"The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and My Baby Too "
Dear Sirs;
I am writing this letter as a plea for help
in quest of the truth regarding my two year
old daughter Rachel May Nitura . My name is
Robert Robinson and I am her father . Rachels
mother Corrina Helmer one would say is a dynamic
individual . How so? Let me explain.
Corrina Helmer and I met Feb 23/96 at a local
establishment in Surrey B.C. It was fatal attraction
at first sight. We couldn’t take our eyes off each
other .Before long we were in each others arms dancing the
night away. The night ended with a kiss and me asking
Corrina out. It was at this time that Corrina informed me
that she was in a common law relationship with a Filipino
gentleman named Dan Nitura. She also told me that she wasn’t
happy and would be leaving him shortly. She took my phone
number and promised to call.
Two days later she called and so it began. Emotionally
and mentally the year to follow was filled with many
highs and lows. Enough so that I kept an accurate log
of events. I was very unhappy as our relationship was
such that I could only see her Monday through Friday
between the hours of 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. as this is when
Dan worked, however she kept assuring me that it was
just a matter of time and that I was the one she loved.
As always I bought it.
By the time June of 1997 rolled around Corrina had
promised to move in with me twice and hadn’t. She was
also pregnant once, promising to be a family just to end
up aborting our child. I had had enough and was
determined to take back my life before this woman
destroyed it. I met someone normal and began seeing her.
Corrina had a different agenda and was determined to not
let me go. So for 3 more months we carried on and off
again until about October 1997 when I said enough.
It wasn’t until just before Christmas 1997 that I heard
from Corrina again. She phoned to inform me she was
pregnant again. The next I heard from her after that
was in January 1998. Before long we were carrying on
again like always. I fell in love with her all over
again. Once more she was promising me family should
this child be mine. I begged her to let Dan know the
truth. Her response was that she would wait to see who
the father was and that would be the man she would be
with. So we were intimate and together most evenings
again up until mid June 1998. When like always she
pushed me away again. I was devastated.
The next I heard from Corrina was the day of Rachel’s
birth June29,1998. I received a call around 4 p.m. at
work. She informed me that Rachel was not mine. When I
asked if Rachel was dark skinned like Dan she said yes.
I remember crying my heart out that day. Meanwhile, she
gave Dan the Daddy experience in all it’s glory, which
I had so desperately asked to be a part of but was
denied.
About 2 weeks later she began calling me at work again
professing her love for me. Before long she was sneaking
away to come visit me at work with out baby. Finally
when Rachel would have been 1 month old she came by my
workplace with Rachel, on my day off to show Rachel to
my boss. The next day, when I returned to work my boss
informed me of her visit and that he didn’t believe that
the child was Dan’s. So I called Corrina and asked to
see Rachel. That was the day I met my daughter for the
first time. I was overwhelmed with feeling of love, joy,
betrayal, hurt, and so much more than words could ever
describe.
Once again we were seeing each other, as always. We had
DNA tests done with the promise to me that we would be
family should Rachel be mine. Once again I believed her.
It was early August when we received the news that
Rachel was indeed mine. Still Corrina had not informed
Dan and in fact did not until Rachel was 4 months old
after I threatened to tell him. Corrina said she was
waiting for the right time. I asked when would this be
when Rachel entered college?
At the point of discovery for Dan, Corrina once more
pushed me away after telling Dan that I just found out
about the baby for the first time and that I hadn’t been
in their lives. So Dan was okay with this and made
Corrina promise to not let me see Rachel and to stop
seeing me. Which she continued to do in secrecy. A week
later we were together again in the evenings while Dan
was at work. Once more she was again promising me love
and family by Christmas 1998. So I came clean with the
woman I was living with and put it all on the line for
Corrina and my daughter. Like always Corrina pushed me
away once more leaving me homeless this time. Just in
time for Christmas.
Well, I did my best and worked on putting my life back
together again including my shattered relationship with
the loving woman I gave up. Once more, Corrina came back
into the picture, being untrusting of her now I made her
promise me that she would marry me, get help, and leave
Dan. She went to her family physician with me and
admitted to her for the first time that I was Rachel’s
Daddy and that she needed help. She also married me out
in North Vancouver March 25, 1999.
I thought for sure that this meant she was now committed
and for the last time I gave up the woman I was seeing.
Well, believe it or not just when you would think that
there was a romantic ending to a tragic story like
always Corrina remained true to her colors and remained
with Dan. By May of 1999 we had stopped seeing each
other again. However, like before, a short while later,
because of my love for Corrina and commitment to my
little girl I allowed it to go on again.
Finally, by October 1999 I spoke to Dan and informed
him of Corrina’s and my marriage. This was the first he
had heard of it. Seven months after the fact. In fact
this was the first Corrina’s family had heard of it
either.
Corrina again was to move in with me by Christmas of
1999, once more she didn’t. So December 1, 1999 I took
this nightmare(I call my life) into Provincial court
and over the next 3 months got no where. By March of
2000 I took it out of Provincial court and into Supreme
court where it resides.
My daughter is now 2 years old. Corrina claims that my
child doesn’t know me. This is untrue. However, because
of her false allegations I am denied my rights to my
daughter. My daughter carries another man’s name and is
even listed as his daughter on the birth certificate.
All I have at this point is child support payments and
supervised access in Corrina’s families environment
which I am now denied.
Effectively, because of Corrina’s false allegations I
have been robbed of my child. On one hand she is trying
to convince the court that my child doesn’t know me and
that I haven’t been in her life. She also claims that
her and Dan have been the parents to Rachel and that
they have been in a long term relationship for 9 years.
However, on the other hand she has claimed to our social
and economic system that she is a single mother living
at her Mom’s to obtain the maximum benefits. She has
thus far defrauded and deceived legal aid, student loans,
revenue Canada, Vital statistics, and last but not least
Rachel and I. In short she has deceived everyone and has
robbed Rachel and I of each other. Someone has to speak
out on my daughter’s behalf. I guess that responsibility
is left with me and I will not rest until the truth is
known.
So once more Christmas will pass with out my daughter in
my life the way she should be.
Sincerely;
Robert Robinson
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