Fresno County gets 1,000 child abuse calls a month
About 1,000 times a month, someone dials the number of Fresno County's child protective services hotline.
A team of trained workers sorts through the calls, deciding whether authorities need to respond within two hours, 10 days or not at all.
I am a mother of three children who were taken from me in May of last year (2008). I would’ve never thought in a million years that this could happen to my family. I was a mother of a sexually abused child. The perpetrator was my husband. I was the concerned mother who called the sheriff, put my daughter in counseling, took care of three children on my own for 6 years before they were taken from me.
ReplyDeleteTo explain my case would take a whole lot of writing and I’m not sure if anyone is even looking at this post since I’m the first to respond. I started a book before the children were taken by CPS about the struggles of being a single mother of a child who was sexually abused and raising two sons from the perpetrator. Since CPS stepped in I put a hold on my book because my life has sure taken a turn. I’m waiting to get out from under CPS’s thumb to finish my book.
You know….this is so unjust…so completely unjust, yet I still have to keep my emotions under control every time I enter the courtroom. I sit in the chair with my back completely straight; head held high, I do not avoid looking at the judge every time I’m in there. I have seen her concern over my case the past few times I’ve been in there. She came down hard on the county counsel representative because he is not doing everything he needs to do. He has caused the deposition hearing to be continued for the past two months. There are so many different people involved; I can’t even begin to explain the court process with you. All I know is it’s extremely LONG......agonizing.......... and emotional.
All of the allegations that were first submitted to the court by CPS have been dropped. The new allegation is that I failed to send my kids to counseling after they stopped seeing their father, therefore causing them emotional stress. WHAT? ?? The emotional stress that my children have had to endure since being in the system is far worse than anything I’ve done! I am anxious to read the recent mental assessment that they asked me to complete. I was a total bitch to this poor woman who interviewed me. I had a bad attitude with her because I’m totally sick of the run around the county is giving me. Once I explained the reasons for my bad attitude and cried in her office while explaining my story, she gave me a very good report. She is even investigating the parole officer who STRAIGHT UP LIED AT THE CPS OFFICE MEETING AFTER THE KIDS WERE TAKEN!
I swear to everything that is holy that if you put me on a lie detector test and put him on one…HE WOULD FAIL AND I WOULD PASS!!!