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Syesha Mercadois back with her son, Amen’Ra.
TheAmerican Idolalum, 35, revealed on Saturday that she and partner Tyron Deener have regained custody of their 20-month-old son after amonths-long battle to bring the child home, sharing a video of theirsweet family reunionon her Instagram.
“AMEN’RA IS OFFICIALLY HOME!!!” she wrote in the caption.
Mercadospoke in detail about the ordeal in another videoposted to her Instagram on Tuesday, sharing that she and Deener must now complete “weight check-ins” for Amen’Ra as well as have the toddler attend therapy sessions.
“We have to weigh our son. He’s not allowed to lose weight,” she said. “He has to do therapies where they monitor his play … and he still has appointments.”
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Randy Warren, a spokesperson for the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office,previously told PEOPLEthat an investigation was launched after authorities received a tip about a child who was “suffering from severe malnutrition.”
A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Children and Families previously told PEOPLE that while specific case information is confidential, the department’s actions “are always to ensure the well-being of children.”
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In her 12-minute video on Tuesday, Mercado insisted that her son has always been healthy.
“When he was with us, he never had a cold. He never had a fever. He never had a runny nose,” she said. “I was just a mother who needed assistance with something that is very common amongst mothers, and what has been done to my family is unacceptable. It’s sickening.”
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“All of this has been a nightmare, and we are still living in a nightmare,” she explained, “because, right now, we are seeing for the past seven months how much our son has been through. We see it in his eyes. We see it in the way he plays. We see it in the way he tries to rest at night.”
While Mercado is pleased that her son is finally home, the singer said that she and her family are “still living this nightmare with the state monitoring us.”
“Know that this is not over,” she told viewers. “A victory to us is being out of the system, to be able to live happy, healthy and free … to not be discriminated against because we choose to live a holistic lifestyle.”
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“This is what life is right now, but I’m just gonna focus on my son [and] continue to instill that positivity within him,” Mercado added.
Louis Baptiste, one of Mercado’s attorneys, previously said in a press conference that the children were placed in the care of an estranged relative.
“They’re not where they belong, and they’re not with the person that the parents would choose, and their setting is not a setting which the parents would choose,” he said.
source: people.com
