CPS: Takes kids that are in a safe situation and ignores kids that are harshly abused emotionally every day. What a great organization.

CPS harasses innocent families and ignores situations that resulted in major abuse and even death.

The fact that CPS never took the kids from my meth head mother-in-law, despite how many people told me called them, tells me all I need to know about CPS.

The CPS workers responsible should be charged with kidnapped. That's what they did, hold them accountable.

Meanwhile every day CPS overlook children who are actually in danger😤

CPS do you remember Gabriel Hernandez the kid that was tortured to dead by his mother and her boyfriend he really needed help and y’all never took him away from these monsters I really don’t get it

as a foster parent i saw for myself how often LIES ARE told by social workers in paperwork AND IN COURT BEFORE JUDGES. OUTRAGEOUS

Now think of all the families that didn't have enough for a decent attorney. I was one. They illegally removed my daughter and put her in foster care on false allegations. I immediately proved them wrong but was forced to fight for 8 months to get her back. It is the most traumatic experience of my life and my baby was neglected in foster care

Falsifying documents?!! They should be in jail!!!

CPS is just horrible. If they're not tearing apart innocent homes they're ignoring the ones who actually need help! This world is so backwards.

As a child who grew up in foster care. I'm terrified to take my child to the doctor for this reason.

My mom works at a daycare. There was one family, the baby broke his leg getting caught on a car seat. Took him to the hospital. No other injuries, but doctors still had to call cps. Dont know what happened, but for some reason the agent felt disrespected and took the kid. The baby had a grandma in town willing to take him, but she put him with a foster family. Got chewed out by the judge for not putting him with grandma. Baby is back with parents now, but I would sue. Lady went on a power trip.

CPS acts like they have default rights to children.

$127k for felony kidnapping seems a little low

I like how the mom is honest about not seeing exactly what happened to her son. Cant keep an eye on them for every second of the day.

I had CPS called on my mom for being passed out from a meth crash with strange men in the home. She was able to answer the door so they didn't take me away. I was only 2 years old but this is what my aunt tells me. Weird how I wasn't taken but these kids were.

"Under emergency orders" They can take your child and then you have to fight to get them back. Sickening. It's getting worse.

Thank God they got a judge who listens and saw the lies

I need this lawyer. CPS has had my son for 30 months. 30!!!!!! He shouldn't have been taken, let alone be gone still. I am so happy for this family. CPS is horrible across the country. They need to start being "punished" for breaking the law.

i got two horrible CPS stories. they were called on my dad because he’s a drug addict and we were living with him (16 me, 19, 21). they didn’t call my mom, who had no idea that anything was going on. they interviewed all of us and let our dad take us back after he was 3 days sober, then he of course went and got high again and we struggled for two more months until we gathered the courage to ask for help from family. they were INCREDIBLY neglectful in that case. i didn’t go to school because i didn’t have anyone to take me, we were without food for weeks because my dad spent his money on drugs. it was awful and now the next one.....my moms friend had his kids dropped off at CPS by his abusive drug addict ex wife while he was at work, and they won’t give his kids back because he had meth in his hair (from his ex) and are forcing him to take class after class and keep on adding more after they tell him when can get his kids back and keep delaying it. so he’s having to hire a lawyer to prove that he didn’t do anything wrong so he can get his kids back, or he’ll go to prison. it’s a ridiculous corrupt system they have in place

So when kids are actually being abused and neglected CPS couldn’t care. But a perfectly healthy kid they take without blinking an eye.

I am a forensic nurse that works in private practice. I see parents get buried by CPS constantly for accidental injuries. I have seen them strip a week old infant out of a mother's arms because the 5 year old face planted at the child care facility. The facility claimed the child came to school that way to avoid responsibility and ended up destroying a family. It took the family 9 months to get their children back. The infant now has severe behavioral and emotional issues after being bounced to 12 foster families in that short period of time. CPS needs significant oversight which is completely lacking. While children are abused and we do need to intervene, CPS takes their bully tactics and frank ignorance to a whole new level.

