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Hello everyone, my name is Stephen Manuel and I introduce myself as a person in need of information on how to fight cps in a case of so called “concern of mental capacity”. Also, I want to also intruduce myself as a former ward of the state in which I have first hand experience on what cps does to destroy families and brainwash children on their parents being an ememy to them. They also try to drug children by using illegal methods to evaluate children on the premisis of keeping them “quiet”.
My story of needing help to fight cps is simple. My 10 year old son was rushed to the emergency room because of an accidental ingestion. I had him rushed to the hospital by ambulance, had him transferred to a facility that specialized in pediatric emergency care, stayed by his side until he came out of intensive care and became the focal point of a cps investigation of abuse because I took my child out of the hospital “against medical advice” when I asked the chief physician why my son was being “held” in the hospital. Now let me explain why he was being “held”. After he came out of intensive care, he was his normal self, a excited child, ready to play, and extremely itchy to move around. He wanted to be around his siblings, he has 4, and his friends so he could go back to being the child he was before this all happened. After talking to his doctor and her telling me that he was ok, and that he could be released by the end of the day, the chief emergency physician had a “concern” about my child’s mental capacity of being suicidal. Now, I came to understand that this is normal protocol due to the fact that we have a rash of suicidal children that want to take multiple lives before taking their own. The chief physican of emergency care had a “social worker” talk to me about my son being interviewed alone to evaluate his mental capacity. I agreed to the interview only if my wife and I could be present during the interview. When I disproved of the interview of my child alone, all kind of red flags went up with the social worker and the hunt for information was on. From this point, I figured I was going to be investigated on possible abuse so I began a search on the internet from my son’s hospital side, using their wireless connection, and found fightcps.com. While I was reseachering fightcps.com, I also asked to speak to a patient liaison to ask why I wasn’t being given any information on the condition of my son. Now mind you, my son is hooked up to some monitor but the monitor is not running, only connected to my son to keep him from moving around. After about 20 minutes of waiting after I asked for the patient liaison, I had no luck of retreiving information for the 3 days my son was in the hospital, the chief physician of emergency care shows up. And now the conversation.
I ask why my son is still in the hospital when it was deemed that he was ok and would be released by the end of the day. She tells me some cockamamie story of sending a psyciatrist to talk to me about evaluating him to check on his mental capacity on being suicidal. I tell her that a social worker talked to me about a evaluation, but no kind of physician ever talked to me, and she says they talked to my wife. TOTAL B.S.!!! So I ask her why no information is being given to me about the condition of my child and that I have a right to that information and she tells me that she is “holding” him until he can be evaluated the next day. “Oh really!!!”. So I ask what does his well being have to do with his mental capacity? Her response, “It is my “concern” that he be evaluated to make sure he is not suicidal” NOW I’M PISSED. “Ma’am, you need to release my son” I tell her because I’ve had enough. I told her i’ve sat in the intensive care unit, watched my son with tubes all over my son, helping the nurses with my son when he was throwing up because they didn’t want to touch him, because of the swine flu scare (My son was in the same hospital the baby died with the swine flu, when it happened), and these people want him to be evaluated alone. While all this is going on, I’m on the fight cps website doing research and I find information on what to do when being investigated and find some very helpful sites with information on how fight them when being investigated.
Now mind you, I know what is going on here. The physician is “holding” my son until the cps worker shows up so they can immediately take custody of him while he is in the hospital. I also know that cps is back-logged with cases that it will probably take that long to get a worker to the hospital to take custody of my son because of the physican’s “concern” which would be enough evidence to make my child a ward of the state. Thank you fightcps for that information. So I tell the physician to release my son, she says we are free to take him, and that she could not release him, and I tell her to give me a written statement on why she can’t release him. Scroll up to see the statement she wrote. Now on to the house.
