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Of course Darrius Guice liked a bunch of her photos..

Bengal Apartments 02-04 here….

It happened to me 10 years ago in BR on Nicholson.

No one got out of their car to assist or check on me. I was suffocating in the car, it compressed me like an accordion. I had compression fractures on 6 vertebrae…. and injured myself further climbing out of a door and asking the truck in front of me to call an ambulance. They didn’t even roll their window down…I sat down in the middle of the road and went into shock soon after.

Emergency responders couldn’t believe I was in the vehicle and escaped by myself, my only visible external injury was glass in my hands where the windshield wrapped around the steering wheel.

I’m very lucky to be alive today.

Someone had the balls to post a picture on social media “look what happened in front of me”.

I was a “Harmony” house resident in 97, sad to hear nothing has changed.

I’ve been to some bad places, but that was uniquely bad situation. The mix of kids waiting to go to prison (but hadn’t committed or been caught for a big enough crime yet) with access to kids moving through the system led to some real lord of the flies stuff.

You can do it all online now. I just cancelled/renewed yesterday.

Cancel online through your login, they ask are you sure then they send you to a chat. They ask why I said “promo period ending”. The chat bot immediately offered another 12 months at $6 and that was that.

Adoptive homes and group home settings are rife with predators, and predator adjacent behavior. Unprotected minors, especially those with issues that make them more of a challenge to find placement are prime targets.

I was adopted twice and in many group and foster homes…in Florida and Louisiana.

I learned not to ever trust anyone’s altruistic motives. I can’t tell you how many times I heard the “this place is different” spiel from an adult as a child/teenager.

Some cliff notes without too much personal detail, please excuse any tangents. I haven’t thought of most of this stuff for years.

First foster home, they are unable to have biological children, it was a revolving door of care (at the time I was one of 6 children). Lots of abuse from the older kids.

First Adoption, guy died in Angola while serving time for crimes.

Then the first group home, catholic run. Priest introduces me to psychiatrist who is a friend to “help” with therapy and care. Psychiatrist later adopts…. Same shite.

That priest later leaves priesthood and marries an early 20’s transgender person as a 60 year old.

Another foster home. Teenage boys, all in a house by themselves. Guardians live in another location, collect the check and check out. While I was there, one of the boys raped of a mentally challenged boy who was also under their care. Nobody checked the housing situation after the state just removed the offender.

Hourly paid staff in group homes are just as bad. Any child with a diagnosis, behavioral problem; or they exhibit any trauma from their past gets progressively more narrow care options as they age in the system until the only options are either a juvenile detention center (if they’ve committed a crime) or a halfway house. I’d argue the latter is worse in many cases. There’s less supervision, structure, money, and more opportunistic workers (looking at you, Harmony House and Collis Temple).

Based on my experience, I believe the convicted filth from the article absolutely had red flags that were ignored by those who had a say in the adoption process.

Fidelity allows fractional share purchases in a Roth IRA, I can’t imagine Vanguard is that different.

Haha the woman to the left is a friends ex. Not what I expected to see

Right Wrist - around 5, I think…..someone used a metal grate from a portable AC as a welcome mat in the trailer park. Hit it pushing a big metal toy truck. Either that or I went through a car windshield. I have a bunch of long scars on face, wrist, neck that I can’t explain. Don’t think I went to a Dr.

Found my bio mother 20 years later and tried to ask her to confirm the story of all the scars. She says she doesn’t remember.

Index finger - someone pushed a desk full of books on it 1st grade. Pressure popped the end of my finger like a grape. Twisted distal and middle phalanx inward, it’s like that to this day. Didn’t see a Dr.

Knocked 4 upper front baby teeth out and destroyed upper gums, bicycle accident. Didn’t see a dentist.

Parents went to prison (unrelated), so no more random untreated injuries.

Index Metacarpal - fight

Zygromatic bone (face) - another fight. Needed surgery for that one.

T7,8,9,10,11,12 and other assorted soft tissue injuries, basically broke me in half - A tornado blew a large tree down on a car, while I was in it. Very very very lucky to be alive.

Some of the earlier models had some issues with the coolant lines to the turbos. It’s a possibility wouldn’t be visible leaks if so.

A perspective I haven’t seen represented yet is:

Once the teacher “diagnoses”, legally the parent can request the school system provide accommodations for the student based on the said diagnosis.

Many times, districts are slow to diagnose/test, because it puts a larger financial burden on the district.

Which is possibly why the Teacher tried to do the “test” in the first place.