Ok so bear with me because this is somewhat of a long story.... In December 2018, a family court judge granted an ex parte request filed by my son's father, for emergency custody, claiming I was a drug addict. He did not include any evidence of this allegation. Nor did he tell the Court that we already had a permanent custody order from another county, or that I had DVRO against him or that he is 100% disabled due to combat related mental disorders. He was violating the custody order at the time he filed and he did not serve me with any notice of his request.
Until my son was 3 years old, I had sole custody and his dad never had him alone before that. My ex is abusive and violent and our son was 3 1/2 mon premature because he tried to push me out of our car on the freeway when I was 6 1/2 mon pregnant. He is a dangerous man, an ex Army Ranger and he was tormenting me the entire year prior to this order because I had left him and was engaged and trying to move on with my life while still co-parent with my abuser. None of this has mattered to anyone in my case for the last 3 years and now my son is in the hands of the man who almost killed him before he was born, and I am certain he is now the target of that same abuse I suffered for all those years.
I submitted my DVRO, negative drug test and told the judge I was never served with notice until the order was granted. I asked the Court to apply the DV statute and hold a full hearing but that hearing never happened. For 3 months my ex stalked me, withheld visitations making me go to his house alone to see my son. He threatened to kill us both and I believed him. They are not allowed to prosecute a DV victim who violates a custody order to protect their child-not in criminal court anyway. DFCS took my son from me after his father was arrested for attacking my father when I took my son. THey then made him a ward of the state based on my violation of that temporary order. For 18 months I was considered a danger to my son for "absconding" with him contd...