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Michelle’s comments are extremely funny. She left my house that she rented with $15,000 worth of damage and is running from the law. I called the police to inspect the house and she has lost custody of all but one child. This woman lives on others…and now she has no child support coming in. Do not fall in to her “sad” story… she brought it on herself. Michelle, you will pay me back for the house damages if I have to follow you around forever.

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Let’s get a few facts straight about Michelle….. like Leslie said, don’t fall into her sad lil story and she brought it all on herself. She is a falling down drunk that abuses her position in an attorney’s office. Her “husband” (if their marriage is even valid… can a gay man be an ordained minister and perform marriages in GA? lol) is a lazy bum that expects his crew at work to do all the labor while he goes home and indulges in sicko internet porn (and likely child porn). He is the one that has a closed military record for sex-type crimes. The ex-husband of the ex-wife that supposedly plead guilty to molestation and child cruelty…. HA…. not even close. That poor man was cleared of all charges and allegations because he is innocent and hopefully the father of this little girl will someday be charged and found guility of all he has done… including what he done to his ex-wife without her consent! (you don’t even wanna know) And furthermore, he and Michelle need to be prosecuted for all the neglect and psychological damage they have caused to all 8 children involved, as well as the sexual abuse to all the girls. Don’t pretend you don’t know Michelle…. acting stupid won’t help you when judgement day comes. You can apparently fool the courts… but you can’t fool God.

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We are so lucky to have had 4 babies at work all at the same time. We’re a small company and have a policy that for the first 6 months (before they really start to need lots of room) you can bring your baby to work. We set up a nursery and put a changing table in the women’s rest room. Our executive offices have baby swings, a pack n play and play pen, so you can put your child in it, while you have a meeting. Need to run an errand, have think time or “just can’t” deal with one more sound! Well, with 8 other women on staff and a couple of liberated men, there’s always someone to hold your child. If your company hasn’t thought about doing it – think again. Our employees come back to work sooner, the anxiety of child care is much less at 6 months than right away and let me tell you – as a would be Nana, holding a sweet smelling child when you’re upset after a call from an angry customer takes all the blues away.

Look at our website – http://www.babytimeExpo.com to see photos of our staff in action with our babies.

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To Whom It May Concern:

I am hitting a lot of dead ends and my family and I need HELP. I was looking for some resources in Georgia that would help me and my husband. I have been on my job for 5 years and my husband has been on his for 3 years. We work very long hours and have little extra time for our kids because of the current situation. His ex wife lost there kids to DFCS when her current husband pleaded guilty to child cruelty and molestation. My husband was awarded custody for 2 years while CPS was roped up in our life for over 4 years. Day in and Day out. We never knew when a new case worker would come and take the kids due to his ex wife and all of her 20+ allegations. At this point there are so many police reports, case reports and court filings stating that she has given false statements and fraudulent allegations and she has yet to be brought up on charges. His ex wife file an emergency hearing for custody in September and my husband did not have an attorney. The ex wife’s allegation is that my husband molested his daughter and not her step father (the one that pleaded guilty). The guardian said yes and the judge agreed. Why we have no clue. The guardian however left my 3 girls in our home and stated he did not have any evidence to remove them. Why? Because there is none! The judge also said my husband’s 6 year old daughter could choose if she wanted to see her father. Crazy! Now the judge ordered my husband to pay 1000.00 in child support and his ex wife owes him over 5000.00 and refuses to get a job so he has to pay more. Also my ex husband owes me over 27,000.00 in back child support and the Office of Child Support Recovery has tried to close my case 2 times now because I filed a contempt. My case with OCSS sat dormant for over 4 years before they would do anything after I gave them every bit of information on my ex you could have possible needed. Then they agreed to allow my ex husband to pay 100.00 per month toward the 27,000.00. On top of that while my current husbands kids were in the custody of DFCS but living in our home and we were classified as foster parents his ex wife did not have to pay a dime to support the kids and nor did the state. DFCS could not even keep up the medical insurance on the children. On one occasion the kids were removed from our home for 3 days and put into foster care because of one of the ex wife’s allegations. The case worker was told by the county we were living in at the time not to remove the kids yet she did it any way and had to promptly return them to our home. It was left up to me and my family to provide for the children. Now we have an attorney that does not know what to do. The guardian that has refused to talk to me or my husband but has talked to all other parties involved and has refused to look at the past 4 years of investigations to conclude this case with the kids best interest in hand. This guardian has now taken my 3 girls and placed them with their father in South Carolina without even talking to witnesses to draw a factual conclusion as opposed to an opinion of what is truly going on. I thought the guardian was not to base his opinion on who has paid and who has not. Also to top that off my ex husband has gotten together with my current husbands ex wife and they are teaming up to get all of our kids. If we have been investigated every month for 4 years, at this point after jumping through every hoop the state has thrown at us and allowing strangers into our home whenever they knocked on the door, it will be very hard to prove us unfit as the state of Georgia did not. However the other parties involved have already been proven unfit. I need some help in 1. Getting my step daughter back as there have been no grounds to remove her from our home. 2. Getting child support set off and 3. Getting the guardian looked into and possible removed. Just 1 more FYI DFCS in Cobb and Cherokee county Georgia are on our side yet we have seen the abuse of power they have thrown at us. We have found if you fight back with knowledge it only gets worse and they can take the kids for anything. DFCS has cost my family everything we had in savings and retirement in order to fix what they did. Please help we can not pay an attorney to help. We have 8 kids all together and do not make extra money. Just enough to get by. Please help. We have emailed 100 different people including the governor of Georgia. The governor’s office even said they were unable to help us. This is a very small portion of our story as I said this has gone on for over 4 year. There is so much to our case and so much abuse of power and not enough people to help our family I can only imagine what some people do in our position. I always thought that in this country if an allegation was made against you that you had the right to face your accuser and defend yourself. We have yet to be given the opportunity to do this. If you have any resources or any ideas in order to help they would be greatly appreciated.

Michelle Engesser

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Every time I see a parent bring her baby or even older child to work I tell her (usually a “her”) how wonderful I think it is. Think about all of the funny faces she might get in a day…and then finally someone says “GREAT!” I think about how to get things to change in our culture we have to really show our support, not just say we support it. I encourage everyone to say “I think it is great you have your child at work with you…” and let the conversation go from there. (Same with public breastfeeding as well.)

Two recent kids-in-the-workplace I observed and gave positive feedback: one in a Sunglass Hut shop (not island) at our local shopping mall: a father took over the care of his little girl for a brief time at the end of his shift and this was fine with everyone. It was great to see a father say so publically, “caring for my child is my job too” #2 I got lunch delivered to my home from a locally owned pizza/diner spot here in Charlottesville, VA a week ago. The woman who delivered our lunch said, after we exchanged everything, “my daughter who is his age (3ish) is actually in the car!” and I said “really? Good for you!” and she said “I told my boss that since it is the holidays I don’t have my normal care provider so I either work with her or we both stay home and he said ‘fine with me’” and I we discussed “why wouldn’t it be fine?” She mentioned that deliveries were so quiet over the holidays that finding care for her child would have been ridiculous since the two of them had great fun just hanging out for the few hours and making the occasional delivery.

I think we need more managers to be loud about how well this works for everyone. When I brought the idea of bringing children to work with a bunch of childless people recently the reaction was “but that would be so distracting–for the mother and her coworkers”. The public needs to hear otherwise.

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