Submitted by needmybabies

My Nightmare!
January 2nd, 2010 by needmybabies


I write to you today as a victim. My Children and I have become victims at the hands of the DCF of Florida and the uncaring Florida Judicial System.

I am pleading to you today to help me find a way to right a wrong, to undo an injustice that has torn a loving mother away from 4 beautiful and amazing children. My two older children are with their father – my ex husband. My two younger children are in foster care.

7 months ago, DCF waltzed into my live, and without warning removed my children from me. I tried following their rules, doing things their way to win back my children, but I am being railroaded and nothing seems to be good enough. I am done with being silent while they dictate my life. I’m reaching out in need and desperation. I am done standing alone for myself and my children. I am seeking help and hope to have my children returned to me.

My nightmare began when I was a victim of a one time assult by my husband. My husband is a kind, loving and gentle man with NO history of violence. This one time occurance has been described by doctors as a “mental snap” that I believe to have been caused as an effect of open heart surgery he had the year before. While he was in jail, we both seperately infomed the DCF case worker that we would work things out when he was released, that we would put our life together and figure out what that happened together. I also told her that I would visit him in jail as soon as his suicide watch was lifted, which was just a few days later. I went weekly and a few times more, over the next 4 weeks to visit him in jail where we talked greatly about what had happened, what we needed to do next, and where we were going to go when and if he were released – soon or in the future. We did not know what would happen, and I was so very relieved and thrilled when charges were completely dropped with no stipulations.

I was never told I was not allowed to see him upon his release.

I was never told, so when released we were together to begin to heal and work through things and figure out where we went from there. DCF then swooped in without warning and removed my children. I was NEVER told I wasn’t allowed to see him or that the children couldn’t see him. If I had been, I would not have gone against that. I recieved no warning. If they had just said that I did something wrong and not to do it again, I would not have. I would not have done anything to jepordize my family.

But no one told me there were rules. No one told me that I messed up and just to not do it again, no one told me anything but just snatched my children away and have treated me like I’m the bad person in all of this. No one will listen to me. There are many things within the court papers that are completely false and if that is basis for the continuation of removal of my children, it’s more than wrong. Within my case there have been so many unbelievable things that has been written or has happened including but not limited to – complete falsehoods in the paper work; a case worker who told myself, and my husband, at a court hearing that she didn’t know about our baby (who is in foster care under HER supervision) - and then she laughed about it; a GAL who threatened my roommate.

I’ve played by their rules and jumped through the hoops. I’ve done everything they have told me to do as soon as they told me to do it (unless it was their fault, such as lack of funding) but now I’ve hit a wall. They want me to have my own place and in these economic times how is it that a single mother unable to find full time work is supposed to do that? I have a part time job that I love, but have yet to be scheduled more than 24 hours a week so I’m not getting the money I need for a place AND electric/water. I do currently have a room I rent in a beautiful home in a gated community. It is enough room for myself and my two babies, yet that isn’t good enough for them.

It feels like they have already decided to not reunite me with my children. In my last set of court papers it states that they goal is reunification but then it also states that the case manager has filed for termination of rights. How do I fight what is already set in motion? I am asking anyone who will listen for help. Please right this injustice. Please step in and help me. Please bring me back my children.

Please contact me for more details or if you are able to help.

Thank you.