A Lincoln County judge has thwarted an Ohio couples efforts to gain custody of their grandchildren who are in foster care, even as Mississippi has failed to fully comply with a federal lawsuit settlement stemming from its handling of children in state custody. Frank and Martha Hartley Sr. of Barberton, Ohio, have been certified as fit to care for their two grandsons, ages 6 and 7 (soon to be 8). But Chancery Judge Edward Patten is moving forward with allowing a foster couple to adopt the boys. Our grandsons have been denied their right to live with family, the Hartleys said in a letter they filed in the federal court case. They have been denied their right to permanency and we have been denied our right of placement and custody. We are being denied our family. Martha Hartley is 48, and her husband is 47. In February, Summit County Childrens Services in Akron, Ohio, completed a relative/foster home study on the Hartleys at the request of the Mississippi Department of Human Services Jackson County office and recommended the family for placement of the children. But Summit County Children Services said it could only make a recommendation and that the state of Mississippi would make the final placement decision. On July 24, Summit County Children Services sent the Hartleys a letter that it had received paperwork from the state of Mississippi that terminates the familys case. The agency that deals with child placement says that since Mississippi terminated the home study, the case with Summit County Children Services is now closed. Read more here: sunherald/2014/08/10/5739609/judge-blocks-couple-from-gaining.html?sp=/99/184/#storylink=cpy Read more here: sunherald/2014/08/10/5739609/judge-blocks-couple-from-gaining.html?sp=/99/184/#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:40:07 +0000
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