I have created this blog to spread the word about the illegal and unethical activity by the Wilkes County Department of Social Services. When DSS acts like this and they are allowed to get away with, as they have in our case, children die. We are very lucky in the fact that my stepdaughter is now safe and lives with us, but other families are going through this very thing, at this very moment. DSS and CPS is committing crimes like this across this country, across the world. It has to stop! Spread the word.
Do you have a story to tell with documentation to back it up? Contact me, I will put it on my blogs and help you get your story out. My email is lawdoll@netzero.net drop me a line, If you have been wronged by the Child “protective” Services system, I will do everything in my power to get your story out there. It is all about making people aware of what is going on. The more people we have screaming about the abuses of the CPS system, the louder our voices will be and the harder we will be to ignore.
If you have lost your child, or had your child die because of the failures of the CPS system, I will print your story here. I will also send your story to others and ask them to post it as well. Together we are stronger…together we can make a difference.
DISCLAIMER: I guess I need to post a disclaimer on here somewhere that states; nothing on this site should be construed as legal advice, this site is to direct you to other sites and valuable information that may aide you in your search for justice… This site is to raise awareness about the corrupt DSS system, to get the stories of their illegal and unethical practices into the public eye, to offer support to those who are going through it and to try and protect children from this corrupt system. If you need legal help, please call an attorney…just make sure he didn’t used to work for CPS…lol
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Please see a friend of mine’s story – Todd Tomasella and his son Micah- here:
http://www.kaufman-tx.com/ I’d appreciate any publicity or help you can get for this precious family. God bless you, melissa
I am looking into this story, I did go and sign the petition on the site you listed above. Tell Todd to E-mail with the shorter version and I will put it on my blogs. If he has documentation and wants to send that as well I will place it here or just a link to his website, which ever he prefers. It will take me a while to read everything he has on his website, so give me a couple of days to figure out what to write on here.
I have legal documentation from the psychologist who was involved in our case when my daughter testified to being abused. I contacted the caseworker from the psychologist office and asked her to come pick up my daughter. She told me “I’m too busy”. My daughter was extremely emotionally distraught. The psychologist stated to this agency “XXX sat in a fetal position, had no eye contact, was very upset due to the fact she was failing school due to neglect on the custodians behalf”.
Since the case worker refused to come to the office, she goes hours later to the home. Since my child wasn’t being hit at the time, she said my daughte was “lieing” I have follow up emails from the psychologist since she was as shocked as I was that they “did not remove my daughter”. She informs me what the caseworker told her. I also have cell phone statements to prove this. Two months later, my daughter goes “missing” and I was contacted by the lead investigator. No report filed and I have requested this repeatedly. They tell me …we don’t have to give you one thing. The grandma took my daughter out of state as in “illegal flight to avoid prosecution” and I was not contacted until 4 days after the fact? Then, when she finds her due to my giving her information, she doesn’t even call me and inform me. She lets me wait for over 48 hours? It was only when an attorney “threatened” to contact the state’s atty general’s office that they gave a very “vagued” explanation.
They closed my case without the judge ever hearing one thing about the abuse and I sent him letters due to my concerns twice prior to this time.
Thanks for any information you can provide me. I do not have an attorney nor am I in the position to hire one. After years of fighting these people, I am in “dire straits”.
Thank you very much.
The only advice that I can really give you is…do not give up. Take all of your evidence and make a blog like I did, try anything and everything that you can to get your story out there where people can see it.
Write to your legislature and start trying to change the laws in your state, write to the state office of health and human services, the regional office over them, the Governor, all your State and Federal Senators, Secretary Mike Leavitt’s office in DC and just keep speaking out, sending that evidence to anyone and everyone. I have my entire story on a word document, all of my evidence has been scanned into my computer and I constantly send it all to various elected officials, Department heads anyone I can think of.
Just Do Not Give Up….
I guess I need to post a disclaimer on here somewhere that states; nothing on this site should be construed as legal advice, this site is to direct you to other sites and valuable information that may aide you in your search for justice… This site is to raise awareness about the corrupt DSS system, to get the stories of their illegal and unethical practices into the public eye, to offer support to those who are going through it and to try and protect children from this corrupt system. If you need legal help, please call an attorney…just make sure he didn’t used to work for CPS…lol
Hello Everyone. I am trying to fight the system. I am trying to stop my parental rights from being taken away. I feel that I am getting the run around. I have not been able to speak up for my self. I admit I am not perfect. I only want to keep my family together and I need some help. Can anyone outthere help me get my children back.
