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H46Bubba · January 26th, 2007, 14:05

Kell, I'm glad Gavin is okay. I hate CPS. When we were living in Lake Mary, my oldest was had just turned three. My wife went outside to talk to our neigbor and he my son thought it was a good idea to lock the door. My wife didn't have her keys and got paniky. Instead of calling me at work (We lived about 7 miles from DCA) She broke one of our front window panes to open the window. This woman is at the pool across from our condo (she was the neighborhood nosey) had been watching the whole event and told my wife she would call the fire department to help. She called the police and told them to bring CPS with them. Stupid b###*!

So the Seminole county Sherrifs Office shows up along with a CPS officer. My wife had been cleaning house, so things were a little messy. They asked to come in the house and check things out. They started the interrogation of my wife and asked tried to get her to admit that we left our son alone in the house all the time. My wife only stepped out tree feet from the front door. Of course they threated to remove my son from our residence, and that's when I get the call from my wife. I sped home to give my wife some back up. They leave without incident after 15 minutes of urging them to leave and threat of my lawyer being enroute.
After a week of "investigating" and going over the case file, CPS said they would close the case, but would do so if we volunteer to have a home visit once a week till they were satisfied. These visits went on for weeks at their convenience of time and day. My wife had to quit school and because she had to be at home at their beck and call. Finally my lawyer advised us that we had cooperated enough and that visits needed to stop. He filed a motion in the county court that CPS had no basis of wrong doing or suspected abuse and that CPS was badgering us trying to find something. The judge agreed and pretty much told CPS to cease and desist on the visits.
I think CPS is a vital department to protect children from abuse and harm, but sometimes they go overboard on innocent cases and don't investigate or let real cases of abuse slip through the cracks.

January 26th, 2007, 14:05	#18
H46Bubba Old Skool Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: CVG Posts: 4,095	Re: Broken leg Kell, I'm glad Gavin is okay. I hate CPS. When we were living in Lake Mary, my oldest was had just turned three. My wife went outside to talk to our neigbor and he my son thought it was a good idea to lock the door. My wife didn't have her keys and got paniky. Instead of calling me at work (We lived about 7 miles from DCA) She broke one of our front window panes to open the window. This woman is at the pool across from our condo (she was the neighborhood nosey) had been watching the whole event and told my wife she would call the fire department to help. She called the police and told them to bring CPS with them. Stupid b###*! So the Seminole county Sherrifs Office shows up along with a CPS officer. My wife had been cleaning house, so things were a little messy. They asked to come in the house and check things out. They started the interrogation of my wife and asked tried to get her to admit that we left our son alone in the house all the time. My wife only stepped out tree feet from the front door. Of course they threated to remove my son from our residence, and that's when I get the call from my wife. I sped home to give my wife some back up. They leave without incident after 15 minutes of urging them to leave and threat of my lawyer being enroute. After a week of "investigating" and going over the case file, CPS said they would close the case, but would do so if we volunteer to have a home visit once a week till they were satisfied. These visits went on for weeks at their convenience of time and day. My wife had to quit school and because she had to be at home at their beck and call. Finally my lawyer advised us that we had cooperated enough and that visits needed to stop. He filed a motion in the county court that CPS had no basis of wrong doing or suspected abuse and that CPS was badgering us trying to find something. The judge agreed and pretty much told CPS to cease and desist on the visits. I think CPS is a vital department to protect children from abuse and harm, but sometimes they go overboard on innocent cases and don't investigate or let real cases of abuse slip through the cracks.