DCS Complaints include Lisa Millett taking children from mother for 2 1/2 years in an aggregous example of misconduct and corruption by Lisa Millett:

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The Coumpy family, before Arizona DCS tore their family apart. Aprilli declined to provide more recent photos because she wants to keep their pictures off of social media to protect them. Photo provided by Aprilli Coumpy.

by Health Impact News/Medical Kidnap Staff

The Coumpy children are finally back home.

Their mother, Aprilli Coumpy, has lost over 2 years of her children’s lives, time that can never be replaced. And like most children who are taken away from their families, the Coumpy children are still suffering today, even though they are back home.

They were seized by Arizona’s Child Protective Services back in 2015, after an accidental injury when the children woke up early and decided to cook breakfast for their still-sleeping mother. It was something that could have happened in any home.

After a hard-fought battle against the State of Arizona, where the state even tried to get Health Impact News to remove their stories on this case published on MedicalKidnap.com, the children were finally returned home shortly after the latest Health Impact News article on their family was published, which exposed wrong-doing by the Department and by social worker Lisa Millett.

Like many families, the Coumpys decided to lay low and stay out of the media spotlight as they began their journey of healing.

It has been 8 months since their case was closed on August 15, 2017, and the family is still suffering trauma from the overreach of Child Protective Services into their lives.

The mother, who refused to give up fighting for her her children when they were in state custody, is now determined to fight for justice, not only for her children, but for all children who are victims of social workers who abuse their power.

Aprilli Coumpy seeks an attorney who will help her to file a lawsuit on behalf of her children, all the while she is working to help her family heal from the damage inflicted on them when they were taken.

Many advocates and attorneys who recognize the catastrophic impact of the Child Protective Services industry on families have said that one of the most effective ways to fight the system is to strike back legally through lawsuits and other court measures that will send a message that their unlawful practices are unacceptable and will no longer be tolerated – practices such as social workers lying in order to take children or seizing children without a court order, warrant, or exigent circumstances.

Despite this, Aprilli reports that she has not been able to find an attorney willing to take on Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) and help her to file a lawsuit. She is hopeful that this article will inspire a good lawyer to help her in holding DCS accountable for the damage done to innocent children.

The children were take from their home in March 0f 2015. Our original article on their story was published on July 29, 2015. See:

By December of that year, it was documented that Aprilli had completed everything that DCS required of her to get her children back. Both a parent aide through a third party agency commissioned by DCS and the social worker Lisa Millet signed off on a report stating such.

The children were not returned.

The following May, Aprilli Coumpy filed a grievance against DCS and against her social worker Lisa Millett. Aprilli reported that Millet “constantly lies in court,” that she and her aides “disrespect me in front of my children,” and that that they have threatened her.

She alleged that the social worker tried to get her fired from her job, and that she did not follow through with court orders or reunification efforts. Also:

Lisa and case aides have verbally told me in front of my kids, “You are no longer their mother.”

Arizona DCF case worker Lisa Millett. Photo from her Facebook page.

In what Aprilli saw as retaliation, her children were moved into different foster homes and separated from each other.

On July 29, 2016, Health Impact News published an update story:

Aprilli Coumpy was advised to file a motion for “Rule 59” which she did pro se (on her own, without an attorney) on January 17, 2017.

Arizona Rules of Civil Procedures Rule 59 appears to correspond to Rule 59 of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The federal rule, according to Cornell Law School, is the rule for a new trial, or for altering or amending a judgement. (Source.)

In Arizona, Rule 59 allows for a verdict, decision, or judgement to be vacated and a new trial granted for a number of reasons “which materially affect that party’s rights,” including:

Error in the admission or rejection of evidence, error in the charge to the jury, or in refusing instructions requested, or other errors of law occurring at the trial or during the progress of the action.
That the verdict, decision, findings of fact, or judgment is not justified by the evidence or is contrary to law. (Source)

Judge John Dittsworth was removed from the case, and the Coumpys were assigned a new judge, Judge Alison Bachus.

Still, her children remained in state custody.

It was after this that social worker Lisa Millet wrote to Aprilli Coumpy demanding that she stop posting information about her case on social media and take down the Medical Kidnap stories.

