I need your prayers and advice

Some of you old timers may remember me. I posted experiences with adopting my cousin's 2 teenage RAD kids. The oldest, C, moved out at 18 to live with a drug dealer and has recently given birth to his baby. It's the other one, T, that causes me to loose sleep these days. After the shoplifting at Walmart, we looked into the Florida Sheriffs Ranch (he was too close to 18 for them to accept him), Wilderness Camps (couldn't afford the $3500 a month), Job Corp (he started acting better and my guilt as a failed mother got the best of me) therapy (basically told us we got these kids too late, and just pray for the best). Based on C's myspace page and notes from T's girlfriend (yes there has to be a girlfriend) we knew he was planning on moving in with C and her drug dealing boyfriend. I had been working with a Behavioral Therapist and really was focusing on supporting T's relationship with his birth mom- encouraging him to contact her and share things as they happened in his life. In a last ditch attempt to help T have one of those 'come to Jesus' experiences, we bought him a round trip ticket to North Carolina for a Thanksgiving visit with his birth family. A few weeks before he was to leave, we learned he had physically assaulted our 27 yr old mentally and physically challenged son; on one occassion, going so far as trying to suffocate him, Our son, A, has been experiencing nightmares and flashbacks of the event adn I have finally found a therapist who treats the mentally disabled. So, in an effort to keep both A and T safe, WE decided to tell T once he was in NC that it would probally not be a great idea for him to come back to Florida as the police would most likely arrest him on felony battery. But... insert the girlfriend and the well meaning family at church that he was scamming and they helped him get back to Florida- just in time for Dept of Children and Families (DCF) to come to our house to investigate abandonment charges. (T was one week away from his 18th b-day and moving in with C-and the drug dealer). At the time we really felt by him staying in NC, it would protect both A and T. Oh, A did file for a restraining order; it was granted as temporary; we attended a hearing and it was extended until June09, but modified to allow T to go back to the same High School based on teh lies he told the judge during the hearing. Now to the part I need your advice, DCF has closed the case. finding there were 'some indicators' of abandonment. I knew the moment the Investigator asked why we didn't discuss our plans with T prior to sending him there, he was not going to be on our side. There was also an issue with me withdrawling T from school (assuming he would enroll in NC) and not wanting him to be back at the high school he was attending while living with us- we have a daughter at the same school and she was scared he would confront her, not to mention, the Day Program A attends is next to the High School. I offered all sorts of alternative schools, but he wanted to be at the school his girlfriend was at. So.. now here we are with our reputations in question; the program supervisor for DCF investigations informed me there is not an appeal process. I am so upset by the whole thing. I want our names cleared, but do not know what is left to do. I have thought about writing the editorial staff for our newspaper, perhaps, contacting my Senator, or even the Governor's office. Please help!!!!