Story

1. I am a single mom. I’ve recently had to start over due to a domestic abuse family situation. Since we literally had to leave everything behind while leaving that mess I learned that I was pregnant. I lost my job the day after I disclosed my pregnancy and have remained on unemployment trying to just keep afloat and keep my vehicle during my entire pregnancy as I was extremely sick with hyperemesis gravidarum until the day my beautiful daughter was born in September. I currently have a job yet it was the only job I could find currently and near home since my vehicle was finally repossessed a month after my daughter was born. Due to my past and the domestic abuse and even though we moved DCFS investigated me for potential risk of harm and made up false allegations which has allowed them to remove my child due to “protective custody.” I understand my past faults and yes I trusted and chose the wrong partner, but I got us out of that situation and we lost everything we had in the process. Now im about to lose my kids as well due to the mistakes that horrible monster that pretends to be a man has caused for us? Have we not suffered enough already due to his choices, mistakes, and misery? All of this st my children’s expense. Im a great and loving mother and they desperately want to come home. Im doing all I can just to keep a home and try to rebuild what little we had before this mess and I just keep getting struggle after struggle and setbacks galore. I was given a public defender who I recently had to fire d ue to her incompetence or inability/ unwillingness to actually do her job and “provide a proper defense on my behalf” , or even a sub par defense. I can’t afford any attorneys and most wont even consider a payment plan. I have recently found a godsend in a lawyer referral service that claims they can assist me with a private attorney for $650.00. I am hoping to raise this through prayer and this website and I am just hoping and praying that for once the common good of a strangers kindness might actually work out in our favor, just this once, I need a reason to believe in the common good of people and that this quality may still exist somewhere. I’ve never been able to ever get help when it matters and for what it actually matters for. BUt this once I have to pray and just attempt to see if good hearted strangers and that kindness for a stranger still can exist in our world as it currently is… my children need this just as much as I do. We have always needed each other and found our happiness in being a family that nothing and nobody can take away from us. And now in a very desperate time in our lives we find this miserable, heartbreaking situation happening to us on top of everything else. I know if I had the financial means and a decent attorney that they NEVER would have been removed to begin with.