We are at home, one day after being out of the hospital, my son doing fine, glad to be home, with his siblings, and his pets (we have 2 dogs) and everythings fine. About 6pm there’s a knock at the door. My wife opens the door, walks out, shuts the door behind her and conversates with the investigator who is there with two uniformed police officers. The investigator is irate, gyrating and pointing fingers to get my wife to engage and she dosen’t, (thanks fightcps on showing how to handle ourselves when being investigated). She tells my wife that my son is a ward of the state, and my wife tells her she has nothing to say and to refer any questions to our attorney (thanks fightcps) and the investigator says she is going to get a court order to remove and she’ll be back. Thank you fightcps.com because of my wife’s stance with the investigator, keeping them outside our home, and not engaging in violent activity so the investigator can’t make a case against us, we haven’t heard from cps, the threat of imminent danger has gone, and we are living much easier because of it. I was never worried, but my wife took precaution by removing our children from the home until all this is settled. We’ve since sought counsel, and we are working on getting cps out of our lives so we can go back to being a normal family.
I just posted all of this to let everybody here know that this site works, there is useful information, helpful links, and people willing to give you information to arm yourself with your rights so you can fight to keep your kids. I want to let all of you know to stay strong if you are having a hard time with cps. Use the information on this website, click the links and learn how to fight cps. These are our kids, and I mean OUR kids. We must create a community to keep or families safe from cps. And this community starts here. This guestbook is a perfect start. I’m willing to make a effort to help anybody to keep them from going through what I went through or worse. With the help of this site, I acted quickly, others may not be so fortunate. So, post your story, let fightcps be your helpful guide, and lets get to know each other. Also, drop LindaJo a line, (the creator of this site) and thank her for her tireless effort to give us information and arm us with strategy to fight cps.
Until we meet again,
God Bless you and your families!!
Stephen Manuel
Comment by Stephen Manuel — May 8, 2009 @ 8:26 pm
I have left comments before - however this time is different. On Tuesday, May 5th, CPS, and the Sheriff’s Officer’s came into my home and removed my children. At the time my husband and I were foster parents and caring and loving 3 children whom we had had for over a year and had been building a relationship with their biological family.
They removed my children because they said that there was a lack of supervision in the home. I am a stay at home mom and my husband works the 3rd shift at a Private Prison. There is ALWAYS someone at home. People from our church had called us in - telling lie after lie about our family. My husband’s niece who we had custody of had told the CPS worker lie after lie. She’s 13 and ALL of my little kids are terrified of her. We found her looking at GAY PORN on our computer, smoking, haning out with boys and doing who knows what, taking OTC medications to school and passing them out, lying to her teachers, stealing, etc… She was threatening the kids that if they ever told on her or told any of her “secrets” that she’d beat them up. When we attempted to explain this - we were accused of using her as the scapegoat. I haven’t eaten or slept since Tuesday. They didn’t allow us to say goodbye. Luckily my kids are with a family friend - since we don’t have any family around here. My niece is no longer welcome in my home or around my children. And they are relieved. I had to tell my other kids’ grandmother that they had been moved because CPS couldn’t even do that.
I feel horrible that I have taken in other people’s children now for the past 7 years. It’s not an honorable thing. CPS has lied about why they have my kids, everything is bogus and unsubstantiated. They are believing a manipulating, lying, thieving 13 year old over grown adults. I am SO, SO, SO sorry that I have been a foster parent. And I am hurt, upset and lost without my kids. I don’t know what to do. I have to go to court - something I’ve never ever done. I have to have an attorney - I didn’t rob anyone and I didn’t murder anyone. I just want my kids back. Someone please help me - I don’t know what to do.
Comment by Christine — May 9, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
My family was also traumatized by CPS in San Diego, CA. The coercive methods used should be stopped immediately through a class action lawsuit (compassionate attorneys: please help). CPS mainly benefits its employees and branch agencies: courts, residential and treatment centers, foster home recruiters, adoption agencies, and many others. Thankfully, my son is back home, but my heart breaks every time I think about the half a million children in our foster care system and their families. The way most of these families (the vast majority of whom are poor) are treated is deplorable. Please keep me posted on legal news; I am ready to testify in court when (hopefully) a class action lawsuit is brought forth.