We went through this for 4yrs. Being an African American family we were completely stripped of Rights, lawyers wouldn't even help us it seemed like everyone was connected and our entire family was denied kinship rights, my nephew was placed and abused and that foster care was allowed to keep other children and was never reported until I forced an online report after being denied the ability to report her and nothing was done. My nephew was hospitalized behind her care for 7 days. My sister was stripped of legal representation, the entire County and Hospital fabricated reports which are all on record and show what was done to us by the agency and medical professionals. Court records show what was happening and no one stopped this. My sister and I continue to fight, my sister was threatened to stop fighting or all of her children would be removed. By the grace of God we were able to overcome this. Awareness needs to be brought to this because no family should ever have to endure this. Ever!!

CPS was called on my when I was getting divorced and they came to talk to me. I had my lawyer there when they showed up. They were assholes at my front door until I brought them in and introduced them . Boy did their tone change and they left and didn’t come back

Dont ever, ever, ever let CPS in your home. They have to have a warrant, to enter your home

I still love the time CPS came to yell at me after just moving into a new apartment. They wanted to take my 2 kids away but uh, I don't have kids nor will I ever lol. They even tried to get the police involved with searching my apartment but jokes on them, my husband worked at the police department. Those people will say anything they can to get a mob mentality to incriminate you.

My son is a deputy and my fiancé’s nephew who is an amazing dad and has. Wife and 4 children, excellent provider. There son fell and hit his head playing, is was 2 years old. CPS was called and came at night to take all of the children. Thank goodness my son was called and he helped in this situation. He remained calm and spoke to CPS about the family and was able to have the children stay with grandparents. The children were traumatized and scared. They later said “will those bad people come back and take me away” this was a fear because of how COS handled it, they came with aggression and no regard for the children’s fears. It was unprofessional and they had no proof any abuse happened. The doctors stated they did not know and just asked for their opinion, but CPS came in charging and uncaring of their role and how it affected the children. That is my concern as a clinical therapist, is how CPS handled this concerning the welfare of the children. They caused harm and had no education. I saw a young women early 20’ s with a high school education come in and dictate what she thought. These workers do not have any real therapeutic training, they have HighSchool diplomas, that’s it. How are they qualified??

Every case at that CPS officer has been involved with needs to be looked at by the courts

A cps worker taking the 5th, needs to go straight to jail, messing with people's kids, and then lying about it.

The system is sooooo broken. These kids get taken away from a loving home with NO PROOF of child abuse yet kids are getting abused and murdered by people with MULTIPLE complaints to CPS against them who CPS then dismisses. Disgusting.

I've been thinking about suing them for what they did to my family. The hell my kids have had to go through and all the lies they put in their copy and paste court documents. They flat out harrassed me and my kids for 3 or 4 years..

This happened to me when my son was 7 months old. I was at work and my now ex husband was watching him, and no, he didn't hurt him, but everyone thought he did. The only thing my ex did wrong was keep him in the jumparoo too long and we didn't adjust it the way it should have been. I come home and my baby is in his chair that rocks or you can make it still and he looked pained. I knew something was wrong, my ex husband said he just woke up and wasn't acting the same. We called an ambulance because we weren't sure if he injured himself and if putting him in a car seat would injure him more. This was our first child and we didn't know much. When we got to the hospital they took x-rays and then CPS was called. He had a healing fracture in his tibia, mainly closer to his ankle, but there's a special name for this so called fracture because at the time I was a medical coder and it wasn't exactly a fracture, it was a bending or buckling of the bone, which could lead to a fracture, but the one he recently had was near his hip and growth plate area, it was fractured. After he was released we were allowed to take him, but we had to take him to CPS and they took him from us into foster care, my mom wasn't allowed to have him because she had been babysitting within that 48 hour period of the fracture. I can honestly say the foster home he lived in for 5 months was good because the woman taking care of him was a respectable attorney and has become a judge. They believed my ex hurt him and it took 5 months for me to get custody, I missed out from his 7 months to after he turned one, but I was allowed to have him on his first birthday. I thought I would never get him back by the way CPS treated me, my ex, and my mom. All because of a simple accident of having him play with such joy in his jumparoo and not realizing we hadn't adjusted it correctly although we thought we had. CPS goes after the innocent and the poor or whomever they think they could potentially steal their kids from and place in a better home. They don't understand accidents happen and then what their deception costs these families. I literally was depressed and wanted to end my life a couple of times because at the time in my state if your child is taken away from you forever then if you have another child CPS will automatically take that child away too. All I have ever wanted was be a mom and if they took him away what was the point anymore, those were my thoughts. CPS lied to all of us and made us go through unnecessary hoops to get custody back. Hell, even after having my second child, basically 4 years after that incident, they re-entered briefly because my ex-husband went to jail for 5 months and was on probation for 4 years for this incident because they thought he did it since he was home alone with our son, and had the authority to say whether my youngest was allowed to go home with us or stay in the hospital. They allowed us to take him home, but made sure my mom was watching both kids while I worked and she would check up on us every week for the next 30-60 days. After that CPS was out of my life, but it was a painful ordeal, and wasted their time on us when they should have been helping other children that sadly needed it and weren't getting it. Sorry for anyone that has to go through this, it's a rough journey.

