Barbara J. Saunders Special Ed teacher who wanted my autistic son in State Custody so she could manage him easier. Brattleboro, Vermont

Barbara J. Saunders is a Special Ed teacher at BUHS who didn't know what to do with my autistic teenage son. She decided that he would be easier for her to manage if he  were in state custody instead of at home. Thus she enacted a plan to paint me as a child abuser so CPS would take him away. First she became extremely rude, nasty, sniping at me to tear down my feelings of self respect. Then she wrote up paperwork against me, claiming I was Mentally Challenged and unfit for my teenager. She cornered me into signing consent for a therapist with a "save the kid from bad mother" mentality. Together Ms. Saunders and Ms. Heimerdinger participated in "sneak tape recording" (no warrant) of my husband and me having a couple of verbal squalls in the privacy of our home during a very stressful time in our lives. Then they presented the unconstitutional recordings to the CPS worker, who used them as evidence to substantiate me for Child Maltreatment. My 15 year old son was taken away for foster care, and we never got him back.