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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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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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We have had CPS called on us 3 times. The first time was politically motivated by a police officer who was offended because we owned a hunting rifle, and he did not believe in the 2nd amendment. Case was found to be bogus. Second was a neighbor, angry because another neghbor caught him on video letting air out of our tires as a prank, and turned him in to the police, he then called and stated we were beating our child, case was found to be bogus. This last time was my wifes parents because they were angry with her. The worker stated that since this is the third call, that if anyone calls for any reason whatsoever, real or not, that he will remove our children, take us to court to take custody, and then put them up for adoption. Today my wife’s uncle called up and threataned us with physical violence(called police, who said they can do nothing about it) and he has assaulted her in the past, and we are going to be getting a restraining order against him, but he is planning on calling CPS in the morning, with some bogus charges. Yes we have the proof he siad these things(he left this on voicemail), but the worker said he doesn’t care if it’s legit or not, he will make sure we lose our children forever. If anyone has idea’s, please contact me through the forum, which I will be registering and posting a similar message in a few minutes.
Comment by Scott — August 2, 2009 @ 11:56 pm
My son is currently in foster care he was placed there by his father. I have requested to see and speak with my son repeatedly but have not been given the chance to hes been in foster care since July
Comment by Lisa Black — August 3, 2009 @ 8:03 am
Happy August, everyone!
Comment by Nancy Hey — August 3, 2009 @ 10:01 am
HI … Thank you for your support in realizing the need for change in the current Child Protection Business… Thousands of children are ripped from their parents arms and many lives are destroyed every year by CPS/DHS who many times respond to false allegations and create evidence, in order to receive cash adoption bonuses, while all the while claiming what’s in the best interest of the child… Children rarely need to be protected from their parents, however Child Protection has become a multi billion dollar business… Thanks to people like you, the public is becoming more aware of this obscenity… It’s time to stop the madness…
Comment by James Foster — August 3, 2009 @ 12:33 pm
I AM GLAD TO SAY THAT AFTER FOUR YEARS BATTLE WITH CPS THAT THEY FINALLY FIRED THE WORKER I HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT BUT I NEED TO KNOW WHAT SHE WAS ACTUALLY FIRED FOR SINCE I PLAN TO GO BACK TO COURT TO SEE ABOUT SEEING MY CHILDREN . I AM ALSO ASKING THAT IF ANYONE WHOM HAS KNOWNLEDGE OF SEEKING CASE LAW IF THEY CAN GIVE ME SOME ADVICE HOW TO LOOK UP ANY CASE LAW ON ABUSIVE SOCIAL WORKERS ANDA PARENT THAT REFUSES A CHILD MEDICAL CARE WHICH CONSISTS OF ABUSE OR NEGLECT WHERE THE CHILDS NEEDS WHERENT MEET NOW THAT THE CHILD IS A ADULT KNOW HE FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES WHEN THIS COULD OF BEEN AVOIDED IF THE CHILD WAS IN TREATMENT THANK YOU JEFF MARCINIAK
Comment by JEFF MARCINIAK — August 4, 2009 @ 7:49 am
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Comment by morgan smith — August 4, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
You are focusing your attention on all of the horrible, dirty and bad stories of case workers and what the protective services is intended to do.
For all the terrible stories shared on this forum I invite you to look at this site from the perspective of a child who is being physically or sexually abused and/or neglected. What about the child who has black and blue belt marks all over their body or the child who tells their teacher about the inappropriate way dad touches them? What about those kids? What happens to them? If you have it your way - they slip through the cracks well you selfishly focus on how a service has not been a benefit to YOU. I want you to think about the kids who have been saved and helped by CPS.
Furthermore, most of your stories appear to be about how terrible case workers are and how poorly foster homes are run. Then why not to DO something about it? All you are doing is complaining about what’s wrong and not saying anything about HOW to change it. The truth is Social Services are under funded and workers have more case loads than they can handle. If you want to help why not get a job in Social Services to be the change you want to see? Or help raise funds for supportive resources in your area so families struggling can become more stable? Why not volunteer to be a Foster Parent to provide a supportive home for that child in need? All you’re doing is perpetuating the stereotypes of CPS and providing a shoulder for each other to cry on.
I will be the first to admit that CPS needs major reconstruction on how foster homes are run as well as Court Hearings; however you pointing fingers and casting blame is not doing much to remedy the problem. If proper collateral supports, (i.e. therapists, child advocates, family interviews and general family records) are explored this should be a good way to get people to campaign and back you in Court. A lowly case worker’s statements alone should not be enough for you to give up primary care giving rights to your child.
Of the 1,009,798 visitors to this site I can GUARANTEE not all of you have simply been ’screwed’ by the Courts, Case Workers and CPS.
I honestly hope those of you that are truly being wronged by the system receive the help you need but for each one of you that is being wronged… there are two of you on here just looking for the easy way out.
Please start to think of the child in need and not just of how you feel you have been poorly misjudged.
Comment by morgan smith — August 4, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
Scott - MOVE out the state NOW!
IMO - Its simply too dangerous for you now.
Comment by David — August 5, 2009 @ 10:44 am
Morgan - Right of the top of my head I can think of just a few small items why CPS is so horrible … DO something about? Why do you think this website exists?
1) A child should NEVER be taken from parents without FIRST a JURY TRIAL!
2) No “incentive” $ should ever be put in place from the Federal Gov’t. It is ALWAYS shown that the maximum number of crimes found = the number of Fed $ available. This BREEDS CORRUPTION
3) CPS workers should NOT be allowed to “fraternize” with the temporary guardian while “investigating” the accused. This breeds FAVORITISM and the guardian (foster or relative) has MOTIVE to KEEP the child. This is a direct conflict of interest.
4) “Clear and Convincing” should be at the same level as all crime convictions - It should elevated to “Reasonable Doubt”.
5) “Experts” - yield “opinions only. And these “experts” are many times CONTRACTORS who will not receive additional contracts if they aren’t helping CPS to garner $FED$. Pretty darn obvious.
6) Poor people have NO CHANCE against a system with ENDLESS funds and ENDLESS experts and ENDLESS attorneys and SW’s. Absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for them to defend themselves, especially when CPS does NOT need to use “Reasonable Doubt”.
I could (and will when I get more time) go on and on and on….
P.S. - The following people all collect their paychecks from the same source (think about it):
Public Defenders
DA
Judge
SWs
Experts (lmao)
Want a lawyer to fight? Got a $7500 retainer kickin’ around? Oh you don’t? YOU LOSE! Time to get PUMMELLED by CPS!
Comment by David — August 5, 2009 @ 10:56 am
Morgan, this site is made available so those who need help might get it through those of us who have been through it. This site enables outreach programs other than DHS provided programs to those who want assistance. This site is in no way intended on enabling further abuse to children and families. Quite the opposite. You assume that the guilty to innocent ratio is 2/1. How in the world can you back that up? Why would you make such an assumption? Is that an acceptable risk? Saving two children by sacrificing one innocent childs family? Please, don’t make assumptions. If you want to defer parents from speaking about how they have been wronged by DHS, that is your privelage. If a parent just wants to vent about how they feel that they have been wronged, that is their privelage. This site helps others to find the resources to DO something about their particular problem. Don’t be naive by thinking that what you read here is all that this site amounts to. Any productive positive advice from you is appreciated.
