My name is Leslie and I have a very long story to tell. I am desperate for answers as I have been living the most horrendous nightmare, as are many fellow American families, of having my children ripped out from under me and placed in foster care.My dilemma has been dragging on now for almost 2 years. When all this started with a simple phone call I made to the local police here in Colorado Springs, Co....... reporting that my daughter's father had molested her.
The next thing I knew, they were claiming that I [the one who had made the call] was the perpetrator of many unthinkable things, due to the investigation done by the Department of Human Services. I had a "treatment plan" 4 pages long full of programs, classes, rules, orders, therapy, etc.... that I had to successfully achieve before getting my children back.
As the treatment plan neared the end, they found "more" things I needed treatment for and it just goes on and on and on. The caseworker, casa worker, DHS attorneys and the G.A.L. purge themselves in court every month making me out to be a monster as well as a horrible mother, and it's so false and corrupt. Of course they never have to take an oath in court. [No hand goes on the Bible. No Bible is even to be found.]
My lawyer is not allowed to defend me nor can I defend myself. My attorney is state appointed by the way because due to the domination of my life, I have lost a very stable, good paying union job to be able to have the time to fulfill the so called "treatment plan." I am constantly harassed, put down, attacked, belittled and shamed. As well as being threatened...... "If you do this or don't do that, we will terminate your parental rights."
Here in Colorado Springs it is an every day common practice, just like getting a speeding ticket. It's out of control and it needs to be STOPPED!! I have been forced to lie in order to incriminate myself so that they can "fix" me. And all of these programs, classes, etc..... as well as the foster care for 3 separate foster homes are being billed to myself and my husband. Not the children's father, the alleged child molester.
Our life is over, we are financially destitute and have all but lost everything including our credit. I am desperate to have this system here exposed. My son is covered in bruises today..... he is 10 years old. After the foster parents have avoided bringing him to his visits with me and therapy for 2 weeks..... keeping him hidden, now he is just covered in bruises, his back, shoulders, hip, leg and his buttocks. They will try their best to justify this somehow and keep him in that environment.
They should do the right thing and send him home. I have never laid a finger on him in his life. And now he is so withdrawn, its almost like he's not even there. He's scared to death and he wants badly to come home; however he is too afraid to admit it to anyone but me. He is used as a servant in his foster home. My story goes on.....
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