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Washington State CPS (Skagit Co.) 3 year old child gets 2nd & 3rd degree burns while in the mother's care. Hospital refuses to release the child back to her care. CPS badgers father @ work to allow the child to be with the mother's grandmother until final investigation. CPS cont. to put the child at risk. Mount Vernon Washington
My step-daughter is now 4. Her mother has been completely incapable of providing the proper care for the child.
Reasons being...
-Drug & alcohol addictions w/positive test results including two classes never being fulfilled.
-WSP records regarding a drug sniffing dog that found a pipe and meth in her vehicle.
-Leaving child unattended numerous times in the crib in the middle of the afternoon while she has been passed out downstairs all morning, all night from drug & alcohol abuse. Child has not ate or has not been changed. Child found by grandmother soaked in urine & feces & hungry.
-Mother has continuously made threats in front of the grandmother about hurting the child(ren) by putting their heads through a wall and breaking their arms.
-Child found by grandmother outside of the mother's apartment with a nine year old little girl. (How she got out? I don't know) Mother was again passed out from drugs & alcohol.
-Mother was in an accident two hours after trying to run me off the road. I called police concerning her erratic driving and nothing. This was also drug & alcohol induced. Police never checked her & let her go even though she injured her passenger and put him in the hospital.
-Mother has no license because of the accident and wants the injured party to release her of all responsibilities so she can get her license back. He refuses. She continues driving her children around, although, the court requires her to have a license at all times.
-I had informed the police dept. of the mother bringing me the child without a license & insurance and stated she would be probably driving fast down a 35mph road. He found her doing 55 in a 35, with no license & insurance. The child was in the vehicle at the time he had pulled her over.
-Her drug abuse has been ignored in court and her attorney & family has fought it by saying her doing drugs was an accident.
-CPS has been on the mother's side from day one. CPS worker came to my fiancee's place of employment & hounded him for over 20 minutes to allow the transfer of the child to be released into the care of the mother's grandma until further investigation of the 2nd & 3rd degree burns.
-Hospital did not want the child to be released to the mother due to the unexplainable burns.
-Child is constantly sick. Filled up by all different kinds of medications. There is over $500.00 worth of pertinent information from different doctors. Mother takes her to different doctors on the account the other doctor did not prescribe the child any medications. Child constantly looks hung over. She comes to our home this way, but, leaves healthy.
-Child has been kept out all hours of the cold night with very minimal clothing on and the mother wonders why she has to run the child to the hospital.
-Child states she eats brownies in her oatmeal, as the mother said she could. She is very unaware of vegetables and has refused them on numerous accounts. Candy & sugar items is her main source of food and has refused non sugar foods in our home. Child has done a very good job in our home learning new foods that have never been introduced into her diet by her mother.
-Child has separation anxiety. She fears her father or I will leave her. When we return her to her mother's home, she refuses to go with her.
-Child has shown sexual behaviors at 2 1/2 -3 yrs. old. One incident of performing oral on her baby doll within just a few minutes of picking her up from her mother's home. I told her she shouldn't do things like that and the child stated her mother said she could.
-We have taken the child to a sexual abuse center, in which, we needed to continue to pursue the case, but, the judge dismissed the accusations.
-The mother is also dating a sex offender. The courts and CPS are not wanting to hear it, due to the fact, that the child is not in the sex offenders age range. Mother states that the child has never been around him, but, we had dropped the child off at the mother's home and he was there, they just got back from going out to eat. (This was before we knew he was convicted. I did research the following day & found out he was charged.)
...There is many, many, many more!
My fiancee has a clean record and has had negative drug tests through his employment for well over eight years. I, myself, has had negative drug tests and a clean record. (I'll be honest- I have a few driving infractions over the last 16 years. Nothing big.)
I, well we, have four children, not including, my step-daughter, that live in our home. My oldest daughter is a cheerleader for her high school. My oldest son is into sports & has obtained a hunting license. My youngest daughter is just a tomboy, who loves her animals and wants to be a vet. when she grows up and our youngest son loves working on vehicles, loves the outdoors and loves to go hunting with us.
