MisplacedTexan
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What is the name of your state? Georgia?
First post and I'm not sure I'm in the right place, but here goes.
My teen, developmentally disabled daughter-along with other medical issues, ran away. We tracked her last known location to a coffee shop where she had dropped her phone. 3 eyewitnesses saw her there along with her phone being found there. We called the local police who refused to take a report. The referred us back to our neighboring county and said we must report from our home. Likened our missing daughter to "identity theft." Our home county agency had already told us we needed to report it from where she was last seen. When we told the officers we had already attempted to report it in our county, they still refused. Officer turned his back on me when I raised my voice about our human being - disabled daughter - instead of someone's identity. Our home county agency ultimately said they would take it but we spent 2+ critical hours trying to get someone to take the report. In reality, no activity was done on our daughter's case until the next morning.
In the meantime, a man picked our daughter up with the premice he was going to help her and ended up taking advantage of her in the worse way. He sexually assaulted her in the jurisdiction of the agency that refused to take the report. Now, if we were trying to report a car break in in that jurisdiction, they wouldn't have sent us home to report it. What if we were from out of state, or the other side of the metro area, instead of the neighboring county? Would they still have sent us home? Remember, 3 eyewitnesses placed her at the coffee shop along with her phone being found. She was a disabled, vulnerable, girl. Do we have a case against the agency that refused to act?
First post and I'm not sure I'm in the right place, but here goes.
My teen, developmentally disabled daughter-along with other medical issues, ran away. We tracked her last known location to a coffee shop where she had dropped her phone. 3 eyewitnesses saw her there along with her phone being found there. We called the local police who refused to take a report. The referred us back to our neighboring county and said we must report from our home. Likened our missing daughter to "identity theft." Our home county agency had already told us we needed to report it from where she was last seen. When we told the officers we had already attempted to report it in our county, they still refused. Officer turned his back on me when I raised my voice about our human being - disabled daughter - instead of someone's identity. Our home county agency ultimately said they would take it but we spent 2+ critical hours trying to get someone to take the report. In reality, no activity was done on our daughter's case until the next morning.
In the meantime, a man picked our daughter up with the premice he was going to help her and ended up taking advantage of her in the worse way. He sexually assaulted her in the jurisdiction of the agency that refused to take the report. Now, if we were trying to report a car break in in that jurisdiction, they wouldn't have sent us home to report it. What if we were from out of state, or the other side of the metro area, instead of the neighboring county? Would they still have sent us home? Remember, 3 eyewitnesses placed her at the coffee shop along with her phone being found. She was a disabled, vulnerable, girl. Do we have a case against the agency that refused to act?