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There is absolutely no way to prepare yourself if you are falsely reported for abuse or neglect. By the time you have been reported, and the authorities show up, the damage has already been done. You have the emotional and psychological damage that will remain for all time. Some of the people (not all of them) are proud of the fact that they will have you under their thumb, and forever running scared. They have you terrified that if you breath wrong around your child, they can legally call the state and turn you in. For some odd reason this brings them a sense of distorted satisfaction. After you go through all of the motions and the alligations turn out to be false, there is nothing that you can do about it. You can not press charges against the person who reported you, and they know it. They rely on this type of annonimity, so that they can turn in people for no good reason and get away with it. This is wrong, we know it, and it needs to be changed, that way maybe the false accusations against the innocent will stop. In my case we know who exactly who turned us in.

The first time happened when my kids were very young (1 year and 3 years old). My husband was driving the van for the church that we attended at the time. When he dropped off the last two kids on his route, he found out that the kids had lice, and the decisin on whether or not the parents were treating it was still up in the air. The parents, instead of keeping them home, choose to send them to church where about two hundred people attend (we live in a small town). My husband had to go back and tell the preacher, the preacher had to tell the church, and the church had to send out a letter to the parents on that route. All of the parents on that roue were mad at the people who sent their kids to church with the lice. A lot of the parents chose to shave their kids heads (boys only), and extremely short haircuts for the girls. This was the quickest way to treat the infestation, the parents then pulled their kids out of the church.

There was one family, for whatever reason, did not like us. We were always nice to them, and did what we could to help them. They did not like the fact that our kids hair was cut as short as it was, so they decided to turn us in for it. They knew that CPS (Children's Protective Services) would not come out for that, so they decided to add that there was no food in the house, the kids were starving, and the house was filthy. (These people have never been to our house,

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