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JESTENJERREAU
Jul 24, 2011, 12:23 AM
I am a 28 year old male living in Woodland Hills CA. In March of 2009 my then girlfriend M {Name removed} of 10 years, gave birth to our first Daughter S {name removed} (I know the name is ridiculous, but in essence I wanted everything for her). Now I had just been released from jail on Valentines Day, after a fight M{Name removed} & I got into at my house in December. Now at the time, I had it in my head that it was because of her hormones & since I had a warrant for a traffic violation they had to take me in to see the judge. That, plus D.V. had me in Jail for almost three months, I almost died thinking I would miss the birth of my child in there.
On 3-11-2009 at 3:11am S{Name removed} was born & I just wanted to hold her for ever. But also, during the birth M's attitude was a little more then that of a women giving birth, so the doctor took a urine test in for a drug screening (Since it was a family doctor & had knowledge of M's drug history in the past). 3/13, the results came back positive for Methamphetamine & DCFS was notified. They came into the Hospital, non-hostel and genuinely concerned for the care of all parties involved. S{Name removed} had not tested positive for any drugs. DCFS asked us a few questions like "how long had M{Name removed} been using" and "if I had known or had been using myself"? She stated that had been using off & on for the past 2 months without my knowledge, I also stated I had no privy to her involvement (Though I was aware of her past) & that I don't do drugs & would be willing to test for them on demand. They asked for us to meet them at there offices to discuss the matter, but we would have to allow our child to remain in the Nic-u (since she had low blood sugar) until they could determine a solution. At DCFS offices M , M's mother) & I joined with several members of DCFS. They said that we would be allowed to go back to the Hospital to prepare our child's return home with us after questioning & establishing a "case plan." M agreed to attend out-patient rehabilitation & that I would give them a drug test on demand. Recently released from jail, I had lost my apartment & we discussed plans to move into M's mother's home for the time being. But during the agreement M's mother & M began going back and forth, M's mother angry about M's drug use was very questionable about having us there saying "yes" but adding allot of concern about M's behavior in the past on drugs. M was crying uncontrollably pleading for her mother to stop questioning her intentions & just accept the departments offer. I hadn't just lose my apartment & job, also had not spoken with my mother in 4 years had nothing but them as far as reliability. After 25 minutes of arguing, I asked DCFS to understand the gravity of the situation & shock as the reason for M's mother's out burst.
After she had agreed to the move DCFS stated they would be coming to the house weekly & randomly for check-ups which also disturbed M's mother quite a bit (Because she wished to get the home in order before they came in to inspect the home. They asked for us to leave the room for a moment while they talk it over, & seeing them become impatient with M's mother, I knew they were not letting us leave with our child, which they wouldn't based on the meeting & stated that now M would have to attend a live-in rehabilitation for 3 months & that I would have to find sufficient housing for my Daughter if I was to regain custody at the scheduled court hearing in 30 days as they apologize for making things hard on me (understanding my difficult battle that lay ahead). As we sat in our cars in the parking lot, it hit me & I began to cry, then M began to cry as well, looking over to M's mother's vehicle we see her crying too, M got out of the car to embrace Mother saying she was sorry. We returned to the hospital to see our child before the department discharged her (They allowed us to do so), I couldn't even get out of the car as M & her Mother went to see S. I called my friend to see if he had my mother's phone number, since he is my best friend he did.
For the first time in 4 years I called to speak to my mother, tell her I had a child & told her DCFS took her away from us & I couldn't get her back till I had a home to take her to.
My Mother said her door was open to me & my child. In the next 2 weeks, M entered her program, I had moved into my Mother's house & on week 3 I was lost on my way to court (since the first time I went it was with my mother who knew freeways) I received a call from my lawyer who wanted to congratulate me on gaining custody of my child & that I could stop getting lost on the freeway & get back to pick up my child.. I cried for a bit on the side of the freeway for 2 reasons,1: I got my baby back! & 2: I was lost. After finding my way back to the Valley I went to pick my mother up & proceed to the offices where S was being dropped off.
Now having my child in my mother's home, I bathed,fed,changed,swaddled,burped,& cleaned bottle's happily for her while attending family preservation, parenting, & therapy counseling at my house weekly from I.M.C.E.S. (a separate bureau who specialized in those fields), & after 30 days M was able to leave for a couple of hours to visit.
Upon completing her courses, the courts asked me what I would like to do when the Mother
was released. I stated that she was an important factor in our child's life because it's our child, also a female needs her mother as capable as I knew she would be at her best. I requested for the Mother to be allowed to move in with me at my Mother's home. It was granted. We all attended the weekly meeting to discuss our plans for raising S, & after 2 months of living together M became pregnant again ("HEY WE WERE YOUNG"). Preparing for a second child while attending these meetings, while searching for suitable work was hard. M became angry at the meeting because the discussions would make her feel like she was being attacked. At our WIC appointment the office upon weighing S said she was not the size she should be which raised suspicions on my feedings. So DCFS had sent someone out to look at the child & check her food rations, I had plenty but I was not measuring the bottles right (though I would feed her twice as many times as you would normally have to). It was not seen as negligence because I admitted my stupidity, at the next doctor's appointment she was deemed in great physical condition, happy &
healthy.
But M began fighting with me over our sessions & told the counselor, I was never home & wouldn't take care of my child (though my Mother said different & at this time was becoming disenchanted by our presence). The court allowed M to move with S to her Mother's home. & that's only the start..

