CPS in San Antonio, TX- Offers children for adoption, takes back for reunification after the fact...
We need signatures to save children being placed in danger by their return to the family just for the sake of reunification. Neglecting signs of obvious Red Flags shown by the child's family of origin.
CPS IS OUT OF CONTROL!!!
HERE IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS AND THROUGHOUT THE
NATION... PLEASE HELP US CHANGE THE SYSTEM!
Why will people whole heartedly sign a petition for
Wolves, Whales, Dolphins, Dogs, Cats and the like?
However, they won't give 3 minutes to the plea of a
petition for children or just one child!!!
AGAIN, PLEASE HELP US BY JUST ADDING YOUR NAME.
Note: To anyone willing to help or who ever reads this petition. The items discussed are as factual, concerning the way we were treated and the way our cased was mishandled. We in no way shape or form are spreading lies or purposely misrepresenting anyone. OUR CONCERN is
for the child ripped from our home and the hopes of helping others avoid that fate!
We believe this is still a free country in which one can voice his opinion and let the
evidence speak for itself.
-It surely does!-
Thank You so much for your help and prayers!
BELOW ARE RELATED ITEMS AND OTHER
BUNGLED CASES AND REFERENCE...
THE MAIN BODY AND DISCUSSION OF OUR CASE IS
LABELED BELOW AS START OF CASE AGAINST CPS.
THERE ARE ALSO REFERENCES CONTAINED BELOW.
CPS is allowed to continue its crazy treatment
of families because we have NOTHING better to replace them with... How sad is that?
Ignorance is Bliss!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, SINCERELY FROM OUR HEARTS!
October 16, 2009 -- Another child dies under the watchful
eye of child protective services. Their most ignorant spokesperson Mary Walker claims, "CPS was deceived!!".
This was her comment in the San Antonio Express News.
Give me a break!!!
How many child must be abused, hurt and die while CPS stands by doing nothing... Absolutely NOTHING!
At the very least the good folks at CPS can say the child was united with his birth family when he was abused and murdered... God forbid we remove children from danger!
This is horrible. How much longer will our local society and
community turn a blind eye to the most inhumane treatment
of our children. We have more rights for animals!
Who is speaking for and protecting these beautiful lives?
CPS? Yes, CPS, after the damage is done.
Until there is real change made from the top down at CPS
we will continue to see these horrific headlines...
December 13, 2007 Update: Terrible news of a mother, Tamika Cantu suffocating her 4 yr. old daughter to death. The 22 yr. old mother had a long history of complaints registered against her and investigated by CPS... She admitted to killing her daughter yesterday.
We're sick of these HORRIBLE headlines! Our local news authorities try to bury the account with basic reports. It happens all the time!
It shouldn't happen at all... Period! However, CPS investigated...
We know this is long. Please, please read on anyway!
Note: November 8th, 2007--The Holiday Season is fast approaching...
It was this time last year that CPS decided to rain Hell down on our family. It brings back memory of a horrible and terrible time.
However, we will not rest until there is change!
August 12, 2008 Update on Ms. Deborah North, Director at the CPS
office here in SAT on SW Military Drive.
This woman is a vindictive and vicious individual. We finally received and audience with her in reference to being able to have another child placed in our home. This time going into the placement w/the knowledge they would not guaranty adoptability.
That would be fine if it was made clear at the onset. Not like the
previous mess. However, not only did Ms. North make us wait for
her down stairs at CPS for over 45 minutes for a scheduled appointment, she very smugly and w/great joy advised us that she would NOT allow us to remain foster/adopt family and would never allow us to have another placement in our home.
She could have told my wife this over the telephone! But North had
to see the expression on our face to make it even more sweet...
See this is what happens when you go against the system and bring it to the attention of the public. They just don't like it!
She is a damn liar! We have her voice at a meeting concerning Gabby
and her swearing that what she just did to us would never happen.
THIS WOMAN HAS NO BUSINESS DEALING WITH CHILDREN WHAT-SO-EVER!!!
Deborah North is a prejudice and nasty person. Some day all her lies will have light shed on them. This is a business to her.
Just another day at the office!
SHAME ON YOU DEBORAH NORTH!!! -SHAME ON YOU!-
-and all the rest of the employees like you at CPS.
YOU AND YOUR OFFICE GIVE CHILDREN TO LITERAL VAGRANTS EVERY SINGLE DAY.
BUT YOU HAVE RESERVATIONS CONCERNING BASICALLY DECENT PEOPLE OFFERING A LIFETIME, LOVING HOME TO A CHILD.
SOME DAY YOU WILL HAVE TO ANSWER FOR YOUR IGNORANCE! THE SAD PART IS YOU DENYING A CHILD A HOME FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS.
VERY SELFISH REASONS!
FAMILIES WHO FOLLOW THE RULES AND PROPER
PROCEDURES ARE DEMONIZED BY CPS.
YOU USE THERE BOOK AND THEY CHANGE THE
RULES AND THE ENTIRE BOOK IF NECESSARY.
YOU ARE NOT GOD DEBORAH NORTH! WE REALLY PITY YOU...
USING YOUR POSITION TO GET BACK AT PEOPLE WHO ARE TELLING THE TRUTH.
May 13, 2008
CPS now says it will not be able to handle the cases and children from the San Antonio area because it has such a burden from handling the children from the compound in San Angelo, Texas.
My question is; Who's watching out for these (OUR) kids in San Antonio?
That's while all your efforts are focused at the compound!
March 13, 2008
Update: CPS, Mrs. Deborah North, Manager, SE Military Drive continues to ignore our attorney and his attempts to have another child placed in our home. She refuses to return his telephone calls to date.
She promised us that we should have NO problem trying to adopt another child. However, her words were just that. Words!
April 21, 2008. No response from North. Attorney has placed several calls to her office. How nice to just ignore people!
April 28, 2008. Still No response from Deborah North... These folks are just soo important they don't have common courtesy to return their phone calls...
DECEMBER 12, 2007 UPDATE:
TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY
SUPERVISOR SUSAN WELLS DECIDED SHE WOULD
INFORM OUR FAMILY OF THE INTENTIONS OF
CPS TO RETURN ANNA MARIA (GABRIELLA) TO
HER GREAT AUNT & FAMILIA. THIS AFTER
MONTHS OF NOT SEEING OR CONTACTING THE
CHILD IN OUR HOME OR ELSEWHERE.
LETTING US BELIEVE WE WERE ADOPTING!
This CPS office on SE Military Drive is under constant scrutiny and is continually embroiled in conflict.
How long will this be allowed? Why is this so esoteric to our society?
PLEASE pass this on to ALL your family, friends, neighbors and associates! It is very important! The great aunt has legal authority to adopt after June 27, 2007. Next court hearing, July 27, 2007 at 0900CT in San Antonio, TX downtown in Judge Montemayor's court 3rd floor.
This woman and her family are not fit to adopt a puppy, much less a child!
CPS, Ms. Susan Wells and others have painted this family as a perfect fit.They are proud in their attempts and success at reunification based on nothing but fabrications by Ms. Wells and others.
Please read on to learn the verifiable and substantive facts!
Our voice deserves to be heard over the ignorance of CPS!
We were promised our day in court by Judge Montemayor!!!
PLEASE CONTINUE SIGNING PETITION, EVEN AFTER JULY 27, 2007.
We will keep fighting for Gabriella and ALL the other children without voices.
Updated: July 26, 2007 @ 1438 MT. Petition continues till the
10th of Feb. 2011. Keep singing! Ask all your friends and neighbors for their help!!! Will continue to update...
MORE THAN ONE SIGNATURE FROM OTHER FRIENDS OR FAMILY CAN BE MADE AT THE SAME WORKSTATION SITE. THIS ENABLES OTHER GUESTS AND FAMILY TO SIGN WHO MIGHT BE IN THE SAME HOME. HOWEVER, THEY REPRESENT A TOTALLY DIFFERENT INDIVIDUAL SIGNATURE. THANKS!
Note:
We have many signatures on paper. We really need to build the signature base on the electronic petition dramatically. Please Help!
You can sign this petition via your computer right now!
Please take a short moment to do so and pass it on to others.
It's simple and it would sure do a lot of good!
Reunification is a wonderful and great idea.
However, if CPS is placing children back in families just for the sake of doing so, it can not be tolerated any longer. There is documentation that has proven the act of reunification on several occasions to have had very unsatisfactory results, including the death of that child. This happening when CPS FAILS to do the proper investigation and required follow up. Why not this handicapped couple listed below?
May 18, 2008 - Update: Michelle Cantu, the great aunt which was allowed to adopt Anna lost her home just as we predicted to the court, CPS, the attorney for Anna and the DA. Ms. Cantu has lost the only home she had. The minute her interest rates went up. She had placed the home for sale back in December. We told them this was going to
happen! She just needed the home long enough to impress the idiots at CPS and the baby's attorney.
What next?
A holdings company now owns the home...
November 28th, 2007 Update:
REUNIFICATION ON THE TERMS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES.
Yesterday there was a report on KENS 5 of a handicapped couple who
had their family ripped apart on a report of their young daughter raising their children. No substantial proof. No outward visible signs of abuse or neglect what so ever. No complaints except in the husband's past which were deemed unfounded and dropped. The family has successfully completed its service plan and jumped through hoops!
When a family does this they're suppose to hopefully get their children
placed back in their home. Sometimes under supervision at the onset.
Its obvious it is not true in this case!
However, the caseworker, Ms. Tammy Castro doesn't like the way the
mother changes the infant's diaper because she is blind. The mother seemed to demonstrate very well that she was capable of changing a diaper on the news interview. The father has a reported slight paralysis of one arm. However, these folks seem extremely capable of caring for their children.
It also seemed very obvious that they LOVE them very much!
Note: There are several thousands of families with similar handicaps and, even more
severe, that are raising families here in Texas and all over the United States
everyday.... This case brings to mind a television movie based on a true real life story of a couple with a disability of being mildly mentally impaired. They choose to live together and start a family. They have to prove to social services that they can
indeed care for their child in spite of their impairments. Although these folks circumstances are different and much harder to overcome for the mentally impaired couple.
