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Children are being traumatized by forced removals from loving families, then abused and even killed in foster homes. Please help us help them and their families by petitioning to have the truth about CPS exposed in the national media.
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | Tell Oprah why you'd like to see information about CPS abuse of families and children on her show |
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| 4,293 | 3:42 pm PDT, Jun 30 | Tiffany S. Bryant | Child protective services is trying to take my twin one month old girls. I believe by fabricating information about the girls and the time when possible abuse they believe occurred without looking at any other possibilities of abuse not occurring at all. | |
| 4,292 | 8:19 pm PDT, Jun 27 | Anonymous | My grandchildren were taken out of my son and daughter in laws home. My son and daughter complied with all of the childrens services of Oregon asked them to do. Instead of giving back their children to them they were separated and placed in foster homes. The children are in the custody of their granmother in Iowa. My son and daughter in law have made great changes in their lives and moved to Iowa to be near their children. They both have jobs and a beautiful home. They pay child support. They have no idea how to get their children back with them. They did not lose their parental rights. | |
| 4,291 | 9:06 am PDT, Jun 23 | Ms. | maria maldonado becerra | C.P.S. seems to not work for reuniting families anymore. They treat our children like cattle being auctioned off to the highest bidder. My children were taken from me before i went to prison and CPS worker Sarah Powell promised me that i would get them back when I got out. She lied to me. She never even offered me a drug program that i needed so desperately. She said I was an unfit mother. I was raising 5 children on my own no welfare check no child support i was the sole provider. She ended up giving them to my sister who beats them, has them living in a 3 bedroom home with 14dogs in the house. She doesnt allow any of the family members see them. No one has seen them in 3 years. I have begged CPS to help us/me, but have only been told get an education then we help, I did they didnt. then they said Sarah Powell is no longer here at Sutter County CPS, she has been arrested for 3 felony charges. One is forging the court seal on documents for money. Please help me. I want to see my babies. Please |
| 4,290 | 2:31 am PDT, Jun 22 | Brett Leisy | I have been through a 5 year CPS induced hell. the power self granted to the CPS is unfathomable. more importantly my children have suffered this hell from the other side. beaten, malnourished, dehydrated (almost to death), poisoned (almost died), and molested. They pretend to care about the children but have a track record far worse per capita for taking care of the children. how many more children must suffer, how many more must perish? My children suffer at their hands all because my house was "filthy". what do you expect after the local authorities search the home for 3 hours (and found NOTHING) then took their "evidence" pictures. Their lies and deciet are deplorable and the ones who suffer are the families especially their children. | |
| 4,289 | 2:01 pm PDT, Jun 8 | Anonymous | Because in some state there are illegal adoptions going on. There are adoptions parents get payed under the table,by the cps workers. The social workers are not try to give them back there children after do all the things the courts assigned them to do. They don't attened to the children needs in foster care like order by the courts to do. People in the court are changing legal documents that are order from the judge to do,and adding false statement to make parent seem inable to take care of there children. These things are happen in louisville ky | |
| 4,288 | 4:58 pm PDT, May 29 | Ms. | Angel Edwards | Oprah my name is Angel Edwards I am a Pennsylvania resident and I have 7 children six of which Child Protective Services have removed from my care.The juvenile court removed my children December 20, 2007 because a entity of the court called CASA " Court Appointed Advocates" and this so called child advocate lawyer firm of the state called " Kids Voice". They went into former 70's Pittsburgh Steeler Judge DeWayne Woodruff's coutroom stating to the court with no documentation that my son was dying. And the only Paperwork that was shown was a paper stating I missed a few weight check appointments. Know I knew my son was underweight. But he was not near death by no Doctor's words or accussations from any of his normal check up appointment's. And I had already signed up to this orgination called Alliance for infants and toddlers. Which helps children out who were in the same condion that my baby was in. Months before the court had removed my children. And I even had an in home services younglady from an organition called Three Rivers Youth that Chiild protective Services here will sometimes place in your home for so many hours on a weekly basis to basicly be there eyes and ears. And she testified that I had contacted this organiztaion and that they would be seeing him to help correct his health issue. They have nurses, physical therapist, occupational therapist. And my son needed this and I made sure this got done. Know upon his 7 day hospital stay in children's. What was deemed his treatment. Myself and his father were all doing with Alliance for Infants and toddlers. Then 4 months later when I would have had a strong chance of getting back my children because this Judge had told me so? Children's Hopital along with there advocatsy clinic and child department detectives thay have. Pulled up charges on us for my one son who is know almost 2years of age. The charges are assault SB1, a physical injury tpe of charge for a person who would have physically hurt there child, wreckless endargerment of another person, and endangering the welfare of a child! So now my children have been in fostercare for almost 2years which gives CPS a chance at getting my children put up for adoption. For some false accustaions which spawned from Juvenile court. And this is all being held against me and the truth about it all is in the CPS file for my family and it is being covered up. And the has not given me the oppotunity to have my kids back home because of these charges pending against us. And the really sad part of it all is I am young mother who has Multiplesclerosis and I work I am not on disability or welfare. Plus all 7 of my children are by the same man. And When they were with us at home I had them into church, and they were very mannerable and respectful. I have 6 boys and 1 girl and it seems that being in fostercare has set them up for ruin and a road going to no were in life. My 7 year old daughter has been sodomized, my 2 older son's have been physically and mentally abused,my younger son,s have been locked in room's all day with people telling them there nasty and they have germs thats why they'll only eat of of paper plates in there house. As I type this tears roll down my face! All of my kid"s have been moved multiple times becuse of so much wrong doing of so called foster parents that mainly only are deciding to have children who are under CPS because of the check they have coming every month. Especially if you have 4 children or more in your home from them. And the most hurtful part of it all is since my children have been in fostercare for so long now I'll probably lose them for ever! Everyday of my life I ask The good Lord for a divine intervention because that is what I need if any of this whole awful situation is ever going to come to past. And I just hope that I can be apart of helping to stop these type of tragic situations from continuing to happen. I have a hearing June 5th 2009 and CPS has petioned the court to take my parental rights and remove my 7mth old son and he is well takin care of in excellent conditon and perfectly good health.Now here is something to think about for all veiwers of this site? If was such an unfit parent to the court or CPS why have they never been in my life until know? I have seven children ranging in ages from 9in a half to 7mths a realistic rational person with a heart and children of there own wold think or say that does not even make since! |
| 4,287 | 12:29 pm PDT, May 28 | Mr. | Anonymous | CPS is accusing my step-son of things he did not do and are trying to wear him down so he will give up his kids. They have lied so much I am surprised the judge puts up with it, unless he is part of the scheme. They have illegally and fraudulently aquired some documents about him which don't apply to the situation. They use bullying and gestapo-like tactics. They have broken the law at times and have spread lies about him and his girlfriend, the mother of his children. It is unfathomable to think that this agency is getting away with legal kidnapping and from what I've read, child trafficking. That's what they are trying to do to him and his girlfriend. Some of the agents that have worked for them that I know have quit CPS because of what's going on and they are afraid to talk. It wouldn't surprise me that this website is being monitored by their agents right now. Every visitation I have taken the kids to, there has been another couple there with the same victimization and problems, their kids being legally kidnapped. They took them away from me because they thought I had done something, I was cleared! They griped about the baby having a little diaper rash and both the inspectors have kids themselves. Now the baby, with someone else, has just gotten out of the hospital with a serious condition. And, the boy, they put into a hospital that fed him powerful drugs that could destroy him, to control him, but I'm not a good choice to put them with. I had no problem with control. Why don't they remove the baby from that environment or did the people pay plenty of consideration for the child?! It is has gotten extremely out of hand and it all boils down to the money CPS is making tearing families apart. If you are ever asked, pressured is the better term, to take a child into foster care from CPS, say NO! Because, they will get their claws into you too and you wont believe what things they do when they visit you! I believe in protecting children but this agency abuses them even further. Oprah, you are probably the most influential woman in America today. Please allow those that have been victimized the most tell their story to the nation on your show. Thank you for reading! |
