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    Unhappy 17-Year Old Runaway Is On The Run Again

    Georgia Law - My 17-year old daughter has severe borderline personality disorder. Trying to get her into a residential treatment facility. In the meanwhile, she ran away from home on May 26, 2007. Picked her up from a county jail on July 16, 2007. Retained runaway charges against her. She came home 33 weeks pregnant. Immediate counseling...psychological testing. Homeschooled - 7 credits to graduate. Her daughter was born on September 5, 2007. September 20, 2007, juvenille court hearing. A week later suicide/homicide threats. Sherriff and DFCS called to home. Temporary custody of her daughter transferred to me. 1013 into a stabilization unit for three weeks. Within a week of being discharged she quit taking meds and was arrested for simple assault. No more homeschooling...Incarcerated in county jail for two weeks. Was able to get bond condition requiring residential treament upon being bonded out. Another bond hearing removed bond condition...20 year-old "enabler" (not the baby's father) bonded daughter out of jail. Don't know where she is. I was told by the officer that she can't come home because of the simple assault charge against me. She is in violation of her juvenille court order. Will have a superior court date at some time. What should I do? File run away charges in juvenille court again? If I do, she'll go to a youth detention center when she needs mental health assistance. What should I do to protect my parental obligations? What legal options do I have against the "enabler" for taking my daughter? I have received a subpeona from DFCS to appear in juvenille court on January 7, 2008 for my granddaughter on deprivation charges against my daughter.

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    Default Re: 17-Year Old Runaway Is On The Run Again

    You can report her running away to the authorities, but don't they already know? You can also report the "enabling" to the police, to see if they will take action.

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    Default Re: 17-Year Old Runaway Is On The Run Again

    Yes, the authorities know she is gone. Department of Juvenille Justice and DFCS both say I need to file run away charges again. I'm waiting on my attorney for legal advise but he doesn't respond to me either.

    I tried to file a restraining order against the 38-year old that took her the first time and the "officials" told me that I would be wasting my money. First, there is no evidence of physical harm to my daughter. Seciondly, if a judge were to ask her if she wanted him to stay away, the answer would be no. Thirdly, she is so close to being an adult (18) that I would have a hard time finding a judge that would sign it, and if I did and they violated the restraining order no law enforcement office would waste their time trying to find her with so many more important cases on the books.

    Out legal system in action...

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