(state of illinois)
My neice was in foster care a few years back because she was abused by her mother and step father. (ie: The would beat her and tie her to a fouton frame if she used the home telephone)
The mother got custody of her and all her siblings after my other sister & brother inlaws told her that if she did not lie about the abuse to the social worker that her mother was going to committ suicide and kill herself.
The little girl/teenager did as she was told and lied to the courts by saying that she was never abused just so her mother would not kill herself and so that her other younger siblings were not separated in foster care.
My neice gets straight A's, in the honors society, and absolutely brilliant! She loves school and loves to study. The mother pays the younger siblings to spy on my neice at school and to snoop in her room. (mind you, the mother had my neice when she was 16, her sister when she was 17, another sister by a different father when she was 19, married another man and had 2 more kids. My husband took care of the 3 girls while her mother went out on the town every night and was not responsible.)
2 days ago, my neice was thrown out of the house because she was over heard by her younger sister speaking with a teacher about her experience foster care while living with mormans. The mother thinks my neice is trying to get her school involved to have the children taken away again. (In my opinion, they should!!!!!!!) My neice was just using her experience as reference about what she learned from the morman religion....
So, at this point, my neice is living at my sister in-laws place (who is only 5 years older than her and can barely take care of herself). The mother refuses to sign over custody to my husband (her brother) and would rather have her sister have custody. The mother is trying to force my neice to drop out of highschool and get a job. (mind you, the mother never graduated highschool herself because of all the kids she had and partying she did)
My neice wants desperately to graduate highschool with a diploma and does not want all her honors and good grades to be un-noticed. She wants to go to college and be a pre-med student. My neice is also VERY especially concerned for the welfare of her baby brother and sister whom are both under the age of 4.
The mother threatened to enroll her daughter into a violent public highschool in a bad area. The mother said that she hopes her daughter would get beat up there.
How to I get my neice emancipated????? And get her into a good school!!! I seem to be the only sane on in the family.