Comment by daaronad — August 5, 2009 @ 3:09 pm
Morgan and everybody ,1) the parents have been in existence somewhat longer then the CPS ,would you agree? 2) to see the ”help” CPS is giving to ??(whom?) as a soccer match ,where 5 to for 4 result is still a success is absurd 3) inappropriate touching is 99% fantasy leaking out of tortured ,sexually distorted , deeply socially conditioned minds of today’s deindividualized Americans equipped by 36 inch internal TV screen which replaced their brains some time ago, 4) 26.2% of all Americans living today have one or more recognizable form of mental and emotional disorder. The person in denial of such a condition (as most are) will seek relieve in gaining power over other fellow citizens ,such as in law enforcement and also ..yes ,you guested it . Initially they all ”want to help others” so they don;t have to look and help themselves , latter on the unchecked power had simply became their drug of choice ,they can not live without anymore . 5) it is impossible to replace a functioning parent by CPS worker,much harm will come out of it. Many CPS workers are childless,have no clue about what functioning parent would look like and behave like , all they have is the their ignorance , shamelessness,
bad habits , great external power and that chip on their shoulders. They are not the only ones in today society so afflicted . 5) DO NO HARM !!! - your medicine and ”help” is much worse then disease , please step back ,and pray if you like,but do no harm!!
6) anyone , please ,Google or otherwise find out about ”Duplessis orphans” 7) ”The people are the only true guardians of their own rights “” - Thomas Jefferson . Don’t use it- loose it - the US Constitution , go to courts , it can be done ,as ”pro se ” ,representing yourself ,, with minimal help but right priorities. Milos Leubner
Comment by milos leubner — August 6, 2009 @ 3:18 am
Scott , chronologically record everything from the past and the current problems with all the nuts you have mentioned , take your child to a MD ,have him/her checked for any scratches ,bruises , talk to the school principal , if at all possible, explain to them what you are faced with , read Don Lyons : CPS and it’s staggering effect on our society - title could be different a little . There are other Websites such as ”theacf.org. ” where you can get direct advice , also e-mail Charlie at ”theacf@hotmail.com” ,there is AFRA .org - I guess . If you get ready it’s less likely that the battle will come. If you have done nothing wrong by common sense,then don’t forget that you are INNOCENT - no matter what the reptiles hiss out at you , keep on coming back to that point , that was a source of my strength in midst of all this incredible maddness , I was innocent but they were guilty , they are the ones who hurt children and everybody else. It ain’t over ’till fat lady sings , which is never until the CPS goe’s out the way of Spanish Inquisition , Gestapo , NKVD , Guitmo , Eliott Spitzer ,Jimmy Baker and many other hypocrites with shifted hearts went. Object in Court on the record = untimely Petition by CPS (given to parents 10 minutes before the hearing) hearsay - unsubstantiated claims by CPS in Court ,,don’t let them in your house if they have no warrant ,no matter if they beg or treten you .Show them the child thru the window , your house is protected by the Fourth and Fourteen Amendments . Google Tom Dutkiewitcz in Connecticut , he has lots of case laws in his booklet you can download,or call me at 707-279-4843 , for more info or more acurate data’s - anybody can call . Don’t forget if your kids are basically healthy ,happy and growing up - you are INNOCENT , the CPS can’t get anywhere close to these results . Milos
Comment by milos leubner — August 6, 2009 @ 4:04 am
Morgan:
It is not the parents who suffer. It is the children.
I have had teens come to me, troubled, after they have been placed in UNSUITABLE GROUP HOMES, or dissuaded from finishing HIGH SCHOOL.
In both cases, these were truly outstanding teens who did not DESERVE WHAT DHS DID TO THEM.
And yes, their backgrounds were Latino and Afro-American.
OKLAHOMA your yearning for legal procedures is growing, too.
Take a look at:
http://newsok.com/rally-organizers-push-for-change-in-child-welfare/article/3390762
And also we cannot afford inept, incompetent, lazy, lying, care nothing caseworkers.
Our teens cannot stomach this violation of their civil rights much longer.
This site is for INNOCENT FAMILIES.
And stats bear out that most of what CPS does is wrong. Say around 75% of their *interventions.*
Comment by Fern — August 6, 2009 @ 4:50 am
Everyone:
4 minute film about DHS illegalities
http://familyrights.us/ok/Madder_Than_Hell.swf
FLASH.
Oklahoma—and all. View this and weep for the innocent families all over the US.
Comment by fern — August 6, 2009 @ 7:09 am
My husband and I just recieved a letter from CPS stating that they have substatiate informatoin again myself and my husband for neglect.
I do not care about myself or husband, my concern is that will they take my child away? Because I could not bare it, or should I start to have cusdoty given to my mother or something? Please help. I don’t know what to do.
Comment by Karen — August 6, 2009 @ 2:57 pm
My Grandson Has Been Abused Since The Age 6 months And It Got Worse As He Got Older, We Called Police, CPS And Got No Where, Why Is It When A Child Is Really Being Hurt CPS And Police Do Nothing??? When There Is Nothing Being Done To A Child They Take Them Away???
My Grandson Is In Danger Everyday, And No One Is There To Protect. We Were The Bad Guys Because We Said He Was Abused!!! But Had We Not Called The Police Or CPS It Would Have Been Failure To Protect!!!!
It Also Seems If You Call Anymous, The Police And CPS Respond, If You Give Your Name They Are Less Likely To Take You Serious!!!!
Comment by Teri — August 6, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
Dear Mr. or Ms. Morgan;
From reading law; here are some reasons children were removed from their homes:
1. The house was cluttered with too many books;
2. A cat was sleeping on the child’s bed;
3. The parent took a shower while the baby was asleep therein leaving the child unattended; and
4. While the children had beds and mattresses, the mother slept on a mattress onthe floor,
Most were overturned at state appellate courts; some had to go to Federal Court.
Read the law; read the cases before you speak.
Comment by MaggieC — August 6, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
Mr /Ms. Morgan;
Addendum.
To repeat your first post, In reiteration of your first comment to this site, I say to you, BLAH,
Comment by MaggieC — August 6, 2009 @ 7:52 pm
Morgans:
On the very day my 4 grandkids were taken for living conditions not suitable to their standards, without a warrant, 2 young tots were being killed by the mother not too far away. CPS here knew that TX CPS was looking for them because of the possible danger, but refused to issue an amber alert in AZ. Amber alerts here have been very successful and usually within only a few hours. And city authorities had already run into the mother and kids just 2 days prior. CPS had been looking (inactively) for a week. It was not a priority case. They did not interfere. The police gave her the ticket and walked away. Now, they had to have run her name, address and DOB thru the computer, which would have yielded her warrant outstanding for child abuse ion TX. Yet they DID NOT contact TX authorities about the warrant. They said it was non of their business, and they don’t exercise warrants for out of state child support, children of divorce (etc) issues.
Those babies were drowned, CPS knew all about the danger and yet did NOT affect her capture by notifying state and city authorities in the path of where they thought she would be going after stealing her children from the fathers custody.
CPS TX apologized for their grave errors in the matter but that won’t bring those babies back! They were sued by the father who had divorced a very sick woman found unfit.