Comment by Francisca Salcedo — May 11, 2009 @ 8:49 am
This is a update to a earlier post I made on this guestbook blog. On May 11, one day after Mother’s Day, I get a certified letter in the mail from cps stating I was under court order to “cooperate with cps” during a investigation. Are these people for real? This has got to be stopped. I am in the process of going to the local media to expose cps for what they are doing, and I want to send a message to families around this country that we have had enough. I refuse to cooperate because cps acts on a whim of a concern to remove children they may think may be in harm’s way. Now don’t get me wrong, children need to be protected but its been 2 and a half weeks since my son’s been out of the hospital. Could cps actually think my son or any of my children for that matter are in harm’s way. Could they really think that I or my wife could intimidate any of my children into staying in a abusive familiy??? I have one pre-teen, two teenagers, and 10 year old and an 8 year old. Could they really think that my kids are in danger by any means by leaving them in the family for two weeks? I’m holding my composure here, but, its coming to a boiling point. There is going to be a statement made be it bad or good and I hope for the latter. But they are pushing, and I want to push back. Now, I won’t do anything drastic, I’m beyond that, but I’m not the kind of person to be pushed around and just take it. As the father of five children, I’m saying to all of you here at fightcps.com that its time to push back. I want to have my voice heard. I want to publish videos on the internet to make a difference. I want to go to Washington to make things happen. The only way to get the reform we want and to help protect our families is to stand up, speak out and stop these atrocities by cps and their employees. I’m going to make myself available to any of your who have a hard time struggling and find it difficult to get cps off your back. If I have to go to school to educate myself, I will do it. These are OUR children, and nobody, and I mean nobody has the right to take our children!!!
TO ALL FAMILIES NEEDING HELP ON THIS SITE. THE FIGHT STARTS NOW!!!!!
If you need anything, use this site as your resource, trust me, this site works. ARM YOURSELVES with information. Fight for reform. Utilize the member base on this site. Get involved. And for the most part, STAY STRONG!!!! Its for the children. I’m pratically on this site every day. I can help you navigate or point you in the right direction based on where you live. Just know there are people here to help.
Comment by Stephen Manuel — May 13, 2009 @ 10:24 am
just a letter from CPS (certified) “saying” that you are under court order to cooperate.
Gee, They forgot to enclose “THE COURT ORDER”!!!!!!!!!!
Could it be folks…..THEY DON”T HAVE ONE!
Been there done that. Just another threat letter meant to make you slip up.
Comment by Cheryl — May 13, 2009 @ 3:29 pm
Anyone in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, please look up the Gates Law!!!!!!!!!
CPS cannot take your child/children without a signed order from the Judge..
They must prove immanent danger..
Please you can find the actual memo to CPS caseworkers and print it out from the Hope4kidz.com Website…
Last time I checked removals were down 18%
Comment by Diando — May 13, 2009 @ 3:38 pm
I have just a few questions. Im not exactly sure if my rights with my son were terminated or what not. As far as I know they gave partial or full custody to the father and I need to be supervised for visits with him. I guess thats what the social worker advised and it was granted. I dont talk to my attorney since she was court appointed and when I do call her I never hear anything back.
What I want to know is how do I get my son back to my physical custody? Im young and have no clue on where to start. The father lets his mother do all the decision making for who my son sees and where he goes. No one in my family has heard or seen my son in a few months. The father refuses to give me any information period.
My dad had told me that if I wanted to change court orders to go to the county clerk and file. Im sure that cost money. I feel stuck.
Comment by Karina — May 14, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
Hello ALL! I am starting a group that is intended to fight CYS in Pennsylvania. ALL concerned parents are welcome at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AntiCYSinPA/
Comment by J.R. — May 14, 2009 @ 9:27 pm
This comment is for Karina who posted on May 14 about what to do to get her child back in her custody. Karina, the first thing you have to do, is to see if your rights have been terminated. From what it sounds like, you seem to be the victim of a ploy to have your child taken by the child’s father and his family. I would hope this not be the case because not only does the mother suffer, but the child suffers too. A child longs for a mother’s love and develops all kinds of emotional problems once he is taken from her. But from this point, you should stay strong and do some fact digging yourself.
First off, go to your county clerks office online or in person and ask to see if you have a case file on record in your name. This information is public record. If you do, it may be considered confidential information. This would be the case you are interested in because the confidential information is about your child. From this point, you need to hire a attorney, most family law attorneys can be retained for like $1500 so he/she can request the and get the information you need to see if your rights have been terminated. If your rights have been terminated, then you will need counsel no matter what. But if not, you have a case against you to see if you are fit enough to provide for your child and here is what you need to do next.
