HELP BRING OUR BABY HOME!

Hi, My husband and I need help bringing our 2 year old daughter back home where she belongs. Here is a little background to our story: In April of 2021 we got a call from CYS asking us if we could take in our 6 month old nephew and his 2 older siblings that night. Obviously we agreed and we adopted them. Their birth mother had another baby and she was brought to us at 6 days old. She stayed in care with us until she was 6 months old. The first couple months were rough as she was withdrawing and would cry and twitch all day and night. When she was returned to her mother we continued being in her life. The last 2.5 years she has spent 80% of her time with us. She calls us Mama and Daddy and is closely bonded with her siblings that are with us.

We have spent the last couple years supporting birth mom. Buying groceries, taking her to the ER in the middle of the night and taking her to any appointments. We even transported her 1.5 hours away to her baby doctor when she had another baby. Due to increasing concerns for drug use with CYS we decided to file for custody of our daughter so that we could at least have some shared rights. Birth Mom has had our daughter with us full time since 9/25 and have only rarely spent time with her. She has begun to refer to them by name instead of mom and dad.

3/5 CYS brought the 14 month old sibling to us per mom's request because she had another test come back positive for drug use. CYS told us they were filing for dependency so mom asked if she could just "sign the kids over". Once she found out that we had already filed for custody her and Dad became angry and decided to sign guardianship over to a family member that my daughter doesn't even know. Their answer to being angry at us was to rip our daughter from the only home she's ever known and make her go live with someone that she doesn't know. She was brought to visit us the next day and then screamed and cried "Daddy No!" as my husband and her older brother had to physically force her into the vehicle.

We are sick to our stomachs over this and it is hurting all of our children involved. We are just asking for help to be able to pay the lawyer fees so we can win custody and bring our daughter back home.

We greatly appreciate any help!!!