Child Protective Services False Allegations

When my son was just a few months old, someone called the police and told them he was being abused. Through the grapevine, we later learned that the report had been filed anonymously by some neighbors who disliked us for unrelated lifestyle differences. Admittedly, we were the kind of neighbors who can be hard for some people to like! I was just 18 at the time, myself, and working full time and raising a baby... well, we were poor and short on time, prone to jovial loudness at odd hours and keeping a messy yard. Our friends were goodhearted but... colorful. Add it all up, and you had an offensive looking household, to some. It was also a very loving household, and Patrick, my son, was the apple of every eye in the house. I was so shocked when the police arrived at the door, and so generally timid by nature, that I fell all over myself inviting him in when he told me why he was there. Lucky for me, the policeman was a kindly fellow who took a look around, met Patrick, and announced within minutes that it was obvious the claims that had been made were baseless. Over the years, I gradually learned, from the horror stories of others, how lucky we were that night! My heart aches for anyone who winds up falsely accused of a crime against a child. Even just those few minutes that night were so frightening and shameful that I'll remember them for the rest of my life!

To Whom It May Concern:

I realize this is an incredibly long email, but please read it. This information needs to be known. My name Is Lindsey Brown. On January 1, 2013, my boyfriend and I had a beautiful baby boy-Jericco Alexander Bennett.

At 3:45 a.m. on the morning of February 11th, while I was sleeping, my boyfriend (Lyle) was feeding Jericco. Jericco was trying to put his hand on the bottle, but was inadvertently blocking the bottle from his mouth. Lyle attempted to hold his arm down and hold between Jericco's body and his own. In the process of trying to do this, Lyle heard a popping sound come from Jericco's arm. He immediately ran up to our bedroom, hysterical, and woke me up crying and saying "Baby I need you. I think I hurt him, I think I broke his arm. Oh my God I think I hurt my son." After trying to calm Lyle down and getting our things together (diaper bag, etc) we immediately headed to the emergency room. I called my mom on the way to the ER, and my parents met us there. They arrived around 4:30 in the morning.

Once there, I noticed a medium length, thin bruise on the bottom of his left thigh. I later noticed that the bruise had a small smiley face at the top of it. After a set of x-rays and a physical look-over by the doctor on call, the doctor told us that it looked like what was called nurse-maid's elbow- where the joint or the tendon in the elbow becomes loose, and it often fixes itself. He also mentioned to us that often in cases like ours, because of the combination of what happened to his arm and the bruise, that a nurse or the on-call doctor would contact CPS to start a formal child abuse case. He assured, though, that it was obvious how much Jericco is loved and he would make sure all the nurses knew that it was not necessary to contact CPS. Shortly after this conversation, we discharged by one of nurses and told to just make sure Jericco see's his regular physician and have her send a report to the hospital. We left, and got home around 6:30 that morning.

About two and a half hours later, my boyfriend and I received a phone call from the hospital asking to come back in. They said they had tried to reach us before we left but were unable to get a hold of us. We though that was strange considering we had been completely discharged by the nurse, and my mom and had stayed behind to get the baby ready to go and make sure we hadn't forgotten anything. The woman who called said that the pediatrician at the hospital wanted to take a look at Jericco and could we come in immediately. We were hesitant, and asked the woman if we couldn't just take him to his regular physician like they told us to this morning. She was adamant that we had to come in right away. So we got Jericco in his car seat, packed up the diaper bag, and headed to the hospital.

When we got to the hospital, we were immediately placed in an "interview room" with a two-way mirror and a camera. Although were assured that the camera was off and no one was behind the mirror, it was still rather intimidating. We waited for about half an hour before a nurse came in and began asking us questions. She asked us to tell her what happened when Lyle heard the pop in his arm, which we did, and she also asked us to show her the bruise on his leg. We answered all of her questions, show her the bruise, and continued answering her questions for about an hour and a half to two hours. After we were done answering her questions, we met the social worker that would be working the case. She explained to us why she was there, and told us a little bit about what was going to happen. She also mentioned that there are times when the local authorities get involved, but she didn't see why that would be necessary.

After meeting with the social worker, we saw the pediatrician who looked over Jericco. The nurse took pictures of the bruise on his leg, and the social worker observed the two of them. After we were done with the pediatrician, we were taken back to the interview room, where we sat for another half an hour before the social worker came back and told us she would be following us home to check out our house and make sure Jericco had somewhere to sleep and had a room of his own. When we arrived at our house, there was a detective waiting for use in the street, and our neighbor informed us she had been there for about twenty minutes. The detective introduced herself and followed us inside along with the social worker. They promptly sat down and began asking us questions again.

We sat in the house for hours while they asked us questions, and eventually the social worker informed us that for the time being we would no longer be allowed to be alone with Jericco, and would have to have twenty-four hour supervision. After explaining repeatedly that Lyle's parents live too far away, that my father works nights and sleeps days, and my mother works a job that requires her to go in anywhere from 7:30 in the morning to 9 in the morning, and often times does not get home until 6 o'clock at night or later. The social worker called her supervisor, and they agreed to let Jericco go into daycare in the mornings until either someone can take him home, or someone could come home with us. We eventually settled on one of my best friends coming to stay the night with us during the week, and my mother would keep him at her house on the weekends. This went on for approximately three weeks.

Two days after the initial incident, my boyfriend and I went to another interview with the social worker and the police detective. The detective called me the morning of to remind us of the meeting. I had mentioned to her that we were advised to seek legal counsel before we went in for this interview. I was about to ask her if we could reschedule, when she promptly cut me off and told me that us seeking legal counsel answers all questions they have and that we are guilty and promptly hung up on me. I called my mother to tell her what happened, she went down to the detective station and met us there before our interview. When we arrived there, the detective and social worker immediately separated us and took me upstairs to interview me.

When they took me upstairs, I mentioned to them that I had brought the pacifier that we believed and caused the bruise (as I mentioned before, there was a smiley face at the very top of it that Lyle, my mother, my friend Rachel, and I all believe matched the Winnie the Pooh pacifier with a raised Winnie the Pooh face on the front) and the remotes we believed caused the pinch that caused the bruise. The began asking me questions while the detective typed up everything I said, and the social worker wrote it down. When they were done asking me questions they immediately stood up and were ready to go back downstairs. I asked them to please sit down and let me show them the smiley face on the bruise (they each had pictures) and show them where I believe it all cam from. They agreed to do so and let me show them what I was talking about. When we were done, they had me sign my copy of my statement and had Lyle go upstairs to do the same thing.

After the first three weeks of the arrangement agreed upon by CPS where Rachel would stay with us during the week and Jericco would stay with my mother on the weekends, we were asked to return to the hospital's pediatrician again with Jericco for another set of x-rays. At this point Jericco had already had two prior sets of x-rays, a CT scan, and an eye exam to rule out ocular hemorrhaging. My mother and I took Jericco to the pediatrician for his the x-rays, where they x-rayed his right arm and elbow (where the original injury occurred). We left after the x-rays were done and were told they would call us with the results. A few hours later, the nurse assigned to our case called me and informed that the doctor and the radiologist said that Jericco had a fracture in his arm. They immediately called us back for more x-rays to check his legs and make sure there were no other fractures.

Once we arrived at the hospital for the second time that day, we were met by the pediatrician and the nurse on the case. They informed us that there was evidence of a fracture on Jericco's right forearm and that the doctor was deeming the injury definite physical abuse. We were later joined by a different social worker, one I had never met before. She informed us that Jericco was going to be taken immediately out of my and Lyle's home and placed with my mother. Lyle was no longer allowed to have contact with Jericco and I could no longer visit him at daycare. I was also no longer allowed to stay overnight at my mother's house and could not see Jericco unless it was at my mother's house with either one of my parents present. This has been going on for three weeks now. The doctor also told my mother and I that there was no way Jericco got the bruise on his leg from laying on a pacifier and a couple of remotes. She made the statement that she could lay on a pacifier all day long and it wouldn't leave a bruise on her. When I mentioned that she was much bigger than a 6 week old baby, and that I myself bruise very easily, I was told that that doesn't matter.

On March 5th, my mother and I took Jericco to see a pediatric orthopedic because we wanted the results from the pediatrician to be confirmed. The doctor took a look at his x-rays and said that there was no fracture in his arm. He said that the fracture had been in his elbow, it is healing, and the injury is consistent with the story I conveyed to him what happened the morning that Lyle was feeding Jericco, and all of this began. We requested that his report be sent the CPS social worker on the case, but she informed me that they need clarification on the report, however the doctor would be out of town until the following Tuesday and they wouldn't be able to talk to him until then.

On March 19th, I received a phone call ant 9:49 a.m. from the social worker on the case informing me that Lyle and I had to immediately go and have a drug screening. My father and I had just gotten to the daycare to drop Jericco off, I had a sprained/chipped ankle and wasn't supposed to drive, and Lyle had to be at work at one and Lyle does not currently have his license (although we are in the process of getting it back). When I tried to explain all this to the social worker, she promptly cut me off and said we had to do it that day before 3:30. I again tried to explain the situation, but she continued to cut me off and say that we had to go that day and it had to be done that day before 3:30 p.m. I had no choice but to try to drive on a chipped ankle and attempt to get my boyfriend to work on time. He ended up being almost an hour late, and I was a nervous wreck driving the entire time.