I’d suggest you pull together all the resources you can to prove how good you are as a parent. That means, family, friends, teachers, church members, community organizations (YMCA and such) grocery store employees, neighborhood public servants (policemen, firemen etc) are all good resources. Build a case to show how good you are as a parent, videos are a extraordinary way to prove this. Photos of you and your child in a happy state are great ways to prove this also. Cover all the bases, if your parental rights have not been terminated, cps is building a case to where you will lose them, so time is of the essence here. I forgot to mention co-workers and bossess. You will need a lawyer to do this for you so I’d suggest you do some research on the internet or canvass your yellow pages for a good family lawyer. Most of them will work with your financial situation, meaning they will take their retainer in payments, or post dated checks, just get a lawyer. This is very important as they can object to anything cps throws at the judge to show you as a unfit parent. The more you give the lawyer to work with, the harder they’ll fight.
Let me also say that you are in my prayers, and I hope you get your child back. Please post back here to let us know how things are going, and if you need any more help.
Until we meet again,
Stephen Manuel
Comment by Stephen Manuel — May 17, 2009 @ 6:43 am
Stephen Manuel,
I have not run across any attorneys who will work with a person’s financial situation. They will not take payments for the retainer nor for any other service.
If you know of any attorneys in the state of Arizona who will do as you say, PLEASE contact me. My niece is desperate and we have tried everything! Now she is forced to represent herself Pro Per. It is not fair and her chances are very slim.
Thank you.
p.s. EVERYONE WHO IS READING THIS, Please visit my MySpace page and read the blog regarding CPS and Family Court reform, click on the link and PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION.
Comment by Aunt Dee-Dee — May 18, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
Aunt Dee Dee-
Where abouts in AZ are you?
Comment by Cheryl — May 19, 2009 @ 6:52 am
Aunt Dee-Dee, please give me contact info so I can post to you some help you may need. There’s always more than one way to skin a cat here. Its not all that for your niece to represent herself if she puts the ball in her corner. Remember what I said in the post you read, “I’d suggest you pull all the resources you can to prove how good you are as a parent”. I know it sounds crazy, but it will be a great help if she ends up defending herself. The key to remember is what can she give a judge to object to whatever cps is giving the judge. But, in the meantime, I have a few leads for you in AZ, but I have no Idea what city you are in. Post a way I can contact you. I’ll definitely make myself available to you and your niece and find a way to provide some help. I apologize on what you read about attorneys taking payments in my last post, I found a few attorneys here in Houston that will do that, but I should have not based my experience on finding attorneys as encouraging members here looking for counsel. The bottom line is draw up a game plan, prepare for battle and do your best to help your neice keep her child(ren). In the meantime, I await your response with the contact info, I went to myspace and didn’t have a address for you, so I hope to hear from you again soon!!
