NC DHHS ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Chapter VIII:Protective Services
http://info.dhhs.state.nc.us/olm/manuals/dss/csm-60/man/
The manual above is the policy that DSS in North Carolina is supposed to follow, there are certain things that have to do according to this policy, and there are things required by law. Learn the manual above, and use it to ensure that they are doing their job exactly the way they are supposed to.
NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL STATUTES
Chapter 7B.
Juvenile Code.
SUBCHAPTER I. ABUSE, NEGLECT, DEPENDENCY.
http://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByChapter/Chapter_7B.html
This is the Law that Govern’s DSS…Read it, Learn it…make sure they are following it.
61 Comments
How do I prove corruption in the South Carolina Social Services Department?I was told by a retired judge not to take a polygraph test in South Carolina no matter what! He told me the system is corrupt in South Carolina and to do what ever thay tell me to do.I would where a wire if I could,Please help me.There are people afraid to stand up for the truth here,for fear of the government.Can you contact the FBI to have them investigated?
SBI
we have formed a colalition all over the usa to reform cps. get in touch with name at left
contact jane@abusefreedom.com
need to know what to do about corrupt DSS in Madison County NC… please help and fast. Two little girls lives may depend on it.
I have recently started writing a blog on Facebook about the things that I am dealing with concerning both DSS and the Sheriff’s Dept. I have tried to speak with the DSS Director, who stopped returning my calls. I have suffered retaliation as a result of that call. More info about what we have bene dealing with is on my FaceBook blog at :
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Frustrated-in-Fayetteville/336531662925
If you have a chance to look at it and have some advice, I would greatly appreciate it.
Hello, I am looking for anyone in the state of North Carolina, esp. Orange County, who has had negative dealings with CPS. It is obvious that CPS does not protect families, children, or Constitutional liberties. They can only be defeated if we work together. If you have any information, please contact me at stoporangecountycps@gmail.com Please tell everyone you know. Compile names and addresses. I have heard rumors of a class action lawsuit but a bigtime court case needs lots of names and data.
To learn more about CPS, read this report written by Nancy Schaefer before she died under very suspicious circumstances. Send a copy to your congressmen, along with a letter stating your opposition to CPS. We have to raise awareness or the injustices will continue. http://www.nkmr.org/english/the_corrupt_business_of_child_protective_services.htm
I NEED INFORMATION ON WHO IS ON MY SIDE WHEN MY CHILDREN WERE TAKEN FOR REASONS THAT ARE ALL SPECULATION I HAVE FOLLOWED ALL GUIDELINES AND INSTRUCTIONS MY CASE WORKER MADE A COMMENT ON THE STREET TO A FRIEND OF MINE THAT IT DID NOT MATTER WHAT I DID OR HOW STRAIGHT I WAS I WAS NOT GETTING MY CHILDREN BACK BECAUSE SHE DOESNT LIKE ME
I need help immediately.
Please call me at 704-284-3681. DSS is coming in 8 1/2 hrs to more than likely take my kids. We love them and have done nothing wrong.
Please help me.
Bill,
Get your kids out as soon as you can. Take them to a relative or a neighbor’s house. Anyone you can trust. Do not, DO NOT let DSS near your kids. They will take them and keep them as long as possible, making it difficult for you to see them or get them back.
This brave mother was successful in hiding her kids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcgwHa1GPF0&feature=player_embedded#!
I hope you can do the same. God bless.
SOmeonePlease Help ME I am TRYING TO FIND A LAWYER IN RALEIGH TO HELP ME FIGHT THE CORRUPTION OF CLEVELAND COUNTY DSS AND SUE THEM FOR VIOLATING MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS< BREAKIN THE LAW< AND HARMING MY CHILDREN! 704 600 8120
hey there all you ones that had to deal with dss dont worry their going to have there judgement “SOON”. JUST CONTINUE TO PRAY AND ASK GOD FOR JUSTICE from this corruot system of things iam going trough the same things with dss. Take your children for their own purpose and not for the kids stand up for what is right. dont give in to the tricks and lies of the SYSTEM!!! PRAY,PRAY,PRAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
help me 828-206-8730 dss is stressing me out so bad i almost died and now my son talks about killing himself
dss took my child because i failed a drug test for pot and in the following 3 weeks i passed every drug test yet they dont want to let me have my child back and now my 3 yr old is having anxity issues i passed and yet they still dont care they wont me to jump through hoops to satisfy them it wasent an abuse or neglect charge yet they still wont release my child to me if there is any one i can talk to about this to get something dont child advocate, social worker, lawer please call me soon 828-772-6293
I need help really bad because DSS of New Hanover County in Wilmington, NC has my granddaughter and will not give her to me or my husband. DSS is working with the foster mother Ms. Deborah Nixon at trying to keep and possibly adopt my granddaughter. We are her blood relatives and should have our grandchild and not a foster mother. I thought when cases of abuse the child goes to a relative first and then if no relative is found she goes up for adoption. DSS has tried everything to keep us from getting her and now with parental rights of my son being terminated we cannot get our grandchild. Please I need help because I am out of money and time.
