What is the name of your state? Hi, I live in the wonderful state of Texas. My wife and I were foster parents up until August 10th of 2004. On that day everything was going fine, we had a sibling group of three. Around 4:30 I get a phone call from our foster foundation saying that CPS had received an aynonomous phone call making an accusation against my wife and I. They said that a safety plan needed to be put in place. When I asked when, I was told the kids would be removed that same evening. By 7:30 they were gone.
Come to find out, a girl we had in our house four years earlier made an accusation against me. She had been abused repeatidly by her family.Her and her brother were in our house for three months. When the supposed accusation happened, she would have only been in our house a week. Also,we were with another foster foundation at the time. Heres the problems.
The brother and sister were with another foster family before us. The dad had an EXTREMELY similar name as my name. The investigator for CPS states that the girl was 10 yrs. old, so she would know what family she was with.
The girl states that when the supposed accusation happened that it was summer time and she was out of school. SHE was not, she left our house in March, and school was not out. IF SHE CAN REMEMBER WHAT FAMILY, WOULD SHE ALSO REMEMBER SHE WAS IN SCHOOL?
The written investigation looks like it was pieced together from different stories. The girl who made the supposed accusation never said my name.
The written investigation said my wife said things that were NEVER said.
So now CPS has reason to believe against my name, so we cant be foster parents till my name is cleared. BUT Im not charged with a crime.
It gets better too!! The first foster foundation we were with shut us down giving certain reasons. When CPS was investigating, we told them why we were told we were shut down.The investigator states that the reason we gave her dont sound like a plausable reason to be shut down.We did'nt know it at the time,but the new director of the local office we were out of, whom we have never met, sent CPS a lette saying that the reason we were shut down was because I walked in on the girl while she was taking a bath. It NEVER happened. Then the letter states that it was discussed with me but I kept walking in on her. THAT NEVER HAPPENED . So through the freedom of information act I requested ALL papers reguarding our duration with the first foster foundation. The reasons they gave for us being shut down, ARE EXACTLY THE SAME REASONS WE TOLD THE CPS INVESTIGATOR. There is something else also. We received a letter addressed to my wife AND I from CPS stating that the case was closed as unable to determine. We had a child placed in our home in Jan. 2005. Then on Jan 17th 2005, we get a call from the CPS investigator stating that there has been a TERRIBLE mistake. That the unable to determine was for my wife only, and that reason to believe was against me> SSSSOOOOOO the child was moved that day. We had an administrative review, and they kept the same ruling against me When my wife asked if the person doing the review talked to the girl she said "no".
Also, if I did supposedly what I was accused of why would another foster foundation let us be foster parents, not to mention the regional director read my file and said she saw what my wife and I have been saying all along.
So, do I have a case? Everyone seems scared of CPS, Im not. I was trained to be a foster parent. Since this has been going on, it has caused a Restraint of Trade, for my wife and I. Can ANYONE HELP?????, Thanks
Also, IF we have a case that is suable we want to. This has been going on for a whole year, I have started having seizuers again, and financially we're bairly holding on. One last thing. My wfe and I waited 15 years to become foster parents, we have been working with children for 13 years. We enjoy being foster parents and we are good at it. But we have found out since going through this, there is absolutely no support for foster parents that are inactive. Your left ALL alone, even our current foster foundation dont talk to us, even though we are not shut down.
Come to find out, a girl we had in our house four years earlier made an accusation against me. She had been abused repeatidly by her family.Her and her brother were in our house for three months. When the supposed accusation happened, she would have only been in our house a week. Also,we were with another foster foundation at the time. Heres the problems.
The brother and sister were with another foster family before us. The dad had an EXTREMELY similar name as my name. The investigator for CPS states that the girl was 10 yrs. old, so she would know what family she was with.
The girl states that when the supposed accusation happened that it was summer time and she was out of school. SHE was not, she left our house in March, and school was not out. IF SHE CAN REMEMBER WHAT FAMILY, WOULD SHE ALSO REMEMBER SHE WAS IN SCHOOL?
The written investigation looks like it was pieced together from different stories. The girl who made the supposed accusation never said my name.
The written investigation said my wife said things that were NEVER said.
So now CPS has reason to believe against my name, so we cant be foster parents till my name is cleared. BUT Im not charged with a crime.
It gets better too!! The first foster foundation we were with shut us down giving certain reasons. When CPS was investigating, we told them why we were told we were shut down.The investigator states that the reason we gave her dont sound like a plausable reason to be shut down.We did'nt know it at the time,but the new director of the local office we were out of, whom we have never met, sent CPS a lette saying that the reason we were shut down was because I walked in on the girl while she was taking a bath. It NEVER happened. Then the letter states that it was discussed with me but I kept walking in on her. THAT NEVER HAPPENED . So through the freedom of information act I requested ALL papers reguarding our duration with the first foster foundation. The reasons they gave for us being shut down, ARE EXACTLY THE SAME REASONS WE TOLD THE CPS INVESTIGATOR. There is something else also. We received a letter addressed to my wife AND I from CPS stating that the case was closed as unable to determine. We had a child placed in our home in Jan. 2005. Then on Jan 17th 2005, we get a call from the CPS investigator stating that there has been a TERRIBLE mistake. That the unable to determine was for my wife only, and that reason to believe was against me> SSSSOOOOOO the child was moved that day. We had an administrative review, and they kept the same ruling against me When my wife asked if the person doing the review talked to the girl she said "no".
Also, if I did supposedly what I was accused of why would another foster foundation let us be foster parents, not to mention the regional director read my file and said she saw what my wife and I have been saying all along.
So, do I have a case? Everyone seems scared of CPS, Im not. I was trained to be a foster parent. Since this has been going on, it has caused a Restraint of Trade, for my wife and I. Can ANYONE HELP?????, Thanks
Also, IF we have a case that is suable we want to. This has been going on for a whole year, I have started having seizuers again, and financially we're bairly holding on. One last thing. My wfe and I waited 15 years to become foster parents, we have been working with children for 13 years. We enjoy being foster parents and we are good at it. But we have found out since going through this, there is absolutely no support for foster parents that are inactive. Your left ALL alone, even our current foster foundation dont talk to us, even though we are not shut down.
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