My Story Of The Unjustness In Chautauqua County Family Court

November 5, 2019, Sally is now my lawyer. She immediately gets me in her office and I tell her my story, show her police reports, show her the surveillance video, and everything else I’ve talked about thus far. She immediately files some sort of paperwork to the courts and guess what. Whatever that was that she filed, we were in court on November 19,2019 and supervised visits stopped and I actually got 2 1/2 days of visitation per week with my son! This was fantastic to me. No more supervised visits, I get him at my house again! No more 2 hours a week, I get him for 2 full days! Not quite where I want to be, but we are working on it! It seems like from this point until the end, there was pre trial after pre trial after pre trial scheduled where nothing would happen. Nothing. – December 18 pre trial – the attorneys were running behind schedule with other clients so Pete Johnson (who is running for judge now), with no right to do so, he told me and the other party to leave for the day that we will reschedule. This was a week before Christmas and I was so upset, I wanted to see my son on Christmas. Sally again immediately filed something to get us back into court before Christmas. Because of this, I did end up getting some time Christmas Day with my son. Each time we presented in court, either the other party’s lawyer didn’t show up or they would make up a new story to tell the judge or something. Even Sally raised her voice a few times and appeared to be frustrated. I specifically remember judge Piazza would be fumbling through papers on his desk while Sally was speaking, then when Jeremiah’s lawyer would speak, Piazza would make eye contact and stop with the fumbling of papers. Piazza was very disrespectful towards us as was Craig Jackson (the “attorney” for my child whom he never even met). – January 14,2020 – Pre Trial – Jeremiahs lawyer was sick so none of them showed to court. Rescheduled for January 21, 2020. Sally must have contacted the courts somehow and asked if I could have my son on my pinning day for nursing school (We were halfway through the year!) She must have gotten the ok because I had my son on January 18th for my day. We celebrated with some food, cake and friends and I got to have my son overnight. Next morning at 9:00am, it was back off to dads house. Both my kids have always had very sensitive skin to the point where if they have a bowel movement, you must clean it up within the first minute or their behinds will start to become red in color and irritated very quickly. My son must have had a bowel movement while on the car ride back to his fathers house which is a 45 minute drive because his diaper was clean when he left me. Jeremiah must have gotten to his parents house (where Jeremiah resides), at some point saw that our son had a bowel movement, took a picture of his butt area, and took him to the emergency room at 1:15pm to the local hospital. I dont know that any of this is happening until we get into the courtroom on January 21. -January 21, 2020 – Pre Trial – We are all in front of the judge and the other party present with a new CPS case against me. My lawyer and I look at each other in awe not knowing where this is coming from. Long story short, Jeremiah went to the hospital, claimed child abuse from me AND my mother for a diaper rash. I will write what that report stated in another post. -January 29, 2020 – Sally immediately filed an order to show cause and here we were in court again. There was someone there who represented CPS and they spoke up and told the judge that an investigation had been done and the claims against me were unfounded. C. Jackson the attorney for the child spoke up and stated he thinks I should not get any more time added to my visitation and things should stay the way they are for now. Judge Piazza agreed with C. Jackson and court was dismissed. -February 5, 2020 – Pre Trial Rescheduled -February 19, 2020 My son had a doctor appt this day which I attend. At one point while we were waiting for the doctor to come in, Jeremiah, punched me in my arm in front of our son because he thought I was reaching to get his cell phone when I was actually going to pick our son up off the table whom was watching his phone. Seems like we have a lot of issues when it comes to his cell phone dont we!? My son starts crying, I walk out of the room and talk to the nurses and doctor and I end up deciding I should call the police. Where the doctor office was, I had to deal with state police. They came, wrote up a report with me, spoke to Jeremiah for a few minutes, and that was it. I had to go through hell and back to even get a copy of the police report which I still never got to this very day. I had to apply online to get a copy of it and they said it would not be available until August 10, 2020! Like excuse me? Its February! It was told to me by the state trooper that Jeremiah was going to be arrested for harassment charges. But was he ever? Nope. -February 28, 2020 – Pre Trial – Order of protection put in place on Jeremiah towards me (from incident), nothing else happened this day in family court. But me, when I supposedly “hit” him, I got my child taken from me. – I do believe around this time was when Covid hit and everything started to shut down around us including the courts….. So…. -March 15 Pre Trial Canceled -March 23 Pre Trial Canceled -April 1 was supposed to be our Trial day – Canceled! Everything in life was at a standstill for about a month or so. After that, we would meet with our lawyers in their offices, the judge would be on a zoom call with all of us and that was our court from here fourth. Every single time we would have a zoom meeting, I was hoping the judge would just dismiss everything since it was taking so long or just schedule the trial already! Sally kept filing paperwork and fighting so hard to come to an agreement or dismissed. At one point, Jeremiahs lawyer said to us that if I give up the monthly child support I would normally get from Jeremiah, they will dismiss their case. Sally told me not to do that. At this point, I just wanted my kid back but I listened to her. All of a sudden it is August 13, 2020 and we are in yet another zoom meeting in our lawyers offices. I just sat back in my chair almost zoning out because I knew good and well nothing was going to come of this pre trial just like the last 20 of them over the past year. All I remember was Sally starting to raise her voice a little to everyone on the zoom meeting (it was the same story over and over and over again from everyone) and all of a sudden I hear, “Ordered that the respondent’s motion to dismiss is denied, and respondents request to vacate the temporary order dated August 6, 2019 is hereby granted and it is further ordered that the temporary order dated August 6, 2019 is hereby vacated and the order dated May 16, 2019 is in full force and effect.” THIS WAS THE MOMENT WE WERE WAITING FOR! We jumped up, hugged, cried, laughed, it was one of the moments in my life I will never forget. I am pretty sure I heard the attorney for the child state that he still wanted to have a trial date set for this. They may have set up a trial date, im not sure, but all I knew was I had my son back! This trial never happened by the way, Jeremiah and his lawyer withdrew. I remember Jeremiah messaging me just after all this was done this day and asking me if he could keep our son for the rest of the day because it was his day off of work. Here I am now scared to death to violate the court order or do anything wrong so I said ok. May I say that during all of this mess, I graduated nursing school! I am now an LPN!