Hello, we live in Michigan and want to make sure that if my boyfriend’s daughters mother gets out of jail, she will never get custody again. We recently got emergency full custody of my boyfriend’s daughter. Her mother beat the hell out of her older sister, was arrested and charged with multiple felonies, including child endangerment, assault with intent to do bodily harm with a serious weapon, which stated is one of the felonies, child abuse for the other 2 daughters who were not assaulted, and one other I can’t remember. She’s in jail waiting arraignment because she requested a public defender. An ex boyfriend bailed her out, she has a no contact order for my boyfriend daughter and her sisters, but hasn’t tried to contact my boyfriend to see if she is ok. She told CPS she doesn’t want the daughter she assaulted because she was the one who snuck her and her sisters out the next day to call their grandmother, who called the police. They had to sneak out because after beating her eldest, she took their phones, locked them in their rooms, and then left the next day for work (which she hides from welfare), and told them to ray inside and don’t call the police. During the assault my boyfriend’s daughter and her sister tried to call the cops but their mom got up and took their phones. In the interview for the girls, we found out things his daughter never told us, like how their mom hits them, bites them, scratches them and pulls them by their hair. Her ex boyfriend( the one who bailed them out) used to hit them and bite them too, leaving marks for a few days. His daughter never told us this. She had told us how she left them home for days at a time, we called CPS about this and they did nothing. His daughter is actually very happy her mom got arrested and hasn’t stopped hugging us and telling me how I’m her new mom now. Her mother should be going to prison we hope, but CPS came to the house yesterday to asses our home, and said something that bothered me, she said that their job is to make sure the girls can live with their mother safely again. So I am very worried that if she doesn’t go to prison for whatever reason, (maybe a soft judge??) that we won’t be able to keep custody of her. She needs to live with us, she needs stability in her life, not a mom who moves in with whoever she has sex with after cheating on her boyfriend. Her most recent boyfriend is a sex offender! I have heard of mothers getting off even tho they have such awful charges, we need to ensure that if for any reason she does, she will never be able to get custody again. Please help!