Personal Narrative: Sam's Ex-Wife

The visits were allowed under third party supervision and my sister convinced Sam’s ex-wife to be the supervisor. Sam’s ex-wife had her own home and was raising two kids; she was a trusted person with apparently no legal issues, to this CAA agreed. Visitations started to occur at Sam’s ex-wife’s home around AJ’s age 8. This was the mother and daughter relationship although AJ would describe it as if her mother and her where together all the time. It is more of what she wished that what it really happened. The human mind often bents to our own wishes more than to reality.
It was also listed in the file that AJ may have been molested at an early age, neglected, and malnourished. Apparently Amanda was molested by one of the care givers, a male friend of the family referred only by Amanda as Bobbie. A lot of …show more content…
Her nearsighted thinking was to have Amanda moved to a Christian family home (she had better chances of winning the lottery). Well, in life you need to be very careful of what you wish for. She taught AJ how to misbehave, to be rebellious, and to call the police making accusations on her caregiver. The foster mother had no other choice than to throw in the towel and give up Amanda. CAA tried to place Amanda into two other temporary foster homes and it didn’t work. The first had a young child and Amanda became jealous, all was well for the first week. After that, they could not handle her behavior and she was placed into another foster home. Same thing happened in the second placement. She also started becoming defiant at school at this time. I had a short conversation with the foster mother at the second placement and she also could not handle Amanda. I was able to talk briefly with this lady and she was sad about it, she liked my AJ. She was concerned they were going to medicate her into submission (turn her into a mindless