Update to this article:
Well, Mrs. Laura Moses had her appeal trial by a jury of 12. Mrs. Moses Attorney Rob Deaton fought both the DSS attorney John Church and the Guardian ad litem Attorney, Dina Foster, who tried to help the DSS instead of Laura Moses. The trial lasted a full week with Dina Foster and John Church trying every trick in the book to cover-up the abuses by DSS. They failed. For every DSS lying witness, Deaton put up two witnesses for Laura Moses. For the five day trial, it took the Jury less than 10 minutes to reach the verdict that Laura Moses was competent and could go anywhere and do anything she wanted. Then the jury lined up to shake Mrs. Laura Moses hand and wish her well. The Judge, Jesse Caldwell from Gaston County got in the line too. He also shook Mrs. Moses’ hand and wished her well.
DSS was totally PO’d. They had Karen Wright pay Dina Foster and perhaps others all the rest of Mrs. Moses’ Social Security money, leaving Mrs. Moses without one red cent in her account. All before the ink on Court Order of Competency for Mrs. Moses had time to dry.
But that was not the end of the story.
Once Mrs. Moses was allowed to go home she discovered that the front door to her home had been left open and rain had ruined some flooring. The rotted food was still in the freezer and refrigerator. And every drawer in her house had been pulled out and emptied on the bed and floor.
It was then that we figured out what had happened. Mrs. Moses had been raised during the Depression and didn’t trust banks. She never had a bank account until DSS and Karen Wright opened an account so they could get to her Social Security checks. What Mrs. Moses had done all had all life was to cash her pay checks, pay her bills in cash and save what she had left in Mason Jars.
Although Mrs. Moses always worked minimum wage jobs, she was thrifty. She never learned how to drive and never owned a car. When she cashed her paychecks, she would get “big money” as she called it. 50 and 100 dollar bills. over her lifetime she had saved two half-gallon fruit jars stuffed full of big money. And now all of it was gone.
Mrs. Moses had been robbed. By DSS regarding her Social Security checks and either DSS or whoever called out the DSS to begin with for her jars full of big money.
Anyway, friends and acquaintances (including me) helped repair the floors, install some new carpet and clean the rest, cleaned out the freezer and refrigerator and generally got the place in good order. We went around and collected food and donations for Mrs. Moses to get her started again. We had the power restored and the phone service started again and all of that. Mrs. Moses, who it never took much to survive in the first place, lived at home for many years until she actually came to need assistance with her living arrangements. She passed away several years ago.
As for DSS, the same old crowd then are in control now. And they have not learned their lessons. The DSS Board and County Commissioners have never disciplined anybody at DSS for the wrong doings they have done.
And, now there are presently other situations where DSS have wrongly taken families apart and picked them clean of every red cent that they had. And are laughing about it.
Stay tuned all you good people and Churches in Cleveland County and elsewhere, My very next article will contain information about another case similar to Mrs. Laura Moses. Similar in that a 23 year old autistic man was declared incompetent so DSS could steal his disability check and destroy his family support unit in the process. Get ready to open your pocketbooks, Credit Cards and checkbooks to help this family unit pull themselves together again after a full year of torture by the Cleveland County DSS and the “system” that refuses to oversee the CCDSS. Hopefully you will donate until it hurts for YOUR failure to see such things as this never happen again. Otherwise, it could very well happen to you and YOUR family..
Stay Tuned.
