The nausea crept up her throat from the pit of her stomach, the realization that yesterday was real. Her mother didn’t want her, she chose money over her own child.

It had been four months since the little girl had come out to a teacher that her step dad was being abusive.

Four long months that she would go through hell with her mother, the therapy, group meetings, meetings with lawyers, she was only eleven.

Her mother said” this can’t be happening to me, I trusted him with you, please tell me you are lying!”

She smacked the girl in the face in hopes she would recant her statement. The little girl just sat and cried being scared of what might happen next.

The mother got tired of dealing with everything and sent her to a behavioral health facility where she would go and be treated for depression.

Two weeks had gone by, the little girl was ready to go home. The case worker called and stated that her mother would not be taking her back and that she would be going into foster care.

After one year of being in foster care the little girl was adopted after her mother signed over her rights.

The mother said “I have my own family to think about and I can’t lose my financial stability at the moment”

The mother was selfish, because of her selfishness it would alter the little girls life forever.

Eighteen years later the little girl is now a thriving young woman with all the love to give in her heart.