Chapter 13 - CPS
CPS substantiated:
Constance:
Inappropriate confinement.
Emotional maltreatment through repeated messages that Perry’s access to family spaces depended on quiet/compliance.
Physical handling during closet incident.
Reid:
Failure to protect and active participation in inappropriate confinement practice.
Emotional harm through undisclosed transition preparation and statements suggesting Perry would live away from mother as consequence/inevitability.
Me:
No maltreatment finding.
Concern about retaliatory violence, addressed through legal diversion and treatment.
No removal from both parents.
Perry remained with me because Reid agreed to temporary primary residence while family court reviewed.
Constance’s home removed from any caregiving role.
Then school.
We discovered Constance had changed Perry’s emergency pickup priority.
Not illegally.
Reid authorized.
She became first pickup.
I dropped to second.
Why?
“Transition.”
Again.
School had no reason to know.
We restored.
Then teacher said:
“He’s been asking if he has to move schools.”
I closed eyes.
Why?
Constance’s neighborhood was in another district.
The draft plan anticipated private school near her house.
A preliminary tour had happened.
Without me.
Reid took Perry.
Called it:
“Seeing Grandma’s area.”
The child had been walked through a school while adults decided whether it would become his new life.
No application submitted yet.
May you like
Still.
Evidence of preparation.
