i am a mother of 4 i have 1 in custody. back in 2004 i moved to gainsville,fl to build a relationship with my mother . i put up everything my apartment and transferred my job.well i stayed with my mom for a month and she put me and my daughter out at 1:45am. i was saving money for my apartment here before she did that but since she did not ask me to pay any rent i felt that if she did ask me for anything that i would help. well out of the money that i was saving she asked for money for a car no. i gave it.then she asked me for money to travel to mississippi for a funeral that costed me 300$ for air fare. when she came back thats when she put my daughter andi out. so we ended up staying at a hotel for 2 days because thats how long it took to get into a shelter.we stayed in the shelter for 2 weeks and then i moved into our new apartment. then the same day that i was moving into my new apartment the same day my mom found out where i was living. my mother was helping me watch my daughter so ican work extra hrs and 2days after that there were reports to dept. and childrenand families alleging that my mom abused my daughter so my mom manage to get out of the trouble and instead i got charged for failure to protect.the law in florida is if you had previous records on child abuse that after 1 alleged comment the child is removed from the home.may i add my mom was a social worker for 16 yrs!back in 2000 i lost custody of my 3 children to a drug related family. i was on my own in mississippi had nohelp from this family no help from my family. i had no job no child care no foodstamps. just a hud home i broke up with their father and told myself something is going to have to change.well after a couple of weeks the father saw that i would not have any thing else to do with him he got up set.he then attempted to bring himself and his nepews to shoot in the house not knowing that the 9month old was inthe house with me.yes he did have the twins before he took custody. the agreement between he and i was that he keep tham for 2weeks until i find a job.anyway a socialworker served me some papers on a friday and the papers ordered me to be in court on monday. when i was in court i had no attorney present and the judge would not let me speak.the judge ordered me a case plan and i never recieved another court date.i just found out that there was another court date and i was not informed about that. so what does that mean ? that means failure to appear that was a set up out of this world .i am looking for an attorney that can help me if you are out there some where please i am ready to be back in my daughers lives .
