(drumroll, please)
mom and aunt deb went and spent one day last week talking to everyone involved with joe's case...the prosecuter, the probation officer, the health department, and children services. i will spare you the details, but basically it was discovered that the only reason joe and josh's mom didn't got to jail for several years the last time she was charged with criminally negligent child endangerment was because children services simply never entered their paperwork to the court. adn the court head to allow her to plead out. kinda makes you sick, huh? well, once that was out in the open, everyone started scarmbling because those boys should have been removed in january if everyone had been doing their jobs.
so today their mom is getting a suprise visit from children services and they are assuming immeadiate emergency custody of the boys. this is good, because their mom is really angry at my parents because she told them to bring the boys back to her and they told her no. (she moved in with a friend who also has the old lead paint) it was scary to think what she would do if she got the boys at this point...maybe run or something. they boys will stay with my parents in the mean time. once children services acts, then the health department can file and probation is going to slap her with several violations from the past year. this means, there will be another court hearing and now the prosecuter knows everything that has happened. her plea agreement from the last time basically stated that if she violated probation she would do a mandatory 5 year sentence. there will also be a meeting to determine whether or not to remove the kids within the next 2 weeks...
please just pray that people do their jobs this time around and that the boys never go back to her. thanks
Monday, November 07, 2005
a note for joe
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Kate, we will pray!!!! Did you read about my Sunday service a week ago when we had special prayer for Joe???
WOW! This sounds like some definite progress. Praise God! I am still praying with you all. I pray specifically that everything will proceed smoothly and that the details will work themselves out.
Thank you Lord once again!!!
Tim
pianoman, i understand where you are coming from...i worked for children services for 9months and had to testify in custody cases...it was a nightmare. i will never forget having to testify against a young mother who had alrady had 2 children taken from her...its burned in my mind forever. i feel for joe's mom...she has had a horrible life and i do have compassion on her. my family and i have paid her bills more often than not, taken her to dr. apppointments...tried to help her find a job..even offered to let her live with me so i could help with joe when he was a baby. my parents hvae tried to get her to move closer to them so they could help her out and to bring her to church with the boys and everything...she has always refused. so we are not taking the boys to hurt her, but basically to save their lives which she has continually put in danger... i am in NO way saying there isn't enough grace for her...because of course there is \, but she is not willing or capable to take care of the boys. both times joe has been in the hospital she did not go to visit him or call to see how he was doing. they only spend about 2 days a week at her house and sitll she calls my parents on those 2 days telling them how the boys are driving her nuts. she never wanted to be a parent...in her own words,..and right now the boys are a source of 'income' for her...
its a hard call and i hear where you are coming from. its hard to live in a fallen world when families are sometimes toxic to children. but grace isn't the issue here... its a given, but the boys must be protected just the same. thanks for your thoughts
pianoman, remember when you had a friend who had drum questions? i think i got rid of that emial accidenlty...but here is the address toask drum questiosn: cakedrums04@hotmail.com
kate
pianoman,
Wow. Thank you so much for posting what you did (and Katie, for posting.) I was wondering the same thing, but didn't say it because I didn't want to get in the way.... Now I understand. Not only will I be praying for Joe, I'll start praying for his mom as well.
Thanks!
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