Take photos when he comes back in that condition. Then stop sending him and file a motion for emergency relief. (I forget what it's called...someone here will know) Basically, you file in court stating that she's got him in unsafe conditions, bring all the documentation you have (emails offering to help her clean it up and she refused, photos of the bites on his body, etc) and then you get a judge to tell her she either cleans the shit hole or she doesn't get visitation.

Besides that, wtf? Child services should be on this. Start Monday morning and call for a supervisor. DO NOT talk to the lowlings that answer the phone. Politely but firmly demand a supervisor until you get one. Then tell them, calmly and politely, that you are extremely frustrated because the workers have refused to do anything, you have all this documentation and you want something done to protect this child.

Does BM rent? Call her landlord and anonymously report that the house is trashed and infested with bugs.

You are not having luck with CPS. Leave them behind you in a trail of dust.

1. Look up your state legislature's website. Find the committee that overseas CPS. Find the name of the chairman of that committee. Call that person's office first thing Monday morning and ask for "constituent services." A liaison should come on the line. Tell that person your tale of woe and tell him you have organized documentation. Tell him your bottleneck seems to be CPS won't cross some imaginary jurisdictional line. This should get you some relief one way or the other.

2. Call the Health Dept. for the County BM lives in. Offer them your story and documentation and find out if they can inspect her home.

I am surprised the school nor the ER could pursue this further. That's a ridiculous excuse for CPS to let him suffer. There should very well be away around it and going to the legislature is a good way to get things going.

Okay this is what we did under similar circumstances.

SS would go to Sperm Land visitation 80% toilet trained, clean and well groomed which in our home is the norm. He would come back after Sperm Clan visitation in diapers so loaded they would leak all kinds of foul ooze, half inch grunge caked finger and toe nails, with puss filled welts oozing all over his backside, diaper rash so bad his anus would bleed when we cleaned him up, black grunge under his arm pits, in his crotch, arm pits, and waist line, and BO so bad it would gag a maggot or a buzzard.

We started completely documenting his cleanliness and grooming prior to departing for Sperm Land visitation then started picking him up from the airport and going directly to his pediatricians office where they would examine him, treat his pustules, document it all, and call CPS immediately. CPS would come immediately to the docs office where we would show them the dated predarture photos and the travel documents for his today return from Sperm Land and his departure to Sperm Land airline documentation. Texas CPS would call Sperm Land CPS and they would come down on Sperm Grandhag’s house and the Sperm Idiot’s house like stink on shit.

The Sperm Clan would whine and cry about how they could not afford diapers (remember, in our house he was in training pants not diapers and was ~80% toilet trained), claim that they did not have time to toilet train him (all they had to do was let him go to the damned toilet when he asked), claim we were interfering with their visitation and trying to control how they parented, tried to sue us for harassment, and generally did all they could to not have to provide for the kid’s (then a toddler) when he was in Sperm Land.

My IL’s at that time sounds much like the BM in your world’s home now. We never let the Skid even visit my ILs ever. The ILs live in the heart of Sperm Land and tried repeatedly to get us to send SS to them either before or following his Sperm Clan visitation so they could spend dedicated time with the Skid. My bride never once agreed to that and to this day if we visit we stay in a hotel because my ILs house could easily be on an episode of Hoarders.

So, take your Skid to the doc each and every time he comes back from BMs covered in flea bites. Let the doc drive the CPS response to BM. They should come down on her hard. At least that was the case with my Skid under similar circumstances and we never lived nearer than 1200 miles and at least 2 or 3 states from Sperm Land.

Good luck. This kid needs someone to bring the pain down on his disgusting mother.

You won't get thrown in jail. It also takes a while to get a contempt of court charge which is the charge filed if you ignore a court order. Ignore the court order. You'll get called before a judge and that's when you show him all the documentation and proof of what is going on, the medical problems you're ss is having, and proof that the BM refuses to do anything about it and social services won't help. It's a crap shoot yes, and they'll probably be a fine for ignoring the court order, but you have to argue that you were doing it in the best interest of the child.

While doing all of that pick the kid up some Avon Skin so Soft Original bath oil. It is kind of teal blue in coloring on the packaging. It works to hide the fact he exists from fleas, teach him to apply it to himself a couple times a day so at least he doesn't have to suffer. It comes in a 5 ounce spray, and there are 16.9 ounce and 24 ounce sizes so it can be refilled.

I hate seeing kids suffer with fleas because of disgusting parents, and I see it a lot. These kids who know nothing better because their parents live in squalor with 5,6,7 or more animals that are virtually ignored. I fell pretty bad for the animals too getting eaten alive by fleas... But you are more likely to get an animal control unit to rescue the animals than you are to get CPS to rescue a BMs pay check... Err kids.