human trafficking happens in plain sight with CPS.

Why does it seem like CPS only goes after good parents?

That is not enough compensation. This is terrifying CPS needs to pay more so that it is more costly for them to make mistakes like this.

This happened to me, I had my month old on the floor changing his diaper. He kicked my leg and his head hit a chair. I still don’t have him back yet he is now 3. Havnt been allowed to see him for 2 years. If I had the money I’d sue child services for the hell they have caused me and my son.

But will return a child to an abusive parent that starve them and have mysterious cigarette burns and bite marks on them smfh

Luckily, this family had the means to hire an attorney. Look at all the families who don't have the means. They are just left to the curb to try to fend for themselves when their kids are taken unlawfully. The CPS system is there to protect our children and it has worked for many instances; however, the injustices that it has done to many families is heartbreaking.

Thank goodness for attorneys like him.

I wish they had to for my family! My granddaughter was legally kidnapped from me. I wrote a book about it called "For The Love Of Zoe". Kentucky is the worst state for legal kidnapping. I brought my granddaughter home from the hospital and was raising her...she was treated like a princess...and everything was fine...but when you get people with money involved in things, they pretty much get what they want, right or wrong...no matter the circumstances, money does talk. And unfortunately I didn't have money to talk. My granddaughter will know the truth one day. She is now 10 yrs old. I haven't seen her since she was 3. It's so sad what happens in this world. Abused children are kept with the abusers, and children who are perfectly taken care of, are legally kidnapped, because those are the kids they get the most money out of.

Way to go CPS. Making parents too scared to take their own kids to the ER! At least they got caught this time.

Kind of same thing happened to me. Took my kids on a false report without investigating it. A year later gave my kids back with a "We are sorry". Two people fired and judge ordered them to stay away from me. I should have sued them.

My children were apprehended years ago now as i had left an abusive situation and was staying at a shelter. i was eight months pregnant when i fled and had my two year old son at the time. during my stay my family was able to care for my son throughout the delivery of my baby. when i got back to the shelter from the hospital i had noticed my baby not looking well at all and had brought him to the doctors and they said they didnt see anything wrong with him and to not worry. following their advice i went back to the shelter/home. seeing my sons health decline i brought him back to the hospital, a total of four times, still nothing was done. at this time they put up a red flag assuming i had post partum. they must have contacted CAS at that time with me unaware. being on ontario works i received $20 every four days for living expenses while at the shelter which barely helped to cover costs for formula and diapers. however did not ask my family for help as they werent financially stable either. that night getting home from the hospital i had called community care for help for a ride to toronto sick kids as i wanted my son to see a doctor there as i knew something was wrong still. with $20 in my pocket i made that trip barely having food for myself i contacted my social services worker and they explained that i could get coupons for the hospitals cafeteria and not to worry but it would be sparingly. i took that offer. of course getting to the hospital i explained my situation there financially and what my worker had said and they gave me coupons, again not aware of what they were planning. my son turned out to be really sick, he had his urine go back into his kidney everytime he peed and hersprungs disease and sorry if im not spelling that right at the moment. finally we had a diagnosis and he was treated right away, i was told if i didnt bring him in the worst couldve happened considering he was only just over a week old at that point. my son also had multiple cysts on his right kidney and was only functioning with one. when i got back home to the shelter CAS was already calling me stating if i didnt bring my children into the society i would have a warrant for my arrest claiming that i could not afford to care for my children as i was staying in the shelter. more or less because i used the $20 on my kids for their formula and diapers instead of myself having food while at the hospital as i had food for myself at the shelter. to this day a decade later my kids were apprehended and have been adopted to another family. my rights were stripped from me and because i felt by my leaving an abusive situation my kids are now gone. I'm praying this never happens to anyone else. i would and have done everything that i can for my children. if it wasnt for me pushing to go to another hospital my son wouldnt be here right now. knowing hes healthy and loved and alive because of my actions means the world to me even though im not able to be around to love him back.

