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(Names have been changed to protect the identity of the people in this article)

The CPS caseworker even stated in the case file "this is a case of child custody dispute, not a case of child abuse."

They not only accused her of horrific crimes against her child she adored, stole her property, but even set out her private sex toys and photographed them accusing her of orgies around her child. They did this in front of the child. The officer claimed to have found, but flushed, marijuana, so he could not charge her, but could take her son from her. Her son was abused in the foster home, beaten and lied to when they would not allow Mary to see him, telling him she never showed up.

Mary worked the services required by CPS in an attempt to regain custody of her son but when she discovered he was being abused in foster care, and got it on tape when the CPS workers were caught lying to cover it up, she was placed under a gag order. When she attempted to speak out publicly and expose the injustices of the Police and CPS, she was threatened with jail time, and told she would not get her son back. She posted a website with a timeline of events, alleging that CPS was committing Medicaid Fraud when she found out her child was over-medicated on psychotropic drugs he never had to take before foster care (or since). The treatments and drugs were administered by CPS's contracted doctors and billed to Medicaid when the child had his own long-term doctors who knew him, but he was not allowed to see. He was covered by private health insurance paid for by Mary's husband in Florida. There was no reason for the child to incur expenses for Medicaid to pay.

Mary learned the hard way that the squeaky wheel may get the oil, but may also just be the wheel that gets thrown out.

So how do you prepare for that sort of situation when you are falsely accused of child abuse? You cannot prepare for that. It is nearly impossible. With Mary's situation, the end results were devastating; and only hindsight can say what she "should have done" or "could have done" different; but nobody knows what, if anything, could have made a difference. However, choices can be made affecting any situation involving CPS to maintain damage control. Even if it seems unfair, sometimes, changing small details of your life in order to avoid any appearances of wrongdoing, or to not draw attention to your family by outsiders may just be the key to peace and quiet, free of CPS involvement. What appears to be an unsafe environment

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