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A Story Unfolds From The State Of Georgia
Story by Joyce Pieczynski

I would just like to say that my heart goes out to you and your children.

I know how you feel and what you are going through.

My name is Joyce Pieczynski and I live in Ga.
I have two children a son and a daughter. My daughter was born in 1991 with short gut syndrome.

From the moment that she was born she was a miracle from God. The Doctors told us that she would never make it to her 1st birthday.

By the grace of God she turned 14 in November. My story is similar to yours. On July 1st 1992 DFCS removed her from my care.

DFCS got involved with me because my daughter had health problems. They paid me a visit before I even brought my daughter home from the hospital.

DFCS wanted me to put her up for adoption. Why, I don't know. She spent the first 6 months in the hospital.

The day that we got to take her home I was so nervous and afraid that something would happen. She came home on IV machines and I was responsible for her care. We had a couple of home health nurses that came out daily but they new less than I did about my daughters condition.

I was also the mother of a 3 year old son at this time. So I had a hand full. DFACS continued to visit my home on a regular basis.
They saw first hand that I gave my daughter appropriate medical care. I was trained by the hospital staff to care for her.
She wouldn't have lived long at all without the appropriate medical attention. The IVS were her only source of nourishment.
She could not use a bottle. Her little tummy just couldn't handle it.

During all of this I am also married to an alcoholic that offers me no help in caring for our daughter. He was abusive to me but never to my children.

One night I finally got brave enough to take my children and leave.
We went to my parents home and was paid a visit there the following day by DFCS. They told me that I could go home to my husband or risk looseing my children.
So I went back to my husband to only be abused more severely

My husband threw me out of the house and wouldn't let me take my daughter. He couldn't stop me from taking my son because he has a different father.
I called the police to only be told that they couldn't make him give me my daughter. It didn't matter to them that he was drunk and that my daughter needed constant care.

Then the next day was when my life was turned upside down.

DFACS removed my daughter from my husbands home and never offered to let me have her. I was only told that if I wanted to get my daughter back that I would go back to my husband.
So I did because I was willing to do what ever I had to do to get her back.

I did every thing that DFCS told me I had to do and completed every goal that DFCS gave me.
Except staying with my abusive husband.

I left my abusive husband for good in November 1993. I took my son and ran for my life and never looked back.

Within the next few months I met a man and started dating. Well DFCS held this against me. They still insisted that I work my marriage out.

I had to visit with my daughter with her father there because DFCS couldn't give us two separate visits.
This went on for months. Then it was changed to where I had to visit my daughter at her foster home with her foster parents in the room.

Knowing that they were just waiting for the state to allow them to adopt my daughter.
They had already taught my daughter to call them mommy and daddy. To my daughter i was mommy Joyce. This was like someone stabbing a knife in my heart and twisting it.

DFCS refused to let me bring my son to my visits with my daughter. They said that my son might give my daughter something. I assume they meant a cold or something. By this time I was in a wonderful relationship with the man that I mentioned before. He was also determined to help me get my daughter back. He helped me hire a lawyer and fight for my daughter and loved my son as his own.

I was told on several occasions by my DFCS case worker that she didn't like me. They ended up winning in the end though. My parental rights were terminated in Dec. of 1994 and my daughter was adopted by her foster parents.

I haven't got to see my daughter since 1994. My now ex husband signed his parental rights over to the state. The family that adopted my daughter lets him come visit her but refuse to let me.

I kind of feel like I am being punished for loving my child. My ex husband has given me pictures of him getting to visit with her and hold her and it breaks my heart. I don't know if my daughter has even been told about me and that she was adopted.

DFACS never tried to remove my son from my care. This has been really hard for me to understand and accept. But with the love of God and my family I know that I will make it through. I just pray that I get to reunite with my daughter one day and tell her how much I love her and that I never stopped loving her.

I have held onto all of the court papers so that I can show her how she was unlawfully removed from me. I married the wonderful man that I met and we have been married since 1996. My son and him are what keep me strong. I will be praying for you and your children and hope that you will do the same for me. Wishing you and your family the best. God Bless you for sharing your story and giving women like us the strength to carry on. Joyce

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