When Hell Came to Our Home Update October 18

[crabby_lioness]

Master Post

After many hours of wrangling our lawyer got a copy of the DHS's "Individual Service Plan" for myself and my husband.  It's a hoot.  Counselors we've shown this to have hit the roof.  It only has one signature attached to it, and that isn't anyone I've seen or talked to.  Each section has a different date, and a different due date.

Comments

[celestineangel]

Wow... I wonder how they coerced the student intern to sign as a "supervisor" and if she realizes the potential legal repercussions of doing such a thing.

[qara_isuke]

No kidding. Does she realize she's pretty much kissed her career goodbye?

[celestineangel]

Apparently not, or she wouldn't have done it, I would hope.

[kickair8p]

She probably didn't do it -- I'd bet that, when compared, this and Melody Hamilton's actual signature will not match.

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[qara_isuke]

Well, to be fair....if you're gonna forge a signature, wouldn't you forge the signature of an ACTUAL supervisor? (This may be giving them too much credit)

[kickair8p]

Yep, I think you're giving them too much credit -- I'm guessing over-complication to confuse the trail. Something like: it didn't occur to them that CL would get a lawyer, so the never wrote up the report -- originally they thought that if you don't write it up then it didn't happen, therefor any questioning CL does about the "non-existent" visit makes her look paranoid. Problem with that was when the demand for info came down through official channels instead of through the hysterically panicked calls they expected, they panicked. They threw together something that included the basics of the complaints, maybe making it look incompetently prepared because they thought that would throw suspicion off of them. They used the student intern's name when they forged the signature because they consider her a soft target, likely because the actual ASWS is better able to defend herself. They probably think they've got the clues going in so many different directions that with everyone under suspicion the inevitable investigation won't be

[britgeekgrrl]

...they threw her under the bus

Indeed! Some folks are utterly contemptible - I mean, we knew that already in this case but JEEZE....

[raynedanser]

They were probably counting on her NOT knowing any better.

[celestineangel]

That's absolutely awful, but then again, these people apparently don't know how to act like decent human beings anyway.

[raynedanser]

these people apparently don't know how to act like decent human beings anyway.

Not even in the ballpark of decent human beings. :/

[tavella]

Melody Hamilton isn't an intern; she's 49, works at the Department of Human Service for Chickasaw County, and is their primary contact with the court system.

[margotlefaye]

I see that she's the contact for Abuse and Neglect, in which case her signature on the paperwork makes sense. I wonder why it was thought she was an intern.