Now WHAT was that that woman doing with the kids at all? How was she allowed to steal them IF she wasn’t allowed to see them? His answers are in the court doc’s. Their temp foster care provider let her in voluntarily!!!!
But CPS found it more of a priority to intervene with my family than to actively LOOK for this woman who was guilty of kidnapping; just to start.
That’s MY point. CPS social workers place the wrong priorities on cases. The easy to dispatch cases get handled first and foremost. Anything that needs real work, is placed on the back burner.
They are ripping apart the wrong families!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Cheryl — August 7, 2009 @ 7:19 am
Oh God - PLEASE HELP ME! Please!!! Where are you LORD!? I’ve PRAISED your name for YEARS! Where are you !!!!
Comment by David — August 8, 2009 @ 10:06 pm
Ok so on July 6th my son was taken away from me. I had taken him to the hospital about two weeks before that because he had a swollen testicle, There I was told to take him to Valley Childrens for surgery or a referral to a surgeon, There they had said that he had a hydrocelle, and told me to go to his pediatrician, From that point I waited about three days, and I had gone out of town with my son to see my mother, Where his testicle had swollen up to about the size of a plum, He’s two years old. I took him to the emergency room there, where they told me he was okay, but IF I wanted to I could fallow up with Valley Children once again, So I went there within the next few days, My son had a pit bull jump on him the day before I had taken him to Valley Children for the second time, so he had a bruise on his stomach, he had also fallen into a brick flower bed. They find out he has bleeding around his liver, Say that I did it and take him away from me, Even though the abuse dr had said that it could of been from the fall, I found out that two days before he had been taken valley children had gotten a four million dollar grant for there involvement with cps, Well it’s been over a month now, and I still haven’t gotten him back, I had court the 30th of july and that had stated because they didn’t have a case against me that they needed to wait 30 more days until they were finished with there paper work, He is in a foster home, and I had seen the foster mother HIT her autistic child. And witnessed massive amounts of yelling, My son has learned words like “dont” “stop that” and “don’t do that to me”
I don’t know what to do, but I know this is wrong, My son was not harmed by my hand or any hand. PLEASE IF you have any help contact me 559-310-9672
Comment by kelsie declue — August 10, 2009 @ 10:53 am
I used to think that I was alone in my fight against CPS. How stupid I was. But when you don’t know what is actually happening; when you don’t know the actual size of the monster you are dealing with, it is easy to think yourself alone.
In a land where there is supposed to be ‘freedom and justice’ for all, you slowly begin to realize that there is no such thing. There is no doctrine or commandment or anything that the Government is following. They come, they see, they take. Period.
I could tell ‘my story’ but it is so achingly, awful, just like everyone else’s here. Lost, destroyed souls, crying out, seeking a way to right the wrongs and injustices foisted upon them by a Government that has absolute power and is untouchable. A Government that, by it’s sheer power and size, condoned by Judges and the Courts, is like an ever-growing, vile cancer that is slowly destroying the lives of all of us. They say that Justice is Blind, and that the courts must : try the facts in cases, but money is a powerful speaker in any instance.
I wish I would have known earlier that this site existed. I wish I would have been able to see that what happened to me was but one minor case in some instances, and major in others.
It wouldn’t have eased my pain, or lessened my loss, however it would have made me feel less alone. Aside from the neglect and abuse and other atrocities that our Government perpetrates on our defenseless children and on us, they take things that can NEVER be replaced. Lost years, missing school plays; dances; school pictures; a sense of family; ancestors; religious beliefs…they take it all, stealing life like a succubus.
I fought long and hard, only realizing years later that there was nothing I could do to get my children back because the Government wasn’t going to let anything I did be good enough, or right. There would always be one more thing to do, one more demand to meet.
I have sat in a court room and have been discussed like I wasn’t there and not allowed to even speak in response to what was being said about me. I have been sequestered in rooms and have listened to these ‘well-meaning,’ caring people who cajoled, begged, threatened and otherwise tried to shame me into giving up my children. If I LOVED them, I should give them up and let them lead a normal life. If I LOVED them, I would just leave them alone and let them get therapy they so sorely needed (because of me), If I LOVED them I would walk away. I have sat in a mental hospital, once on the brink of suicide, once in a horrible homicidal state. Driven to the brink of madness by my own government.
I always say ‘fight’, never give up. But sometimes you fight and fight and nothing happens. Why is it that there are so many of us and yet ‘they’ still succeed in illegal kidnapping, and what amounts to a type of slave trade with our children? Why are there so many of us and no one is taking heed? Not one person in the White House has stopped, given pause, wondered, started an investigation into this? Why? Because this is of such large proportions, so corrupt, so crowded with people in power with their hands in the cookie jar, for a piece of the profits, it would be staggering. Because like a trail of dominoes, it would spiral and fall until there would be hardly anyone left that wasn’t dirty and blameless.
Where are the attorneys? Where are those that would be willing to mount a fight against these government agencies? An all out assault upon these corrupt people? Where are you? Most of the people on this site have little or no money. Don’t you see? That is exactly the point. That is exactly the people that are targeted..they have no money. They have no voice. They can’t afford counsel. Are some attorneys afraid of losing everything if they fight? Let me assure you, that if that ‘everything’ is not your family, then the loss is minimal. I do not mean to sound as though I am against any attorneys. Far from it. I just realize we are in a vicious cycle. Children are taken, parents can’t get them back, they can’t afford attorneys, state appointed attorneys are no match for CPS. But the fight doesn’t start at the bottom. It needs to start from the top. To stop a waterfall you don’t dam up the stream below, You find the source…and you start there.
My daughters were taken when they were 6 and 7. In one foster home they both were sexually and physically and mentally abused. The next home was basically the same. Of course CPS ‘took care’ of it. Since my girls ‘are disturbed’ (because of me-ha!), they must have made up the things they said were done to them. Last month my 15 year old was at a rink skating facility. She was attacked by 8 people, two of them boys. She suffered a concussion, bruises, lacerations, among other things. This is what drives you to the brink of a blinding fury, a rage, because you are completely unable to protect your children. Maybe the attorneys don’t need to fight for us, the parents. Maybe they need to fight for the children. It’s not about my grief or loss or pain. It is about my children, under the ‘protective wing’ of the State. Fight for the children. And once you start winning and protecting the children, then some measure of peace will come.
Comment by Terena Powell — August 11, 2009 @ 8:34 am
They won’t fight for the children because they do not care and the very few who do care are trampled.
The entire CPS procedure must be changed through legislation and/or case law but legislation would be a better goal, in my opinion.
Parents must be apprised of their rights at the getgo and attorneys must be allowed into the mix at the very onset of a CPS investigation. Only then will the children be protected.
My heart goes out to you. Stay as strong as possible.
Comment by MaggieC — August 11, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
I think I really need more voices about cps and the state of washington. my kids have always looked great, ate really good, been taken care of the state wants my home to be perfect. Well I’m sick with mental disorders and diabetes. and I don’t have a endless supply of energy. But I refuse to lose my twins to the state. I need help there is no God from what I’m seeing.I have thought about what if. what if life for my kids would be easier,I just passed on. they helped make me feel this way. I’m so sick of this! all I have ever really wanted was my children and nothing. they could have told me children and I were just going thru the motions with them.
