While in foster care, Hope became a heroin addict, dropped out of school and grew so despondent that three times she tried to commit suicide. Records show she ran away at least 11 times, only to be brought back to her torturers. Medical reports indicate that she sustained such deep cuts to her arms that doctors called it satanic ritual abuse. Hope was placed in foster care in March 1993 after CPS claimed Kidd abused her. The mother never had the hearing that Washington state law requires within 48 hours.
Evidence shows mother and daughter had a strained relationship.
Kidd objected to her daughter associating with boys involved in drugs and opposed Hope s desire to adopt a lesbian lifestyle. In 1994, Kidd was granted custody of her child under a court order. That order came after three separate investigations found the allegations that the mother had abused Hope were false. The attack now appears to have been a premeditated tactical move between Hope s attorney, CPS, and the lesbian foster-care providers, which gained time for CPS secretly transfer custody of Hope to an alternative by residential placement run by yet another lesbian. The move only could have been filed by Hope herself or her state-appointed attorney, and approved by a judge.