A Divorced Parents Worst Nightmare!
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Please help us protect our little girl, if you have any information please contact us ASAP.
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Being divorced is hard enough. There are always issues and questions about how to properly raise the child in two different homes, child support, visitation…it can be a mess. But, there are hidden nightmares. NO ONE tells you about when you get divorced. There are monsters lurking in the shadows and sometimes that monster is the person who is supposed to be caring for your child.
We all have seen this on TV, one parent kidnaps a child, takes off and the police find them; they save the day! End of episode. Life is not TV show. There are not always happy endings and in these types of scenarios there are not always heroes. The episode just plays on and you have to learn how to live with it, because as we all know life never stops.
As parents who have been divorced, my husband and I have faced unimaginable hardships. We fought to keep my daughter safe and watch out for her mental well-being when we were trying to protect her from her abusive father, we prepared for war when my husband wanted to adopt her, we fought to get shared custody of my husband’s daughter, Jaylee, for almost a year with her mother…each of these battles we won. Now we face a new war and we never thought it would happen to us.
The last time we saw our daughter, Jaylee Martin (9), was when we dropped her off, at her mother’s house, after having her for Christmas, December 28th, 2016. Since that time we have not seen or heard from her; the bigger issue is that her mother and step-father are nowhere to be found. They have virtually disappeared and our daughter is missing. For all intents and purposes, this is parental kidnapping, but ONLY in the eyes of the court. That is what I said, ONLY in the eyes of the court. The police think differently.
I know what you are thinking, we have shared custodial rights. We see our daughter routinely, share extensive visitation over the summer, split holidays, pay child support and medical care religiously...that means THIS CANNOT HAPPEN, the law WILL PROTECT ME. You’re wrong, we were wrong. That paperwork stating, we have SHARED CUSTODY, is wrong. If we truly had shared custody the police would be issuing an amber alert, issuing a missing person’s report and they will not. According to Law Enforcement, this is a civil matter that must be dealt with in the Courts, not by the police. This is a divorced parent’s worst nightmare and we are living it.
You might be asking, so what? The mother can have the child, this is true. We are not negating that, but there is more to the story.
Back in December 2015, we realized Jaylee’s mother Jade Kimberly Swenson, aka Jade K Jones, aka Jade K Martin was evicted from her home in Inverness, Florida. That was the first time they moved. In November 2016 they moved again, but not just 5 minutes down the road; they moved 55+ miles from Inverness to a remote property in Lady Lake, Florida. She did this without court notice and without notice to us. My husband, Jeremy, found out they moved as he was going to pick up Jaylee Friday, November 10th, 2016. He was halfway to Inverness when Jaylee’s mother, Jade Swenson, texted him with a new address. We thought you could not do that, but apparently she did and can. They lived in this home in Lady Lake until January 4th, 2016. We questioned the conditions of the move because there was no reason for it. The home they were renting in Inverness 1146 Trailridge Ave, Inverness Florida was in good-standing or at least it was legally. We discovered that Jaylee was withdrawn from school improperly so the school board contacted us. She was supposed to have been “home schooled” but was never enrolled. So it is January and Jaylee who is in 3rd grade, has not been in school for going on 3 months.
The home at 5763 Marion County Road, Lady Lake FL is a half million-dollar property so we wondered how they could afford the move and why the home was posted everywhere as FOR SALE. That is when we began digging and after Thanksgiving discovered they were again being evicted for nonpayment of rent.
So after the holidays on January 13th, 2017 Jeremy texted Jade to pick up Jaylee early for our weekend. Jade said they were vacationing in Davenport and would meet Jeremy at 7 at the home in Lady Lake, which they were forcibly evicted from January 4th, 2017. Jeremy decided he had had enough of the games and asked Jade if it would be wise to meet there as they had been evicted by the owner. Jade became furious and told him to meet them there at 7, she asked why he was in her business and his response was it pertains to the safety and well-being of our daughter, so I want to ensure she is safe. No response.
He went to the home and arrived early. The plan was to have a friend follow them back to wherever they were living now as it was obvious they no longer lived in Lady Lake and she was hiding this address from us. 7 arrives, nothing. 7:15 arrives, nothing. So he calls—straight to voicemail. He texts iPhone to iPhone and it is sent as text message. He calls again-straight to voicemail. She blocked him. He waited until 7:45PM and she never called, messaged back, emailed or showed. We emailed her when he came back home explaining she cannot withhold Jaylee. No answer.
