Ten Foot Pole

[azurelunatic]

http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title47/Chapter10/Section011.htm

http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title47/Chapter10/Section088.htm

Basically, a friend may or may or may not be in deep shit, depending on the accuracy of her information. I don't know her well enough to know whether she's bullshitting me, or capable of bullshitting me, the way some other people have in the past.

If her story jives, her mother's emotionally abusive now, has been physically abusive in the past, and her life and mind are in danger between now and her 18th birthday next March.

Evidently, she can't get protection from the child protective agencies until every three year old in danger from parents is safe. Seventeen year old girls are not high on the priority list for protection.

Advice?

Comments

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

First, attempt to determine from objective sources with evidence whether this is, in fact, the case.

What you do from there depends on how involved you're willing to get. Her best bet would be to become an emancipated minor. This means, however, that she will then be in need of shelter and help in order to finish schooling. If you can, I would suggest helping her find professional sources for this assistance. Especially if she is willing to put effort into it, I'm sure there are charity agencies who would be willing to give her help on her way.

In the meantime, self-defense courses would be a good start.

[azurelunatic]

Unfortunately, she's in Alaska and I'm not, and my contacts in her circle of friends are either nonexistant or unreliable.

Evidently she is short of immediate evidence hard enough to give to the appropriate authorities, her fears being based on current emotional/mental smacking around, and experiences with the lady in her earlier childhood. ...That's a source I bet she hasn't considered, her former shrink, as evidence.

Her experience with the local child protective agencies indicated that they thought that she was old enough to fend for herself if there was bad shit going on, especially if the proof of abuse was smoke and mirrors; they had three year olds in danger to protect.

Evidently her father refuses to believe that her mother could do such things.

What's needed for successful emancipation, according to the Alaska law, would be proof that her mother puts her in danger of severe mental, emotional, and possibly physical abuse, and her father will not remove her from the situation.

Testimony from familiars is usually not admissable in court...