Hi my name is wendy miles and I am contacting my local county board and state legislators and judge to assist with any help I can get as a person fighting a child custody matter that I have been getting the run a rounds with. I expected that if I contact somebody high with some high authority, maybe I may get the help that im seeking. Well for starters my name is wendy and I am 24 years of age. How my situation began was I just gave birth to a baby girl that I named Madison on April 29, 2012, who is now 5 months old. My adoptive mother who adopted me when I was young, but is not the biological grandmother to my child was given temporary custody over my child immediately after I gave birth. However this is not a woman I view as safe by any means, she legally adopted me when I was young but was also very abusive physically towards me growing up, along with my adoptive family and my adoptive mothers friends to whom I was abused by sexually at the ages of 3-8. Right now I am trying to get my five month old away from her and it’s been very hard. Due to the way I was treated as an adopted child myself as I mentioned my adoptive mother treated me harshly, I fear now for my daughters’ safety. I'll explain how she got temporary custody. My adoptive mother and I have not had any contact with each other going for 6 years. After I graduated in 2006 around 17 or 18 and did some college I moved away from her in Philadelphia to go to California because I was tired of my adoptive mother and adopted family mistreating me. She now contacts me 6 years later this past January because she heard I was about to give birth to my first child, she even apologized to me for all the horrible things she’s done to me as a child through my teens. So she requested that I travel from California to New York being that New York was close to her where she lives in Philadelphia &for me to give birth to my child close to her. I was very skeptical because this was the same woman who her and her family mistreated me growing up, but I thought that people would change. And she lied however setting me up. I ended up traveling 3000 miles on the greyhound bus and when I finally arrived to New York my adoptive mother never showed I called her and she didn’t want to make any arrangements on where I was supposed to go. She left me nine months pregnant in the streets. and this wasn’t the first time she has done this , when I was younger after being abused , so she wouldn’t deal with getting into trouble by the law if I was to tell on her , she usually threw me out so I wouldn’t be around to speak up against her. Due to traveling so far and in the condition that I was in, not being able to get back to California and nine months pregnant, I asked a maternity house to help me in my travels. The way I got treated by this maternity house after I left the city to head towards Spring Valley New York and Westchester New York was very horribly. It was a home for pregnant women. Two ladies bullied me requesting that I leave and why was I there if I had enough money to get from California to New York when they didn’t have much of any they said. I even had my education thrown in my face with two of the mothers stating since I have a diploma and college experience, then what was I doing there with them. When I addressed it to the staff of the place they did nothing about it and ignored and the two females continued with their pestering. The room I slept in they would play on the door turning the knob back and forth and also opened my bedroom door a few times. I told the staff again and they said that I come off like I think that I’m better. I immediately then asked to speak to a higher authority to report the staff for not doing anything that I would like to speak to their chairman. Immediately when I requested that, instead of answering my need the worker present got on the phone called an ambulance and had me escorted to a hospital. I didn’t understand what the logic was or what was in common with what I was looking for by me going to a hospital. I thought I was getting checked out due to being nine months pregnant. Instead the maternity house had me escorted to a mental institution and lied and said that I was causing trouble at their maternity home. The hospital then called the maternity home that was told to pick me up from the hospital and the lady I threatened to report to her chairman refused to come. I ended up staying in the institution for 4 weeks because they said they couldn’t let me leave unless I had somewhere to go. once they told me to leave I returned to the maternity home to retrieve my things and they took me to a different maternity house, as soon as I got there, they got on the phone again and had me escorted to a whole new hospital because I told them that I would still report them for not handling the inside of the home and for defamation of character by trying to make it appear like there was something wrong with me because they didn’t want to get into trouble. The 2nd house then took me to another hospital to where I was held another 4 weeks until I went into labor they released me. When I gave birth to my child due to not having nowhere to go cps was immediately called to my delivery room. I tried to explain to them that I lived I California and my adoptive mother had requested that I traveled because she wanted to rekindle a relationship with me after my not feeling safe with talking to her for 6 years, but that she lied to me and never showed up. I explained that she wasn’t a good parent and does lie a lot but I believed her and came anyways. cps basically said if my adoptive mother was the one to ask me to come the least she could’ve did was make arrangements and I wouldn’t be in this situation and then on top of that had to go to two maternity houses that had me falsely hospitalized as means to cover themselves, for the things that was going on in their homes. when cps seen that documented not only did my adoptive mother messed me up but so did the two maternity houses and I was trying to explain to cps that there is nothing wrong with me and my adopted mother lied as well. Because of the whole situation when it came time for my daughter to have somewhere to go while I was traveling they called my adoptive mother and asked her if she can temporary watch my baby until I see if I’m going to stay or fly back home then I would have to fight for custody after. And I didn’t understand she couldn’t come through for me in the beginning, but when it came time to take my baby she came for that and I think she’s a sick twisted woman. She’s desperate for children when she was a foster parent when I was young that didn’t go well. In addition I was adopted by her and I was mistreated