For those who may not be familiar with Care2 news stories, if you click the picture above you will be taken to C2NN ..... click the little green Tag under story which says "VISIT SITE" & you will be taken to the Website which has the story outline above

There are so many pages contained within the story above, so many links, it'll likely take a life time to read & more tissues than I can afford, Every page just filled up my eyes and emptied my heart.

This Website has been up since 2007 but from what I see it gets little traffic,

if you would like to by pass my story and go straight to site heres the link,

http://almosttuesday.wordpress.com/

Please share this site, people need to know what is happening in parts of our CARELESS WORLD .......

Beyond Heartbreaking and that is my guess as to why the website gets little traffic. In my opinion some or maybe many folks have the philosophy that what the eyes do not see, the heart does not feel. As stated in Tj's post above "People need to know what is happening in parts of our careless world"

I personally know someone who survived something like this--though some of his friends didn't.  His mom deserted him, his sister, and another sibling (not sure which gender) who was a baby and didn't survive being left alone in their apartment for several days.  Roger was just four at the time.  By the time he was five or six, he was a ward of the state of Florida and was getting abused in all sorts of ways by those who were being paid to take care of him.  This happened at the orphanage, and it happened to him at the reform school in Marianna.

We shouldn't ever put on blinders and turn a deaf ear to the cries of children who are needing help.

I realize we are speaking about children here but I would say "We shouldn't ever put on blinders and turn a deaf ear to the cries of those who are needing help"

Ita...It's not just children.  People of all ages are falling through the cracks of society, and something needs to be done about it...

Hi. I am the author of the story Its Almost Tuesday and the creator/author of the blog you're talking about. I want to thank you for your support. My son was and is not the first or last child to suffer through the system's faults. Its a tragically painful circumstance for any mother/family/child to find themselves in, beyond comprehension really, and yet, it happens everyday. When my ordeal began I was naive to the system, and its realities. Now, five years later, I know too many truths I wish I didn't know. For most people its a story they read and dismiss after a sad moment, but for mothers like me, its a constant nightmare that won't heal and won't ever go away. I'm an adult (and a pretty tough cookie i might add) and I barely survive the pain, so for my child, i CANNOT imagine his pain and I know too much. So for the 'average person' (for lack of better terms) to understand IS UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE. Still I will tell my story until my dying breath, praying that one family is spared, if nothing else. I treasure readers like you who share my son's story, for he is the one who matters the most, and needs and deserves to have his unimaginable pain not be in vain. I haven't seen him since he was 9, he is 14 by now. . but he is always going to be 9 to me. . even if i make it to reconcile one day, God-willing . . I will never see my little boy again or hear his voice as a little boy. I never got to say goodbye. I didn't hold tight to the last time i saw him, hugged him or turned to walk away from him, because I didn't know it was the last time. I will spend eternity hunting for a brief memory to reappear to me, so i can remember what he wore, or how he looked at me, or what was the last thing he said, but i cannot remember. Still I'll search. So to all the parents that have their children I always ask them to cherish each and every moment, hug, nightly lullabye or tuck-in bed. It may be the one you'll never get again, for whatever reason you may never understand. Thank you again. Very, very much. J.M.Murphy, http://almosttuesday.wordpress.com

Thanks for sharing this.  I'm glad you've decided to join our group, and I'm going to add you as one of my friends now.  Hopefully, you and your son will be reunited very soon.

It saddens me also, the system tried to take my kids away at one time also,It was an aweful ordeal that I don't want anyone to go through.

J.M.  You and your boy are in my prayers I put you on my prayer list.  Things are really bad out there in the Jungle.  It is awful for the abuse your son and you have suffer under.  There are so many children and people that fall through the cracks of this world system and it is wrong and it is not the way God planned our world to be.  Myself I am watching and waiting for him to take us home.  Amen.

I can not begin to imagine your heartbreak Molly, but I do believe it must take great strength courage and love, to do what you do for truth to be known.

When I stumbled across your pages I was so totally overwhelmed by what I read. I am still working through all the links & archived pages, but can only manage a little at a time .... as I said above "Every page just fills up my eyes and empties my heart."

I could not think of any better way to help, than to post a news link to your work, share it here with friends & members & just hope that the ripples would turn to waves & one day, the link would wash-up on the Screen of someone who maybe able to turn the tide.

Molly, One day your son will seek you out I have no doubt & at that time, that first re-uniting embrace, He will be 9 again - The tears, the smiles, the LOVE, will be your baby boy.