On March 20th, at 9:27 a.m., I received a phone call from the social worker at CPS working our case. She called me to inform me they would be closing our case. She said they have substantiated physical abuse and they have substantiated child neglect. When I asked how, she said that it was because the fracture in his forearm that the CAC (Child Advocacy Center at the hospital we had to take him to) found. When I mentioned that we had a specialist look at his x-rays and he said that Jericco's forearm was just fine, the social worker said to me that she talked to that doctor personally and he said that he has seen this injury in physical abuse cases. I told her that I was aware of that, because he said the same thing to my mother and myself. However he also said that he believed that this case was an accident and that the healing injury in Jericco's elbow was consistent with what we told him happened. The social worker simply said that we could go back and forth all day about this, but they were closing their case. She never did answer how they have substantiated neglect.

I'm writing all this information down for two reasons. One- because I want to keep a record of what has happened for my own personal use. And two-because I need to know if there is anything anyone can do to help us. My boyfriend has been losing his mind. He is having a hard time concentrating at work, he is depressed and upset and his nerves are completely shot. Neither of us has slept well since everything has happened. And the worst part about all of this is that no one will listen to what we are saying. We have been told that all of our stories don't make sense and they just don't fit what the injuries. We have contacted a lawyer, but he has informed us that he cannot legally do anything until one of us is charged with something. My entire family is at a loss, we don't know what to do.

Please, somebody, anybody, help us. We do NOT deserve this, and there are so many other families going through similar situations in North Carolina because CPS has TOO MUCH POWER. Our son deserves to come home. My boyfriend deserves to be with his son, and my son deserves to be with his father. Please, help us

I am going through a Dhs case and trying to get my grandkids back home. They were taken for a simple fix. A dirty house it has been cleaned up and now passes Dhs inspection. They are saying that my daughter she lives with us and her brother and sister. I have 2 grandkids a 5yr. old grandson and a 2yr. old granddaughter they miss their mother and don't understand why they can't come home. All they say is what we have to do is my daughter parenting classes and family counceling. Which is a stupid thing to have to do. They want you to talk about why the kids are not in the house and how you feel about it. My family doesn't talk much at all. We are quite people and keep to our selfs. My daughter is also the same they say she has to pertisipate in all activitys and talk how do you do that when you are not very social to other people. They still have not given back my grandkids back yet. They say it will be up to 3 months to get them back. My family is on ssdi how do you make trips to the next town once a week for 16 weeks and only have about 1100.00 in income and bills come to 1400.00 you tell me where gas for a vehicle comes from with that. I have no budget for gas . They say if she doesn't do what is on the treatment plan. She will have her rights terminated and they will be given up for adoption. I will not let that happen to my daughter or grandkids I love them both with all of my heart to let that happen. What places can I turn to get help to do all of this? No one where I live helps with any of this. And to top it all off is all they give my daughter is 2 hours a month visitation all together. Their excuse is they are short handed and have no extra help for visits. My sister has my grandkids it is called kinship. The bad thing about that is my sister thinks she does no wrong and is perfect. I am afraid she will give them the same attitude as hers. My sister is a snob to everyone. There is no one that is perfect in this world. I just need help on what to do to get my grandkids back home where they belong. Please help with ideals on a family that is strapped with money problems. I don't know what to do anymore I am willing to do anything to get them back home!!!!!!!!

The public needs to wake up, and realize that CPS no longer protects abused children, they are vultures out to steal children for more funding, and then get PTR so they can adopt the babies out which gives them more funding. I have added this to my FB pages. One false report can have your children taken away, and then the H...... begins. If anybody thinks it can't happen to them, yes it can, and for no reason at all.

I am a Mother of 2 young children currently being abused and victimized by DCS in the state of Tennessee. My children were taken from my home Feb 24th 2012. I spent 10 months in jail for false alligations,which was horrible, but the worst part of all of this is that my 9 yr old daughter (who origionally made the alligations, but later told the truth,that she said those things because I put her in time out in her room and made her go to bed early on a friday night) has attempted suicide and when ask why she did it, she said "because I want to go home with my Momma." DCS KIDNAPPED my children!!! They also removed my son (13 months old at the time) and kept them together for a few months, but because one of the foster parents wants to adopt my son, but didnt want to deal with my daughters issues have seperated them. My baby girl has had her world ripped apart by these people that sre suppose to protect children!!! DCS done a forinsic interview with my daughter which she changed her story by then,but the interviewer would change the subject when my daughter would try to tell the truth, or redirect her and remind her of her previous story (the lies). We had a two day trial where the judge was falling asleep while watching the video taken of my daughter. The second day things were going in our favor because of the lack of evidence from DCS, but the judge says "I have plans with my son tonight, so I want to get this over and get out of here." The judge agreed to allow visitation with my kids, even while I was in jail. DCS still wouldnt let me see my children! The judge again brought up that he wanted to get out of the courtroom and go spend time with his son and ruled against me. HOW CAN THESE PEOPLE DISTROY FAMILIES LIKE THIS AND GET AWAY WITH IT??? I am out of jail now and ready to fight with everything I have to bring my children home and begin the process of healing and rebuilding our lives and move forward. PLEASE if there is anyone that can help us it would mean the world to me and my kids. Thank you and GOD bless.

LindaJM apologies for my error - this page is awesome!

A beautiful lens with full of information. :)

My family has been victimized by the state of Texas CPS in Dallas county for a year now. We will soon be filing a lawsuit, and are seeking those individuals and families who will ralley behind us in our fight. Please read the whole story here suecps.us

In my neighborhood we had a family that was keeping their kids in a dog crate in the backyard. We had to threaten to put the story (and a video of it) in the newspaper to get them to do their jobs here in the Bronx. A happy and fair medium would be nice; I commend you for taking on this very tough topic. In this day and age all you need is one person to lie and the other to swear by it; and God help you if you don't have the money to hire a good lawyer.

This is a really emotive subject and as a father of a young daughter, the stories I read about sicken me to my stomach. How did we ever allowed our society to get to this point?

There were plenty of flaws in the pre-CPS way of bringing up kids, as I remember from first hand experience. But while I got a smack if I was naughty, my parents were not bad and never physically abused me. The short sharp shock of a smacked backside was good enough to let me know I had done wrong and it certainly didn't affect the way I grew up. If anything it made me a better person with a lot of respect for other people and the world around me.

The do-gooders who want smacking outlawed need to be put over someone's knee for helping to bring up generations of disrespectful people who disregard society's laws. I see kids telling cops to go f*** themselves with no fear. Jeez if I'd dared to do that as a kid (which I would not have) I would have been given a tidy clip around the ear from said policeman and probably another one from my dad for being so insolent!

So yeah, the CPS is a system gone very wrong and it has been allowed to happen by well meaning parents who overreacted to what they saw as a bad childhood.

I also get that there are people on both sides of this argument who won't see it my way. It's the way of the world and everyone's entitled to their opinion. At the same time I can totally understand people getting really mad about this whole subject.

heres one for you, CPS not doing their jobs, period, here it goes, when my ex and i first split she took my daughter and lived with a guy for 2 months, before she came back to the house after i moved out. When i got court order visitation my daughter was acting really strange, wouldn't take a bath (she was 3 at the time) thought it was weird considering i couldn't keep this kid from taking baths. so i took her to the doctor, Dr said i believe she was sexually abused, they called cps, and CPS went to my ex's and determined "clean house case closed" umm how does that have anything to do with sexual abuse? next i was cut by my ex in front of my child when she was 4 because i was following court orders on when to return my child. called sherriffs and they did nothing, but contact CPS they made my ex sign a paper promising she wouldn't attack me again. gave my child back...then when my daughter was 5 or 6 my ex shot herself in the arm, cps wasn't conntacted by police so i did, they determined clean house case closed. and she also had a 4th time they came out but i dunno who contacted them then but still same story clean house. how does having a clean house mean your immune to laws, or even that a child is safe there?

well...LAWANDORDER hasn't had the opportunity to visit youtube and type in CPS in the searchbar. but I give lawandorder credit for knowing it all and answering for everyone... especially for those whom have admitted to the fabrication of evidence. keep in mind the "required to by law" part, for a system that has no accountability nor any checks and balances to keep things honest >>wink<

CPS investigators don't make allegations. Your neighbors, family members, counselors, etc. do. Investigators just investigate the allegations brought to them as they are required to by law. If you have a case open it's for one of two reasons: you either are abusing or neglecting your kids or you're associating with people that hate you.

It's so sad that these things are happening to these kids. Your lens educate me in this matter. I never thought that CPS can just take your kids away even in false allegations. Thanks for this very informative lens. May God bless you and your family.

