Ten years ago today, two NH DCYF caseworker's and four Nashua Police Officer's showed up at my door to forcibly take my Grandson Austin and his little sister. There was NO Court order and NO warrant, though DCYF stated they had both but refused to produce either. Not aware that they did not have the right to enter without seeing the Court order or warrant, someone let them in.
They took Austin's sister out first. As Austin screamed and cried, scrambling through the house for his Mother, one of the caseworker's dragged him out to the living room, where the four Police Officers rushed him out the door and dragged him down the street kicking and screaming to DCYF's waiting car. The backs of his feet, bloodied and raw from being dragged.
There was no Hearing. There was nothing. The kids sat at the DCYF office until they were delivered to a Foster home in Merrimack.
After finally receiving the case file, there were two different Court order's in it. One that was written a week before the kidnapping, but never signed until that day, stated DCYF didn't want the kids to have contact with their sickly Aunt who lived with us. It said nothing about taking the kids. Fifteen minutes after it was signed, they arrived at my house to steal the kids. As for the warrant, there never was one. After speaking to one of the Officer's, two years later, he told me there was NO warrant.
The other Court order in the file stated we did not follow the No Contact order, so the kids were being removed. If they considered the first one to be a no contact order, in all actuality, it definitely wasn't. We never got to be heard in Court. No matter how many times we filed for custody, we were denied. Each time, we were told to be at the Courthouse, but were never allowed in. We were told we had no standing, because we were "only" grandparents, which means absolutely nothing these day's. Odd, but you would think we had standing since the kids were stolen from our house. Not in New Hampshire, where the Family Court Judges consider DCYF's words above God's and let DCYF pull their string's.
We never got Austin back. He was ILLEGALLY adopted. His Father was never contacted and the criminal charges against his mother were dropped due to evidence proving innocence in Criminal Court, but the same Judge refused to drop them in Family Court after denying the admittance of the same evidence. The reason being, because NH Family Court Judges make up their own rules, not to mention they only listen to DCYF AND their CASA puppets!
