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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not a child who fell through the cracks. This is a child whose family betrayed her and sold her. No amount of social services could have saved her. I hope her mother gets the punishment she deserves. That poor sweet girl. [/quote]

This is so easy for people who have never walked a second in her mother's shoes to say. People who are homeless have an entirely different life experience than those of us who have never been dependent on others whom we do not know for support. I don't know if her mom sold her or if she trusted the wrong people in a situation where your life dictates that you trust strangers - keeping n mind that this wrong person was employed by the shelter so presumably was trustworthy. But at this point I sure don't know enough to judge. [/quote]

I have been one of the people advocating compassion for Ms. Youngs this whole time. She is clearly a traumatized individual in great need of support services (parenting classes, counseling services, job skills training, education, etc.). That said, being traumatized does not make it okay that she lied so much about where her daughter was. Maybe she was duped by a predator, but that does not change the reality that she concealed what had happened until it was way too late to do anything about it. Had she mentioned to the school weeks previously that Relisha was staying with a family friend, they could have investigated that. But she didn't. She lied and lied and lied.[/quote]

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