The next article we published was on April 25, 2017:

Things moved quickly after that. Lisa Millet was finally removed from the Coumpy case.

The next court hearing was on May 17, 2017. Judge Bachus ordered that the children return to the physical custody of their mother, effective a week later when the children finished the school year.

On May 25, one month to the day after the latest Health Impact News article, the Coumpy children returned home to their mother.

The long, drawn-out reunification process that Child Protective Services typically insists upon didn’t happen, proving that returns can, in fact, be accomplished quickly. (The usual argument is that the children need time to adjust, that they were attached or bonded to the fosters, or other such nonsense. The social workers who argue for such have no problem abandoning such lofty ideals when it comes to snatching children suddenly from their REAL parents.)

Their case was dismissed on August 15, 2017.

The return home of children seized by Child Protective Services is bittersweet. The sweetest thing in the world for a family separated is to be reunited. It is the stuff of Hallmark movies – this thing that parents fight for, pray for, and cry out for, with every fiber of their being, while their children cry themselves to sleep longing for their real family.

But it is also bitter, because the children who were taken away from their families are never the same as they were before they were kidnapped.

When Child Protective Services takes children from their homes, they often leave destruction in their wake. The majority of children who are seized by CPS should never have been taken from their families. Even when they are returned home, more often than not, the children are traumatized. Even a short separation can do untold damage.

Foster care statistics reflect this trauma in data that shows that foster children who grow up are far more likely than the general population to commit suicide, be homeless, have a teen pregnancy, battle addiction, become entrapped in the sex trafficking trade, or be incarcerated.

What the data does not reflect, however, is the aftermath of the trauma suffered by the children who are returned to their parents, who are often innocent of any wrong-doing. These children, too, have needlessly suffered great anguish, and their lives are never the same.

The Coumpy children are no different. In fact, when Aprilli’s children were about to come home, an advocate told her:

Your kids are coming home totally different. Are you ready?

This was the very thing the broken-hearted mother had been fighting for more than 2 years for. Of course she was ready:

Those are my kids! I want them HOME.

They were different. They came home on May 25, 2017. They were so excited and told their mother:

It’s REAL! We’re really home!

To this day, they still have nightmares from their time away from home.

They have behaviors that they never had before. Relatives and friends of the family have noticed. Aprilli says that more than one of them have told her:

Wow, your kids have never acted like this before. DCS really did a number on them.

They were never afraid of the police before. The children had believed before that police officers were the good guys who helped people and went after the bad guys. Now, they are afraid of police. They are afraid they will take them away again.

This is something we commonly hear from children who were taken by Child Protective Services with the assistance of law enforcement. These officers frequently act upon accusations made by social workers without looking into the evidence that is required to obtain and to take before a judge to get a court order, and all too often they rush quickly to seize the children and remove them from the home, which is illegal without a warrant signed by a judge.

Many families, including the Coumpy family, have also reported that the children struggle with respecting their parents’ authority.

When DCS/CPS came into their lives, they undermined parental authority. Children saw that their parents were not able to protect them from the strong arm of the state.

Other adults – social workers and foster parents – came into their lives and showed them that their parents’ standards and rules no longer applied.

Many of the children suffer abuse at the hands of foster parents, and we have published reports of Arizona foster care homes being used to sexually abuse and traffick children.

Kids have to adapt to a whole new way of life just to survive. If they are shuffled between different foster homes and facilities, each transfer means learning a whole new set of rules.

The Coumpy children before DCS rocked their world. Photo source: Coumpy family.

When they return home, it is difficult to bring them back into the protective shelter of the once-familiar routines. Rules set up for their own safety that were once seen as immutable are now questioned, and comfortable boundaries are now viewed as capricious, arbitrary, and able to be challenged like never before.

Social workers and visit supervisors maintain that illusion during visits when they criticize, undermine, and outright defy the things that parents tell their children.

Aprilli’s oldest daughter Zanaeja aged out of the system before her siblings were returned. She told her mother that social worker Lisa Millet had told her that she did not have to listen to her mother or follow directions given to her by her mother since she was almost 18 years old.

The other Coumpy children were also allegedly told that they didn’t have to listen to their mother.

