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myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad1 year ago

About a month ago my teenage daughter tried to take her own life. As I am a single working dad i could no longer guarantie for her safety. Therefore i contacted the social services where i live and asked them to take temporarily care of her.

At the meeting where i made my request my daughter suddenly mentioned to the social worker (while i was in a seperate room), that she suspected me (though she was not sure)of sneaking into her at night time and abusing her sexually, as she sometimes woke up feeling very sore between her legs. She asked the social worker not to mention anything to me.

But as it is, a social worker cannot ignore such allegations and had to confront me when i was invited back into the room where my daughter was. When i asked my daughter how on earth i would be able to sneak into a 17 year old girl and abuse her at night without waking her up, she said she thought i doped her with painkillers i get for a bad back.

Now my daughter have been in social care for a month and keep begging me to come back live with me, but i am at a loss as what to do. On the one hand she is my daughter and needs me, on the other hand i find it very difficould to cope with the allegations she put on me, which ofcourse has no hold in reality, but was some sort of revenge for me asking social services to take care of her.

Is ther anybody here who has been in same or similar situation. If so, what did you do? Can you cope with it? Can you forgive? Or if you have not experienced this but want to give some advice, please do not hesitate to post your comment.

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 73/100. lauriefnp (4242)   ranked 4 out of 29 in single dad   1 year ago

This is a horrible situation for you to be in, and I'm truly sorry that you have to deal with it. It sounds as if you have had your hands full with a troubled teenager for a while.

It's difficult for a single dad to raise a teenaged girl, I'm sure. I don't know the circumstances of your family or what happened to her mom, but I assume that she has had problems for a while. The fact that she tried to commit suicide a month ago makes it clear that she needs help and she was asking for help. Believe it or not, it is rather common for teenaged girls to pull this type of stunt when they don't get what they want- you were going to place her in the care of professionals because of her suicide attempt, and she got mad and lashed out at you. Girls know that this is the one thing that will get you in "trouble". She was mad at you for what you were doing, so she did this to "get back at you" and to hurt you back.

Social services must always take these allegations seriously, although I'm sure that they can tell by the circumstances that she is lying. There is no way that you could abuse her repeatedly without her knowing it. Although you're hurt and upset now, try not to take it personally. Your daughter needs help, and what you are doing is the right thing for her. She needs intensive psychiatric evaluation and treatment so that she can resolve her problems and conflicts and go on to live a normal and happy life. As hard as it is for you now, just know that you are doing what you need to do as a good father.

Good luck! I hope this all works out for you and for your daughter.


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

Thanks for the kind response laurie and for not being judgemental on me. I was very much in doubt wether to post this subject or not, as i know how cruel some people can be on here (the web),and aware of the risk of mudthrowing 'thugs. But your reply and the others as well make me feel good that i did.

Ofcourse there is a longer story behind this and i will try to tell you iin brief. 15 month ago i was living in the uk (did this for 10 years) and did not know that i had a teenage daughter back in denmark. When i was informed of this i was also told that she was in a childrens home and had been for a couple of years. As any decent man would do i decided that no way should my daughter be in a childrens home if i could do anything to stop it.

So I left the UK to get back to Denmark to find out in what way i could be of any good to my daughter and put an end to her stay at the home. 4 months later my daughter was discharged from that place into my care.

Yes, she is a very troubled teenager with a very sad background, way to long to get into here, but one thing is for sure, her mum is the cause for load of my daughters problems today.

As u can imagine i have done all i could for my daughter to the best of my ability and that is why i find it so difficould to accept that she could pull this stunt on me. As a social worker myself, having worked with teenagers for many years, i am fully aware of the problems she could have landed me in. This is what i cannot get to grips with. She is 17 years old and deffinately not a stupid girl, but she dont seem to realise this and this is what i get for all i have done for her.

I know i did the right thing by asking social services for help and i agree that she needs proffessional help, a help that i cannot give her and i will fight to hell and back that she will get it.

Once again thanks for your response, its nice to know that you can actually be honest on here and expect to get an adult feed back.