The fact is they won their fight to keep their family together and care for themselves.
This couples obstacles are obviously not as harsh. They should get their children back. THEY SHOULD GET THEM BACK NOW!!!
April 24, 2008 Update: Now these poor folks have been taken advantage of by thinking they were dealing with a legitimate representative of the LULAC organization. They almost lost over $1,100.00 still trying to gain custody of their children. Thanks CPS for making the people so desperate they risk loosing
funds they don't have and had to raise and barrow to make.
Thank God they received $745.00 back. Also, Thanks to KENS 5 and story.
CPS NEEDS TO GIVE THESE FOLKS THEIR CHILDREN BACK NOW!
May 12, 2008 These folks finally have an attorney representing them.
We sincerely hope he is able to help them. Kens5 continues to follow their
progress and updates the couples attempts to get their children back.
The state (CPS) is trying to terminate the rights of this couple...
So much for REUNIFICATION! Only on CPS'S whim and terms.
This includes our wonderfully skillful broken minds of mush in our children's court!
These idiots (Judge's) enable CPS and give them the power they misuse everyday!
Now here is an example of the family being extremely deserving of having their children placed back in their home. This is really crazy!
Maybe if the family had to be rehabilitated and molded by CPS because they used and/or distributed illegal narcotics, abused the children, stole property or were just plain criminal they would be reunited by now.
This way CPS could claim a great victory! When the family does everything CPS and the court ask of them, they just raise the bar a little higher if they want to... They make the rules as they go along!
CPS has too much power over our families! All it takes is one malicious
phone call or false report from a relative or neighbor...Anybody!
How come CPS never paid attention to all the complaints of the family who lost the toddler and infant buried under their home last summer?
It is a known fact that the sister of the mother who killed her children filed several reports...
We personally have seen the notebook of record the sister kept. Shame on CPS!
However, that's been forgotten and CPS has re-invented itself like many
other times in the past. Although they claim comprehensive and drastic change, nothing ever really changes at all with CPS.
They just make better excuses up next time around... Vipers hidden behind
cloaks of innocent children!
Especially No Comment, Mary Walker! You all should be ashamed!
Even the best family could fall victim to the stupidity of CPS overnight. Again, things must change now! They need to be stopped!
Update On Another Reunification: November 11, 2007.
CPS In San Antonio, Texas Will NEVER CHANGE...
We have learned that the baby my wife's sister had taken in at six weeks of age into her home via a case worker out of Del Rio, Texas is now being managed by a local worker out of San Antonio.
San Antonio, CPS worker knows the child on paper only.
This baby's paternal grandmother did not want the child because it was very sick and born premature with several medical problems.
The mother and father of the child are both in prison....
Norma's sister is currently on FMLA taking care of the child because of the serious health issues. Claims she is in serious danger of loosing her job.
Now what makes this better is the fact that grandma has never had a visit with this child. CPS has never had a visit with this child and the child's attorney has never seen the child. Is this starting to sound familiar?
Now the original placement worker from Del Rio is fighting to place the child with Norma's sister. However, the state via CPS San Antonio is coaching the grandmother and preparing her case.
What is really sick is the fact that grandma did not want her when she is having all these problems. She wants her when she is now seeing signs of improvement after being with Norma's sister for almost nine months now. The baby was born addicted to Heroin!
This grandmother is NOT even complying with the orders of the court placed on her and to be part of the many medical appointments.
Nothing, no real effort by grandma is being made what-so-ever... CPS just does not care!
Update: May 18, 2008 -Grandma wants the baby now! However, she is trying to find out how to get the child labeled with a disability so that she can get an assistance check from her as well. Because she is under two years of age the grandmother or anyone else trying to adopt her at this stage would not receive assistance from child protective services until she reaches a age past two.
So, if she can get a check out of her she wants her! Wow ain't that grand?
With the health disability label she gets a check. Better than just the average one she would get after the age of two to boot...
Reunification at ANY and ALL cost!!! -Except the Handicapped!
This is extremely disgusting! Why don't foster/adopt families have any rights? What in the hell is going on here?
What chance does this child or any other have?
These families and CPS can destroy lives or even place these
children in extreme danger and/or health risk and they have all the rights.
All for the sake of reunification of the family... Destroying GOOD Decent Families who are putting their hearts on the line to help other's does not matter...
These decent families are expendable to be used and abused.. The foster and foster/adopt family which is providing the child with Love, Care and a family is expendable and treated like garbage!
What about the right of the child that can not make a decision for itself?
WHAT ABOUT THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD???!!!!
NOTE: Update-- August 17, 2007 -- It has been discovered and verified with internal sources of the U.S. Federal Immigration processing center here in San Antonio, Texas that a woman w/criminal background was given a baby by CPS to care for and adopt. Her background was discovered while processing the woman's documents. She had several felony arrest and convictions. She had warrants and weapons charges. What???
This woman had the full custody of an infant baby entrusted to her care. You did not see one mention of this in the local media.
Just like you have seen very little concerning our case!
However, it did happen last Thursday, August 9, 2007. The manager of the center contacted the SA police and CPS directly..
They were not planning on doing anything about it!
It was mentioned that they were just going to let CPS figure it out for themselves.
Now how did this happen with the new finger print rules?
Maybe she was in the system before they became mandatory.
Who knows... It is just terrible.
Just another recent example of how wrong things are going at CPS here in San Antonio, Texas!!!
This information was conveyed to us by several concerned individuals.
START MAIN BODY OR OUR CASE AGAINST
CPS in SAN ANTONIO TEXAS...
THEY (CPS) ABANDON THIS CHILD WHO WE
TOOK INTO OUR HOME AS OUR BEAUTIFUL
NEW ADOPTABLE DAUGHTER!
Very Important Information!
CPS literally ABANDON this baby in our home for Five (5) Months!
Although she was doing great and Loved very much. No one checked.
CPS did not have a clue about her for months. The attorney ad litem never came to see the child or our family once. Never!
Ms. Susan Wells shook her head in court when our attorney raised this fact.
One of the very few moments we were allowed in court.
She shook her head, as to say, it was not true. This woman is just amazing. We don't know how they sleep at night!
In reality she really knew nothing about this case what-so-ever!
We have witnesses that could testify to this fact...
Note: Update April 13, 2007 CPS sends someone to examine and take photographs of our home while we are in court. Why? Not w/CPS now!!!
TDFPS and CPS SE Military subsequently deny taking or having any photographs taken or ordered to be taken of our home and property.
Our neighbors just wanted to have a little fun with our family during this horrendous situation and time confronting us by making up a story.!.!
A story about a woman driving a vehicle w/TDFPS and identified by them calling 311 and being routed to the proper agency.
This is just incredible. Why would our neighbors concoct such a story?
One of the neighbors even took a cell phone photo of the vehicle.
A photo w/the woman from TDFPS in it. Go figure that one!
Note: Update May 02, 2007
The court refuses to hear evidence against the petitioning family obtained by our investigators. Judge Saldana refused to hear anything after listening to attorney Moreno, representing the family, said with his off the wall suggestion that the case was not "RIPE". This is a term used in the cases usually set in the US Supreme Court setting.
We are currently at the District and Family court level. A case does not become ripe and is not considered by the Supreme Court until it has been appealed from a state or federal court. This means ALL avenues for determining the case have been exhausted and that there is a real controversy and the law needs to be settled on one or more issues.
In order to be "ripe" to litigate in court, the challenged law or government action must have produced direct threat. If a suit is brought on anticipated actions resulting from a law not yet enacted, the case is not "ripe" for consideration. FEDERAL courts only have constitutional authority to resolve actual disputes, not hypothetical.
Well, we have NOT exhausted all avenues. How will we? NO one wants to hear our case! How do we get to the point of being "RIPE"?
Note: Judge Saldana has been acting in her newly elected capacity as a judge for just under 4 (four) months at this point.
She was a supposed hardliner against CPS! We don't think so!
We need to elect judges with more common sense than this. With your help and Gabby's Law we will work to accomplish this.
Common Sense is NOT to common here in the Bexar County judicial system. The Justice Center my foot! What justice?
Once this family is allowed to adopt with the blessings of CPS, its a done deal. NO one in the Supreme Court will hear this case after that.
Note: Update August 3, 2007. Ms. Deborah North has refused to answer our questions concerning the handling of our case and the lack there of. She has neglected to return calls from our attorney for several weeks in reference to the this case and future adoption.
Why won't the Judge's here in San Antonio hear our case? Why don't they want to hear the truth? Why are they and CPS protecting this family no matter what the cost? Why?
I'll tell you why!
These people are weak and afraid of controversy.
CPS, courtesy Ms. Susan Wells has constructed this hap hazard case out of nothing and completely from thin air. It's terrible. We have proof of this, but we can not present it. We have proof of a lot of things that no one wants to hear!
It's real and it is substantial!
They do not have the stomach to do what's right. They want to maintain the status quo. No rocking the boat. They want to be re-elected or just stay appointed and don't want anything on their record that is controversial.
You judges were put on the bench to rule on the law. CPS is not the law and they are not there to re-invent or establish law using some crazy scheme like the case not being "ripe". Worst of all, it was bought hook, line and sinker by Judge Saldana...
Relying on them is hazardous to a child's health. CPS is not doing their jobs properly. They are lying to protect themselves, their jobs and the broken down institution they work for.
When is anybody going to wake up?
Judge Saldana agreed with Mr. Dennis Moreno and said the case was not "ripe". What in the hell is going on here?
We have Judge Montemayor saying we could and should have our day in court back in December 22, 2006. Judge Brown said we did not have a right or jurisdiction to adopt on April 20, 2007, but we had a right to a court hearing. Judge Saldana was leaning towards our case until she discovered it was not "ripe". However, her and Mr. Moreno stated no one ever took the right for our family to adopt Gabriella formally away.
Hence, the case is not "ripe". What backwards logic is this?
So we still have the right to adopt, but CPS will not let us. Wow!
How ignorant is that! There is no justice here in San Antonio!
No one wants to take an unpopular stand against the establishment.
The establishment called CPS!
