jenniferbrown
Junior Member
My sister lives in Indiana but I live in North Carolina. My sister has four children, ages ranging from 12 to 16. The household is unfit to say the least. Her husband is not only mentally abusive to her and the children, he also has a drug addiction. He puts the children down in his normal interaction with them. His actions are increasingly inappropriate when he attempts to take a disciplinary role. He makes vulgar, sexual statements to them to include comments about my sister. This has been going on for close to seven years now. Recently he and my sister got into a physical altercation over the fact that he had crack on him in their home. She filed for a protective order. Under the stress of her pending court date she finally pieced together a picture for me that my heart can't let go of. To start, her husband has a felony drug charge and has been keeping a hand gun in the house. 'It's not his', of course, he's just holding it for some guy that owes him money for the pain pills he is prescribed. One of the boys, that I know of, with him when he's making drug deals. He has taken that same boy to spend the night with him in a household known for drug use. He smokes crack in their garage. He has given marijuana to at least two of the children so they would lie to my sister about smoking and the drugs he's storing in the house. He has drained their bank account several times because he 'needed' to get high. Soon after the protective order was filed I went to Indiana and brought two of the four children back to North Carolina with me under both parents concent. Yesterday I found out that she didn't show up for her court date making the protective order nule and void. She has also allowed this pathetic excuse for a father figure to reenter her home with two of the children still there. Her maternal instinct obviously no longer touches the relm of protecting her children and I can not in good concious allow it to continue. I strongly feel that allowing these children to remain in that household will not be in their best interest. It is so far detached from what I feel any reasonable person would deem fit. Where do I begin?