so here is the situation for all to read please help i need all i can get right now lol! the begining my partner now had a baby with his ex whos never been quite right in the head depression and a seemingly compulsive need to lie, when his little girl was born the mother was living with her mother(childs grandma) who hated my partners guts for unknown at the time reasons, whilst she was living there he only saw his new baby twice, and didnt get his name on the birthcertificate... she borrowed money from us to put a deposit down on a flat ect and because we believed it was in our best interests (he would see the child more) we never asked for it back. skip a year.... child was on visitation me/partner and childs mother sat down to talk about lies we thought she had told us, childs mother has lied about.. having no food in house (for money), made people up in her head, told us her father(childs grandfarther) had molested her as a child, stolen money, i could go on but you get the picture. anything for attention and sympathy if it gets her money all the better, now she asked us to take over custody of the child till she got some help we happily agreed, she was with us for a month childs mother moved back into grandmothers never got help but because child was with us voluntarily we believed that it was just taking a while to get the help she needed but she still had childs best interests at heart....... they took her, only grandmother is a controlling alcoholic and mother is having dellusions what do we do!!! this was a phonecall last night that told us this i cannot sleep for worrying for the precious little angel who always has a ready smile even through neglect that her mother told us about after we had taken over care of her (not changing her nappy from morning til nnight, not taking her out for days/weeks at a time/ not changing her clothes/FORGETTING to feed her) i have no idea where to go from here please help us we need to protect this child i only let her go because solicitor told me that if we refused access we would be in the wrong xx