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Help me bring Sage home!

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Hi, my name is Sicily and I’m looking for financial help to bring my oldest daughter, Sage, back home to me. I was 17 when Sage was born and my mother told me I signed over tutorship and custody of my daughter while I was in labor and couldn’t remember because I was so traumatized. I spent the first several years of Sage’s life asking my mother to produce this paperwork she claimed I signed and she never could because there wasn’t any. When I was 24, I hired a therapist and we talked a lot about my mother keeping Sage from me when she felt like it and she would give me the custody speech. My therapist then, who was a former paralegal, went to the clerk of courts office to find this alleged paperwork and returned empty handed. She told me no such paperwork ever existed. I lost it on my mother. How could my own own mother lie to me about this? Two days later, after confronting my mother, I was served with an ex-parte custody order granting my mother full immediate custody under the guise that I was mentally not well. I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety at the time, but who wouldn’t be in my shoes? How exactly does that make me in any way unfit to raise my daughter? After this custody paperwork was done without my knowing and served to me, she then attempted to apologize and tell me if I were to quit my job at the time and get married, she would give me my daughter back. I fulfilled her requests and did just that, even moving states. She then gave me guardianship of Sage while I was pregnant with my youngest daughter. Sage came to live with me in Texas and my mother and I attempted to mend our relationship though several threats were made to take Sage back “because she could.” November of 2021, I invited my mother to Sage’s 10th birthday party here in Texas. She asked me if Sage could go to Louisiana for thanksgiving break and I agreed. When break was over, I realized that my mother had blocked me from her and my daughters phone and I have not had contact with either of them since. The last FaceTime I had with Sage she was begging me to come get her because she wants to be with me and her little sister in Texas. I’ve had no contact with my daughter in three months and I can only imagine what she’s going through. My heart aches worse and worse everyday hoping I get a phone call from her and I never get it. I’ve been sending letters and gifts to Sage not knowing whether or not she will receive them. I’ve had several friends of my mothers reach out to me and tell me they don’t agree with what she’s doing and family members reach out to tell me that my mother is not well and has been doing this to people longer than I’ve been alive. I’m reaching out for help to obtain a lawyer and get my daughter back. I have years of phone conversations and text messages as well as messages between my mother and her own friends telling them she hates me and will try to take custody of my youngest daughter as well. I’m tired of living in fear of her and what she might do. Anything helps, honestly. I just want Sage home with me where she belongs. I miss Sage more than words could ever express and the last three months have been nothing short of emptiness in our home without her. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to me with kind words and advice. I appreciate it more than you guys know. I am now reaching out for help because I can’t do this alone. Help me bring Sage home!
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  • John Crain
    • $20
    • 3 yrs
  • Glenda Bundy
    • $100
    • 3 yrs
  • Anonymous
    • $100
    • 3 yrs
  • Sarah Sandifer
    • $50
    • 3 yrs
  • Kim Boone ( Lozano )
    • $20
    • 3 yrs
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Sicily Kelley
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Sugar Land, TX
Corey Searl
Beneficiary

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