Comment by acz — August 12, 2009 @ 3:59 am
acz, Unfortunately most people don’t listen to warnings about DHS until it is too late. Many of us who have been through the scam have felt like giving up all hope. It was definitely the most trying time in my life. I feel lucky to still be here, able to try to forewarn others and just to help new victims get through their ordeal. First of all you must understand that regardless of what you do, it will not satisfy them. They intend to break you in order to “prove your unworthiness.” Secondly, and most importantly, Do Not Believe Them. You are NOT a MONSTER. The sooner that you realize the truth of DHS’s true intent the better you will be able to stand up to them. Your ordeal will come to pass, one way or the other. I urge you to, from now on, research and learn what how to protect your family from DHS intrusions. Always try to save other families from becoming a new victim of DHS. Anyone associated to DHS who claims you as their client, Fire Them. Think about the irony of a client not firing someone who is threatening your family and putting you through this trauma. If you do simply give up, the same thing could happen to your childrens’ families. I know how hard this time is for you. But, you have the reason to make it through. Don’t let them play you like a puppet. I know you can do it and become a stronger person for it. Get angry then take back control of your life. You are not alone.
Comment by daaronad — August 13, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
My grandchildren were placed in foster care and adopted out. The adopted foster mom will not allow us into their lives. She has even went so far as to change their first and last names. The names they have been called for over four years. How is that in their best interest. CPS said if they went to me the children would regress in our care. So how is changing their names, keeping them from their legacy going to help them to thrive?
Comment by fancy — August 13, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
Fancy,
In some states, grandparent visitation survives adoption. Check your state statutes.
Comment by MaggieC — August 14, 2009 @ 1:53 pm
On July 27th I took my 4 yr old daughter for her well-child check up to enroll her in school. There she was seen by a new nurse practitioner whom I had never met as oppose to her primary care doctor. This nurse whom knows nothing about my family whatsoever called cps on us claiming that a blister on my daughters foot was “a perfect ciggerate burn” and a small bruise on her back was suspicious and something she had never seen in all her “years” of practicing. Being nine months pregnant due on the 26th of August I dont even smoke. This caused cps to come to my home that night. When they did they left shortly afterwards stating there was nothing suspicious. But the following day I was again called by cps on my way out to my drs appointment and was told not to leave the house. They came and ripped both my daughter and son from us stating that they were in imminent danger. I was shocked. I had been cooperative letting them in my house and take pictures thinking that they were just “doing” there job and the nurse was just over excited about her new job. I didnt know what was happening. They had a detective come to my home and investigate and this is when I learned about there real motives. According to the detective whom by the way is on our side and found nothing criminal told us that the cps worker was trying to paint my fiance as a “gangbanger” being mainly because he is black in an almost all white enviornment. Throughout the report they misquoted him stating he had threatened the workers and even accused him of domestic violence against myself which there is no history of. The police officer who was on the night that the took my children heard everything that was said and also agreed there accusations and quotes were false. When approached with there lies her response was” that might not be exactly what was said” yet she had quoted him. Since they have been in cps custody both of my children were injured. My 1 yr old son had to recieve stitches above his eye from a “fall” and last time I visted with them my daughter had an abrasion on her chin which she said was from a cat bite and she has to recive a needle. When cps was asked what exaclty happened the exact response was”I dont know” from the cps supervisor When asked for medical records they would not provide them. They said if I would not agree with them and accuse my fiance of abuse I would never get my children back. My daughter has never once stated that she has been hit because she never has. She told them she gets put on punishment when shes bad which means she does not get to watch tv but for some reason they want to charge someone with a crime that was never commited. EVen the detective stated that cps is quick to take children without throughly investigating and they are not interested in the real truth and that was what his job was but regardless of what he says they are still going to try and keep them. I am at such a lost right now and just want my kids back. I dont know how long this fight is going to take and dont know what to do.
Comment by Erin — August 15, 2009 @ 10:10 am
Here’s a poem I lived thru. Its called
CPS DISTRESS!
Caught up in the system
Neck stretched and laid out bare.
My blood and bones sustaining
All the bottom-feeders there.
So cunning are these denizens
While massing for attack
First they calm you with a soothing word,
Then knife you in the back.
Intent on doling out their good,
They prance on towards their goal:
To separate entirely
Your heart, your mind, your soul.
So feeling rather guiltless
Like such the whipping boy,
Yipping silly cries for justice
Is a joke they most enjoy.
All minced and chopped up finely,
They will use you till you’re gone,
Or so mixed up with their bullshit
You could fertilize a lawn.
With a class for every problem
And a shrink to find your flaws,
You’re doomed to feed the system,
Pinched to death by helping claws.
Comment by phildoe — August 15, 2009 @ 7:52 pm
Piercing, distressing words.
Strong sentiments. Truthful conclusions.
“Bottom-feeders” , “helping claws”, “silly cries for justice.”
This should be a song.
Needs an arrangement.
Very powerful, insightful.
THANK YOU.
Comment by fern — August 16, 2009 @ 8:27 am
My husband and I were reported to CPS as a form of retaliation by a family member, who maliciously and FALSELY reported to CPS that we were abusing drugs and (even more appalling) that we were also neglecting/abusing our child.
We are heartbroken, shocked, and terrified that our only reason for living in this cruel world (our beautiful and healthy 2-year-old toddler) may be taken away from us.
How can this happen?
WHY IS THERE NO PROCESS IN PLACE FOR THOSE WHO MAKE FALSE/MALICIOUS REPORTS?
**If social workers are required by law to keep the identity of the reporting party ‘confidential,’ what is the point of ACCEPTING anonymous calls?**
*Additionally, if the reporting party is also under investigation themselves with CPS for child neglect/abuse, what is their testimony worth?*
I have placed my trust in God and the universe but my mind, heart, body, and soul cannot rest or find peace until I know with all certainty that TRUTH will prevail and more importantly, that my baby will stay right where he should be: with his parents who love him so very very much.
I am praying for all of you as I hope that you, too, will pray for our family.
Comment by Anne — August 16, 2009 @ 11:27 pm
We been fighting with CPS for 12 years because my oldest daughter thought she can get away with telling lies about the family and friends by saying a lot of stuff that was not true, but this last lie she told was the cake and they believe her now that she is older (at the time she told the lies she was 19 years old), she told them (CPS)about sexual abuse on her and her little sister and physical abuse, she did not only said that her father and I did this, but a family friend did it too. About 17 months ago they (CPS) took our youngest daughter away from us and our home because what our oldest daughter said to them (the CPS). Before they came to removeour daughter from our home, we asked them twice for a warrant and they said they did not need one(thats a lie); we found out that they did need a warrant. Then we went to court with out a attorney and the Judge, the CPS, andthe DA Attorney of Parker County looked down at us talk down to us and the Judge threaten to put my husband in jail and he (the Judge) also said that he(the Judge) had four guns pointing at us. The last timewe were in court was the day we were going to lose our parental rights to her (our yongest daughter), all theycan do is saylies about my husband and I ( I meant everyone the Judge, CPS Agency, the Psychotherapist and the DA of Parker County of Weatherford, Texas). But I had a heart attack in the courtroom and the Judge, CPS, and the DA just sat there and laughted at us and did not stop the hearing. We are about to lose our little girl (over lies) to people that have a record of violence abuse and drug abuse. Wright now we are not going to stop fighting for her (our youngest daughter).
