Paris Golec says her daughters Abigaile and Natascha were taken from her in May 2017, and that what followed was not protection, it was procedure used as a weapon, across state lines, across courts, and behind closed records. After reading her entire blog, I wrote this to put her account where more people will actually see it, and to expose the systemic failures that allow a mother to report a crisis while the system re-labels it as “civil” and lets time do the damage.