Sentenced: OK Child Welfare Worker Wanted To Protect 1YO Girl, So She Kidnapped Her

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A new state child welfare hotline worker has been accused of using a faked court order to kidnap a 1-year-old girl from her home in Midwest City to protect her.

Xander Daniel Faison, 33, was fired Monday, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services said.

Faison told police she wanted to help the child's mother who had reported the father was abusive, according to a court affidavit.

The child was taken to a foster home in Shawnee on Sunday, three days after Faison picked up the girl from the mother, a Midwest City police officer reported in the affidavit. A DHS employee told police Faison was in training and not authorized for fieldwork.

She had worked for DHS since Oct. 14.

Police reported Faison had faked documents with stamps from the Oklahoma County court clerk and a stamp with a judge's signature. "I got them from the internet," she told police about the forms, according to the affidavit.

Faison was asked by police specifically if she "used her powers at DHS to help the mom and take the child," according to the affidavit. "Yeah," she responded.

Faison had presented "emergency custody" documents to the mother on Thursday and threatened to call police if the mother did not give her the child, according to the affidavit.

The mother reluctantly allowed Faison to take the girl "based off believing the documents were official," police reported. Faison had said she would take the girl to a foster home immediately.

Faison took a referral call on Dec. 30 from the mother regarding possible abuse by the girl's father, police reported. Faison also claimed she had been contacted in November about taking custody of the child "because the mother did not want the daughter."

Faison on Friday got an emergency protective order on behalf of the child against the father. Faison claimed in a petition the child was placed in her care due to the father "stating he would kill her."

District Judge Kaitlyn Allen on Monday vacated the order of protection.

Oklahoma child welfare worker wanted to protect 1-year-old girl, so she kidnapped her, police say

The girl was taken to a foster home in Shawnee three days after hotline worker picked her up from mother in Midwest City, police report.

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On Aug. 19, Faison was sentenced to 25 years, including a 10-year suspended sentence, and the first fifteen years to be served in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.

The father of the child is now suing DHS, claiming that DHS was negligent in the hiring, training, supervision and oversight of its employee.

The lawsuit claims DHS "hired and/or retained employees with actual or constructive knowledge of prior misconduct, including a background of fraud of dishonesty in another state, yet failed to properly screen, investigate or disqualify such employees from positions of trust."

The father is asking for compensation for emotional distress and for the court to direct DHS to "implement and enforce adequate hiring, training, and supervisory safeguard to prevent recurrence of such misconduct."

KFOR reported that on Feb. 2, Midwest City Police responded to a kidnapping by a DHS employee.

Xander Faison went to a mother's home on Jan. 30 stating she worked for DHS. Faison showed an emergency custody form and said if the child was not handed over, police would arrest the mother.

The mother allowed Faison to take her child, under the impression the girl would be cared for by a relative and approved for approved for a foster parent, KFOR reported.

Faison kept the child in her apartment for three days before police arrested her.

At the time of the incident, Faison was in training for DHS and took calls through the hotline. She was not authorized for fieldwork and the documents were falsified.

While working the hotline in December, Faison received a call from the child's mother. Court documents said that Faison claimed her alternate personality, "Phoenix," was worried about the health of the baby.

Faison claimed that "Phoenix" created a fake cell phone number and email to convince her partner that a family member wanted them to raise the baby.

Police said this is not the first time Faison has tried to kidnap a child. In 2024, she allegedly posed as a homeless alliance worker and tried to kidnap a different girl.

Father sues DHS after employee kidnaps his 1-year-old daughter

The Oklahoma Department of Human Services is being sued after an employee used fake documents to kidnap a 1-year-old girl.

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