THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES Reviews
Dec 10, 2021
Hello my name is Gina Lopez 28years old a single mother who has been discriminated of my parental rights from the department of children and family services located at 8300 South Vermont avenue 4th floor. Los Angeles CA 90044 by the home investigator caseworker name BRONNA BROWN (sxsw).
On JULY.29 2021. Miss Brown came into apartment from a referral that was over at first a domestic violence dispute with my ex-boyfriend Cristian Reyes who I no longer have contact with and another young lady named Karla Luna and her 6month baby Paul Gonzalez they now do not live with me but they did at that moment of the incident. I was helping the young lady Carla with her situation of not having a location or a home to stay for her and her baby so I took her and her child into my home not knowing this female or where she was coming from or her background history... I was just trying to help her with her child to stay off the streets just like a Good Samaritan and a caring mother i am and so I didn't want to see another child being raised up in the streets.
So on July 27 2021 the dispute of this domestic dispute happened was over the 6month baby Paul Gonzalez who I was watching at the moment as the mother Carla Luna was working and disagreement was over the fact that the child did not have a beanie or jacket on and was exposed to the cold air and I didn't want him to get sick and Cristian Reyes didn't listen to me so I took the baby from him and he hit me in front of my 6year old son Bryan Pineda and the
6month baby Paul Gonzalez and I act upon the right way as I was supposed to in a situation like this. So cops came and i filed a restraining order against Cristian Reyes. He was not in the home anymore.
July 29th 20 21 Ms Brianna Brown knocked on my door and asked to speak to me with what she had was an open investigation due to domestic violence report that was reported and some allegations of child neglection and narcotics in the home. She first spoke to me then she spoke to Ms Karla Luna then she spoke to my son Bryan Pineda and she then checked the baby Paul Gonzalez then proceeded to ask if I was willing to take a drug test to prove my innocence on the narcotics allegations I had no problem with it so I said yes I'll prove my innocence but I did admit to her to being a marijuana smoker she then went to ask Karla Luna if she was willing to take a test Karla responded with a no then proceeded with I will not lose my baby again. Then everything got exposed how the narcotics allegations popped up because Miss Karla Luna had open investigations prior to her other previous child's being taken away by social services once again I was not aware of this I was just trying to help her stay out of the streets but I never once seen her use any narcotics in my home never once witnessed any of that in my own eyes. So miss Brianna Brown scheduled me and Carla for drug tests to be done August 2nd 2021 I went to drug test that exact same day August02 2021 but Karla didn't test that day because she didn't have a valid ID.
So Carla didn't get to test until Friday August 6th 2021. I didn't hear back from Brianna Brown's until August 18th 2021 when she allegedly accused me of substance abuse due to the fact that my test coming back positive but it was so weird because it didn't show positive for marijuana it only said positive for methamphetamine so she asked me if I was willing to want to test again I said I voluntary test again so August 18th I retested voluntary again. Once again I didn't hear nothing back from her until August 23rd 2021 my son was in the care of his grandma Maria Jimenez at her apartment located at Los Angeles California as I was at work when I got back home from coming home from work to pick up my son Bryan Pineda from his grandma's house he was not there no one told me where he was. So I began to get worried the first thing that came to my mind and I'm pretty sure it will come to any other mother's mind was to call the police my son has been kidnapped.
So I called the police and 77 division of Los Angeles California Police department came out they sent a search party they called department of public social services just to make sure he wasn't in the system they verified it that he was not in the system his information did not pop up in the system so they got verification to go ahead and proceed on with the hound dog nearly after 3 hours later the police Commander ends up getting a phone call from a social worker named Jacqueline Cardona stating that my son was in her custody due to an open investigation. This social worker never gave me a call she never notified me she didn't leave no documents stating the fact of the removal of my child so I wasn't aware of what was going on I explained that to the law enforcement the next following day I find out the law enforcement end up pressing charges against the department of public social services. But I still didn't get my son back home.
