There's a child locked up in Juvenile Detention Center. He was suppost to be in there 24 hours. But His father Refuses To call and pick him Up. How do you Not having custody Or being a guardian get the child out of Lock Up?

Perhaps he is tired of the child doing things, perhaps he is scared of the child, Many Juv ( did not say how old he is) I have arrested 15 or 16 year olds I wish would rot in jail at times but got out in a few days.

So why are they in lock up, what were their previous crimes, was there violence, how old is the child

But if the custodical parent will not, the non custodial parent can petiton the court for temp custody and get the child out.

If not the child and family services will come in and place them in foster care at some point.

I am not saying the father is right or wrong, there is just way too mch we don't know about.

perhaps he is tired of the child doing things, perhaps he is scared of the child, Many Juv ( did not say how old he is) I have arrested 15 or 16 year olds I wish would rot in jail at times but got out in a few days.

So why are they in lock up, what were thier previous crimes, was there violence, how old is the child

But if the custodical parent will not, the non custodial parent can petiton the court for temp custody and get the child out.

If not the child and family services will come in and place them in foster care at some point.

I am not saying the father is right or wrong, there is just way too mch we don't know about.


This Kid is In jail for missing court. All because people wouldn't Give the info on when it was. The Father Has a past history of neglect and has left this child on a door step of some random person house and disappeared for over 3 years. The kid is only 14 and I have never Seen him do anything to deserve what his parents are doing to him. My Sister wanted to know how she could get the kid out of Juvy. It is sad to think that someone could do that to such a sweet kid.

Thank you for additional information, having worked with kids in the system and as a police officer I have seen many of the worst of the worst.

So for you, as you may be only looking at this one child, unless you are specific as to the details we can only relate as what the issues could be.

But you can see if there is a child advocate assigned by the court or to the court that can see if children and family services will step in and get him assigned to foster care temporary.

A. Either the dad wants him to learn by tough love because he sees the kid is headed for serious trouble and/or
B. the dad is negligent and Child Services should get involved.

I have seen kids in their 20's end up dead because of meaningful parents always bailing them out so they never learned their lesson.

I'm wondering... if a child is "sentenced" to Juv Hall, once his/her sentenced is served and they are released and no one picks them up, why wouldn't social services be called to place the child in foster care?

We've had social services involved with us/our son since he was 12... he had been sentenced several times to Juvenile Detention. When he served his time, we always picked him up - never thought of leaving him in there.

I just called the Juvenile Detention Center that my son was in and asked the question... the parents are charged for each day the child stays there, but after a few days of contacting the parents, the social worker is contacted and the child is placed with the County. The only time JDC is used as a placement is if there is absolutely no place for the child to go/can't find a foster care home.

There must be more to this than is being said - I know the social workers can't talk about a case with anyone but the child and parents, but contacting the social worker (if you don't know who that is, calling the Social Services office, they can possibly tell you who is assigned to that case) and expressing concern, telling them what you think is going on and offering to take the child may help. You may need to become a licensed foster care provider to take placement of that child if that's an option.

Good luck!