Children within the foster care system become greatly confused, and many lose their inner compass along the way, because of ill-thought-out comments such as these.

Aprilli reports that she told social worker Lisa Millet:

You guys taught my kids to think of me as “a visit.”

Aprilli herself has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and high blood pressure. Again, these are things that we commonly see in parents whose children are taken. Many parents and grandparents who never had blood pressure issues before Child Protective Services entered their lives have reported being diagnosed with high blood pressure and PTSD after CPS comes on the scene.

The effects of PTSD are, of course, even more severe in the children who are kidnapped out of their homes and put with strangers, many of whom then abuse them.

The constant “fight or flight” instinct is something that Aprilli and her children now struggle with, post-CPS. That is a classic symptom of PTSD.

Her children were apparently diagnosed with some sort of emotional trauma issues and were prescribed medication during their time in foster care. This too is common in foster care, where studies have shown that children in foster care receive far more psychiatric drugs than children outside of foster care, and possibly at a rate equal to or greater than soldiers returning from combat. (See: Foster Care Abuse: Drugging Children Against Their Will.)

DCS would not tell Aprilli what medications they were being given, or what their diagnoses were. She is still trying to get the medical records for her children, but she was aware at the time that her children were being drugged.

Even while they were still in foster care, Aprilli tried to address the issue with social worker Lisa Millett. In an email sent to Millet in December 2016, Aprilli wrote:

Why are my children not receiving any type of counseling from being snatched away from their family for 2 years now?
… Considering what DCS has done to my children and family, medications are not the correct response when they are showing normal behavior under the circumstances of what DCS has done.

For almost a year she has been trying to get the children’s medical records. She still doesn’t have them. What she does have is a list from DCS of “all the doctors and dentists the kids saw over the last two years.”

There are 32 doctors and dentists on that list.

Aprilli has been attempting to get records from the practitioners for the time that her 5 children were in state custody. DCS has told her that “parents can request any records for their children when they are back in their care,” but Aprilli has been largely unsuccessful in obtaining them.

Some of them stonewall her. Other offices tell her that the doctor in question no longer works there or is retired, and she still cannot get the records. There are others that she cannot find at all.

Attorney Needed to Sue Arizona for Crimes Against Families

Aprilli Coumpy is searching for an attorney who will help her to hold DCS in Arizona accountable, and to protect her children and other children from the overreach of DCS.

Arizona DCS takes more children from their parents than any other state in the country. The Coumpy case is closed. It never should have been opened.

She recently learned that Arizona a 1 year statute of limitations to file a lawsuit, and a federal lawsuit has a 2 year statute of limitations. The clock is ticking. She does not want to lose this opportunity.

She says:

I have so much evidence; I just need the representation.

She asks how many other families there are whose cases have been mishandled by social worker Lisa Millett.

If you are an attorney willing to look into this case, or if you know of one, please contact Health Impact News or the Facebook page set up to support the family called Parents Protecting God’s Children.

Governor Doug Ducey needs be called upon to put a stop to the abuse of families under DCS. The DCS agency and the actions of the DCS workers are ultimately his responsibility. He may be contacted at 602 542 4331 or reached here. He is also on Facebook and Twitter.

Representative Kevin Payne represents the Coumpy’s district. He may be reached at 602 926 4854, or contacted here.

The Senator for their district is Senator Frank Pratt. He may be reached at 602 926 5761, or contacted here.

Aprilli is very thankful that her children are home. She says:

I don’t think we’ll ever be the same again, but I know it can be better.

When we spoke with Aprilli for this article, our reporter prayed with her for her children, and for all of the children whose lives have been turned upside down by CPS. Aprilli requested that we include that prayer in her story, and so we are honoring her request, as this is HER story, not ours:

Come Holy Spirit, and minister to the Coumpy children, and to all the other children affected by CPS. Jesus, You are the great Healer, and these children have suffered great trauma. They need You to come and heal their hearts.

They have suffered things that no child should ever have to suffer, and the hurt is profound. But You are greater. You can do what no man can do.

We ask you to go deep into the depths of their hearts, to the root of all the emotional trauma and anguish, and bring healing to their hearts. Protect their hearts. Give them the grace to overcome.

