Lacey C. Gonzales-Borstler, Newaygo County foster care worker
I will be using part's of the Lacey's testimony from May 24, 2007 on this page and responding.
Q
When did you have your first contact with Mr. and Mrs. Atwood?A
My first contact with Mr. and Mrs. Atwood was January 3rd, 2006.Q
And what kind of contact was that?A
A phone call, Mr. Atwood called.Q
And what did he want do you recall?A
He was requesting visitation.Q
With the Keast children?A Yes.
This part of Lacey's testimony isn't true. It is documented in Lacey's own Service Plan Report from 10/11/05 where it states.
8/05/05 Tx from Tim Atwood, left message-requesting visitation
8/05/05 Tx to Tim Atwood, denied visitation due to present circumstances
I am curious why Lacey doesn't have the other 2 contacts between her and I from August-September 2005. I again asked for visitations twice during that time period. In those 2 conversations Lacey told me, "Grandparents have no rights." I did some searching on the internet and found out our legislators passed a law in regards to grandparents rights. We had an argument during the second conversation she told me "Grandparents have no rights." Needless to say she still wouldn't let us see Alyssa and Amber.
During the conversation I had with Lacey on January 3, 2006, why did Lacey deliberately lie to me? I asked Lacey why the children were removed from my daughter again. Lacey told me it was because Erica tested positive for drugs. The fact of the matter is Lacey returned the children back to Erica even after Erica tested positive for THC earlier the same morning. It is document this was not the reason Alyssa and Amber were removed.
Q
And what did--how did you respond?A
Um, he was advised that the Department wasn't under any obligation to offer visitation. The fact was that mom still had parental rights and mom was reiterating to us that she did not want the grandparents to have contact.Q
So your information then in January of 2006 is that the mother was apparently at odds with Mr. and Mrs. Atwood?A Yes.
Q
They didn't have a functional relationship -at that point, fair to say?A Yes.
Now why was the relationship between our daughter at odds? This was because Erica was punished by me because she let the children have contact with the boyfriend? That was the only reason the children were removed from our care. If we won't let Erica see the children and do whatever she wants then we can't see Alyssa and Amber.
"I would just monitor the foster--the girls in their foster home placement that was my responsibility. It wasn't to decide who should adopt.- Lacey
This is the same thing Suzanne Adams (BCS) told me the first meeting we had with her on July 17, 2006.. "CPS' only role is the foster care of the children." So why did Lacey and Char (CPS) have this meeting September 6, 2006 with Bethany Christian Services (BCS)? Was it to come up with a plan how to eliminate us from adopting our granddaughters? Hence the false sex abuse accusation.
"However, in the September 2005, psychological intake completed by the local County Mental Health (CMH) Center, she stated that she thought that her father might have sexually abused the girls." "The girl's mother said she believes that Alyssa could have been sexually abused while she left Alyssa in the grandfather's care. She reported this to CMH and to DHS". -Children's adoption assessment page 2. October 10, 2006
In this same Service Plan 10/11/05 there is a spot in which Lacey can provide anything about sexual abuse.
"There is no evidence of sexual abuse."
You can bet if Erica actually said this, it definitely would have been in one of the reports Lacey authored and supplied to the court.
Brian Vanderzalm used fraudulent information in his reports about me, which was then used by Kathy Sholty and then repeated by Lacey in her reports. So yes, if Erica actually said the above you can bet Lacey would have used it in her reports instead of saying, "There is no evidence of sexual abuse."
This was an accusation that was made up to try and eliminate us altogether from adopting. This false sex abuse accusation is discussed in details on Suzanne Adams' page.
* I was contacted by a person that lost a couple of her children, below is a part of our conversations. As you will read she is stating Lacey lied with the help of Nicole to keep her children. Does it make one wonder how many other families have lost their children because these 2 individuals lied and conspired against a family so CPS could keep their children?
Date:
Wed, 2 Jul 2008
19:43:29 -0700
From: sweetieonu@yahoo.com
Subject: i have direct connections with your case please cotact me asap
To:
Abused_by_CPS@hotmail.com
i would love the opportunity to talk with you your grand daughters case has a very big important connection with me losesing my 2 sons i would hope you would cotact me asap on this matter by email then i will give you my # so i can talk or online would work for me please get ahold of me i unjustly lost my boys because of lacy nicole and dan i pray everyday that i can find a way to get them back and your my answer for now thanks so much for reading this and please contact me asap my name is tonia cross i have nothing to hide whats so ever i honestly lost myt boys in newaygo for nothing ........
From: Barbara
Atwood <abused_by_cps@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: i have direct connections with your case please cotact me asap
To: sweetieonu@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008,
2:32 AM
Hi Tonia,
My telephone number is 231-834-0067. We have been protesting Newaygo Co. CPS
Wednesday afternoons for the past 5-6 week. Please join us.
Tim
Date: Thu,
3 Jul 2008
05:38:40 -0700
From: sweetieonu@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: i have direct connections with your case please cotact me asap
To:
abused_by_cps@hotmail.com
well thank you for responding i am now in grand rapids and i dont have long distance on my phone my # is 616-301-9064 my name is tonia........... i have a question wednesday the 9th i have court after they terminated my rights on my kids they are trying to get me for child support and my mother whom has my kids is sueing me now so wednesday ill be there ..........i have meet your grand daughters i had a visit with my children and nicole had a visit right after with you guys ....i have always got along with nicole intill lacy got involved i have a statement paper from her saying i did everything i could and i was a good mother but when lacy got involved she turned on me big time for no reason at all them i found out threw a friend about your case and was very interested in it when i went on your web site i seen the 2 lil girls that nicole introduced to me as her daughters and put 2 and 2 together she then admitted that lacy was also her worker isnt that a conflict of intrest on my behalf for my sons social worker to have the same ps worker as me because nicole totally turned against me after that well any ways im sorry to ramble on but noone ever believes me about my story they all say thats what everyone else says that they are to innocent of all charges but i am i have proof of everything .......... i thought you might be interested in a mother whom tried to kill herself and her 2 children in newaygo county and is now getting them back .......... if you would like to know more call me or i will tell you on here i would be for ever grateful if you could give me any advice at all on what to do .......i dont have any money for a lawyer but the one they gave me refused to look at any of my papers ....i have a cmh worker whos ? every thing and got no where also ........thank you for your time
From: Barbara
Atwood <abused_by_cps@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: i have direct connections with your case please cotact me asap
To: sweetieonu@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008,
12:23 PM
I am not an
attorney so I cannot give you any legal advise. I can only give you my thoughts.
If your right were terminated, you have no biological connections to the
children any longer, so how can they make you pay support on children that are
no longer yours? I don't believe legally they can. If you owed child support
before termination I do believe you are responsible for only that amount.
Who turned on you Nicole or Lacy? Did Nicole have a direct hand in you loosing
your children? Did Nicole make any reports that have fraudulent information in
them?
Of course there ar conflicts of interest. One hand washes the other. I made
claims with the state because of these conflicts. The investigator told me there
are conflicts. The investigaators don't have much say as far as I'm conserned
because they send their reports to the higher up and those people make the
decisions, all political.
I believe I heard about the mother you referred to that tried the killing and is
getting the kids back.
Date: Thu,
3 Jul 2008
07:59:35 -0700
From: sweetieonu@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: i have direct connections with your case please cotact me asap
To:
abused_by_cps@hotmail.com
yes nicole did have a hand in it she was all for me till lacy got involved then everything she had to say was a lie and was with in reference to what lacy had lied about ..