This kind of thing happens all the time. We need to limit the power of CPS, eliminate mandatory reporting, and allow recourse for false reporters and overzealous agents.

My friend worked for CPS and was fired after being forced to jump through hoops and evaluations and put on leave after she showed what was called "emotional instability" for crying privately at work after encountering a horrible case of abuse. They make it impossible for truly caring people to do their jobs and be human at the same time.

They should be charged with kidnapping!

Love this story. Happy they are being held accountable. They do need to be retrained.

CPS is a joke!!! My daughter's school called CPS bc we didn't make an appointment to see if she needed glasses in a timely matter! We had to deal with a caseworker coming to our home 3 times grilling us like we are horrible parents, however I pull up to the school and there are parents smoking in the car with their kids 🤷

There should be an investigation of every CPS in the country. I have heard horror stories in other states.

I was interviewed by CPS when I was in first grade, when my dad got a copy of the report I found out they wrote down a bunch of things I never said!

I spent my entire childhood having dislocated limbs reduced at home because no doctor could figure out why and just assumed my parents were yanking my arms out of socket. It took 45 years to get a diagnosis and proof that there's something actually wrong.

Damn, how many of these stories about CPS do I have to hear? So glad they had to pay out in this case!

This is the kind of thing that scares parents into not taking their kids to the hospital when accidents happen.

CPS came to our home a few years back and removed our kids. We found out later the case worker was looking for my husband's brother which was doing drugs and abusing his kids. He was hiding from them and the case worker thought by taking our kids it would keep her out of trouble. We were proven innocent, got our kids back, and she got fired for what she did. Unfortunately my husband's brother is still in hiding. We haven't heard from him in over six years.

Something like this has happened to me and my wife . CPS got me fired from my job and put me on a protective order and told the judge and my work I failed a drug test but i had a prescription.

In my case, it wasn't CPS being the "bad guy." It was the (at that time) district attorney. He hated my parents so when I landed in the foster care system, he did everything in his power to get me put up for adoption (I met my potential adoptive parents. They told me that was why we were talking & meeting. I am FB friends with my potential adoptive brother). Fast forward 15 yrs, I'm in a custody battle with my ex boyfriend for our 2 niblets, and guess who the JUDGE in the case is... Yup you guessed it. The former D.A. that tried to screw my parents. Needless to say, things did not work well in my or the niblets' favor. Fast forward another 13 YEARS, mountains of evidence, the sworn testimony of both our now teenaged niblets & sworn testimonies of several mutual friends FOR me, the JUDGE granted me sole custody. (Intentional domestic abuse & child abuse end your rights. Male or female. Period.)

I can't overstate how amazed I am that the judge actually ruled in their favor. The courts almost never rule against government entities, no matter how obvious it is that they were in the wrong.

Whoever gave the order to take the children should pay the said amount!

When my daughter was only 18 months a doctor at the ER in our local hospital put on her chart CLUMSY CHILD DO NOT CALL CPS. Seriously. She is turning 29 this year and still trips over air pockets on the floor. Lol

CPS all bout that money I'm so glad this family got justice!!

They threatened to remove our kids if we didn’t let them inside the house to inspect . I made them leave and they came back with the sheriff. I told the sheriff the same thing i told them I don’t have kids!! Finally the Sheriff agreed it must have been the tenants before me because I have never had a child

These damn hospitals are going to cause the deaths of innocent children if parents are too afraid to go to the hospital and second think it due to threat of cps

Ordered training????..... so that means that they aren’t trained before they go out and ruin parents and children’s life!!!!