Comment by lena68 — August 17, 2009 @ 9:36 pm
Well update for me. The punk took us to court and took our kids, with blatant lies, and doctored photo’s. My public pretender was of no help and said CPS doesn’t lie, because they are forbidden from lying, and being a “civillian” that I was the one who was lying. The DA was a bigger jerk then the CPS worker. Both DA and CPS violated judges orders(next hearing is in a few days), but thanks to the children’s attorney who got on our side as soon as she came to our home for a visit, and thanks to CPS’s own stupidity in the emails he was sending me making it impossible for him to successfully lie to me, my children have been returned, but they still want us in the second custody hearing later this week. After the hearing I will update with some more information y’all might find interesting. I’m recording EVERTHING. I’m also drawing up for a HUGE lawsuit, and have a lawyer specializing in lawsuits who has only lost 2 of over 2000 cases, and he owes me a favor. The judge would listen to nobody but attorney’s. The DA and CPS were cracking jokes and talking trash about us in the courtroom, too quiet for the judge but I’ll bet that little microphone picked it up. The one 6 inches from their faces when they were cracking jokes. I’m ready to burn these people to the ground legally in court. If it weren’t for the things on this site, my children would be gone forever. I also plan to try and get the DA removed fromthe BAR, with his attitude, lying, and unprofessional behaviour, and unethical actions, he has absolutely no business practicing law. Generally here CPS agents are forbidden from having families as it could interfere with the “always think removal” mentality and put them on the sides of the parents instead of the side of the $$$.
Comment by Scott — August 17, 2009 @ 10:47 pm
One little thing to add, for those who refuse to even testify on an innocent family’s behalf, to those attorney’s who won’t fight out of fear, then I have only this to say to you.
“To know what is right, and not to do it, is the WORST kind of cowardice,” and you are no different then the corrupt individuals making this happen.
Comment by Scott — August 17, 2009 @ 10:55 pm
Hi, I just wanted to 1) suggest putting some kind of search function on this site, as there are so many documents and finding particulars is difficult. Which brings me to 2):
I wanted to see if you have posts about the scandal in Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania regarding judges essentially selling kids into Juvie.
I happen to know one of the victims, and she will be quite a rich young woman when the resulting lawsuit settles, but let’s look at the trauma it has caused. This young lady just turned 18, and she is basically disabled, permanently, due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder suffered while under LCJD custody, for a petty shoplifting offense. She was under their custody for 4+ yrs, from age 13 on to 17 yrs.
Please place this story somewhere on your site where it’ll get more attention than the guestbook.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/23/pennsylvania.corrupt.judges/
http://www.jlc.org/luzerne/
I’d also like to know if you have articles relating to how the “system” pays fosterers but does nothing to help the families. They pay fosterers more than TANF Welfare would have. If those families in crisis had been receiving some financial relief, their situations would likely have been very different, and likely improved greatly.
Why does the USA insist people should suffer, starve and live substandard lives unless they are capable of earning a sufficient income on their own? What about those of us who are disadvantaged or disabled to such a degree earning a sufficient income is not possible. The impossibility of that premise is becoming greater as this country is transformed into a new Third World for the sake of cheap disposable labor.
Ohh did I mention, the kids sent to Juvie by those judges, were also forced to work for the facility, unpaid. The govt was making profit coming and going in this case, and the victims are only lucky that the judges happened to piss off the wrong people and consequently were busted. If some politically connected victims hadn’t brought the law down on these bastards, this crap would still be happening, everyone satisfied the system was “working as intended!”
Because, I do believe, the intention from the beginning was to degrade our family situations and to break us all down into compliant drones working crap jobs for subsistence wages.
Comment by rosc — August 19, 2009 @ 8:45 am
Child Protective Services and the Court System are overburdened. They err on the side of returning children to their parents. Unfortunately children are placed back into abusive homes which can result in the tragedy we see today with 8 year old Robert Manwill. There is a reason children are taken from their home.
Comment by Manuel — August 20, 2009 @ 1:28 am
Manuel,
Do you have children?
Try to imagine, if you will, that you were wrongly (or even maliciously) accused of abusing your children and, as a result of such, had them taken away from you.
You defend CPS and the Court System– I’m guessing– because you’ve never been put in a situation whereby a COMPLETE STRANGER was given the absolute authority to judge your ability to provide a safe and nurturing environment for your family. These social workers are, in fact, human and quite capable of making errors– errors that may tear families apart.
As humans, it’s expected for us to so desperately *want* to believe that ‘everything will work itself out’ but terrible mistakes happen. They also won’t undo themselves and unfortunately, there are limited resources for those who wish to fight to win their children back.
But as you mentioned above, tragedies do occur; I am certain I speak for the other parents when I say that there is no intent here to minimize them, but wrongfully ripping families apart in and of itself is also an atrocity.
I do hope you never experience the nightmare that the parents here have lived through; from your statement, I can see that you have not.
Comment by Anne — August 21, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
Linda, I’m sending a number of my friends ot the forums. The, like me, are all blind. CPS likes the bully them because they want to use blindness as an excuse to steal their children and cash in on them. I’m a Family rights and children’s rights advocate for the blind community, and I talk about your site all the time.
Comment by Reina Brown — August 21, 2009 @ 5:27 pm
Morgan. Save it, please. Don’t preach to these people about abuse. there is more abuse in foster care than in the natural home. Five times more to be exact. When I hear a child is being abused, I have to think twice about calling because in most cases, they are just going from the frying pan to the fire. The child in foster care already has a predetermined fate–failure, distruction, and a broken life.
Comment by Reina Brown — August 21, 2009 @ 5:32 pm
Morgan, if I was not a christian, let me tell you that i’d personally hunt down and kill the social worker that dealt with my case when I was a child My parents did nothing wrong, but rather they put a whole lot of false evidence against them and had my in their custody for a short time. But that time was obviously too long because the dammage had been done. It was too late for me. Though I was finally returned to my parents, thank goodness for a upstanding doctor who saved me from their depths, it was too late.
Because of CPS, I’m now totally blind. They thought they were God and just completely disregarded my medical treatments and did whatever the hell they wanted with me. Though blindness was a setback, it has not stopped me. I’m a CEO of a steady running business, going to school for medicine and law, and I’m successfully advocating for my people. CPS better watch out when I become a lawyer. Oh, I will rake every single social worker over the coals. My name will be one that carries a legacy of fear. Even if they try to silence me, I have a following of about thirty-two million. So ha! Go ahead and step to me because i guarantee you will not last but a second because I’ll rip you up like a den of lions and attack you like a predator who has been denied good tasting prey for a year. Let’s just say that you will lose every argument with me. I will always have a rebuttal. You … will … not … win. I have no sympathy for the social workers. I have sympathy for everyone they’ve butt raped so to speak. The severe injustice done to the blind and to humanity as a whole is what is motivating me to go to Harvard to be exact and get a law degree. And, i’m also going to be a practicing physician. And before you spout such ignorant comments out of your mouth that blind people cannot be doctors, I suggest that you research things and get your facts straight before you ever think of opening your trap to me. Don’t come messing with these parents on here. They are hurting enough as it is. Go somewhere else and talk to some crooked social workers who care to hear your crap. If it were possible, i’d give you fifty cents to call someone who cares because chances are, nobody here does. So, get a life and go do your job. Wait, don’t because you might hurt some more parents. Go find somewhere else to get a good commission, such as selling furniture for Sears, rather than cashing out on people’s children.
