Help Me See My Daughter: 2 Visits a Month and 1 FaceTime Call a Week

Help Me See My Daughter: 2 Visits a Month and 1 FaceTime Call a Week
A Desperate Plea from a Broken Heart
My name is Tony Bourgoin, and I am fighting for my 12-year-old daughter, Élise. For over a year, I have been denied the right to see my own child, despite winning my case in court. I have lost everything—my savings, my reputation, my peace of mind. But I refuse to lose my daughter. Today, I am reaching out to you because I need your help to continue this battle and bring Élise home to her father.

A Father’s Unconditional Love
Élise is my entire world. From the moment I held her in my arms, she became the reason I breathe. I have devoted my life to being the best father I could be. As a renowned swimming instructor in Bangkok, I have always been known for my exceptional work with children. After my separation from her mother, I continued to provide everything for Élise—30,000 baht per month in child support, her school fees, her insurance. I even moved into the building next door just to be close to her. But I could only see her a few hours on Saturdays, and even those visits were often cancelled at the last minute.

The Descent into Hell: Lies, Manipulation, and Monstrous Accusations
After our separation in January 2024, I immediately began providing financial support to my ex-wife—without any legal obligation, without any court order. For 18 months, from January 2024 to June 2025, I continued to support my daughter and her mother, believing I was doing the right thing. My own lawyer told me in April 2025 that I was foolish to have given her this money, because I was not legally obligated to do so. But I continued, out of love for my daughter.

In June, I discovered that my ex-wife had accumulated nearly one million baht in savings while I was struggling financially. I decided to stop paying the child support, knowing that Élise was not in need. That’s when my nightmare truly began. My ex-wife took me to court, and she used every dirty tactic imaginable to destroy me. She had accepted my voluntary financial support for 18 months while simultaneously preparing her strategy to destroy me in court.

But what she did next was unforgivable. She accused me of prostituting her—herself. She told this monstrous lie to our daughter to turn her against me, telling Elise that I had prostituted her mother. It is such an absurd accusation that it reveals the depth of her malice and desperation. And it worked. My daughter, poisoned by this lie, now refuses to see me. She wants no contact with her father because of this false accusation.

She also manipulated my mother, Françoise Buron—a decorated woman in France who risked her life working in COVID services despite having serious heart problems—by spreading lies to turn her away from her granddaughter. My mother wept with despair. I watched her cry in Thailand and during our FaceTime calls. This woman succeeded in turning a grandmother against her granddaughter, causing indescribable suffering.

But there is more. She has blocked my entire family in France from my daughter’s social media. My daughter cannot communicate with her grandparents, her aunts, her uncles, her cousins. She has been cut off from her entire paternal family, from her French heritage, from her roots. This is systematic and deliberate isolation.

This accusation was obviously false, and it was demolished in court. But the damage was already done. My reputation had been destroyed, my relationship with my daughter had been poisoned, and my mother had been wounded deeply by the cruelty of it all.

A Court Victory That Changed Nothing
Despite all her schemes and these slanderous accusations, I won my case. The judge recognized that I am a good father and praised my courage. But winning in court changed nothing. For over a year, I have been denied all contact with my daughter. My daughter, still under the influence of these lies, refuses to see me. My ex-wife refuses to respect the court’s decision and continues to poison Elise against me. I don’t even have the right to a single FaceTime call per week, as the judge ordered.

My Last Hope: Return to Court
Today, I am at my breaking point. I have lost everything—my money, my reputation, and most importantly, my daughter. I came dangerously close to homelessness. I have known hunger and despair. But I cannot give up. For the love of my daughter, I must continue fighting. I must return to court to enforce my rights and to protect Élise from the ongoing manipulation that continues to poison her mind and heart.

What I Am Asking For
I am not asking for my daughter to live with me. I know she needs her mother. I am simply asking for:

• 2 visits per month with my daughter
• 1 FaceTime call per week

That is all. That is reasonable. That is in my daughter’s best interest to maintain a healthy relationship with her father.

Help Me See My Daughter Again
To do this, I need 500,000 baht to cover legal fees and court costs. It is an enormous sum for me, but it is the price of hope. Every donation, no matter how small, brings me closer to my goal. Every share of this campaign gives me another chance to be heard and to protect my daughter.

I am begging you—help me see my daughter. Help me prove to her that her father never abandoned her and that he will always fight for her, no matter what lies are told or what cruelty is inflicted.

To learn more about my story and to see all the evidence supporting my case, please visit the website I created for my daughter: https://pourelise-fd6njfl7.manus.space/

This site contains 53 documents, 26 videos, 1,242 photos, and 10 songs I have written for her. It is the proof of my unconditional love.

Your help can change my daughter’s life. It can free her from this manipulation and allow her to recognize the truth. It can allow me to be reunited with my daughter.

The court has already recognized the truth. Now I need your help to make sure that truth prevails and that a father can finally be reunited with his daughter.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Tony Bourgoin