 | AFRA EDITORIALS Guest editorial by Catherine Sullivan |
October 30, 2010
Thanks to CPS, Robin Committed Suicide Last Week
| AFRA EDITORIALS Guest editorial by Catherine Sullivan |
October 30, 2010
Thanks to CPS, Robin Committed Suicide Last Week
Oh. My heart is broken. I understand how the anguish can make a mother do this. I was in that same thought many, many times. I lost my parental rights to two of my four children myself: without even being aware of what the "charges" against me were/are.
ReplyDeleteI didn't do this drastic step only because my youngest was still worth fighting for. I was lucky then: I found good help for my deep depression.
I am lucky now. My two children, the ones CPS wrongfully terminated my rights to, are adults. My son sought me out and has realized that he was lied to for YEARS. We have a growing relationship and he made me a grandmother two weeks ago. How I would have missed this had I done what I understand Robin felt she was forced to do. Sometimes, it is hard to see that time does pass and these children DO become adults. I waited 16 years!
My heart is broken for Robin, because she was broken, and harshly. For no reason other than there is a large demand for children, especially babies. I was deeply impressed by the show Detroit 1-8-7 - they had a show last week about this very thing: and showed an underground railroad to save the "saved" children from foster care. These exist, but are hard to find. And those who are "stations" put their very lives in danger to save these children.
These statistics quoted in this editorial are probably wrong: they are probably much higher. But the secrecy in juvenile court to "protect the children" instead protects those who ruin these children's lives.
My heart is broken. I will go cry for Robin now. And for her beautiful children. All of whom were ruined by a government which by the very definition has no heart. An entity cannot have a heart. Lawyers and judges and "advocates" who get paid by that government who ignore the laws have no heart. And a wonderful woman (no, I didn't know her, but I can feel her pain right now) was completely and utterly destroyed and I'm sure those people who did it to her are saying: see, we were right. And they were so wrong.
Yes, I'll go cry for Robin and her children. And thank God that I was too scared to take that way out. Because I would not know my beautiful grandchild who will NEVER, EVER be in the system, because I WILL take her and run if it comes to that. With my son. There is no way my family will ever come that close to destruction again!
Tere Fredericks
Massachusetts