Location: Tennessee
We (paternal grandmother and partner) hosted a baby shower 8 months ago. Guests purchased approximately $2,000 worth of gifts for our grandchild. The maternal grandparents insisted that the parents live with them to increase their SNAP benefits. (matriarchal grandfather would sell/trade the food to support an unfortunate addiction to unprescribed pain pills). When the baby's mother and father decided it would.be best to move out of their home, I arrived prepared to transport all the gifts that were given at the shower. The maternal grandparents had disposed of (sold, bartered or returned) the gifts for personal enrichment. The child now needed replacements for nearly all items that the parents had been told were; "locked in their closet for safe keeping".
The paternal grandmother and her partner supplied an additional $500 worth of gifts for the shower.
Would this be an issue that law enforcement could provide assistance or is this a civil matter? The maternal grandparents were never given permission by the parents to sell any of the gifts given to the baby/parents.