Typical Cases We Have Successfully Handled

CASE 1 - A POOR CHOICE OF WORDS: Client A was listed on CACI as a suspected child abuser because of a poor choice of words. A’s teenage daughter was living with her mother while her parents were going through a bitter divorce. Client A’s daughter suffers from a psychiatric illness. The mother refused to take the daughter to the daughter’s psychiatrist, to provide the daughter’s medication or appropriate parental guidance. The mother allowed her teenage daughter out at all hours of the night without restriction. The daughter went to the beach without her mother’s supervision and was gang raped. The daughter first trusted her father with the details about her rape. The mother then learned about her daughter’s rape but did nothing to help the girl.

Client A insisted that his daughter be returned to his care to receive appropriate medical, psychiatric and parental care. Client A texted his daughter and ex-wife saying that upon the daughter’s return to his home her “life was going to suck.” What Client A meant was that his daughter would receive parental supervision, be restricted to home unless supervised and would receive appropriate medical and psychiatric care. Because the mother wanted to maintain custody, she falsely reported to child welfare services that Client A was a child abuser.

Client A was listed on CACI by the child welfare investigator for texting that his daughter’s “life was going to suck.” Client A was listed as a suspected child abuser for a poor choice of words.

OUTCOME: Client A was removed from CACI. Client A’s daughter is now receiving parental supervision and medical and psychiatric care.

CASE 2. PARENTAL SPANKING WITHOUT SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY: Client B is career Navy with a top-secret clearance. Client B was listed on CACI as a “substantiated” child abuser. He is a purple heart recipient who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Client B was at risk of losing his top-secret clearance and being administratively discharged after nearly 20 years.

Client B’s son had punched his little sister and pushed her off of the couch. So, Client B spanked his son once on each buttock with a wooden salad spoon. Client B had never before spanked his son. Client B’s mother had used a wooden salad spoon to spank Client B when he was a boy. When the spanking occurred Client B’s son was taking a medicine that causes bruising in some patients. Mild bruising appeared on the boy’s buttocks. The bruises completely healed within three (3) days after the spanking. The spanking was reported by a teacher who learned of the bruises.

OUTCOME: Client B’s name was removed from CACI. During the hearing the boy’s long-time physicians testified about their examinations of the boy. Our firm asked the boy’s physicians to conduct extensive internal body scans and external physical examinations to determine if there was any evidence of past child abuse. The boy’s physicians testified that there was no evidence of any child abuse and that the boy’s medication caused the bruising. Client B’s live-in mother-in-law witnessed the spanking. The mother-in-law testified that Client B is a loving father who is not abusive and that she could not imagine how such a mild spanking could cause bruising. Client B continues to serve in the Navy with his top-secret clearance intact.

NO GUARANTEES OF SUCCESS: The foregoing are representative cases we have successfully handled, however, these results are not a guarantee that you will be removed from CACI. We can only guarantee that we will do our best to have you removed if you have been wrongly listed.