Our tragic little tale
Not so many years ago I allowed my children to go stay with their aunt for one week. I never got them back.
Last year I finally got a judge to look at the case and he awarded me unsupervised visitation every other weekend from 6 pm Friday to 3 pm Sunday. My sister and her boyfriend immediately left the courtroom and walked downstairs to the sherrifs office where they filed a phony report that I threatened their lives in the hallway outside the court and they got a restraining order against me contacting them at all. For anything.
Pretty hard to arrange visitation under those circumstances. Especially when her boyfriend is supposedly the mediator in the visitation plan.
This is just a little sample of how they operate and what kind of baloney I have had to put up with for the last five years.
I have chased them from state to state trying to keep my children in my life, and doing everything I can to stay in their lives as well. The last time I saw my daughters was Christmas Eve, 2004. That was the day my fiance proposed to me, and when my sister's boyfriend found he could not intimidate my man he cut me from all contact with my children, saying my home is not a healthy environment for MY children.
The last time I saw my son was the last time I took my sister to court. It was so hard not to be able to give him a hug. So far the only people who have known the pain I endure are myself, my fiance and a couple friends. The only people who could understand it are other mothers and fathers who are human men.
It kills me that these two kidnappers can use my country's judicial system against me the way they have. The city police tell me it is a civil matter. The prosecuting attorney tells me they don't prosecute complaints like mine. Nobody seems to understand that my children were kidnapped!
We have few judges (if any) who have the wisdom of Solomon. We do have a preponderance of judges who are former prosecutors. People who know how to judge by the laws of the land enforced by the judicial system that passes for justice in our society.
It is going to take awhile, but I will be adding more of this story to this blog over time so that someday my kids can read this and know that I did not abandon them for whatever ungodly reasons I am sure they have been told. If our story somehow helps someone else (or gets me some help) all the better.
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