- Having children that you love and cherish, and for years have picked up when
they fall, kiss their boo-boos away, take them to their first day
of school. Being there the first time some kid hits them or calls them a hurtful name. But then one day, someone unknown to you decides that your family has no rights to privacy and makes a phone call to Child Protective Services" and your family's nightmare begins. First your children are interrogated and threatened at school, where they are supposed to be safe, by a CP$ worker, who by the way, is not a parent and are not
required to notify a parent (even though the Privacy Act of 1974,
a federal law, states a parent must be notified. Then the CP$ worker shows up at your home with at least 2 law enforcement officers asking questions (and once you let)them in that's it for your civil or constitutional rights), when you refuse to answer anymore questions because they are so far-fetched or just plain dumb and you know that you or your husband have never done the things they are asking and you have never allowed those things to be done to your children. You are now labeled
uncooperative. You are upset that anyone would say such things,
but the CP$ worker and the law now leaves telling you they will be in contact. Now your children come home from school, you ask them or their grandmother asks them who they have talked to. Your 10 year old tells you that a woman, who wouldn't tell him
her name, came to his school, and told him he had to answer all
of her questions or she would take him away from his mom, and that he could only answer the questions with a yes or no answer. Your child asks the woman if she is a caseworker and she tells him no. So now, he is frightened if he doesn't talk to her that
he won't get to go home. He answers her questions and tries to
tell her the only time he has been kicked is when his family was wrestling or playing in their swimming pool, but he is told he can only say yes or no. Now you have yourself and your children calmed down as much as possible, but then you look up and
see as far as you can see, police cars pulling up to your house
along with 3 plain cars, so you do the only thing you can think of and that is lock your doors and not let anyone into your house (that is your constitutional right if they have no search
warrent) but you are told by the police officers and CP$ workers
that you must let them in or they will put your children into foster care, because they have to see the children to make sure they (the children) are safe. When you finally give in to
their threats to keep your children, you just step further in to
their trap. Now they tell you that you have to let your children go to a relative's home until the investigation is completed. You agree with the promise (just words) from the CP$ workers
that it will only be about a week and that your children will not
be put into foster care and that your husband and others need to come to CP$ headquarters Deparment of Social Services the following morning to meet your new caseworker. Well, your husband takes the day off of work(because he works out of
town) and you go to meet this new worker, but you nver do meet anyone new, you see one of the same CP$ workers from the day before, you talk to her and find out that now they think they have enough proof(nothing physical only hearsay) to go
to court and take custody of your children. Of course you are not supposed to be upset, they are only talking about your children. You ask when they are going to talk to anyone that your family, such as family friends, relatives, or people who have weekly contact with your children. You are told they can only do so much, they have other case's and it can't happen overnight(even though they have your children away from their home). So you go home to get some of your children's toys such
as bikes, video games, cd player and cds, only to find out that
when you get to where your children are supposed to be, that CP$ has taken them to foster care. CP$ went to court and stated that you threatened to take the children out of state to avoid CP$ involvement, unknown to CP$ you taped the meeting that you just
left, in which you were suppose to have threatened you were going
to run with your children. This does not matter because CP$ now has your children, and you don't have the right to know where they are or how they are. You are now
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