I need a little more information from you in order to point you in a direction, my email address is on this page. I think I have yours so I will email you tomorrow…if I don’t hear from you first.
The first place I would start is at the bottom of my page…try hitting some of the links there, a lot of them have really good advice!
I’d just like to congratulate you on your website. I’m the editor of a pretty busy crime blog, and in the course of writing some of my stories, I’m amazed at the number of times DSS, or DCF, DCYS, or CPS, or whatever combination of letters your version of Children’s Services drops the ball, and how many times that ends up cost some helpless child his or her life. Tonight I’m working on a story about the Christopher Mathew Payne/Reina Gonsalves case, and especially the despicable behavior of Tucson’s DCF, in particular Christy Tarpley and Cindy Graupmann, and your site has been invaluable as a research tool, if only for having all my links in one place.
One of My writer did an article on Elyse Mamino, who gave birth to a baby at a party in Columbia IL, tried to drown it in the toilet, but was foiled
by an alert bystander who called 911 and gave the child CPR. Illinois returned the child to ms Mamino despite Police objections because the results of their investigations was the allegations were unfounded. The results of the cops checking out DCFS was that they had interviews no one. Fortunately when the police went to arrest Mamino for trying to drown the baby, The child was fine, and oh, lookie here what we found in this draw! It’s the skeleton of another newborn baby!Well go figure?
So I read some of the comments people left for you, and realized how much you are helping people, and that’s a hell of an admirable thing. We try to make folks aware of the less known scum bags out there, but you appear to be doing much much more than that. The advise you give, the links you recommend, or sometimes just being a sympathetic ear, all these things are invaluable to a person who is confused, in trouble, and lost.
Thank you Max, I sent you an email….
I have a dear friend who’s in a terrible situation. He was abused by his wife as well as their children were also abused by the wife. Then DSS stepped in and takes the kids, puts him and his wife in jail and now they’re going to take his parental rights away because he tried to defend himself from being stabbed to death in front of his children.
I need a direction to send my friend. He’s really praying and holding faith close, but honestly – he needs an attorney that will help him. I’d be glad to share more for a more comprehensive answer but am unwilling to share someone else’s life on an open forum. Could someone please contact me? I’d much appreciate it.
Thank you-
Michelle, I sent you an email.
Hi and thank you for your interest. I am Todd and Melissa is a good friend. Yes feel free to post the site as you see fit and God bless you.
http://www.Kaufman-TX.com
This site would be doing a great disservice to the community by allowing Mr. Tomasella to attempt to manipulate people and continue to perpetrate the pattern of deceit he has established and relishes.
happy to see you calling up the fury of the people because only a critical mass of angry voices will be heard…see my blog @ collectedlettersfromtheabyss.wordpress.commy book of the same name will be out next month self-published @ lulu.com and it is made up of actual paper (i.e. REAL documentation) from our 3 year/3 trial ordeal with San Francisco CPS wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am mr clevingers youngest son i am very sad but i do belive that my dad should be let go because he is a nudist an he has been a nudist almost all of his life
i would appreciate if yall didnt tell the press about this it would mean the world
WOW am I happy this blog exists! My friend sent me the link yesterday and I am so relieved and horrified to hear there are so many others in similar positions to what has plagued my family and me. I am 12 years into a brutal ordeal in Columbia County in New York that has left me without my children and in debt to the county to pay for it and garnished by 65% of my income. Am fighting, documenting and believing I can make changes in a Kafkaesque system.
Congratulations to Freethegypsy for self publishing the ordeal. Something I have thought of doing many time. Thanks for follwing through!!! It needs to get out how “Social Services” is actually ’serving’; so important that more are aware of the horrors that occur than those trapped in it.
I have been dealing with CPS since March of 08. I met all their requirements except for speaking out. They didn’t like that & complained to the judge.
