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Child Protective Services laws and agencies are abusive to families and children. This site provides support and information to parents falsely accused of child abuse by Child Protective Services.
FightCPS does not advocate or condone violence or illiegal activities of any kind.
FightCPS is intended to help people learn enough about the law to be able to successfully defend themselves and their families against false accusations using legal documents and strategies that put parents in a stronger position when they go back to court.
For more information, see the FAQ.
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 The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed.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.
Site mission: To provide information and support for families attacked by Child Protective Services and child welfare agents, especially those families facing false or trivial accusations of child abuse or neglect; and for researchers working to protect natural family rights.
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Fighting Child Protective Services False Accusations
November 4, 2009
Just received this in email:
The Congressional Education and Labor subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities is conducting a hearing on the reauthorization of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) tomorrow, November 5th.
You can reach the subcommittee members by calling the capitol switchboard, at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to one of the following Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities members:
Carolyn McCarthy, Chairwoman
Todd “Russell” Platts, Ranking Member
Yvette Clarke
Howard P. “Buck” McKeon
Robert C. “Bobby” Scott
Brett Guthrie
Carol Shea-Porter
David P. Roe
Paul Tonko
Glenn “GT” Thompson
Jared Polis
George Miller
Judy Chu
Let’s make those phones RING
More information – this link was sent to me by LawDoll (Leesa) – thank you!
American Humane Testifies for Reauthorization & Expansion of Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, Plus Increased Use of ‘Differential Response’ and Other Approaches
Update: Watch the archived webcast of this hearing: Preventing Child Abuse and Improving Responses to Families in Crisis
… THANKS TO ALL WHO MADE CALLS. PLEASE KEEP THE NUMBER AND KEEP CALLING THESE PEOPLE …
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how do i find the law. i want to know how it reads before i call people.
Comment by danajoy@creminfamily.com — November 5, 2009 @ 6:11 am
Ok I would like to call but what should we say to these people?
Comment by manytears — November 5, 2009 @ 7:33 am
Manytears, I think the most important things to tell them is that the children are in more danger in foster care, that kinship care rights are being violated, that the federal funding is causing children to be drugged so fosterers and counties can get more money for ’special needs’ children, that children who aren’t abused are being taken from their families… that it is a huge financial racket with these counties using draconian measures to process families through the system (for trivial things) so the counties can get that federal money. Most of all, that families are being destroyed and children traumatized by unnecessary CPS removals during their formative years. How’s that for a start?
Comment by LindaJoMartin — November 5, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
DanaJoy – you can learn more here: http://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/2009/11/preventing-child-abuse-and-imp.shtml
Comment by LindaJoMartin — November 5, 2009 @ 1:52 pm
I am new to this site and my problem is the abuse that occurs and CPS will do nothing about it. I have medical records of the injuries on the child and the CPS report stating the child had no injuries whatsoever in four different sections of the CPS report.
Thus nothing was done to the parents. This child was a two month old baby.
Needless to say the abuse has gone on and on and nothing gets done even with complaints to supervisors.
Comment by voice4kids — November 5, 2009 @ 1:53 pm
Just a comment–if CPS advocates think that Differential Response is going to make such a difference in the way the system works, why didn’t they think of it (and get it implemented) years and years ago? It has been known for many years that “demonizing” parents doesn’t work, but only creates more family stress that ends up harming the child. What is wrong with the brains of these professionals that it took decades to understand that you have to get the parent over onto your side? Nobody trusts CPS now. They might as well scrap it and let TRUE professionals create a system that is on the side of the parents in the first place!
Comment by Bridget M — November 5, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
I am in my 50’s now; I remember when Child Protective Services was new. It was ALREADY KNOWN in the Mental Health profession that you could not scum, intimidate, emotionally destroy a parent (particularly not in front of a judge), and batter their reputation, then expect them to be able to create a happy home for their children. The science for building trustworthy support systems to enable parents to care for their children was well understood. Only REAL cases went to court and opened up foster care. Why, then, did we end up with a system that went in the other direction? Now we hear about the glory of a Differential Response System that is going to support the parents and make everything all better? How could anybody trust these people now?
I have been through years of emotional battering from mental health workers, school personnel, and finally CPS. I cannot trust any of them ever again.