I am currently in a court battle with texas cps. They falsified affidavits and made their own false allegations on top of the ones my bitter apartment manager already made. I am a good mommy to 3 awesome boys and would never put them in harm. I am trying to raise money for administrative and legal fees to protect them from this corrupted system. Any donations would be greatly appreciated. Please share and tweet my link! Thanks.
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it isn't a secret that our tax dollars pay the people in these agencies. judges, investigators, caseworkers and those behind the keyboards and brooms. which leads me to beleive that more than just any of these up front... are involved in cover ups because they heard, seen and even laughed at how gullable "we th people" are. those in authoritive positions have carried this country, state, county and cities to embarrassment from their inexplicable ways. we pay taxes and there had better be someone to answer for why this country has ended up in the situation. if anyone is to lead me to believe that it is the parents fault in any way... got news for you !!! I am not the parernt of those in high places. it seems to me that either the parents raised their children to lay blame on the innocent, lie about there involvement, dodge their responsibilities and quickly find a scape goat,or they are doing this on their own. our country has had problems like this when my grandparents were just babies so if it is a parenting problem... step up and get ready to resign your positions because it was your upbringing that has compromised the system. if it is not a parenting problem... step up and get ready to resign because you have compromised the system. unfortunately... it happens to be the reality that nothing like this will happen. the families don't have the money to fight back. we are taxed and the people receiving the taxes need to be our protectors. HAH !! what a group of suckers we turned out to be.we are punched, slapped, kicked, bit, jerked around and pushed. NO we don't like it and I haven't met anyone who does. we are slandered, labeled or called names for standing up for ourselves. if these people are having a feild day in their position... can we trade sides with them just for a little while so they can feel the effects of these outrageous actions ?? after all, the police are expected to be zapped by a tazer before they use one. oh.. nevermind.... the effects of that is temporary. what is being done to us is PERMANENT !!! our money needs to be spent carefully.. not haphazzardly !!

CPS workers and investigators from across the country have misrepresented facts, excluded or omitted evidence and submitted fabricated evidence to the courts which have destroyed families. As if we have no right to exist. our families have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect the country from outside threats. Yet the threat comes from inside the country. To what cause is the ultimate sacrifice made to the country... if the country is allowed (predestined) to destroy itself ??

Interesting to read your lens. I have been seriously thinking about fostering children now for nearly a year, but my husband doesn't think I will be able to give them up when the time comes. Reading your lens has put doubts in my mind, I adore children, I have one of my own that is 24yrs, could not have more, would have gladly had many more but not to be.
I understand that it must be difficult to cope with being accused of abusing your child when you haven't, but I think of all those children out there that are being abused, someone perhaps has seen something or heard something but does not report it, then you hear that the child is found dead.
I am sorry to all of you who is going through this, but if I did not report something that I thought was suspicious and something happened to that child, I could never forgive myself.

Always Remember your Amendments ESPECIALLY the 4th!!!! These people think they can run every ones lives, and we as Americans cannot let this continue!!!!! DO NOT LET THEM IN YOUR HOME!!!!!!! No matter what they say, no matter how scared they make you, NO MATTER WHAT!!!!! Please TRUST Me! NEVER allow them to convince you that they have your or your child/childrens best interest, that is the biggest load of crap you will ever be told, please be QUICK to LISTEN and SLOW to SPEAK, they want nothing more then to see/hear you fail......they will twist every word that comes out of your mouth so please be smart about what you say, better yet HOW you say what you say......its a mind manipulation game, BEWARE.....when you're done, sue the crap out of them, not the agencies per say but each individual.....agencies have a board of attorneys but chances are the individuals themselves DONT! I was ridiculed for 3 years for a woman I didnt know making a comment about my child, I referred to my child as a baby, and this monster held that over my head for not using my childs name.....I didnt know this person (monster) and would never disclose personal info like that to just anyone, but see what I mean, they CAN and WILL flip your words ANY and EVERY chance they get......4th AMENDMENT

Today I was woke up to a deputy sheriff and a CPS worker at my front door wanting to check on my children because an annonymous caller reported they thought either my boyfriend or I had been abusing my two year old son. About three days ago we were walking down the road, (my boyfriend, me, my daughter and son) when our hyperactive nine month old puppy came blasting by and tok my sons legs out from uner him and the sid eof his face planted on the pavment. My son and I both have extremely fair skin and bruis badly or bruises show bad because of our skin tone. Someone saw the bruise on my son and reported me. CPS asked me to tke him to the doctor and have him checked out. When I got there CPS had already spoken to the doctor saying that they thought there were finger print marke on the sid eof his head. The doctor walked in nd first thing she said was, "We have an eyewitness that saw what happened so you are better off just telling the truth." Mind you this is before I had even said one word to her. I felt like I was being set up from the start. They then looked at y son and said while there is no evidence consistent with him having been slapped refering to injuries inside the mouth, ear and nose, it looks like there are fingerprints. They proceeded to take my son from my custody and took me to the courthouse where they interogated me for over an hour saying that my boyfriend had to have hit him and that i was lieing to them. Then they brought my boyfriend in and interogated him saying he hated my children and that if he admitts he made a mistake the courts will be more leinent. I told them to ask my fouryear old daughter what happened several times because she saw it nd tells everyone, they ignored me. What they say are fingerprints are veins on my suns head which also suffered bruising from the fall. They have treated us guilty from the start and have done nothing in the sorts of a real investigation. They say my boyfriend hit him, well why ddnt they take a print or measurment of his hand to compare or even look at his hand for any markings consistent with slapping a child hard enough to leave a massive bruise. I feel they had no ground to take my son seeing i have never been in any trouble with the law or so much as even had a traffic ticket, not to mention this is my first run in with cps ever and I gave them my full cooperation. I am beside myself and dont know what to do. I have a hearing on tuesday to see what they will decide, but I already know they are against me and out to say I am either abusing or letting them abuse my son.

i am 26 years and a mother of a little girl. my baby girl was born on September 23, 2011. i had her at a hospital two days later cps came to my hospital room. cps casework has questions about that did u see your boyfriend get mad a baby i told no but they took my baby girl gave her to my mom for temproy custody of her . they are afaird of my boyfriend hurting or yelling around our baby while she is at home with us. my mom want me to put my baby in for adoption at first while i was pregnant but i refuse to. she told me a disblilty person or have mood swigs cant raise a baby she afraird that i go off on the baby but that not true at all. i been babysitting kids before i was pregnant. i help a girl out so why the consume something that i never did. cps people our wrong doing that. they should let me go with they baby and do a investigation at our house at the same time while baby is with us. i cant raise her i have problems but everyone does. i am praying everyday she be home with us the first time. this will be her first time being home with us. i never got chance to be a mother and he never got a chance to be a father to a sweet little girl. i want everyone to know that.

I am 26 yo and a mother of 2 children. I let my children go to Vacation Bible School with my grandparents, and my son left on Friday June 1, 2012, and my daughter left on Sunday, June 3, 2012. My grandparents came and picked them up. The following Monday, June 11, 2012, my family had an "Intervention" , even though I kept telling them that I wasnt on drugs. Because I was skinny they said I was doing 'meth'. They also told me that it wasnt a 'drug-rehab' that it was just for some 'me time'! I went because my mother told me that she would get CPS involved if I didnt and that "the consequences would be great" if I didnt go. After a few days of continous drug and AA classes that I didnt need, and missing my family terribly, I left and came back home. Upon my return, my family wouldnt tell me where my children were, and every time I went to their house, they werent there. I finally got the police involved and filed a felony warrant on my mother for interference with custody. Then I recieved a phone call stating that I needed to come 'talk about this situation' with a CPS worker. It ended up that my mother said that I abandoned my children and that my whereabouts were unknown and that my children had been living with her since June 1. I ended up going into a pre-trial that I was totally unprepared for, and my mother had obviously been planning for. The judge ruled in her favor, and gave her temporary custdy. Ive passed my drug test and I didnt abandon my children, they came and picked them up from my house!! If anyone has any advise, it would be greatly appreciated! I feel so helpless and alone! I love both of my children and miss them terribly and want them back with me asap! How can they do this based all upon an assumption?! Just because my mother is older doesnt mean she knows whats best for my children, shes had her chance with hers, and all I want is that same chance! I feel like its 'guilty until roven innocent in a court of law' is a more true statement in this day and age! Please keep me and my two beautiful children in your thoughts and prayers, we really need it right now! They are only 7 and 4!!

I have also had false accusations of child abuse.. My mother got mad at me and called the Dept. of Children Services... They came out to my house and administered a drug test too...I had nothing in my system but the lady told me that she was marking down that I had thc in my system just because my husband did!!! I do not think this is right at all!!! I am going to do everything I can to fight it....this worker is also telling me that I have to go do an alchohol and drug assesment even though there was nothing in my system...i'm also going to try to press charges on my mother for making false allegations..I need to know what type of attorney I should get! Thank you for all your info.

