Rescue The Fosters: Foster & Adoptive Parents Expose Child Protective Services

Jonathon and I have been married for almost 16 years. We live in a small rural area. We have five children. Our two eldest daughters were recently married. They both live close by with their husbands so thankfully we see them often. Three of our children were adopted through foster care. We had been foster parents here in Georgia on and off for the last thirteen years.
I homeschool our three youngest children and love it! We have a small little farm that we enjoy. In 2016 we created a non profit that serves kids/families in Ukraine. We had met a Christian husband and wife who were trying to reach kids/teens in their area with sports, club activities and even Bible classes. We felt called to create a non profit to help them with their ministry.
We’ve been respite foster parents for the last several years and this past summer we met two little girls. Arya (3) and Emma (4 months).
We only had them for five nights. But it didn’t take long for us to question Emma’s health and question why these two little girls were in foster care. When we contacted the foster parent about our concerns with Emma, she told us that what we were seeing was “abuse”
and that Arya and Emma were in foster care because they had been physically abused. Emma had recently had fractures before entering our home and no one has told us this!
When we contacted the DFCS case worker about our concerns for Emma, (we also mentioned we didn’t appreciate no one telling us this baby had recent fractures) she told us she was sorry for not giving us more information on Emma’s health and they were seeking more medical evaluations for her..it was a very different answer than the foster parent had given me. I decided to look for the girls’ parents on social media. And what I found was shocking. They were pleading for help because they had taken their infant daughter to the pediatrician when they noticed she had a swollen leg. She was 12weeks. Not crying and had no bruising. They were also concerned that her skull seemed soft. They took her to their pediatrician, that doctor sent them to CHOA for X-rays. Rib fractures healing in multiple stages and a leg lesion was found on the X-rays taken. From there the family was almost immediately accused of abusing Emma instead of running the tests the parents asked for. Parents were questioned by child abuse pediatricians, law enforcement and social workers. The girls were placed with their maternal aunt and uncle. And the mother Tuckey, was soon arrested and charged with aggravated battery and child abuse. Weeks later, Emma woke up with rash like bruises on her leg. DFCS told the aunt and uncle to bring Emma into CHOA. The aunt and uncle were then verbally accused of either abusing Emma or allowing the mom to come abuse Emma. The girls were placed into foster care.
Once we learned all of this and realized DFCS was intentionally keeping the parents from doctor appointments and test results we decided to attend their three day trial.
We went, we learned that DFCS had zero evidence on this family. The case worker and the DFCS attorney were SO RUDE to this family. They also lied at court more than once. We since decided to fully support them in their efforts to get their children back. DFCS has decided to have a non reunification plan. They want to terminate the parents’ rights. They closed our foster home. They continue to lie, and hide things from the family. They refuse to put the girls into one of the many blood relative or fictive kin homes that Matt and Tuckey have provided. In December Matt Hernandez was indicted and charged with aggravated battery and child abuse. It’s been a lot of lying and policy violating by DFCS employees. Horrible communication from the department. And zero support to the family. Court is Friday the 19th.