My Story Of The Unjustness In Chautauqua County Family Court

Id like to talk a little bit about CPS, PTSD and a few other things in this last and final post. First, you may have read my story and said to yourself, well thats the way the court system works, things don’t happen immediately, it’s a process. Well, not so much in my case. I was told by numerous people that judge Piazza should have never taken my son from me or handled things the way he did initially. I also showed a few other police officers that are friends of mine the surveillance video and they stated that they would have never pressed charges like the ones I received. They stated that officer Hallmark was more then likely being told what to do by his boss (Jeremiah’s father) the lieutenant of the Sheriff Dept D. Mulson. During that entire court process, I started an online petition to get my case heard outside Chautauqua County courts since my sons father and grandfather have so much pull in this county and know the judges and lawyers. I had hundreds of people sign my online petition, but the courts never moved my case. This is a very small county and a lot of the judges and lawyers get together outside of work to play golf and converse, so when they get in the courtroom, they tend to have each others backs. This should not be tolerated. There is no way we can control who hangs out with who outside of work, but the entire court system should have judges from other counties take over any case that comes to them where the petitioner or respondent works for the county. CPS played another role in my story. They really were not too bad. Well, I’m not a bad parent, my house is always clean, messy but clean, so CPS really didn’t have much to do. They initially got involved when I got the “endangering the welfare of a child” charge. One person came over to the house to briefly look around. They didn’t check to see if I had food in the fridge or hot running water, nothing. Just walked through the house and that was that. The thing I didn’t like was that some lady went to my daughters school to talk to her in a room by themselves. No one told me about this, my daughter goes to a private school so you’d think they would have notified me or at least had someone sitting in on the interview. My daughter was 6 years old, came home and told me some lady with a black purse took her in a room to talk by themselves. I have since learned and told CPS and the school that if anyone ever wants to question my kids again, they are to have our counselor present. After 3 of my charges were dropped, CPS came to the house to look again and stated that she will be closing the case at this time. A month or so went by and I never received anything in the mail stating my case was closed so I called them and they said the lady who was handling my case left for another job and never closed my case. So someone else came to the house for a third time, looked around and stated they would for sure close the case now. They did. The next time CPS became involved (the diaper rash case) the lady was very nice, didn’t even come in the house, just said she had to make an appearance and if I wanted to set up an appointment for her to talk to my daughter with her counselor. I did, we went, things obviously went well so she had to make her second appearance to my house then she immediately shut down this case against me. So I was visited 5 times total by CPS. Lets lastly talk about PTSD. First and most importantly, my kids do not remember any of this so thank God they are mentally “normal”. All my daughter remembers is the play place in Jamestown her and her brother used to play at. She is 11 now and sometimes when we pass the building, she asks me if we can stop there to play. My mother still suffers today with the emotional toll this took on her. Jeremiah was not there for our sons birth, my mom was. My mom has always stepped in when the real father didnt. Every time my son has to go to his fathers house, my mother cries and becomes depressed while he is gone as if he is never coming back to us. My mother fears me updating our court order. She panics when we receive any mail from family court. My mother is a 76 year old retired nurse and should not have to deal with these feelings. Me? Well. For the longest time after this occurred, every time a car door would shut outside, I would run to the front door to see who it was thinking it was the police or cps. I saw a counselor at this time and she told me in time, this feeling would go away. With every car door that shuts and I see its not anyone for me, in time, I will stop running to the door. This took about a year and a half to accomplish, but it has happened, she was right. To this day, I stay far far away from my sons father and only communicate via talking parents app and only on a need to know basis. Yes my stomach turns about being in court again, but that court has issues in itself that need to be brought to light such as the Judges and lawyers hanging out together as stated above. The Sheriff Dept needs to be brought to light as well because there is an issue happening now that I’m seeing (for the second time) them press false charges on someone just for sake of their own personal gain. I will be reaching out to news stations across Western New York about this because it should be looked into. Although anytime anyone in the sheriff dept or courts is asked a question, its always “no comment” “no comment” I don’t know that person” I’m not related to that person”. Long story short, I do not feel comfortable going to the police station to ask for help with anything. Other then that, I am ok now. I have a great paying job, I have healthy children, a good family and friend support system and I always think to myself that maybe If this hadn’t happened to me, maybe I wouldn’t have been able to pass nursing school. Maybe not having my son so much at that point in time allowed me to study for my tests, do my homework, attend clinicals, and study for my NCLEX which is the main test you take for your nursing degree. So was it a blessing in disguise? Maybe. Everything happens for a reason but Sally was the ONE PERSON in that courtroom who would listen to me and helped me get my son back. Thank you Sally! Police reports and other documents will be uploaded to my site as soon as possible.