I'm sorry to hear this, and certainly hope that you can find the right course of action in getting the child out of harm's way.
Also, not that you take much stock (at least you shouldn't!) in what faceless people online say, but I'd like to know that someone was fighting for me before I was born. My family is pretty stable, about as stereotypical as you can get, actually, but my father and his family was abandoned by his dad. Keep up the fight for what matters. No matter what people say, jokingly or not, things can be replaced, people cannot be.
Even if you aren't religious, it can't hurt to investigate that course of action. I haven't quite figured out my religious life, but I know that the people I can most count on are those who I met at church.
Good luck.