I thought I had rough times, I feel sorry for this girl

[madville]

Stuff like this just makes me sad :(


First off she is 18 and in the 10th grade, she looks like she is maybe 12. A couple months after she started working at the place I do, her mother, who was is a nursing home, died of some kind of cancer.

Most people find it hard to talk about the passing of a loved one, not her, everyone who walked up.."Yea, my mom died....."

Then her little cousin who was practically like a sister to her dies of leukiema, again with the "Yea, ___ died......"

Her dad, well that's a whole different matter in itself. Going to give a bit of a description before I give you the good stuff: scruffy beard, flannel, drunk or high most of the time. Even before his wife died he had a new GF, a varitable queen of the crack whores, complete with track marks and multiple missing teeth.

The guy needs some help with with substance abuse.

One day she misses work and then we find out, from her, that her dad has been arrested for molesting not only her but her older sister

For the past couple of weeks she has been nervous because he went missing, didn't show up for the hearing, then he did and he was supposed to plead guilty and her didn't and then he did

In the whole midst of this, a reporter from the local newspaper comes by the store asking if she is in high school, how many hours she works blah blah blah. Next week after that she is in the paper on the front page as a sleep deprived high school student.

Next she comes to work a couple weeks ago looking like she has been beat up, then has to leave work because the left side of her body goes numb.

Lastly she has not been at work since Sunday due to some hind of spider bit on her leg that has left a nasty wound.

Well, I saw the bite and it looked like a brown recluse bite. My dad was bitten and it looked the same.

Other non dysfunctional member of her mother's side of the family come by to talk to her every now and then about the trial and what not.


She is the nicest person and will try to help anyone if she can

She refuse to live with her grand parents(fathers side) because they question her about what he did.

Sooo, she lives with her boyfriends family, parents divorced, mother is a lesbian with a life partner.

Here's the kicker....her grand father is a registered sex offender who lives right across from a local school.


Since I have to hear about this everyday at work I figured I should share, at least vent,her "struggles are affecting the moral at work

[Thtwudbeme]

1. Sad story; however, could you edit your post to indicate

that living with two lesbians isn't on the list of bad things that have happened to this girl?

Thanks much; I know you didn't intend for it to read that way.

[theHandpuppet]

6. Thanks for catching that

I have to admit that's the way it reads (negative).

As for the young girl, I'm at a loss. As bad as her situation is, I see a multitude of kids right here in my town with similar, nightmarish stories. Drugs in the home are a common denominator, as is abuse and/or neglect. How do we even begin to address this problem in our society? How are kids like this supposed to survive -- emotionally, financially, spiritually?

If even half the energies and resources of the so-called "pro-life" movement were directed towards the children already born, we could truly save lives. As it stands now, once you're out of the womb it's as if no one cares.

[Karmakaze]

2. Jesus...

That girl has some wicked good karma due her I think...

[ClintonTyree]

3. That's just it though.......

sometimes stuff like this happens to people and their lives never recover. Their entire lives are one disaster after another, from no fault of their own, it just happens.
What a heart breaking story. I hope that somewhere, sometime, there's a happy ending to this tragic start.

[REP]

4. Unbelievable

18 and still a sophomore. Is she a SPED kid?

[Uben]

5. Isn't it against the law

...for her grandfather to live across the street from a school as a registered sex offender?

[soup]

7. yes

If the victim was under the age of 18, a prohibition on living within 1,000 feet of a school, day care center, park, playground, or other place where children regularly congregate, as prescribed by the court.
http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/OGC/Legal_Bulletins/lb9802_12-18.html

[izzie]

8. It is either a Dickens novel in the making or this---------

a work up for a ice skater on the world stage. I just can not take to many of these sad sad stories. I am now waiting for our new murder in NH to knock off all the other kills on TV, it is so odd.

[newyawker99]

9. Hi madville!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: