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My Children was wrongly removed from our home
Hello, my name is Khalilah McKenzie,
I live in Buffalo NY and I am a good pro-active parent to my 2 high IQ and ADHD children. CPS has taken them away due to personal reasons and not true solid facts. They actually have no sound proof of what they are really holding my children for. Yes, I did cuss the lady out but she had no justifiable reason to take my children. She went up to the school two days after our intense telephone conversation and made up a lie on my two innocent gullible children. The allegations that were made pertaining to us, their dad and I cannot plea guilty because we did not do anything we were accused of. So is it right that they keep my children? I feel like I do not have any civil or even human rights but I pay taxes, I’ m a homeowner, college graduate and everything else that middle class blacks have. I am not a horrific parent and either is dad. I also have a professional witness that spoke with the CPS worker before she took my children. I have all documents and CPS cards dated everything else including counseling and school records. This is not the first time this has happen. Caseworkers lost their jobs and my children returned home. I am doing everything these CPS workers and judges are asking of me to and my kids are still in foster care. My kids have been taken away from me due to personal reasons instead of actual facts three3 times in the last ten months. Buffalo NY is the most racist segregated town I have ever seen in my life. Is it okay for a CPS worker to lie and the system keep your kids?
I received a call from a CPS investigator on 6/6/12, she stated that the hot line call was not about my kids and me but we were mentioned in the report by my children’s father son. She also stated that she knew he did not stay with us and I did not have custody, his mother took custody in 9/2010 from dad. So she wanted to come straight out to my house, however mind you, my kids were taken away based on a lie last year and the case was dismissed. My daughter was in the mental institution for 6 weeks and she was only six years old. Ever since they returned home there had been two in home therapist and wrap services assisting us weekly. I felt that the presence of the CPS investigator would place a seed of fear in the children being taken again after establishing a circle of trust that was stable. She didn’t want to hear that and she and I had a heated conversation. The next day all the information that I gave her such as my team’s numbers counseling information she spoke with everybody and they had GREAT things to say about my family growth and she felt like because my team was black they was lying so she went to the school on 6/7/2012 and interviewed my two unknowing scared kids and they told her the truth and then the next day 6/8/2012 she called me and told me that I had a hour to get to court and she was violating me on a court order because I wouldn't let her in and I got a CPS call. She was out of control with my kid’s father when she called him on that Tuesday. She was saying they were going to call the state troopers and they were standing at my door and I would not let them in.
I was just like not right now come tomorrow when the therapist is here because I do not trust you people because of the lie that was told before and the case was dismissed. I would like if you come tomorrow...she was so hard on I was hiding something.
So she did all of this on personal motives and not facts which is unprofessional...because I have people in my home four days out the seven and we were in intensive counseling including dad and we was doing well with no red flags but anyway...we get to court and my judge and my lawyer was out of town and I was screwed and they came up with some lie that I have been whipping my son with a belt 5 to 6 times since he returned home from foster care and that their dad whipped my daughter with a spatula until she peed on herself because she brought home a 32 on her behavior sheet...this was a damn lie. The time frame that was referenced was when the two home therapists were in the home on the weekend and that is some sick mess okay. My kids didn't tell the CPS worker this. They cry every night asking why are they in foster care and everywhere they go they tell everyone that their parents are good to them please let them go home...Yes I was wrong to curse her out and I felt that she should have been calling dad and mom to the child that the call was about why rush out to my house and scare my kids and self. The CPS hotline calls are allegation not facts. WHERE are my rights at? Someone please help me understand...
Khalilah Mckenzie
[protected]@yahoo.com
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
cps worker lied on the kids to have them removed from their home.
Hello, my name is Khalilah McKenzie,
I live in Buffalo NY and I am a good pro-active parent to my 2 high IQ's adhd children. CPS has taken them off of personal emotions and not professional facts, and they have no proof of what they are really holding my children for and yes I did cuss the lady out but she has no professional reason to keep my children. She went up to the school 2 days after our hard phone conversation and made up a lie on my two disable children. The allegations dad and I cannot plea guilty of because we did not do it. So is it right that they keep my children? I feel like I do not have any civil or even human rights but I pay taxes, in a homeowner, college graduated and everything else that middle class blacks have. I am not a horrific parent and either is dad. I have proof and a professional witness that spoken with the cps worker before she took my children. I have all documents and cps cards dates and everything else. Counseling and school records. This is not the first time this has happen. Caseworkers lost their jobs and my children returned home. I am doing everything these cps workers and judges are asking me to and my kids still be going to foster care. My kids have been taken away from me off personal emotions instead of professorial fact 3 times in the last 10 months. Buffalo NY is the most races segregated town I have ever seen in my life. Is it okay for a cps worker to lie and the system keeps your kids?
I received a call from a CPS investigator on 6/6/12, she stated that the hot line call was not about my kids and me but we were mention in the report about my children father son. She also stated that she knew he did not stay with us and I did not have custody his mother took custody in 9/2010 from dad. so she wanted to come straight out to my house and mind you my kids was taken on a lie last year and the case was dismissed and my daughter was in the mental intuition for 6 weeks and she is 6years old. So ever since, they been home we have two in home therapist and wrap services and we was replacing the seed of doubt of being taken again with the circle of trust that we are stable. She didn’t want to hear that and she and I had a heated conversation and the next day all the information that I gave her like my teams numbers counseling information she spoke with everybody and they had GREAT things to say about my family growth and she felt like because my team was black they was lying so she went to the school on 6/7/2012 and interviewed my 2 disable mental health smart add scared kids and they told her the truth and then the next day 6/8/2012 she called me and told me that I had a hour to get to court and she was violating me on a court order because I wouldn't let her in and I got a cps call. She was out of control with my kid’s father when she called him on that Tuesday. She was saying they were going to call the state troops and they were standing at my door and I would not let them in.
I was just like not right now come tomorrow when the therapist is here because I do not trust you people because of the lie that was told before and the case was dismissed. I would like if you come tomorrow...she was so hard on I was hiding something.
So she did all of this on personal emotional and not professional facts...because I have people in my home 4 days out the 7 and we are in intensive counseling including dad and we was doing good with no red flags but anyway...we get to court and my judge and my lawyer was out of town and I was screwed and they came up with some lie that I have been whooping my son with a belt 5-6 times since he been home form foster care and that their dad whooped my daughter with a spartcurl until she peeped on herself because she brought home a 32 on her behave sheet...this was a dame lie okay the time frame that they are saying this we had the 2 in home Thespis in the home on the weekend and that is some sick mess okay. my kids didn't tell the cps worker this they cry every night why are they in Forster care and everywhere they go they tell everyone that their parents are good to them please let them go home...Yes I was wrong to cuss her out and I felt that she should have been calling dad and mom to the child that the call was about why rush out to my house and scare my kids and self. The cps hotline calls are allegation not facts...WERE are my rights at someone please help me understand...
Khalilah Mckenzie
227 Peach St
Buffalo NY 14204
[protected]
[protected]@yahoo.com
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At everybody here you go. i was out of my mind and didnt realize that i did sound retared. but here is my statement.
Hello, my name is Khalilah McKenzie,
I live in Buffalo NY and I am a good pro-active parent to my 2 high IQ and ADHD children. CPS has taken them away due to personal reasons and not true solid facts. They actually have no sound proof of what they are really holding my children for. Yes, I did cuss the lady out but she had no justifiable reason to take my children. She went up to the school two days after our intense telephone conversation and made up a lie on my two innocent gullible children. The allegations that were made pertaining to us, their dad and I cannot plea guilty because we did not do anything we were accused of. So is it right that they keep my children? I feel like I do not have any civil or even human rights but I pay taxes, I’ m a homeowner, college graduate and everything else that middle class blacks have. I am not a horrific parent and either is dad. I also have a professional witness that spoke with the CPS worker before she took my children. I have all documents and CPS cards dated everything else including counseling and school records. This is not the first time this has happen. Caseworkers lost their jobs and my children returned home. I am doing everything these CPS workers and judges are asking of me to and my kids are still in foster care. My kids have been taken away from me due to personal reasons instead of actual facts three3 times in the last ten months. Buffalo NY is the most racist segregated town I have ever seen in my life. Is it okay for a CPS worker to lie and the system keep your kids?
