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My mom was a foster parent for troubled kids. She did it for 20 years. Over 100 kids ended either being able to return home, or found perm adoption. However, in the end, one kid broke her, and she nearly didn't come back from it. This kid had a horrible life, abused, physically and sexually for over 10 years by his father and mother both. He got arrested when he tried to touch a 6 year old at his school. When they took him into custody, they put him in a juvi unit with kids 5+ years older then him. He spent 2 years there before he was placed with my mom. He would punch, bite, kick, spit, scratch. Break things, scream, yell, shout, and anything else he could do to try and get a reaction. She lasted just over a year, but when he punched my 3 month old niece, my mom had to physically get between him and my brother who probably would have killed him, no exaggeration. She called and had him picked up by the foster care center she worked for. He screamed at her that like everyone else in his life, she abandoned him. They took him away and she quit the next day. A few years after my mother passed away, I saw on the news that he was killed in a gang related conflict. I'm glad she didn't have to deal with that knowledge. It took a long time for us to convince her that she wasn't the one who failed that kid, life just dealt them a shitty hand and they didn't play the cards they had been dealt right.
I'll be honest it really pissed me off that he wasn't arrested and jail for punching an infant. If I was your uncle I don't know if your mom could have held me back.
Kid was completely broken, he needed care for his mental health, not jail. I understand it's not always available though.
I've known a lot of people in rough situations in my life, lots of people who needed help and mental health care, but I've never met someone who at any point in their life thought it was ok to punch an infant.
A lot of the kids in that foster syatem are there because people in their lives thought it was ok to hit an infant.
I completely agree. I firmly believe his life would have been very different if he had been put in a mental care facility rather then Juvi with kids that were double his age in some cases.
Was the infant alright? AHT is no joke
Yea, she was fine, had a small bruise on her head for a week or so, but she recoverd quickly.