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We have been putting up with this bull for almost 4 full years
now. These girls have not been abused or neglected in anyway. They were taken
into state custody because the social worker overseeing the adoption has some
kind of personal grudge against Dana. She drove 5 hours to pick up the
girls and 5 hours back when she could have easily had the DHHR office
in the county where they moved go to the house and check on the status of the
girls. That tells me that it was a personal thing. She would not even let
my daughter give the girls a snack and something to drink for the long
trip back to Martinsburg. The officer that was there
would NOT let DHHR take the girls until my daughter
got them a snack and something to drink. Kudos to that
officer.!!! My ex-wife took them into her home in August of 2005
and went through all the hoops that DHHR told her to jump through. Now they pull
this crap. The state of West Virginia really needs to take a look at this and
many other cases like this in their state. We could sure use everyones help. We
plan on sending this to every senator, every state Rep, the Governor, every
person in power in this state and many others in DC, including talk show hosts,
raido show hosts, anyone we think will listen. We encourage, no we ask that you
do the same. Please send this out to everyone you can think of.
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Bruce (brudan@adelphia.net)
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This
is Dakota and Saphire Logan. These two girls need your help.
They are in
state custody in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Dakota was 6 months old and Saphire
was 2 days old when they were ripped away from their parents.
The
parents, after fighting the state for 9 months, decided to ask for help. Grandma
stepped in. Grandma was given both girls in September of 2005 without child
support from the state. She went through six background checks, fingerprints,
Physicals, home inspections, foster parenting classes, job references, the
apartment had to have all furniture before the children could come to live with
her.
Grandma has been back and forth to court for 2 1/2 years. The state
has been playing lost of games, losing paperwork, waiting 6-8 months at a time
to do a home inspection. They are just plain out not doing their job. The state
keeps dragging their feet.
Grandma has been having a hard time since
Christmas of 2007. She lost her job 2 weeks before Christmas. But she always
seemed to be able to take care of us two girls. Bills were paid and we had food
to eat. Even had Christmas presents under the tree.
In March, Grandma got
the adoption papers. We were finally going to be hers. We were finally going to
have a permanent family that we could call our own. The adoption was set for May
2nd, 2008.
With this in mind, Grandma started looking for a place to live
for us two girls. A place that we could call home. A place for us to grow up in.
Martinsburg was just to big; she wanted us to be raised in a hometown kind of
place. Somewhere with amazing schools. She made all the calls that she needed to
make to see if we could move. She was told there wasn't a problem, we could go
where ever we wanted as long as we stayed in West Virginia. The state only
wanted to know where we would be going.
So with the ok, Grandma found a
house in Bluefield West Virginia. She found a great big house that sits on the
side of a mountain. We have our own room! There's a big front porch so we have a
place to ride our bikes, and we have a huge yard to run in.
We were
having a lot of fun in our new house. We got to stay there for a whole 3 days.
One day, this lady pulled up with the police and told our Aunt Kristle they were
taking us away. They put on our shoes and our coats. Put us in a car and they
drove away. We didn't even get to say good-bye.
The state claims I (as
the grandmother) didn't call anyone to let them know where I was moving (phone
call made and I spoke to caseworker Diane Snell) She was given the address. She
claims she found us because I enrolled the children in school. They were
enrolled in school on the 8th of April, and were taken on the 9th. She also
decided to add the fact that I'm not working. I lost my job in December of 2007.
(That wasn't a problem to them when I was living Martinsburg) I haven't been in
Bluefield long enough to find a job YET. But I still have plenty of money in
savings to handle my bills, and care for these two children until I find a
job.
The whole reason for this story is because these girls, along with
myself, need your help. I wanted the girls' story heard. These children were
removed from their home for unfounded reasons. They have not been in anyway
abused. They were happy go lucky. Dakota was finally feeling safe and started
talking, which she didn't for almost 1 1/2 years. They have been in my home for
2 years now. The only abuse they have had to endure is being ripped from their
home again.
Why? Because I found and bought a home for them some place
other than Martinsburg?
Our Government officials need to see first hand
how their government funded offices are handling their money. They need to know
what their government funded offices are doing to our American families, and how
they are tearing us apart for no apparent reason.
I need you to sign this
letter with any comments you'd like to express. Send it on to all of your
friends. I'm shooting for at least 5000 signatures. Whoever is the
1000,2000,3000,4000,and the 5000th person to sign this please email it to me at
sassiedana@yahoo.com Its very important that this gets emailed back to me so
that I can make sure it gets to our Government officials.
Please help
bring these girls back home!! We need them just as much as they need
us!!
Thank you for all your help,
Dana Logan