Help Me Get my Daughters Back- *TIME SENSITIVE*

  • by: leigha hoffner
  • recipient: Lawrence Flood, Judge, Cook County Juvenile Court calendar 2-B
This is to help me get my daugthers back who have been taken by the state four years ago.  They are currently with their paternal grandmother, who in all her wisdom does not want them to ever see me again because i am not with her son anymore who has not see his children in 2 years.
I am writting this for my daughters Jessica age 10 and Michelle age 9.  They were taken from me in December of 2001.  The allegations were that I was unfit because I had a drug problem.  However the facts of the case are wrong.  I was at the time of their being taken in a drug treatment facility.  I have went over the court records and so far I have been through 150 pages of it and have found 49 errors that are lies the caseworkers have made.
I have been clean and sober for 4 years now and still my children have not been returned. i haven't always done what they have wanted me to do when they wanted me to do it but i have done it.
My children are being physically spanked by other people who have no respect for them, they have been told by their grandmother that they don't want to live with her and that they want to come home.  i see my children everyweek and speak to them on the phone daily.
I am currently pregnant again and since i became pregnant again their grandmother has started to try to get me out of their lives by doing mean things to me and to my children such as- telling my children that they can't call me anymore, that she is going to go find their father and drag him back so that he can spank them, told them that she is going to call the worker to tell her to take them back because she can't handle them.  She is an older woman who is set in her ways and believes that they only way that my children will be saved is to stay in the church, which they attend 4 or more times a week.  They are not allowed to call friends, go outside and play or be children.
I am worried because now my children are telling her that if she doesn't let them see me or talk to me that they will hurt her. 
She thinks that the best thing to d is to raise them the way that she is and that anyone else who tries is going to mess them up.
I think she is trying to brain wash them and they aren't going for it.
I am more concerned that one day she will push my children to far and something will happen to my children that I wo't be able to stop.
I am writting this to give to the Judge of my case so that he will see how much I am willing to do for my children.  All the allegations of unfitness where dismissed against me and still no return.
If i was such a bad mother why haven't they taken my son who is not in the system or why aren't they going to take my new baby?
I am so concerned for my children that i have contact their counselor and discussed this with her and she has even agreed that it is wrong but because she works for the state all she can do is write her report and it is up to the worker to submit it to the Judge which she doesn't.
I need help to try and get these girls back home where they belong so that they can be normal happy healthy-physically, emotionally and mentally again.
Please take the time to read this and please help.
I must say that i have not always been a perfect person or mother but nobody is and no matter what i love my children and would and will do anything for them.
I was young and made alot of mistakes but i am not the same person i was and shouldn't be judged on my past but what i am doing now.
UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
I have since gotten the girls moved from their grandmothers home and into a non relative home that is doing fine. I have another petition i am about to start thank you all so much for all your help
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