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myLot reputation of 53/100. pollyandry (1226)   ranked 28 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

After your rant against me and your use of the words honey and sweetie, I think you have issues with the female gender.


myLot reputation of 88/100. sunshinecup (5960)   ranked 25 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

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myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

I know that sunshine. That is the only reason i am here. Your ppl's support carry me thru xx

Kim

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2. myLot reputation of 97/100. wiccania (2648)   ranked 14 out of 29 in single dad   1 year ago

It is a horrible experience for you to have to endure. But your daughter no doubt loves you, and only meant to hurt you, as you said, as revenge for calling social services. Forgive her, let her know you love her, and let her come home.

Once she's home, sit down and have a long talk with her. Let her know that you need to know when something troubles her and that you're there for her when she needs someone to talk to. It might also be a good idea to seek family counseling. If only to open the doors of communication.


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

thanks to you too wic! I have forgiven her and do all i can to show her that i love her. Also i am willing to let her come home again, but feel we need to mend the bridges before this can happen in a propper way.

Also read my response to the feedback i got from everybody else.

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3. myLot reputation of 92/100. bwrattybaby (4947)   ranked 15 out of 29 in single dad   1 year ago

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myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

Funni you should say this rattybaby! its exactly what the social worker said when i last spoke to her. Not about taking her back or not, but what is to stop her from doing it again. Yes she could have landed me in very serious trouble.

Well it's a risk i must be willing to take, after all she is my daughter, she is obviously not well and she needs me. I said A and got to say B as well, no matter what risk this precent to me. After all i know the truth and despite of everything can hold my head high.

 
4. boknoy (26)   ranked 6 out of 29 in single dad   1 year ago

yes, i have been accused of something i didn't do. it was very embarrassing on my part because i could nt even defend myself. it happend a year ago but still it keep on coming back on my mind. it seems that it was yesterday. i just keep in mind that no matter what they do to me, i know for a fact what really happend. and im still standing proud. you can't really please everybody...


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

Thnx boknoy! You sure can't! Therefore my only consolence in this is that i can stand proud too.

 
5. myLot reputation of 93/100. charlene2350 (4857)   ranked 8 out of 29 in single dad   1 year ago

I dont know if you were dragged through any kind of mud or not, but I know someone who was by a nephew. He was accused of molesting a 16 year old nephew.. which was all a lie to get back at him for something he had gotten onto the boy about. He started a can of worms that really steam rolled into a farce. There was 2 years of his like taken away, his health taken away, and being on the front page of the paper as Pastor of our church.. you know they had a field day with it. The nephew came through at the 11th hour and confessed he made it all up... but the damage was done.

He forgave the boy but will never have him in his house.

This is your daughter... its a hard call really. But if I were a dad and she made those accusations against me, I would not let her come home. She could go live with the mother, or live on her own... I would never put myself into a position to be called an abuser and maybe go to prison.

The child needs help for sure. I'd make sure she got it before she ever came home.


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

Thnx to you too Charlene!

If you read my comments to the other feed back i got on this issue you will understand why i HAVE to forgive my daughter and try move on from here, however difficould it may be. To end up in prisson there must be evidence of the crime. So i got to rest in peace knowing that nothing ever happened and therefore there will be no case.

I have a spotless crime record and as a social worker have worked with teenagers for most of twenty years and never had any allegations against me. No way am i going to allow her to ruin this or my carrea.

 
6. KillBits (31)   ranked 18 out of 29 in single dad   1 year ago

i never been accused.... so.... i have not experienced in that cases.... i don't have childs so... nothing.... sorry:)


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

Well contributing with nothing is still a contribution. Thanks

 
7. myLot reputation of 30/100. ZaffireWolf (361)   ranked 27 out of 29 in single dad   1 year ago

Sometimes I also almost forget that municipal government can't help us.


myLot reputation of 71/100. kimthedane (573)   ranked 26 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

And wtf does municipal mean? I have never heard that word before despite having lived in England for 10 years. Is it an american word or is it proper english?

 
8. myLot reputation of 84/100. oneandonemakesix (24154)   ranked 23 out of 29 in single dad   1 year ago

Dear dane,

I can understand your dilema......At one point in time CPS took my kids from me because I was at risk to harm myself, and because of that they though I was a risk to them.....

It took me 17 months fighting my life in court and proving that I was not an abusive parent to get my kids back. It was also proving that it was the medications that had made me the way I was.

As a parent I can see your dilema.....and I can understand why you did what you did, but with her allegations of molesting her, it makes me wonder if there is not another underlying problem.....

I think the relationship can be repaired if you both want to but it won't be easy.....

