u/zebrasanddogs

So I've been looking at my social services records from my childhood. I'm taking my time with this, as it is very traumatic.

But I have finally came across my records from the night that I was removed from her custody by the police. I was 12 year old girl.

For context: the night before, my dad (he was going through divorce proceedings, and thus had his own place) had given me a note for my teacher saying that it was OK for them to contact social services. This was because I had told them about the abuse that was going on in my nmoms house. (Unbelievably this was required in Northern Ireland at the time!)

I had mistakenly put the note in my fleece pocket. My nmom wouldn't allow me to take my fleece upstairs when I went to bed. So she searched my pockets as soon as I went upstairs. She found the note and I got a beating.

The next day, my dad picked me up from school as usual. And when we got to my nmoms house she start an argument about it and assaulted us both. My nmom pinned me up against the kitchen door and tried to hit me. My dad pulled her off me and told me to run out to the car and wait with my stepmother. She then punched him in the face.

My dad eventually got out minus his glasses, and called 999. The police came and entered the house and tried to calm my nmom down. But of course it didn't work so backup was called.

Another police officer came, interviewed us both and called the duty social worker and asked them come out asap.

My dad and stepmum then took me to their house to calm me down. Then the two (male and female) duty social workers came and interviewed us both. This was late at night, as i remember being ready for bed.

Unbelievably they tried to convince me to go back to my nmoms house, to which I broke down and begged them not to make me go back. I then told them everything that had been going on whilst in my nmoms care.

The duty social workers then went back to my nmoms house with the police at 1am to inform her that an emergency care order had been granted to my dad, and that I would not be returning to her house.

Their records said that upon hearing this my nmom, "became extremely violent." She then tried to hit the male social worker, actually hit a police officer, and was this arrested!

They didn't tell either myself or my dad about this at the time. But my god, I'd have given anything to be a fly on the wall when she was arrested that night!