FEELING STRESSED, SMACK A KID! page 4

Then I was served by the Bay County Friend of the Court with a motion to show cause as to the matter of Contempt of Court (see I told you this would come back to haunt you) It was determined by the Friend of the Court that I had gone against the courts order by not returning her to the custody of her aunt. Again, how the aunt got custody I’ll never know. So, they placed my baby with the maternal grandmother at our request until this could all be settled. However, the Friend of the Court asked for an adjournment, and received it so that they could determine weather or not the grandmother would be a good permanent placement for our Emily. They never bothered to consider the home, or environment of the parents. That was a process in this that was passed over so quick that to watch it would have made your neck crack.

Yesterday, August 23, 2001 the court gave Emily to her grandmother. And I get to have two weekends a month. However I get to see her four hours a day. Two days out of the weekend. I live some one hundred and sixty miles north of Emily now. And the grandmother literally asked the court if they would consider one weekend out of the month, because Emily needed a normal life and I would be disrupting it otherwise. They never considered any evidence. They would not permit witnesses. They never considered alternate placements for Emily. My mother and sister had both requested to be considered. In fact, the recommendation of the Friend of the Court was adopted as a whole, base off of hearsay, and evidence that had been compiled some two years earlier. In fact there had been no true investigation at all. The Friend of the Court decided what he wanted and that was the end of it. So, now my Emily is at her grandmother’s house. A family who never wanted this child. A family who’s only desire has always been to keep her from the family that has loved and cherished her. And the courts not only let it happen, they helped it happen. While I continue to fight for my baby, the future looks dim. But I still fight because that’s what parents do. But you should remember that as long as you ignore your children. As long as you make sure that the children you smack are not your own, and you are not the father of a child. A father that honestly cares, and would do anything to protect his baby, you will always have a friend in the court systems of Bay County. You’re just their kind of people.

If you should want to help, have advice, happen to be an attorney who is really interested in pro bono work. Or at least making payment arrangements, because I’m quite willing to pay every month for the rest of my life on this. Or just someone who understands what is going on. Feel free to contact me at Jason

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