I hope so honestly what these women did was horrific

Oh I agree I was pissed off for a long time about that whole thing but it was multiple people in that department that told me that not just one worker so just nothing I could do

That depends on the state in the US. my mother has been emotionally abusive our whole lives and when it got reported to CPS they told us if there wasn't a bruise/proof of lack of food we'd have to prove she stunted us to the point that a 16 year old had the mentality of a 9 year old or something like that to be illegal or cause an intervention...

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Not saying my old home state is right on this but it may not be criminally chargeable in the state this was done in depending on their laws.

Edit: directly from their criminal statute:

>Act which causes non-accidental serious physical injury, sexual abuse/exploitation, serious physical neglect constituting prolonged or repeated lack of supervision or failure to provide essentials of life