You can read about family court. You can study statutes and hear language about protection, best interests, and child safety. But until you stand there, until you feel it settle in your chest, you...

We were just parents until the system took everything. This is the beginning of our voice, our truth, and our refusal to be silent. We never meant to be here. But now that we are, we are not going anywhere.

Former Alabama foster parent and minister Patrick Streeter has been convicted on multiple counts of sexually abusing a foster child in his care between 2018 and 2021. The charges include sodomy, sexual torture, and unlawful sex acts. He now awaits sentencing in Madison County Jail.