Continued from Page 11Despite Anamarie's good physical health, the ordeal of being forcibly removed from her parents and her home has taken a traumatic toll on the child's emotional health.
"I think she still remembers (what it was like to be taken away)," Margaret Martinez, Anamarie's grandmother, said.
"She's scared of strangers, new situations," Adela Martinez said. "She has nightmares at night, she's very clingy. She still thinks they're (CYFD) going to take her away."
Fortunately, CYFD is no longer a part of their lives.
"They've stepped back," Adela Martinez said. "They don't see that there's anything more they need to do."
"We would like the public to know that we did not make Anamarie that way (obese), like the state wants everyone to believe," Margeret Martinez said. "I would like to know if any one out there can help."
"I would like to see the State change the way they just come in and take a child out of a loving home and turn everyone's lives up side down without even thinking or even caring what it does to everything in the family or to the child," Margaret Martinez said. "I would like to know who gives them that right."