Wow. How very scary for you to hear of this. How scary for the staff who have to deal with her. I hope that somehow they can get through to her some day. Was the cabinet flimsy or does she get that strong when she rages? I would be VERY wary when you visit her or if you have to transport her to the new Residential Treatment Center (RTC). If she is that strong maybe she should be sedated for the move.
How brave of the two girls to speak up to staff. That is probably a pretty rare thing, esp to have two do it at about the same time. I don't know how it would be looked on by the law. Hopefully her mental state would be taken into account if the legal system was involved.
Is she on daily birth control or something like norplant? I would go for the longest term form of bc you can find. Sooner or later she IS going to escape and find people to have sex with. At least you have kept it from happening before this (at least in a dangerous setting before now).
I can only imagine with horror where she would be if you had not adopted her. She has a lot more chance to learn to cope with the world with you advocating for her all these years. Even if it seems like all your efforts have done is exhaust and traumatize the family and esp you.
Hugs.
This wasn't the toughest cabinet but yes, she gets that strong when she is enraged. She is very dangerous at that point because she is so strong and doesn't care if she hurts anyone. I can guarentee she did not hit staff because she didn't want to be restrained -- not because she cared about hitting them.
Thankfully, since I refuse to transport her alone (have only done so twice in two years and then only a short way), current Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is transporting her to the new Residential Treatment Center (RTC) both for pre-placement visits and when she moves.
I'm not sure her mental state should be taken into account at this point. She has had intensive support and services for almost 4 years now (2 at home and 2 in Residential Treatment Center (RTC)). She is choosing to play games, fool people and not really engage in therapy. Maybe a short stint in juvy will wake her up. Realisitically, if she assault another child at school today, she will be arrested and spend the night in the local juvy and maybe have to stay there for a few days until her case gets heard in court, she will then be released to the Residential Treatment Center (RTC). Eventually, assuming she doesn't assault another person, she willbe found delinquent on the charge and will be order to comply with Residential Treatment Center (RTC) (so no consequence at all since she already is suppose to be complying with Residential Treatment Center (RTC)).
She is on daily birth control and we are working to get her on Norplant but that seems to be taking a while since we are dependent on Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s part-time nurse to get it all set up.
Yes, I do wonder if we have made any positive difference in her life but I know she has made a negative difference in the rest of ours. I made a comment to the other 3 about how great their brother-sister relationships were within the 3 of them. They brought her up and said it's not the same. I said no, and it will never be the same because they are not growing up with her due to her issues and that it isn't their fault but she will never be the same kind of sister to them that Piglet is, simply because she isn't capable of it.
God, please let her leave them alone when they are all adults.