My Mother-in-Law Locked My Six-Year-Old in a Laundry Closet—Then She Blurted Out the Custody Plan My Husband Had Hidden From Me
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Chapter 14 - Child protective services
The police report triggered a child-welfare review.
Reason:
Intentional locked confinement.
The investigator examined:
The closet.
Latch.
Duration.
Prior use.
Reid’s text instructions.
Perry’s statement.
No physical injury from confinement.
No evidence of chronic locking.
No deprivation of food or bathroom for prolonged periods.
No pattern of physical abuse.
Finding:
Safety concern substantiated around inappropriate confinement practice.
Plan:
No locking Perry in rooms as discipline.
No Constance unsupervised caregiving temporarily.
Parenting education for Reid.
Child therapy.
Further family-court review of parenting arrangement.
They did not remove Perry from me.
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They did not permanently ban his father.
Systems should respond proportionally.