I received a call from a CPS investigator on 6/6/12, she stated that the hot line call was not about my kids and me but we were mentioned in the report by my children’s father son. She also stated that she knew he did not stay with us and I did not have custody, his mother took custody in 9/2010 from dad. So she wanted to come straight out to my house, however mind you, my kids were taken away based on a lie last year and the case was dismissed. My daughter was in the mental institution for 6 weeks and she was only six years old. Ever since they returned home there had been two in home therapist and wrap services assisting us weekly. I felt that the presence of the CPS investigator would place a seed of fear in the children being taken again after establishing a circle of trust that was stable. She didn’t want to hear that and she and I had a heated conversation. The next day all the information that I gave her such as my team’s numbers counseling information she spoke with everybody and they had GREAT things to say about my family growth and she felt like because my team was black they was lying so she went to the school on 6/7/2012 and interviewed my two unknowing scared kids and they told her the truth and then the next day 6/8/2012 she called me and told me that I had a hour to get to court and she was violating me on a court order because I wouldn't let her in and I got a CPS call. She was out of control with my kid’s father when she called him on that Tuesday. She was saying they were going to call the state troopers and they were standing at my door and I would not let them in.
I was just like not right now come tomorrow when the therapist is here because I do not trust you people because of the lie that was told before and the case was dismissed. I would like if you come tomorrow...she was so hard on I was hiding something.
So she did all of this on personal motives and not facts which is unprofessional...because I have people in my home four days out the seven and we were in intensive counseling including dad and we was doing well with no red flags but anyway...we get to court and my judge and my lawyer was out of town and I was screwed and they came up with some lie that I have been whipping my son with a belt 5 to 6 times since he returned home from foster care and that their dad whipped my daughter with a spatula until she peed on herself because she brought home a 32 on her behavior sheet...this was a damn lie. The time frame that was referenced was when the two home therapists were in the home on the weekend and that is some sick mess okay. My kids didn't tell the CPS worker this. They cry every night asking why are they in foster care and everywhere they go they tell everyone that their parents are good to them please let them go home...Yes I was wrong to curse her out and I felt that she should have been calling dad and mom to the child that the call was about why rush out to my house and scare my kids and self. The CPS hotline calls are allegation not facts. WHERE are my rights at? Someone please help me understand...
Khalilah Mckenzie
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
I am currently dealing with CPS in Buffalo, NY and concerning my grandchildren. They are NOT protecting them but rather recommended sole custody to their abusive father...my son. Family has called in abuse complaints including bruises on the children, and these workers insist all is fine. They don't do their job and nothing can be done about it. I filed for custody of my grandchildren and they are going to fight me on it. They lie, cheat, discriminate, show favoritism, and seem to be untouchable in a system that keeps dysfunctional families dysfunctional!
I believe it. My grandson has been in foster care for 2 years with a "family friend." That all changed when the lies started coming out in court that forced my daughter to make a choice; sign over her parental rights voluntarily and still get to have 6 1-hour visits each year-supervised, or go to trial and risk losing him for good with absolutely no contact. She did what she thought she should do and signed the papers. My husband and I filed a custody petition a week prior to her signing the papers so the foster parents won't be able to legally adopt my grandson until this is settled. The foster parents and the county have made some pretty serious allegations against my husband and I. What they failed to remember was the fact the burden is on them to prove the allegations are true and not mine to prove they're false. I have already begun to get all of my evidence together. Working for attorneys for the past 25 years taught me several things, the most important being CYA and trust no one. I have telephone records and text messages that prove their allegations are completely fabricated. I'm looking forward to my day in court.
