I like to add a little reality check to my stich. Today I picked up a mom who's son we are serving. He is in a detention center due to robbery but has mental health issues. I have negotiated with the judge to let me place him in a therapeutic setting instead.
Went to pick up mom 1st in a vey dangerous neigborhood. They are from Honduras and she does not speak English. As we drove to pick up her son at the jail she pulls a picture of her 14 year old daughter. Very pretty, and than tells me that her daughther and niece were abducted and found dead the following day. This happened in September. This happened in Honduras and the last time she saw her was in 2004. She tells me 2 of her sons are still there. The one son that is here, came by himself when he was about 14.5 years old. It took him about a month to cross the border. Pretty tough kid, huh? She also told me how scared she was when crossing Mexico and the deserts she encountered on foot.
On top of all that she says she lives in a house with 10 people, they all share one bathroom and pays 600$ in rent. WTH???
But she seems happy even though she has gone through all this trauma. Dunno tought I should share.
M 53 D 20 Separated 6/22/11 moved out 10/24 Together 26 yrs Married 16 W Filed for D 7/21/11 Served 9/6/11 D final 8/28/12
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