When I was about 4, I fell off a chair (because I was a dumb kid) and sprained my elbow. My memory isn’t very vivid of the event but this is what my mom told me. So, she took me to an urgent care or something and I had my arm checked out because it was hurting. The doctor took a look at it and was doing all her things and then made one big assumption. She said that the injury looked like it was caused by “excessive pulling” (I fell off a chair, remember), like my mom abused me, and my mom could tell by the concern in her voice. I understand that it is a doctor’s job to make sure a patient is okay, but it’s crazy to me how some doctors will just assume that a child’s injury is caused by abuse. They’re children. Children who don’t know better and will always get themselves hurt or into trouble in some way

Just think of all the ones who couldn't afford a lawyer :(

Remember: The government is not your friend.....

CPS just unlawfully removed my children back in January. I wish I could afford the same attorney as them. But God forbid I'm not letting them take my kids from me without a fight.

They did this to me and my husband they took our 2 little ones with no reason. I lost them both. I wasn't as lucky as this mom

Cps is quick to take children away from good parents but love trying to keep the ones who are strung out and actually abusing their children together. If they parent says they don't want the child they try to put them in parenting classes and everything to help get them back. Actually love and want your child and they will fight tooth and nail to keep them away from you. Child gets hurt and you scared to get them medical help cause they will accuse you of knocking them upside their head.

Criminal! A full investigation into CPS practices is warranted!

I got interviewed at school as a child about injuries I never sustained. Always wondered if some poor kid was getting abused and neglected during the time they were trying to convince me I was

In Los Angeles County a judge put a restraining order on DCFS to stay away from my family. They tried violating the restraining order and went to my kids school where a nun told the social worker that they had a copy of the restraining order and were going to call 911. They opted to leave.

I was is state custody for a few years when I was a kid, and because of it, cps appointed me a counselor from the state. When I was in 3rd grade the counselor would come and talk to me privately in the vice principal’s office every Wednesday. Like on our 3rd or 4th visit, the state counselor tried to coarse me into saying that someone I knew had touched me inappropriately(which they never did). She interrogated me with drawn picture of a female body and kept pointing at “private areas” asking if anyone had touched me. The more I told her no, the more she asked if I was sure or if I was lying or if I was scared. This continued for about two hours until it made me cry and she couldn’t get me to stop. Needless to say I didn’t see her anymore after that. Now I’m grown, I turn 19 in a few months, and I have a 1 year old son. I’m extra cautious about people being around my son because I know the things that could happen if someone decides that I have pissed them off and they try to call CPS on me. It really scares me when I think about how easily possibly it is for my son to be forced to go through the same thing. He’s a very smart and loving baby, and such a momma’s boy. I would kill someone if I thought they’d try to get my son taken from me, I won’t allow him to go through CPS and state custody, it’s a load of twisted, sadistic bullshit for real.

CPS and DHHS NEED to be held accountable for their lack of judgement and in some cases, their vengeful actions. Good for this family and a HUGE THANK YOU to the lawyer who believed in them!

I grew up with an abusive mother and I've told cps what was happening after the school called them. They then told my mother and of course she said she didn't do it. CPS really failed me and my siblings, this went on for years with many reports that they said they lost. They only did something when I tried to kill myself (one of many attempt's) and went to the hospital at 13. My grandmother said they wouldn't do anything until one of us was dead and sadly that almost was true. They fail so many children at it's sad.

As a psst CPS worker I have always told families to keep a journal of every transactions with CPS, service providers and anyone else. CA is a 2 party record so you can't record phone call. The ledger needs to have date. Time, person's name, job classification, as verbatim as possible write exactly what is said and then tell the person that you have written down everything g and it will be given to your attorney. If you dont have an attorney, just keep the information. Write line after line don't leave any spaces between the conversations. Make sure you sign every conversation then move to the next conversations.

After an incident with my father when I was about 16, I had to be interviewed by a CPS worker. She had a very condescending manner, trying to insist that I was depressed and needed therapy and should go. Mind you I said absolutely nothing about being sad or unhappy in my life. I was very insistent that I was not depressed, and she seemed annoyed and surprised when I wouldn't let her tell me how I felt. Very unusual.

Devonte Hart & his siblings were starved then driven off a cliff. His body has never been found. If only CPS worked like this for actual cases of abuse

About TIME!!! Thank God for true judges. CPS just oversteps time and time again

Totally messed up!!! The devastation and needless pain that "CPS" caused this little family is so sad.

CPS always seems more focused on retaliation than actually helping children.

