I Said No to Babysitting. My Sister Sent Her Kids to My Old Address in a Taxi Anyway. She Didn’t Know I’d Moved. The Woman Who Answered the Door Was a CPS Detective.

I said.

Permanent custody was granted. Stephanie contested it, hired an attorney she could not afford, made various appeals to various people, and ultimately found no legal ground to stand on. No court was going to return three children to a parent who had abandoned them and spent the subsequent evaluation period demonstrating no meaningful change.

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