Carly's Update - not a good one
Carly came home after almost 5 months at Columbus, ready to start a new life with all the wonderful skills she had learned from intensive residential care.
She came home on a Saturday night. July 9th was the next Sunday and we had a combination welcome home and graduation party for her. There were about 75 people who came be to welcome her home and bring her gifts to start her life as an adult. She was the bell of the ball and everyone was so excited at how good she seemed to be doing.
We were wrong. So wrong. She was only home for 3 days before she was sneaking around and lying. By day 9, she was caught doing something that she knew would result in her being severely grounded and monitored.
Her answer to that situation was to steal a car and take off. I reported her missing to the police and that fact that she did not a driver's license or permission to take the car. That, of course, only made her situation worse.
She was arrested in a small town in Missouri named Perryville. I kid you not. Although she would still be minor in Indiana, in Missouri she was considered an adult in every way except for medical. Weird law, but I don't make it.
She was charged as an adult with Tampering with a Motor Vehicle, 1st degree. It happens to be a felony, with a 7 year prison sentence if she is found guilty.
The judge of our county issued an emergency detention order for her to be picked up and taken to the Juvenile Detention Facility in Vincennes. Even if she were to be bailed out of jail, she was just be sent to another locked facility.
Years of lies she has told are coming to light and the support system that she had when she left the treatment facility has fallen away. People are very disappointed in her actions and manipulative ways.
It was rather ironic that after she was picked up, but before she was actually charged, she sent me a text which read, "I'm not going to live like a prisoner anymore."
I'm not sure how all of this will end up for Carly but it is heartbreak for his momma.