August 25th 2021 I have voicemail from Miss Jacqueline Cardona what seems to be to me a threat in the recording she says and I quote" hey this is the social worker that you messed with" and correctly fixed her sentence later on that day I gave her a call back I recorded her where she repeatedly started raising her voice at me outstanding me getting upset for an absolutely no reason.
On August 28th 2021 my son Bryan Pineda was placed into foster care. And that was the first day I got to have my first visitation to see him after 2 weeks of not getting to see him. On August 30th 2021 I had my first court date appearance with the Juvenile Dependency Children Court. The allegation was only a B1 for the two narcotic drug test is coming back positive for methamphetamine so they wanted me to proceed to sign up for some classes and to do random week drug testing so they scheduled me for another court date for September 27th 2021 and I agree to with the court was asking on my behalf to show in order to get my kids back. On September 19 20 21 I filed a complaint against department of children family social services to the public inquiry form stating the failure to notify me on the child removal. On
September 20th 2021 I get a response back from the department of children family social services discrimination complaint the civil Rights compliance office to file a discrimination complaint form so I proceeded on and filled out the form and turned it in.
On September 21st 2021 I get a call from a social worker name Adriana Vasquez to start my random drug testing so I proceeded to do so on September 22nd 2021 I get a call from another worker named Guadalupe Ramirez to proceed on and do a drug test random for her as well so that's two drug tests in one week I proceeded to do so. On September 23rd 2021 I get a visit home visit from Adriana Vasquez on a visitation contract stating that only the mother is allowed at monitored visits no person that has not been authorized by DCFS can attend visits including Christian Reyes monitor is also aware that no unauthorized people are allowed to visit.
Mr Christian Reyes never once visits my kids since the disputes but I explained that to her but she insistently insisted that he did that she witnessed and that the kids pointed it out and I don't think that was correct I feel like I was framed for another allegation. September 27th 2021 I receive a phone call from Adriana Vasquez stating that my court date will no longer be September 27th 2021 it will now be October 3rd 2021 and for me to go ahead and submit a drug test once again so I do proceed so.
On September th 29 2021 I received in the mail what was my notice of hearing on 1st amendment petition with my first amendment petition with the court date for October 3rd 2021. The allegations on these petitions were stating that
I failed to protect my child from any harm due to two positive methamphetamine drug tests along with failing to protect them from my ex-boyfriend which we had a domestical dispute and I still allowed him to appear to visit when that wasn't even true and it says here that Brian is such a young boy that he requires to have special attention and needs and I'm not capable to do that for him first of all my son Brian is not a special ed kid he's actually smarter than his age he is
advanced from his class he's not dumb he knows what's going on I taught my son how to do what he has to do as a young little boy I raised my boys up by myself I don't want to hear anybody saying that my sons are special and they need special attention they're not special kids they're very smart I feel like she's trying to say that my kids are dumb and stupid I feel like that's another threat to me.
October 3rd 2021 I come to court as ordinary supposed to my court date gets moved to October 8th 2021 so I proceeded on with that. October 8th 2021 I go to court and the judge automatically did not hear me out did not see the progress that I've been doing since and what I've been doing to progress to become a better parent and a better person to raise my child she automatically said that my kids are not capable to be with me because I'm a methamphetamine user and I'm still currently in a relationship with my ex domestical violence partner which I am no longer with and due to that that my kids are not capable to being with me.
I feel like she did not let me show that I've been doing progress with these tests cuz they all came back negative not one came back positive I even drug tested today October 8th 2021 I even signed up for my substance abuse classes with hopics program my psychiatrist counselor name is Tyrone Smith and I have my roman papers and everything so I'm progressing so improving the most important fastest way I can ever think and she did not even let me give her the
opportunity to show that I'm improving with progress I feel like I was not treated right or even or fairly and I got cut out from even speaking on my behalf. I wouldn't even harm my kids I wouldn't even put them in no danger.
