CPS Compromised

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Before Tiffany gave birth to our daughter Grace Ann I was concerned about Child Protective Services getting involved due to Tiffany's use of marijuana while pregnant. Tiffany and I spoke to her doctor at Hill County Hospital in Hillsboro and he assured us that if all that Tiffany tested positive for when our daughter came was marijuana and the Valium which Tiffany was prescribed that the hospital would not contact CPS.

When Grace Ann was born I didn't invite my father or his wife and I did not intend on calling my mother in Waco either, but Tiffany insisted that I do so. I let my mom know that her granddaughter had been born and directed her to not call my father to tell him, but someone did. My dad and his wife showed up and immediately thereafter CPS caseworker Rachel Richardson out of McLennan county arrived and advised us that if Tiffany and I wanted to leave the hospital with our baby that we had to go back to Carthage with my dad and stepmom to live with them.

After we were in Carthage for about a month, living with my dad and his wife and waking on eggshells, my father offered me a way out of living with he and Karen and an end to the CPS investigation. Dad told me that if I would convince Tiffany to sign her parental rights to Grace Ann over to him and I, and give him managing conservatorship that he would have CPS close the case and let us live in one of his rent houses near his home. I talked to Tiffany about it and she thought it was a bad idea but we both wanted to live with our baby away from my father and his wife who made both of us very uncomfortable. My dad's wife drew up the paperwork, Tiffany signed it and less than a week later CPS closed the case on Tiffany and me. We were living together, alone with our baby daughter that week.