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I truly can't believe the audacity of these CPS workers. They're out of control. With all the cases they currently have in their files what are they doing out trolling to interfere in fantasy cases? They are dangerous. California is particularly bad.

When I lived in CA from 1977 to 1992 I became a legal foster mother. The first child I had in my home was a friend of my child and had been raped by her father's brother, of which he had 8. Her mother and father were divorced and Mom threw her out because the kid (then 13) was responsible for the attack. Her boyfriend brought her to my house and asked if she could stay for a day or two.He was much older than her (21) but a dim soul and maybe mentally 16, and kind to her.

One day while I was cooking I heard her on the phone, crying and saying she would not back down no matter what they did to her. Not yet aware of the rape I asked if she needed help and she told me the story and that her father was threatening to hurt her if she testified against his brother.I called CPS. They immediately placed her under protective custody and asked me to take her until the end of the school year(3 month away). I did.

The girl was messed up and a real problem. I arranged for her to see a shrink and she never had shots for diseases.We got that handled. Her mother had said she couldn't have shots for religious reason. They worshiped Baal, (just kidding).

Two months into this the foster girl, my child and another girl borrowed the boyfriend's new Ford truck without his knowledge, he was working and so was I, and at10 AM one Saturday morning took a joy ride, hitting a lumber truck head on. The Ford truck blew up, they were all ejected on impact. Fortunately they all survived, not too badly scarred, but with lengthy hospital stays. A broken femur, dislocated shoulder, brain swelling and multiple cuts and bruises. They looked like they had been shot with bird shot from the breaking glass. My girl had the broken femur and the dislocated shoulder.

The foster kid's mother, she had 4 daughter's each with a different father, sued me personally, State of CA, and the Social Worker. I was accused of all the ugliest things you can possibly immagine. I worked full time and had a housekeeper and they made her life miserable. This went on for 2 years.I was traumatized out of my mind. The State paid for the defense and the attorney's made a bundle of money,but the jury finally decided that the foster girl was responsible for the crash.

The State was not about to lose that trial. Can you imagine the repercussions if they lost? Every foster family in the State would have been sued by someone.

I learned so much about CPS and it's workings that I was horrified. Not too shortly thereafter I moved to Florida to take care of my parents in their old age, but it was an experience I would gladly have missed.

Good Grief - that's horrendous.

CPS here in Delaware is no piece of cake either. They have a "secret" file that only law enforcement, schools and day care centers (there are a couple others, I can't remember) have access to for doing back ground checks on people, especially those seeking employment dealing with children.

At this time, even if there is only an accusation of neglect or abuse a person's name is placed on it and can not be removed unless by court order.

changes are coming down the pike, but bureaucracy is slow. I'm going to ask my child care provider if she will call CPS and do an inquiry on me, under the guise she wants to have me as a backup caregiver, just to see if my name is on the list because of that b!tch.