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children and youth terminated my parental rights because i was locked up and couldnt complete the child permancy plan (cpp)
cys used my sentence for the basis of their decision.

i sucessfull won my appeal due to an illegal sentence and have since been released from prison.

cys wont even let me visis my children and the caseworkers ignore my calls nor do they responds back to them

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theressa wakefield
Nov 05, 2008 1:59 am EST

they took my kids to my husband had molasted them but i dont care the case worker was heather my number is [protected] call if u want to theressa

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elean
Lancaster Township, US
Sep 15, 2009 12:40 pm EDT

i dont thnk that children and youth is doing there job for the simple fact there was a baby tookn to the police station like three days ago by someone esle i never in my life seen this they gave thisbaby back to this young girl in two days this girl dont go to school they didnt test her for drugs and she smokes weed shes 17 years.s whats the diffrents you were lock up and fare is fare and theyare not beinging fare to you.as soon as they gave this child back to this dum girl the people put her out. last night this walk around with this baby in the street.i call them and they didnt even come check it out.they are not doing there job right i no that for a fact.they drink in this house they smoke.next time tell them about the girl they gave that baby back to they di d no investagation on these people i can give you the street name but not the address ok they will no her name is rosa on pershing avenue. good luck on getting your kids back

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sick and tired of it
US
May 20, 2011 9:21 pm EDT

Me and my husband are being put through pure hell. Once again oday we were visitted by them because someone called and made false accusations against us. We had to take a urine drug screen test in our home and the results came back negative. But when I called them to tell tthem myy daughter and son were beaten by their father and abused and neglected by their fathers, mothers boyfriend they didnt do a damn thing. I had pictures of the bruises and everything. I called multiple times and not one phone call back. My ex is still around my kids and is under the influence of crack and marijuana but do you think theyy drug tested him hell no!

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ladymadonnah
Johnsonburg, US
Sep 02, 2011 9:51 pm EDT

LANCASTER COUNTY CHILDREN & YOUTH ARE NOT ONLY CORRUPT, SHOWING FAVORITISM TO PEOPLE WHO DONT DESERVE IT AS WELL AS PERSECUTE PEOPLE WHO MAY NEED HELP OR SERVICES, DENYING THEM THE SO CALLED HELP THAT THEY ARE BEING PAID TO PROVIDE AND THEN PASS ALONG THE RESPONSIBILITY TO OTHERS WHILE IGNORING BONAFIDE CALLS FOR HELP. THEY LIE TO MAKE THEMSELVES LOOK LIKE THEY ARE DOING THEIR JOB, WHILE ACTUALLY KEEPING CHILDREN IN DANGER.

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jessh29
York, US
Feb 04, 2013 8:56 pm EST

My two girls father had to be taken to the hospital, they were with him for that week, he was staying at a motel that was perfectly safe to be in. Unfortunately my phone was out of service that day, so the police took my kids an took them to cys(the kidnappers). Yes we are going through financial hard times right now. CYS had my grandmothers address they didnt even try to contact her or take the kids there. I had just moved a few weeks prior to this. regardless my kids dad was only in the hospital for a few hours like 3. they took my kids had court papers drwan up an everything it has now been almost a month since I seen my kids. They said they made every effort to reach someone Idont think so. They are all crooks an kidnappers are children are being legally kidnapped people wake the f*** up! They all even the lawyers you get working together to make money its such ###. SO now its a crime for us parents to get ill, fall on finacial hardship an not have a working phone for a few days. Lazy ### fat ### that work there. they act so dumb, An when they tell you your kids are FINE, THEY are Eating, sleeping, playing blah blah. DO YOU NOT HEAR THE SCRIPTEDNESS. REALLY! its all untrue my kids are freakin the hell out cuz I an there father are all they really have in there life. These people are hurting kids emotinally which scars forever, then a broken arm or a cut...these people need to be put in jail. please email at jesshahn26@yahoo.com

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LANCASTER CYA
Ephrata, US
May 24, 2015 1:25 am EDT

Hello i am going thew hell right now i lived in ephrata lancaster country and never seen what i know i have 4 children and i had cancer i was sick for a long tim and what cya was doing they said i couldn't rasie my kids when i had my husband to be was working i have the grandparnets living with me and i am so sick of what i have seen in my life they have destroy my family they where spoused to help my family but i am so sick of what i see they have used everything in that court room and i have done everything that they ask never refused now borth of my daughter are scared of me and my family because what they put them threw and nothing thing i dont belive that the forster parnets should be telling kids what gose on with the system and how it work well they did it to my kids i dont have nothing to say but i want to say i was yes threat by my child they left the kids do what they wanted to do and they told us that we have nothing to do with the children now they dont even talk to the parnets at all

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Rebecca Greenberg
US
Dec 14, 2015 12:43 am EST

C&Y never contacted me when they placed my newborn grandson from the hospital with strangers. They knew who I was and could have easily found out how to contact me, as I had raised my other grandson and they were involved with removing him from his parents home and placing him with me. They wore me down and refused to help me gain custody of my grandson despite the fact that I was approved for kinship care. They would not help, rarely returned my calls if at all, , refused to give me accurate information on the process to have my grandson and even made a racial comment about "Jews". I have never met my grandson and he was adopted by his foster parents after C&Y wore me down with their accusation that my son had been living with me for a period that I had not reported to them, which was a complete, blatant lie. They told me they knew this to be true because my sons attorney talked to them (without my sons permission) and told them that. The attorney told me that was not the case and that he knew my son was transient and could not tell when he was living with me because it was very sporadic . C&Y took a newborn baby from a chance of being raised by his loving Grandmother (I'm also a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who has provided respite and foster care since approximately 2001 to present) who would have cared for meticulously and loved Christian Malachi Nauman more then anyone else could. Now I think of him every day and love him from afar. I thought this was America and I had rights however all I have learned from this experience is that one in this country only obtain rights when they can afford to purchase them with Lawyers whom are proficient in overcoming the power of Children and Youth of Lancaster. If I could have afforded those Lawyers and was not put thru the hell, challenges and barriers C&Y gave me, I would be raising my flesh and blood who belonged with me.

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babigurl
US
May 18, 2016 8:02 pm EDT
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My 3 daughters were taken in 2008. They showed up at their first visit with me 2 weeks later and the one had a 3 inch cut down the back of her leg and a burn on her leg. The other one had bruises on her spine that looked like finger marks. The list goes on. I ended up having almost 20 pages of burns, cuts, and bruises on my kids while in foster care. In Oct. 2009 my middle daughter got moved to a therapeutic foster home. She started having a lot of marks on her also. Including stitches. Whenever I asked about the marks I was told they fell. In 2010 my one daughters school started calling me about her IEP. They said they had sent certified letters to the Guardian Adlitum and all the letters came back unsigned. I went to a meeting at the school. The principal told me they had concerns for my daughters safety in the foster home. They told me that they had called childline 14 times and no investigations were done. In March 2011 right before a hearing I got a call from the caseworker. She said they were going to start reunification for my children starting with the middle one. She would have a one day visit, an overnight visit, a weekend visit and then be home the next weekend. The other to would start weekend visits on the weekend that my middle daughter came home for good and the weekend visits would continue until the school year was over. Well, I called my middle daughters school to tell the principal and she said that the school called the federal hotline to file a complaint against the agency and they just got a letter that day that an investigation was being done. Thats why they were sending her home that quick. So we went to the hearing and the judge agreed and told cys that they kidnapped my children and they never should have been removed in the first place. Well, needless to say my oldest and my youngest were in the same foster home the whole time and they were molested by the foster dad the whole time. My middle one was beaten, sold for money, pictures taken and put on the computer, locked up, and mentally abused in that foster home that the school was worried about. Of course the doctors, therapists, psychologists, etc all called childline to get the foster parents investigated and all the reports were immediately unfounded. I had a lawyer who was going to sue them. He said I have a very good case and he started all the paperwork. Then, he moved to another office and now it is supposedly a conflict of interest so now I have to find another lawyer to sue them. To this day they show up once a year and try to say that they recieved a call. I won't let them in they have traumatized my family enough. The kids have been home since 2011 and they are still having issues dealing with the trauma they endured. It is horrible.

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L.Dunkelberger
US
Aug 07, 2017 4:54 pm EDT
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Im being falsely accused by Lancaster county children and youth, I have passed all my urine tests for 2.5 years, Did everything they asked of me and they still trying to terminate my rights, And have my 7 year old son adopted out to kinship Mennonite family, He was taken as a result of his mothers actions, Not mine, They never contacted me prior to him being placed, I have accumulated over 12, 000$ in legal and counseling debt, And they claiming Mental health concerns? I have very good employment, In process of purchasing a forever home for my son, But, Because I tell them my feelings towards this situation, They continue to claim mental health concerns, This is another of their shams as a corrupt agency.

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Jaimie Lynne Leas
US
Dec 22, 2017 9:03 pm EST

this agency has caused heartbreaks that will never heal. my world fell apart in the hands of these people. taking babies and children for a financial bonus. they will have their day. TRUST ME

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Shelly Rineer
Lancaster PA 17603, US
Oct 05, 2021 7:21 pm EDT

