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skitcher
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What is the name of your state? missouri
we had two police and a social worker come into our house and charge my husband with child abuse after a daycare hotlined our foster child. the social worker was rough and the police never read us our rights, not realizing we should have called a lawyer right away (because we did not do anything wrong). the detective came, still not mentioning we should or could call a lawyer. the social worker told us that there was no such thing as an "accident" in these cases and that we should just go along with the police to make things "easier" for us. still not realizing our rights, or what we should do, thinking calling a lawyer makes us seem guilty about something. my husband was taken that night to the police station to give a statment, drove down with the detective, and only read his rights when in a room where the detective was typing up his statement.
don't they have to advise us on such matters? at what point in this process are they supposed to do that? do we have any grounds to bring up this matter before the judge?
we had two police and a social worker come into our house and charge my husband with child abuse after a daycare hotlined our foster child. the social worker was rough and the police never read us our rights, not realizing we should have called a lawyer right away (because we did not do anything wrong). the detective came, still not mentioning we should or could call a lawyer. the social worker told us that there was no such thing as an "accident" in these cases and that we should just go along with the police to make things "easier" for us. still not realizing our rights, or what we should do, thinking calling a lawyer makes us seem guilty about something. my husband was taken that night to the police station to give a statment, drove down with the detective, and only read his rights when in a room where the detective was typing up his statement.
don't they have to advise us on such matters? at what point in this process are they supposed to do that? do we have any grounds to bring up this matter before the judge?