In December of 2016, CPS workers came tour house due to there being an informal case with them to drop off some clothes for my grandkids and discuss closing the case. My daughter and my two grandsons came downstairs when she arrived, leaving my granddaughter and her father upstairs; where he and my daughter had been washing their clothes by hand since around 5:00 that morning.
My daughter, Keanu, and the CPS worker, Annemarie sat downstairs and went through the bag of clothes and some toys she'd brought for the kids. When they finished the CPS worker asked where her husband and her daughter were. She told her they were upstairs in the room. She then asked if she could see. Keanu obliged. Upon entering the room, my granddaughter was laying on the floor half asleep and her father had nodded off in the closet area where they had been doing the clothes.
All around my granddaughter was the contents of my daughter's purse. The contents had been dumped by her two-year-old son before they had gone downstairs. My daughter bent down to pick up her sleeping baby and it startled her and she grabbed the cap of a pen when grasping for the floor. she was raising the cap up to put it in her mouth, but both the CPS worker and my daughter stopped her before it could happen.
Also startled by their presence, my son-in-law stirred up. The CPS worker looked at my daughter and told her that this doesn't look good. My daughter told her she didn't understand what she meant. Then she began to lay out this elaborate fictitious scenario where my son-in-law had been up there sleep the whole time she and the boys were downstairs with the Worker (which had only been fifteen minutes at the most.)and my granddaughter was upstairs awake and unsupervised.
At which time my daughter let her know that when she came downstairs he was awake and folding clothes. He then interjected that he was looking at his daughter lying asleep on the floor and dozed off for a minute. Nothing else was said they all went downstairs and Annemarie left. Or so we thought.
actually, she went to her car and called Erica Franco and whatever they discussed resulted in them coming upstairs and removing my grandkids and placing them into child haven. Destroyed, confused and distraught. my daughter and I did all we could to hold each other up. We were dumbfounded. In about an hour we received a phone call from Annemarie saying that my grandkids were taken for a safety hazard. she insisted that my granddaughter wasn't asleep and had the pen cap all the in her closed mouth.
The day before my daughter had died her hair red and the boys had got some of the colors on their arms, neck, and back and Annemarie was saying that they found that it wasn't' die on them. When I asked what exactly had they determined it to be, she told me she didn't know that the nurse that examined them had that information. Lastly, she informed us that the boys had lice in their hair.
The following Tuesday had to go to court where my daughter and her husband were given separate lawyers appointed by the courts. After they had seen the judge and were given a continuance Erica presented them with a request to take a drug test and said it was ordered by the court when it wasnt court ordered. The results from their hair were positive but the urine test was negative.
It has been nine-plus months that my grandkids have been held captive in foster care. My daughter has complied with all the terms on her case plan and they are still denying us our kids return home. In that time she has had another baby who she was allowed to bring home, but now for no reason, the worker is threatening to remove him. @gmail.com
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In December of 2016, CPS workers came tour house due to there being an informal case with them to drop off some clothes for my grandkids and discuss closing the case. My daughter and my two grandsons came downstairs when she arrived, leaving my granddaughter and her father upstairs; where he and my daughter had been washing their clothes by hand since around 5:00 that morning.
My daughter, Keanu, and the CPS worker, Annemarie sat downstairs and went through the bag of clothes and some toys she'd brought for the kids. When they finished the CPS worker asked where her husband and her daughter were. She told her they were upstairs in the room. She then asked if she could see. Keanu obliged. Upon entering the room, my granddaughter was laying on the floor half asleep and her father had nodded off in the closet area where they had been doing the clothes.
All around my granddaughter was the contents of my daughter's purse. The contents had been dumped by her two-year-old son before they had gone downstairs. My daughter bent down to pick up her sleeping baby and it startled her and she grabbed the cap of a pen when grasping for the floor. she was raising the cap up to put it in her mouth, but both the CPS worker and my daughter stopped her before it could happen.
Also startled by their presence, my son-in-law stirred up. The CPS worker looked at my daughter and told her that this doesn't look good. My daughter told her she didn't understand what she meant. Then she began to lay out this elaborate fictitious scenario where my son-in-law had been up there sleep the whole time she and the boys were downstairs with the Worker (which had only been fifteen minutes at the most.)and my granddaughter was upstairs awake and unsupervised.
At which time my daughter let her know that when she came downstairs he was awake and folding clothes. He then interjected that he was looking at his daughter lying asleep on the floor and dozed off for a minute. Nothing else was said they all went downstairs and Annemarie left. Or so we thought.
actually, she went to her car and called Erica Franco and whatever they discussed resulted in them coming upstairs and removing my grandkids and placing them into child haven. Destroyed, confused and distraught. my daughter and I did all we could to hold each other up. We were dumbfounded. In about an hour we received a phone call from Annemarie saying that my grandkids were taken for a safety hazard. she insisted that my granddaughter wasn't asleep and had the pen cap all the in her closed mouth.
The day before my daughter had died her hair red and the boys had got some of the colors on their arms, neck, and back and Annemarie was saying that they found that it wasn't' die on them. When I asked what exactly had they determined it to be, she told me she didn't know that the nurse that examined them had that information. Lastly, she informed us that the boys had lice in their hair.
The following Tuesday had to go to court where my daughter and her husband were given separate lawyers appointed by the courts. After they had seen the judge and were given a continuance Erica presented them with a request to take a drug test and said it was ordered by the court when it wasnt court ordered. The results from their hair were positive but the urine test was negative.
It has been nine-plus months that my grandkids have been held captive in foster care. My daughter has complied with all the terms on her case plan and they are still denying us our kids return home. In that time she has had another baby who she was allowed to bring home, but now for no reason, the worker is threatening to remove him. @gmail.com