I agree. My children were removed from my care in 1996 due to lies from my ex-husband. The lies were never substantiated. I followed service plan, did everything I was supposed to do. I never did drugs or abuse my children. i did not drink. My children were not neglected. I had a 2 year nightmare with New York state. The cps worker told me she would make me a deal. She said she would leave my newborn baby if i signed away my other children. I refused. New York state ended up terminating my parental rights with my three children in 1996, but left my newborn with me. The reason for parental termination was the children had developed a bond with the foster parents. Well, they had been there for going on 2 years, while i jumped through every hoop imaginable to get custody of my children back. Fast forward 20 years. My son, the newborn they left with me, who was raised by me is a minister. I took him out of New York, and I would never return there. My older son, who was in NYS "approved foster care" was physically, mentally, and sexually abused for most of his childhood. The horror stories were cooberated by others that went in and out of that foster home. I had to see councelers every week that i had to pay for, had to miss work counceling to make 'hundreds" of appointments that they scheduled me for. These councelers said I would not admit to abuse or neglect so i was in denial. No i wouldn't admit to it because i did not abuse or neglect my children. They never diagnosed or helped me with the issues i really had, ADHD, which they never diagnosed. I had it diagnosed as an adult. The wouldn't listen to the fact that my husband was abusing me and that is why I left with my children. They were going to give him custody. He later went to jail for abusing another woman and chld molestation of another child. My chilldren were abused at the hands of NY state. My kids are all now home, or alteast most of the time, as they are in college the rest, but the stories i have been told by them. I wish i would of ran with my kids. i wish i would of been able to afford a good lawyer that would of fought hard. I relied on the lawyer they provided me. i was barely 20, just a kid myself really, and i lef them rip my children from me. i was young, I was scare, but i was a good mom. My children know the truth now, as they see their younger siblings loved, and hear stories from them about how they grew up, happy, content, loved, never lacking anything. i wish i could sue, but it's too late. Besides, they will cover their s$$'s and the truth will never be told., but atleast maybe I can help someone else. Fight, record everything on VIDEO. buy a go-pro and wear it 24/7. record all phone calls and any conversation with them. GET A LAYWER. A real laywer, sell whatever you could, take a loan, do whatever you need to to get proper legal counsel. If you can, move out of NY and never ever go back.
I am currently going through it with Erie County cps worker who just started her job, the alligationsteam they placed on us for court are ten timeseconds worst then what really happened. My husband and I are a black an white family, they have been harassing us since right before Christmas. The worker takes weeks to call back and is very two faced, tells us one thing then tells her coworkers something completely different. They have removed my husband from the house due to him whooping our son with the belt barely leaving a mark, they (cps) only got involved because of his school, who I might add is the reason why he got a whoopin, his school failed to mention or even send a letter out to explain the multiple substitutes he had been going through in school at the time of them constantly calling me and sending messages complaining about his behavior, after 3 weeks of calls and 2 letters latter he got a whoopin, we our a household that doesn't play when it comes to our future and education is a number 1 priority, anyways they came we never lied about anything, we agreed to whatever parenting classes that needed to be done and enrolled in them ourselves with out anyone guiding us, which at one point at court was told that the program we chose wasn't good enough, mind you we told the cps worker in order to enroll in theirs we needed referrals, this was Dec 16th 2016, we didn't hear again from her until after January 13th, 2017, also mind you Dec 6th my husband was asked to leave our home and had an order of protection placed on him against the kids. We have been 2 court 3 times all time it was adjourned, last court date was today next one isn't until mid march, he still has an order of protection on him and the kids, I work full time and he was a stay home dad, they were kids on a schedule, going to a charter school, with prescription glasses, one enrolled in speech, another with a 3.5 average and my youngest fully type 1 diabetic 5 years old and under control, only been diabetic for a year now. If I was such a bad parent, if he was abusing them, why in the he'll would we probably take care of our kids and seek medical attention and advice when needed, why would my kids have an almost perfect attendance, until after all this b.s, why would they be so depressed and off balance right now due to all the cps crap, if we were such bad parents why wouldn't their doctors, primary doctor who had been their primary doctor since birth call cps themselves. Why? Cps is full of ### right now and trying to gain back respect from the dumbest ### they're responsible for in the past. Now they're taking out innocent children from homes and schedules just to save their jobs. This isn't right it's wrong, if it was for the welfare of the child then they should have left mines alone.
sorry Melissa but "whooping our son with the belt barely leaving a mark" is unacceptable. you shouldn't be hitting with a belt to begin with and leaving ZERO marks. I don't disagree that cps is a joke but you can't possibly think it's ok to whoop your kids with a belt
I went through something similar through CPS in Chautauqua County New York. We appealed their findings and won, hands down. Now we are looking to sue that county. Bless you and I hope you appeal any and all their decisions. I hope you get your children back. I understand your ramblings. I went through hell for 7 years and I want to also write to this complaint board. I think my thoughts would be cluttered and so angry too.