My father ran CPS off our ranch land. I had bruises on my legs and back from gymnastics. My PE teacher at school noticed them and called CPS. They came to our house and asked to speak to me without him present. My dad said no. So they left and came back with a sheriffs deputy. My dad said having that deputy with you changes nothing. The deputy got puffy chested and tried to bully my father in to letting them in our home and the male CPS guy actually grabbed me and tried to drag me out of the house and that’s when my dad pulled his Glock. He didn’t Point it at them but they knew what he was thinking because he let go of me. The deputy was smart enough not to draw his service pistol. Because my grandpa was in the barn that faces the house with his old M1 Garand. They seriously did all that for nothing when all they had to do was ask me where the bruises came from. Gymnastics is a hard sport. We fall off the beam a lot. We don’t stick landings a lot. I fall off the uneven bars. There is padding yes. But it only helps so much. And no they didn’t ask me. They asked my dad. All they had to do was be polite. Come to our door acting like God and telling my dad they’re here for his kid because they have reports of abuse is not being polite or courteous. Chloe does your dad hurt you? That’s it. But noooo they had to be all Rambo-ner about it. Lucky they didn’t. My gramps is a dead eye with his M-1 Garand.

My parents were terrible... CPS was called so many times on them and they still were allowed to keep us 😞! To this day I have a terrible yet okay relationship with my mother yet part of me hates the government for letting me go through shit

Wonderful, I love that the judge stood up for this family. Yes, it may be the taxpayers that ultimately pay, but it seems only money gets their attention. No integrity in that CPS office. If you make a mistake own up to it, learn and proceed to do a better job.

“Right to appeal” what?! CPS overstepped and violated their rights and still refuse to admit fault! Smh

I've seen so much child abuse on MTV teen mom alone but they never take the kids that are actually in danger and take kids that have normal accidents.

I share this same sentiment that most do. CPS and DCF are HORRIBLE! And its scary to think that bc of an accident your child may be taken away. Watched a something other day of father being accused of abusing his son bc they claimed the child suffered from shaken baby syndrome at 9 days old but a doctor testified and said that injury can occur during child birth not just from being shaken. I feel like most of the time common sense can tell you weather a child is really being abused. But they're too busy wasting time on good patents. Its crazy

This is why I want to get into social work and things like this because I want it to be better. I want to help not just destroy lives because I’m a bad person. The system needs to be better because they are doing more harm then good

What is the worst thing you can hear from someone " I am with the goverment and I am here to help " .

All of CPS needs to be retrained and then retrained again. I was sexually, physically and mentally abused at 12. All they did was send me back into the situation I was trying to get away from and did nothing to the person that was harming me. The person that abused me is still walking around, free, to this day.

Aight so the very first encounter i had with any sort of cps type service left more trauma than I'd had in my "terrible" childhood. According to my mother i was a happy smiley, fearless toddler. I'm not happy or smiley now. I couldn't even be in the same room as a cps worker the next time I saw one 12-14 years later. my fearless behavior became chronic depression and occasional suicidal thoughts. I was lucky enough to stay with my family.

Every time you hear of a child being taken from the parents they say the same thing about how quiet it is at home… how scary to lose your child

What about all the other families this criminal agency has destroyed?

CPS isn't paying anyone anything. The tax payers are. When there is a blatant violation of civil rights, the perpetrators should pay the judgement from their pension.

It should have been 10 million that would put a stop to there lies. Love and respect to the family from Ireland.

Need more judges like this one these people are out of control.

Our friend (older, homeschooling mother) here in Oregon just got out of jail and now has years of probation and community service for the water being too hot from a sudden broken water heater she was unaware of and the water burning their foster child's hand. She immediately called CPS and cared for the hand which was not burned badly and complied with all protocols. They lied and flipped everything on her. They have had to pay several thousand as well. Yep, no one holds CPS accountable!!!

I asked my sons proncipal for help one year, he has special needs and I was burned out as a single working parent. CPS came and took my kids. It took me 8 months to get my daughter back...5 more for my son. What a nightmare!!

Imagine if they could not afford a attorney. I am a former foster youth and in school to be a lawyer. This is one of the few times they have been caught

So glad this family got their kiddo back. So many families arent that lucky. They even for sure tried to follow orders.