Posted on 02/05/2015 2:53:23 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Williamsburg, Va. – Kimberlyn Williams feels unsafe in her own home because of her 12-year-old son.
“I am his mother and I do love him, but he`s dangerous,” Williams says.
She says he’s so dangerous that she is prepared to face jail time to keep him out of the house, to not only protect herself, but her two younger children.
“I have been hit, bit, kicked,” she says. “He has threatened to stab children at school, to kill them. He has these outbursts.”
She says her son is now at Riverside Behavioral Health Center in Hampton. He was put there after Williams called police last week because of what she says she witnessed between her son and four-year-old daughter.
“When I went in, I found him exposing himself to her and trying to coerce her to touch him,” Williams says.
Williams says that was the final straw after years of violent and inappropriate behavior, and years of trying to get him the help he needs.
“It`s not a case of us not trying to get him help,” she says. “This is not an isolated incident. It’s been a gauntlet of doctors and medications and diagnoses.”
Her son is set to be released Thursday, but Williams does not want to bring him home.
“If I do not show up to get him, I will face criminal charges or child abandonment,” she says.
Williams says Child Protective Services told her if she refuses to take him, her son would be placed in a 24-hour supervision residential facility — something she’s wanted all along. She says it would take police arresting her to get her wish.
“I want something to get done,” Williams says. “I don`t want it to be you take this one and you risk your other children’s health and safety or you go to jail. There has to be a better way.”
To get her son the help he needs, Williams says she’s prepared to face the consequences.
“Nobody wants to talk about this,” she says. “It`s something we would certainly consider a private family issue, but along those lines maybe it can help other people.”
Neither James City County Police nor CPS will comment
The country needs to make it easier to lock up for everyone’s good those who are a continuous danger to others because they are crazy.
Trying to get help for a dangerous, psychotic child is terribly difficult. I know a family who faced the same thing with their six-foot-tall, 180-pound schizophrenic sixteen-year-old, who nearly killed his mother and two little sisters. She too was threatened with jail time. It was a nightmare. Even the rich cannot keep a kid locked up indefinitely, and this family was far from rich.
No father? I’d like to hear what the child has lived through. I wonder what would make a 12 year old so bad.
Unfortunately you’re right. We need to pray for her.
Liberals HATE the idea of locking up crazy people against their will. I think they hate it so much because they know that most of them would be locked up if they were evaluated.
Many times it’s sexual abuse. It could be anger from a divorce or a thousand other things of course.
This is a ridiculous situation. The boy is a danger to others, and should be institutionalized.
Why should the state take responsibility and pay for it, to boot?!
Here, Here, I agree, let’s start with ALL Democrats
100 years ago we had mental institutions where these people could go.
Now we have the streets.
But we’re so much more compassionate these days. (sarc)
I wonder what would make a 12 year old so bad.??
No father
To protect its citizens.
Yep. The glaring omission of a father speaks volumes.
But not always. Sometimes a problem child is going to overtax even the best of intact families. And there ain’t nothing anyone can do about that.
Why should the state take responsibility and pay for it, to boot?!
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Soon and very soon the state will take responsibility for this boy.
Not in any mental hospital. But in prison. Assuming he lives long enough.
I know a kid that was institutionalized for trying to split his mom’s head with an axe at 12. He’s autistic. Saw them grocery shopping yesterday. He’s gotta be 20 or so.
its not counseling...its not behavior therapy...its not basketball...its not Vit D....
some are born screwed up mentally and can't be fixed...the best we can do is protect them from themselves and protect society from them..
That’s the one thing I hold against President Reagan, I know the court was about to order them all released anyway, but he could have told the Court to pound Sand. It wasn’t that long ago that the separation of powers was understood. The Court has no way of Enforcing Anything the Executive branch doesn’t want to enforce, this is where Congress can step in and fund or defund the Executive Branch to get what they want. Too Bad they don’t teach history, civics, math, reading... anymore, if they did we would have a revolution overnight.
you can't fix that....
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