I made the mistake feb 09 to yell back at a teacher who yelled at me in the school playground in front of the kids because he neglected a student who was crying & being bullied in the playground. I was expelled for it. But this teacher went into court lying about what happened & to the police with the school counsiler. And never faced expullsion or even a suspension. The principal called CPS about this inncident & on top of this a parent I knew for a year wanted to date & it turned out to be nightmare. I broke up with him & he went to the school to say lies about me adding to the call to CPS.
My son’s father wasn’t interested in a relationship with his son for 8yrs till CPS made him to be last yr. And there was a confrintation between us in which he waited 4 days to report it to CPS, not the police. I phoned the cops on him imediatly & CPS didn’t care about the facts!
They came & took my son for 2 months when the judge found them having undue cause for having taken my son away. My original case was going to be closed in March untill all this stuff happened. So now this is a new case titled an investigation.
I just found out my sons father’s insurance was put as primary & medicaid secondary. So now we have been denied transportaion to his appointments because he has a primary insurrance now. I don’t own a car nor can I drive. I am on disability for a head injury from childhood that got worse. I have to sue the father now to take our son off Aetna so I can have the full benefits of medicaid again. I didn’t add that all the physicians denied to see my son untill I pay in full despite the 10% Aetna policy. They said they can do this. My son has had a temp of 99.8 – 103.2 since Sat. The CPS superviser said to our CPS Wkr that parents have to be able to pay for their childrens medical needs. That’s what a parent has to do. Why should the state cover for me when there is insurance from the father to cover for this child & not the state. I have a feeling she is coming up with reasons to take my son away from me again!! Predjudice & discrimination at the highest level diected at me.
Well my disposition to find out if I’ve been charged with Mental and Emotional abuse & Neglect will be 7/23 along with custody. If I have been found guilty it stays for 7 or more yrs!!! Affecting my jobs with children forever even though it falls off. I can appeal I know but this has taken me away from my goals all year long in getting back to wk, I’ve been expelled from my son’s school(including ALL school property),the principal handled a complaint I had with a teacher who likes to yell at male students reporting me to CPS that I have been harasssing her & her office (parents have issued complaints on her but she has ignored them, I am gathering their compliants on paper).
Stress triggers my problems along with sever headaches but what does CPS care.
Well this all started because I took my son out of therapy. He didn’t need it after 2 1/2 yrs & their diognosis was wrong in my opinion. Therapists over ride parents. Let alone I didn’t
know they were distorting the truth the entire time the therapists were writing thier reports.
These sites have been a great emotional support, thk u for speaking out & for your couragous spirit. Excuse me for any mispelling, never did that well. Thk u for this site!!!
Raeshaun Findley is one of the corrupt kaufman deceivers obviously. The laundry list of destroyed families in Kaufman County is extensive. We are not in contact with 6 other parents who have for now good reason been stripped of their parental rights in Kaufman County, Texas. Are all those people “deceitful”? No!
is there a local group (onondoga or oswego co. ny state) dealing with the issues? i called in a mild?? abuse case (long story) as the grandmother and now the tables are turned. i’m being made out to be this drunken drug addict (no proof just my son and his gf accusations!!) meanwhile the children continue to live in a unhealthy environment, a weeks worth of dishes in the sink etc…the whole thing started because my son has anger issues and i got called by the gf to come play referee for the third time in a month, the police were called and they called CPS.They were given 3 days to clean the place up and the case was labeled “unfounded”!!! now i have to fight for visitation, pay for a drug/alcohol eval ($250+) because the adult children say i drink and do drugs?? no criminal history of alcohol/drug abuse, just their word!!!! as i see it, by trying to protect my grandchildren, i am being put on trial. guess it was the wrong thing to do?? should have told the hysterical 5 yr old “toughen up!!! and don’t cry cause daddy just busted down a solid wood door in front of you??” just another of the grown man’s temper tantrums!!! and the topper?? they live with my ex and the whole bunch of them are the biggest group of pot heads around, but i gotta go pay to prove i’m not?? who is looking out for these kids now??? it sure isn’t family court in onondoga county!!!
