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The Department of Children and Families review: Their starting and ending of my case and life with my child

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I am sure it was Judge Smith just following the letter of the law and doing what he thought was in the best interest of the child but by law I should have been able to take my child home from the hospital. As a matter of fact I found research that apparently has not hit the State of Florida yet in the medical field nor in the behavioral health field but this is stuff that I'm finding on the internet and I guess because the investigator wanted to make me sound like an idiot all she did was make the statement that I asked Google how to get off drugs while I was pregnant here's the issue: I was on methamphetamines recreationally while I was pregnant with my daughter I asked for help from DCF as well as Healthy Start and Healthy Families wasn't really all that familiar with Healthy Families but I remember Healthy Start because 20 years ago I didn't raise my son now me getting off drugs then, cocaine that was hard for me, methamphetamines ain't nothing but a day or so of being lethargic until I got pregnant and tried to get off drugs my daughter was a set of twins and I went into well I'll put it like this after about two and a half maybe three days of not getting high when I found out that I was pregnant I threw my unborn into shock and when they went into shock I lost one. All in the name of trying to do this dcf's way.
Upon realizing that I was still pregnant I decided that I was going to go about this another way because the truest definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly is is doing the same thing while expecting a different outcome. At birth my daughter was 6 lb 2 oz 19 in long and she was born 2 months premature. The reason for that is because she used to be a twin she was expecting to be a twin.
I have spent the past two and a half years shouting from the rooftops about how these people have been lying to me and lying to the system, yet and still nobody's done a thing about it.
These people have taken my child they are about to adopt her out to some other couple they separated me and my fiance at the time by lying to him filling his head with a bunch of crap and he's turned into the ugliest most selfish individual I've ever met he was nothing like that when we got together he wasn't anything like that when I got pregnant. With no evidence other than a 20-year-old case, judge Smith ruled in favor of DCF despite the fact that I had solid proof, I was clean, I had my daughter she had no signs of withdrawals DCF lied about that and the attorney for DCF made a statement something to the effect of I was accidentally sober. I live in Inwood which is in Polk County, there is no such thing as accidentally sober. Regardless of how I got off the drugs or how long it took I gave birth to a very healthy child she showed no signs of withdrawal. By law, I should not have been separated from my child, much less terminated!
I am in the process of suing DCF because they refused me services! I never got a referral to do ANYTHING ON MY CASE PLAN BEFORE MY CASE MANAGER FILED TPR!
EITHER HIS HONOR IS WORKING WITH THESE PEOPLE OR THEY ARE WORKING WITH HIM BUT THEY DO AS THEY PLEASE DESPITE THE FACTS! They even admitted to the LIE they told originally in court about me being dirty in the child being born showing signs of withdrawal and he still ruled in their favor. Why is that?
Nobody that I am not attached to (the child's father and myself) had to take a drug test. When the investigator came out to the house she asked my roommate to submit a test and he said they wouldn't get much but that he's got a card for marijuana they entered THAT information but left out ANYTHING I SAID IN POSITIVE ABOUT WHAT I'D BEEN THROUGH!
IT USED TO BE MY UNDERSTANDING THAT IT'S A JUDGES JOB TO FORM AN OPINION BASED ON FACTS.
Yes I was doing drugs when pregnant merely until I decreased my dosage enough to quit without sending my child into shock!
Yes I went online once I realized I was left alone to fend for my child and I both, and these people have done nothing in any honest responsibility because they've lied.
Court dates and times were incorrect, calling off visits for lack of transportation, because they wanted to get me away from my child.
Yes, after a cesarean that killed me, I had to miss some of my visits and I informed them when I missed visits because I had no other option. My only means of transportation is a bicycle and I wasn't supposed to be back on one for 6 months! She should have been at home with me though and I wouldn't have had to worry about it. Because the judge ruled in their favor after they covered over their lie calling it a typo, a typo is a misspelled word not six paragraphs about a drug addict who got high and was high during the birth of her child, who they claimed to be high as well.
My insurance company during my pregnancy sent me gift cards the entire time I was pregnant and then a playpen as reward for attending my doctor's appointments THAT WASN'T ENOUGH PROOF THAT DCF HAD LIED AGAIN?
These people call me a threat to my child because they make the assumption that all I want to do is have my baby in a life of turmoil, chaos and substance abuse. I refuse to let my child live like that, it was never in my plan. But nobody asked me how I intended to raise my baby because they intended to keep her.
Judge Smith sided with the state and despite the fact that I was without drugs in my system, I'd left my child's father, (only man I have ever loved) and moved out of the trap house I was renting a room in, JUDGE SMITH DIDN'T SEE IT IN ANYONE'S BEST INTEREST TO ALLOW ME TO RAISE MY CHILD?
MY CASE WORKER WROTE NO REFERRAL until AFTER the TPR petition had been filed. These people have gaslit my case to take my child and adopt her out! I have attempted to make the JUDICIAL SYSTEM aware of how it's come about that I look like the selfish self centered monster that wants to raise my child like the average addict?
These people even changed the date of my termination hearing and KNOWING I don't own a vehicle informed me at 10:30 p.m. the night before and THAT is just cause for a termination to stick?

My apologies but there are so many things that I remember from my case plan and case workers so long ago, and don't forget I've lived amongst manipulative two faced snakes in the grass I know when I'm being played and I got played Judge Smith was certainly part of it.

Desired outcome: My rights restored and my child at home with me.

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