What the enemy meant for their destruction, Lord, we know that You can turn it and even use it for GOOD, for the saving of many lives, like you did with Joseph in Genesis 50:20.

God, heal their hearts, and the heart of their mama, because she has suffered too. Lord, help them to process all the pain, and to be able to rise up victorious, that they would not see themselves as victims but as victors, knowing, God, that You love them so much, and that you promise to bring good out of even this.
Hold them close and protect them. Speak truth to their spirits that they may know that they are loved and cherished by You, in the mighty name of Jesus we pray. Amen.

Original source: http://medicalkidnap.com/2018/04/26/mom-who-lost-2-5-years-of-her-childrens-lives-while-they-were-in-foster-care-seeks-attorney-to-fight-corruption-in-arizona/

 

Michael Robertson has worked in the behavioral health field with at risk child and adolescent populations at Arizona Baptist Children's Services, as a program supervisor at Community Psychology & Educational Services, and through the health care registry as a psychiatric technician at the Maricopa County Psychiatric Annex.

His graduation research project was "Accelerating Children's Cognitive Development" which was also the basis of his Master's thesis. Michael pursued that subject matter as three of his four children had severe cognitive delay, developmental disabilities and language arrest, coupled with intellectual giftedness after their father's psychological interventions, in the areas of qualitative and quantitative reasoning. Michael Robertson's life work was devoted to developing the intellectual capacities in his children. 

In 2004, Michael Robertson founded the "Counseling Outreach for Battered Women & Abused Children" and also worked for charitable causes supporting the families of police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty.

Michael Robertson has worked with the Department of Child Safety over the past 22 years, establishing himself as a fit and proper parent of children and a model of fatherhood in the community. DCS vetted Michael Robertson as a fit parent in 1998 during his divorce to his first wife, Julie Bacolas. In 2002, Michael Robertson was vetted as a fit parent when issues arose with his girlfriend and newborn baby, by the department at that time. In 2009, when his step daughter, Kalin Wynne, was brutally raped by registered sex offender Philip Menting (serving a 35 year sentence for that crime) Michael Robertson was vetted by DCS as a fit parent when issues arose regarding his second wife, the mother of Kalin Wynne. In 2016 and 2017, Michael Robertson participated in two family preservation programs stemming from reports and issues with his second wife, and again he was fully vetted by the Department of Child Safety as a fit and proper parent.

In 1998, Michael Robertson was first vetted as a fit and proper parent by DCS (then CPS) when his youngest daughter, Jennifer Bacolas, was sexually molested her by her mother's boyfriend (Ed Stoffers) while under her mother's care (as validated through CPS records, the Glendale Police Department in Arizona, and audio tape sessions with trauma counselor Rochelle Silverman (evidentiary documents available upon request). Michael Robertson was made the custodial parent of Jennifer and her siblings, prior to the knowledge of any assault on his daughter. After an investigation by the Glendale Police Department in Arizona, the mother, Julia Bacolas (aka Julie Stoffers, aka Julie Allor) fled Phoenix and the joint custody of her common children to protect Edward Stoffers from questioning and the eventual prosecution for this assault. 

Michael was vetted as a proper and fit custodial parent by the Arizona Department of Child Services in 1998.

Directly as a result of the sexual assault of his daughter and behavioral health issues with the children from years of neglect and abuse by their mother, there were a total of 13 DCS reports filed on behalf of this family.

On all those reports, the children were interviewed at school, unannounced, and on all reports, the Bacolas children reported their father to be a safe, fit, and proper parent.

Issues arose around the pregnancy of Michael's girlfriend in 2002. DCS got involved at the birth of her second child and fully vetted Michael Robertson as a fit, safe, and proper parent, and it was evaluated by the department that the young woman's children were in a good environment with the Robertson family.

in 2008, Michael Robertson attended an informal hearing before the DCS, regarding the presence of THC in Mr. Robertson's newborn baby's system (such baby being borne of Mr. Robertson's second marriage). DCS has this documentary evidence showing that testimony was given by all the Bacolas children (then older adolescents or young adults), stating that Mr. Robertson was a fit and non-abusive parent, and the child was subsequently returned to Mr. Robertson's care based on that testimony.

