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Arlington, Virginia DSS Lawyer At It Again

Arlington, Virginia DSS Lawyer At It Again

I've been inserted into another court case

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Feb 24, 2022
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An Arlington, Virginia Department of Social Services (DSS) lawyer is citing me as a reason for not providing court transcripts in a case I have been following.

Jason McCandless has been harassing Beatrice “Bea” Rivera for more than a year.

In 2020, the Arlington DSS took custody of her son and they have not yet returned him.

Bea does not even live in Virginia; she lived in Alabama and then moved to Maryland, after her son was taken.

She was in Virginia, she told me, in November 2020 for business; her autistic son got a bruise after he ran off.

Bea told me she called the police herself, but once DSS was called, they used the incident as a trigger to eventually take her son.

Days after her son was taken, Bea got a court order giving her son back, but by this point, DSS had transferred custody to a relative in California.

Her son was moved- or maybe trafficked- back to Virginia at the end of July 2021 and his case remains open.

He lives in foster care.

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