So we dedicated all of our spare time gathering information on Jade Swenson and her husband Shawn Swenson and retained a lawyer Monday, January 16th, 2017. We tried contacting Jade again several times and as of January 18th, 2016 her T-Mobile phone has been disconnected. So we reached out to the dealership they purchased the car from, it has been up for repossession for months, but they cannot find them. Both Jade’s and Shawn’s license have been suspended as of January 18th, 2016. They are not anywhere on social media. WE CANNOT FIND THEM.
Friday, January 20th, 2017 we got an emergency order for pickup and custody signed by a judge to go get her, but where? We discovered Jade Swenson is selling items under the handle: Waiwai on Letgo. So we setup fake profiles and asked friends to “buy” something in hopes to set up a meeting. We also thought she was using her Wi-Fi geo-location automatically and every time she logged into the app, it flagged a location. Friday we saw she was in Starke, so we spent over 14 hours canvassing, searching and hunting her down. Nothing, but during that time I managed to set up a meeting to purchase an item Saturday, January 21st, 2017.
We called the Marion County Sheriff, and Belleview Police to verify our order for pickup of a minor child and have Jade meet us in an open spot at Pasta Faire restaurant in Belleview, FL. We were supposed to meet at 9AM sharp. The police took over an hour to verify the order and circled the parking lot twice, so if Jade Swenson was in the area she ran and has not been on the only app we were using the track her since.
Now we have NO LEADS on their whereabouts.
Our next steps were to try to plead to the Lake County Sheriff to allow us to issue a Missing Person report. They explained they could not. The law will not allow it, because Jade Swenson is considered primary custodial parent so Jaylee is “supposed” to be with her. However, we pressed charges against her for interfering with the court order for time-sharing. But, it is disheartening to learn that shared custody is not really shared. There is still a “primary” parent who does have the right to do whatever they choose and unless the “noncustodial” parent has the money to get a lawyer to go to court or get a Private Investigator to do what the police cannot do. This is the law folks and the irony is that the laws were created to stop parents from doing EXACTLY what Jade Swenson is doing, which is hiding and keeping a child in potentially dangerous conditions as we believe they are absolutely desperate for money.
How do we know they are desperate for money? Jade Swenson has stolen money from her mother’s bank account, she has been caught on tape using a fraudulent credit card in her mother’s name at Sam’s Club in Ocala, FL. She has taken out several other cards in her mother’s name and her uncle’s name as well. They have not paid car insurance, they have not paid their cell phone bill, they have not paid their car payment and the last contact they made with family was asking for money. They also never paid rent at the home in Lady Lake and attempted to fraud BB&T bank into falsely backing her claims she did. She then leased out the property she was evicted from in Lady Lake FL and made our minor child, Jaylee collect this money from a stranger! Why they are doing this we don’t know, but we do know our daughter is not safe. Just the thought of her collecting money from a stranger scares me. What else are they willing to do for money?
We are now sharing this story because we are not detectives, we cannot forgo our lives to do what police cannot to find this little girl. We have to do the hardest thing possible, and live with the situation. We have to live with the wonder, the fear and the pain of loss because our daughter is missing. She is not safe and the last time she was with us she cried and begged her mother to not go home. We also are facing the fear if we cannot do something we may never see Jaylee again. Our other daughter is living with the stress of losing her little sister, and we are living with the constant question of where is Jaylee, is she safe, why is this happening to us?
I didn’t know how parents can live with a child who has been kidnapped especially with other children to be strong for, calm and collected for, and stay engaged. And while Jaylee has not been kidnapped by some stranger she has been taken by an unstable, potentially dangerous person. Honestly, we were told by the police we would have more rights had a stranger taken our daughter. That is a terrifying thought.
Living with this…is like carrying a stone. Right now it feels like the weight is crushing down on all of us, in time I know it will lessen, but it will always be there. The law is flawed. Family law is supposed to protect children, and it doesn’t. Mental abuse, neglect, these terms are out there in government write-ups but why? Children are not removed or protected from these things. It’s just jargon. I even found a pamphlet on parental kidnapping written by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement—it states to file missing persons, etc., everything we HAVE DONE, but this was written for the custodial parents. Not us. No one ever told us that. The pamphlet doesn’t say that…so we need help. Everyone’s help to find our daughter.
Please help us protect our little girl, if you have any information please contact us ASAP.