Once a child has gone through the motions of becoming an "adoptable" child CPS should not have the right to just arbitrarily pull it from its placement to reunite it with a distant and shakey relative with a
marginal support system. This is setting the family up for failure and it is a total injustice to the child who is in the middle.
Please note: We also realize that CPS in its infinite wisdom has removed many children from homes with little or no justification whatsoever. This is a travesty and is detrimental to the child(ren).
They have also placed many children back with their family.
We believe once our story is confirmed and investigated thoroughly it will be proven beyond a doubt that this is not one of those cases.
Our hearts go out to anyone who has suffered the removal of a child for any reason other than the legitimate safety and welfare of the child in question. Playing w/children's lives must stop, and it must stop now!
You can not legislate LOVE. You can not let a family form a Loving and emotional bond for five (5) months and tear it apart like nothing.
Note: August 6, 2007- Our son continues to ask for her to this day!
We have hired psychologist who we hope to have testify that the age of of the baby at just over a year would be at a very emotional and impressionable state in her very short life span to date.
In other words, what CPS is justifying itself in doing to this child, just for the sake of reunification with the Great Aunt and possible contact with the other brother and sister is crazy. She is in a day care facility 8-10 hours a day right now. Serious things happened to her brother and sister which CPS is now denying happened. Even though it is in a signed court document and affidavit. Why? Because the family of origin says so!
The husband/boyfriend who also lives in the house has no verifiable background.
He has no work history until 2004. He is thirty four years old and did not file with the IRS until 2004. He just got a job in August at WalMart.
This guy has no verifiable background or past, but he has custody of a year and a half old baby!?!?
The other siblings are with another Great Aunt and Uncle who refused to take legal custody of the baby.
Note: Update Feb 26, 2007. Husband/boyfriend is now working for Time Warner. Let's see how long he last there!
This child was born at six months premature because her mom was on Heroin the day she came into the world. Mom and Dad are both in prison for drugs. Mom for drugs and prostitution.
The baby spent the first few months of its life in a hospital intensive care unit.
Grandma had her for approximately another six months and lost custody when there was an altercation at her place of residence.
Said family of grandma's boyfriend caused a disturbance and the police called CPS. CPS made a one (1) night emergency place of the child with Great Aunt and Uncle/boyfriend the night before she came to us and our family. These two unscrupulous individuals used this one night to establish what is called substantial contact with the baby and a few photographs and a lot of lies.
We later learned from the worker who placed the child with us on her first day that these individuals had very little contact if any with the baby. The baby's attorney ad litem took this, a one time meeting(One which he never took the time to have with our family.) with these individuals and the word of another very unscrupulous person and supervisor for CPS, who is an avid liar, as gospel's truth.
Hence, the judge took the ad litem's word and then placed custody of the child and responsibility for her with the state.
His reasons for doing so, because the parental rights had been terminated and he was just trying to follow the letter of the law.
Hell with common sense!
So now we have a woman who is the Great Aunt petitioning for the child on her own and living with the husband/boyfriend now in a home in her name. Anything wrong with this picture yet?
It has been verified that she is in a home with a payment total having two mortgages in excess of one thousand dollars a month. Per her own statement and documented by CPS she only makes about a thousand dollars a month.
Her live in slash boyfriend only makes about fifteen hundred dollars a month and they both have recent high car payments.
Mind you, these are gross pay statements made by these individuals.
Now before you get upset about us bringing up the financial situation, please keep in mind what causes the majority of stress in any relationship...
Not to mention the fact that per CPS and their own regulations
state a family should be able to take care of a child without any
outside help from the federal, state, local government and/or family members.
You need to be financially able to care and provide for this child or children.
Who's buying the food, paying for insurance, keeping the utilities paid and paying for gas just to mention a few essentials???
Now remember she is petitioning for the child as a single parent!
This child does not deserve to be placed in this pressure cooker situation. She has been through enough already. CPS obviously dose not think so! That's the problem, CPS does not care.
This is an ego thing for the supervisor's involved in cooking this up!
We were told by this CPS supervisor not to even think of hiring an attorney. That we would not have a chance. She said CPS would walk all over us.
We have witnesses to testify to this also.
CPS and its own internal investigation unit has responded with the same thing the supervisor's were spewing before they were able to take the baby from our home and have our restraining order lifted by the judge.
See the bottom line is, no one ever fights back. They just let CPS do what they always have gotten away with. What's that?
Doing as little as possible. Making it look like a whole hell of a lot...
Screwing it up and then lying like hell to fix it.
Please Note: We know first hand that there are some very wonderful workers that fight for kids in CPS. Our hat is off to them.
There is no complaint with these folks...
However, nothing wonderful comes to mind when thinking about individuals who lied constantly to our family!
No more lies! No more taking it because they say so!
If a family has had more than one attempt at reunification and the parents of that said child are incarcerated there should be a minimum number of attempts of reunification.
Especially to a family member who is having to be coached and carried through the process of qualification. Its not fair to the child and its not fair to the family that has put their hearts on the line to adopt the child.
CPS left the child for adoption in our home after signing a six month foster agreement. They (CPS) never came to our home once to visit the child in our care. The attorney ad litem never contacted us about the baby. In December of 2006 after Loving and Caring for this wonderful baby for that time they(CPS) continually stating we were their family of choice and that they had very grave concerns pertaining to the baby's family of origin. CPS comes on December 11, 2006 for their first visit ever and begins to start a reunification process. This after meeting with the CPS supervisor connected to the case in a court hallway and the ADA assigned to our child's case telling us to bide our time.
Note:
In court last Thursday, February 8th, 2007 at a review at 1500 hours my wife and I were referred to by that same ADA as THOSE PEOPLE.
*She asked the judge to have us removed from the court room.
By the way, the family of origin never showed their face's in court as usual. They came to court once. To get baby back in December.
I would think since they profess to Love and care for this baby so much, they would take the time to be in court for a hearing about the baby...
It was very obvious the parties from the state and the ad
litem attorney tried their best to stall so the concerned Great Aunt and her boyfriend/husband might show up. Everybody who needed to be there for the hearing was there before three (3 p.m.). They could have proceeded before five (5 p.m.)...
Since we received the baby in our care, to date, we have never missed one scheduled court date or hearing concerning the child!
*The judge did allow us to remain in the court room.
Now why would they be telling us that if they had a home study by this other family?
Why would they leave the child in our home unchecked for over six months? Why didn't they remove her immediately after certification of this family? If they eventually planned on taking her away. Why would they lead us one like this? Keep the baby in our home for weeks after this encounter. Why? They even instructed us on what to do. The home study was certified and filed just days after the baby was placed into our care!!! (Three[3] weeks!)
To file an intervention for the child under substantial contact.
Unbeknownst to us, CPS had taken, finished (Touched up!), and filed a home study for the family of origin just three weeks after placing the child (baby) in our home for the choice of adoption.
Why in the heck did they sit on the family of origin for another three months time? Why? Because they had grave concerns which they no longer seem to be concerned about...
Not one time did this family of origin have a visit with the child or even have questions to her conditions or her birthday! Not once..
We waited on a list for two years for a chance to adopt this (a) baby.
They (An adoption worker from CPS.) gave us three choices.
Two were baby boys and the other was the one we chose to take.
CPS is now using the fact that we were originally a foster adopt family against us, stating that they just placed the child with us temporarily for foster care.
That is just ridiculous and very self serving for CPS!
They have even made claims in court and to the investigative unit of CPS that they offered us an older child and we refused it.
Not him or her, but IT.
We did not get offered any older child. We did not refuse to accept any child. There was never, ever an offer other than the babies.
Once we learned of the child, we planned on adopting her.
When she was brought to our home we immediately started canceling prior commitments and obligations. We had planned a trip to take a cruise to Italy from a port in Spain which was planned the year before.
The trip we canceled was planned for September and we would NOT have canceled a trip like this to begin foster care. We have all the receipts.
Our family did not go through the expense and the inconvenience of having our home re-certified just for the experience of foster care.
And as stated previously, we did not cancel our vacation to experience foster care either.
Fostering is wonderful for people who have the ability to do so. My wife and I could not. Our previous experience was
horrible. However, that was nothing compared to this one!
Our second attempt has proven to be extremely worse!
We were put on a waiting list to adopt. We waited to adopt.
WE WANTED TO ADOPT! NOT FOSTER/ADOPT AND NOT
FOSTER!
The system (CPS) has a new little ditty they love to let foster and foster adopt parents know. There are children with "Low risk and High risk". This is in reference to the adoptability and emotional risk you are embarking on by taking a child into your home for hope of an adoption as a foster/adopt parent. It's ALL risk!
It is continually used as a warning to prospective and would-be parents.
There is not suppose to be any risk when you supposedly are given a child who's rights have supposedly been in process of being immediately ready to terminate. Being told a child is adoptable!
We knew the system very well. That is why we waited and waited and waited.... We wanted an adoptable baby!
CPS KNOWS THE TRUTH. THIS CHILD WAS ON THE ADOPTION TRACK.
THEIR ADOPTION WORKER PUT HER IN OUR HOME FOR ADOPTION!
Note: It's funny that there are people like an ex-employee of the Children's Shelter here in San Antonio who was able to hand pick an adoptable child from the shelter. Her connections with employees still there and workers with CPS enabled her to get a child of choice knowing information never given to foster/adopt families. Is that great or what?
It also helps that she used to work with the infants there. Now she has a cushy job with Bexar County at the courthouse.
That's the CPS system for people with connections... Not unlike Anna Maria's (Gabby's) family with someone in CPS and Ms. Susan Wells.
We have evidence and proof of this activity! No one wants to know!
There are families waiting on list for years to adopt. We were one of them...
Nothing, but out and out lies the entire time!
Workers should have a mandatory twice a month visitation with families that have children under their care and jurisdiction. Allot can happen in thirty days. This could be shortened to the standard once a month after six months. The attorney's ad litem should be forced to do their jobs and interview all prospective parties involved. They should also have more than once a month contact with their clients or the guardians of their clients.
Texas also needs a bill of rights for Adoption Parents, Foster/Adopt and Foster Parents.
We need your signature to take to our state senators to improve the care and welfare of the children in the CPS system. We want to go to the US Congress and the US Senate to help as many children as we can.
