My Family And I Are Concerned For The Lives Of My Nieces In The Custody Of My Sister And I Need Advice On How To Ensure Their Safety.

I posted here a few months back asking for advice with making sure my nieces were safe when they moved to Chicago and my sister hid her address from everyone and wouldn’t let my nieces talk to any one of their family members for a while. A lot has happened since then and my sister filled the car up with things and left the state without telling anyone she was moving. Her kids and our grandmother thought she was visiting for a few weeks but it came out she was actually moving there which raised a lot of alarms for everyone. According to her she also did not inform her probation officer. She also informed us she was back with her abusive ex boyfriend who her daughters are terrified of and who she was dealing drugs for previously, and probably is again now. I will refer to him as D.

My uncle already called the Chicago probation and let them know my sister was in Pennsylvania probably without permission. She says she was called and told to come into the probation office next week (this Monday) and is now on her way back to Pennsylvania where she left the girls with our grandma while she went to get butt surgery done in New York over a week ago. In the meantime her oldest daughter has started to have breathing problems again, likely a combination of my sister smoking right next to them as well as anxiety. She was brought to the hospital a week ago because she was struggling to breathe and they would not take her until my sister comes back and brings her in.

When we try talking to my sister about how scared the girls are of D, she blows everyone off and threatens to remove the girls from our lives and says we shouldn’t be talking adult stuff to her kids. Mind you, no one is telling the kids things about D, the girls are talking to us about things that happen and why they are scared of him. When my youngest niece was in counselling her counselor informed me if D was still in their lives we may need to involves CPS. This is due to him kicking her out of the way when she tried to break up a fight between my sister, which is something she talked to our grandmother about around the time it actually happened as well. And her oldest would start flipping out crying and screaming when her little sister brought him up and would tell her not to even talk about him.

I am reaching out specifically because they were recently in the car together and D was slapping and hitting my sister while she was driving, causing her to swerve all over the road. My oldest niece tried calling 911 but hung up when D asked her what she was doing, and my youngest niece announced to the car and everyone after the incident that she was scared she was going to die. They also think a car was following them and called the police on them because they also visited D later (i believe) about this incident. This is not the first instance like this and I’m sure it will not be the last. My sister told them she wouldn’t bring him around anymore, then left for her cosmetic surgery, called them and informed them that he will be their new father.

I don’t give a shit what happens to my sister at this point is there anything I can do to ensure the safety of my nieces and keep them away from D? After all of this my family is saying there’s nothing we can do until she goes back to prison. Is this really the case is is there something we can do for them? Couldn’t CPS do anything to help? I am 2000 miles away but there’s also family in town with them who can help.