| 4,286 | 5:36 pm PDT, May 27 | Mrs. | jennifer rodriguez | i lived in foster care and i know how they treat the children. now my children are going through the same thing and the cps workers need more resorces to take children out the homes, with all sorts of abuse they want to take the kids from the home for false accusations and make you sign a paper handing your kids to them and make you fight as hard as you can to get them back and still fail well i am standing up now and saying no more cps get out of this world and get another job. |
| 4,285 | 10:10 pm PDT, May 26 | Mrs. | debra burnett | Flag this message Fw: desperately needing your help to save my kids Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:28 PM From: "debra lee" Add sender to Contacts To: dabhealth@yahoo.com --- On Sun, 4/26/09, debra lee wrote: From: debra lee Subject: desperately needing your help to save my kids To: ienan1@aol.com Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009, 8:29 PM Hello, my name is Debra Burnett (maden name Lee) I am married with 5 kids and two are stuck out here in Ca. I'm a 35 yo. RN,we live in SC. just outside of Charlotte, NC. I started working out here in the Bay area in 5/06. In July/07 my husband (36) and kids came out here so that my husband could get his auto degree so he would make more money to be the provider he wants to be and I can stop coming out here to work and stop working so hard. Well during this time we experienced multiple discriminations and problem from the people in this area. But in on July 8,08 I had just returned to work from maternity leave we couldn't go home because I couldn't travel after my c-section. My then 10 yr. old twins ran away together because the were tired of being in trouble and being on punishment. So when they were sent to a room to stand in the corner they climbed out of a window and went to a lady who use to watch them before and after school. My daughter later told me that she (the sitter) didn't call me because she was afraid that my husband would find out and do something to her. There you go stereotypes of black men he'd never had as much as an argument or disagreement with her. But anyways, we notified the police of them missing after looking all over for them. They showed up at the police station with her and said that their father was hitting them, kicking them and beating them everyday. Several days times a day the police wrote that there was no evidence of abuse and the one mark on my daughter was from her brother hitting her. She also had scratches on her arm that they said were punch marks for their father but the officer wrote that the marks were scratches and new. Well my daughter later told me that her brother pulled her out of the window and threatened to beat her up if she didn't go along with the story. She said she thought she would be able to tell the truth and stop this from turning into a big problem. In the report it stated that she told a female cop that her brother hit her and they lied on their father and she didn't want her father to get in trouble for something that he didn't do. I went to the police station because the never informed me the had them for sure they was at our suite when, the report came in that two kids were brought in to the police station. So they turned them over to child protective services the next day the a social worker came by she was going to return the kids to us and felt it was safe for them to come back home. But the children were then afraid to come home because they new they'd be on punishment. So they refused to come home so we went in for a meeting they told us we were liers and we didn't live in SC. they refused to believe that we were there temporarily. We told them how our son had a history of lying and I had made a total of 5 false police reports because he had been lying and saying someone was hitting him in school and childs parent and nothing was being done. Then he said someone was hitting him when he was walking our dog with her mussel on and drawing blood from her we found out he was lying and the last incidence was why they he was on punishment. Any ways they kept them and did't let me talk to them or see them. My son would sneak and call me and when they found out the stopped him and my daughter couldn't call me. She has recently told me that the social worker Bonnie Sorile told them that i didn't love them and didn't want them and that i wasn't doing anything to get them back she said the kept telling them that and the thought it was true, even tough she said we never treated them like we didn't love them she thought they were telling them the truth. When we went to court my husband said he'd only spanked them on the butt with his hand when he did spank the, but the truth is they barely got a panken they were always in the corner or in the room and they were tired of that not to mention they hated Ca. and wanted to go home that was a constant complaint from all my kids especially the then 3 yr. old. Anyways, the social worker said that we fled the state when we went home for a court date that our lawyers and she knew about and our neighbor stopped cutting our grass and the home owner ass. was sending us letters and a tag was put on our house saying we abandoned it needless to say we had to go home to straighten thing out. When we went home she sent SC. cps to our house, she came with the police she told them that we were hostile and uncooperative and wanted them to take my two babies. We live in a very nice wealthy area so they were kind of puzzled as to what could be going on. So we told them what was happening the cop said the he didn't know us but he new all of my kids and verified that they had been in the school system for years and my 10 yr old son was a lunch buddy with his ex- co worker. So she told the cop to leave and that no one is going to take our kids. So she stayed and talked to us off record and said this social worker in Ca. is out to get you and to leave our kids here with someone and they can't do anything about it so we did. She told us to tell them again that we don't live ther and we were moving back home and I no longer worked there because the said because I worked there that I was a resident of Ca. even though I never gave up my license or residency of Sc. I even went home to make sure I voted for OBAMA. Anyways, the social worker in Ca. wouldn't let me talk to my kids saying we fled the state and didn't tell her ( a lie) and my children were having sex together and I knew about it andI let the, I told her she was sick and a lier. We went back for court and she surely sent someone to the hotel to take my other babies but we left them at home. So now my husband and I are getting a legal seperation , since I can't get a restraining order because were married and so my daughter can come home because he had an assault and battery on his record and they make like he would harm his daughter. We couldn't fight this in trial because of that ,even though I have no history of nothing they keep saying I'm uncooperative to make me look bad. My husband is giving up his parental rights to Ca.. so our kids can come home with me. In the calico video my son was very upset and didn't want to talk they asked him about it during the taping and he said that Bonnie Sorlie said that if he didn't say what she wanted him to say that she was going to send him to juvie hall. Now my son is always afraid of consequences to his actions so he lie in hopes to not get in trouble we see where thats gotten him. And when we complain about that the da say thats strong evidence supporting them my daughter told them that" they barely got spanking and that there father talked to them a lot and he'd talk to the over and over they'd go on long walks around the community and talk about their behavior in school the after about 3,4,0r 6 weeks of talking we'd get a spanking you spank you kids if you talk to them over and over and over and the kept doing the same thing, don't you." But they said that didn't make a difference. Now they tell me that my daughter is crazy and need a higher level of care, mind you they have them on all sorts of medication and never told me. They've been beat up, sexually molested both of them, her hair pulled out, my son burned by another child with a spatchular ect.. My son said they were trying to make him say that his father beat me and I was afraid of him ( the violent black man syndrome) he called me upset