In 2012, Jennifer Bacolas approached her father about lewd advances this 30-something-year old adult male was making towards her, in person, and on Facebook. After approaching this adult male to cease and desist advances toward his 17-year-old daughter, this man filed a petition for psychiatric commitment based on highly inflammatory allegations regarding his character.

Amanda Bacolas, Jennifer Bacolas and Twalla Robertson were interviewed by Dr. Michael Sweeney, the attending psychiatrist at the Maricopa County Psychiatric Annex in Phoenix, Arizona, at the time of this incident in 2012.  In those records and testimony, Amanda Bacolas and her family members told this clinician and his social worker present, that Mr. Robertson was not inappropriate, not an abusive parent, and was highly protective of his children. 

Doctor Sweeney is currently employed as a psychiatrist at Southwest Network in Phoenix.

The older brother, Michael Jr., pandered this inappropriate relationship for a firearm, handgun. 

The trauma Michael Robertson has endured since the 1998 incident and having to deal with adolescent children suffering from severe mental illness is highly documented.

In 2009, Michael Robertson was vetted, again, by DCS as a fit and proper parent for placement of Kalin Wynne after this horrible incident of sexual abuse by a registered sex offender. This crime occurred while under Kalin's biological father's care, David Wynne of Mesa, Arizona. David Wynne left Kalin in Phillip Menting's care while he traveled to California to perform work for a client for his business, Dental Computer Solutions, LLC. 

https://www.publicpolicerecord.com/arizona/doc-prisoner/PHILLIP_MENTING/255341

In 2016 and 2017, Michael Robertson successfully completed two family preservation programs from DCS involvement based on parenting issues with Twalla Robertson and both times, Michael Robertson was fully vetted by the Department of Child Safety as a fit and proper parent.

The family preservation programs are intense and last three months, with three days of parent aid interventions a week, interviews once a week with the children by a DCS specialist, and a counselor once a week in the home during the program.

On both family preservation programs (2016 and 2017), Michael Robertson was fully vetted by the Arizona Department of Child Safety as a fit and proper parent, and the children were safe and well provided for in his care.

Michael Robertson's two minor children were taken from their mother Twalla Robertson's care, while he was out of the home, in 2018. 

HIgh on opiates and intoxicated on alcohol at the time of removal, Twalla Robertson made inflammatory statements regarding the parenting of Michael Robertson, in hopes of keeping the children and deflecting her own deficiencies present at the time of removal.

For two weeks prior to the children's removal, Michael Robertson had told his second wife that he was making preparations to leave her due to her substance and alcohol abuse and apathy towards parenting.

That disparagement did not keep the children in Twalla's care, and they removed the children forthwith based on her insobriety and apathetic parenting that was already documented from previous encounters she had with DCS prior to that dependency.

It is assumed the investigator was unaware that Michael Robertson had changed his name in 2017 (previously Michael Bacolas, Sr.), and that he had successfully completed two family preservation programs from DCS involvement based on parenting issues with Twalla Robertson, in 2016 and 2017

On both family preservation programs (2016 and 2017), Michael Robertson was fully vetted by the Arizona Department of Child Safety as a fit and proper parent, and the children were safe and well provided for in his care.

It was assumed the investigator did not know Michael Robertson's credentials, his past history as a parent of multiple traumas with his family, his seven vettings by the department over a 23 year period, nor his reputation with the church, neighbors, or the community as an outstanding and involved parent.

Michael Robertson immediately demanded the return of his children to his care, and was extremely boisterous regarding civil liability toward the department if his children were not returned forthwith. 

Immediately upon the removal of the minor children from Michael Robertson's care, a litany of support came from parents and members of the community demanding his children's return.

Mothers and community supporters came to the aid of Michael Robertson, including:

     Jodie Burnett, the minor children's nanny and housekeeper.

     Melissa Jaurique, employee and mother who worked out of the home and attested to the father's fitness.

     Michael Holsinger, Boy Scouts of America leader and member of church attended by Michael Robertson and minor children.