Until then,
Stephen Manuel
Comment by Stephen Manuel — May 19, 2009 @ 6:53 pm
Ok, here goes
On April the 3rd, I had CPS come to my door with false accusations that my husband and i do drugs in front of our daughter and my hubby sells them. i have never done drugs in my entire life, and my stupid butt let cps into my home. we both took drug tests which came up “dilute” negative, and they accused us of drinking bleach. (although the dr involved said a negative is a negative) anyway, i admitted to smoking marijuana one time, and they want to open our family up for “services” meaning counseling, random drug testing, a mental health assessment (i said i had anxiety about 5 or 6 yrs ago), drug counseling, and parenting classes. we went to see a lawyer who said to say “no thank, we do not need your services’ and he said he guarantee they will close the case. also, we got a letter in the mail that said the case has been closed, abuse could not be determined, but we are being referred for services. what the hell is going on?? do i hire this lawyer? did i screw up by saying i smoked ONE TIME BUT NEVER IN front of my daughter? does this letter saying abuse coul not be determined hold up? thanks
Comment by mommy dearest — May 20, 2009 @ 1:39 pm
To “mommy dearest” - I don’t think anyone here can tell you what to do. I think it is a good idea to hire the lawyer and take his advice, but it is entirely up to you as to what course of action you take now. CPS workers are totally unpredictable. Every case is different. I could tell you what I’d do - and that is to refuse services. They want you to take on services so they can get Social Security reimbursements into the county. They also use services like counseling to possibly get more ‘evidence’ against a family. But if you refuse services and they retaliate, don’t blame it on me. Like I said, CPS workers are unpredictable. The thing that deters most of them in the beginning is when a family retains a good attorney and insists all communications go through the attorney.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — May 21, 2009 @ 10:14 am
Hey ya’ll,
My wife and I were directed towards this site by her parents who have been trying to help us in our fight. Which we thought was almost over we were told back in November/ December time frame that we were not being charged criminaly and then in February we started to get our kids on weekends and then they gave us joint custody of our son and we just now recently got our daughter back somewhat and now they decided to file felony charges against us for our daughter getting sick back in novemeber of ‘08 and not showing signs as soon as she did we rushed her to the ER and everything went down hill from there best part is we go to court tomorrow to get our trial date and our attorney gets told he can’t represent us since he represented us during the civil part so after we drained all of our money cooperating with dss we get to go even further in the hole to try to get a new attorney and now we have the foster care supervisor telling my wife she is a horrible wife and a horrible Marine Wife because she doesn’t do everything around the house like this lady did when her husband was in the Marines and then everyone else seems like they use the fact that I serve in the Marines and have been to combat in two different theaters of operations as signs that I’m a horrible father. These people claim to be looking out for the welfare of my kids when they are destroying them and then they do the same thing they are prosecuting us for by not seeking medical attention when my daughter had a 104 temp the foster mom called and said that she had a slight temp but she thinks she is fine and then when we take her to the dr she can’t believe the foster mom didn’t take her to the hospital and the next week she does the same thing even after we told her anything over 101 needs to be seen and my daughter eneded up having a horrible ear infection where her ear drum broke.
These people need to be stopped some how.
thanks for putting up with my rant
rl_wheeler1 at hotmail.com
Comment by Richard W — May 21, 2009 @ 7:22 pm
Karina–who took you to Court, CPS or the father of your child? I tend to think that the father did, because if CPS did they either would have kept the child or just given him to the dad without a hearing. Look at the costody papers you received after the hearing, there should be a number on there that identifies your case. You can then go to the local county courthouse and file paperwork to have another custody hearing. At that time you can request full custody or at least shared custody. It does not sound like your rights are terminated, it sounds like the dad took your for custody and won, maybe just telling you that your rights were terminated. Any party can request a custody hearing at any time. The custody office is usually located in the county courthouse, but call to be sure. In my state it costs $93 to file for custody but there are fee waivers for people who do not have money. When you go to the custody office you can request one of those forms. If you cannot afford an attorney you should at least consult legal services to have someone help you prepare the paperwork. It is not really difficult but can be confusing if you are not familiar with it. Oh, and do not listen if the dad tells you that you “signed your rights away.” Like I said, that is NOT possible in custody court–only a judge can terminate someone’s rights, and they do not do it at a regular custody hearing. Also, they don’t let people just “sign away their rights” because they want people to provide financially for the child even if they don’t want to visit. So if the dad is telling you that you signed away your rights in custody court, that is just not true. (This does not apply to situations with CPS, so if it turns out that CPS took the child then things would be different. But I am going on the assumption that this was a regular custody proceeding. Let me know if different). And like others said, it is always good to have people that can testify to your character and parenting skills so keep track of stuff like that. Good luck!
Comment by bender604 — May 22, 2009 @ 12:46 pm
My name is Svetlana I am a of 21 month old son who has been taken away from me when he was 3 months. I am desperate for help to get my son back, I never hurt my son and it was not until I persisted with my concerns about my sons wellbeing that the injuries were discovered. My son is 21 month old and this is his second placement because he was neglected and abused by the foster mom. I had to beg my social worker and her supervisor to have my son removed from the first foster parents home I had to collect the evidence of how my son was treated by foster mother and take them to court in order to get a new placement. I have followed all court requirements and on May 19, 2009 the court made a decision to terminate my services and put my child for adoption. I am begging you as a desperate mother to help me my son is all I got in this life and I can’t picture living without him.
