help, that would be great. Thanks for reading.
Comment by Fran — November 16, 2008 @ 10:06 pm
Hello All! I am so glad I found this site. I too have been affected by CPS. I am the mother of 9 children. I was in a bitter divorce back in 2004. My ex husband didn’t want the divorce. It was an abusive releationship. First physical abuse and then mental abuse. I endured that for 14 yrs. He was also a cheater. While we were married, he fathered a child with a woman he met online. I had 8 children with my ex husband. I raised all of those children basicly by myself. He hardly did anything with the kids unless I was in the hospital having another baby. The majority of our marriage I was a stay at home mom. So….he was the one with the career. Which was fine. I stayed home with my babies. When he was served with papers and I kicked him out of the house, he was pissed. He thought he could smooth talk his way back in the house. Didn’t happen. I asked my dad for a loan so I could move to a bigger place for me and kids. SInce I didn’t have any formal training, I worked for temp services so I could pay my bills. My mom and step-dad came to watch my children so I could work. SImple so far right? Well….for 4 months I had endured harrassing phone calls from my soon to be ex husband. Every night if I didn’t answer the phone at 7pm he would call the police on me and do a child welfare check. He did this 13 times in a 4 mo period. Drove me nuts!!!! He also called CPS on me 5 times during this period. I was a good enough mom to care for the kids when we were married but now that I wanted a divorce, I was all of the sudden a bad mother. During these 4 mos, I did get temorary sole custody. Three weeks before our divorce was final, I came home from work to find the kids giving my mom a hard time. My 3rd son was mouthing off to me and my mom,he was 7 at the time, saying that he didn’t have to listen to me or his grandma because his dad told him so. Well…this didn’t sit well with me. I spanked him on his bottom with my hand. He laughed at me. He thought this was funny. So I took a plastic wand and spanked his bottom. The end of the wand left a mark on his ankle. This was unintentional to say the least. My kids went to school and his teacher saw the mark. They called CPS and they came to my home. First my parents tried to talk to the worker and explain what was going on but she already made up her mind that she was going to take the kids out of the house and place them with their dad. BIG MISTAKE!!! She told me to stay away from the kids for 2 wks so she could do her investigation. Come to find out that she closed the case the same day. THe case worker also told my parents that she would talk to them in 2 wks to hear their side of what is going on. Boy…was my mom pissed. The day comes for our divorce to be final and my ex husbands lawyer told the judge I abanded the children and no one knew were I was. I was also branded that I did drugs in front of the kids. This NEVER happend. I never done drugs ever. I tried to explain to the judge what was going on and he didn’t want to hear anything I had to say. So….my ex husband received sole custody. I knew if this would happen the kids wold suffer. I went to see my children for the first time after all this crap went on and my 4th son at the time was 5 yo. He saw me and said that his dad told him I died and they no longer had a mother. This broke my heart. Three mos after our divorce was final he moved his girlfriend in. She moved from FL. We live in AZ. She had no experience with children before. My children can’t stand this woman. My ex husband was instructing the kids to call her mom and to call me by my first name. Anyway…..since she moved in….I guess you can say she took over my place in the home. He had her do all the stuff I was doing with the kids. When the kids were placed with him, I told the CPS worker what would happen. I told her what kind of man he is and by placing the kids with him would do more harm then good. I was right. The girlfriend started to abuse the kids. Pulling hair, name calling, hitting them leaving bruses, you name it. I tried to call CPS and they wouldn’t take my call becuse they saw it as a custody issue. They told me if I call them again that they would call the police on me for false information. WHAT??? So do I think CPS breaks familes?? You bet!!!! I am in the process of trying to regain custody of my children. If I do succeed, my children are going to need some serious counceling thanks to their dad. I have since remarried to a wonderful man who the kids just adore. They wish he would adopt them so they can call him dad. My ex husband did marry the girlfriend. They married before the ink was dry on our divorce papers. I am also trying to put myself through nursing school so my children can have a better life.
Comment by Syndee Durand-Wilson — November 17, 2008 @ 6:51 am
I also forgot to mention that the schools have called CPS on my ex husband and the daycare as well. They just seem to look the other way and ignore what is going on. Its very frustrating.
Comment by Syndee Durand-Wilson — November 17, 2008 @ 7:04 am
HELLO, HERE IS SOME PRE-”MARCH” NEWS. MAPS OF FREWAYS AND ROUTE ACCESS TO SACRAMENTO WILL BE POSTED TUESDAY, ALONG WITH THE LOCAL STREET MAPS OF THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE, AND THE FEDERAL BUILDING. WE WILL MEET-UP AT THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE IN SACRAMENTO. PARKING IS AVAILABLE, AND WE WILL PARK AT AREAS ONLY DESIGNATED FOR PARKING. . PLEASE DON’T DOUBLE PARK, OR BLOCK ENTRY WAYS. WE WILL WALK ON THE SIDEWALKS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE “MARCH”. WE MAY BE ABLE TO WALK ON THE GRASS TOO, IF THE SIDEWALKS BECOME TOO CROWDED.. WHEN WE WALK AND ASSEMBLE (GATHER) AT THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE, WE HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED NOT TO STAND IN OR BLOCK ENTRY WAYS. WE WILL CROSS THE STREETS AT THE SIGNALS, AND WE WILL NOT BLOCK OR INTERFER WITH THE TRAFFIC. I HEARD THE WEATHER TODAY IN SACRAMENTO WAS IN THE 70″S. WE WILL BE DISTRIBUTING PETITIONS AMONGST US FOR SIGNATURES ( STILL WORKING ON THIS). OUR PETITIONS WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
Comment by Chana-Judie — November 17, 2008 @ 10:28 pm
Wouldn’t it be great if we could get organized at each Capital in every state at the same time!! That way it would be easier for families to attend and be able to make a statement that would let this country know that we are sick and tired of having our babies stolen for profit. The media would have to pay attention if it was happening everywhere at the same time. It would be harder for them to ignore us. Yes, I have a Dream!
Comment by Sooo.... — November 18, 2008 @ 12:30 am
WOW! IT DOESN’T NEED TO BE A DREAM. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO, IS GET A PERMIT TO ASSEMBLE, AND A PERMIT FOR SOUND AMPLIFICATION. ACTUALLY, IT’S QUITE EASY.
THEN, YOU WRITE ABOUT IT, AND LET EVERYBODY KNOW ( LIKE I HAVE DONE HERE ON THIS WEB SITE) AND WA-LAH…A NATIONAL DAY OF ASSEMBLY!
LET’S DO IT!
Comment by Chana-Judie — November 18, 2008 @ 3:14 am
I just found this site and I love all of you. This is a God send during this great challenge. I am a grandmother of 4 boys that were taken out of Michigan and into Canada. I have been living in California and I would love to go to the rally in Sacramento. I have been in Michigan since the beginning of October dealing with this big challenge. My daughter-in-law had attempted suicide and when she came home on sept. 25 from the hospital she left 2 days later with the boys. CPS and the police were there to take her away from my son. I believe they took advantage of the situation that she was very unstable and then assisted her into false charges 2 weeks later against my son. CPS insisted without any order to test my son and the police stood by. CPS has violated rights and when I questioned them they said they did not have to have an order to be at the house. The womens resource center, CPS, and sheriff’s office are all in ;the same organization. My son was attending college, and working and a wonderful father. Since then I have found out more stuff on these agencies and it is not good. We went to the state attorney’s office and they even questioned the procedures, but they said that DHS and CPS are their clients. In the meantime we do not know if mom and boys are okay but we do know they are in Canada. I have a sister that is an excellent writer and I love to speak so we make a pretty good team. We would love to have a march in Lansing, Michigan because we can see the abuse and neglect that CPS has on families. They also told me I had no grandparents rights to any information. I love Debras 12 items she listed and it woke me up. We needed this so much in this time. Thank all of you and If therer is anything I can do to help I will. I have a friend in Petoskey that is appealing the system for her grandchildren. CPS has tried to terminate the rights and her grandchildren were molested in the foster home also.
My job in California the bay area has ended, but I still have my car out there and items. I know now that God has called me to be advocates for family and this is why he led me to this site. I will pray for all of you and I know we are not alone in this now…
God Bless and Don’t give up….
Melissa Ward
sonlightconnector.
Comment by Melissa Ward — November 18, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
Want to know if Early Interventions for children to age 3 have had children taken away? I am concerned for my 1 1/2 yr old son. I am told I can pull out any time. EI is constantly asking me ?’s about my son. I am wondering if I stepped into a mess and if I should get out. I also have been feeling the urgency to pray protction for our families and children (which I am).
Comment by Amy MacDermott — November 19, 2008 @ 11:44 am
I have a case that is very simaliar in content. Back in 2000 I was charged with summary misdemeanor of simple assult and endangering the welfare of a child. But for the past 9 yrs a vicioius cycle of rumours and attack words clearly state that I was charged with child sex predator. I have done much research to find that the content or those alligations are completly false. There is no where on the face of this whole planet were you will find my name on any child registry. This indeed has kept me from pursuing any real life. No matter where I go people have stalked and harrassed me beyond human explaination. My very life was threatened. In other words I better keep this quiote or else. Sincerely Nicole Butler Pennsylvania
Comment by Nicole Butler — November 19, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
if you got this message please contact me by cell 570-417-4136
Comment by Nicole Butler — November 19, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
I live in the Los Angeles area in California. I am dealing with MAJOR corruption with our “so-called children’s protective agency”, called DCFS (dept. of children’s and family services). I have a repeated incident with my ex boyfriends ex wife (who is a major druggie and alcoholic) who has BEAT 2 of my 3 children. DCFS has never investigated anything- they never interviewed me or my family and just went straight to my ex boyfriend(my childrens father) and closed the case based on his lies. I also found out that there were emails from the case worker ( Rebecca Wolfersberger) to my ex boyfriends lawyer and to him. I am so angry that this “agency” continues o allow my kids to be beaten by their fathers ex-wife and they said that if I call or if my family calls on her again that the kids will be taken from me- I am so stressed out. I have pictures that would sicken all of you caused by her abuse.
Also, I am going to be doing an EXPOSE on DCFS/CPS/DFS and need everyones help. I am very well connected in the industry and know network executives who want to help me. If interested in getting all this corruption out to the world please contact me. I hope my email shows up:
hollywoodmedia2008@gmail.com
thanks and god bless!!
Comment by Alexandra — November 19, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
Alexandra, please have some of your industry friends and executives join us and “speak-out” at our “MARCH” November 25, 2008, in Sacramento!
Comment by Chana-Judie — November 19, 2008 @ 11:07 pm
I have some ?????’s.First off cps was called on us because i was playing with my little girl and accedently pinched her neck well they blew it out of perportion and claimed it was sexual.I would never hurt my kids in any way,they came and took my kids without a court order and ?ed them without our concent.Now they are telling my wife she might have to pick between me or our kids.What do i need to do.They cant find any evidence of this but they are trying to keep my kids,its hurting them more every day.please help
Comment by Brandon — November 20, 2008 @ 2:27 am
I found this site by looking my name up. I can`t even express how disturbing and depressing it is to relive my dcf experience. I commend and respect you all, as well as empathize. god bless, Susan Leventhal
Comment by Susan Leventhal — November 20, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
Susan,
What happened in your case. I am curious as I work in law and wish to help fit parents fighting these charges from CPS If you can, can you give more details.
Many thanks.
Comment by MaggieC — November 20, 2008 @ 5:07 pm
OK YOU GUYS IM BACK….. its been awhile since ive been here ….im the woman whos fighting a C.A.S.A.(court appointed special advocate) worker who droped off my case and filed for custody of my child and won yea……….. well tables have turned and people are figuring out the truth. ive been fighting for 4 years now..and with a new judge and LOTS OF prayer now i have at home visitation with the GAL there (( but thats a good thing ))) 1x per week up until december..then custody gets transferd im soo happy . my 6 year old daughter had been through so much and of course we gonna have to continue therapy….. but DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE EVERYONE my case all started with false allagations too…. even my proof at the time did not help. i can promise that when this is all over with yall will here my whole story on the news and in papers there has only been 1 OTHER known case in the U.S and IN the other c.a.s.a. worker case the mother relinguised custody to the casa woman ………I HOPE MY CASE WILL INSPIRE THE HOPELESS AND FRIGHTEN CPS,C.A.S.A.,DSS AND COURT SYSTEMS BECAUSE I WILL MAKE SURE THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO ANYONE THIS WAS SO WRONG IN EVERY WAY……….TO MAKE IT CLEAR………THESE PEOPLE IF THEY WANTED YOUR KID FOR THEMSELVES ( LIKE IN MY CASE ) ITS LIKE PICKING OUT CANDY OUT A CANDY SHOP……..HUMMMMM I LIKE THIS KID I THINK ILL KEEP IT <—–THAT EASY FOLKS!!!! i will pray for ALL of you that yall will continue to have strength
(((((((( HUGS TO YOU ALL )))))))))
Comment by angel — November 20, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
i also wanted to note that i had supervised visitation at 210$ a hour at family solutions and me and my husband pay 1000 $ in child support a month and and have complied with all court orders and requirements and the GAL i have now is truley one of a kind and i wish she was with me in the begining after being hurt so maney times finaly things are taking a turn for the best and i just want everyone to know no matter how bad you think you have it there are people out there that have it worse KEEP YOUR HEAD UP AND I WILL KEEP YOU ALL IN MY PRAYERS (((((HUGS 2 YALL))))
Comment by angel — November 20, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
HELLO. SOMEMORE PRE”MARCH” NEWS. WE WILL MEET-UP AT 650 CAPITAL MALL- THIS IS THE STATE CAPITAL’S GOVERNOR’S OFFICE.
ATTORNEYS ARE PREPARING THEIR SPEECHES TO BE GIVEN AT THE “MARCH”
WE CAN WALK ON THE SIDEWALKS ND ON THE GRASS. WE WILL ASSEMBLE AT THE NORTH-EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING. THIS SIDE HAS A VERY LARGE GATHERING AREA OUTSIDE AND LARGE AREA OF STAIRS LEADING TO THE ENTRANCE. MAPS BOTH OF THE LOCAL STREETS OF THE SITES, AND OF FREEWAY ACCESS TO SACRAMENTO WILL BE POSTED. WEBMASTER, PLEASE POST THESE PRE”MARCH” INSTRUCTIONS ACCORDINGLY. TY. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THE PHONES, MEET-UP NETWORKING ,ETC. AT THIS TIME FOR PRE-”MARCH ” WORK. WE NEED TO ARRANGE A CLEAN-UP GROUPS..FOR DURING THE “MARCH” TO KEEP THE AREA LITTER FREE.
I’VE HEARD THE WEATHER ON THE 25TH MIGHT POSSIBLY BE CHILLY WITH RAIN, POSSIBLY.
WE WILL NEED ADDITIONAL GROUPS OF VOLUNTEERS POSSIBLY FOR FLYER DISTRIBUTION, PETITION DISTRIBUTION, TEE-SHIRT DISTRIBUTION, AND WATER DISTRIBUTION DURING THE “MARCH”.
415 756-9589
Comment by Chana-Judie — November 20, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
webmaster, for some reason i cannot send to you e-mails, nor post maps on your website (technical problems with my computer??) another person told me , that they tried and could not as well. sooo..it is important to post the pre-MARCH instructions, as well as info. about the November 25th “MARCH” so that others can know about it. could you please post ASAP on another of your sites, perhaps the first site, so that all can read about the “MARCH”
Comment by Chana-Judie — November 21, 2008 @ 1:05 am
I just learned of this website tonight. WOW! I must say I am blown away at what I have learned here about our great country! My heart goes out to each and every one of you.
My situation in short goes like this. My nephews ages less than 1 year and almost 3 years were taken away from their parents whom are now divorcing. It was an abusive situation and bad for the children as well as their mother. She entered “the system” when she went to a local shelter for assistance. Then she went back to my brother. The police were right behind her to remove the children. It has been two months. These babies have been in two different group homes. In the meantime both parents have said that they want the kids placed with me. The county came out for a home evaluation, which passed. I have also cleared the background check. Also, maybe you should know we are in California. The children are in San Diego County and I am in Stanislaus. There is no reason for my nephews to be placed with strangers when they could be with me. Please somebody give me some guidance. What can I do? Where do I start? Who can I call? Do I have any rights as an aunt? Anything you can teach me will be much appreciated!
Comment by Michelle — November 21, 2008 @ 4:03 am
“SACRAMENTO MARCH” PARTICIPANTS….WE WILL MEET-UP AT 10:45 AM AT 650 CAPITAL MALL- STATE CAPITAL GOVERNOR’S OFFICE, NOVEMBER 25,2008.
THIS IS A PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY.
THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME RULES AND REGULATIONS THAT ALL “MARCH” PARTICIPANTS MUST ABIDE BY. THESE RULES WERE TOLD TO ME BY THE SACRAMENTO, CHP. THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID:
THIS IS A PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY.
THE PROTEST MUST BE PEACEFUL AND REMAIN PEACEFUL FROM THE BEGINNING AT 10:45AM TO THE CONCLUSION, APPROXIMATELY 3PM or 4PM.
,AND THEREAFTER.
WE MUST STAY ON THE SIDEWALKS AND GRASS, AND STEPS LEADING TO THE ENTRANCE. WE MUST NOT ENTER INTO STREETS, TRAFFIC OR DISRUPT TRAFFIC.
WE MUST CROSS THE STREETS AT THE SIGNALS, AND INTERSECTIONS.
ALL BUILDING EXTRANCES REMAIN OPEN.
DO NOT BLOCK ENTRANCES. DO NOT STAND IN THE ENTRANCES.
DO NOT ENTER THE BUILDINGS.
PEDESTRIANS ON THE SIDEWALK MUST NOT BE INTERRUPTED.
THIS IS A PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY
DO NOT BLOCK TRAFFIC, OR MARCH IN THE STREETS. NO LITTERING, ALL AREAS MUST BE CLEAN KEPT CLEAN.
Comment by Chana-Judie — November 21, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
Illinois residents:
You must contact the:
http://www.familydefensecenter.net
New federal civil rights lawsuit lodged against DCFS Oct. 08.
This group is attorney sponsored, and has monthly meetings. Much is going on there.
HDQ: Chicago, Ill
Comment by Fern — November 22, 2008 @ 8:54 am
WEBMASTER, PLEASE POST ON THE FIRST PAGE OF YOUR SITE, ALL INFORMATION ON THE SACRAMENTO “MARCH”. PARTICIPANTS NEED TO SEE THE ADD PRINTED! COULD YOU PLEASE PRINT ALL INFORMATION ON THE FIRST PAGE- OR DIRECT THEM TO THE PAGE YOU WANT TO POST ALL OF THE INFORMATION. TY TY TY
Comment by Chana-Judie — November 22, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
PLEASE POST ALL INFORMATION ABOUT THE MARCH ON THE FIRST PAGE OF YOUR SITE, IF POSSIBLE. PLEASE DIRECT THOSE INTERESTED IN THE “MARCH” TO A SPECIFIC
PAGE ON YOUR SITE. TY TY TY
Comment by Chana-Judie — November 22, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
NOVEMBER 25, 2008, SACRAMENTO MARCH INFORMATION.
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE STATE CAPITAL AT 650 CAPITAL MALL AND THE FEDERAL BUILDING AT 2800 COTTAGE WAY IS 8 MILES BY CAR!
SO, WE WILL DRIVE AND CARPOOL AND BICYCLE AND BUS TO THE FEDERAL BUILDING (AS IT IS TOO FAR TO WALK) OR WE WILL REMAIN AT THE CAPITAL BUILDING FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE MARCH .
Comment by Chana-Judie — November 22, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
Hi,Anyone can help me please?
On november 22nd 08
my 5 years old son and I went Safeway in burlingame california.
Before that we got a movie and box of candy from bloc buster.as we enter to Safeway next to register there was a box of cookies Igraped 1 box of cookies and put ed in my basket however it didn’t fit into my my basket so I decided to put it back where on the shelf and get it back when I am done with other shopping any way this was next to register and I Didnt have to Cary with me all oer the store.as soon as put ed back cookies on the shelf a person who was working on the register came behind me put ed back same box of cookie in to my basket and he said “this is not right,this is stilling” and he went back to help other customers waiting on the line by the register,I came back to him and I said what’s wrong I was gonna tel him that I’ll take it when I am done with stuff but he didn’t listen to me kept screaming that this is stiling, you can’t do this. I said what stiling he said “look you are eating and you gave it to your son you both are eating cookies and you put ed back to the shelf” I was pissed off.he called manager and he said same think to manager that he sow us we were eating unpaid cookies.and screamed Idin’t eat your cookies we are eating soft candies that I just bought from block buster I open my son mouth he had red soft candy in his mouth.so tens of people were watching us and suddenly stopped what they were doing.
and then they called police while we were waiting for police to come, the who accused me for stiling came to me and he said he apologies because cookies were shuffled actually nothing missing from that cookie box.I didn’t except his apologies, then police came.I asked police if they can take a report for this false accusation
police said they cant do anything “this Safeway they want to make sure that people doesn’t still any thing”While we were discussing with register guy, my son start to cry he was pulling me away from them, and I don’t know what happened suddenly my son I were laying on the floor.my son so scared and he pi pied on his pants, and crying. to night I watched him while he was sleeping he was having nightmare, whole day I had headache.if any one can help me please. I don’t know what to do.
Zubi my email is Dino3463@yahoo.com
Comment by Zubeyir — November 23, 2008 @ 12:54 am
Maggie,
Quickly,the judge said that if he revealed the identity of my harassers,it would set a precidance and he would have to go over numbers of other cases as a result. Consequently, I lost. But, there was a law passed in Ct. Making it illegal to make false allegations to DCF.It made it a crime w/ consequences. [Only without very sharp teeth.] I’m sorry to say, that the true victims are not the parents in FALSE reports. My children were the victims, they were strip searched,they were asked questions they never even thouight of at thier young ages.They were made to believe that thier mother was not right.What I went through means nothing compared to the devastation that hate dealt my children.
God Bless,
Susan Leventhal
Comment by Susan Leventhal — November 23, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
Susan,
I agree it is the children who suffer. I would love to speak more with you on this if you have the time and/or inclination.
I really want to make some change here. I have been involved in effecting change in the past in law.
It doesn’t happen overnight but it can happen.
I am not one to start a rally (but would be happy to join same) rather I write and petition.
Susan, if you do wish to share more and to communicate, please
join the the members group. Once you are a member you can send a private message to me.
I really don’t wish to post my email here.
But again, I am a member of this site. I would like to learn more about your case and how it can help others as I am sure that it can.
Best regards from NYC-
Maggie
Comment by MaggieC — November 23, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
Wow maybe someone can help me…my boyfriend was accused of sexual molistaing my 8 year old daughter.her half sister told me that my daughter had something to tell me and it invloved my boyfriend(no names due to the fact that its still going on)cps took my daughter aafter she said that it might have been a dream.i think her half sister is coaching her into all this and cps as well.this little lie came when my daughter thought i was moving out of state.she didnt want me to leave and i wasnt going to anyways.she is now living with her dad and family but an alligation was made by my daughter abt her sister a couple years back.cps noes abt this but still put her in the same house…how can they do that if they r so woried abt her safety.they thought i was putting her in harms way b/c i was still talking to him for a period of time.he still claims his innocents.and going over things they have chaged there stories.there is alot more to this story..i want to no how to get my daughter back i go back to court next months on the alligations on me.i c my daughter once a week supervised.for an hour,we used to b so close but now she feels so far away.cps workers tore my family apart along with her sister..they r not fighting fair…i want my daughter back and out of that house.who noes whats been happing over there,they wont even let me talk abt the case to her.they think im changing her mind..i would never do that.so i need help.
Comment by Dawn — November 23, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
SEE EVERYBODY AT THE ” MARCH”, NOVEMBER 25,2008. WE MEET-UP AT 650 CAPITAL MALL - THE STATE CAPITAL, -GOVERNOR’S OFFICE. ALL PERMITS ARE IN PLACE AND A GO-AHEAD! WE WILL START AT 10:45AM. WE WILL HAVE SPEAKERS, SOME WILL BE ATTORNEY’S. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK, PLEASE THINK ABOUT AND PICK A TOPIC TO SPEAK ABOUT. BRING YOUR SIGNS, AND BANNERS AND TEE-SHIRTS. THE WEATHER MIGHT BE CHILLY WITH RAIN ON THE 25TH. PLEASE DRIVE SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY! PLEASE GOOGLE MAP QUEST FOR A LOCAL STREET MAP TO THE CAPITAL, AND FOR DIRECTIONS TO SACRAMENTO BY FREEWAY, ETC.
Comment by Chana-Judie — November 24, 2008 @ 3:15 am
can some one help me/ my husband has been accused of sexually molesting my 3 year old daughter.the whole situation started out that she was afraid of snakes. i believe that the foster mother and cps are coaching her to say what they want. cps has been trying to separate my family for years.first they tell my husband im a danger to be around my kids.and cause us to separate then they throw him in jail when we work things out. now that he’s fixing to come home they are pulling this crap. the state troopers have closed the investigating concerning my husband. now the family reunification goal is not being followed i was supposed to have my kids back on xmas now they r talking maybe june . im so sic of this what can i do before they terminate my parental rights
Comment by annie — November 24, 2008 @ 3:55 am
would it be wrong to call if the parent who is not letting the father visist with the child, and that child is not getting the attention he needs to be educated. He is almost 5 and has not even close to any of the skills to make it to kindergarten this year, he buries his head in cartoon movies and plays alone when around other kids. You can tell he is just put in a room to play and doesn’t get to learn much. He is sick all the time, and his little sister is a yr old being set on counter tops and pic-nic benches left with no one around while she snaps pictures. she could fall off any moment and cause major damage.
Comment by bailey — November 27, 2008 @ 1:37 am
How did the rally go?
If it was a success, would someone organize one for Orange County?
I have media connections and demonstrators, but not the time to explore or get permits, etc
Thanks
Comment by Niveen — November 28, 2008 @ 7:57 am
To whomever,
If you are in a custody battle, you are better off working things out with your ex or getting a therapist instead of calling CPS. Don’t use your kids to manipulate your visitation rights or you will both probably end up losing your kids.
Comment by Niveen — November 28, 2008 @ 8:00 am
“I want to charge the state with genocide against my family. First, right from the hospital the state takes custody of the baby.
In one of the charges; the state and the hospital charge that I have “organic brain dysfunction.”
Now, about six weeks later the state says they are going to run brave wave test on my child to see if her brain waves are working order.
I charge that my baby is being used as a guineu pig.
The only reason I fel the state is giving this test is to try and claim that there is some genetic defect in the family, which there is not.
Me and my wife do not want these test to be taken because we feel it would be harmful to the baby.
During our visits, with our child she seemed healthy. All our legal rights are being violated. We feel the state is out to destroy our family.
These test are nothing more than a search and destroy mission.”
This is a letter written by the father whose healthy baby girl was kidnapped directly from the hospital. The grandparents, aunts and uncles were not allowed to obtain custody. This incident happened over 21 years ago.
Comment by lodka — November 28, 2008 @ 10:40 am
To the Department of Assigned Counsel,
“I want to have an attoryney appointed for this case who is willing to get this case out of Juvenile Court. The proceedings are rigged, it’s always a foregone conclusion that C.P.S. will get whatever it wants.” I want this case moved out of Tacoma, Washington because it is rigged so they will take Amanda away.”
These are the exact words of the father who had his baby taken away over twenty one years ago. Department of Assigned Counsel received this on Oct. 17, 1990.
Comment by lodka — November 28, 2008 @ 10:45 am
My son recently got out from under a CPS fiasco in our county, Allegany, in Western NY, for spanking his step daughter. Spanking is not illegal in our state. I would advise anyone dealing with corruption in this area (CPS) to contact their state’s top person in the office of children and family services or whatever that may be. I complained to the regional office a year before I went to the state. When I contacted the state, an investigation was finally initiated and the case resolved after I went to the top. Also, be wary of psychological exams/tests/interviews. I reviewed a test that scored my son as being homoicidal, having anger, drug, alcohol problems, etc. that ended up being falsified by a licensed clinical social worker who submitted incorrect answers to the court. It was fraud, but she was never criminally charged. I did, however, report her to the state licensing agency and she is being prosecuted for negligence on more than one occasion and fraudulent practice. My son has also filed a civil suit against her. No one will ever convince me that the CPS people in our county are not involved in all of this. I think they are evil.
Comment by Joan Ball — November 28, 2008 @ 1:08 pm
As you can see from this web site; it doesn’t really matter what is being alledged “organic brain dysfunction” or something else. It all gets thrown in the same category (accusations of abuse and neglect) which is downright disgusting and sickning. Just because someone gets a parking ticket doesn’t mean they committed a horrendous crime
Comment by lodka — November 28, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
I live in phoenix, arizona and my 5yr old was taken from me one week ago with claims of child indangerment. my child was not physically abused or emotionally abused in the matter of fact this is the most traumatizing thing that has happened to both her and i. we’ve never been seperated this long before and all we want is to be together again. please help someone, we are at cps mercy and don’t know where to start.
