San Bernardino County wrongfully removed my children three years ago and earlier this year.

Code 31-125 CFS Investigation Requirements states on line .111 ... "reasonable and age-appropriate spanking to the buttocks where there is no evidence of serious physical injury,".

That code was not honored when I spanked two of my children at the end of April three years ago. Yes, I spanked them. Yes, I used a wooden spatula. And yes, they had minor bruising. My children told me they had no issues with pain when sitting on or leaning against a surface. I was placed on the CACI database because I followed the advice of my public defenders to get the court process done and over with as quickly as possible to get my children returned to me. Because of how the cases closed that CACI is supposedly on my record for life.

In January of this year I was trying to hold my bonus daughter's attention with two fingers on the back of her jaw, she pulled away which resulted in my nails scraping her neck accidentally. I called her mother to come look at it, she said there was no reason for concern and left her in my care. Three days later CPS came and removed all of my children, three bio babies and three bonus babies ranging from 7-15 years old. During the mediation with the CPS social worker the mediator said she wanted to change the language because the charge was for choking my bonus baby to inappropriate discipline. The social worker demanded it be changed to inappropriate physical discipline. The mediator asked if I could agree with that, and I said well the fact is I was holding the back corners of her jaw so I see how I made physical contact, so yes. So inappropriate physical discipline was the ruling.

Both cases got closed with giving me zero physical custody, 50/50 legal custody, and family law orders. I was refused unsupervised visitation because I didn't trust the social worker and followed my attorney's advice to refrain from providing the proof of completion of services because my attorney said that she would provide that, but failed to. I have the emails to prove it.

Also, with the second case came another CACI filing on my name. I have spoken with many county officials who have instructed me to take this approach in order to remove the my name from the CACI database and hold San Bernardino County CPS and Dependency court accountable. I value your time and support. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Stephenie Randles