Comments on: CPS at the front door

By: dad

dad — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:43:32 +0000

Uriah, EXCELLENT advice. The best way to prevent these kinds of things is through prevention and your advice is dead on. Had I not been so foolish, I would have never been accused. Trust me, that’s advice I follow today to the extreme.

As for CPS and the police being so tough, I agree to some level, but there has to be some level of reasonable cause. Unfortunately the pendulum has swung completely in the other direction, and now you can be accused by just the word of a child, or even an adult…or most likely in my case an adult that influenced a child to lie.

In my case, there was no evidence…none. Just the word of a child, and frankly a very unbelievable situation as well (in a room, other children and adults all around me, been around the child MANY times before with no such report, etc). There was no physical evidence, no witnesses, no past history, nothing. I agree that the police and CPS have a tough job, but there needs to be a balance. While I would certainly hate for any molester to get away, at the same time we can’t punish every suspect or accused person to the level I was either. There has to be a balance.

Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate it.

By: Uriah Sky

Uriah Sky — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:27:34 +0000

I was a director of a Boys & Girls Club and from that job I learned that you don’t let your self be alone with kids or have them on your lap or hug them for too long because everyone is so freaked out about this stuff that you don’t want this kind of false accusations to ever occur. This is them message that should be preached. On one hand we have to thank the police and the CPS for being so tough on you. What if you were a molester of some sort and they let you go, and later a more severe crime was committed? Then they would be the guilty party. This kind of thing happens, so they have to rake everyone over the coals so that they don’t miss this kind of thing. Since we can’t prosecute kids or possibly ever stop these kinds of things from happening we can all be aware of how to act and how to react to this situation so that it doesn’t end badly for all.

By: mary

mary — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:45:17 +0000

some thing like this has happen to my nephew.what they did to him was wrong i feel for your family .my nephew was a single parent raising two children.my sister has custody .my nephew doing nine yr for attempted rape the mother that made the complaint on him.didn’t even show up for evidence hearing twice ,she said she found out saturday yet didn’t take child to doctoors till tueday every statment she said on stand proved she was lieing.and his lawyer never cross examined the only witness and was useing hearsay there was no evidence at all. the mother went to cps.made a complaint.cps got detectives pick him up they never talk to child the child was n’t even seem by doctor till after they pick him up for questioning monday my nephew is a’d'd yes they scared him told him if he would say this that the only thing they do is give him child endangering and counsoling.wrong cps and davis wouldn’t allow him to leave telling if he didn’t say this they put him in jail for 25yr.i read a statment to cps isn’t enough evidence to pick some one up that there needed to be solid proof.but when you live in a small town that have there own .law state law doesn’t count every thing ohio law said you cann’t do they did the law breaks the law and innocent.pay for the corruption.law enforcement and cps i believe that some one played a horrible joke on are children and called children protected services.with these people maybe are children would be safer if they where in madison correction with offenders then.a caseworker from cps