To my kids I always told him that I'm mama bear and they're my baby bear. Feel discriminated in so many ways as I'm
being born and raised for 28 years as American citizen and a California citizen from a organization agency who hires women who don't even have experience as being a mother and know what I have gone through and the pain that they caused me they don't even know what it feels like to go through my shoes they can't even put themselves in my
shoes. I'm exactly what you would want to call a mother bear with her baby cubs she protects her baby cubs from whoever tries to harm them if they try to she will attack the enemy but she will never attack her baby cubs she teaches them from right and wrong and how to become an adult bear she teaches them how to hunt and to survive in the wild but she would never harm her baby cubs herself that's how I have my boys and that's how I raised them by myself for someone to come into my home and take them from me for no absolutely rights just on false frame allegations that are not even accurate to mines and I will not take responsibility for those two tests that are not mines I feel like I've been set up and framed from these workers and I really do need help on being heard I'm innocent to proving guilty and as right now I am not proving guilty everyone makes mistakes but to learn from them and not to commit them over again is what we do we learn from these no one's perfect ain't no mother out there that's perfect for them to take care of their kids everybody makes a mistake I made one simple mistake for them to coming to my home and I should have never let them in now my son is victimized into the system from these workers that don't even know how it feels to be a mother a day or two they're just worried about a paycheck instead they targeted me and I'm a low income mother struggles day by day to pay her bills and take care of her kids on her own it's hard to work out here but I get it done and by then targeting me I feel like I've been victimized and discriminated in so many ways for my nationality of being a Hispanic a single mother and struggling I really do need help to be heard this is unacceptable from my own country my own City my own state it's embarrassing and it disappoints me a lot to know that these are the people I have in my community and how corrupted they are becoming and I feel like my kids are not safe around them ain't nobody know my kids better than I do and I feel they're safer with me since they have been since they were born I feel like they've been kidnapped from complete strangers just so they can get a check into their wallets and I am not going to stop until I be heard from someone I will make so many complaints if I have to I'll send it to Congress but this needs to stop now because they're harming our community and driving our kids to be scared and traumatized enough is enough and I'm going to stand up for all them kids including minds because that's what a mother does. So please help me ...I will leave my contact info at the bottom of this letter.
thank you for taking the time to read my story I really hope to hear from somebody soon God bless you all.
THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES Reviews
Hello my name is Gina Lopez 28years old a single mother who has been discriminated of my parental rights from the department of children and family services located at 8300 South Vermont avenue 4th floor. Los Angeles CA 90044 by the home investigator caseworker name BRONNA BROWN (sxsw).
On JULY.29 2021. Miss Brown came into apartment from a referral that was over at first a domestic violence dispute with my ex-boyfriend Cristian Reyes who I no longer have contact with and another young lady named Karla Luna and her 6month baby Paul Gonzalez they now do not live with me but they did at that moment of the incident. I was helping the young lady Carla with her situation of not having a location or a home to stay for her and her baby so I took her and her child into my home not knowing this female or where she was coming from or her background history... I was just trying to help her with her child to stay off the streets just like a Good Samaritan and a caring mother i am and so I didn't want to see another child being raised up in the streets.
So on July 27 2021 the dispute of this domestic dispute happened was over the 6month baby Paul Gonzalez who I was watching at the moment as the mother Carla Luna was working and disagreement was over the fact that the child did not have a beanie or jacket on and was exposed to the cold air and I didn't want him to get sick and Cristian Reyes didn't listen to me so I took the baby from him and he hit me in front of my 6year old son Bryan Pineda and the
6month baby Paul Gonzalez and I act upon the right way as I was supposed to in a situation like this. So cops came and i filed a restraining order against Cristian Reyes. He was not in the home anymore.
July 29th 20 21 Ms Brianna Brown knocked on my door and asked to speak to me with what she had was an open investigation due to domestic violence report that was reported and some allegations of child neglection and narcotics in the home. She first spoke to me then she spoke to Ms Karla Luna then she spoke to my son Bryan Pineda and she then checked the baby Paul Gonzalez then proceeded to ask if I was willing to take a drug test to prove my innocence on the narcotics allegations I had no problem with it so I said yes I'll prove my innocence but I did admit to her to being a marijuana smoker she then went to ask Karla Luna if she was willing to take a test Karla responded with a no then proceeded with I will not lose my baby again. Then everything got exposed how the narcotics allegations popped up because Miss Karla Luna had open investigations prior to her other previous child's being taken away by social services once again I was not aware of this I was just trying to help her stay out of the streets but I never once seen her use any narcotics in my home never once witnessed any of that in my own eyes. So miss Brianna Brown scheduled me and Carla for drug tests to be done August 2nd 2021 I went to drug test that exact same day August02 2021 but Karla didn't test that day because she didn't have a valid ID.