Comment by Reina Brown — August 21, 2009 @ 5:43 pm
Manuel, so tell me why I was to be removed from my parents when I was a child. Bet you can’t answer that can you? I love a good argument. Now, let’s go. Are you ready? I hate these fools, and I will not allow fear to stop me from fighting them. I may not have children so they cannot hurt me by taking them away. This way, if i fight, i have nothing to lose. Don’t preach about abuse when you know nothing. Get your facts straight before ever posting here again.
Comment by Reina Brown — August 21, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
Have you ever noticed that people that DON’T have children are ‘experts’ on how to raise them?
I pray, MORGAN, that if you have children, you do not face the nightmare we all face and have faced concerning CPS. If you don’t have children you need to stop preaching to those of us that do. If you don’t like the site and the comments and heartfelt, heartbreaking stories that come from every corner of our nation, you don’t have to visit.
You certainly don’t understand what we all understand: It is not about the parents. We aren’t that selfish. It is about the children. This site enlightens us all and let’s us know that there ARE others suffering at the hands of a corrupt, all powerful government. Of course we suffer, we tell our horror stories and in case you haven’t noticed, we all are trying to get our children home. Since you, in your ‘ultimate wisdom’ ( NOT)….think that it is all about us parents, then you clearly have no idea what this site is about. It is a beacon in a hurricane, it is a light in the darkness of grief and anguish. Let me reiterate: if you DON’T have children, then what right have you to judge this or any other site, or us parents? If you DO have children, then pray you are never a target for CPS. If you are, God help your soul, and your children.
Comment by Terena Powell — August 25, 2009 @ 9:17 am
I have been informed today that they will be taking my unborn child. I am officially due today as well and am at a total loss. They are determined to rip her away as soon as she is here because of the false accusations that were made against us when they removed my son and daughter, They still have not turned them over to family members and while I continue to fight for them I am getting nowhere. Why do they want to “collect” my children? They call my son by another name and even have his sister calling him this. My children are going to be seriously traumatized when and if this ever ends. How am I suppose to sit aside as a parent and let this happen but I cant do anything to stop it. I continue to comply with everything they demand of me which now has been to leave there father and even go as far as get an OP against him which was said if I did then the baby would be able to stay with me. LIES LIES LIES. I cant win for losing I do as Im told and let them tear my family even further apart only to have them do what they intended in doing in the beginning. But I will continue the fight till the day I die if thats what it takes.
Comment by Erin — August 26, 2009 @ 1:01 pm
Morgan, I understand what you are trying to say. I have reported numberous occasion to the police that my son was being abused by his father. He has had welts, bruises, face scratched up, and even cut open with a switch. Pictures had been taken everytime. The police would turn it over to CPS. But nothing had ever been done. Not one case plan with the father. They always made me keep a case open to keep an eye on things. My son has ran away from there 3 times and threatened suicide and threatened to kill his father. His father and step mother make around $100,000 a year. I make $28,000 and I am a single person, trying to raise 3 children on my own income. It has now come down to CPS telling me that if I did not sign over custody of my son to his father, I would lose all three of my children. I do not use hitting as punishment. Then when we went to court the magistrate hearing the case said “Maybe the type of disipline that he gets at his fathers is the type that he needs”. The more times that my son would come home after being punished like that had started to change him for the worst. He was on the honor roll and in cub scouts. But with years of this has taken its toll on him. He is not a bad kid, he is just misunderstood. So I have a problem with CPS, they can not get the grants from a family that makes such high income that they go after the lower income families to get the funding.
Comment by Crystal — August 26, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
CPS never gives up 13 months ago our 6 month old granddaughter was removed from our home because the case worker claimed imminent danger. Why, because my daughter told her that she felt like she needed to talk to an attorney about the abuse and neglect charges cps was allegating. That was at 10 o’clock in the morning at 5 o’clock that afternoon she was here with the order and sheriff. Well we did retain an attorney 2 thousand dollars the judge changed the charges to dependency and I was granted temporary custody. Good thing we got our beautiful baby back 5 days later by the grace of God and the attorney. The recommendations from the cabinet and the new worker assigned was that my daughter had unsupervised visitation from 5PM Fri until 5 pm Sun and in my home during the week. The judges order was to adapt the recommendations of the cabinet and that supervised visitation would be between myself and my daughter, which he included that so i could decide whether she should be supervised at anytime. CPS closed the case 3 months later.
Everything over baby home all is good in our world? Wrong it is never over with these people and retaliation can come anytime. My daughter has two other children that she is trying to get custody returned to her. The worker on that case comes to see her not at her house next door but to mine. I was mowing the yard my daughter was in the house with the baby by herself he talked to her told her he had to send his report to the county the court action is in and left.
I also have custody of my 17 year old grandson had to go to court over out of control and truancy issue. After the judge was done with the grandson the county attorney looks at me and says Mam the other child that is in your custody does her mother have supervised or unsupervised visitation I told her that it was unsupervised and that supervised was at my discretion. Then she tells me that the worker which was in the court room had told her about the visit with my daughter and that she was with the baby unsupervised I was not even at home and that the visitation is court ordered to be supervised. Of course everything that happened last year came to mind and I thought I was going to pass out the Judge seen how upset I was and told us to go outside and talk with cps and see what needed to be done. Anyway we are so scared that we have already retained another attorney this one is out of the county and has several cases against cps going on already in different parts of the state. He has told us that he is going to go over the paperwork from last years case and more than likely we will bring suit against cps for unlawful removal, more than likely this is going to bring more retaliation but at least we have someone working for us that cares. What am I doing now staying away from home as much as possible with the baby because i am afraid they will come and take her again. Warning for everyone keep every document keep a log, video or recording of every visit and always try to have another person with you when they visit. Document, Document, Document. These people are evil and kniving the county attorneys and a lot of the judges are the same. Babies and young children are not safe they have very little interest in teen agers because they are not adoptable.
Comment by Mary — August 27, 2009 @ 8:28 am
CPS is saying they don’t want me around my grandkids ages 8 & 7 because of a minor infraction I had with my ED son 10 years ago. I am really close to my grandchildren. What can I do about CPS?
Comment by Karen — August 27, 2009 @ 10:03 am
Karen, have you been to court? Have you filed for an administrative hearing? You may want to register at the message board for more feedback on this matter.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — August 28, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
Sept. 1, 2009
Thank you for creating this website,it is an eye opener. I currently have an open CPS case in San Diego, CA regarding my seventeen year old son. I have found that CPS does not provide necessary services to families and instead the funds go toward bureaucratic costs. More tragically, many children are needlessly removed from their homes, causing great suffering for the entire family.
