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Old June 7th 09, 08:00 PM posted to alt.child-support
Dusty
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Default Ex-CPS worker to serve 90 days in jail

I'm amazed he isn't joining her. Anyway, it couldn't have happened to a
nicer person.
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http://www.caller.com/news/2009/jun/...-days-in-jail/

Ex-CPS worker to serve 90 days in jail
By Mary Ann Cavazos
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

CORPUS CHRISTI - A former Child Protective Services supervisor who falsely
accused a man of molestation must spend 90 days in jail as a condition of
her probation.

After District Judge Tom Greenwell announced his decision Monday, a bailiff
immediately handcuffed Grizelda Lopez-Hess. Her husband, Corpus Christi
police detective Michael Hess, then moved to her side and kissed her
goodbye.

Lopez-Hess, 38, pleaded guilty May 22 to a charge of making a false report
of abuse. She said she made an anonymous call to the Texas Department of
Family and Protective Services on Oct. 9 in which she claimed Ricardo
Jimenez was molesting the daughter of the woman he was dating. She says in
the phone call, played for the judge, that she learned of the abuse from her
daughter, who is friends with the victim.

The problem: She made the whole thing up. She doesn't even have a daughter.

Jimenez is a forensic interviewer with the local Children's Advocacy Center.

The allegation launched a Child Protective Services investigation that found
it was untrue.

Jimenez said the lie has embarrassed him and hurt his reputation. He said he
is unsure what long-term effect it will have, but said already defense
attorneys have tried to bring up the issue in unrelated criminal cases in
which he is called to testify as an expert witness.

As part of a plea deal, Lopez-Hess was sentenced to two years in state jail,
which was suspended for three years probation. Other conditions include that
she stay away from Jimenez and his family, pay a fine, complete 100
community service hours and attend anger management classes.

But prosecutor Angelica Hernandez also had asked for the jail time saying it
was likely the only way Lopez-Hess would realize the magnitude of her
actions.

She characterized Lopez-Hess as a woman who carried out a cold and
calculated act and manipulated the system to attack Jimenez.
"It was a very strong message that I think the community needed to hear,"
she said.

Lopez-Hess' attorney, Eric Perkins argued that jail was unnecessary and
excessive.

Hess testified that his wife would be in danger if she went to jail. After
her arrest last year, she was briefly in a holding cell in which two fellow
prisoners recognized her as the person who took their children away.

Jail officials said she would be isolated from other prisoners for her own
protection.

Lopez-Hess made the false report months after she was fired from CPS.

Lopez-Hess said she made the call the same day she found out her husband was
being transferred from the family violence unit to property crimes. Both she
and Hess said they believed Misty Guajardo, who is in a relationship with
Jimenez, was to blame for the transfer. Guajardo, executive director of the
Children's Advocacy Center, said she had nothing to do with it. Hess and his
wife say Guajardo harbored animosity for issues Hess brought up when he
served on the nonprofit's board of directors.

But prosecutors cited a disciplinary action letter to Hess in which he
agreed to a transfer. That disciplinary action was prompted by allegations
that he and his wife tipped off a suspect in a criminal case.

A CPS official said those allegations also were a factor in Lopez-Hess'
firing.

She and her husband said the allegations are untrue. But prosecutors pointed
out the suspect, his wife and daughter all testified at his trial that
Lopez-Hess had tipped them off.

 




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