It will be the Just reward for your outstanding courage - Thank YOU, for being you, for sharing your story - May it open many eyes - I implore my friends & our members once more to share your link

 http://almosttuesday.wordpress.com 

Blessings & Prayers

Tj

To Molly,  I will begin to read you and your son's story and my heart goes out to you both that this has happened to you's. I can only begin to imagine the pain you are living with. Without beginning to read about all the pain you's have suffered I feel empathy for you both and Yvonne. As well as anyone else who's children and themselves have suffered because of a flawed system. I say this because I too had my children taken away from me by family members when I was in terrible pain and could barely walk. I had a very hard time getting to the hospital for shots for pain. My mother judged me as being unfit and just lazy which wasn't the case at all they were still being cared for and loved. It wasn't my fault I could barely move from the pain. So she sent someone over to take the kids away. My daughter was 9 and my son 14. My daughter didn't want to go but she was forced to. I would call it kidnapping my children because they were my children and they were not legally their guardians or parent, I was. Although they didn't see it that way. I had asked for someone to go to the grocery store for me since I could just barely make it to the hospital for pain shots. We still had groceries but not alot of variety. Then my mother phoned social services and lied to them also telling them that I had a history of not caring for the children which was a complete lie. It came out in court about 7 months later after an investigation by an investigator that proved I was actually a good parent with alot of people having said so.Also having checked with their former school. I used to get compliments on my good parenting where we lived a while before the place where we lived for 4 years about what a good job I was doing raising the children on my own as a divorced mother. They were used to a loving and caring mother and then they were forced to stay with their grandparents where my father turned abusive. It was really severe abuse for my daughter and my son wouldn't say much about what he went through. Neither would my daughter but I had went when I was better enough to check on them many times and seen alot of what was going on and the signs of how bad it was for my daughter. My son stayed away day and night to not be around there. I know that much.  I reported all the horrible things I seen and heard and they didn't even question the children until a few months later. When they did they had my father bring them in and sit in on the questioning as if they were going to talk with him there. They were so very wrong to do that and it is not the way they are supposed to do it when they are questioning children about abuse. They are supposed to arrange to have someone or themselves bring them there and question them then. I know how it is supposed to be done. They also wouldn't allow even supervised visits and the children asked to see me so they also broke their own rules that children can have visits with their parent or parents. I even seen the little pamphlet on children's rights while in care and that is one of a child's rights is to see their parent(s). We didn't see each other at all except for the unexpected stop ins I made that were stopped by me being charged and going to jail for a day then getting out on bail. We didn't see each other again for another 5 months and for the kids sake I was well mannered because the visit wasn't until Christmas day. There was no way I was going to do anything but my best to make it as good a one as possible. No one cared except me what was going on. When I tried to tell the police they just laughed at me since I happen to get some real callous and uncaring ones in there at the time. I did get a lawyer and there was an investigation done by an investigator appointed by the court I imagine. The truth came out that I was a good mother. What happened in court after the new year at the beginning of Feb. is when I found out more about the investigation that had been done. The judge was so peeved at the social services supervisor and worker that were there that she raised her voice to them and when they tried to interrupt when she was giving them heck she told them to be quiet that it was her courtroom and they would show her the proper respect in her courtroom and not to speak again unless she asked them a question. She was giving them heck about how they had did everything so wrong and against the children and my rights. She told them just what right did they think they had keeping children and a good mother away from each other. She told them they hadn't even looked into what kind of a mother I was that they just took somebody's word for it. She really laid into them. They acted like they felt some shame in front of the judge but it was probably only because they were being told off in front of everyone there including me who they had treated so shabbily too. One thing I didn't find out until later a smaller thing my father did to be nasty was he stole their allowances they were given. I also during this time lived on $100 dollars a month for the groceries and the phone bill after my rent was paid because I had to pay for all of the children's support out of my disability check. The social services said I had to pay for all of it myself and I really didn't need much they said. The money for the children was also supposed to be for things they needed which they didn't get usually. The few things they got for school were given to them only because they knew they had to.There are alot of details that would sicken you about what my father did to my daughter that I am not mentioning because he did some pretty sick things. He put my child committed horrible acts of the worst kind of abuse.That's our story of what children & a parent can go through because of uncaring workers &amp

The end there is supposed to say because of uncaring workers & a faulty system. They don't always do the right thing when they don't investigate well and not just take someone's word for what is going on. Then there is the other way they fail children horribly and with tragic results too as Ainsley said. I have reported cases where I knew for a fact there was abuse because I seen enough to know.

 It is so heartbreaking to know other children suffered as mine did and are still. It does matter if it is worse abuse than others but at the same time all abuse is very hurtful & damaging to children. I do pray for them. I still live with the memories of what happened with my daughter because for her it was so bad but I do for my son as well because I am sure it was hard for him too living there. It doesn't happen as often anymore with counseling help and with the Lord's help and God. Sometimes it is really hard and sometimes I can with the Lord's help have an easing of the pain. My daughter didn't remember all of it her mind shut down or blanked out on those memories as happens with some children. Then often, but not with everyone, they remember when they are alot older or adults. She is 28 now and she still doesn't remember and it would be good if she never did since no good mother wants to see her child remember such horrible memories when they don't remember. It's terrible and very hard for the ones who do.  

Sorry for the long posts. Reading about this it all just came pouring out. I would like to add one more thing is that I really feel bad for the children who never forgot any of it and have had to live their whole lives with the memories. It did continue to affect my daughter though the repressed memories and she has had problems because of it.