# I don't like this kind of thing! \[Baby Snatch Victim Loses Kids to State Custody\]

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**Created:** [October 4, 2009, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-this-kind-of-thing-baby-snatch-victim-loses-kids-to-state-custody/512533 "2009-10-04T08:24:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-this-kind-of-thing-baby-snatch-victim-loses-kids-to-state-custody/512533/9 "2009-10-04T15:41:13Z")

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I don’t know the facts of this case, but just for the record, CPS cannot take kids out of a home. It has to be ordered by a judge. CPS can make a case to a judge as to the why it _thinks_ a household may be unfit, but they don’t make the decison. A court does. If these kids were removed, it was because a judge ordered it done, and the judge ordered it done because the evidence presented fit a prescribed set of criteria.

The image that CPS workers can, or even want to, just arbitrarily snatch kids away from homes is a bogus one.

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