Comment by Francisca Salcedo — September 1, 2009 @ 1:22 pm
10 years ago, I had my 14 yr. old son taken during Spring Break without a hint. He was an IEP student and had been going thru various Adolescent situations causing depression. His depression was very normal under the circumstance. But he often did not want to school being the source of his depression. When questioned at his IEP meeting we the school reps & I came to an agreement to allow counseling from a state doctor.Where almost immediately she wanted to put him on an “anti-depressant” ZOLOFT. I was totally against it. I would not allow it. I was informed that if the state had custody of my son they could enforce it.Over rule me as a parent. Well, within a few days without my knowledge it was arranged. I was devastated. Initially I thought he was abducted, until the police follow-up informed me of the CPS custody. Where I was told I could not speak to him or have a location or see him. A supervised visit would be in 2 weeks after a hearing. I received papers from CPS stating the accusations. When I read them I laughed I felt that any judged would throw it out & return him. I was being negligently life threatening for refusing the “anti-depressant” & not having him in school, but abusive when I was apparently heard raising my voice more than 3x a week(abt school attendance or wrong friends).It was questioned that i was seen drinking a beer in the morning(because my all night shift just ended). It was also noted that on several holidays I permitted my son & his older brother & sister to have (1) glass of wine with the holiday dinner.Following this was several false accusations & lies with nothing substaniating their validity.
Within a month my Widow’s benefit from Social Security was rerouted and my supplementary job was soon lost due to my court hearings & scheduled “supervised” visits not accomodate my time restraints.
At court my son & I were instructed there would be no contact without total supervision beccause i was a danger & threat to him. I was also given papers to sign myself to be under the jurisdiction or states control as well as ordering me to various demands i.e. pyschological assestment,substance screening & income disclosure for support.I was appointed a court attorney who clearly was not interested in my say. When i asked the court if i could go to jail for refusing signing their jurisdiction over me. I was screamed at by my appointed attorney so harshly “saying are you crazy only (1) in 10,000 ever win these cases.” My son attending that hearing ran over from his side and defended me to that attorny telling him “to stop abusing my mother.” Ironic. I then told my atty, “how do you know I might be that (1)? I was able to get a message to my son & told him,”it will be hard for awhile but what they are doing is wrong & if he thought he could hang we were not going to be coerised by threats & tactics. It was principle. My son said “Do it mom, I trust you.” So when given the opportunity I told the court if I can’t be jailed for not signing jurisdiction lets go to trial.”Over a period of 1 1/2 the hearings continued, although we weren’t allowed to visit except once a week supervised. I arranged to get him hired at my work as a bus boy scheduling him 5 days a week(on my shifts). So we spent time daily.I soon started noticing he was not being himself ,found out the foster mother was slipping him the ZOLOFT as well as depriving him of his necessities which i paid & supplied immediately. The final act was her physical attack on my son. I arranged for my son to run away on our day off. I told him to meet me at the police station. Where I inform the attending officer that my son was not legally allowed to be with me but I refused to allow him to return to the unsafe environment & would not leave until arrangement for a safe place.After over 5 hours & no calls fom the assigned case worker. The Police called a CPS Head Supervisor,and the police informed my son was going to a safe place [ back home with his mother where he belonged].A few months later after several qualifiers ( being evaluated by a docter of theirs),approving my accomodations,etc. When I questioned the accounting for my widows benefit return as it had now been back 4 months & I was told well he was still a ward of the state. Then I stated well where is my foster parent payment? Almost immediately a hearing was scheduled with a new substitute judge- who reinstated to the accussers-that even though i would never sign jurisdiction & had not complied with any of the stipulated terms that my son was being returned to be because i was viewed as a safe a nuturing home.Without having changed myself to their threats- the judge DISMISSED & closed this case just priior to his 18th birthday.
P.S. several months later the FDA revealed studies that made ZOLOFT NO LONGER prescriped to children under 18 for the adverse effect & in many leading to SUICIDE.!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S.S.-I WAS ABLE TO TELL THE COURT APPOINTED ATTY I GUESS I AM THE 1-IN-10,000, SO YOU NEVER SHOULD NOT TRY.
Comment by LINDA W. ROBINSON — September 4, 2009 @ 7:31 am
NOW CPS IS AFTER 6 YEARS TAKING THEIR POKE BUT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE ANGUISH OF OTHERS. I OFTEN MENTOR A FEW LESS FORTUNATE THEN MYSELF OR SOMETIMES I’M CONTACTED BY SOME WORD OF MOUTH REGARDING HELPING OUT.
SEVERAL YOUNG WOMEN TRYING TO GET ON TRACK AGAIN COME TO JUST TALK OR HEAR ADVICE. i’VE BEEN NICKNAME “MOM”.
RECENTLY, ONE OF THESE YOUNG MOTHERS CONTACTED ME FROM A FEDERAL PRISON LOCALLY. SHE IS THE MOTHER OF A 4 YR OLD. I CAN ATTEST TO THE LOVE, CARE & TOP PRIORITY SHE HAD ALWAYS GIVEN HER SON. SHE HAS BEEN “INCARCERATED FOR 8 MONTHS NOW” FOR CREDIT CARDS,ETC. SHE IS MARRIED TO HER SON’S FATHER BUT HAVE NOT BEEN TOGETHER FOR SOME TIME DUE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. AT THE TIME OF HER ARREST IN MACY’S, HER SON HAPPENED TO BE VISITING HIS FATHER. SO HE HAS BEEN IN THE FATHER’S CUSTODY UNTIL 2 WEEKS AGO WHEN THE FATHER WAS ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT CHARGES( THIS BEING ENOUGH THAT HE WILL NOT BE AROUND FOR ABT 18 YEARS).HAVING NO ONE TO TURN TO & ALSO HAVING BEEN THREATENED BY A MOTHER-IN-LAW TO TAKE HER SON & NEVER REVEALING HIS LOCATION. MY “YOUNG MOM” WAS FRANTIC & AS IF WE WOULD BE WILLING TO TAKE HIM UNTIL HER RELEASE IN A FEW MONTHS. MY FIANCE & I AGREED.POWER OF ATTORNEY WAS NOTARIZED & DELIVERED TO US AND WE APPROACHED THE HOME OF THE FAMILY WHERE HIS FATHER HAD BEEN RESIDING. AFTER GETTING A COMPLETE RUN-AROUND WE WERE TOLD HER SON HAD BEEN PICKED UP BY HIS UNCLE.
