I asked all of the maintenance men if they had said such a thing and they all said, “No.” They gave me their names and said they would sign a document stating that they had not seen anything like that.

The reason the apartment manager did this is because I called her employer to report the continued harassment. She has called CPS two times and made false reports. The company who employs the apartment manager refuses to do anything about their employee, so I will hold them liable as well.

This is slander in its purest form and I will file a lawsuit against the apartment manager as well as her employer. I have had enough of the harassment. I have spent the last 4 years being bullied by vindictive neighbors, ex-employees, and the liars at CPS.

After reading the information they have gathered on my wife, children and myself over the last 4 years, it is obvious that they have literally twisted every single situation into what they wanted it to be.

The information in the case record is 100% false, they even made up some stories about my wife. They said that the Police were called out to my home on May 7th due to a report that my youngest son was outside “knocking on a neighbors door and asking if they could play,” and “he was allegedly outside by himself for 45 minutes.”

The Police were never at my home on May 7th, and the child they are referring to is 5 years old and has the wherewithal to knock on a neighbors door and ask if they can play. They also state that my 5 year old was allegedly hit by a car when he was 3 while not being supervised, that NEVER happened.

They also allege that my wife admitted to “recreational use of Marijuana, but she was given an oral swab drug test and the results were negative.” My wife never admitted to any use of Marijuana, but she did take and pass a drug test.

They are also accusing my wife and I of “letting our 8 year old take laundry to the laundry room.” They asked him if he was scared going outside at night, he said, “yes.” The reports states that he made an “outcry” of being scared while outside at night when he does laundry by himself.

This is getting to be extremely irritating, and I am tired of the harassment. The stress is literally making me sick to my stomach.

Children playing outside is normal and there is no law which states that children are not allowed to play in their own yard or directly in front of their home.

I do not have a problem with CPS or the Police, I understand that they have a job to do, but there is no reason to harass parents who have done absolutely nothing wrong.

There are children running around in the streets all day long, breaking windows, fighting, doing drugs, etc. but the CPS agents harass parents who allow their children to PLAY in front of their home. That is the problem!

2 Thessalonians 3:11 We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies.
1 Timothy 5:13 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they ought not to.

I guess we all have to plead guilty now…lol

You never know; it could have been that the police were just doing their job and responding to a call, and maybe might have had a problem with the kids outside, but maybe Texas Dad’s behavior gave them cause for concern? Just saying… two sides to every story (and every situation). Can’t judge without the facts, can you?
There are actually 3 sides…Texas Dad, neighbor,and the truth, it is up to CPS to find that truth.

…Agree/disagree I don’t care. The laws are there to prtect the ones who have parents that don’t care and we need to set the example by following the laws.

But the really frightening issue is the fact that the police and government are being allowed to dictate when and where our children can play!

Well… no one shoots at them when they do this.

If we don’t want more and more restrictions coded into law, we need to accept –not approve– neighbors calling the cops, and have calmly explanatory discussions with them when they misunderstand a situation or act out of spite.

Very true, but that cannot happen when the “reasonable person standard” is flagrantly violated and held hostage to paranoia and bureaucracy. CPS and the caller should be flogged for this situation. There was nothing that a “reasonable person” would find dangerous. Unless I missed something, this wasn’t in the ghetto or somewhere where sexual predators are unusually concentrated. Thus the “reasonable risk” was minimal to non-existent.

#5, the accuser is CPS, not the neighbor. The neighbor made a call to CPS, but CPS could have gone there and not done anything.

CPS is ultimately the one at fault here. However, the only way to neuter them in the mean time is to take all legal avenues to mercilessly persecute their enablers. Groups like the ACLU and IJ should raise funds to carry out campaigns to use the courts to terrorize such individuals with defamation lawsuits they cannot afford to defend.

If we don’t want more and more restrictions coded into law, we need to accept –not approve– neighbors calling the cops, and have calmly explanatory discussions with them when they misunderstand a situation or act out of spite.

Ghost mentioned the old Irish and Italian neighborhoods. The old-time working-class neighborhoods, where Papa went off to earn money while Mama worked at home and kids played in the street after school, were effective because everyone was a busybody and it was accepted as being neighborly. And whenever people crossed the invisible line into meddling, they got an ear-bashing from everyone.

Those neighborhoods were modeled on village life in the old country, which were modeled in turn on the original forms of human society. If we want something like that style of life back, we’d better do something PDQ.