Phil,
I continue to pray for Gretchen and all of you.  It is hard to watch your 
child making these kinds of mistakes and you are powerless to make that 
change for her.
Maybe one day soon she will see how foolishly she is behaving!
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 1:31 PM
Subject: Gretchen


> Gretchen has been assigned to take rehab classes two and three times each
> week plus drug testing twice a week.  Her case officer has assigned her to
> so many classes, Gretchen will have only 80 dollars a month left out of 
> her
> paychecks.  She is now giving her paycheck to her youngest brother, for 
> whom
> she works, to keep from spending her money.  She had to be at a Saturday
> morning drug rehab class this morning.  I went down and got her up, or
> called her name until she finally answered me, at 6:15 this morning.  I 
> went
> back to bed and awakened at almost 7:30 and realized I had not heard her 
> car
> pulling out.  I went down and called her name again until she answered and
> told her what time it was.  She went back to sleep and never went to the
> class.  If she fails to attend these classes, she will be sent back to a
> judge who will either put her on probation for several years and who 
> likely
> will still order the rehab classes to be taken, or he will simply send her
> to prison for 2 to 5 years.  Gretchen has also admitted now that she has
> been selling drugs in order to pay for her own.  Yesterday, she said she 
> had
> been clean since last Tuesday, that is, four days.  I won't be getting her
> up any more either.  She is on her own.
>
> Phil.
> .