Couple sues CPS claiming their 7 kids were illegally removed from their home

HOUSTON - By law, Child Protective Services can take children into protective custody without a warrant but only if the children are in immediate danger. The family court judge overseeing this case said CPS had enough time to request a warrant, and if they had, she said she would have said no because there was no good reason to remove the children. “The way they took our children away from us. It was uncalled for,” said Gary Cruz. CPS entered these parents lives back in September 2015. The reason according to their lawsuit, one of their seven children told a school counselor his dad body-slammed his mom onto the kitchen table. “All it was was my 6-year-old at the time and his vivid imagination,” Cruz said. The lawsuit states a CPS investigator returned to the family’s home in February of last year. “They ordered Gary to leave the house on an unfounded allegation which put additional financial pressure on my clients,” said attorney Edward Rose. “They kicked me out of my own home which I worked my butt off to hold on to for the family, and my daughter was only 2 weeks old,” said Cruz