Lancaster children and youth completely destroyed are family and found our entire family including grandparents on both sides, various aunts and uncles on both sides of the family, great grandparents and even a closer family friend who is a school teacher and had all her clearances and credentials all who would have taken the children loved them and wanted them. There was no abuse or neglect but they still thought it was a good idea to show up at the schoolteachers house with the police and banged so loud on the door that the house shook and then when she opened the door proceeded to kick her door in completely traumatizing and terrorfying my granchildren then they proceeded to take them away from everyone they know and love in this world and we’re then given away to strangers in foster care. While there my granddaughters were abused and when the parents and the child reported it to children and youth they took them right back to the home and never even bothered to report it. Their mission statement is a total joke. They do the complete opposite. They have scared my grandchildren for life with never any regard for their feelings or a thought to how scared and confused these babies must be. My youngest grandson now has nightmares from that day. The woman that runs the Lancaster children and youth is completely unprofessional and a total loose cannon. She came strutting in with a little red mini dress to court that was when I first saw her. She then stood in the hallway of the courthouse screaming at our family. Saying none of us passed to get kinship of our own flesh and blood. That woman plays god and literally steals children from unsuspecting family’s. She humiliated us all with her screaming personal family matters down the hallway of the Lancaster city court house degrading us and acting like she completely lost her mind then ran like a child back into the courtroom to get the Baliffs to kick us out of the public courthouse where we had every right in the world to be. That agency has turned our lives upside down and terrorized our family. Almost their entire report was lies. They got their facts from people like neighbors, someone’s x spiteful husband along with others that don’t even know us and took every word they said as fact without ever lifting a finger to check if the so called facts were even true which they were not true statements that we can easily prove. We were all treated like the lowest scum of the earth you can imagine. They looked down on us and terrorized us since day one. A girl fresh out of school with no children of her own and no understanding of children whatsoever and didn’t know the answer to a single question that was asked well somehow she had the authority without even meeting the parents yet went and got an emergancy court order to remove the children. They never answer there phone calls or messages and the entire family has been calling nonstop. They won’t answer any questions we ask or would even stop to talk to us for a minute. The caseworker was on the case for only a week and had made up her mind before even meeting us that our kids needed to be taken. How did that little girl get that much power that she can take children away from their homes and family’s tearing the family apart and leaving everyone she’ll shocked and unable to even comprehend what has just happened. Here we are a month later and today they took away the parents rights and deemed an entire family unfit to care for our own flesh and blood. So now what do we do? Pretend they never existed? How do you go on with your life after the mass destruction these people did to our lives! Nothing was wrong. The parents were going through a hard time like everyone does from time to time and the family had all stepped in and were taking perfect care of these children so why were they taken? Why is the director of the Lancaster city children and youth aloud to scream through the halls of the courthouse like a 2 year old degrading us with no hesitation to scream our personal business out there for everyone to hear. What kind of person is that that’s running an agency that has the authority to remove children from their homes. I guess she was aloud to scream down the hallway of the courthouse. Then we were the ones told to leave. I guess she’s above the law and has to follow any rules. Everyone looked so scared of her 2 year old little fit she through in our courthouse. It’s the same way with the legal system that oks that behavior. The woman is the most cold hearted, unprofessional, downright crazy acting person I think I’ve ever met and is on some serious power trip. They are supposed to keep families together and they didn’t even try. There was no help for a family that was going through a hard time. Where were all the recourses that were supposed to be provided? Why was everything g about this case done in secret and kept from the family. Why weren’t we even given a chance? Who put this woman in such a powerful position that she’s above the law and given the power to take away people’s children when she’s the nastiest person I’ve ever met? Something needs to be done about this corrupt organization and the way they are railroading people just to take away their kids? Heaven forbid they actually have to do any work or prove any of their findings. They wouldn’t even talk o us at all. They wouldn’t help us and decided they were better then everyone else. Their conduct and violating our rights goes un punished. They aren’t answering to anybody and making up things as they go along is insane. They have to be stopped and made to answer for heir actions! How many other families have they torn apart and how many children have to go through this unspeakable nightmare only based on hearsay and lies. The court papers were filled with lies and wrong information but nobody would even listen to our side of things. These children were not abused or neglected like this agency is claiming. They were loved by a large family who took very good care of them. We have proof of everything I am saying too we have kept emails and messages and everything but nobody cares and nobody will listen to us and could care less about the wrong they are doing. So today both of the children’s maternal grandmothers and their maternal great grandmother along with an aunt and a close family friend sat outside the courtroom while inside the courtroom all of our rights were being taken away while we sat helpless not aloud in the courtroom and the judge going without getting to here how much we love those kids or hear the way we have been treated by this agency or any word from us at all. My heart is so broken. How are we supposed to go on living after this injustice and horror they have put us through. I guess I will never see my grandchildren again and they will have to live until they are 18 and can come home thinking god knows what. That they were abandoned? That we don’t care? That they aren’t loved and cherished by us all and that we fought like hell against these animals who somehow have the law in their side and only hear half the story while we are silenced and not aloud to say a word. We aren’t even aloud to be upset they don’t understand that. They saw us as nothing but troublemakers instead of a family who is desperate to keep a hold of their own flesh and blood their own children. This is America? A free country? Fairness and democracy. No I think not.

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Me/H
Lancaster, US
May 11, 2022 1:20 pm EDT

I am so sorry to hear this. we now as a family have a bulls eye on us. We were granted kinship. Under false allegations and misunderstanding as not all the papers were presented, They have yanked my nephew from us and even came over nap time. Can I ask who these individuals were?

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