When I started this petition, I told you a court denied the State’s attempt to terminate my parental rights. The judge ruled — in writing, on October 27, 2025 — that DCYF did NOT meet its burden of proof.
That was 182 days ago.
Statute says the next hearing must happen within 90 days of a TPR denial. DCYF scheduled it for March 16, 2026 — 140 days later. And they have not issued a written order from that hearing, as required by law.
Here is what has happened since:
— Hannah has been moved to her FOURTH foster placement. She was placed with a family marked “not to foster” — a pre-adoptive family — the day AFTER the TPR was denied. This placement had no trauma-informed training. They used food as leverage. They told her school to deny her support services. DCYF moved her again after they allowed her to travel internationally without a passport.
DCYF will not tell me where she is. They will not tell me what school she is enrolled in. They have told her current school, her former school, her doctor, her dentist, and her counselor that my parental rights have been terminated. They have instructed all of them to contact police if I appear.
There is an active reunification order. It does not give DCYF discretion to change it. Multiple judges have said on record: “Clearly she has been parented well. Parenting is not the issue.” Then what is the issue? How do we go from a court order to transition her home to me, to DCYF keeping her and hiding her from me?
— DCYF was placing Hannah for adoption before the trial even ended. Discovery records show an adoption matching meeting on September 16, 2025 — six weeks before the trial concluded. Their own notes say: “TPR has concluded but waiting on the court order.” They told Hannah directly that coming home to me was “not an option” — before any judge ever said so.
— DCYF has been signing legal documents as Hannah’s “legal custodian” — for medical care, for school, for professional services — even after the court denied them that authority.
— For her 10th birthday in March, a milestone, I asked for a short visit or even a phone call. The caseworker responded 15 minutes later. Denied. No alternative offered. No exploration of contact with MY daughter on her double-digits birthday.
Hannah is 10 years old. One of her reports says if she was ever driving through our city, she would jump out of the car window and run home and never leave.
She is suffering tremendously.
As a parent living this nightmare for three years, reaching the TPR denial was the goal. It held weight — it should have. But every time there is an order in our favor, DCYF retaliates and makes my life Hell.
If you have not signed — please sign.
If you have already signed — please share.
That’s the ask. Keep her name in front of people who can do something.
BRING HANNAH HOME.
— Loren, Hannah’s Mom
Hannah, Mummy loves you bigger than the biggest big huge — but EVEN BIGGER. Pinky promise