Comment by trisha hicks — November 28, 2008 @ 10:28 pm
Erika,
From October, you are despicable. You have no idea what you are talking about. Why do call people you have never MET loving or unloving. Why? because they are in foster care of adopted? How do you know who is loving or unloving? You don’t know. So, STOP STOP defending criminals. People who steal other people’s children. They are not anybody than you or I!
Comment by lodka — November 29, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
I meant they are no better than you or I (foster or adopotive parents) in fact there are many that are worse!
Comment by lodka — November 29, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
Erika and Advocate from October,
Also, to use the words “at risk” and putting these words in the same category as people who have committed a horrendous crime is pathetic and sickening on your parts. Slandering innocent people is a crime! To me there is not a difference between persons who commits an illegal criminal act and people such as yourselves who hide behind words and commit illegal acts (child stealing). Just be thankful and grateful this has not happened to you!
Comment by lodka — November 29, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
How did the march go in Sacramento. If there was a rally in in Washington State; we would support this rally.
Gingerroot
Comment by lodka — November 29, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
i am a victim of domestic violence..my son has been getting physically and mentally abused by his custodial father but the court will not prosecute him because lack of an independant witness.no dv department has ever helped me when i asked..instead i have a cps case for child neglect for being abused…another pregnancy,no job two kids, no money and no fucking where to turn. tell me how a march is supposed to help women like me…i am so sick of you people.you only help because of your selfish desire to feel like you made a difference well…you did..the father’s of my kids never where arrested, had cps on their ass, pay child support and i feel like i have been the abuser all this time. thanks a fucking lot!!!!! i hope my gratitude helps you sleep at night you sob’s.
Comment by dotty — November 30, 2008 @ 3:05 am
I encourage positive feedback so hopefully someone who attended the rally held or marches will place this information on this web site. Hopefully, everyone understands that a march is one way to show support for those who have lost a relative or child wrongfully (taken by CPS and given to a stranger).
Comment by lodka — November 30, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
I also just wanted to say that many years ago; the internet was not available for people to tell their stories. CPS has been abusing people for over thirty years that I am aware of. People who are older than I know it is much longer than that. Those stories are gone. It is only until now; that I am aware of that people are actually willing to march or hold a rally. For some parents; it is to late. Their children or babies placed with strangers are now adults. Their time with their children or babies cannot be replaced. People used to tell stories on rocks; the internet has replaced the rocks. Please see this internet as that rock.
Comment by lodka — November 30, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
I am writing to all of you as a God willing source 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 timely 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. My 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 did 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 — December 1, 2008 @ 10:25 am
my kids were are in foster care and were returned home in the summer of 2007. I had to work the weekend due to cps’ request. I told the worker that I didn’t have a babysitter for that weekend and that my daughter’s grandmother was going to watch them. She said she would approve the grandmother for Friday and not the rest of the weekend. Anyways I had no choice but to take the kids to the grandmother’s and at 7pm cps was there to take my children. They said it was because I left them with unapproved babysitter how can they do that and the courts let them? I really need help to fight this. my email address is howardfanaee@yahoo.com and my telephone number is 540-241-6247. If anyone has any information on what steps I should take next, because my lawyer acts like a spectator in court, I would appreciate it.
Comment by Fanaee Howard — December 1, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
I was in an abusive relationship for thirteen years about eight of those years were bad. He was good with the kids everytime he and i would get in a fight i would leave so my kids wouldn’t see the drama i didn’t have any place to take them so i would leave them with him i was coming home a couple days a week fights would start and off i would go well without my knowledge he got deported and my kids were left alone for a couple of hours my oldest 14 middle 13 youngest 11 real good kids responsible well they called my sister she picked them up they called cps i went to the meeting everything i was saying they were twisting well my question is can they bring up a drug case from seven years ago and expect me to go get a hair folicile test go to drug and domestic abuse classes? What can I expect at the court on december 9, 2008 I paid my dues to the court went to classes my family dug out alot of dirt from the past can cps use that against me well the obviously have can i do anything about that my middle daughter has thoughts of suicide i’m really close with my kids the sister that has them raped me when i was 9 i let the social worker know this and my sister told them that I had mental problems
Comment by Grace Valladares — December 1, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
grysilena@gmail.com for advice on earlier comment since i moved out of my ex abusers home i’m in desperate need of a home for kids i’m currently in San Lorenzo CA
Comment by Grace Valladares — December 1, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
i’m new, they have our children.i wrote alil’ info in the Dec. guestbook.any further question please let us know . thank you and keep up the great work & info supply u provide.
Comment by jeff — December 1, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
My 2 angels are somewhere in San Diego tonight, as am I, only we aren’t together like we should be. To make a long story short, fast food wasn’t paying the bills, in fact it was barely covering the cost of day care, and mom had let us move in with her with a time table. We moved in May ‘08, and were supposed to be out no later than May ‘09, only it didn’t happen like that. Mom was constantly pressuring me about money and job, and about to crack, I turned to prostitution to make ends meet. When mom found out she gave me 1 week to leave, knowing I had no where to go, and no money saved up to suddenly somehow be able to find a place to live with poor credit to boot! I was seriously stressed out, and I dialed 211 for shelters in So Cal. After calling every one within 50 miles and being told that I couldn’t go there since I wasn’t abused, I reluctantly realized that I was screwed. I knew that having my kids live out of my car would be considered neglect, and they deserved better, I didn’t know where to turn, or what to do, so I called CPS, thinking I was doing the right thing by placing my kids in their care. I bawled for hours, and even 3 months later, I am kept awake at night stressing, my heart aching, my soul screaming… I thought I was going to be seriously f—–d for a few years while I got back on my feet, only things didn’t turn out bad like I had expected. They have taken a completely REALLY good turn for the best, financially speaking. Only now, my kids are in a foster home, they are still together, but they’ve been shuffled to at least 1 second foster facility. My poor daughter, who was ADHD is back to her old habits of having violent outbursts at school, likely due to stress, confusion, and missing her family. I want my kids back, and I am terrified of CPS. I have locked horns with them before, and no doubt that will be used against me. I’ll do anything to get my kids back, my heart is broken, I’m terrified I won’t ever see them again. They don’t keep me informed of anything, I have to call for days, and talk to the boss of the person I am trying to get ahold of (go up the ladder 5 times is pretty standard before you get a live person!) I am so upset, I deserve to know what’s going on and how to get my babies back! I screwed up, big time! And I AM sorry! But Christ, they are punishing my kids through this whole process! They need me, and my family wants to help. So please god tell me why I can’t at least have supervised visits!?!?!
Comment by Nicole — December 2, 2008 @ 7:01 am
help me please i need a attorney badley i had c.p.s. come to my house today wanted to come in my house ….i said no at first then after threating with cops i offered to let her in after i took care of my 3 pitts…well then she called my wife whitey and a bi*** and many other things ….we did not scream or holler at this lady who was black….so she dont come in she leaves so i call her supervisor…..and her supervisor says we called her a nig** witch is a word i dont even allow the brothers to use in my house now now that this lady played the race card the ladys at cps are beeing raceist to me i have 3 whitness that were next door that heard it all and 2 people that were in my house that heard it all willing to sighn statements….hell im willing to pay for a lie dector test to proov my innocense and so is my wife…ofcourse the cps lady isnt….i want to be on maury about this i want a attorney so i can sue theese racest piggs with the power of god and not the wisdom of solaman…they need to be sued …i dont have mutch cash but my house is worth about 72 thousand bucks will put it up for attorney fees……please help.. theese people need to be put in there place …and biggots shouldent be allowed to work for cps…..hell mabe oprah could help….anyones help is needed….we are from n.y. and dont know about attorneys here e mail us at nysparole@yahoo.com help please this could be you next if this lady is allowed to lie about us what stops her from lying about you???…..and if something has to go to a judge you should be able to trust the people working for the state when you work so hard to pay there sallary….my taxx bucks and yours give this lady a job…..stop the tyranny….. i thought the days of a fudiral gouvernment systom were over???and this ladys supervisors name is miss scott her number is 578 FIVE 21 ZERO call her tell her you dont like the way things are beeing run here…..tell her that you are aware of this situation…..let the world know that detroit C.P.S. is beein run by racests CANT WE ALL GET ALLONG what does the coler of my skin have to do with my kids?? why does this even have to be used against us…??? i will tell you why because that is all they have on my family is that we are white and i guess c.p.s. doesnt want us white folks here in detroit!!!!!
Comment by michael — December 2, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
copy of the letter e mailed to my senitor….i also called him left a voice mail telling him to read it and the subject so no reason for him not to read it unless he dont care either he is black so i dont expect mutch after liveing in detroit 3 monthes this tells story from day 1
first off im hopeing you can help my family i will try and sum this little story about how detroit human services has been prejudice and tryed harming my family with only the factsso here we go….first we moved here after selling our house in w.v. we heard detroit was trying to get new people and the econimy was going to start back up soon. so when we get here the house we bought off e bay needed way more work than expected..we fixx house water lights walls ceelings and sutch by this time we are broke…cant find a jobb so we go to the wealfare office for foodstamps….well we had wood heat”a wood stove” solar power…not acceptable by c.p.s. so now we have a power bill…the food stamp worker turned us in to c.p.s. for no heat no power and no food 3 days after giveing us 800 in foodstamps “crazzy” so cps shows up on sat nov 15 at 5:30 pm all was well house was warm lady was a lil prejudice but all goes well well today dec 2 at about 1 pm who shows up c.p.s. ….by the time i get to the door ” was filling woodstove” they are back to there car i talk to them they demand to come in my house verry rudely…so i ask them can we do this on porch lady says no ill just come back with the police and they will kick your door in and let us in…..so i say fine come in just give me a second to put my 3 pittbulls up….the lady gets histerical with my wife….so i ask her…..do u biggots want to come in whiteys house or not…” exact words ” well she calls my wife a bit## and a few choice words…and hollers ill be back with the cops…. squacks the tires and leaves….so my neighbors immidetley come out there house asking who that was cussing my wife out…i explain and they let me use phone to call cps …i finally get a supervisor ms scott ..she says she will call me back..well around 3:30 i call back and get the supervisors supervisor who tells me to hold comes back and says we called the lady a nig$$ neaver did and will take a lie decter test have e mailed maury requesting one will mortage my house to pay for it myself…me and my wife are in no way shape or form racest nor do we want to come off as this but its this lady word against ours…and we all know how this will go…all the supervisors are black aswell as 95 percent of the building…..well anyways all that squacking about haveing to come to my house and sutch…supervisor says we are goina contact power company water company and see if u have this stuff…” we do not need power or running water by law according to the a.c.l.u.” we do though and they want us to take our 4 children under age 5 to there building so they can question them 1 at a time without our presecce..”illigal” and how can a 1 yr old who doesnt talk answer them???…obvousley we need help …so im e mailing you…also trying to find a attorney in case i have to file a law suit…and when i pass a lie dector test aswell as my wife in reguards to her alligations ..we would surley winn….so mabe u can help nip this in the butt before it stems to far and gets world wide attention….i can atleast say i messaged my senitor begging for help….so please help us if u can….sincerley
Comment by michael — December 3, 2008 @ 2:05 am
not only are cps guilty so are the Judges and county attorney and attorney general and the Governors and the Supremes Courts especially The US Supreme Courts. Give the New President your attention on this matter everybody tell the President I wish somebody could have a Rally in Washingtom D.C.
Comment by Terri Rote — December 6, 2008 @ 3:20 pm
Your National Family Solutions refuses to take on CPS cases because they say, “If the state takes someone’s children away, there must be a reason…”
Please remove them from your website because they’re not our kind.
Comment by Patience — December 11, 2008 @ 3:59 pm
Patience, where do you find “National Family Solutions” on this site? Please post the link if you find it here. I just did a search of the site and nothing came up.
Comment by Linda — December 12, 2008 @ 5:25 pm
We’ve lost 4 children to cps and they need to be stopped. I don’t know if I’ll accomplish anything or not, but I’ll at least know that I tried, so please check out our petition whether you sign or not…And by all means, please feel free to pass it around…Good luck and best of wishes to all of you…We know how much it hurts…We endure the pain and heartache on a daily basis…http://rallycongress.com/fight-cps/1448/cps
Comment by michael and lisa — December 13, 2008 @ 10:31 am
I just need some info on cps. I had cps called on me about 2 monthes ago. My fiance(the father of my 1 year old baby girl) had a drug problem from which hes been clean before cps ever came. They are giving me the runaround now and saying that they want him to go into a program. By law, what rights do they have? what can they do?
Comment by jean — December 14, 2008 @ 5:58 pm
Jean, the CPS workers should be following state laws and regulations, and regarding your case, they need to follow court orders just like you do. It is impossible for us to know if they have the right to ask your fiancé to do drug testing because we don’t know anything about your case. You might want to register and post your questions on the message forum where you can go into more detail.
Comment by Linda — December 15, 2008 @ 3:54 am
1. The following is a testimony to what happens when law makers pass laws that grant a government agency absolute power. It strips Parents of all legal rights, constitutional protection and other rights guarantees. It makes the people who live in poverty to suffer an oppression that has been going on for generation. Yet, the government who was created to protect people has turned on the very few people who do not have the resources to fight back. They tell these people to seek lawyers to protect their rights. The very rights that we as Americans hold dear are being held by the all mighty dollar. As the people in poverty are guilty till courts or government deems us innocent. We live our lives in constant fear that our children will be taken away from us because we can not afford to give them things that people, C.P.S. and others deem that we should. So, I ask you not to pass this along but look how the children’s happiness, the love of parents are taken away by a system that does not need evidence to deem them guilty. As we are guilty till they say so.
The laws in all state are there to protect government workers and promote abuse as the State attorney office are there to protect government workers. This state has been made to me on numerous occasions and after the trail where the judge allowed the state employee to admit half truths, anther state case that was closed and suppression of basic human rights. It builds a solid layer of mistrust in people who live in poverty. As your civil rights as a parent and human being are invalid to their powers. So I urge you not to pass the buck. But consider the implication of where a government employee has more rights and protection than an average citizen and the abuse from that power.
2. CPS is allowed by court to make all medical decision with consulting parents or doctors. It this behavior that will lead to death of a child because they do not know that medication a child is allergic too or the take away life giving medication. This is all sanction by court an the state attorney off ice states it’s their job to protect state employees and not its citizens.
3. C.P.S. was allowed in court to give contradiction report. In report sent to parents it stated (that I did not do a proper investigation). The Judge refused to allow Ronnie and Carol lawyer’s due process.
4. C.P.S showed up at house at 2:30 pm and verbally conveyed to my wife who they are and told Carol Cutshall to come with them. That if she told Ronnie who they are that she will go to jail along with Ronnie Cutshall. This was the best way to keep children. As Ronnie was going to Jail. That it would be best if the children were not there to see Ronnie in handcuffs.
5. C.P.S on that day refused to identify to Ronnie. They only informed him that they were here to help. In fact till this day I still do not know who they are or what office. I have called over 20 offices and get told nothing.
6. When they saw Annastasia they insisted that she come, despite the attempted of my wife to leave here with Ronnie. Ronnie asked again who they are and they stated that they were here to help.
7. Both ladies on that day told me to pick up the kids. They stated at that time they will be back that they were just going across the street.
8. On the way to get kids Carol repeatedly stated that kids must stay with her. That C.P. Scan not talks with kids unless Ronnie or lawyer was present. C.P.S informed her that she had no right here and they ca do what they want.
9. The kids were separated from carol Cutshall at school without Carol Cutshall permission to have CPS take the kids from school. The kids were taken in separate car. They were alone with C.P.S worker for at least 45 minutes before the recorded interview.
10. At the office C.P.S asked to interview the kids. Carol stated not without an attorney or Ronnie present. The ladies told her they have the right to interview the kids without her consent. In court some of the tactics of lying, not allowing someone to red the paper she was sign being present and other violation of Due process to the court. Yet, the judge allowed this evidence into recorded.
11. Carol comes home and informed Ronnie that the case worker had her sign basic paper work. When Carol refused to sign basic paper work they threaten Carol that she will go to jail. (This was also stated on stand by case worker).
12. Ronnie calls the police to file a complaint and to see what can be done.
13. Ronnie sees officers later and asks for children to be taken to the emergency room. The officer refuses to compile stating that he had no right ask that and only C.P.S. can do that if they deem necessary.
14. At the interview at home the officer refused to arrest Ronnie. That is despite the fact C.P.S. worker stated a crime was committed and that they had evidence. The officer informed Ronnie that an investigation was being done and any complaint he may have might be put in the case. The officer implied that he was guilty and that Ronnie does not have any rights and is guilty till they deem otherwise.
15. Ronnie asked 5 times to file a police report. The officer denied him. Stating that C.P.S. is above the law. When Carol informed them that they forced her to sign paper work that she could not read. The officer stated tough luck, that she should not have signed them. That is despite the fact they were informed she was forced to sign papers.
16. At court the lady on stand testifies that Ronnie was under investigation and their names were being withheld and was excluded from the investigation for that reason. It was also stated the reason why Ronnie was not allowed to go or be present for interview.
17. Officer stated to Ronnie and carol do not have any disabled rights. That Federal Guild lines does not apply to local matters. That his right to have attorney present was not going to be followed. Despite the fact the police officer stated that we did not understand what he was saying in that only interview. It was also stated that he and C.P.S. can enter the home at any time they wanted do to nature of crime.
18. Ronnie and carol never received any court papers. If not for there negligence they would of not any of court date.
19. Loki, Willow, and Annastasia have been given medical and educational test without Cutshall being consulted or consent. Loki in fact is still not in school a month after being removed from home. The kids have been denied all contact with the parents. Despite the fact that they have several mental impairments.
20. Ronnie and Carol Lawyers, judge refused a 72 hour stay to gather evidence. Judges refuses to give second court date following this one to give evidence. He only gave a 30 day hearing to enforce C.P.S. rules.
21. The Judge refuses to give the parent any say in the children’s care, wellbeing, medical or schooling. Despite the fact he did not take our parental rights,
22. Judge order parents to see the same doctor who accusing the parents of a crime. If not they never see their kids.
23. Judges refuses to allow Ronnie to ask question.
24. Judges refuses to here n how the investigation came about or dismisses the case.
25. Been stated by local police, FBI, C.P.S., Ronnie attorney, and local attorney that parents do not have any legal rights.
26. State attorney refuses to open a investigation into C.P.S… It was stated that they are above and outside the laws.
27. C.P. S. refuses to talk to or even set up necessary appointments for parents to see kids.
28. C.P.S. in fact refuses to return phone calls requesting any info. It has been stated to me by C.P.S. that does not have to file any complaint.
Thank You
Ronnie
Comment by ronnie — December 16, 2008 @ 11:48 am
HI MY NAME IS LISA I AM THE MOTHER OF 4 WHO WERE TAKEN FROM ME OVER A YEAR AGO THANK GOD ALL IS GOING WELL MY GIRLS ARE FIXING TO COME HOME BUT THE STATE IS REFUSING TO GIVE ME BACK MY SON WHAT CAN I DO ALL THEY TELL ME IS HE IS WITH HIS FATHER AND THEY DONT LIKE TO BE MOVING KIDS AROUND BUT I NEED HIM BACK TO HE IS MY SON AND HES FATHER WAS NEVER ENVOLVED IN HIS LIFE TILL THE DAY HE CALLED CPS ON ME AND HAD THEM REMOVED FOR THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BETWEEN ME AND MY CURRENT HUSBAND BUT WE HAVE DONE EVERYTHING TO GET MY FAMILY BACK IN ORDER BUT WHAT CAN I DO I WANT MY SON BACK TOO.
Comment by LISA — December 16, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
that ralley that just happened one needs to be done in lubbock county have yall seen that lubbock has the largest amount of children removed each year
Comment by LISA — December 17, 2008 @ 10:30 am
Would anyone happen to have any advise on CPS refusing to file an ICPC with the courts?It was a very positive homestudy and backround check and Washington never filed it.We had an attorney who said alot and did nothing and it is now expired.My sister is going through her 3rd termination trial Monday and as of today,Wa. says TPR will be given Mon.They sent her the adoption papers for the fosterer today saying, sign now and get some visits or go through with TPR and get none.They refuse to place with my parents and also us.Any advise?
Comment by Frankie — December 17, 2008 @ 2:53 pm
Hello all. I really have a deep hate for CPS. 8 years ago a friend of my 14 yr old daughter said my husband touched her when she stayed over. My daughter also said this. He was charged with the girl and removed from our house for 8 months. Our boy has ADHD and boy did that set him back. Anyway after a year we went to court I was afraid and so when they offered a rule 15 or 13 I don’t remember we took it. I was dissmissed without predudice after 2 years. My husband works for the state of MN as a CD counslor. The whol time he kept them in the loop. We found out right after the court date that she thought she was dreaming. Our daughter said she lied to get her biological dad to talk to her. Anyway she commited sucide in 2001. Now all these years later we have a new lawyer because Brian has been fired by another dept of MN saying the CPS file is still open and that because of preponderence of evidence he cant be around the patients at the Treatment center were he works. This has cost the life of my daughter my husbands joy ( he is recovering alcholic for 22 years) and loved teaching others. My son has been in therapy for years. And about 60.000.00. We have a new lawyer on th9s and are waiting for the attorney general to make a ruling. I wish I could turn back the time, and knew more about CPS and the investagation that I didn’t feel was good they didn’t even talk to other girls. Or take into account our daughter was in theapy for deppression. I could go on the details would make your hair curl. Darla
Comment by Darla Holmes — December 17, 2008 @ 6:25 pm
Comment by Darla Holmes — December 17, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
I am looking to get in contact with as many parents that have been wrongly accused of abusing their children as possible. For the past year and a half i have been going in and out of court fighting for my daughter to return home to my care. A year and a half ago, my daughter was presenting with extremely unusual bruising. I took her to the hospital on several occasions to both nhs hosptials and private. she also was experiencing difficulties in walking and standing whilst having these weird stares. I was extremely worried about my daughter and did everthing that i could to try and find out what was wrong with her. The doctors kept her in hospital for a month and told me that they had completed all of the tests they could, and could not find a medical reason to explain where the bruises had come from. the next thing i knew i was taken to court and my daughter was placed in foster care. they then clased it as non-accidental injury and therefore someone had abused her. At the time i was going to college full time and various family members were looking after her during the day, but she always came home after i had finished college.
The court case has struggled on for over a year now and hasnt seem to progressed at all since day one. Throughout, the medical professionals have contradicted eachother and they were arguing about the time frame and ageing of bruising. This always made me weary of the medical evidence as i dont believe that its reliable if three different experts are saying three different things.
Last week the judge gave his judgement. He found me guilty of abusing my own daugher. He said that he has no cogent evidence to proove to exactly who caused the injuries ( as there were three others in the pool of possible perpertrators) and therefore he had to look for who was the most likely person to have done it. He said that in family law, hard cogent evidence is not needed and they can find findings against someone using probarlity only. So thats how the judge came to his conclusion that it was me. I need to find out the best way possible to appeal against this. I am not guilty of hurting my daughter, i simply did not do it, and i find it soo hard to understand why i should lose my child to the adoption process just because of a one in four chance! there is no evidence to even suggest that i caused those injuries to my daughter, also there is lots of reports about what a great bond we have and how good i am with her. i have never had any involvement with social services before hand as i am indeed the best mum i can be. please get in contact or comment if you have any advice. i am truely desprate to get my daughter home with me and my innocence prooven!
kristy
Comment by kristy — December 19, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
hello all. I HAVE NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE BUT I HAVE REAL PROBLEMS AND I NEED HELP!! I HAVE FOUR WONDERFUL BOYS THAT CPS HERE IN TX REMOVED FROM ME AND MY WIFE. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME IN THREE YEARS THAT THEY HAVE DONE THIS. THE FIRST TIME THEY TRIED TO SAY THAT MY LIFESTYLE AND JOB WAS N OT HEALTHY TO MY BOYS. ” I TRAVELED WITH A CARNIVAL” ALTHOUGH THE JUDGE WAS A GOOD MAN AND RETURNED MY CHILDREN WITHIN 3 MNTHS. NOW HERE I AM TWO YEARS LATER AND THEY HAVE DONE IT AGAIN…. ONLY THIS TIME THEY SAID OUR NEWBORN TESTED POSITIVE FOR AMPHETAMINES WHEN HE WAS BORN EVEN THOUGH THE DOCTORS REPORT SAYS IT WAS 95% FALSE POSITIVE. NOW CPS COMES TO MY WORK AND DRUG TEST ME THEN TESTS MY WIFE AND 15 DAYS LATER BY SOME ACT OF GOD THEY COME BACK POSITIVE ALSO. NO I HAVE TO SAY THAT I HAVE NEVER EVER HAD A POSITIVE DRUG SCREEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. MY JOB AS A TRUCK DRIVER REQUIRES ME TO TAKE RANDOMS ALL THE TIME. SO NOW HERE I AM WITHOUT MY CHILDREN HOPELESSLY DEVISTATED WITH NOWHERE TO TURN. I SHOULD ALSO MENTION THAT ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO THERE WAS A CASE IN FLORIDA WHERE I WASNT AROUND AND I HAD SOME CHILDREN TO ANOTHER WOMAN WHICH WERE REMOVED FROM HER AND I WQAS NEVER TOLD SO THEY TERMED MY RIGHTS THERE NOW I GEUSS THEY ARE USING THAT AGINST ME HERE. CAN THEY DO THAT?? PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME OR TELL ME WHERE TO TURN.. THANK YOU FOR ANY INFO I CAN GET!!
Comment by joe martin — December 20, 2008 @ 12:43 am
just to update u all and to see if you have any advice? i have had contact with my solicior and i asked to appeal against the decisions made at the final hearing 2 weeks ago, she says she wont help me! i have been in contact with the court and they want 200 pound to get a judge to look at the paperwork let alone considering to accept the appeal! i now have no solicitor, no advice and no money to go it alone!
Comment by kristy — December 22, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
I have gone to my state senat. I have been in contact with Senator Sanhorn. He is going to bring my case to the media and hopefully i can shed light on the subject. And help all of you and your families dealing with problems like mine and worse then mine. So please if you would like me to tell your story also. Please email me, Kimberlykelley@live.com or go to my squidoo page and leave your story as a comment.
Comment by Kimberly Kelley — December 22, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
II have been made the unofficial hub for many people so I figured I might as well take on all the responsibility as people will give me. You can email me here or at Ravenovich@aol.com or cpsisevil@aol.com . Your story and plea are important as well as any other people you can get to send their stories. I will compile and send to anyone and everyone people suggest. Our full stories and pleas will have much more impact than just petitions.
I Plan to send all our stories in mass to every senator, senior representatives, news group, ACLU, NAACP, American Friends Service committee, Documentary director and so on
We need people from every state to write out their case , their horror story with CPS or whatever it is called where you live. We need the detailed emotional story starting and ending with a plea for help. For those of you that have been lucky enough to win then we need your stories with a plea to help others. We need people in every state to contact others in your state. Get the stories and email them to a central figure. As it stands now that would be me. I and my small group will compile every single story and then submit it to every senator in every state as well as senior representatives from every state. It can also be sent to the ACLU and/or other lawyer and civil rights groups. If we do this we can win! We can make a difference for ourselves and for others, for only when we as a population are in the public eye can we force the unconstitutional practices to stop. Everyone of us has a story it may have a happy ending or not, but the story is important. Everyone of us has the knowledge of others that have their own stories. We need those case descriptions. We have politicians on our side as well as some judges lawyers and other watch dog groups. Get the stories from others, write out your own and email them to me and ill do the compiling and generate the mailing lists. We will bring change. We are in the millions and millions of voices cannot be ignored. Having our stories in hand with a plea is better than just a petition. With one voice one shout we can bring change. Federal courts are taking our cases congress holds hearings even the white house will listen if we can show a single large population. We need to become a Population not suffering individuals we need your stories with as much detail as you can put in them all with a request for help. We cant just be whispers in the dark any longer. An update. I have officially taken up the cause we are starting a foundation the “Innocence Lost Foundation” a nom profit. at the moment All we are doing is collecting these case stories compiling them and then writing requests for congressional hearings documentaries and so on to go with them and mailing them out to everyone. The cost is all on our end all we need is your story the story of your family your friends family anyone and everyone you know that has dealt with CPS Corruption. There is nothing to be afraid of your story will be one in thousands if you are under a gag order for the moment then let me know and we will wait until it is lifted. Send this to your friends their friends and so on. This is just the start of the foundation from here we will go even farther with legal support and so on but it must start here.
please I beg of you send your stories with your names for verification. If you need your location kept secrete then it will be so.
Graham
Comment by EG Hardway — December 24, 2008 @ 6:52 am
Seeking anyone who has had trouble with the ……..
