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Charmaine Smith 1806 Hampton Drive Atlanta, Georgia 30350 To Whom it may concern, On September 16, 2003 my Obstetrician decided that it was time to induce my labor due to my severe Pre-eclamsia Toximia. She told Timothy and I that if she did not induce labor my son and I would both die at birth. I was in labor all the day of the 16th, and nothing was helping me. My blood preassure had risen so high that they thought I was going to have seizures or a stroke. Finally on September 17, 2003 at 9:00am my Obstetrician walked in and said "Charmaine we are going to have to do a C-section because I am worried about you and your son's life." No sooner than she said that to me I became none respondent to the doctors and Timothy. They immediatley increased my Magnesium Sulfate and I began responding again. The epidural was put in my spine and they rushed me to the Surgery room and did my C-section. In the middle of them pulling out my son, the dosage of volume had to be increased, because I felt the pain of my C-section. After I was comfortable again they continued with the C-section. Finally Timothy Isiah-Blair Jenkins was born 4lbs 15ozs at 10:47am on September 17, 2003. Everyone was rushing in the room telling me how cute he was. Timothy was excited. I still had not seen my son. Finally at 2:30 they brought Timothy to me. This was the best day of my life. I prayed and asked God to give me the strenghth to raise him according to his will. After my delivery I could barely walk. Timothy Isiah had to stay in an Isollete, because he could not keep his temperature. They released us both from the hospital on the 21st. I could not make it to my door alone, get to the bathroom on my own, or dress myself. The very first day we brought Timothy Isiah home. Timothy had the baby to take care of and me. My grandmother arrived the very next day and took over for me. I was able to get my rest and they would bring Timothy Isiah to me because he was an exclusively breastfed baby. My grandmother started to do what all grandmothers do. Helping me with my new baby, showing me different things that only your grandmother would know. A week later when I thought I was doing well. I took a shower and when I started to dry off, I looked down and I had blood everywhere. I screamed for Timothy and my grandmother. They came in the room and called 911, because my stomach had reopened. I was loosing alot of blood. I stayed in the hospital for a week and a half. My Obstetrician told me because I had an emergency C-section I had a infection and a hole 9 centimeters deep. Dr. Houston had to stuff my stomach with gauze and saline solution. My son Timothy laid in his Bassinet next to me in the hospital because that would have been to long without him. Finally I was released, and a home healthcare nurse started coming to the house and stuffing my incision everyday all the way through December. I soon got back to my normal health and my hole closed.November 18, 2003 Timothy Isiah was scheduled to get his immunizations and they were postponed because his pediatrician noticed my son had Inguinial Hernias on the right. We rushed him to the hospital and surgery was set for the 22nd. My son had a Hernia Inguinial Repair on the left and the right. On December 8, 2003, he recieved his immunizations and his pediatrician said he was doing well. He was already seeing Dr. Patel a Gastrologist for reflux on a everyother two week basis. My son started to have a dry cough but he was not spitting up anything behind it. I told this to his doctor and she said to suction his nose because sometimes babies have things caught on the back of their throat. The cough never got better. On December 28, 2003 my son was rushed to the hospital for a very high fever. When we arrived to the hospital every doctor that walked through the door felt the top of my son's head. I questioned them for what was wrong with his head. They were tellling me his soft spot felt full and fontanel. The doctors checked everything, except for doing a Ct scan of his head. He was sent home the next day because his fever was then gone. The admitting physician instructed me to followup with his pediatrician. I took him to his pediatrician and I explained to her everything that happened at the hospital. She said she was not going to measure his head until his 4 month checkup. She said that since he was not holding his head up yet Timothy was needing to go to Physical Therapy for his developmental delay. Timothy then started to go to Physical Therapy every Friday. Jenny his physical therapist would undress him down to his diaper and the three of us would work on his motor skills and practice lifting up his head. She would then put him on his tummy to practice him lifting his head. On January 26, 2004 he had his 4 month checkup and his pediatrician said he was doing really well, she addressed my concern of his head. She stated that there was something wrong with his head. His head grew from 5% to 98%. Within a months time. She gave us a refferal to a Pediatric Neurosurgeon. When we arrived to the Neurosurgeon he told Timothy and I that looking at Timothy Isiah he can see that he has Hydrocephalus. He explained what it was and gave us a book on it along with support groups. He said it was nothing that I could have prevented because alot of children are born with the disease. I began to cry because my son has already gone through so much. I know he was tired of going to the hospital, and having them poke him with needles. I thought maybe something was wrong with my pregnancy. I also asked the pediatric Neurosurgeon why the hospital had not done a Ctscan when my son was hospitalized on December 28, 2003. He stated to me that he did not work for the hospital, and he apologizes but he wants to fix it right away. When he did Timothy's Ctscan he walked in the office and said I want to show you something. Your son does not have Hydrocephalus, he has old blood mixed with fluid on his brain. He said that it looks like it has been there for a while and my son would need to have surgery right away, because it would bother his brain. We admitted him to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and no sooner than we got into the room Social Worker's entered the room and starting asking questions. I told the social worker everything she wanted to know. She explained to me that they were going to do X-rays on my son. The next day they came and got us from the hospital room. The Xrays were done. The whole day I stood in the hallway and asked to speak to doctors. No one ever came and talked to me the whole day. Finally I called a patient representative and explained to her how my rights were violated as a parent.(according to HIPPA) She promised a doctor would come in and talk to me but no doctor ever came in. At 4:00pm a man with a leather jacket came in the hospital room with a notepad. He said "Hello, Ms. Smith my name is Gary Davis special investigations with Fulton County DFACS, he said what is your social security number where do you live, everything. He said "what do you know about multiple fractures to your sons body." I asked him "who my son." I was gasped because my son is watched by different physicians and they always tell me that he is fine. At first I didn't believe he was talking about Timothy Isiah. He finished his questions and left the room. I asked the nurses why a doctor has not come and talked to me about my son. She said because they did not have any results yet. The whole day went by and nobody came and talked to me at all. The next day my son was taken down to have a surgery done, to put a shunt in his head. When we were taking the elevator down to the caferteria the social worker opened the elevator door and said we have to talk to the both of you right now. We said ok and a lady with a long coat on came in and had a CD in her hand. She walked us over to the computer and she put the cd in. She pointed with the mouse and said these are the fractures that your son has. Some of the Xrays do not even look like a 4 month old's pictures. When we began to ask her to further explain she immediatley removed the cd. When we arrived to the administration room of the hospital, Mr. Davis was present, the lady that showed us the Xrays, Monica the Social Worker was present and a security guard. Mr. Davis asked the woman sitting next to him she stated her name was Dr.Degrandi (which I just found out she is not a pediatrician, she is an advocate for children)"could these injuries have