[jllambert]

We have precious baby girl that is placed with us for legal risk adoption. We got baby "G" when she was 4 days old. She is going to be 8 months old in just a few days. Our main fight has been against her maternal grandmother. CPS does NOT want this baby placed with the her, and in the past two hearings the judge has denied placement with the grandmother as well. So we have felt very secure in our future with this beautiful baby.

The grandmother showed up at a visit with Our Baby "G" on Friday with her other granddaughter (a 5 month old baby). This baby was taken from the grandmothers other daughter when she was born drug addicted (this was in a different county and Differet CPS department). They did not place that baby with the grandmother at that time due to these same reasons our CPS department did not want her to have "G". Well at the visit she said they gave her the baby and she signed papers on her(I believe these were placement papers~not adoption papers).
This is the worst thing that could have happened for our case against the grandmother getting "G"! It is now much more likely that we could lose "G" to the grandmother now that that CPS department placed a child in her home!

The grandmother failed her home study, has DUI history, and is still on probation for the last DUI in which she had her 2 youngest children(age 11 and 12 at that time of the DUI)in the car with her, there is domestic violence history in the house, lots of CPS history(mostly for neglect)with her own kids and some on a grandson she had while one of her daughters was in prison, Her sixteen year old daughter just got out of rehab, and there was a CPS investigation on the husband for sexual abuse of the 16 year old. The grandmother has had 5 kids of her own, the 3 adult children have all spent time in prison, all have drug and alcohol problems, and the two adult daughters have both given birth to drug exposed infants ("G"s mother has had 6 other kids and most were born drug exposed). Placing a baby in the grandmothers care can not be in the best interest of this or any child.

Please pray that the judge really looks at all of this, and not just the fact that another county messed up and placed other children with her. Please pray for us. Pray the judge in our case still realizes this grandmother should not have "G" and refuses to place the baby with her! Pray that the attorney Ad litem will not recommend placing with the grandmother( our ad litem attorney does not like CPS and usually tries to recommend the oppisit of the case worker). Pray that CPS is able to present their case against placing with the grandmother in such away the the judge will not have a second thought about keeping the baby in our home and out of her's. Pray, PRAY, PRAY that they don't take our baby away from us! We go back to court on September 30th! Pray also that we are able to intervene with our own attorney (we are still waiting to find out if that is possible). That way someone is fighting for us and our bond with "G". Also please pray for baby "C" that is already in the grandmothers care.
Please just pray!!