Dcs took my children and now wont give them back!

[kellydm32]

My 2 children were taken from me in April of 2012 last year. I have an 8 yr old autistic adhd son and a now 15 month old daughter. I had delivered my daughter back in april of last year 2 months early. I was laid up in the hospital for 2 weeks on strict bed rest before she was born. There was this woman who lived with me who had an 18th month old son. During the time she was there, she was putting her son in a bassinet that was too small for him. I did not know this cause I was in the hospital that he was climbing out of the bassinet. Not long after I left the hospital heard the child fall out of the bassinet and land on the floor and scream. We had concret floors under the carpet and he landed face first. There was multiple bruising on the boy and blood coming from ears. I told the mother to take him straight to the hospital. At that time I was visiting my daughter at the nicu cause she was too small to come home. She said she was then I left. During the time I was visiting my daughter in the hospital, I was getting back home to take care of my disabled child after getting him off the bus. The womans child was sleeping when I came in and she said the child was fine. So I assumed she took him to the hospital. 2 days later she tells me after coming back from another visit with my daughter, that her grandparents were coming to take the child to the hospital. I looked at her astonished and asked her you did not take him to the hospital? And she said no. She got scared dcs would be called. I told her it was too late. They will be called cause she waited too long. She took the child to the er and sure enough dcs was called. The child was taken and she was arrested for child neglect. 2 days after that, I get a knock on my door after I got my son off to school, and there was police investigators and dcs at my door. They proceeded to question me and then put me under arrest. Dcs took my son from school. My daughter was left alone cause she was still in the hospital. I spent 4 days in jail for child neglect just to have the charge dropped and I could be released. So my parents there to support me asked dcs now that my charges were dropped and going to be expunged then my son would come home. They said no. There were other factors now that makes it a danger for my son to come home. These factors were they found an empty bottle of percosets in my medicine cabinet they were prescribed to me by the dr who delivered my baby and were taken in the amount allowed. And after that was thrown out, I was accused of environmental neglect. By that time my daughter was already released from the hospital and taken into custody. The environmental neglect was thrown out and then there was something else they came up with. I could tell you everything they accused me off one after the other but it would take too long. Now it has been over a year and I am doing everything the department wants me to do and they are still coming up with things to keep them. The woman who has my daughter wants her but the one who has my son believes it is time for him to return home. The one who has my son said that dcs has returned kids to parents that did not need to get them back( like drug heads etc.) but does not understand why mine has not returned to me yet. Dcs continues to come up with new accusations on me and are now saying I admitted to things that I did not. Whenever I am doing something in the positive to get my kids back, they never mention that in meetings or in court. My court appointed attorney does not defend me properly. I had at one time unsupervised overnight visits and a lady from dcs swore she saw a shadow and now they say there is concerns about me prostituting with my kids being there. Now dcs is putting adoption on the plan as a dual goal. It has already been stated that I am a good parent and my son was very well taken of. I have not had the chance to raise my daughter. I hardly ever see my kids anymore. And my daughter thinks the foster mother is her real mother. I am at my wits end. My mother and father have agreed to let me move in so I can get the kids back quicker and the department said that if I did that, then they would have no problem returning them. Now they have come up with something else. Someone please help! I am so scared of losing my 2 precious babies. What more do I have to do to get them where they belong? I will do whatever it takes to get my kids back home

 

[disagreeable]

Generally, the goal of a Children Services interaction, is reunification. It does not appear they feel reunification is in the children's best interests. I suggest instead of moving in with mom n dad, you simply give them legal custody if DCS will agree. It appears they want someone they feel is capable of overseeing and following up on health actions regarding the children, to have custody.

 

[kellydm32]

For one thing, they said they wanted the children back with me but the woman who has my daughter wants her. And for another, they wanted me to move in with my parents because my father works all the time and my mother has health issues. So they said that me living with my parents would get the kids home. But Dcs is saying one thing and doing another. So if Dcs says I am capable of taking care of the children but then are coming up with lies then how is it possible that that reunification is not in the best interest of the children? There have been a lot of complaints on the department and mistakes they have made. I have not done anything wrong to not deserve my kids back. And why is it they keep coming up with one false allegation after another?

 

[Proserpina]

You're going to NEED an attorney to get out of this mess.