happened from a fall" she stated "no". Dr. Degrandi stated that Timothy Isiah was slammed to have sustained any of these injuries. My son has beautiful skin with no bruises. He hasn't shown his mother any sign of pain. He has been watched so closely by doctors and none of them suspected any of this, that this Dr. Degrandi is stating. Mr. Davis said "how did your son get these fractures?" I said to him I didn't understand he has no bruises, I do not have a machine to show me these things, all mothers can go by is the Pediatrician and Physical Therapist saying "he is fine Mom." I knew something was wrong with him in December but all the doctors at the hospital kept telling me he is ok to go home. The hospital should have done a CTscan on his head at that time and he would not have had to walk around with the Hydrocephalus for so long. Timothy told them what happened to his other son. When his other son was 4 months old he died, because the hospital misdiagnosed his other son saying it was abuse. By the time they found out it was the hospitals fault the baby had already died because they were so busy pointing the finger. Timothy had already spent time in jail until they had cleared him. The county found that it was the Hospital responsible for the child's death. His other son was also pre-mature and had alot of problems. He passed in January of 1993, at the age four months. To me it sounds like something genetic, because his other son Timothy Blair Jenkins Jr. was also born in September pre-maturely and between the months of September and December he had problems with his health and he also started showing his symptoms after his immunizations as well. Mr.Davis took that information that Timothy shared with him and completley twisted it around. He did not have to tell him that information because it is a hurtful topic for him to discuss. Mr. Davis turned the information around and said to the Doctors that he was convicted for the murder of his son in the past, and that DYFS took his son. His son was never taken from him. He sat in jail until they found out it was the hospitals negligence. He was never convicted the judge threw the case out and he was never tried in a court of law. It is not on his record. Timothy voluntarily told everyone this information. DFACS did not just go on find this out. Now it is happening again.They took my four month old son. My grandmother that works in a pediatricians office as a social worker sent me some information on premature children that have had reactions to the pertussis vaccination. All of my son's symptoms were consistent with the other children that have died from the reactions. Glory be to God my son is still alive and smiling. I have only seen my son twice in 18 days. He will not eat from the bottle because he is breastfed and they are still trying to give my son away. At the deprivation hearing the doctor's that said my son was physically abused did not even show up to the hearing. The judge ordered that Timothy Isiah be fully evaluated by the doctor that wrote the letter to the court about his condition. I contacted Dr.Buttram that lives in another state and familar with his condition. We raised money for that and he will be here this week-end. I just got my health back in January. I started going back to Georgia State University to finish my last year. I am a Political Science major with a concentration in Pre-Law. I have already finished 3 years of college at Morris Brown. I have been a good mother to my son and Timothy has been working long hours to pay all the bills of our home. He has gotten a good job so I can finish school and take care of our son. For some reason the hospital would not give me any of my sons medical records. Finally the hospital decided to release them to me for a high price. They also would not give me the xrays on the CD. I have paid over $600.00 for all of the records.They charged me .85 a page.When I got the records I read them. The same Pediatric Neurosurgeon that said my son did not have Hydrocephalus on the records and on the top of each one of them it said DIAGNOSIS: HYDROCEPHALUS. At every single appointment the doctors kept saying he's doing real good. All along my son has been walking around with these injuries. My son has not shown us, or his doctor's any sign of discomfort. He just smiles and laughs everyday. It just seems like a nightmare has unfolded right before my eyes. Not too long ago I was reading my baby his bedtime story and singing to him his favorite songs. Now he is gone from his family that really loves him. Please help us get Timothy Isiah home. I have prayed and so many people that have went through this same thing have contacted me from all over the USA. I went through alot to get my son here and I will not give up on him. He does not deserve to be with a family that dosen't know him. I am trying my best to get all the help I can. In December my son was misdiagnosed. When they were walking in and feeling the top of his head when it was full and fontanel the doctors should have done a CTscan at that time. The Hydrocephalus on my sons head has caused a devolopmental delay. I have all the medical records and there are so many inconsisties. How do I know these Xrays are true. They hid them from me for so long. All this time my son has had Hydrocephalus and no one did anything about it. When allegations of childabuse were raised they wanted to do every kind of test. They are not caring for my son's total care. DFACS is trying to look like a hero in a situation they don't even know everything about. The finger is being pointed. We have given DFACS everyone's number that knows us. We have a neighbor upstairs that is home and she did not even know we had a baby on the floor below her. I gave her name and number to DFACS along with other character references. They have not called any of the numbers, or they have not tried to contact any of the family members for temporary placement. I have only seen my son twice since January 29, 2004. I miss him, and me being a woman going through such a tramatic pregnancy should have to be seperated from her son because of the misdiagnosing of negligent doctors. My rights were violated at the hospital from day one. When Timothy Isiah was still in my custody they still did not give me the results of any of the tests they took of my son and then when they took him out of my custody the hospital explained that I could not recieve any information on him. When I looked on the medical records it says that DFACS took him into custody on January 27, 2004. The day Mr. Davis said, "Ms. Smith we are going to have to take your son into our care was January 29, 2004. There are so many inconsistensies but not on the parents behalf. The judge ordered on January 30, 2004 that I have supervised visitations. When I recieved my first visitation Mr. Davis messed up the whole visitation while my mother and Timothy were present. He constantly talked to us about the case. I had not seen my son in 7 days and he wanted to talk about the case. At the next hearing where DFACS was to prove Deprivation the doctors did not even show up. Our doctor's were there, to speak on our behalf. The judge then ordered that he be evaluated by a doctor of his condition. He also stated that I see my son once a week supervised. Me being a mother going through so much to get him here safely because of my severe pre-eclamsia will not give up on getting him back. There are already too many children in Foster care and there is not enough room for anymore. My son has a loving family. This is my mother's first grandchild, my first child, and he is taken because the system is onesided. For so long I have been in school studying to be an attorney. Never in a miilion years did I think I would be going through this whole mess. My son's life and health is very important. The hospital is continuing to misdiagnose. What if somethings happens to my Timmy while he is in the care of someone else. Who will explain this to his family. How can he be discharged from the hospital when the judge delayed the Deprivation hearing so he can properly be evaluated? I am a mother that loves her son and I will never give up on gaining custody back of him, because I know if he could talk he would say, "Please don't give up the fight for me mommy." I talked with so many other parents where children have been wrongfully taken. They all say the same thing never give up. Believe me I won't because Timothy Isiah-Blair Jenkins is worth it. Sincerely, Charmaine Jacqueline Smith 770-396-2970