So Carla didn't get to test until Friday August 6th 2021. I didn't hear back from Brianna Brown's until August 18th 2021 when she allegedly accused me of substance abuse due to the fact that my test coming back positive but it was so weird because it didn't show positive for marijuana it only said positive for methamphetamine so she asked me if I was willing to want to test again I said I voluntary test again so August 18th I retested voluntary again. Once again I didn't hear nothing back from her until August 23rd 2021 my son was in the care of his grandma Maria Jimenez at her apartment located at Los Angeles California as I was at work when I got back home from coming home from work to pick up my son Bryan Pineda from his grandma's house he was not there no one told me where he was. So I began to get worried the first thing that came to my mind and I'm pretty sure it will come to any other mother's mind was to call the police my son has been kidnapped.
So I called the police and 77 division of Los Angeles California Police department came out they sent a search party they called department of public social services just to make sure he wasn't in the system they verified it that he was not in the system his information did not pop up in the system so they got verification to go ahead and proceed on with the hound dog nearly after 3 hours later the police Commander ends up getting a phone call from a social worker named Jacqueline Cardona stating that my son was in her custody due to an open investigation. This social worker never gave me a call she never notified me she didn't leave no documents stating the fact of the removal of my child so I wasn't aware of what was going on I explained that to the law enforcement the next following day I find out the law enforcement end up pressing charges against the department of public social services. But I still didn't get my son back home.
August 25th 2021 I have voicemail from Miss Jacqueline Cardona what seems to be to me a threat in the recording she says and I quote" hey this is the social worker that you messed with" and correctly fixed her sentence later on that day I gave her a call back I recorded her where she repeatedly started raising her voice at me outstanding me getting upset for an absolutely no reason.
On August 28th 2021 my son Bryan Pineda was placed into foster care. And that was the first day I got to have my first visitation to see him after 2 weeks of not getting to see him. On August 30th 2021 I had my first court date appearance with the Juvenile Dependency Children Court. The allegation was only a B1 for the two narcotic drug test is coming back positive for methamphetamine so they wanted me to proceed to sign up for some classes and to do random week drug testing so they scheduled me for another court date for September 27th 2021 and I agree to with the court was asking on my behalf to show in order to get my kids back. On September 19 20 21 I filed a complaint against department of children family social services to the public inquiry form stating the failure to notify me on the child removal. On
September 20th 2021 I get a response back from the department of children family social services discrimination complaint the civil Rights compliance office to file a discrimination complaint form so I proceeded on and filled out the form and turned it in.
On September 21st 2021 I get a call from a social worker name Adriana Vasquez to start my random drug testing so I proceeded to do so on September 22nd 2021 I get a call from another worker named Guadalupe Ramirez to proceed on and do a drug test random for her as well so that's two drug tests in one week I proceeded to do so. On September 23rd 2021 I get a visit home visit from Adriana Vasquez on a visitation contract stating that only the mother is allowed at monitored visits no person that has not been authorized by DCFS can attend visits including Christian Reyes monitor is also aware that no unauthorized people are allowed to visit.
Mr Christian Reyes never once visits my kids since the disputes but I explained that to her but she insistently insisted that he did that she witnessed and that the kids pointed it out and I don't think that was correct I feel like I was framed for another allegation. September 27th 2021 I receive a phone call from Adriana Vasquez stating that my court date will no longer be September 27th 2021 it will now be October 3rd 2021 and for me to go ahead and submit a drug test once again so I do proceed so.