[email editado] or (352) [teléfono editado]
[email editado] or (352) [teléfono editado]
Being divorced is hard enough. There are always issues and questions about how to properly raise the child in two different homes, child support, visitation…it can be a mess. But, there are hidden nightmares. NO ONE tells you about when you get divorced. There are monsters lurking in the shadows and sometimes that monster is the person who is supposed to be caring for your child.
We all have seen this on TV, one parent kidnaps a child, takes off and the police find them; they save the day! End of episode. Life is not TV show. There are not always happy endings and in these types of scenarios there are not always heroes. The episode just plays on and you have to learn how to live with it, because as we all know life never stops.
As parents who have been divorced, my husband and I have faced unimaginable hardships. We fought to keep my daughter safe and watch out for her mental well-being when we were trying to protect her from her abusive father, we prepared for war when my husband wanted to adopt her, we fought to get shared custody of my husband’s daughter, Jaylee, for almost a year with her mother…each of these battles we won. Now we face a new war and we never thought it would happen to us.
The last time we saw our daughter, Jaylee Martin (9), was when we dropped her off, at her mother’s house, after having her for Christmas, December 28th, 2016. Since that time we have not seen or heard from her; the bigger issue is that her mother and step-father are nowhere to be found. They have virtually disappeared and our daughter is missing. For all intents and purposes, this is parental kidnapping, but ONLY in the eyes of the court. That is what I said, ONLY in the eyes of the court. The police think differently.
I know what you are thinking, we have shared custodial rights. We see our daughter routinely, share extensive visitation over the summer, split holidays, pay child support and medical care religiously...that means THIS CANNOT HAPPEN, the law WILL PROTECT ME. You’re wrong, we were wrong. That paperwork stating, we have SHARED CUSTODY, is wrong. If we truly had shared custody the police would be issuing an amber alert, issuing a missing person’s report and they will not. According to Law Enforcement, this is a civil matter that must be dealt with in the Courts, not by the police. This is a divorced parent’s worst nightmare and we are living it.
You might be asking, so what? The mother can have the child, this is true. We are not negating that, but there is more to the story.
Back in December 2015, we realized Jaylee’s mother Jade Kimberly Swenson, aka Jade K Jones, aka Jade K Martin was evicted from her home in Inverness, Florida. That was the first time they moved. In November 2016 they moved again, but not just 5 minutes down the road; they moved 55+ miles from Inverness to a remote property in Lady Lake, Florida. She did this without court notice and without notice to us. My husband, Jeremy, found out they moved as he was going to pick up Jaylee Friday, November 10th, 2016. He was halfway to Inverness when Jaylee’s mother, Jade Swenson, texted him with a new address. We thought you could not do that, but apparently she did and can. They lived in this home in Lady Lake until January 4th, 2016. We questioned the conditions of the move because there was no reason for it. The home they were renting in Inverness 1146 Trailridge Ave, Inverness Florida was in good-standing or at least it was legally. We discovered that Jaylee was withdrawn from school improperly so the school board contacted us. She was supposed to have been “home schooled” but was never enrolled. So it is January and Jaylee who is in 3rd grade, has not been in school for going on 3 months.
The home at 5763 Marion County Road, Lady Lake FL is a half million-dollar property so we wondered how they could afford the move and why the home was posted everywhere as FOR SALE. That is when we began digging and after Thanksgiving discovered they were again being evicted for nonpayment of rent.
So after the holidays on January 13th, 2017 Jeremy texted Jade to pick up Jaylee early for our weekend. Jade said they were vacationing in Davenport and would meet Jeremy at 7 at the home in Lady Lake, which they were forcibly evicted from January 4th, 2017. Jeremy decided he had had enough of the games and asked Jade if it would be wise to meet there as they had been evicted by the owner. Jade became furious and told him to meet them there at 7, she asked why he was in her business and his response was it pertains to the safety and well-being of our daughter, so I want to ensure she is safe. No response.
He went to the home and arrived early. The plan was to have a friend follow them back to wherever they were living now as it was obvious they no longer lived in Lady Lake and she was hiding this address from us. 7 arrives, nothing. 7:15 arrives, nothing. So he calls—straight to voicemail. He texts iPhone to iPhone and it is sent as text message. He calls again-straight to voicemail. She blocked him. He waited until 7:45PM and she never called, messaged back, emailed or showed. We emailed her when he came back home explaining she cannot withhold Jaylee. No answer.