Sumner County Tn CPS workers on Fabrication.
I have not looked at the case file as of yet but the aligations of me where environment neglect to no water,heat,and food. However all where in the house for when they came over. ……So I am led to believe that the report is saying that I had none of the above. There for reasoning for them pulling out my 3 year old. They also interviewed her by her self and did not record the interview and it is the case worker against my 3 year old gee how convienient!
Comment by Princess Pea — December 28, 2008 @ 7:47 pm
Sumner County Tn
O.k. Finaly got it the main reason why my toddler was taken away. The poliece reports stated that I did not have any heat what so ever at all (meaning they compleatly omitted the fact that there was one in the house for when they came over and that I had it on for the durration of there home visit.
But in the report it says nothing of the fact that I had axilliary heaters a 2′ tall 1,500 BTU and a 1′ x 1′ one behind it.
So when this wonderfull report made it to the decion body of people who decide weather or not she is taken out of my home, They see no heat at all in the winter oh no take her out now.
So there it is they miss lead the decision makers into believing that I was the horrible mother with out any source of heat what so ever when the truth was that I had 2 BTU heaters.
It is almost as I was framed just left out the good part of me being responable enough as a parrent and concerned enough to have not one back up source but 2 electic heater that both pumped out 1,500 BTU of heat.
Nothing like kidnapping from the great USA hugh. Got a love this CPS system hugh! OH the case worker backed up the clams I believe almost sure she said nothing to make sure that anyone knew that I had an extra source of heat in the house.
She had been cought so many times already lying that is why she was replaced Oh by the way I have one report that has been sighned off!
Comment by Princess Pea — December 29, 2008 @ 7:18 pm
Hi, I am a mother of 4 from Canton, Ohio.
Cps called Children’s network has stolen our children.
The case has gone to trial once. It was determined that neither the father, nor myself have comminted any abuse, neglect or dependency but they still will NOT allow us to have our children nor will they allow us to see the children.
We have not seen our children in 3 months.
We are not allowed to know anything about our children.
They are threatening unnecessary mental health treatments for 2 of my children.
They are threatening unnecessary medical treatment for one of my children.
I have to get my children home and out of their care.
Also according to court documents the children’s case worker went to the girl’s foster care home and there was a strange man sitting in the corner of the room and was not introduced. The caseworker stated she assusmed that this man was the foster father. Later she stated it was him, but she has never meet him as he works when she is visiting.
My girl’s are both very beautiful and I think they are in serious danger!
I do not know where to turn.
Both my husband’s and I’s court appointed attorneys do not seem to be putting much effort into getting our children home!
I seriously NEED help!
Someone has to know what I can do!
I don’t want my children raped, abused, drugged and by God I do NOT want them cut on.
CPS (Children’s network) made all kinds of promises about getting help for my family. Help that we need.
Family therapy, and tutoring for the children.
Yet instead of giving the help they offered they stole our children!
Anyone that can help, anyone that knows anyone with any ideas, please feel free to contact me.
luvtheman692000@yahoo.com
Thank you for your time.
Comment by Anna — December 30, 2008 @ 12:36 am
I’ve had the unfortunate opportunity of personally meeting one of our illustrious town drunks in Tyler Texas just recently and the effects of this 45 minute encounter have been devastating. Without going in to a long story, in a nutshell I angered this woman by pointing out her behavior and my disgust for people of her status and she retaliated by calling CPS on me. Granted she doesn’t me or my children, she does know I have one daughter, whom I speak of on the air often on a daily basis. All it took was knowing my daughters first name and CPS shows up at the station where I work. I thought something had happened to my daughter! I was petrified, angry and very confused after she said she was here to talk to me. I’ve filed a police report on the person who did this but the police say they cannot take her to jail for making erroneous claims to CPS but if she’d have called them they would take her to jail. How do you deal with someone who abuses the system and has such disregard for children? Is she free to do this to whom ever without consequence?
Comment by Angelina — December 31, 2008 @ 10:18 am
Angelina—
Yes this woman can make your live misreable with false accusations…and get away with it…all with CPS blessings and support! CPS protects the reporter and you under no circumstances can get the proof from CPS that SHE was the one who called.
After a while of false complaints to CPS, they sometimes figure out she is falsely calling in on you, but her reports are still protected as secret. Cps is required to evaluate every single complaint.
Erroneous callers reamain annoynomous always. It is not a criminal matter, but a civil matter. IF you can somehow proove she is making these false claims, you can personnaly sue her in civil / small claims court. Big deal, huh?
If you work for a TV station, you may try entertaining the station with an expo on this subject and just use another similar case instead of yourself…..
You may have clout here that we don’t seem to have…
Comment by Cheryl — January 5, 2009 @ 1:05 pm
13 false CPS report in the last 4 year
6 in the last 6 months My ex is only doing this to try to gain full custody
in family court. Well it back fired,
I now have 50/50 custody. But I can’t
stop her from contunuing these actions I have called the county
DA the city DA and although this is a felony to knowingly falsify a CPS report for the sole purpose of custody
not even a civil attorney will take my case. I must say the Family courts and CPS have treated my very fairly.
I must stop my Ex becacuse she is dismantling my daughter’s emtional and mental health. My daighter is already in counciling and will need this counciling untill shs is 18 years old. I am very well educated but I am powerless to stop her in these actions
I have gone so far as calling the state bar association but still can’t get a civil action going against her
Can anyone make a suggestion to help me.
-John
Comment by John — January 6, 2009 @ 10:41 pm
I may be educated but I can’t spell
correctly. Sorry..
-John
Comment by John — January 6, 2009 @ 10:47 pm
John,
If you have proof positive (in writing prefered) you can go to your local couthouse and file your own civil suit against her. Each courthouse has a law library in their basement with all the forms pre-printed and ready to fill in. You do not absolutely have to have an attorney. They will take your filing fee money just as well from you as any attorney.
Also, a civil suit can be filed in small claims court for amounts less than $3000 usually. Each court has a different $ limit. No attorneys are even allowed in small claims courts. The case is determined based on 49% vs 51% of the evidence. So long as you prove by preponderance of the evidence (51%) that she is the one who calls in, you will win your suit.
If you choose to go for more than the small claims $ limit (over $3000), then you must file in superior court, civil court division. Same type of basis for a judges’ decision, BUT a lot more paperwork in a specific order.
When you are assigned your judge, you can go online to see WHAT forms he/she requires and in WHAT order they must be rec’d. Each judge has a different order in which they expect to see the paperwork.
To make the decision as to which court to file in, determine how much money the ex-spouse has in liqudity and IF they would ever pay it to you. You should know IF they would pay it or not based on their past treatment of you.
If you really just want to deter them from calling in again (teach them a lesson & ruin their credit with a judgement), just file in small claims court for the max $ allowed. You can continue to make their life miserable legally (if you win) should they continue to call CPS.
And small claims takes only 1 form to get started and usually finished. If they don’t show paying you after 30-60 days, you can make life worse by filing a 2nd form (writ of garnishment) and the judge will usually approve it. Although sometimes they prefer to see the party in person 1st so they can inform them of the writ AND make sure they understand that any interference with it will constitute contempt of court charges, too. Jail time.
This could very well be all you need to regain control of the situation and end this crap.
Good luck.
Comment by Cheryl — January 7, 2009 @ 8:17 am
OK Cheryl - thanks for the advise
I can do this but what civil action do I file
tort, defamation ?
To add to my story the legal fees for defending myself in family court are past 30K.
Regards,
John
Comment by John — January 7, 2009 @ 5:29 pm
i have just found this site and i too have had cps called on me which resulted in the removal of my children and placing them into foster homes and/or group facilities on 3 seperate occasions in 2 different states. however i have never layed down too the demands that cps wanted and always came out victorious. it was a very long grueling and exhausting battle. my first encounter with cps was in florida and the allegations made against me included failure to protect mental abuse domestic violence etc. i was not living in the home at the time and yet i was charged with all this. it took 2 years and many court hearings but i finally beat them. however the mother whom i was no longer with had consented to the allegations against her 1 year prior and was therefore given custody again. the 2nd allegation was made by my step-daughter (the oldest 2 children are not biologically mine but i have raised them since they were both very young and consider them my children) alleging sexual abuse by the maternal grandfather and i was the one who took her to the police dept. to file the report. again the children were removed from both parents and and placed in different housing situations. cps again came after me for the same things as in the first case and this time it took 26 months to resolve. again i was found nonoffending and this time i was given custody of all 3 children (my 2 stepkids and my biological daughter).by now my oldest daughter had figured out that if she wasn’t happy at home (ex. being punished or having to help with general household chores) then all she needed to do wqas fabricate a story to get cps involved again. so was the case when she was being puished for a very smart mouth and the next day cps showed up to investigate the allegation she had made. luckily i had witnesses in the house to give statements as to what had really happened with her punishment but enough was enough and we moved to a new state. there the allegations of abuse were made again and again it was proven to be false. on our last move to oklahoma allegations were made again and even though there was a lengthy history of my oldests many false allegations they were taken from me again. in oklahoma the abuse allegations were immediately discredited in court but that was not good enough for cps who then charged me with failure to provide medical needs, denying a proper education, not to mention they said there was questions about my legality of gaurdianship even though i provided them with a court order granting me custody (oklahoma at the time did not recognize a step-parent as being a legal gaurdian). my children were placed into foster care and my youngest daughter was placed in a state mental hospital where she was being given prescription zoloft 2 times a day at 50 mg. cps went behind my back and told the judge who signed the medication order that i was unreachable. upon learning of the pill ingestion i studied the reports of zoloft on children her age (she was
and learned that the dosage being given would create suicidal tendencies and angry outbursts which was a way to keep her hospitalized. my parental rights were still in place so therefore i had a right to stop the medication and the judge areed with me and ordered the meds be terminated after he realized he had been played by cps. again i refused to lie down and be a victim to cps and i fought back. it wasn’t hard to discredit the new allegations as i was able to supply the court with current medical records such as e.r. statements and the fact that my oldest daughter was 2 1/2 years behind in school when i got custody of her and together we were able to get her caught up to her regular grade level. as a result of discrediting all the new allegations the judge had no choice but to dismiss the case. all these cases started 6 years ago with the latest from oklahoma being in october 2007. I JUST WANT TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE UP. I KNOW FIRSTHAND HOW HARD IT IS DEALING WITH cps BUT ONCE YOU LIE DOWN THEY WILL WALK ALL OVER YOU. BESIDES THEY ARE YOUR CHILDREN OUT THERE YOU MIGHT NOT REALIZE IT NOW BUT IN THE END FIGHTING FOR THEM IS THE BEST OUTCOME. IT WAS A VERY HEARTBREAKING EXPERIENCE FOR ME TO WALK AWAY AFTER THE EMOTIONAL ONE HOUR WEEKLY VISITS (when cps would provide transportation for the kids) BUT I WOULD NOT CHANGE ANY DECISION I MADE TO FIGHT. AND I STONGLY URGE ALL PARENTS TO STAND UP AND DO THE SAME!!!don’t let the thought of entering into a caseplan cross your mind i know that it all sounds good getting the children back but trust me the fight is more fulfilling. my kids now know that i would fight heaven and hell for them and that is what they needed to see. now my daughter knows that i will always fight regardless and it has brought us all closer together. if you have any questions or comments please feel free to e-mail me gsmcdonald28@yahoo.com sorry the story is so long but this is my testimonial to all fighting parents as i have a deep hated passion for cps
Comment by glenn mcdonald — January 7, 2009 @ 11:58 pm
the state got my baby in may 1 2008 and got me for abuse/neglect to month later in june can they use your past against you what should i do cause of bab relationship but i went for coulser for that now they want me to go for more stuff now
Comment by april — January 8, 2009 @ 1:07 am
My case started in Michigan after having a innocent pillow fight with my son and we bumped heads causng him to get a small dime sized bruise on his cheek.The school reported child abuse and a worker came one day when I was not home .When I did get home my mom told me they came and told me to call the worker so I tried for over a week ,even left messages ,but she never returned my calls.I then recieved a letter from her stating I needed to give custody of my kids to my mom if I am not gonna care for them or she will charge me with neglect .I immediately called her and she finally answered and we talked.She came out and accused me of abuse even after I explained what happened and said the kids told her I dont love them,which was a lie .After about a month of pure hell she requested me to come to her office for a meeting and basically told me I HAD to sign a service agreement for me to seek therapy,leave my kids with my mom (I was moving in with boyfriend) and to have a psychological exam done .She told me I can have my kids back after the psych exam ,then later told me no i cant until the therapist says its safe ….to make a very long story short …she told me the kids was better off with my mom then me but in my care my kids was always protected …after i left state just to keep my kids i found out my daughter was having cigarettes being put out on her head and hands ,sexually touched and was raped 3 times by a older nephew all in the care of my mom …is there anything i can do ,maybe sue cps for all what has happened to my kids ?? my son even was sexually molested by my nephew ….my daughter is so sad all the time and is not the same anymore cause all this and i hate it and now they are tormenting me again(cps) please email me with advise at myjessica05@yahoo.com
Comment by Melissa B — January 8, 2009 @ 1:13 am
to aprils posting 01-08-2009:
to ask if cps can use your past against you the answer is yes anything that you have done regardless of whether you were at fault or not can be used to make you look like a bad mother. the thing you have to keep in mind is that cps doesn’t have to prove a case against you, you have to prove you didn’t do anything. unlike criminal cases where the state has to produce a higher burden of proof, in a dependency case the burden of proof is much smaller anything including bad or abusive relationships can be used to show that you are neglectful to the safety of your child(ren). your counselor cannot reveal anything you have discussed as i am sure you already know unless it has something to do directly with the safety of the child(ren). however if the reason for removal has to do with the abusive relationship you were in and you have already recieved the proper counseling to help you resolve those issues then you can have that counselor testify as to the extent of the therapy provided, but you have got to be careful if you choose to do that because you open another door for cps to try and break down. keep in mind i do not offer any legal advice as i do not know the circumstances of your case, i just know what i would do and prepare for a long battle
Comment by glenn mcdonald — January 8, 2009 @ 1:55 am
I think the CPS in Arizona has
made my wife and I poster children
for their crusade of nothingness
when it comes to protecting children.
They have kept our visitations to
a mere 3 hour visit for our grandchild
Emily. They have told us that we
should be happy with the time that
they give us. Now Our own son has
let his girlfriend control everything
and because she is dead set against
us, she’s turning the ear of any CPS
person to believe we are not in the
interest of our grandchild. My son
can’t control her either. She get’s
the first and last word in all the time.
She even denied our grandchild
her Christmas presents from us
on our last visit. The case worker
said he would get to the bottom of
it. And of course he didn’t. Now
Emily has been photographed
recently with bruises all over her
face and the case worker after
a week and a half took her to
a doctor who said the bruises
were probably from falling. This
is not protective services as I understand it. Someone needs
to help our granddaughter and
we’re forced to hire a lawyer to
help her.
Steve
Comment by Steve Fiegen — January 8, 2009 @ 5:54 am
John-
If legal fees are above $30K and you want them back (if she really has that kind of money now and in the future), then go after her future too. File in Superior Court as a civil case. File it as both “defamation” and “falsified reporting to a government agency”. SHe has commited a “fraud” under the law which constitues perjury.
Comment by Cheryl — January 8, 2009 @ 8:15 am
to continue—-resulting in permenant emotional damages to your family. Seek “monitary and physcological damges” in your award.
You can also file the suit as “harrassment” and “defamation”.
Follow up in your request for award that the harrassment caused ????? whatever happened to you and yours.
Comment by Cheryl — January 8, 2009 @ 8:19 am
John,
Just a reminder, when considering where to file, ask yourself…
1. Does she have money now and in the future?
2. Do I have enough evidence for a larger ($30K) suit. Remember, this court requires far more than 51% of the required proof of the lesser court. The poponderance % is more like 75% to sway the court your qay.
If you don’t meet these guidlines, your case is better heard in the lower court, small claims requiring only 51% poponderance.
Once your case is heard at either court, if denied an award, you cannot change courts. The case can only be apealed at that same court. You can never sue over this matter again.
Comment by Cheryl — January 8, 2009 @ 8:24 am
I need to know if I need to be doing more to protect myself and a child. We’ve been recently investigated and the lady said everything looked okay. It all started from going to sooner start for help on a child with some problems and things got twisted around. We no longer want their help and I want this lady to not show up again. We are very afraid and i’ve been doin alot of reading online about CPS. help!
Comment by Nan — January 8, 2009 @ 8:45 am
I’m looking for stories out of Larimer County Colorado. You can get to my website at http://www.larimercorruption.com old or new I want to here from you. My personal email is srice@larimercorruption.com
Comment by Shadrach — January 8, 2009 @ 9:42 am
Cheryl,
Thanks so much for the info
This is exactly what I am looking for.
My Ex has only her half of the home she is not even working. Remember I am trying to be fair minded to all of the readers - by acting only in the best interest of my child.
Again CPS and the family courts have been very professional in the handling of my case. Its my Ex who needs to be stopped here. Cheryl, I would like to chat off-line if possible.
I will research the info you gave me and weight my options. I would also like to speak in public setting to get my word
out because the laws in the US need to be changed.. By no mean should the protection of children ever stopping but a better solution needs to be implemented.
If any of the readers have the same passion to really make changes to improve the lives of our children via new laws and best practices. Please let me know
Thanks
-John
Comment by John — January 8, 2009 @ 11:34 am
John,
Weigh your options carefully. You can e-mail me at my temp address for scanning purposes, CMCQUA6883@aol.com. Then I will pass along a new address to you from there, since CPS workers tend to monitor this site.
Thx
Comment by Cheryl — January 8, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
I am in Washington state… to make a very long story short . my granddaughter was born Oct 11 2002. taken from her mom and my son in Jan. 2004. placed with me a couple months later, after me having her for a year they took her out of my home because the CPS worker said someone was living in my home that wasn’t ..also because i didn’t have my granddaughter in a daycare or preschool . she was not even 2 at the time . i am a stay at home home maker and had no reason to pay someone to watch my granddaughter , i haven’t seen her since Christmas 2006 . its a very long story , i wish i knew about this and the other sites back then maybe i could have found some help to fight cps and keep my granddaughter who is now 6 years old ..
I cry and pray Every night for her to be returned home with her family soon !
her mom is not able to get her back neither is my son. if there is anything i can do to get her back i would LOVE to know .both the parents have signed papers for the foster home to have more power in keeping my granddaughter …… I have pages of court paper work from the hearings !
Its NEVER tooo late to return a child to their FAMILY !!! Any help would be great
Comment by Jolene — January 10, 2009 @ 1:28 am
So, are you saying I should not protect the two-year old girl who was molested by her grandfather (who also molested the mother) and subsequently was diagnosed with a STD? What part about parental rights means society should condone parents beating their children with electrical cords/tent poles/kitchen utensils, molesting them, ignoring their medical needs, and neglecting their children’s needs due to drug and alcohol use? I totally agree with you… CPS does nothing at all. I should totally ignore the two sisters who asked me if I could make their daddy disappear because he beats them and their mother. I will send the two teenage girls home to a mother who denies their step-father has been repeatedly raping them despite her even walking in on him doing it AND the step-father is being criminally charged with rape. Good idea. I should not offer support to a single mother of four children who has gladly accepted my help to PREVENT further CPS referrals. Those who have had their children removed should take a long hard look at their actions and environment and maybe take responsibility for their actions or inactions.
Comment by Caring social worker for CPS — January 16, 2009 @ 4:03 pm
Here we go again!!
“take a long hard look at theirs actions and ENVIRONMENT”???
In other words, if we can’t afford a really nice home, or live in an area known for drugs because it happens to be affordable, we lose our kids.
Yeah lady this is happening!!!
IF you really would concentrate on JUST those situations you spoke of, I’d have no problem with CPS.
The trouble is YOU DON”T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Cheryl — January 16, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
Wow! You are quick to assume I am a big bad social worker! What I meant was letting questionable people around their children, i.e. child molesters, criminals, drug dealers, homeless people “couch surfing,” or otherwise not being protective of their children. I have witnessed mothers who stayed with abusive boyfriends and spouses even when they were beating or molesting their children. One infant last week was shaken so badly by the mother’s boyfriend that now the child is permanently brain damaged, and the mother decided to stay with the boyfriend instead of choosing her child. I have been in homes where there were animal feces all over the floors with toddlers and babies on the floor crawling in it! I witnessed hungry children eating rotted food out of the overflowing garbage cans, and drinking formula out of moldy bottles. It doesn’t matter what type of home or neighborhood you live in, there is a basic necessity for a sanitary home. Would you want your children wallowing in animal feces and eating rotted food? The homes I have seen this filthy do not happen overnight. Is it acceptable to you for an entire kitchen floor to be covered in used, dirty diapers and rotted food accessible to little children? I live in a neighborhood that is notorious for drug dealing, gang activities, and criminals. That doesn’t mean me or my neighbors abuse our children! We manage to keep our homes clean, free of hazards, do not use drugs or alcohol, and CPS is not called on us. I have had clients who live in upscale neighborhoods, even a couple who lived in a 10,000 sq foot house! Because the parents were affluent does not mean it was okay for them to beat their children. I agree, it is very sad when parents are unable to care for their children’s needs adequately for whatever reason. I do agree that there is a disparity in reports to CPS regarding socioeconomic status, often due to the number of eyes and ears on the children because of public services in the home. It lends itself to more mandatory reporters coming into contact with families. The issue is so much larger than individual CPS workers. One must look at the systems in which we all exist …culture, family values, economic issues, religious backgrounds, community support, state and federal laws, bureaucracy, education, the economy, etc…
I can say from experience that my co-workers and I act out of a sincere concern to protect children from abuse and neglect and offer services to families to PREVENT removing children from homes. My specific job is to work with families who have received referrals and offer services (counseling, childcare, anger management classes, financial aid, transportation, drug and alcohol treatment) to strengthen the family unit and prevent new referrals or placement of the children. There is not a single social worker I have met or worked with who ever wants to remove children from their families. It is the worst part of our jobs. I hate it, but when a child’s safety is at risk, how could I sleep at night if that child died and I hadn’t done anything? I worked with a mother who loved her children very much and I could see that. But her addiction to methampetamines prevented her from adequately caring for her children. Her four year old was so neglected from her drug use that he had not started to even speak yet because he was never spoken to. Her two year old would wander the apartment complex at night, begging for food. Luckily, I found an aunt and uncle who wanted to care for the children while the mother had the opportunity to get treatment. But will the mom take the opportunity? That is the big question.
I understand the strong feelings people have toward CPS, but I do feel that more education is needed for the general public. How bad can an agency be who created an entire team of workers to KEEP children with their families and prevent placement and court involvement? The public doesn’t understand how expensive it is to have children placed in foster care and proceed with court costs. It is very expensive! A majority of my training was on how to assess risk in homes, and how to address those risks with services to keep the children with their families. I work very hard and I am very emotionally invested in the families I work with. I want to see parents succeed and gain skills to create a safe home for their children.
I know there are false reports made by people with grudges. We all know that. My own mother and father were accused of molesting neighbor children! After the investigation was completed, our family was left alone. We were a low income , ethnic family as well, but we were not persecuted by CPS. It turns out the neighbor who made the referral was molesting his own children and wanted to steer the attention away from his actions!
Please remember we don’t get paid stipends for taking children, we don’t like spending hours and hours in court for cases, we don’t like making families upset. We try to take action based on as much information we can gather as possible.
I like to think I am a moral and ethical person who is helping my community through my volunteering and my career. I would not participate in such an agency like the CPS you describe. It would be intolerable to me. I have been on both ends of CPS as the investigated and the investigator. I am proud of the work I do with my families.
Comment by Caring social worker for CPS — January 16, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
I AM SO FRIGGIN SICK OF CPS NAZIS TROLLING THIS SITE. GIVE UP! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR RUINING MY FAMILY’S LIVES. MAY YOU ROT IN HELL!
Comment by Susan — January 16, 2009 @ 11:05 pm
‘CARING CPS WORKER’ WHAT AN OXYMORON! LOOK AT THE STATISTICS NOT PUBLISHED BY OUR WONDERFUL GOVT. ABOUT THE KIDS WHO DIE IN FOSTER HOMES. ABUSE IS MORE PREVELANT THERE. CHILDREN NEED BOTH PARENTS. THE STATE MAKES A SH*TTY NANNY!
Comment by Susan — January 16, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
I read only the 1st sentence and I stopped. Couch surfers and homeless people are NOT in the same league as molesters and drug dealers!
If you think they are, then you are uneducated in human reality. Homeless people with children somehow manage to find the means to supply shelter (with or without) your help. The trouble is, that with your help, they somehow manage to lose the kids to an adoption - foster home, where they are tormented or in some way physically abused. Mind you, they were poor not abused with their parents.
And the couch surfer, is merely that, a TV nut that is missing out on some of the best times in life with their kids, but that certainly does not constitute abuse or neglect.
You have confirmed exactly what we have declared as unjust! Living poor makes humans a target of CPS.
So please save the retoric…we’ve all heard it at or TPA hearings.
I am so tired of all the paperwork saying “family reunification” right you until the end, even though CPS is really hell bent on terminating rights instead. It is amazing how many people still lose their kids AFTER they have completed all your classes.
I will not waste my time reading anymore of your defense or this response would be a heck of a lot longer than the time I’ve alredy wasted on you!!!!!!!
Comment by Cheryl — January 19, 2009 @ 8:13 am
The last thing a CPS worker needs to complain about is how expensive it is to put kids in foster care!!! They don’t freakin pay for it - the dayum federal government pays THEM for it!!! So stop whining and crying it’s so expensive like your paying for it out of your own pocket.
If you people REALLY cared about the children and what’s bets for them - you would actually investigate accusations, you would actually do your freakin homework on the FAMILY instead of racing for that all mighty federal dollar and snatching the kid out of a perfectly good loving home.
So you do 1 good dead per year - 1 kid out of a filthy house - what do you want a brownie button - sorry FRESH OUT!!!
Because the other thousands you take and put into foster care are in bigger jeopardy than if you had just left them in their OWN home…..please take me away from the parents that moved me across country my senior year so I am pissed and will make a false accusation and please put me in the home of a sheriffs officer and let me get 7 stitches in my forehead and starve me and loose me amongst the 7 other children you have managed to “collect”.
Lady please - I am sick of people like you hiding behind the “let’s protect the children” song. Just admit your federal money grubing miserable people who want everyone else to be as miserable as you.
—-My apologies to those of you on here that are moms and dads and grandparents. I just couldn’t hold it in any longer. My thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time. I feel your pain and know exactly what you are going through.
Comment by Lydia — January 19, 2009 @ 1:04 pm
John -
There is a group called PASSAGE (http://www.passagegroups.us/) that depending on where you are, might be able to help you. They are beginning (slowly) to develope resources around the US.
Comment by Lydia — January 19, 2009 @ 1:23 pm
sCaring social worker for CPS you as well as your child stealing, child abusing lower than child rapists female dogs DO NOT care about children. I do not believe your lies. You low lifes took my nephews and nieces out of a loving home. The mother done what she had to do to get them away from her abusive husband. And you all still took them. Her husband made a false allegation against my brother who has no sex offenses at all. no felonies at all. yes she was living at my brothers house with her children. she had no where else to go, or to be homeless with them. You all lied to her and the children. said they would be returned in 72 hours if nothing was found on my brother. there wasn’t. the kids blamed themselves for being taken. my 10 year old nephew cried for three days, didnt eat for as long. you low lifes told my sister you would keep the kids together. you all separated them. only my 9 and 10 year old nephew is together in a PIG’S house. oh and guess what, he’s abusing the 9 year old. my 10 year old nephew told my sister that. she told you bastards, but there still in there. You all like harming kids. I can not wait till the CPS is no more. It has already begun. They FIRED(yes…Hooray!) 65 child stealing, lowlife child abusing CPS workers in contra costa ca. good riiddens. F them and you! you will go to hell for what you have done. You all find one child being abused at home out of 1000 like Lydia said. False allegations are no cause to remove children. Listen to the children. If they say no I was not molested, believe them. you alls policy is if a child says no i wasnt touched, you call them a liar, if they say yes i was you all believe them. either way, in your mind, sexual abuse happened no matter if the accused is innocent or not. Do us all a favor, burn in hell!
Comment by Paul — January 22, 2009 @ 3:16 am
oh by the way non-caring cps worker, one more thing, my sister has documentation from cps saying that I molested my niece, WHO WASN’T EVEN BORN YET! and they also said that I sexually abused her husband HE’S 49 YEARS OLD! just go commit suicide, BITCH!
Comment by Paul — January 22, 2009 @ 3:28 am
caring cps worker-how many kids that you’ve stolen while on the way to the office, stopped in a rural area and molested them and told them that if they told, you wouldn’t give them back. as far as your post about the grandfather, and the abusive, raping father or the teen girls that asked for your help, your a liar. you all make shit up to steal kids. i wish you would go to prison on one of those charges. maybe an allegation should be put on you that you molested your own kids and are using your job as a cover up. oh in case you dont get it, i hate you bitches for what you’ve done my sister and her kids. she is a good mother who protects her kids. society don’t need you. get lost.
