Submitted by June

my cousin and her boy friend came from out of town to help us pack our stuff so we could move with them back to let’s say Arizona we were almost done with the house when on Saturday the 13th of 2009 my daughter who is 9 told my cousin that someone we trusted had molested her (my daughter never told me any of this) my cousin later that evening told me what my child had said .I was shocked I was crying so hard when I found out. Sunday the person my daughter had told my cousin had hurt her called to bring back my car seat for my youngest child and some movies he had for the kids I meet him at the door and got the stuff he walked in behind me and started yelling at me that the kids are acting out because they don’t want to move I was so mad I asked my kids with him there if they wanted to move they each said yes after he left he constantly called my cell saying he’s sorry for everything and getting me upset my cousins boyfriend got on the phone and told him not to call again or we would go to the police with what the kids had told them. on the 14th I called the school and reported the information to them the school called the police on the 15th the police called me to schedule an appointment for my kids to be interviewed so we all went in on the 23rd it was all going well I was told several times I was doing everything right and we were free to move to Arizona on Saturday the 26th but a few min later they hurried me off to another room and still in the beginning told me I was fine and could leave Saturday but 30 min later they told me "your kids are telling us that you knew 2 years ago I repeated there’s no way I knew 2 years ago if I did I would have reported it then the officer said I seriously doubt you were ever going to report it so we are taking your kids into protective custody I asked why I didn’t know till Saturday the 12th they said we don’t believe you and they escorted me out the back door I asked several times where are my kids? Can I see them? they told me my kids were gone .later that night I received a phone call from my kids and through their tears they were asking me where are you mom ? and I replied through my tears I’m at the old house babies I’m at the old house ,they in turn replied through tears we were playing out front waiting for you but you didn’t come back where are you we are scared we want to come home. I cried I want you home with me too they walked me out the back door and wouldn’t let me say good bye to you but I promise I’m working real hard to get you home I promise . then Thursday came and I was told I can’t have any contact with my kids and later that day I was served court papers that said the state is going for custody of my kids and that my kids are a ward of the state I have obtained an attorney on the 23rd and have been going house to house in our neighborhood obtaining letters from all my neighbors staring how I am with my kids and that I have never left them alone and that they know that if I had known years ago I would have reported it well today is now Sunday and the house is almost done being packed and repainted I can only stay here till oct 3rd then I must leave but I won’t go anywhere without my kids and I have surgery coming up on the 28th of oct I’m hoping to have my kids back on sept 30th