Respectfully,
Svetlana
Comment by Svetlan — May 23, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
Thought you all might be interested in this article From Appeal Democrate.com
CPS worker charged with forgery
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May 23, 2009 12:57:00 AM
By Rob Young/Appeal-Democrat
A Sutter County Child Protective Services employee has been charged with forging a court record and a judge’s signature, the Appeal-Democrat has learned.
Sarah J. Powell, 35, will be arraigned June 1 in Sutter County Superior Court, said Assistant District Attorney Fred Schroeder.
Powell is also charged with forging the seal of the state of California on a document, he said.
Schroeder said he could not comment on the motive behind the alleged forgery. He did not disclose which judge’s signature Powell is charged with forging.
Powell and Child Protective Services officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The three charges were filed May 12. Powell was not arrested but was sent a letter ordering her to appear in court, Schroeder said.
There are no other defendants in the case, he said.
Child Protective Services workers are county employees.
Sutter County spokesman Chuck Smith said he learned of the case from the Appeal-Democrat.
“I have no idea what her job status is,” Smith said.
Contact Appeal-Democrat reporter Rob Young at 749-4710 or at ryoung at appealdemocrat.com.
Comment by jean — May 23, 2009 @ 10:03 pm
To Mommy Dearest — what you did sounds like what I did, trying to cooperate hoping they would leave you alone. You have found out by now that anything you say will be twisted and used against you. I made the mistake of admitting I had been depressed; they had me down as suicidal. Too late I learned the importance of keeping my mouth shut. If CPS contacts you again about “services” refer them to the lawyer.
Comment by Judy — May 24, 2009 @ 1:37 pm
I have written on here a few months back concerning the arkansas dhs and what they did to my sister, my brother and I. My sisters kids are still in custody. my nephew A2, is having problems in school. they transferred him and his brother A1, to another town and to another school. the place they were first in, a cops house, he couldn’t take em any more, so they ended up in a babtist church. the people that ran it did not want A2, just A1, because A2 is handicapped. So they moved them to a town 50 miles away. my sister is doing family counseling with them at the dhs office. the therapist is asking the kids why they shouldnt be around me. my step nephew M said because i do bad things. my sister corrected him and said no he used to, don’t anymore. i asked my sister where he’s getting this from. He was the one whom my sister’s husband accused me of touching, then recanted his story. My sister told me that thats what the dhs is telling him. they even have a picture of me, from the 1990s in their break room saying dangerous predator. i am not! i don’t even live in that town anymore. the cops even took my picture out of the local library, but these people put it up in their break room. my 16 year old nephew, J saw it, and it upset him alot. these kids love me and know i wouldn’t hurt them. i am so sick of the negative attacks and constant slandering of my name and the defamation of character by these “people”, monsters more like, on a regular basis. i am a good person who works hard at what i do for a living and just wants to be able to visit my nephews and nieces with my sisters supervision, of course. i am eventually moving back to the state i was born and raised at real soon. just have to make sure that i have a job before i go. my question is, how can i fight these monsters to get that paper removed and can i sue them for doing this and for slander and defamation of character? these beasts even accused me of molesting my niece, WHEN SHE WASN’T EVEN BORN YET! and accused me of sexually abusing my soon to be ex-brother=in-law. he’s like 49! these low lifes have really got out of hand. please any lawyers out there, help me sue these people and give them their just due. they came into my brothers house, with a sherriff deputy, no warrant, nothing and took my sister’s kids back in january of 2009 over a false allegation made by her husband. Also how do i get allegations removed from my record? any help would be appreciated. i am so tired of these people and the damage that they cause. they don’t see the present person, they see the past. yes i have two convictions, one for my sister from 1986, i was 13 she was 11, and one for my cousin in 1995, which is another false allegation made by my so-called uncle, whom said i molested his son. I WASN’T EVEN IN THE SAME STATE! my cousin has told my sister and his mother that nothing happened, that i never touched him. he is in prison right now on drug related charges and armed robbery. i’m thinking of writing a letter to him and see if we can get this case taken back to court and get it dismissed, the one from 1995. anyway all help would be appreciated. thanx all for what you do on a daily basis for children and families. Peace to all.
