My question involves child abuse or neglect in the State of:KY
HELP!
Most interesting story ever...
Well first off, I am 17 and I turn 18 in April. This whole ordeal started when I turned my father in for drugs. I was tutoring dyslexic children over the summer and after work I was going and talk to a town sheriff. July 1st, 3 state police and 2 sheriffs went to my house while I was at work, and found marijuana in plants growing along the hillside and in the yard. They found 3 plants. Social Services got involved because I had a 15 year old brother, and two sisters age 5 and 2 in the house. My mother was planning on leaving my father because of the drugs. He also has sold and bought prescription medicines. I was met by a sheriff, a state police and a social worker after work and they had asked me if it was safe to go home. I had the thoughts and memories of dad saying "Ill kill you" like he threatened to do If I ever turned him in. But fear got the best of me so I told my social worker yeah but no. He told me to go on home and he would be 10 minutes behind me, If I had trouble just run. I came home and sure enough I got flipped out on and I went running and the social worker came. My parents made out like I flipped out on them and was praising him for showing up.
July 3rd while at work, a state police and my social worker had told me that I was going to a place to stay for 3 days and I was thinking 'July 4th is tomorrow, I wanna make a special memory with my significant other'. So of course, I disagreed thinking it was wrong for me to be sent somewhere when I did the right thing. Why was I being punished, my father was not even charged for doing something illegal. I was told to voluntarily go or get handcuffed and took to juvenile prison. I went 125 miles away, without knowing where I was going, got there and was told I had to stay 10 days in a place full of kids who were on drugs. I love the irony!!! So I got sent away for doing the right thing. I got out after 10 days and when I came home things were different, I had one hour on the phone a day and had a whole slave list of chores,which I know is totally legal but add that in with the constant criticism. I thought things would be better. They never got that way.
Hatred just built up over time and got bigger and bigger. I got a new social worker who would not help me at all. I can call him and he will tell me he is coming and not show up nor call back. I recorded my father saying he is still selling and dealing and they he is going to plant stuff on me when I turn of age and all this. But I had lost my mp3 on which I recorded it. He even had the assistant principal search my locker for it. I mean, is it not obvious something is up. So in an effort to get back at me, I am never allowed to leave the yard.
Turns out my mother had my mp3 and she wont give it up nor let my father hear she has it. The abuse is awful here, no longer physically but mentally, Ive been so depressed. My father constantly lies on me, to get me in trouble. He even put seeds in my car that has never ran before(well not even my car, I've never driven it) to get me busted for the plants found. No one was believing me until my former social worker caught on and told me he would try to get me out of the home. He told my father he was doing wrong and it was wrong to purposely put someone in emotional distress. He got mad and walked out on the social worker.
One instance, I got grounded from school for not completing the dishes. I ran from home and got on the bus and when I got to school, I was called in and was greeted by a cop and the assistant principal. I spoke to a guidance counselor my former social worker came to speak with me. This was before he had caught on to everything. He told me it is illegal to prevent a child from education and told me to go to class. I work hard in school, I plan to attend UK and work on a Landscape Architecture degree.
I can control my problems better than I have. But it's just added stress on top of stress and is beginning to get hard. My girlfriend has been very true to me, even though we cannot see each other (my father took her mom to court for 'harassment'(it was a false accusation) and now we can't hang out because neither of us drive and her mom was the only one that took us out). But she has been a huge lift for my courage and strength. She was there from the start and I believe will always be there.
My former and current social worker wants to find a place here in my county so that I can attend school for my final semester. I have never had any school issues. Ive been in Track and Field and have been voted captain since freshmen year.
I was ordered by a court designated worker to write an explanation and turn it in to her by Dec. 19th or I go to the judge. Well my Dad says you need to go to the judge so he doesn't let me turn it in. We also have in home therapy now and they are just making it worse. I should have never requested it. They give me rules and punishments for the made up stories they hear.
Summation
I am getting in major trouble for doing the right thing.
What do I do??? Thanks.

