In Defense of the Canty Clan
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We love our children so much. We do everything for them and they have a family around them who gives every form of support and love that a child needs to be a well rounded and balanced human being. We truly live by the axom of, "It takes a village to raise a child."
On October 31st, 2018, while preparing for an evening of trick or treating with our big wonderful family, we thought our daughter Sarah got into a harmful substance. As concerned parents, we monitored her, but erred on the side of caution and sought medical assistance.
Even though the EMTs who responded said her vitals were fine and they thought she was just sleepy. Regardless, they transported her to Palmetto Richland Medical Center Children's Hospital located at 7 Medical Parkway in Columbia, SC.
As medical staff are mandatory reporting officers in the case of alleged child abuse and are mandated to report suspected abuse to DSS, under SC State Statute 63-7-750 they were allowed to hold Sarah as medical professionals to monitor for signs of abuse and whether the child's life is in imminent danger.
We went to see our daughter at the hospital the next day and we got a call from DSS. We came back to the house where they were waiting for us. They alleged child abuse based on the possible exposure to the substance, insect bites, they got different versions of the story, and my wife appeared sleepy and disoriented.
In response to these allegations we told them: Obviously my wife was attentive because, she recognized that something so small was out of place and was able to retrieve it from a toddler before she ingested it (as was proven by PRMCCH 20 hrs after admission). They treated her with Narcan for a substance that was not even in her system because, they assumed, treated, and tested later, a gross negligence.
The DSS worker stated we would be able to go retrieve our child at the hospital when she was medically cleared. When we left that meeting, we went directly to the hospital to go get our daughter. It had been almost 24 hrs and she had been medically cleared. We were disappointed to learn that not only was Sarah not going home with us but, the hospital was violating the time period of observation and my child was in danger of being taken into custody by the state. As I asked for clarification, I was assaulted, my wife was assaulted, we were mocked, defamed, and I was escorted out of the hospital by Columbia Police Department while my wife was allowed to stay with Sarah for the night. I was told that I was being asked to leave because the staff feared for their life because, I demanded answers for why my daughter was not being released.
Although, I was told that I could return to the hospital the next day. When I arrived that afternoon, my wife had come down to meet me in the parking lot. When we entered the hospital to return, they had barricaded the elevators with security guards employed by Alliance Security under contract with PRMCCH and Mensa Medical, Inc. A party of people arrived after some time waiting, where I was questioned by a person later identified as an investigator for the Columbia Police Department. He informed me that they are taking custody of my child at this time and he cited one portion of the state statute. As I begged him to read the law, he swatted it away and said he did not need that. I asked him if he is going to willfully violate our rights and he replied, "Yes, get a lawyer and file your complaint."
They forcibly removed my wife and I from the hospital without cause. They threw all of our belongings that were in the room with our daughter in 4 plastic bags and told us we would be charged with trespassing if we don't leave.
Heartbroken, we decided to go home to see the other children when we weren't so upset. Before we got home, my mother in law called to tell me to get there (her house) now, they are taking the rest of the children! My world sunk and I got there as fast as possible to hug my children goodbye before they were snatched out of a loving home by the state of South Carolina. When we got there, we ran inside and got to hug and kiss and encourage all of our children. They were all traumatized and screaming as they were herded into a minivan. We had to implore the Deputy Sheriff and Caseworkers to get car seats for minor under weight children for their safety in transport according to car seat laws. After some time another vehicle arrived with one car seat. They wanted our children to wait in the cold without their winter coats while awaiting 30 more minutes for the final car seat.
We have experienced this process with DSS before unfortunately here in SC as well as in Texas. We understand the importance of the agency however, there is a severe gap in the intent of the state legislation and how it is being implemented in the field. Caseworkers are taking children into state custody using minimum information. It is unconstitutional to hold people hostage to coerce the actions of another.
Our entire family has been broken up. My mother in law has been deemed negligent after being told that the children were not in sight nor sound of her with no evidence that they weren't. They took the other 5 children without any investigation prior to them informing my mother that they would be taking them due to the alleged "neglect". There has been no reported abuse.
