childhood's end (3)

the girl was the oldest of 4 children. when she was 7 the police took away her dad. this was because he had been doing awful things to them. the girl had been injured by these things. her body was not big enough yet to be doing things that grown ups do. the police said that her injuries were some of the worst they had seen. her bladder was damaged so she weed herself sometimes.

the girl and the other children were taken away by some ladies and sent to a new family. the new family was kind and tried to help them settle in. the others settled in fine but the girl couldn't. she just couldn't trust anyone. the ladies took her to a doctor. the doctor said she had learning difficulties and possibly a personality disorder. learning difficulties means a person has difficulty learning. sometimes this is to do with how their brain is wired up. sometimes it is because their brain had blown fuses because of things that have happened. and as for a personality disorder, well that is when a person gets disordered. it is not difficult to see how the girl got this way.

the new family couldn't manage the girl so she was taken away by the ladies. they tried quite a few places for her but she couldn't settle anywhere. she hit people and shouted and screamed. so she kept being moved around.

eventually the girl grew up. because she was 'leaving care' the ladies found her a flat. it was in a very rough place. the people who lived there were very scary. one lady and her brothers could see the girl was lost. this lady and her brothers were drug dealers. they started selling drugs from the girls flat. in return for this they stopped the other rough people from hurting her.

the girl thought all the young people who were coming to her flat were her friends. she gave them drinks and funny cigarettes and sometimes pills. one day she took 3 of them for an outing to a nightclub. these 3 were very young and also had learning difficulties. they were drunk and wild. when they didn't come home their families rang the police. the girl came back the next day with the young people. a mob was outside her flat wanting to kill her. the police took the girl to a safe place but after a few days she came back to her flat. the drug dealers kept the angry people away and got on with selling drugs again.

the girl's flat was always full of noisy people, getting drunk and taking drugs. the neighbours couldn't sleep. the lady below the flat had a tiny baby who kept getting woken up.

in the end the asbo queen was asked to take the girl's flat away. because the girl was so lost she would not be thrown on the street. she would be given another place. but this time it would be in a place called 'supported housing'. which is where she should have been in the first place...