saying he was stressing out because the keep trying to make him say things that are not true. But whats even more unfair is that we can't dispute what they say because if we dispute it, they say we are just arguing and were not doing whats in the best interest of the the kids so the best thing is to say we summit to jurisdiction recognizing there is a problem and we want to do whats best for the kids get them help and out of the system. But now the new case worker say if what was said isn't true then why did't you fight it. I must add also my daughters lawyer has been fighting to get her home since she's been on the case and the Judge Polito refuse to hear it he said what did they do to deserve their kids to be returned home. What did we do to deserve this ,but be black. The lawyers said if we went to trial that they would say why are you with your husband and he has an assault and battery and if I know about it its bad and if I didn't its even worse. They make up their own rules and the crazy thing is I've known my husband inside out since we were 10 we've always been together and he's never been violent to me and the only reason we had a 4/5 yr. break up is because we argued so much he couldn't take me hollaring at him and was afraid he'd hit me cause I was driving him crazy and he couldn't take it we were young. But they know my husband better then me. I also told them that they weren't as close to their father because the lost that bonding time when we weren't together. Now my husband blame his self for leaving and then coming back to be a father to his kids. And these are is only kids. The 4 that we have. My oldest is not his. And that brings me to Demetrius my real problem child who hated my husband and has no respect for authority and don't even listen to me. We found out the he was showing my son who was at least 9 then porno in the internet. This stuff didn't even occur in Ca. it was years ago in SC. We found out about it here and disiplined them for it while there. The Big problem we of course didn't know about , so this is where the sex come in not to mention they were being taught sex in school here in Ca. Which is my worse problem because my son was asking my daughter to have sex with her she said that they didn't and nothing happened but they CPS are of course saying something different. The want the lies because in the end this is about them getting the federal funding for them. So now they say my daughter is acting out sexually. But this did't occur until she was moalested in foster care but they say this was from home apparently this was a one time occurance I talked to my daughter about it and she said she was doing the stinky dance with a boy, Then a few weeks later one of my co- workers showed me how the dance went then I new they just interpreted it as sexual acts. Before my kids got in the system we never had any compliants about our daughter being sexual or son but they did get in trouble in school for cursing and name calling and when they were taught sex education. Now all of a sudden my sons have crazy thoughts about sex and my daughter is crazy. Since they can't find a problem with the parents they have to make like the kids are crazy and can't come home. This system sucks they say if we don't agree with what they say is true, they won't give us our kids back. And if we agree that what they say is true, then we new about it all along and did nothing or didn't act appropriately by not notifying them. They the burden of proof is higher for the parent then the state and if they get hurt , molested, beat or killed while in the system they are responsible for it because they are not the parent. So anything can happen to them and the state say they are still better of in foster care or group home then at home. We had our kids in counseling since we got there until i lost my insurance cause i left one job. The refused to use any of that in fact they said it was a lie and we didn't seek help they were in counseling for their poor behavior in school. This subject never came up I have since talked to my sons counselor and he said that never came up. Now my son's lawyer is saying he's a sexual preditor and can't be rehabilitated. He's 11 yrs old the psychologist say's lies on my son to make him seem aweful and they say I can't get him another psychiatrist or lawyer because it's a conflict of interest and his lawyer was bribing him with money toys and gifts to keep him there and tell any info on their father or make up lies. A week before trail she gave him $20 he said for his birthday, the trail was suppose to be at the end of 1/09 his birthday is in Aug. when I told both lawyers nothing was done but they each keep saying something is not right about this case and the lawyer and social worker involved. even this new social worker said they did us wrong but nothings getting better. She had the nerve to tell me that a drug addict could get their kids back easier then us it would have been easier for my kids to get back home if my husband moalested them how sickening is that. Her I am a Registered Nurse my husband an Auto technician and my only fault here was coming out here to work and keep from loosing our house and supporting my husband so he can get his GED and Auto degree to keep my family together and had my kids in counseling. Their doing this because they can they don't care about the best interest of my kids just the money they make off of them. Why waste tax payers dollars for insurance for them and I have insurance for them and have been carrying it since this happened. And I have an Uncle with no children and a wife who is willing to keep my son until he can return home after some therapy. I gave the social worker the name and number of a counselor in Charlotte who specializes with children who has been exposed to sexual stuff my it be abuse or info or porno she said my son sounded confused and over stimulated with all the sexual exposure.. California think that no one can provide better counseling for my kids then them they have stated so many times. But this new social worker say's that my son gets anxious and upset every time he goes to see his counselor, how can she not see that the counselor is making him say things not true and twisting things up. Be cause he loved going to see his other counselor when we were taking him, infact he wanted to do more assignments for him in between sessions. Obviously somethings not right. Even the foster parent's lie to keep the kids one lady said she had to keep my daughter because she'd loose her section 8 if she didn't have enough kids the social worker from her organization told me she lied to the cps worker saying that Kathriana told her things that weren't true and they make like it was a direct statement from my daughter. This system is corrupt. Sorry this is so long I obviously could go on and on. Because there's so much more to say I Desperately need Rev.Sharpton's help, or some ones and not just me but thousands of people, there need to be a change. Talk about abuse of federal funding and ABUSE of Kids. The system is not perfect but they answer to no one there is no accountability and the social worker have immunity and don't have to prove anything or speak under oath and our children are suffering. Bonnie told my daughter she didn't care about her wanting to go home and she was never going home and then my son said she told him that it was going to be real hard for us to get them back . What do I have to do loose my nursing license and become a drug addict so they can go to court and say she's in rehab now and attending her meeting she been clean for 3 months. THIS IS NOT JUSTICE. And my children's whole life depends on this system and it don't look good. I AM BEGGING YOU SINCERELY FOR YOUR HELP DEBRA BURNETT 718 LANGLEY CT CLOVER SC 29719 I STILL WORK IN THE BAY I'M HERE FREQUENTLY UNTIL I GET MY KIDS HOME MY CELL IS 803 280 3232, MY HOME IS 803 810 6148 MY HUSBAND IS RICHARD BURNETT CELL 803 280 9587 CALL ANY TIME DAY OR NIGHT I WORK 7PM-7AM BUT I'M UP ALL THE TIME I CAN'T SLEEP FOR WORRYING ABOUT MY KIDS, I HAVE NO LIFE WITHOUT THE PLEASE HELP ME. DEBRA BURNETT 803 280 3232 Fw: desperately needing your help to save my kids Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:28 PM From: "debra lee" Hello, my name is Debra Burnett (maden name Lee) I am married with 5 kids and two are stuck out here in Ca. I'm a 35 yo. RN,we live in SC. just outside of Charlotte, NC. I started working out here in the Bay area in 5/06. In July/07 my husband (36) and kids came out here so that my husband could get his auto degree so he would make more money to be the provider he wants to be and I can stop coming out here to work and stop working so hard. Well during this time we experienced multiple discriminations and problem from the people in this area. But in on July 8,08 I had just returned to work from maternity leave we couldn't go home because I couldn't travel after my c-section. My then 10 yr. old twins ran away together because the were tired of being in trouble and being on punishment. So when they were sent to a room to stand in the corner they climbed out of a window and went to a lady who use to watch them before and after school. My daughter later told me that she (the sitter) didn't call me because she was afraid that my husband would find out and do something to her. There you go stereotypes of black men he'd never had as much as an argument or disagreement with her. But anyways, we notified the police of them missing after looking all over