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The Circle Game

My grandson was 20 months old a couple of days ago, and he and his sister remain in the foster care system. I have started law school so that someday, hopefully by the time I die, I may help this world by changing this horrible system. I also met a man today with the exact same views and problems that I have had with DCFS. We are now playing The Circle Game.....and the seasons they go round and round, and the painted ponies they go up and down, we are captive on the carosel of time........

Another Year!

My grandchild and his sister are still in foster care. Nothing has changed. This week, I didn't even get my one hour Court Ordered visit because of the holiday. I was told by the supervisor that it would be made up next week. And there is nothing I can do about any of it. This last year I paid an attorney $4800 and got nothing done. My mother has come to live with me last July because she was diagnosed with Mixed Dementia. She has been coming with me on the one hour visits each week. After our last visit, she sat in the back seat with the empty car seat and said: "I miss him already" as she cried on the way home. How awful.

A RUMOR TODAY

There was a rumor today that the two year old and five month old were going to be moved from the current foster care to another foster care. I heard my son tell several social workers and his attorney that he wanted the children place with me, his mother. I don't know how it turned out. I couldn't bear to stay and listen. It is too painful. These bunch of idiots have the power to control these children's lives. Endless Court hearings where nothing gets done. Week after week of seeing the children for my one hour monitored visits, that they never get the kids to on time and occasionally miss. I need endless money to fight this all too powerful huge corrupt abomination of an agency that is ungoverned by anyone. It is the feeling of many people who sit out in those halls of the Court house that this matter is being dealt with in, is that CPS sells babies. I wouldn't have believed it, until now. I saw a 13 year old (that is what I overheard her age to be) out in the hall crying because she wanted to be returned to her family and the judge wouldn't even let her talk in Court. How awful. I believe someone that old should have the right to address the Court, especially when the outcome has to do with her. She had many family members around her, who looked just like people I used to see at my parent's church, trying to console her, one was an aunt and one was a grandparent. What could possibly have been the reason that she couldn't have gone with one of them? And if not, why couldn't the Court talk to this child and explain, instead of leaving her to cry in the Court House hallway. We treat our dogs in shelters better than this. I have recently read two articles by Kim Christensen and Garrett Therolf in the Los Angeles Times about the number of children that die while in the custody of CPS in Los Angeles County. It is alarming, very alarming to say the least.

HORRIBLE VISIT WITH THE KIDS AT THE CPS OFFICE TODAY.

The kids continue to be in the same foster care placement. The visits have been all messed up, every single time I go to visit them. Last week, CPS didn't get the kids to the office for my visit. My son had told me that he had noticed something in the peri area of the two year old. So yesterday, when I went to visit, I took the two year old along with the Public Health Nurse, in to a private area to look for what my son was telling me he saw in his visit last Monday. There was bruising to the pelvic and coccyx area and some kind of rash on the inner thigh areas. The child was being taken to the County Facility to be examined by the SCAN unit (sexual abuse unit) yesterday after I left. I have been so upset I can't think straight by this. It is abominable. How can the County of Los Angeles, State of California allow this to go on? A State investigator with the Department of Social Services called me last Monday. The foster home that the children have been placed in is being investigated, and yet the County continues to have them in that placement. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE????

INQUIRY FROM CPS AS TO IF I WOULD ADOPT THE CHILDREN

On Friday, October 9, 2009, a social worker from CPS called inquiring if I would adopt the children. I replied that I would be willing to adopt my grandson. The two year old little girl has two siblings that have already been placed with her grandmother in Kentucky and that grandmother has indicated to me that they are excited and would gladly welcome this child into their home. In light of the fact that my son, the father of this child, was so difficult to raise and continues to be to this day, I have decided that should the child be placed with me, he may need my undivided attention, not to mention that raising two children at my age would be difficult as I have no one else to help me in this endeavor. I would be doing this alone, very alone this time, as my father who was there with me raising my children before, passed away in 2003. So in light of this, I am hiring an attorney, and will proceed to adopt if that is what comes to be. Please pray for these children that the paths that are chosen for them, will be loving, caring, and with people that are truly devoted to their bests interests.

EVEN MY WEEKLY VISITS ARE TORTURED

CPS is so inconsistent, that even my weekly visits have become a torture. It seems that every single week something happens. Today when I get there, the social worker is not there and so the visit is being monitored by the foster parent, the same foster parent that clipped the end of the child's nail too close, the same one that the child was in the care of when the possible bump on the head took place. So.....today, we had to sit out in the lobby with this person. About half-way through the childrens' mother comes in to the lobby and starts to come over to us. At that point this foster mother announces that we are not to be together visiting the kids. I am not aware of anything that says anything like this, and in the past we have been allowed to have the visits together. I have nothing against having the mother there when I visit with the kids. This was very disruptive and upsetting to the two year old. She doesn't understand why her mother can't come over and give her a hug and kiss. It seems like this agency does whatever it can to cause hurt!

I have now had, I don't know how many, foster parents contact me with the same kind of inconsistent stories about CPS. It's not just parents and families. It happens on both sides.