It took CPS 4 days to check on my nephew because of the 4th of July holiday the caseworker finally got to the home where he is kept and not where the court heard he would be. He is in a home where it is believed several families reside in my sister has no knowledge of who the people in this residence are. The only known facts is that it is several adults and on some days children who come visit on certain days. She has no clue who is around her son or what type of people take care of her son when the father is away and at work. During the 4th of July weekend she suffered from not knowing what conditions her son was living all she had was the horrific image of seeing her baby scream for help and his screams repeatedly passing through her mind from the last day she saw him. She spent that weekend in prayer and having faith since she could not do anything to contact the father to check on my nephew. Her incompetent attorney advised her to stay away and not attempt to communicate with him due to the protective order that was emplaced by a magistrate court on the day she was arrested. Well the incompetent attorney withdrew from the case right in the middle of this very stressful events without an explanation. My sister moved quick and hired someone else. The new attorney advised her that nowhere in this protective order did it prevent her from attempting to communicate with her son. He told her she had a right to have some type of communication with him. But before all this my sister had the CPS caseworker go check on the child according to the caseworker the child seemed fine and not hurt at all other than some minor scratches that the child admitted to having but “now are gone” for some reason the case worker thought this was ok and not a big deal. She also told my sister her son was happy and claimed he was having, “lots of fun” to us that seems a little too suspicious. Because what this CPS lady is lacking to understand is that abusers will make an effort a great effort to distract the victim by providing “lots of fun” in order to manipulate the child into thinking that everything is fine and in fact no abuse has happened. Including sometimes buying them whatever the child wants because this will cover up the abuse in a child’s mind. We are also afraid of what he is being told in order to have such a positive attitude after seeing the way he was taken. We are wondering if they are emphasizing to the poor child if he doesn’t play the game of pretending to be ok at that house then his mother will go to jail. Of course the poor baby doesn’t want to see his mother in jail so he might just be playing along. We don’t know if this is true but as concerned family members and the fact that the father is completely ignoring the pleas to allow her to communicate with her son are only leading us to thing the worst. We pray and ask anyone reading this to pray for my nephew that he is doing good and not being manipulated or tricked into anything.