Same-Sex Adoptee Privilege: Groomed OKDHS Solicits Child Molester's Opinion to Sway Court, End Bio Parents Rights
Shocking Documents. OKDHS Hides Critical Case Information from Court.
V1SUT recently released the story of Lincoln Lochman who, in December of 2020, was removed from his parents by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services Child Welfare Services division (OKDHS-CWS) shortly after his birth despite his mother’s active involvement in addiction services and prenatal care through the Substance Use Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Prenatal Clinic at the OU Health Science Center.
Both mother Gardenia Lochman (then Sarver) and baby Lincoln tested negative for drugs at the time of his birth, and a plan was already in place for the STAR Clinic to support the family after taking Lincoln home.
Inexplicably, the Cleveland County office of OKDHS stepped in, disregarded the STAR Clinic plan, removed Lincoln from his parents and placed the newborn into the foster home of male, same-sex, married couple Solan and Ryan Harrison. The Harrisons legally adopted Lincoln in November of 2022 after his parents were threatened with the loss of all future children to the state if they did not relinquish their rights.
Despite Child Sex Abuse Arrests, Indictment, Suicide, OKDHS Fails to Acknowledge Dangerous Placement
Solan Harrison was arrested for child sex crimes both before and after becoming Lincoln’s foster/adoptive parent and a Moore Public Schools 6th grade teacher. Those arrests involved providing alcohol to and sodomizing a minor in April of 2010, and sexually abusing a child under the age of 12 on a cruise ship in March of 2024.
A source indicates Solan Harrison’s victim related to the 2010 arrest was likely his future spouse Ryan Harrison, then 16 years of age. Kansas authorities are unlawfully withholding all information concerning that arrest.
It has since been revealed that Lincoln, then 3, was with Solan and Ryan Harrison on the Carnival Dream cruise ship (March 2024) when Solan Harrison was arrested for allegedly molesting an unrelated male child. The Harrisons were taken off the ship and flown back to Oklahoma by federal authorities but Lincoln was not removed from their care.
There is no evidence that anyone, including OKDHS, intervened to investigate similar, potential abuse to Lincoln or ensure his safety in any way.
Following his cruise ship arrest and federal indictment for “Abusive Sexual Contact With a Child Under 12 Years” in June of last year, Solan Harrison took his own life leaving Lincoln, now 4, in the sole custody of Ryan Harrison.
Still, no one from OKDHS or law enforcement stepped in to ensure Lincoln’s well-being.
Ryan Harrison relocated to Wichita, Kansas, with Lincoln shortly after Solan Harrison’s death. Despite multiple reports of concern to both state agencies, Oklahoma (OKDHS) and Kansas (KDCF) have refused to investigate the Harrisons and potential abuse to Lincoln and two other boys (then ages 5 & 7) previously fostered by the Harrisons.
Bio Parents Obtain Court Records: OKDHS Hid Relative Placement Option, Concerns About Harrisons, and Critical Parent Progress from Court
Andrew and Gardenia Lochman recently obtained all documents from the Cleveland County District Court’s juvenile deprived case involving Lincoln and have given V1SUT permission to publish all information contained in those court records.
Critical Case Information Omitted from OKDHS Reports to Court
Court documents reveal a pattern of OKDHS omitting concerning information about the Harrisons and critical information about the Lochman’s efforts, services and progress from reports to the court.
In requesting initial emergency custody of Lincoln, OKDHS Child Protective Services worker Jessica Chevarie failed to inform the court Gardenia Lochman had been under the care of the STAR Clinic for several months, was not currently using any substances and she and her child had tested negatively for all substances at the time of Lincoln’s birth.
In her December 17, 2020 affidavit to the juvenile deprived court, Chevarie indicates a Family-Centered Services (FCS) case in which Lincoln would go home with his mother and be monitored by OKDHS was not appropriate “due to on-going and chronic pattern of substance abuse and lack of stable living environment”.
During an extensive interview, Akeatha Washington, the lead OKDHS permanency worker for approximately the first nine (9) months of the case, expressed serious concerns for Lincoln’s well-being in the Harrison’s home and repeatedly questioned why the child was ever brought into custody. Washington reports those concerns were relayed to her superiors on multiple occasions and were refuted in favor of the Harrisons.
