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Ryan

Ryan’s drug problems kept escalating. I would stop by his house unannounced only to find shady things going on that left a really bad taste in my mouth. It wasn’t just what Ryan was doing either. There were rumors going around that drugs were being used and sold while my grandson played in the same room. There were all-night parties, and people were constantly coming and going from their house. I arranged to have my grandson go to my daughter’s house while I tried to have a one-on-one intervention with Ryan. It did not go well.

Ryan was very defensive and called the police on me for kidnapping. Surprisingly, the police were on my side. They knew I didn’t kidnap my grandson, but I still had to tell Ryan where he was. The police tried to get me to bring child endangerment charges against Ryan and his fiancée. Ryan’s house was known to the police as a “house of interest.” His neighbors had been calling in complaints for quite some time because of all the constant comings and goings and suspected drug activity.

If I agreed to bring charges against Ryan and his fiancée, the police would have had the right to search the property. If anything at all was found incriminating, they would have both been arrested and forced into treatment, and my grandson would have been placed in my custody.

I regret not bringing charges against them. I had an opportunity to force Ryan into treatment and didn’t take it, knowing my grandson was in harm’s way.