THIS IS MY PAGE TO VENT AND SHARE OUR STORY. SOME OF MY COMMENTS ARE NOT VERY POLITE SO IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO HARSH WORDS YOU MAY WANT TO LEAVE THIS PAGE.
First, a message to my son: (Not in violation of the restraining order because this letter has been published since before the issuance of that order. I have moved this from the Home Page of Donnellyjustice to this site’s home page and now I’ve transferred it here.)
Dear Donnelly,
We love you and miss you soooo much! We think about you every single second, of every single hour, every single day, of every single week, of every single month, since we last saw you and for the rest of our lives. Mommy and Daddy never did anything to hurt you except fail to protect you from being kidnapped by CPS and the Collaborative Court Cohorts. We tried to RESCUE you but they had us illegally arrested for kidn
apping charges that should have only been a contempt of court issue. Your whole family misses you too: Sissy Kayla, Aunt Cindy, Pop-pop, Sissy Alex, Stephen, Billy, Christopher, Aunt Katie, Uncle Hugo, Cousin Kaitlyn, Cousin Mikey, Michielle, Melissa, Racheal, and the rest of your friends. We hope you still have pictures of us so you won’t forget us.
Donnelly Keaton Burns was born on November 14, 2007. He was a perfectly healthy baby boy. But, he’s been adopted by strangers (to me) all thanks to [THIS IS THE MEAN AND NASTY PART OF WHAT I WANT TO SAY]: my husband’s ex-wife who viciously, maliciously, callously, and deviously called the CPS hotline and OUR SOCIAL WORKERS DIRECTLY, ultimately destroying my family, my whole life. [to her: ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT THAT BITCH? Yeah, I know, not very professional but really, your goal was to ruin my life and you did it. Congratulations, you WON!]
This is the tweeker that called CPS over and over and over making false allegations to the hotline and our workers directly. She is the drug addict who lost custody of her four children due to being 5150 countless times, the one who was chased by Hemet PD doing 80 mph down State Street because she was drunk and high. This sociopath stabbed herself in the stomach 6 times in front of her child, tried to overdose one day and her 4 year old found her and called 911 which saved her life. This is the person who CPS gave credibility to when she told them that Donnelly was going to die if they let us take him home from the hospital when he was born! She confessed this to my husband after our rights were terminated. This thing thinks she is “sober” despite taking Adderall, Klonopin, Xanax, Saboxin (when all out of morphine), and Valium. She is 50 years old and goes to under 21 clubs with her 18 yr. old daughter. She had 20 affairs during her 20 year marriage, including two affairs with teenage boys (under 18 years old when she was in her late 30’s & early 40’s). She almost killed a nursing home patient by substituting their morphine with aspirin without reading their chart to find out that they were allergic to aspirin. She managed to keep that along with a child endangerment conviction, an embezzlement conviction and theft of narcotics from her employer conviction from the Nursing License Board for a few years but then they found out somehow and they revoked her RN License permanently. I could go on and on just like she called and called except I’M NOT LYING AND MAKING SHIT UP, THIS IS ALL TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SORRY ABOUT THAT FOLKS, I AM A NICE PERSON AND WOULD NEVER PUBLICLY EMBARRASS ANYONE PRIOR TO MY SON BEING STOLEN BY CPS, BEING CHARGED, ARRESTED, CONVICTED AND JAILED FOR TRYING TO TAKE HIM BACK, THEN LOSING HIM PERMANENTLY BECAUSE THEY TERMINATED MY RIGHTS AND ADOPTED HIM OUT TO NON-FAMILY WHO WON’T EVEN MEET US SO THEY CAN FORM THEIR OWN OPINION AND FILED A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST US JUST FOR WRITING THEM A SINCERELY KIND AND PLEADING LETTER SO WE CAN’T EVER SEE HIM!