Court documents confirm the court was never made aware of Washington’s concerns or her observations of the Lochmans as caring, appropriate and never missing a visitation with their baby. Due to repeated delays in adjudicating the case, Washington was never allowed to submit her normal, 90-day reports to the court.
Case Was Not Adjudicated According to Law
Court records confirm the separate claims of both the Lochmans and then OKDHS permanency worker Akeatha Washington stating the case was not adjudicated according to state law. Adjudication requires OKDHS to prove the necessity for bringing a child into state custody and typically takes place within 30 days of removal.
Oklahoma State law:
“If the adjudicatory hearing is delayed pursuant to this subsection, the emergency custody order shall expire unless the hearing on the merits of the petition is held within one hundred eighty (180) days after the actual removal of the child.” (§10A-1-4-601)
When the case had still not been adjudicated beyond the designated 180 days stipulated by state law, the Lochmans claimed Lincoln was no longer in state custody.
According to both the Lochmans and Washington, OKDHS informed the agency had obtained a second emergency order from the court to retain temporary custody of Lincoln and his placement in the Harrison home beyond the 180 day limit. There is no such second order within court records.
It appears the case was finally adjudicated on October 7, 2021, more than 300 days after Lincoln’s removal. At that time, the Lochman’s were given an entirely new service plan. “They made us start all over again,” says Gardenia Lochman.
Records also show the Lochmans each had to apply three times before being provided court appointed legal counsel.
OKDHS Hid Kinship Placement Option from Court
Court records also show OKDHS neglected to inform the court about appropriate family members who repeatedly contacted the agency to seek placement of Lincoln.
V1SUT has interviewed those family members, Eugene and Angie Lochman, Lincoln’s paternal uncle and aunt, and obtained email communications showing their efforts to gain placement of Lincoln in their home.
When their communications with Akeatha Washington abruptly ceased during the vetting process, the couple reached out through a main OKDHS email address (inforeferral@okdhs) on August 25, 2021.
Child Welfare Supervisor Jennifer Baker responded to inform Akeatha Washington was no longer with the agency. Washington reports the agency’s treatment of the Lochmans prompted her voluntary exit from OKDHS.
Eugene and Angie Lochman were connected with a different permanency worker, Rosemary Love, who informed by phone Lincoln was in a good placement and could not be moved to Texas where the couple resides because the case goal was still to reunite the child with his biological parents in Oklahoma.
Rosemary Love is a 2019 graduate of the University of Oklahoma’s School of Social Work, a progressive institution that rewards students for their LGBT advocacy.
Eugene and Angie Lochman were never notified when the case goal changed to adoption despite clearly communicating their sincere desire to “take the custody if he (Lincoln) is permanently removed from my brother”.
In court documents, OKDHS lists only the rejection of a maternal aunt for foster placement as the agency’s required “reasonable efforts” to place Lincoln with relatives as mandated by state law. With no mention of Eugene and Angie Lochman, a financially stable, married couple raising healthy children, as a willing, kinship, adoptive option, the court allowed Lincoln to be legally adopted by the Harrisons.
OKDHS Used Molester’s Opinion to Urge Court to Terminate Rights
OKDHS permanency worker Rosemary Love, after failing to inform the court about a viable, permanent placement with Lincoln’s paternal aunt and uncle, solicited an optional form from Solan and Ryan Harrison.
The “Resource Parent Report to the Court” allowed Solan and Ryan Harrison to provide their assessment of the Lochmans while lobbying the court to terminate parental rights and allow their legal adoption of Lincoln.
Less than two years after the above form was filed with the court, Solan Harrison would be again arrested and indicted for a child sex crime. Lincoln remains with Ryan Harrison, and OKDHS has repeatedly refused to investigate potential abuse to Lincoln and two other boys previously placed with the Harrisons. All referrals of concern to the child abuse hotline have been screened out.
When a family places a child in harm’s way, OKDHS steps in. When OKDHS places a child in harm’s way, the agency refuses all inquiries. Despite multiple attempts, OKDHS director Jeffrey Cartmell has failed to respond to this publication’s questions about the Lochman case.
There’s much more to reveal on the Lincoln Lochman case. Stay tuned.
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Thank you for your efforts on behalf of the Lochmans. OKDHS is a disgrace to Oklahoma.
There's a possible typo here: "Andrew and Angie Lochman were connected with a different permanency worker,"
As always, excellent job! This quality of investigative journalism is extremely rare!