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| C.P.S kidnapped my son tucson, Arizona |
| 12th of May, 2011 by User994568 |
| hi, my son was taken yesterday on 5-12-2011, i had a protection plan with cps in febuary and complied with everything and it ended 2-23-2011, a new one was never done and they said my son was to reside in home with me and maternal grandmother where i live. a cps worker darlene was coming to our home once a month with no orders with them in affect but i didnt refuse. my parents have power of attorney over me and my child while i am treated for p.t.s.d and that power of attorney also states they have temporary custody for 6 months while im in these services and there classes. all of a sudden they showed up yesterday and took my child. nowthere saying i depend on my family to make my decisions to much and i should go to there shelter and see there therapists instead of my own here in tucson at codak......im lost and scared and dont know what to do. |
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My life prior to the involvement of the Arizona department of Child Protective Services consisted of me, my husband of eighteen years and our four children Anissa 16 years old, Abigail 14 years old, Dakota 12 years old and Brianna now 7 years old. I am a registered nurse employed at Tucson Medical Center in the Intensive Care Unit and my husband was a stay at home father due to a back injury he suffered years earlier and a surgery that went very wrong.
I apologize for the length of the email but this is a very long story so forgive me if I leave anything out. We were living in a motor home trying to return to our home state of Ohio due to the imminent death of my 16 year old brother, Jesse who ultimately passed away due to his spina bifida when my then 16 yr old daughter, Anissa, found a boyfriend that I did not approve of and so she ran away. My husband and I found her and brought her back which made her very angry. Anissa had told her friends mother that I tried to choke her and that is why her friends mother came to get her. We went and spoke to the girls step father and he told us what Anissa had said upon which I told them that the police told us we could press charges against them for custodial interference, but I felt that since Anissa had lied to them that it would not be appropriate for them to be punished. I told the step father that if they believed what Anissa had told them to be true then they should have calle
d CPS or the police but not dropped her off in the middle of the dessert with homeless people, which they had in fact done.
Approximately 2-3 weeks later Anissa and her 18 year old boyfriend wrote an email to the Pima County Sheriff's dept saying that I was beating on her and that I was locking them in the motor home and not letting them come out, not feeding her and the dogs we had. Anissa said that she wasn't going to school and that her father was an aggressive alcoholic, that I was hitting her with a vacuum electrical cord (we did not even have carpet in the motor home, but rather pergo wood and did not own a vacuum). She further stated that she had not been in school for over a year although they were being home schooled by their father. She also claimed that they had not had dental care although TMC has provided us with Delta Dental Care as part of my benefits package for the past four years. She stated her father had a warrant for a DUI. I know in my heart that the reason Anissa sent this email was because she did not want to go back to Ohio and be separated from her boyfriend. An
issa ultimately did tell the CPS staff that in fact she sent the email because she did not want to leave Arizona. I brought to the attention of the caseworker at CPS that I believed this 18 year old boy was having sex with my underage daughter, but my concerns have simply been ignored.
Due to the allegations contained within the email to the Sheriff's Department, on May 14th 2010 CPS and a Pima county sheriffs deputy came to my work at TMC, I am a RN in the ICU, and they informed me they were following up with a report I had made regarding an incident that had happened with my son over a year ago. This was a outright lie. CPS wanted to do a welfare check on the kids. I could not leave my patients in the hospital and risk losing my job, at this time I knew nothing about the email Anissa Our Oldest daughter had sent. CPS and the Sheriff's Deputy met me after work and we went to the motor home and they took Anissa that night. On May 17th the sheriff's department arrested my husband, Colen and a few hours later they came back and arrested me, which they then proceeded to take the other three kids. The charges against me were hindering prosecution which all of the charges were dropped 2 days later.
Everyone in the family including our three other children, my mom and my brother have told CPS that these allegations are untrue, and that Anissa has a history of lieing but they continue to believe Anissa despite her past. Since the case started it has been handled extremely poorly. Counseling services that CPS insisted upon took several months to set up. I have had to set up and pay for the parenting classes that were on my initial case plan, The psychiatric evaluation I was forced to undergo took over three months to set up and it wasn't until I took the initiative and scheduled it on my own at UPH did it finally occur in late July early August of 2010 after CPS had custody of my children for more than five months, and the results were not received until late October 2010. Briana, Dakota and Abigail were all set to come back home on October 20, 2010. One of the stipulations for the children to be returned was that Colen and I would have to have a physical brick and
mortar home in order for the children to be returned. Colen and I immediately rented a three bedroom home with a fenced in one acre yard spending more than fifteen hundred dollars. The children were all packed up and ready to be returned when at the last moment we were told that the children could not be returned due to the psychiatric evaluation I had undergone which made me look like I was at risk of all forms of abuse. I subsequently went to a second CPS approved physiatrist and had another psychiatric evaluation (enclosed) which revealed that I was a fundamentally sound parent.
