For almost six years, I have been documenting everything. That’s how long it has been since I left my abusive marriage… where I intended for my children to retreat to safety and healing with me.  I have recorded nearly every phone call, visit, kept the timeline, saved the details, and carried the weight of a situation that has made no sense for far too long. I am a mother first, and I am speaking because my children and I have been living through a legal nightmare that keeps ripping families apart without the full truth being heard.

I am talking about protection orders, custody decisions, and forced separation that can change a child’s life overnight. Legally enabled abuse is very real and I am determined for our story to be heard because our truth matters and my children deserve to feel and be safe and loved out loud by their protective parent. They always were allowed their mom until their mom left their dad and if dad couldn’t have mom anymore, I suppose the children couldn’t either. I was their only full time caretaker their entire life prior to this. This story is far too common. I am talking about what happens when a court system moves forward on allegations while documented evidence, and a parent’s repeated warnings from the very beginning do not seem to hold real weight of concern and necessary action. When that happens, children pay the price right along with the parent trying to protect them. Parental alienation should be a crime and everyone involved to enable it, from legal to personal levels, deserves to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. 

Family courts must be required to fully review available evidence before separating children from a parent or allowing that separation to continue. That means documented call records, prior reports, relevant recordings, and the full context behind accusations should be examined before decisions are made that keep families apart. No parent should be pushed out of their children’s lives because a system accepts claims at face value while delaying or ignoring the evidence that could show something very different if anyone relevant would care appropriately. 

The same day I called the police for help in January of 2021 for the first time, is the same day I left. He was charged with assault and battery and served with a protection order. The children were ordered to stay with him. He had them alone for 2 days before our son had 3 teeth busted out of his mouth,  with conflicting stories from multiple sources. Cps did nothing and then our son had a broken arm weeks after that. I did everything the courts ever asked of me and more. I fought the good fight and was awarded visitations after 10 months of forced separation with them for the first time. The dss supervisor over our case told me I would never see my kids again if I did not drop my protection order and so, I did. That is how visitations were presented to me and it’s not fair for children to be weaponized like this. It has been a fury of hell since and you would have to deep dive into my story to comprehend just how terribly this has all been handled and how much it exposes the corruption behind cps and family court and the way domestic violence situations are handled, especially with how much evidence was presented and adamantly ignored. Summer of 2025 he was investigated again following a 13 day hospital stay of our youngest daughter. She was in the ICU and was intubated and had emergency surgery in the process. My children and I were failed again. I spoke out for the first time ever after that and I was arrested on lies months later. I have been on bond and awaiting a singular court date since march for an arrest off lies. It is now November. Legal retaliation is very real and it comes in a lot of forms, including but not limited to, from legal officials that are supposed to be there in the name of community service and protection. 

I know I am not the only parent who has felt powerless in a system that is supposed to protect children. They do not care about these children. If you believe family courts must slow down, review the facts, and stop allowing life-changing separations without meaningful evidence review, please sign this petition.