Help bring Maddox home

Hello family & friends, I am creating this go fund me in hopes of raising funds for an attorney to bring our Bleu home.. As many of you know he was taken from my care about 2 1/2 months ago at this point & I will try to give a breakdown & be as transparent as I can in hopes this reaches other people who are not familiar with what is going on. Our story begins in August of 2021, my sister gave birth to a beautiful baby boy.. due to my sister making the wrong choices while pregnant, CPS was involved from the moment he was born. With 4 kids of my own, I stepped up & we took in Bleu to raise & love as ours. He had been with me ever since. Fast forward to about middle of April this year, he was taken from my care & placed with my mom because they stumbled upon an old legal case that has since been closed that they failed to look into.. then after time passed, it became the fact that I took too long to finish licensing & then reason after reason to not return him home.. No abuse, no neglect, nothing that would put him in immediate danger, in other words nothing that would be seen as grounds for an immediate removal. About a week or so after him being in my mothers care I get a call from my caseworkers supervisor who let me know they will be taking him from me indefinitely & I would need to give them names of other family members who may be able to adopt. Not a second chance, nor an explanation. So of course I give them contact info for two family members, one which they do a home study on & then never get back to, another they never even contact. About another week goes by & they come to remove him from my mother until he can be placed with family (mind you they weren’t even in contact with my family members)..The court is making it appear as though I could not keep him safe despite the loving, safe environment he was brought up in. His safety has & always will be my #1 priority as it is with my own children. So he was taken on that day, May 1st. Weeks go by before I speak to anybody. Caseworkers are ignoring me, supervisors are ignoring me. I find out through the children’s court that a hearing is set for June 26th but for me that is just way too long without hearing anything so I am persistent in trying to reach ANYBODY that will speak to me. Finally able to get in contact with a court case manager for our Judge she sets a hearing for May 22nd agreeing with me that that is way too long for me to not be informed about anything. I attend this hearing & find out that Maddox’ caseworker is ALREADY pushing & encouraging adoption from a foster couple Maddox has been with for merely 3 weeks at this point with no regard to me & having not reached out to me at ALL.. Judge does not go for it & I am given two visitations a month & to have random drug testing be done. This is may 22nd. I get my two visits the 20th & 27th of June having taken 3 negative tests by the time I even receive my first visit. These are what they call “therapeutic visits” where a therapist is present. I have visitation on the 27th at 11am & then court at 3pm same day. They have said therapist join court & she tells judge from her findings that me & Maddox share “no bond”. The devastation I felt in that moment made me sick to my stomach, I was there for his first breath, the child I took in out of love, the child I woke up with late at night to feed, the child my kids grew to love & know as their baby brother, the child who took his first steps with me, his first words, who was a part of our family for 2 1/2 years! Judge ended court basically stating for the department & Maddox’ attorney to figure out where we go from here & that he’d see us back in court on Dec 5th.. Having not heard from Maddox caseworker again since, I reach out to his attorney a few days ago & he hesitantly lets me know that the department is going to push for adoption for the couple who now has Maddox. He himself is even taken back & tells me to fight, to file an intervention with an attorney of my own as soon as I possibly can, that he will even help if I find an attorney who isn’t familiar with children’s court, to make this go fund me, to do absolutely all that I can. In all reality the fact that I am not his bio mother is giving this system all the more reason to take advantage of me & to not even give me the chance to fight for him.. So here I am coming to you all for the help I so desperately need to fight this system & bring my baby home where he belongs. If you all could find it in your heart to help with a dollar or even just a share, it would mean the world to my family. If there are any other questions, I’d be glad to answer.. Thank you for even just coming this far & reading our story