- Jurisdiction
- Tennessee
I have 2 children, 15 and 13 years old. My 15 year old has a 10 month old daughter. Aprox 3 months ago my 15 year old made allegations against fiance of them having "consuel" sex and him being the father of my grandchild. I made a police report, asked him to leave the home, and took her to her therapist to be reecaluated (as she is the victim of abuse from her biological father). Aprox a month after all of this occurred, she told me she had lied about everything. I hired her an attorney and a retraction letter for her statements was issued to dcs and metro police department. I began to recieve multiple phone calls from dcs and metro police department. They would question me over and over again. I responded with call the attorney over and over again. On august 17, 2017 i recieved another phone call from the metro detective. I refused to answer questions yet one more time and told her to call the attorney. The detective told me that was fine that i would not cooroperate with her, shed just get me to cooroperate with dcs. I went and picked up my children from school anf went to the attorneys office to complain about the harrassing phone calls. While at the attorneys office, dcs tryed to call me, they left a message and had gone to my home looking for me. About an hour later my neighbor (my fiances father) called me to tell me there were 2 women at my home looking for me and my kids. He asked if i wanted to speak to them, when i answered yes, he handed the phone to them. The lady got on the phone and identified herself ad the detective. She stated she was there to do a well check on my daughter since she had been signed out of school early. I asked her to hold on and gave the attorney the phone. Meanwhile me and my kids were told to wait in the office by one of the other attorneys. We waited for aprox 2 hours, when the attorney informed us dcs had arrived to take my children. They placed all 3 children in state custody. They did not provide me with any kind of court order, i actually have them on recording refusing to give me a court order. I was finally notified of a court date by phone aprox 4 days later. Aprox 5 days after my kids were taken i appeared in court. They handed me a petition that accused me of being neglect to my kids, said they were dependant and neglected, accused me of being a flight risk by saying i abrubtly moved out of my home (never moved, nor had they ever been in my home), said that i had failed to protect my children by allowing them to be around my fiance. They sent my children to 2, almost 3, foster homes in one week before temporary custody was awarded to my mother. I voluntarily moved out of my home to allow my mother to stay there with my children, just as i voluntarily agreed to supervised visits with my children until the court hearing in oct. As of today i have not gotten to see or talk to my children, as dcs has failed to set up visits despite the court order. I have complained to case workers supervisor, and have made a formal complaint against the metro detective. What can i do from here? Do i have grounds for a lawsuit?