CPS workers should be held to the highest standards and should never be allowed to reveal any information pertaining to the child in the system and the cases that they are involved in or the families of the placement of the children.
They should be held to the same rules as any attorney or doctor. And, all, CPS families shouldn't have to fear that their personal information would ever get out into the public arena. This should be grounds for immediate termination. Supervisors should be rotated every six months. All workers, supervisors and directors should have mandatory recertification every 12 months, no matter what their position. Are they even certified now???
CPS does not want people to hear about cases like this. They wanted to sweep us under the rug and go on with business as usual.
Even the State Bar Association of Texas is protecting the ad litem attorney claiming there is no grounds to censure him for not doing his job as an ad litem attorney. Note: In his defense, the ad litem attorney graciously met with us and our attorney on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 1700 CT. He listened to several items we carefully disclosed to him at his office. He wished we contacted him sooner. We had only been trying to schedule a meeting w/him for several weeks/months.
In court he remained neutral and claimed he had no problem with us adopting the child. He also still had no objections to the family either.
These folks have Carte Blanche to do what ever they seem fit to do!
CPS
uses the anonymity designed to protect the child for themselves to hide behind. Because of this they don't have to answer for any of their mistakes or shortcomings.
CPS avoids tough questions this way.
They are suppose to be protecting these children, not hiding behind them due to their own incompetence and stupidities!!!
These (CPS) people are nothing but cowards!!!
Look at a very similar case with the Timms family.
It is very obvious that CPS has done this type of exact behavior in the recent past. In fact the decision was being made on this case while we were trying to make ours. The family is the Timms of San Antonio. They also had a little girl who was five (5) years old placed in their home as a foster/adopt family as an adoptable child who also had the
parental rights terminated. This family also had the child in their home for approximately six months. The Moreno Family whom the child came from was also trying to get the child back after rights terminated. They used the same attorney Dennis Moreno with no relation to the family or the second cousin Sandra Moreno. Nemoway was in a tug-a-war between the Timms and the Moreno's. However, the attorney for the baby, Elizabeth Fisher, had more sense and morals than Gabriella's attorney Shawn Shefield. Even after presented with the strong evidence against placement with the family. Remember he
had never visited Gabriella in our home. Mr. Shefield was obviously on the side of CPS no matter what. We even made an apperance in front of the same judge. Judge Brown.
These folks are the cause of terrible pain and suffering to many wonderful families who volunteer to be in the system.
As much as we want to believe that reuniting these children is best for them, I wonder. Where were all these concerned family members when the child was being abused. Why didn't they do something when the mother and/or father were doing illegal activities around the children. Not feeding or caring for the children. Where was the Love and concern for a child then? When they had full control of the child.
Where was the family then???
The laws to protect the children shield them (CPS) by default.
This is wrong and disgusting!
It has to change! It has to change! It has to change!
Their Carte Blanche needs to be revoked permanently!
Well, we are not going to let them (CPS) continue this way!
PLEASE help us fight for a child who we Love so very much!
PLEASE join us in fighting to make a change in CPS and their business as usual tactics and practices. Help us, with Gabby's Law, to fight for ALL children under control of CPS.
To fight for the many children who CAN NOT speak for themselves.
June 13, 2007
Update: Our attorney has requested that we also be allowed to get another adoption placement in our home while we fight for her.
She explained to us very plainly at the time that we should not concern ourselves with not being able to try and
adopt another child. We were never in danger of being so
called "black listed" with CPS or the system.
Again, she being, Deborah North a director at SE Military...
She explained that they have experienced similar and/or
much more difficult or worse confrontations than ours.
All these families as well as ours would still remain in good
standing in the system. Well, we will see!
Well I guess this is just another CPS lie. Because our attorney has requested another child for our family. Now Ms. North explained to our attorney that she has some questions concerning that request.?.?
Here we go again! Also, if our attorney is to be present, she wants her
state representation available to her. Well, that sounds fair! Why not!
However, there still remains questions concerning our family! What?
Our family has many, many unanswered questions concerning the events of Gabby's placement and removal from our home!
The questions just get completely ignored or glossed over!
Hell, CPS and the judicial system have it so we can not even present evidence or plead our case with a hearing in a court of law.
THEY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR IT! PERIOD!
Note: August 6, 2007. Although Ms. North is currently out on sick leave
my wife has made contact w/another Director named Ms. Galloway.
Actually she called us based on our request, of another person in charge during the leave of Ms. North, to please contact us.
She has given us a contact with CPS for looking into acquiring another child, hopefully, for adoption. We have not received a call from this other individual as of yet. August 18, 2007.
We will continue waiting.
However, we're not going to hold our breath!
Note: As of August 24, 2007 we have requested our file be moved to the Lutheran Children's Association.
We have had no response from CPS what-so-ever.
Note: October 08,2007 The Lutheran Children's Association deemed it best NOT to proceed with a home visit with our family. Although not mentioned in the very generic letter sent to us. They decided we would not be a good fit for their organization due to the fact that we wanted to be on a list and wait for an adoptable child. They need families mostly for foster households. That's what we were told anyway...
Note: TDFPS has conducted their own internal investigation of our complaints against the SE Military office and Ms. Susan Wells.
They, (Mr. Martinez, Dir. OAC) have concluded no wrong doing in the handling of our case. They claim everything was handled by the book.
We would like to know what book they were using concerning our case.
They surely didn't follow many of their own standards and regulations!
The organization Oms Budsman concluded the same thing. They were suppose to help us!
What a joke.. They defended CPS every step of the way.
The power CPS commands never ceases to amaze!
Their blatant abuse of such awesome power granted them, unchecked.. Again, granted by the MORONIC judges here.
They wear blinders like donkey's. However, these donkey's can not even see the garbage placed in front on them. They proceed anyway!
THIS DOES NOT IN ANY WAY MEAN WE HAVE GIVEN UP OUR FIGHT FOR GABBY! - Even without her in our home we will continue to remain strong in our fight against the totalitarian dictatorship of CPS...
Please note that the intention of this petition is not plead for your sympathy or for the reader to feel sorry for us... We bring this out to make the public aware of the total injustice that happening at CPS in San Antonio, Texas on SE Military Drive. All in the name of supposedly protecting children and reunifying families.
These people are NOT protecting children! They are collecting a wage and going home at night... This is just a job to most of these individuals. They go through the motions. They destroy families, and it is all in a days
work for these folks.
We set this petition up to gather signatures on the internet to arm ourselves with the ammo to enable us to make changes in this Super
ARCHAIC AND HORRIFIC SYSTEM.
WE REFUSE TO BE IN DUPLICITY WITH CPS AND WE WILL NOT JUST GET OVER IT!!!! WHAT AN IGNORANT UNCARING COMMENT!
HOW CHEAP A CHILD'S LIFE MUST SEEM TO SUCH A PERSON.
Just like someone to leave something like that. If CPS only knew all about you... We know for a fact that this same individual and her husband Rick had a 2 year old child placed in their care back in 2004.
They left the child 24 hrs. per day with a family member while they cashed and kept the child's monthly stipend check from Texas Dept. of
Child Protective services. They threatened the couple that if they would bring it to the attention of CPS the child would be taken from them. Yes, and this is one of CPS'S Super Star Foster Families.
They pocketed over $6,700.00 in money for a child they did not even have in their home or care for. Go figure! Rick had the nerve to accuse the family of wanting to keep the child just for the money. What?
This same family went through the system correctly and adopted the child. However, they never received the funds belonging to that child for the child.
And least of all are we bitter. We are more hurt and sad. Bitterness is a form of hate which we do not have...
We were lied to, used and completely taken advantage of to say the least. We do not want it to happen to another family. Betrayed twice by our own family member. A sister/sister-in-law and her friend Julie Mendez, ex-CPS worker for Gabriella and Susan Wells her cleanup person. All with her being records fabricators. Which all can be proven. To bad our court system here in Bexar County doesn't want to hear it. We spent a bundle finding it out for ourselves...
We would like your signature very much! However, if
it is not made in support of Gabby or the children,
please don't waste our signature space and time by
leaving non positive and hateful messages.
IF YOU SUPPORT US AND WANT TO ADD YOUR SIGNATURE GREAT.
THIS IS NOT A BLOG OR FORUM FOR DISCUSSION! IT IS A PLEA FOR
YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP...
PLEASE START YOUR OWN PETITION IF YOU DISAGREE WITH OURS.
May God Bless, Enlighten you and give you Peace. Research for yourself.
IF YOU DO SIGN, PLEASE BE DECENT ENOUGH TO LEAVE YOUR REQUESTED INFORMATION. THIS ADDS VALIDITY TO YOUR SIGNATURE. Thank You!
WE HOPE THE HOLY SPIRIT EXPOSES THE FRAUD, HYPOCRISCY AND
DISHONESTY OF THESE PEOPLE INVOLVED AND ESPECIALLY CPS.
THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL. IGNORANCE, LIES AND STUPIDITY NOT WITHSTANDING!
THANK YOU!
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
We miss Anna Maria Louisa (Gabriella) desperately. Our family Loves
her so very much! Please pray with us and our family that she returns
home as soon as possible! Your prayers are possibly the greatest gift and contribution to helping us fulfill our request to bring her home.
Thank you so very much and GOD Bless you all!
Again, Please tell all your friends and family who might help! Thanks!
You have no idea what this means to our family....
Remember different people can sign at the same site if needed.
Thank You!
Note: Gabriella was allowed to be adopted by the great aunt in a closed hush, hush adoption proceeding. We are sure Susan Wells was and is very pleased with herself along with all the other idiots!
PLEASE KEEP SIGNING... IT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE...
PLEASE!
CPS IS OUT OF CONTROL!!!
HERE IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS AND THROUGHOUT THE
NATION... PLEASE HELP US CHANGE THE SYSTEM!
Why will people whole heartedly sign a petition for
Wolves, Whales, Dolphins, Dogs, Cats and the like?
However, they won't give 3 minutes to the plea of a
petition for children or just one child!!!
AGAIN, PLEASE HELP US BY JUST ADDING YOUR NAME.