Comment by Bridget M — November 5, 2009 @ 7:27 pm
It is time to end these people with no training who have the power of Courts to destroy lives with nothing but unproved lies of an angry person who want to hurt another.
They break the laws constantly. They change the rules as they like.
They need witnesses to all conversations but will not allow you one.
They want people to talk without knowing what the meeting is to be about and refuse you any legal protections. Most matters are criminal in nature. This is the Government. Where is the right not to self incriminate? It does not exist.
If you refuse to talk with them, they go with the one sided false allegations that many times are given to them and an individual then loses his constitutional rights to be a parent.
I could make these points endlessly.
CPS is dangerous to the Constitution and Americans.
SHUT THEM DOWN PLEASE!
Comment by Bill Ian Jurow — November 5, 2009 @ 8:20 pm
Buck McKeon has a facebook page. I’ve posted on his wall where the public can see it. I don’t know if it will stay, but comment if you can.
http://www.facebook.com/BuckMcKeon?v=wall
Comment by Char — November 6, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
shut down as someone who has had the chance t fight cps they do nothing but destroy lives their job is to keep kids with the families but nothing they take and take and take…
Comment by melissa — November 9, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
and trust me no one is going to do nothing
Comment by melissa — November 9, 2009 @ 2:50 pm
I was a Safety Resources for DFAS, but once I realized the severity of the molestation of the child in my care, I took action against DFAS. Who in turn turned their backs on me, and left me out to dry. The judge however, ruled that the child could not return to the mother, and placed her in DFAS. I want DFAS to be held accountable. Everyone is saying that DFAS will not be penalized, but something needs to be done.
All I kept hearing from DFAS was “we are over worked and underpaid”
Comment by Carletha Geter — November 9, 2009 @ 6:25 pm
I am a concerned parent, trying to get anyone to listen to me and my daughter. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services has failed my daughter and me. The haphazard investigation techniques and small town politics have affected the outcome of any open investigation CPS has received involving my daughter. This lackadaisical attitude has resulted in my daughter having to go to a place that is unsafe, every other weekend, in turn resulting in a little girl who is normally outgoing and energetic being returned to me a completely different person. She is withdrawn and angry and aggressive towards her friends and her pets. Lily goes to therapy every other Monday, after her visits with her father and his family, where she is able to discuss her feelings and ‘detox’ from the weekend.
In September 2008 my daughter told her pediatrician, Dr. Ball, “Papaw Jack (paternal grandfather) had touched her tutu (her vagina).” Lily said this during a follow-up exam resulting from a visit the previous day where Lily’s paternal grandmother drove from London, Kentucky, to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, to Lily’s pediatrician and insisted someone had been sexually abusing Lily. The pediatrician noted the paternal grandmother’s behavior as bizarre and called to tell me they were there with Lily, but she would like for me to bring Lily back in the next day in order to do a follow-up with me present. Since neither Lily’s paternal grandmother, nor Lily’s father notified me of the visit or had an appointment, Dr. Ball wanted to touch base with me. As a result of the follow-up exam and what was said, the pediatrician called Laurel County CPS, where the paternal grandparents reside.
In retaliation to the initial report being made to CPS by her pediatrician, Lily’s father threatened me with a lawsuit for defamation and a report was called in to CPS by the paternal grandmother, accusing my father and my husband of sexually abusing Lily. Both investigations were completed, and the case was un-substantiated. Lily was then allowed to resume visits to her paternal grandparents’ house in London, Kentucky.
Lily’s behavior began to change and was completely out of character for her when she would return from these visits. I started taking her to a therapist in June 2009 because of these behavioral outbursts and out of character tendencies. Lily saw her therapist, Stacy Seitz (Jefferson County), weekly for more than a month. During these weekly sessions, Lily divulged information about being inappropriately touched by both her paternal grandparents and even acted out what had happened, as well as told her therapist she was afraid of “Nanny Moose” (paternal grandmother). Lily’s therapist placed several phone calls to Laurel County CPS in order to report the abuse. Each time new information was revealed in session, Lily’s therapist made a call.
