termination of right/abuse and neglect

My son came home early, again from a visitation with his dad. He came back with bruises thanks to his stepmom, who slapped him, kicked him, and dumped ketchup on him. We live in FL and they live in SC and the original custody agreement was in SC (but I did a foregin judgement and had it domesticated here in Florida). Also my son is on meds for his ADHD, neither will acknowledge it and refused to give him his meds while he was there (hence the neglect...). Proper reports are being flied with the cops, DCF, etc, and I do have pics of the bruises. My question is, I have them on tape saying that my son is no longer welcome at their house (oh yeah and they just had a baby too!) and my son (who is 10, will be 11 later this year) says he no longer wants to go back there (they also emotionally abused him also). I want to terminate the visitation/contact rights but still force him to pay support. Does anyone know if this is possiable? He has an older son that he pays support to but has not contact/visitation. I am meeting with an atty here on Monday but wanted to know if anyone else has gone thru all of this also. Thanks a bunch!

What did CPR or DCF do? They should suspend visits if there is proof of abuse.

Did you also call the police?

Unless you are remarried you probably cannot terminate his rights.

When you see the attorney see if charges can be brought against them, visitation suspended, and ask about medical neglect since they refuse to give him his meds.

With that said, your son is also old enough to take the medicine without them.

hopefully you have a competent attorney. Get pictures of everything and keep records of everything.

Florida wont let you use the tape unless they knew they were being taped and acknowledged permission to being taped. Make sure you do pursue with the child abuse. The court may give supervised visits only but it's doubtful they would terminate the rights. Florida hardly ever does that. You could always try for it and say if they can't then you would like visits to be supervised. Press charges on them though for the child abuse. They probably wont let your son testify but you can ask for him to be able to talk to a Guardian ad Litem and that person can testify on behalf of your son.

carney said:

Florida wont let you use the tape unless they knew they were being taped and acknowledged permission to being taped. Make sure you do pursue with the child abuse. The court may give supervised visits only but it's doubtful they would terminate the rights. Florida hardly ever does that. You could always try for it and say if they can't then you would like visits to be supervised. Press charges on them though for the child abuse. They probably wont let your son testify but you can ask for him to be able to talk to a Guardian ad Litem and that person can testify on behalf of your son.

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the tape contains messages that they left on my answering machine and that is considered consent, becuase they knew they were leaving a message on an answering machine. Trying to get the cops and DCF involved has been a nightmare, I went to the cops in FL after I saw the bruises, they told me that I have to call DCF up in SC, I called them and was told that since the child is back here in Florida that I need to call DCF here and they would help with the investigation. nevermind the fact that a child has been hurt here....