This Viral CPS Scandal Is A Red Flag Mess

0:00 I called CPS and the authorities on my best friend of over 12 years and her husband. >> Can we all just go and um like have dinner as a family? Like we can bring you back. Like I'm sorry. It makes me so emotional. >> Y'all picked the wrong day to upset me. I've had five cups of coffee today. I I might start attacking somebody. I'm not really sure. This is Angelique. She recently posted this very long Tik Tok series that went very viral and she detailed some things that her best friend was doing to her child. Things that like, you know, would put any parent in prison. But if the parent is a calculated, narcissistic, manipulative parillegal who knows the law, um, putting that person in prison

0:45 is is not going to be easy. So now, as you guys probably know with these Tik Tok series, they're always in many, many parts, and they're very long typically. And this one is no different. This one would take probably a couple hours start to finish. So, I'm going to do what I normally do here, which is condense it into the most necessary parts of the story. Kind of like a summarized story time, if you will. But before we get going, it's very important to know the characters in this story first. The woman telling the story is Angelique, and her best friend's name is Carly. And this is Carly's family. There are two parents in this family, obviously Carly, and then her husband, Bob. Each of them have a daughter from a previous relationship. There's Marie, who's Bob's teenage daughter. And then there's Stacy, who is Carly's younger

1:30 daughter. There's also Karen, who is Carly's mother. She is a very, very toxic individual, and she is the reason why Carly is so controlling and manipulative. Bob and Carly also had two more kids. They got pregnant shortly after meeting on Tinder. So, they have two very young children together. Also, it's very important to note that Angelique said in advance that she bears some responsibility for allowing this to continue as long as it did. >> I'm not guilty of, but I am guilty for turning a blind eye, for not sticking up for what I believe in, for the child, and it's something that I will have to live with. >> Now, let's talk about the relationship dynamic of this family. So Bob loves his stepdaughter Stacy. Loves her, treats her as if it's his own child. Carly, on the other hand, just for whatever reason, hates Marie. There's no reason

2:16 for it. There's no no explanation. She just hates her. And because of this, she punishes her very, very differently than the other kids who are in the house. Let me provide some examples. There was a time when Marie, I don't just like took some chapstick from a friend or something and Carly punished her by taking all of the bedroom furniture out of her room, including her bed. So, she had to sleep on just on a single sheet on the floor of her bedroom for days on end. There was also a time when Marie did not get straight A's on her report card. So, she was forbidden from showering and even just washing her hair for as much as 3 weeks at a time. Marie also has ADHD and she has ticks that come from this ADHD. And every time she would have some kind of symptom flare up or some kind of tick, she would get smacked. Oh, my sister in Christ. And

3:03 Bob is just a straight up yes man. He will do anything that Carly wants to do. He trusts her fully and completely and just goes along with anything that she wants to do in terms of punishment or how the house is ran. >> My brother in Christ. Now, the reason why Angelique claims that she has some responsibility in all of this is because she would actually see this happen sometimes. Like there was one instance where Maria's was forced to do wall sets and when she would struggle, she would get hit with like belts and spatulas. >> It got so hard for me to watch that I would have to like leave the room and it made me really really sad and I always told, you know, Carly, my best friend, like I don't agree with this. But again, she was not my child and so it was really difficult for me to intervene. >> Basically, Angelique has way too much

3:49 knowledge on all of these things that are happening for a person who has not done anything at all yet up until this point, which kind of makes you wonder how much has she seen in person. >> She would overfeed Marie. And I mean when I say overfeed, I mean like disgustingly overfeed her. And Carly did not like that she liked herself. So Carly would try to make her bigger. She would literally overfeed her and make it like a party trick till she would get sick. There was also this punishment which was called room jail. This is where she had to sit on her mattress and basically sit in her room and like stare at the wall and they would put a camera in the room and they would not allow for um Marie to like lay down. So if there was any moment in time that she like started to lay down like they would go in there and like yell at her. >> God, who are you? Count Olaf. So, after Angelique posted this first video, she

