Child Protective Services got involved and placed the boy into foster care and the parents have been charged with a felony. All of this over leaving the child home for a total of 90 minutes.
Meanwhile, the boy and his 4-year-old brother, who was not left alone at any time, were taken into the custody of police and handed to a relative.
It emerged that for 48 hours while the hand over was being sorted out, the children were only fed cereal, and were not encouraged to wash.
After a few weeks of not being able to see their kids, the couple discovered that the relative who was caring for them had had enough and was handing the children over to CPS, whose lawyers asked a judge to place the children in foster care.
When the case came to court, there was a back and forth argument between the CPS lawyer and the family’s legal representative that went on for hours. It was only when the 11-year-old boy spoke to the judge that sanity prevailed.
“He went back there and spoke to the judge for about ten minutes,” the mother told Free Range Kids.
“And then the judge came out and called the two lawyers to the bench and talked to them for about 10 or 15 minutes. And with that, our lawyer came to us and said that if we admitted that we didn’t know that it was wrong to [our son] stay in the backyard, but that we know now that it’s wrong and we will never let it happen again, and that we will explain this to our son, he would let the children come with us.”
The parents agreed to the terms and were allowed to take their children home, a month after the incident originally occurred.
The couple are now attending mandatory ‘parenting classes’ and having therapy, while the children are getting “play” therapy, and must attend mandatory day camps throughout the Summer, all at the behest of CPS.
This is happening all over the country. CPS comes into happy homes and traumatizes children by removing them from the people they have lived with since birth, for petty and absurd reasons and forcing them to live in foster care or with relatives they barely know. It’s ridiculous that CPS workers, judges and attorneys are given the power to make decisions about these children and families that they do not even know. It’s as though the system does not even care about the children and family. It’s all a game to them and leaves more broken families and traumatized children than it helps. Ask ANYONE who has been through this experience and I assure you, they will all agree!!!!! It makes me literally sick when I think about it. How in the world does this happen in America????? But it does ….