for them. They showed up at the police station with her and said that their father was hitting them, kicking them and beating them everyday. Several days times a day the police wrote that there was no evidence of abuse and the one mark on my daughter was from her brother hitting her. She also had scratches on her arm that they said were punch marks for their father but the officer wrote that the marks were scratches and new. Well my daughter later told me that her brother pulled her out of the window and threatened to beat her up if she didn't go along with the story. She said she thought she would be able to tell the truth and stop this from turning into a big problem. In the report it stated that she told a female cop that her brother hit her and they lied on their father and she didn't want her father to get in trouble for something that he didn't do. I went to the police station because the never informed me the had them for sure they was at our suite when, the report came in that two kids were brought in to the police station. So they turned them over to child protective services the next day the a social worker came by she was going to return the kids to us and felt it was safe for them to come back home. But the children were then afraid to come home because they new they'd be on punishment. So they refused to come home so we went in for a meeting they told us we were liers and we didn't live in SC. they refused to believe that we were there temporarily. We told them how our son had a history of lying and I had made a total of 5 false police reports because he had been lying and saying someone was hitting him in school and childs parent and nothing was being done. Then he said someone was hitting him when he was walking our dog with her mussel on and drawing blood from her we found out he was lying and the last incidence was why they he was on punishment. Any ways they kept them and did't let me talk to them or see them. My son would sneak and call me and when they found out the stopped him and my daughter couldn't call me. She has recently told me that the social worker Bonnie Sorile told them that i didn't love them and didn't want them and that i wasn't doing anything to get them back she said the kept telling them that and the thought it was true, even tough she said we never treated them like we didn't love them she thought they were telling them the truth. When we went to court my husband said he'd only spanked them on the butt with his hand when he did spank the, but the truth is they barely got a panken they were always in the corner or in the room and they were tired of that not to mention they hated Ca. and wanted to go home that was a constant complaint from all my kids especially the then 3 yr. old. Anyways, the social worker said that we fled the state when we went home for a court date that our lawyers and she knew about and our neighbor stopped cutting our grass and the home owner ass. was sending us letters and a tag was put on our house saying we abandoned it needless to say we had to go home to straighten thing out. When we went home she sent SC. cps to our house, she came with the police she told them that we were hostile and uncooperative and wanted them to take my two babies. We live in a very nice wealthy area so they were kind of puzzled as to what could be going on. So we told them what was happening the cop said the he didn't know us but he new all of my kids and verified that they had been in the school system for years and my 10 yr old son was a lunch buddy with his ex- co worker. So she told the cop to leave and that no one is going to take our kids. So she stayed and talked to us off record and said this social worker in Ca. is out to get you and to leave our kids here with someone and they can't do anything about it so we did. She told us to tell them again that we don't live ther and we were moving back home and I no longer worked there because the said because I worked there that I was a resident of Ca. even though I never gave up my license or residency of Sc. I even went home to make sure I voted for OBAMA. Anyways, the social worker in Ca. wouldn't let me talk to my kids saying we fled the state and didn't tell her ( a lie) and my children were having sex together and I knew about it andI let the, I told her she was sick and a lier. We went back for court and she surely sent someone to the hotel to take my other babies but we left them at home. So now my husband and I are getting a legal seperation , since I can't get a restraining order because were married and so my daughter can come home because he had an assault and battery on his record and they make like he would harm his daughter. We couldn't fight this in trial because of that ,even though I have no history of nothing they keep saying I'm uncooperative to make me look bad. My husband is giving up his parental rights to Ca.. so our kids can come home with me. In the calico video my son was very upset and didn't want to talk they asked him about it during the taping and he said that Bonnie Sorlie said that if he didn't say what she wanted him to say that she was going to send him to juvie hall. Now my son is always afraid of consequences to his actions so he lie in hopes to not get in trouble we see where thats gotten him. And when we complain about that the da say thats strong evidence supporting them my daughter told them that" they barely got spanking and that there father talked to them a lot and he'd talk to the over and over they'd go on long walks around the community and talk about their behavior in school the after about 3,4,0r 6 weeks of talking we'd get a spanking you spank you kids if you talk to them over and over and over and the kept doing the same thing, don't you." But they said that didn't make a difference. Now they tell me that my daughter is crazy and need a higher level of care, mind you they have them on all sorts of medication and never told me. They've been beat up, sexually molested both of them, her hair pulled out, my son burned by another child with a spatchular ect.. My son said they were trying to make him say that his father beat me and I was afraid of him ( the violent black man syndrome) he called me upset saying he was stressing out because the keep trying to make him say things that are not true. But whats even more unfair is that we can't dispute what they say because if we dispute it, they say we are just arguing and were not doing whats in the best interest of the the kids so the best thing is to say we summit to jurisdiction recognizing there is a problem and we want to do whats best for the kids get them help and out of the system. But now the new case worker say if what was said isn't true then why did't you fight it. I must add also my daughters lawyer has been fighting to get her home since she's been on the case and the Judge Polito refuse to hear it he said what did they do to deserve their kids to be returned home. What did we do to deserve this ,but be black. The lawyers said if we went to trial that they would say why are you with your husband and he has an assault and battery and if I know about it its bad and if I didn't its even worse. They make up their own rules and the crazy thing is I've known my husband inside out since we were 10 we've always been together and he's never been violent to me and the only reason we had a 4/5 yr. break up is because we argued so much he couldn't take me hollaring at him and was afraid he'd hit me cause I was driving him crazy and he couldn't take it we were young. But they know my husband better then me. I also told them that they weren't as close to their father because the lost that bonding time when we weren't together. Now my husband blame his self for leaving and then coming back to be a father to his kids. And these are is only kids. The 4 that we have. My oldest is not his. And that brings me to Demetrius my real problem child who hated my husband and has no respect for authority and don't even listen to me. We found out the he was showing my son who was at least 9 then porno in the internet. This stuff didn't even occur in Ca. it was years ago in SC. We found out about it here and disiplined them for it while there. The Big problem we of course didn't know about , so this is where the sex come in not to mention they were being taught sex in school here in Ca. Which is my worse problem because my son was asking my daughter to have sex with her she said that they didn't and nothing happened but they CPS are of course saying something different. The want the lies because in the end this is about them getting the federal funding for them. So now they say my daughter is acting out sexually. But this did't occur until she was moalested in foster care but they say this was from home apparently this was a one time occurance I talked to my daughter about it and she said she was doing the stinky dance with a boy, Then a few weeks later one of my co- workers showed me how the dance went then I new they just interpreted it as sexual acts. Before my kids got in the system we never had any compliants about our daughter being sexual or son but they did get in trouble in school for cursing and name calling and when they were taught sex education. Now all of a sudden my sons have crazy thoughts about sex and my daughter is crazy. Since they can't find a problem with the parents they have to make like the kids are crazy and can't come home. This system sucks they say if we don't agree with what they say is true, they won't give us our kids