I was contacted by a CPS worker in Nelson County, where Lily and I reside with my husband, who interviewed Lily in the CPS office and then suggested a forensic interview at the advocacy center. In both situations Lily was not able to give much information about the incidences, but notably became reserved and angry when asked about the situation. As a result of these two interviews alone, no evidence could be found. Lily was placed in strange settings with people whom she is not familiar, resulting in understandably not wanting to discuss something traumatic. However, had Allison Westerfield, the Laurel County CPS investigator, contacted Lily’s therapist and discussed with her the details of what was said in Lily’s sessions, Ms. Westerfield would have found that Lily’s story was consistent and that there is reason to believe this is a family Lily does not need to be around.
I have a copy of the caseworker notes from the previous case, as well as this last case, and know that the Luttrell family had a resource link in TWIST against them, before any of this started. It seems to me that CPS would err on the side of caution, for the sake of protecting a three-year-old girl, and substantiate this case, resulting in a Kentucky State Police investigation.
I am not sure why this case was not completely investigated but feel that without Lily’s therapist being interviewed the case was not fully or completely investigated and therefore should not have been closed. Since Lily’s therapist was the person who reported the abuse, it only makes sense that she is an essential part of this investigation and should have been interviewed in order to fully understand what was being reported and why. Allison Westerfield failed to do her job by not interviewing Lily’s therapist and discovering needed evidence in order for you to complete an investigation on your part, as well as hers for CPS.
There was a third referral made to CPS due to the fact that my daughter told her teacher, me, her pediatrician and her therapist that “Nanny Moose stuck her fingers in her tutu.” Please understand that as a mother I am trying to do everything possible to protect my daughter and am not willing to just sit back and allow my daughter to be placed in situations that are harmful. CPS chose not to accept this referral because “it did not meet their criteria.”
I realize that Laurel County is a small county where a lot of people know each other. I also realize that Lily has a great-uncle who is a state police post commander in the eastern part of the state, as well as an uncle who is a sergeant for the London Police Department; and because of this close network of relationships, cases might get ‘overlooked’ due to prior knowledge and relationship with the family. I am simply trying to protect my daughter. My daughter started making these accusations when she was only two years old. She has consistently told the same story, even now at three and half years old. The first time she made the allegations was to her pediatrician, who then called in the report and the second to her therapist, who made the report. This third case was called in by her pediatrician and her therapist, as well as by me at the advice of the advocacy and support center. Lily would not even be seeing a therapist if her behavior was not so out of character every time she came home from visiting this family. I am not trying to deny her father any parental rights or visitation, I am simply trying to keep my daughter from having to go somewhere she is not safe.
I am just trying to get someone to listen and take us seriously, so that my daughter will be safe, happy and healthy. As a mother, this has been the hardest feat I’ve had to deal with because no matter how hard I try, nothing comes out of all that I’ve tried to do. Watching your child leave every other weekend and have to go to a harmful environment is physically and emotionally draining and is the most helpless feeling.
Thank you in advance for any help you may offer. I appreciate your time.
Comment by Sarah — November 10, 2009 @ 10:34 am
I’m a grandparent in Oklahoma who DHS lied and as of their lies the court system denied me vistation and even my adoption was denied. Just because the case worker didn’t like me, she was given the upper hand in court over me. Her recommendations weighted over the bond I had with my granddaughter. Even with all the background checks and home study was approved the child was awarded to the foster partents.
