Please Help my cause!! Please remove my Daughter Sierra Star Sutton's photographs off of Facebook af

My name is Christopher Sutton. My Daughter Sierra Star Sutton was born with a rare disorder called Gastroschisis. This is a condition where the intestinal organs are outside the abdominal wall. Sierra was placed on the National Transplant list and awaited her transplant. This period of time was the most traumatic for the mother and I. After a long fight and dealing with DYFS we were stripped of our custodial rights for lack of a residence. We lost it all trying to accomodate all the hospital's requests, social worker requests and DYFS requests. The hospital gave us one option find a stable home or she will be removed from the National Transplant waiting list. At this time I made the judgement to call up my half sister Heather Smith-Douglas and humbly ask her if she and her husband would let my daughter and I stay there. She said "yes" and Sierra and I moved in with her. This allowed her to remain on the list. The mother moved home.

About a month later the mail came and there was a bank statement from my daughters Transplant Fund. I viewed it and realized that $1000 dollars was taken from the Transplant fund. To set up a Transplant fund you need to have two people monitor and sign off on any check made from it. Since the law states that the parents are not allowed to open up a transplant fund due to possible abuse by the parents. So we had it opened up in our daughters name and placed my mother and Heather Smith-Douglas in charge of overseeing it, although the decisions came down to the parents. Once I had spoken with my mother I was informed that she had signed 5 checks ahead of time so as to save time for her as she had to drive 15 miles to sign them. So the only person capable of accessing the account was Heather. If we needed funds released to us the parents we asked to have it and Heather would get a check signed. The period where I was staying with Heather, Heather had told the mother and I that the Transplant Fund had little funds in it. So we did not access it for necessary funds. So it basically left little doubt where that money went. The next night I approached the subject tactfully with Heather after spending the night with my daughter at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC. Since I was living with Heather, and was just picked up at the hospital by her I had to approach the subject with extreme caution. Once I asked her why and showed her my proof Heather became violent and struck me 3 times and attempted to grab the bank statement. I removed myself, the mother and our daughter Sierra from that situation. We were assisted by the mother Angela's friends who were husband and wife. They had a house with a spare room that they said we could stay at. The husband and I spent all night setting up that room with a crib, changing table, and a bed for us. I sent the mother and her friend back to Heather's to retrieve every medical supply and medicine for a week until I could set it all up to be shipped to the new house.

The next morning after spending all night setting up the room DYFS called me. They told me they had to inspect the home. According to my mother, Heather had called her up and told her that next morning that I just took my daughter and she did not know where I was and I had no medical supplies for her, clearly a lie, but my mother thinking appropriately told her to call DYFS. I told them they could come there and inspect it. I was completely satisfied with how the room looked and had everything she needed plus all the proper training to take care of her. The only thing I needed to do was call the nursing agency and have everything transferred to there. Two DYFS workers showed up. One was the female caseworker and the other a support worker who was male. After inspecting the home the caseworker told us to sit down. So we sat and then she says, "that you have to place her back at Heather's House". We opposed it immediately, the male caseworker then says, " Why is this? They clearly have it set up nicely", the female caseworker said "It does not matter, she must go back to where the hospital released her". I protested as any parent would do! She then threatened us with two options, the State taking full custody of her within a couple of hours or voluntarily place her back down to Heather's until the hospital okayed the new place. I immediately called the hospital and they said it was not there decision that DYFS has the ultimate decision. Since that point on I have never been able to get my daughter back.

I was allowed to see her but only at the DYFS office and it was scheduled for when Heather could show up. She never showed, and DYFS did nothing about it!! I sought out legal representation and no one would take it pro-bono. They had all told me the case was to big to do it pro-bono. During this whole time Heather made sure that my family and I would never have a chance to get her. She had filled DYFS with her lies and DYFS left us to prove different. You cannot prove a statement said by another if there is no proof to support that it was not a lie. So the mother of Sierra finally submitted and reliquished her custodial rights and now it was solely on me. The State gave me a certain time limit to accomodate a place for her that would be suitable post-transplant. They never even entertained the fact that I had a room for her at our friends house and being large enough to handle that situation until we got back on our feet. They did however place her into Heather's home which was a 1/2 duplex. She lived there with her husband and son and daughter. The house I had set up for my daughter was larger than this and it was only the our two friends and there daughter. I fought over this whole situation as we had the place. So we stayed there for about a month and a half until there landlord had told them that we had to move due to the place being rented out to just them. Since I had no help I was on my own and homeless I could not get this done in the timeframe allowed and the state took permanent custody of Sierra.

Sierra was removed from Heather Smith-Douglas home due to alledged malnutrition and neglect according to DYFS. Of course no charges were brought up by DYFS against Heather and Sierra was placed on the ARC list and eventually adopted. Now here it is 6 yrs. later and I have found that this woman Heather Smith-Douglas has posted pictures of Sierra on Facebook without consent from Sierra, the father, the mother or the new adoptive parents. All are taken pre-transplant and show Sierra in her most sensitive state. One is even a NUDE Baby Photo with all her lines coming out of her!! As her father I am appalled by this and extremely broken up that my daughter has been violated in such a fashion by such a callous person!!
 
Please show you care by signing this petition and sending it to everyone you know to have Sierra's photo's removed from Heather Smith-Douglas photo album on facebook.

I ask everyone who reads this to put yourself in my(the father) shoes for a moment and ask yourself, would you want someone who did all this to you and made your life more painful by creating the whole situation that cost you the most beloved person in your life posting pictures of your daughter on the internet showing her pre-transplant condition?

Plus posting a picture of my daughter naked with all the tubes hanging out of her?

 How do you think Sierra will feel when she is old enough to see the pain she suffered as a child if these photo's are not removed? That is a memory that I know she would want to forget. I was there almost every day and I saw the pain she endured. She is the strongest person I know and I love and miss her with all my heart!!! I know my daughter and I know that she would not want this. Please Help me her biological Father by signing this petition and have those photo's removed from Facebook. I want to see Heather prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law for this violation of her rights.  Please stop this person from having those provocative photo's of my innocent daughter on Facebook.

I thank each and every one of you for your help. If anyone knows how I can fight and possibly get her back I can tell you a story that you could never believe of the horrors of the National Transplant system, The Medical System, and The Division of Youth and Family Services(DYFS). I had a lawsuit then and if this story could find it's way to the right person or team of people to investigate this tragedy it may reunite my daughter and me. I can only hope. Feel free to email me@ chris22298@hotmail.com. Thank you all for your support.  My love for my daughter is eternal......Please Help me!!!