On September th 29 2021 I received in the mail what was my notice of hearing on 1st amendment petition with my first amendment petition with the court date for October 3rd 2021. The allegations on these petitions were stating that
I failed to protect my child from any harm due to two positive methamphetamine drug tests along with failing to protect them from my ex-boyfriend which we had a domestical dispute and I still allowed him to appear to visit when that wasn't even true and it says here that Brian is such a young boy that he requires to have special attention and needs and I'm not capable to do that for him first of all my son Brian is not a special ed kid he's actually smarter than his age he is
advanced from his class he's not dumb he knows what's going on I taught my son how to do what he has to do as a young little boy I raised my boys up by myself I don't want to hear anybody saying that my sons are special and they need special attention they're not special kids they're very smart I feel like she's trying to say that my kids are dumb and stupid I feel like that's another threat to me.
October 3rd 2021 I come to court as ordinary supposed to my court date gets moved to October 8th 2021 so I proceeded on with that. October 8th 2021 I go to court and the judge automatically did not hear me out did not see the progress that I've been doing since and what I've been doing to progress to become a better parent and a better person to raise my child she automatically said that my kids are not capable to be with me because I'm a methamphetamine user and I'm still currently in a relationship with my ex domestical violence partner which I am no longer with and due to that that my kids are not capable to being with me.
I feel like she did not let me show that I've been doing progress with these tests cuz they all came back negative not one came back positive I even drug tested today October 8th 2021 I even signed up for my substance abuse classes with hopics program my psychiatrist counselor name is Tyrone Smith and I have my roman papers and everything so I'm progressing so improving the most important fastest way I can ever think and she did not even let me give her the
opportunity to show that I'm improving with progress I feel like I was not treated right or even or fairly and I got cut out from even speaking on my behalf. I wouldn't even harm my kids I wouldn't even put them in no danger.
To my kids I always told him that I'm mama bear and they're my baby bear. Feel discriminated in so many ways as I'm
being born and raised for 28 years as American citizen and a California citizen from a organization agency who hires women who don't even have experience as being a mother and know what I have gone through and the pain that they caused me they don't even know what it feels like to go through my shoes they can't even put themselves in my
shoes. I'm exactly what you would want to call a mother bear with her baby cubs she protects her baby cubs from whoever tries to harm them if they try to she will attack the enemy but she will never attack her baby cubs she teaches them from right and wrong and how to become an adult bear she teaches them how to hunt and to survive in the wild but she would never harm her baby cubs herself that's how I have my boys and that's how I raised them by myself for someone to come into my home and take them from me for no absolutely rights just on false frame allegations that are not even accurate to mines and I will not take responsibility for those two tests that are not mines I feel like I've been set up and framed from these workers and I really do need help on being heard I'm innocent to proving guilty and as right now I am not proving guilty everyone makes mistakes but to learn from them and not to commit them over again is what we do we learn from these no one's perfect ain't no mother out there that's perfect for them to take care of their kids everybody makes a mistake I made one simple mistake for them to coming to my home and I should have never let them in now my son is victimized into the system from these workers that don't even know how it feels to be a mother a day or two they're just worried about a paycheck instead they targeted me and I'm a low income mother struggles day by day to pay her bills and take care of her kids on her own it's hard to work out here but I get it done and by then targeting me I feel like I've been victimized and discriminated in so many ways for my nationality of being a Hispanic a single mother and struggling I really do need help to be heard this is unacceptable from my own country my own City my own state it's embarrassing and it disappoints me a lot to know that these are the people I have in my community and how corrupted they are becoming and I feel like my kids are not safe around them ain't nobody know my kids better than I do and I feel they're safer with me since they have been since they were born I feel like they've been kidnapped from complete strangers just so they can get a check into their wallets and I am not going to stop until I be heard from someone I will make so many complaints if I have to I'll send it to Congress but this needs to stop now because they're harming our community and driving our kids to be scared and traumatized enough is enough and I'm going to stand up for all them kids including minds because that's what a mother does. So please help me ...I will leave my contact info at the bottom of this letter.
thank you for taking the time to read my story I really hope to hear from somebody soon God bless you all.