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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 451873" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I agonized many times over turning my son in. Mostly I agonized because I had given him so many chances for years. He had or has maybe I should say, slowly started the stealing from me from when he was young. The first time I think he was ten and he took a check out of checkbook and tried to write a check in crayon but obviously didnt know the correct way to write one out and he attempted to cash it at his school and they took it from him. I had a LONG discussion with him. </p><p></p><p>Then I think he next took my debit card a few times. Denied denied denied. I actually caught him on tape at the atm machine! He wasnt even old enough to drive my car so he actually also stole my car! He stole a couple of checks but they were "only" for $20 and when I took him down to the bank I hoped that having them tell him what could happen if I signed that forgery affidavit would stop him. HA!</p><p></p><p>So when I came home the end of July 2007 to find out that he had stolen 1200 from me, well, I had had it. He actually felt he was owed the money at the time because he took it over his birthday and it should have been his birthday present and I wasnt there to give him a nice birthday. Idjit. </p><p></p><p>The really hard part was forcing the police to believe I wanted to go forward. I signed the affidavits at the bank and took them to the police and then I had to basically do all the work for them. If I hadnt forced their hands, I dont think they would have arrested him as fast as they did. I didnt want it to linger on for a long time. I wanted it done and over with. I did work with both the defense and the prosecution to get the best sentence he could. I didnt want him in jail. I wanted him to have to be brought up fast so he would realize his downward slide had to stop. He had house arrest, a 30 day active sentence and 14 months suspended sentence plus 3 years intensive probation. If he didnt cooperate with probation he could have his suspended sentence activated.</p><p></p><p>Now this is what could happen to your daughter...if she was put on probation, they could mandate drug rehab so that if she didnt cooperate, her sentence would activate which would force her to cooperate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 451873, member: 1514"] I agonized many times over turning my son in. Mostly I agonized because I had given him so many chances for years. He had or has maybe I should say, slowly started the stealing from me from when he was young. The first time I think he was ten and he took a check out of checkbook and tried to write a check in crayon but obviously didnt know the correct way to write one out and he attempted to cash it at his school and they took it from him. I had a LONG discussion with him. Then I think he next took my debit card a few times. Denied denied denied. I actually caught him on tape at the atm machine! He wasnt even old enough to drive my car so he actually also stole my car! He stole a couple of checks but they were "only" for $20 and when I took him down to the bank I hoped that having them tell him what could happen if I signed that forgery affidavit would stop him. HA! So when I came home the end of July 2007 to find out that he had stolen 1200 from me, well, I had had it. He actually felt he was owed the money at the time because he took it over his birthday and it should have been his birthday present and I wasnt there to give him a nice birthday. Idjit. The really hard part was forcing the police to believe I wanted to go forward. I signed the affidavits at the bank and took them to the police and then I had to basically do all the work for them. If I hadnt forced their hands, I dont think they would have arrested him as fast as they did. I didnt want it to linger on for a long time. I wanted it done and over with. I did work with both the defense and the prosecution to get the best sentence he could. I didnt want him in jail. I wanted him to have to be brought up fast so he would realize his downward slide had to stop. He had house arrest, a 30 day active sentence and 14 months suspended sentence plus 3 years intensive probation. If he didnt cooperate with probation he could have his suspended sentence activated. Now this is what could happen to your daughter...if she was put on probation, they could mandate drug rehab so that if she didnt cooperate, her sentence would activate which would force her to cooperate. [/QUOTE]
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