Comment by Paul — January 22, 2009 @ 3:38 am
fern you posted about a a website called familydefensecenter.net. is there anything like that in arkansas? any one knows where citizens of arkansas whose been abused by cps can go to get help, please let me know. thanx
Comment by Ray — January 22, 2009 @ 3:45 am
Ray, check out the Arkansas area of the Fight CPS Message Board. Also check out AFRA’s site which has an Arkansas page (and pages for every state.)
Comment by LindaJoMartin — January 22, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
Ray:
Nothing for Arkansas, except what Linda ( site owner has given you)
Whenever a state has an active group, I try to post it.
Linda is right. You really have to join the Message Forum and go into chat room to get folks from your state to help.
Also, if you network here on an AK site, you will probably hook up with someone who knows something and or someone.
Best. F.
Comment by Fern — January 22, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
I agree with all of ya on that CPS bitch. If you live in oklahoma do not ask sooner start for help cuz they tell DHS lies so that you’r investigated and accused of….get this……….being too strict and too long of time out …and the oringinal one..sexual abuse. What ever!!! We went to them concerned that the drug mother was abusing him…not us.. dumb asses!! And to say putting a child in his play room to have some alone time and play time is not F time out. And by the way Oklahoma has a SPANK law and I use it.. That time out crap just doesn’t work. When you have hard to control kids a swat on the diaper is not F abuse!! So sick and tired of shit being twisted around so you can come on my property and take a child to make yourself feel good. MAYBE there might be a good CPS out there but as you can tell we’ve been ruined by one bad apple. The shittin Oklahoma DHS is always on the news…They should all go to jail with the worst convicts to play with them and see what abuse is really like. So cry me a river and I’ll see you from heaven as you’re screaming in hell!!!
Comment by Bones — January 22, 2009 @ 8:29 pm
Hi, I am trying find out more information or how to make an official complaint regarding false allegations made by an appointed GAL.
Comment by Crystal — January 23, 2009 @ 11:26 am
Does anyone live in florida? Past or current issues and/or suits against these bastards childnet, CPS, Guardian Ad litem
Comment by Crystal — January 23, 2009 @ 11:28 am
Mom arrested, jailed for disciplining kids on plane
Charlie Butts and Jody Brown - OneNewsNow - 1/23/2009 6:00:00 AM
The Patriot Act, designed to help fight terrorism, may be being misused.
Check out this article depicting the NWO state of affairs goin on:
The Patriot Act was enacted following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. But it has given airlines some latitude in dealing with what they may consider unruly behavior. A case in point is Tamara Jo Freeman, who in 2007 was flying on Frontier Airlines to Denver when she moderately spanked her unruly children, then responded with some profanities when confronted by a flight attendant.
The Los Angeles Times reported this week that Freeman was arrested and spent three months in jail before entering a guilty plea. Mat Staver with Liberty Counsel reacts to the story.
“It makes no sense at all to convict some mother, who is trying to discipline her children, of violating a terrorism law — a law that’s defined as trying to stop terrorists, defined as trying to stop somebody from overthrowing or hijacking the plane,” says the attorney.
Staver says that strangely enough, Freeman’s case is not an isolated one. According to the LA Times, at least 200 airline passengers have been convicted under the amended Patriot Act — many accused of simply raising their voice, using foul language, or being drunk.
“This law is defying common sense,” Staver states. “I don’t think that was the intent of the law, and its application in this case and several other cases [has] nothing to do with protecting the people on the airplane.”
The Liberty Counsel founder says enforcement in these cases is so absurd that the law obviously needs to be changed.
According to the Times, Freeman’s conviction cost her custody of her children, who were placed in foster care during her incarceration. She is now trying to turn back legal proceedings in which the foster parents are seeking to adopt the children.
Comment by Susan — January 24, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
I don’t know about all cps workers but I can say for a certainty that the ones involved in my daughters case are unfairly judging us and using their power to ensure that our babies are taken away. it all started with my daughter using prescribed pain meds and nerve meds while pregnant. she overused yes, but admitted it and was put in the hosp for treatment 2 1/2 weeks prior to delivery. we were told that if she didn’t do this and admit she had a problem that cps would take the child when it was born. I had to go and talk to an so called independent social worker at the drs. office and she recommended intensive therapy in a long term facility 30 to 60 days and even mentioned one that allowed babies to be with the mother if they were doing well. well, the terrible ob that was prescribing these put her in the hosp because the baby was having problems and early delivery was imminent if somethiing wasn’t done. they put her in and kept sending her the same pills she’d had at home. but love her heart she sent every one of them back and gave me the ones she’d brought with her to take home. when she went in she stopped taking anything except for a couple shots they gave when she started early labor. all her subsequent tests were negative and when the baby was born he was tested negative. but had many problems being born because of stupidity on behalf of the dr. who couldn’t tell he was sideways and couldn’t be born naturally. she ended up with emergency c section.
she came home the very next day on motrin. every test since has been negative. keep in mind she was told she would get help getting thru this. cps came and talked to her the day after the birth and i was given partial custody and was told the mother could watch and make decisions for the baby and her older son but I was to oversee things. and she was not to be left alone with them.
I stayed with the baby in the hosp. for about 2 weeks. he had problems with breathing and so forth by no withdrawal. about 2 weeks after he came home i made a terrible mistake and feel asleep and dropped him about 2 feet. off my lap. I am a very responsible person but am currently disabled d/t bad arthritis and other health problems. I have however, cared for the 5 y/o child about 3 to 3/ 1/2 yrs. he is my life and has kept me going when i really didn’t feel like going. when i dropped the baby his arm broke and nobody who has never had that happen to someone they cherish as much as i do him can understand how badly I felt, but it was totally an accident and one i have vowed to prevent any possibility of happening again. however, I haven’t had the opportunity of proving that since the day after the accident even after state police and a sw had been to the hospital and been told by the md that the wound was consistent with accidental fall, they came and took him out of our care because they found out i was on a pain medicine and muscle relaxer. I do take pain meds but only because i can’t move without them and i have to be able to move to care for the children and help my elderly parents as much as possible. some days it is almost all i can do to get out of bed, and almost always awaken after only a few hrs sleep in severe pain. but i refust to give up. My pain meds do not make me drowsy, sleepy, drugged out, or anything of the sort. I do not take the muscle relaxer unless i am having severe cramps in my muscles and have had the same prescription for about 4 years. I was not drugged out when i fell asleep and dropped the baby, I was tired. I had had a very busy day and sat down in a chair to rest. I have held babies in rocking chairs all my life. that includes my four children and the other 7 of my grandchildren without every having a problem. I feel awful about what happened to our baby, but I can’t undo it I can only make sure it doesn’t happen again. I had padded everything around me but they wouldn’t listen to me about anything after they found out i was on pain meds. My dr. is willing to testify that I am responsible with my meds and do not overuse of misuse. every one that knows me knows that I am never overmedicated or unstable etc. I worked as a rn for many years and never had a complaint about my caring for people children, elderly or anyone else because I love people especially children. I could never knowingly do anything to injure anyone. most certainly not my own family.
now they are trying to take the 5 y/o out too saying i’m not able to take care of him. although i am and have for several years. his mom is still clean with no help, has attended all the classes that were finally scheduled for her but only got started a few weeks ago and as of yet still hasn’t got to start the parenting class. every test they have done is negative on her. she is a very caring and loving mother who had some problems a few years ago and go in a bad way but is trying to get it and keep it together for her children now. she now lives with me and together or apart we are more that capable of loving, caring and nurturing these lovely children. why are they tearing us apart. the 5 y/o was taken out of class and asked questions and looked over for bruises. I have devoted the last few years of my life to making certain he is well cared for. I volunteer at school so i can be involved in his school life and he will know i care. his mom and dad although not well educated are very loving and have never been ones to be around him while under the influence.. as far as he knows they are just mom and dad and they love him but they don’t live together and he lives with me. he is happy that mom has moved in. He has a new room i just built on and decorated just for him with school colors and power ranger, hulk and spider man murals. i am not wealthy or well off but we did the work ourselves and it is a nice room. he goes to sunday school nearby, school about 3 mi away and has freq. interaction with his cousins. if they take him out and give him to his dad he will be well cared for and i will see him often but why disrupt his life any further. he misses his brother terrible. he had 3 dogs and would miss them terribly. and not to sound all important but i have been his rock his safety net and he would miss me terribly. his dad has never tried to take him because he knows he wants to stay here. he also knows he’s loved and well cared for but they haven’t asked him. they haven’t asked anybody. the manager at the dcbs office actually apologized to me for letting us bring the baby home because if he had known i was on my prescibed medicine i wouldn’t have been allowed to be in charge of his care although i spent 2 weeks in the hosp taking care of him.
they have treated us terribly. i have been made out to be an abusive, druggy. and treated like dirt. I have never faced anything like this in my life. they have too much power. yes the decisions have to be approved by the judges, but all they really have is information supplied by the dcbs. we haven’t been allowed to say much of anything. I was told last time that frequent spot checks would be made on the 5 y/o until placement was decided next court date and never even got a phone call in 2 weeks. how worried are they over his care if they don’t every check on us. they are too busy trying to come us with more dirt on us. they even told the judge that they didn’t have some information and were attempting to find more. the only information that is needed is we love and care well for our children. we are not criminals, and if God wills it these children will grow up to be healthy, well educated, well rounded adults. But being sent from one place to another at their whim it is unlikely that they will be. is there anyone i can talk to that can help. i have hired a lawyer for myself but i am still very worried. taking your children from your care is like having someone tear your heart from your chest. I read that another county in KY recently was investigated for the unfair taking and adopting out of children. I worry that it may happen to us. I know the manager at the meeting was determined no matter what I said or what point I tried to make His mind was made up and their reccommendations weren’t changing. I am glad to have found this site and I pray that the people that truly love and care for their children get them back. I also pray that people who really do try to do a good job and make sure children are safe keep in mind that this is not just a case or an investigation. these are people with feelings, and childrens futures at stack and most of us want what is best for our children. we may not be perfect but we are trying. for those who do neglect and especially in any way abuse a child, there is nothing bad enough that can happen to you in my opinion and what goes around comes around in the end. Please remember that these are gifts from God not to be owned but to be cherished, nourished, and carefully tended and taught to be God fearing individuals. If you feel the need to make fun of me go ahead, I see that happens a lot here. believe me nothing that’s said can harm me more that what these supposedly child welfare people are doing. my daughter and I will not give up. God bless all of you.
Comment by unfairlyjudgednan — January 25, 2009 @ 11:27 pm
Unfairlyjudgednan, I hate to break it to you, but that’s how they ALL operate. Pimping out children to foster homes & youth ‘treatment’ centers is how they get paid. They aren’t gonna tell you they get bonuses for removing children. Please also visit AFRA.com. That site has some real good information on how these Nazis operate.
Comment by Susan — January 26, 2009 @ 11:52 pm
Susan:
Excellent observations. AFRA Website is:
http://www.familyrights.us
The corrupt PA Judges are on the FIRST PAGE.
AFRA is structured a little differently than Fightcps.com, but has loads of info.
F.
Comment by Fern — January 27, 2009 @ 10:54 am
I really need some advice here!! I am an excellent mother and have 1 12 yr old son and a 5 month old son. When I was about 30 weeks pregnant with my youngest,, I took an unprescribed pain pill for my back,, of course when my son was born there was a small trace of hydrocodone in his meconium sample, there was no traces in his blood or mine so the doctors even said it proves it was something that was done on a regular basis.. plus i have numerous prenatal drug screens that were ok! But by law in Ky,, it must be reported to CPS. They are still harrassing me five months later, They said for me to take parenting classes and they would close it,, they didn’t. They wanted me to have a drug assesment done to prove i wasn’t a drug addict, and the outcome of that was good,, they still didn’t close it,, cause they said i had to complete at least 4 drug tests before they would close it,, I’ve only taken 2 in 5 almost 6 months,, because they won’t ever call me to take them! I feel like I’ve went above and beyond the call of duty to prove myself. I mean if they are so worried about my son’s well being,, shouldn’t they be sending me for drug tests quite frequently?? How can I get rid of these people?? Please help,, and yes i’ve already signed all there papers and plans because they threatened they could take him from me,, they still never mention anything about my 12 yr old son!!,,Please anyone with any advice on what to do!!
Comment by gina — January 27, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
that was supposed to say the doctors said it was something that wasn’t done on a regular basis,, big typo there. sorry
Comment by gina — January 27, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
Is anyone reading these??
Comment by gina — January 29, 2009 @ 10:48 pm
Every day! I feel for everyone.
Every case is different, yet CPS has the same cure. Its’ toxic. Their cure is a one size fits all treatment. But we all know, that just doesn’t work!
While I am deeply saddened by all accounts I read, I feel selfishly releived that I am not alone in my feeling so angry for such good cause.
Comment by Cheryl — January 30, 2009 @ 8:29 am
wow ! IVE SPENT SOME TIME THINKING THIS CANT GO ON ANYMORE !I HAVE BEEN A VICTOM OF CPS MY HUSBAND AND I ARE GOING THREW A DIVORCE AND HIS GOAL WAS TO STRIP EVERYTHING OF ME THAT MADE SENCE. AND ALLTHOUGHT THERE DOING THERE JOB THERE NOT PUTTING THE CHILDREN FIRST IN SO MANY CASES THIS IS ABBUSE SO WHO IS REALY PROTECTING THESE CHILDREN ,I TRULY FEEL THAT THAT U HAVE TO DISCLAIM WHO U ARE AND I THINK THIS IS A LAW THAT MUST BE SET ITS GOING TO SAVE ALOT OF LIVES AND PROTECT THOSE WHO REALY NEED CPS AND STOP WAISTING THESE PEOPLES TIME, AND ALLOWING DIGRUNTLED ANGRY HUMAN BEINGS TO HAVE SUCH POWER AND CONTROL AND IN A DIVORCE SIUATION IT CAN BE DANGEROUS THEY CAN STILL ADUSE AND MINIPULATE WHILE HIDING BEHIND CLOSE DOORS CUS ABUSERS ARE SCARED AND THATS WHY THEY DO WHAT THEY DO BUT ITS TIME WE ALL TAKE A STAND TO THIS IF WE CAN PUT A MAN ON THE MOON WHY CANT WE CHANGE SOMETHING SO DETROMENTAL TO OUR OWN LIVES AND THE INNOCENT CHILDREN . THESE HUMAN BEINGS THAT CREATE SUCH HAVOC AND PAIN MUST BE STOPPED AND THE PEOPLE WHO CALL AND KEEP CALLING THIS OUR REALITY OF TERRORISM WE HAVE OUR OWN FIGHT AGAINST THOSE PEOPLE WE SEND TROOPS TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO FIGHT TERROISM WICH MEANS TO INSTILL FEAR LIFE OR DEATH WHERE IS OUR TROOPS?
Comment by renee — January 30, 2009 @ 8:50 am
well i told my worker i refuse to let uneducated people come in and examine my son,, she said that it is fine and that just to get a statement from his doctor that this is not needed, and the doctor agreed,,she says that he does not need there services. and they told me they are going to drug test me one more time and they are closing it,, maybe they have finally realized they have nothing to go on…lets hope
Comment by gina — January 30, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
Hello!
I need help my sister just got her kids taken away tonight. CPS wouldn’t leave the children with me because I have a juvenile record. They split the children up and placed them with non-family members and didn’t ever even call the Grandmother. Don’t we have rights to the children? The Grandmother has no criminal back ground and I even gave the social worker her phone number and she never even called. Does any one know what our right are?? Please help.
Comment by Vanessa — January 30, 2009 @ 8:35 pm
I just can’t get over what has happened in our family and I don’t know if there is anyone who can help!?! Last October, Halloween in fact, my sister-in-law showed up at my home, beaten, battered and with stab marks on her neck where her husband tried to kill her. I held her while she bawled her eyes out and convinced her to press charges. She was afraid of her husband and his mom, who works for Jefferson County Courthouse in Colorado. I assured her things would be ok and I would be with her every step of the way. He was arrested and is in jail awaiting 7 felony charges including attempted murder. I wrote a witness statement to what I saw that morning and some of the bruises from days prior. I had been going with her to the court proceedings and just trying to be a good friend. A week before Christmas her ex-mother-in-law tried to press false charges on her for domestic violence, they were dropped.
But on the night of January 10, 2009 Adams County Social Services showed up at our doorstep with allegations of child abuse and drug use, we allowed them in because we had nothing to hide. I am on permanent disability for mental disabilities, but I take very good care of my children. These women interrogated me for over an hour straight, would not tell me what the allegations were regarding the child abuse, but drilled me about my marijuana use and my disability. When I was not giving them the answers they wanted to hear they blatantly called me a liar, then in their report they completely lied regarding everything I said. My Husband was not as cooperative at this point and asked, “Let me guess, Larry Bright made this report,” one of them retorted, “I don’t know who Larry is.” Then my husband said, “Oh it must be Linda.” And the same women inadvertently admitted it was her. At this point we had absolutely no drugs in our house and had not been using in a while (again Marijuana). When they finally revealed the child abuse allegations they said we were locking and tying our kids up to use drugs. My seven year old completely denied anything like that going on.
They did not appropriately assess the children or look at all through our apartment. Their evaluation stated I was a mental health risk, and they were putting me on a mental health hold (which upon an evaluation by an actual mental health professional I was immediately released). And then in front of half the Northglenn Police Department these two young women stated they were taking our children because my husband had a job, and he minimized my disability. When my husband stood up to contest the police jumped him, elbowed him in the face, and pulled the tazer on him while they were all already on top of him. Aside from it being illegal to remove my children based on my disability, Colorado statute 19-3-102 (which defines neglect and dependency) declares in several annotations children may not be removed from their parents without clear evidence of abuse or neglect on the children. And instead of upholding the law the police helped these women illegally steal our children.
We were not allowed to know where our children were, though they continually reassured us all three children were together. However we learned they did in fact separate our five-month-old from his older brothers. He was placed in a home where he was severely neglected if not abused. When he was taken from our home there was nothing wrong with him within four days his face was completely raw due to being left lying in vomit, as well as his bottom was raw with pustules of yeast from being left for extremely long periods of time in dirty diapers; three weeks later we are still fighting an upper respiratory infection. Though my two older children seemed to be in a better home, my oldest son missed a full week of school. My Husband and I went through two weeks of absolute hell, but we were able to get them home after our second hearing if we plead a no fault contest with a deferred judgment or we could have taken it to trial and continued to have been without our children for who knows how long. We brought written statements from my oldest son’s teacher and our children’s pediatrician both stating they know us to be good parents; as well as medical records, counselor’s notes, and other documentation to prove our case. We now have to jump through all these hoops: random drop-ins by Social Services, continual court hearings, drug treatment and testing; and to top it off hearings for the “interference” tickets we received from the police who helped kidnap our kids. Not only have we been dealing with all of this, my husband has had to and will still miss a ton of work, unpaid of course.
These completely false allegations were made up by this woman (who has never been to our home), who was obviously tampering with a witness in her son’s trial. She abused her position as a trusted official within the judicial system. She along with the two women from social services and the police who were present that night greatly abused their positions, the power they are entrusted with and tore apart an innocent family. And instead of this woman being held accountable, we are still paying the price. We don’t know how to make since of any of this, but at least our wonderful sons are home.
We are in Adams County Colorado, if anyone has any suggestions on who to contact or what we can do to press charges against this woman for false allegations, and grievances against the social workers and officers involved please let me know.
My heart goes out to all of you still fighting for your babies.
Comment by Tyra — January 31, 2009 @ 1:57 am
Ok hi everyone. I am a scared to death single mom living with my parents. They do help me with my son. I have just found out yesterday that someone made a file with CPS that I am a drug addict & my child is also abused. This of course is bullshit. Now what I would like to know is how I can find out who made this file on me. I am pretty sure it was my Brother but can not prove it. My whole life I have dealt with a big sibling mess with both my Brother & Sister. Stupid me I thought having my son would bring our family closer together but I guess I was wrong because it has only brought us further apart. I know I have nothing to worry about because I know the truth….I currently am a student studying to become a drug counselor. If someone can please help me & give me some info that would be great. I just have no idea what I am about to deal with. Also I live in Texas.
Comment by Laura Black — January 31, 2009 @ 9:19 am
Laura, I would say they will send you for a drug test very soon,, next they will start an investigation and open a case possibly,,,I don’t know how they do things there but here in ky with my case they made me take parenting classes, complete a drug assesment to see if i was a drug addict, and random drug screens,, after a few months of this,, and everything coming back good they will probably close it,,, If they do things the same there,, my worker agreed that the case they opened on me was crazy and they should have never opened a case on me to begin with,,, you can read my story a little further up!! I hope this gave you a little insight of what to look forward too,,, it is a huge hassle and a lot of aggrevation after a while but i don’t think they will take your son if they have nothing to substantiate the tip they received
Comment by gina — January 31, 2009 @ 6:10 pm
hi everone i live in az i lost my children to cps & my son has turned 18. but they still wont let me see him because he is disabled and they are playing that card. i dont know what to do & have no place to turn .i know that if i could ever get some one to help me take a look at this case .i know it would be a good one. if there is any one out hear that can help please let me know .thanks.
Comment by constance — February 1, 2009 @ 6:05 pm
i was at work when my wife carried my three month old to the er she told the ;doctor my 19 month old hit him in the head with a toy the er let her go home with the baby and the doctor belived the story she told him but wanted her to make him a doc app the next day with his pedi doc when the pedi seen him he said the baby had not been hit with a toy that the baby had been choaked and beat the reason he said he was choaked was because off the busted blood vessels in his face what i need to no could blunt force cause the blood vains to bust in his face the doc called cps and now my wife cant c our kids and iam having a hard time believing she choaked my baby please give me good advice on this thank u
Comment by robert — February 1, 2009 @ 8:25 pm
To all of you in California (sonoma county) I was acused of emotionally abuse my daughters wich was never prove I hire 2 attorneys and things got even worse i will publish a report from an idependent sicologist and cps got so pissed off that Ihave to live the country because every time we go in front of the judge cps said the wherever allegations we made were out of the judge jurisdictionso just to be ahead of ther game Ihave to put my self out of those san of a bitch jurisdiction and for the people in sonoma county becarefull with melissa mckeney and donna smith they are fucking nuts FAT AND UGLY THEY SHOULD GO ON A DIET Am very sure they are lesbians
Comment by Juan Salgado — February 1, 2009 @ 10:34 pm
My ex friend left her 5 children with me almost two years ago and I had the two oldest i school with my daughter.That school told me that they were going to call cps and I knew since I wasn’t family they would take them so I gave them to thier grandmother in iowa and now this cps worker who has it in for taking kids has taken them from her about four months ago and now she won’t even get a chance to get them back. This cps worker took advantage of the fact that my friend has no clue of her rights and told her that it was just a formality and she would get them back well she lied and now she has told her that the children are being put up for adoption and I don’t know what to do to help. The last chance shehas to say anything is on the fourth at one of the fathers termination hearings but, without a lawyer I don’t think that she has a chance. Wish us luc.
Comment by velma — February 2, 2009 @ 1:50 am
I need to know if DCF is allowed to make me take alcohol tests?.
Well apparently they are cuz I am taking them for no reason. I am living with my boyfriend, and his ex wife had custody of his two children, and my boyfriend called DCF on her because she was living with my brother and they were beating each other, and drinking and drugging, while neglecting the kids. (yes they were boyfriend and girlfriend)We had not seen the children a good month in a half when he called, she would not let us see them.
So now I have to take these stupid classes which I don’t need..Why is this? Because his ex wife is a loser, that didn’t work and stayed home all day and did drugs and drank? I broke up with my boyfriend cuz of this stress, but we are now back together so this time I am taking the assessment Saturday , hopefully they will say I don’t need the classes which I don’t. I personally come to realize DCF just wants money. Since I will have my assessment completed and my boyfriend has completed the substance abuse classes all we have left is parenting which will be started buy next court date you think the judge will drop the case..Even though the mother is taking some classes, but still drinking and not visiting the kids? I am so frustrated..I keep breaking up with him because I DONT THINK this is fair to me nor him…We didn’t have the kids when they took them away from her..and I was the one that told him to call DCF???????? I would of hired an attorney but we are not married and my insurance won’t cover an attorney for him. DCF is all about taking money its sad.I can take care of those two boys much better then his ex, I make way more money and I don’t drink. Very sad.
Comment by Chanel — February 4, 2009 @ 5:53 am
CPS has been involved in my family’s life since Sept 08. One investigator closed the case in Dec 08 but before she closed the case she assigned another worker to get me and my husband started in parenting classes as well and registering my infant in early family intervention. The case worker that was now assigned to my case was supposed to have me and my husband sign paperwork right before the christmas holiday so we could get started on the services. Well the case worker never showed up at my apartment like said and from that point on we never heard from her again so we figured everything was legit. Then in January I was getting phone calls from the people who do the early intervention and they were trying to get my infant to be evaluated. I told the person who called that I had not signed any paperwork from the case worker so I dont know what exactly I am supposed to be doing. The lady was very surprised to hear that. I went along and did the early intervention for my youngest son. I felt like I was complying in what was told to use back in Dec 08 from the case worker. As of Feb 3, 2009 I found it strange since the case worker no longer kept in contact with me and my oldest son kept telling us that CPS has gone to his school 2 times to go and visit him. That made me mad and I called the school and requested that no one is to go and talk to my son without my consent and they basically told me that they could not do anything about that. That pissed me off. So then I called the CPS office asking to speak with the case workers supervisor and they transferred to a gentleman and i asked him questions over my case and he had no idea on answering my questions. He kept giving me the run around about everything. He then told me that the case worker was going to my job as we spoke. 30 minutes later the case worker shows up at my job and starts rambling about why dont i return her phone calls as well as why dont i answer the door when she comes. First of all she has never called my cell phone and usually if a case worker were to call they would leave a voicemail to call back. That never happened. Then she stated she left notes at my door which was another lie. I never had any notes on my door from the case worker. She then got on the phone with her supervisor and came back and told me that I was not complying with them so I need to voluntarily give up my kids to a family member. I told her NO! I was not going to do that. She then again called her supervisor and came back saying that there was another case open on my family and that my husband is not to be around my kids what so ever. He cannot be at the house or anything. What kind of crap is that. But before she even mentioned anything like that she finally brought her papers that needed to be signed from back in Dec 08. I cooperated with her since I dont want my kids taken away from me for false accuisations. I have been reading on different sites about how corrupt cps is. I know that she is doing this on purpose since she didnt do her job properly by calling me, going by my house, and now she wants to falsify information by stating she did all she could to get in contact with me. One thing that gets me is when she arrived at my job she asked for my cell phone number. What does that tell you? Apparently she never called me because she never had my number. I need help with this issue. I told my son if they appear at his school again to tell them he doesnt want to talk to them unless I am present. Please help. Thanks. Im from Texas.
Comment by Anne — February 4, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
Chanel, looks like your call to CPS backfired on you. Please let others know that calling CPS is like opening the gate to a horror story. If you keep leaving your boyfriend it will appear that you two have an unstable relationship. If you want him to have a chance at getting his kids, then either stay with him or leave permanently. I know, the stress of a CPS case is hell on the parents and even worse on the poor kids who just want to go home (in most cases.) That’s why I recommend that people never call CPS. If real child abuse is happening and you’re absolutely sure kids are being starved or beaten, or chained in a room for ten years, or something like that, then call law enforcement instead, because REAL child abuse is a crime.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — February 5, 2009 @ 5:54 am
Linda,
I didn’t call CPS my fiancé did. So DCF is NOT THERE TO HELP JUST TO COLLECT MONEY.
And, they were really being abused. My brother ended up being in jail from beating her and the kids had no food or anything in their house. I’m looking for an answer not someone to tell me how to have a relationship with my BF. CPS NEVER investigated me, what rights do they have to slap my name in a legal document saying I need this, this and that. And YEs it is extremely stressful due to the fact his ex is plain nuts..she needs to be in a mental ward.DCF took the kids out of the house because she was chasing them and her BF around with a knife high on Coke and drunk. So please tell me WHY I Have to take classes and test, when I never touched the stuff?
Regards,
Comment by Chanel — February 5, 2009 @ 7:50 am
Chanel, you wrote, “I was the one that told him to call DCF”. Well, now you know more about what DCF is like, and everyone is suffering. Why do you think I have this site here? CPS/DCF is nothing to play around with. This is an evil agency that destroys people, families, and children while pretending to be there “for the sake of the children”. They don’t prevent child abuse. They perpetrate it. Children are crying in foster homes right now because they want to be home with their parents. Children are abused and killed in foster homes.