Self Help: Fighting CPS 
I am most sorry for your loss i have gone thru the cps corruption nightmare myself. Who destroyed my life. My own mother i was so blind my sister dieing of cancer tried to warn me what my mother was planning before she died. My mother convinced me the cancer had made my sister dilusional. She tried talking my dad into moving out of a retirment comm with the intent of taking my youngest daughter away his response was. He would divorce her and move back to minnesota if she attempted this. She began cancel his dr appt. For his heart dr later claiming my dad canceled them himself he soon died of a stroke and heart disease she didnt even call 911 when he had his last stoke with my dad out of the way she was free to destroy me and my family. The only way we could have a lawyer rep us was to submit to a dependency hearing we didnt realize what we were in for cps said they found nothing wrong that we needed no services the judge felt family counsel may be needed and ordered full services for me my wife and our other
Daughter who is learning disabled but left in our care this was my stepdaughter no direct relation to my mother so she didnt want her just my youngest. Well full services to this case worker ment only drug testing 4 times a week and supervised visits once every 2 weeks with aparent aid appointed by cps. The parent aid thought we were great with our girls said no problem with reunificcation next court date the cps case worker sang a different tune saying we were not working with the parent aid and had miised many drug tests both lies and uncontested by our lawyers the parent aid could not believe what we told her happened in court but had to tell us she was be replaced as our aid no reason why.2 and a half yrs later still finding nothing wrong over 100 clean ua’s yes over 100 we went everyday after caseworkers lies in court our case was taking too long too much $ new caseworker resigned when att. Gen.told him to award custody to my mother knowing we could not afford the appeal proccess and she vowed to drag
It on indefitely we were forced to concede but kept our parents rights. She is now 16 and miserable living with grandma an my brother who by the way did not pass the cps background check to be around kids he is really wierd and constantly talks shit about me and my ex yes it tore our family apart
She now has depression and is sometimes suicidel has no social skills with kids her age does online school never leaves the house she shys away from any human contact except mom and dad her hugs are getting very intense its killing her she cant please everyone its killing her inside and cps made it happen mf’s fire them all and start over its not rocket science. Sorry i needed to vent please keep me up to date i know we are not alone we need to be
Heard before we are judged in court i realized we were the only ones not being paid by the state gravy train lol also a victim
IT IS A FACT,that these hearings are conducted without ANY Constitutional protections,particularly the 14th amendment ,which IS NECESSARY.
so how the hell are THEY and THEY includes the TEXAS PROBATE SYSTEM REMOVING OUR CHILDREN the same ILLEGAL WAY CPS DOES, our ADULT AGED DISABLED CHILDREN, THEN our elders etc. LEGALLY ISOLATING THEM and denying them their rights the SAME,buut after turning them into WARDS OF THE COURTS-
You are absolutely right! It is all rigged! It is fraud upon the American tax payers. It is all about money and jobs for the social workers. Yes, APS (Adult Protective Services) is now preying upon our parents and handicapped relatives! They are MONSTERS!
I can totally relate to your story. It is very similar to mine, only it wasn’t an ex-wife who made numerous, fraudulent calls to CPS about my daughter, it was my own mother.
My mom suffers with numerous mental disorders, including borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, sociopathic disorder, as well as having 3 different personalities inside her, per her admission.
My childhood was a nightmare. I got the worst of my mom’s abuse but my two brothers got their fair share as well. I was labeled the “bad” child, my younger brother was the “good” child and my older brother the “forgotten” child. Amazingly, I am the one who grew up to be the most normal of the three of us.
Neither of my brother’s have children. I had one child, a beautiful daughter. CPS kidnapped her on Oct.14, 2004.
The jist of it is that my mom was so jealous of the life and family I created, she wanted to take it away from me. She plotted, schemed and conspired with CPS to steal my daughter from me.
At the time, I was completely ignorant as to CPS tactics as well as my rights. A social worker and a cop arrived at my home after we had been sleeping for hours and when no one came to the door, they proceeded to ax down our door. They came in without a warrant or anything like extigent circumstances and removed my child from her bed where she was sleeping. They placed her with my mom, who, in spite of my every effort, was allowed to adopt her. My mom will not allow us any contact with our child and has poisoned her against us using parental alienation tactics.
My mom is incapable of love. My daughter is her possession, her meal ticket and her way of finally succeeding in her goal to destroy my life. According to her, she won.
The bottom line here is, how on earth could an agency created to protect children, take a happy child from her beautiful home and loving parents, to give her to an old, bitter, evil, woman who suffers from mental illness??
How is this even possible????
Its the money! The families and safe children act of 1997 was meant to be a good thing for kids in foster care but of course, CPS figured out a way to adulterate it into something it was never meant to be; a license to kidnap and adopt children out. When CPS kidnaps a child, the federal money starts flowing. If the child is returned to their parents, that money stops but if the child is adopted out, it just keeps on flowing all the way until the child turns 18 or 21. They are not concerned in the least for the child’s best interest. My daughter is no longer the happy, secure, precocious, outgoing child she once was. She was forced to grow up too young. Now, she is a puppet, responsible for my mom’s happiness. Its nothing less than emotional abuse.
It boils down to the fact that there is absolutely no incentive to return children, while there’s lots and lots of incentive not to return and adopt them out instead.
I wouldn’t believe it could happen had I not lived through it myself. “Lived” isn’t a very good description, actually. Since my daughter was kidnapped, all I’ve done is survive, more dead than alive. It took 4 years for me to begin functioning again. From there, another two until I could get through a day without crying.