Note: To anyone willing to help or who ever reads this petition. The items discussed are as factual, concerning the way we were treated and the way our cased was mishandled. We in no way shape or form are spreading lies or purposely misrepresenting anyone. OUR CONCERN is
for the child ripped from our home and the hopes of helping others avoid that fate!
We believe this is still a free country in which one can voice his opinion and let the
evidence speak for itself.
-It surely does!-
Thank You so much for your help and prayers!
BELOW ARE RELATED ITEMS AND OTHER
BUNGLED CASES AND REFERENCE...
THE MAIN BODY AND DISCUSSION OF OUR CASE IS
LABELED BELOW AS START OF CASE AGAINST CPS.
THERE ARE ALSO REFERENCES CONTAINED BELOW.
CPS is allowed to continue its crazy treatment
of families because we have NOTHING better to replace them with... How sad is that?
Ignorance is Bliss!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, SINCERELY FROM OUR HEARTS!
October 16, 2009 -- Another child dies under the watchful
eye of child protective services. Their most ignorant spokesperson Mary Walker claims, "CPS was deceived!!".
This was her comment in the San Antonio Express News.
Give me a break!!!
How many child must be abused, hurt and die while CPS stands by doing nothing... Absolutely NOTHING!
At the very least the good folks at CPS can say the child was united with his birth family when he was abused and murdered... God forbid we remove children from danger!
This is horrible. How much longer will our local society and
community turn a blind eye to the most inhumane treatment
of our children. We have more rights for animals!
Who is speaking for and protecting these beautiful lives?
CPS? Yes, CPS, after the damage is done.
Until there is real change made from the top down at CPS
we will continue to see these horrific headlines...
December 13, 2007 Update: Terrible news of a mother, Tamika Cantu suffocating her 4 yr. old daughter to death. The 22 yr. old mother had a long history of complaints registered against her and investigated by CPS... She admitted to killing her daughter yesterday.
We're sick of these HORRIBLE headlines! Our local news authorities try to bury the account with basic reports. It happens all the time!
It shouldn't happen at all... Period! However, CPS investigated...
We know this is long. Please, please read on anyway!
Note: November 8th, 2007--The Holiday Season is fast approaching...
It was this time last year that CPS decided to rain Hell down on our family. It brings back memory of a horrible and terrible time.
However, we will not rest until there is change!
August 12, 2008 Update on Ms. Deborah North, Director at the CPS
office here in SAT on SW Military Drive.
This woman is a vindictive and vicious individual. We finally received and audience with her in reference to being able to have another child placed in our home. This time going into the placement w/the knowledge they would not guaranty adoptability.
That would be fine if it was made clear at the onset. Not like the
previous mess. However, not only did Ms. North make us wait for
her down stairs at CPS for over 45 minutes for a scheduled appointment, she very smugly and w/great joy advised us that she would NOT allow us to remain foster/adopt family and would never allow us to have another placement in our home.
She could have told my wife this over the telephone! But North had
to see the expression on our face to make it even more sweet...
See this is what happens when you go against the system and bring it to the attention of the public. They just don't like it!
She is a damn liar! We have her voice at a meeting concerning Gabby
and her swearing that what she just did to us would never happen.
THIS WOMAN HAS NO BUSINESS DEALING WITH CHILDREN WHAT-SO-EVER!!!
Deborah North is a prejudice and nasty person. Some day all her lies will have light shed on them. This is a business to her.
Just another day at the office!
SHAME ON YOU DEBORAH NORTH!!! -SHAME ON YOU!-
-and all the rest of the employees like you at CPS.
YOU AND YOUR OFFICE GIVE CHILDREN TO LITERAL VAGRANTS EVERY SINGLE DAY.
BUT YOU HAVE RESERVATIONS CONCERNING BASICALLY DECENT PEOPLE OFFERING A LIFETIME, LOVING HOME TO A CHILD.
SOME DAY YOU WILL HAVE TO ANSWER FOR YOUR IGNORANCE! THE SAD PART IS YOU DENYING A CHILD A HOME FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS.
VERY SELFISH REASONS!
FAMILIES WHO FOLLOW THE RULES AND PROPER
PROCEDURES ARE DEMONIZED BY CPS.
YOU USE THERE BOOK AND THEY CHANGE THE
RULES AND THE ENTIRE BOOK IF NECESSARY.
YOU ARE NOT GOD DEBORAH NORTH! WE REALLY PITY YOU...
USING YOUR POSITION TO GET BACK AT PEOPLE WHO ARE TELLING THE TRUTH.
May 13, 2008
CPS now says it will not be able to handle the cases and children from the San Antonio area because it has such a burden from handling the children from the compound in San Angelo, Texas.
My question is; Who's watching out for these (OUR) kids in San Antonio?
That's while all your efforts are focused at the compound!
March 13, 2008
Update: CPS, Mrs. Deborah North, Manager, SE Military Drive continues to ignore our attorney and his attempts to have another child placed in our home. She refuses to return his telephone calls to date.
She promised us that we should have NO problem trying to adopt another child. However, her words were just that. Words!
April 21, 2008. No response from North. Attorney has placed several calls to her office. How nice to just ignore people!
April 28, 2008. Still No response from Deborah North... These folks are just soo important they don't have common courtesy to return their phone calls...
DECEMBER 12, 2007 UPDATE:
TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY
SUPERVISOR SUSAN WELLS DECIDED SHE WOULD
INFORM OUR FAMILY OF THE INTENTIONS OF
CPS TO RETURN ANNA MARIA (GABRIELLA) TO
HER GREAT AUNT & FAMILIA. THIS AFTER
MONTHS OF NOT SEEING OR CONTACTING THE
CHILD IN OUR HOME OR ELSEWHERE.
LETTING US BELIEVE WE WERE ADOPTING!
This CPS office on SE Military Drive is under constant scrutiny and is continually embroiled in conflict.
How long will this be allowed? Why is this so esoteric to our society?
PLEASE pass this on to ALL your family, friends, neighbors and associates! It is very important! The great aunt has legal authority to adopt after June 27, 2007. Next court hearing, July 27, 2007 at 0900CT in San Antonio, TX downtown in Judge Montemayor's court 3rd floor.
This woman and her family are not fit to adopt a puppy, much less a child!
CPS, Ms. Susan Wells and others have painted this family as a perfect fit.They are proud in their attempts and success at reunification based on nothing but fabrications by Ms. Wells and others.
Please read on to learn the verifiable and substantive facts!
Our voice deserves to be heard over the ignorance of CPS!
We were promised our day in court by Judge Montemayor!!!
PLEASE CONTINUE SIGNING PETITION, EVEN AFTER JULY 27, 2007.
We will keep fighting for Gabriella and ALL the other children without voices.
Updated: July 26, 2007 @ 1438 MT. Petition continues till the
10th of Feb. 2011. Keep singing! Ask all your friends and neighbors for their help!!! Will continue to update...
MORE THAN ONE SIGNATURE FROM OTHER FRIENDS OR FAMILY CAN BE MADE AT THE SAME WORKSTATION SITE. THIS ENABLES OTHER GUESTS AND FAMILY TO SIGN WHO MIGHT BE IN THE SAME HOME. HOWEVER, THEY REPRESENT A TOTALLY DIFFERENT INDIVIDUAL SIGNATURE. THANKS!
Note:
We have many signatures on paper. We really need to build the signature base on the electronic petition dramatically. Please Help!
You can sign this petition via your computer right now!
Please take a short moment to do so and pass it on to others.
It's simple and it would sure do a lot of good!
Reunification is a wonderful and great idea.
However, if CPS is placing children back in families just for the sake of doing so, it can not be tolerated any longer. There is documentation that has proven the act of reunification on several occasions to have had very unsatisfactory results, including the death of that child. This happening when CPS FAILS to do the proper investigation and required follow up. Why not this handicapped couple listed below?
May 18, 2008 - Update: Michelle Cantu, the great aunt which was allowed to adopt Anna lost her home just as we predicted to the court, CPS, the attorney for Anna and the DA. Ms. Cantu has lost the only home she had. The minute her interest rates went up. She had placed the home for sale back in December. We told them this was going to
happen! She just needed the home long enough to impress the idiots at CPS and the baby's attorney.
What next?
A holdings company now owns the home...
November 28th, 2007 Update:
REUNIFICATION ON THE TERMS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES.
Yesterday there was a report on KENS 5 of a handicapped couple who
had their family ripped apart on a report of their young daughter raising their children. No substantial proof. No outward visible signs of abuse or neglect what so ever. No complaints except in the husband's past which were deemed unfounded and dropped. The family has successfully completed its service plan and jumped through hoops!
When a family does this they're suppose to hopefully get their children
placed back in their home. Sometimes under supervision at the onset.
Its obvious it is not true in this case!
However, the caseworker, Ms. Tammy Castro doesn't like the way the
mother changes the infant's diaper because she is blind. The mother seemed to demonstrate very well that she was capable of changing a diaper on the news interview. The father has a reported slight paralysis of one arm. However, these folks seem extremely capable of caring for their children.
It also seemed very obvious that they LOVE them very much!
Note: There are several thousands of families with similar handicaps and, even more
severe, that are raising families here in Texas and all over the United States
everyday.... This case brings to mind a television movie based on a true real life story of a couple with a disability of being mildly mentally impaired. They choose to live together and start a family. They have to prove to social services that they can
indeed care for their child in spite of their impairments. Although these folks circumstances are different and much harder to overcome for the mentally impaired couple.
The fact is they won their fight to keep their family together and care for themselves.
This couples obstacles are obviously not as harsh. They should get their children back. THEY SHOULD GET THEM BACK NOW!!!
April 24, 2008 Update: Now these poor folks have been taken advantage of by thinking they were dealing with a legitimate representative of the LULAC organization. They almost lost over $1,100.00 still trying to gain custody of their children. Thanks CPS for making the people so desperate they risk loosing
funds they don't have and had to raise and barrow to make.
Thank God they received $745.00 back. Also, Thanks to KENS 5 and story.
CPS NEEDS TO GIVE THESE FOLKS THEIR CHILDREN BACK NOW!
May 12, 2008 These folks finally have an attorney representing them.
We sincerely hope he is able to help them. Kens5 continues to follow their
progress and updates the couples attempts to get their children back.