I am wondering if you can give me some information on what rights that a parent has. I am currently being investigated by cps in Yancey County. My email is kristyleigh79@gmail.com
if any one whos child has taken by Judge Hubbard in kc, kent and Denis Hyne, cps,
plz contact me
queen-of-all@hotmail.com
i am caught in system and my children 3 year old and 2 year old have already been placed in 3 different foster homes…since they were removed from our home last march…finding it difficult to
“comply” to their requirement for reunification…..need help
THANK YOU FOR THE SERVICE AND THE VOICES
JUST TWO DAYS AGO I WAS WONDERING IF THERE IS SUCH A SITE FOR FOSTER CHILDREN TO BE ABLE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES AND GET FEEDBACK AND WHAT THEIR OPINIONS ARE ABOUT FOSTER CARE CAN ANYONE GUIDE ME
the net has been used to exploit our children often ….i came across this site by accident and i am gaining hope
what better way to get the message across
about the “disease” of children in foster care thank you
My husband and I are involved in a case at the edelmans children court in california. Our son is 20 months old now and we have been trying to get him back since February 4th of 2008. Corrupt judge henning ruled for the prospective adoptive parents on August 20th, 2009. We have 60 days to appeal his decision but since we can’t afford an appellate attorney the court is supposed to appoint us one. This scares me because we had two court appointed attornies already from this court and we had obvious fraud and deception and our attornies wouldn’t put alot of our evidence to use on our case. Gee I wonder how much was paid for this injustice! If anyone could help us I would appreciate it. We have alot of documentation to back everything wrong about our case and I will gladly share with anyone willing to help.
I posted a comment on september 17, 2009 and wanted to add my e-mail address so if anyone wanted to contact me they can so here it is jjmilkjunkie45@aol.com
I am a concerned citizen writing to you about the atrocity that has occurred in the No Passaic NJ DYFS. They took my friends son away from his biological mother and placed him in foster care due to arguements she was having with her ex husband who is the father of my my friend’s sons stepbrothers.They returned the two boys but have not returned my friends son.Now DYFS has been fighting and do not want to return him to his biological father because they say the boy bonded with the foster parents. This is aweful how they can do that. He has been fighting 3yrs to get his son back and the worst part is the foster mother is abusive. She has hit the boy with a hairbrush and bruised him, shut a door on his face and scared him, admitted to locking him and his other foster brother and sister in their bedrooms at night but yet DYFS says they cannot move him to another foster home and that they would love to help but their hands are tied. DO THEY NEED A BODY BAG BEFORE THEY WILL MOVE HIM!!!!! Please is there anyone that can help or how we can get this child moved to safety while the appeal trial goes on. Publicity? Anything that anyone can do to Help? Is their some kind of kick back the law guardians get for winning these cases? I have pictures of the boys wounds and a hospital report that he suffered corporal punishment at the hands of his foster mother.I am afraid this boy will die before the appeal is over if we don’t do something soon.
The consequences for teachers and stu- dents alike have been disastrous. ,
would someone help me and my friend? To make a long story short there are 5 children and my husband has his 3 and the grandmother down in Texas is trying to get custody of the other 2 which are not my husbands. All these girls have been neglected …others have been sexually abused and the system is messing them up totally.We live in Ny and the other 2 also live in NY and they live 1 hour away with the aunt that calls “our girls” fat and says they have to loose weight they can not have seconds when they were visiting them.
The aunt has not been home when we took them to visit with their sisters the aunt had not been home when the court ordered her to have visits and she and the girls mom just laugh it off and they say”oh well”.
Nothing is being done and all these girls are being hurt.
I am in favor of the grandmother to get custody not because she lives way in Texas but for the sanity of these girls. They can communicate via phone via computer,you see they have not seen their sisters since the 5th of July and that was because the grandmother came up for a visit.
They hadn’t seen each other for 4 months before that. DSS is not helping at all.
You see this has been going for over 6 yrs the real mom for these 5 children had been brought up on neglect charges on numerous times well you might as well say longer than 6 yrs it started back in 1998 so you tell me about this DSS system in NY.They kept giving her chances and giving her chances until she finally physically abused the 3 older children.They were caught earlier eating off the floor..using the litter box..using the vents where the heat comes out..drinking out of the toilet..yet they kept the children in the home and giving her more chances.
She has now theraputic visits with 2 out of the 3 older children..the 3rd don’t want anything to do with her.
The 2 little ones get to see anytime anywhere…well she only,according to court, supposed to be having 6 hrs a week visits…with her aunt who has the children to supervise..yeah right.
So tell me about this DSS system
please remove the comment by “Raeshaun Findley” that is just slander. thank you