4:35 got a lot of criticism in the comments because this went on for way too long. She was a witness to way too much, oftentimes in person, seemingly it just didn't feel right to be a witness for this long, for this many things. In response to this, Angela made a follow-up where she shows that she did speak up like these text messages here. Okay, so I came home and dude, I wouldn't be a good friend if I didn't say something to you, but you have to let the girl shower. That is crazy punishment and it's really gross. And then she blanks some stuff out, but I can't sleep. Now I'm traumatized for blank blank. And then she says, I think this is worse than the mattress. Carly's only response is, I already told her she could shower, but she isn't allowed to wash her hair. So later on in the conversation, Carly responds and says, "So I think you should tell Blank you are disappointed in her instead of me. I told her about soccer and birthday

5:21 parties and she literally didn't even care. She just said okay." And that was it. She responded and said, "I mean, okay." So I had to think about all the punishments. There are so many and I think it might backfire and just make her not care at all, which could be a bad thing. And I was honestly a lot older when I got in that much trouble. But I think I will definitely talk to her. I think she should get her mattress back though. I mean, girl, even people in prison get mattresses and pillows. Basically using Angelique to punish her, which I I don't know why. But if anything, this doesn't really help Angelique's case this much because the texts make her look a little worse even because why why why is she comfortable enough to text you and have you do her bidding for her? Like that's a little weird. And yes, she's openly disagreeing, but it it doesn't seem like

6:07 there's much being done at this point other than saying, "Hey, don't do that." Which is, you know, that's not going to do anything. But there was one instance that sprung Angelique into action and that is where this whole story starts. Cup number six. Oh yes, my heartbeat is irregular. Now, this next part comes with a trigger warning. I'm going to gloss over the details and but still viewer discretion is advised. So, one day Angelique gets a phone call. She picks it up and it's Marie. And Marie said, "Hey, I I need you to come get me. My dad just whipped me with a charger cord." And she said it very matterofactly as if she was hardly even affected by it. It was just like like she was reading the the weather report and Angelique was like, "Hey, what?" And

6:55 Marie was like, "Yeah, look, I I can send you photos or videos. I whatever you need, just we just got to get this going." So Angelique asked to see the photos and videos. And Marie sent them, and I'm going to keep this part as brief as possible. Marie had very, very, very prominent marks and cuts all over her back, her legs, her arms, but everywhere. Just everywhere. At this point, the the friendship is over. Angelique is done with this and she has sprung into action. >> I now contact our other best friend Katie and I'm like, "Hey, we need to get inside this house." And so me and her are on a mission how to get inside. >> Marie, however, was not supposed to have a phone. So Angelique and her friend Katie had to figure out how to get into the house, check Marie out, and make sure she didn't need to go to the ER and not make it obvious that Marie was the

7:41 one who had just called them on the phone telling them to come over. So they get to the house and they have their own door codes. So they go inside. >> So I go to the bathroom. Katie got grabs some water. We're really paranoid at this point. But we're about to walk out and as we're about to walk out Karen says, "Hey, make sure to clo like make sure to lock the door because I don't want the cops coming in." And we both like turned our heads like what? Like what do you mean the cops? Like that's a weird thing to say. She was like yeah you know from the incident that happened yesterday. >> Karen thought that Carly had already told them what had happened which she did not. So Angelique asked what happened and Karen said that Marie disobeyed. Bob got the charge accord and whipped her and that scared the heck out of Stacy. So Stacy, the younger daughter, called the police. And now Bob

8:26 and Marie had just gone to a different house and were now hiding from the cops to avoid being arrested. That scared Angelique to death because at this point, Carly had just disregarded every form of punishment that Marie had been given. She even thought it was funny in many cases. But the fact that this incident sprung Carly and Bob into action and forced them to essentially go into hiding spoke volumes to how horrible this incident actually must have been. So Angelique filed a police report. And the police went to Karen's home to perform a wellness check and to see if they could get Marie to come out of the house. >> Nobody's there except for Marie and the grandfather, step-grandfather. So, I know that the grandfather came to the door with Marie and Marie was like they were like, "Hey, we're just doing a check on you." Like, we were told like

