A Letter to the Michigan Ombudsman, and the response from the Michigan Omsbudsman

Dear Charlotte

These girls were MOLESTED in your state. please help these children per direction of your office .. I believe Federal Gov. orders, if you can not personally help in your office...then send me to someone who can resolve this case of the girls being FORCED by MI. courts to visit their bio-dad who has substantiated charges on this molestation and also MI. courts ordered my girls overnight in the residence of H***** J****** (a registered pedophile in YOUR state).

PLEASE ASSIST IN THESE TWO LITTLE GIRLS WHO HAVE BEEN IN PARENTAL LIMBO GOING ON 7 YRS NOW AND SUBJECTED TO ADDITIONAL TRAUMA AT THE HANDS OF MI. COURTS BY MISTAKES AND OVER SITE.

Allow the girls to grow and mature!

I don't fully understand the laws and need your help in keeping these girls from their perpetrators. Please don't abandon these little girls, they need your protection.

As with all other emails in the past requesting your office to save these girls, this is printed and saved in my personal file (and a few others).

Sincerely
A Victim of CPS


And here's the response

Dear Ms. Parent Victim,

As has been explained to you in the past, our office will not conduct an investigation into your concerns about CPS actions back in 2004. We realize that you have been dealing with complex and difficult custody issues involving the girls for a number of years. Our office does not have the legal authority to investigate or otherwise become involved in custody issues. If a decision is made to conduct an investigation into DHS actions, we focus our investigations on children's cases who are involved in Michigan's child welfare system (CPS, foster care, adoption and juvenile justice). We hope that our intervention (reading agency case file documents, interviewing agency staff and collateral sources) will benefit the children and make a difference in their case. As previously stated, your complaint does not fall within these parameters.



Charlotte J. Smith, J.D.
Supervisor
Office of Children's Ombudsman
P.O. Box 30026
Lansing, MI 48909

Phone: (517) 373-3077 or (800) 642-4326
Fax: (517) 335-4471

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