by her and my adoptive family and now she’s trying to take my baby away. She even went along with the story with the two maternity houses saying there’s something wrong with me when there wasn’t. I’m now considering suing my adoptive mother for defamation of character, emotional distress, and the two maternity houses I traveled to. I decided to stay in New York now with my fiancé rather than go back to California. We are both in court working on gaining custody of my daughter to which my adoptive mother only has temporary custody over. and after I will continue to stay away from her she’s done this before not just with me but other foster children when she does wrong she tries to persuade people that there’s something wrong with the kids in her home, to make it look like we have the problems and not her. my mistake is that as a child to my teens I didn’t speak up and sometimes my adoptive mother told me not to which she then had me being looked at like there was something wrong with me ;with her manipulating the system. I know not to travel for her ever again after this horrific experience, she even put two false police reports against me when I was younger after she physically attacked me stating that I had hit her first when I actually only pushed her off of me on one occasion in self-defense when she was abusing me as a child and she’s now using that past information by saying I’ve only been arrested twice in my life to keep my child. However I’ve never been in any other trouble and I don’t do anything illegal. My fiancé works with the Nassau county fire department and police department &we have now been going to court to get my baby back from adoptive mom. To bring things in closure I read a website on situations like these and was told to contact my local county board, state legislators& lawyers, I should get my child away from her soon though and will be suing these people I’ve met in my travels. My adoptive mother even said that she’s not trying to keep my baby but before I was pregnant, she was calling 24/7 to apologize for all the bad things she’s done to me by trying to lure me in. after she lied and took my child now the phone calls have stopped she even lied to the courts to where my child is staying, saying that my child is at her house. However my adopted mother is a lesbian& has been hiding my child away at her girlfriends to whom I don’t have any idea where the woman resides. my fiancé & I are trying to fight for custody of my child and my adoptive mother even withdrew her petition so she wouldn’t have to ever come new York ever again after hearing that we are fighting to get our daughter back. My adoptive mother has always been an evil person mistreated me when I was adopted by her and will do anything desperate to have children even if it has to do with luring me in like she did by apologizing for all the mistreatment ,just to get close to take my child away from me.Furthermore I feel that cps did their assessment wrong rather than investigate due to the two girls bullying me at the maternity houses because of  my arguing back with the maternity house that I was going to threaten to report them for not protecting me from the two women, that same maternity house wrote it as me being a violent troublemaker is what the maternity house said by having a verbal altercation  by threatening to sue the place when nothing was done and to use the word violent when it was all verbal between us adults I think that was just wrong , yet it doesn’t make sense I’m 9 months pregnant when I was the one being attacked and due to my adoptive mother not showing up who use to abuse me when I was young, they wrote it as me and my child not having a place in the state of new York when I gave birth. And I also tried explaining to them that I was only traveling from another state and was going to return to California, but that my adoptive mother basically lied having me travel for nothing and got me stuck in the situation. Now I live with my fiancé here in New York. I feel that I’m having injustice done to me for other people’s actions that are trying to cover themselves for their wrongs and I need immediate advocacy. I also don’t feel that due to other individuals lack of care and irresponsibility’s to where I had to advocate for myself when it came to the good counsel maternity house and my adoptive mother I don’t feel that was any reason to take my child away. I did nothing wrong to my baby and never even been around my child, my child was taken from me right from the delivery room so it’s not like I got to spend time with my newborn. Children should be taken away for abuse, neglect, or malnourishment. My situation had to do with a bad relationship with my adopted mother who use to mistreat me that I assumed had changed 6 years later now and allowing her back in my life when she asked me to come just to give birth to my child and then I was going to leave after. Now due to being false with her words and having me waste travel expenses and her not obviously changing and I couldn’t get back to California at the time I came. Cps said they came for the reason of the hospital hearing me and my child had nowhere to go. But as I said my adoptive mother showed up after to take my child to which she was told could only be temporary custody and due to the way I was treated as a child I don’t really trust her. And then on top of that the maternity house I asked to help me in my travels due to them doing what they did when I was going to report them they have me looking like there is something wrong with me. the hospital I gave birth in Westchester medical center even falsely represented me when I had gotten up a few times to use their phone to get ahold of my fiancé due to my cell not working , they told cps that me getting up was considered strange behavior. The only time anything physical ever happened in this whole traveling experience was before I gave birth when my baby wasn’t even in the world yet. The maternity house that lied having me falsely institutionalized after I threatened to report them for how they did nothing about the bullying. When I was at the institution I tried to explain to the staff how I was being falsely held there, a few of the workers ignored. I then started writing letters to the board of the hospital explaining my position and the more I did that the workers didn’t want to get involved with me. One of the patients reacted to me when they saw me filing a complaint due to them saying that they were friends with the staff members. when that patient reacted and got mad about it me standing for myself they told and at least 5 of the workers came over and began grabbing me and mind you I’m pregnant. They said that due to