If there was real child abuse going on, law enforcement would have taken care of it because child abuse is a crime. If there was simply a need for a change of custody, the case should have been taken to family court.
Everyone who will have contact with the children will now have to complete CPS “service plans”… that includes you and your boyfriend. It doesn’t matter that you’re the ones that called. Everyone gets investigated. I’m mainly feeling sorry for the kids who are separated from their family and who may never be able to live with their parents again. CPS is a terrible thing to do to a family. Next time, if this ever comes up for you again, try family court instead.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — February 5, 2009 @ 8:45 am
Never invite the government into family matters.
I agree with Linda. The police have checks and balances and rules of evidence to follow. CPS does not employ any checks or balances. Once you are within their grip, you’re finished, unless you have the grit and wherewithal to get yourself out and a good attorney.
Comment by Maggiec — February 5, 2009 @ 10:15 am
Linda,
I appreciate your reponses, however, the sheriffs offcie here in Florida, will just call DCf anyways. They do not simly “remove” the kids right away and place them with another parent. That is how the State of Florida works.
Comment by Chanel — February 5, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
Law enforcement officers are mandated reporters in all states, not just in Florida. The advantage to calling them is that they will usually evaluate a situation without the emotions involved, and without the greed motivation of wanting federal funding streams to start, which is what happens when children are put into foster care.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — February 6, 2009 @ 5:20 am
I mistakenly posted this in the wrong place previously so I apologize if you’ve seen this already. Here is my ongoing nightmare. I have the misfortune of living in St. Clair County, MI, were at least 2 children have died due to abuse by their parents. It is now CPS’s idea that all parents are abusers. On 1/28/09, my 6 year old son went off to school. No one in our household noticed anything of importance, but at 10:53 AM, a report was filed from someone at his school concerning a mark on his face. He was interviewed without any parental consent. All I’ve been told is that he said I hit him, which is UNTRUE. My 13 year old son was pulled out of class and interrogated for an hour. Asked where my husband and I worked, if we did drugs, how often we drank, etc. without permission. She would ever have been able to talk to either at home without a warrant. I was informed that night that the social worker had to speak to my husband and me and see our 1 year old daughter. She arrived with a cohort. They were both upset and surprised when I refused to let them in the house and made them stand on my front porch (It’s winter here and the temp is under 30 degrees. I also let them know the conversation was being video taped and they looked at me like I was crazy.) I refused to give them my daughter’s date of birth and denied I had hit my son. I was told since he said I did, I was a liar because six year old’s don’t lie at least not about this. (Since I have no record of the interrogation, I have no way of knowing exactly what he said.) She also said he had a cut inside his upper lip, but when we looked right after she left, we found that it had all ready healed. I was told that if my son showed up at school with any more “marks”, she would be back to take all three of my children. I get access to her records after the completion of her investigation, which she has up to 30 days to complete. My questions is what investigating is she doing when she’s all ready decided I’m guilty. Both my children have been told to never again talk to someone from CPS without a parent and a lawyer. The 13 year old gets it, but for the 6 year, I told him if a stranger tries to talk to him at school again all he is to say is “I want my mom and dad”. The social worker also stated that since I wouldn’t allow her in the house I would also probably not ACCEPT their services. I agreed that is correct. What services could I possibly need from them? She stated she will have to speak to her supervisor about the case. I can only hope and pray the supervisor has some common sense. If I compare my hand with the mark on the left side of my son’s face, I would have had to be facing him while on my knees and hit him with my hand cupped to even come close to where these marks are (To have been slapped in the face by my hand, there are mysteriously no marks that actually look like fingers). I cannot replicate in any way a scenario where my hand could have made those marks. While “investigating”, do they even bother to see if their story is plausible. Since I’m being accused of hitting my son across the face, how come there’s no real evidence that’s what happened? The nail in my coffin is my oldest is from a previous relationship. His paternal grandmother wanted her own visitation schedule through FOC. When it was denied, twice, she sent a picture of my oldest with what looked like a hand print on his cheek, which happened while he was in someone else’s care. The picture was over a year old at the time of the 1st CPS visit and the allegations were considered unfounded as he no longer had such a mark (go figure). I have been reported two other times, once more by crazy grandma and another by a teacher because oldest said he was pushed by my husband (That’s abuse!). Both were unfounded. I guess 10 years later they’ve decided to try and get me this time. How many abused children are being ignored while this crap plays out? I’m positive the person who reported this current allegation is the 6 year old’s teacher. This woman had him sent home from school because he had itchy mosquito bites. I was told to seek medical attention immediately. A little anti-itch cream stopped the itching and they miraculous healed on their own in a day or two. My final question, what can I do to help amend my state law so cps actually has to prove abuse. Right now they have preponderance of evidence, which is a fancy way of saying it’s whatever they want it to be. No real evidence is required. Why is cps never investigated by 60 Minutes, Dateline, the Today show or Good Morning America? Why are they allowed to get away with terrorizing families? I’m on day 8 of waiting for cps’ verdict. Thanks for reading my story. All prayers of support are welcome and appreciated.
Comment by Anne — February 6, 2009 @ 8:05 pm
HEY YOU CPS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU DON’T BELONG TO THE HUMAN RACE. WHO LET YOU OUT OF YOUR CAGE??????????????? THE ONLY THING THAT”S GIVING YOU THE “ILLUSION” OF POWER, IS THE THRILL YOU GET FROM LAWLESSNESS YOU SADDISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ALL OF OUR ACCUSATIONS GIVE YOU YOUR ONLY SENSE OF POWER…….CAUSE IN SOCIETY YOU ARE A NOBODY.. A NOBODY WITH NO HOPE……BUT YOUR LAWLESSNESS IS EXPOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOPE YOU WILL BE PUT BACK IN JAIL FOR LIFE AND RELIGIONS SAY THE PUNNISHMENT FOR TAKING A CHILD FROM THEIR PARENTS IS DEATH
,YOU DONT BELONG TO THE HUMAN RACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU CAN’T EVEN REMEMBER YOU OWN WEB SITE
….. ITS
http://WWW.DOGS THAT AREN’T HOUSE BROKEN.COM
Comment by BONNIE — February 8, 2009 @ 7:14 am
WOW I can’t beleive the Social Worker comments on this site. They sound just like the Sociopathic caseworkers suffering from Narcisisstic Personality Disorder with Sadomasichistic features who kiddnapped and abused my little daughter. Hey Nazi’s why can’t you just Use the truth and ethical behavior. If you did youwouldn’t need to forge documents and perjure yourselves in court.
Comment by Loving Fit Father — February 8, 2009 @ 6:18 pm
Public schools are just as dangerous as the CPS social workers. They encourage your children to make up wild stories about their upbringing, tell them that fosterhomes are good and safe, that if they aren’t happy that they don’t have to live with you, are brainwashing them so that they will trun out to be good little socialist robots, and when they say the pledge of allegiance, they face a big picture of Obama, not the flag. I have heard things from my child, have read things on the internet, still hear things on the alex jones show. I am going to spy on my child’s class tomorrow morning to see what happens, not that I don’t believe him, I want proof for myself. And I’m going to videotape what I see!
Comment by JoLisa Lindbloom — February 8, 2009 @ 11:08 pm
Wish me luck and pray for me, (that I don’t get caught.)
Comment by JoLisa Lindbloom — February 8, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
LINDA PLEASE,
My name is Rachel i am in Louisiana and now these problems are here! CPS is called OCS here. I am at lost! Can you possible tell me what you think I should do? May I post this website on my myspace?
IT IS LEGAL KIDNAPPING!!!!!!
This is a letter I wrote.
February 9, 2009
State if Louisiana Department of Social Services
P.O. Box 3318
Baton Rough, La 70821-3318
RE: null Newman Maddox
Non-Compliance of Social Services in St. Tammany Parish
After much soul searching and many nights nights of lost sleep, I feel that is is necessary for me to file a formal complaint in regards to the null Newman Maddox case in St. Tammany Parish.
The Office of Child Services, hereafter referred to as null has failed to follow State recommended guidelines, has been neglectful, irresponsible, breeched confidentiality, and falsified state documents.
Loretta Best. null SUPERVISOR, on numerous occasions has failed as a social worker to maintain proper work ethics by being non-compliant, creating an impossible focused atmosphere, making excuses for her mistakes, being judgmental without proper cause, not reviewing or comprehending documentation properly, filing false and incomplete state documents, purposely misinforming us in order to delay or stop any forward progress on our parts. She uses all available knowledge to her advantage and withholds information that is critical for the family to be complaint. In other words, she is the person that we would normally trust and depend on to help us reach our goals, but instead, she fabricates and twist the truth, to stay nulln control, keeping us silent, putting us off, documenting untruths after the fact to cover her inconsistencies or make us look less than desirable.
There is no possible way to deal with this agency on this level. We are everyday people, we’ve done everything we were told. We have given ample time for your office compliance and then were slammed with OUR FAILURE to do “this” or “that” based on your instruction. Thus resulting in being denied our legal rights. I have contacted several attorneys in St. Tammany Parish to handle this case only to be told simply, “null??? Sorry, I can’t help you, they are too corrupt and you can’t win.” Evidently the above allegations are typical standard office procedure for agency. I am certain you don’t teach the basic principles of deceit, lies and corruption, otherwise, legal kidnapping of children could be construed as a correct observation.
I have been denied placement of my niece null into my home for no fault of my own. It is my understanding that state guidelines require placement of a child with a family member first and foremost. I also understand that you office is required to search for family members that are willing to take a child before consideration of a non-related foster family. Instead, your St .Tammany Parish null Office did not comply with your regulations, they completely ignored your guidelines, lied about qualification requirements, convinced our family that placement with us was impossible, therefore hindering our pursuit of null in our family. We has ask time and time again with no fair or amiable solutions. Once we contacted outside sources and found that it was not only possible, but should have been done, we felt that we had been victims of an abusive situation, due to our lack of knowledge in the legal system and your illegal tactics and manipulations. After my first formal written contact with null, (there were other numerous documented occasions) I was granted a home study and passed it and the background checks successfully. I was then denied for reason not made available to me. My husband and I our outstanding citizens and God fearing adults. He is a Sergeant in the Military and I am a Substitute School Teacher for St. Tammany Parish School Board. We have a well rounded, very intelligent 4 year old son who is happy and healthy. However, in the past my niece was knowingly placed in less then desirable conditions, (null.. One bedroom efficiency apartment with an aunt who could not afford to pay rent, purchase food, and was living with her boyfriend.) in order to maintain family connections with the mother side of the family who had been investigated by null for many years. Tell me how this option was beneficial for null? We want null to be a part of our family which is her God Given Right ..
null is currently in a foster care home that is interested in adopting her. The family is not an acceptable placement for null for several reasons. According to the records provided to your office by medical authorities, null has severe allergies that has turned into more complicated medical issues such as asthma since being in this home. It is clear that the family is in unable to provide an adequate environment for this child to flourish without complications. It is also stated that she has temper tantrums and possible depression and anxiety, that cannot be handled properly with the Foster Care Families revolving door of child placement on a more than regular basis. She cannot receive the one on one care that would benefit her the most. This type of environment does not allow personal development of my niece and puts her at risk for anxiety and illness that can be carried, throughout her lifetime. The Foster Care Family is over the age of 50 and I am concerned about null welfare in the future with aging parents and their medical needs. (which is already an apparent problem) The Foster Care Family also has another child that they’ve adopted who is within months of the age of my niece. Caring for 2 toddlers in this type of arena is unprecedented. The bonding assessment stated that null could be placed with family members or adopted by the Foster Care Family. We were told that the assessment stated that she should remain in the Foster Care Families home during my request for placement in my home. I am thinking that much money or favors have exchanged hands.
Amazingly, “BLACK MARKET BABIES IN AMERICA” has not yet hit the media for the state of LOUISIANA. I believe they are called “Promised Children” to “Promised Families”.
I will be contacting State Representatives, State Senators, the Governors Office, Parish Council Members, Activist, Adoption Coalitions and will be soliciting help from many citizens via the Internet. I will not give up.
This office should be investigated and I am certain with my continual efforts that it will be brought to the attention of the correct people. I suggest you review this case thoroughly and contact your attorneys for appropriate advice. I will also be reporting Judge Lamz for his contempt and conflict of interested on behalf of Ava and regards to my brother (Ava’s biological fat her). I have complete documentation of everything from day one, including photos, letters, names, home videos, and medical records. Please understand, I am not making these statements casually.
I can make a difference in the life of a child. How about you?
Your immediate response is highly recommended.
Comment by Rachel — February 14, 2009 @ 6:54 pm
null is replacing the words OCS and Ava. I am not sure why.
Comment by Rachel — February 14, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
Rachel, the only things I can advise are (1) get an attorney and file a motion in court for the judge to decide to give you guardianship, kinship care, or some other kind of custody. (2) file for a state administrative hearing and ask that an administrative law judge review the case. You may need your brother’s help with this since technically he is part of the case and you are not. You don’t need an attorney for an administrative hearing but it might help. (3) read websites like this one and learn more about legal documents and your rights. There is a legal document library on this site. I am not a lawyer and this isn’t ‘legal advice’… I am just telling you what I’d do in a similar situation.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — February 15, 2009 @ 9:30 am
PRESIDENT OBAMA, TEAR DOWN THESE WALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by BONNIE — February 16, 2009 @ 3:20 am
PRESIDENT OBAMA, TEAR DOWN THESE WALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by BONNIE — February 16, 2009 @ 3:22 am
PRESIDENT OBAMA, TEAR DOWN THESE WALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE
Comment by BONNIE — February 16, 2009 @ 3:23 am
I have custody of my Daughter, my Divorce was 6 months ago and my Ex-wife is mad that I’ve gotten involved in a new relationship, my Daughter is 10 and was visited by protective services in school last week, asking about blow up dolls, if she sleeps with daddy, or if anyone has “touched” her, I’m unsure of exactly what to do, my attorney has told me to cooperate with protective services, and lastly my Ex and I were seperated but in the same home for almost a year before the divorce was final and what she doesnt know is that I was remarried 3 months ago, does anyone have any advice on my situation?
Comment by David — February 16, 2009 @ 7:01 am
THANKS!
Comment by rachel — February 16, 2009 @ 10:38 am
16 year old snuck out of the house to meet her 39 year old lover and he returned her home at 5:30 am in 20 degrees weather and parents did not know child was out of the home and did not hear 16 year old outside knocking and she started a fire in small apartment to stay warm and caused house fire. family awaken to house fire about 5:50am. CPS charged parents with endangerement to a child because she was not let in home when knocked. Family never heard 16 year old at door. she never ringed door bell.
Comment by Teresea — February 16, 2009 @ 12:05 pm
Pls sign this petition ASAP!
Thanks!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/parental-rights-termination-in-ca-is-unconstitutional#signatures
Comment by A Leo — February 22, 2009 @ 7:52 pm
YES everybody can buy a $1.00 package of colored chalk. During your day, write on the sidewalk with your chalk these words…….. fightcps,com
i carry chalk with me in my purse, and during the day, i try to, at least three times a day, to write on the sidewalk wherever i am that day.
bus stops and markets are good places.
YES with your chalk write on the sidewalk these words………….fightcps.com
Comment by nancy — February 23, 2009 @ 3:10 am
http://www.placer.ca.gov/Departments/Sheriff/~/media/srf/Press%20Release/Documents/10%2031%2008.ashx
Did anyone see this a CPS worker fired for extorition huh
Comment by Stacey — February 23, 2009 @ 12:58 pm
Stacey,
Yes i did see that she was arrested for fraud and extortion. She had been suspended since June 08 and had reported her badge stolen in 2005. Then despite being suspended for investigation of fraud, she pretends to be an active case worker. She picked on the wrong one (of us) and he fought back hard.
Imagine that. Demanding $10,000 to make CPS collegues “go away”. Then they searched her home on a warrant and found the so called stolen state ID badge. Thats another biggee when a gov’t worker reports unlawfully.
Her bail was set at $500K. She won’t be getting out anytime soon. So far the state has the chrages, but since she is gov’t under DES, the Feds will get their shots in too…later.
I see……BARS…federal ones!!!! YEAH
Comment by Cheryl — February 26, 2009 @ 7:27 am
Here is a link to the TV story about Ms. Yolanda Fryson in California.
http://cbs13.com/local/Yolanda.Fryson.extortion.2.853685.html
…Hmmm Wonder if this story ranks up there with the corrupt PA Judges who took bribes and kickbacks to send juveniles to their crony’s Corrections Facilities?
Wonder if the FBI should really be investigating all CPS contractors, cronies, and employees?
Comment by fern — February 26, 2009 @ 7:56 am
This is to the “caring social worker”. I do believe that children who are actually abused she be protected of course. Let me tell you however that children who are supposedly abused or neglected are not always as they are reported by CPS.
When I was 18 I had my child removed from my home because a babysitter that was watching my child while i was at work took off and the baby was crying. The way I found out was because they called me at work to come home.
I told them who the babysitter was and gave them the information to check it out. Guess what? They didn’t check it out and removed my child from my home. That same day my landlord evicted me from my apartment and kept everything I owned.
CPS only let me see my son a total of 3 times. The report said that I left him alone for three days to go out partying. I DID NOT! I was an 18 year old single mother who did nothing but work and spend time with my son! They completely lied about EVERYTHING and never tried to report the truth. They had already decided what they were going to do when they took him. I was an unfit mother because I was 18, single, and poor. My mother also tried to get him. They did let her either. What objections did they have to her? She had a stable home, she was an RN, she made decent money. She was told that he would be living with her, and they next thing we heard was that he was adopted out and that my rights were terminated. Terminated for what? I never abused him… I never neglected him! To say that CPS’s main goal is to keep families together is nothing but a big lie!
Well, I recently found my son. He is 22 years old now. Guess what he was told…. that I NEVER wanted him, that I had wanted an abortion, that i was a drug addict, that i was more concerned with partying than him. Well, that is interesting considering I have never done a single drug in my life, and I don’t drink even now, and I have ALWAYS wanted him. What made me unfit? Oh yeah, I was 18 and didn’t have a husband, and didn’t have much money. I LOVED my son! I wanted him. I worked two jobs and tried the best I could to provide for him and CPS ripped him away from me and my family based on LIES!
HE WAS LIED TO HIS ENTIRE LIFE ABOUT ME! He has issues with abandonment now and he is an adult. So, was it really in his best interest to remove him from a home where his mother loved him? I never abandoned him. He was my world!
Comment by Lisa — February 26, 2009 @ 8:01 am
The 30 day ‘investigation’ as to whether or not I abused my son has ended. Even though my husband, children, family, friends and I know there was no abuse, I was told on day one of the ‘investigation’ that I was guilty because the case worker decided the preponderance of the evidence was 51% that I did it. I’ve now received a notice to pick up a registered letter at the post office from CPS. Why did they send it registered mail? Is this how they notify you if they’ve found you guilty? I’m afraid to go and get the stupid letter. I would assume if they determined I was innocent they would have just sent it through the regular mail. Can anyone shed some light on this? Am I over-reacting?
Comment by Anne — March 4, 2009 @ 3:34 pm
My name is Karlee and I have had 2 kids taken, 1 kidnapped and 1 stealthily kidnapped. That was 4, 5, and 7 years ago. The oldest is my step daughter, she has some major issues and my husband put her into a temporary facility. She was to be there two weeks. The next thing we know we are getting a call from CPS saying that if my husband didn’t willing give her up to them, they would take her. (He had another daughter that died accidentally, as ruled by the Becker County Sherriffs Department, 8 months previous.). They told him that they were doing this for her mental well being and despite what the BCSD says, so he wouldn’t murder her like he did his other daughter. It hurts me to even type this out right now. My husband would never think of harming his children, EVER! So begins the fight for her. We obviously didn’t win that one. That was in 2002. A few days ago was the anniversary of the day that my two oldest were taken from me 5 years ago. It was a lot of trumped up charges about, especially how my husband murdered his daughter, and how over the years so many people had reported us as ‘locking our children in their bedrooms’ that was on valentines day 2003 when we hired my then 15 year old sister to watch the two kids. We lived in an apartment building and our upstairs neighbors hated us. So they called the cops because my son was screaming. He was 3, he did that a lot. The cops checked things out and told her to have us call them when we got back. So we did. He was so adamant that my son was being locked up, nothing would change his mind. Until I showed him the lock on my sons bedroom door. The lock on the INSIDE of the door spun in place. It was impossible to lock him in. The thing that happened to spark CPS’s interest in taking them all had to do with my son in headstart, and a missed bus because of a dead battery in my car. When I saw the bus leave, I was about 2 seconds behind it, I actually beat the bus back to headstart. They wouldn’t give me my son, they brought him back on the bus and drove him to CPS. I beat the bus there too. I talked to a woman who said she was taking my kids. I bawled, I begged, I pleaded, I tried to bargain. I left with her following me to pick up my oldest daughter. I had no clue of any of my rights back then. And once again, the main reason was that they believed that my husband murdered Lexi. We did the things that they wanted and got nothing but supervised visits and lies. Then came the big oops, my youngest. I got pregnant with her in 2004 and she was born by c section in 2005 at 6 am. By noon CPS was in my hospital room stating that as soon as she was cleared to go by a doctor, they were taking her. I have to say that I lost it. And if I wasn’t still under the effects of the epidural, that woman would be dead. I think that I could have truly killed her. She was born on sat morning and Monday afternoon she was gone. We were steamrolled in court by the judge and CPS. And they could give no reason why they took the youngest away. I have barely survived these 7 years without them and I want them back so bad. My three live with my mom. So we get to see them a lot. The oldest girl lives with her aunt 45 miles away and we haven’t seen her since christmas 2002. I just want my family back together. I want to be mom again, instead of ‘that person that comes over once a week’. They call me mom but they think, especially the youngest one, that my name is mom. That’s why they have to call me that. I can’t take this anymore! I’m finally ready to do something about it. I will have my children back! If there is anything going on in Minnesota, drop me a line and my husband and I will do what we can to help or show up or whatever. My time for being depressed is done. Thank you. Karlee.
Comment by Karlee — March 5, 2009 @ 3:41 am
CPS is involved with my family of 9 children ( 15, 14, 12, 9, 7, 4, 3, 1 and 7mos) There was an incident with my almost 15 yr old daughter and her father in regards to talking on the phone with a boy. He shoved her. There were other things going on between my husband and I that I was not happy about and I left the home with the children. I also filed a report at the police station because of the incident with our daughter and because the shelter i needed to stay at advised me to do so. The police department of course reported the incident to CPS.
I believed that I was on the road to a divorce. While staying at a shelter two CPS workers came to interview the children and I. I let them do so even though I was not at all comfortable with them alone with my kids, but I felt that I was not abusive or neglectful in the slightest. I also signed a “safety plan” that I would not let them have contact with their father.
While at the shelter the kids all caught some type of stomach bug and I felt that the best place for them to be was in their own home. So I finaly made the call to my husband and told him that he needed to leave the house so that we could come back. Still I was wanting a divorce.
After moving back into my home with the children my husband and I began working things out, seeing a counsler etc. He never moved back into the house. I also called the CPS worker and let her know that we had moved back to our house.
We have homeschooled our children for the last several years so they are home with me all day. I worked from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday and from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturdays. All our school work was completed before I would leave for work and most always dinner was preped. My older children (teenagers) would look after the younger ones and I was 5 to 10 minutes away from the house if I drove the speed limit.
The FIRST Saturday that I worked after notifying CPS that we were back at the house my daughter calls me at work that the police are knocking on the door. I instructed her not to open the door and I headed home. They were gone by the time I arrived. I called the station and asked why they were there. They stated that there was a noise disturbance that someone had driven by and heard a child being spanked with a belt. We lived in an apartment complex at the time so I asked if it was my specific apartment number and they stated that it was. After making sure the kids were OK I headed back to work. Before I could even get out of the complex the kids called again to tell me that the CPS workers were there. It was then that I realized what was going on. The CPS workers had called the police thinking the kids would open the door for an officer and CPS would show up and find the kids “unsupervised” and take them immediately. I met the workers on the front step and refuse entry into my house. I told them they would need a court order. The worker told me that she didn’t need a one. I still refused entry and they finally left.
When my husband went in for his interview they asked him to do a drug test, he did. While he had the swab in his mouth the worker told him to stand up, he did, to stand on one foot, he did, then to hop around. My husband sat back down and told the worker that was “so wrong” she and her co-worker laughed at him. My husband is a big guy (350 lbs) so this was harrassment. She asked him if he had molested his children. She also mentioned placement of the children. She never said anything of the sort to me. While he was leaving the worker told him “it isn’t like we are going to be out looking for you, but watch out for nosy neighbors”. This meeting was before they showed up at my door that Saturday.
At this interview they told him that he could have supervised visits and that we (him and I) would have to agree on who would supervise. We found someone to do that for us. The CPS workers only informed myself and the person we agreed as a supervisor not my husband about an interview that all of us were suppose to be at. They assumed that I would tell him. None of us went to that meeting.
My husband and I are back together and working through things. We have moved to a different county, I did not inform CPS of this. I have had some phone calls from what I suspect is them, the caller doesn’t identify with whom she is with on the message and I don’t answer calls from numbers I don’t recognize.
The safety plan I signed was good until Feburary so that is up now. Can they just go on and on looking for something or do they have a certain time frame to close the case? How can I get them out of my life now?
What happened with our daughter was my husband freaked out that she was talking to a boy, he didn’t realize that we have gotten to that stage as parents. My daughter and him have talked and worked through this. NONE of my children are in danger from him.
I feel like that they see 9 bright, healthy, well behaved kids, especially the 4 youngest and see adoptable children.
Comment by KC — March 5, 2009 @ 8:25 pm
OOPS I meant to add that we are in TX
Comment by KC — March 5, 2009 @ 8:27 pm
Hi Everyone.
My husband and I are victims of cps in Kansas. We fought everything from a GAL that was in my mother-in-Law’s back pocket to falsified drug test results. After 31/2 years and complete compliance on our parts our parental rights were terminated.
Last year our tax returns were garnished for child support that was already paid. Also half of our stimulus payment was intercepted.
The amount that was taken was more than either of us has owed together in all. EVER.
Does anyone know how to get our cases audited and if there is anything I can do if the records are falsified.
I no longer have an attorney since the case was closed.
The child support office tells me that those kind of mistakes simply aren’t made (Which to me is admitting that it was done purposely!) and that there is no way for me to request that the records be reviewed.
I am going to have brain damage from beating my head against this proverbial brick wall I keep running into. Anyone with any suggestions at all please help.
Thank You
Melissa
Kansas City
Comment by Melissa H — March 10, 2009 @ 12:31 am
That was 3 and a half years. oops it looks like I sad 31-32 years. Sorry!
Melissa
Kansas City
Comment by Melissa H — March 10, 2009 @ 12:36 am
Hi I’m not sure if this is the place for our case or not. What has happened is that my step-daughter was removed from her mother’s and step-father’s home and place with my husband and I. We have continuously been trying to gain custody or get CPS to change the permancy plan from reunification with her mother’s home to preservation of family with our home. However, they continuously move forward with trying to return her to the home of her mother where the situation has not changed. They have actually told u s that it is not their job to look out for the best interest of the child but to return her to the home she was removed from. Not only that, but that for her to be returned they only have to meet the bare minimum requirements. How is this possible it makes no sense at all. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Comment by Shannon — March 12, 2009 @ 8:15 am
Shannon, they often don’t give children back after placing them with the other parent. However if they do, you can still go through the regular family court route to request a review of custody.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 12, 2009 @ 11:59 am
HI Linda
Our concern is that we have learned that we can’t go to district court until CPS relinquishes their custody. They have told us that they still plan on keeping legal custody until at least July which means that we can’t go to district court until they do so.
Comment by Shannon — March 15, 2009 @ 6:31 am
There are so many parent victims advocating for their child victims, that I am wondering, utilizing a website such as this, can’t we bridge together physically by geographical locations to support each other in the court/dcs process? I am in SoCal/Inland Empire/SB County, and I would be willing to connect with anyone in this area to see if we can’t help each other in any way that we can!
Comment by Bleu — March 15, 2009 @ 9:34 am
I had my children legally kidnapped and sold to the highest bidder in January, 2002. I feel so isolated and alone. This website is a god-send to me right now. We fought the Department of Social Services for 5 long years but were eventually threatened, intimidated and scared into just giving up. I am writing an article to try to help put an end to they tyranny wielded by so many so-called “do-gooder” social workers. The rights guaranteed us by the U.S. Constitution are trampled on and ground into the dirt. We never stood a chance. Our lawyers during the 3rd trial said our original trial was nothing more than a sham. It’s way too late for me but anything I can do to help someone else not have to go through this travesty, I’m more than willing. My email address is brenda_alexander3 at yahoo.com if you want to tell me your experiences. Unfortunately, I’ve found that my husband and I are not alone. Having to go through this isolates people because of the fear of what other people will say. So many people are ignorant and believe that if our rights were taken away as parents, we got what we deserved. This is rarely the case. If anyone wants to share, talk or just have support, I’m available and more than happy. No one should have to go through this.