9:12 blank blank blank and they were she was like, "No, I'm fine. >> You are not fine, sweet child. Please begin to worry. Please." This video is sponsored by Clover. So, I've been working for myself for 9 years now. And when I first started, I was actually running a digital marketing business. And I was very poor. And there were countless times where I could have used some money on a rainy day uh because everything that I owned kept breaking because everything that I owned was old. And everything that I owned was old because poor. And that is exactly why Clover would have saved my life back then. Clover is an earned wage access app. Meaning when payday is a week away and your card decides today is the day it gives up on you, you can access your own money in advance through Clover. There's no credit check, no interest, no late fees, nothing. Clover just also bumped up the limit that you're able to take out at a time. It used to be 250

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10:43 everything. So Carly finally texted Angelique and Katie and said, "Morning weekend was crazy. I've got to update you guys." Crossed out some things. So now after talking with the police and her therapist, we are looking into all girls boarding school or military school. And Blank is avoiding the police since he's on probation law. But I've talked to them and they've talked to Blank. And Blank is avoiding the police since he is on probation law. But I've talked to them and they talked to Blank. Your mom told us last night. And so, are we okay with Blank being beat with a charger cord? Is that okay? Because I don't. Grandma here is a little messed up, but I get the message. Girl, I truthfully think you guys should send her back with her grandparents. At this point, Angelique and Katie knew that this was going to get a whole lot worse for Marie at this point. So, they came up with a plan. >> Me and Katie both logged out of work. We

11:28 took our PTO time and we went on a mission to find Marie's biological mother. >> Coffee and cortisol do not mix. I might actually need to attack somebody. Hey, Phillip, go get me a person to punch. >> What? >> Yeah, go hurry. Someone who deserves it. >> This is Marie's biological mother, Rhonda. She has a custody agreement with Bob, and she's also allowed to attempt a legal rescue if she feels like Maria is not safe or she needs help or anything like that. So, Angelique and Katie got in touch with Rhonda, and they told her the situation. So Rhonda went over to the house to see if she can get Marie to come outside. Knocked on the door, waited a little bit, nothing. No answer that she could tell that there were people inside, but nobody came to the door. So they went to the police, and

12:14 the police said that they couldn't do anything, which I I don't know how that's the case when, you know, I know Marie said that nothing was going on, but there's video and photo evidence of cuts and welts and bruises all over her body from a charger cord. So, but you know, what do I know? What they did say is, "Hey, keep trying to go back over there and see if you can get Marie to come outside." So that's what Rhonda did. She immediately went right back over there. This time the family came outside. Marie did not. She stayed behind the door, but Bob and Carly came outside. So all of them were all standing in this yard just talking to each other and they're talking to Marie through the door trying to convince her to come outside. >> I start talking and I'm like, "Marie." And I'm like, "Please." And I'm like, can we just all

13:01 can we all just go and um like have dinner as a family? Like we can bring you back. Like I'm sorry. It makes me so emotional. You know, we say we love you so much, Marie. We love you so much. And and Carly says, "Yeah, she's very loved." And you see her face like her face looks so scared. And then she closes the door and that's it. >> Marie never came out, which is obviously incredibly devastating. Everybody was feeling quite hopeless at the end of this, but that did not last long. The very next day, they went back over there and they saw a huge line of police cars out front. So, they pulled up trying to figure out what was going on. And as they're doing that, Angelique gets a phone call from a CPS case worker who was assigned to the case and they said that they're actively on it and they had been on it for a while. It turns out

