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[–] BlackTara108 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
This poor kid. Thinking that CPS will 'help' him? I live in an area with more than twice, the national average of child abuse. Some kids are living thru hell & countless people call CYS to help them but they go into the child's school,interrogate child & promise they won't tell the abuser(parent)what they kid says. Then they go into the home, tell the parents exactly what the kid said, look in the cupboards, see food then LEAVE the child with those really angry abusers who the child just 'ratted on'. Over & over again it happens to the child until they just begin to lie & say they're fine despite black eyes & shabby clothes. Try to get people together to do something about it? Suddenly you'll start receiving anon. threats. CYS doesn't help kids. They do threaten those who try to, tho.
[–] bdmthrfkr 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is disgusting. That poor kid had already lost his father and then the only thing he has left in life throws him out in the street. What does he do then? He says he wants to go to school tomorrow.
What a great kid, what a fucked up poor excuse for a mother. CPS has been alerted over this.
[–] CrazyInAnInsaneWorld 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
As fucked up as this scenario is, allow me to speak from experience when I say getting CPS involved will only make it worse. @BlackTara108 was quite accurate in their assessment of what would happen, should CPS/DFaCS get involved. His best bet is to buckle down, try to survive childhood, and then GTFO as soon as he graduates high school and reaches University age.
I wish I were joking...
[–] BlackTara108 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I wish you were joking too. Also wish that more people would speak out about CPS. I tried to but started receiving veiled threats. People were afraid to get involved. I could see it in their faces. The only 2 people who backed me & agreed that CPS has big problems with not doing anything, were 2 state/local Republican politicians. The one (Govs office)said, he'd been fighting for kids for 3 decades & gotten no where. Despite support from 2 politicians, I couldn't find 1 person brave enough to join me in forming a concerned citizens group to HELP these kids somehow. Our youth, our future, our everything....heartbroken. The Libs always said that the Republicans don't care about kids. I saw who did & didn't care. Thanks for your comment, @CrazyInAnInsaneWorld
[–] bdmthrfkr 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This whole situation is just fucked up. His Mom just broke the bond of Parent/Child trust, CPS will totally fuck him and all this little boy wanted to do was to go back to school tomorrow. this one really grabs me by the boo-boo.
I hope that child, and his younger brother, survive this stupidity.
[–] DrShafty ago
Never get in between a sow and the feed trough.