Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Ohio Juvenile Court System?
I recently had my 15 year old son charged for delinquency. I caught him on my computer looking at , he left his grade point average drop to 0.5, and was taking anything he wanted. I grounded him to his room for all of this. His response was to runaway. I called the police. I was told since this was his first time nothing was going to happen. He took off a second time. I had to fight with the police to file charges. The problem I'm having is with the defense lawyer. At first I didn't care he had an attorney. Now I'm finding out that he told my son that it's not stealing if it belongs to us because it's our job to provide everything he needs. It's perfectly acceptable to take and eat anything he wants without permission. Then when we went to court the prosecutor and defense attorney worked out a deal for him to take counseling with my wife and I. I asked what kind of punishment that was to my son. I then refused to sign the deal. In response the defense attorney asked that Family Services launch a full investigation into our family, and for a recess. I later found out from my son that the defense attorney attempted to get him to file neglect charges for making him do chores. The CASA worker told him that was ridicules that most children do chores. I told the court that this was nothing more than retaliation for me complaining about the situation. I feel that the defense attorney is attempting to do harm to my family and our relationship with our son. The question I have is do I have any options? Do I have a choice if this lawyer can have unsupervised visits with my son? I was trying to do right by making my son take responsibility for his actions. Now it has turned into what awful parents we must be. It seems obvious this lawyer has no morals. What can I do? Thanks
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