It wasn't her first time at the rodeo,

so her surprise surprised me.

HELLLOOO, did you really think lying was the best way to play it?

For someone raised in the foster care system, you'd think you would have a clue how this was going to go down.

And spewing lie after lie was not it - it only guaranteed your kids would get removed.

And, for the record, YES, lies of omission ARE just as bad as deliberate lies.
Both kinds are intended to obscure the truth and divert people away from it; people who are, after all, only trying to find out what happened to your son.

What I don't understand is WHY you chose to protect your 'sister' and her boyfriend rather than your baby?
(And, again with the need to clarify definitions, someone you met in a group foster home, is NOT your sister.)

Why couldn't you have just said "He was with a very good friend; she's like a sister to me"?

Now the story you're asking us to believe is that you weren't even in town for the four days before he came to the hospital - that you merely came back from Chicago to find him vomiting (from a liver laceration), his body covered with bruises (including the distinct pattern of shoe tread on his back) and a leg broken from someone stomping on it?

Sister, if you knew YOU didn't do it, WHY did you wait until the police threatened to arrest you before you started throwing those other people under the bus?

As far as I'm concerned, YOU should be right alongside them in the jail cell.

I also can't help but wonder WHEN prosecutors are going to get serious and start charging mothers with failure to protect and obstruction of justice when they try to deliberately screw up an investigation.

MY best bet?

While the court will keep this kid in state custody at the hearing today, he'll be back with his mom before he's out of his spica cast and his liver enzymes return to normal.

It's not MY first time at the rodeo either; that doesn't make the kick in the head any less painful.