About 2 weeks ago a call was placed to CPS about comments that our four year daughter said to the neighbor kids, that were inappropriate. The comments were regarding sex that she had heard from her fourteen year old sister. Caseworkers came out to our home and questioned our children scared us to death and would not tell us what was going on until they demanded us to find a neutral third party to take our four daughters over night. Our oldest three are from a my previous marriage and I have sole custody of them because of my abusive marriage with their father. Our youngest daughter is mine and my current husbands. While being questioned our oldest two daughters made claims that they were being abused and scared to stay in our home. They in fact had just been caught sneaking a boyfriend in and just received failing grades from school. They were scared of being grounded. While the caseworker was at our home she screamed at us on the our front lawn and was continuously attempted to rile us up and twisted our answers to her questions. The next day they placed our oldest daughters in the home of my ex husband and interviewed us further. The entire time accusing us of unfounded claims, presenting no evidence of the claims and found us safe enough to return our youngest daughter that evening. It was my ex husbands normal scheduled visit per our parenting plan so the older girls went to his house for their usual visit. The caseworker claimed they would be returned to our home on that Monday evening after the weekend visit. Keep in mind there wasn't and still isn't a court order in place regarding any of her decisions in our case. Monday she called late into the day stating that she wouldn't be returning the older girls home because they were still scared to come home and that there was going to be a meeting on Wednesday to discuss a plan so that I wouldn't injure my daughters. We met on Wednesday with the caseworker and her supervisor. The first five minutes of the meeting the caseworker began to be very accusatory to my husband and I not attempting to resolve anything. The supervisor asked her why she was asking the questions she was and took over the rest of the meeting until he had to leave. After he left the meeting she began in again with her accusatory line of questioning. She had read her notes of her interview with our eight year old daughter and they sounded like something somebody else had written, not the words of our child. I asked to speak with the supervisor again (he had offered to see us again after his other meeting) and she was very uptight and irritable about the request. Throughout this entire process I have not been able to find anything outlining our rights as parents or any advocacy. We live in Oregon and it seems like we are in the dark ages. I have been attempting to find the procedure to submit a formal complaint to the DHS department in our county and the state of Oregon but have not found anything pertaining to a complaint of a CPS caseworker. I have consulted an attorney who's case load is about 70% CPS cases, but doesn't want me to retain him in case this becomes a court case and he can be court appointed. He has told me that this caseworker has a reputation of being unreasonable, verbally abusive and emotional rather than logical. Pleas if anyone has any information that may help us it would be greatly appreciated. We are becoming to shake of the shamefulness and are getting angry as we feel that we are victims of a broken and abused system. There are many many children who need to be saved from there horrific situations. Our children however need to come home to the parents who work hard everyday and love them very much!

When adopted our two oldest daugthers out of the foster care system, and the older of the two was definitely over medicated when we first meet her. In fact, she was on Depakote, Concerta, Zyprexa, and several others - nine in all. The day we first met, she was like a zombie who could not respond to simple questions and zoned off into space. She couldn't seem to follow a conversation, and her mouth just hung open like she was catching flies. We didn't know about all of the drugs at the time (we were not foster parents, just prospective adoptive parents) and we believed she had severe mental handicaps. We even decided we weren't perpared to adopt someone so severely handicapped. Then, a few months later, our case worker came to see us and tell us that CPS found out the girls were in a foster home with a woman who was deliberately trying to raise their level of care so she could make more money. For this reason, the foster mother was reporting all sorts of crazy behaviors about the kids (there were four of them in her care at the time), and she even had three of the four hospitalized on a suicide watch. CPS never was suspicious of this woman though until one day when the children's case worker showed up and the kids BEGGED her to take them to the store and buy them new underwear because what they had was far too small for them. Also, they were wearing discarded adult clothing that their foster mom took out of a clothing donation box - the clothes were ill fitting and adjusted with safety pins. The case worker did take them shopping, but she was curious about why she needed to when the woman was getting a clothing voucher for the children each month. After some basic investigation, she found that the woman was using the clothing vouchers to buy clothes for her own granddaughter and not the foster children. Upon further investigation, though the woman was taking in over $4000/month in subsidies for the four children (three of which were classified as high level special needs during their stay with her - even though they all went to her as basic care kids), the only food she was feeding them was Hot Pockets three meals a day. On top of that, her home was filthy - full of roaches, and the kids had lice. Anyway, they removed the kids from this woman's home, and supposedly, they shut her home down to keep her from ever being a foster parent again (though I understand she went on to take in elderly people after she was banned from caring for kids). The girls' new foster mother was alarmed at all the meds the oldest was on, and she started weaning her off of them one at a time. By the time we were meeting with our case worker about it, the oldest was down to just 4 medications, and the youngest 2. We met the kids again, and it was like they were completely different people! You really would be shocked at the difference. We did (obviously) move forward with the adoption once we found all of this out. It's not like the kids don't have issues - they do, but they are not schizophrenic or bipolar, or anything detrimental like that. I think this type of incident is much more common for kids in CPS care than most realize. During the three years we searched for our forever children, there was not one single child we ever considered that wasn't on at least one or two meds, and often it was many more than that. A very worthy topic indeed.

Please Help... Butts County unjustly removed my children b/c the land lord said she was going to evict me even though the eviction had not been filed. They removed my children while detaining me at the office for three hours and when I asked to see the signed warrant they admitted that one had not yet been signed. Now b/c of this I have lost my home and my job.... Please Help

Time for a update my kids were taken on Jan 26 2012 because my daughter told her teacher my husband beat me this did not happen they did not talk to my husband or myself if i was beaten wouldnt they want to take pictures speak to me find out my side of the story the answer is NO since that date my kids have been in 5 foster homes on of them my oldest daughter was beaten by the foster dad my kids health is declining they are unhappy not eating and very depressed we have jumped thew hoops of fire and more to please these people to no avail i have hope that my kids will come home soon we have court on June 18 2012 i have wrote the judge appealed the chins and also had a internal investigation on cps set into place that have stated that it has been done but i believe this is another lie why would they want to admit that what they did was wrong we have a public defender and she doesnt seem to care we need help and i don't know were to get it my kids need to come home we need them just as much as they need us if anyone on here is a lawyer or would be willing to take up or case to save our kids i would be grateful i still have hope but i fear my kids hope is fading i see it in there eyes

I need some help and possibly just secondary assurement. So I being the step-father, came into a woman's life who has two lovely girls. The older one age 12 is in middle school. She knows how important I believe schooling is and how it is important to do your best. Once I found out she wasn't being productive in the classroom, I scheduled a meeting with the teacher. As we met with the teacher, I was being informed of the lack of effort that went into her work. More than I was ever aware of. I sit down with the kids every night after long hours and help with homework, but if it's not being brought home, how are we to know? Anyways, after getting all the details from the teacher, I looked at the daughter and told her she was gonna get it when we get home.
About a month later I get a phone call from my spouse saying that I was reported to CPS for stating I was gonna "kill" her when we got home. First off, that's not what I said, and now I have a CPS agent coming to my home to interview me, then my spouse and daughter.
So let's recap, a concerned parent takes time out of his day to meet with you in about how to make sure the work is being done, and done well, and She calls CPS. Is anyone in agreement with abusing the system? Do I have grounds to retaliate such as a lawsuit of false accusations, or defamation of character, not to mention the personal issues and frustration the family has undergone so far. Can someone please offer advice on what to do and how to handle this situation? The kids live well, eat well, smarter than they ever were, and live now in a home in a safe community instead of an apartment in a crime filled community.

i am in serious help my year and half old son was taking from me he is in foster care due to that the neighbors called the cops and said that my husband beat me and our child he has never done such thing and my son had bruises on him and bite mark . at which they are from when i take him over to play dates at my friends he likes to bee domanate then the other child and my friend willing to stand up and testify on our behalf along with otheres my husband is being wrongfully charged with domestic violence and i think child abuse . this is all crazy. im putting applications in for housing and in cousaling and i work and trying to find other services to do to make me get my son back.my lawyer hasent been returning my calls and i want ansewrs please help...

