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    Default CPS is Not Doing its Job

    My question involves child abuse or neglect in the State of: WV.

    I called and made a report with CPS (with proof of child abuse). They talk to the mother and never talk to the father or the kids. The complaint was against the father. I go to DHHR after a month to file a complaint against the worker and they won't let me. They say they can take as long as they want to investigate a report. These are sexual and physical abuse issues. So they take my name and number and say they will have the supervisor call me because they are not there. I told them I have more information on the man abusing his children, should I call the hotline number and they said the supervisor will call me if they need that information, not to call that number. The man has an ongoing investigation with CPS but is that not reason to take further information? The supervisor never bothered calling. They also did not take my proof I have against this man.

    I am not figuring their actions are legal. Is there anything I can do? Who can I report them to?

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    Default Re: CPS Not Doing Their Job

    If they didn't see fit to act, then they didn't see fit to act. Perhaps your proof wasn't credible enough.

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    Whatever they have done, the one thing they don't have to do is keep you abreast of it. Can you imagine how many calls they get from people who just want to get other people in trouble? They don't assume that every call they get is genuine from the beginning. And they do not give "follow up reports" to the people who have called in, saying, 'You know what? We went out there, and we just talked to the mother, we didn't talk to anyone else, and we found out that.....blah blah blah." Never happens. Because whether or not they investigate based on your "evidence" or not, you don't get to participate.

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    I never asked for a follow up report, I just want them to do their job, actually investigate. I know what happened. The proof I have is major enough that his children should be removed from his care. I can prove everything I told them.

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    Perhaps they did do their job, and investigated, and found no reason to pursue it any further. Just because you think something is going on and you think you can prove it, doesn't make it so.

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    I never asked for a follow up report, I just want them to do their job, actually investigate. I know what happened. The proof I have is major enough that his children should be removed from his care. I can prove everything I told them.
    You have such great proof and did not go to law enforcement and report the crimes?

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    They also did not take my proof I have against this man.
    What you think is proof, and what they (and the legal system) think is proof may be two very, very different animals. Why do you think you have the right to know what's going on?

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    So the police would deal with those issues if CPS won't? I don't have any right to know what CPS does, I never asked them for such information, I just wanted an investigation actually done on the person I made the complaint against. The person they talked to doesn't even live with this man. I can't go to court and get a protective order and make it stick unless they do their job. The court house told me to file a complaint with CPS.

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    So the police would deal with those issues if CPS won't? I don't have any right to know what CPS does, I never asked them for such information, I just wanted an investigation actually done on the person I made the complaint against. The person they talked to doesn't even live with this man. I can't go to court and get a protective order and make it stick unless they do their job. The court house told me to file a complaint with CPS.

    The police can investigate a report, sure - but you'll come up against the same problems if there's no proof. Again, what you think is proof and what the legal arena thinks is proof may be two very, very different.

    Are you one of the parents? What?

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    " I can't go to court and get a protective order and make it stick unless they do their job."

    Who are you to these children and this man ? Why does CPS need to do what you think they need to do in order for yo to get a protective order ? If you have proof that your life and safety has been threatened, you don't have to wait for CPS to do anything ? Even if they were to find that the father had abused the children, that does not mean that a protective order can be obtained against him.

    Do you have actual video tape of him harming the children ? As others have said, what you think is proof evidently isn't what CPS and the courts call proof.

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