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To my son donnelly, we did not abandon you
Donnelly Keaton Burns
Your real Mommy and Daddy fought to keep you. We went to jail for rescuing you from foster care where you were being hurt. That was the last time you knowingly saw us. We know how sad and lonely that must have been when they took us away and then took you away. It seems like everything we did was wrong or it was fate and you were meant to be the Ratkoski's son, not ours. I know they have taken excellent care of you but I believe they should have allowed you to know we were ok and that we did not abandon you. You deserved to know the real story and not be told we were dead. We miss you more than you can possibly imagine now because you don't remember us anymore. Someday we will all be together again, you, me, your Daddy, your sisters Alex and Kayla, your brothers, Billy, Stephen and Christopher, and your Aunt Cindy. We pray everyday to be blessed with His grace and be united.
Donnelly Keaton Burns
Your real Mommy and Daddy fought to keep you. We went to jail for rescuing you from foster care where you were being hurt. That was the last time you knowingly saw us. We know how sad and lonely that must have been when they took us away and then took you away. It seems like everything we did was wrong or it was fate and you were meant to be the Ratkoski's son, not ours. I know they have taken excellent care of you but I believe they should have allowed you to know we were ok and that we did not abandon you. You deserved to know the real story and not be told we were dead. We miss you more than you can possibly imagine now because you don't remember us anymore. Someday we will all be together again, you, me, your Daddy, your sisters Alex and Kayla, your brothers, Billy, Stephen and Christopher, and your Aunt Cindy. We pray everyday to be blessed with His grace and be united.
Donnelly Keaton Burns
Dear Donnelly,
This site is dedicated to you, for all that you went through. You lost your entire family when you were too young to comprehend what was happening. It must have been so hard not having a clue as to why you were taken from us and put in foster care where you were so lonely and confused. That thought still tears me up inside so bad. All of the people involved in your kidnapping should be put in jail like your dad and I had to endure for taking you back. The love your Dad and I have for you is inmeasurable, we risked our freedom to rescue you from being abused in foster care. Social workers do not care about kids in foster care. They cover up the abuse yet, they will rush in and steal you from your home for an imaginary "risk of neglect". For a paycheck, they tear families apart, putting children through an overwhelming amount of aniexty and sadness. That is far worse than supposedly being "at risk". You were never abused, neglected, or "at risk" of neglect. Never. You were loved and well cared for. You have two sisters, Kayla and Alex, and three brothers, Billy, Stephen, and Christopher, who love you just as much as your Dad and I. Steven tried really hard to get you placed with him, so did your Aunt Cindy. They were both denied due to your placement with your current family. Social services gets adoption incentives (money) for every adoption so that is what they did. When our rights were terminated, two of the social workers involved in your kidnapping, Antoine Coley and Amanda Spratley, jumped up and hugged each other in the courtroom like they won the lottery or something!
The only thing that makes this whole experience good, if one was to have to find something positive from this horific loss, is that your new family has been extremely loving and have provided you a higher quality of life than your Dad and I could afford. Not that we were always poor, we lost everything fighting for you but Jon and Kristin provided you stability and security. They have kept you safe even if the threat wasn't real. It's not all their fault, they were told bad things about us and were scared of me due to some mean looks I gave Kristin in court trying to discourage her from wanting to keep you. That was a big mistake. I have made some mistakes but that doesn't make me unfit to be a parent. Maybe Jon and Kristin did not make the same kind of mistakes but that doesn't make them better parents however, it is my opinion now that they are/were better parents in the long run, looking at the overall picture and for that, I am very grateful.
If you happen to find this site please contact me. Someday, after you turn 18 I would really love to see you and hug you. The thought of that makes me cry and I think of doing that every day of my life. If you don't want to, I understand. Coming to terms with knowing all this happened won't be easy and you might prefer to just forget about it. I don't want to make your life harder or confusing. But I believe if you do accept it, it will benefit your life and fill that empty space in your heart you don't know why you feel, I mean the emptiness you had even before Kristin passed away.
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Your Pop-pop was there (my dad, your grandfather) too! You don't know this but you were named after your Grandma and Grampa Don & Ellie (Joyce). They were so tickled about you being named after them! Unfortunately, they both have passed away and you will never get to see them again.