back. And if we agree that what they say is true, then we new about it all along and did nothing or didn't act appropriately by not notifying them. They the burden of proof is higher for the parent then the state and if they get hurt , molested, beat or killed while in the system they are responsible for it because they are not the parent. So anything can happen to them and the state say they are still better of in foster care or group home then at home. We had our kids in counseling since we got there until i lost my insurance cause i left one job. The refused to use any of that in fact they said it was a lie and we didn't seek help they were in counseling for their poor behavior in school. This subject never came up I have since talked to my sons counselor and he said that never came up. Now my son's lawyer is saying he's a sexual preditor and can't be rehabilitated. He's 11 yrs old the psychologist say's lies on my son to make him seem aweful and they say I can't get him another psychiatrist or lawyer because it's a conflict of interest and his lawyer was bribing him with money toys and gifts to keep him there and tell any info on their father or make up lies. A week before trail she gave him $20 he said for his birthday, the trail was suppose to be at the end of 1/09 his birthday is in Aug. when I told both lawyers nothing was done but they each keep saying something is not right about this case and the lawyer and social worker involved. even this new social worker said they did us wrong but nothings getting better. She had the nerve to tell me that a drug addict could get their kids back easier then us it would have been easier for my kids to get back home if my husband moalested them how sickening is that. Her I am a Registered Nurse my husband an Auto technician and my only fault here was coming out here to work and keep from loosing our house and supporting my husband so he can get his GED and Auto degree to keep my family together and had my kids in counseling. Their doing this because they can they don't care about the best interest of my kids just the money they make off of them. Why waste tax payers dollars for insurance for them and I have insurance for them and have been carrying it since this happened. And I have an Uncle with no children and a wife who is willing to keep my son until he can return home after some therapy. I gave the social worker the name and number of a counselor in Charlotte who specializes with children who has been exposed to sexual stuff my it be abuse or info or porno she said my son sounded confused and over stimulated with all the sexual exposure.. California think that no one can provide better counseling for my kids then them they have stated so many times. But this new social worker say's that my son gets anxious and upset every time he goes to see his counselor, how can she not see that the counselor is making him say things not true and twisting things up. Be cause he loved going to see his other counselor when we were taking him, infact he wanted to do more assignments for him in between sessions. Obviously somethings not right. Even the foster parent's lie to keep the kids one lady said she had to keep my daughter because she'd loose her section 8 if she didn't have enough kids the social worker from her organization told me she lied to the cps worker saying that Kathriana told her things that weren't true and they make like it was a direct statement from my daughter. This system is corrupt. Sorry this is so long I obviously could go on and on. Because there's so much more to say I Desperately need Rev.Sharpton's help, or some ones and not just me but thousands of people, there need to be a change. Talk about abuse of federal funding and ABUSE of Kids. The system is not perfect but they answer to no one there is no accountability and the social worker have immunity and don't have to prove anything or speak under oath and our children are suffering. Bonnie told my daughter she didn't care about her wanting to go home and she was never going home and then my son said she told him that it was going to be real hard for us to get them back . What do I have to do loose my nursing license and become a drug addict so they can go to court and say she's in rehab now and attending her meeting she been clean for 3 months. THIS IS NOT JUSTICE. And my children's whole life depends on this system and it don't look good. I AM BEGGING YOU SINCERELY FOR YOUR HELP DEBRA BURNETT 718 LANGLEY CT CLOVER SC 29719 I STILL WORK IN THE BAY I'M HERE FREQUENTLY UNTIL I GET MY KIDS HOME MY CELL IS 803 280 3232, MY HOME IS 803 810 6148 MY HUSBAND IS RICHARD BURNETT CELL 803 280 9587 CALL ANY TIME DAY OR NIGHT I WORK 7PM-7AM BUT I'M UP ALL THE TIME I CAN'T SLEEP FOR WORRYING ABOUT MY KIDS, I HAVE NO LIFE WITHOUT THE PLEASE HELP ME. DEBRA BURNETT 803 280 3232 |
| 4,284 | 10:42 pm PDT, May 12 | Mr. | Christopher Alexander | To whom it may concern: Hi my name is Christopher Thomas Alexander and I have a problem you might be able to help me with. See my problem is with C.P.S they took my son in November for a bogus reason. The reason is because i am with Judy how has an open C.P.S case and how has Bi-polar. They say she is a threat but i do not see her as a threat and for that they say i am unfit to parent see they got a call in October about me leaving my son alone with her and we asked her case worker if that was a problem and he said no. See Judy has Three kids her first two kids where taken for what I see as bogus reasons and she relinquished her rights to her older daughters because she did not feel she could provide for them at that time and she thought she was doing the right thing as she was not stable enough to support them. Then a year after that case was closed she had her son and C.P.S removed him at the hospital for no reason when she was told she would be able to take him home but on the day of them going home C.P.S came in and took him. Then we met and started dating i have seen her with kids and do not see her as a threat as C.P.S does. I had a Safety plan approved with C.P.S that my parents would check on Judy and my son when I was at work but then my parents had to move to Kentucky to help take care of my Grandparents so me and my parents set up another safety plan where other people would check on Judy and my son when i was at work but C.P.S did not want th hear about it and removed him from my care saying I was unfit because i do not see Judy as a threat. now C.P.S is allowing my son to move to phoenix with them and i lose my visits with him that are everyday now they will be ever other weekend instead of returning him to me and just starting another safety plan because they say i will not follow it when i was following the first one. I have done everything they have asked no matter how stupid it sounded and they are doing this to me. I mean my son has lost his mother a year ago to complications to a double lung transplant in January 2008 and now they are taking his father to and saying that it is better for him this way and i do not see that way. I see this as ruining his life even further. If you can not help can you please forward this to people that can and run this in your paper because what is happening to me is ruining my life and my wifes life.Our youngest child was just born on Mother Day May 10th 2009 and now cps wants to take her too for more bogus reasons. PLEASE HELP ME I WANT MY KIDS BACK AND C.P.S OUT OF MY LIFE. Thank you, Christopher Thomas Alexander My number is (520)445-2582 if you have any questions. |
| 4,283 | 5:23 pm PDT, May 12 | Mrs. | Anonymous | I was a single mother of 4. I called them for help and they took my children away. I did everything they asked losing my home and job to get everything done. They call them services and gave my children away. I see three of them now but I have a boy back in the system. CPS lie that they will help you and they pick on good children and families for higher statistics to get funded and do not help truly abusive families. My children were all good and they knew I would jump there hoops but then they closed the case and made it impossible for me to get my children back or even see them. They make reunification impossible. I and my children are hurt for the missed years lost but three of them now see me all the time. But it was sad they did this to begin with...Please help future mothers and fathers and grandparent from this Nazi based section of the government. |
