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Hon. Andrew Ellis

Magistrate · Boise, Ada County, Idaho

Andrew Ellis . . 287-7491 200 W. Front Street ..Fax 287-7499 Boise, ID 83702-7300 September 2025

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★☆☆☆☆ Member of the public

Melissa Lowry with CPS put in a sworn affidavit that I didn’t want my granddaughter to return to my home. I didn’t even see that document until eight months later. My granddaughter lived with us her entire life — six years. We also had an open guardianship case with a hearing scheduled just two weeks after she was removed. And let’s be clear: No CPS worker and no officer ever came to our home. Not once. Then two months later, the Guardian ad Litem, Alexis Saucedo, filed court documents claiming Officer Bish came to our home, saw my granddaughter within arm’s reach of drugs, and that my daughter was arrested. That never happened. None of it. There was no home visit. No drugs seen in the home. No arrest. Yet those statements were put into official court documents — and even signed off on by an attorney. And here’s the part that should outrage everyone: It was never corrected. These false statements were used in court, in decisions about my granddaughter’s life, and no one fixed it — even after the truth was known. This is exactly how families get torn apart — not by facts, but by paperwork that doesn’t match reality.