HOUSTON – While a Houston mother blames the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services for retaliation, others claim the number of false reports being filed is ridiculous and a waste of staff resources.
According to Fox 26 Houston reporter Randy Wallace, after a Houston mother proved a CPS worker told her 14-year-old daughter to prostitute, TxDFPS is now investigating the mother’s grown daughter and three grandbabies for allegedly living out of her car with the kids and doing drugs.
However, when TxDFPS interviewed the grown daughter, they interviewed her at home where the kids were clearly living inside the home and no signs of drugs were found.
According to CPS, the new investigation of the grown daughter is not a retaliation by the Department, but the result of a new and entirely separate report.
While anyone can file a report of child abuse, it is up to the TxDFPS to determine whether the report has merit. If the details in the initial report have merit, an investigator will be assigned to interview the family. Many times, the family is interviewed, with the investigator’s findings and visible observations of the children differing from the initial report.
Killeen attorney Brett H. Pritchard claims that out of 440,000+ reports of child abuse each year, “nearly 85% of child abuse reports are not confirmed or are outright false.”
As a result, TxDFPS is stretching resources to sift through the false claims to find the children who need their protection and...
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