Blogs by Deborah K. Frontiera
Fighting CPS 2/9/2014 2:27:05 PM
The purpose of this blog is to provide updates on some of the cases I reported in my book (Fighting CPS: Guilty Until Proven Innocent of Child Protective Services Charges ISBN 9-780-9800061-6-2) that had not been resolved when the book went to press, and to report other cases where CPS is not working up to par. I’d also like to hear about cases in which Child Protective Services did the right thing so those cases can serve as examples of what should be done. Occasionally, I will report helpful tips and web sites with advice on fighting CPS. To comment on this blog, or to tell your story, email Deborah Frontiera at frontiera.fightingcps.deborah.gmail.com
The next post will be on Feb. 24, 2014.
Here’s another example of CPS putting the cart before the horse, or snatching first and investigating later, found on the internet. Sounds entirely too much like Harris County TX to me. I hope the Dec. court date went better for this mom, who more than likely should not have had her children taken from her in the first place. (See the web source note at the end.) It would be so much more efficient, and BETTER FOR CHILDREN, if CPS got parents appropriate help instead of snatching kids away.
ANN ARBOR (WXYZ) - An Ann Arbor mother is fighting to get her infant daughter back after Child Protective Services forcibly removed the baby the day before Thanksgiving. Dalia Kenbar was hiding in an upstairs bedroom when Washtenaw County Sheriff's deputies and CPS case workers removed 7-day-old Layla. "I had never done anything to my kids or my newborn," Kenbar testified Monday during a preliminary examination.
A CPS case worker agreed that there has never been any sign that Kenbar abused her newborn or eight-year-old son. The eight-year-old boy was removed in April after Kenbar was involved in a fight over a cell phone with her 17-year-old brother that left scratches on the teen. At that time, CPS workers say the house was a cluttered mess and the electricity to the home had been shut off.
Dalia Kenbar, her teenage brother and a 25-year-old brother lost their mother in 2009. She was killed in Iraq while working for the United States as a translator when she stepped on a roadside bomb. In April, Kenbar also revealed to case workers that she was bi-polar, but not taking her medication because she was pregnant. During Monday's hearing, Nicholas Barilovich, an investigator for CPS, testified that he knew Kenbar had given birth to her daughter just before Thanksgiving after calling area hospitals.
Barilovich said he believed CPS needed to remove the baby with an emergency order because they didn't know if she was in a suitable living environment and what he called Kenbar's "lack of cooperation" in the case of her eight-year-old son who has remained in foster care since April. That case is still pending. Barilovich conceded that no one investigated the conditions of Kenbar's new home before removing her nursing infant. Kenbar testified that she is unable to find the baby's father and the friends she now lives with are "like family."
At the end of Monday's hearing, the court decided to leave Kenbar's baby in foster care so that CPS can look into whether her new home is a suitable environment, which is something Kenbar's attorney Allison Folmar says should have been done before the baby was "snatched" from Kenbar.
The next court date was set for December 17, 2013.
Read more: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/washtenaw_county/ann-arbor-woman-fights-to-get-baby-back-that-cps-removed-the-day-before-thanksgiving#ixzz2nrQUGiim
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