The state (CPS) is trying to terminate the rights of this couple...
So much for REUNIFICATION! Only on CPS'S whim and terms.
This includes our wonderfully skillful broken minds of mush in our children's court!
These idiots (Judge's) enable CPS and give them the power they misuse everyday!
Now here is an example of the family being extremely deserving of having their children placed back in their home. This is really crazy!
Maybe if the family had to be rehabilitated and molded by CPS because they used and/or distributed illegal narcotics, abused the children, stole property or were just plain criminal they would be reunited by now.
This way CPS could claim a great victory! When the family does everything CPS and the court ask of them, they just raise the bar a little higher if they want to... They make the rules as they go along!
CPS has too much power over our families! All it takes is one malicious
phone call or false report from a relative or neighbor...Anybody!
How come CPS never paid attention to all the complaints of the family who lost the toddler and infant buried under their home last summer?
It is a known fact that the sister of the mother who killed her children filed several reports...
We personally have seen the notebook of record the sister kept. Shame on CPS!
However, that's been forgotten and CPS has re-invented itself like many
other times in the past. Although they claim comprehensive and drastic change, nothing ever really changes at all with CPS.
They just make better excuses up next time around... Vipers hidden behind
cloaks of innocent children!
Especially No Comment, Mary Walker! You all should be ashamed!
Even the best family could fall victim to the stupidity of CPS overnight. Again, things must change now! They need to be stopped!
Update On Another Reunification: November 11, 2007.
CPS In San Antonio, Texas Will NEVER CHANGE...
We have learned that the baby my wife's sister had taken in at six weeks of age into her home via a case worker out of Del Rio, Texas is now being managed by a local worker out of San Antonio.
San Antonio, CPS worker knows the child on paper only.
This baby's paternal grandmother did not want the child because it was very sick and born premature with several medical problems.
The mother and father of the child are both in prison....
Norma's sister is currently on FMLA taking care of the child because of the serious health issues. Claims she is in serious danger of loosing her job.
Now what makes this better is the fact that grandma has never had a visit with this child. CPS has never had a visit with this child and the child's attorney has never seen the child. Is this starting to sound familiar?
Now the original placement worker from Del Rio is fighting to place the child with Norma's sister. However, the state via CPS San Antonio is coaching the grandmother and preparing her case.
What is really sick is the fact that grandma did not want her when she is having all these problems. She wants her when she is now seeing signs of improvement after being with Norma's sister for almost nine months now. The baby was born addicted to Heroin!
This grandmother is NOT even complying with the orders of the court placed on her and to be part of the many medical appointments.
Nothing, no real effort by grandma is being made what-so-ever... CPS just does not care!
Update: May 18, 2008 -Grandma wants the baby now! However, she is trying to find out how to get the child labeled with a disability so that she can get an assistance check from her as well. Because she is under two years of age the grandmother or anyone else trying to adopt her at this stage would not receive assistance from child protective services until she reaches a age past two.
So, if she can get a check out of her she wants her! Wow ain't that grand?
With the health disability label she gets a check. Better than just the average one she would get after the age of two to boot...
Reunification at ANY and ALL cost!!! -Except the Handicapped!
This is extremely disgusting! Why don't foster/adopt families have any rights? What in the hell is going on here?
What chance does this child or any other have?
These families and CPS can destroy lives or even place these
children in extreme danger and/or health risk and they have all the rights.
All for the sake of reunification of the family... Destroying GOOD Decent Families who are putting their hearts on the line to help other's does not matter...
These decent families are expendable to be used and abused.. The foster and foster/adopt family which is providing the child with Love, Care and a family is expendable and treated like garbage!
What about the right of the child that can not make a decision for itself?
WHAT ABOUT THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD???!!!!
NOTE: Update-- August 17, 2007 -- It has been discovered and verified with internal sources of the U.S. Federal Immigration processing center here in San Antonio, Texas that a woman w/criminal background was given a baby by CPS to care for and adopt. Her background was discovered while processing the woman's documents. She had several felony arrest and convictions. She had warrants and weapons charges. What???
This woman had the full custody of an infant baby entrusted to her care. You did not see one mention of this in the local media.
Just like you have seen very little concerning our case!
However, it did happen last Thursday, August 9, 2007. The manager of the center contacted the SA police and CPS directly..
They were not planning on doing anything about it!
It was mentioned that they were just going to let CPS figure it out for themselves.
Now how did this happen with the new finger print rules?
Maybe she was in the system before they became mandatory.
Who knows... It is just terrible.
Just another recent example of how wrong things are going at CPS here in San Antonio, Texas!!!
This information was conveyed to us by several concerned individuals.
START MAIN BODY OR OUR CASE AGAINST
CPS in SAN ANTONIO TEXAS...
THEY (CPS) ABANDON THIS CHILD WHO WE
TOOK INTO OUR HOME AS OUR BEAUTIFUL
NEW ADOPTABLE DAUGHTER!
Very Important Information!
CPS literally ABANDON this baby in our home for Five (5) Months!
Although she was doing great and Loved very much. No one checked.
CPS did not have a clue about her for months. The attorney ad litem never came to see the child or our family once. Never!
Ms. Susan Wells shook her head in court when our attorney raised this fact.
One of the very few moments we were allowed in court.
She shook her head, as to say, it was not true. This woman is just amazing. We don't know how they sleep at night!
In reality she really knew nothing about this case what-so-ever!
We have witnesses that could testify to this fact...
Note: Update April 13, 2007 CPS sends someone to examine and take photographs of our home while we are in court. Why? Not w/CPS now!!!
TDFPS and CPS SE Military subsequently deny taking or having any photographs taken or ordered to be taken of our home and property.
Our neighbors just wanted to have a little fun with our family during this horrendous situation and time confronting us by making up a story.!.!
A story about a woman driving a vehicle w/TDFPS and identified by them calling 311 and being routed to the proper agency.
This is just incredible. Why would our neighbors concoct such a story?
One of the neighbors even took a cell phone photo of the vehicle.
A photo w/the woman from TDFPS in it. Go figure that one!
Note: Update May 02, 2007
The court refuses to hear evidence against the petitioning family obtained by our investigators. Judge Saldana refused to hear anything after listening to attorney Moreno, representing the family, said with his off the wall suggestion that the case was not "RIPE". This is a term used in the cases usually set in the US Supreme Court setting.
We are currently at the District and Family court level. A case does not become ripe and is not considered by the Supreme Court until it has been appealed from a state or federal court. This means ALL avenues for determining the case have been exhausted and that there is a real controversy and the law needs to be settled on one or more issues.
In order to be "ripe" to litigate in court, the challenged law or government action must have produced direct threat. If a suit is brought on anticipated actions resulting from a law not yet enacted, the case is not "ripe" for consideration. FEDERAL courts only have constitutional authority to resolve actual disputes, not hypothetical.
Well, we have NOT exhausted all avenues. How will we? NO one wants to hear our case! How do we get to the point of being "RIPE"?
Note: Judge Saldana has been acting in her newly elected capacity as a judge for just under 4 (four) months at this point.
She was a supposed hardliner against CPS! We don't think so!
We need to elect judges with more common sense than this. With your help and Gabby's Law we will work to accomplish this.
Common Sense is NOT to common here in the Bexar County judicial system. The Justice Center my foot! What justice?
Once this family is allowed to adopt with the blessings of CPS, its a done deal. NO one in the Supreme Court will hear this case after that.
Note: Update August 3, 2007. Ms. Deborah North has refused to answer our questions concerning the handling of our case and the lack there of. She has neglected to return calls from our attorney for several weeks in reference to the this case and future adoption.
Why won't the Judge's here in San Antonio hear our case? Why don't they want to hear the truth? Why are they and CPS protecting this family no matter what the cost? Why?
I'll tell you why!
These people are weak and afraid of controversy.
CPS, courtesy Ms. Susan Wells has constructed this hap hazard case out of nothing and completely from thin air. It's terrible. We have proof of this, but we can not present it. We have proof of a lot of things that no one wants to hear!
It's real and it is substantial!
They do not have the stomach to do what's right. They want to maintain the status quo. No rocking the boat. They want to be re-elected or just stay appointed and don't want anything on their record that is controversial.
You judges were put on the bench to rule on the law. CPS is not the law and they are not there to re-invent or establish law using some crazy scheme like the case not being "ripe". Worst of all, it was bought hook, line and sinker by Judge Saldana...
Relying on them is hazardous to a child's health. CPS is not doing their jobs properly. They are lying to protect themselves, their jobs and the broken down institution they work for.
When is anybody going to wake up?
Judge Saldana agreed with Mr. Dennis Moreno and said the case was not "ripe". What in the hell is going on here?
We have Judge Montemayor saying we could and should have our day in court back in December 22, 2006. Judge Brown said we did not have a right or jurisdiction to adopt on April 20, 2007, but we had a right to a court hearing. Judge Saldana was leaning towards our case until she discovered it was not "ripe". However, her and Mr. Moreno stated no one ever took the right for our family to adopt Gabriella formally away.
Hence, the case is not "ripe". What backwards logic is this?
So we still have the right to adopt, but CPS will not let us. Wow!
How ignorant is that! There is no justice here in San Antonio!
No one wants to take an unpopular stand against the establishment.
The establishment called CPS!
Once a child has gone through the motions of becoming an "adoptable" child CPS should not have the right to just arbitrarily pull it from its placement to reunite it with a distant and shakey relative with a
marginal support system. This is setting the family up for failure and it is a total injustice to the child who is in the middle.
Please note: We also realize that CPS in its infinite wisdom has removed many children from homes with little or no justification whatsoever. This is a travesty and is detrimental to the child(ren).
They have also placed many children back with their family.
We believe once our story is confirmed and investigated thoroughly it will be proven beyond a doubt that this is not one of those cases.
Our hearts go out to anyone who has suffered the removal of a child for any reason other than the legitimate safety and welfare of the child in question. Playing w/children's lives must stop, and it must stop now!
You can not legislate LOVE. You can not let a family form a Loving and emotional bond for five (5) months and tear it apart like nothing.
Note: August 6, 2007- Our son continues to ask for her to this day!
