Everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong.
The father had been going down this road for a long time.
He had reached the point where the dope mattered more buying food for his son, or taking him to the hospital for help.
That’s a story where all the pillars of support have fallen.
At first I wondered, why would an eight year old of normal intelligence eat meth off of a dinner plate? Surely he is old enough to know better. Now I see it was because the poor boy had been starving. Where is CPS when you need them?
This addiction had to be developing over some time.
Sad to say, CPS is possibly out running down calls of 10 year-olds walking “alone” to the neighborhood playground or some parents trying to opt out of the school district’s sex-ed classes, etc.
This is a very sad story. What a horrible life that child must have lived. And several adults seemed to have had a chance to save him. It is difficult to comprehend that lifestyle.