     Jennifer Tel-Ezel, former nurse and colleague of Michael Robertson. A mother in the community with knowledge of the character of the father.

     Travis Campbell, member of the LDS bishopric at the Sierra Montana LDS ward and family friend.

Many other parents, neighbors, and church members in the community came forward to provide letters, statements, and testimony to the Arizona Department of Child Safety for the prompt return of the minor children to Michael Robertson.

None of these witnesses were ever contacted, interviewed, or spoke to regarding this dependency case by DCS. 

Had these members of the community been contacted by DCS case managers, then there would have been no valid dependency and the children would have been immediately returned back to Michael Robertson.

The intent of Joelle Higby and Lisa Millett was not for family reunification with a fully vetted, fit parent, but the intent from their actions was to mitigate a civil case of DCS misconduct for the improper removal of these minor children from his custody.

A parent cannot prevail in a civil case of tortious interference with a parent's right to associate with his children, if the parent does not have physical custody of those children at issue. 

The goal of DCS supervisor Joelle Higby and Lisa Millett was to weave a false narrative about the character of the Michael Robertson, to rob him of the right to possess his children, and his ability to file a civil action in the Arizona Superior Court for damages against DCS and the state for tortious government misconduct.

The Department of Child Safety in Arizona had no valid case in 2019 to justify a separation of Michael Robertson from his children.

Due to a medical condition and his attorney's failure to show up to court, DCS and the state filed and was granted a default judgment on an erroneous severance.

An appeal was filed with the Arizona Court of Appeals, and prior to the court reversing the default against the vetted Michael Robertson, the State withdrew the original default and severance based on "errors". Those errors being outright false pleadings by the state as DCS had no case, no evidence, and no cause to justify a severance of parental rights on a fit parent.

In January, 2020, Michael Robertson was preparing for a return of his two minor sons to his care. 

Celebrations were abound from church member, parents in the community, neighbors, co-workers, business associates, and friends who knew Michael Robertson and the trauma he had endured at the hands of a rogue DCS by removing his children from his care.

A tort attorney was contacted to represent Michael Robertson and his minor children for the illegitimate and tortious interference with his parenting and the pain and suffering caused by the state and the Arizona Department of Child Safety by the wrongful removal of his children.

Apparently, the rules of "double jeopardy" does not apply to a government agency, hell bent on removing a child from a fit parent in order to avoid a multi-million dollar civil judgment for government misconduct.

A second severance was filed by the department and the state in February, 2020. 

The 23 year abuse survivor was now a target of more abuse by his own government, to mitigate an obvious civil judgment against the State of Arizona and the bad PR that would create for the agency.

Michael Robertson was now a victim of malicious prosecution by Arizona DCS and the State of Arizona, robbed of his children, so the Arizona Department of Child Safety and State of Arizona did not have to pay out on another civil settlement for DCS misconduct in the improper removal of another child from the care of a fit parent.

The misconduct by the employees of the Arizona Department of Child Safety is highly documented and is a "prima facia" case of tortious interference with a parent child relationship and the domino effect of tortious causes of action that followed.

The Department of Child Safety had to protect their department and the state of Arizona from another civil suit and payout of damages.

The second severance was filed against the father, having no case of parental impropriety, DCS weaved a false narrative and bizarre character assassination of Michael Robertson in an attempt to prejudice the court to the point of favoring a family placement with his minor children to his daughter, Amanda Bacolas.

The flying moneys, severely mentally ill older children from his first marriage were introjected by the department. Although the Department of Child Safety had full documentation of abuse, cognitive impairment, and levels of maternal neglect by their mother, Julia Bacolas, the department used these impeachable witnesses for testimony only designed to create prejudice and a question of concern before the court.

Psychotic babblings were taken with defamation and slander against the parent which included serial kidnapping of children, child dismemberment and mutilation, animal abuse which included putting dogs in bags and slamming them on walls, raping children, etc. The bizarre testimony of these "witnesses" were impeached successfully. Their rants were known to the department prior to the first severance in 2019, but DCS didn't not use these "witnesses" or pursue such statements as they were ridiculous and obviously the rants of detached severely mentally ill adult children, still living in the trauma of abuse inflicted by Julie Bacolas, and her constant menticide in their adulthood. 

