For those who keep asking the story about why Cleondra will only see Kylee for 3 hours on her birthday tomorrow: (All of it is found on her go fund me page) Hello Everyone, My name is Cleondra Carter and I am 21 years old. I have been a server at Applebees for the past year and a half. I recently have been accepted into the Biotechnology: Forensic Science Technician program at SWTCC. When I was a senior at Horn Lake High School (2011), I became pregnant with my daughter, Kylee Sue. While being a mother still in high school, I graduated with honor roll, worked a full time job and the following fall I attended college. I was doing great! Kylees father and I could not make our relationship work for the sake of Kylee but I have always tried to make things comfortable and sane for our daughter. I was and have always been the main primary caretaker of Kylee unless I was at school or at work. In another attempt to make our relationship work, in mid winter 2012 (after New Years) we then moved into Kylees grandfathers house since that is where Kylees father lived. All I do and did was work and go to school, sometimes I did go without a job to focus on Kylee and school whenever it was financially possible. I have worked so hard at providing our daughter with a stable and comfortable environment and it seemed that every chance her father and father’s family had they would hinder her from progressing and slow down her process of learning new things just to spite me. While living with Kylees father and grandfather, we encountered many problems with his father, mother, and sister. They would never listen to a word I had to say when it came to Kylee. Kylees grandfather would give her way too many sweets and it always caused a problem. As soon as we started winging Kylee off the pacifier and bottled, that started a huge conflict in the household because while his mother and sister watched her, they did not obied by the rules of no pacifiers or bottles. Even throughout these situations, I have never withheld Kylee from her father or used her as leverage. I know she loves him and I have always done whats best for my daughter. As hard as I tried, things just would not work with us co-parenting. As Kylee’s father and I split in Spring of 2013, I eventually sat him down so we could come up with dates where we would have Kylee equally. The dates were set, everything was fine. Whenever I tried to move on and date he would deliberately try to keep our daughter away from me. Earlier this year, I got an apartment 30 minutes away from Horn Lake, MS. Kylees father had no problem with it at first. I told him where I was moving, the date, and everything. As soon as he told his mother and sister, all hell broke loose. With those two problems being said, Kylees father filed papers against me for full custody of Kylee because I was withholding her from him even though we had a set schedule stated above and it continued as I moved. On October 31, 2014, this is when my world was crushed. We had trial for the custody of Kylee. It began at 9 am and ended around 4 pm. From 9 am until 3 pm or so, I was bashed by Kylees father and his family with nothing but lies. My attorney was absolutely TERRIBLE! My attorney did not fight, no one fought for Kylee and the judicial system failed me as a mother. They made MANY false accusations that had no proof. The lies were outrageous, hurtful, and underhanded. It is unbelievable to me how these people just loved me 2 years ago and now I am such an awful mother. Their case was built on nothing but lies, but it was built. I was badgered horribly on the stand by his attorney for being a young woman who has started to date. Somehow that has been misconstrued into being promiscuous. At the end of the day, I lost my daughter. They took my baby girl from me even though they could not and did not prove me as an unfit mother. The law says their must be a change in circumstance and Kylee’s circumstances only got better with me. I have grown as a mother, I have and still to this day put my baby girl first. I am empty without her and now I must FIGHT! Kylee is my world. It revolves around her and I live my life around her because she will always and forever come first. I do whats best for my daughter. I had schools picked out for her, she is very close to my family, I taught her right from wrong, and was raising her how to be the little lady she is growing into. No one can teach her how to be a little lady or a woman better than her own mother. When they took her away from me, I could not believe it. I could not breathe. She is my everything. Nothing is the same. I have been by my baby girls side since she was born, so to have that taken away by lies, is unbelievable. Kylee has a bear that she has had ever since she was born, we call him Thunderbuddy because she held on to him every time it stormed and now just as Thunderbuddy was her protection, I must hold on to him for comfort while my baby girl is away. I have to sleep with that bear to feel some closeness of my daughter and feel some type of normality after our lives changed so drastically. I have no comfort as I cry myself to sleep. As I am pushing myself every day to fight for this unfair outcome and money is slim as a server, I am currently looking for a full time position and attending school. This is where I need help from all you lovely people who took the time out to read my story. I cannot express enough how much that means to me. I have to appeal the case and I have found an attorney which I feel very confident about, to help me do that. The total cost for the appeal and attorney fees is $5,000. Any type of donation would be greatly appreciated in my fight to get my daughter back. I will not give up, and she will always know how important she is to me. She needs her mother. Her mother needs her. Thank you and Bless you all.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 04:00:40 +0000
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