Do you think this CPS social worker will be punished? If so, how?

Question

My 2 yr old niece was tooken out of the home by CPS. Circumstances: The carpet was dirty because of flooding that the property management dragged their feet about fixing. The social worker was informed this, but refused to state this in he reports. Our toilet is old (and therefor a little rusty inside), which she called dirty (this again is something the property mgmt should fix). The bathroom floor was called dirty because of a few drops of hairdye stains on the floor. Carpet was said to have not been vacuumed in weeks (not true, vacuumed the night before, but had some cherrios on the floor from my niece's snack). Social worker says the bottle of grape juice on the floor was feul injector fluid (we don't even use this fluid). One butter knife on the counter, far from my my niece's reach, turned into knives all over the house. Sure the house was not immaculent, but it was not filthy either. Social worker lies on the reports and stretches the few things that are true.

When we get her back, she comes for her weekly inspections and says the house looks good, in her reports, she says it was a filthwhole. It was not a filth whole, it was immaculate this time.
This woman came with the intent to put my niece up for adoption because of a dirty house. When she took her away, the first time, she was given my uncle's # for placement, but refused to contact him. She said my mom (the grandmother) was domestically violent, just because she didn't like my mom and didn't want her to have visitation rights. She tramatized my innocent niece severly. She misses us and is angry this is happening to her. She now has a fear of adults she dosen't know and cries her lungs out everytime she sees the social worker. Also, the SW was informed of her native american heritage and refused to aknowledge it, violating almost everything about the Indian Child Welfare Act. http://www.caddonation-nsn.gov/Documents/ICWA1978.htm
Will she lose her SW license? anything?

I am not dissing social workers, I am talking about ONE crooked social worker that makes them all look bad. My mom even called the Ombudsman's office and they told her many things the social worker did was quote "ilegal." The Ombudsman's office is on her right now trying to figure her action's out. I did not say they are all bad, I am talking about ONE, so get your facts straight before you open your mouth!!!!

We took pictures the first time, but not the second time. We got a hold of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and they want to persue our case, but needed a paternity test from the father, but the courts are taking their sweet time on this because they don't want this Indian issue blown in their face. We are in the process of getting the paternity test, which will take a month more. The Ombudsman is in the process of reviewing the social worker's actions, but I am not sure just what the Ombudsman or the BIA have in mind. I hope she loses her license so she cannot harm anymore children and I hope all her past cases are reviewed for any poor innocent children who were ripped away from loving arms, like my niece. I hope the Orange County CPS get their pants sued off as a lesson to better watch any other crooked actions by their employees and also to pay for counseling my niece will need after all this drama. But I don't think that will all happen!!! :(

Answer 1

Did you take photos after the baby was taken? If not you should have. This could have helped you make your case. A lot of times social workers do have their minds made up when they get to a home. Recently in my area a child was being bitten, burned, and locked in rooms by his mother. DHS was called repeatedly but didnt show until it was too late. They were too busy harrassing people like you.

Answer 2

I am also a social worker and agree that they have a lot on their plates. I can't speak for all of them, but we have nothing to gain by removing a child from the home. It is all done in the best interest of the child. There are all kinds of circumstances that come into play. Your best bet would be to take pictures, document things and follow all the parenting advice or plans set up by your social worker. She may put the parent on a reunification plan or something to follow, if these are all followed, the case maybe resolved with the child returning home. Now about the punishment, I would think if the social worker did in fact lie and it can be proven then they maybe put on a punishment. I'm not sure what would happen, i've never seen a worker falsify home visit information to take a child out of the home. In most cases it's just the opposite so they don't have to remove a kid.

Answer 3

I guess it depends on your experience with them. Myself personally, I've had both good and bad. The good, when I was a child and in foster care. I still remember one of my social workers who used to color with me (and probably ask me questions about what I thought of my foster family). She gave me some markers that smell like fruit and I STILL have them, more for sentimental value. I'm sure having such a great social worker at that time in my life helped the situation, and I hope that any one who ends up with a social worker has one like her. The bad, I've never had a "mean" social worker, it's more the system that can be pretty wacky. I think social workers tend to get laid off a lot, as every time I do something with them I have a new case worker who usually can't find my file, or needs me to sign a new waver because the old case worker misplaced mine, or has new rules which what I can/can't have access to. They sit on things a lot...who knows, maybe this is just the agency that I was adopted through. Regardless, it's frustrating and I've found a lot of the information that the agency "couldn't" give me by accident or by snooping around on the internet.

Answer 4

Honey, don't count on the CPS worker being punished. I have dealt with them for over three years, and that is absolutely the most useless organization. My granddaughter was taken from her mother and custody given to the father. The CPS worker asked at the mother's abuse and neglect hearing if the circuit court judge would grant visitation to the mother's boyfriend if the mother was present to supervise. She had a few days earlier reported that he had beaten her and raped her at gunpoint in front of my granddaughter. An 80 yr old neighbor confirmed that he had chased my daughter-in-law to her house, pointing a gun at them. She stated in a deposition that my 5-yr old granddaughter was crying and saying she was scared.
Another CPS worker asked at the family court hearing for supervised visits for this same boyfriend. Of course, both judges thought the request was ridiculous, and denied it. He still lived with my daughter-in-law and was there when the CPS worker visited.
The CPS worker was proven, by my son's lawyer, to be lying to the circuit court judge, and she wasn't punished. I could tell you a lot of these stories from the last three years, but you get the idea.

Answer 5

There seems to be more to this story than meets the eye. It seems to me that there's been an on-going situation with CPS that developed into what it is now.
I don't know which state you live in, but in Oregon, CPS actually bends over backwards to keep kids & their parents togther - something I don't condone because sometimes some people just shouldn't have children, & it shows in how they "raise" them - abuse, neglect, etc.
Some kids do better in foster homes than their own.

Answer 6

HEY HEY .... I WORK FOR SOCIAL WORKERS .... AND THEY HAVE ALOT ON THEIR PLATES