Yep, what is called an unsubstantiated annonymous complaint of child abuse was filed last September.

What happened was that it was kept a secret to all, except our interrogated 7 year old, and were in the dark from September until March 15th. All that time our son stopped talking when I went to pick him up everyday, he became more reclusive and kept saying he hated school.

It turns out he was told to NOT tell his parents. From Thanksgiving to Christmas to his birthday in March he was reserved and morose regarding anything to do with school. He would do homework but never turn it in. He came to openly dislike the teacher.

Finally when I responded to a letter from Social Services and went with a friend. It was demanded that NO ONE could join me for the interrogation except a lawyer. It was then and only then that I was told that my son said I hit him with a magazine. I hadn't but I can understand that when a child or adult is interrogated they will say something to satisfy the authority figure just to be set free.


What was suppose to happen was a social service agent was to meet with us within a week or two. She did leave her card in our door once but after that she played phone tag twice. We thought it was about our older son getting dozens of harrassing phone calls which we had reported.

We have pictures of our son from Halloween through Thanksging that show no mark on his face as alleged by the school.

In one month our older son suffered 3 injuries in school: broken off front teeth, arm injury and leg injury which required one dentist visit and one ER visit.
That was physical abuse for which the school was not reported to anyone.

The emptional abuse of our younger son was palatable and cruel during those 6 months when he was to keep a secret from his parents. The only thing he used to say back then was "Its bad very bad, and I can't tell you.

I'm having a talk with the principal this Friday.


By the way, without being told of the charges or the accuser (2 violations of common law) I still do not know if I am found guilty of unsubstantiated child abuse or not.