Family Court judges often threaten to send mothers to jail as a way to silence them. Susan shares how a Texas judge carried through on that threat.

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I have been sentenced to 21 months in state jail for the horrific crime of protecting my toddler from a childhood of their uncle sexually molesting them. 

Collin County Texas calls it “interference with child custody.” 

Had Collin County's justice system upheld the laws against domestic violence at the end of my marriage, I would never have been put in the position to give up everything I had worked my entire life for to protect my toddler. 

But they didn't do their job, not CPS, not the family court judge, not the police that failed to follow up on complaints of sexual assault of a child against my ex brother-in-law. None of them. 

But I did my job as a mother, and I kept my child safe for 13½  years. Father's rights shouldn't override a child's right to a childhood free from sexual assault. 

Susan from Texas

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