We are happy to announce that Joe and Nicole have been reunited with their children for the weekend. They have been asked by the court to not take any photos or recordings of their time with the children. The entire family will be staying together at the home of an approved foster family during their visit. We are respecting the Naugler’s precious family time and we may not have updates until after the visit. Please continue to remember them in your thoughts and prayers.
That is wonderful! I hope it will be permanent soon!
Oh this is wonderful! Naysayers need to just be quiet and let this family enjoy their time together.
My eyes are filled with tears as I follow this story. I have been faced with the tyranny of CPS and so has my daughter. (For nothing that in any way endangered our children.)
We were lucky we never lost custody though my daughter had to subject her 18 month old to a potentially dangerous and totally unnecessary medical procedure to avoid prosecution. To this day we suffer PTSD from the crisis this brought to our
lives.
We were members of VOCAL in the 80’s and some of the stories in their files would make you vomit.
I understand the pain of having to take whatever the gestapo demand just to be able to see your darlings. My family will hold you in our thoughts and do whatever is humanly possible to help.
I pray your children are returned and you are left to raise your children as you have for the last 15 years. I so admire you and your family for the life style you are living. I saw a Facebook post about “old people” not being “green” and it is perfect for this situation. If schools would teach history the right way, everyone would see that before electricity and running water was created, everyone lived like you are today. Keep up the great work with your family and teaching your kids how to live off the land.
Why are they not allowed to take photos of the kids? These kids belong to the Nauglers. This way they cannot document leaving them without scrapes, bruises, bumps, etc. Yeah, I trust no one, the government taught me that!
Samantha, we now understand that they can take pictures, but are not allowed to distribute them on social media.
I am so happy to see this! Enjoy every precious moment and I pray that they will soon be home permanently!
I can’t imagine what these children have been through over the last few days, pure emotional torture to be pulled so horribly from their family, their dogs, their cats, and their Kentucky land. Just a few suggestions to help these children cope with the trauma, maybe the family can sit down and have each child draw a house and a tree, then simply put the drawings in a folder, (do this every time you get to see the kids) a child psychologist can read these at a later time to help each child process what they have been through and to use as evidence of the psychological trauma that they faced when they were taken away from their family and home. Also, have the kids draw anything they want, their dogs, their cats, their pond, their cabin, their siblings, their parents, anything, and they can exchange the drawings and add little notes on them for each other and each child can have something to hold close to them that can remind them of their family, so when they get pulled apart again as the state has them in four different homes, they can take these special pictures with them. You can also use some clear tape to carefully cover the drawings and then cut the extra off and that will better help to protect them for each child. In the past I was a therapeutic foster mom and I got a placement of three older boys (sibling group), we did everything possible to keep them together until they were adopted together. They had been in the system a long time before I got them and they did not want to be separated at all. The separation alone that they are putting these children through is just horrible. Also, if you tell them the next court date or date you will get to see them again, and show them on a calendar or give them a calendar and mark those dates, it will help them make it through each day. Most importantly just make sure they know that you will do whatever you need to do to get them back as soon as possible. These are just little things you can do to help each one make it through and survive this, the reason these little things are so important, is because, if the children show signs of missing you all too much the state will start drugging them with meds and antidepressants, so do what you can from your end to avoid that at all cost.
I hope all misperceptions will sure be cleared away soon and we all be happy again! The Blessed little farmstead will be a blessing to Kentucky, and if the Naugler family will start camps for off the grid taste of life, I will sign up my children 😉
The CPS is out of control and so is the that Sheriff. You both should be ashamed. Where is the outrage from the Governor and our President? Is this still America?
It is admirable for a foster parent to open their home to this entire family for a weekend family visit that probably would not otherwise have been possible. This is truly a dedicated foster family and I would hope this couple would see that they have an advocate and ally in this foster family.
I don’t know if anyone realizes this but the family isn’t required to do this and this is really going above and beyond their call.
Thanks for that BN…. Also the other responses have been so great. Hoping parents are reading during this time to put in affect great ideas.
