Parents convicted of caging adopted kids sue social workers, sheriff's deputies

Original reports say that these parents had caged their children based on the advice of a psychiatrist. The private agencies that reviewed the couple’s home life before the adoptions gave them “glowing reports". While there were some interesting discussions, in the end they were found guilty, although the psychiatrist seems to have disappeared.

Now they are filing a lawsuit against the social workers who entered their home to remove the children. This is NOT for giving the parents bad advice or improper direction. Note also that they are not going after the shrink whom they said advised them in this course of action. Snippet from the Columbus Dispatch

A couple convicted of forcing some of their 11 adopted children to sleep in cages have sued county social workers and other officials in federal court, accusing them of illegally entering their home.

Michael and Sharen Gravelle claim in the lawsuit that Huron County social workers and sheriff's deputies violated their constitutional rights when their special-needs children were removed from the home in 2005. The officials had received a tip about children sleeping in cages.

Never mind little facts like the sheriff protecting the children or enforcing the law....

And never mind the destruction apparently wrought by a psychiatrist who handed out bad advice, and who seems to have slipped away into the night....