Lawsuit: Texas CPS

In the meantime Allen took the kids to keep them safe.Then, according to her lawsuit against CPS, a CPS caseworker called.

That case worker stated, “She was in fear of losing her job for missing a deadline to investigate the matter.”

Allen complained to the case workers supervisor and anyone else with CPS that would listen.

She wanted action.

“You go all the way to the top and you just can’t believe that there was no one in authority that could have stopped, looked and listened and investigated my complaint,” Allen said.

“She finally went over the head of the case worker, then over the head of a supervisor to the program director,” said Allen’s attorney Chris Branson. ” She was told in no uncertain terms that that was a bad move on her part and they were going to show her exactly what happens to people who make bad moves.”

The next day Branson said CPS took Allen’s two young grandkids away from her.

“I did not know what was going on, I did not know why,” Allen said.

“The initial taking was illegal,” Branson said.

Branson said CPS claimed the kids were in danger that’s why they took them with no court order in hand.

“My client did nothing to have CPS take these kids, nothing came out later,” Branson said.

For the next 11 months the lawsuit claims CPS workers did everything they could to discredit Allen who was denied access to her grandkids, and was repeatedly told they would be adopted by non relatives and she would never see them again.

“Anger, fear, the rejection, I mean it makes you feel less than a human being,” Allen said.

In a hearing the grandmother won the right to get her grandkids back. But she hopes the lawsuit will lead to changes at CPS.

“We believe this is a good case to set a precedent that will send a clear and distinct message to Child Protective Services to clean up their act and do things the right way,” Branson said.”