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I know it's hard to understand. I've been raising my granddaughter since she was 22 months old. I had never met her. Her mother is/was on drugs and abandoned her, neighbors called the police, CPS picked her up. While she was in temporary shelter care, a presumed father was located in prison...

http://www.wlbz2.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1454831718001 Sorry, I don' t know how to do links either. ETA I guess it did turn into a link. Diana

We have a case here in Phoenix right now, where police are preparing to search a landfill for a little one's body. Little Jhessye. It is a huge undertaking, and one that is likely not to be successful. Police have pretty solid info that she is in the landfill, have a good idea where in the...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/28/justice/maine-missing-toddler/index.html?hpt=ju_c2 McCausland said authorities felt they should reveal the information about the blood discovery now, because "we need information from the public, and we think this might help." "The public needs to...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/28/justice/maine-missing-toddler/index.html?hpt=ju_c2 Police now say that Ayla was alone in the bedroom the night before she was reported missing, even though relatives have told CNN her younger cousin normally slept in the same room. In addition to Ayla and her...

Ouch! You're right, it does say Jessica's attorney. Hopefully, Jessica and Trista had the same interest (keeping Ayla safe) so he was trying to protect both of them. Diana

The attorney could have been a DHHS attorney. From my experience with the foster care system, often there is an attorney present at team meetings. Diana

All states differ, but in Arizona it would be sealed and CPS cases go through juvenile court, not family court. Diana

Oops, should have said she wasn't there the night of the 16th of December. Diana

Phoebe has said she wasn't there the night Ayla went missing. Diana

Not necessarily because she's in college - but because it *appears* (wether she uses drugs or not) that she is in different place by far than her sister? It's not like she's pursuing her AA or BA/BS but rather working on her Masters. Could she be a drug dealer, too? Possibly but they just *seem*...

I read those posts on Find Ayla too, and don't remember the exact wording, but I was left with the impression that it was at around 10 pm that the sister's baby woke up fussy and thats when she brought her into her own room. So yes, in theory, JD's sister could have seen Ayla sleeping in her...

I have been wondering all along if the sister and her child were there that night. Because in the first picture of JD posted, it showed a woman and child standing in front of him. Could only see the back of them, but the child she was holding was not light haired like the video we saw of the...

I have an adopted daughter that is 12 now. She was sexually abused at an early age and removed from her birth family at not quite two years old. We adopted her when she was four and she has been in therapy almost the entire time since then. Sexually abused kids are -- I don't know the exact...

--------- Years ago, I gained "custody" of a relative's child exactly this same way through CPS. I was naive and knew a lot less about how this stuff works then than I do now, and it was an unfair situation/plan for me, the parents, and the child. The dad had been in prison since before the...

Well I adopted my gdaughter in AZ ten years ago and she qualified for a level 2 subsidy. She was technically in foster care but we were her family placement and her only placement. At the time I was not even aware of the subsidy program but it seems she automatically qualified. Her half sister...

Adoption subsidy varies by state and also by age of the child. The subsidy actually isn't supposed to be for the purpose of feeding, clothing, sheltering and educating the child. When you adopt, that's your job and one would need to prove that they could provide those things in order to be...

It's not a matter of whether Shirley qualified, but whether the kids qualified. Based on their ages at adoption, the fact that they are a sibling group, are children of color and would most likely have issues because of their prior abuse, they would almost certainly qualify for subsidy, and may...

If Shirley adopted those kids in California, she is probably collecting a very healthy adoption subsidy for them, and its legal for her to continue to receive the subsidy even if <she> moves the kids to a different state. The catch is, they do need to remain in her custody for her to continue...

ITA...when CPS gives custody to someone, do they just drop the kids off an say "have a nice life?" It's been months since granny gave back those kids and took Jhessye from the cousins. I cannot believe no one ever checked to make sure she really had them or that they were okay...especially...