Comment by Brenda Alexander — March 15, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
Brenda-
You are correct in saying that once threatened and intimidated y CPS, we don’t talk much to outsiders anymore.
We won our case so to speak. Two kids were awarded back to thier parents and the other 2 awared to us, kin. CPS case closed never to re-open, so the judge said.
But we have learned after 2 yrs, “NEVER” is such a long time in our world, but NOT in CPS’ world!
The fear that all of our family members learned to feel while the case was open, instilled a bitter truth for reality and the future. There is not a one of us that trusts anyone enough to be a future friend. We stay to ourselves, beyond being polite in public. We never seek a new friendship out. We stay home a lot more than we should. Nobody “goes about business”. We don’t enjoy time out unless it is expected that we are left alone to be a family, such as a park BBQ or the zoo….Bottom line is, IF we suspect a stranger may try to discuss the event we are attending, we just don’t go to that event.
I am saddened by this choice, but CPS has literally taken our freedom away permentantly, and replaced it with timidness. All of us; even extended family.
I fear even more, that since the grand kids were brought thru this ordeal 2-4 times in thiers lives, CPS will be right there, watching and waiting for these kids to grow up, have babies of their own, and then NAIL THEM AS PARENTS!
None of these kids will ever lead a full life of trust in the human race, and none of these kids will ever enjoy total freedom to grow a family of their own as the fear is that deep. I see it every day and IT scares me more than anything.
Now, my hubby and I are raising kids again in our late 50’s, and aside from anoymous web chat, we are petrified to meet other seniors in an attempt to prepare for retirment friends. I can only see us wallowing away in our home as we age even more…without anyone to spend time with. As the kids leave the nest, we will have replaced our nest with NOTHING and NOBODY.
Scarry, huh?
Comment by Cheryl — March 16, 2009 @ 9:50 am
what do i do when cps has been to my home 5 times in 6 weeks when one case should have closed immediatly they supposively got another referral placing my husband and i at a known meth house on feb 1 ,2009 when we were at home, and this came around from the worker saying you havent used for 4 years here is a atesting form, i told her prove i was there first, 2 weeks later she and 2 other ladies came refusing to leave my house unless i excepted the test form again not agreeing to take it. what do i do i have placed “no tress passing signs, and my 4th ammendmentrights on my door, and they laughed at it. and also posted is they are not welcome on my property unless they have a court order
Comment by monica durfee — March 16, 2009 @ 9:55 am
Also, I would like to say, that under no circumstanes would we have traded off the grand kids for posh senior years! I am just trying to make my point that CPS forever changes lives with thier tyrany. We never saw our lives heading this direction.
Each child will pay for CPS err’s in their own way over their lifetime, as will we.
For the kids, speaking out against CPS in thier schools, etc. is their way of dealing with the pain they feel. Being peer mediators works for them. They help other kids to troubled to talk to adults about their misery.
For us, being advocates, in however a small way we can be, is our way of dealing with the pain CPS has inflicted.
So our lives are now spent using our knowledge to teach parents and grandparents HOW to play the CPS game, and hopefully win a round or two.
I am trusting only in our family and God these days.
Comment by Cheryl — March 16, 2009 @ 10:18 am
if you live in CA, email me to help make new case law. thanks.
Comment by A LEO — March 17, 2009 @ 7:35 am
Hello, I’m Kristina writing today to see if I can get some answers about my cps case. Here is my story On Dec. 29, 2008 my son’s daycare had made a report to cps stating he had two makes on him one on his chest and the other on his back. They are ssaying they are bruises, but when I saw them both marks were a reddish pink color and were pilling and the one on his chest had a scab right in the middle of it, now last time I knew bruises were not a reddish pink color they did not pill and also do not scab over but yet to this very day the cps investigator and the cps doctor are still screaming abuse. Now comes the intersting part about a month after my 3 children were removed from my care these so called bruises came back in the same exact spots and sizes on my 1 year son. My mother had made an appointment with my childs’ doctor for the next day and come to find out my child has a skin disorder called eczema and thats why these so called bruises keep popping up on his skin. Everyone that is working my case at dcf doesn’t think I harmed my child but they can’t help me get my kids back cause their hands are tied which is totally bogus they just don’t want to admitt they were wrong from the very beginning. And the investigator that was asssigned to my case never did a home assetment at home she just assumed my living arrangements were unsafe for my kids. She did do a home assetment for both sets grandparents but not me. Why is that? My oldest chiuld will be 9 years old next month and I have been raising her by myself since birth with no help from father at all, then I have my two boys and bam the unthinkable happens. I have told cps from the very beginning my 1 year old will have medical problems due to him being born 2 months early and 3 years son as well cause he was 1 month early. Both my sons have asthma, and other medical problems they have been sick off and on for 3 months now. My case worker is starting to be worthless 2 days ago was the first time I talked since Feb.24 2009. That tells you something. She is supposed to do a home study on my home any day, but she told the other she doesnt want to the study until I complete my coping and parenting classes. Why wait she can do it now to get it out of the way.
Comment by kristina — March 18, 2009 @ 7:30 am
cps has taken my child after police and detectives are wrongfully accusing my husband and i of abuse please help me
Comment by lori — March 18, 2009 @ 8:34 am
Oh I forgot to add in that there was a crimnal investigator involed in my case as well, he paid a visit to my dad and stepmoms house the day these so called bruises came back and he had the pictures that were taken the day my world fell apart. Anyways my stepmom told him that the marks had came back and asked if he had the pictures on him and he did, so she told him she was going to show him something on my child and that she wanted him to compare the pictures to the marks that had poped up that same morning, to our relief he told her that this is not a abuse case at all and that there investigation was done with. It’s amasing that the crimnal side of my case doesn’t think I abuse my child but yet a jaded cps doctor does. And the reason why I say that this doctor is jaded is because every time she exams a child the vwery first thought tht comes to her mind is that poor child is being abuse in some way by somebody which isn’t the case half the time. In my case we didn’t findout that my 1 year son has a skin disorder until after the fact. To me any child that the cps doctor examines needs to get an second opinon regardless cause you never know if that child has a medical condition like my little Jayson. I found out the hard way and am paying for something I did not do.
Comment by kristina — March 18, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
HELLO ALL, I FEEL THE NEED TO ASK IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FOR DAMAGES SUSTAINED AT THE HANDS OF DCF. I’VE NOTICED THAT NO-ONE HAS EVER FOLLOWED UP ON THE DAMAGE CHILDREN HAVE SUSTAINED (PHYCOLOGICAL) AFTER THIER ENCOUNTERS WITH DCF( FALSE ALLEGATIONS). I PERSONALLY WITNESSED MY OWN CHILDREN STRUGLE WITH THIER IDENTITY, ANGER ISSUES, DECLINE IN THIER SCHOOL WORK AND SELF ESTEEM.MY POINT IS BECAUSE OF FALSE ALLEGATIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS AT THE HANDS OF DCF, I WENT FROM A SUCCESSFUL BUSSINESS OWNER, TO DESTITUDE WITH FOUR CHILDREN TO RAISE. I LOST EVERYTHING I WORKED FOR. I HAVE STRUGLED WITH PTSD AS A RESULT OF BEING JUJMPED BY SEVERAL MEN AT A SEVEN ELEVEN PARKING LOT,AND LEFT FOR DEAD.I BELIEVE THESE MEN WERE HIRED BY THE VERY SAME PEOPLE THAT WERE HARASSING ME THROUGH DCF.BECAUSE I FILED A LAW SUIT IN CT.ASKING FOR THE NAMES OF PEOPLE USING DCF TO RUIN MY LIFE.I WENT INTO HIDDING TO TRY AND HEAL MY CHILDREN,AND MYSELF.I AQUIRED A HUGE PHOBIA OR AVERSION TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.I WATCHED MY KIDS GO FROM A STUDENTS ,TO DROP OUTS.I HAVE ONE MINOR CHILD LEFT IN MY HOME WHO IS AN HONOR ROLE STUDENT AT THIS TIME.THERE SHOULD BE SOME SORT OF RECOURSE FOR VICTIMS OF FALSE ALLEGATIONS,TO HELP THEM HEAL THIER FAMILY UNIT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.THE ROAD TO HELL WAS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS,AND I AM SURE I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE AT THE LATER PART OF SAID ROAD.I WAS ON THE LIZA GIBBONS SHOW FEATURED SAYING “THIS IS AMERICA THESE THINGS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING HERE”. THE NAME OF THE SHOW WAS “INNOCENT BUT RUINED BY FALSE ALLEGATIONS”. I ALSO DID DATELINE WITH JANE PAULEY,PERTAINING TO MY STORY.I WAS OFFERED A TV MOVIE, AND DECLINED, BECAUSE OF THE BREAKDOWN OF ONE OF MY CHILDREN FROM BEING CALLEDS TV GIRL IN SCHOOL.SHE SPENT TWO WEEKS IN THE HOSPITAL BEFORE SHE EVEN TURNED TEN ,AND IS STILL IN THERAPY TO THIS DAY, FOR HER EMOTIONAL DAMAGE THAT WAS A RESULT OF DCF’ERS.IN AMERICA WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE,THE RIGHT TO VOICE OUR CONCERNS,BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE IN NUMBERS .WE HAVE TO CORRECT THESE FLAWS IN DCF, OR WE WILL ONLY ACCUMULATE MORE AND MORE HURT ADULTS,(VICTOMS OF THE FLAWS IN FAMILY AND CHILDRENS LAWS.) AS FOR MY FAMILY ITS BEEN A LONG HARD ROAD TO SOME RESEMBLANCE OF RECOVERY.WE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME,MY KIDS WILL NEVER BE WHO THEY WERE GOING TO BE.SO, LETS QUIT PUSSYFOOTING AROUND AND SAVE FUTURE CASUALTIES, LETS UNITE AND FIGHT . ITS ALL IN THE NUMBERS! I’M SORRY I BECAME SO WEAK AND DROPPED OUT OF THE FIGHT, BUT I AM SOOO READY TO TAKE THEM ON NOW ,GET MORE LAWS IN EFFECT THAT ADRESS FALSE REPORTING, WITH STRONG PENALTIES FOR THIS CRIME AGAINST CHILDREN! ANY LAWYERS OUT THERE ,THIS IS A CAUSE TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF,AND HELP PREVENT FUTURE VICTIMS.I FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT THIS CAUSE , BECAUSE MY CHILDREN NOW HAVE CHILDREN ,MY GRANDCHILDREN ,AND I WANT TO SEE DCF WORK NOT HURT AND DESTROY FAMILIES! READY AND WILLING IN COLORODO SUSAN LEVENTHAL
Comment by SUSAN LEVENTHAL — March 19, 2009 @ 10:59 am
nikkimg23 -at- lycos.com please respond
Comment by SUSAN LEVENTHAL — March 19, 2009 @ 11:16 am
Hi,
I just wanted everyone to know that there is a group site where everyone can chat with anyone who has, is, or had dealt with the CSD/CPS.
It is a new site and has potential to really grow.
Let everyone know about the group.
Even people who wants that comfort and support in tough times…or needing something to appease the court such as needing help on the best daycare. Maybe some one to be a witness while your home is being inspected by these beasts that call themselves caseworkers.
The site is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fightingforyourfamily/
Comment by Heather — March 19, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
my name is jennifer, i am a mother of five children and i wish to share my story, I am a former foster child, and further more than that when CPS took my oldest two children they accused me of everything my real mother had been accused of, i lost them and moved to texas where i had my 3rd child a daughter and raised her till she was 4 when her father and i separated i left her in his custody due to not having a place and all the hours i worked i was a unarmed security officer, durng a years time the CPS office wouldn’t help me gain her back, they allowed him and his mother to keep her, i found out i was pregnant and the day my second son was born CPS met me in the birthing room. They proceeded to tell me that my astanged husband Raped my then 5 year old daughter and she had been put into foster care that day, upon that they took my son. In order to keep my daughter out of the system i signed the parental rights over to my son and expected to see my daughter, that was a lie , after a year they gave her to his mother, now mind you his mother was in the very next room when he raped her, further more he lives with her and my dauther now. CPS never persued charges and will not conduct regular checkups on them.
At one point in court the CPS agent asked the judge ” to ban the mother from gaining a commisioned guard card” which would give me the right to carry a weapon for my own protection while on duty ” i worked in Houston” so the danger is very real.\
The Judge denied it but i lost my job when CPS called my boss and told her what my husband did.
I am currently writing a book tittled
” Guilty by blood”
about my story .
thanks for your time
jennifer
Cheyennesn -at- yahoo.com
Comment by jennifer bergerson — March 19, 2009 @ 9:08 pm
i agree! i am so glad i found this sight, i am not alone! cps is out of control they take kids from parents who have done no wrong, but seem to ignore the ones who need help! injustice, we should all protest the same day! i agree to the fullest! I’m in washington state so california would be too far, so lets all do it on the same day in our states, i’m down to do it! lets get some justice here!
Comment by sarah — March 20, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
lets sue these theives and get our children back, hey what about a background check on these cps workers, i’m sure there’s alot there that they are hiding, huh imagine that
Comment by sarah — March 20, 2009 @ 3:43 pm
Has anyone heard the good news in Arizona? They are so broke, they layed off 159 CPS mainstream investigators. The only safe ones, so far, are pencil pushers!!!
Because they have let go so many, they are no longer allowed to investigate ANY non-high-risk reports. Now, if an annoymous caller calls the hotline to say, neglect, out of work mom, or anything other than “beating the heck out of their child”, they cannot followup on the complaint.
It puts them investigating only where they should been in the first place. Verifiable physical abuse!
And, I love this. They are not done yet! Within the next 2 months, they plan to eliminate another 50+ desk jobs. Some supervisors (those who overlook the truth) will also get the ax. After they finish looking at thier disciplinary complaints to determine WHO the bad ones really are.
I’ve always said, the odds are pretty good you have a crooked supervisor if they have multiple complaints filed.
It is more likely that 1 person is wrong than 10 people.
Comment by Cheryl — March 23, 2009 @ 7:31 am
Fantastic news, Cheryl!!!
Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 23, 2009 @ 10:53 am
I was overjoyed. Our case worker has not gotten back to us, so I called the main facility. She was one layed off, and our case was closed as a result!~
Comment by Cheryl — March 23, 2009 @ 11:54 am
Outstanding!!!
Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 23, 2009 @ 1:38 pm
Those 159 I mentioned ARE ALREADY LAID OFF. They lost their jobs almost immediately over the last 2 months. Without any notice. Yeah.
I know I would be devistated if I walked into work one day and was instantly told “you’re gone”. But somehow, as selfish as it sounds, I do not feel a bit sorry for a one of them! It was long overdue in my book.
Maybe the bad economy and stimulus money spending plans will play into each and every other states hands. It was ultimately THAT govn’t plan that caused the demise of these workers.
As our govenor pondered where to cut from the budget, and stay within the guidelines required to get the states share of the $787 billion, it was found that eliminating waste at CPS was an obvious place to start cutting funds.
The decision may not have been meant for the purpose of eliminating family torture, but the end result is the same. At least as far as we, the people are concerned.
Comment by Cheryl — March 23, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
If anyone would like to red the articles in AZ. Go to AZCENTRAL.COM and put in keyword “CPS” at the top. The article that says a total of 159 caseworkers laid off is dated March 11th, 2009.
This will also show you the result of what is expected of the remaining caseworkers.
Comment by Cheryl — March 23, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
Cps workers and Judge took my grandbabies and would not let my husband and I adopt our grandbabies.They made up lies and would not let us see our grandbabies. We are outstanding citizens and people. Instead they felt that the foster mom would do a better job. I say God does not like ugly. Everyone pays for their misdeeds. One way or another. They have reaped what they have sowed.
Comment by jean — March 23, 2009 @ 9:19 pm
I agree, Jean, they will, one way or another, pay for their misdeeds, and for the grief they caused others.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 24, 2009 @ 12:26 am
why is it when i look for an attorney in my area, no one wants to do it? then tell me i need a good family attorney, i have an attorney already, but i’m getting no where fast, please let me know what i am doing wrong, i’m in benton county in washington state. why can’t i sue them for harrassment but if i look at them wrong i get anger management classes?
Comment by sarah — March 24, 2009 @ 10:15 am
Sarah, if you have an attorney already, you might benefit from my article: Make Your Court Appointed Lawyer Work for YOU. Come join us on the message board for more feedback on your case. Register with a fake name… protect your privacy!
Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 24, 2009 @ 11:08 am
it didn’t work i’m trying
Comment by sarah — March 24, 2009 @ 11:24 am
Jean-
Been there done that with 4 grandbabies. But you can win them back. The trouble with Judges, is that theya re very worried that YOU, will let them have contact with the bios OR that you will send them home as soon as he awards the kids to you, or let the bios move in.
You have to use your own attorney and reassure the judge that since you must choose between the grandkids and the parents, the parents lose.
We saw this very thing with 2 judges on our case, but went out of our way to absolutley reassure them, with the threat of jail upon us, that we would not give in to the parents. We did not give in. We follow a very strict visitation policy and never allow the parents to visit when the kids say they don’t want to.
We had our 1 year review with the judge last month, and he was satisfied that we did not pressure the grandkids to visit parents, that we did not promote the parents in any way and do not allow visits not requested by the grandkids. He perm. renewed our custody until they are 18 and ended the yearly reviews feeling confident that we would not jeopardize the grandkids and jail as upstanding citizens.
Comment by Cheryl — March 24, 2009 @ 3:01 pm
LindaJO-
More good news! My trio of suit attornies have filed our lawsuit! We filed our notice of claim before the Sept. deadline, thus beating their 180 day timeline into the ground.
The attorney general did not respond to the notice of claim presented to him and the court. That certainly tells me and our attornies that they really have no counter-claim and in a sense, are admitting to the chaos they caused for nothing! They had nothing to say for their conduct.
We should be at an initial court hearing within 30 days. We are meeting in early April to set the terms, fee schedule and expected award amount in stone.
Since they had nothing to say for themselves, we are going for the gusto, and putting the most ridiculos figure $$ on paper we can think of.
We WANT this to go to trial. A jury would certainly award on this mess. Of that we are quite confident!
Comment by Cheryl — March 24, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
Sara, and ALL, you need to check the CPS attorneys here on fight CPS.if you can’t find one, then the yellow pages in your town , and the towns around it.just don’t give up, God Bless.Believe me I sued them and they setteld. if even you find an attorney who is just not sure of helping you, you might want to invite him to this site , then he’ll find out that they had been sued .
Comment by Sam — March 24, 2009 @ 3:17 pm
they gonna get theres i promise you i only got 3-4 more months the whole system is currupt and so are they to many people hate them they take your children sell them and they go back home to their happy little family im not saying there arent any good cps workers out there but they already gave you guys a girls a bad name if they ever tpr me its going to be a mess in this county i stake my life on it this one for all the mothers who had a tear drop in ther eyes i already see darkness in my dreams god speed to all yall
Comment by angel pal,mer — March 24, 2009 @ 3:18 pm
I have not seen seen my 3 children in 7 years. They emotionely abused both me and my children. I am tormented with nightmares and ptsd from what they did to us.
Cps took them away and they were adopted out of state and of course a closed adoption. I have contacted the state board of adoptions and all they say is they haven’t heard from them in years. The cps that took them was prosecuted for wrong doings. A lot of family’s got there kids back. I cannot for the life of me find a attorney that will take the case without a $35,000 retainer. I love my children and will fight to the ends of the earth. If anyone has any information please contact me.
Rebecca
Comment by Rebecca — March 25, 2009 @ 7:01 am
Rebecca, have you started a website with their names on it? Someday they may google their names on the internet and find it. Also a lot of people find missing loved ones on MySpace.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — March 25, 2009 @ 2:19 pm
To everyone here,
I see that Obama has an open-door policy for the public to e-mail him and his staff on http://www.whitehouse.gov. He is asking for the public’s ideas on issues that we feel are not addressed that need to be. Regardless of wha the topic is. After reading the questions, he will pick a few topics and address the questions with answers at one of his many planned public addresses on TV, or thru his weekly blogs.
I had no problem with sending a well worded e-mail this morning, asking when we will see CPS reform. I also stated that states are more likely to continue corrupt practices so long as federal money is to be had for free.
The bottom line (as I explained it) is that states will continue to spend billions, which was federal stimulas money, on adoptions and out of home placements, foster homes, etc. so long as this money is cycling the USA.
I suggested that curbing the states’ spending on these practices, would reduce the federal funds wasted at state levels, while enforcing the latest ACT to seek out willing and able relatives first!!
With 50 states vying for this free money, it totals billions of taxpayer dollars that just never needed to be paid out to states in the 1st place.
If you add up all the funds rec’d at all 50 states for 2008, for foster care and placement programs, it is well over $2 billion!!!
That is ridiculous spending for something that never needed to be.
I encourage everyone to e-mail there thoughts on CPS, too. At the very least, if we inendate his inbox with this subject repeatedly, he may pick one of these e-mails to comment on in a press conference weekly.
Then at least we will know more about his opinion on our subject, or if this is falling on deaf ears…again.
Comment by Cheryl — March 25, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
kennewick washington ; my lawyer told me that cps has its own laws and don’t want to help me,
Comment by sarah — March 25, 2009 @ 7:47 pm
Sara, keep talking to other lawyers in your state.
Comment by Sam — March 25, 2009 @ 8:33 pm
Time to change DPHHS, Too many children are being hurt by the system which is to protect them!!! I am one of many foster parents in Montana having problems with dishonest CPS wokers, DPHHS violating their policies, license issues, do not care about the best interest of the children and abuse of power. In our case the childrens parents wishes were that the children where to be adopted by us. The parents saw that we love the children, in the 22 months the we had the children in our home. DPHHS placed the children in a home in which the GAL, Foster Care Committee Review members and others feel that home is not in the childrens best interest. My heart goes out to those parents being abused by the system. Are there any other Foster Parents with the same issues? I would like to hear from other families in Montana. My email is rluky@aol.com
Comment by Roberta Rawson — March 28, 2009 @ 8:02 am
Thank you all. Together we can stop this insanity!
Comment by Rebeca — March 31, 2009 @ 5:54 am
My two older children have been taught to lie by their mother (with whom I am divorced) she has been trying to get custody for the past 5 years. Recently, she has had them lie about what is going on in my home. Now my wife (remarried) can’t see her daughter and the cps case worker has no proof of abuse. Only lies of what my kids have done. How can I fight CPS and get my wifes daughter back?
Mike
Comment by Mike — April 1, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
Does anyone live in florida? Past or current issues and/or suits against these bastards childnet, CPS, Guardian Ad litem
Comment by Crystal — January 23, 2009 @ 11:28 am
I live in Florida and have a serious problem with CPS. How do we get in touch? CHEC AT COX DOT NET
Comment by Sam — April 16, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
Must be other Sam (I DID NOT POST THIS).
I live in the westren part of the U.S
Comment by Sam — April 19, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
I wish all of us who know about all this legal money profiteering could all sign ONE PETITION and get a law passed where the cps would stop causing devastating trauma to children and parents and others. Since the year that the thousands of dollars per removed child was signed into effect,
I think that was about 2003, the incidence of children being legally kidnapped has increased
from 100 to 400% in many areas. This atrocity is mainly based on financial greed. Other factors include slanderous vengeful false reports and also the incidences of supervisors setting quotas for workers to take so many children per time period.
I have other family members and friends who have had children taken from them due to revenge false reports. One happened when a young neighbor man about age 25 got mad because they called the police due to his drug and alcohol abuse and too many days of loud partying. He said he would call cps for revenge. He did and the young children were removed from their home and their gentle, caring, hard working parents.
I like what one of the entries, petition signers wrote about they told the cps if they come on
their property without a search warrant they would have a citizen’s arrest made.
We do believe they take children from schools because there is less resistance from schools than by parents. This last part sounds incredible and this is the only part we have doubts about but we even read about some cases where they have children stolen from public parks and change their names on paper many times to get more cash and then have worked with a worldwide illegal drug and
child trade satanist organization and sold the children to them to be abused in this and other
countries.
Even the children who get taken away from their homes for a few days or a few months will probably have trauma for the remainder of their lives. As a child or a parent if that had happened to me or anyone in my family it would be so traumatic I would never get over it. Real anger, drugs and loudness is not part of my personality, and never has been, but it would be if I or my family had been victimized in any way by this finanical gains sin.
It is the personal belief of many that anyone involved in this will personaly experience results firsthand in the near future. Indirectly but because of these abuses of children, much fear, regret, and some forms of personal disasters, grief, anguish and emotional and physical pains will probably come to anyone involved in this atrocity, to them or their families. I have met some people so ignorant, druggy, slanderous and spiteful that they would fool themselves into thinking of this as threatening, but anyone with a half of a brain knows that there are many instantly automatic natural scientific results of unthinkable actions that are not from any human individuals. Nature has laws that God made, that if broken, nature automatically corrects by causing the various degrees of self-destruction of people who do not care about the feelings of others. Those people are mean and dumb and if they do not repent and change then they end up destroying themselves quickly and painfully, these are just scientific spiritual laws. At the very
least those people will have the ability to be really happy and healthy after they do such sins. I am very fit physically and fit in other ways, but still old enough to have seen all this happen over and over to many individuals throughout the world. Those of us who find help and benefit the most are those who try to help others, by helping others we and they find blessings themselves.
The results of these crimes against children and parents will probably be painfully obvious to cps workers and supervisors and to everyone when these traumatized children are teenagers and some turn to drug abuse to deal with past traumas. Due to this there will be more young people on the streets, some turning to violent crimes to support their illegal habits. To ensure a safe and normal future for our country this outrage needs to be legally stopped as soon as possible.
This young man who made the false report was taken from his parents as a child, and most other who make false reports do it out of revenge and are drug addicts. The cps and the slanderers are causing direct suicides, beatings and sexual abuses by some foster care individuals, and in some cases the
children are victims of homicide at the hands of foster care parents and others. I know most foster care parents and even cps workers are mean and would not intentionally hurt others but the few that do are a serious threat to our society and our children and us parents. They remind me of emotional
terrorists and I am sure that children and parents would think of them as being terrorizing.
People are now winning legal cases when they sue those who are involved. They are a part of the evil that is causing increased crime in our societies whether they realize it or not and putting money before families is a sin and hurts everyone in our society.
Anyone who knowingly chooses to subject children to such trauma, for money or any reasons. I would not want to know where they will spend eternity and I would not want to have to pay for that sin now or in the future.
I am a mainstream non-denominational Protestant Christian parent who loves God and humanity and the law and has not ever broken laws. In fact I have spent
thousands of dollars just so I would not have to tell a lie or break any laws, I know that makes me sound dumb to some people, but it is true.
I know that our Creator God is ultimately in charge and when we follow His basic common sense laws, to love Him and everyone, we are blessed. For those who are the opposite, they see the opposite results.
I don’t drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes or pot, and have never been a user of any other illegal drugs either, I have scientific proof of that. I do have close relatives who are in military and civilian intelligence and other branches of law enforcement and I have the greatest respect and appreciation for the law. With the one exception of this ghastly law that provides money for legal kidnapping.
Comment by BJ Lee — April 23, 2009 @ 11:56 am
LISTEN I AM TELLING ALL OF YOU
IT IS JUST LIKE WHEN THEY READ YOU YOUR MIRANDA RIGHTS WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN ARRESTED
DO NOT TALK TO THEM
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY NOTHING AND IT IS YOUR BEST WEAPON
Comment by Brandi R — May 4, 2009 @ 5:53 am
The sexual abuse laws were written for the general public. i.e.
A citizen experiences a violation and files a complaint with a hotline or such. The police respond and an interview is conducted followed by due process involving an investigation and possible arrest, etc. In most cases both the accuser and accused have no knowledge of the workings of the system.
The police and other disinterested parties do the interviews and investigation.
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In regard to minors in state custody, the process is seriously compromised.
A foster mom observes a suspicious condition.
Does she call the hotline or police at that time? No.
As best as we can determine the foster mother, with a vested interest in a certain outcome, proceeds to question and interview the minor. From the report filed it is obvious that leading questions were made and with 25 years of working within the system the foster mom composes the report that is presented to the police. The child is indoctrinated with this story as it was extracted and in reasonable likelihood will repeat it. The child is left in the foster home because case workers won’t move the children to a neutral home. The child is likely to receive further indoctrination as time goes on. The child might actually be at continued risk from others in the home because complete faith is put in the single reporter that called the hotline.
The children are separated from the parents and not separated from the foster exposure. This continues for the duration of the investigation and if the foster mother report is determined to be credible, the separation will continue for months until a court can hear from the others. The children are still at risk because nothing in the foster home is suspect.
The 23 year old parents have no knowledge of the system and have no chance to prevail against those with a 25 year record of fostering.
