Posted by marcia Link: http://marciar2000@yahoo.com
on 8/27/2007, 3:08 am
66.190.54.111
One night during the Labor Day weekend, my 16 year old daughter came home and her car wasn't working. My husband went out to see if he could help and it wasn't working to her expectations. She started screamining (which was her MO) and he told her to stop and she would'nt. He put his arms around her neck so he could look her in her eyes and told her to stop-- she wouldn't. He said if she didn't stop screaming that she would be grounded and would not be going anywhere. She said that she would call the cops on him and he said go ahead. So she did--the police came and she said that he tried to strangle her. (Totally untrue) so they came and took him to jail with charges of endangerment to a child. Unfortunately, it was during a holiday weekend (labor day) so he had to spend a couple of days in jail. He was fuious and me and my son where devestated. I allowed her to stay at her friend's house because I could not believe that she called the police on her dad. I was ready to let her go into social services because I could not handle her. My husband's sister came down and talked to her and helped us resolve our differences. Thank God for her because I was done. Anyways we ended up going to trial for felony child abuse that never happened. The D.A. tried to get me and my daughter to testify against my husband for the abuse that never happened. By the way, when the police arrived there was no evidence of abuse in any way, no red marks, nothing at all. She admitted that she was being a spoiled brat that wanted her way. We ended up flying up my husband's father, who lives in Texas, a former Assistant D.A. My daughter was very distraught, as was me and my son. My husband was still in jail on my son's first day in high school. We ended up going to trial, because my husband said he would never agree to a plea of child abuse, when it was completely unfounded and untrue. He said he wanted to make an example for his children. I, as his wife, was scared as I'm sure he was also. So we end up in a trial, and my daughter was difiantly defending her dad, even the D.A. was trying to make it sound like her "family" was making her say things she did not want to say. She was vehement in her assertions that she was being a "brat" that day and there was no way that her dad ever abused her. She was getting real "sassy" on the stand. Anyways everything turned out the way it should. My husband was found "not guilty". Thankfully. So anyways, the reason I am sending this to you is because after my husband was sent to jail I kept playing "Nothing Else Matters" and that whole CD with you and the San Francisco Orchestra that night. (after the police took my husband away) I cried and cried, but your music somehow made me feel better.
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