We are just your typical family, with family values. We do not go out and "party", we don't drink or abuse drugs. We are home bodies except when our children have sports to attend or it's hunting season. We do things for our children, our life is lived through them.
I am an at home mom. My house is clean ( I know better because my mother would kick my butt if it wasn't. She raised me right.) My fiancee has worked at his job since 1998, right after he was out of college. I ,have also, have many college credits for family life. I, also, have went to college to obtain a paralegal certificate until I was released by my doctor for health issues. Have not decided to go back yet until my children get a little older and it is easier for me to attend.
We are at a loss in this case. We have fought for his child since the grandmother (the child's grandmother, the mother's mother) had taken temporary custody in early 2005, in which, the child was around 9 months. The child had stayed with the grandmother while we fought custody. My fiancee only received supervised visitation through the entire temporary custody case, which was over a year and a half. The mother decided she wanted the child (and other child back) in late 2006 and the courts allowed this, although we fought our hardest for the child through the temp. custody. The mother never once fought for the child back during the temporary custody. Her family stated she was capable of the responsibilities of taking care of her children. Shortly after the WSP found meth & a pipe in her vehicle by using a drug sniffing dog, but, it was in the open on the back dash of her vehicle.
February 14th, 2007, we went to court concerning the hair follicle tests that were performed on my fiancee and the child's mother. Father = negative. Mother = positive for cocaine. My fiancee received immediate custody of his daughter. 2 days later the judge decided to give the child back to the mother, due to the fact that, the mother's attorney and the mother's family fought to the court that the cocaine use was an accident. Yep, she tripped and fell into it. It happens all the time, right?
In June of 2007, the mother had brought the child to our home. She had stated the child was injured by her older brother (5 at the time) ran into her with his (pedal) bicycle. She had unbuttoned my step-daughter's jeans and pulled them down along side her left leg. She had, not one, but two separate burns on her hip that were at least 2- 2 1/2 inches long and approx. an inch apart. After the mother left, I had took her into the house and asked her what happened, she said she did not know, with a sad look on her face. I told her I was going to take a picture of her fake tattoos that the mother had allowed her to put all over her body. I then called my fiancee and told him to meet me at the hospital. I had also called a family friend who is a mandatory reporter for abuse, she is a foster home parent. She had met me on the way and was very adamant about the burns not being from a bicycle and was concerned for my step-daughter's safety. She did report this to CPS.
At the hospital, the child was too comfortable being around nurses and doctors, unlike any 3 year old. There were many nurses & doctors coming in and out of the room trying to find an explanation for the burns. A bicycle was not one of them as the burns were too straight and not rounded, as well as, a bicycle tire would have not been able to create 2nd & 3rd degree burn, unless the child was held up to the tire for a period of time while they intentionally pedaled the bike, but still, the burns were not rounded. Eventually, the burns were so unexplainable that the hospital had stated, "Do not release this child back to the mother." In turn, they called the police department & CPS, we were to take the child to the police department upon departure of the hospital. We filled out the police reports and they took more pictures. CPS never showed. The Police department told us to keep her in our care, do not take her back to her mother's on Monday. The department gave us paperwork for my fiancee to hold the child in his care legally, she was to be in our protective custody. By Monday morning, the mother & her attorney filed paperwork with the court for failure to bring the child back to the mother. This was given to the police department & we were served later that afternoon. CPS had been called by the mother on Monday and reported something to them concerning us. In which, we were never investigated by CPS at any time after the mother's accusations. Because of the paper work filed with the court to return the child to the mother's care and the mother's (false) accusations against us, a foster care parent was to take the child from all parties.
She made false allegations against us cause she did not want the child to be in our care, but, wanted the child to go into foster care instead? What kind of mother what do that to her little girl. We took her back to the department and waited for the arrival of the foster care parent. I had asked if we could buckle he in and it was okay. My step-daughter screamed and cried for me while I was buckling her in. She screamed and cried, "Please, I promise I will be good!" I told her I knew she would be good and I promised her I would see her soon. She kept yelling my name over and over and it tore my heart out. This is not my biological daughter, but, for that moment I felt like I was handing one of my own children over. I cried all the way home and my fiancee did too.
