Homeschool Mom Files Lawsuit after Children Wrongly Taken from Home

Through the help of HSLDA, a homeschool Mom in Virginia has filed a lawsuit against social workers for wrongly taking her two children from her home last year and temporarily placing one child in public school.

According to WND, formerly WorldNetDaily, social workers seized the children last April and placed them in foster care after the workers made an in-home visit and claimed one of the child’s blood glucose levels were too high.

The four-year-old child was original diagnosed with juvenile diabetes in January. At that time, doctors told the mother that they didn’t need to return for medical help unless blood glucose levels exceeded 400. However, investigations have revealed that at the visit, the child’s glucose measurement was only 261, but the social worker, despite no medical background, determined that the child’s “readings were ‘dangerously high’ and ‘too variable.’”

The two children were “involuntarily detained” for 29 and 50 days before finally being rightfully returned to the homeschool mom, but not after traumatizing the children.

“Social services are bound by state and federal law to handle their authority responsibly, which most do,” said HSLDA Chairman Michael Farris. “However, we’ve seen too many examples of social services overstepping their constitutional authority and causing harm to families in the process. HSLDA serves as a check on that abuse.”