Yeah,
I got a fraud charge because my mom and this stranger made me use my bank account that my mom made me have to hold money on a check for this lady who then wouldn't take the money. The check was the lady's mothers, and it didn't *seem* right, but then again I knew for instance mom used dad's credit cards ect. Still I brought it up to the bank teller, and she was like-that's fine!
It was really frustrating. I couldn't even address an envelope-but all of a sudden, here comes miss identity theft.
I got handcuffed, strip searched, had to bathe in front of a woman and sit in a room with some hyper active gansta that kept calling me wonder bread. I was thinking red dot, yellow dot, what's she trying to say?
I think things probably would have been ok if I could have verbalized the above. But I was asked yes/no ultimatum questions. And they needed someone because the story on the lady I guess was that she had stolen her moms checks and ran away. Now, they couldn't find her.
Did you cash the check-yes.
Did you fill out the check-yes/no--the girl made a big deal about me filling out the to and how much lines. And she signed.
It wasn't like hey want some money?
It was traumatizing-it didn't make sense, I kept sying no, I took it to my parent who ordered me to do it (long story about exactly what my mother is here and why she might have done this), I talked with the bank people, I tried to get ahold of the adult at the house where the lady was staying (christian lady-took in strays), I thought about calling the police, but I wasn't supposed to..
And then everything was fine-we got word that there was a problem, I started thinking of work to pay it back. I think the woman had left it in there for something like 3 months and then come and had me take half out. I tried to give her all of it, but--weird. I don't like thinking about it.
So the bank had been spoke to, I was assured that I wasn't going to be arrested by both them and the parent who had been dealing with them. I went in just to say-sorry and find out more about what happened, why and how to fix it, cause the parent wasnt giving up.
Then,
all of a sudden in I get pulled from I think woodshop-two officers. They told me they wernt going to cuff me. But then they did. Read me my rights. I lied and said I understood. It wasn't just that I didn't know no was an option. The sentences themselves sounded like some alien language. I was still trying to understand what the first one meant, when 4 more followed. The total processing time at juvy was an hour. In searched, stripped, showered cold with no soap, set in room, released. I was given a self disclosure form to fill out. I lied; I didn't understand the form, it's origions, or its use: plus telling the truth would have ratted out my mom on a range of other issues and since society says obey your parents ...and parents say dont do something or your going to be dead like so and so.
Real nasty clan.
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anyhoo... it was cool though, I got to pick up garbage. It was supposed to be for 2 days, but they only let me do it for one. Everyone else on the crew was very happy about this. But not me. I still flinch when I see checks-and double check every line. Luckily, there is Visa.
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