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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had an experience with CPS a few years ago when my son was in a private kindergarten (our public school is only two hours/day for kindergarten).  Apparently, a child told his parents that another boy had touched his privates.  CPS shows up at my door demanding to enter and interview me.  I was on maternity leave with my second child.  It was all kinds of scary.  The CPS lady interrogated me.  And then told me they wanted to interview my kindergartener - and that parents wouldn't be able to be with him during it.  My husband and I were also questioned by a local detective.

Hubby and I both have law degrees and know not to practice where we don't have expertise - especially when it might matter.  So we hired the best local lawyer we could find.  And we learned that CPS was likely checking us out to see if we were abusing our child.  We finally agreed to have our son interviewed, per advice of the attorney.  After the interview, the attitude of the CPS investigator totally changed and she told us that our son is a lovely, well-adjusted kid.  They said that my son's name had been mentioned, but there was no reason to think he'd been involved.  The detective seemed disappointed that there wasn't anything there.

We didn't know what our son would say to the investigators.  He was so little.  And we wanted to protect him from any trauma from the experience.

Ultimately, we were out a few thousand dollars, but we had some peace of mind through the process.  And our son is just fine.

But, wow, those CPS folks have a scary amount of power.[/quote]

I doubt this one. One Kindergartener touching another Kindergartener's private parts is not considered abuse in any way. It would not be investigated, because it's developmentally normal. If anything they should have investigated the school to find out why kids were left unsupervised while that went on.[/quote]

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