We have been back and forth from Elizabeth City, NC to Wilmington, NC for the past 2 1/2 years. Our grandchild is now 8 years old she was 6 yrs old when the case started and she is in foster care with Ms. Nixon for 2 1/2 years too long. Please help me I want my grandchild with me as soon as possible before Christmas hopefully. Can someone help me please call me at 252-771-2378. DSS of Wilmington, NC is very corrupt because the foster mother works for the school system, she and her mother are foster parents and they are in good with the city so it is hard to fight the system if you have some people already in place working for the foster mother at the city level. This is all about the foster mother getting and keeping her money of foster children she does not love my grandchild she wants the money that social services is giving to her. Call me soon I need assistance quickly. I have to save my grandchild because this foster mother does have a criminal record dating back to 1998. Call me please 252-771-2378.
can a local office be sued?i have been getting the run around since sept. about a court ordered termination of support. i have met with 5 different agents in the office, each one of them offers a different story of why the support has not been sent to my child, but instead has been sent to the ex mother in law . it doesnt help that her sister used to run the office
I am a single mother who has had 2 dealings with CPS of Rockingham County North Carolina. Both of the dealings were based on made up stories that someone told them about me. The first case was dropped the same day it was opened, but this one has been ongoing for almost 3 weeks. The person that told the stories has a bad rap with DSS and they all know that she is a liar, yet they are all over me for no reason. Now since this incident my 3 year old is waking up in the middle of the night crying and screaming MAMA PLEASE STAY. I want to know a lawyer that works on this type of stuff and also who I can report this aggravation to that is over ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES. I have complied both times with them, givin them references that even are government officials and the such when requested and they still wont close this case. Go bother those who are giving their kids drugs or allowing someone to sexually abuse them and leave me alone.
DSS stole my child from me for two weeks during the holidays…before Xmas. Two weeks later with an attorney my daughter was “placed” back into my home, but I was in the midst of moving to another county, had a rental and a school in place and now DSS is not allowing my child out of the county! They say I can go but she is under their legal custody. They are violating my civil rights to parent my child. They are taking months of my time and life, making “court dates” to determine if I am a fit parent now. My child is a straight A student. They are a corrupt system. I would like to gather with others and file class action against them, so please feel free to contact me. At this time we are playing the game…and there is more to this, but it must be made clear this can happen to anyone. The system is sucking us up..what can we do? Someone please give me some advice. Any advice, any point of view is welcome. And any action will be seriously considered. Any Action.
I am looking for anyone that has had negative or positive interaction with DSS/CPS in Rowan County, N.C. I am compiling a study of this agency and others in hopes of eventually getting a hearing before a House Sub Committee on CPS incompetence and corruption.
If you would like to talk about DSS cases, especially in NC, please contact me at 2527980333. I have been fighting them for 2 years and can give some suggestions. You can also e-mail me at kelsey613@gmail.com or nckqueen@govabuse.org. Together we can win these cases!!!!
Anyone having dealing with cps please contact me about the protest in August or just to talk about how sick they are…2527980333
I unfortuantely know all too well what the victims of the system are going through.
Rowan County DSS investigators failed to do due diliegence and unfortunately sided with a perpetrator and took the word of a former foster parent, even after they were informed that she failed to disclose to DSS she was in a mental institution for two years.
Hello? Common sence would have you ask yourself, what else has she lied about?
As far as the perpetrator, he obtained sole custody after falsely accusing the mother, even though he was substantiated for physical abuse and Neglect and the Mother was not. Personally I don’t get it. I have yet to figure out who paid who on this one.
How did a system that orignally began, as some sweet church ladies trying to assist the indigent turn into a modern day Mafia?
How is it you need a search warrent to go into someone’s home after having probable cause, but a DSS worker can take your child without a court warrent and you are then guilty until proven innocent?
Can you say Good Ole Boy? I can, you may want to research what the term professional curtesy really means when dealing with the legal system.
How long will DSS keep their heads in the sand in an attempt to hide the holes in the system,at the espense of the mental health of the children they remove.
When will they open up their eyes and wake up from their brain washed denile and follow their gut instincts and speak up and stop the cycle?
