Super embarrassing!

[jds247]

That's a tough situation.. we had cps called on us twice.. Once when our youngest broke his arm . He was jumping on the bed and fell off.. Another time when the same one cut his head when he fell off the bunk bed and hit a porcelain cookie dish. My wife use to store Christmas stuff in the top of his closet and was stacking stuff up to put it up after the holidays.. Both times were at the hospital and both times they claimed to be coming to the house but never did.

I remember my sister telling my dad she was gonna call cps.. I don't think she could sit down for a week when he was done.

[Cory.Shumate]

You did the correct thing. It’s sad how many people Get angry at Cps. They’re doing their jobs, and they are legally required to investigate if someone calls in an intake. It might seem stupid, invasive, and annoying but the amount of abuse that occurs in this world would surprise most people. Especially right now since domestic violence and child abuse has doubled because of Covid. The investigators are tough and abrasive because no matter what people tend to lie to them.

Just stay calm, tell the truth, and be an open book. Oh and don’t say stupid smart *** comments. It never hurts to speak to an attorney, but make sure it’s someone who’s actually done Cps law and not just family law.

Oh and I’m a former Cps prosecutor, so I tend to know what I’m talking about.

Yep. They have a nose for bs and it sounds like they will smell it. Not on you but on the uninformed person that called in. Kids, as well as a lot of so-called adults in my experience, like to brag as being the one who has overcome the most adversity, so if there isn’t enough bad stuff in their past they build up minor things into major obstacles they overcame. Ever see a TBH post with, “That’s nothing. When I was young ...., or I suffered through ———- and still accomplished....”. I wouldn’t blame the mother who called either. By the time this story reached her, your kid was probably locked in a closet if he wasn’t getting cigar burns at the dinner table. My half a cent on it.

[Cory.Shumate]

That doesn't mean anything. It is well known that CPS is used by some people as a tool to "punish" people for some slight. Real or perceived. A guy at work can tick.you off and you can call in abuse and they will investigate. A tool for pathetic people, all the while taking away from real cases.

Likely a file that shows no abuse or neglect noted. Not a bad baseline to have with those folks.

[cva34]

These are the times I actually wish I worked for cps. I'd order mandatory woppins.

Sorry for you to go through this.

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[Arrowflinger84]

prayers brother!

[CEO]

Wife and I had to interview with CPS after my in-laws got in some kind of trouble while they had our daughter over the weekend. Still not entirely sure what happened because neither of them seemed to have any consequences. After a few minutes the lady said it was clear there were no issues and ended the interview. I was mad, wife was irate to put it mildly.


We almost got them called on my buddy's mom in high school. He built a zip line using a come-along around a tree. He decided to take it down and the handle hit him in the face, knocked him smooth out. Next day at school one of our friends asked what happened and we told her his mom hit him with a rolling pin. She didn't say much but later in the day I saw her on the way to report it to the school cop. Luckily I caught her because his mom would've beat the hell out of both of us.

[kae006]

I’d have an attorney so far up that woman who called cps’s ***, she’s think she was getting a dental exam. I hate lawsuits, but that’d be simpler and cheaper than beating her husband within a 1/16th” of his miserable life.

I’m a pretty easy going guy, and I don’t mind playing the long game at times. But any human attempting to come between me and my son, especially in that way, will experience a level of hell not previously seen before.


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I'd be ****** at the person who called it in too, but in her defense all she had to work off of was what the OP's son was telling her daughter (I assume that's how she got involved in the first place, and not that she was one of the kid's girlfriends he was texting with directly). If your kid has a friend that's claiming to be physically abused, held under water for excessive amounts of time, etc I'd think it would be your duty to follow up as well, granted you may take a different course of action but still.

Sorry you're dealing with this OP, our daughter was has always been pretty rough and would often go to daycare with bruises or cuts when she was little and we worried they would show up at our house one day.

[JHT]

Your kids learned a valuable lesson in that everything you txt/post online never goes away and has consequences.


Go buy a throw cell phone today.
Drive around & look for a dog or cat roadkill.
Chunk it in the back of your truck.

Wait till dark and go toss it in the front yard of the lady that did this.

Call the SPCA and say you just witnessed a woman beating a cat/dog in the front yard and you think she killed it. Here is the address. She has done this before and nothings being done about it. What do I do? This is murder.

Hang up and toss the phone down the gutter.

[klooney]

OP, sorry you're going through this. We found out the hard way that CPS is the work of the devil. They will only see things in their view and will not listen to any thing else. We had to get a lawyer and threaten to sue to stop them. Good luck to you.


PS- If the kids are minors, you don't have to let CPS talk to them unless in your presence.

Before I got home, my wife let her talk to my son alone... after I got home, she was not allowed to speak to any of my kids without my wife present... I told her that I understood that the whole situation was about me, so I would stay back, but she wasn’t going to talk to anyone without my wife present...

[Goldeneagle]

Before I got home, my wife let her talk to my son alone... after I got home, she was not allowed to speak to any of my kids without my wife present... I told her that I understood that the whole situation was about me, so I would stay back, but she wasn’t going to talk to anyone without my wife present...

They tried to "interview" my granddaughter and she was only 3yrs old. Grandpa didn't play that game.

[Fmjag64]

I would send him to military school.....

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[hooligan]

Sorry to hear all this and hope it gets cleared up. I'm with the others on getting the cops or someone involved on why a grown woman is texting with a 12yo boy. That's extremely inappropriate and pretty creepy

[ultrastealth]

I really feel for you. I went through some stuff with my son in high school, and it was a complete nightmare. Fortunately his issue was as much the school as it was him. He's doing great in college now. It sounds like you're doing all of the right things. You're in my prayers for this to just be a bad memory some day.

[kae006]

Sorry to hear all this and hope it gets cleared up. I'm with the others on getting the cops or someone involved on why a grown woman is texting with a 12yo boy. That's extremely inappropriate and pretty creepy

OP, was your son actively texting with the adult female or did she just send messages checking on his well-being after he stopped replying to her daughter?

[Man]

Been there. I handled it slightly different. I was very firm that there is spanking and discipline in the household. I didn't apologize for anything. I DID NOT give her permission to tour the house when requested but did retrieve the gun in question for her to take photo's of in the living room. I also turned on the water to show that we did indeed have running water in the house. We never heard from them again. Thank you Fort Bend ISD.