http://my.kidjacked.com/tldevenport Just another My.Kidjacked.com weblog Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:40:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://my.kidjacked.com/tldevenport/2009/06/12/here-is-my-side-of-the-story/ http://my.kidjacked.com/tldevenport/2009/06/12/here-is-my-side-of-the-story/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:40:33 +0000 tldevenport http://my.kidjacked.com/tldevenport/?p=4 My name is Tracy Lee Devenport and this is my story. It has been almost six years since I have seen my son let alone seen a picture of him beyond what my mother received from them. It is hard fo rme to do this because there is so much pain in my heart for what was expected of me and doing it and still being refused to have my son back.

So here we go; I can’t remember the exact dates these things happened but I do remember the sequence of events.  While I was married to My ex wife Jessica I tried to help her with being a convicted sex offender and get her on to a normal life and being a happy family. On July 18 2001 my son Kanaiela Arnim Devenport was born and CPS started to affect my family way of life. With my then wife being a convicted sex offender I was on my toes not to leave her alone in the hospital alone with my son so while she was recooperating from his birth, I was literaly awake and there the whole time unless my son was not in the room, then I went to the bathroom and cleaned up a bit. CPS came into the room and said that I had left my son alone with her and they were removing him into CPS custody, Since that wasn’t true I decided to try and fight them but to no avail he was taken anyway.

Part of this was due to the fact that her other children were in Foster care with CPS that my son would be as well. it tore my heart apart and my marriage started to fall apart as well. I might as well warn you this is a long story. CPS told us since we now had all three children in foster care we would have to choose who would come home first my son or her second child, if I remember correctly it was my son to come home first, and I am sorry to say he came home to a shakey at best family. but he allowed me to calm down a bit even though I didn’t get much sleep but then who does with a 6 month old baby in the house. Soon after he came home Jessica was also told her second childEric would be coming home as well. That is when our marriage fell apart my temper was short I did yell alot but I never intentionally hurt the children ( there was an incident where I did smack open handed Eric in the mouth for swearing at me I am not going to say what he said but I was also on about 15 minutes of sleep a night for several months as well.) though it is no excuse for hitting. anyway at that point I had been arrested twice for domestic the charges were never pressed due to lack of evidence and the fact that they only happened because I was trying to get out of the house to cool off from the argument.

The second time when I returned I was faced with a restraining order with my son’s name on it and had to abide with the law. so I did but my wife being the sex offender and I being the “protective non-perpetrator in the home” when I left it gave CPS a chance once again to remove my son and at the time I was relieved he was in there care and I wa sin belief that he would be given to me when I was setteled in my own place but I was wrong again. I moved from the state of Hawaii to Nevada my home state and started to get on my feet and CPS in Hawaii told me you can get your son back if you take these classes and pass them ( anger management, parenting, and domestic violence awareness classes) which I did without hesitation but since the restraining order was still a factor after the classes were done I went back to Hawaii to get the restraining order removed and get my son back, due to this fact CPS told me I couldn’t have my son because they said “I was only there to get back togetjer with my ex” and he was removed again and if I had waited two weeks more he would have come to me anyway.

That was the last time I saw him with my own eyes he was two and a half at the time, and it was a supervised visit. with him being back in foster care and I not being able to have him I moved back and this time I moved to Oregon to be with my Dad and step mom who were nice enough to help me move back . I stayed there and fought to get my son for the next year, CPS told me that if I gave in and allowed him to be adopted by the foster family I woul dbe allowed contact with him and receive pictures and updates, this still hasn’t happened and like I said in the begining of this I thought I was doing the right thing but I was wrong.

Now as of today June 12 2009 I have received word from my ex wife that due to a lawsuit that she will be getting my son back with her and I am at my whits end, I do not know if it is true or if she is doing this to get me riled up but if it is true there is a chance I can get my son back with me but as with anything that I have no knowlege about I do not know where to go with this if antone can help me out and help me to get my son back in my live I will one be eternally greatfull, two he will be in a lot better environment, and three my heart will be able to have the love back in it that has been missing these last 6 years. either way if you read this I thank you for your time and patience and if you decide you can help me thank you and God Bless you.

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