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I have no idea whether this particular story is true but I teach in a large urban public HS and my wife is a doctor at an inner city public health clinic and we see this sort of thing and worse pretty much every week. So it is entirely conceivable to me. the OP is in Georgia which is not a state that is known for adequately funding social services and is also not a state that is known for having government institutions accessible to immigrants for whom English is not their first language. No doubt whatever case workers were involved had enormous overwhelming case loads and are underpaid and work in under-staffed offices with inadequate resources.
But as others have said, we've only gotten one side of the story. In any event, whether the story is apocryphal or not, it is certainly the kind of thing that happens every day in this country. And often much worse.
This story has more holes than a 5 pound wheel of Swiss cheese! I feel for the kids. Clearly NO one is looking out for them. Mom is a hot mess. Defying court orders does NOTHING to help your case.....in fact you can end up in jail.
If the boy did OD on pills, where did he get them from? If they belonged to mom, she should be charged. You can't leave pills laying around. Is it possible that she killed him? It's a horrible question, but sadly happens far too often in this country.
Mom sounds like a piece of work. Not saying dad is all sweet and innocent. She definitely has issues. No one knows what really happened.
There's 3 sides to every story. Party 1, Party 2, and the truth which is usually somewhere in the middle.
This story has more holes than a 5 pound wheel of Swiss cheese! I feel for the kids. Clearly NO one is looking out for them. Mom is a hot mess. Defying court orders does NOTHING to help your case.....in fact you can end up in jail.
If the boy did OD on pills, where did he get them from? If they belonged to mom, she should be charged. You can't leave pills laying around. Is it possible that she killed him? It's a horrible question, but sadly happens far too often in this country.
Mom sounds like a piece of work. Not saying dad is all sweet and innocent. She definitely has issues. No one knows what really happened.
There's 3 sides to every story. Party 1, Party 2, and the truth which is usually somewhere in the middle.
Well, being familiar with CMMom's posting history in the Atlanta forum, she seems like an incredibly decent and reliable person. So I read this story a little more personally and little less critically than I otherwise might have because that familiarity.
And I truly don't know what I as a mother would have done. It's easy to rationally say "obviously she screwed up by defying a court order" when it's not MY CHILD we're talking about. But if I truly believed, in my heart of hearts, that MY CHILD was being molested/abused by the person the court is FORCING me to send them to...I don't know how I could do that. How could I send my child off to be abused?? I don't know that I could. Regardless of what a judge ordered me to do. Even if intellectually I knew it was probably not a smart move.
Add in the fact that the woman in this case was not born and raised in the US, is not a native English speaker, and is probably not a high income earner; I think real life is a lot more complicated than reading stories online and deciding what other folks should or should not have done.
Is it possible that the mother is lying to the OP about her son's death because she wants time off work for some other purpose? Something in the neighborhood of munchausen by proxy? Is the OP certain that the boy has died, or is she relying on the mother's word?
Is it possible that the mother is lying to the OP about her son's death because she wants time off work for some other purpose? Something in the neighborhood of munchausen by proxy? Is the OP certain that the boy has died, or is she relying on the mother's word?
WOW. That would be really sick.
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That would be really sick.