So we dedicated all of our spare time gathering information on Jade Swenson and her husband Shawn Swenson and retained a lawyer Monday, January 16th, 2017. We tried contacting Jade again several times and as of January 18th, 2016 her T-Mobile phone has been disconnected. So we reached out to the dealership they purchased the car from, it has been up for repossession for months, but they cannot find them. Both Jade’s and Shawn’s license have been suspended as of January 18th, 2016. They are not anywhere on social media. WE CANNOT FIND THEM.
Friday, January 20th, 2017 we got an emergency order for pickup and custody signed by a judge to go get her, but where? We discovered Jade Swenson is selling items under the handle: Waiwai on Letgo. So we setup fake profiles and asked friends to “buy” something in hopes to set up a meeting. We also thought she was using her Wi-Fi geo-location automatically and every time she logged into the app, it flagged a location. Friday we saw she was in Starke, so we spent over 14 hours canvassing, searching and hunting her down. Nothing, but during that time I managed to set up a meeting to purchase an item Saturday, January 21st, 2017.
We called the Marion County Sheriff, and Belleview Police to verify our order for pickup of a minor child and have Jade meet us in an open spot at Pasta Faire restaurant in Belleview, FL. We were supposed to meet at 9AM sharp. The police took over an hour to verify the order and circled the parking lot twice, so if Jade Swenson was in the area she ran and has not been on the only app we were using the track her since.
Now we have NO LEADS on their whereabouts.
Our next steps were to try to plead to the Lake County Sheriff to allow us to issue a Missing Person report. They explained they could not. The law will not allow it, because Jade Swenson is considered primary custodial parent so Jaylee is “supposed” to be with her. However, we pressed charges against her for interfering with the court order for time-sharing. But, it is disheartening to learn that shared custody is not really shared. There is still a “primary” parent who does have the right to do whatever they choose and unless the “noncustodial” parent has the money to get a lawyer to go to court or get a Private Investigator to do what the police cannot do. This is the law folks and the irony is that the laws were created to stop parents from doing EXACTLY what Jade Swenson is doing, which is hiding and keeping a child in potentially dangerous conditions as we believe they are absolutely desperate for money.
How do we know they are desperate for money? Jade Swenson has stolen money from her mother’s bank account, she has been caught on tape using a fraudulent credit card in her mother’s name at Sam’s Club in Ocala, FL. She has taken out several other cards in her mother’s name and her uncle’s name as well. They have not paid car insurance, they have not paid their cell phone bill, they have not paid their car payment and the last contact they made with family was asking for money. They also never paid rent at the home in Lady Lake and attempted to fraud BB&T bank into falsely backing her claims she did. She then leased out the property she was evicted from in Lady Lake FL and made our minor child, Jaylee collect this money from a stranger! Why they are doing this we don’t know, but we do know our daughter is not safe. Just the thought of her collecting money from a stranger scares me. What else are they willing to do for money?
We are now sharing this story because we are not detectives, we cannot forgo our lives to do what police cannot to find this little girl. We have to do the hardest thing possible, and live with the situation. We have to live with the wonder, the fear and the pain of loss because our daughter is missing. She is not safe and the last time she was with us she cried and begged her mother to not go home. We also are facing the fear if we cannot do something we may never see Jaylee again. Our other daughter is living with the stress of losing her little sister, and we are living with the constant question of where is Jaylee, is she safe, why is this happening to us?
I didn’t know how parents can live with a child who has been kidnapped especially with other children to be strong for, calm and collected for, and stay engaged. And while Jaylee has not been kidnapped by some stranger she has been taken by an unstable, potentially dangerous person. Honestly, we were told by the police we would have more rights had a stranger taken our daughter. That is a terrifying thought.
Living with this…is like carrying a stone. Right now it feels like the weight is crushing down on all of us, in time I know it will lessen, but it will always be there. The law is flawed. Family law is supposed to protect children, and it doesn’t. Mental abuse, neglect, these terms are out there in government write-ups but why? Children are not removed or protected from these things. It’s just jargon. I even found a pamphlet on parental kidnapping written by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement—it states to file missing persons, etc., everything we HAVE DONE, but this was written for the custodial parents. Not us. No one ever told us that. The pamphlet doesn’t say that…so we need help. Everyone’s help to find our daughter.
Please help us protect our little girl, if you have any information please contact us ASAP.
[email editado] or (352) [teléfono editado]
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Jeremy Martin
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Ocala, FL
