Submitted by Melody

My Grandson was kidnapped by CPS in 2004 shortly after he was born. I talked to the case worker to llet them know I was interested in raising my grandson since we were also already raising his sister. I thought there would be no problem but first they came back with "well he has a foster parent that wishes to adopt him and we are going to do whatever we can to assist her in doing this." Then they came back with allegations against me and my husband. The allegation against my husband was that he abused his daughter when she was 7 and said they had a police report to confirm this allegation. When asked to provide us with a copy of said document they refused and refused to talk to his daughter who confirmed that no such abuse happened ever. Then they made allegations against me that I abused, neglected and failed to keep my daughter safe when she was a child. I obtained a copy of the file from my local CPS of the allegations against me and these allegations were no less than 15 years old not to mention completely falsified and no consideration given to the fact I was raising a bipolar child with NO professional help nor help from anyone else. I tried many times over the years to get help for her and was told there was nothing wrong or that there was nothing they could do to help her or me. But they had NEVER taken my daughter out of my care even when I told them I did not know how to care for her because she was out of control.

I was devastated at the news that they believed me to be an abusive parent because from the time I was 8 years old that is all I lived for was protecting the children. I was determined that no child should ever suffer abuse of any kind.

We have been fighting this with CPS now for almost 7 years and once again we are fighting it due to my grandson being removed from the foster mom he had been with for the last almost 7 years.

I CANNOT believe they can use information from that long ago and I CANNOT believe that they can say that ANYONE who grew up in an abusive home is not a good candidate to raise a child because they are more likely to be abusive than anyone else. What a crock!