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The Division of Child and Family Services, Moab office received a phone call from my ex-husband on Nov. 5, 2009 with accusations of child abuse. My two oldest boys were taken out of class without my knowledge and interviewed by a DCFS caseworker.

I called the caseworker and agreed to meet with her to clear this up, as long as my lawyers were present. Nothing more was heard from this case worker or the agency and we figured they had gone by the wayside. On Dec. 10, 2009 we were notified by mail that my husband had been charged with “emotional maltreatment – general.”

How in this country can any governmental agency charge someone with such a crime as child abuse without so much as contacting the accused? These gross errors in their supposed “investigation” go against even their own policies and procedures, which require that parents be notified in 24 hours, that a home visit be made and interviews conducted with relevant adults.

Such power by any governmental agency should be checked by its financers – we, the citizens of the United States.

I ask that anyone residing in Grand County with similar, documented cases of gross misconduct by certain DCFS case workers come forward and ask our Legislature for an audit of the Moab Division of Child and Family Services office. Ask them to take a look at the blatant disregard of their own policies and procedures. Their abuse of the families of Grand County must be put into check.

If you would like to help or have a similar case to share, please call me at 435-790-5083, email me at bayleyrogers@yahoo.com and sign the petition either online at www.care2.com. Call our representatives, David Hinkins 435-748-2828 and John Mathis 435-789-7316, and let them know that we will not stand by and be abused by the ones supposedly preventing it.

—Bayley Rogers

Moab
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