LONG STORY SHORT... Kind of.

I ended up moving into M's mother's home, paying rent, taking the bus to the train to another bus to work 13 hour days in Hollywood , & attending weekly meetings, only to come home & have M either be gone or have her on her way out to "go to the store for 3 hours" or "attend a N.A. meeting." To leave home at 6:00am only to return anywhere between 11:30pm & 1am, then have her leave for hours got old by the 3rd month of living there. One night while returning home from work M said she was going to a late meeting, "it was 11:30p" I followed her outside (as her Mother was looking over S while she slept), I observed M deny a taxi she had called to fool her mother to wait for her real ride. Upon seeing me approach she got loud & started punching me in my face while I was telling her I knew what she was doing. During the altercation I pulled her hair & grabbed her arms to protect myself from further assault, in which she lost balance & fell on her butt to the ground. She began running back toward the house calling the police screaming to dispatch that I was chasing her & hitting her (she was 7 months pregnant).

Since then I had told DCFS that I suspected M was using again & showed them a device (homemade) I had found. M assaulted me in front of DCFS supervisor, she made no report, but filed a restraining order (without authorization from her superiors or the courts) & told M that if she did not sign the order she would lose rights to her child & unborn child. M signed & the police had me pack my things & leave.
Due to the effect I lost my job my rights my home my sanity & hope for DCFS.
After I also would come to discover that all suspicions of M using were right & would always notify the department, do there investigative work for them & uncover the truth, though they never gave my parental rights back, because the summary reports were riddled with lies to cover up the wrongs of there department to control this case. Basing all there petitions on presumptions & stories from before our first child's birth mixed in with M's (Now admitted) untruths as factual.

A week ago after our 3rd child ("I KNOW, I DON'T LEARN") & M's several attempts to cure her disease, DCFS came into our home with no warrant or cause & took our 5 day old infant (3 Daughters) without paper work or notification of where they were taking her, based on M being thrown out of treatment after she used. DCFS only has 1 dirty test from M going on 3 years, in August of 2010 they took our children from her after they caught wind of my being in the home though the courts restraining order was dropped a week after DCFS made Mn file it. & 2 months after the department had custody of our than 2 children (S & K), they ended up hospitalized for bone density, malnourishment, & depression. That was the second home they sent our children to at the first the found signs of abuse. HOW ARE WE ENDANGERING THEM MORE THAN DCFS ALREADY HAVE BASED ON ASSUMPTION, WHEN WE HAVE PROOF OF There's? & the investigator that came to my home after the birth of our third child was rude & used racist comments in front of my family, because I am African American & M is not..

Is purgery, endangering children, malpractice, mental anguish grounds for taking a Civil Court approach.

JudyKayTee
Jul 24, 2011, 03:02 AM
This is far too long to read, digest and answer. Perhaps just getting it "our there" is/was helpful to you.

At any rate - if someone in an official capacity made racist comments that person should be reported to that person's superior.

