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for your child may not be if all the facts come in, but, unfortunately, many times CPS & false reporters don't wait for facts. For example, if you spank your child in public, people have differing views of how to raise a child, and someone may call you in. Thats a reality, regardless of how you feel about spanking a child; i promise, SOMEONE out there disagrees with you.

As for Mary, the louder she spoke out, the firmer the hand was against her by the system. In retrospect she should have kept quiet until her son was home, but at the time, her traumatized emotions coupled with protective maternal instincts and belief in her civil rights caused her to react in what they labeled uncooperative' with CPS and non-conforming' to the system. Mary was ultimately stripped of her rights to her son in court hearings she was not allowed to attend. She was restrained by Texas Courts from contact with her son. She was called a "flight risk" that she might take her son back to their 'safe' home state, placed under a protective order keeping her from him, and his name was changed, and personal address information sealed. She has not seen her child in over 2 years. She is not allowed to speak to him, even by telephone.

Mary's nightmare began with domestic abuse.

If she left him, she would pay. That's what Robbie would tell Mary in the mid-1990's during their brief 2-3 year (abusive) marriage. If she left him, she would never see her son again. He had been physically abusive, involved in a cult-like group that has camps world-wide and he vowed to hide Mary's son from her forever if she left.

She took the chanceand she left.

Mary moved several states away from Texas to escape domestic violence and spousal abuse from Robbie. She found her 'safe state' in this new place and for nearly 6 years the mother and son had lived an abuse-free life. Mary had remarried, and begun a new life. She had obtained a domestic violence protective order after her divorce when he continued to stalk and abuse her, particularly when he found out she would be remarrying another man who would raise their son as his own.

For nearly 6 years Robbie remained quiet and began another relationship with a woman who had children from another relationship. Ironically her daughter was the same age as Mary's daughter. Except for his attempts to contact her via email or phone on holidays and birthdays, he was quiet. Each violation Mary recorded in a log she kept, and reported to the police in her 'safe state'. But Robbie

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