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Updated 09/16/16
WILL YOU PUT ON YOUR CAPE AND BOOTS, AND BE A SPECIAL BOY'S SUPERHERO?
WILL YOU STAND UP AND DEFEND A CHILD'S LIFE? IF SO, PLEASE, READ IT ALL
IF YOU KNEW AN ACT OF KINDNESS FROM YOU COULD HELP SAVE HIM, WOULD YOU DO IT?
WE CAN HELP SAVE THIS CHILD FROM HIS HISTORY OF PAIN, MISTREATMENT, AND TRAUMA. WE CAN WORK TOGETHER TO BRING HIM HOME TO HEAL.
THAT’S MY SON AIDAN IN THE PICTURE, AND I'M FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE.
WHO IS AIDAN?
He’s a loving, brilliant, nerdy, autistic 11 year old with a passion for Lego's, science, and music, but also suffers from Abuse Trauma, ADHD, Dysgraphia, Gastrointestinal problems, and likely PTSD as well.
People have constantly told me how intelligent, loving, empathetic, and compassionate they think Aidan is. He received enormous praise from our church members for donating his long hair to “Kids Without Hair”. He is well known at our church, as he was always helping, or involved. He was the youngest greeter at our church. He watches documentaries like other kids watch cartoons. Aidan's favorite activities are anything involving science, building with Lego’s, or K’nex, reading, or simply writing stories on his tablet. He wants to make music with his cello, a synthesizer, and a digital audio workstation (DAW)
Aidan's 11, and still wears diapers due to his GI issues. He also has to deal with autistic rage, meltdowns, anxiety, lack of emotional control, the inability to communicate discomfort or stress, and the nightmares that are common to children with his problems and disabilities.
He's had his innocent, young life destroyed by uncaring, hurtful people. I have seen this blank expression on my son's face many, many times during the years of hellish domestic violence. Aidan's been abused by his mother, and witnessed his father (me) be abused. He carries the damage from enduring the years of domestic abuse from the woman who is his mother and was the partner to his father. On top of that, Aidan has been abused and mistreated by teachers, classmates, and doctors. He's been traumatized by the very AZ Family Court that was supposedly protecting his "Best Interest". In his own way, he's grown up in his own war zone, terrorized by “Bad Guys”
Aidan is now in a lock-down group home for disabled boys. The Arizona Family Court would rather lock Aidan up, than let him be raised by his single father. Over the past 3 years, I’ve been cleared of any wrong-doing, and praised by CPS/DCS in Arizona and California, but the AZ Family Court still sent him into foster care in June 2016. To date, no charges have been brought against his court documented, abusive mother.
HIS DISABILITIES ARE GETTING WORSE SINCE HE WAS TAKEN AWAY. HE IS REGRESSING. ALL OF AIDAN'S HIGH POINTS ARE FADING. HE NEEDS TO COME HOME.
Aidan is finally allowed to visit me for 2 hours, twice a week. Until the AZ Family Court violated our rights, I was his full time, Primary, “Stay At Home” Parent for all of his 11 years. Twice a week now, I hold him while he cries in my arms, and begs me to bring him home. I can't tell him it may not happen. I can't tell Aidan that a place like he's in now, may be his home until he's released from the system asan adult, should I fail to meet the conditions of the AZ Legal System.
We desperately need your help. Even a small donation would be more than welcome. If all you can do is share a post, please do that. Your friends pay attention when you share something, or make a comment.
OUR LIVES HAVE BEEN TOTALLY CRUSHED BY THE AZ FAMILY COURTS. WE LOST NEARLY EVERYTHING.
THIS IS HOW YOUR DONATIONS WILL HELP:
- Money to replace our furniture, towels, bedding, dishes, and cookware, etc. Basically, we need everything to set our apartment up to the standards of the AZ Legal System, restoring our lives from the damage caused by Az Family Court.
- Money to retrieve the last of our belongings from California. I can't afford to leave those things there. I don't have enough money to pay the storage fees and maintain the costs of an apartment. I can't look him in the face and tell him his Lego's, K'nex, his Beloved Cello, and his remaining cherished belongings are all gone. He's suffered enough. He needs to know his things are safe here with me. Aidan needs to have the hope of his home to return to. If I fail, he loses the last of his hope, and he will suffer from that failure for years.
- Money for legal costs. Here in Arizona, pro-Bono legal help is virtually nonexistent. What does exist, only advises, but will not represent. I have not found legal representation I can afford. Audio and video records are very expensive. I need those records to prove my case.
- I need to satisfy the conditions required by the AZ Legal System before they will consider allowing me to bring him home. I need to raise money for that ASAP. I have already missed my August deadline. If I miss anymore, I may be considered “non compliant”, and may not get him back.
WE DESPERATELY NEED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE NOW TO BRING HIM HOME AND KEEP HIM SAFE. ASK YOURSELF: “WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR CHILD’S LIFE”?
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WILL YOU BE KIND ENOUGH TO HELP US TAKE THE STEPS TO BRING AN END TO THIS CYCLE OF ANGER, PAIN, AND ABUSE?
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WILL YOU STAND UP FOR HIM FOR 5 MINUTES?
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WILL YOU DONATE TO HELP?
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DO YOU KNOW AN ATTORNEY, OR ANYONE IN THE MEDIA?
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WILL YOU BOLDLY “SHARE” THIS INSTEAD OF MEEKLY HITTING LIKE?
WILL YOU TAKE YOUR BEST HERO STANCE, AND SAY TO THE WORLD: "I WILL HELP THIS CHILD"!
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