You can pretty much sue anyone for anything. You just can't win a lot of those lawsuits. In as short a way as possible, what are the perjury (and that happens all the time in Court so I will probably be discounted), endangerment and malpractice about?

Suits for mental anguish very seldom are "winners."

But, again, can you boil this down?

It is foolish and dangerous to post names on the Internet, particularly when children are involved. You yourself may have just opened yourself up to a lawsuit by doing so.

I realize you are upset - but you have to think more clearly.

joypulv
Jul 24, 2011, 03:40 AM
Oh PLEASE. You had 3 children while not even taking care of yourselves, they have signs of neglect, the mother is a user, you knocked her down when 7 months pregnant, and everything is an excuse with you. You got so much benefit of the doubt until now and NOW you want to bring up racism or someone being rude? And a foster home not being as wonderful as yours? That's your basis for suing? Dream on. And start using birth control. First time you say you were young - that counts ONCE, not the second and third. Those poor kids.

JESTENJERREAU
Jul 24, 2011, 03:47 AM
I thank you for your advice. The department had submitted several summary reports given to the courts & signed a contract stating that these findings are true. But even in the statements written allegations are told to be presumptions, events that are said occurred aren't backed by feasible evidence. My children while in our custody were in perfect health & protected. After they were taken by DCFS, both children are hospitalized for failure to thrive & depression. Still they remained in the hands of DCFS. I know I have the right to be evaluated by DMH (department of mental health) along side DCFS, so there is no bias, but the department keeps DMH out of reach when it comes to handling families unless they have serious mental defects. Now I suffer from insomnia & my left hand shakes involuntarily. Im 28 shaking like Im 89.

JudyKayTee
Jul 24, 2011, 03:52 AM
I thank you for your advice. The department had submitted several summary reports given to the courts & signed a contract stating that these findings are true. But even in the statements written allegations are told to be presumptions, events that are said occurred aren't backed by feasible evidence. My children while in our custody were in perfect health & protected. After they were taken by DCFS, both children are hospitalized for failure to thrive & depression. Still they remained in the hands of DCFS. I know I have the right to be evaluated by DMH (department of mental health) along side DCFS, so there is no bias, but the department keeps DMH out of reach when it comes to handling families unless they have serious mental defects. Now I suffer from insomnia & my left hand shakes involuntarily. Im 28 shaking like Im 89.


"Feasible evidence?" Some of what you have written is not consistent with your writing style - "feasible evidence" being one of those things.

What is going on here?

My colleague "Joy" made a very good catch here - you assaulted a woman who was 7 months pregnant, pulling her hair to protect yourself and knocking her down?

If you go forward with this case your past is DEFINITELY going to come back to haunt you!

JESTENJERREAU
Jul 24, 2011, 04:08 AM
First off, each of my children have full health insurance plans from Gerber life that I alone paid for. I (even while living on the streets) maintained a job when DCFS illegally issued a restraining order. The Mother of my children has a disease, & that can't be used as a reason to take a child, especially when she has continuously received treatment & never presented a dirty test to the courts. You have a problem with understanding love and what comes with it. If your children become inflicted with such a disease would you give up on what you are attempting to create? My children were physically hurt in the custody of others & you say I am unsafe? DCFS has 80% fail rate (look it up) & every year take 315,364 children from there home based on assumptions.. 7.8 % are true, yet over 100,000 of them never get back to there homes. Also 2/3 are either physically or sexually harmed in foster homes.. DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE YOU THINK YOU KNOW.

P.S. I now own my own LLC while losing my mind jumping through hoops for a circus that beats it's animals, I will get my children back & the supreme court system will push the issue.
Already have the backing of The NAACP & Jewish Federation. Thank you for your comment though.:cool::mad:

joypulv
Jul 24, 2011, 04:13 AM
Thank you JudyKayTee for bringing this back on track. I get carried away.

If the crux of the matter is that DCF took the children because Megan was thrown out of treatment for using, but that they were healthy in your care and not in the care of DCF 2 months after being taken, then concentrate on proving the health issues, while in your care and while in theirs. Stay on subject, keep it short, drop the racism case for now, and use plain English instead of trying to sound like a lawyer.

