Marie Gray
New Member
- Jurisdiction
- Tennessee
I was appalled by the fact that DCS could go to my 8 year olds school and question her, or lead her, into telling them this grand story of how we have wild parties and she cut her hand open on a beer bottle. Ok, she had cut her hand on a beer bottle when she was 3 trying to help pick up glass when her Nana had dropped the bottle by accident. She had just got home from work so no she wasn't inebriated, but none the less it did happen and there is a visible scar on her hand. DCS however said there was a scar and bruise. Now I'm not a doctor but cuts heal much more slowly than bruises so there would have had to have been a visible cut for that to even fly, but this was the caseworkers first case. Then the start of my hell began. My father had just died and the man I decided to get pregnant by turned out to be pure evil, so I was not in a good place when DCS came knocking on my door. They said that my children were in danger and it's because they couldn't find me to talk to me. I'm sorry but I didn't want to talk to them. I had been a drug addict and was in recovery at the time they took my children. I was also pregnant didn't know it, and had a miscarriage the day before court because the father kicked me in the stomach. My children were happy though, this whole situation has destroyed my oldest daughter and every time I try to cooperate with DCS it just makes them have a new way to prove they had a reason to take my children in the first place. They said I wasn't complying because I had COVID. I'm am so sick of this and I can't find a lawyer to represent me. I had moved to Virginia because of all this before I had my last child and had been cleared by the VA dcs and everything. They said they would come check on us after I left the hospital but here comes TN when me and my child both passed drug tests and I am openly looking for recovery, but the DCS worker looks at me and said my daughter was better off without me and they took her anyway and forced me to leave the hospital. I almost killed myself that day. DCS really doesn't have anyone to answer to and they are destroying numerous families. Most kids that were in the foster system want to become case workers but then it's like they use a personal prejudice against the birth parents because of what they went through. Something needs to be done concerning the way the treat people with illness like they are hurting their children.