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In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Recovering Parent Discriminated Against by Nashua, NH DCYF in Order to Steal Newborn


Federal Law's prohibit discrimination against people in recovery, yet this is just another illegal action practiced on parent's by Nashua DCYF.
If we only knew the law before DCYF is thrown into our lives, we might be able to fight the corruption and win.
According to the Legal Action Center: http://lac.org/index.php/lac/webinar_archive
it is illegal for Child Welfare to force a mother out of methadone treatment in order to regain custody of her child. Well that is exactly what Nashua DCYF has done in the kidnapping of my granddaughter Isabella.
My granddaughter was stolen from her mother at birth, due to morphine in the newborn's system. Morphine given to her mother in labor, by IV for nineteen hours, due to complications my daughter suffered during pregnancy. The Assessment worker never investigated. She admitted in Probate Court that she was unaware my daughter was given morphine in labor. My daughter had been in a pregnant womans methadone program in Nashua before the baby's birth. My granddaughter was taken for anticipated "Neglect in the Future."
When the baby was taken, the Assessment worker ordered my daughter into an outpatient methadone program. Two months later, she was court-ordered out of the program and court-ordered medical detox, in order to send her to a transitional facility up north, just to keep her from her family.
My daughter was told by her caseworker, she could NOT detox on her own, as it could kill her. She guaranteed medical detox, as was court-ordered. Two month's later, my daughter was told there was an opening at Odyssey House, where DCYF supposedly wanted to send her with her daughter.
She was given thirteen days to detox off methadone. Then we found out there was NO medical detox in the state of NH! Pretty good. She was court-ordered into a program that didn't exist in this state! I called everywhere, trying to find a medical detox facility. There were a few in Massachusetts that were willing to take her, but her caseworker refused. So she was left to detox on her own. The methadone clinic said they couldn't detox her in thirteen days. It was too dangerous. The Director of Odyssey House stated it takes a good six months to detox anyone off methadone. She was then given until the end of the month, the caseworker knowing the danger she was putting my daughter in. Her court-appointed puppet went along with everything DCYF said. He should have known the law and objected, but he didn't. He never did. He stated, "The court is my Boss." He also stated he didn't fight for my daughter because the state doesn't pay him enough and he has more important client's that aren't junkies.
My daughter tried to detox on her own. She had many medical problems due to the rotten prenatal medical care she received she at the clinic.
The day before my daughter was to be admitted to Odyssey, she had her last dose of methadone, before court. The hearing was a disaster. Her caseworker lied to the Judge. She told him my daughter was not being drug tested and her methadone doses and levels were NOT going down. If she weren't being drug tested, how would the caseworker know the doses and levels weren't going down? The Judge believed the lying caseworker and denied my daughter admittance to Odyssey. What was he thinking? Evidently he wasn't. Why didn't he make sense of the lie she was telling?
My daughter was devastated. All hope of reunification with her daughter was lost.
She was doing extremely well in the methadone program and now she had nothing.
Outside the courtroom, her caseworker seemed quite happy, as she told the foster stranger's,"Don't worry. There's no guarantee C-----'s going anywhere!" My daughter was pushed over the edge, like other parent's screwed over by DCYF!
I then called facilities in Massachusetts to take my daughter and Isabella. Again, I found a few who would take them and was again refused by the caseworker who stated, "There's no way she's taking Isabella out of this state!" It was okay for the foster strangers to take her out of state though, against my daughter's wishes. She was told by the Judge it didn't matter what she wanted. He would court order it and did.
Month's later my daughter's file was released to her. All the drug test result's were in there that showed my daughter WAS being drug tested. They showed her doses and levels WERE going down. The file also contained the caseworker's call log, which showed she was calling the methadone clinic daily, checking on my daughter's doses.
Needless to say, my RECOVERING daughters rights were terminated because she was COURT-ORDERED out of methadone treatment and lied about!
So yes, Nashua DCYF and the Nashua Family Court both discriminated against her.
These people need to be held accountable for their action's!

1 comment:

  1. UnhappyG,
    I'm glad to see you've contacted the LAC and gotten info as it relates to your daughter. I hope you are able to proceed with actions against these incompetent state workers who have violated you and your daughters civil rights so wantonly.s

    Best of luck.
    J.R. Neuberger
    National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recoverhy

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