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Hi my name is Samantha and my boyfriend is in desperate need of some help in getting his little girl and giving her a better life. We love this beautiful little girl with all our hearts and she needs stability in her life. Here's his story!
My name is Scott from Omaha Nebraska. In October 2007 I met a single mom of a beautiful 5yo girl and was 5 months pregnant with another and lived in Lincoln. Tiffany admitted she had problems with prescription medications prior to her pregnancy but had recovered and seemed to have had her life together. As soon as she had the baby she claimed to have a new complication from an old spinal injury and was back on prescription medications. After a few weeks, I started getting up with her daughter Promise at night to help prevent any undue stress. By the time her daughter was 2 months old I was the primary caregiver. Over the remainder of 2008 her abuse of prescription medications got worse. Tiffany's mother asked me to not go back to work during a layoff to stay home and take care of her and she would cover my bills. This prevented Tiffany's mother from having to quit her job of 10 years, so I agreed. Tiffany continued to get prescriptions and the buy more off the street. She slept all the time from being high. Tiffany was also out of work and money for more pills. She started meeting guys online who were willing to give her money and left Promise and I for a month to stay in Omaha.
While Tiffany was in Omaha, I was still not working. To make sure Promise ate and was provided for, I pawned everything I owned of value in rationing increments. Of course by this time, Promise and I had a wonderful bond. Tiffany's need for money got worse and so she started prostituting. By this point I felt like I needed to protect Promise from her mother. With neither one of us working we became homeless. Tiffany went to her cousins house where there was apparently no place for her daughter so her daughter Promise and myself went to the People's City Mission in Lincoln. For the next 9 months We barely heard from her mother. I started attending SCC in Lincoln and was fortunate enough to have caring people look after Promise while I was in school. I left mission in 2011 and moved back to Omaha where I had a job of which I still currently work. Tiffany had no problem with her daughter moving to Omaha with me. Promise attended kindergarten here in Omaha and has been with me until Tiffany got served with papers for custody April of 2013. The year leading up to Tiffany being served, we had only received 5 phone calls from her the entire year. The judge not knowing the extent of the situation thought it would be a good idea to leave promise with her mother until court is sorted out giving me weekends. Promise said she did not see her mother much during during the week and had missed 22 days of school for 1st grade 2 blocks away.
To this day Promise still does not want to live with her mother. However as a non biological father this case is extremely difficult to win. As of right now court is February 22nd 2016. Even though Tiffany is still on current scripts her hair follicle test came back perfectly clean. She declined the judge's orders for mediation, psychological evaluation, and drug evaluation. However due to certain biological rights she may end up with custody with what we have right now. I have act now to prove Tiffany is still leading the same life. I have hired a legal agency to find this out. I am DESPERATELY asking for help in funding. With the help of this agency I will definitely be able to win this case and Is Promise a life well worth living. I need to raise a a few thousand dollars. I normally live my life being the giver. I rarely ask for anything but this little girl means the world to me and I will do anything possible to keep her safe and happy. We would be truly blessed if anyone out there can at all find it anywhere in their heart to contribute to this case and my daughter, PLEASE please help with anything you can. Every little bit helps and will be extremely appreciated.
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