| 4,282 | 3:28 pm PDT, May 12 | Ms. | melanie nicholson | I just had a my son april 29,09. during my pregnancy I was on doctor prescribed medication due to an accident I had one month pprior to getting pregnant. My obgyn knew my meds and myself I lowered them down before giving birth. I held my son for 15 min after I had him then I had a bad reation to some medicine the hospital gave me and ended up in icu. The pediatric nurses said my son was gpoing through withdrwls because my meds but I knew there was something else wrong with him. He had good vitals but he was throwing up I told nurses 3 times they needed to do an xray. finally on the day that I was released they did an xray and found a small blockage in his small intestines were it connects to his stomach. He was transported to a winnie Palmer nicu. the same day I was released may1,09 cps came banging on my door 1 hour after I got home. They accused me and my fiance of abusing prescription drugs. We have been investigated probably 4 times in the past 10 months including just in feb. 09. and the cases have been closed. My ex and his girlfriend have been calling to try to get my daughter. The feb. case closed letter stated that there were no signs of substance abuse, abuse on the kids, or neglected. on may 6,09 the cps worker contacted us at 6pm ,the day after my son had surgery, and told us she was taking our children and we had court at 9am the next morning. No time to get a lawyer. Now my newborn who responds to me and sleeps whenever I hold him cant see me. and my daughter who has never been away longer than 4 days cant see me. I cant even call the hospital to check on my newborn. We are loving parents and our children dont deserve this my daughter is 5 and is scarred of the police because the continued investigations. One time she peed herself after being interviewed because she was affriad they would take her away from me. She is my shadow.They took my 7 year old away too. He was staying temp. for school reasons with his former stepmother.I cant even talk to my children. CPS has torn apart my famly and is trying to take away our baby to go to adoption.In FL they get 6000 dollars for that. THE ones who are losing out most are the children. Please help stop this from happenning to anyone else. |
| 4,281 | 7:23 am PDT, May 11 | Mrs. | margaret garvin | my son was injured while in the care of his father, my husband, while i was at work. however, it was an accident. they have not forbidden him to have any physical contact with our children until they try to issue a protective order against him. absolutely no need for that. my children and i need him here with us. it has been 10 days since they have seen him but its a risk of foster care if we allow it. not going to happen. they admit they know it wasnt abuse but yet still are seeking an order. we all agree that he is being punished enough by not being able to hold his babies. this is wrong and they need to be out investigating the ones who are really in harms way. he has no background whatsoever of this happening before. the cps worker has only been on the job 3 weeks and already has another pending case against her. i believe she is just trying to make herself look good at the expense of MY family. we all want daddy to come home. no, its not a wife "covering" for her husband. if this was a recurring thing, i wouldnt still be married to him and fighting to get our family back together because my children are my #1 priority and would NEVER put them in harms way. they are doing more damage keeping him away than anything. |
| 4,280 | 11:53 am PDT, May 7 | Ms. | Anonymous | CPS is understaffed and unable to make appropriate decisions about the safety of children. |
| 4,279 | 10:44 am PDT, May 7 | Mrs. | Anonymous | I would like to see cps be expsoed for all the heart ach that they cause families of total nonsence. I have dealt with cps to much over bull crap because it is a game in my little town...... |
| 4,278 | 3:48 pm PDT, May 6 | BreeAnna Anderson | CPS has screwed my life over from the start. i dont want them to mess up another family's life. | |
| 4,277 | 2:25 pm PDT, May 6 | Leslie Johnsrud | ||
| 4,276 | 1:58 pm PDT, May 6 | Mrs. | Anonymous | |
| 4,275 | 9:57 am PDT, May 5 | Michelle Griffin | My friend and her husband, who are very loving and attentive parents, had their child wrongfully taken from them. They were then made to jump through hoops to find out any information on the whereabouts of their child and what they needed to do to get him back. Even her family had a difficult time trying to get temporary custody of him. It is always in the best interest of the child to be with familiar faces and the San Bernadino CPS knew this but was a part of a shady baby buying scheme. My friends had their good name and their excellent parenting reputation sullied for the benefits of these scam artists and it is imperative that these people be brought to justice. | |
| 4,274 | 6:47 am PDT, May 5 | Tiffany Mazzacano | A great friend of mine had her child wrongly taken from her, I know that her and her husband are great parents and they need their child back. Oprah please help them and expose CPS. | |
| 4,273 | 6:24 am PDT, May 5 | Crystal Meadows | Dear Oprah, I happen to know one of the mothers on this petition. The one whos mother wrote on her behalf. I served with her in the military and I know her well. She is an outstanding human being and I was heartbroken to hear that her child was taken from her. I cannot believe a system that would steal a child from a loving home. Please help expose these thieves! | |
| 4,272 | 8:17 pm PDT, May 4 | Ms. | Anonymous | My brother and his family are victims of this heinous occurance. The people of this country need to know that these things are happening in their communties. They need to know how horrible it is to have your child ripped from your arms for no good reason. People need to know that the system is broken and it needs to be fixed. Please please you have to shed some light on this subject. How would you feel if your one year old baby was placed with strangers because you dialed 911? |
| 4,271 | 8:11 pm PDT, May 4 | victoria frutos | i have seen on the news here in ft lauderdale woman working with cps passed out drunk in her car with a baby in a car seat sitting in the back. they do need more educated people working for them.people who will protect these children not only from there family,but peop;e who will protect them from cps. | |
| 4,270 | 5:13 pm PDT, May 4 | Mrs. | Teri Carter | |
| 4,269 | 3:20 pm PDT, May 4 | Kristin Farrow | This is just wrong. If these are the people that are supposed to be protecting them, then they should think again about hiring some of these people. Children should not be treated this way. | |
| 4,268 | 2:48 pm PDT, May 4 | Tyler J. Golightly | it is wrong | |
| 4,267 | 1:54 pm PDT, May 4 | Mrs. | Anonymous | I am a victim of CPS in Yucca Valley CA. I have already emailed you my story in its true form. This is a serious issue Oprah, and you are a great women and we NEED YOUR HELP!!! PLEASE HELP US!! Thank You. |
| 4,266 | 1:25 pm PDT, May 4 | Anonymous | Dear Oprah; PLEASE HELP US!!! My Daughter ( Brandi) and her Marine Husband (Tom) had their baby wrongly taken from them by the San Bernardino Department of Social Services. We have uncovered what appears to be a Baby Brokering scheme going on in this County by several Social Workers as well as the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department specifically in 29 Palms California. We need your HELP!!! This story I feel would be a BIG one and if you give me a chance to explain you will see the corruption for yourself. On the night of 2/5/09 my Daughter and Her Husband were celebrating the purchase of their 1st home in North Carolina where they are being transferred with the Military. They were having some cocktails, my Daughter drinking wine and her Husband drinking Vodka and Red Bull. In their HOME, they ate dinner gave their Son a bath and put him to bed in his room at 7:30pm. They did give the Baby (his name is Elvis) the proper dose of Baby Motrin as he is teething. At 9:00pm the baby's Father (Tom) got sick in the bathroom and went to bed. My Daughter Brandi was playing Wii and took her prescribed medication for sleep Lunesta, at this point Brandi was in fact intoxicated, she forgot she had taken her medication and took it again accidentally. Knowing her Husband had been drinking and the baby was sleeping she got scared and called 911. Isn't this what we are all taught from a very young age to do in an emergency for help? She let them know she had accidentally overdosed on her meds and they called out the Sheriff and the Military police as well as an ambulance. At this point at least 8 to 10 people were in their home and her Husband woke up and came down stairs to find his wife throwing up charcoal in the trashcan. The Sheriff went upstairs and claims he tried to wake the baby but could not, so he then left the baby in his crib and came down to question the husband. After about 1/2 hour he called 911 for the baby saying he was unresponsive. Why if the baby was unresponsive did he leave him to question the father for so long. Well because the baby was not unresponsive he was SLEEPING, the Paramedic that responded to this testified to this fact, stating the baby was acting appropriately. The baby was transported to the hospital where he was examined by a Doctor and was found to be fine, the CPS worker and the Sheriff requested the Doctor do blood work on the baby, the Doctor refused stating he would not traumatize the baby any further and that the baby was fine and acting appropriately for his age. The Sheriff and CPS worker then threatened a nurse into giving them an external catheter so they could test the baby themselves, which the CPS worker did on her own against medical advise in her office with no one else present. She then turned the urine sample into the Sheriff (no rubber gloves were used and the proper procedures were not followed for this sample) we do not yet know the outcome of the urine sample but we do know the baby was not given anything but motrin and we also know the baby's Civil Liberties and Constitutional rights were violated by the test being given in the first place. The baby was placed immediately in a Foster home with no attempt to contact Family to take him. I being the Maternal Grandmother arrived in town the next morning and was not even given consideration for caring for the baby. I have been in Banking for 25 years I am a Notary in the State of Nevada I have never been arrested or even had a traffic