Comment by Paul — May 25, 2009 @ 7:13 pm
Please sign my petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/4/please-bring-our-children-home.
This tragedy has gone on long enough! Thanks
Comment by Susan — May 26, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
To Steven Manuel and Cheryl,
Thank you for replying to my post. You can leave a message for me at the MySpace page or you can email me at ddmail007 at gmail dot com.
My niece is in the Phoenix area. She is not healthy right now and her doctor said her body is shutting down and if she doesn’t do something about all the stress, it could kill her.
She is a newlywed with a brand new baby and she has 3 hour visitation on Saturdays with her daughter who was taken away.
Steven, it’s ok about the post, I hope your post did give others encouragement and hope. We are all on this site to help each other.
Thank you again Steven and Cheryl for responding. I will check my email daily.
God bless EVERYONE on this site!
Comment by Aunt Dee-Dee — May 29, 2009 @ 6:36 am
About online petitions; I sign them but everything I read about them is negative. We need to sign paper petitions because the government doesn’t trust online petitions. Real, paper petitions with real signatures are really the only way to be taken seriously.
We need to form an Alliance and bring all of the anti-cps/family groups together as one voice. Nothing will be taken away from the individual groups but we must be joined as one even if the groups reach a count of 100 or more. I know of someone who wants to form an alliance for all the cps/family groups out there. There is strength in numbers!
Please visit my MySpace page and leave a message or a comment or contact me at ddmail007 at gmail dot com. God bless you all.
Comment by Aunt Dee-Dee — May 29, 2009 @ 6:43 am
To Svetlana,
I am so sorry dear. How can a government agency or anyone for that matter, take away your parental rights? ONLY GOD can do that! CPS and all involved in this crime against you and your son will someday answer to God and oh boy, are they ever going to be sorry!
Keep fighting Svetlana, get appeals. I don’t know what to do exactly but I just know it can’t be the end.
God bless you dear.
Comment by Aunt Dee-Dee — May 29, 2009 @ 7:05 pm
Hello! Well, at least I am not alone…Briefly: My child was taken on Jan 29th 2009…and is still in CPS custody. Even when she is returned home I’m told CPS willl keep legal custody indefinitely….(How do I get back legal custody ASAP???)…They cited two major issues:supervision and condition of home….both exagerrated, naturally. Child only left home alone about a dozen nights out of 2-3 months…but was home with friends others and those were believed to also be alone…anyways I guess I was supposed to discuss my decisions to try leaving child home alone or with friends with co-workers as it sounds like a co-worker called CPS…also at the same time frame, my water pipes had burst twice in 5 weeks and I was without water 3 of 5 weeks, resulting in housework not being kept up (how clean would your home be without water?)….Long story short…the judge already believes in the sanctity of CPS and even my atty was not happy that judge didn’t “hear” us. I am also poor, single and work full time in a very rural area. Have no one to help with anything. To compund the matter, CPS placed my child as far away as they could—8 hours away on other side of the state! I get to visit only 4 hours every other weekend. My precious daughter is now calling me by my first name more than “Mom”–is someone brainwashing her? The CPS even tried to get me to fill up a book to ease her transistion to a “new family”!!!!! I barely did any of it….My daughter wants to come home and live with me. She was not harmed in my care. They devalued her abilities in their reports and are now painting a picture to “prove” she is doing better…..without me. Yet they claim they will let her home the day before school starts. My daughter is almost 16 and will spend her “sweet 16″ away from home….We will miss fairs and camp and other activities we normally do. I loathe the system and want to do what I can to reform the laws and to hold CPS accountable when they mess up….and to prevent the wholesale taking of our children. Children belong at home (unless, in the rare cases they are being truely harmed). Most “concerns” can be handled while leaving the family intact!!!! Well, I have started a group…partly for local activism and partly to connect with others…..endCPSabuses at yahoogroups.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/endCPSabuses…..
