just in case you thought our children were safe under governmental watch…

So as some of you know, my sister and her psycho ex-husband have been fighting a pretty gnarly custody battle, most of which had been settled until he married a girl my age who apparently hasn't mentally left high school. This week, we had more crap happened that has reaffirmed my complete lack of belief in the legal system as far as protecting children from abusive situations.

I've blogged about this situation before, so for a more thorough description of what was going on before, read this: http://fourfieldpeas.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-reason-to-hate-people.html.

This week there was another, just as disturbing, more violent incident.

Jordan (who anyone will tell you is incredibly easy-going) went over to his dad's house (he's been staying with his mom) just for a second to bring something to one of his brothers (after having been asked to do so by them). When he got there, Jake and Jason (the dad) were in a physical altercation, apparently over some stupid argument that escalated way too much.

Okay, first off, YOU ARE THE PARENT, ASS. At what point do you think it's appropriate to be in a physical altercation with your CHILD? And they were outside, for anyone on the earth to see!

So Jordan jumps in to try to get Jason off of Jake, who is, AGAIN, the child. Jason then throws Jordan. Throws him. Enough that later, when Candace takes Jordan to the emergency room, Jordan has a concussion and a ruptured ear drum. Thankfully, Jacob didn't have any physical injuries.

The cops show up (I think Jake called them), and after talking to Jason and adolescent wife and then talking to Candace and Jordan about it, they basically do nothing. NOTHING. Candace asked the cop, what does he have to do in order to get in trouble with the law? The cop says, physical violence. Candace says, no, that's not the case, because we have that here, so WHAT EXACTLY does he have to do? No real answer. No consequences for Jason.

The ER reports the incident to child services. Then the next day, Jake talked to his counselor at school about it, and she called child services. Child services talked to him, and then later this week, talked to Candace and Jordan. And apparently, again, NOTHING is happening. Candace said it sounded like they weren't doing anything about the situation. Candace's attorney is going to file for another custody hearing to be held quickly, but really, the judge let him have the kids before even after seeing the video where Jason called his own children names that you normally wouldn't even SAY in front of your children, much less TO them.

Jason is pretty much useless and deserves to have a can of whoop ass opened on him. And I just have a question for psycho wife. Didn't you say on the video where you cussed out and screamed at the top of your lungs at your stepsons that you "would die for your son"? How would YOU feel if someone inflicted a concussion and a ruptured ear drum on YOUR son?

I am so done with this whole system. I will be posting that video when I get home, if I can get it to upload on here. If you watch it, you will be shocked at the way abusive parents talk to their children.