Good article. The overreach of CPS is staggering. There are even some Freepers who back Tucker Carlson’s crusade to sic CPS on parents making health decisions for their own children re masking.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3954232/posts
In Indiana CPS is real good at going after strict, homeschooling Christian families, but very loose on becoming involved with the families dealing with sexual/physical abuse or alcohol/drug use, especially if they are Black mothers and their boyfriends. It is not uncommon for children to die because of CPS incompetence.
I have had co-workers who dealt with CPS and it was a nightmare. This co-worker and her mom had babysat a friends baby one afternoon to help her friend out who needed to do something. A week later the baby shows up at the ER with a broken arm and the hospital calls CPS and they start interviewing the babies mom and sperm donor.
Sperm donor a minority, known drug user/dealer says he’s innocent even though he is the one who all the evidence pointed to as being the abuser. He was with the child sitting him and next thing, the arm is broke. CPS gets involved and goes to the poor co-worker and her mom and says testify against the white mom that she was abusive in your presence or we will take your children! My co-worker refused to lie for CPS but was a basket case at this point. They came in on her and started investigating her, her mom and her home. I told her to contact an attorney and let them deal with CPS’s BS.
Long story short, CPS after two weeks of torment, threats and incompetence gave the injured child to a relative of his mother and left the co-worker alone finally and that destroyed their friendship even though the co-worker and her mom refused to roll on her friend. She said I can’t afford to take the chance of being in contact with my friend because of the CPS aholes. Sperm donor was shot to death sitting on the porch of their apartment about six months later in a rare drive by in our small town.
I have several police officers who are friends and they hold CPS is a very low regard.