My son is being charged with molesting his 6 year old step daughter. Basically, the mother got angry with him because of his punishment of the daughter for wetting herself, even though she's too old to be wetting herself. She needs to use the potty, he was only trying to be a parent to her where her mother is NOT parenting!
The little girl is alleging that he touches her and all this crap and social services is involved and the mother has filed charges against him and has left him and her brother is threatening him now that if he tries to talk to his wife he's going to get "messed up" so he has no way of talking to her to figure out what the bogus charges are for.
My son is not at all like that. He's not weird. He has a lot of friends and a good job and he's a nice guy, so how could the cops even begin to believe he'd do this sort of thing? It's ridiculous- and all because her daddy used to be a police officer!
2007-12-06 12:26:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
First off, he had NO business punishing her. Disciplining a child is SOLELY the parents responsibility, not the step parents.
Second, bed wetting is NOT a conscious act, so punishing is of absolutely NO benefit anyway. You're punishing someone for doing something that they have no control over -and how stupid is that?
Third, the court will believe it because courts generally do believe juvenile allegations of abuse.
Your son should get a lawyer as soon as possible and - VERY important - he should STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!
Anything he says to you, or his father, or anyone else except his own lawyer is not protected, and you can be called at trial to testify as to what he told you.
Also, he should NOT talk to CPS or the police AT ALL without a lawyer present.
"You have the right to a lawyer, and to have that lawyer present during questioning" - exercise that right!
EDIT... to 'lahockey'.
Bad, bad, bad advice. He should NOT relax.
In a case like this, CPS is NOT YOUR FRIEND!
CPS is staffed almost entirely by people who went into the child protection industry because they believe that child abuse is rampant and that virtually every case that is reported is real.
Do NOT trust them, Do NOT 'tell them everything so they can just close the case'. They are out to get you. Work from that position, and look at everything they tell you from that viewpoint.
Richard
2007-12-06 12:30:15 · answer #1 · answered by rickinnocal 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
What did he do to "discipline" the girl for wetting herself? A 6-year old wetting herself is not unusual, and sometimes can be a sign of sexual abuse, although not always. This sounds very suspicious and CPS is doing their job...you don't punish a child for wetting, ever, it is the top reason for child abuse...
Rick, I was with you for the first two paragraphs...
2007-12-06 20:38:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just relax. I'm sure that CPS is involved and will do a complete investigation and if you son is innocent they will make that determination and file the report accordingly. It happens especially with mixed families. People over react all the time and that is probably what happened here. RELAX, stay calm and be VERY cooperative with any agency that wants to talk to your son.
2007-12-06 20:30:37 · answer #3 · answered by lahockeyg 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