OPINION: Open letter to Senator Ted Cruz and Governor Greg Abbott

Dear Senator Cruz and Governor Abbott,

I am writing to you as a mother, a child disability advocate, and a regulatory affairs professional working to advance access to regenerative medicine for special needs children in our community tthrough compassionate use pathways. For more than a year, I have repeatedly attempted to raise serious concerns about the safety and welfare of my children. During that time, I have felt intimidated, discouraged from speaking openly, and fearful that continued advocacy could result in retaliation or further harm to my family.

I can no longer remain silent.

I am respectfully requesting whistleblower protections so that I may safely provide evidence concerning suspected child abuse, sexual exploitation and boundary violations, medical neglect, and potential institutional failures or conflicts of interest involving the Montgomery County family court and child protection systems.

My concerns include the actions or involvement of CPS, local law enforcement, attorney J. Thad Whisenant, court appointed attorney Amy Perez, with possible deceptions towards her honor, Judge Jennifer J. Robin of the 410th District Court from March 2025 until current. I am asking for an independent review because I believe the available evidence warrants examination outside the network of professionals and agencies already involved in this case.

My daughter Olive is profoundly disabled, nonverbal, tracheostomy dependent, medically complex, and unable to independently report mistreatment, escape danger, or advocate for herself. Despite these extraordinary vulnerabilities, court orders removed Olive and me from her established home medical environment and restricted access to longstanding physicians, specialists, rehabilitation programs, and other components of her care.

Since those restrictions were imposed, Olive has experienced significant medical deterioration, including increased seizures and additional losses of function. My concern is that decisions affecting an exceptionally fragile child were made without adequate safeguards, without sufficient specialty medical oversight, and without a meaningful mechanism for rapidly responding when those decisions appeared to cause harm.

I have also repeatedly reported concerns regarding the safety of my biological daughter, Scarlett, including inappropriate sexual boundary concerns and other circumstances involving nudist groups tthat I believed required independent investigation. Those concerns were previously reported to CPS, Precinct 3 law enforcement, and amicus attorney Amy Perez with sloppy investigations leading to my daughter Scarlett being placed in her step father, Michael’s care. Her cries for help where ignored by the authorities while my ability to protect her was slienced.

Those warnings also did not result in an adequate independent safety response while Olive’s medical condition continued to decline.

After repeatedly attempting to obtain protection through the existing system, I ultimately filed a protective order application on my own and submitted more than 2,000 pages of supporting evidence, in addition to extensive photographs, videos, medical documentation, nursing records, communications, witness information, CPS records, police records, and court filings.

My broader concern is systemic: serious child safety issues appear to have been divided among family court, CPS, law enforcement, medical providers, attorneys, and court appointed professionals, with each entity examining only a portion of the evidence. I have been unable to identify any independent authority that has reviewed the entire chronology and cumulative pattern.

That fragmentation is particularly dangerous when the child involved is nonverbal, medically dependent, and incapable of reporting what happens to her.

I am therefore respectfully requesting assistance in securing an independent review of:

• Whether medically complex custody decisions involving profoundly disabled children receive adequate input from appropriately qualified medical specialists;
• Whether allegations involving abuse, medical neglect, sexual boundary concerns, or exploitation are being improperly characterized as ordinary custody disputes rather than investigated as independent child safety matters;
• Whether potential professional, referral, campaign, financial, or other conflicts of interest exist among attorneys, court appointed professionals, investigators, agencies, and judicial officers involved in this matter;
• Whether the dual or successive roles of professionals involved in mediation, advocacy, investigation, and court appointment create safeguards concerns;
• Whether reports made by nurses, physicians, caregivers, or other mandated professionals were adequately documented, escalated, and investigated;
• Whether state or federal whistleblower, witness protection, or anti retaliation mechanisms are available to allow me and other witnesses to provide evidence safely; and
• Whether Texas needs stronger statutory protections for nonverbal, medically fragile, technology dependent children involved in contested custody proceedings.

My children, particularly a child who cannot speak for herself, deserve a system capable of distinguishing family law proceedings from evidence that may indicate genuine danger.

I respectfully ask your offices to help identify the appropriate independent state or federal authority, oversight body, inspector, investigative agency, or legislative office capable of reviewing these concerns without local conflicts and with appropriate protections against retaliation.

Thank you for your attention to this matter and for helping ensure that medically fragile and nonverbal children in Montgomery County receive the protection, due process, medical safeguards, and independent oversight their circumstances require.

Please help me protect my children.

Respectfully,

Tamara C. Tamas

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