When will they take accountability for their part in numerous parentlectomies all in the name of good intentions.
When will the system start doing due diligence instead of taking the easy way out?
And one last final thought…..show me a Social worker that would cooperate with DSS taking their child from them, and I will show you a Social Worker that needs their head exaimined.
Yet a victim of the system is expected to cooperate and get their head examine if they don’t.
My advice to anyone going through this right now is to go educate yourself on the laws….one of the best programs I have found so far is called Jursidictionary and can be purchase for the price of a consultation.
http://www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=TP0004
It will open your eyes and teach you how the legal process works. Unfortunately it taught me too late how my case fell through the system. I only wish I had the program sooner.
I need to know if this is about a class action lawsuit and Department of Social Services regarding removing your kids illegally from their homes for virtually no reason. If so, I am all in. My four grandchildren that was in my custody was taken because the parents were visiting and I stepped outside for a moment to smoke. For doing this I was told I broke the safety agreement and they swiped my little angels away for being outside smoking. I need all the information I can get if I don’t go crazy first. PLEASE HELP!
I am looking for information to help my daughter deal with DSS/CPS in Davie Co. She took her child to a well visit and pointed out a place in her child’s skull that she wondered if she should be concerned about. After an x-ray, she was requested to bring her child to Brenner’s in Winston-Salem. She did. They did more x-rays and said there were signs of other injuries. I got a call at my job in SC that my granddaughter was in protective services care. The investigators have told my daughter if she doesn’t tell who hurt her child, then she will never see her daughter again. While in the hospital and during this “investigation” we informed them that a development bone disease runs in the father’s family and from what we read there is a possibility she has that disease. But no one will test her for it. How can we KNOW if someone hurt my grandchild intentionally or unintentionally without this test. The Foster family could hurt her and not know it. Which my granddaughter had bruises during my daughter’s last visit but no one is suspecting the foster family of intentional harm. Did I mention Brenner’s was under investigation when my grandchild was taken. No on has contacted me about placement and I am the grandmother. I don’t think they are really working this case.
I am looking for someone to help me in sueing DSS in Cumberland/Roberson County for illegally removing my kids and subjecting them to harm mental anguish. I am more than willing and ready to run a class action suit against the department! I think that state and county officals are cowards because when as clients repots the corruption within the department they all tuck their tales and hide. I challenged DSS with their own polices, procedures, state and federal statues and in an attempt to shut me up, they trumped up some charges and removed my innocent children. My case has been open since Dec.2010. DSS takes your kids, the law upholds them while they destroy families off of personal emotionals oppose to factual basis! PLEASE HELP ME!
Anyone have dealings with Cabarrus County DSS workers in the years 2006/2007/2008/2009/2010? If so email: NCInjustice@yahoo.com
Are you a past DSS worker who wants to come clean and set the record straight? Join those who have been hurt by DSS. Even as a victim, I realize that not ALL workers are bad, deceitful, and lie. Many are good and have become victims on the inside themselves. Are you one one of them who wants to help non-drug addicted, clean, law abiding citizens who try to get their own relatives out of the system and fail because of prejudice or biased opinions or an inside agenda? I believe that one of the DSS workers in my cases knew one of the foster families personally? Could this be true? Contact the above email.
New Hanover County CPS DSS does not care about anyone but themselves.
My caseworker does not like me so I can not talk to or see my children. I have done everything that they wanted me to do except take this parenting class. I have contacted the lady at the parenting class that my worker wants me to take but i can not take the class unless I have visitation. HELLO I have proven that everything that they have said was untrue and I have done everything that they have wanted but guess what, no good results. My children were not taken because of drugs or anything they were taken because of a false statements. I have done their little psych evaluation, i have taken hair sample drug test and have passed them, i have went to all other classes, none of it helped me out though. I do not understand New Hanover County DSS they let drug addicts fail drug screens and either do not remove their kids or atleast still receive visitation. Has anyone had any good dealings with these people????? You sure can NOT get your worker to ever call you back unless you leave a message that you are going to contact their supervisor. Please advise me of anything good in new hanover county dss.
Looking for anyone who has been lied to or lied about from dss in Hendersonville NC. My granddaughter who is 17 needs your help. she was to graduate in June and will be 18 in September but now they are threating to put her in juvy because she doesn’t want to stay with her parents.
