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Death threats and Child Protective Services - Oh Joy

Justwantsomepeace's picture

This is going to be long I think - and this is the short version.

So New Years weekend the SKs were with their mom for the weekend for the first overnight visitation since July of 2009. When they came home Sunday night SD15 was acting strangely and would barely speak to us. So later that night we checked her cell phone to see if we could tell what was going on. We've had to do this routinely since we found pictures of her 14 yo BF's penis on her phone over the summer.
So when we look at the texts between her and her boyfriend we find them both talking horribly about me. That I'm a devil worshiping b*itch, she said she'd rather live in a cardboard box than with that "skanky ass ho" (me), etc etc. About 40 texts back and forth about how horrible I am and her mom wants to know "what that b*tch said to you when you got home", that she needs to "cuss me out". Her BM and SD20 are going to "kick my ass" and her BF 16 is going to kill me. Needless to say, I've doing nothing to warrant all of this and when asked SD15 said the worst thing I've ever done to her is 2 months ago I yelled at her for not coming home when I told her to (3 hours late with no phone call).

DH wakes her up (this is about midnight) and tells her to get her ass in our room and that we were going to talk about this. She cops an attitude and is standing right next to our bed. He tells her to sit down and she refuses, he tells her again and she has that FU look on her face so he grabbed the back of her ponytail and sits her down. While I disagree with what he did, she was not hurt in any way. So she's crying the whole time and hardly spoke for 2 hours. It's obvious in the texts that her BF, BM and SD20 were together when all this was going on and she won't tell us what started this whole thing, why she was talking about me that way (we find out later from SS14 that they were talking and lying about me all day Sunday). The best we could get out of her was that she blames me for not being able to see her mom more even though its not my fault (she said it wasn't my fault but she blames me anyway). Her mom has extensive psychological issues and has been court ordered since 2008 to attend therapy. She has been held in contempt 4 times and was seeing the kids for 2 restricted hours a week because she would not go to therapy. NOT MY FAULT. She abandoned them at a truck stop. NOT MY FAULT. She faked brain cancer. NOT MY FAULT, etc. etc. SD15 admits that none of this is my fault but she blames me anyway WTF ?!? When we went to court to have her visitation restricted (multiple times) we did so because all three SD20, SD15 and SS14 wanted us to. They did not want to see their BM.

So 7 or 8 years ago DH had a heart attack brought on by the stress of living with BM. During the conversation with SD15 DH said to her "if you're going to do this to my family, you might as well shoot me in the heart since I've already had 1 heart attack and this is going to give me another one".

Wednesday afternoon DH calls me and says how fast can you get home because the sheriff and CPS are at our house. Huh? So I get there before he does and evidently a report was made that he hit her, pulled her hair and threatened her with a gun. WTF? So after interviewing everyone, they decide the only thing that happened was that he pulled her hair and used bad language. We find out from talking to various family members that BM and SD20 went to the school guidance counselor and reported him for this. SD20 has not spoken to him since a week ago Sunday BEFORE this ever happened. She had gone to her grandparents and told them that she was going to work 4 jobs so she could raise the kids BEFORE this happened. This is the same child who was physicallly abused by her mom, DH has always had custody of since the divorce and WE pay 15K a year for her to go to college, and until this happened everything was hunky dory. DH had asked her to pay us the $170 she owes us since she wanted to live in a fancier dorm at school and we told she would have to pay the difference (we already pay an extra $600 per semester so she can have her own bedroom instead of sharing) She's doing all of this because of $170. Needless to say, we are no longer paying for her college and she can ask her mother to support her, which she has never done in her entire life.

There is so much more to this story, but we're at a point where we just don't know what to do. SD15 wants to go stay with her mom for a month (so she can lose her virginity to her boyfriend as talked about in the text messages). We can't just ship her off to get pregnant and its not what's best for her regardless. Her mom is not stable. Even the social worker that was here said she wouldn't recommend that she go to her mom's because of her mental issues (BPD among other things). DH is heartbroken, two of his daughters have betrayed him. SS14 is crushed by all of this because he knows its all lies and his mom is crazy and he loves me. DH has NEVER abused his children, and being accused of it breaks his heart. I don't know whether to be angry, sad or hurt. Why do I bother trying if this is what I'm going to get. SD15 said she resents me because I'm a better mother than her BM. What am I supposed to do with that?

