This is the letter I wrote to the potential adoptive parents in the Victoria BC area in Nov 2017....this was my thoughts when I found out that MCFD (Child Protection) gave my girl away to them and they most likely dont know anything about me, and werent told anything about us as a family. That we were strong, loving, and caring family and that I wasn't some drunk on the street corner that couldn't care for her child....No, In fact quite the opposite....I doubt due to privacy they were not told much except that I couldn't care for this little 9 1/2 year old.....I wrote this from my heart, in a time of pure duress and sadness.....a time when I felt I had nothing left and MCFD just gave my little girl away, FOREVER....as I sat with tears I wrote this....
To the potential adoptive people in the Victoria BC area- My 9yo daughter Victoria means more then anything in the world to me....and as devastated as I am right now, also when I made this video (youtube my name maya bradshaw), today I am not giving up on her. She IS MY life, just as her 2 brothers are- yes she has 2 brothers who love her dearly as well! I will fight until my last breath to find her, and reunite, as today I am a proud mother, and have a good stable life, job, home, pets. Today I have been doing my best to completely overhaul my life from what it was then, over 4 years ago, in an abusive co-dependent relationship, Today I am a success story for an abusive past and starting over.....My biggest regret, not leaving, and not listening to anyone and now Im supposed to pay a life sentence with my daughters life for my mistakes then.... I have always been a devoted loving mother, not perfect but what mother is....loving, attentive, caring, and spoiled my kids! There are thousands of children out there that need help, good families to adopt them as they have no competent families to take them legitly as they age out of care. Yet there are MANY children that already HAVE good families and that if MCFD were to acknowledge significant lifestyle changes and give us back our kids when some of us have their brothers and sisters at home....our kids in care would truly be loved and safe with their biological families! I know you dont who I am....and whatever you were told by MCFD most likely isnt the truth, I dont fault you for wanting to adopt however you probably should have inquired better as she already has a loving family! I mean how can a potential adoptive parent not question where a child comes from and want to know more? Especially if they were able to go home, and had a home! I AM HER MOTHER! What MCFD has done is legally kidnap MY girl Victoria because they won a cco after only a couple months to show change- they didnt allow me time, this is how they win, I attempted to appeal however I didnt have a lawyer at the time to fight! Then they give her or sell her to you! You are not her parents, I am, and today there ISNT one reason that I cannot take care and have my daughter home! This is disgusting and inhumane, as my girl is 9 years old, she turned 9 on October 14th.....she lost her mother, family, brothers, foster mother, school, cat and friends and her life in the Kootenays.....to be moved far away with potential adoptive parents- Do you know that my daughter wrote a letter to the judge in March begging to come home, do you also know the last time I saw her (before MCFD started alienating so she would forget me) she held onto me in the back seat and cried to come home! Do you know that MCFD just up and cancelled visits in April, just because, then didnt talk to me until August.....so I never knew until November 16th that you had her....no signature required!
Do you know that I have never looked back from the life I had then, and that I will NEVER EVER stop trying to get her back for the rest of my life.....that I am a good mother, who made some mistakes in her past but that changed, and I without a doubt deserve MY Victoria home! I deserve to raise my daughter, to tuck her in, to teach her to cook, take care of her, and to laugh with her beautiful smile and snuggle like mommies should, to do homework, make sure she is safe, and enjoy our family with her! I am her mom and that will never change, I am out here, loving her forever, one day she will want to come home! Please dont hurt her....and please just please tell her its okay to remember us ....PLEASE SHARE ALL OVER BC, ESPECIALLY THE ISLAND- Langford Victoria BC!
