My Son and The Other Parent's DHS/CPS Case

                                                                                                    June 8, 2014

In earlier posts, I have mentioned the neglect and potential abuse done to my son, and I will mention a little about my experience with CPS/DHS in this post. I was thrust into dealing with CPS when I got a call to come get my son before the Police and CPS take him. I raced over and showed up as Police were getting to the location. My son's mother was involved in an altercation with one of her other children. My son was in the middle of the fight or at least, watching and hearing a real fight between to adult sized individuals. This experience was not good for my son and highlighted what might have been normal around my son's mother's residence.

I had to hang around my son's mother's residence while CPS/DHS did their reports and I provided them with all that I knew. The residence was in turmoil and it was hard to maintain control over my son while the environment was buzzing with excitement because of all the workers. The workers with Police were all over the house to straighten it all out. At completion of the investigation, I was told to leave and make sure the mother got no unsupervised contact from that point on.

A blessing and a curse was being released with my son. My son was not part of the case against his mother which meant, I was left to defend him from her. CPS/DHS goal is to re-unite families and they bugged me to the point of forcing me to allow visits with the other family. I was told I didn't have to allow visits, but they would fight to get the siblings visits which I felt was wrong because I didn't think his siblings care even a little about my son, just trying to ruin his happiness.

In the end, CPS/DHS did tell me a lot of information before they quit dealing with my son's mother, and I ended up a friend of the worker. I never had a problem with CPS/DHS, but I do think they trapped me in bad contracts because I had no lawyer when dealing with them. Also, I think only a year of obstacles for a multiple offender is not harsh enough. Still, I thank them for helping my son's mother's household because if it were not for them, my son might still be living in a terrible situation.  To further defend my son, I had to obtain a lawyer, and I will cover my second court case against the mother in my next post.