LilyFestre, I didn't say that Veronica's situation is anything like Jessicas. What I said was that you have experienced a similar emotional state to what Cindy is experiencing. My own son's situation was not the same as Jessica's, but my emotional state was pretty much just the same as Cindy's.

The emotional state is the pretty much the same for all of us when someone we love beyond life is being threatened by forces over which we have no control. The feelings of helplessness, the feelings of isolation when there is no help to be had from those who are given the job of protecting children at risk, the feelings of abject fear for the object of our love, wanting to be able to do something about it... to fix it, and not being able to do so. The feelings are the same, even if the circumstances are not. I know this from my own experience.