June 2024 Austin's mom and dad had an argument and little 6 year old Austin tried to intervene between them as any little boy would do. during the argument, Austin fell down and hit his shoulder and elbow. nothing too serious. 

Austin's older half-brother who is 16, saw an opportunity to get  revenge on his mom, for what he felt was, too strict of house rules, not buying him a car, making him go to school, wanting him to have a part time job after school to help pay for his car insurance portion.

For not letting him run the streets at night, not allowing him to see his 22 year old girlfriend and making him do chores around the house and keeping his grades up, all as to get privilege's he felt were his birthright without doing anything to earn them.

The 16 y.o. son ( with the help and coaching from his long gone biological dad) then cooked up a scheme to tell Jefferson County Department of Human Relations (DHR) that his mother was a monster and did all manner of horrible things to him. he had no idea of the repercussions this lie would have. 

Of course DHR does NO investigation, NO due process. DHR instantly believes the teenager, because we all KNOW teenagers never lie to get what they want. DHR refers it to the JEFFCO district attorney's office, who looked into the accusations by the 16 y.o. and found NOTHING to prosecute. ALL aspects were dropped. at this point , you would think in a normal world the children would be allowed to go back home with mom and dad since there were no charges and no issues to prevent them going home. NO ! DHR does not care about any of that and they decide they are going to keep this separation going for as long as they can.  we asked our attorney why is DHR doing this?  our attorneys' answer is shocking.

she tells us she deals with DHR all the time, she says because we are a white family with a little money, they are going to screw with you as long as they can. they don't get this opportunity very often like this and when they get a white family with some money, they bury you for fun. it is sport to them. she said these evil people ENJOY screwing with your life.

and they have the twisted DHR rules to protect them. as long as they say these 5 little words, ( it's for the child's protection)  everything is possible and nothing can be done to stop them. it is such a scam. not to even mention the department gets paid $3500 per month, per child, they have custody of. so there is NO incentive to get these kids back to their parents.

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So Austin and his older half -brother were placed with us ( the Grandparents of Austin and parents of the Father). Instantly the 16 year old thinks he can make his Grandparents life a living hell. He thinks he can get away with ALL the things he never could back at his home. he was wrongly mistaken. With us he had even more rules and he was NOT happy. he made violent threats towards us, he was especially mean and hurtful to his little half-brother Austin, who had just turned 6. whenever the older brother cant have his way, he resorts to violence towards Austin in an effort to get his way. once, when we would not let him leave our home to see his girlfriend at 10 p.m he PUSHED his little brother down a flight a stairs in our home to try and get his way. he threated to kill our cat, even burn down our home.  It got so bad in our home, we had to ask the judge to remove the 16y.o. from our custody. The Judge would not allow it, we were told by the judge, that it had to be BOTH boys removed, or we had to keep Both boys. there was NO other option given to us. For our safety and sanity we reluctantly had to let both boys be removed from our home. We were assured by DHR that  Austin would get to live with his Aunt and Uncle who lived close to his home and who also has two small boys of their own and Austin loved being with his cousins and we as Grandparents, still got to visit and have Austin stay with us on the weekends. the older brother refused to go there and the Uncle didn't want him there after seeing what he did to our home and sanity. DHR then takes the 16y.o. to a foster group home to live. this was a hard and rough situation for a soft 16y.o. from Gardendale. it rocked his world , and not in a good way. we tried to tell him, this is what happens when you think your a grown man and you are barely 16 years old. you don't get everything you want, just because you think it is owed to you and you don't have to work and be disciplined enough to get it, and you SURE don't hurt your little brother to try and get what you want. the 16y.o. wanted to be placed with his Biological father and his new wife, of course the long lost dad told him everything he wanted to hear, and how bad his mother was. His biological father had agreed to sign away all parental rights to his son,(the 16 year old) 11 years ago so he could get out of paying back child support of over $34,000. not to mention this biological dad has a criminal record and outstanding warrants and not a very good person.

