An Our Duty ACTION ALERT FOR PITT PARENTS/SUPPORTERS:
A Mom needs your help
Dear Advocates:
Erin Friday of Our Duty has an urgent request. She is asking that we send a letter to President Trump requesting a pardon for a California mother of four who was found to have violated a restraining order in an attempt to save her son from the harms of transgender ideology. Below is a form letter that you may alter to personalize. The letter should be concise and, if you’d like to share your personal experience with your own child in the letter, please do. Anonymity is not guaranteed.
Time is of the essence. Shana Gaviola must surrender to federal prison by August 24th, unless she is pardoned. Please be sure to cc Erin Friday at Erin@OurDuty.group with your submission so that she can track the number of support letters. You are encouraged to forward this request to any like-minded people.
This link will take you to an article setting forth the entire saga with a video of Shana:
Thank you for your consideration.
Here is the model letter:
August __, 2026
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Pardon AttorneyOffice of the Pardon Attorney
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20530
Via Email: USPardon.Attorney@usdoj.govRe: Support for Shana Gaviola’s Petition for a Presidential Pardon stemming from her case: United States v. Gaviola No. 1:22-cr-00233-JCC (E.D. Cal.)
Dear Mr. President,
An emergency pardon is urgently needed for Shana Gaviola, a California mother of four who was trying to protect her son, Blake, from psychological and medical harm related to transgenderism. Ms. Gaviola received a three-year federal prison sentence, nearly the statutory maximum, for violating a protective order that her then 16-year-old son filed after she tried to exert her parental rights to have her son come home to her. Her crime was that she was desperately trying to save her son from gender ideology. Ms. Gaviola is scheduled to surrender to federal prison on August 24, 2026.
Ms. Gaviola mistakenly violated a temporary restraining order that her minor son filed immediately following Ms. Gaviola’s directive to Blake to return home after temporarily living with one of her friends. Blake, who turned against his own mother, had been secretly socially transitioned by his school and Ms. Gaviola’s friend. Blake then utilized the child welfare system to file a false abuse claim against his mother and petition for emancipation. This strategy is now commonplace. Gender ideology is pitting children against their parents by using a system designed to protect abused children to extricate themselves from their parents should their parent raise the child in alignment with his or her sex.
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In 2021, Ms. Gaviola desperately needed a safe place for her son, away from the school and the woman she had once trusted with his temporary care. She found a boarding school, a Missouri Christian boarding school. Agape sent a transport team to California to bring Blake to Missouri. Nothing about Ms. Gaviola’s conduct was hidden. She retained a private investigator and an off-duty sheriff’s deputy to ensure her son’s safe transport. The transport occurred, and Blake remained at the school for a mere eight days. The nonrelative paid Blake’s biological father, who had approved the boarding school, to return Blake to the woman Blake’s father had never met.
Ms. Gaviola’s conviction was secured under a cloud of serious prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. More egregiously, crucial information regarding her son’s history was never allowed to be heard at trial. The jury heard no testimony about the secret social transitioning of Blake behind his mother’s back, his emotional and behavioral challenges at school, or his own personal issues that lead to his temporary living situation outside of Ms. Gaviola’s home.
This sentence is grossly disproportionate to both the offense and the offender. Ms. Gaviola has no prior criminal history whatsoever, placing her in the lowest possible criminal history category under the federal sentencing guidelines. She complied perfectly with four years of pretrial supervision, so much so that her location monitoring was terminated early and her drug testing suspended.
Despite the fact that Ms. Gaviola is the primary caregiver for three other children, maintains steady employment and runs a nonprofit, Judge Coughenour, the same judge who blocked your administration’s birthright citizenship Executive Order, showed no compassion towards her.
Ms. Gaviola has lost her son and now is losing her freedom over a misunderstanding of her rights.
I beg you, please grant Shana Gaviola a full presidential pardon.
Respectfully,
[Your Name]
[Your Title/Organization]