I burned the relationship with the people that raised me, and there is no mending the relationship between us what-so ever.

I don't think you'll ever stop loving your daughter, in spite of what she's done, you may not like what she does sometimes....but I have to ask this, is the relationship worth saving?

mooch


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

Life is crap init oneandone?

Yes i do believe the relationship is worth saving, not for me but for my daughter, its her who will have to live with what she has done to me, i can only try to make her suffering less painfull.

Thanks for ya friend request, i have approved you and look forward to get to know u. greetings.


myLot reputation of 84/100. oneandonemakesix (24154)   ranked 23 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

I just wanted to stop by and see how things are going between you and your daughter?

I know how hard its going to be, and I have to wonder what is going through her mind right now.

But I know what depression is like, and I know its a long battle.

Mooch


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

Why cant you just fcuking leave me alone. You have proved to me what a scumbag your are, and i have no interest what so ever to keep communicating with you. So go Fcuk ya self and fcuking get out of my way. Unless you have the breakfast ready:)

Kim


myLot reputation of 87/100. student7 (879)   ranked 3 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

I don't like people who you tell off that keep thinking that they are your friends. After you tell them to fcuk off, they still don't get the hint. What do they need a ton of bricks to hit them in the head????


myLot reputation of 71/100. polyandre (167)  1 year ago

My my. Such language.

 
9. myLot reputation of 93/100. maddysmommy (10381)   ranked 7 out of 29 in single dad   1 year ago

I hope you don't mind me asking, but did your daughter talk to anyone about why she tried to take her own life? It looks like she is crying out for help and maybe seriously upset, hurt, confused, depressed about something that made her feel that she needed to do that. I would look at getting some professional help first, to get her to open up and actually talk about why she tried to take her own life. I'm not sure if that is the way to go but that was the first thing that came to my mind when I read your discussion. She's acting out and blaming things on you because of something or even someone, maybe I'm wrong. I do hope it works out for you and especially for her:)


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

I dont mind at all mad mummy, lol. If i did i should not have asked for advice. She told me and everybody else who bothered listening to her. It was after her boyfriend dumped her. Believe me i tried to listen to her and console her the best way i could and tried help her to move on. I had my daughter sat in front of me on a daily basis for 2 months, crying her heart out to me telling me how fed up she was with her life and how much she wanted to put an end to it.

In the beginning i was very much on guard as i do not believe that the people talking about suicide never do anything about it, coz in my job i have seen otherwise. But when she had not done it in 2 month i got to admid i loosened the guard thinking that she was on her way to recovery and more used her daily threats as a way of getting the attention.

There is ofcourse, as i can see u r also aware about a long storry behind all this. Please read my comments to the other feed back i had on this issue, if ya want to get a little wiser. Thanks for ya understanding and ya well wishes.


myLot reputation of 93/100. maddysmommy (10381)   ranked 7 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

Thanks for sharing and I am sorry that you are going through this. I read your previous comments and can sort of understand how this came about. I know it must be difficult for you too because of the things you've had to go through to get her to come home to you in the first place, and then to have her go through her ordeal, and then on top of that being accused of molesting her. That would surely hurt to the core. I know you will always love her regardless however I also know its not easy to forget accusations like that. I also read that you both are in family counseling which is most definitely a start to reconcile and start the healing process. I'm sure she will be back in your home when you both are ready to have each other back. All the best thedaneisback*hugs for you*


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

And hugs to you mad mummy and thanks for taking your time to bother/care for a stranger. Means the world to me. xxx


myLot reputation of 93/100. maddysmommy (10381)   ranked 7 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

And thanks for best response too my friend!


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

Yw hunni:) xx

 
10. myLot reputation of 98/100. liranlgo (2874)   ranked 17 out of 29 in single dad   1 year ago

I am so sorry to hear that you had to go through all of this, and that your daughter has a hard time coping with life.
I know you love her, but i am also sure that you can not take her back home if you are the only person that she will be with at home.
Those accusations are not simple.
I hope that you will solve things.
Take care.
Liran


myLot reputation of 25/100. thedaneisback (536)   ranked 1 out of 29 in single dad  1 year ago

Hey there Liran.

Thanks for ya feed back. Please read my comments on other feed back i recieved on this issue, and u might be a little wiser as to why i have to take the risk.

I sure hope it will all get solved too

 
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