Iowa: CPS Social Worker Charged With Perjury during TPR Hearing
The WCF Courier reported:
Marie Mahler, 39, of Cedar Falls, filed three reports between Aug. 27, 2004, and Oct. 7, 2004, used in a juvenile court case that she “knew or reasonably should have known were false” and that the reports would be used by a judge to make a decision in the case, according to court records obtained by the Courier.
Mahler repeatedly included misrepresentations of conversations, events and relationships of the people involved with the case, according to court records.
Court records say she claimed that Jesup police officers were called to the mother’s home for a drug investigation in August 2004. Records indicate an officer was called to the home not for drugs, but to prevent an altercation between two siblings. No signs of drugs were found.
Mahler, who has been a Buchanan County social worker since 1998, pleaded ‘not guilty’.
Roger Munns, a spokesman for her employer, the Iowa Department of Human Services, said “This is really quite unusual.”
Yes, we know that caseworkers lie in court documents and get away with it, and that having one criminally charged is unusual. However we hope that this will become common practice to stop lying CPS social workers everywhere.
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Would you like to see your caseworker charged criminally for lying about you? If so, keep this in mind:
While the offenses occurred in 2004, Bernau said Mahler is exempt from Iowa’s statute of limitations law because she is still a state employee. In most felony cases, charges have to be filed within three years of the offense. However, that three-year period begins for state employees only after they are no longer working for the state.
Perjury is a Class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
(This is per Iowa state law. Your state laws may be different - do the research.)
Source: Social worker charged with perjury, by
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If you have ever had a caseworker lie about you in a court document, please leave a comment to this post, and tell us about it.
I’ve seen way too many lies in social worker reports to the courts.
It’s time for this criminal practice to result in prison sentences. Every perjury conviction will be a victory!
