SweetCherry
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I was speaking to my sister earlier this evening when she told me a shocking bit of news. Her daughter's best friend, a wonderful 10 year old little girl, has been moved into foster care. This somewhat floored me, until I heard the details of the events of the past week. I was then angered and very offended at the parents of this poor girl. Imagine this scenario.
A ten year old little girl is at home with her father and her older (and mildly retarded) brother while her mother is at the bar having drinks. The father then decides to commit suicide. The boy, being less able to cope with such fears, hides in the basement, leaving this poor girl alone to try and talk her father out of it. Afterwards, she calls her mother at the bar (somewhere around 11 pm) and tells her. Now, being a mother, I would think that her first reaction would be to rush right home and comfort my children. But this woman STAYED at the bar until 2am, drinking!
So this little girl calls my niece the next day and tells her. She tells her all that had transpired the night before and how scared she was and how much she wanted to get away from this. My niece, in turn relates it to my sister and my parents. They are shocked by this. Later that day, my niece called her friend and asked how she was doing and what she was up to. The girl replies that she's doing better, but right then she's removing all the bullets from the gun and hiding them so her dad can't find them.
This information was also passed along to my sister and parents. With this information in their hands, my family members made a descision. Not knowing who else to talk to, they called the sherrif's office and reported it. The sherrif then passed the info along to the local Family Services, and the girl (and her brother as well,) I'm assuming, are now out of the home and in foster care.
I'm ashamed to know those parents. I knew for a while that they weren't what would be classifi4ed as "the model parents", but I had no clue they would ever be that bad. In the past, they have waited til Christmas Eve and hit people up for money o buy the kids presents because they'd drank and gambled their Christmas Cash away. They never seemed concerned to know that their daughter, at age 5 and 6, wasn't at home right after school. They didn't know she was going to my parent's house to play with my niece until my mom made her call home and ask if it was OK. They thought nothing of leaving those 2 kids alone at home while going to the bar and drinking their Friday night away. It's pretty bad to find out now just how often this had been happening. There's no reason a child at age 10 should have the unlisted number of this particular bar memorized like it was her own telephone number.
I'm so disallusioned right now. I know that there are kids in situations like this, and some in much worse. I guess growing up in a stable home with lots of love and affection from my parents may have me a bit unprepared for things like this. I love my kids, and could never imagine them going thru something as terrifying as that. This poor little girl says she doesn't ever want to go back home and won't even talk to her mother or father. I can't say I blame her. I know if I talked to them, they'd be getting one hell of an ass chewing. I just hope and pray that Family Services does't return those kids to that house for a good long time.
A ten year old little girl is at home with her father and her older (and mildly retarded) brother while her mother is at the bar having drinks. The father then decides to commit suicide. The boy, being less able to cope with such fears, hides in the basement, leaving this poor girl alone to try and talk her father out of it. Afterwards, she calls her mother at the bar (somewhere around 11 pm) and tells her. Now, being a mother, I would think that her first reaction would be to rush right home and comfort my children. But this woman STAYED at the bar until 2am, drinking!
So this little girl calls my niece the next day and tells her. She tells her all that had transpired the night before and how scared she was and how much she wanted to get away from this. My niece, in turn relates it to my sister and my parents. They are shocked by this. Later that day, my niece called her friend and asked how she was doing and what she was up to. The girl replies that she's doing better, but right then she's removing all the bullets from the gun and hiding them so her dad can't find them.
This information was also passed along to my sister and parents. With this information in their hands, my family members made a descision. Not knowing who else to talk to, they called the sherrif's office and reported it. The sherrif then passed the info along to the local Family Services, and the girl (and her brother as well,) I'm assuming, are now out of the home and in foster care.
I'm ashamed to know those parents. I knew for a while that they weren't what would be classifi4ed as "the model parents", but I had no clue they would ever be that bad. In the past, they have waited til Christmas Eve and hit people up for money o buy the kids presents because they'd drank and gambled their Christmas Cash away. They never seemed concerned to know that their daughter, at age 5 and 6, wasn't at home right after school. They didn't know she was going to my parent's house to play with my niece until my mom made her call home and ask if it was OK. They thought nothing of leaving those 2 kids alone at home while going to the bar and drinking their Friday night away. It's pretty bad to find out now just how often this had been happening. There's no reason a child at age 10 should have the unlisted number of this particular bar memorized like it was her own telephone number.
I'm so disallusioned right now. I know that there are kids in situations like this, and some in much worse. I guess growing up in a stable home with lots of love and affection from my parents may have me a bit unprepared for things like this. I love my kids, and could never imagine them going thru something as terrifying as that. This poor little girl says she doesn't ever want to go back home and won't even talk to her mother or father. I can't say I blame her. I know if I talked to them, they'd be getting one hell of an ass chewing. I just hope and pray that Family Services does't return those kids to that house for a good long time.