Why isn’t there anybody out there to help people that can’t afford a attorney to fight DSS. Because they are tearing my gran kids apart. They won’t let me see or talk to them. They want to move the older child away from the other kids. I NEED HELP to save my gran kids. If there is anybody out there to help me please call me at 910-399-4845. thank you
my fiance and i are expieriencing what seems the norm in NC with DSS. Please anyone in Caldwell County that has had their babies stolen from them,, Please contact us.. We should organize a peaceful demonstration at the dss office or at the courthouse. lets do something to bring attention to all of our plights. i know me and my fiance arent the only ones unjustly accused… I mean I thought this was America,, not Russia or China!!!!! Please lets all rise together as one loud voice. Lets get at least the local media if not the national media to take notice,, With that kind of scrutiny on this unchecked and broken dept. we can all get our children back,, so for everyone who has been victimized and your children ripped from your loving home,, lets fight for them. The dss cannot ignore us together. Please contact me and lets see how many will protest for your families. Anywhere in NC lets set a day and show the DSS that we will not be bullied into submission, and that we dont have to be their puppets…..thats what our lawyers advice was” kiss their asses and do everything they say if you want your child back” thats what he said. and thats what we been doing but they are moving slower than a snail… I know everyone out there is going through the same hell we are. lets unite let our voices be heard for our families,, they want us to be quiet they know our attorneys are telling us that and that we have to take their bs…we dont lets unite for our families and be heard …please this is the only way …strength in numbers.. together we can get something done and i dont know but myself i would do anything and everything to get my baby boy back ,, help me and help yourselves… notify me if you are interested in protesting@ mbcalloway@gmail.com
There is a nation-wide protest being held Aug.12,2011 to fight CPS corruption. The site for info is http://www.govabuse.org. You can hold a protest at your local courthouse…If anyone would like to help me in Martin county p-lease feel free to call me at 2527980333. We have got to stop these monsters!!!!!
Brunswick County DSS has not followed State Guide lines, I have written 2 registered letters which received no response. I then downloaded the DHS manual, I highlighted all their policies which were blatantly ignored in my case, I made a list of questions I wanted answered and I carried it with me when I spoke with the director at Brunswick County DSS. The director I spoke with 6 months ago is no longer there and has been replaced. My question is, since they refuse to follow the state policies and laws what can I do now? Where do I go from here?
Thank You, I really appreciate all your hard work that you put into answering questions and keeping your site up to date.
you need to get an attorney and sue them. you are one of tens or hundreds of thousands. you need to bring your case immediately to the attention of abusefreedom.com, and look on the internet for others. you will find someone to help you, just make sure to document, and record or webcam every conversation you have with all of them. this is a national problem, and one of egregious nature against families. you are fighting a system that extorts money from parents, kidnaps and abuses children and takes away our constitutional rights.
My husband spent yesterday in DSS court and based on what happened there we are convinced that not only is the DSS system totally inept but corrupt as well. We have a 16 year old son named Sam who has been in DSS “care” since January 2011. Here’s the story that led up to what we realize was the biggest mistake of our lives – letting DSS get inside our business:
In April 2010 Sam assaulted his father and threatened to kill me in front of our four young children who were 7, 8, 9 and 10 at the time. One of our children has Downs Syndrome and is especially affected by Sam’s behaviors. Sam has had mental health issues his whole life (his mother has been in and out of every mental hospital in the state and is currently in assisted living) He is on medication for ADHD and ODD and has assaulted everyone in our house including the young children and his older sister. He punches holes in the wall, screams obscenities when he doesn’t get his way, and in general makes life living hell for everyone. He steals, lies, was caught with drugs. We’ve had the police to our house approx 10 times in 2 years for his various outbursts.
The initial assault and threats charge put is in the Cabarrus county Juvenile justice system. He was put on probation and we were assigned RHA counselors who came to our house three days a week for “family counseling”. We did everything they asked, we let them in our home, we adjusted our schedule for three hours at a time three days a week to try and help him. He continually violated his probation by refusing to follow rules and not cooperating with DJJ or the RHA counselors. We went to district court in Aug of 2010 for one such violation and had the misfortune of our judge being sick, so we ended up in front of Judge Donna Johnson – a DSS judge. Please keep this in mind because the ONLY reason DSS got involved was because our judge was sick – not because anyone at any time thought we needed their intervention.
Since she became the decision maker it’s been a race to the bottom of a deep hole of twisted justice and warped ideas about fairness. Her website claims her to be an “advocate for children” and that her hallmarks are “experience, fairness, and integrity.” She claims “Being tough on crime is “not judicial activism,” it is “judicial
responsibility.” BLAH BLAH BLAH – I’m sorry but words mean nothing – this is the reality.