that patient being upset that it was considered as me being a bother. I was very much nine months pregnant they were tackling me very hard to the floor and I kept shouting to them that I’m not doing anything and stop I’m pregnant and that they were very much hurting me and that the other patient got annoyed by me writing a complaint. When I held onto on the staffs hair to get her to let me go when I got discharged from the hospital that staff said she wanted to file charges against me saying that her hair got intentionally pulled. However I spoke to a detective and I was never charged, the detective said I was not in any kind of trouble and considered dropping it. I spoke to a detective explaining how these individuals were grabbing me and even ignored me a lot when I started writing letters to the board and I was told by the detective not to worry about anything and that nothing bad was going to happen. the detective basically made me feel like I fell trapped into a bad situation with people who only protected themselves and the more I kept speaking up of their misconduct the more trouble it only caused for me. However I don’t think that these situations involving other people with myself was no reason to take my baby away, I never did anything wrong to my child. And cps even said that I never did anything wrong to my child these situations all occurred way before my baby even was born, and they said they only had to get involved just because they heard I didn’t have a place in my travels. As I said I’m now with my fiancé who’s a Nassau county firefighter and he works with the police department and I now have a place with him here in New York, cps closed the case and basically told me that it’s now up to a judge to return my child. And I pretty much don’t see any reason to not have my baby back, this whole situation is basically I should’ve never trusted my adoptive mother who’s never been a good parent to me. She was a foster parent a one time and that didn’t work out and then she adopted me and that didn’t work out she was very abusive. And allowing her back in my life now 6 years later and she does this, by having me come out of my pocket to travel 3000 miles at her request and the situation she put me in with not making any arrangements for to go anywhere when I finally come and what I went through at that maternity house having to be put in the situations with the hospital falsely and her going along with it. I have contacted a lot of advocacy organizations, legislators, my mayor’s office, attorneys, and I am in processing of suing. And my I have been told if this is not a safe woman my adoptive mother, and due to my knowing this do to how I was treated as a child just to continue to stay away from her and not to allow her back in my life. My adoptive mother is supposed to be communicating with me to return my child in which she lied about that also. My fiancé and I were granted visitations in which she told us she is not coming; she also gave the courts the incorrect address to where my child is staying. And it looks like I pretty much got scammed and set up by her she has not had contact with me for 6 years now, and asked me to come so she can have a relationship with me this past January when I came to new York 6 years later now. But pretty much she was only after the fact of getting a baby when she heard I was pregnant with this whole circumstance and what she did was just cruel. She never had children of her own and didn’t treat me or the other foster children right when I came up being a former foster child and adopted child myself, so I guess she figured she get me close enough to take mine. This whole experience has been very hard especially being hospitalized and lied on. I’m no longer in the hospital and I have reported the individuals for how I was treated in my travels and the defamation of character to organizations. I have court with you judge Greenberg on November 7 and I’m hoping that you would return my child to me and to get my child away from my adoptive mother as soon as possible whose not a safe woman, but somebody who doesn’t know how to treat children and has manipulated the system for a long time with me and other foster children by trying to make it appear like there’s things wrong with us when there isn’t. And I think I have been protecting her for a long time due to being afraid of my adoptive mother and not speaking up which only made me look more stupid. But my fiancé and I are speaking up and my adoptive mother is not the biological grandmother and pretty much after this situation with my first born child I don’t see myself ever involving her back in my life ever again. So I’m asking you to please do all you can to bring our child home as I said my fiancé is a firefighter and with the police of Nassau county so we’ve been talking to a lot of people and it’s going to be a long time before I ever travel ever again because this was a very scary experience and no I’ve never done drugs, never drinked and never smoked. We just want our daughter back and I know not trust my adoptive mother and fortunately I don’t have to put myself in a situation like that again with going to a pregnancy house that was my first time, after the bullying experience I encountered in my travels but I have reported it that it wasn’t handled and how I was being falsely presented as their being something wrong with me when there in fact was nothing wrong at all after told by the person I reported. My adoptive mother said she was going to give my baby back but she refuses to communicate and is not a safe woman as I said. I also feel that if I didn’t allow my very abusive adoptive mother back into my life , I wouldn’t be in this situation now, she has manipulated the system for quite a long time so she won’t get into any trouble.  I’m here in New York now to stay and my fiancé and I requesting full custody and the return of my child. And as I said cps did close the case and are no longer involved, and it was only temporary custody in Westchester court due to this whole traveling situation. But now I am fighting as I been instructed to do to get my daughter back away from my adoptive mother who’s not a safe woman and caused this whole situation along with the people I met in my travels. and she really screwed me over by apologizing to me 6 years later presently for all the mistreatment she did to me by asking me to travel and then to set me up and do this. And she has not been true with her statements on where the where abouts of my daughter is, one minute she’s not keeping my baby and the next she ignores and continues to refuse to communicate with me and my fiancé .  Thank you.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />