In happier times: Rachel claims her father Sean Canning was inappropriately affectionate. But a Department of Families and Children inquiry cleared him of allegations of abuse
The couple submitted letters to the court which state a Department of Children and Families investigation cleared them. Mrs Canning added: ‘In fact, the case worker told us that it was in her opinion that we spoiled our daughter. We gave her too much’.
Mrs Canning added: ‘She also told the worker that she had threatened suicide and my reaction was that I “high-fived” my husband. this was so outrageously offensive that it did not deserve to be addressed, but we gladly addressed it with the caseworker’.
She said: ‘On or about October 30, 2012, two days before her 18th birthday, Rachel ran away from home. Rachel was never ‘kicked’ out of home.
‘Rachel lived in our house, under our supervision, until the morning of October 30, 2013, when she ran away after a disciplinary hearing at Morris Catholic wherein she was suspended for truancy (having previously been suspended due to alcohol involvement at the Homecoming Dance).
So it’s okay if the adults are lazy and negligent, just not the daughter?