A friend of mine had her child returned from daycare with a serious injury to the babies penis. We have no idea what happened, but some kind of trauma either biting, kicking or pulling was done, leaving blood in the diaper and severe bruising. It was discovered at bath time that evening.
Not knowing what else to do, my friend took her baby to the emergency room. Now, a week later, Children's Aid society has removed both of her kids without even a word when she might get to see them again. They pressured her to sign a temporary custody agreement with them awarding supervised custody to her ex husband.
Her child was a victim at daycare, and now she is been made even worse a victim. Her and her ex husband had a good functioning arrangement with access and there have been no concerns of abuse by anyone in the situation. The baby is just learning to walk and thus has a good number of bruises, not to mention the normal amount of marks on him for being an active boy in a home daycare environment. Citing the bruises and the penis injury was the CAS worker's motive for removing the child from her mother.
What should my friend do? There has been no indication of what CAS has in mind other than to pursue a witch hunt of my friend and her entire family. Everyone (friends, family, daycare providers) are being ruthlessly investigated by CAS and have polygraph tests of everyone has been demanded until they "get to the bottom of this".
If everyone CAS and the police are questioning decides to lawyer up, we will all go bankrupt. We have just barely survived our family court matters in resolving our separations. We still owe tons of money to our family lawyers, and now we need MORE lawyers?
Personally I believe all of us have been through enough and I'm not willing to be subjected to a polygraph.
Thoughts please.
Not knowing what else to do, my friend took her baby to the emergency room. Now, a week later, Children's Aid society has removed both of her kids without even a word when she might get to see them again. They pressured her to sign a temporary custody agreement with them awarding supervised custody to her ex husband.
Her child was a victim at daycare, and now she is been made even worse a victim. Her and her ex husband had a good functioning arrangement with access and there have been no concerns of abuse by anyone in the situation. The baby is just learning to walk and thus has a good number of bruises, not to mention the normal amount of marks on him for being an active boy in a home daycare environment. Citing the bruises and the penis injury was the CAS worker's motive for removing the child from her mother.
What should my friend do? There has been no indication of what CAS has in mind other than to pursue a witch hunt of my friend and her entire family. Everyone (friends, family, daycare providers) are being ruthlessly investigated by CAS and have polygraph tests of everyone has been demanded until they "get to the bottom of this".
If everyone CAS and the police are questioning decides to lawyer up, we will all go bankrupt. We have just barely survived our family court matters in resolving our separations. We still owe tons of money to our family lawyers, and now we need MORE lawyers?
Personally I believe all of us have been through enough and I'm not willing to be subjected to a polygraph.
Thoughts please.
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