Police Reports, Round 2, Trying to regain primary custody

2-4-01 Family Trouble: BM has moved back from the state she fled to with the boys and is having her first visitation with them in 6 months. She picked them up Friday and was to return them on Sunday. As we are waiting at the pick-up location, DH gets a phone call from BM saying that if he wants the boys he needs to go to the hospital and pick them up. After we arrived, the hospital staff refused to allow DH to see the boys (her parents both work at this hospital). We waited 4 hours because they kept telling us it would just be a little longer. Finally DH called the police, we found out later that BM had already called the police.

Favorite lines:

"She stated she brought the child into the hospital for possible respiratory problems." SS2 had a cold.

"She further advised me she was very concerned DH would not follow through on getting the child's medication or any medical follow up." Pu-leese.

"She returned both children to DH without any further incident." Nice try, but the Temporary Custody paperwork don't lie.

What should have been a normal Sunday night, turned into a nightmare. The boys didn't get to bed until almost midnight on a school night! She really thought that officer so-and-so was going to say, "Gee, I don't know what that judge was thinking. Of course you can have custody of the children. Let me tell DH to go away." SS2, who had no problems with DH for the whole 6 months BM was gone, was suddenly afraid to even be near DH at the hospital. By the time we had driven the 45 minutes home, both SS2 and SS1 were back to their normal 5 and 8 year old selves.