The mother leaves this child with whomever would take her and she put me/us in that same position. I was so angry. I have taught this little girl please & thank you, she sits to eat her food with all our other children now and at least tries different food items. She has learned to be a kid at heart when she is in our home. She plays outside and gets dirty. Loves riding the four wheeler out back on our track. She knew she was safe in our home and with our family and that everyone loved her. Her separation anxiety with us had diminished, she trusted us to the full extent, although, she still refused to go back with her mother.
And her mother took that all away from her the minute I had put her in the foster parents vehicle. The child's happiness was not her concern, only the mother's happiness was going to be in jeopardy if she did not get that little girl out of our care. How sickening.
The following day. Tuesday, was a shelter care hearing. We had agreed that the child would stay in the foster parent's home until CPS had done an investigation. After the hearing, I went home & my fiancee went to work. The mother of the child went to the CPS office to have an interview. After the interview, the CPS worker went to my fiancee's place of employment and hounded him for over 20 minutes while he was on the clock. She wanted him to give her permission to release the child into the care of the child's mothers' grandmother. He continuously said NO. She was not leaving until she had received the answer she came to get in the first place. She wasn't going to leave, so, he ended up saying fine. The mother would not have any contact with the child what so ever while the child would be in the mother's grandmother's care. Which would be some what okay, but, the grandmother runs an in-home elderly care, in which, the child's mother works for her. So, you tell me....Does the mother have ANY contact with this child? YES!!!! And what is her grandmother thinking allowing her to be taking care of the elderly while she has been doing drugs? Where is this so called system that helps people feel safe & is suppose to protect us? CPS is suppose to take care of child & elderly abuse. Where was CPS when my step-daughter was burned? Where were they when they knew this mother has been abusing drugs, but, still working with the elderly?
Anyway, about one month later, and no investigations of the allegations the mother had made against us...The child was placed back into her mother's care based on "INCONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE" (of the burns). Does this now mean that if something happens to this little girl while being in the mother's care, CPS can be held responsible right along with the mother? Because we will push that issue!
I have contacted every person I could think of, including the media, Nancy Grace, our state's senator (which happens to be female), and numerous high profile custody attorney's. No one would look into this matter or help us with getting a pro bono attorney who knows what they are doing. We have paid all we have in fighting for his child, without taking from the other children in our home.
Three times this child has not been in the care & custody of the mother in just four years of this little girls life. Half of her life was spent in the care of her grandmother, while the courts refused this little girls father the right to take responsibility of his daughter since the mother was incapable of doing so.
In this state, there is no grandparents' rights. Apparently, there are no fathers' rights either. The father is just good for payment of child support?
CPS had backed the mother all the way. Why, when the mother had so much against her? The father, nothing. Inconclusive evidence means something is going on, but, were not able to find it. But, they know something is going on in the mother's home and when no one is talking about the incident, then it comes back in their report as inconclusive evidence. The courts did not step over CPS to protect this child. So who is going to? CPS has failed in protecting the children in this state one too many times. I even know a man who had claimed his child's mother & boyfriend were making meth under their home. He reported to CPS & they laughed in his face and told him that was a flat out lie. He then hired someone to take samples of the dirt under the house. It came back positive. He then went to court, got custody of his child, took all the paperwork to the CPS office and placed it on their desk. He then told them he received custody of his child and what he had thought about them and how they don't handle the protection of the children within the child's best interest. They have had many reports concerning this mother and never acted on one of them. This man is very well known and respected in our area and still has custody to this day. The child is happy & healthy.
Father's can take of their children and that is a known fact. Same with mothers. But, when a mother or a father fails, then you allow the other parent to take the responsibility. Isn't that the way it is suppose to work? These are the two people that brought the child in this world in the first place, make them be responsible. When both parents fail, then find another alternative.