WHEN HIS MOTHER CONTACTED US AGAIN I WAS ABLE TO UPDATE HER. SHE BECAME MORE ALARM STATED THAT THE UNCLE WAS AN “ACCUSSED CHILD MOLESTOR”. I IMMEDIATELY CONTACTED THE POLICE WHO INFORMED ME THAT WITHOUT A COURT ORDER THEY COULD NOT ASSIST ME AS I WAS NOT A BLOOD RELATIVE AND IF I HAD CONTACTED CPS? AS CPS WAS NOT INVOLVED & THE MOTHER WAS CONCERNED ABOUT HIS IMMEDIATE WELL BEING WE ATTEMPTED THRU VARIOUS METHODS, BUT WITHOUT A LOCATION. IT WAS AGREED IF WE HAD NO OTHER WAY OF FINDING HIM AS IT HAD NOW BEEN SEVERAL DAYS THEN WE WOULD THEN MAKE A REPORT AS SHE ALSO FEAR HIS REMOVAL FROM THE ISLAND (WE ARE IN HAWAII).wHEN FOLLOWING UP AS NO MORE DAYS HAD PAST AND I WAS NOT GETTING RETURN CALLS FROM ALL THE ENTITIES WHICH I FOUND ALRMING UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCE. I WAS THEN INFORMED BY CPS THAT I DIDNOT PAST THEIR BACKGROUND CHECK DUE TO MY INVOLVEMENT WITH THERE SYSTEM VIA THE DISMISSED CASED WITH MY SON EARLIER. THEN THE VERY SAME CASE WORKER WHO HAD TO RETRACT HIS ORIGINAL ALLEGATIONS IN MY SON’S CASE FURTHER LET ME KNOW UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE WOULD I EVER BE ALLOWED TO TAKE IN MINOR CHILDREN. UP UNTIL THIS TIME THEY HAD INFORMED ME THEY DID NOT HAVE A LOCATION TO HIS WHEREABOUTS. FACED WITH LITTLE TIME AS WE NOW FOUND OUT THE PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER HAD FLOWN IN & AS SHE WAS A BLOOD RELATIVE & HAD AN ACCEPTABLE BACKGROUND. AS THEY PHRASED ” IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD”- ALTHOUGH SHE HAS NOT SEEN HIM SINCE BIRTH(A STRANGER IN HIS EYES), HE WAS REMOVED FROM HIS PRE-SCHOOL(HIS FRIENDS),PLAN ON BEING TAKEN TOTALLY OUT OF HIS FAMILIAR ENNIRONMENT & CULTURE(TO A DIFFERENT STATE) & FURTHER WAS REFUSING ANY ATTEMPTED CONTACTS BY THHIS YOUNG MOTHER.WHEN TRYING TO DISCUSS THIS WITH THE CASE WORKER ASSIGNED(ALTHHOOUGH HE HAS NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY IN THEIR CUSTODY TO DATE). I WAS INFORMED RUDELY THAT ALTHOUGH I HAD THE ONLY FORM OF LEGAL PAPERS GIVEN BY A PARENT THAT WITH THEIR BACKGROUND AND MY NOT BEING A BLOOD RELATIVE THEIR WAS NO REASON TO DEAL WITH ME.I HAVE NOW TRIED CONTACTING ANY & ALL ENTITIES I.E. ALLIANCES, ADVOCATES ETC. JUST TO HELP PRESERVE THIS YOUNG MOTHERS RIGHTS TO HER SON’S WELL BEING EVEN AS “AN INCARCERATED MOTHER”. THIS YOUNG MOTHER ALSO INFORMED ME & I WAS ABLE TO GET CONFIRMED DOCUMENTATION THAT ALL (3) OF THE MOTHER-IN-LAWS SONS HAD A HISTORY 1-BEIING A CHILD MOLESTOR 2-PREDATOR OF YOUNG TEEN GIRLS & 3-1ST DEGREE ASSAULT & VIOLENT CHARGES.
AN INFORMAL CONFERENCE WAS SCHEDULED IN 48 HOURS WHICH THE MOTHER WAS ABLE TO STIPULATE MY ATTENDING AS HER REPRESENTATION & THE OTHER ENTITIES WOULD BE THE CASE WORKER, THE MOTHER IN LAW, ONE OF THE UNCLE’S & WIFE (NOT THE MOLESTOR) & AT CONCLUSION IF IT WAS DETERMINED THEY WOULD ALLOW HER SON TO BE TAKEN OUT OF STATE WITH THE MOTHER IN LAW INDEFINITELY. i WAS ABLE TO GET THE MOTHER TO INSIST ON A POSTPONEMENT TO BUY US SOME TIME TO FIND FAMILY OR SOME ALTERNATE RECOURSE. IF THERE IS SOME REMEDY I SHOULD BE USING TO EXPEDITE HER SAVING HER RIGHTS TO HER SON. AS I CAN’T SEE HOW MY DISMISSED CASE JUSTIFIES THEIR BEING ABLE TO THWART HER LEGAL APPOINTMENT BY LAW?
Comment by LINDA W. ROBINSON — September 4, 2009 @ 9:05 am
cps has also taken my children away from me and even told me that i would have to write a letter saying i was abusing meds or they would put them in a foster home and not in their paternal mothers care. i later found out that the cps worker had grown up with my kids dads family. we were going through a custody battle and he one residental right even thought i had a cpo against him when they kids came to me over the weekend they had bruises and told us about neglect we called the hotline even thought i now moved three hours away the dfs case is opened down their and they have not tooken the children from them yet even though last week they said they were going to a put the kids in my custody
Comment by a.g. — September 19, 2009 @ 4:21 pm
My Boyfriend … is going through a nasty time with CPS too. His ex-wife and boyfriend made a false claim that he molested his 5 year old boy. They taught him what to say and now [my boyfriend] got his child taken away and no can see the boy, [my boyfriend] gets 2 days a week visitation but can’t touch his only son. The detective cleared him of the charges but CPS believe the crazy ex-wife. Her motive is to take her son and move to Hawaii with her boyfriend the sad part is, … they even tried changing his last name. CPS needs to be stopped, he was not even found guilty and they are making him take a sexual abuse class. They have way to much control and power. We are fighting hard for this boy, he is being abused over at his mom’s the boyfriend even put his hand on the childs neck and cps didn’t believe us. We even had to take a 730 and hoping that is our shoulder to lean on.
Comment by J. — September 25, 2009 @ 4:40 pm
CPS in Arizona is like walking into any Walmart or Kmart store……. They Are CLUELESS! The Blind leading the Blind.
Comment by Davis — September 26, 2009 @ 4:56 pm
Finally the support I have been looking for. I had all three of my children taken by Virginia cps about one month ago and from the looks of it it will be about six months before I get them back. I am almost to my end, I feel like an animal in a cage and the sticks just never stop poking my side I know there is light at the end of the tunnel but its surviving the battle that makes for a long haul.
My kids were taken from false accusations by my oldest daughter who I have had lots of legal issues with and had repeatedly asked the state for help with, with the response of just because a child won’t behave at home it is not our problem but when the child decides to cry abuse the throw both me and my fiance in jail when neither one of us have ever been in trouble before.
Then one week after my kids were taken after changing all the locks on my house the accusing daughter and her foster parent break into my house through a window and steal whatever they want and the police department will not even let me file a report. They told me to pretty much right my things off. I have no rights and to this minute is anyone yet to take a statement from me or even look at my house. Since I am now what the state considers a criminal I am just a number in the system and I have no voice.
My younger daughters were placed together where soon after their arrival they were mentally abused by the caretaker because she was jealous of my relationship with them. I have never hit my kids, I was severely abused by my mother as a child and of course back then cps would not believe us and now my brothers are all addicts of alcohol or drugs. I have spent five years taking care of these kids on my own in a state where the cost of living is so high its hard for two people yet when I was counting pennies to put food on the table the state said I didn’t qualify for help yet they will rip my kids from my hands when thats all I have and have lived for.
The system has failed me and now I have to fight to get my kids back but when I get them back what damage will have been caused. No I’m sorries or we apologizies will ever take away the pain that this has caused. Where is the justice and what happened to innocent until proven guilty. I am a survivor and I will not let this system break me for if I can live through being with my mother, being raped at seventeen and being a single parent then this should be a walk in the park, except nothing can replace my kids.
I pray for the families on this web site and I know one voice usually doesn’t make a difference but united we can not go wrong. If it is the last thing I do if I can prevent one family from going through this pain then I have done my job. I will be a voice that is heard!!!!!!!!!! If anyone has any advice please feel free to tell me it just feels good not to be alone.
Comment by Wendy — October 13, 2009 @ 4:21 pm