DHR would not allow the 16 y.o. to be placed with his biological father due to him signing away all rights years prior. The biological dad's Mother however, then signs on with DHR to be considered a foster family. the 16 y.o. is pulled OUT of the group home and placed with his Biological Grandmother, which was fine with us and all concerned. we just wanted him out of the group home and safe and where he wanted to be in the first place. he is technically living with his grandmother but actually spends most time at his dads home that is very close by.

suddenly out of a heart filled with hate and revenge towards US, (his adopted grandparents who have done nothing but love and spoil him since he came into our lives 10 years ago. the 16 y.o. tells DHR he wants his 6 y.o. little half brother Austin removed from his uncles home where he has been happy, and placed with him at his biological fathers Mothers trailer, which is only a short way from the bio-dad's home, whom DHR deemed a bad character and not fit to

keep the 16 y.o. so they get around it by placing him with his mother down the road.

with NO warning , NO explanation, NO cause or anything resembling reason,  A DHR case worker shows up un-announced and just TAKES  Austin away to be with his big brothers bio-family. Austin has NEVER MET these people, never even heard or knew about them since he has NO biological connections to these people!!! he was just grabbed and dumped there in October of 2024. this trailer is out in the wilds of north jefferson county and it is a dilapidated shack in what looks like a meth lab camp. when we found out about this we immediately met with the DHR worker to let her have a piece of our mind and get an explanation.  we were told that we could NOT see him, we could not have visits, and we would not be allowed to see him at Thanksgiving or Christmas, then this bitch tells me we may not EVER see our Grandson again! 

we hired an attorney to protect our grandparents rights and tried to file in court a visitation request and we were 

denied by DHR of any visitation to the judge.

this family that has Austin is brainwashing his little mind against his parents and against us, his REAL grandparents! 

we are the only family this little boy has ever known and now he is being trained to be afraid of all of us just to be mean and hateful!

in February we had a court date and this was the first time we had seen Austin since October and when he saw me,( his grandfather and his best friend in the world ) he RE-COILED from ME!! as if he were afraid of ME! i just grabbed him up in my arms as i was crying, i just hugged him and told him paw-paw was going to fix this and how much we loved him and missed him, and just like a brainwashed person, as he came back to reality, he calmed down and he hugged my neck so tight i thought i would pass out. he buried his little face in my chest and just cried as the horrible DHR goon tried in vain to pull him away from me. I was threatened with arrest and i said i didn't care, i want my baby!

We have had so many court dates about getting Austin back to his parents, or at the least give him to us, his real grandparents with no success. every time we go to court, DHR comes up with another road block for getting him back to his parents. 

first it was that the 16 y.o. refused to go back home ( he said he was afraid) but in reality, he will not go home because he gets to now live with a  family that lets him do what ever he wants. next court date, DHR tells my son that if he wants to get his son back, he MUST DIVORCE his wife! he refused for 3 months,

until the pressure was too great, they agreed to get divorced and moved apart into separate homes. 

then at the next court date, the DHR lawyer berated my son about being divorced! asking how can you take care of a 6 year old being a single parent? they actually used the fact he got divorced against him!!  this is not a lie or exaggeration, this is how this agency works! 

after this, he still could not have his son. 

the next court date DHR asked Judge Hilliard to make my son take random drug tests to get his son back. my son has a very good job and his company policy is taking drug tests so the test were not a problem. he went to his H.R Department at work and got 11 years of clean drug test to show the judge and DHR.  DHR said they would not accept them. they want him to take THEIR test for 60 days. he is doing that and passing each one. 

at this point we are just tired of playing by DHR rules. we have tried to work within the system. now we are just FURIOUS! we want to expose this horrible department AND these horrible people for what it is. this is goverment sponsored child trafficking

we have spoken to the executive assistant for Governor Ivey , who passed us off to Nancy Buckner who is in charge of DHR for the state , who told us to see Dan Williams who is department head of Jefferson County DHR. we met with him face to face and even though he was outwardly respectful, he offered no help.  we have reached out to Senator Tuberville office and got a form letter. the ONLY person who has helped is our state representative for Pelham, Ken Paschal who has pending legislation to get DHR statewide under control. he ahs been helpful and wants us to testify in Montgomery if he can get his bill approved.

we are NOT wanting money from anyone. we just want to somehow shine a big spotlight on the corruption and evil things that are happening in our communities all in the name of helping children, but does ANYTHING BUT help families. 

 

 

 

CALL OR EMAIL everyone you think may can help. ​

television stations with outrage

call Dan Williams head of JEFFCO DHR 205-423-4850

SPREAD THE WORD ON SOCIAL MEDIA # bringaustinhome

we ARE DESPERATE ! we just  want to warn people they can take your child for almost any reason and it is almost impossible to get them back!

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