When Hell Came to Our Home Update February 26

[crabby_lioness]

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Sorry to be late.  We've been busy getting moved.

After we met with Choctaw County DHS on Wednesday, December 15 we prepared to move into the new house.  Unfortunately the sellers had "issues" that we were still dealing with (Good grief, the post I'll write on them when I get the time!), one of those issues being a pack of huge, vicious attack dogs even they couldn't handle anymore that they were trying to leave behind for us to deal with.  Long story short, we were almost another week getting moved in.  During that time something or someone killed our chickens and ducks where they were being temporarily held.  So out of around 30 animals we had when this mess started, we were down to one dog.

Also during that week we got revised forms from Chickasaw County DHS (not Choctaw County DHS).  I'd quote from our copies of them but they got misplaced during the move so I'll have to paraphrase off the top of my head.  The only parts that were changed were the descriptions of us.  Post-psychological evaluation, everything negative had been stripped from my copy, but they had added in that I "refused to acknowledge my problems."  What these problems were they no longer said, and if they had it would have contradicted the shrink who has previously shown no compunction for tearing them apart in court.   My husband's copy had two statements next to each other that contradicted each other, one praising him for being good at something and the next saying he was bad at it.  That faux pas pissed him off quite a bit.  It also lists one party as being Anna Warren, not Anna Brock, and doesn't say if she's a supervisor or not.  But nowhere on their was Natasha Ivory's signature.  Our lawyer got on to her, and says she's signed it since then and the case is officially closed.

Choctaw County DHS promised us copies of the pictures they that were in our file, then changed their mind and said they wanted nothing whatsoever to do with our case.

That is supposedly the end of the legal harassment.  There are still some loose ends hanging, but I'll talk more about them later.

As I said in my last post, we went back to the old house to retrieve some things.  There were plenty of signs that people had been on the property, including human feces by the back door, but no one bothered us while we were there

We're past the initial move, but not fully moved in.  The house still needs the kitchen, the den, one bathroom, and a lot of external work finished.  It is minimally furnished while we build the kitchen cabinets (on site from scratch, not prefabs, the room isn't square enough) and scrounge up a panel truck to move some more of our stuff.

I guess it should feel like victory.  Instead it feels like a tornado has uprooted us and set us down elsewhere, doing major damage in the process.  We've been running on adrenaline for months while our emotions were on hold.  Now the feelings are starting to catch up with us, and it's not fun.  We want to just scream and cry, but we don't want to upset the children.  At least we've got things to build and cook and clean to take it out on.

And we still don't know what was really behind this whole mess, so we don't know if it's really over or if it's just this round that's over.

Anyway, it's time to get back to my Regularly Scheduled Life (TM).  I'm putting a tag on these posts ("harassment") if anyone wants to just subscribe to those, posting about other things, and start using lj-cuts again.  Thanks to everyone who provided advice and moral support through all this.  The ideas y'all had about the video camera and the lawyer did the trick.  I don't want to think about what we would have done without you.

Comments

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, that's a terrible thing to happen to you. One big advantage we had was that we homeschooled. DHS usually tracks family through the school system. If we'd enrolled our children in a school they would have been all over us the next day (I've actually seen this with both them and INS.) Also they were handicapped because they were used to interviewing the children at the school before the parents found out anything.

We tried to talk to the FBI. We were warned that the local office was "compromised", but we never got a chance to find out firsthand since whenever we called we got an answering machine and they never returned our calls. Our attempts to talk to other offices only referred us back to the local office. Very frustrating.

One of the things we found out along the way was that we weren't the first recipient of these people's attention. There were other stories, some with far worse consequences than we endured. Turning the other cheek would entail taking our eyes off them, and that's not a good idea.

tossing out ideas, hoping one will stick to those teflon creeps...

[tiggirl20.livejournal.com]

wow, just wow, this is too frightening, and to know that they have done this before, I'm glad you are keeping your guard up... I would say sue the pants off them, but that would just put you back on their radar, and considering how well you were treated for just being in their way, I suppose this probably wouldn't be good at all. The only other thing I can suggest is asking your lawyer (your second one, as he is clearly on the up and up)if it would be worth trying to contact other victims via confidential but official methods like the US mail and try to compile a list of statements, and complaints as well as document any evidence to support the claims. if your lawer says the offences and evidence are enough, go to the media first, find an investigative reporter from one of the bigger citys who has already made a name for themselves revealing corruption of this kind, make your case to them, then ask them to accompany you cameras and all when you approach the state's attorny or the FBI to file your charges, so they can't quietly sweep this under the rug without their constituents or upper management wondering why. let them be the heros or the villans, but make them do it in the glare of the public eye, so they cannot just remain quietly neutral... It's the way they do it here in the city of wind, and while it's messy it seems to work in the long haul...

please understand, these are mearly suggestions of ways to proceed, me throwing ideas against the wall and hoping one will stick... I cannot begin to judge the danger to you or your family, because I am not in your situation. and I am certainly not trying to judge you, though it may have come off that way... the only thing I know for sure is that you have done any and everything in your power to protect your children and family, even when it went against the grian, that's what a mama lion does... you know what's right for them, and that's all that matters... I wish you luck and justice.

Jen

Re: tossing out ideas, hoping one will stick to those teflon creeps...

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

No problem with offering suggestions, that what I hoped people would do. Thank you for yours, and for your encouragement!