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Help!! Is your child neglectd or abused. Unprotected by Alameda?

Crystal Ketcham
Posted May 6, 2008 5:24 AM
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Riverside, CA
Post #: 39
I am wondering how many others have children who are currently being neglected and abused that have no power to protect them due to rulings of the court? Is anyone else going through this sort of scare?

I am one hundred percent sure that my child is being physically abused and has a high potential for being sexually abused as well. The court system has made it impossible for me to try to protect my son. He has told me on multiple occasions how afraid he is on the phone. I broght this to his school's attention via the telephone and now my ex is trying to get a restraining order against me so that I can't ensure any "watchdogs" for my child. My son is living in a n apartment with his father that is filthy with barely any food. His father leads a "bachelor" lifestyle and as a musician has various strangers coming in and out of the apartment on a regular basis.

He is involved with CPS due to my son's ex daycare provider calling because of strange bruises showing up on my son's face and his father showing to pick my son up too many times totally waster, drunk. When this was brought up to the Alameda court, they did not care at all and totally dismissed it. Altough, I know that as the defendant, if this information came to light about me it would matter to the biased court. When CPS visited the home, my son's father told the social worker that I had disapeared years ago so that they wouldn't try to contact me.
Also, my ex was forced to have a substance abuse evaluation and failed it miserable while I passed mine with flying colors. He was recommended by our mediator to begin attnding AA meetings. The court failed to make this an order and just told him to "stop drinking" with no drug tests or watchdog system at all. In the report by the evaluator it came out that he is physically abusing my son and regularly driving drunk with him. My son's father has no assistance in raising my child as all relatives and friends live out of state. An alcoholic who has various strong witnesses to testify to his alcoholism and abuse is raising my son by himself.
I am so frightened I can barely think straight but the court refuses to do anything about it.

I was told in court, and this is on record as being said by the judge, that the case is about me, not my son's father (the plantif) so she didn't want to discuss another negative thing about him.

Also, I have never hit my son in his life and never would. I was a fantastic mother who cared more than most mothers I know. We are very close despite the fact that Alameda decided to only allow me to see him once every 4 monts for 4 hours. There is no evidence against me whatsoever, and everything my ex ever said about me on stand were imaginative and elaborate lies.

The more I told the truth the more the judge said I was lying, and the more my son's father lied, the more the judge believed him. Simple die detector tests could prove this. Anyway, since this is my initial introduction, I would like to make it clear that the court has no tangible reason to keep me from my son, an protects my son's father, who needs help, at all costs.
My story seems impossible, but I can assure you, it is happening. It is going on 3 years without casual contact with my son and although I have made it clear to the judge and mediator that I don't desreve the cruely, and to give me one tangible reason I'm not allowed to see my son but they refuse. MY SON IS IN DANGER and the Alameda Co. court system is not protecting him. It would be one thing if they were trying but they are not. They are protecting my son's father as if he were paying them off.

Now my ex is taking me back into court to try to get a restraining order so that I am not allowed to let school officials or any possible watchdogs know what is going on! The Alameda court system, with it's corruption and desire to cater to my son's fathers's every whim, despite his bad track record and my good one, they will probably allow this. They may also tell me I cannot contact CPS. HELP!

This is one of the most corrupt situations ever and I am thinking that some others have to be going through this. There are others going through this corruption in the family courts right now and I bet some are going through the same thing. If a court and the lawyers involved with the court can be this corrupt there must be others than myself going through this awful situation. Let's be there for eachother and maybe look to ways to correct the situation by creating awareness in the community/nation, please. Let's set precednet so that ALameda county can no longer allow plantiff's to legally kidnap our children. Please.



Please help. Since Alameda Family Courts have failed, I have no where to turn but to CPS and to God.
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