My son was born last year in the state of california and cps got involved claiming i was addicted to marijuana and my son had tested positive,along with a week before that at the same hospital i was seen by the trauma ward for being abused by the father. they alleged i failed to protect my son before he was ever born even though i was a victim of domestic violence and had the man removed from our home leaving me to deal with being a new mom alone. they came into my hospital room BANNED ME FROM BREASTFEEDING! told me not to get to attached because the odds of keeping my own son were slim and i had to begin drug testing the day i got out(mind you i had a c-section and could barely walk) before i had ever seen a courtroom. Lie upon lie was built and my case plan was outrageous and had me out of home EVERY SINGLE DAY for some pointless class including a "victim" class, even though they stated i Was a "co-abuser to the father". All I wanted to do was be a good mother, they started calling me a bad one and tried breaking my maternal bond before I Ever got the chance!! I chose to move before their petition for dependency could go threw, now I have a stranger calling me saying he can hunt me down and I have to surrender my son. I'M PROTECTING HIM FROM EVER BEING IN THEIR DISGUSTING BABY SELLING RING OF ABUSE!! How can they ever ask a mother to "surrender" her child on will, NO MOTHER OR FATHER EVER WOULD! If that was my choice I would have signed their bs adoption papers from day one. Why should I live my life scared and threatened over incidences that happened prior to me giving birth to my son and scared they'll kick my door in and take him from me. Can't anyone help me or is this black market court really allowed to do as they please, get district attorneys involved off the record to snatch parents and children up and ruin our lives. I'm a good mother and I love my son more then anything in the world, he will not go to sleep without me(and loves to hear a bedtime story and giggles and coos threw it) as it should be with a newborn and wakes up with the biggest smile on his face to see his mom and we play ALL DAY!!,He is smarter then the average child at his age along with incredible cognitive,physical and concentration skills. FAR FROM AN ABUSED CHILD!! And they're actually threatening a foster home for this little boy, babies end up dead,molested,medicated and abused in these places! Not to mention messed up emotionally for life, think about the grief a child experiences from losing a parent to death and these people are inflicting this pain on them knowing that's how these children feel, leaving parents who have done nothing wrong to suffer for the rest of their lives while some disgusting foster parent is getting paid to let these kids suffer. I am very sorry to be an American citizen,

my grandkids where taken by cps. cps said i could not get them because i have a old case.i know of people that has had a cps case and has custody of there grandkids. if anyone can tell me anything would appreciate it

CPS falsely accuses family members of child abuse and then puts them into foster homes,though the children are rigid to go to foster homes.And do they even care to go see how they are treated in the foster homes.Parents should take legal assistance and try to find out the cropped up allegations.Are the allegations true? Are the children really forced to take psychotropic drugs?

CPS falsely accuses family members of child abuse and then puts them into foster homes,though the children are rigid to go to foster homes.And do they even care to go see how they are treated in the foster homes.Parents should take legal assistance and try to find out the cropped up allegations.Are the allegations true? Are the children really forced to take psychotropic drugs?

Very informative lens. Well done!

They are NOT above the law,read and sign petition and let's fight together!!

http://www.change.org/petitions/office-of-children-and-family-services-hold-social-services-accountable-for-their-abusive-perjury-actions

They are NOT above the law,read and sign petition and let's fight together!!

http://www.change.org/petitions/office-of-children-and-family-services-hold-social-services-accountable-for-their-abusive-perjury-actions

Our situation is I live in Texas and have an old case that was not founded and was suppose to have been completely removed where it would never show up at all. Well this past Sept. my grand children were taken by CPS and I tried to have them placed in my home till the parents could get them back and low and behold that case showed up so they would not let me have them. Can anyone tell me if there is anyway to get it removed completely? I love in Texas if that helps.

Please help us our kids were taken away with no investigation they talked to my daughter at school and called us and said to bring our other daughter to the school once she was off the bus when we got there they said they had a verbal court order to take them away there was nothing else done they took the kids did not talk to us or come to our home what my daughter said was untrue she said her father beat me please help me get my babies back home

Please help us our kids were taken away with no investigation they talked to my daughter at school and called us and said to bring our other daughter to the school once she was off the bus when we got there they said they had a verbal court order to take them away there was nothing else done they took the kids did not talk to us or come to our home what my daughter said was untrue she said her father beat me please help me get my babies back home please im begging anyone to help

kjdawson and dosmaster, you can get feedback on your cases at http://forum.fightcps.com ... and kj, that is normal that they will not let you reunite with a man who abused the child, so you must deal not only with trying to get your child back but also with breaking up with your b/f. If you have a service plan from the court do everything requested, and do not ever use any drugs or alcohol even if you're extremely depressed about what's going on. Do whatever you can to make a stable home for your child to return to. It would help if your parents would give you and your child a home. That's what usually works best for very young parents with CPS problems. Good luck!!

I like your article, very useful and inspiring. thank you.

I am currently facing the wrath of CPS. My wife and I have been falsely accuse of hurting our son. We even have a medical diagnosis to explain his injuries. But they still seem to have control. I have started my own blog at http://nojusticeinthejudicialsystem.blogspot.com/ I appreciate any support and site like yours are very helpful.

DSS recently took my one month old son into a foster home. I had taken him into the doctor because of swelling in his leg. After they did some x-rays they found that he had fractures in his legs that were "highly suspicious" of non-accidental trauma. After being interrogated by the police for 5 days, my sons father finally admitted that he didn't mean to hurt him, but was afraid of him being taken away so he didn't say anything. The following Monday, DSS took my son into custody until I complete a "treatment" plan. I didn't do anything to hurt my son, and the person that did is in jail pending trial. They didn't have any reason to take my son away from me. They have also informed me that if I have any contact with the father that I will "never get my son back". I feel like they are taking advantage of me because I am a teenage mother and "not a lot of teenagers have babies" which we all know is not true. I am afraid that there is nothing I can do to fight them. I am being torn from two different sides and I feel absolutely helpless. If anyone can give me advice I would really appreciate it.

Thank you for your inspirational and informative post. I've often thought the same thing, that each person should choose a cause they deeply believe in and then dedicate h/her life to do what they can (even if only in their "spare" time) to help end the suffering and misery related to that issue. If only. Now that I know at least one person agrees, I have more confidence that I'm not the only one who thinks that, and will more openly encourage others from now on. Your post, your information, and your dedication have inspired and encouraged me. Thanks!!

I applaud your sites very much! As a child until the age of Ten i grew up in foster care, I was adopted through the Foster care system. As an Adult CPS took my kids and labeled me as the same things they did my birth mother. Stating that I would do the same thing she did. I was 20 and had no way to fight them! if i'd known then what I know now I'd have my babies.... God Bless y'all!

ok... so my situation... I previously was a resident of a County in Ca. that has alot of corruption in the entire judicial and law enforcement system due to the small town it revolves around... after My daughter's mother left me of her own accord and because she had started an affair with another individual... she left my daughter with me and saw her once a week for only a few hours for the first month... then out of no where she filed for custody... we have been to court several time and she continues to try to get full custody of our daughter which i will not give her... i have been the primary care provider for my daughter since a month after birth due to a very bad accident i was involved in 3 1/2 months before my daughter was born... that is a lil back ground... I moved out of the small town and county where we had resided and into a larger more city atmosphere about 2 hours away... since then she has called the sheriff's office and falsely alleged i was on drugs and wanted a welfare check, they came out... UNFOUNDED! I had a restrainig order against her for six months until they decided, even though she violated the order a minimum of 6 times, that there was not enogh to keep it in place... july 4th my daughter feel while we were at a swimming hole... scraped her face up... LOTS OF WITNESSES! and Oct 9th the day after my best friend got married my daughter fell off of a chair and split her eye brow open... i was not in the room because i was getting her a tissue to blow her nose since she was sick, not sick last time i dropped her off with her mother but sick everytime she would come back... She was sitting on the chair talking to my Mother and Grandparents via Skype and reached for her sippy cup and fell... 3 witnesses, as well as the slough of other people that heard the THUD and her start to cry as i was grabbing a wipe from her diaper bag... i informed her mother immediately of both events, this woman has proceeded to Call CPS and file allegations of Drug Use, Physical as wel as SEXUAL abuse...these are the biggest of maybe 20 some ott allegations she has reported... they came out investigated and feel that she is not stable and she hates me... they found all alegations to be UNFOUNDED!... Dec 29th.. i dropped my daughter off, she threw a fit started hitting and trying to bite me due to me telling her no in regards to having some chips... she is 2 1/2 keep in mind... so i told her she cannot do that and cannot talk to adults that way... she proceeded to throw a tantrum to which i turned her around and lighlty swatted her on the butt, through a diaper and thick snow pants as it is cold in the the area we live... she knows this to be when she is uber trouble and i rarely have to resort to this but more so as of late and her tantrums have been increasing in frequency as well as trying to get her back into routine for potty training after she comes back from her mothers... at this point we have a 50/50 custody arrangement and swap every 3 days... i drive an hour to the swap spot every three days due the mediator in that small county being very biased... ok so i put up with what i have to because i love my daughter... that day when i dropped her off her mother accused me of not only beating my daughter but now beating my current significant other... which has NEVER happened... as well as now supposedly trying to hit her with my car... these allegations were reported to CPS as well as the Local PD... once again CPS called me... notified me that they were flaggin her for repeatedly filing false allegation and closed the case as Unfounded and in assesment due to unresolved custody issues, the PD also investigated said allegations and found them all to be UNFOUNDED! I went to pick up my daughter the next time i was to have Custody, call for a Civil Standby with the same officer who took her report, they brought 2 cars... what does that tell you... SHE NEVER SHOWED UP! The county our case is in... The DA gave her some sort of Good Faith order... and allowed her to withhold my daughter based on everything that has already been investigated... the DA's office also will not produce a copy of this order due to it being Confidential... so confidential they dont even give it to the judge unless he actually requests it... apparently 297.8 or 298.7 of the PC... this all i was given as well as now the Judge in that county has granted a temporary restraining order keeping me 100 yards away from my daughter... all based on the allegations already investigated and closed as UNFOUNDED! i have not seen my daughter since... none of the allegations she brought to the DA, even when they have a copy of the report from the PD where our swap takes place, were investigated... i was never notified, i had to call for a week to finally start getting some sort of answers... when notified of the restraining order, oh yeah... i had gone to the DA's office to have them call the sheriff's office and release the VERBAL order, with no paper work to back it,so i could see my daughter... since i had informed them of when i was coming they had an ambush of 2 sheriff's and this DA assistant waiting to notify as well as harrass and try to rile me up and push me to do something... they were very rude to me and my current signifcant other ... very unprofessional and could not produce anything but a print out... nonetheless i have no idea what to do... everyone, including, CPS in the county where i live, my lawyers and the PD of the town where the swap takes place... are baffled and have never heard of anything like this... they all feel a huge civil injustice is being done... oh yeah... for got to mention her father is a lawyer in that county... as well as being the campaign manager for the current DA... this town has not one but 2 officers who have been caught having sex with under age girls from the local high school... one of which is now married to and has a child with... no arrests or charges ever filed... there are judges in this county with several DUI's and even have handed out sentences and judgements while wearing an ankle monitor due to house arrest after i believe their 5th DUI! these are just a few of the things that i know... it is a Good Ol' Boy town and due to this i am afraid i am going to lose my daughter... plz help... i just wanna see my daughter again! almost a month of torment and anguish as well as the stress and lack of sleep...