ticket for that matter. After 7 days the baby was finally placed with my Sister and my 73 year old Mother was approved to be a caregiver during the day. I have finally been approved to be a caregiver after one month 2 weeks longer than it took to approve my sister and Mother. Anyhow they tried to arrest my Daughter and Son in-law the day before their 1st Court appearance, luckily we are not stupid people and went to a different town to turn them into the Sheriff as a warrant was issued. The town we went to issued them a citation instead of arresting them and they were able to make the Court date. If they had not been at that hearing the baby could have been permanently removed from their custody. Social Services even went as far as to say in their written statement 3 days prior that the Parents were both incarcerated at an unknown location. They about crapped in their pants when low and behold the Parents were in the Court Room and NOT in jail like they expected. At this point they have a Court date for 3/5/09, we do not know what will happen on this date but we have witnessed what appears to be a Conspiracy with several people involved, ie Social Workers, Sheriff's, Substance Abuse Counselor's, as well as Foster Parents. The March 5th date has past as well as another hearing March 20th and another in April now we are waiting for one in May. My Daughter and Son-in law were arrested today when they showed up to court for the citation they were issued in February. The Judge would not release them on their O.R. because he had not looked at or read any of the evidence. That is because there is NO EVIDENCE they did nothing wrong other that get drunk in their own home. All of this is at the cost of the California taxpayer, and a young Military Family who have never been in any trouble served in Iraq, my Daughter has an Honorable discharge from the Navy. I have another Son and Daughter in-law in the Navy right now serving our Country and this is how they can expect to be treated for drinking in the safety of their own homes. No one ever tells you not to drink at home only no drinking and driving, maybe we should have some Public Service announcements that they can take your Child away for this. These young people are wonderful parents and would never do anything to harm their baby. We believe the selling of babies is involved but are not in a position to do more than try and get my Grandson back to his loving Parents. By the way I had to quit my job at a CPA firm during Tax season and will most likely lose my car and everything I have which is not much. Another unemployed person in the US because of a CORRUPT Social Services Department in a small little town with nothing better to do than take babies from loving clean happy homes. This baby has never even been to a Daycare center or left with a babysitter other than myself his Grandmother. I hope you will find this a worthy story. PLEASE HELP US!!! NO ONE WILL HELP US!! There is more to this story and we would be happy to share any and all of the Documents, evidence and contradictions by the Sheriff and Social Services in their own reports. | |
| 4,265 | 7:18 am PDT, Apr 28 | jo Ann Lange | This program is supposed to protect children. We must take action. | |
| 4,264 | 3:27 pm PDT, Apr 27 | Rebcecka Fisher | I am a 22 year old mother of 3 beautiful little girls. All of thier fathers are in jail so i was left to raise them on my own. so there i was with three babies with bareley any help. With my daughters having different fathers the grandparents treted them all different or didnt have anything to do wtih them, i was alone scared and very tired. with no job or car i walked everywhere and most of the time i was stuck at home cause i couldnt find a babysitter that could handle all of my kids. I lived off of welfare and had no money to get anywehre. last year i had what i call a nervous breakdown and ended up in the hospital. My children ended up in CPS foster care and im still fighting to get them back. My children was never abused or misstreated in ANY way i love them very much everyone i know will tell you i am a great mother. So why are my kids still not home? There are so many kids out there that have no food, no clothes,being beat everyday just for breatheing so why don't they help them. i have done everything thing there is to do and still my babies are not in my arms. Someone needs to raise the attention on child abuse and let people know it is not a game you play with people. Children deserve to hear i love you everyday and not be affraid to be themself. My kids are 3,2,1 | |
| 4,263 | 12:03 pm PDT, Apr 27 | Anonymous | My wife and I were wrongly accused of abuse two years ago. Our child has a neurological condition that results in behavior that leads to bruising. Anyone with a basic understanding of our child's condition would recognize this fact. Dealing directly with CPS and seeing the truly stunning lack of sophistication of its workers - while knowing that these same people had the power to take our child away from us - was a deeply harrowing experience. I'm sure they are simply trying to do their jobs and to help children. But they aren't qualified. Not remotely. They simply *cannot* be entrusted to have the power to decide to take a child away from loving, responsible, and educated parents. I kid you not, my dry cleaner has more sophistication than the folks we worked with at CPS. It was shocking and terrifying. This system must be changed. | |
| 4,262 | 10:10 am PDT, Apr 27 | Ms. | Anonymous | My husband and I were falsely accused of child abuse two years ago and the trauma of it still affects our family on a daily basis. My daughter suffers from Bipolar Disorder, bruises easily, and tends to have alot of bruises on her legs. I spend the majority of my time making life as good as I can for her. Living with her illness is enough. Living with her illness and having CPS accuse us of abusing the very child we love and are trying to save is heartbreaking. I do not think CPS is aware of the long term effects of their visits and accusations on innocent families. I still have nightmares about the experience. I still cringe when the doorbell rings at 7PM. I have been diagnosed with PTSD resulting from this horrendous experience. How has any of this helped my child or our family? CPS clearly needs to find a better screening process to weed out the innocent from the possibly guilty BEFORE barging in on families and ruining their lives. |
| 4,261 | 11:35 pm PDT, Apr 13 | MICHELLE LEE | iT HAS TO STOP. LIVES HAVE GONE BY, FAMILIES DISTROYED. CHILDREN TRAMATIZED, PARENTS AS WELL, ALL THESE THINGS CAUSING MASS EMOTIONAL DISORDERS THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. IT IS SO BAD IN THE COURT ROOM, I WAS ORDERED TO SIGN BLANK REALEASES ETC. MY CHILDREN HAVE SUFFERED AND WILL NEVER, NEVER, NEVER BE THE STRONG FAMILY UNIT THEY WERE BECAUSE THERE IS NO HELP. NO LAW. NO LIFE LEFT IN MOST ANY OF THESE PARENTS AND THERE IS NO HELP ALLOWED FOR THE CHILDREN WHO HAVE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF CPS AND CORRUPT COURT JUDGES THAT CARE ONLY FOR GETTING THEIR HANDS ON COLD HARD CASH. THERE CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS ARE POWS! WHO HAVE NO ARMY OF THERE OWN BECAUSE THE LAW DISTROYED IT! | |
| 4,260 | 3:21 pm PDT, Apr 13 | Mr. | Jay Wilson | There needs to be a show on this issue. I have been set up by my exwife. It is the typical money issue and she got CPS involved and of course, I haven't seen my kids in months for something I would not and did not do. They aren't into fact finding. In the state of Tennessee, it doesn't get more corrupt. |
| 4,259 | 9:59 pm PDT, Apr 10 | Thelita Evans | I am a single mother of 5 beautiful children. I myself have been a victim of the system for the past 24 years! From a baby taken from my mother and the system did nothing to help her. At 14 I was taken from my father and place into foster care and while in foster care I became pregnant by my foster brother who was 18. The system done nothing to help me. I became an adult at 14. As a prime victim of the system the pattern never ends. All 5 of my kids was taken on false allegations made by a CPS worker at DSS. The worker has jump to fight me in front of my kids and other co workers at DSS. I've ask for her to be remove from my case and she is still my worker. I also filled a police report against this. Everything has come back unfound and they still have my kids. The workers even black mail my kids and told them I didn't love them and that's why they were in foster care. I need help. The system is wrong they have made a mistake and scared and just because they have a little title with the state they are abusing it. To my understanding this same worker lost her kids because a judge found her to be unfit. So how does that give her the right to judge others and I haven't done anything wrong. I was just a victim myself who can't seem to shack the system off her back! | |
| 4,258 | 8:48 am PDT, Apr 8 | Ms. | enedina f. maldonado | because alot of people out there, just like me that are suffering without their babies. oprah plese let the rest of the world know how evil DCFS really is. |
| 4,257 | 2:29 pm PDT, Mar 31 | Mrs. | heidi owens | |
| 4,256 | 2:02 pm PDT, Mar 31 | DéQuane Williams | ||
