05/04/2025
Don't ever give up on getting your kids back. This photo was just a few months before CPS began to destroy the most important part of me ...being a good mother.
Here's my story.... straight from the horse's mouth, and from the heart.
This photo was Divine foreshadowing I'd say... This was my son and I in May of 2020 beside the fire extinguisher at my college barn. 2 months after WOMPA was created, and 3 months before CPS served me with the neglect petition. I had no idea at that time how many proverbial fires I would have to try to put out in just a few short months...or that I'd still be fighting them today.
But God carried me through, and to this day He still does. I am beyond blessed to have my son back; even if we can't enjoy the horses back home together anymore, we have a whole new area to explore! And the rest of our lives to do it.
But before you think 'oh you make it sound so easy!'
It wasn't easy...not a single step of it.
Not the supervised visits; I'd hold it together until I got in my car and my child was out of sight...and then break down and sob so hard I'd have to pull over a quarter mile up the road.
Not unpacking the meaningless bedroom set up with all his favorite things, that he never got to sleep in or even see- I cried on that toddler bed more times than I can count, begging God to just do SOMETHING.
Not the outrageous, unending court dates, monopolizing nearly 5 years of my life.. I would run into the bathroom to splash my face with water so they couldn't see how hard I'd been crying by the time they wanted my camera on because I'd be back on the stand....then spend days after just trying to understand how on earth they can get away with what they did.
Not the endless hours in therapy, or the 3 psych evals, trying to make sense of it all...
Not the dozens of letters written to any agency I could find that would help...hours of typing, printing and squinting at a computer screen in the wee hours of the morning...
Not the hours of watching videos of our time together that just seemed to deepen the void and fill me with a sadness I couldn't contain...and all this because I wouldn't cave to their lies and scare tactics, I wouldn't back down from my God-given purpose, and I wouldn't renounce my God, or His call on my life. All of which CPS used to accuse me of being delusional, and unfit to parent my son.
Not the slightest bit easy....but worth every second of torture to hold my child again, and go back to being my favorite thing in the world...."Mommy"
So when I help you fight for you and your children's rights as 'Kerri LaTour, CEO of Wings of Mercy Parent's Advocacy Group ' ....just know, I was once just a mother, who's heart was broken, desolate and as desperate as I know you feel now.
But have faith, because I am living proof that victory can be had.
I'm nothing special, really...but I have the pleasure of serving the one true God who makes all things possible, who is fighting the battle for me ...I'm just the team mascot who truly understands, and is here to hold your hand.