I think you're fighting a good cause, I don't think that lies and abuse are widespread in the CPS but someone needs to call out issues like these to the forefront. I also believe that oftentimes CPS is too ineffective in preventing real abuse.

i am not a citizen of the united states of america. i am however a citizen of canada. i live in manitoba. in dec of 2008, my biological son (after DNA testing) was placed in my home at my request after he had been abandoned at 1 1/2 yrs of age by his mother. immediately after his placement with me i noticed he was very apprehensive and nervous; constantly pinching and pulling on his buttocks, groin, thighs, and pulling his hair. he would do this at just about every point of the day....even in his sleep. i'd stay up all night every night just so i could keep removing his hands from these actions. roughly 2 months after placement and talking with my daycare about his behaviors, i was accused of abuse due to bruising (which was due to said behaviors) and my son was kept from me for almost 2 yrs. he was returned to me in 2010 and has been with me since. however we have not been left alone and are constantly hounded by the system with claims of concern for my child and asking how they can help us. even though the still to this day refuse to believe that the bruises were self-inflicted and show no evidence of outside abuse....only self abuse. my son is not going to have a decent chance at overcoming his anxieties until CFS (as it's called here) leaves he and i alone. any ideas?

i am not a citizen of the united states of america. i am however a citizen of canada. i live in manitoba. in dec of 2008, my biological son (after DNA testing) was placed in my home at my request after he had been abandoned at 1 1/2 yrs of age by his mother. immediately after his placement with me i noticed he was very apprehensive and nervous; constantly pinching and pulling on his buttocks, groin, thighs, and pulling his hair. he would do this at just about every point of the day....even in his sleep. i'd stay up all night every night just so i could keep removing his hands from these actions. roughly 2 months after placement and talking with my daycare about his behaviors, i was accused of abuse due to bruising (which was due to said behaviors) and my son was kept from me for almost 2 yrs. he was returned to me in 2010 and has been with me since. however we have not been left alone and are constantly hounded by the system with claims of concern for my child and asking how they can help us. even though the still to this day refuse to believe that the bruises were self-inflicted and show no evidence of outside abuse....only self abuse. my son is not going to have a decent chance at overcoming his anxieties until CFS (as it's called here) leaves he and i alone. any ideas?

gr8 lens...... i must say....

This website is so great in so many ways. Why is CPS able to illegally deny our constitutional rights? What makes them special? I was a caseworker and could not do it the way they said. I believe in honesty, love and family!! you can not treat every body the same, You can't make decisions on just words or whats in reports! You need to have enough sence to know for sure whats best, not just act on a guess!!! 99% of the time they just like the drama of causing problems. Most of the people working for CPS are not working because they care or want to help families, they just want a pay check!! I cared to much to keep this position!!

Great, Great, Great Lens. If I can ad my own quote "Apathy is the same thing as encouragement". I thank you, personally for not being apathetic. Keep up the good work.

we could really use your help our 4 kids got taken by cps on nov 12th 2001 our kids are ages 5,3,2,and a month and 15 days old they have been placed with my parents that are unsafe for them this has been brought to dhs' attention and they still refuse to replace them either back into our home or to my husbands mother's home until we fight to get them back home with us our new court date is feb. 6th 2012 we could really use all the information you can give us we are very poor but are able to take care of our family that has been broken by cps we could really use your help please please help us

I am reaching out for any available resources. I have been fighting the State of California for 3 years and I do not know how much more I can take. 3 years ago, my fiance and I got into an argument. No abuse took place. However, as I am sure you all can guess, I dialed 911 out of concern for his own safety (he was in a downward spiral talking about suicide), and the next thing I see is him being handcuffed and charged with domestic violence. Prosecutors charged him with a misdemeanor. My ex-husband got wind of the arrest and threatened to file for full custody of our 2 children. My fiance's attorney who was handling this so-called "domestic violence" case told me she could take on my family law case because both cases go hand in hand. Not knowing any better, I agreed. Several weeks after retaining her, she informed me the initial hearing is going to be postponed to a later date because she didn't review any of my documents. Instead, she took $10,000.00 and didn't go to the initial hearing to file a continuance. Her associate went and told the judge he didn't know where I was. The judge gave my ex-husband full physical custody. My "attorney" has since been suspended from practicing law and has been convicted of money laundering and several counts of client misconduct. Unfortunately, she has yet to be sentenced.

For 2 years following the hearing, my ex-husband cut off all communications with me and my 2 children. I never saw them again. This past August, I received a call from CPS in California (I currently live in WA) informing me my children were removed from my ex-husband's home and placed in protective foster care.

I had my children for 14 years prior to losing custody, yet CPS is only looking at the 2 years I was not with them. They say I am at fault for not seeing them, but refuse to see court documentation stating my husband kept them from me. So now, CPS has to investigate me to see if my children can be placed with me.

My ex-husband ADMITTED the allegations brought against him were TRUE. He had been physically & emotionally abusing my son and daughter for the past 2 years AND has sexually molested our daughter!

Get this, CPS is conducting re-unification between myself and my children AND between him and my children. CPS is considering placing my kids back with a man who admitting abused my children and who is a child molester, but told me my children will not be placed with me out of fear for their safety because of a misdemeanor 3 years ago. Gotta love the system!!

I have looked and looked all over for a way to prove my side. Nothing happened to be labeled as a domestic violence incident (apparently, according to the LAW, it doesn't matter), my so-called attorney misrepresented me (in fact, she forged my signature on my documents and filed them w/o my knowledge), and that my children have given statements stating they want to be with me and want their father's rights completely terminated.

How can it be that CPS tells me they do not deal with the criminal aspects of a crime, just focus on the placement of the children, but won't place my children with me because of a misdemeanor "crime" that happened 3 years ago with my fiance and are considering placing my children with a admitted felon??

If anyone can give me advice on what I can do to fight this, please let me know.

I am a single father of four children, and i have never had any open cases by CSD (childrens

services), but recently they got involved in my family because of some false reports made on us, by my ex wifes

cousin. This woman has a history of making false reports and i believe she is pschizoprenic, and has a long family

history of mental illness. CSD came into our lives a couple of weeks ago, and since then, has lied to us, family

members, made threats and even upset social workers in california. Now they have opened a case on us, and forced my

fiance to leave our home, because of a 12 year old california case where her and her children were abused by her

exhusband who is now in prison for it. CSD insists she did wrong doing but California states otherwise. They state

she done NO wrong doing, and i can prove it. She is the best mother figure my kids have ever had and they love and

miss her dearly. They have us under a very strict set of rules, which does not allow me to work or hardly even pay

my bills. They are not helping us in anyway, nor does my court appointed attorney seem to be helping. The worker in

California is telling us to subpena him to court and he will testify that this oregon worker has falsified

information to support his investigation because no other reason exsists to continue his investigation. Please help

us, we are being railroaded by the system, and i dont know what to do. My lights might get turned out and i fear

csd is going to take my kids if i even so much as try to defend myself. They have already told me that in so many

words. Please help. This is destroying our family and our Christmas together. Now they are passing the buck onto a case worker instead of investigative worker because they are satisfied with the false information that they have gathered against me, and are moving onto a service plan. From what i understand, i should not agree to it at all.

Hi My names Kim,
I want to reach out to you ladies, gentlemen, parents, guardians and to family's that are going though a rough and hurting time in your life. Please call me, I might be able to help with your legal issues in the U.S. and parts of Canada, I can be reached at 253 330 4731 please don't be afraid to pick up that phone. What ever you do, don't sign papers with out a lawyer that's your right and your kids too. if you know someone that needs legal assistance send them my way. I will be able to help possibly in more ways than you can think of at present. Thank You.
Kim.

