The one thing I did leave out was that I had an emergency phone call on the job from the guy's ex-wife (the guy my ex is now married to). It happened around the same time that DCS called me.
She told me that my kids were living in filth and that I had to get them out of there. She spoke of him and told me that he basically thrived off of abusing women and children. She told me that he had held my daughter (who was almost two years old at the time) in the air by one arm and was spanking her bottom so hard that she was swinging back and forth in the air.
I saw red.
I was shaking.
I headed straight for the front door to leave work.
Fortunately, it was break time and a VERY good friend of mine stopped me and said, "Whoa..!!! HEY! What's wrong?!"
She talked me down and helped me to be more level-headed and told me to be sure I handled everything legally. If not for her, there's no telling what I might've done...