No evidence of soiled, harmed, malnourished, dirty, poorly clothed, imminent danger or emergency with any the children. Yet here my wife is for the 2nd time being told she is a horrible parent for crying for her children and taking medication that had been prescribed,
We are in need of a assistance with our legal team and though weve come up with some, there is still a good bit to come up with. We are not asking anyone to take care of us. We are asking for people who care that children have now been traumatized by being taken away from an safe wholesome environment with 4 adults in our village, to please donate. We will also have a facebook page for anyone who has donated to be continuously updated , If you have donated and I have not gotten to adding you to the page, please contact me or my wife at her page Ayrissa Conti or myself Marcus Conti. If we are not friends on there please give us a day to see your message and to verify since those other than on the friends list go into the "other" message folder. We want to keep anyone who is helping towards our family being reunited again , to be in the loop. Your donation is not just wanted but NEEDED. Court is Tuesday. This all happened on Friday evening and it took so much to obtain a lawyer with little to no information,
They have now hidden our docket information. It was there, then they hid it when we started having our team call. This is insane! We cannot fight if we are not only given the wrong address by the cpd investigator that laughed in our face seeing our anguish but to "remove" our docket completely and not answer our calls is too far. No one at DSS will speak to our team. NO ONE. They have pulled so many illegal moves and South Carolina has failed us once again! Please. PLEASE, help us reunite our broken family. We haven't harmed anyone. We have been made guilty without reasonable evidence. All this has been because of assumptions,
Our Legal fees currently are 5000. We believe we have raised 2 so far. We need to have this money by Tuesday 8 o clock at the latest being that court is at 10. If you are willing to lend a large sum with an agreement of repayment we will happily oblige. We can do that. We just cant pay it towards our legal fees currently because of the timing , We can explain what you need to know if you contact us through here or facebook. Please, Help
Signed a grieving family
I will update with the facebook links in a bit. Thank you for your time in reading our story
On October 31st, 2018, while preparing for an evening of trick or treating with our big wonderful family, we thought our daughter Sarah got into a harmful substance. As concerned parents, we monitored her, but erred on the side of caution and sought medical assistance.
Even though the EMTs who responded said her vitals were fine and they thought she was just sleepy. Regardless, they transported her to Palmetto Richland Medical Center Children's Hospital located at 7 Medical Parkway in Columbia, SC.
As medical staff are mandatory reporting officers in the case of alleged child abuse and are mandated to report suspected abuse to DSS, under SC State Statute 63-7-750 they were allowed to hold Sarah as medical professionals to monitor for signs of abuse and whether the child's life is in imminent danger.
We went to see our daughter at the hospital the next day and we got a call from DSS. We came back to the house where they were waiting for us. They alleged child abuse based on the possible exposure to the substance, insect bites, they got different versions of the story, and my wife appeared sleepy and disoriented.
In response to these allegations we told them: Obviously my wife was attentive because, she recognized that something so small was out of place and was able to retrieve it from a toddler before she ingested it (as was proven by PRMCCH 20 hrs after admission). They treated her with Narcan for a substance that was not even in her system because, they assumed, treated, and tested later, a gross negligence.
The DSS worker stated we would be able to go retrieve our child at the hospital when she was medically cleared. When we left that meeting, we went directly to the hospital to go get our daughter. It had been almost 24 hrs and she had been medically cleared. We were disappointed to learn that not only was Sarah not going home with us but, the hospital was violating the time period of observation and my child was in danger of being taken into custody by the state. As I asked for clarification, I was assaulted, my wife was assaulted, we were mocked, defamed, and I was escorted out of the hospital by Columbia Police Department while my wife was allowed to stay with Sarah for the night. I was told that I was being asked to leave because the staff feared for their life because, I demanded answers for why my daughter was not being released.
