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I am trying to think of a way to describe the suitation at hand, As a mother you hope that your son would find a nice girl one that shows him respect and kindness and love, but early on we knew our son was in trouble with this young lady he choose to have in his life.
Domestic abuse comes in all forms, but when it happens to a man and that man is your son, you think how can this happen. My son came to me on Thanksgiving with stitches in his arm and he would not explain to me what happened, my husband said something isn't right. Few days later the truth was said to my husband and myself. Then at christimas this young lady left town for a week leaving my son struggling to pay bills that she was responsible for also while she went off to have a mini vacation with her family and when he came over to spend the Christmas holiday with us he took a shower and when he came and sat down next to me his legs were covered in bruises and I asked him, ok enough, what is happening to you and he said she did it few days ago that they got into a argument cause he did not make any extra money for her to take on trip and she kicked him numerous times and the last time he flew off bed and that is when he walked out and left. Many months later my son came to us and told us he can't take the realationship anymore and wanted out,We invited him to leave her and move back in our home but under no circumstances was she allowed.
2 days after that conversation this young lady contacted me via Facebook and told me to call her, which I did. She told me Our son was arrested and I hung up on her and looked up the info on line. I was so upset she waited to call because bond was set earlier that morning and it was set at a price no one could just fork out of there pocket.
After a long weekend of tears I went to start a new job that Monday, When I got there the owner and a team of people were sitting in the conference room and they sat me down and explained to me that I could not work there because i failed my back ground check. They slide over papers from Broward County courthouse where this young woman had filed stalking charges against me. I left that office embarrassed and crying and I did not know what to do. I called numerous attorneys that all wanted thousands of dollars to help me and my son and I knew I would never be able to pay it. My future was going to be set with this job, it offered me a excellent pay and 401 k match and I could finally start saving for my elder years instead of living week to week struggling just to keep our bills paid.
Needless to say, I went to the courthouse and did not even wait for them to serve me at home I got papers myself showed up for court and it was not even heard. I did not get the chance to tell the judge anything because she did not show, I wanted to ask the judge to remove this from search history because i would never clear a back ground check and i was told to hire attorney, Once again i walked out of the courthouse broken and crying and thinking what did I ever do to deserve this, and at that moment i said there has to be something I can do for my son now.
My son was arrested on 2/26/2016 For Domestic Violence and Domestic Battery with deadly weapon, she told police he ran her down with car. During the arrest it took 8 officers from the local police department to do the arrest and while the one asked my son to stand up from sitting in chair and our son complied, numerous more came from behind and jumped my son and threw him to ground and smashed my son's face in the cement decking and he recieved terrible gashes to above his eyes which it was noted and photographed by a attorney for the state. Also he was never seen by doctor for the damage to eye. ( which one of the officers are under investigation for making false reports)
We have spent the last 4 months asking judge to reduce bail and he will not because state keeps telling judge the young woman is in fear of him, the court appointed attorney is no help to my son at this point, he is just a number in the system. So on June 9th I wrote the judge a letter and showed him evidence that the young woman was not even living in the state and needless to say, the judge could care less and did not even discuss it or swear me in to talk about what I had given the courts to review. I have never seen such craiziness in a court room that day and in the months we have been going back and forth to get his bail reduced.
I have watched men that have shot or stabbed there spouses walk out on pre trial release and yet there sits my son and the judge wont allow lower bail or any pretrial release. My husband and I work everyday and live week to week paying our bills to keep a roof over our heads so our son will have a home to come home to and I can only ask from the bottom of our hearts for someone to take intrest in my son's story and help him. He is a good man with a son that he has to provide for.
Mom's go through a lot of different things in there lifetime with there children, but this I can say has opened my eyes to the little things that are important and the truth is important in my son's case but yet no one wants to hear it from him or me, or even my husband. They just go through the motion as if my son is a number in line and it saddens our heart to see him treated this way.
I need all of you from friends family and strangers to help me raise the money for our son's bond and to hire a attorney in Broward County Florida to have a attorney use the law to the best of there knowledge and speak and do something to save my son.
I plead with all of you to reach into your pockets and help me raise the money for our son so he can get out and help get all the evidence to a real attorney that cares about his life and future so he can prove he did not do anything. His last hearing was June 13th and once again the judge would not hear anything and re set a hearing again for August. We have to get our son out and work to prove his innocence,
If any of this sounds like begging then I guess I am, My son has not been the most perfect person in this world but he deserves to be proven not guilty and not let the system railroad him into prision for something he has not done. I appreciate the time you have taken to read some of the story, but i could write a book with the knowledge of case and evidence and I am sure maybe one day I will.
In closing I want to let you know this is how my visits go with him every other Saturday. It's the hardest thing that a mother or father faces at ever visit.
From the first visit to your last, they are all unique in their own ways. But the first visit is always the hardest because everything is still new which includes the environment that your sons in, a huge or medium size building that is probably a facility that seems like it's been standing forever in it's a place that definitely does not have a home sweet home or welcoming feeling to it.
When you first lay your eyes on him in the uniforms (that doesn't fit) that they wear, you want to run to him, grab him and hold him as tight as you can and take him back home with you. "This isn't your home", you say within your mind but not to him. At that moment, he looks like your little boy. All of your inside screen 'give me my son back"!! But you pull strength from somewhere to keep a smile on your face, holding the tears back and repeatedly in your mind telling yourself, "I'm not going to cry, I'm not going to cry".
You feel you have to be strong for him. He feels bad enough that he can't come home with you. Of course the shackles on his hands and feet just finished off ripping my heart apart. "Somebody help me"!!!! My interior is crushed severely and falling apart while my exterior's deceiving everyone around us. My heart breaks and wants to cry hard...loud, but instead the pressure of it all causes it to break in a million little pieces. After the initial shock, pain and heartbreak, then I start our visit and enjoy our time then I walk out with tears running down my face each time hoping one day he will be able to walk out with his father and me.
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