Monday, January 17, 2011

Virginia Family Files Lawsuit Over Foster Care Ordeal

2011 January 17
Posted by ethoma

The Dinwiddie family’s foster care nightmare began when their 16-year-old son decided to surreptitiously slip out of the house to have a night on the town.

Imagine how delighted Fred and his wife Michelle must have been the following morning when agents of the Giles County Department of Social Services arrived at 5 A.M. with officers of the Giles County Sheriffs Department in tow. Imagine also their delight at being arrested for felony abandonment, even as their other children were removed from their home.

Their son, you see, had told the police that he’d been kicked out of his home. He later recanted, and the Dinwiddie family was found not guilty on the abandonment charge. Nevertheless, DSS saw fit to hold their children in foster care for eight months. FULL STORY

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