Oh Kathy! You poor loving one! I'm so sorry to hear all this! I got tears
in my eyes reading your message.

You don't want to know what I think of our police force today.

I'm praying for you! More lovings and squeezings for you!

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson


At 06:50 PM 8/31/04, you wrote:
>Thank you Sandy and Lelia, and everybody really!  I am so glad that I
>have all of you to turn to when this stuff happens.
>
>This evening, I just couldn't stand it any more.  Chris was in the
>kitchen and I went out to him and I asked if I could have a hug.  At
>first he resisted, but then, he yielded and gave me a big hug and kiss
>and appologized.  He admitted  that he's stressed out with school
>starting and drivers Ed. and his job.  I just listened and didn't lecture
>or anything.  I pray that he will go back to Eric because his way of
>handling stress is really inappropriate and he needs to learn some
>techniques for handling it better.  Plus, there is this whole legal
>thing!!  The police were a joke today.  How frustrating!
>
>By the way, remember the court date that we had for last March?  Well, we
>found out more about what happened to that today.  We started  int
>calling around on our own, after the police walked out on us.  We called
>our local probation officer and found out that she still had our name
>from last March, but that the charges had been dropped.  Really?  Not by
>us!!  We had been told to wait for the paper work to catch up with the
>case so we trusted in the system.  Oh, foolish us!  We didn't drop the
>case, the officer did, evidently.  Now, Greg has called that officer back
>to find out why, but, of course, he hasn't returned the call yet.  I
>think that the policeman today was almost laughing at us.  Chris had put
>a fist on my chin and then said that he would rather beat up Greg, rather
>than a blind woman, so he called Greg on the phone and tried to have him
>walk into an ambush.  I mannaged to get out and met Greg in the driveway
>and told him not to go in.  He had started banging things around while I
>was still in the house and it had sounded as if he had smashed the
>digital camera so I was glad to get out.    We called the police on the
>cell phone in the driveway and the police said that that wasn't enough to
>charge Chris with criminal intent.  The policeman said that he would have
>to be able to prove that Chris was trying to kill us or himself before he
>could do anything.  We have nowhere to send him and no one will take him.
>  Oh, I'm so sick of Maine!!  If that doesn't prove that Chris has all the
>rights under the law, I don't know what does.  Oh sure, we can take stuff
>away, and if he doesn't like it and trashes the house, we truthfully face
>at least a fifty fifty chance that the courts will side with him that
>we're just too controling.  You really have to be a creative parent today
>to survive.  Oh well, enough venting for one note.
>God bless, everybody and thanks for the prayers.  I just pray that  Chris
>will go see Eric tomorrow, but, it's not looking too good for our team at
>this point.
>Kathy
>
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