Comment by Bill — May 5, 2009 @ 7:55 am
I need help! CPS has started again. They forced me to place my children with a friend and now they won’t return my calls or anything. They have done nothing but lie lie lie (anything else expected?). All of this over a dog scratch!!! They are saying that both my husband and I did it. Yeah ok whatever we love our children we would never do anything to harm them and now look at whats happening. They are destroying us!
Comment by Krystal — May 7, 2009 @ 9:12 am
i have been trying to find a way to stop cps from putting my granddaughters up for adoption when i came across a caring social worker cps from jan 16,2009. IAM TIRED OF HAVING TO KEEP MY HOME AS AN OPEN HOUSE. NOT BEING ABLE TO LIVE IN IT. NOT GETTING ANY SLEEP. HOW MANY LIES HAVE YOU TOLD ABOUT SOMEONES HOME JUST SO YOU CAN STEAL CHILDREN! IAM SO SICK OF THE LIES. IF I TELL A LIE IN COURT I CAN GET IN JAIL. YOU TELL A LIE YOU GET NOTHING. YOU SHOULD LOSE YOUR JOB FOR IT. ALL THAT MONEY THAT GOES OUT, PARENTS HAVE TO PAY BACK FOR THEIR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? TRYING TO FIND DIRT ON SOMEONE. MY GRANDDAUGHTERS ROOM SITS LIKE SOMEONE HAS DIED. I PLAY THIS TOY OF ELMO SINGING PIZZA. THEN THERE IS DEAD SILENT AFTERWARDS. HOW CAN YOU GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING YOU DESTROYED ONE MORE FAMILY. IM LUCKLY IF I GET 3 HOURS SLEEP. I WANT MY GRANDDAUGHTERS BACK WHERE THEY BELONG . I WANT TO KNOW IF THEIR SAFE AND I PRAYED TO GOD EVERYNIGHT TO BRING THEM BACK HOME. WHY DONT YOU TRY HELPING FAMILIES INSTEAD OF DESTROYING THEM. FAMILY REUNIFICATION IS JUST A WAY OF LEADING PARENTS ON
Comment by vivian — May 12, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
Our daughter made a false report March 9th and our lives have been a living nightmare ever since. Our first investigator decided to pass judgement with out knowing the whole truth. We have 4 other children who are very happy in our home. We are a very loving family who does a lot together, But our daughter was dating a 19 year old and she was told she could not see him anymore so she cryed abused. No proof what so ever. Shes been gone ever since. We have in home counciling twice a week Cps dropping in whenever and I just want my life back. The children left behind are starting to feel the strane of everything. It’s not fare to them. I started doing some digging and realized that CPS never gave us a TCN. So by all rights they should give her back and get out of our lives, When I’m done with them they are gonna wish they never crossed my path!
Comment by Joanna — May 13, 2009 @ 3:13 pm
I’m tired of hearing people tell me, JUST DO WHAT THEY TELL YOU TO DO! YOU ARE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT. My CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Tell me I’M INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. Not in this court. Where are the guidelines that they follow? Where is the policies book? Why is there no book of policies and procedures? It is at the discretion of your social worker to decide your life. What gave them that right? Who gives them the power to govern over my life?
Where does it say in the constitution that there is no law for this agency. no guidelines, no PUBLIC policy.? I am fed up! I am angry and I am HURT! I want to fight this raw power. I want to be heard acrossed America that this is a VIOLATION of our rights, of our childrens rights! Let’s do something about it, let’s be heard!
Comment by Elania — May 15, 2009 @ 11:15 am
Elania, there is a set of social services regulations for every state. Check with your local law library which is probably at the county courthouse.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — May 16, 2009 @ 8:12 am
i am having problem with my case in elko county and the cps workers have lied saying that i said things that i didnt say on several occasions and i am being prosocuted for a felony charge
Comment by canfieldsadie — May 16, 2009 @ 9:22 am
I am writing in regards to CPS. My daughter was taken from me march of 08 after my ex and I had just gotten a CHIPS closed for them removing my three younger children from his home. My oldest daughters father who had been nonexsistant for 7 years in her life came in(he called on her 7th birthday saying he was now ready to be a father) had only seen her once before she was put into foster care. Him and his wife came up from texas and proceeded to sue me for custody. The day my daughter was removed their allegations were on my mental health my boyfriend and truancy issues.We proved in court that my daughter had not be truant and my in home social worker was at my home helping me make appropriate arrangements for my daughter so she could get appropriate care so i could go back into the statder center for me to be able to work on my anxiety attacks that had started when i went to go get help(per the judge and the social workers. My ex and his wife(who can’t have children)-not my problem or my fault and since they were perfect and married and had a nice loving home and stable jobs since all he had had for 7 years was a childsupport obligation to my daughter and never had the responsibility of being a single parent not knowing if u would have daycare to go to work no idea of having ever been a parent. After my daughter got taken away and they started supporting my daughters father social services was completely against me including the foster parents- who the foster dad and i got into several times because he had his mind made up about me before he even met me. How ironic that on thanksgiving it was the foster parents my ex and his wife and my oldest daughter and my ex husband and my three younger children spending thanksgiving together while i was alone? Was that even right?? my life spiraled into the absolutely devastation i got a DUI lost my liscense and i proceeded to drink to tae the pain away of not having my children as my ex husband was hiding my other children from me. My oldest daughter is now living 1500 miles away from me and i haven’t seen her since november i barely get to talk to her i have written her letters and she has not recieved them and so now i have to send everything certified. There is so much to this sitaution that i am not going to write but i finally have found a lawyer that is willing to help me fight to get her back.The stepmother is controlling my ex and definitely my daughter and trying to get my daughter to be like her and my little girl cries to come home as she is seperated from me her little brother and her younger siblings and the only family and friends she has even known..we live in minnesota and i am not the only one in polk county that this has been done to.oops did i say the county!
Comment by Jody — May 17, 2009 @ 10:17 am
oh and i got rid of the boyfriend and they insisted at court that i was still with him even though i had a restraining order on him and trust me i wanted my daughter back not him. They still said i was a bad parent. I even had a worker tell me that because i didn’t have my children in my physical custody that I needed to get out of my parenting role. Once a parent always a parent. I have many people now willing to go to court for me on my behalf that i am a great parent to all my children. My kids want to live with me and my ex husband won’t allow it either cause he thins he is way better and that i am worthless. i am now sober and working and getting my life straight. I didn’t have a great past or childhood and they used alot of that in my custody battles and i am tired of it. i thin i parent my children much better because of my past.
Comment by Jody — May 17, 2009 @ 10:24 am
Please, someone pray for me. I’ve just had my grandchildren taken away by a corrupt CPS office in Texas. They didn’t have to be taken away like they did. CPS told many lies about me and I don’t know what my angels will grow up believing about me. I am totally devastated. Please, someone tell me there are others out there facing this unbearable pain. I didn’t realize this kind of widespread corruption was going on in the US. I want to fight, but I don’t know how.
Comment by Kathy — May 26, 2009 @ 9:38 am
i coulndt believe that this was happening to alot of other people in this country. im from pa and i have a caseworker who took my boys in july 2008, through them in to a foster home that they didnt like at all. now my oldest who is 11 is now in an rtf until further notice. i have visits with them on the weekends, but every time i turn around, she is taking the visits away for one reason or another.i have a public defender who doesnt listen to me at all. my boys need to be home with me, not in a strangers home. i have done everything they have asked on the permancy plan and they seem to just add more. i wish i could go to the rally in washington, i am actually only 5-6 hours away, but i dont get to see my boys very often. plus if i cancel the visits, she would use that against me. can anyone give me some advice?
Comment by alyson — May 29, 2009 @ 8:04 am
Hello everyone. I hadn’t realized how many people like myself is or has gone through what I am going through now. My 2 babies where taken from me on momerial day weekend, all because my wife couldn’t be responsible for 5 minutes and watch them. Now I’m fighting with the system, the courts, and cps to get my babies back. There isn’t a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t get sleep or eat. I can tell many of you who are parents like myself that I was one of the many children that grew up in a screwed up system and have nothing but hate and anger towards the system that as they(cps) put it “will protect the childs best interest.”
I worry for my son who has a failing heart and is only 1 and my daughter who is only 2 and very protective of her brother. I share a bond with my kids that is very strong. Now I worry that what happend to my mother will happen to me with my kids. Yes I have heard as well “Just do what they ask of you and you will get your kids back.” But 15 1/2 years of being in the system and screwed by the system taught me otherwise. The one thing I was told by my mother and I am saying this because no one has said it is don’t sign any paperwork by cps. Have your lawyer present. Ask questions for things you don’t understand. If cps threatens that you won’t get your kids back if you don’t sign then remind them of this, it is a violation of you 4th amendment rights and that any thing that might look like your were coherst into doing something against your will takes away thier amunity of being sued. I’ve don’t my research and if you google dealing with dcfs you can find a what I call a booklet that is called DCFS AND YOUR RIGHTS. I find this and it has given me so much information that I never knew about.
The one thing that I can tell you is this and this comes right from that booklet: “Know your rights before you talk to anyone from CPS/DCF or let them in your house, they won’t tell you your rights. CPS/DCF can’t do anything without your consent, demand a warrant and speak with an attorney first before speaking with anyone from CPS/DCF, it could cost you your children.”
That is right on the front page. There is so much more but I would recommend that you read it for yourself. I saved it on my computer so if you want me to email it to you email me or call me @ phone:661-794-3080 or email estjude77@hotmail.com.
I understand alot of parents like myself are hurting but remember this if you want your children and other children that you know of to benifit from your fight then you can not give up or lose your cool in the heat of the fight. As my lawyer put it ‘ the best way to get back at them is make them like you.’ and she is right. I’m 27 and a very proud father of 2 who will get his babies back. This is a war that cps has brought on themselves and we as parents need to rise up together and make them suffer. Put them out of business. What better way to do it then informing each other and others around us. Together, WE ARE STRONGER THEN THEY ARE. So lets use that to help the children that are being hurt.
Comment by Edward — June 2, 2009 @ 2:52 am
my gf and i had a baby a couple of weeks ago and we want to now if she can get emancipated because her mother treats her like trash and she keeps telling her that her baby going to get take away or shes going to call the cops on her ect. her mom dosent buy her anything i have to save up my money to buy her me and the baby clothes. all her mom does is smoke and go gambling at the casino. so pleaese someone help me i wanna keep my family i dont want it to split apart by the way we are both 15 and honor students at beson high. if she can get emansipated can my mom adopt her? pleaese commentback
Comment by A — June 10, 2009 @ 6:52 pm
A, the laws for emancipation of teenagers is different in every state. You can go to your county’s law library (probably in the county courthouse) and ask to look at your state’s laws about emancipation. If you’re worried about the baby’s grandmother calling CPS, please tell her, for me, that if she does the baby could be taken into foster care and she might never see the child again. Grandparents have few rights and even have a hard time getting custody (Kinship Care.) The big loser is the baby who could totally lose contact with its birth family. Children in foster care are often abused… so a call to CPS is nothing to play around with. Ever. There has to be a better solution to any problems that come up. Good luck to all of you. I know this is a difficult time. Any hope you and your girlfriend could get married? That would, in some states, emancipate her.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — June 10, 2009 @ 9:54 pm
I am in AZ and my oldest daughter (16) is in the hosp with bacterial pnemonia whch has now affected her heart. I took her to Dr, 4x in 7 days, tried 4 different rx’s and she had to be hospitalized. 3 1/2 weeks into her hospitalization a muslim dr wanted me to sign a permission slip for her to have a psych eval for no reason. When I refused and provided a faith based counselor for her ( to play ball with dr) she again asked my permission and when i refused she said that if i didnt sign she would report me to cps. I refused and she did call cps. the cps gestapo came to my home 4 days after my latest surgery, charging me with neglect. After a 4+ hour interogation they left, calling my faith based counselor and others (unidentified so far) and yesterday they interrogated my youngest child and then served me with a temporary custody notice informing me that they had taken temporary custody of my oldest daughter, still in the hospital btw, (when i asked who the judge was who signed this order i was informed they didnt need a court order, they had the power to do it without a judge) and when i asked about my constitutional right to exercise my religion, my right to due process and the right to face my accusers i was told they were preparing to take my youngest child as well. My oldest daughter then callled me telling me that there were cps agents in her hosp room and that they were telling her i was in the hospital (i was at cps office across town) and that she couldnt call me any longer and then put the state assigned psych evaluater on the phone who parroted what cps was telling me. Oh, the charge? IMMENENT DANGER! Somehow it went from my refusal of a muslim dr’s threat to immenent danger. My daughter is in the hosp for the 6th week due to her severe illness and all because a MUSLIM from another country is practicing medicine in the largest hosp in the city and didn’t like that i wanted to choose someone based on my faith it went to refusal to sign, neglect, and immenent danger. I’ve never had a ticket, no criminal history, and a Christian. Can someone please explain to me how they nazi’s can do this to us? pleeeze….i need help…..Thank you for the website…i hope it continues….as long as there is a CPS, there is a need for this help and support. Thank you.
T.H.
Comment by T. Hodge — June 20, 2009 @ 9:41 pm
T. Hodge-
WHere abouts in AZ are you? You need a good attorney, not the idiot they assign you.
Her phycologial state has nothing to do with her treatment for a medical illness except maybe, (and this would be a real stretch), her will to live, which seems to be there without CPS help. That does not constitute immenent death, which is a charge placed on parents.
I know that IF you are in the Phoenix area, there are no attornies. Prescott and Tucson have a few that will fight CPS.
Comment by Cheryl — June 22, 2009 @ 7:06 am
Please, take the time to read and sign my petition.
http://lobbyingforum.com/petition-detail.aspx?id=112
Comment by Brenda Pifher — July 9, 2009 @ 10:44 pm
Great petition, Brenda! I tweeted about it on my new Twitter account: http://twitter.com/fightcps
Comment by LindaJoMartin — July 10, 2009 @ 10:40 am
Hi, I am new to this site and I was hoping I can recieve some sound advice. Ever since I was thirteen and had my daughter I have had an up hill battle with cps. Now Im dealing with them yet again and this time they are threatning to terminate my parental rights. I have spoke with my case worker yesterday who has told me if I do not follow their instructions then they will place my children in a foster home. Right now they are staying with their Aunt who is wonderful with my children. My children are happy with where they are and thats all I want is for them to be happy. CPS wants Me and My Husband to attend two AA meeting and set up an appointment with the drug and acholol assesment cornator, by monday 5pm. To me that seems alil absurd and a bit imposible. I have already tried to call the lady to set up the appointment yesterday but I was told by her that my case worker would have to send a referal. I dont know how long that will take her to do. Also I failed the Hair folicle when I was givin it, But my husband passed. Should he be forced to take these classes as well even though they have nothing on him?
Comment by Autumn Burns — July 11, 2009 @ 7:27 pm
If you refuse, chances are the caseworker will try to get a court order to take your child. Your best bet is to go get an attorney who will communicate with social services for you. If you failed a hair follicle test you’re not in a good position to refuse anything. But please, get an attorney now if at all possible. The number one thing that prevents child detention is a good attorney who will stand up to the caseworker and fight for your rights. If you can convince them you won’t be using drugs/alcohol they may eventually close the case and leave you alone.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — July 12, 2009 @ 11:22 am
Hi, this is my first time here. i have been a victim of cps. my mother called them just recently and told them that my daughter had a broken nose due to my boyfriend. my daughter has never had a broken bone in her life, and my boyfriend loves her to much and is deffinately not abusive what so ever.. i dont think he has it in him. well my daughter also had one small bruise on each hip from running into the dresser. and she had 3 circles on her but from when she fell on a toy, and i also spanked her once. but cps took her away and gave the custody to my mother until the next court date. now i have to go to parenting classes and anger management and counseling to try and get her back. all the allegations that the cps worker filed on me are just what my mother said. i dont understand how they can just listen to my mother and take her without and real evidence, and all the allegations my mother are saying supposedly happened at my home in wisconsin and cps took my daughter from me in michigan. can you please help me understand what is going on.
Comment by Jen — July 12, 2009 @ 3:49 pm
my mother is also telling my daughter to say that my boyfriend and our room mate hit her, no one hits her, i spank her once in a great while when she gets really out of control. and shes only 3 so she is going to repeat everything
Comment by Jen — July 12, 2009 @ 3:51 pm
I’ve needed to released some frustation with cps. I went to them after seeing my older kids in a compromising position.I was advsied through my pastor to go to them cause I was new in town and husband in the military was in iraq.The caseworker showed up at my house and I told her what I saw.She told me she would help and had an appt for cac interviews with my kids.Needlessly to say my nightmarish ordeal with them began.That was in jan 09 and it’s july 12.In between that time my son got arrested and put in detention(nice way of saying jail) for 3 days.My daughter was send to my inlaws in another town.My youngest started having nightmares that our caseworker would put him im jail also.I got one report on me cause a friend of mine called it in.The reason I know it was her cause only her and my husband knew I was venting about the kids and cps.Our caseworker sweeped that under the rug cause it was a personal conversation in our home and I said it would be a violation of privacy on a personal conversation.Another family plan(I have 4) and 2 mos later with the last to be done another call in.Our caseworker never once called or home visit the home while doing these family plans,never gave therapy to any of my kids(my husband and I did out of pocket) When caseworker called to let me know if I knew the family plan was to expired and she wanted to do another one.I told her that the time limit on the case is over it.I found alot of info on the internet and the laws here in texas cause noone was telling me anything.So I called her on not doing her job and terrorising my kids and she decided she got offended and finally called my inlaws and daughter’s school after 2 mos.Her counselor told the caseworker I was picking her up and she started a file on me saying I was putting my daughter in harm’s way.Needlessly to say another caseworker cause I couldn’t stand dealing with the first one and 2 mos. later no violations and both cases closed. But my faith and heart is broken cause my kids got more damaged by cps than what they did to each other.I started with 1 child a victim and ended up with 2.Now add me who started this and the guilt cause I was told they would help me and my kids.And also my military husband who was charged while in iraq and serving his country and his home state of texas doing this to his family.We have closed off too and don’t live either cause we feel like that gonna start all over again.Setting ducks we be while in this little piss off town.My heart goes out to all the children affected and the parents who with good hearts we’re told this agency would help.my husband says cps stands for “CHILDREN PERMANTELY SEPARATED”
Comment by heartbroken mom — July 12, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
Jen, please register at the Fight CPS Message Board for feedback on your case. You will be more likely to get your child back if you learn to write your own legal documents and collect documentary evidence to support your side of the case.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — July 12, 2009 @ 9:01 pm
Heartbroken Mom, welcome to the site. There are many parents who think CPS will help them that end up as traumatized as you are. You’re lucky that the ordeal ended so quickly. CPS changes everything.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — July 12, 2009 @ 9:08 pm
I am trying find out what the federal CPS laws are. We proved that the CPS caseworker commited perjury and the judge dismissed our court case and ordered the CPS case closed but CPS has not done that. We filed a complaint with the omnibudsman, HIPPA and then also sent a request to the DA’s office to have the caseworker charged with perjury. A friend suggested that I look up the federal laws, but I can’t find what those are. Does anyone here have any information on those federal laws? Any info will help.
Stevi
Comment by Stevi S — July 27, 2009 @ 9:48 am
Stevi - here’s some information about federal child welfare laws: Federal Child Welfare Laws - I’m sorry I haven’t updated that page in several years and some of the links are dead. I should probably do new research into federal child welfare laws and take that old page off the web.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — July 27, 2009 @ 11:09 am
I have settled a custody dispute with my daughters father. We are now done with the court system, but not before his WIFE decided to call CPS on me and falsely accuse me of molesting my daughter. Not only is that low, but repulsive as well. This is before my husband and I had other children. Now we have two new kiddos. Both our newest additions are boys. The custody dispute has been completed and finalized for almost a year and half now.
NOW she has decided to strike again. She called CPS is again. This time trying to say my house is dirty and not sanitary for children. First off she came into my home while I was at work UNINVITED by my babysitter. CPS is conducting an investigation. WHAT can I do to stop her from doing this again, or to do something LEGALLY to put her in her place. I cant get an order of protection because law states that we have to have a history of physical violence and we have to be direct family. A restraining order is not enforceable my law so there is not a point in that. SO NOW WHAT!? The people who are here to serve and protect are not guiding me or helping me. WHO WILL!!??!?!
Comment by Harassed! — July 28, 2009 @ 11:14 am
My ordeal is far from over.I have my son on probation for 2yrs.with sex offender registery over his head.My daughter the victim in cps’s eyes still needs therapy and we have to pay not cps even though their policies are to provide help to victims.Got copies of arrest warrant for my son with our cps caseworker giving info to the cops that I said to her.The lies on the paperwork just makes my blood boil. My son was covicted on lies and the judge and D.A. allowed it.With cps here feeling they got away with destroying this family once they’ll do it again.Unless cps is dissolved they’ll continue to destroy families and children. until the fat lady sings it’s far from over with this family.
Comment by heartbroken mom — August 7, 2009 @ 6:16 pm
my niece had avisit today from cps someone called in an said she was selling drugs out of her house she just moved in there and the woman that her ex was living with was evicted from this house because it is my neices mother n law and she bought it from her now her and her relatives that live next door are calling the cps they told my neice she had to take a drug test and they would get back with the results she doesnt do drugs the accusations were false they could see she was still moving in and she explained the situation to no availe does anyone know did she have to takwe a drug test and should she have taken one and what wil happen now
Comment by deb — August 14, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT THEY ARE GOING TO GET HELP FROM THE GOVERMENT REGARDING THERE CHILDREN NO SUCH LUCK BECAUSE THE GOVERMENT IS THE REASON WHY THE CPS IS SO EVIL IF IT WERENT FOR THE EPOPLE IN THE GOVERMENT FORKING OVER ALL KINDS OF MONEY FOR THE CPS WORKERS TO KIDNAP KIDS THEN THERE WOULDNT BE SOOOO!!! MANY CHILDREN SEPERATED FROM THERE LOVING FAMILIES . I BLAME EVERYTHING ON BILL CLINTON BECAUSE HES THE ONE WHO SAID FOR THE GOVERMENT TO PAY THE CPS WORKERS TO KIDNAP KIDS FOR MONEY NO MATTER IF THE PARENT DID ANYTHING TO THE CHILD OR NOT. ITS WAS NEVER ,EVER ABOUT WHATS BET FOR THE CHILD BECAUSE THEY DONT CARE THE ONLY THING THAT CPS CARES ABOUT IS SAVIVNG THERE OWN BUTTS AND THE MONEY THEY GET FROM EACH CHILD THAT THEY KIDNAP FROM A HOME.I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF KIDS THAT COME INTO THE WORLD BECAUSE WITH ALL THE CORUPTPTION IN THE CPS SYSTEM THE KIDS ARE NOT GOING TO BE SAFE FROM THE CPS KIDNAPPERS. AS SOON AS SOMEONE MAKES ANY KIND OF LIE THEN THE CPS WORKER WIAT THAT PERSONS DOOR AND RIPPING THAT CHILD AWAY FROM THE LOVING HOME WITHOUT EVEN CARING IF THE STATEMENT WAS THE TRUTH OR A LIE. THEY DONT CARE BECAUSE THEY ARE SO HEARTLESS BECAUSE OF ALL THE MONEY THEY GET FROM TAKING THE KIDS FROM THR HOME . AND THAT REALLY TICKS ME OFF BECAUSE THERE ARE ALOT OF FAMILIES DESTOYED BECAUSE OF THEM. I CANT WAIT UNTIL THE DAY WHEN THEY ARE GOING TO FACE THE JUDGEMENT SEAT INFRONT OF GOD AND LOOK BACK ON ALL THE FAMILIES THEY DESTOYED FOR NO RAESON.THEY WONT BE LAUGHING THEN ,THEN THEY WILL WANT TO CHANGE THE WAY THEY DID THINGS BUT IT WILL GBETOO LATE…
Comment by BEV A — August 26, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
I wish I could find an attorney in Southern California to file a lawsuit against DCFS for wrongfully removing my children from my home and keeping them in the system for 3 yrs. Do anyone have any lawyers to recommend?
Comment by T Preston — September 10, 2009 @ 9:29 am
cps and cws dose not want anyone that they thinks that we are ddd and we are not at all and cps took our kids and our baby to and sold our 2 kids and thats what they want to do to our son that 6 weeks old and sell him and do not care what we saying at all and my name is michelle and my boyfriend name is james and we are trying to get our son and when he with the foster care they are not staying out and our cws worker dose not working with us at all just with the foster care that it and thats not right at all and we did not do anything at all to ours kids at all and they just take them for the money that it and do not care who they hurts if it us our the kids and they do want the kids get hurt and we never hurts our kids at all and we wish that there help out there for us to get cps out and cws to that they hurts more then they help
Comment by michelle — September 10, 2009 @ 11:11 pm
T Preston - there are Southern CA attorneys listed on the lawyers page here.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — September 11, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
I have had legal custody of my grandson since he was 6 months old. CPS has been called on me 4 or 5 times in the last approx. 6 months. They basically tell me i have no rights and the alligations are usually the same {but false} i am just trying to do what is right for my grandson. I called the sheriffs dept. to see about pressing harrasment charges against the person reporting these false charges but they told me that CPS is above them and i said yes you are right. Then I told them about the experience that my brother had with CPS and how his case worker {Enna} told him “We are GOD and we can do anything we want.”
Comment by cynthia — September 11, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
I don’t care what they do to me. They took my Grandchildren and wouldn’t let me talk to them or see them. They told the court terrible things about me based on hearsay. They hurt my babies. I haven’t seen them since June 11, 2008. Please somebody help. Please investigate CPS corruption in Gregg County Texas. There is more to tell. I will never get over it. Desperate for reform. I am so angry that I am a Texan, and not proud at all. This was a horrible miscarriage of justice. I don’t care if they take me to jail. I want to see my babies. I WANT JUSTICE IN TEXAS.
Comment by Kathy — September 12, 2009 @ 7:34 am
I am in need of prayer. I was falsely accused of child abuse. My daughter ran away from home and is t a mental health facility. Cps had me in court today and now I am no longer able to see my daughter. Cps has taken temporary custody and it seems like they might soon have full custody. This will greatly impact my daughter in a negative way. She is already losing her ability to do her school and may be withdrawn soon. I am a loving parent that was trying to get help for my daughter for a long time and was denied that help. When she was picked up and taken to the mental hospital I was at first releaved thinking finally she would be helped. But now I am in this huge court battle. What can I do?
Comment by Renee — October 6, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
Cynthia, Do not let them in ever again. When they come knocking, you need to step out the door and fully close it. Stay in front of the door and politely tell them that unless they have a warrant, you can not let them in and that they would be violating yours and your grandsons constitutional rights. As for pressing charges, hmm, I know you have the right to know your accusers, but think it has to be done through probate. I am just working on figuring all this out. Also, when he gets to school age, make it known and write a letter to the school telling them that if they let anyone talk to, see or question him, you will prosecute them for child endangerment.
Parents Empower your self as a friend of mine put. Know your constitutional rights.
Renee, I will be praying for you. I am going to direct a friend of mine over here. She went through pretty much the same as you but she did not lose her son. He went to juvee and finally he got help. Keep the faith. Do not let them see you breakdown in public. I know its hard. Also use your 5th amendment if they want a psych eval. You do not have to do it.