EXPERIENCE: First we can tell by the tone she uses with us in court that she obviously assumes the parents to automatically be at fault, even though we were not in front of her for OUR infractions but for our son’s. Perhaps because her experience usually involves neglectful or abusive PARENTS then she just assumes it is always the case. She’s extremely rude and she scrutinizes everything we say and do as though we are scum. She treated HIM; however, with obvious sympathy – “Life is hard for you, isn’t it Sam?” I was outraged that she would have the nerve to take his side when we are the ones being subjected to HIS behaviors. Even after listening to a recording of him screaming and yelling and saying he “didn’t give a crap about any of us”… even after tell her his own little sister has nightmares about him killing us all she has the nerve to treat HIM with kid gloves. She had all the evidence in front of her that he was the abusER not the abusEE but her “experience” told her to believe the child first.
We had teachers, counselors, his probation officer, even the police officer who came to our house willing to testify that Sam was the issue and we were good, honest, hardworking, churchgoing, loving parents just trying to PROTECT our other children from this boy’s madness. She would not hear of it. RHA suggested he be ordered to wilderness camp as everything they tried to do for him wouldn’t work. But since we make too much money, we would have to pay the $200 per DAY fee for him to stay there unless the judge ordered it. She would not – it would mean the government would have to pay for it! God forbid! She ordered a forensic exam. They said he had mental issues and needed help. She ordered community service which he did by going “camping” and picking up some trash. These are just stall tactics hoping we would give up and they’d dump us out of the system.
Except during the whole time his behavior got worse and worse and she could not make any more excuses for him. Rather than come down hard on HIM for being unwilling to comply, she keeps with the “child is always the victim” and suggests perhaps it was our environment that was the problem. Maybe poor Sam is just misunderstood by his parents. “He has a mental illness after all – you know he can’t POSSIBLY be held accountable for his actions.” (She honest to God said that to us in court) I’m sorry but you can have experience and still completely lack common sense! If he has an obvious mental problem then WHY ARE YOU MAKING US LIVE WITH HIM???? If we did to them what Sam has done to them, they would yank them all out from under us, but if we try to protect them from abuse by a teenaged sibling…. they will yank them out from under us! It’s madness! All the evidence suggest he might harm someone in our home, but Oh wait, I forgot, even the mentally ill, abusive juvenile delinquent gets more rights than the innocent victims when the victims are the parents.
ADVOCATE?? Poor Sam….huh? Excuse me Judge Johnson, but how are you an advocate for Sam by allowing him to assault people, fail school, steal, lie, do drugs, etc… then refuse to hold him accountable? But forget that, ultimately, how are you an advocate for my other four children when you refuse to protect them from a young man hell bent on hurting them at every turn? How were you an advocate for my 9-year-old when Sam walked in his room without provocation and kicked and hit him and bloodied his nose? How are you an advocate for our son with Downs who has learned from his brother that being inappropriate in our speech and hitting when we don’t get our way is normal and “you don’t have to do what they say they are mean parents”? How are you an advocate for Sam’s 8 year old sister who has nightmares that Sam is going to kill us in our sleep?
So we go in front of you and your snarky little DSS lawyers who refuse to talk to the PARENTS about what kind of legal shenanigans they are pulling behind closed doors and the next thing you know they are walking away with Sam and we don’t even know what they did to make it happen. For all we know they declared us unfit – that was January and we have never gotten a piece of paper saying what they did. They put Sam in foster care. And now that he’s out of our ENVIRONMENT poor little Sammy did great, right?
Let’s see, the first home the put him in lasted two days because she lied about who lived with her and had her license yanked. The second home was a single mom with a teenage daughter who showered him with gifts because I’m sure she had been told his meanie parents took everything from him. I’m sure they forgot to mention to her that he lost all his stuff because of he refused to follow rules and was disrespectful. That lasted maybe 2 months before she DEMANDED he be removed immediately because….yes you guessed it! He was being rude and disrespectful and not following rules. Imagine that. We still don’t know all the details because even though we are financially responsible – yes we are paying DSS child support for him – we don’t have the right to talk to the foster mom about what he is doing nor are we allowed to tell her what he did to get put there in the first place. Even when she’s kicking him out for the same exact behavior that got him there in the first place.
So he goes to another single mom who left him totally unsupervised while she worked all day. He’s on Facebook at all hours of the night posting lewd and obscene things and going to clubs and hanging with friends and getting piercings. He starts dating a girl and the geniuses at DSS are handing him condoms rather than restricting him. It get’s better – she has a 10 year old son (even though he has a pending charge for assaulting my 9 year old but hey – DSS prob didn’t tell her that or they couldn’t have dumped him on her) and she kicks him out because he won’t leave the 10 year old alone or follow rules or show respect or….hmmm..do we detect a pattern?
