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My babies

I'm not sure where to begin or how....so here it goes.  For a little over a year now I have been fighting to keep  primary custody, ( or as they call it in court primary address of my children). I have 2 children with my ex. Our relationship  ended very badly. I have my daughter who is 4 and my son who is 2. I have raised them since day one. I left him for good, after fighting a mental battle against all the things he tried so hard to bring me down with, when our son was a little less than a month old.

After leaving my ex, he didn't have anything to do with us for months after I left. Then he would only have a relationship with my daughter and not our son because he didn't want him. His family convinced him to start taking our son too and he took them both for a few nights about once a month. Never consistently. Only when it was convienent for him.  

Sometimes he would make excuses  that he already had plans or didn't have enough money to get them. So after coming in and out of their lives for about a year and a half, he decided to take me to court to get costody of the children  so he could receive child support from me. Mind you he has never paid me a penny for our children nor ever asks if they need anything.

I met my current husband shortly after leaving my ex and he has provided for my children since day one. So to try and shorten a long story, I went one day to pick up my children from their father.  He would only allow us to have our son and refused to hand over our daughter. She was screaming in his arms for me and he wouldnt let me have her. I immediately hired an attorney to get her back. The court granted me  an emergency pick up order  within weeks to get my daughter back home.  

Their father got into a DUI accident with my babies and my daughter was injured and traumatized by the event for several months.Their father also had a major drinking problem when I was with him. These are a few of the many reasons I fought to get away from him.

The judge ordered for me to have primary address of the children and for the father to have supervised visits. We have been fighting the battle for over a year now. I finally had a court date yesterday to finalize the order. A new judge that was appointed to the case took my children from me and gave them to their father.

The judge stated that the reason he took primary custody from me was because I didn't have a job. In his own words,  that seemed to him that I have no ambition to become anybody. I am currently a stay at home mom,  going to school. My husband works a full time job  to provide for me and our children.

I have two children of my own with my ex. My husband has a child from a previous relationship as well. And we also now have a newborn child together.  Four kids altogether in my marriage.

 We have spent almost $10,000 on attorney fees to fight to keep my children. We are struggling every day to keep up with bills and have run out of all of our savings to continue to pay to fight.

My newborn baby girl also is now in the hospital and has been for 5 days with RSV. She has been having trouble breathing and is on oxygen. Now I find out that my children, that I have raised since day one with no support from their real father, are now going to live with him.

The judge overseeing this custody case is Judge Stanley Griffis. Please read comments on this judge in the link I have shared below. I was warned before I went to the hearing that he is a mans' judge regardless of who is in the right.

My children have now been ordered to reside in a home that is owned by their grandfather, who is currently in jail for sexually touching a child under the age of 12. His record is public! Please look him up. He is in the Bradford county jail  and his name is Randall Wininger.

Also here is the link I previously mentioned regarding the comments written about my judge.
Copy and paste this URL make sure the name Hon. Stanley H. Griffis, III is there and please please read...

http://www.therobingroom.com/florida/Judge.aspx?id=1744

I feel as though the judgement given was completely unjustified! I have never been so hurt in my life. That day was by far the worst day of my life. I feel as if my life has been completely ripped apart. When I tried my best to explain to my oldest daughter that she was going to go live with her dad,  she started crying and saying she didn't want to live with him nor leave me and her new baby sister.

I'm at a total loss! I don't know what to do or where to turn. I feel that I am a great mother. I am able to be a stay at home mom,  being their for them everyday. All of my children are very emotionally attached to me as their mother. They are being uprooted from the only home they have known.  My children have no voice in this and I know it will devastate them. My whole life has been turned upside down. I take my daughter to school every morning, feed her, bathe her, and help her with her homework. I spend all day with my baby boy raising him, changing his diaper, and teaching him new things.

I can't imagine not waking up every morning with them. And knowing that they will be waking up to a man who has been in and out of their lives since the beginning. It's not fair and it hurts more than anything. I never tried to take them from their father. I still encouraged very much for him to have involvement in their lives. I just believe it is best for me, their mother, to remain the one who raises them as I always have, I've been there since day one he has only come around when it seems to be convenient for him. I just want my beautiful babies back home where they belong!

I completely understand if you have no funds to help but even a few words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated. I have to act fast or it will a missed oppurtunity! 

So if you can help in any way at all, even a small donation, it would be  greatly appreciated. My children are my whole life! I don't know how I will make it through this but as a momma bear, I cannot allow my baby cubs to be messed with and I hope to be able to fight back the best I can.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story. God bless & Please help me bring my babies home!




" The love of a mother for her child is undeniably the strongest emotion in the human soul!"

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Ashley Ozruh
Organizer
Winter Park, FL

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