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Complaint / Review
Oklahoma DHS
Removing children from their home for No Cause

I write this as a last resort. As a grandmother who loves her grandchildren very much.in April an "anonymous" person told the OKDHS that my son "smoked marijuana and beat his son".

They came to his neighborhood and started looking for the home as they were not given any address with this "anonymous report". My daughter-in-law and a friend were on their way to the store and saw these "suits" walking around looking for something and asked what they were looking for. When she was told, she immediately took the two children back into the home (she was 6 months pregnant at that time) and called my son at work to tell him. They did not know about her and their younger son.

She did not let the "suits" in. When my son came home he asked what they wanted, they told him and left him with some papers. He called me (in another state) and I called the person who was listed on the paperwork and who had been at his home. After answering many questions and a couple of weeks went by, I was called by this woman and she told me that she needed my address to send me papers because they had found nothing to substantiate the "anonymous" report and they were closing the case. I gave her my address, but never received any papers.

They offered services such as a family counselor that came to the house for three weeks to visit with the family and see the children. My son was told by this person that she had found no need for him to keep taking off work for her visits and that she was not seeing much need for visits to continue.

Nothing happened again until June when "suits" again came to the home with ploice officers to take the children this time. Of course, this upset everyone including the children, but they took them and placed them into a foster home in OKC. The foster mother was very nice and gave me her phone number and told me that I could call my grandsons. I called them for three weeks while they were there, but the fourth week when I called she informed me that DHS had taken them from her home and to a place far away. She said that she thought that I had known this and she was upset because they had done this. She also said that she didn't want the children to leave her home.

My daughter-in-law had just had the baby and they had taken him home where he was for three days. At 11:30pm on the third day, officers and DHS came to their home and removed the baby as well. The foster mother that I spoke to had told me that the DHS told her they had taken the baby from the hospital and when I told her that was not true she wondered why they had lied to her. So, I guess OKDHS lies to their foster parents as well as the regular family!

It's now September and my son and daughter-in-law have only gotten to see their children three times since they were moved three hours away! The mother and child bonding has not gotten to take place and my son and daughter-in-law have had to hire an attorney to try and get their children back! This is because several times they showed up at an appointed time for a hearing and there was no one there to stand up for them (no court-appointed attorney) and there wasn't even a docket that the judge had for them on one occasion. On one occasion a lawyer that they had tried to hire previously, but didn't have the money, saw them sitting outside the court holding hands and crying and he took them into the court and told the judge he was representing them that day. There are nice people who see what is going on, but seem to be unable to help without having thousands of dollars given to them first!

My son and daughter-in-law both work all day and have passed numerous urine tests that they have been required to give since all this happened. They do not have enough money to pay for all their bills and the attorney that they have hired to get their children back. They are now behind in their rent and have been told they will be evicted if it's not paid.

We have all tried to help with the attorney but we all work and scrape for a living as well. None of us are wealthy and we all live check-to-check so it has been extremely hard.

The attorney has evidently done a good job so far by ripping into the DHS on several matters and he told them that he wanted the children brought back into OKC so that the visits could be once a week. But, as of Tuesday September 6, when the kids were supposed to have a visit, they are still not in OKC. The visit was cancelled because there was no one (from OKDHS) to go get them and bring them into OKC! So the kids haven't gotten to see them again yet. I haven't gotten to speak to my grandchildren (ages 5 and 2) since they were moved in July.

We grandparents have NEVER been given the opportunity to take them! And we have asked countless times! As a matter of fact, no one from the OKDHS would even acknowledge us until I wrote to the Governor of OK, my Senator John McCain, and the President of the US!

I heard back from the governors liason who forwarded me to the head of OKDHS who then had his aide contact me, but then I was told that this matter was in "litigation" and an attorney was handling it so they will not respond to me any longer either. And, still my grandchildren are kept from their family.

In today's society, isn't it sad that people in government positions like DHS can tear a family apart without any kind of caring? After 9-11 and now the Hurrican Katrina situation, there are all the reports of children and parents who have been seperated. Well, the OKDHS is worse than these disasters! You would think that after the Murrah Building was bombed that there would be more kindness in OKC, but even the Governor of Oklahoma seems to be as uncaring as the rest of his "flock". As far as I am concerned the OK officials can all rot in h%.

We want our children back! There was no reason to take them and certainly there has been no reason shown to keep them from their family! It's been three months that they have had them and I wish to speak to anyone who might be able to help us get our babies back home. The health of this family is at stake and this is a civil liberties issue!

Thank you for letting me give my story.

Roberta
Clarkdale, Arizona
U.S.A.


Offender: Oklahoma DHS

Country: USA   State: Oklahoma   City: Oklahoma City
Address: 5905 N. Classen Ct
Phone: 8008841581

Category: Miscellaneous

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