Hello, my name is Tiffany Faulkner, because I need someone like you to help me.
Let me begin:
My family and I are having the worse family fued with my sister's ex-husband and his family. Ok, my sister WAS the popular girl in high school, the Medical Labratory Technichian college graduate, wife, and mother. Her husband left her and she suddenly became "different." My sister has been diagnosed with Schizophrenia since then, and is no harm.
Yes, she is on plenty of medicines, but due to her diagnosis, her (ex)husband, my brother-in-law, took her son (my nephew) and moved hours away, but his family still lives locally.
My mom is a hardcore Christian woman who cannot bare the thought of losing her grandchild, her blood. So my mother and father hired a lawyer (which they really couldn't afford, and still can't) to help represent them in the matter of seeing Ty, their grandson.
Since we live in Ohio and they were starting this case for grandparent rights, which no longer exhist in this state. But somehow, after a good year or two, we finally got the privelage of seeing Ty every-other-weekend, but this battle has just begun.
We send Ty toys, and they throw them away. Kellie, my sister, sends Ty over $300 a month (it's not child support either) and he knows nothing about it. We send him letters and cards, and he never sees them. That's what we found out during his visits, he didn't know what we were talking about.
ANYWAY, my parents were getting letters in the mail every week from J.B.'s (Ty's dad and Kellie's son and my nephew) lawyer stating some bizarre excuse to why J.B. and his family didn't want Ty here, i.e.- they drove by our house and seen him outside riding his bike and didn't see any of us around...UTTER BULLSHIT!!!
Blah, blah, blah.......this has been on-going now for a good 4-5 years I believe, if not more. We had Ty for this past Thanksgiving and my mom and sister were upstairs with Ty and my son, Evan (who has Asperger's Syndrome and is 7 years old) when all the sudden they seen Ty in some drawer and my mom asked him what he was doing. He then ordered, my mom and sister, to go downsatirs and that he had to take care of something. My mom found this really awkward, and patiently went to see what he was doing. Ty had found a pocket knife and then told my mom that he was going to kill Evan. My mom curiously asked him why and he said, "I'm mad at Evan, and I'm going to stab him in the belly with this knife." My mother then noticed him approaching Evan with the object and Ty still demanding for them to go downstairs. My mom then grabbed the blade from his little hand and he begun to cry. The next thing I knew, she was on the phone talking to someone about what just happend, and of all people, it was J.B.. Ty had called his dad and the first thing he said was, "I didn't do anything," and mom was on the other end descriptively describling to J.B. what was going on. The next thing we knew, Ty wasn't there to eat Thanksgiving dinner with us because his "other" family had picked him up, and while doing so, his other family was calling my mother and father "crazy" which was very unappropriate and should have not happend in front of that little boy.
OKAY THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SCREWED UP THING:
My mom has been under alot of stress due to what is going on with not seeing Ty and I truely am starting to believe somone CAN die of a broken heart because of her health now over all this, and we still haven't seen him since Thanksgiving. My mom is a demo-lady who usually works in Walmart and offers samples. This past Saturday, January 12, 2008, she was on luch there at Subway (which is inside Walmart) with my Aunt Lizzie. All the sudden, Ty's uncle and Aunt came in to get lunch (Kellie's ex-brother-in-law & sister-in-law; J.B.'s brother and his wife) and they walked by my mom, and mom couldn't help but ask how Ty was doing.....they screamed at her and made a huge scene in Walmart/Subway while mom was like "I just asked how my grandson is doing? What's wrong with that?" (remember, my mom is VERY religious.)
The next day, my mother was scheduled to work at the same Walmart and before she could set up, she was wanted by the Walmart manager. She was banned from Walmart. MY MOM LOST HER F***ING JOB, FOR HER LAWER FEE'S, FROM ASKING HOW HER GRANDSON WAS!!!! It was Walmart policy if anyone complained about ANY employee there, that-that person would be banned and an investigation would take place until further notice.
I am outraged!!! Something has to be done!!! What can we do???? Please write back, and I don't care if you send this to other people, I don't care if you read this over the air, I don't care what you do...just please help, I don't know where to start!!!
I am in school for Forensics and know not to be on any side, but to speak for the dead, and I know that there's two sides to every story. But this is absolutley ubsurb and uncalled for.
I see signs in my nephew, Ty, of depression, anxiety, and has said on more then one account that he was going to kill himself, and he is only 8 years old. If my sisters Schitzophrenia was ignored by her "husband," and Ty is being ignored of his issues...the boy needs severe help. Through thick and thin, through sickness and health till death do us part? Not in this case.
Tiffany Faulkner