Comment by Connie Pickle — November 10, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
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Please help me in June of 04 I was living with my ex he was heavy into using drugs. I pissed off my sitter so she called cps. I was told to take my daughter out of town. I went to my moms where my sister slapped my daughter at the time she was 2 years I then left to another sisters house where I was told I had 2 weeks to leave so my ex picked us up and put us in a motel room. During my stay at my sisters house my daughter emptied a bottle of liquid motrin on the counter some one filed neglectful medical reports on me. While I was at the motel my ex and his dad came to take me grocery shopping. When we came back to the room the police were there they had called the worker and she said since my child was around her father they had to remove her. She was placed in a shelter for 3 weeks and then placed with my exs mother. This was October of 04. They informed me if I completed everything that my girl would be back home. I completed everything in 6 months and nothing. I got pregnant with another child in April of 05 and the worker said the judge may not give her back that I had to choose between my unborn child and my then 4 year old daughter. They closed the case August of 05. Precisely 1 month EARLY before the 12 months were over.My daughter is now nearly 8 years old still living with my exs family. My ex is still using drugs and being allowed to see my child on a regular basis. As for me I only see her 3 times a year. I am now married raising our 5 children together however our family will never be complete with out my little angel. Please if any one knows a lawyer in the san antonio texas area that can help please contact me. Also please keep us in your prayers
Comment by Candace Corona — November 12, 2009 @ 11:54 am
I live in ….. im currently trying to find a lawyer because CPS in ….. tx are horrible. I am being accused well my whole family the chillderns grandparents we are even being accused of beating my grandfather. Well CPS has not done nothing to investigate they want to just instantly remove my babies. And as a mother they are not touching any of my babies. I believe that CPS is needed in some cases ive seen on this site that some one thinks they are doing there job but the ones in ….. 80% of them do not have kids and know nothing about kids. My alligations were called by a neighbor that lived across the street from us and everything she told about are family she dose with her kids she was beaten on her husband in front of the whole neighbor hood why he was holding her 1 year old so someone called the cops and she went to jail well she thought it was and called CPS on us and told them a bunch of bull. Now instead of investigating the sistuation they want to just remove my babies. It may be there job but either they need to change the system or do more investigating My 4 year old is always tellin me since these people have been bugging us that she dose not want to be taken. I think they do it for the money and i think some of them may care bt most dont they just do there job and get paid no matter how the sistuation is. My step daughters mom got CPS called on her we got custody of the baby and they gave her a slap on the wrest and signed her case off she was involved about 5 months total and the whole time she ran from them she was a meth head and they didnt do anything bt sign her case off and let her do more drugs.
the system is messed up and they are tearign so many kids lives and parents up its rediculus. Something needs to be done
Comment by Brittany — November 14, 2009 @ 11:45 am
I have twin daughters whom are still being abused. i have cps own reports that shows the children have been telling in details sexual things that have been grossly happening to them at the hands of there father. cps took the children because I reported it cps is saying he has done nothing wrong I need help!
Comment by Tondria — November 16, 2009 @ 10:59 am
as someone who is fighting the system right as we speak i have seen them lie and get away with it just got a phone call from my lawyer letting me know my case worker quit who do i get i get the cps supervisor known as the snake cps is suposed to try and keep the families togethere but in this case she looks for ways to take the kids yeah asked if there is something i can do and am told nothing i have been fighting cps for 7 years talking about the damage they have done its there everytime my husband and i close or case think we might be able to heal from the last shit they put us through give them in all seriouseness two weeks they will show up saying they got a report… bullshit they really are baby stealers i love it when a cps worker comes out to tell me how to raise my kids when she is oh 21 with guess what no kids… cant find anyone to help me get the monkeys off my back most people hear of cps and run away as fast as they can and it hurts they destroy more lives then they help… how many more lives are they going to destroy before our goverment steps in the help the people my daughter is scared she isnt going to see me again..
Comment by melissa — November 17, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
what needs to be done is to protest get the news out to the public tell them where there tax dallors are being spent ON AND FOR WHO this is bull S——t. come on people use your heads ….protest…..protest…..protest.
Comment by larry mayers — November 17, 2009 @ 6:43 pm
iam a kid who jot taken away by cps.there was nothing wrong with my house,mom,or family! What should i do?
Comment by c — November 18, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
Melissa, the government isn’t going to step in and help unless there can be RADICAL changes to the government. As I see it, the state sovereignty movement is the answer.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — November 18, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
c – have you got a Guardian Ad Litem attorney? You should tell that person what your preference is. Make sure the judge knows your preference too.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — November 18, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
when my children gotten taken away by DHS and my exinlaws Kathy lied to to courts about me so that she can get money of of my children not Kathy Sheehey and the rest of that evil family brainwashed my children against I got hate mail from my son he told me to leave him alone he called me a bitch and that his sister hates me to that my boyfriend now exboyfriend he hopes that we go to jail that sure hurt me my own son called me a bitch all I have been doing is crying it felt like he stabbed a knife in my chest and turned it I hope my exinlaws burn in h— and yet thought my exinlaws keeps showing up at my work I work for McDonalds and their are plently of other McDonlds they can go at but no they alwyas go to the one that I work at few months again Gina Shoescher who went against me she worked for four oaks she brought her kids into my work Gina Schoescher was on my exhusband and his family side right now after that hate mail I feel so numb I hope the truth of that family would come out.