JESTENJERREAU
Jul 24, 2011, 04:27 AM
The mother admitted she was swinging at my face & fell on "HER" butt I didn't make her fall, she was 7 months pregnant. How nimble would you be trying to fight while pregnant? O.K. now if you make a statement based on hearsay, without doing a proper investigation in order to support those allegations it doesn't hold water. In that case I should be able to be king of the world just by putting it in a legally binding petition without so much as a 3rd grade family tree. & an investigator.
Commented on my skin color as a joke like it was funny. Finally all members involved in this case have either been fired or demoted to a desk job trying to go against me to cover the civil rights trail leading to this lawsuit. But please don't become offended by my approach answering your questions, I believe in my convictions & hold MY WHOLE FAMILY very close to my heart, but I thank you for your guidance.

JESTENJERREAU
Jul 24, 2011, 04:34 AM
The children stopped eating in the care of foster parents 2 months after being taken out of another home for signs of abuse.

The doctor stated that the kids where not being taken care of in foster care.

The foster home in which they were in said my oldest stopped eating on Friday.
The foster home waited till Monday to take her to the hospital..

REALLY THIS DOESN'T SOUND Weird? There mother & I have several doctor reports all saying "bill of good health"

ScottGem
Jul 24, 2011, 04:58 AM
First, all those details are unnecessary and don't really help us help you. What it boils down to, is if you feel you have been treated improperly and illegally, you get yourself an attorney and fight. There is nothing we can do but maybe advise on the feasibility of such a fight. But all we have is your word on what is happening.

When you say things like you are paying for health insurance as proof that your children are being kept healthy, that indicates you don't really know what proof is. An attorney will tell you what you can and should submit to the court and what you can't.

And what does that link have to do with anything?

JudyKayTee
Jul 24, 2011, 05:46 AM
I don't know why you are arguing with us. You seem convinced you know what you are doing. Go and argue with... someone else who can actually help you.

And your sort-of-legal-language, complete with bad spelling, is going to hurt you.

cdad
Jul 24, 2011, 06:09 AM
The children stopped eating in the care of foster parents 2 months after being taken out of another home for signs of abuse.

The doctor stated that the kids where not being taken care of in foster care.

The foster home in which they were in said my oldest stopped eating on friday.
The foster home waited till monday to take her to the hospital..

REALLY THIS DOESN'T SOUND WIERD? There mother & I have several doctor reports all saying "bill of good health"

Nothing that you have said so far strikes me as anything that even remotely proves that your children shouldn't have been taken from you.

Im sorry but your "story" keeps falling apart every time your asked to take responsibility for your actions. You say they filed an illegal restraining order. No they didn't. They filed on behalf of the children. You missed that part. You have been given chance after chance already. DCFS told you to stay away from the mother. You made a choice and you lost. You had a chance to not have more children in your given situation. Again. Poor me. That attitude isn't going to last in a courtroom. Just because you admit a mistake doeant give you the right to REPEAT it. You are so off base here in your line of thinking. The children are the victim in this situation and you sir are not. The fact that she was thrown out of a program for a dirty test means it showed she was using drugs. DUH it doesn't have to pass through a court. It is still part of this persons history. And you say she has a disease and so everything needs to be excused?? Give me a break. Is that like drinking too much while you have children around till you pass out acceptable parenting? After all isn't that a disease too?

The bottom line here is that no one is a fan of dcsf but you make the classic case as to why they exist. You need to turn this whole situation around without blame to others and start focusing on how to make things right again. You admitted spending a few months in jail for DV and then you put your hands on her again? Wake up and take a good look in the mirror and your going to see who exactly is responsible for this whole thing. Get real and get back on track and start being a real father instead of trying to play one in a courtroom.

Fr_Chuck
Jul 24, 2011, 09:47 AM
Also unless I am missing something, Gerber Life does not provide health insurance. They offer life and accident.

Gerber Life Insurance Company | Adult and Child Life Insurance (http://www.gerberlife.com)

So the only medical insurance they offer is a very limited accident plan, not full medical insurance.

kcomissiong
Jul 25, 2011, 07:27 AM
I thought that too when I read the OP's answer