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Egads Sweets.
That really bites.
That'd create havoc if they found out what you do.
AND if you didn't know they were a neighbor -havoc and chaos.

Hi all. I've been shopping all day and have just caught up with the thread. Wow, you guys have realiy been gossipy. Love it! Checked out Sam's Club and hit the brand new Marshalls up the street. Got a couple nice handbags, but no fall jacket. :(

The upside is, that as long they're on someone else's caseload, I can keep an eye on them without them knowing. Actually, this particular one is relatively minor. They're anti-government types (which I can respect) whose oldest child is autistic and severely delayed. He's 11 or 12 years old and still in diapers. So they're homeschooling him. They're homeschooling the other 2 as well, but because they didn't register to homeschool THIS kid with the appropriate authorities, they got in trouble. The others are registered, but the dad has been having having trouble finding an accredited program that can deal with the boy's needs. This case will be closed quickly. But it still isn't a good idea to have the neighbors know what I do.

Then, this kid that lives behind me has a history of burglarizing peoples' homes. I'm not even sure why there's an open case in our office on him. But there is also one with juvenile services.

Another of the caseworkers just had to take 3 little kids in my area into foster care over the weekend. There was an open case and he'd been trying to work with them, but these kids were just not being taken care of. They were dirty and malnourished, to the point that their hair was falling out.

There was also another report a couple of weeks back involving a couple of teenage girls that live nearby who were supposedly being beaten by their stepfather. I don't know what the determination was on that one.

Besides those, there is at least one other case that I know of, and another that WAS my case, but fortunately, it wasn't close enough that they could actually see where I lived, and it was a simple case that I was able to close quickly. There's a trailer park across the road from me where all these people live, except the kid behind me....and they used to live in that trailer park.

I've just come to the conclusion that there are a lot of seriously screwed up people around! I just wish there weren't so many of them around ME!