Although, I was told that I could return to the hospital the next day. When I arrived that afternoon, my wife had come down to meet me in the parking lot. When we entered the hospital to return, they had barricaded the elevators with security guards employed by Alliance Security under contract with PRMCCH and Mensa Medical, Inc. A party of people arrived after some time waiting, where I was questioned by a person later identified as an investigator for the Columbia Police Department. He informed me that they are taking custody of my child at this time and he cited one portion of the state statute. As I begged him to read the law, he swatted it away and said he did not need that. I asked him if he is going to willfully violate our rights and he replied, "Yes, get a lawyer and file your complaint."
They forcibly removed my wife and I from the hospital without cause. They threw all of our belongings that were in the room with our daughter in 4 plastic bags and told us we would be charged with trespassing if we don't leave.
Heartbroken, we decided to go home to see the other children when we weren't so upset. Before we got home, my mother in law called to tell me to get there (her house) now, they are taking the rest of the children! My world sunk and I got there as fast as possible to hug my children goodbye before they were snatched out of a loving home by the state of South Carolina. When we got there, we ran inside and got to hug and kiss and encourage all of our children. They were all traumatized and screaming as they were herded into a minivan. We had to implore the Deputy Sheriff and Caseworkers to get car seats for minor under weight children for their safety in transport according to car seat laws. After some time another vehicle arrived with one car seat. They wanted our children to wait in the cold without their winter coats while awaiting 30 more minutes for the final car seat.
We have experienced this process with DSS before unfortunately here in SC as well as in Texas. We understand the importance of the agency however, there is a severe gap in the intent of the state legislation and how it is being implemented in the field. Caseworkers are taking children into state custody using minimum information. It is unconstitutional to hold people hostage to coerce the actions of another.
Our entire family has been broken up. My mother in law has been deemed negligent after being told that the children were not in sight nor sound of her with no evidence that they weren't. They took the other 5 children without any investigation prior to them informing my mother that they would be taking them due to the alleged "neglect". There has been no reported abuse.
No evidence of soiled, harmed, malnourished, dirty, poorly clothed, imminent danger or emergency with any the children. Yet here my wife is for the 2nd time being told she is a horrible parent for crying for her children and taking medication that had been prescribed,
We are in need of a assistance with our legal team and though weve come up with some, there is still a good bit to come up with. We are not asking anyone to take care of us. We are asking for people who care that children have now been traumatized by being taken away from an safe wholesome environment with 4 adults in our village, to please donate. We will also have a facebook page for anyone who has donated to be continuously updated , If you have donated and I have not gotten to adding you to the page, please contact me or my wife at her page Ayrissa Conti or myself Marcus Conti. If we are not friends on there please give us a day to see your message and to verify since those other than on the friends list go into the "other" message folder. We want to keep anyone who is helping towards our family being reunited again , to be in the loop. Your donation is not just wanted but NEEDED. Court is Tuesday. This all happened on Friday evening and it took so much to obtain a lawyer with little to no information,
They have now hidden our docket information. It was there, then they hid it when we started having our team call. This is insane! We cannot fight if we are not only given the wrong address by the cpd investigator that laughed in our face seeing our anguish but to "remove" our docket completely and not answer our calls is too far. No one at DSS will speak to our team. NO ONE. They have pulled so many illegal moves and South Carolina has failed us once again! Please. PLEASE, help us reunite our broken family. We haven't harmed anyone. We have been made guilty without reasonable evidence. All this has been because of assumptions,
Our Legal fees currently are 5000. We believe we have raised 2 so far. We need to have this money by Tuesday 8 o clock at the latest being that court is at 10. If you are willing to lend a large sum with an agreement of repayment we will happily oblige. We can do that. We just cant pay it towards our legal fees currently because of the timing , We can explain what you need to know if you contact us through here or facebook. Please, Help
Signed a grieving family
I will update with the facebook links in a bit. Thank you for your time in reading our story
Co-organizers (12)
Marcus and Ayrissa Canty
Organizer
Blythewood, SC
Gail Thornton-Driver
Co-organizer
Angela Shingles
Co-organizer
April Moye
Co-organizer
Melisa Brown
Co-organizer