This family assessment is prepared in response to Tim and Barbara's desire to adopt their two granddaughters, Alyssa and Amber Keast. Alyssa is six years old and Amber is four years old. Both girls are Caucasian, sharing the same biological parents.

This assessment is prepared to assist Nicole Coppess in the adoption of her foster daughters, Alyssa and Amber Keast. The girls are ages seven and four, and have lived with Nicole since July 16, 2005. They have made excellent progress in her care.

Isn't this quite revealing? Her purpose is to assist Nicole and boy did she ever, by using lies and fraudulent information about us.

"This worker has been very honest with the Atwoods, explaining that a denial is likely based on the June 2005 removal of the children from, their home." Adoption progress report 10/06/06

Suzanne was anything but honest with us during this assessment. For the most part the only thing Suzanne was honest about is this above statement. Suzanne told us denial was likely during the very first meeting we had with her. She had her mind made up from the very beginning and it didn't matter what we told her about anything. The following statements I am addressing were fraudulent statements CPS used. All Suzanne did was use those CPS statements and add we admit to these things even though she was told differently. Bethany is getting paid by whom? That's right, the same people that said they didn't want us to be the adopting family, the same people that initiated the false sex abuse accusation, CPS.

Did you read the letter that I sent to the Ombudsman Office? Suzanne Adams was told the same things about what went on and how unjustly these girls were removed from our care. As a matter of fact we went into greater details about what happened than what is in that letter and on my webpage. Yet this is what she puts in the adoption assessments.

"Tim admitted to smoking marijuana with their daughter and not following through with the visitation agreement by allowing unsupervised visitation with their daughter's boyfriend."  Our Adoption Assessment, Page 6

"He and Barb did admit, however, that they understood that the girls were not to have unsupervised visitation with their mother and that they did allow her to take the girls with her unsupervised to her boyfriend's home."  Our Adoption Assessment, Page 9

Suzanne was told I quite February 2004 and yes I took a couple puffs off one, Erica brought over with her the beginning of July 2004, after Erica relentlessly begged me. The first time I ever talked about this subject was during our adoption assessment with Suzanne. Suzanne know this is one of her calculated lies. We never let Erica have visits with her boyfriend. We let Erica have visits with her children and she let the visits happen. She listened to the answering machine message, she knew our daughter was punished for letting these contacts happen. Now if we "were" letting these visits happened, would our daughter be punished by us? Suzanne was told we were never informed our daughter visits were suppose to be supervised until June 17, 2005. This was 5 days before we were informed the children were going to be removed. The only visit Erica had with her children after that date was the unsupervised visit we were told we had to let happen so Erica can take the children to church with her. Even that visit we were told it was our decision if the children were returned right after church or not. This was our daughter and granddaughter's house not just the boyfriends.

"In the course of the investigation and ensuing months, Erica alleged that Tim had smoked pot with her since she was 14 years of age and that he was using much more than reported. Tim admitted to one incident in 2004 where he says he 'gave in' to her begging and took a hit. She also alleged that Tim sexually abused the girls." Our Adoption Assessment, Page 9

It seems Suzanne will talk about these false allegations yet she doesn't say one word about what she was told in regards to these false allegations. For starters, I didn't learn Erica was smoking marijuana until the school called with concerns Erica wasn't at school. During the school's investigation they learned our daughter was getting off the school bus and going to the lake with her boyfriend and smoking marijuana. She was almost 16 at that time. I'm sure our daughter made many accusations, after all she was mad at me because I changed the locks on the apartment because she was bring her boyfriend over there and she was letting the children have contact with him.

"According to a CMH assessment of Alyssa completed in 8/31/06, the therapist states, ".. .(Erica) also suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Research indicates that BPD is caused from an invalidating home environment. This would be a huge concern if Alyssa or her sister were placed in an environment that is invalidating because (Erica) struggled in her parent's home and she continues to struggle as an adult." Our Adoption Assessment, Page 9 - 10

"Mother is currently suffering from bipolar and her biological mother suffered from depression, Mom also suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Research indicates that BPD is caused from an invalidating home environment. This would be a huge concern if Alyssa or sister were placed in an environment that is invalidating because biological mother struggled in her parents' home and she continues to struggle as an adult. Due to the drug history, possible sexual abuse, and invalidating environment Alyssa should not be placed back into her maternal grandparents home." Children's adoption assessment Page 11.

As I mentioned earlier that statement isn't accurate and as you can see by Suzanne's comment it was used to help keep us from adopting. Erica didn't start having any problems until she was an adult. Suzanne was told all about when our daughter started having these problem and the reason's why. This is also in the statement I read at the case conference with Bethany.

"Erica alleged in court in November of 2005 that she and Tim used to roll joints together and smoke them starting when she was 14 years old." Our Adoption Assessment, Page 10

Again Suzanne put that in her assessment. I never smoked with Erica until after she was an adult.

"As noted above, Tim and Barb did provide relative childcare through the DHS for Amber and Alyssa. They were placed with them March 14,2005 and removed June 25,2005. The basis of that removal was Tim's admitted use of marijuana with Erica and the fact that they had allowed Erica to take the children to the boyfriend's home, thus breaking the parent-agency agreement. There were also unsubstantiated claims by Erica that Tim may have sexually abused the girls and that Barb had pushed Amber into a wall." Our Adoption Assessment, Page 11

Again Suzanne repeats herself. I already responded to most of this paragraph. I guess Suzanne really wanted to stress these false accusations. I will be doing another page about this false sex abuse accusations. Again Suzanne will keep mentioning these false accusations yet she won't talk about our responses.

"Tim and Barbara are unable to consider the adoption of the girls without subsidy." Our Adoption Assessment, Page 15

Now let me get this straight. We initiated the adoption process and didn't even know about this adoption subsidy. So what does this tell your about Suzanne's statement? This is just another of her fraudulent statements.

"She discussed concerns over being able to financially care for them. We discussed subsidy as she was unaware of this help. She was concerned about health insurance costs as well as day care expenses."

This was put in the adoption progress report Suzanne authored 12/19/06 when talking about Nicole. You notice how Suzanne tried to use the adoption subsidy against us, but not for Nicole?

"Tim and Barb did provide relative childcare through the DHS for Amber and Alyssa. They were placed with them March 14,2005 and removed June 25,2005. The basis of that removal was Tim's admitted use of marijuana with Erica and the fact that he and Barb had allowed Erica to take the children to the boyfriend's home, thus breaking the parent-agency agreement." Our Adoption Assessment, Page 16

"Additionally, while the girls were in Tim and Barbara's care, they failed to adhere to the Parent-Agency Agreement to adequately protect the girls from harm when they knowingly allowed the girls to have unsupervised visitation with their mother and her boyfriend." Our Adoption Assessment, Page 16

Erica's name was never mentioned when Brian asked if I smoke marijuana. All Brian was told, I did it in the past. We were never a part of this "Parent Agency Agreement". The rest of those two paragraph's from Suzanne has already been addressed. You notice a bias trend with her fraudulent statements? Suzanne was told DHS didn't want us to adopt so Suzanne was doing her part to eliminate us by using these same fraudulent statements over and over again.

I'm not much into name calling but there is one word that comes to mind.

Liar: one that tells lies.

You know what they say? If the shoe fits........