My step-daughter has mental and emotional issues at 4 years old. When is her father going to be allowed to help his daughter when this mother cannot?
When it is too late?
Amber
Concrete, Washington
U.S.A.
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Reasons being...
-Drug & alcohol addictions w/positive test results including two classes never being fulfilled.
-WSP records regarding a drug sniffing dog that found a pipe and meth in her vehicle.
-Leaving child unattended numerous times in the crib in the middle of the afternoon while she has been passed out downstairs all morning, all night from drug & alcohol abuse. Child has not ate or has not been changed. Child found by grandmother soaked in urine & feces & hungry.
-Mother has continuously made threats in front of the grandmother about hurting the child(ren) by putting their heads through a wall and breaking their arms.
-Child found by grandmother outside of the mother's apartment with a nine year old little girl. (How she got out? I don't know) Mother was again passed out from drugs & alcohol.
-Mother was in an accident two hours after trying to run me off the road. I called police concerning her erratic driving and nothing. This was also drug & alcohol induced. Police never checked her & let her go even though she injured her passenger and put him in the hospital.
-Mother has no license because of the accident and wants the injured party to release her of all responsibilities so she can get her license back. He refuses. She continues driving her children around, although, the court requires her to have a license at all times.
-I had informed the police dept. of the mother bringing me the child without a license & insurance and stated she would be probably driving fast down a 35mph road. He found her doing 55 in a 35, with no license & insurance. The child was in the vehicle at the time he had pulled her over.
-Her drug abuse has been ignored in court and her attorney & family has fought it by saying her doing drugs was an accident.
-CPS has been on the mother's side from day one. CPS worker came to my fiancee's place of employment & hounded him for over 20 minutes to allow the transfer of the child to be released into the care of the mother's grandma until further investigation of the 2nd & 3rd degree burns.
-Hospital did not want the child to be released to the mother due to the unexplainable burns.
-Child is constantly sick. Filled up by all different kinds of medications. There is over $500.00 worth of pertinent information from different doctors. Mother takes her to different doctors on the account the other doctor did not prescribe the child any medications. Child constantly looks hung over. She comes to our home this way, but, leaves healthy.
-Child has been kept out all hours of the cold night with very minimal clothing on and the mother wonders why she has to run the child to the hospital.
-Child states she eats brownies in her oatmeal, as the mother said she could. She is very unaware of vegetables and has refused them on numerous accounts. Candy & sugar items is her main source of food and has refused non sugar foods in our home. Child has done a very good job in our home learning new foods that have never been introduced into her diet by her mother.
-Child has separation anxiety. She fears her father or I will leave her. When we return her to her mother's home, she refuses to go with her.
-Child has shown sexual behaviors at 2 1/2 -3 yrs. old. One incident of performing oral on her baby doll within just a few minutes of picking her up from her mother's home. I told her she shouldn't do things like that and the child stated her mother said she could.
-We have taken the child to a sexual abuse center, in which, we needed to continue to pursue the case, but, the judge dismissed the accusations.
-The mother is also dating a sex offender. The courts and CPS are not wanting to hear it, due to the fact, that the child is not in the sex offenders age range. Mother states that the child has never been around him, but, we had dropped the child off at the mother's home and he was there, they just got back from going out to eat. (This was before we knew he was convicted. I did research the following day & found out he was charged.)
...There is many, many, many more!
My fiancee has a clean record and has had negative drug tests through his employment for well over eight years. I, myself, has had negative drug tests and a clean record. (I'll be honest- I have a few driving infractions over the last 16 years. Nothing big.)
I, well we, have four children, not including, my step-daughter, that live in our home. My oldest daughter is a cheerleader for her high school. My oldest son is into sports & has obtained a hunting license. My youngest daughter is just a tomboy, who loves her animals and wants to be a vet. when she grows up and our youngest son loves working on vehicles, loves the outdoors and loves to go hunting with us.
We are just your typical family, with family values. We do not go out and "party", we don't drink or abuse drugs. We are home bodies except when our children have sports to attend or it's hunting season. We do things for our children, our life is lived through them.