I have letters from fellow coworkers, who have known me for the entire 4 years that I have worked at the hospital which include case workers, doctors, nurse practitioners, and they all speak to how compassionate and caring that I am and how patients and there families have verbalized this as well. On Thanksgiving 2010 of the case manager let the three kids come home for an 8 hour visit unsupervised and then that foll wing Monday he said no we can't do this anymore. Two weeks before Christmas Unsupervised visits were started and the 3 kids spent the weekend with again that Monday the case manager said that we can't do that anymore. He even sat in the living room with the girls at the foster family and told them how nice it will be because they will be home with their parents for Christmas. Visit were suppose to be upped to 6 hours and were for one sunday and then when transportation came came early it wasn't until that Monday that he said it was never approved.The case manag
er resigned from the department telling us that other people think that they know what is better for the kids then him when he talks to them on a regular basis.
The 3 kids have wanted to come home since they were taken. Anissa now has a facial piercing and gauges that we would not allow her to have. My son Dakota in a foster home were they have a 17 year old that has pushed him around a few times. The father has said things to him like your an ungrateful little kid I hope you go home to your mom and never come back here again. Also he put Vaseline on his hands before a shower and again he said to Dakota "what the fuck do you have for brains" and then after the shower sent him to bed. He was eating soup one day and was asked if he was going to eat any bread and when he said no Moses, the foster parent, said yes you are and sat there and watched him and didn't stop until the bread was gone. They asked him if he was going to get his hair cut by the 17yr son and my son said no and Moses again said that it was his house and if he told him to get his hair cut he had no choice. Cody had a cell phone a computer and an I POD touch and
a portable DVD player until he started to tell on them and what they were doing and saying and they tried to say Cody was disrespectful since he had gotten it and they wanted it taken. No complaints were ever made until he started telling on them for the treatment he was receiving.Once these isuues were brought up the foster parents decided to take Dakota's phone, laptop and all his other items.The new case manager said that that was cruel and he would not do that. A few weeks later he took it from him anyways . In court it was said that the Foster Family was confronted and at first the Foster Dad lied and then at another staffing meeting he admitted to what my son has said. My two girls Abigail and Brianna are in a home where they are left there with a 16yr old girl, named Jasmine, to watch them while the foster parent goes out to the casino or wherever and Abigail is the one that ends up watching Brianna. In May at the end of the school year we learned that Bree was in je
opardy of failing. Abigail has told us that the foster mom has said to Abigail that it is Abby's responsibility to help her with her homework because she is her sister. No one is helping her learn to read or write sentences or counting sequences nothing. Now they have taken my daughters phone and told her that they did it because they think that I am going to call her and make a plan for her to run away and I will come and get her. Brianna has been chocked multiple times by 12 year old girl and punched and kicked in the stomach. She was kicked in the face at day care recently and no call was made to foster home or case manager. This was seen by me two days ago it needed stitches at the time and she was never taken to a doctor to have it looked at.
CPS has also put in there case reports that no family is willing or able to take them. Which is very untrue, My mom has been calling since day one trying to get them to send them to her in Ohio and so has my Brother. Also in the report to the court it states that my mom has been approved now they are telling her and me that she is not approved that they think she won't protect them. That they know that once the kids are sent to Ohio that I will pack up and move. In counseling they have told Abigail that her and Cody are old enough to go back their but because of Brianna's age that she would be put up for adoption even if family are willing and able to take them. Now they are telling my mom they don't know if my brother will be approved either because I may move out there.
Since we have had this case with CPS It has been a living nightmare. Cps has played games with us over and over.
It took us 6 months just to get our first case plan. no services were offered to us for at least 7-8 months. Now I am back to having Supervised visits because they are saying that I will take the kids and run. They do not want to return the children to Family in Ohio Because I feel it's a Money issue. the longer they keep the kids in foster the more money CPS receives from the state. In my Case I have been made to look like a horrible Parent. And it's all because of the Lie's My oldest Daughter has told. I was able to meet with My oldest Anissa this week. and She even stated that She has been wanting to come home. But CPS has continued to state That she has not wanted to come home and that she wants nothing to do with me or the other children. this is untrue. If you need any doucuments such as a copy of our current case or even a copy of My psychological evaluation I can send them to you. I know there is so much more info I am missing. so If there are any questions I can
answer for you I will. Thank you so much for your time.. Heather Sullivan |
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