Furthermore, the rants of these mentally ill people did not coincide with the facts in DCS's own files on the family history. It was obvious to all parties involved these siblings were lying out of malice.

However, in a last ditch effort by the Arizona Department of Child Safety to prevail in an illegitimate second severance, these "witnesses" and their insane testimony was paraded before the court, again in an attempt to create a level of prejudice that the court would side with family placement to Michael Robertson's daughter, and better to "err on the side of caution" in light of the highly inflammatory, and impeachable, witness testimony. 

To avoid reunification with a fit, vetted, and proper parent, in order to mitigate damages from a civil settlement for departmental misconduct, Joelle Higby and Lisa MIllett destroyed the good reputation of a good member of the community to cover up their own egregious behaviors. 

The children now have unfettered access and association with their severely mentally ill older siblings who has placement, which includes a schizoaffective on disability, a bipolar with psychotic features, and an older brother with arrested psychosexual and psychosocial development attributed to cognitive deficits in childhood (narcissist) and the multiple traumas of maternal abuse the family endured.

This is not the first time DCS has removed a child from the loving care of their parents and put them in a situation of high risk and abuse:

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/dcs-employees-sued-for-allegedly-placing-foster-child-in-home-with-sex-offender/75-565852600

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2018/02/08/back-back-claims-kids-were-abused-foster-care-and-dcs-dropped-ball/316817002/

https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/foster-youth-placed-decade-member-pedophile-ring-sues-state-arizona/29810

Michael Robertson lost all his assets, business, and employment in 2018 as a result of this dependency and he ran out of money to continue to pay legal fees to continue to fight for his rights to parent his minor children.

Consequently, the father self-severed his parental rights in August, 2020, unable to continue to pay for the legal defense that exceeded $43,000 prior to the start of the trial. It was assumed his legal defense in these matter could have exceeded $100,000

Out of money, destroyed as a human being, with a parkinsonism syndrome diagnosis....the abuse survivor could not endure or afford to continue any longer. 

This is a gross example of egregious government interference in a family, tortious interference with parental rights, tortious interference with parental visitation, alienation of affections, and adoption fraud.

 

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

Matthew 25:34-46

JOELLE HIGBY LISA MILLETT ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SAFETY

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https://govsalaries.com/higby-joelle-3157866

https://swarizonanews.com/stories/540896664-joelle-higby-earns-53-300-working-at-the-department-of-child-safety

https://twitter.com/higbyjoelle

https://pplcheck.com/joelle-higby

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXyzug1nFsINx318juOcW1Q

https://www.buildzoom.com/contractor/joelle-higby

https://mohavetoday.com/stories/541341480-joelle-higby-earns-53-300-during-2018-working-at-the-department-of-child-safety

https://jenniferbacolas.com/

https://www.pinterest.com/Joellesdesigns/

https://www.mylife.com/joelle-higby/e371220033102

https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Joelle-Higby

https://ebible.com/users/314081/profile

https://www.facebook.com/joelle.higby

https://ko-kr.facebook.com/joelle.higby?hc_ref=ARTfMCaQuJZSR_7cJ1ju_l2TCbrcQ_8DhfHMq7SJgy0t_U-MaVXEUuF1kaj9Suu5Fi0&ref=nf_target

https://hi-in.facebook.com/joelle.higby?comment_id=Y29tbWVudDo0MDQ0Mzk1MzMwNDg4OThfNDYzMzA1NDczODI4OTcw

https://zh-tw.facebook.com/public/Joelle-Higby

https://ne-np.facebook.com/joelle.higby/photos

https://nl-nl.facebook.com/joelle.higby/about

https://th-th.facebook.com/joelle.higby/photos

https://www.etsy.com/people/joellehigby?

