Her Daughter Was Stolen Through a Corrupt Legal System…
This Mom’s story is heartbreaking! In 2013, at age 20, after leaving an abusive husband, she sought refuge in a women’s shelter. That is where it all went wrong.
An older woman who worked in the shelter befriended her and offered to help, taking her and her 1 yr old daughter into her home for 2 months. After gaining her trust, she persuades the young mother to go into another women’s shelter out of state where they would help her get on her feet (college, job, home, etc). Then, she offers to take care of her 1 yr old daughter until she gets established in her new location. Grateful for the help, and trusting her friend, the young mother accepts the offer… but before she is to leave, the “friend” presents her with some papers… “This gives my husband and I permission to get medical attention for your daughter in case anything were to happen while in our care.” So the young mother signs the papers, barely even glancing at the words – trusting her friend. And she leaves her daughter in their care while she sets off to make a new start for herself and her child.
She is able to get a job, and begins taking college classes. Soon, she has a car and an apartment. She visits her daughter on weekends or days off. Over time, the “friend” begins to make excuses on visit days… “I’m sorry, we have company that day… I’m sorry, the baby is sick… Oh, we’re gonna be gone that day… ” Or she goes to see her child and the friend is “gone” … and she waits and waits, sends texts, “I’m here… where are you?” (no reply) “When are you gonna be home? I have to go back soon.” (no reply)
The young mom begins to be very concerned and sends texts that she is established and wants her daughter back. “You can’t” …she is told. “Why not?!” “Because we have custody.” She finds out that the papers she signed that day in a meeting at a city park with her friend were not just any old papers… they were guardianship papers.
She is now fighting for her daughter through the courts, as a corrupt judge awarded the “friend” with adoption, refusing to look at documented evidence or hear witness testimony proving her attempts to see her child, to provide for her child (despite that the friend refused her monetary help), and that she has held a stable job for 3 years and is able to care for her daughter.
Will you help her? Let’s get this story out, please, and maybe we can join together to pray. If you know of any legal or advocate organizations that might help her, please pass them along as well using the form below!
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God bless you!
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