Our complaint and story:
Our DDHS/CPS caseworker and Guardian Ad Litem, along with the magistrate will not give our boy back to us and there is no reason for them to keep him away from us at all. It's all because they want money. The Magistrate on our case always sides with "them" and we cannot figure out why in the world she does.
Our case has been open for three years now and our precious child has been away from us for over a year now. It's time for him to come home now. He wants to come home. He shows us this whenever we get to see him which isn't much. We have done and completed their treatment plans and jumped through all their hoops with 100% on everything. The magistrate, caseworker and GAL as well as the City Attorney ALL know this.
It's time to expose Denver County CPS for what they are really about, which is NOT to help children and parents with anything. They seek and destroy children and their parents all for the sake of bonuses and money period.
There is documented information and studies all over the internet about Autism but Annette, our caseworker and Marne, our GAL still decided to cut off our transition and home visits completely and cut our visits in the group home way down as well. This is after our child is used to and very happy and content with the home visits we had for six weeks at three home visits a week and five hours each visit plus a two hour visit at the group home on Saturdays. Now we have 2 days at the group home at 2 1/2 hours supervised.
Every visit we have had at the group home, he constantly grabs his bag, coat, shoes and heads out of their unlocked front door to our car to go home for a home visit. We have to keep trying to explain to him that this is not a home visit day. He wants to go home!
How can a caseworker do something like this to ANY child, let alone a non-verbal child with Autism??? Simply because of ignorance about Autism and Transition behaviors? Now she is causing our child to suffer immensely.
Even more now, more anxiety, wondering where his mother is and why he has not seen her or his home.
Children blame themselves as though THEY did something wrong or bad to deserve this.
This transition was in place and happening with all parties in agreement and we even received praise from our caseworker.
She totally changed into a different person. She went from "We need to get this child home now!" to stopping the home visits cold and stopping the transition and now she talks EXACTLY like the GAL, who has ALWAYS been against us and wants to keep our child away from us forever because he missed some school???
It's insane. This behavior she is showing is extremely disturbing, unprofessional and inappropriate.
Our family is torn completely apart by Denver CPS and the Denver court system.
When they first took him over a year ago, the magistrate on our case, and has been on our case for three years now, said "I want to get him back home as soon as possible"
Our lawyers said "it would be three to six months tops."
They are all liars apparently and obviously.
We did nothing wrong, especially our child, who has Autism, the most innocent of all.
He missed some school, is that a reason for them to take a child away from his loving home and family forever???
He is our LIFE!
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