When the System Fails Survivors: Abuse, Loss, and the Fight for Justice

By Survivor

A powerful survivor story of domestic violence, systemic abuse, and legal injustice. Learn the warning signs, impact on families, and why survivor advocacy, protection, and accountability matter.

I was abused along with my two sisters and abandoned by my parents to the street, I was taken in and later married my husband and his family and mine even though I was the caregiver and worker for them all did little to intervene and protect me and my children and sisters from being abused. Abused and used , blamed and shamed. Even though other people say they would never hurt you after learning or seeing what you’ve endured , they all do it. It came after my youngest daughter and she tried to flee but didn’t make it home alive. The way we live through the heartbreak and pain of being a child of abuse to being a woman who is abused and to have sisters abused and have children who are no longer alive due to domestic abuse. . The system gave me no protection no shelter I was a victim of crime and at the mercy of the criminals. And the officers say that I like being a victim…. they give me guardianship of my sisters who are disabled and I am disabled as well , but I did a great job and it was when the sisters left my supervision and the Adult protection agency did nothing to intervene when I was asking them too for the safety of the sisters and when they were hurt and severely….. the APA and court system took my sisters and have kept them from me and are using it to keep me from giving aide and care . And Using the abuse I have survived as a reason to prosecute me and separate me from my husband who is incompetent from traumatic brain injury and alzhiemers and in failing health due to addiction. Knowing that I was not guilty of the thing my husband said I did and was instead in fight or fight during a domestic. They took my only vehicle sued my insurance ruled that I stay 1500 ft away from my husband and his home. Knowing that we have three properties and two houses which we were living in both to avoid any domestic problems caused by his drinking addiction. And they offered us public defender on basis of separate homes. They made me homeless and knowing that my house and my husband house are being stripped of wiring and any and all valuables. I am told by the county attorney that I can get the order to get my husband medical care and get the right to go to my home and save our life’s work and our dreams from being taken and stopped by a private attorney interjecting himself and further demonstrating how the system is set up to step in and take and deny your rights and further abuse the victim. As I was the one who took out the dvo I was then punished through litigation abuse, I was then given inadequate council and convicted with evidence to prove my innocence and then after a prison sentence and lengthy jail stay I was made homeless, I was told that the state could take my husband into custody and I am offered no relief and no correction for being wrongful and willfully persecuted upon the knowing unsubstantiated accusations of others. I have no way to pay for the probate of my parents estate and I have no way to get vindication for being wrongfully accused arrested and convicted finally, after the system has attempted to do so many times in the last 6 years. Husband was attacked and injured severely after they knew he had traumatic brain injury and alcohol addiction by police handcuffing and face down was attacked and severely injured by K9 . They knew he was being scammed by the locals, through banking and online scamming sites. It was known that people were taking from him and telling him that it was my fault, leaving him vulnerable and me in danger from not only him but the people who were doing the crimes and profiting. When we lost our daughter we were visited Three times by the OSI and told our family had been targeted by organized crime. Told to move leave and take family away, given no assistance and laughed at by the local law enforcement. Parents lost their home, taken by courts for three months back lot rent when they arrested the park manager for embezzlement and the APS came and took them from me cause they got a call saying that I wasn’t doing a good enough job and I was kept from them and they died separated from each other and their children. I mean the systematic abuse over and over and over and the way they are protected from prosecution. When it becomes known that a injustice has occurred, they seek the ones who endured it even the more instead of setting the record straight, clearing your name and making right what they did damage to. Recognize the systematic abuse that is occuring to our families and recognize all involved and figure out how decisions and judgement are being able to be made without the due diligence of the experts to ensure justice is being served and injustice is being exposed. That the accused are not being persecuted with detrimental life effects without fully being found by poponderance of evidence to be guilty. And when falsely accused and arrested they should have vindicated for any and all I’ll effects from it. I won’t ever use the epo or dvo or trust the court system again. I did nothing to deserve being taken away from my family and nothing to deserve being a convicted felon. I ran from the police, yes I did. I ran from the sheriff who had no reason to keep persecuting and persueing me and using my situation with full knowledge of the police force that my husband was lying he was actively trying to use the law to inflict more damage. They came to my residence and offered this information to me and I told them of the way I was being told that he was being hurt and robbed and taken advantage of. They charged me with the crimes I reported to them that I was concerned was happening to my husband. And now the state is looking into our property and homes and the private attorney who denied my rights to my husband and blaming the taking away of my sisters as reason and admitting to reaching out to our granddaughter and daughter to get them to intervene and take custody of the parent with a active addition. While I am aware of my rights and I am further aware of the issues that plague this county and legal system here. I feel that it’s incombunt upon the knowing officials whom aren’t apart of the corruption and in position to give assistance to me and my family to do so and now … not after everything is lost . I was told by OSI hired by the air Force upon completion of the death investigation of my daughter that it was the state and county who have to further investigate and was told that they would not help us because they are corrupted. Yeah I told the local law enforcement officers this too. So I was laughed at by them, persecuted by them and the judicial officials. I feel like I am in a nightmare, and I have no one to help me, everyone knows, no one will do anything to give me or anyone in my family any justice and infact use the family that has been isolated and separated from each other and they use the family against each other. I asked what does organized crime look like and how do I defend myself against litigation abuse and how can I ever let someone in power who could care and help know what has happened and be believed , there is so much that has happened. The system is falling us, the victim of abuse, the victim of organized crime, the victim of litigation abuse, the people who served the military and the elderly, own property and have been made aware through survival. not public information or protection that we are potentially going to be in or apart of or discriminated against because of a criminal element that exists unbeknownst to us and abused or killed by our spouses who become brainwashed by the scammers and left alone and the mercy of the world.. this is happening and has happened to me. It happened and my daughter found out that our family was in danger and she didn’t make it home and they used the family to hurt family. This is true and I am ashamed of it and I am also being a whistle blower about it, I am not the only one we are not the only family and most don’t even recognize that they have been manipulated and sucked in by evil with evil intentions, local drug dealers addicts and others who engage in illegal activity and they take all proceeds now and what’s to come. And this is my story off the top of my mind. It’s scattered and all over the place because it is supposed to look this way so it doesn’t hold up to being creditable and taken seriously. It has effected me and others in ways that are unthinkable We have suffered unthinkable attacks upon public shaming.

Misty Medders

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