http://www.pcccfoundation.org/home/reasons-to-give/joelle-higby

https://dcs.az.gov/

https://www.azoca.gov/child-safety-dcs/

https://moshierlaw.com/dcs-cps/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-millett-a693649

https://juliebacolas.com/lisa-millett-dcs-arizona

https://www.facebook.com/ParentsProtectingGodsChildren/

https://healthimpactnews.com/2017/arizona-dcf-tries-to-stifle-free-speech-in-medical-kidnapping-case-demands-our-stories-of-coumpy-family-be-taken-down/

https://healthimpactnews.com/2017/arizona-dcf-tries-to-stifle-free-speech-in-medical-kidnapping-case-demands-our-stories-of-coumpy-family-be-taken-down/

https://swarizonanews.com/stories/541393412-lisa-millett-earns-45-991-during-2018-working-at-the-department-of-child-safety

https://swarizonanews.com/stories/539176998-lisa-millett-earns-5-350-in-overtime-pay-during-2018-at-the-department-of-child-safety

https://unicourt.com/case/az-marj-portfolio-recovery-associates-vs-lisa-millett-913175

https://www.whitepages.com/name/Lisa-Millett/AZ

https://namelyliberty.com/mom-who-lost-2-5-years-of-her-childrens-lives-while-they-were-in-foster-care-seeks-attorney-to-fight-corruption-in-arizona/

https://www.spokeo.com/Lisa-Millett

https://cocofinder.com/name/lisa-millett

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/33346274/Robertson_v_Millett_et_al

https://pplcheck.com/lisa-millett

https://www.instantcheckmate.com/people/lisa-millett/

https://www.pelobuddy.com/artists/lisa-millett/

https://www.facebook.com/public/Lisa-Millett

https://en-gb.facebook.com/public/Lisa-Millett

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician-Band/Lisa-Millett-29255718822/

https://www.facebook.com/lisa.millett.5

https://m.facebook.com/Lisa-Millett-29255718822/photos/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0

https://www.facebook.com/Lisa-Millett-29255718822/community/

https://mn2s.com/booking-agency/live-roster/lisa-millett/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/warren/millett

https://www.discogs.com/artist/162275-Lisa-Millett

https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/lisa-millett

https://heightzone.com/lisa-millett/

https://digiguide.tv/celebrity/Lisa+Millett/33175/

https://www.zimbio.com/Lisa+Millett/pictures/pro

https://www.listal.com/lisa-millett

https://www.wallofcelebrities.com/celebrity/lisa-millett/pictures/lisa-millett_889927.html

https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/news/lisa-millett-proves-no-commitment-phobe-in-itvs-love-life

https://www.whosdatedwho.com/dating/lisa-millet

DCS, Arizona Department of Child Safety, complaints 

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-child-welfare/2019/07/16/arizona-department-of-child-safety-banning-criticism-child-welfare-agency-courts/1562382001/

https://woodnicklaw.com/news/dcs-policy-did-dcs-violate-arizona-law

https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspList&rolType=Custom&RS_ID=31

https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/arizona-child-safety-department-agrees-to-federal-oversight

https://www.abc15.com/news/state/settlement-reached-in-2015-lawsuit-claiming-deficiencies-in-care-against-department-of-child-safety

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-dcs-social-workers-tore-a-mesa-family-apart-then-the-parents-beat-them-in-court-11489246

https://www.12news.com/article/news/dcs-investigated-youtube-mom-9-times-before-her-arrest/75-7fcc45ed-d6c0-4135-aa7e-8d5bf3b05102

http://kabt.magoffice.it/az-dcs-investigations.html

https://zxn.waw-24.pl/dcs-az-hotline.html

https://kjzz.org/content/267315/ombudsmans-report-arizona-dcs-violated-law-interviewing-child-without-consent

https://www.newser.com/story/293946/kidnapper-shirts-dont-end-well-for-child-welfare-staff.html

https://nypost.com/2020/07/22/arizona-child-welfare-workers-fired-for-professional-kidnapper-shirts/

https://dcs.az.gov/resource/complaint-or-disagreement/form

https://dcs.az.gov/parents/parents-rights

https://www.azoca.gov/child-safety-dcs/

https://extranet.azdcs.gov/DCSPolicy/Content/Adminstrative%20Policy/DCS%2001/DCS%2001-01%20Ombudsman%20Policy.pdf

https://www.azccrr.com/arizona-child-abuse-hotline.html

https://azlibrary.gov/sla/agency_histories/office-ombudsman-citizens-aide-ombudsma