| 4,255 | 5:03 pm PDT, Mar 27 | Ms. | Anonymous | I am a single mother of 2, I have worked all my life to provide and support their needs. As well as all other moms and dads out there, I am honestly trying the best I can to RAISE my child. Problem is that they enforced this law the every teachers and caretakers has to call in CPS and Police, when they hear or suspect anything un-usual or witness any unknown injuries, otherwise they will take teacher's credential away. So instead of encouraging teachers and parent getting know and discussing concerns face to face, they will call CPS and POLICE just to save their job. Like my kindergarten son, 3 police officers pulling him out of the class to be interviewed without my knowledge. Asking all mandatory questions they has to ask such as "Has your mom ever hit you?" CPS seems to require enough cases build to get funding.....so who is really protecting kids here????? They also recommended me to put my daughter to psychiatrists, (she was going through social problems and separation anxieties) and then an intern psychiatrist who has no life experiences wants to build a case that my 9 years old daughter has suicidal thoughts "They plant the idea with again ....mandatory question such as "Have you ever though of killing yourself??".......so they can get their credits from major university hospital!! I pulled my daughter out because she start saying "Is anything wrong with me???" I do not want to blame on any individuals but I think this is major system dysfunction, and it helps non communicative approach in the community. I care about kids out there who are really hurting and need help!! But I did have first hand experience that I felt threaten and even discriminated and humiliated, and that is systematic abuse on parental right. |
| 4,254 | 11:28 am PDT, Mar 25 | Mrs. | Anonymous | Dear Oprah, First of all I have 2 adorable nieces that were taken away from their mother she has done everything DCF wanted test, test, and more test she finally got reconciled with her daughter and they came in and took both children away without a notice to family members as to what is going on with my nieces but yet the Any State DCF Motto is "They try to keep the Kids with their Families". Why tell us that they wanted my nieces to remain with the family that they already know and then force my sister to give up her rights and falsely accused her of purposely not making visitation to see her daughters. She (my sister) notified DCF of her move to Massachusetts and her current circumstances at the time did not have a car to go to new hampshire for visitation and asked if it could be moved to Massachusetts. This lady who is now with my nieces has deceived DCF in believing that my sister probably does not want her kids and so much says she loves my nieces and wants to adopt them and give them a loving home. My sister has been fighting DCF for Years to try to get her daughters back and now. WE tried for months to contact someone from DCF and all they gave us was a run-around to find out more about immediate family visiting them and keeping in touch with the nieces and finally after months of trying to get more information they tell us they were adopted last month ---case closed Sincerely, Mrs. anonymous |
| 4,253 | 7:46 pm PDT, Mar 17 | Ms. | Geri Musick | Several links, petitions, feeds, cries for justice. Government officials offering money for DCFS to double wards. Budget cut for health care, public assistance because of the extra funding to DCFS. http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/CHANGE_REFORM |
| 4,252 | 10:20 pm PDT, Mar 12 | Ms. | Kelly McGee | Dear Oprah, My 5 and 6 year old children were taken from me and CPS has put me through the wringer! They said that I "failed to protect" them from their father as he was using meth. He has been clean for one year now. The police took my kids from my brothers house at midnight. They interrogated them for 8 hours! First, they took them to a group home. Meanwhile I was dealing with CPS. They didn't give me one piece of paper describing who they are and what they do. The first social worker who interviewed me only asked me about MY childhood. She never asked me about my current family. I didn't nor do I have a drug problem. One day she set up an appt. for a visitation but walked me over to the Toxicology Lab instead. She never let me see my kids that day. She could have scheduled the kids appt. a bit later or drug tested me on a day when I didn't have a visit. My friend lost her kid to CPS and they never drug tested her. The social worker pressured me to sign a form releasing all of my medical records. She threatened to take my visits with my kids away if I so much as talked to the kid's father. I broke up with him 5 days after they took my kids. I wasn't planning on talking to him. There was no need for her to pressure me except she was abusing her power like every other person in the system. When CPS transferred my kids to the temporary foster home, they did it one day before Thanksgiving and my kids told me about the move. CPS never told me. I was assigned to another social worker and one day was crying (because I missed my kids) while talking to the social worker's supervisor. He had 0 compassion and told me that I have to be the "perfect" parent. CPS moved my kids to another foster home and did not tell me about this move either. My kids told me. That is so wrong. Towards the end I ended up going to 2 settlement conferences and 2 bench trials. At the first conference, the kids attorney accused me of thinking things that I wasn't and my social workers attorney told me that telling the truth about my feelings was going to hurt me. My social worker also told me that there are laws that exist that don't and my state attorney backed her up. I did a lot of research and discovered what I already suspected...they were lying to me. They let me talk at the first bench trial but did not let me have witnesses or submit my visitation notes. They do not let you read or have the notes. Only the attorney can get them and I asked her several times but she didn't get them and submit them. At the second bench trial, the attorney took my notes out of my hand and put those in my file. I was not allowed to talk nor would they let me have witnesses. This whole process has been heartbreaking and very stressful as losing the kids is hard enough and then trying to deal with people in the system is just too much. Those people abuse their power and don't uphold the consitution. They don't honor people's civil liberties or even respect them. Much reform is needed and I hope it happens now as I don't want one more family to go through what my precious children and I had to go through. Please help us Oprah! PS-I am currently in the appeals process. |
| 4,251 | 1:37 pm PST, Mar 5 | Mr. | Dustin McDaniel | I was severely mistreated by Children's Services and flat out told by a case manager that I was guilty of something I did not do. I swear to God above. Because of the lies, without a lick of evidence, I was forced to hire an attorney and spend thousands of dollars defending myself for a crime that I did not commit. They simply do not care about getting the facts. |
Help Expose Child Protective Services Abuse of Families and Children
Too many people misunderstand the purpose of child protective services. Far from being a kind and benevolent agency, it has become a heartless, family-destroying behemoth relying on federal funding streams given when children are taken from their families, when parental rights are terminated, and when adoptions take place.
Because the funding incentives are on the side of family destruction, too many parents are finding themselves targets of false or trivial accusations of child abuse or neglect. The definition of what constitutes child abuse or neglect has expanded significantly since this system came into being - now almost any family problem can be misconstrued in a way that can cause family destruction through the juvenile legal system.
Because the majority of Americans still think of CPS as being benevolent they've missed the reality of how cruel, traumatizing and destructive it has become not only to parents, but to the children themselves. Often children are abused worse in foster homes than they ever were in their natural family homes. Many children have been raped or killed by foster caretakers.
In the spirit of justice and with a sincere heart desiring the truth to be known for the well-being of the American people, we request that you invite families who have been abused by child protective service agencies to come forward and speak out as guests on your shows.
Because the funding incentives are on the side of family destruction, too many parents are finding themselves targets of false or trivial accusations of child abuse or neglect. The definition of what constitutes child abuse or neglect has expanded significantly since this system came into being - now almost any family problem can be misconstrued in a way that can cause family destruction through the juvenile legal system.
Because the majority of Americans still think of CPS as being benevolent they've missed the reality of how cruel, traumatizing and destructive it has become not only to parents, but to the children themselves. Often children are abused worse in foster homes than they ever were in their natural family homes. Many children have been raped or killed by foster caretakers.
In the spirit of justice and with a sincere heart desiring the truth to be known for the well-being of the American people, we request that you invite families who have been abused by child protective service agencies to come forward and speak out as guests on your shows.
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