A slight correction, dlw99. Your first post to this forum did get responses - several - but perhaps this case involving your son is different than the one where your son's counseling information was being published online by a mentally disturbed woman?
No, but thankfully that woman is still in Taunton State Mental Hospital, and won't be getting out any time soon. The post I was referring to was the one where I asked about the new HPO statute.
The purpose of talking about the kids would be to show how bullys are created - in this case, aggressively by their parents. I have watched these adults
instruct their kids how to bully - they actually do it whenever and wherever they can for my benefit. This mess started because the children were being neglected and at least one of them was being sexually abused. Loads of people witnessed the ''free range toddler'' wandering around the road all hours of the day and night in his diaper or completely naked, and did nothing to stop it. My family made the grave mistake of reporting the things we watched for months, and that's when the trouble began. It's ironic that all I wanted to do in the first place was help those children.
My son will not be going on television, and no last names would be used.
The only reason the tv people are interested in this story is because the behavior of these bullys is from a different socioeconomic background than is sterotypically portrayed. They came right out and said it.
The first cop to respond to a call when the hostilities started told me in no uncertain terms that the things we were reporting ''just don't happen in places like this''. He even went on to point out how nice the cars and yard were. I was blown away by his ignorance, but that was just the beginning of it. For five years I battled one false accusation after another, and in that time the children grew older, angrier, and much, much, meaner.
The Kindergartener, who is seven years old, was in a dress suit and tie, looking adorable. Four weeks earlier he was throwing rocks at the head of the guy mowing my yard (He did two tours in Iraq and never had a rock thrown at his head). The judge made a long and eloquent statement before issuing the HPOs, words I'd waited five years to hear. I won't go into it except to say that he said in his 28 years on the bench, he'd seen lots of children just like the defendants, with unimpressive parents like theirs, on a one way track to the house of correction.
These kids are doomed, no matter what I do. I am 100% convinced of that. They live in a house consumed with hatred. I can just let it go, and wait until they hurt some other little kid, which they most certainly will, especially the little one. It's scary.
Sometimes when people see themselves on television, they change. However in this case, it will probably, as you say Q, just make things worse.
That's what my gut says, and chances are I'll pass. Thanks.