Familysolutioncenter: I don't think anyone is disputing bad things happen within this particular system. I think you should note the comments are regarding how the original poster expressed them: stream of consciousness style. No matter how traumatic the experience, I'm rather certain it doesn't render them unable to type / speak coherently were it originally within their ability to do so. I've certainly suffered severely traumatic experiences of my own through the course of my life, but none of them rendered me unable to type in a way that people could understand.
Interestingly and accurately enough most of you who have no clue about what she is talking about probably have never been victims of FAMILY COURT SYNDROME OR CPS SYNDROME... The "babbling" is common affect or response to being repeatedly traumatized by the system that is supposed to help families. They rarely help families and profit from making and creating broken homes, broken families, and broken "consciousness." With these elements at play they continue to remove children and place them with homes of their friends and relatives who don't wan to work and pay the foster parents (friends of county workers) $1200 a month for EVERY single child that is considered "disabled." These are YOUR tax payer dollars to place children in homes with other troubled youth and broken families who merely got a certificate that said they were county worthy of taking care of children. These workshops can be completed in 5-7 days time. The county also gets FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT for every child that they remove from the home and place on Public Assistance, Day Care Assistance, Medicaid, Food Stamps and any other assistance that is paid by the county for the foster care child. There is NO federal reimbursement for any families that use the SAME EXACT services that they may be eligible for. Furthermore, no foster parents need to APPLY for these services as the county does all the paperwork for them... So they sit back and collect a check and get all these other wonderful benefits! In addition they get FREE respite care. The children (as with my son) had to travel to Florida with foster mom and guess who paid for the ticket? YEP YOUR TAX DOLLARS, paid for my son to go to Florida with the foster family. On the other hand a parent who has a latch key child because mom gets home one hour after child gets home from school and can not get day care assistance for that one hour, but foster parents get 9 hours of day care for FREE! so children are raised in day care and foster parent picks them up at 6 pm, puts them to bed by 8 and gets them to day care by 6 am. $900 to $1, 200 a month for 2 hours of care per child is not a bad gig! and by the way the foster parent does not even have to have a job to get the day care services. The general population who applies for child care gets denied assistance if they work too much or if they work to little. Mandated to 20 hours a week and must provide schedule and pay checks to prove it ever month. But not foster parents--They get it all GRATIS!
So next time you hear a mom "rant" about CPS take the advice of a former county Foster Care/Adoption Caseworker (me) ~~ Follow the money! Be patient, get educated, and stand up to end this corruption!... "Societies have not fallen, because of evil doers, Societies have fallen for lack of so called "good people" doing something about it!"
I pray that you all can learn something from a PROFESSIONAL who worked along side the same caseworkers that this women had had to deal with. I left because my moral compass could not tolerate the great injustices and inequality that was going on at Erie County Department of Social Services CPS, Children's Services, Family Court and Foster Care/Adoption. Don't believe the hype that they help families... there is no money in that... There is only money if families and children are BROKEN. as proven by the federal statistics and the Department of Corrections that 7 out of 10 INMATES are victims of the FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. The rest have been possibly the results of broken families, domestic violence, children being left with abusers and taken/removed/separated from the PROTECTIVE PARENT/caregiver and rare occasions people getting caught up in white collar crimes that should have known better.
If you are seeking a place to help you organize your thoughts~~ Khalilah McKenzie or any other parent reading this please contact me at [protected] or familysolutioncenter@yahoo.com Be continually Blessed! We are here, we hear you, and we understand! You are not alone!
Are you ###ed? this is just a stream of babble. None of it makes any sense. It sounds as if you think its normal to have counselors in your house every day. It isn't. I'm glad your children got taken. I would be willing to bet you're insane and likely a danger to any child.
Best I can decipher, she is claiming a social worker lied about how she treated her two kids (that have disabilities of some kind) in order to take them away based on a dislike of her (the mother) rather than professional reasons. I could be wrong though because, damn, that was some pretty hardcore stream of consciousness posting there.
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