13:47 that police were very well aware of Bob and Carly. They had multiple reports on them and multiple cases from as far back as 10 years prior. So they had been on this at this point. However, Marie is not giving any details. In fact, she is now saying that she is the one who whipped herself with the charge cord and nobody's believing that. So they removed Marie from the home and they placed her in a group home where she would stay until her dependency hearing. So now there was an active CPS case against the couple and an active criminal case against Bob. Common logic would lead you to believe that this would be an open-and- shut case. They got photo and video evidence. They got witnesses. They have previous reports of abuse. Open and shut, slam dunk case, right? Well, the the American justice system is never that easy. Oh god. Okay. Just, you know,

14:41 there were multiple things that were complicating this case. Number one, Carly is a very, very manipulative person and that was playing a hand in how Marie was participating in this case. She was not giving much of, if any, information at all to police. >> Lastly, I think they were just talking about how she was heavily coached and how you could tell that like the way that she talks is um almost like self-lame. So, there was a lot of statements that were along the line of like, I do bad things and the only type of discipline that works on me is hard discipline because I'm a bad child. >> And number two, Marie was assigned a new case worker in the middle of this case. This case worker was very young and inexperienced. And they were coming in cold on something that they didn't have full knowledge of. And that allowed Carly and Bob to manipulate and and and

15:28 sway things and and fill this case worker's head with things that were not true. And that swayed the case worker. So much so to the point where they were now focused on putting Marie back in the home with Bob and Carly and just finding a way to resolve this somehow. So very quickly, Bob and Carly were allowed to have contact again with Marie and that just further allowed them to manipulate the entire case because they were having direct contact with Marie and telling her what to say and what to do and everything. And number three, Carly is a parillegal. She knows the ins and outs of the law. She found this little loophole where Bob could just, you know, accept the substantiated abuse charges and that would allow them to not be formally charged in CPS court and that also naturally helps his criminal court case. So now the court case, the only thing that they have to rely on at this

16:15 point to keep it moving forward is Marie's testimony. Marie has to participate in order for this to move anywhere at all. She had to testify basically and Marie was not willing to do that. So, the criminal case just started dwindling. No, no no no no no no no no no no no, no, no. And then very soon after this, Bob and Carly were allowed to have unsupervised visits with Marie at this group home that she was staying in. And during one of these visits, Carly started filming Marie celebrating for supposedly winning this case. And most of these videos were deleted, but there was one that resurfaced showing Carly recording Marie who was just dancing around the visitation area of this group home. >> You could tell that these Tik Toks were to us and it was just heartbreaking

17:02 because why are you using your daughter to make these things when you guys are having visitation? >> Unfortunately, Maria is back at home now with Bob and Carly. Nothing happened. And that's why Angelique posted this long Tik Tok series to try and get some movement here again. >> You don't like me right now, and that's okay. That's okay. But I love you so freaking much. I would not have gone through all of this if I did not love you. I will be here literally with open arms when you figure this out. >> And look, I know we tend to be silly on this channel, but I did see that Bob and Carly and Angelique are watching all of Angelique's Tik Toks. And so I think there's a solid somewhat chance that Marie might see this video right here. Let me just say this. I am unfortunately very familiar with abuse. I saw it a lot

17:48 in my family growing up and I haven't talked about this ever, but I experienced my own sexual abuse when I was in high school around the same age as you, Marie. So I know how impossibly difficult it is to come to terms with the fact that people who love us and are supposed to protect us can actively hurt us in this way. But let me be clear. There was a reason why the police came to your house. And it's because if they actively saw these things that were happening, if they saw it with their own eyes, your parents would be sitting in prison right now. The only reason why they are not sitting in prison is because the police didn't see it happen. If your parents put cuts and bruises on your body, that is against the law. If they are taking furniture out of your

18:35 bedroom and not allowing you to sleep on a bed, that is abuse. And if they are consistently making you feel unloved and unwanted and and feel like just absolutely horrible, then they aren't parents. And that's all I'll say on that. And I think we need a pallet cleanser after that because that was pretty uh pretty heavy. So let's all let's all point and laugh at me. How about that? Click the box in the top lefthand corner and watch me suffer as I try women's workouts. All right, that is my time.