I am an at home mom. My house is clean ( I know better because my mother would kick my butt if it wasn't. She raised me right.) My fiancee has worked at his job since 1998, right after he was out of college. I ,have also, have many college credits for family life. I, also, have went to college to obtain a paralegal certificate until I was released by my doctor for health issues. Have not decided to go back yet until my children get a little older and it is easier for me to attend.
We are at a loss in this case. We have fought for his child since the grandmother (the child's grandmother, the mother's mother) had taken temporary custody in early 2005, in which, the child was around 9 months. The child had stayed with the grandmother while we fought custody. My fiancee only received supervised visitation through the entire temporary custody case, which was over a year and a half. The mother decided she wanted the child (and other child back) in late 2006 and the courts allowed this, although we fought our hardest for the child through the temp. custody. The mother never once fought for the child back during the temporary custody. Her family stated she was capable of the responsibilities of taking care of her children. Shortly after the WSP found meth & a pipe in her vehicle by using a drug sniffing dog, but, it was in the open on the back dash of her vehicle.
February 14th, 2007, we went to court concerning the hair follicle tests that were performed on my fiancee and the child's mother. Father = negative. Mother = positive for cocaine. My fiancee received immediate custody of his daughter. 2 days later the judge decided to give the child back to the mother, due to the fact that, the mother's attorney and the mother's family fought to the court that the cocaine use was an accident. Yep, she tripped and fell into it. It happens all the time, right?
In June of 2007, the mother had brought the child to our home. She had stated the child was injured by her older brother (5 at the time) ran into her with his (pedal) bicycle. She had unbuttoned my step-daughter's jeans and pulled them down along side her left leg. She had, not one, but two separate burns on her hip that were at least 2- 2 1/2 inches long and approx. an inch apart. After the mother left, I had took her into the house and asked her what happened, she said she did not know, with a sad look on her face. I told her I was going to take a picture of her fake tattoos that the mother had allowed her to put all over her body. I then called my fiancee and told him to meet me at the hospital. I had also called a family friend who is a mandatory reporter for abuse, she is a foster home parent. She had met me on the way and was very adamant about the burns not being from a bicycle and was concerned for my step-daughter's safety. She did report this to CPS.
At the hospital, the child was too comfortable being around nurses and doctors, unlike any 3 year old. There were many nurses & doctors coming in and out of the room trying to find an explanation for the burns. A bicycle was not one of them as the burns were too straight and not rounded, as well as, a bicycle tire would have not been able to create 2nd & 3rd degree burn, unless the child was held up to the tire for a period of time while they intentionally pedaled the bike, but still, the burns were not rounded. Eventually, the burns were so unexplainable that the hospital had stated, "Do not release this child back to the mother." In turn, they called the police department & CPS, we were to take the child to the police department upon departure of the hospital. We filled out the police reports and they took more pictures. CPS never showed. The Police department told us to keep her in our care, do not take her back to her mother's on Monday. The department gave us paperwork for my fiancee to hold the child in his care legally, she was to be in our protective custody. By Monday morning, the mother & her attorney filed paperwork with the court for failure to bring the child back to the mother. This was given to the police department & we were served later that afternoon. CPS had been called by the mother on Monday and reported something to them concerning us. In which, we were never investigated by CPS at any time after the mother's accusations. Because of the paper work filed with the court to return the child to the mother's care and the mother's (false) accusations against us, a foster care parent was to take the child from all parties.
She made false allegations against us cause she did not want the child to be in our care, but, wanted the child to go into foster care instead? What kind of mother what do that to her little girl. We took her back to the department and waited for the arrival of the foster care parent. I had asked if we could buckle he in and it was okay. My step-daughter screamed and cried for me while I was buckling her in. She screamed and cried, "Please, I promise I will be good!" I told her I knew she would be good and I promised her I would see her soon. She kept yelling my name over and over and it tore my heart out. This is not my biological daughter, but, for that moment I felt like I was handing one of my own children over. I cried all the way home and my fiancee did too.
