Tw: kidnapping, child abuse, child sexual assult
Location: Georgia, USA
This is a hail marry. When I was about six years old I was kidnapped, along with three other kids for over a year. My mom managed to hire a private investigator and legally get me back, and the woman responsible went to prison, which she later died of a heart attack in. I cannot for the life of me find out anything about this case, despite the severity of it. I dont know her last name, only her first, and i desperately want to find out what happened to the other children. She was very abusive and they always protected me, and i never got to thank them for that. Im not sure what she formally got convicted with, but im assuming child abuse, child neglect (she didnt feed us most days or give us much water. We all had to sleep on one mattress or the floor) probably child abduction, and possibly child sexul abuse amoung other things. She had cps called on her multipe times with people saying she was molesting the children in her care, and they did come to the house a lot, but they never did anything. After that we would always move an hour or two away. It happened at least four times that I can recall.
I cannot find anything searching my name. This happened about ten eleven ish years ago, im eighteen now and I was six when it happened, eight when I got home (that i can remember, I've blotted a lot of this out cause trauma) her boyfriend was also with her and charges as an acomplise, hes no longer in prison. Is there any way to find out more about this? And possibly the names of the other kids involved? Any help would be greatly appreciated. It happened in Georgia, but we moved house so many times that I can't narrow down the location more than that. Thank you so much!
Small mini update: so I asked my mom a little bit and will probably have to make a new post, but things make a lot more sense. Most of this is honestly my error of not remembering well.
So, this wasnt technically considered a 'kidnapping.' My mom just calls it that, she considers it a 'legal kidnapping, and i was under the impression that she went to a legal court because she had to hire a lawyer and the woman went to jail. However, because she signed temporary legal guardianship papers, this was a DFCS case. Which makes a lot more sense now that I think about it. That's why I had to go to foster care for a couple months before I went back to my mom. The reason it took so long to get me back was because she had to convince DFCS the woman wasnt fit to have me, and because it was legal gaurdiship papers it was whole thing with explaining to them that she was the actual mother. The reason I thought this was a court case, was because she went to jail for something similar AFTER this, likely because of the other children in her care. Its been years since I asked her about this and made this post on a whim last night at 3am, so im glad I could ask her more, and thank you to the person who said this was likely a family and children services case. However this info does change a lot for me. Im going to call DFCS and request whatever forms they have on me, and try to find her name from there to see what her other crime she was convincted of that got her in jail. However, it's very unlikely I will be able to find out anything on the other kids. The crime she got arrested for involving them wasn't involved with me, but I can at least look it up and find details of what happened to them, even if I probabmy can't figure out their names. Now that I think about it, I remember my mom telling me she went to jail a year or two after I was home. My bad for not asking for details before posting and giving a very Frankensteined version of events. Again this happened like, a decade ago and I got information on it over the course of several years. Sad that I probably won't be able to find them, but its at least something. I might update when I call DFCS and get more info on what happened, but thats a different route probably for a different post