Can I get justice for the abuse and neglect I suffered?

Question by Katelynn: Can I get justice for the abuse and neglect I suffered?
I asked this question earlier, but was unsatisfied with the lack of answers… So I reworded the question.

If you don’t feel like reading all of this I was just wondering if I could sue for mistreatment, abuse, and neglect.

Children Services practically ruined my life… They kept me in my father’s house, where I was beaten, had my life threatened, raped, and sold off as a child prostitute… My father wouldn’t be home for weeks at a time, he’d just leave me the food stamp card and pay the bills, sometimes… Children services would call to let us know when they were planning a house inspection, so I had to run around hiding my father’s drugs and beer cans… Sometimes children services would do the inspection when my father wasn’t even home! I know this isn’t allowed, inspections are supposed to be a surprise.. Our house was falling to pieces and half the times we didn’t have electricity or water… There was hardly any food in the fridge… My father is a major drug dealer, cocaine, pills, pot, bath salts, meth… That stuff. He brought home new women all the time, had sex with them anywhere he wanted, even in my bed. Several people (school, neighbors, ect) reported him to children services, but their calls never made a difference.

I remember when I told my mom about being raped at age 7 at a weekend visit the cops removed me from her house and took me in for questioning… Afterwards I was taken to Ohio State where I was supposed to be examined, but children services told them not to do it, so NOTHING was ever done and they all accused me of lying. I was continually raped and “rented” from the age of 7-13.

I put myself in foster care when I was 16, I got tired of all the BS… My father had threatened to kill me again, even pointed the gun at me this time, so I called the cops and was taken into foster care. While in foster care things weren’t right… My belongings (what my father didn’t steal) was stolen by the “foster parents”. I was threatened by the “foster father” nearly daily, and he’d say that because he was a C.O he and could do anything and get away with it, that I was just an unwanted child that nobody cared about… The “foster parents” often beat on the little kids with wooden spoons… Also, while I was in foster care I was forced to get on the depo shot, I’ve experienced negative effects… I was always threatened that I’d be thrown in juvie if I did ANYTHING wrong…. Whenever I’d tell the C.S workers of something that the “foster parents” did I’d be called a liar and get the juvie threat… As a matter of fact, when I wnt into foster care at 16 children services straight up called me a liar… They said I lied about everything… Hell, the house I was living in had holes in the walls large enough to jump out of, and we didn’t have heat or hot water in the middle of december… There were eight pit bulls that attacked me and company… Plus a bunch of other problems, AND even though there was visible proof for everything I was still accused of lying… The “foster parents” told us children that they only kept so many of us because of the money they were getting… I lived with six other children.

I could really go on for days about the stuff above, but I’m not gonna do that. There’s a lot of bad things, but I’m not trying to throw a pity party.

Today I’m 19 and still bothered by what happened… My life would be so much better if they would have done the right thing. I can’t even cope with people, I’m mentally aggressive, depressed, have severe anxiety, ect.

And for the people who answer with “get over it” well, it’s not that easy.

I haven’t seen my father since the day I called the cops. He moved out of Ohio, but I don’t know where.

Best answer:

Answer by Hannah
Awe. I feel bad for you! That’s sad. You have a good heart! I’m sorry your life was ruined. It’s typical for a person not to comment, they even don’t for my stuff. Please go get on your knees and pray to Jesus. He’s going to help you, I promise! I want you to be happy. I’m here for you if you ever need a friend! God bless you, Katelynn!! Everything is going to be getting better.

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