If you have a p.c. that will help I can converse with you back and forth and we can talk. I have passion about others and their problems.

if i could please call me i really would appreciate it thanks for your time and you caring tears run down my eyes as i sit here and see this cause I'm hurting for those family's as well as mine.
I pray that we as a nation can do something about this madness and stop the incriminating cause it's not right what they do. please don't put this in the thing unless you feel it should go in. this is just something for you thank for showing me you care. that really means a lot to me you touch me when you wrote to me I couldn't believe it. I
I was in tears when I saw that you wrote me cause it let me know that I matter to you and you don't even know me or who I am. I know that God sent you my way and God could put a total stranger out their that has heart. Please don't ever change cause your what we need in this world a angle that came from the heavens and your just in discuss, Stay bless and love you in christ.
Sook

Hi my name is Sook,
I live in the state of WA, My daughter had made allegations against myself that "I tried to drown her". I had given her a pill from her doctor, and was using a 12 0z. water bottle to help her swallow it down and she struck out at me with a punch and a slap to my face. My boyfriend was accused of putting a mark upon her neck which was in a scratch like form. All this was told to CPS by my daughter after they were informed by the school of my daughters statements. CPS interviewed my daughter at school without informing me first or talking to our lawyers as we had advised the school previously that my daughter was represented by a legal firm and that they were to notify me in any event. The school administrators scoffed at my daughter telling her that she was twelve years old and that she did not have a lawyer.

My daughter came home and told me about it. I told her to be honest with me , “did you accuse us”? She said “no", she was lying because later on she came back and told me the truth and said "I didn't know that this was serious mom" but it was. Prior to that my daughter had run away and she was having problems in school by not doing her assignments in some of her classes,
I received a phone call from the school saying my daughter, had ran out the school doors and the staff had gone looking for her. She also has told the Assistant Principle to' shut up' and even called her the "B" word and felt no remorse about it..

I have been searching for help sense, for my daughter since she was in the 5th grade. I told the CPS case worker and the school that I'd bought The Total Transformation Program for $300 hundred dollar which has a book an on-line help advisor, and CD's for a parents aide, but that wasn't enough.

I started taking her to consouling telling them, “look their is something really wrong with her and she needs help she needs medication or needs a neruological evaluation , Nobody took me serious I was a joke to them because my daughter displays a different personality to everyone else , she is sweet ,so nice , a good girl. what they don't see is her outrage, anger , her punching holes in the wall in her bedroom , punching holes in her bedroom door. Her trying to electricute everyone in the house and her self.
They are not there when she goes on her tantrum. I was trying to get help sense last year so it would not get to this point and it now has and now everyone wants to tell me that there's help. Hey that's GREAT where were these same people earlier.When I called all these people nobody knew anything. I

don't want my daughter to have a rap sheet on her cause no one takes heed to what I say. I mean I even called boot camps . I even tried calling and contacting Murray Povich and Tayra Banks as my child likes the TOP MODEL show. All my efforts got me nowhere.

I have CPS saying they want to help but they sure have a nice way of showing it. They threatened me and told me to sign my name right here that would have me agreeing to have cameras in my home for 6 months as well as 6 months of community service before there was even a hearing, before causeo , allegations, no formal reading of allegations, no serving me paper on my rights, they acted like I was a drug dealer. I've never used any type of drugs in my life. I don't drink .I don't like the taste of alcohol let alone the smell.

After our first meeting at the police stattion where I went to speak with the dective, I was supposed to meet with the CPS worker for at least 20 minutes I was still in their being badgered and hounded to sign papers to admit my guilt and fault, she would not let me read the papers or let me take it to a lawyer to read over she just wanted me to sign the paper. NEVER SIGN ANYTHING before you read it AND LET A LAWYER READ IT TOO!!!!!!

Now that they took her from me they want me to have my boyfriend move out and telling me that my daughter is going to live in another county (in the state) and she will be given a new name, new parents and new SSC number.

The CPS worker was telling her she is going to loose and her mom would be going to jail.

The CPS worker said she did her investigation but she hasn't done anything but hound me like a Salem Witch Hunt. The CPS “AGENT” has also told me that she will beat me too. I was told by the CPS “AGENT” that this “was all my fault and that's why my daughter looses her temper, because of my bad parenting and neglegence.” I know I am a good mother I don't hurt my babie I am there for her and I discipline her when it's needed.

I love my daughter and only want her to have a good home and a good life and just enjoy her childhood. Just for her to be a good kid and to remember her life, be able to see that she had a good life. I just want her to be happy but when the states and schools give them power and ( they ) our children don't know the responsibility that goes with that power then choas reigns. Children then want to run and say I'm going to call cps, i'm going to call the cops on you because your making me do this (thing I don't want to do). I'm just going to make up something. I'm going to mark myself up so you get in trouble. What they don't realize , is that they are the ones that will be hurt too, in this process,that they are the ones tearing the families apart and by the time they realize how serious it is they belatedly comprhend that they've made a huge mistake and when they try to correct it by saying I lied, I made it up. It's to late they have started a mess that they can't undue.

CPS doesn't listen to what we say and they play games and think that this is a contest and most parents don't know how to get help or what they can or can't say or sign.

We really live in a messed up sociEty and we are being punished for a crime we didn't commit. The only crime:WE THE PEOPLE gave the state to much power to run over us we are the victums by the state and by the cps. We are the ones that are getting abused by the NEW BROWN SHIRTS and beaten on and that's not right. I just got my babie taken away from me this month I need to know how to fight it this agency They came to my daughters school and just kiddnapped my babie and handed me no papers no phone calls nothing.THIS IS AMERICA????? INNOCENT BEFORE PROVEN GUILTY??????

But they(CPS) have no problem calling my x and updating him on what's going after getting information from the school after I'd told the school not to affilate my daughter with any information that deals with him and no information is to be given out to him. How or why the school felt that a divorced xxxx, who is not the biological father needs to be contacted I don”t know? Next thing I know the cops and the CPS are talking to my x.
I found out my x and CPS has struck up a deal about if you can get her daughter away from her I will support you as a foster parent, with financial aid, food stamps,etc. which would be $86,000 a year, vision, dental, and medical for you and her.When I heard that I was like what in the world so my x is sleeping with the enemey with a devil deal going on and then he talks to me like I'm not checking on everything he says and that he provides information to the CPS AGENT that I DON'T KNOW where some stuff is coming from.

I found out that when I talked to Central Intake a woman named Mary another AGENT for central housing for dispatch and indexing of information and a vehicle for delaying YOU from finding out the truth they lied to me too. Mary told me she was safe and in another county and in a protective foster home.

This was after My X called at 7:00 P.M. she wasn't in the foster home like I was told. 9;00 P.M. The AGENT comes over to my house asking ME did I know where my daughter was? It's 9:00 P.M. And you're 6 hours late coming to tell me that my daughter's missing and you're asking ME do I know where my daughter is? The Agent gets on the phone afetr I informered her that I'd talked to CENTRAL INTAKE (WHOOPS!!!) NEVER DIVULGE what can become crucial evidence for your case. Anyway The AGENT PRETENDS TO BE ALL CONCERNED don”t buy it.

She calls central Intake I could hear them talking. LYING, MARYshe said she never knew MY AGENT and it comes out that she worked at the same DSHS office that my AGENT HAD, AND telling the AGENT that she lied to ME, TO DELAY ME hopefully that they would find my daughter so she MARY is saying “I'm not concerned” yet I'm the one who had to call around and my daughter is missing.
My daughter is missing since the 18th and now cps is telling me that it's not her CPS'S fault but mine and it's my 12 year old daughters fault .

My daughter was not in my care. She was in CPS's and some how she puts the blame back on me. I don't know where my daughter is and CPS is blaming me,and she is missing till this day. Whos fault is this?!!! cause it's NOT MINE!!!! They are sloppy, messy, evil, conniving, treacherous .They try to befriend you, but they are hateful, misleading, liars, and anything but CPS .

They are not for the children.They are not for the parents.The community, for the the protection of abused or neglected children they are here to notch a mark on their gun after they've shot you and taken your child away and awaiting the court to bury YOU in GOVERNMENT RESTRICTIONS.
It's a Job making , career making enterprise where they gather in their local pubs to chuckle and bragg about the NEW family they've torn assunder, high fiving while you are alone without the person you love your child and YOU, stress, lie awake, have nightmares, worry because a part of your life is missing. They take away your rights,and power away from them the consitution. How can you get them to do their jobs and do it right and keep it for not being in vindictive?
I don't want to smear the good and truly devoted CPS WORKERS because I just know their are some out there and if they are good it's only 1 out of a milliion of them that stand for what's right.

They know who's corrupt, I some are married to police officers, are other civil servants who are honest and raise thie children with integrity and honesty, how about in your workplace, weed them out them do more harm than GOOD.

