My husband called the social worker.(Henceforth the social worker shall be called Joe)Patrick spoke for the both of us and let Joe Social Worker know that my experience with him was terrifying. Patrick also told Joe that we would work with him. What did he want us to do? How could we speed up this process? Would he accept calls on our behalf?
Patrick and I tried to digest all of the information we were given. Tried to process through all of our thoughts and emotions and fears. This totally, completely sucked! That was my number one thought! My ultimate FEAR was that someone would take away my children, but that was completely irrational! I hadn't done anything to warrant it! We had to settle down. We had to pray, calm our faces and parent our Streamers through this. We prayed together that our family would be protected, that we would be found innocent, that the allegations would be found baseless and THE TRUTH would be proclaimed. I prayed for peace and calm in my heart. Even though I was living some kind of routine panic with a racing heart always trying to catch my breath. My husband got on the horn and called out the troops. We reached out to all of the social worker friends we knew. We called all of our friends and our pastors from the family of Faith. Would they be willing to vouch for the Stream family? Everyone we knew had the same reaction. They sucked in their breath and yelled, "WHAT??! YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!"
The deed was done. The call was made, the report written up from anonymouscaller, the allegations foisted on us and our lives were now in a 90 day holding pattern to clear our name.
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I'm sorry to have such an ungodly reaction, but WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE TO GET MY HANDS ON MRS. ANONYMOUS!!!
I know that God is good, that He has a plan for our lives, and that we have no right to seek justice on our own, BUT...
Thanks for posting more--I honestly don't think I could have waited.
I'm so sorry about all of this. Horrific.
I hope that Mrs. Anonymous was doing what she thought was best (vs. doing it for mean reason). But I'm still so sorry you had to go through this.
I feel sick to my stomach now.
I would hope the social worker would go by just more than a call. For crying out loud! The Man's sister lived across the street from a friend during her meth phase. Her BABY (probably 11 months old) was found across the street in his diaper TWICE. He had wandered out while NOT being watched, crossed a road, wasn't dressed and was aboslutely filthy. I made a call to CPS and they treated me like: I was calling just to get someone in trouble. Because I didn't want to leave my name, they wouldn't even take it.
That is just insane that if someone had a problem, they didn't actually come to you first and say, "You know, I think he might be underweight...have you taken him to the doctor?" They would come across as rude, but at least it wouldn't have turned your lives all upside down like that!
(...Sorry...I'm calmer now....)
Vent away, dear blogfriends! I have said to myself what you have been saying...and more!
I'm so sorry you had to go through all of this. But I am a very vengful person and I would so find a reason to call on her.
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