FAIRNESS: So now we’ve run out of homes willing to take him in Cabarrus county so we start to see a problem. He’s burning every bridge DSS has. He’s using RESOURCES. He’s too much trouble. How about a group home? hmmm, that would cost the state money! Oh, I have it! Lets threaten to declare the PARENTS unfit to care for him! Forget that they have NO evidence that we are bad parents. Forget that we have TONS of evidence that Sam is the problem and continued to BE the problem even when not in OUR environment. Let’s point a gun to the PARENTS head and say hey, not only are we going to send the wolf back into your house to prey on the innocent lambs who just recently were able to sleep at night and live life without fear, we are going to be watching your EVERY move for the next 10 years! How is that fair?
INTEGRITY: We got a call one day about the same time he got kicked out of the last home, saying that DJJ had dropped his probation and they no longer had “jurisdiction” over him and they were holding him illegally and he would have to come home. Of course, we couldn’t argue with that because we still don’t know how they got “jurisdiction” in the first place as they have never given us anything stating how they were able to take him. Now, we said it’s not a good idea, we said Sam won’t like it, but we NEVER said no he can’t come home. They set a court date for when they knew we were out of town on vacation. Luckily our lawyer got them to file a continuance otherwise we believe they intended to file a petition of dependency and take our rights away and we’d be defending our right to parent our other kids (the victims). When we never got any summons for the continuance, we called the DSS worker to ask if we have to go to court, she told us “they haven’t filed anything” Which was a half-truth at best. They did not mention the court date still existed. They sure as hell didn’t mention that an order of dependency had already been drafted basically saying we were at fault for all of this!
I believe they intended to mislead us so we wouldn’t show up and they were going to ramrod this thing through! If it wasn’t for our lawyer noticing we were on the docket that’s what these sleezy half-wits would have done. Even when my husband showed up at court AGREEING to take him back, they were hell bent on filing the petition anyway! We were THREATENED with a petition to terminate OUR rights based on….what? hmmm, no evidence that they are neglectful parents. In fact, when Sam filed a false report against us, it was unfounded! So we had already been declared fit parents. But hey, we don’t need evidence! His court appointed lawyer who continued the assault case twice cause she “wasn’t ready” now comes to us and says, “Well, if you want this (illegal immoral and unfounded) petition to go away, you must not only take him back or risk DSS up your butt for the next 10 years they you must DROP THE ASSAULT CHARGE.” Why? Can’t answer that – it requires me to leave reason checked at the door and while the legal and social services systems are aces at that game I cannot fathom why Sam gets to abuse my family then walk away from it all scott free while WE are treated like the perpetrators and we must now open ourselves us to his abuse again or lose our other kids.
So let this soak in….unless we drop the assault on a minor charge – that he admitted to – WE will be declared unfit. Unless we take him back in and subject our other children to his anger – cause he’s mighty pissed btw that he has to to come back here – these same children might be taken from us in the future. My 9 year old son not only does not get any JUSTICE OR FAIRNESS he has to LIVE WITH HIS ABUSER or WE will lose him and his siblings to the system. Go wrap your head around THAT one!
I see from the plethora of posts on this subject that we are not alone in the maze of madness surrounding what originally was an agency to protect our children. They don’t give a damn about my children. They give a damn about making sure they don’t spend their budget. They sit there in their high and lofty places and make decisions that affect lives they don’t have to live based on opinions rather than cold hard facts in front of them. If they cared about Sam they would put him in a controlled environment and require him to be treated by doctors who can handle his extremely violent and harmful behavior so that he doesn’t go out into the world and continue to commit his CRIMES.
Who is OUR advocate? What do you do when its the CHILD who is the abuser? Who protects the other children in the home when their brother or sister is abusive to them? If they cared about Joshua, Lola, Arianna and Emerson – YES SOCIAL SERVICES THEY ARE REAL PEOPLE WITH REAL FEARS AND WHO NEED REAL PROTECTION – they wouldn’t subject them to live with someone they fear.
If ever anyone needs me to stand up and tell my story to support anything that puts these people in their place count me in. I don’t have much hope – it’s a huge gaping black hole of nonsense ready to suck in the innocent and spit them back out. There is no fairness, no justice, no advocacy happening here.
Caldwell County DSS and Sheriffs dept were both told of a 42 year old man dating 15 and 16 year old girls. Neither one had the jurisdiction to investigate.
My case has been open for 104 days. They have not taken my kids. They say they are closing the case that day, everytime I call but still no letter. What are they up to? We opened the case on a relative and I feel like they are going to turn the table. Please help.
My Daughter is Going thru the same thing her Children were taking without a investigation its been since Jan27 of this year she lives in Burke Country NC Kids were taking in Caldwell County did all that DSS has ask her to do without DSS helping her they wouldnt even give her a case plan Judge had to Court order it after two Months she has never been able to tell her side of the story in March she was told by the Judge she Should have her Children back by next month without even knowing they transfered the case to Burke County and it started all over again she gets 1 hr aweek visitation with her children Grandparents get none since in DSS care they have been abused and medicated the worker that took the Children was fired for taking Children without investigation first Lawyer she had in Caldwell County is a DSS lawyer in Burke County when told about things he would say that DSS stretches the truth that that was minor she has never told her side of the case they told her to get a better job she did now they tell her she needs a different job cos she works sometimes on saturday charged with child abuse in Calwell County without a investigation and Lawyers are scared to say anything to DSS and when she specks her mind they take her visititation away for weeks at a time what do you do?
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my cousin claims her kids were taken away in wallace north carolina for having a low income can this really happen i can’t seem to find any information on this case can someone help me the parents names are daved franklin malone and mollie malone can anyone help me
Dss took my two daughters and a mound of lies,deceit,and confussion followed and continues,no one from dss seems intrested in helping or even hearing me and the truth~ if there is any one out there that has any advise or resources contact me asap at anytime…@tmwebb37@gmail.com or facebook “marialuttrell~ 7048134511
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I feel for those that are going through dss problems if i can help you can email me @jamesbradshaw77@gmail.com or contact me at any time 828-409-5538 i have dealt with them as well not alot of people know there rights but we do have rights dss just dont want you to know that
We went to court in CATAWBA COUNTY and the decision was already made before our case was even heard. We wanted our grandson Jace in our care. He was in our care until CPS took him . Our daughter has a drug problem but when she stayed with us during her pregnancy, she was sober.. October 12,2011 our daughter said she was sick, so she did not go to church.. She wanted us to have Jace because she wanted to go to Rehab.Together, we got a typed letter stating what our daughters intention were. She wanted it notarized,so we did that..She went into labor on October 13,2011. Kevin andI found out about two hours later that her and Jace tested positive for cocaine. I was totally devastated. Jace was born in Mecklenberg county bbut we lived in CATAWBA CO .CATAWBA stepped in took Jace from Kevin and I because of my Fibromyalgia. My doctors stated I was healthy enough to raise Jace… Our daughter has been in Rehab since October 26,2011 and she is doing well according to her counselers.. BUT OUR HEARTS ARE BROKEN WITHOUT JACE!!!!!!!!! HELP US PLEASE!!!!!
My husband and I were really shafted by DSS in Caldwell County. Our grandchildren were placed in a foster home in March, 2011. We had had the oldest boy almost all his life, and we had the 3 year old granddaughter off and on for most of her life. We had signed an agreement that we would not let Keisha, our daughter take Hannah anywhere alone. Hannah had a drs. appointment one day, and Bruce, the grandfather, had to work, as he was supporting everyone, so Keisha promised she would take her and bring her straight home or take her to daycare. Well she not only did not take Hannah to the dr, she took her to see her dad that had just gotten out of jail. BIG MISTAKE! Shee got home early with her, they had dinner, baths and then went to bed. At 1:30 AM, there was cops n DSS workers to get our grandchilren. I know we broke a rule, and it was wrong, but they were fine. We had kinship of them from Dec 2010 until March 15, 2011, and made that 1 horrible mistake by trusting our daughter. at Keisha’s hearing she was given orders to comply to, but she didn’t do those things. The judge gave us intervention rights. Well, Dss told us from the start we would never get our grandchidren back. We attended hearings all this year, and never got to speak until Feb 2 2012, our last hearing. The DSS always found reasons to continue and not let us speak. So many lies were told. I am trying to get signatures of people that want DSS to be investagated and also, I am trying to get grandparent’s signatures to send to two representatives that have agreed to help us grandparent rights in NC. That means the whole state of NC. Please help with this by sending statements and signatures to me at lindalou_10@charter.net or call me @ 828-396-9894. TY! Needless to say, we lost our grandchildren. Everyone in that room was crying and telling us how sorry they were. Some even followed us out, begging us to pray for them. Most of them were grandparents losing their grandchildren.
Im in Brunswick County im fighting for my 7 month old son. He went to the hospital on Jan 3rd for an 8oz weight loss. He was released Jan 6th but took into kinship. Its been a month and im still no closer to getting him back. My caseworker keeps giving me the run around and won’t let me know what needs to be done to get him back. Please if anone knows any advice let me know. Thank you
Ask for a court appointed lawyer and sue DSS
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After talking to many people, I have come to realize that alot of us had the same judge. IF YOU HAD GARY DELLINGER AS YOUR JUDGE,,, PLEASE CONTACT US ASAP……..He handles alot of DSS cases in Caldwell, Catawba,and Burke. Thank you very much for your assistance..
I have Gary Dellinger as our judge, and I need people to stand up with me to try to keep our 2 grandchildren from getting adopted out April 25! We our in Caldwell county and need your help. my phone # is 828-396-9894. my e-mail is lindalou_10@ charter. net! Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee help us!!!!
Can anyone please help me. I’ve been in contact with dss and cps in new hanover and pender county. I’m not getting anywhere with them. They keep passing the buck. I have a 15month old soon. I have been denied the right to see him since nov. 28,2011 by my wife. We are currently going through a court battle at the momen but i’m afaid by the time the courts hear all the facts of the case it’s going to be to late. I have my son’s medical records. His mother is not taking him to the doctors for his checkups. He was there in feb for a very bad diaper rash that his mother said he had for over a week before she took him in. It’s noted on the doctor’s records. Also, the enviroment he is staying in is very unsafe. The whole family has depression, and violent temper, anger management problems. On feb. 10, her dad attempted suicide and 3 days later on feb. 13 her 10 year old brother beat the shit out of his mom, and jumped out of a moving truck. Both the dad and child were committed to a mental hospital. I called dss and cps to tell them what I had found. They took my information and I got a letter yesterday saying that they are not able to investigate because it doesn’t meet Nc Maltreatment Screening Tools test. I looked up the test on line and found that they should be investigating this bc it does qualify. But they are not. Now they are avoiding my phone calls. I’m in fear of my son’s safety and well being in that home. All the signs point towards a very wrongful ending to this. PLEASE IF ANYONE CAN HELP PLEASE E-MAIL ME. I DON’T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO ANYMORE. dplayer212006@yahoo.com.
Dear David, since you have caught DSS in their lie, they will not help you. The best thing you can do is get a lawyer, take the evidence of the lie and sue the hell out of the.
It seems with all the information you have and you can prove that your wife is being negligent -medically,David you should be able to file emergency custody.Not to mention the place he stays is not considered stable. Make sure you have all the paperwork (police reports, ems, er, hospital and the pediatricians) I believe you have to go to the magistrate to file the papers.You may be able to find a placethat will help you with this because it really sounds like your baby might be in danger. Remember that you are doing what is in the best interest of your baby
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Can someone please get in contact with me about a lawyer who is good at fighting CPS in Wake County, so that I can get my children back from foster care? Thanks. Please email me. Also, I am willing to help lobby, tell my story or do whatever I can to stop this from happening to another innocent child or family.
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Henderson county is the worst of all dss offices.They sell babies here and will take those from poor people and then sell them.
North Carolina should contact the SBI with their concerns as well as the Governor. A foster mother almost let my grandbaby die from choking. She aspirated and got chemical pneumonia. All CPS did was smak the old lady on the hand while my grandbaby had to be hospitalized and put into an induced coma for about a week. We all need to get together and find a very good attorney willing to start a Class Action Lawsuit and get our kids back before we all die of heartbreak. Good luck to you all and I certainly feel your pain. I live in New Hanover County and would love to see others willing to join this fight to get our child (ren) back where they belong.
I wish that those in charge would pay attention to us normal people who are actually trying to be real parents. I am being harrassed by dss in johnston county over a false report filed by a teacher who did not like me because I asked her not to be predjidice against my child because she has mental problems.. The investigation began against my child’s father’s wife and then was turned against me and my fiance.. What is that? There was proof of the marks my child receives at her father’s house but yet they are going against us and have ripped my family apart.. They are here to protect our children but yet they feel invinsible like they can do anything they want to do.. No one cares enough to help us I believe the only way to make a difference is to join forces and contact any news and newspapers that will listen to us to let the world know what kind of dss workers and system we really face… Making a stand will make a difference they may have control but we as a whole can take it back… Stand up for our chidren and our rights make everyone listen to our stories… Only when this happens can we really change the system as we know it… If we don’t fight for our children who will?
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North Carolina Department of Social Services CPS in Catawba County is corrupt as well. How can a CPS worker tell you not to live with a man even though he has done everything they have asked and has provided exceptionally for me and my 2 children. I do not understand how these people can tell me who I can and who I can not be with. They are trying to tell me who I can be intimately involved with and that is not right. How can this happen?
I am in New Hanover County, Wilmington, NC if anyone is in the area and would like to join up. We are forming a group and an Occupy Family Court division for Cape Fear. Everyone can join the worldwide facebook group A Parent’s Rights A Call to Action and Please if you are in NC please join the facebook group A Parent’s Rights A Call to Action NC Division and We Are Change NC so we can all join together!