Support Sabrina's Fight for Custody and Family Unity

Update on my case…the judge here in Orange County continued to disregard or even take a minute to look at my progress I’ve made these past two years which included completion of all of my programs and substantial evidence of my sobriety and wouldn’t even hear from any of the multiple witnesses and my monitored witness who witnessed the children saying that they want to live in California, and they want to live with me their mother so he sided with the dad and granted the change of venue to Montana. God answered

our prayer by giving us a new judge… just in Montana though. I’m planning to find representation in Montana. I will continue to keep fighting the good fight of faith and trusting and knowing my God’s got me and fighting to be in my children’s life. I’m still sober and have a great support system with lots of love. In the meantime, I will continue to grow spiritually, allow the Lord to transform and change me, and I will keep standing on his promises and becoming the best mom I can be for my children. I’m a work in progress and counting my blessings everyday. I’m grateful and thankful for God’s grace and mercy. I’m counting this all joy because he’s building me through all of this. I’m choosing to be positive and focus on him. Praise God Praise the Son and Praise the Holy Spirit.

Hello, my name is Sabrina, and my background is being a full-time mother of three children. That's my first job before anything else. I currently work as an ABA Behavioral Therapist. I work with children on the spectrum with high behavioral issues. Some are verbal, and some are nonverbal. I have over 10 years of experience in the medical field prior to that, as a medical assistant, a phlebotomist, a home health aide, a caregiver and a home health hospice nurse. I specialize in elderly care, which includes Alzheimer's, Dementia, Parkinson's, Cancer patients, and Home Health Hospice Care. I love to help people any way that I can. I have a big heart and a lot of love to give. I have been on both sides of the street, so I relate and understand people more because of my background.

My childhood was difficult growing up due to the fact that I was a foster child. I was never taught the essential life skills needed as a child nor had any real guidance. I had to figure that all out on my own by trial and error. Every day I continue to learn and grow as a single parent. I was a mother and a father at the same time for my children their whole life up till this point. I have lived in California my whole life, and so have our children. Our court case has been here in California from the very beginning. During this time that I've been apart from our children, who I had full custody of their whole lives up till now, I have been working on myself, healing and growing, and dealing with the wreckage of my past and correcting my wrongs. I'm sober today by the grace of God, and I have been sober this whole time apart from my children in order to be the best mother for my children and doing everything that's asked of me and more from the courts. Our current orders are not final, and I will continue to fight for our children and to be in their lives. I will be going back to court here in California to get my rights back. But I need legal representation. I had to wait to collect substantial evidence of my sobriety before going back to court.

I'm a work in progress, and I realized when I thought I might lose my children forever due to mistakes I made after my father's death and taking responsibility for making those bad decisions, that I was coping with a lot of pain, multiple deaths including my foster mom, hurt from betrayals from people who were closest to me, past traumas, and childhood abuse with alcohol. I had hit rock bottom and lost everything that was dear to me and that I worked so hard for in my life. But through this negative situation that happened to me almost two years ago, God has turned it all around for my good. God truly saved my life and is continuing to turn it around every single day. I have not drank since, and I am coming up on two years of sobriety in March. I will be graduating my 18-month program on March 5th, and I will finally be able to shut the door on that chapter of my life for good. Amen! And thanks be to God!! He has been my strength and my rock through this very difficult time in my life.

I am currently taking classes, going to self-help meetings weekly, and being of service there. I have a sponsor, and I am attending and getting plugged in at church daily with the brothers and sisters in the church. I serve on the worship team on Media. I now have a healthy support group and good relationships/friendships. In that whole process, I had to take a step back and look at my inventory as a whole person and utilize my self-knowledge. I made a list of all my character defects that were hindering my growth and changed them to better myself for me and our children. My children are my whole world, my everything, and I can't picture my life without them in it. I'm going to continue to fight for my children and my child custody rights. I will prove myself to be fit and continue to work on myself on a daily basis and get closer to my higher power.

What is home?

Some people say home is a place where you belong or store your things.

My vision of home is a place of family.

Where my kids belong with me, where it is safe and there is love.

What is love?

My love for my children is not temporary but permanent. To love and care for better or for worse, unconditional compassion.

People get married, then get divorced after a few years.

My children are not a marriage vow.

It's a bond; it's unbreakable. The love of a mother is unstoppable because my children are a part of me, and I'm a part of them. Please show your grace and mercy on me as my higher power did and please help me fight for my children by donating so I can get help paying for court costs and obtaining legal representation for a family lawyer so that me and my children can have restoration and a relationship and future together and be a family again and so that we do not get separated for any more time. Children are young for such a short period, and children need both parents in their lives, not just one. The father is in contempt of court of our current court order and is alienating me from our children and has been since day one, which has been over a year and a half now. He is hurting and emotionally abusing our children by doing this. I have three children involved in this case, and they want to come home and live back with mom. So we can use all the help we can get. I've done it this far by myself, and now it's time to get a lawyer to help me fight this battle. But I'm in a financial hardship due to everything I explained above and cannot afford one at this time. Any donations will help us reach our goal. My case is a very complex, high-conflict case, so it is more money to obtain a lawyer, which I have been told by multiple lawyers because of the age of our court case and its complexity. They are my only family. Thank you for your time reading my testimony, and God bless you!