Letters to the Editor

LTE: Custody Battle

Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:03:48 -0000
From: Scott & Candice Shelton
Subject: I Need Help

I am a mother of a seven year old daughter that last year a back woods judge gave her biological father custody, My daughter is a biracial child and the judge said on stand that I deserve everything I get for going out side my race, It took me seven years to get away from my ex-husbands abuse and now he is taking it out on our daughter. We buried our youngest son May of 1996 due to the beating he gave me while i was pregnant that caused my son to hemerage at birth, now my daugther has suffered abuse from not only her father but her fathers girlfriend which is another white women who just had another child with my ex-husband, my daughter has been beaten with leather belts, her arm was broken to were she had to have surgery and pins put in it. She was ate up with head lice and head mites that you only see on a animal. I have contacted all the right people I thought attorneys and human services and no one wants to get involved. I have refused to send my daughter back and I may be facing jail, to protect my child. But if I don’t stand up for her who will? Any help you can give me is very much appreciated. I now live in Indiana but my divorce took place in Columbia, TN which I don’t see how that happened since we were residents of Alabama at the time where my daughter was attending school.

Sincerely,
Candice Shelton
mothersrights@usa.net
I buried my youngest son I don’t want to bury my daughter too!

One comment

  1. Editor: I hate getting mail like this. Any attorneys out there want to take this on? What about those of you in the Justice Department who read this page? How about passing it on to some private sector colleagues.

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