We have hired psychologist who we hope to have testify that the age of of the baby at just over a year would be at a very emotional and impressionable state in her very short life span to date.
In other words, what CPS is justifying itself in doing to this child, just for the sake of reunification with the Great Aunt and possible contact with the other brother and sister is crazy. She is in a day care facility 8-10 hours a day right now. Serious things happened to her brother and sister which CPS is now denying happened. Even though it is in a signed court document and affidavit. Why? Because the family of origin says so!
The husband/boyfriend who also lives in the house has no verifiable background.
He has no work history until 2004. He is thirty four years old and did not file with the IRS until 2004. He just got a job in August at WalMart.
This guy has no verifiable background or past, but he has custody of a year and a half old baby!?!?
The other siblings are with another Great Aunt and Uncle who refused to take legal custody of the baby.
Note: Update Feb 26, 2007. Husband/boyfriend is now working for Time Warner. Let's see how long he last there!
This child was born at six months premature because her mom was on Heroin the day she came into the world. Mom and Dad are both in prison for drugs. Mom for drugs and prostitution.
The baby spent the first few months of its life in a hospital intensive care unit.
Grandma had her for approximately another six months and lost custody when there was an altercation at her place of residence.
Said family of grandma's boyfriend caused a disturbance and the police called CPS. CPS made a one (1) night emergency place of the child with Great Aunt and Uncle/boyfriend the night before she came to us and our family. These two unscrupulous individuals used this one night to establish what is called substantial contact with the baby and a few photographs and a lot of lies.
We later learned from the worker who placed the child with us on her first day that these individuals had very little contact if any with the baby. The baby's attorney ad litem took this, a one time meeting(One which he never took the time to have with our family.) with these individuals and the word of another very unscrupulous person and supervisor for CPS, who is an avid liar, as gospel's truth.
Hence, the judge took the ad litem's word and then placed custody of the child and responsibility for her with the state.
His reasons for doing so, because the parental rights had been terminated and he was just trying to follow the letter of the law.
Hell with common sense!
So now we have a woman who is the Great Aunt petitioning for the child on her own and living with the husband/boyfriend now in a home in her name. Anything wrong with this picture yet?
It has been verified that she is in a home with a payment total having two mortgages in excess of one thousand dollars a month. Per her own statement and documented by CPS she only makes about a thousand dollars a month.
Her live in slash boyfriend only makes about fifteen hundred dollars a month and they both have recent high car payments.
Mind you, these are gross pay statements made by these individuals.
Now before you get upset about us bringing up the financial situation, please keep in mind what causes the majority of stress in any relationship...
Not to mention the fact that per CPS and their own regulations
state a family should be able to take care of a child without any
outside help from the federal, state, local government and/or family members.
You need to be financially able to care and provide for this child or children.
Who's buying the food, paying for insurance, keeping the utilities paid and paying for gas just to mention a few essentials???
Now remember she is petitioning for the child as a single parent!
This child does not deserve to be placed in this pressure cooker situation. She has been through enough already. CPS obviously dose not think so! That's the problem, CPS does not care.
This is an ego thing for the supervisor's involved in cooking this up!
We were told by this CPS supervisor not to even think of hiring an attorney. That we would not have a chance. She said CPS would walk all over us.
We have witnesses to testify to this also.
CPS and its own internal investigation unit has responded with the same thing the supervisor's were spewing before they were able to take the baby from our home and have our restraining order lifted by the judge.
See the bottom line is, no one ever fights back. They just let CPS do what they always have gotten away with. What's that?
Doing as little as possible. Making it look like a whole hell of a lot...
Screwing it up and then lying like hell to fix it.
Please Note: We know first hand that there are some very wonderful workers that fight for kids in CPS. Our hat is off to them.
There is no complaint with these folks...
However, nothing wonderful comes to mind when thinking about individuals who lied constantly to our family!
No more lies! No more taking it because they say so!
If a family has had more than one attempt at reunification and the parents of that said child are incarcerated there should be a minimum number of attempts of reunification.
Especially to a family member who is having to be coached and carried through the process of qualification. Its not fair to the child and its not fair to the family that has put their hearts on the line to adopt the child.
CPS left the child for adoption in our home after signing a six month foster agreement. They (CPS) never came to our home once to visit the child in our care. The attorney ad litem never contacted us about the baby. In December of 2006 after Loving and Caring for this wonderful baby for that time they(CPS) continually stating we were their family of choice and that they had very grave concerns pertaining to the baby's family of origin. CPS comes on December 11, 2006 for their first visit ever and begins to start a reunification process. This after meeting with the CPS supervisor connected to the case in a court hallway and the ADA assigned to our child's case telling us to bide our time.
Note:
In court last Thursday, February 8th, 2007 at a review at 1500 hours my wife and I were referred to by that same ADA as THOSE PEOPLE.
*She asked the judge to have us removed from the court room.
By the way, the family of origin never showed their face's in court as usual. They came to court once. To get baby back in December.
I would think since they profess to Love and care for this baby so much, they would take the time to be in court for a hearing about the baby...
It was very obvious the parties from the state and the ad
litem attorney tried their best to stall so the concerned Great Aunt and her boyfriend/husband might show up. Everybody who needed to be there for the hearing was there before three (3 p.m.). They could have proceeded before five (5 p.m.)...
Since we received the baby in our care, to date, we have never missed one scheduled court date or hearing concerning the child!
*The judge did allow us to remain in the court room.
Now why would they be telling us that if they had a home study by this other family?
Why would they leave the child in our home unchecked for over six months? Why didn't they remove her immediately after certification of this family? If they eventually planned on taking her away. Why would they lead us one like this? Keep the baby in our home for weeks after this encounter. Why? They even instructed us on what to do. The home study was certified and filed just days after the baby was placed into our care!!! (Three[3] weeks!)
To file an intervention for the child under substantial contact.
Unbeknownst to us, CPS had taken, finished (Touched up!), and filed a home study for the family of origin just three weeks after placing the child (baby) in our home for the choice of adoption.
Why in the heck did they sit on the family of origin for another three months time? Why? Because they had grave concerns which they no longer seem to be concerned about...
Not one time did this family of origin have a visit with the child or even have questions to her conditions or her birthday! Not once..
We waited on a list for two years for a chance to adopt this (a) baby.
They (An adoption worker from CPS.) gave us three choices.
Two were baby boys and the other was the one we chose to take.
CPS is now using the fact that we were originally a foster adopt family against us, stating that they just placed the child with us temporarily for foster care.
That is just ridiculous and very self serving for CPS!
They have even made claims in court and to the investigative unit of CPS that they offered us an older child and we refused it.
Not him or her, but IT.
We did not get offered any older child. We did not refuse to accept any child. There was never, ever an offer other than the babies.
Once we learned of the child, we planned on adopting her.
When she was brought to our home we immediately started canceling prior commitments and obligations. We had planned a trip to take a cruise to Italy from a port in Spain which was planned the year before.
The trip we canceled was planned for September and we would NOT have canceled a trip like this to begin foster care. We have all the receipts.
Our family did not go through the expense and the inconvenience of having our home re-certified just for the experience of foster care.
And as stated previously, we did not cancel our vacation to experience foster care either.
Fostering is wonderful for people who have the ability to do so. My wife and I could not. Our previous experience was
horrible. However, that was nothing compared to this one!
Our second attempt has proven to be extremely worse!
We were put on a waiting list to adopt. We waited to adopt.
WE WANTED TO ADOPT! NOT FOSTER/ADOPT AND NOT
FOSTER!
The system (CPS) has a new little ditty they love to let foster and foster adopt parents know. There are children with "Low risk and High risk". This is in reference to the adoptability and emotional risk you are embarking on by taking a child into your home for hope of an adoption as a foster/adopt parent. It's ALL risk!
It is continually used as a warning to prospective and would-be parents.
There is not suppose to be any risk when you supposedly are given a child who's rights have supposedly been in process of being immediately ready to terminate. Being told a child is adoptable!
We knew the system very well. That is why we waited and waited and waited.... We wanted an adoptable baby!
CPS KNOWS THE TRUTH. THIS CHILD WAS ON THE ADOPTION TRACK.
THEIR ADOPTION WORKER PUT HER IN OUR HOME FOR ADOPTION!
Note: It's funny that there are people like an ex-employee of the Children's Shelter here in San Antonio who was able to hand pick an adoptable child from the shelter. Her connections with employees still there and workers with CPS enabled her to get a child of choice knowing information never given to foster/adopt families. Is that great or what?
It also helps that she used to work with the infants there. Now she has a cushy job with Bexar County at the courthouse.
That's the CPS system for people with connections... Not unlike Anna Maria's (Gabby's) family with someone in CPS and Ms. Susan Wells.
We have evidence and proof of this activity! No one wants to know!
There are families waiting on list for years to adopt. We were one of them...
Nothing, but out and out lies the entire time!
Workers should have a mandatory twice a month visitation with families that have children under their care and jurisdiction. Allot can happen in thirty days. This could be shortened to the standard once a month after six months. The attorney's ad litem should be forced to do their jobs and interview all prospective parties involved. They should also have more than once a month contact with their clients or the guardians of their clients.
Texas also needs a bill of rights for Adoption Parents, Foster/Adopt and Foster Parents.
We need your signature to take to our state senators to improve the care and welfare of the children in the CPS system. We want to go to the US Congress and the US Senate to help as many children as we can.
CPS workers should be held to the highest standards and should never be allowed to reveal any information pertaining to the child in the system and the cases that they are involved in or the families of the placement of the children.
They should be held to the same rules as any attorney or doctor. And, all, CPS families shouldn't have to fear that their personal information would ever get out into the public arena. This should be grounds for immediate termination. Supervisors should be rotated every six months. All workers, supervisors and directors should have mandatory recertification every 12 months, no matter what their position. Are they even certified now???
CPS does not want people to hear about cases like this. They wanted to sweep us under the rug and go on with business as usual.
Even the State Bar Association of Texas is protecting the ad litem attorney claiming there is no grounds to censure him for not doing his job as an ad litem attorney. Note: In his defense, the ad litem attorney graciously met with us and our attorney on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 1700 CT. He listened to several items we carefully disclosed to him at his office. He wished we contacted him sooner. We had only been trying to schedule a meeting w/him for several weeks/months.
