Virtual hearing confuses mother, thought she had lost her children through court order

“I can’t believe this is the order. I don’t know what I will do with my children. This is too much. How could the judge make such an order? Is like my life over…”

As she spoke she was sobbing uncontrollably and at one point I only heard her big heaving sobs and I felt so helpless. I had so many questions but I couldn’t ask them. It was not as if she was able to answer them. I had spoken to her before the court session and told her that there was no way the judge would remove her children from her custody.

‘Just pray and be positive,’ I typed to her in a message and she responded, ‘Thank you, I will’.