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Maybe, just maybe, we need to be looking at early intervention? I know, from experience, that the "agencies" are reluctant to take action. I informed Terrys school that I suspected he had a mental health problem when he was just 12 yrs old. Thet held a meeting with his parents and a professional educational pschologist who said they could follow things up if his parents felt the need to do so. They did not BUT, having warned the head that they were alchoholics, surely some enforcement would have been appropriate? Why not consider this child as "at risk"?
IYears later I managed to get Terry admitted to the mental health ward at WH hospital, his parents removed him before a full assesment was made. He was failed again.
When serving his sentence for shoplifting I again asked for support to try and treat his "habit". Not a chance, just meth supplied, no treatment.
Terry then became violent towards his family, set fire to the family home and threaten his sisters with unspeakable horrors. He then left home, in hiding from one of his suppliers to who he owed money. He made sure he could still "blackmail" his parents, using their guilt for neglecting him as a child, to exort money from them, even to the extent of being evicted from the hospital ward in which his parents were dying because he was disturbing other patients with his demands foe cash.
I could go on. I did everything I could ( things I will not say publicly) to help Terry but I know he ultimately failed himself.