PLEASE PRAY TOMORROW AND ON OCTOBER 4TH!!!!

I'll try not to go into too much detail here. There is so much information on the subject. Phew! Where to begin!!! I have a 6-year-old nephew who my brother-in-law has been trying to gain custody of since the birth of his son. They both share custody but she is the primary and my brother-in-law has visitation rights. The child's mother has a criminal record a mile long, and no, my brother-in-law didn't know about it while he was dating the woman. She is a mother of two teenage daughters, my nephew and now a three year old girl. And yes some idiot fell for her ploy and married her. Criminal record: In Florida, the woman was arrested on cocaine charges. Got a fine and slap on the wrist with probation. She has embezzled thousands (and I mean thousands) of dollars from a church she used to work for. They simply slapped her on the wrist and told her to pay back the money. Her father did that for her so no lesson learned. She entered her ex-husband's house and turned on all the stove burners then left. Thankfully, he came home in time before something drastic happened to him and his daughters. Once again, slap on the wrist. Within this last year, she has once again embezzled over $27,000 dollars from her families estate. The bank has filed federal charges against her and her court case is tomorrow morning. This is what I need you to pray about. Details below. This year, there were several incidents at her mother's house that involved her brothers who had guns and were shooting at each other. This month her new husband has held her at gunpoint at their home, threatening to shoot her in the head. She is holding her 3-year-old baby girl in her arms and on 911 tapes tells them she can't put the child down because he'll shoot her. (What mother uses their child as a shield???? I'd be shipping my teenage girls out the door with the infant in their arms!) Thankfully, when this incident happened my nephew was with his dad. Texas Child Services was supposedly investigating all of this. We went to court on August 11th in an attempt to gain temporary custoday. We had her ex-husband, her own sister and brother-in-law ready to testify against her in our defense as well as all of our family. And to top it all off, we had 911 tapes in hand and documented proof of the domestic violence and her past with us. Her attorney (who is a snake in the grass just like her) went in to the judge with my brother-in-law's attorney. A call was made at some point to Child Services and they told the judge that the case was closed and that her home was a safe environment for the children so the hearing was cancelled. When we went downstairs to leave, her attorney was heard bragging to others that he knew beforehand that this child and her girls would stay with their mother. Oh, yes, gues what! The judge over this case and every case we take to court regarding my nephew is none other than friends with her late father, friends of the family. Hmm.... Is is any wonder that whenever we go to court for custody that we don't win, even with a stack of documented proof a mile high as to the violence and criminal activity that is going on in that house??? Where is true justice??? Now, some of the smaller stuff. Wade has had a problem since he was little. We tried for years to get her to take him to a specialist to be checked but she refused. Finally, when Wade was over here for a week, my brother-in-law took him behind her back and just like we thought, he was diagnosed with ADD and later Selective Attention Disorder. Since he was a little boy he has done some very weird things that lead us to believe there is some form of abuse going on but we haven't been able to prove it. When he's put to bed he lays like a rod, straight as a board on his back with his little arms stiff at his side and stares straight at the ceiling until he falls asleep. He never moves. When he first arrives to us from his mother's, he doesn't talk unless he has to and when he does he whispers short answers. One day I asked him, "Why do you whisper all the time? Do you have to whisper like that at home? He nodded and whispered, "yes." Sometimes he arrives with scrapes and bruises. Sometimes he tells us what happened. Other times, he clams up and acts scared, won't talk about it. The frustrating part is, if he won't tell us what happened we can't prove there is abuse. We also suspect illegal drugs are being used in the home. This would account for the woman's irrational mood swings and she does have them. She's about 5'4" and my brother-in-law is over 6'. He picked up his son and put him in his car seat several years ago. All of a sudden, she became irrate and jumped into the truck into my brother-in-law's lap and start****ting him for no reason. After pushing her out of the truck, my brother-in-law went to the police department and filed a report. My brother-in-law is afraid for this child. There is so much violence and criminal activity surrounding him. We go to court - again - in an attempt to get custody of this child on October 4th. Please pray that morning, too. Tomorrow, is her day in court for the emezzlement charges. I was just told tonight that Federal Investigators have been investigating undercover for months on this case. I pray they have dug up other things that we don't know anything about. I'm not one to wish ill on anyone but this woman needs to be taught a lesson once and for all. Tomorrow is a shot in the dark for our family. We are praying that she is sentenced to jail. IF she receives jailtime, my nephew will come home to live with us where he belongs. Please, please, please pray that this happens! He deserves a life where there is no violence and crime in a home where there is structure and love and peace where he can be freed finally to be a real little boy who will grow with morals and values. PLEASE PRAY!!! Thank you so much for your friendship and prayers! Peggy B.

Poor Kid what he must be going through to have to live with a mother like that. I wish the best for you and your family. I will pray that he will get to come home and live with his father where he will be in a safe and loving home. I will be praying for you all. Keep faith. Hugs Mary