Shasta County CPS Shasta County Family Court Shasta County Human Services Shasta County Social Services CPS kidnapped my grandson Redding California
Shasta County CPS and the Family Court Judge, Molly Bigelow had my grandson kidnapped from his parents in Colorado last June. They conducted no investigation, did no drug test stating that due to the mother's drug use, the child was at risk of being neglected.
Although the mother has a history of drug use, she had moved to Colorado 2 months before the kidnapping and had been drug free since leaving California. This was proven via hair follicle test performed by the provider that the county uses but at our cost (as they denied our request to order a test that wouldn't support their lies).
We had to pay her flight to California two days after they took the child. (The agency admitted in court that they did not expect the mother to appear). Clearly they were angry. The appointed attorney fought for the child to be returned and was almost successful so at the court date 3 days later, he was found to have a conflict with a potential witness.
We extended our credit to it's max after draining our life savings, for a private attorney which only made them more angry. It is six months later, the mother is still drug free and the child is still in foster care. He has been in at least 4 foster homes and while never abused or neglected before removal, he has been abused, neglected and traumatized while in the "protective custody" of the county.
His mother gets visits, and maternal grandma gets one visit a month and no one else is allowed any contact despite the absence of any basis for this (except exercizing power). He was two years old when taken. At nearly 3.5 years, he has forgotten what his dad and other grandparents and aunts and uncle look like.
In order to receive the title IV funds, the judge decided last September that there is jurisdiction and that the county's claim of a potential for neglect exists and orders the mother to do as instructed by her social worker to get her son back. They will keep him until May 1st (my guess), to maximize collection of title IV funding.
The agency and the court have broken nearly every law from failing to Iinvestigate, failing to provide services to prevent removal, perjury, to failing to investigate reports of abuse going on in the foster homes.
Also, they continue to deny contact, even by phone with family members. There is no way for this to be okay. They have damaged this child and family in an extreme and permanent manner.
I wish this was an usual situation, but sadly it is similar to well over 1/2 of the children in county custody. I have heard 4/5 should never have been removed. The social worker has done everything she can think of to push the mother over the edge so they can keep collecting on this child until he is 19 years old, via adoption bonuses and ongoing funding.
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2 Updates & Rebuttals
BraysNana
redding,California,
clarification
#3Author of original report
Sat, December 21, 2013
Of course my daughter-in-law had a history in California - of sporadic drug use, but never child abuse or neglect. The incident on which they based the custody order was two-fold; first a home she had lived in was raided and drugs were found. There was a child there and that child went to CPS. She was no longer living there although her name was still on the lease. When she heard that her ex roommates had all been arrested, she decided to go to the house and get the belongings she had left behind. She knew that if she didn't make a change and soon she too would end up in trouble and lose her kid too. So while packing a social worker knocks on the door. She knew better than to let her in, but she should have been more polite in declining entry....Anyway, she took off that night - and agreeing to no drugs, my son flew her to Colorado. I am not stating that there was no basis for concern, even a full on investigation, but had they investigated and drug tested, they would have found that the child was actually in the best living situation and nicest home etc. that he had ever been in.... complete with his new racing car bed and both of his parents doing well and being law abiding self supporting citizens and loving attentive parents.
When the attorney we hired the day they came and took the child spoke to the social worker who said "that'll teach her to slam a door in my face"!!
As far as the stats go, Ididn't make them up and thos stats vary from county to county, state to state and even study to study but the point is that regardless which study or which county the stats are based upon, it is still a huge number as is the liklihood of abuse in foster care.
I have nothing to hide. Thank you for the opportunity to provide clarification.
Robert
Irvine,California,
The full story...
#3Consumer Comment
Sat, December 21, 2013
So why would CPS follow your daughter across State lines to take your grandchild?
Did they just randomly pick your daughters name out of a hat and when it came up decided to go across State lines and for no reason take your Grandchild into custody. No...there is a reason that you are failing to mention and most likely a history before she moved to Colorado.
What do they want your daughter to do in order to get her child back?
As for your statistics, just where do you get them? Can you point to the report that says 1/2 the children(or is it 4/5 of the children) shouldn't be there? Or could this be a case where you want us to believe you talked to EVERY "parent" and that is what they are telling you. Umm..Not to equate the parents with criminals I bet if you were to ask the people in State Prision if they should be there, 4/5 would say no as well.