Gabriel's voice matters

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Gabriel's voice matters

Where do I begin. I am overwhelmed with the messages and for believing  my son. Keep sharing his story.
“He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.” Proverbs 29:7.  



Recently I got two jobs. I work for Pasadena ISD and worked at Buc-ee's. I was able to have two jobs in the summer and save up.  I decided to  get a second job because I didn't want to keep asking my fiancé to let me borrow money so I can pay my lawyer. If I don’t pay they can stop working on my case. I decided I wasn’t going to sit around so I applied everywhere I didn’t care who would hire me. I just wanted a job to get my son get the justice he deserves. Finally in the end of June I got hired at Buc-ee's. A month later at Buc-ee's I was able to move to overnight since I was going to start my first job again in August. So here I was working from 10pm to 6am go home and get ready to go to my next job from 7:30am to 3:30pm. When I started working both jobs I wouldn’t see Gabriel because I needed to sleep to get rest for my next job. I soon realized I was only getting three hours of sleep every day. I decided I couldn’t do it anymore. I was missing out on Gabriel. I was missing those precious times with my son. 


At first I wasn't going to share my son's story since its so hard to relive these horrible events. So many people where asking me how they can help and honestly just by sharing Gabriel's story is enough. Let me share a little bit about our story. My son first started acting weird when his abuser would come over to pick him up. April 26, 2019 was the day my son was telling me he didn’t want to see this person anymore. That was not like Gabriel since he has been going with him every other weekend since he was 1 YEARS OLD. So this wasn't something new where he was just throwing a fit. At first I was so confused as to why he was acting like this. Looking back now I see the little signs Gabriel gave me but I wasn't fully educated in how children act when they are being sexually abused. Fast forward to June of 2019 he opened up to me that his abuser was in deed touching him. I was shock because I couldn’t believe this was happening.  How can this person do this to my son? Not for a second did I ever second guess my son. I knew a 7 year old wasn’t making this up. I acted fast I did a second CPS report. To make things short I have had THREE CPS reports in total one in April of 2019, June of 2019 and then another in January of 2020. All where closed. During those cases my son kept crying out to me and my fiancé Sometimes even my mom. On February 14, 2020 we went to court for the visitation rights and at the time the judge decided to let my son go with his abuser with supervised visitations. *Side note, the reason for the judge’s decision was because of the affidavit that was writing from my past lawyer that I use to have. The affidavit was writing in July of 2019. 7 months later, she read an affidavit that was 7 months old. Many things had changed since.* The supervisors would be the abuser’s parents which they didn't even follow. The judge told me I had to let my son go with them even if he was crying. He had to go with his abuser. If I didn't I was breaking the court order and I would face up to 6 months to 2 years in jail. Plus court fees to the court, and pay the abuser's lawyer fees. The following weekend of February 14, 2020 came when Gabriel had to go with his abuser. I had to put up this act for my son and pretend like everything was going to be fine. When Gabriel realized he was leaving to see his abuser he held on so tight to me and looked at me with these heartbreaking eyes and telling me "I don't want to see him" “I’m scared”. Do you know what that does to us as a family. I got Gabriel a watch where he can call me and he did call me after he left. He said "You don’t want me anymore?" I was heartbroken and so depressed that I tried to get him help but I still couldn’t help him. He hanged up on me really pissed off at me. So many more events of this has happened where it would be two or three pages long. If you are at the bottom of this story thank you reading and please share. 

I didn’t give up hope on God. I continued to not give up. Recently we are still fighting in court. I have an amazing lawyer I found in March/April of this year.  If anyone wants to help me save up money for this lawyer to continue to fight for Gabriel's justice, please donate. Even if it's just a $1 it would be something saved up for our lawyer. If you can't donate please SHARE!


Also share my facebook post. I hope my son's story touches someone. I hope this right now is helping a family speak up just by sharing this or my facebook post. Thank you for your time.

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Monica Guajardo
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Houston, TX
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