The State of New Jersey Should Get Their Priorities Straight and Start Protecting It’s Children

The State of New Jersey Should Get Their Priorities Straight and Start Protecting It’s Children

It ‘s pretty bad when a teen who has been begging for help from school officials, police, DYFS, the NJ Family Court, and mental health care professionals gets man-handled, shouted-down, ignored and medicated with agents contra-indicated for use in minors (Cymbalta and Abilify) for over three years gets continuously returned to her abusive home by a NJ Family Court judge quoted in transcripts as saying, “This may be a textbook case of sexual abuse… but I don’t want to get involved.” The then 13 ½ year old girl alleged that she and her sisters were being physically, emotionally, and verbally abused by their father for years. No one did anything to intervene regardless of how hard she fought to be heard. Investigations by DYFS and school officials seemed more like interrogations. Her words were twisted or flat out ignored as she was told to, “Sit down and shut up, that she was not worth the effort to fill out the paperwork that would save her from her abusive home and put her into foster care (as she begged the family court to do in an act of desperation in 2007), that she should stop making up all of these lies as a judge would never keep her with a parent that was unfit, that her father truly loved her but she just didn’t like the rules of the house, that she should just be quiet and be a good girl for her daddy.”