I have 2 beautiful girls that have been taken from my home. I have raised Leslie (3) and Alisha (1) alone for 2 years while their father was incarcerated. I was tired of living off of government assistance trying to raise two kids. I worked fast food but made sure my girls didn't have a want in the world. I took risks going from minimum wage, quitting my job to take a class to become licensed to sell Health Insurance not knowing if I would pass the exam. Not only did I pass, I went on to be licensed in Life insurance as well. My husband came home from prison. Their father and I separated while he was gone and when he was released I stopped working because they were going through so many changes that they couldn't at their ages understand. I was in a new relationship with someone wonderful enough to give me that option because he knew he could support myself and my little girls on his wages alone. Unfortunately, after three years with no involvement with Child Protective Services, I began to have DCS workers at my door constantly. I had child welfare checks conducted by county deputies late at night that came to search my home and check on my children. After three unsubstantiated cases because the DCS worker did not believe my children to be abused or neglected, I had them at my doorstep once again on 9/11/2015. This time I had made a mistake, while laying down with my youngest on the couch I fell asleep. I had laid down with her because even after having tubes put in she had an ear infection causing pus to drain out of her ear. She had been on antibiotic drops for 2 days but still was in pain. After I fell asleep Leslie opened the door and let them both outside. I love both my daughters with all my heart, nothing will change that, but even my mother calls my oldest "Hurricane Leslie". They were placed in their fathers home because the 4th DCS worker came up with a 5 day safety plan with him and after the 5 days of not being allowed to see my children we would all have a meeting to come up with a new one. On the 3rd day I was notified that we were changing the meeting to the 4th day where we came up with a plan that my children would come home and I would have in home services to come install door alarms and visit my home once a week for the 'child neglect' I was clearly 'guilty' of by the caseworker standard, yet the State Trooper involved with the case 9/11/15 stated it was an accident he is commonly called to. My daughters were so excited when I picked them up that my youngest stopped in her tracks trembling with relief. She had never been away from me so long in her life. The next night while grocery shopping the caseworker called me to immediately come home, when I told her I needed to at least get milk she said no. It may have been my biggest mistake but I clearly started something when I told her I was not leaving without getting milk for my kids. I arrived to 2 police and her at my doorstep to take my children without a court order. The drug test that I have never seen results for was positive. Even though I have a prescription for nausea medication that would have caused a false positive she didn't care. I was put through 90 minutes of interrogation in front of my children. I would not allow her to remove them. I allowed my husbands mother to pick them up so they felt like they were going to visit their dad. At 7:30 at night they still hadn't ate because I wasn't even allowed to pay for the pizza I ordered due to my grocery shopping cut short. I gave my mother in law $20 of the $38 I get a week in child support to get them food because I knew they would fall asleep before getting to their fathers. I have seen my girls, my babies, once since 9/16/2015. I am allowed a two hour visit twice a week. Alisha who has just started talking and has always been laid back and quiet babbles on the phone with me constantly and has even said "I love you" for the first time. Leslie is sad, sometimes she is mad and won't talk to me. When she will she tells me she don't like it, she don't like daddy's house, she wants mommy's house, she wants HOME. Please help me show the courts that one event doesn't mean neglect. The drug test wasn't even brought up in court as grounds for removal because it is inadmissible and would be immediately disregarded due to my prescription. Please help me bring my children home so I don't sit here helplessly listening to my 3 year old beg to come home. This caseworker is from Marion County. Someone from Indianapolis shouldn't be able to come to this town without knowing a single person, without knowing the family, and disrupt any child's life so inhumanely.