Comment by Nicole Drake — October 7, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
People, Read this site fully and also read this one… http://familyrights.us/how_to/fight_cps.html
IF YOU SIGNED PAPERWORK, WRITE A STATEMENT THAT RESCINDS ALL YOUR SIGNATURE AND ONLY SIGN SOMETHING WITH THE WORDS “UNDER DERESS”
Comment by Nicole Drake — October 7, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
Hi everyone I am Iris and it is nice to meet all of you.. My story is long and my writing skills are not great so for a I have tried to talk with you al but when I sit down the tears come so bad I just cant…. My story is long and to much to tell so I will do my best..I have the bestest friend in the whole world he is 6 and he is my grandson..His mother and father where not doing well in life so I alway kept MattMatt with me. they had custudy but he has always lived with for the most of the time.. Well I filed for gaurdianship for my little angle problem is the old Grandmother is a cps worker. So she wanted a co gaurdinship and I agreed. Her daughter ran of wit Matt to willits in mendoino county. She was not treating Matt well anwanted to take him to a guys houes where there was no sewer or water.. The steel water from brooktrails to water a huge pot grow. Anyway Si I filed and here mother wrote papers saying she was growing …His Mom would not drug test so she gave rights to me and the other grandmother. but when she ran off with him I filed a report because I was scared and did not know where he was so the report went from tehama county to to mendocino county where her mother was able to make it disapear even thought theama county said she would be locked out of files… well they were never investigated and it all went know where… She Lied about eveything. about 12 months later she got fired and ask for my help as she became homeless. so we puy her up in a fifth wheel and got her back on her feet…Then she moved to Sac. Then when I filed she mobved back and lived with her son. she also had trouble in tehama count and thats why she was tranfered to mendo.. Well even thogh we appiled for a co gaurdian they made sole gaurdian.. well she filed paper in tehama county about her daughter transporting pot from mendo to thema county and into lassen.. she had a visit and I call grandmother said he was with his mother and was on her was to another county and thoght she was taking pot to her friends. She was ok with it but people are shot over a little bit of weed and its scares the hell out of me..anyway she told all these lies about me. The investagaters report said both houses were fine but Matt seemed much hmor at home here and was happy. I work at the school helping three days a week and we have study time with friends twicw a week and we all love and make in lots of fun… Matts great are as good as ones can get he has been awarded student of the month and of the year. He is AWesome.. But she told all these lies and said she moved to be with him and come to find out she was living two and a half ours away and not letting me know she was taking him,, in court she said she waould be living her.. I asked this because in 18 months from the time she was fired she moved five times. So my so my friend and angle are gone know… Out of all the papers she has filed I have a paper from polce hospitals I can document every lie she made but that sack is so high I dont know where to begin.. now it gets worse three days ago there was a big pot but of 5300 plant and 38 arrest.. Knowing his mother lives there and thats what she is doing I went to willits local news and started reading the comments.. Well the other grandmother is on there making comments using the name formerukiahan and the way she was talking to people about this drug bust and name calling was awful and she would take anyone child for what she was saying… Then there is a blog about a officer that was charged with hit and run and she wanted to know what was wrong with tha and said he almost got away with it…well as you know tears poured as they are now..he is such a kind child and she is so harsh. She is now a boss of cps in susanville and my understandi isng was sh that I hope was not to do cps ever again…All I know is I have so much documented proof of her lies That I hope I stand a chance Until then i work on it each day and I am in hopes to file soon. Just would like to know we have friends out there that understand. God Bless each and everyone of you and until I will walk past his bedroom door trying not to look… I have visation this weekend so I will be wonderful but it is very hard when he crys and say NaNa how come I cant come home.. I want to stay home 1000 days a visit mamw 1 day.. If you would like to read her remarks go to http://www.willetnews.com I wish the best for you…
Comment by Iris — October 8, 2009 @ 6:24 pm
I also forgot to tell you that when i told the judge I would like to be sworn in and show him document that she was being dishonest.. he told me no ! But I live in a small town as his daughter grew up plyaing with my grandsons mother…So they are all freinds
Comment by Iris — October 8, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
I was an Orange County California Foster Mother who moved my kids to Los Angeles County to avoid the constant harrassment by the DCS. However, Los Angeles County was no better. Your all wasting your time because I WON MY CASE!!! Monterey Court was Horrible. 8 YEARS after parenting the same foster boys they were taken into custody. They called me unsabtle. ?? A year later they came after my biological 5 year old. I was abused by accusations made after my son was in custody. NON WERE TRUE. I suffered from severe psychiactric abuse and the false reports they sent to the Prosecuting Attorney. 1) FILE AN APPEAL so you will have access to reports made against you. Do it yourself downtown. 2) have your Attorney request a Court Evaluation with a Court Appointed Child Psychiatrist. My Insurance covered quite a bit of it. Complaining, Crying. Screaming. Blaming won’t help. It’s used against your advantage. If I did not file an Appeal on my own, I would never have seen all of the false accusations and deplorable medical reports. If you have a Court Appointed Attorney - you demand a Court Appointed Child Psychiatrist. Use your Insurance if have any. I know I was a great mother and so did my kid’s. You and your child need to be seen together for the purpose of REUNIFICATION. IF you have a home, job and family support -you are an honest person. DO IT!!!!
Comment by Peggy Hankin — October 10, 2009 @ 12:53 pm
FILE AN APPEAL DOWNTOWN-you will be able to attain full disclosure!! (find out what is being said about you)
REQUEST THROUGH YOUR ATTORNEY A COURT APPOINTED PSYCHIATRIST FOR A REUNIFICATION EVALUATION.
(you will have to take a test and have some counceling with you child)
This is all good. And the only way to prove yourself innocent and worthy.
Comment by Peggy Hankin — October 10, 2009 @ 1:06 pm
Please help me! I feel like I am being accused of being a witch in 1692 Salem. I fell as thought nobody wants to hear what I have to say. My children were taken and despite my efforts to prove my innocence I have been told I must wait for “due process”. This will not come until mid December. No rhyme or reason and my cps and DCFS case worker constantly lie so much so that they contadict their own stories. If you can offer any advice please email me at: takingonthegiant at aol.com. I am in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1692 Salem the witch trials begin…
You stand wrongfully accused of being a witch. You could have been accused for any reason including contact with another accused witch,
because your neighbor had a grudge, or because someone else was trying to save their own skin.
2009 USA”Child Abuse Trials” continue:
You stand wrongfully accused of being negligible, or abusive to your children even though you are a good person, and completely innocent.
You could have been accused for any number of reasons including your neighbor has a grudge or is jealous of you, someone is trying to cover
their tracks, your ex-spouse decides to launch a war against you to attempt custody, or your child has an injury or illness you cannot explain.
Salem:
All the accusers needed to do was make a complaint to the magistrate that you are a witch(sometimes done through a third person to help the
accuser remain anonymous).The magistrate issues a warrant for your arrest, you are taken into custody and examined by two or more magistrates if they believe you are probably guilty you are sent to jail to wait for possible re-examination and to await trial.
Present Day Salt Lake City:
Today the doctors, your neighbor, or anyone else needs to just make a complaint to DCFS and they have to go talk to the judge
to get the warrant to remove your children. You wait 72 hours or less for a shelter hearing. If they feel you are probably guilty you lose your children and sometime in the next 60 days they will set a pre-trial and than an ajudication hearing. Unless of course they choose to extend this rule. Than you could be waiting several months. Like getting to talk to 2 or more majestrates you get the opportunity to speak with detectives, DCFS case workers, and
several others that lie and manipulate evidence to make you appear guilty. You could also be arrested during this time on criminal charges so you can not
work on proving your innocense and getting your children back. (Keep in mind according to national statistics children are twice as likely to be abused
in foster homes as they are in your own home.)
Salem:
Evidence including depostitions or testimonies were entered into evidence.
Present Days USA:
You can enter all the evidence you want but they only need suspicion to keep your children away. Including testimonies of those that accused you and
remember they constantly lie and manipulate evidence in their favor and they only need 51%.
Salem:
A jury instucted by the courts decides your guilt.
Current USA:
You don’t even get a fair fight with a jury trial, you get a judge who is known to stamp everyone as guilty because DCFS is above the law.
Salem:
The convicted defendant recieves his/her sentence. In each case at Salem the convicted was sentenced to be hanged.
Current USA:
The convicted defendants recieve their sentence and if they want their children back they make you jump through many expensive hoops
(ie a psychological exam that is $954.00), with DCFS, CPS and others whom are trying to trip you up along the way. Or with only 51% of the evidence they
can terminate your parental rights and remove the children from your home permanently.
Salem & current USA:
Your options are limited what do you do now?
Flee Salem! Flee present day USA; keep in mind this will make you face federal kidnapping charges, and you could face a life sentence if caught.
Accuse Someone Else; this happens alot now and then. Now particularly in divorce case or now and then to save their own skins. (Ie then if you did not say you believed someone accused was a witch you could be accused yourself, and now as a doctor/teacher/or clergy if you miss a case of abuse it is a class
B misdemeanor.)
Confess even though you are innocent; and pray for the best outcome.
Refuse to stand trial and be stoned to death then; or now lose your children forever.
** In over 300 years what have we learned? **
Is there not anyone who can help us!
Please Help US!
Comment by Kathryn P. — October 24, 2009 @ 10:43 am
Ive been doing my best in trying to get my Twin boys back from CPS. I had trial yesterday, I had Proof of the Foster Parents Physically abusing my twins with Photos I took and two witnesses saw the Marks on one childs Face. yet i lost. They terminated my services and are putting my boys up for adoption. Im at a loss, my 6month review wasnt about my 6month review. i had completed Parenting classes, participated in D/V classes MOAB classes yet what they asked of me to do which was my case plan Wasnt enough??????? I dont understand.
Comment by Javier Pina — October 27, 2009 @ 10:53 am
I have a situation on my hands that is just developing right now. I seek advice on how to handle the upcoming interactions that I am going to have with CPS. They will more than likely be here tomorrow morning.
Here’s the deal, I have a 2 year old son with my ex girlfriend. My ex was dropping off my son at my house today when she was pulled over in the parking lot. She was arrested on the spot for drunk driving and child endangerment. She blew a .31. She has custody of my son, but all custody matters are handled between us personally. We do not have anything set up through friend of the court or anything like that.
Now, I wouldn’t be worried very much about this because they would just give me custody of my son. But last year I had CPS called on ME personally twice. The first time my ex’s ex husband called CPS on me when I grabbed his daughter’s shoulder firmly and turned her around. In this case CPS did not find any evidence of abuse, but they did force me to go through anger management because I was irate with them. They kept telling me that I was a bad father.
The second time I had CPS called on me was because of a argument I got into with my ex’s oldest daughter who is 16. This girl got in my face and tried to push me around. I let her. I didn’t put my hands on her at all. She ran out the door and called the cops on me though. I was charged with a domestic violence that got dropped down to disorderly person that I plead out to.
During the second round with CPS, I had a worker tell me that she was going to do everything in her power to keep me from seeing my son. This never happened. Hell, they never even closed the second case out to my knowledge.
So right now, I am expecting a visit from CPS tomorrow. I don’t trust these people at all. They will probably try to bully their way into my house under the guise of making sure my son will be safe here, but I know damn well that they have the power to use any tactics they deem necessary to take my son away.
I have read a lot of good advice on here already. I will not be letting them in my house, nor will they be able to see my son. As well, I am going to have a camcorder on me, and I am going to video tape my encounters with CPS. I do not have any money for an attorney right now. If any of you have any advice for me and how I should handle the upcoming situation with CPS I would greatly appreciate it.
My email address is corsair130 @ gmail.com (Without the spaces)
Comment by Chuck — October 31, 2009 @ 4:20 pm
Chuck, personally, I would let them see your son. If they have to investigate they’ll be unable to close the case without seeing him. You want that case closed! You don’t need to let them into the house. You did nothing wrong. I wouldn’t give them any leads to more information. The hardest thing is to keep your mouth shut and yet be polite toward them. Good luck!
Comment by LindaJoMartin — October 31, 2009 @ 8:06 pm
Michigan: Tragedy Hits Home with FightCPS Reader Faith Baden’s Children
In Midland, Michigan an adopted child attacked and killed Faith Baden’s son, Justin Baden, age 17, early in August, 2009. Justin and his younger siblings were removed from Faith Baden’s home by CPS and eventually adopted out to Jessica Pribbernow, a Michigan child-collector.
The newspaper reported that Pribbernow had custody of five boys adopted from foster care. The accused, known as Steven Jeffrey Pribbernow Jr., 15, is not the biological brother of the boys he is said to have attacked.
Two others boys, both sons of Faith Baden, were injured severely in the knife attack.
Faith left a number of news articles, emails, and comments on FightCPS yesterday. You can read them here and here.
Faith, my heartfelt sympathy to you on the loss of your son, and prayers for the healing of his younger brothers. We here at FightCPS do understand that your children should not have been separated from their loving parents.
Obviously the child collecting adopters were not capable of keeping the children safe. This is one more sign that the foster-adoption system in this country doesn’t work. I wonder if these children, in particular the one said to be the attacker, were on medications as “special needs” children. Many pharmaceutical medications given to foster and adoptive children are believed to have produced suicidal or homicidal tendencies. One of the emails posted stated that Jessica and her husband were unemployed and living off the adoption subsidy payments received for adopting the boys - a clear indicator that these were probably medicated children.
A fine way our country pretends to keep children safe
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:22 pm
it has also been stated she locks up the food in the house as well .the are not aloud to have girlfriends or do much with other friends .if they do take them any where they are pushed off into another room and made to stay qiet and not to ask for nothing or to go to the bathroom they are to stay put where she puts them at .if one kid gets into anything they all get punished for it .whenmy son went to prision justin and steven were being blamed for everything that she said happen with her girls .she would leave paul and justin to watch the kids well she ran the roads with joshua her husband now but at the time was her boyfriend ,joshua would get into fist fights with paul over kody because they was always being mean with him .jessica has tried to turn the rest of the kids against kody due to his problems that isnt his fault.where are you out of can you come here to help us save our kids in court.
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
If you have any questions at one point I was close to Jessica when she was married to Steve up to when she married Josh. She discuts me to the extreme! What she does to those children is not right and what she spreads about there lives and past is not fair to them. I have heard so much about you and there father that I believe to be untrue. I would like to keep in touch with you and exchange any info of the status of the children and steven. I hope to hear from you.
(from an email friend)
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:27 pm
What website did she post this on? Right she’s full if crap and can
sugar coat anything to make her the victim or the angel when she is
the opposite! And yes that would mean Paul was 28 now ? She’s an idiot.
It seems public that the boys dont want to be there and that she is
psycho!!
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:28 pm
Hi faith this is XXXXXXXXXX and I wanted to let you know that this is my new email
address. She thinks that people telling the truth about stories she runs around
and tells about herself is slander? So when she tells about the punishments and
such is she slandering herself? She is so sad
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
Okay so When Paul got kicked out of school that morning he had been out in the
ditch since 5 am picking rocksbout of the ditch then had to go straight a kid
made fun of him and he got in a fight can u blame him? Those children are slaves
to her. She has said she won’t give them clean underwear unless they smell them
an they are clean if one were to wet the bed she would make them sleep in it.
She would make them sleep outside. She went around telling eveyone about their
so called pasts. Whn she meant Josh she was gone all the Time he played
basketball with my husband and she was always at his games late at night 30
minutes from home with no kids you would always see her and Josh but no kids.
Steve was a good man! I then worked at the mall and always seen her getting
manicures and pedicures, highlights and shopping all the while never having a
job other than the kids, she bragged about the clothing allowence she got and
that she didn’t have to pay much
for her house because the state helped since she had foster kids. She told how
Paul and the other boys were molested and beat, how they were forced to have sex
with older women and you guys video taped it. How the boys would stay out in the
streets while you guys were in bars or in strip clubs that that’s why the boys
know how to dance well because you had them always in bars. Pretty much that you
neglected them they starved the list goes on and on. I can see how much you care
for your children and how much you will fight for them. Faith I do not know
where he is however if you keep my name a secret for now I’m sure I could figure
out for you, I will try my hardest in the morning no matter how hard it is to
hold my younger from telling people what I really think. I don’t know the story
of the day at all, I wish I knew something can u tell me anything of the day?
I’m out of state now so didn’t even get the news. Jessica thinks she is so hot!
She is
always bragging and flirting with everyone including the high school boys it’s
embarrasing for her! I hope to talk soon and will send you more info and
sinerios as I remember them
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:31 pm
Faith,
I’m at work but will try to send as mug as possible now. I’m sorry I though
Steven was yours, I do believe he was set up or pushed over the edge as well! I
have known Jessica since 2005, Paul used to date my sister …. He was a
wonderful boy and I don’t believe for a second that he did what Jessica accused
him off. If he needs anything I would love to help him as well! I believe the
money was going to be up so she tried to do what she could to get rid of him,
she is always flashing the checks around that she gets from them, Jessica was
friends with my parents when she was with Steve then she tried being my friend
however I could never stand her, by the way I’m 23 I don’t want you to think I’m
some teenager. I have learned about jessicas punishments from her mouth
I have to go now I’m sorry and promise more tonight
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
Hi faith my husband is in the army and we have been doing paperwork all day I’m
currently located in Louisiana however I will call you or email with more as
soon as I’m home. I’m sorry about the wait I know how stressful and eager you
must be! I hope to help your children be removed from that home and if steven
needs any supplies or anything I would be happy to donate!
(from a friend in email)
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
I just tried calling you-I just hung up the phone with my aunt. She met your sons! Said the one had multiple stab wounds on face and neck, and had a hard time getting up there to read his letter. Jessica told her he would be attending dow high next yr. She wrote his name down-she teaches there. I explained most of everything we talked about-she is SICK by the whole thing!
She introduced herslf to Jessica and Josh-Josh new who she was right away-she taught him also-she didnt remember him.
She can now feel what we are all feeling. She is very sad for them. I think you were the one that mentioned a boy with the last name moody? SHe sat with them-said the boy was a total basket case-they were best friends.she also told me she sat with Hannah and her boyfriend(shes the one that I told you told me a few things–her boyfriend was real good friends with Justin also. I will contact Hannah again today. Ill let you know.
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:34 pm
Awe I’m glad she got laughed out of court! What was the court hearing for? And
I’m very sorry to hear that about the death record! That’s awful news to hear
for a parent and I can only imagine how hard it is for you to cope with. Justice
will come and find her! Just know you can not burden any blame seeing as how you
had no control I know as a parent there must be a sence to protect their
childeren and the state really screwed up here! I will write to Paul how do I
address it? I address it to Paul pribernow or to the other man and put pauls
name underneath? Does he know about Justin? And im allowed to say anything about
his situation? Like that I know he didn’t do it? He does say he didn’t do it
right? I mean I know he took a plea but he’s just a child who was locked in a
room with grown men police officer and detectives of course he would have to
give in he was probably so weak. I heard that they kept him in the room awake
drilling him with questions in
shift for over 24 hours however that is just a rumor so idk how true it was. I
will write to him tomorrow. Have a good night!
(from a friend in email)
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:37 pm
Also the boys look very happy in the picture of when they were younger. Are you
able to have contact with Paul? I would be interested in writting him if you had
an address. I feel so sick and tear up when I think of Paul. He has such a good
heart and she screwed some of the best times of his life up! I hope when he gets
out he will be able to be as successful as if she didn’t set him back! Is he
able to take any classes while he is there? I know sometimes they can I’m just
not sure where he’s at. Talk To ya soon
(from a friend in email)
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
This is a picture of my husband and I unfortunatly we don’t Have any children yet but we are trying
let me know how court went and why do you have to go to court with her? I’m sure she will just be all dolled up prancing around thinking everyhing is perfect gosh I can’t stand how she used to do that and I feel so awful for the boys. It sounds like they really want to be back with you! And seeing as how they do it just proves that what Jessica said you guys did to the boys is not true! If it were they would not want to be back with you! I grew up in home similar to how the boys are in now so I understand where they are coming from and ands can see it in there eyes! Hope to hear from you soon!
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
hi im writing 2 u because cps in tx did me &mychildren wrong they took my chidren away from me in2004 I did everything they asked but they said i didnt they took my rights awayinNov2005 and told abounch oflies even the judge Ididnt get afair trail I appealed numors of times and they still wouldnt give me my children back 2 me They claim that my children was sexaully abused by adrawling my oldest son drew a child eating icecream they said it was sexual abuse by step son @the time im remarried very happy owen my home now I would love my children home where they belong cps are liers thet need to be honest please help I pray Thanks Rebecca PS WENEED 2help eachother cps isnt helping of us
Comment by Rebecca — November 6, 2009 @ 2:03 pm
Faith, as to your sons being blamed for what Paul supposedly did with the adopter’s daughters, I honestly believe it is her fault only. What kind of NUT would adopt five unrelated boys to live with her two biological daughters? I mean, really what did she THINK was going to happen when she brought them into her home? Boys will be boys. I call her responsible because she made the decision to bring teenage boys into her home and she didn’t protect her own children. The social workers who allowed these adoptions are culpable as well.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — November 6, 2009 @ 3:22 pm
did you get a chance to read everything i sent to this site about everything that has been sent to me about that family from friends of the kids .we need to get our kids out of that house because not many people are seeing them out ad about and she told the judge that not even thekids friends from school doesnt know where they live and the judge felt that was kind of weird as well .she is trying to make people think she is scared of me saying that im trying to hurt her but i have never said nothing like that to her .i was just very up set when she called me to days after my son got killed and i told he off because she told me he wasnt coming home and he didnt love me but its kind of fun when him and i spen 3 hours on the phone talking together and he said he neverstopped love me or our family .
Comment by faith baden — November 6, 2009 @ 3:50 pm
To All the innocent, I have recently prompted CNN to do a story on my family and the destruction DCF caused through their investigation of false reports made on me. I hope to open a whole can of worms ,that should help this site. My children and I suffered at the hands of malicious reporters, which made DCF unwilling co-conspirators in harassing me. Not to mention the terrible effects the whole situation had on my family over the last 12 years. I only now feel strong enough to take this on.I have suffered from Lupus and PTSD for years.Now I’m told I might have M.S. I have been trying to visit my past, to write a book on my families experiences re:DCF, but it’s been to painful to remember. I hope that I can shed some light on your site through all this. Thanks Susan
Comment by Susan Leventhal — November 13, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
I don’t know where to start but this is my first involvement with CPS. To be honest, I am a train wreck. He came to my house with my wife around 7:00 pm and just bullied her while I was at work. This site is informative and I have taken precautionary steps to stay ahead. But I have this sulken feeling that this issue is going to drag and I may lose my kids. Just at a loss right about now that how can someone report us when we’re doing nothing wrong.
Comment by Will — November 13, 2009 @ 10:53 pm
I have a gorgeous one year old. I lost her in November of 2008 Because her father beat me so severly it ripped open my c section scar. I was hospitilized with a 35% chance of living and told i needed to leave my daughter withs omeone i could trust so naturally i chose my mother. I was in the hospital for three days short of a month. In that time my mom called dss n told them i had put my daughter in that situation knowingly. When i get out of the hospital in order too be with my infant of six weeks i would have too live with my mother n her husband.Her husband hates me and due to that my mother has completley abandoned me until she found out i was pregnant with a baby girl. She then was all about me . Well three days after being at my mothers, my stepfather tells me too get my ass out of bed and help my mother i aint gonna live rent free.I said ok I got up put my daughter down did the dishes vacuumed, even tho I am not to be doing any of this type of stuff. He comes home from work in a bad mood and starts on me. I just walked away and continued to keep my daughter in the room with me and well one day dss shows up and my mom completely throws me under the bus saying im rude and disrespectful and they want me out but they want my baby to stay. So dss kicks me out of my mothers home. I had no where too go and I was freaking out because I didn’t have my daughter. Whom is the only child I will ever have. For the last year I have fought and fought and fought and now my daughter is living with me. Last night I found out my mom raised more concerns about me. I am on drugs ( have passed every drug test) Im drinkin and driving and leaving with my baby with strangers you know they did not even ask me they informed me that next court date they will be filing for her to go back to my mother. I need to know would writing the judge a letter be a good idea. I can not continue to go on like this without my baby and no matter what my mom says they believe her she could say the sky is pink well oh look hur hur its pink, So what should I do. I have done everything I have been asked plus some things I was not asked too. What can I say in my defense someone please help me. My baby is all I have left!!!
Comment by Elizabeth — November 15, 2009 @ 3:21 am
Elizabeth, don’t write the judge a letter. Instead write a declaration to explain things from your point of view. You can find a sample declaration in the legal document library of this website. Make sure it is filed well before court. It would be best to show it to your attorney first. Everyone will need to get a copy before or at court.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — November 15, 2009 @ 8:14 pm
I need some advice. A couple of days ago a DSS worker appeared on my front door step to conduct an initial assessment of alleged child abuse which is FALSE! I truly believe this was reported by my wife’s school. It was slightly raining so of course I was terrified as my wife, I invited him in, listen to his allegations to which both me and my wife denies. He proceeds to tell me that is is not a big deal..gives me a yellow safety form with his signature on it.
Then he advised that I should contact the caseworker and speak to her about these false allegations. My wife and I are dumbfounded, we couldn’t sleep, eat. We had to keep our emotions around our children (6,4) and let them know all is ok. The allegations reports that out of anger I place my children in a dark lock room which is preposterous. I will NEVER, EVER do such a thing. My wife and I NEVER condone this type of behavior.
We are simple folk. We can not afford an attorney and for the past weekend, I have been trying to find one but each of them has states this is not their area of expertise. Our house is tidy, food in the fridge, we live in a safe neighborhood, we are both employeed, none of us has criminal convictions. Our children are playful, teachers whom responded to our emails has indicated that they are wonderful, academically they are doing great, and plays with other kids. Medical records are up-to-date. No disciplinary problems with teachers.
So should I contact this case-worker to cooperate? My sister has advises I get a tape recorder and record everything. And she advises that I cooperate because if I refuses it gives them ammunition that I’m hiding something.
Can someone offer any sound advice or point me to a really good lawyer in Raleigh?
Comment by Cliff — November 16, 2009 @ 9:02 am
I am searching for cases of parents or children who have attempted or commited suicide when CPS is involved.
Cases where there was a prior death in the family, in particular a Mother.
I am a Father. My wife died of cancer. My 11 year old daughter and i were separated by CPS due to both of us having depression.
We have been separated 10 years now.
My direction is where there is a death in the family. CPS, mishandles the case, and either the parent or child commits suicide.
Of special interest is where the Father is (falsely) accused of sexually molesting the child after the Mother’s death from cancer or another cause.
I am submitting legislation and making court challenges.
Robert J. Lanier
BBR12345 @YAHOO.COM
Comment by Robert J. Lanier — November 18, 2009 @ 7:20 pm
I am a former foster youth and I am twenty years old. I will make this as short and painless as possible. I was physicaly abused in foster care and when I tried to report the abuse they shoved pills down my throat to get me to “shut up and quit complaining”, their words exactly. My brothers were seperated from me because they were trying to report the abuse also. CPS are trying to say my brothers were trying to parent me. I think my brothers had every right to interfere when I’m leteraly pissed on while asleep. Thrown around by the throat across rooms. and then medicated to get me to shut up about it. I’v even tried telling the police. I missed out on 7 years of education because of this medication that I was forced to take to cope with abuses taking place.
I was slave labored 12 hours a day 6 days a week. I ran away when I was fifteen. The most recent drug I was on was paxil. I must have collected at least 20,000 dollars in medical bills while sleeping in ally ways ending up in hospitals every few weeks from alcohol poisoning. Suicide attempts almost succeeding. Waking up in jail every week about not knowing how I got their. For three years after leaving foster care. They would tell me services don’t exist I can’t get voluntary services. no such funding exist to help me get into school.
Finaly about a year ago, the last time I was in jail for blacking out and getting into trouble. My court appointed attorney had to threaten Child welfare so that I could get services. They even tried turning him down untill he threatend them.
When I initialy tried requesting my records they gave me a very small portion of my records and said they could not find the rest. I recently just sent a FOIA request, but we’ll see how well that goes.
I was deprived of my Life, Liberty, equal protection of laws. I was tortured and will have to live the rest of my life knowing that its a neverending Political War in my head between those that are fortunate and those that arn’t such as myself.
I’ve tried just about everything I can and I have an obsession with building a case and It won’t go away. no matter how many times I box my work up and lock it away in a closit It keeps haunting me and I just pull it out the next week. I have a strong argument with Primary scources, Secondary scources,
Statute of limitations gives me up to 6 years after the age of 18 to file a caset. I should not have to have the word Victim written on my forehead in perminant marker anymore. I would like it to instead say free atlast.
If there is an attorney out there who will help me get money for college or anything please contact me
Comment by Justin Snegirev — November 19, 2009 @ 11:15 pm
I just find out that foster homes are allow to physical restrain to the foster kids under their care!!! and if is true i wonder what are their policy and limitations.
Comment by maya — November 22, 2009 @ 12:53 pm
Here is my situation. I was convicted of a misdemeanor 243.4 (e) (1) against my 11 year old stepdaughter in criminal court and did not go to trial at childrens court and plead guilty. I received 60 days and done 21 days in county jail. I was given reunification services for my biological daughter but not my stepdaughter. My wife has custody of the children and she is doing counceling for both the children and herself. I also have parenting, councesling and sex offender program.
Here is the catcher, my wife and I are trying to get back together and I have already talked to my lawyer about wic 388 reunification services be added to the entire family so I can come home.
Does anyone know if that is possible to get reunificaiton services added to my stepdaughter even if the allegations have been substantiated? I am seeing my daughter at the dcfs office and dcfs agent told me that once I do everything I have been asked to do I will be able to reunify with my daughter. So any help would be greatly appreciated.
Comment by coffee — November 22, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
Coffee, here’s the bad news. I’ve never heard of any cases where a sex offender was reunited with their family. Even people who are innocent but coerced to admit guilt are not allowed by CPS to reunite with the family. I think there’s a high likelihood that the CPS worker was giving you a song and dance routine, and that if you go back to that family, or if she knows your wife has allowed you back into her life, she’ll go take the children and put them in foster care.
Please talk this over seriously with your attorney. Ask if he knows of other cases where the judge allowed a convicted sex offender to live with children again… especially the victim. I’ll bet it doesn’t happen. Make your attorney tell you the truth about this.
Over the years I’ve heard now and then from women who allowed their husbands back into the house only to find CPS and the police at their door, taking all the children out of the home. I know you don’t wish that kind of trauma on your daughter.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — November 22, 2009 @ 11:34 pm