Hello, My name is Alex Hawkins and my wife's name is Ranota Hawkins. I am writing you because we are in a situation where we have no other options.
At the beginning of Aug, DCFS based in Compton took our two children from us, Darnell age 8, and Isaiah, Age 5. isiah is a special needs child, and he is Autistic.It began when me and ranota were trying to get help to get the South Central Regional Center to Service my son isaiah, and there were problems with that. We opened a Case with Family SHEILDS, and the SHEILDS worker suggested we open a voluntary case with DCFS, and said they would be able to make the regoinal center do what we couldnt do We were assigned to a Worker named Maurice Ukkatah, and from there things went downhill. In the beginning of our case, we sent a complaint to Sacremento against the regional Center, and they investigated our claims. The State found that The Regional center WAS at faulty, and responsible for not servicing our son, and they were given 30 days to comply. As of this letter, they still have yet to give him the services he needs, our worker wasnt even trying to do it. Instead he spent time blaming us for the situation, and the state of our home(we are on Section 8 and at the time live just a block from your feild office in willowbrook) My wife was taking random drug tests because in the beginning she told them she had used Marijuana before, and he was more conerned with us, than securing services. Other workers were involved during the course of this, Margoe Evan, in the Family Preservation office in Compton, May Yip with L.A child guidance, and a few other mental health workers, who all saw how Mr ukkatah was conducting his business. I go to The Los Angeles film school in hollywood full time, and one day while i was in class, maurice shows up to my house, questioning my wife about why she missed an appointment. He proceeded to verbally asault her in OUR house saying things like,"DO you know who the fuck I am !?, Im not going to loose my Fucking job over this!, I call the fucking police on you!!", among other things, and she asked him to leave. Every conversation with him on the phone was an argument, he likes to yell and cuss at us, and even other workers! Also, Family Preservation was getting funding through DCFS for us to move to hollywood where we currently live. Went we finally moved DCFS paid 2,000 dollars for us to get our new place. At the time of the move, Maurice, knowing we where in the process of moving and transferring our phone, he said ranota had to take a drug test. We didnt have a way to get there, and we were in our new place, phone had not been transferred yet. We called Margie Evans with borrowed change from a pay phone and told her what was going on, and she said she would relay the messege to Maurice. Finally our phone two days later is transferred to our new address, and the first thing i did was to call maurice. He proceeded to cuss me out, saying i didnt try to call anyone(i have proof i did), and we got into a huge argument over the phone, and he hung up on me. Then i called his supervisor, Grace guterezz, but she was not in the office, so i spoke to the Duty supervisor, and told her about maurice's outburst on the phone, and asked her if we could take another test, and she said yes, and set it up at a close location, but maurice was not in the office. I got a call from him a few hours later, and he said there's gonna be an emergency meeting. Ranota was not home, just me and the boys, she was at the Calworks office, and i couldn't call her to tell her what was going on. Maurice calls again, and says he's outside, and we need to go have this meeting,, we wasnt going to wait for ranota, but luckily, she walked up while we were outside. He brought a car seat for a 5 month old, and expected us to put a 5 year old(Isiah) in it. We got in, and the whole ride he said nothing to us, but talked on his phone. We arrive in Hawthorne, at the DCFS offices at about 10 minutes til 5pm, and people were going home while we arrived. He took us to this little office, kids present, then told us he was sick of us, and he was taking the kids, said they would not leave with us. There was no supervisor present, no other DCFS officals, nothing. He said if we didnt sign a paper, he would send it to court and we would never see our kids again. He was yelling as well, and didnt care if the kids were present. Margie evans arrived about this time, and she was clearly upset at the events, told maurice this wasnt necessary at all, but he ignored her. She said she did not want to be a part of our kids being taken. The paperwork was volutary temp custody, and we never got the paperwork he wont give it to us. But i wanted to sign a paper stating we were made to sign this under duress, and he flew into a rage again and refused, and said if i said that again he'll send them to the courts. So the day ended with margie Evans taking us to the trainstop, without our children.August 12 we had the meeting withMaurice, his supervisor, Margie Evans, May Yip, and other workers involved with our case, and facts about it came to light. It was revealed maurice DID NOT have a plan when he took the kids and he lied to us to get us there to do it. We were told, after other workers argued on our behalf, that we had to complete a series of tasks and the kids would be returned Ranota had to go to take NA classes, and me a Parenting class(which is beyond my understanding). At this time i cannot return to school, because of what's going on, and i have a potential 40,000 dollar debt hanging over my head because of it. Calworks took our cash and food stamps, so we have no food even right now, and it is the first, and we cant pay our rent. Our phone is now cut off as a result of this, and we are losing everything we worked for. I called Maurice about getting our rent paid and getting food, and he never response back. May yip has called him several times on our behalf, and he continues to do the same thing. I dont understand why they would pay 2,000 dollars of the county's money to move us, just for him to do what he did with out thinking. I am a full time college student( Los Angeles Film School), and we do what we can for our children. It seems as if we are being punihed for being poor, and bullied by him, and left to die. They say if these things a re done the kids can return, and thsus far we've done everything they asked of us, and we get nothing but silence. I feel they are responsible for our current state, thet destroyed my family, our home was secure, Please help us because we have no other options, no food, no money, and we are on borrowed time, thank you for hearing me out. You must contact us vie e-mail, we have nophone, but do have intenet access. Any food stuffs is fine, we just need to surive please thank you

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