The Greatest Story Ever Told: A Civil Rights Violation of a black woman and her children
In September, a woman who has lived with domestic violence for many years, finally leaves. Files for a DVRO, that's issued temporarily. The accuser obtains a lawyer to fight every accusation. The petitioner gives all the evidence that the judge asks for. The judge retires, the new judge says there's no substantial evidence. The Lawyer, Benjamin Lopatin asks for a continuation on the first three court hears. Now on the fourth hearing this is the evidence that's going to be presented. Full of dishonesty to create a loving marriage. My question is. Why would a woman leave a beautiful marriage as depicted in the response with evidence of love and caring? The evidence is moving, the husband sounds like a dream. Right out of Nicholes Sparks novel. I would have never left if that were the case. Here is some of our True Story: A plea for help from my local constituents and community: Over the past ten years or so, I’ve had many setbacks. In 2014 my son was diagnosed with his first brain tumor, he was two years old. In 2016 he had a recurrence, in 2020, he had two more brain tumors return in the same tumor bed. Each time he had surgery and in 2020 went through seven weeks of Gamma Knife radiation treatment to the entire tumor bed. So far so good, we've had a little over two years of clean MRI brain scans. During those years our lives were full of unbelievable support and joy within the community. Our home life, not so great. My husband became someone I did not recognize, his behavior and attitude towards me and our older children changed immensely. Because he was our sole provider and only source for income, insurance and most all our assets are in his name alone. I was powerless to defend myself and my children at least, I thought I was. Our community resource became my source of hope. I reached out to the social security office to look into getting SSI for my consistent care for my younger son, I went to the regional center to my disappointment, all of these entities turned me away. Although, Central Coast Alliance, Jacob’s Heart cancer support services, the kinship center (for my older adopted son) and our local NAACP members, gave us financial and emotional support for the years that we needed. I also started seeing a psychologist and joined several caregiver support groups in order to manage life in general. Unfortunately, bad things became worse, my older son was being abused physically by his father and I did all I could to keep them apart, while keeping our family together. Eventually child protective services stepped in and wanted to take all three children. My mother stepped in and called the local PALM police to tell them that my older son was lying and told me that I need to keep family business to myself. The police sided with my mother, and I feared that my children would be taken away from me so I went along with the lie and my older son agreed by saying that he would tough it out so that we would not be separated.