JACK BOOT DIPLOMACY

Knock! Knock!
Clop! Clop!

I heard the sound in the valley
I heard the sound in the halls
truncated limbs severed off our Lady Liberty
Concrete floatsam parading down the Potomac River
It's Flame Flickering, Sinking Beneath The Waves
of Neo-Con Pablam.

Like a mother to her child who's hurt
confused and scared.
Hear the PuppetMaster's of the Neo- Con's
Saying Sshh!1 Sshh! It's okay!

WATERGATE REDUX

As They break into the Smithsonian
ransacking the Constitution, Putting it into a
Black OPS Bag.

Stealing OUR Right's away.
OCCUPY!!????? Silent Majority!!!!!
Blinded, Gaffled
Backs against the WALL

LAST CHANCE????

SMOKE ANYONE????Use um if you got um.

CRACK! CRACK!
Rat ta TAT Tat
We Pledge Alligence. Crack!!!!!
My Country Tis Of Thee BLAM,BLAM
II GOD WE TRUST RAT AT TAT TAT

The WIZARD of Blob steps from behind the curtain, to the podium
with NO FACE.
Who's To Blame, who's to put out the Flame
the funeral Phyree is LIT by WHO? YOU? ME?

WAKE UP AMERICA

I SEE YOU Oneth by land Two if by sea.
It's upon us again so BE BE BE Ready BE READY

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!
By N.F.M. 2011

My name is Carrie J. Strickland, I live in Michigan. My family as well as other family's within our state have been living a nightmare through the encumbered practices of Attorneys using the Division of Family Court as their personal playground resulting in multiple catastrophic occurrences.

Many that have been affected are able to identify the activities, links and or common involvement of these particular key individuals. Within these groups of individuals they have demonstrated noticeable similarities of corrupt deception while lacking in extremely degrees of professionalism.
Their desire for capital gain, arrogance and power is a sure demonstration of their true lack of concern for children, deliberately oppressing our children by put them in harms way! They have unlawfully taking away all of my rights to my daughter without warrant, as they have done this to many others and are using our children as collateral in efforts of keeping us silent about their activities.

Due to this web of deceitful collaboration by thee participates they should at the very least be reprimanded for their actions, and these individuals should face a full investigation by an outside agency into these displayed and provable unethical tendency's of abuse of power according to the Michigan rules of professional conduct as well unlawful activities according to the Constitutional litigation, the State and civil laws and ethics.

Many rights and Laws have been broken within these cases, preformed by some individuals. We have been falsely tricked into believing that they are guarded by their educational background and held title, furthermore, after a full investigation I am sure that some sort of prosecuting measures and restructuring will be in order for their surreptitious crimes and cruel actions committed against the children and parents of our victimized family's.

For my story go to mytakenchild.webs.com, soon it should be web address, mytakenchild.com.

my name is patricia im 29 have 5 bueatiful babies who were just taken from me by cps. On the 12 of june i was put on probation and on the 24 of june 2011 a cps caseworker showed up at my probation visit asking for a consent to my case i said no he asked for me to take a ua so i said i would. He than ignored me went to the supivisor and got permission to overrule my no consent and was given a paper on two previous dirty uas. All of a sudden he has me crying cause their guing to take my kids. What happened to the house checks to see if their clothes are clean food in the refrigerator are they well taken care of. At the age of 10 i was on probation a dad who beat me a mom who didnt know how to raise us. I started drugs at 10 was sexually active at 10. I was sent away at 12 and released at 16 to a sister who was bipolor. I staarted my own family and changed it all for them my oldest is a cheerleader and a girl scoot at ft. concho my sons are a and b grades the teachers love them. I was in an alternative school for being kicked out, My kids dont cuss. They send me letters beggin to come home on the 10th of july 2011 judge weatherby told me that at one time i may have been a good mom but no more all on my own ive rasied them with a promise to let no one harm them. I showed millions of pictures even took recorded cds of our life. i'm a recovering drug addict i fight it every day one day at a time they havnt done nothing to no one. Please if you can give me addvice or help i beg you. i cant live without them their my world.

I have an open CPS case and they are setting me up for failure. My Counselor/Life Skills worker has broken confidentiality with me and I have talked to my CPS worker because not only that, she misses appointments, is late, or says I write the wrong dats. My CPS wprker said to me that she believes my Counselor over me because she "knows" her and not me. I told CPS I really needed someone I can confide in and trust to get help so there is no more threats of taking my Kids. They denied me seeing a diffrent Counselor. Beach of confidentiality is VERY serious and If I cant trust her, how am I suppose to get the help I need to save and keep my Family together? They are setting me up for failure. They dont include my Husband on things, they lied in the PPC hearing letter, its all false but told me its no"big deal" to have it corrected. I am trying to find a Lawyer here to help us. I have NO choice but to work with these sneaky ppl who really dont care about me or my Family. Ive had 18 false calls from Inlaws and they are involved because of an arguement that happened here. And IM the ONE WHO CALLED CPS FOR HELP!! BIG MISTAKE!!!! Any suggestions? i have requested meetings, they deny them to me. I feel as if Im fighting the WOrld alone. This is not fair.

DSS (Dept. Of Social Services), CPS (Child Protective Services) or whatever it may be called in your area of residence here in the United States was put in place for several reasons. 1. To control the next generation 2. To take away a Parent's Rights without due process of the Law and 3. As a money maker for BIG Government at the expense of We The People.

I Have a cps case going on since march. They took my twin daughters from the hospitial without coming and doing a home visit. They didnt get the father and I into classes entill may. We have and are doing every thing they have asked us to do. We went to cout just last month and cps asked for more time and my daughters lawyer asked for the right to be taken away. They have no reason to we finished our parenting classes. And all the other things they have asked us to do. Every thing from move from were we lived and doing clean uas. So what right do they have to take them away from us.

I have 2 children that were taken away from me this week by CPS and the court due to my husband being falsely accused of child molestation in another county. My ex-husband (which is only the father to one of my kids) made accusations with CPS stating that my husband was being left alone with my kids which breaks his bond of not being allowed to be alone with a minor. I now have visitation for 3 weekends a month and I barely get to even talk to my kids on the phone. All of this started because my husband's ex-wife coerced his children to say he had molested him. He had filed for full custody of all 3 of them the week before the accusations were made. It's obvious of the reasoning behind the allegations, but CPS still has 2 founded cases now against even though he has not been found guilty through court. What happened to being found innocent til proven guilty? Anyways, my ex-husband claims my children were in danger being around my husband. My ex waited 5 months to deem they were unsafe and go through CPS and the court!!! There is so much evidence to prove that my husband is not guilty, but it seems that no one wants to listen to us. I would love for some help on this because I can't seem to find any. This case is in Virginia. Thanks to all who help and God bless!!!

im trying to fight social services at mo they made up lies bout me took my eleven year old son away to foster carers in dartford i get to c him once every two weeks but never at xmas always supervised its like they treating me like a criminal i thik the government need to take a look at the system.

Today, however, I share news about corruption within the nation's child protective services agencies that appears to have claimed at least three adult victims, including two in Georgia who were fighting to expose its dark.

Family Law Chicago

PLEASE help me! Az stole 3 of the greatest kids. I am a single mom and Dk how to fight them & get my babies back.
They are liars and mean to me. Please help!

you got good one for this...

What a wonderful thing you are doing with this lens. A good cause. *** Blessed by a SquidAngel! ***

Very informative. Blessed.

I have a friend who's little sister was taken away on false accusations - it was devastating to the family. She was just a baby too. This is an important topic and I'm grateful that there is a lens discussing this issue.

One of the biggest problems with CPS is that they start from the assumption that persons reporting alleged abuse have honest motives, complete knowledge of the situation, and are otherwise normal, healthy, well-adjusted people. Accordingly, CPS approaches investigations from the position that an accused parent needs to disprove the allegations. Poor training, poor qualifications, and big egos of individual CPS workers compound the problem and reduce the possibility that CPS will get it right.

Yes, my fiance grew up in different foster homes, and was abused alot. Hes still messed up because of it. My mom constantly had one of the neighbors calling cps on her. She was a great mom, and didnt desserve it. Luckily we were never taken away.

Wonderful lens. As a family who was falsely accused of abuse, we were lucky to have known enough about our rights when first being contacted to stop any further action or communication with CPS. Other families are not so lucky. I hope to have a lens and share our story soon.

One thing I find horrible is that the way society reacts when they find out your children have been taken by DSS. Even if you did nothing wrong, you're still viewed as a bad parent.

i have a huge case against me and my wife. they took our kids then came into our home without a warrant. I was arrested for rape then the charge was dismissed with prejudice and they still are using the charge against me in the custody case. there is alot involved in my case and an extreme amount of lies and fabrications. we need help and don't know where or how to get it. we are poor, please tell me that wont be the determining factor to regaining our children.

I came across this just browsing and had to look..Thank you they do make to many mistakes If a child is abused yes they should be taken away . But sometimes they go to worse places..Much to often!!!