The case about baby Raymond Liu is a tragic one and one that did not have to happen. Raymond Liu’s mother, Sally Liu, is severely schizophrenic and bipolar. He was, since birth, under the care of his maternal grandmother and aunts whether he was in Houston (where one aunt lives in Sugar Land ) or in Phoenix, Arizona where his mother’s twin sister, Connie, and extended family live.  There was no emergency; no evidence of danger, abuse or neglect to baby Raymond when CPS took him a few days after his mother’s arrest during a psychotic episode in a Chinese grocery store, where she slapped the store clerk. Baby Raymond was born in February of 2005 and was taken by CPS and placed into foster care on March 9, 2006. The mother was in a psychiatric hospital, and the baby was being taken care of by his grandmother who does not speak a word of English when CPS came with an “interpreter” and took the baby by force. Because the grandmother did not understand what was happening, and who/what CPS was, the grandmother would not let go of the baby. And the police was called to intervene. On March 10, 2006, (the day after CPS took the baby) the family called the Asian American Family Services (AAFS) seeking help to get the baby back.  On March 15, 2006, the family came to the AAFS. The caseworker contacted CPS, and was told the case had already been sent to “court” and was out of the caseworkers’ hands. Within the intervening 12 months, the grandmother succeeded in contacting and getting the birth father to fly from Arizona to “come get the baby”. He passed the DNA test as the father, and also passed the Arizona home study in November of 2006. However, CPS in Houston denied his rights to the baby because he was never in the picture previously, and CPS “feared” he would give the baby back to the mother who is mentally ill and cannot take care of the baby and thus “endangering” the baby. In March of 2007, the father gave up his parental rights in hope that it would be granted to Raymond's aunt and uncle, Connie and Tony. Meanwhile, baby Raymond has been in the state's care and has been placed into a foster home for the past 18 months. When the birth father was not successful in “getting the baby back”, the mother’s twin sister and her husband (Connie and Tony) filed for petition in Houston (in April 2007) to get their nephew. Connie and Tony's homestudy was also approved in July of 2007 but once again the local CPS would not accept it. CPS contended that they did not know about the family for a year, or that the family wanted the baby. They asked the family why they did not show up sooner, and why they did not go visit the baby more frequently after the petition by the family. Since then, Connie and Tony have made numerous trips from Arizona to Houston to attend court hearings to gain custody of their nephew, Raymond.