Comment by Terri Rote — November 24, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
(((Terri))) . . . I know how that feels. I had two children who were raised by my ex-husband. He and his ‘girlfriend’ did everything they could to make it hard for me to see them. They were totally brainwashed to believe things that weren’t true. When they grew up one of them emerged from the brainwashing with the help of her boyfriend (now husband) and the other one still ignores me totally.
The problem is PAS – Parental Alienation Syndrome. Google that for more information, if you haven’t already. Some PAS kids recover when they’re adults and some don’t.
I’m really sorry… I know how much this hurts because I’ve lived with it for many years.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — November 24, 2009 @ 11:39 pm
yesterday I learn of a meeting about people who lost their children to DHS we are going to have a movement next Saturday we are going to make banners and stand outside the CPS offices I went to the meeting today the meeting is every saturday at 9;00 am in a small church we are telling our storieswe are fed up with CPS kidnapping our children they had meetings last saturday but I didn’t learn about it till yesterday they want to removed a Judge off the bench they had the same Judge as me anybody wants to go to this meeting it is in DesMoines Iowa the church is amazing grace at 23rd and Clark they want the meeting to get larger they want people to hand out flyiers the people who is doing these meeting s wants more people to come the bigger the better there was sombody from Nebraska was at that meeting they want a movement a big one I gave people there this websites
Comment by Terri Rote — November 28, 2009 @ 10:52 am
i also got another hate mail from one of my kids that hurts so much I hope my exinlaws are happy brainwashing my children against I hope they rot in H— thanks to the DHS and courts
Comment by Terri Rote — November 28, 2009 @ 10:54 am
PAS: it’s real. My ex’s girlfriend was severely sexually abused as a child but since my ex met her, she has passed on her issues to my 9 yr old daughter. My daughter told me the other day, “——-’s father was one of those daddy’s that liked to have sex with kids.”….is this appropriate? to tell a child these things?
This woman, along with the help of my ex’s mother who was the “director for women’s Services” and is now the director for “Family counseling services”, made false allegations about me, and CPS forced me to sign away my parental rights with the threat of FOSTER care if I didn’t…It’s been two years and many court cases later, and still I don’t have my custody back…My daughter, who I get unsupervised visitation with twice a week for 4 hours, treats me like a second class citizen, doesn’t believe a word I say, and even though I am an OB nurse, tells me they say I am a “bad nurse” who doesn’t really know anything and begs me to never come to her school or her house because last time I did she got so “terrified”, that she got diarrhea…her most recent obsession (she developed OCD since they took her from me…)..I don’t know what to do, but I tell you what, PAS is real and it’s the worst thing someone could do to the mother child relationship. What happened to honoring our mothers?
Comment by Phoebe — December 5, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
cps is no good ,cps is full of lies and deceit. cps is not for the protection of the child or children but to create worst abuse.my child 4 years old is being abuse by his mother n his 10 year old brother and his 14 year old brother as well. my little child is being sexually abuse by his brothes and beaten and his mom does nothing to protect my son.ive taken my son to counseling and hospitals and the medical reports by these agencies all support the benifit of my sons case. my son has been burn in the inside of his inner thigh with a scare that will never leave his body by his 14 year old half brother,and cps came up to hospital and took pictures of the burn and said its old and thats nothing.. They always tell me to leave the room when they want to talk to my son and when i come back they say my son want talk to them.but my little boy always say to me dad those people keep lying on me dad i do tell them my mom is mean to me and i do tell them my broyhers touch my pee, pee, and my brothers beat me but dad they lie on me. i tell him i know baby but we just got to keep on fighting and not give up cos we gonna win over their lies baby ,and he just looks me in the eye like saying is there really a chance of wining over a power thats most certainly connected with supreme congress, well god has all power in his hand and darkness will and shall be over come by light soon and very soon i truly believe.