In court he remained neutral and claimed he had no problem with us adopting the child. He also still had no objections to the family either.
These folks have Carte Blanche to do what ever they seem fit to do!
CPS
uses the anonymity designed to protect the child for themselves to hide behind. Because of this they don't have to answer for any of their mistakes or shortcomings.
CPS avoids tough questions this way.
They are suppose to be protecting these children, not hiding behind them due to their own incompetence and stupidities!!!
These (CPS) people are nothing but cowards!!!
Look at a very similar case with the Timms family.
It is very obvious that CPS has done this type of exact behavior in the recent past. In fact the decision was being made on this case while we were trying to make ours. The family is the Timms of San Antonio. They also had a little girl who was five (5) years old placed in their home as a foster/adopt family as an adoptable child who also had the
parental rights terminated. This family also had the child in their home for approximately six months. The Moreno Family whom the child came from was also trying to get the child back after rights terminated. They used the same attorney Dennis Moreno with no relation to the family or the second cousin Sandra Moreno. Nemoway was in a tug-a-war between the Timms and the Moreno's. However, the attorney for the baby, Elizabeth Fisher, had more sense and morals than Gabriella's attorney Shawn Shefield. Even after presented with the strong evidence against placement with the family. Remember he
had never visited Gabriella in our home. Mr. Shefield was obviously on the side of CPS no matter what. We even made an apperance in front of the same judge. Judge Brown.
These folks are the cause of terrible pain and suffering to many wonderful families who volunteer to be in the system.
As much as we want to believe that reuniting these children is best for them, I wonder. Where were all these concerned family members when the child was being abused. Why didn't they do something when the mother and/or father were doing illegal activities around the children. Not feeding or caring for the children. Where was the Love and concern for a child then? When they had full control of the child.
Where was the family then???
The laws to protect the children shield them (CPS) by default.
This is wrong and disgusting!
It has to change! It has to change! It has to change!
Their Carte Blanche needs to be revoked permanently!
Well, we are not going to let them (CPS) continue this way!
PLEASE help us fight for a child who we Love so very much!
PLEASE join us in fighting to make a change in CPS and their business as usual tactics and practices. Help us, with Gabby's Law, to fight for ALL children under control of CPS.
To fight for the many children who CAN NOT speak for themselves.
June 13, 2007
Update: Our attorney has requested that we also be allowed to get another adoption placement in our home while we fight for her.
She explained to us very plainly at the time that we should not concern ourselves with not being able to try and
adopt another child. We were never in danger of being so
called "black listed" with CPS or the system.
Again, she being, Deborah North a director at SE Military...
She explained that they have experienced similar and/or
much more difficult or worse confrontations than ours.
All these families as well as ours would still remain in good
standing in the system. Well, we will see!
Well I guess this is just another CPS lie. Because our attorney has requested another child for our family. Now Ms. North explained to our attorney that she has some questions concerning that request.?.?
Here we go again! Also, if our attorney is to be present, she wants her
state representation available to her. Well, that sounds fair! Why not!
However, there still remains questions concerning our family! What?
Our family has many, many unanswered questions concerning the events of Gabby's placement and removal from our home!
The questions just get completely ignored or glossed over!
Hell, CPS and the judicial system have it so we can not even present evidence or plead our case with a hearing in a court of law.
THEY DO NOT WANT TO HEAR IT! PERIOD!
Note: August 6, 2007. Although Ms. North is currently out on sick leave
my wife has made contact w/another Director named Ms. Galloway.
Actually she called us based on our request, of another person in charge during the leave of Ms. North, to please contact us.
She has given us a contact with CPS for looking into acquiring another child, hopefully, for adoption. We have not received a call from this other individual as of yet. August 18, 2007.
We will continue waiting.
However, we're not going to hold our breath!
Note: As of August 24, 2007 we have requested our file be moved to the Lutheran Children's Association.
We have had no response from CPS what-so-ever.
Note: October 08,2007 The Lutheran Children's Association deemed it best NOT to proceed with a home visit with our family. Although not mentioned in the very generic letter sent to us. They decided we would not be a good fit for their organization due to the fact that we wanted to be on a list and wait for an adoptable child. They need families mostly for foster households. That's what we were told anyway...
Note: TDFPS has conducted their own internal investigation of our complaints against the SE Military office and Ms. Susan Wells.
They, (Mr. Martinez, Dir. OAC) have concluded no wrong doing in the handling of our case. They claim everything was handled by the book.
We would like to know what book they were using concerning our case.
They surely didn't follow many of their own standards and regulations!
The organization Oms Budsman concluded the same thing. They were suppose to help us!
What a joke.. They defended CPS every step of the way.
The power CPS commands never ceases to amaze!
Their blatant abuse of such awesome power granted them, unchecked.. Again, granted by the MORONIC judges here.
They wear blinders like donkey's. However, these donkey's can not even see the garbage placed in front on them. They proceed anyway!
THIS DOES NOT IN ANY WAY MEAN WE HAVE GIVEN UP OUR FIGHT FOR GABBY! - Even without her in our home we will continue to remain strong in our fight against the totalitarian dictatorship of CPS...
Please note that the intention of this petition is not plead for your sympathy or for the reader to feel sorry for us... We bring this out to make the public aware of the total injustice that happening at CPS in San Antonio, Texas on SE Military Drive. All in the name of supposedly protecting children and reunifying families.
These people are NOT protecting children! They are collecting a wage and going home at night... This is just a job to most of these individuals. They go through the motions. They destroy families, and it is all in a days
work for these folks.
We set this petition up to gather signatures on the internet to arm ourselves with the ammo to enable us to make changes in this Super
ARCHAIC AND HORRIFIC SYSTEM.
WE REFUSE TO BE IN DUPLICITY WITH CPS AND WE WILL NOT JUST GET OVER IT!!!! WHAT AN IGNORANT UNCARING COMMENT!
HOW CHEAP A CHILD'S LIFE MUST SEEM TO SUCH A PERSON.
Just like someone to leave something like that. If CPS only knew all about you... We know for a fact that this same individual and her husband Rick had a 2 year old child placed in their care back in 2004.
They left the child 24 hrs. per day with a family member while they cashed and kept the child's monthly stipend check from Texas Dept. of
Child Protective services. They threatened the couple that if they would bring it to the attention of CPS the child would be taken from them. Yes, and this is one of CPS'S Super Star Foster Families.
They pocketed over $6,700.00 in money for a child they did not even have in their home or care for. Go figure! Rick had the nerve to accuse the family of wanting to keep the child just for the money. What?
This same family went through the system correctly and adopted the child. However, they never received the funds belonging to that child for the child.
And least of all are we bitter. We are more hurt and sad. Bitterness is a form of hate which we do not have...
We were lied to, used and completely taken advantage of to say the least. We do not want it to happen to another family. Betrayed twice by our own family member. A sister/sister-in-law and her friend Julie Mendez, ex-CPS worker for Gabriella and Susan Wells her cleanup person. All with her being records fabricators. Which all can be proven. To bad our court system here in Bexar County doesn't want to hear it. We spent a bundle finding it out for ourselves...
We would like your signature very much! However, if
it is not made in support of Gabby or the children,
please don't waste our signature space and time by
leaving non positive and hateful messages.
IF YOU SUPPORT US AND WANT TO ADD YOUR SIGNATURE GREAT.
THIS IS NOT A BLOG OR FORUM FOR DISCUSSION! IT IS A PLEA FOR
YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP...
PLEASE START YOUR OWN PETITION IF YOU DISAGREE WITH OURS.
May God Bless, Enlighten you and give you Peace. Research for yourself.
IF YOU DO SIGN, PLEASE BE DECENT ENOUGH TO LEAVE YOUR REQUESTED INFORMATION. THIS ADDS VALIDITY TO YOUR SIGNATURE. Thank You!
WE HOPE THE HOLY SPIRIT EXPOSES THE FRAUD, HYPOCRISCY AND
DISHONESTY OF THESE PEOPLE INVOLVED AND ESPECIALLY CPS.
THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL. IGNORANCE, LIES AND STUPIDITY NOT WITHSTANDING!
THANK YOU!
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
We miss Anna Maria Louisa (Gabriella) desperately. Our family Loves
her so very much! Please pray with us and our family that she returns
home as soon as possible! Your prayers are possibly the greatest gift and contribution to helping us fulfill our request to bring her home.
Thank you so very much and GOD Bless you all!
Again, Please tell all your friends and family who might help! Thanks!
You have no idea what this means to our family....
Remember different people can sign at the same site if needed.
Thank You!
Note: Gabriella was allowed to be adopted by the great aunt in a closed hush, hush adoption proceeding. We are sure Susan Wells was and is very pleased with herself along with all the other idiots!
PLEASE KEEP SIGNING... IT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE...
PLEASE!
Help Reform Texas CPS System ... We need to hold the Directors and Supervisors at CPS accountable for the decisions they make on behalf of the children. Maybe these decisions wouldn't be made so arbitrarily and without thought to how their application of judgement may effect the children.
This system needs a rework from the inside out. There needs to be a change in the mentality. People who become workers need to understand that this job is basically for not the best pay and alot of
hard work. That it is not a nine to five job and the only pat on the back sometimes is just knowing you did your very best to do what you could to help a child. This crap that there too many children per worker and they just can't handle it is rediculous. They don't get enough pay for all
they do. Well there are very few of us who are compenstated extremelly well for our efforts at work. However, at most jobs, you either do the work or your fired. County, state and all govenment jobs
excluded. These jobs usually reward incompetence!
Although CPS falls under the state government, we need to make it the
most successfully run part of the state to date. This needs to be our
states mandate. Work for the children and only the children.
Unfortunately the only time people think about CPS is when a child is
harmed or God forbid one dies. This needs to change and it needs to
change now. Instead of changing on a long term basis, the system gets a wack off the business as usual track and then they go right back to the same as ways of the past. It can not continue to go on like this.
Please help us organize to make drastic and comprehensive changes to the CPS system starting right here in San Antonio, Texas.
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