Comment by Deb Gibson — May 31, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
Aunt Dee Dee-
In Phoenix, there are NO lawyers!!!!! I live in the vacinity of Phx and had to go way out of town to find CPS fighting lawyers. Look to Prescott and Flagstaff for these types of lawyers.
That is where the CPS personnel and Attorney General post most of theie cases, so MOST attorneys to represent your neice are there.
Ours were all found in Prescott but took the case,,,as many do all over the state.
Comment by Cheryl — June 1, 2009 @ 11:54 am
PS: Don’t bother running a query on Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale, Gilbert, Chandler, AJunction, Glendale or any other suburd of Phoenix. You’ll waste your time. NONE of these have CPS lawyers either.
Basically…Prescott and Flagstaff have multiples and Tucson has one.
Comment by Cheryl — June 1, 2009 @ 11:57 am
can any one explain to me what is the meaning of fact finding or finding fact the judge in family court order an investigation of this term will this be able for me to be reunited with my children if im unfounding or can any one give me an idear of what to expect when i go back to court.the lawyer is no help for me at this time, i think im own my own in this case.please i need help,answer,all fee back will greatly be helpful to me thank you
Comment by shekila — June 2, 2009 @ 7:51 am
Shekila-
This is your oppurtunity to collect statements from all the people you know, that can verify you are a good parent. That you have no history of drug or alcohol abuse, spanking or hitting the children or abusing them in any way. Get the childs Dr. to write that he has seen no evidence of abuse, too. Ministers, relatives, neighbors.
CPS will be doing the same. They will try to find proof anywhere they can to support their removal of the children.
The JUdge will weigh thier “evidence” against yours and decide if and what is “FACT”. Then he will make a decision to continue foster care or find this case as unfounded and return the kids.
A warning…if he finds that CPS has even one “fact” correct, he may order them to keep the kids and order family services to later reunite your family.
Be ready to disprove anything they could say (lies to support their claims). Because parents have no idea what the heck these people will say until they get to court, it is difficult to quickly disprove the lie at a moments notice.
Comment by Cheryl — June 3, 2009 @ 7:01 am
Here are some videos showing how Sabrina’s foster parents wanted to keep her, and were claiming her as their own only six months from the time she was removed from our home. The CPS woprker Leslie Moran condoned this, showing that CPS had no intentions of returning Sabrina to us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8rtdoLXgik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMm-sbFKUh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iHjj-rhM58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ4LLe3EvTY
Comment by Nancy Hey — June 3, 2009 @ 8:34 am
To All Texans!
June 5, 2009
Texas–Calls Needed To Defeat Bill
That Takes Away Constitutional Rights
Dear HSLDA Members and Friends:
In a special session this past weekend, both houses of the Texas
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officials to bypass constitutional processes when conducting an
investigation of child abuse or neglect. If it passes, it would give
a court the authority to order access to a child and his or her
records on the basis of an affidavit and without prior notice or a
hearing.
The bill is now on Governor Rick Perry’s desk awaiting a signature,
and he needs to hear that Texas residents do not want S.B. 1440 to
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ACTION REQUESTED
Call Governor Perry’s office at 800-252-9600, and ask him to veto
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rights.
You can also register your opinion online at the Governor’s website
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Thank you for helping to preserve Texas citizens’ freedom!
Sincerely,
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Comment by Diando — June 5, 2009 @ 8:55 am
Nancy,
I just viewed these youtube videos. Where did you get them?
I thought I had read that you and Kit have found a pro bono attorney to carry on with the appeals. Does your atty have these videos?
Yes, from the getgo, this foster family seems to have been “promised” your child.
Dear God, have they no shame?
Hang in there.
Keep fighting the good fight for Sabrina.
Maggie
Comment by MaggieC — June 5, 2009 @ 7:47 pm
Thank you, Maggie C. At six months into our reunification process, both we and the foster parents were required by Judge Esther Wiggins-Lyle to submit to her videos of our interactions with Sabrina. So yes, our attorneys always had copies of all the videos submitted. What I remember vividly was that Judge Wiggins-Lyle said she saw nothing wrong with the foster parents referring to Sabrina as their own, because she said “Sabrina needs to feel loved and part of a family”!
Comment by Nancy Hey — June 9, 2009 @ 12:28 pm