Lauderdale DHR Sued for Racist Abuse

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF LAUDERDALE COUNTY, ALABAMA
MANDREA WILLIAMS and
TINA WILSON, and TINA WILSON,
AS MOTHER OF JORDAN WILSON
and MEENA WILLIAMS,
PLAINTIFFS,

VS. CASE NO:______________

LAUDERDALE COUNTY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN RESOURCES (DHR) and
DEFENDANTS A, B, C, D, E, F, being
case workers and supervisors at LAUDERDALE
COUNTY DHR,
DEFENDANTS.
REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE HEARING TO
FORCE RELEASE OF CHILDREN AND
COMPLAINT FOR KIDNAPPING AND
VIOLATION OF PLAINTIFFS’ CIVIL RIGHTS

COUNT I

Comes now Mandrea Williams, Tina Wilson, and Tina Wilson as next best friend of Jordan Wilson, born 04/20/2001, and Meena Williams, born 04/19/2008, by and through their attorney, William J. Underwood, and state unto this Honorable Court as follows:

1. That currently being held against her will is Tina Wilson and her two minor children, Jordan Wilson and Meena Williams.

2. They have been taken by a DHR worker, whose name is as yet unknown to plaintiffs, to a safe house.

3. That she is being constantly harassed to sign a PFA against Mandrea Williams and refuses to do so.

4. There have been allegations that Mandrea Williams has been physically violent with the co-plaintiff and the children.

5. There has been no proof of this and, since 2003, the Lauderdale County Department of Human Resources has harassed the plaintiff and his girlfriend.

6. This is an interracial couple and plaintiffs allege that Lauderdale County DHR is racist and its individual case workers are racist in regards to this union and case.

7. Not only are they racist, DHR and its female minions are sexist, having had numerous meetings with Mandrea Williams and, at every meeting, having only females present. To be exact, all meetings have had six to eight female workers interviewing Mandrea Williams.

8. The accusations are that Mandrea Williams has physically harmed Wilson and the children.

9. Said allegations are a complete untruth and cannot be proven in court. Tina Wilson and the children deny there is any physical abuse.

10. Because none of the children, nor Ms. Wilson, will state that they have been hit or physically accosted, DHR and its minion workers have threatened Ms. Wilson with the removal of her children by placing them in foster care.

WHEREFORE, THE PREMISES CONSIDERED, plaintiffs pray for $20,000 from Lauderdale County Department of Human Resources and defendant DHR workers A, B, C, D, E, F for its failure to properly investigate and its racist mentality being in violation of the Civil Rights Act in how they treat these plaintiffs as opposed to other individuals.

COUNT II

Plaintiff incorporates all the allegations set forth in Count I of said complaint and states as follows:

1. That there are, as yet, unnamed individuals, being DHR workers, who are working outside the scope of their employment. That is, they are failing to investigate or they know they cannot prove a case against Mandrea Williams for any type of physical abuse but are still punishing him and his family by removing Tina Wilson from his residence and forcing her to stay in a safe house in Lauderdale County, Alabama against her will.

2. The defendants have failed to speak with any of the neighbors.

3. Plaintiffs’ attorney has talked to Terry Hayes. He is a neighbor and lives 100 feet or less, across the street, from plaintiffs. He has lived in that residence for forty years. During this time, he has met Mandrea Williams and the other plaintiffs, and at no time has he been spoken to by DHR workers or any representatives of law enforcement. He maintains he has never heard any loud noises, nor fights emanating from the Williams’ residence located at 85 County Road 172, Florence, Alabama.

4. The plaintiffs assert there has never been a call to the police for any domestic violence at said house, nor has a PFA ever been filed.

5. This is a witch hunt by the Lauderdale County Department of Human Resources and its employee workers A, B, C, D, E, F as yet unknown to plaintiff, who are working outside of their scope of employment and turning a blind eye to evidence as it appears in this case.

6. The next door neighbors, Nina Lawson and her daughter Jerri Lawson, age 20, have babysat the children many times. Neither have they been contacted by DHR or its workers. They would state to them there has been no violence, nor have the children ever confessed that the father has been abusive to them.

7. This is a violation of the civil rights of all individuals as plaintiffs via the Lauderdale County Department of Human Resources and its workers. They have failed to properly investigate this matter and are keeping plaintiff’s biological daughter, Meena Williams, from him. This is inflicting grave emotional and physical distress on Meena Williams, Jordan Wilson, and Tina Wilson.

WHEREFORE, THE PREMISES CONSIDERED, plaintiffs jointly and severally pray for $15,000 for the physical and emotional distress it is causing them to be held against their will at a safe house, and the abusive and racist attitude of DHR and its workers in Lauderdale County.

COUNT III

RETURN OF CHILDREN AND TINA WILSON

Plaintiff incorporates all the allegations set forth in Count I of said complaint and states as follows:

1. The children and Tina Wilson need to be able to leave on their own free will without the threat of foster home for the minor children. Foster care will cause the children irreparable emotional and physical damage.

2. That DHR in Lauderdale County has been known to put minor girls in foster homes where they have been abused.

3. Lauderdale County DHR fails to properly investigate all of its foster care parents, and putting a child in one home where she is abused is one too many and so is a failure to properly investigate.

4. DHR and its workers are working outside of the governmental protection that they have in this case in that they are ignoring all the indications of non-abuse and failing to properly investigate the neighbors around the Williams’ household which would, beyond a doubt, show there was no actual abuse at said household.

WHEREFORE, THE PREMISES CONSIDERED, plaintiffs prays that this  court will have an immediate hearing and allow said children to be returned to their residence located on County Road 172 in Florence, Alabama.

Submitted this the 28th day of April, 2014.
/s/ William J. Underwood

WILLIAM J. UNDERWOOD (UND005)
Attorney at Law
Post Office Box 245
Tuscumbia, AL 35674
(256) 383-1791 (256) 383-5221

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DHR not investigate thoroughly? Surely... Oh, well. It will be interesting.



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