Comment by dwight — December 6, 2009 @ 11:26 pm
Terri, It’s Diane. We spoke over the summer about trying to find a way to Washington this summer. My new number is (563) 571-1297. I am still here if you want to chat. I would like to be there in Des Moines for one of those Saturday meetings, but it will have to be after income taxes when I can get a better car. Hugs and Prayers!
Comment by Diane — January 9, 2010 @ 1:57 pm
I am a grandmother with my grand children in separate places. There are three boys and one girl they should be together but CPS feel that they know whats best. Twenty years ago my daughter was in the system because she decided after my break up with ding dong burger. But now the CPS are trying to say it was because of drugs and prison but I have never been charge child abuse nor drugs. They want p;ace the kids with me because they are corrupt and small minded to abuse our children and then breakup our family for what they are doing abusing children with the system behind them.
Comment by Antonette — January 16, 2010 @ 8:31 pm
Antonette, you and your daughter can file for a state administrative hearing to challenge the denial of kinship care rights.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — January 17, 2010 @ 1:12 am
I lived in Ky when this happened. Anyone who wishes to help with support or how to go about a class action lawsuit against a state jop and cps please email me at trekkiemutantxgirl[@]yahoo.com. Here’s my story:
I am among what appears to be many who want to sue Kentucky for everything it is worth! 8 long years ago my son was taken from me. I was sick and my house was a terrible mess. I was so sick i dropped out of college because i was failing! I asked for help. The answer: a social worker at my house firs thing in the morning with a camera! I was told there would be before and after pictures. I had my elderly father help me clean the house SPOTLESS and there were never after pictures. The judge never heard my side of the story, i was thrown in jail that day, before my testimony, over a $50 bounced check! My disabilities and the fact that my son is disabled was used against me.
I did EVERYTHING they requested of me at first. I was even told in front of my visiting mother (a witness) that my son and i would be ready for weekend visits, and that would lead to his return. Those visits NEVER happened! Every time progress was made our caseworker was changed. Every new caseworker had no idea of the promises that were made.
Eventually i became suicidal because of cps and their false promises. the visits with my son even stopped due to one excuse or the other. Threats and intimidation became commonplace in my life. Hangups when i called in became even more common.
Eventually i could take no more. I moved out of Kentucky without my son. Not even a year after i moved i got a letter, 3 days after, i was due in court for my parental rights to be removed on the basis of abandonment. I NEVER abandoned my child. I fought until i could fight no longer. My rights were illegally terminated and to date my voice has never been heard in my defense.
I have since had another child. A girl. I am now terrified of cps, and terrified to love her as much or more than i did my son. I am terrified that if i do then cps will find a way to take her as well.
In 5 weeks and 1 day my son turns the big 18. He emailed me for the first time the day after my birthday of this last year. He told me he is coming home march 2 of this year and NOTHING is going to stop him. I asked if he wanted to sue the hell out of Ky for their injustice. He said yes. Now how do i go about correcting what was done wrong and nailing those S.O.B’s that took my boy illegally? Also how can i join in on the movement to sue KY with the other parents who suffered and are suffering like me? I lived in Columbia. Media at tension in this is more than welcome after march 2 of this year. Any help or support in this matter or in the upcoming reunion of my son will be more than welcome. Thanks.
From a mom who’s heart is continuing to break.
Comment by Dorothy — January 17, 2010 @ 12:31 pm
Dorothy, I replied to you on the other thread you left this message on. I hope your son will sue… be aware there’s a statute of limitations and he must file SOON… after he’s eighteen.
Comment by LindaJoMartin — January 18, 2010 @ 2:55 am
i lost my kids may 31st 2007 i have been clean and sober for three years now and they just took my parental rights from me i have had a parenting coach that cps picked and she recommended my kids be returned home starting in july 2007 and still was recommending the same in January 2009 when they took my parental rights i went to rehab for 2 years and never missed a visit with my boys. also there were no charges brought on me because i never harmed my boys. my kids are isaiah he is 5 bryan he is 3 and anthony he is 2 i miss them very much and i have not seen them since july of 2009 please help me find a way to get my parental rights back before the adoption if finalized
Comment by eva hindmon — January 22, 2010 @ 11:04 pm
Eva, I’m so sorry, but I don’t know how to do that. Have you asked about this on the FightCPS forum? Have you filed an appeal?
