Support Sapphira's Safety: Fund a Protective Fence

My niece, Sapphira, is severely Autistic & nonverbal. She is sensory seeking, and she is a runner. My sister is going through a divorce, and has been staying at our parent's home. Sapphira eloped multiple times in the last week- one time while my sister was unloading groceries, and we caught her immediately this time- but someone saw her, and called the cops.

One time, she broke her tracker, escaped, and got to highway 10. The final instance was on my sister's birthday, and she escaped and got to highway 10 within just a couple of minutes.

If you know anything about Sapphira, this isn't new behavior for her, and she escapes frequently. She doesn't know any better, and she's a runner. It's also not good or ideal or what's best for any child to just lock them up inside. My sister needs support, because Sapphira is a lot. She just is.

CPS has the only viable solution, though. They are filing an ex parte in order to place JUST Sapphira with her father, who has a known history of physical abuse, sleeping all day and ignoring the children whether he worked that night or not, leaving the children alone at home alone for multiple hours, leaving the children locked in carseats for multiple hours and lying about feeding them meals. He's done the same with pets which has resulted in untimely death.

They didn't offer support, and in fact by taking Sapphira out of the home and instead placing her with her father, they are placing someone with no voice to advocate for herself in a situation in which her basic needs are guaranteed to not be met, with his known history. She's not likely to ever see the outside in his care.

He also won't allow her PCA to work with her while in his care, and she absolutely needs these services. His solution has historically been to just claim hours himself- but she needs the support of extra eyes & one on one.

This solution assumes that Cheyann is the problem, rather than that sensory seeking children are just harder on average than your neurotypical children, and honestly, its insane that you're encouraged to immediately call the police, but that rather than offering supports for a child that is extra difficult, we just take the child away. (And leave the other children in her care.)

So what we're proposing here, is that we would like to put up a fence. Cheyann is a single parent to 6 children. So coming up with the funds for this fence is extra hard. Please consider donating to this cause, and help keep Sapphira with her mother, where she absolutely is loved, taken care of, fed, and otherwise has her needs met.