The only way I’ve managed to retain my sanity and refrain from murdering every last one of the evil doers, is by plunging headlong into educating myself on every aspect of CPS and the dependency courts. If only I had known then what I know now!!! I have learned that the social worker and cop who removed my daughter can be sued for violating my constitutional rights. My mom can be sued for the false reports and they can all be sued for conspiracy.
Those responsible have probably long forgotten us and the way they devastated our lives but I will never forget them. If it takes me the rest of my life and every penny I make, I will see those responsible pay for what they did.
Thank you, for your website and all the useful information you provide to others. I have learned a lot here. The one thing I am still hoping to learn about, is what I can do, if anything, to begin the process of reform or abolishment of CPS. Is there anything private citizens can do or would this be an issue handled by legislatures only?
For everyone who has had a child kidnapped by CPS, don’t let hatred consume you. If you do, they win. Keep the love for your child in your heart where they can’t defile it. Stay strong and try to create something positive from your pain.
God bless the children and their true families.
I went through the same thing in 2012 they stole all five of mine kids two have been adopted out it’s been three years since I saw them now they took my two year old I’m done with my case plan but haven’t been able to get a job or a place I’m supposed to reunify next month we will see
Hi Burns Family. My husband and I are dealing with something similar to your story. Our 6 year old daughter left our house by herself a couple times. We live on a very quiet street, in a very safe town that my husband and I both grew up in. Our neighbors are great, they love our kids and look out for them. It’s just one of those close knit, all-American towns. We are staying with my father in-law because of financial reasons too. Our beautiful, outgoing, adventurous daughter loves to go say hi to different neighbors ON OUR STREET! They also give her sweets, gifts and soda, which we don’t allow our kids, so they’re basically enticing and rewarding her. The cops in this quiet town have nothing important to do so they claim random people have called them regarding our daughter being outside “unsupervised”. This one officer claims there’s been 8 different calls regarding the welfare of our daughter so he, himself, called CPS on us. They sent out an “emergency” caseworker who has turned our lives into a hell. This evil bitch has only met me twice and my husband once, but because I knew my Constitutional Right to not allow her in my home without a warrant, she has punished our family and traumatized my kids. She failed to notify us properly (or at all), that we had to be at a hearing nor did she tell us there was even a case being opened against us for “failure to protect our daughter from risk of harm”… BECAUSE SHE HAS GONE OUTSIDE TO VISIT THE NEIGHBORS ON OUR STREET “UNSUPERVISED”. So because we missed the hearing our 3 kids, ages 9, 6 and 14 months, were ordered to be removed and put in foster care! Our kids have NEVER been away from us for even a night! I’m still breastfeeding our 14 month old, who won’t even allow a neighbor to hold him even while we’re standing right there! She never showed us a court order signed by a judge, no formal court documents… just her word that she’s putting all of our kids in foster care and about 4 police officers! We refused to let them take our kids! We were threatened with arrest… BTW I’ve never been arrested or in trouble before. They couldn’t take our kids by force though so she told us to be at the next hearing our there’d be warrants out for our arrest. We go to the hearing and we are there ALL DAY! While we were there this psycho tried 3 times to remove our kids knowing we wouldn’t be home. My father in-law was watching them and the 3rd time she came with cops who threatened to arrest him! He had no choice and handed my kids over. My kids were in foster care for the weekend! She didn’t even try to place them with family! She didn’t ask if they were allergic to anything, if they needed medications or if there were any specific care instructions for my baby! She told my father in-law that she would give him the info about where she was taking my kids but after she got them in the car, kicking and screaming, she said she didn’t have the info and she’d call him… she NEVER called! Long story shortened… Monday we went to court and our oldest and our baby was returned to us but they wouldn’t release our daughter, the only one of kids they said to be “at risk of harm”. Now our daughter is in foster care for 2 more weeks until our next court date, ALONE now without her brothers. Our baby is totally traumatized and wakes up 10-15 a night just to make sure I’m still there and that he’s still at home. It’s disgusting what this agency does to innocent families! I’m really scared after reading this story and others just like it. Our caseworker lies and lies and lies in her reports. She has literally made shit up and says they’re other people’s statements! In her reports she makes us seem like an unstable couple even though my husband and I have been married for 7 years! She hasn’t followed the law, she’s violated our rights or punished us for exercising our rights. Something needs to be done to end this corruption with this agency. These social workers have far too much power which they abuse instead of actually helping children in need of protection, they use it to accuse and punish parents… especially if you’re low income like we are.