Comment by LindaJoMartin — January 23, 2010 @ 3:10 am
i cant find anyone to help me fill out civil pro se paper work in order to get them into fedral court every time i mention any thing about YOLO county they get scared well i am not scared i am backed into a corner and the only way to get out is go through yolo
Comment by Art Maupin — March 26, 2010 @ 3:07 pm
I am so disgusted with CPS….they have taken my kids for the 4th time…all because my husband got drunk made a terrible statement to me and I reported it to the Police. CPS then went to the school talked to my daughter in 5th grade and son in Kind…my son was ultimately scared to death….but needless to say….my husband was arrested and charged with dv/terrozing, because of the comment….This was Jan 26 2010…I made it very clear to his criminal lawyer I loved him but he needed help with his drinking before we could engage in any more relations due to the comment and he would need to make sure he had a place to stay…CPS the following week after meeting with me called and threatned me saying if I didnt sign the safety plan they would take the kids through the courts….I said to this women is that a threat she said no its a promise….So 3 weeks after they came to my house they took my kids…2 days after my husband got out of jail they took them…Saying I have a substance abuse problem, which anyone that knows me knows thats far from true….I have only seen my 10 yo girl twice since Feb 19…what I get is well theres just now a lot of time in a day….CPS also invited family members to my team meeting without my knowledge….She says she could because they were on my reunification plan….WHICH IS STILL UNSIGNED TO DATE….so that is a civil rights violation….My brother got the summary that cps writes up he let my mother photocopy it for her own use….They could care less about these kids….This is a paycheck for these young people right out of college….But as I stated to my caseworker when you stand before GOD on your judgement day he will be the one questioning you not me….So in the end my family has lost again all because cps needs these kids for funding….SO SAD…I do not have to judge them GOD will someday and ask them what were you thinking….you werent in those lives everyday….All families have issues but the way cps goes about it they only have the bad written down…they dont focus on what the family does everyday…..
I WILL FIGHT FOR MY KIDS NO MATTER WHAT!!!
Comment by Kerry — April 5, 2010 @ 4:25 pm
I am trying to find out if there is any hope of me regaining custody of my children after being forced to sign termination of rights papers. My case started when I was assaulted by a boyfriend and my oldest daughter called 911. When officers came to my house the boyfriend had already been long gone because I told him to leave. The officers told me that I HAD to go to a women’s shelter that was located over an hour away. I refused because I believed there was no danger in staying in my own home and because I had a new job that I had to be at the next morning. The officers then called DFCS and just took my kids sreaming and crying away from me. My first hearing was done over the phone with the judge who at first said I was the victim and like he was going to let my kids go home then the DFCS brought up my past as a former foster child but only saying that I had DFCS history kind of forcing the judge to change his mind and they kept my kids. Then three months later they took my newborn after she had been home for a week. I followed their case plan with a lot of run around and aggravation such as having to move three times. One move was because the newspaper listed a neighbor as a sex offender.(Other neighbors with children weren’t bothered) The caseworker seperated my five children into three homes. One of the foster mothers hired detectives to follow me around and take pictures. I was forced to sign termination papers at around 6pm the day before court. The caseworker said if I signed the papers that my visitation would continue and if I didn’t and the judge gave her the termination that she was going to ask for then I would never have visitation again. They told me there wouldn’t be any court. Then later I recieved papers saying that they did indeed have court and no one knew why I wasn’t present. My children have since been adopted by the foster mothers that had them. My children still to this day want very much to come home! The visits that I have been allowed are now getting few and far between! Seeing this page while browsing the internet has been my first glimmer of hope to ending this nightmare that I and my children are living. Any help would be greatly appreciated in my desperate situation.
Comment by Samantha — April 12, 2010 @ 1:05 pm
Samantha, I don’t want to give you false hope. This site helps people early in their cases more than it can help someone who has already been coerced into a TPR. You were totally taken advantage of, and I’m very sorry about that.
I have studied CPS for twenty years and during that time have heard of only two cases wherein a parent got their children back after a TPR. As I recall, this happened because adoptions failed and the caseworkers decided to try placing the children back with their original parents whose situations had changed drastically.
Comment by Linda Martin — April 12, 2010 @ 6:33 pm