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I hope all has went well for you. my prayers are with you.We are going though almost the same thing we have adopted seven kids it wasn't a foster child who did this it was our adopted daughter my husband and I have been married for 30 yrs had over 100 kids in foster care system if any of you all want to talk e mail me I need to talk to who has been though this I feel so alone at times..

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My heart goes out to anyone who is falsely accused. You don't have to be a foster parent to be a victim of false allegations. God Bless and good luck.

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my family is in the system. but the system is so wron and hypacritical in this case that we are in, they've taken my cildren again on allegations that are not true on our part.

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my family is in the system. but the system is so wron and hypacritical in this case that we are in, they've taken my cildren again on allegations that are not true on our part.

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Nice Valentine's Day

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My son needs a lawyer. He is being accused of a false allegation on a foster child of ours. He is 19 and has no income but his public defender doesnt help him. We need someone to do pro bono or will take payments. Can someone help us? Please email me if you have any help for us.

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We are going through allegations right now. The worse part of it is they are accusing my 19 year old son. He is in jail until trial in March.

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My husband and I were foster parents for 4 years and loved each and every child who passed through our home. We had horrible and extremely false allegations against us. It hurts in the fact that with the horrible allegations against us that our agency - who were in our home weekly - did nothing to help, not even to say how good all reports were on weekly visits. All charges were found "Unfounded", but not until our own children were each bodily inspected and questioned at their schools. We are no longer foster parents as we let the license lapse. The word unfounded is very embarrassing and hurts in that you always feel like there is a cloud of doubt over you for anyone who might know that these allegations occurred. Let alone, should we ever try again to be foster parents, which we both loved doing and were good at, always including, loving and treating each and every child as we did our own. How can you ever fight unfounded?

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Hi, Sharron and I were looking for Grandma and found you instead..... Later Gator, Billie