Help me get home to my mom

  • by: Shaylin Denae
  • recipient: This is to every person who can hear my story and try to help.
No one has cared what has happened. It is not fair or just to be called a prostitute and torn from my mom when I am a rape victim. If I can be treated this way then anyone can. I  need justice and help for crimes that hve gone overlooked and I am being held back from moving forward. No 13 year old should be abused like me an then torn from her mom. I need my mom the very most right now.
PLEASE SHARE!!!!! My name is Shaylin Cottingham. im 13 years old and everyone needs to know the truth. I know there are a lot of rumors going around about me and I feel like I should have a right to say the truth. my grandmother has been abusing me emotionally, physically, and mentally. she has talked bad about me including my looks, the way I talk, th...e way I act, and she wouldn't let me have Hispanic or Black friends. she has tried to turn everything around on me and make me look bad. when my older sister left her house she went crazy then my brother left and she got worse. I cant do anything right for her. in public I have to act like my life is perfect with her but when we get back to her home it becomes a nightmare that nobody else experiences. I became suicidal while I was living with her. I felt like I had no hope and no future. she always put my mother down and wanted me to hate her so did my Aunt Tonya and Aunt Jennie. even if my mother was bad I don't need to hear it. a judge helped me get home to my mother after learning my grandmother and aunts lied. my mama is kind and supportive no matter what. she doesn't deserve to be put down and neither do i . nobody does but everybody needs a chance and needs to know the truth.. when I was raped at my grandmothers she didn't care. she told me I deserved it and if I had a nigger baby she would not raise it. since ive been with my mama ive known love. shes taken me to doctors because my grandmother didn't take me for years (eyes, shots, dentist, or even for the rapes) counseling and we were waiting on paperwork to go to a transitional group home for over coming my abuses. at court my grandmother admitted I was raped. 12 days after being home with my mother the Welfare came and took me away. they said it was to find out who had custody but now theyve taken me away from my mother. I was doing fine at my mom's but the welfare stated " the child has exhibited risky behaviors such as prostitution and running away from home" i know Ive done wrong in my life but being called a prostitute and whore when I was abused by my grandmother and raped isn't right. thats false accusations and I don't appreciate it. my mom has done nothing but try to help in every way possible and the welfare should be helping instead of hurting us and keeping us apart. I want to stay with my mom and have a happy, normal life. I want and need to heal from all this hurt. I don't deserve to be called a prostitute when im a rape victim. HELP ME FIND JUSTICE BECAUSE THERE HANT BEEN ANY SO FAR.
Update #19 years ago
So far nothing has been done. I have been in a foster home and moved again. I need someone to help spread the word. I don't want to worry anyone with my problems but this is wrong for me to be taken from my mother. I should have been reunited with her a long time ago instead of kept from her. Please help me get home.
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