Christina is on her way home as I type this. I went to the home where the party was held, only to discover that her car WAS in fact parked across the street. I called the police to have them meet me there and they went inside and immediately started upstairs and into all the rooms of the house. The mother (I use that term loosely) seemed to have no problem with underage kids drinking in her home while she worked last night, claiming that "everyone left here with a designated driver." Lovely.....at that point the officers asked me to leave before I got MYSELF in trouble and informed me that the Vice Squad would handle it from there.
I started banging on parent's doors from that point until I found the Mom of the girl she had left with. One call to her cell phone and we had them located. They had spent the night at another girlfriend's house and should be home any minute. I have a feeling from the way she sounded that she won't be trying alcohol again. I want to thank you all for your love and support and brainstorming throughout this ordeal. I will pray extra hard tonight for all of you, and for those whose outcomes were less fortunate.
It seems that someone had purchased them a beer ball and and my son and his friends had spent the night drinking their hearts out. My son and one other friend were the only ones still at the hangout and they were sleeping soundly. Sleeping that is until I tore into the place, picked my son up by his hair and while he was crawling out the door, I was screaming and kicking his ass to help him along.
The kid who was in the hangout with him was supposed to have been spending the night at our place. Come to find out, he had taken the tap from his parent's home and used it on the beer ball. I took him back home, and although I had to wake his parents up, they were glad to know what he had been up to.
My son gave me the name of the person who had bought the beer ball. It turned out to be a young married girl (with a baby) who had lived next door to us in the same town. I was totally p.o'd and called her to let her know I was reporting her to the cops. She didn't seem to understand what she had done wrong. I explained to her that if any one of those kids had been hurt or killed after having drunk the beer she had bought for them, she could be in alot of trouble. And I told her that I was sure when her daughter got older, that she wouldn't appreciate some adult providing her underage kid with alcohol. I did call the cops and give them her name, and from what I understand she was given an appearance ticket, but I never heard anything more about it.
Praise God, Sunshine55's daughter has been found!
Thank God everything turned out all right.
Hope you get some sleep now :-)
Thank you Lord!
So glad you found her,
and you CAN at least be proud that she had enough sense not to drive!
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Sunshine, I echo the suggestion from Renfield, ican'tbelieveit, and swordmaker ... have your daughter read every word on this thread. These words blessed our hearts, and they will bless hers, too.
Pegita
Answered Prayers I am so glad for you Sunshine. I am glad we were here to pray for you and your daughter as well it was a privilage to pray for yall.
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Christina, you dodged a bullet on this one with some bad choices. Things don't always work out this well. You had freepers all over the country worried about you. And you don't want to mess with freepers. I guess we can cancel the order for the printing of the billboards, flyers, and milk cartons.
WE are thankful to the only Lord and Savior for her safety.
I pray He sends some very big angels to your house and family, and the strong conviction, the inner witness of His guiding Holy Spirit, to help her make excellent choices. I'm sure she gained some valuable insights by this. I am so happy for all of you that she is found and on her way back home.
When my son was five, in opposition to extremely specific instructions not to go off with his (older) cousins into the thick woods of an 800+ acre park on a church outing, he went off with those very cousins. He went missing for some time and night was falling. I was quietly freaking out till his youngest cousin and he found their way back out. Seems there was a series of circular paths with paths that led out from the circles. When they tried to return, they headed in the opposite direction from the rest of the party, scaring themselves something awful.
When he climbed in the car (I was driving to different sites to try to find him), I said I was very glad to see him and we were going home. He asked, "Am I going to get in trouble?" I said, "Yes, but not now. I'm too glad to see you and too angry to deal with this now. We are going to wait till I calm down."
Not an experience I ever wanted to repeat.
We've shared lots more, too: our darlings are 15, 17, and 21, and we've been there, done that, and gotten the t-shirts for similar painful experiences. We've gotten more than a few calls from other parents in their quests, too...
May God help us, until the two youngest reach their sister's maturity, and accept our thanks that she's attained it!
Halleluhah!
PRAISE THE LORD!
I would make her read this entire thread five times.
GODBLESS AND GODSPEED!
All is well that ends well, Sunshine55.
I'm happy to hear she will soon be back in your arms.
But, Sunshine55, please let this be a lesson for you and your girl: know at all times where and with whom she is going out. Keep a vigilant eye on her and her activites at all times, and know who her "friends" are. It will all eventually be worth the effort. Trust me.
Happiness is bringing a child back home safely. Praise God!, God bless! - now you can collapse.
Just checking in again and I am so relieved to hear that your daughter is safe.
Print out this thread:
Read it to her:
Roll it up:
Beat the hell out of her for causing so many people to suffer.
Praising our Gracious Lord for this Wonderful News!! Glory to our Merciful Master in Heaven!!
Thank God she is alright, I hope she learns a lesson and I hope that woman who allowed that to happen in her home is charged and prosecuted
I'm so glad she's alright. I lost a girlfriend to alcohol poisoning when I was her age. It was the first time she had even gotten "buzzed", but that was all it took.