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StepDeux's picture

Is your SD15 in therapy? It sounds like, if not, that might be a good place to start with her and with SS14 as well.

It really does suck to be the person in the line of fire when you know that you haven't done anything, and the person who is shooting at you also knows that you haven't done anything, but aims to hurt you anyway because they are hurting.

There is no way to excuse any of your SK's behavior in this situation. I honestly wonder if it's even healthy for them to see BM at all if she is condoning and encouraging this type of behavior.

Good for you for stopping paying for SD20's eductaion and lifestyle! What she did is so out of line and so immature, and just very ungrateful. I'm sure she'll come running back with all sorts of "I'm sorrys" once she realizes how hard life can really be for her.

Could you send your SD15 to a boarding school or a school for troubled teens, so that she's not with you guys but also not with BM?

Justwantsomepeace's picture

All three SKs were in therapy for the first year or so after the divorce. They will be again very shortly. It is in no way healthy for them to see their BM, but there isn't much we can do about it at this point (until she freaks out again). We have discovered over the years, that the periods in which they don't see her much are very strange. Half of the time she doesn't seem to care if she sees/talks to them and the rest she's trying to win mom of the year by being their BFF and having lots of fun, etc. You know the REAL way to parent *sarcasm*.

After a while, the kids say "Oh, mom's not so bad, I want to spend more time with her" because anybody can keep their sh*it together for 2 hours. And then comes the drama. Evidently, we're in the drama stage. Then they see how crazy she is because she leaves them somewhere and says they're never going to see her again, that she doesn't love them, that she's signing her rights to them away, etc. They don't want to see her and then the cycle repeats itself.

SD20 doesn't get any I'm sorry's this time. She crossed a line that she can't ever uncross with DH. She has refused for 5 years to testify against her mother about all of the abuse she endured growing up and DH has honored that wish even though it made the neverending court battles more difficult for him. She didn't want to have to say those kinds of things about her mother. But she willingly and purposefully (we have text messages that show it) did so against her father.

I think its funny that two people said exactly what my mom said, "Can't you ship her off somewhere" And my mother is the sweetest, nicest person you've ever met. You could have knocked me over with a feather when she started talking about a wilderness bootcamp in Utah (we're in NC).

Totalybogus's picture

You have two choices with a kid like this. Either put her in an all girls school where she only gets to come home on weekends and holidays IF you come get her or let her mother deal with her. Your husband's health is at stake here. He has already had one heart attack. Every time he tries to either discipline or enforce your house rules she cries abuse. This is no way for any of you, including your stepson to live.

Rags's picture

I would immediately call the police, give them SD-15's cell phone and press charges for conspiracy to commit murder against her idiot BF-16. You have the texts clearly documenting the conspiracy.

Nail BM and SD-20's asses to the wall on this one too. They are the adults. Fry em.

After you get everyone arrested then go in and play the "these poor kids have been influenced by the psycho BM and request that BM be committed to the state hospital until she is unequivocally deemed to not be a threat to anyone". You may want to suggest a lobotomy. }:)

What these kid's don't understand is that those texts could get them put in to prison for a very long time.

Call 911 now and have them all arrested and taken away.

Good luck.

Justwantsomepeace's picture

We talked to our lawyer the day after it happened and he said it doesn't qualify as communicating threats because BF was talking to her and not to me. "Legally" he wasn't making a threat, just talking to his girlfriend. She did not participate in the killing me part of the conversation, so its not a conspiracy. Our lawyer is fantastic, so I'm sure we couldn't get anywhere with it based on the wording.

The sad part is that when DH told SD15 that her BF was not welcome in our home she looked shocked. She has no clue how serious this all is. I need to find a cop who will scare the bejezus out of her.

buttercookie's picture

Your lawyer is right, you may want a matter of record report on what happened just incase more of this comes up you will start documenting now

Justwantsomepeace's picture

CPS worker documented thoroughly including BMs psychiatric history and she read all of the text messages. She was shocked and amazed by the language and the content. She basically said, feel free to subpoena me if you need a witness to this in a custody hearing.

Guess the joke will be on BM if she attempts to push this any further }:)