The reality is that neither child protection nor the sherrifs dept want to keep these parents from having custody of their children. They’ve intervened only because of the extremely deficent and unsanitory, unhealthy, unsafe state of the property.The couple lacked the rescources as well as knowledge, aside a capacity to realistic appraise the viability of in a timely way realising the goal of their homestead with 10 kids to maintain and only Nicole capable of employment, hence needing to be absent . Joe is not like Nicole in managing the domestic essentials, the children or the education of them going by what Nicole used to do in prior reasonable residences. She used to seem to get done what was humanely possible for one with so many kids and pregnant so much of the time.The reality was even in the past the bit of quite understandable rough edges to past residences got a local to call CPS shows that authorities could grasp that and after checking leave them to it. Kentucky is a fairly liberal state in tolerating parents choices to live off the grid as long as critical base levels of safety, welfare as well as registering kids for home schooling are met. If a family falls short and kids are or at the threat of removal these authorities would rather a speedy fix was achieved by parents, even helping them in that so the kids don’t end up the states problem.
Another good reason for parents to co operate and fix fast or admit “HELP US”,is even the states preferrence of not then discovering other frailties to ten need to add to the list of needing to fix as generally when physical settings were declining the family have ended up with extra distresses and a hence few extra dysfunctional ways of reacting.The sooner this couple can get their heads around admitting they had hopes, got stuck, overwhelmed and depressed and now realise they’d lost perspective, yes the property is unsuitable and we can’t fix it, but will go to something suitable ASAP…
Presuming that response by the parents and that all their kids want to go back to them, the custody matter for their children would end, well with the bit of paper work registering things. I’m sure some suitable residence, even if temporary would be gotten and they’d be back to doing their own thing, more comfortably and effectively as before.
They’ve had a very harsh, wearing exhausting last 2yrs where it’s not surprising they ended up reactive and defensive.
I hope Nicole can accept the bit of enforced load taken off her for a bit, get in with rehoming a lot of the animals and in with a new residence and grasp that God wants her to find another more managable path.It may be a place that God as in mind for one of her kids future destiny to fullfill.
Ir’s nice many of you care, but try and apply some constructive wisdom. Even better offer homes to her for some pets or if you know were the family could stay thats decent, suitable and negligable cost, at least for awhile, do something about it.NOW!!
Sorry but your incoherent ramblings aren’t making much sense in a lot of your paragraphs. The gist I’m getting of what you seem to be trying to say is that you believe these children have been neglected…the sheriff is trying to “save” these children (omitting the fact that because he did not have a warrant, his taking of the children was illegal!)…that Child Protective Services cares about bringing this family back together (while ignoring the fact that adopting children out is Big Business in every state for Child Protective Services!)…that these parents need to wake up and realize their actions have been wrong (while ignoring the fact that they either say and do what CPS wants or risk losing their children to “the system” which is ALWAYS stacked against parents)…that there were too many animals on that property for these kids to take care of ( while ignoring the fact that doing chores promotes responsibility and team work. Plus what one person may deem as too many animals, another person may say “What? That’s all they had?!”)…and that those who have commented here against this sheriff and CPS are giving no “constructive wisdom” to this situation.
You sound like a person who has never been on the receiving end of a CPS complaint…may be an employee of CPS…or don’t care that what this sheriff did was illegal, and are just an idiot.
I have learned baby steps are giant leaps of faith when it comes to the court system, I am happy for any time you share as a family - while still disagreeing with the initial separation.
The Department of Child Services has been in error due to neglect so many times, at the expense of innocent children … it seems now they are going into over-drive to make certain they are not guilty of taking all pre-cautionary measures - again at the expense of innocent children and parents too.
The term “intact family” was once their goal. I do not understand why dividing family members are part of the intact strategy.
Enjoy the love while it is there to embrace.
Janice
I have learned baby steps are giant leaps of faith when it comes to the court system, I am happy for any time you share as a family - while still disagreeing with the initial separation.
The Department of Child Services has been in error due to neglect so many times, at the expense of innocent children … it seems now they are going into over-drive to make certain they are not guilty of NOT taking all pre-cautionary measures - again at the expense of innocent children and parents too.
The term “intact family” was once their goal. I do not understand why dividing family members are part of the intact strategy.
Enjoy the love while it is there to embrace.
Janice