The mother leaves this child with whomever would take her and she put me/us in that same position. I was so angry. I have taught this little girl please & thank you, she sits to eat her food with all our other children now and at least tries different food items. She has learned to be a kid at heart when she is in our home. She plays outside and gets dirty. Loves riding the four wheeler out back on our track. She knew she was safe in our home and with our family and that everyone loved her. Her separation anxiety with us had diminished, she trusted us to the full extent, although, she still refused to go back with her mother.
And her mother took that all away from her the minute I had put her in the foster parents vehicle. The child's happiness was not her concern, only the mother's happiness was going to be in jeopardy if she did not get that little girl out of our care. How sickening.
The following day. Tuesday, was a shelter care hearing. We had agreed that the child would stay in the foster parent's home until CPS had done an investigation. After the hearing, I went home & my fiancee went to work. The mother of the child went to the CPS office to have an interview. After the interview, the CPS worker went to my fiancee's place of employment and hounded him for over 20 minutes while he was on the clock. She wanted him to give her permission to release the child into the care of the child's mothers' grandmother. He continuously said NO. She was not leaving until she had received the answer she came to get in the first place. She wasn't going to leave, so, he ended up saying fine. The mother would not have any contact with the child what so ever while the child would be in the mother's grandmother's care. Which would be some what okay, but, the grandmother runs an in-home elderly care, in which, the child's mother works for her. So, you tell me....Does the mother have ANY contact with this child? YES!!!! And what is her grandmother thinking allowing her to be taking care of the elderly while she has been doing drugs? Where is this so called system that helps people feel safe & is suppose to protect us? CPS is suppose to take care of child & elderly abuse. Where was CPS when my step-daughter was burned? Where were they when they knew this mother has been abusing drugs, but, still working with the elderly?
Anyway, about one month later, and no investigations of the allegations the mother had made against us...The child was placed back into her mother's care based on "INCONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE" (of the burns). Does this now mean that if something happens to this little girl while being in the mother's care, CPS can be held responsible right along with the mother? Because we will push that issue!
I have contacted every person I could think of, including the media, Nancy Grace, our state's senator (which happens to be female), and numerous high profile custody attorney's. No one would look into this matter or help us with getting a pro bono attorney who knows what they are doing. We have paid all we have in fighting for his child, without taking from the other children in our home.
Three times this child has not been in the care & custody of the mother in just four years of this little girls life. Half of her life was spent in the care of her grandmother, while the courts refused this little girls father the right to take responsibility of his daughter since the mother was incapable of doing so.
In this state, there is no grandparents' rights. Apparently, there are no fathers' rights either. The father is just good for payment of child support?
CPS had backed the mother all the way. Why, when the mother had so much against her? The father, nothing. Inconclusive evidence means something is going on, but, were not able to find it. But, they know something is going on in the mother's home and when no one is talking about the incident, then it comes back in their report as inconclusive evidence. The courts did not step over CPS to protect this child. So who is going to? CPS has failed in protecting the children in this state one too many times. I even know a man who had claimed his child's mother & boyfriend were making meth under their home. He reported to CPS & they laughed in his face and told him that was a flat out lie. He then hired someone to take samples of the dirt under the house. It came back positive. He then went to court, got custody of his child, took all the paperwork to the CPS office and placed it on their desk. He then told them he received custody of his child and what he had thought about them and how they don't handle the protection of the children within the child's best interest. They have had many reports concerning this mother and never acted on one of them. This man is very well known and respected in our area and still has custody to this day. The child is happy & healthy.
Father's can take of their children and that is a known fact. Same with mothers. But, when a mother or a father fails, then you allow the other parent to take the responsibility. Isn't that the way it is suppose to work? These are the two people that brought the child in this world in the first place, make them be responsible. When both parents fail, then find another alternative.
My step-daughter has mental and emotional issues at 4 years old. When is her father going to be allowed to help his daughter when this mother cannot?
When it is too late?
Amber
Concrete, Washington
U.S.A.
Click here to read other Rip Off Reports on Child Protective Services
