I lost my job

Oh wow,.. I really think that your job acted inappropriately to fire you if you were not charged and convicted. I do think they had the right to suspend you with or without total/partial pay until they could get everything figured out since it is a safety concern. (Just put yourself in their position,.. It would be the prudent thing to do to suspend someone who they had good reason to at least suspect child abuse,.. b/c if they didn't and something happened that would be their behind)

My suggestion: I believe by law you have the right to obtain a copy of any background check or historical report on you that they used to make a hire/firing decision. Once you get a copy, contact the agency who made the claim and discuss your case with them. If in fact your name was cleared you should obtain a certified letter clarifying the entire situation and the final conclusion that the investigating body came to.

If everything is clear you should request to be reinstated immediately by your department head,.. and if they are still stubborn than you should have a hearing with either your union or the nursing obudsman.

Good luck!

I think you need to be a little bit aggressive. Especially with this job market you could be out of work for months. If they did in fact state that if you were expunged they still wouldn't take you back,..that just sounds unfair.

However I must say that your post was a little vague. It went from "day care lost child" to you being accused of child neglect... which in itself doesn't make a lot of sense. There are many times when a child might be visually neglected (unclean but not dirty enough, or thin but not thing enough) where you can be suspected but by law can't be charged. As a facility who is responsible for at times helpless individuals maybe they do have a case where they don't want to risk anything that looks, smells, could be, might be, kinda sorta be neglect.

I'm not accusing you of anything because this could just be a huge, ugly mix up. However, I don't think it matters so much if its not on an FBI report but on the DSHS because an employer does have the right to dismiss an employee due to character issues. If you feel strongly enough about your complete innocence then I would contact DSHS, ask them to re-evaluate your case to see if it could be erased so that you won't have a problem with future employment.

No I hate to hear things like this. Get a lawyer if you can't afford one go to Legal Aid

I agree with the others. Get your record cleaned up as much as you can and be sure to have copies of any "final reports" or anything that documents what actually happened with your child. Be prepared to share those documents with your next prospective employer.

Lawyer, Stat.

Investigations, where the parents are CLEARED of abuse charges are NOT public record.

I also don't understand how the police can say (and this is where you should have got an attorney) that you were neglecting your child when you left your child in the care of a paid daycare provider...if anyone should have been investigated, it should have been the daycare workers.

I don't think that they found out through a background check...I think someone that has a "beef" with you has called and told them about your past.

You also need to contact an attorney to have your employment record subpoenaed.

If they were stupid enough to tell you to your face that this is the reason that they fired you...then you need to find out who at CPS broke the confidentiality or what records that they have that "show" you were charged with child abuse.

If you were arrested for child abuse, you would have remembered it...it usually goes along with mug shots and fingerprints.

If you didn't go through that, then you were NOT arrested.