Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2420

Tonight's special guest is Dave (& Melora) Vogel from Punta Gorda, Florida, grandparents, advocates and authors of 'Protecting TROY: Breaking the Chain of Child Abuse', a shocking personal story about two caring grandparents who find themselves in the midst of a custody battle concerning their two-year-old grandson, Troy (from Georgia), who they believed had been neglected by the child’s mother. Dave explains, “Before writing this book, we lived comfortably. We were middle-aged, middle-class, law-abiding, college-educated, tax-paying citizens of the United States operating a small family-owned business. For twenty years, we worked in the same industry, with the primary focus of helping underprivileged children. Then, one morning, some bad news about our grandson, Troy, marked the beginning of the end of our comfortable reality .. the starting point of our journey into changing the systemic failures and the cyclical problems we encountered. We could think of no better way to share how we came to this point than by taking you through our unbelievable story exactly as it unfolded, with us as the protagonists. In doing so, our hope is that our story will change your life as it has ours. This is a true story, though some names have been changed.” Throughout the book, Dave and Melora often play the role of detectives, who are driven to chase clues and find evidence to support their hunches to prove their case to a crooked judge. For those who are facing a similar situation to the one the Vogels found themselves in, this book may provide motivation and a pathway to keep fighting for justice.