Stand with Leslie: A Mother's Fight for Justice.

The summary:

Rebuilding After Injustice: Fighting for My Future and My Child

I have endured years of legal abuse, domestic violence, wrongful accusations, and systemic failures that stripped me of my rights, voice, and child. Despite relentless retaliation—from false arrests to financial starvation and legal manipulation—I have fought back, studying the law and advocating for myself in a system that favors abusers.

I am actively healing, enrolled in trauma recovery programs, and working toward financial independence. My goal is to secure legal representation, relocate for safety, and pursue a career in legal advocacy to fight for others who have been silenced.

I need financial help to retain an attorney experienced in high-conflict custody cases, cover moving expenses due to my abuser’s proximity - I had been here for over a year and his office is now a brief ten minute walk from me, and ensure stability as I rebuild my life.

This fight is bigger than me—it’s for every survivor who has been ignored, every mother unjustly separated from her child, and every victim of a system that enables abuse.

Your support—donations, shares, or encouragement—helps me reclaim my future. I will not be erased. I will rise.

“Rebuilding After Injustice: Fighting for My Future and My Child”

The Story:

*“For years, I have been fighting to reclaim my life after unimaginable trauma—domestic violence, wrongful accusations, legal abuse, and systemic failures that stripped me of my rights and my voice. I have faced injustice at every turn, but I refuse to let it define my future.

I have survived:

• Domestic violence and retaliation for speaking out

• Wrongful arrest based on lies, provable perjury, and deliberate premeditated provocation. It was a leverage tool - if I signed his “agreement”, he wouldn’t prosecute. This is a manipulation tactic. I did not sign his agreement and even more so, I reported a serious assault. That’s when retaliation began. It has not stopped either.

• Legal manipulation that left financially starved and at risk of homelessness.

• Being forced to sign a “settlement” under duress

• Discovering my child with a broken tooth and bruises, while those in power looked away

• A court system that allowed hearsay and lies to dictate my fate

• Severe Lyme disease, PTSD, and major depression, all worsened by relentless trauma. The latter is in direct response to the extreme trauma of my children being suddenly ripped out of my life.

To make matters worse, opposing counsel has employed dirty tactics to wear me down—ignoring my emails and calls, refusing to communicate in good faith, and even weaponizing law enforcement against me. I was subjected to a harassing welfare check, an intimidation tactic I would not face if I had proper legal representation. Because I am pro se, my rights have been exploited, and the legal system has made it impossible for me to defend myself on equal footing.

Despite everything, I have fought back. I have been my own advocate, representing myself in court while studying the law to defend myself against a system that was never built to protect survivors like me.

Now, I am actively healing and rebuilding. I have a dedicated support team helping me recover from trauma. I am enrolled in parenting classes, DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), trauma recovery, and boundaries courses—all designed to help me heal and create a stable, healthy future for myself and my children.

I am also working hard to become financially independent and legally empowered. I have paused pursuing my paralegal studies so I can focus on employment, but due to the same dirty legal tactics often reserved for fathers (this is unjust and must change), I face difficulties getting hired. My greatest goal is to have family court reform in Texas - and based on this experience of illegal yet common tactics and scorching earth in order to win, I’ll rise above this, but I’m not sure I can do it alone.

Because activism is my calling, I will work towards changing things in Texas - it’s literally my purpose on this earth.

My ultimate goal is to be able to secure a safe location without my ex having access to my apartment, have fair representation, and go to school to help with the 92% of under represented families legally. I dream of working for a non profit to help others like me.

*I want to be the change I needed when I was alone, covered in bruises, and manipulated away from my children.

*I want to be the change others face when they’re facing baseless accusations, but because the abuser had called 911 8 times in the last 30 days, the one covered in bruises is sitting alone in a jail cell - naked, on a tile bed covered in feces and vomit.

Where Your Support Will Go:

✅ I need 12,500 to cover the retainer. I need to hire competent representation familiar with narcissistic abuse, retaliation, and alienation. I must fight for justice. I have already done a majority of the paralegal work and am comfortable with handing the case over to the attorney to represent me. I simply need someone with experience in high conflict (emotionally abusive) divorces and custody cases.

✅ Moving expenses - my abuser’s company relocated half a mile from me. Despite an order preventing him from being within 800 feet of my apartment building and not to go to places I frequent, his office moved 2700 feet from me - across from my grocery store and other places I frequent. Retaliation has been the center of control and despite moving far away from his old office, our home, his parents home, and all of his usual places to be, his office moved a ten minute walk from me.

✅ Storage costs should I move in to a shelter/transition home for DV and Trafficking survivors.

✅ Treatments designed to help me stay in Lyme remission.

This isn’t just about me. This is about every survivor who has been silenced, every mother who has been unjustly separated from her child, and every person who has been judged instead of protected. As I continue to speak with advocates for domestic violence survivors, especially those who have been unfairly trafficked, I hear the same - my story is not unique, this happens all the time, and the abusers usually find every way to continue to abuse with the court or legal system when faced with potential consequences for their actions.

If you can donate, share, or send encouragement, you are helping me fight back and build a new life from the ashes of this trauma. I will not be erased. I will rise.

Thank you for believing in me and for being part of this journey.

Thank you for standing with me. Your support means everything.