Hi, I have a question about a girl I know, who is 16, and a junior in high school. In this question I'll refer to her as Sara.
Sara lives in Pennsylvania. Her mom is a disaster - she is jobless and has made virtually no attempts to get employed for the last several years. She has been to jail multiple times, once because she attacked and stabbed her boyfriend with a knife. They are frequently without electricity, water, or heat (sometimes all at once). Their house is bedbug infested, but the mom refuses to get them taken care of, even when other people have offered to pay for a pest service. Her abusive, drunk boyfriend attacked choked sara about a year ago, and got sent to jail (not for the first time).
Sara's mom wanted her boyfriend (who just got out of jail) to move into back into their house. However, because she not have a job, she does not have the money to take another person under the roof. She therefore asked Sara's dad, who has an apartment in Alaska, to come take Sara to live with him. He agreed, because he could barely afford to send child support money (He was giving the mom 100$ a week), and he realized he could save money by keeping her in Alaska and barely spending any money on her. He took a plane to PA, and they tricked her into taking a car ride to the airport (The dad said "I'm in danger, I need you two to come with me"). At the airport, they told her she had to take a plane with her dad to Alaska to live with him. Horrified and confused, she refused, but they had a police officer at the station tell her that she had to go with him.
Sara has been in her dads small apartment in Alaska for a week now. She desperately wants to get back to Pennsylvania, but her dad says he won't let her go back. This was not a planned move, her parents decided this on a complete whim. She's still registered at her Pennsylvania School, her High School counselors only just found out about what happened to her. Her dad has made absolutely no attempt to register her in an Alaskan school, nor has he made any indication that he plans to do so.
It is well know by everyone (Parents and teens) in the area who knows Sara that her family is both irrational and uncaring. Neither the dad or the mom graduated high school, and they have verbally made it clear that they don't care about the girls grades or best interests whatsoever. She was taking all AP and honors courses, and was going to go to States for track. A local mom was tutoring her to help her prepare for the spring SATs.
Many local families in the area are very worried about the sweet girl. Everyone wants to find a way that she can legally get back to PA. Multiple local Parents have stated that they would take her in to live with them in a second.
My question is as follows -
Is there any legal way that in this situation Sara can get back to Pennsylvania and continue her life? It is clearly in her best in her best interests, but her awful parents don't care about her (or her future) whatsoever. Many local families want to do whatever they can to help get her back.
Sara lives in Pennsylvania. Her mom is a disaster - she is jobless and has made virtually no attempts to get employed for the last several years. She has been to jail multiple times, once because she attacked and stabbed her boyfriend with a knife. They are frequently without electricity, water, or heat (sometimes all at once). Their house is bedbug infested, but the mom refuses to get them taken care of, even when other people have offered to pay for a pest service. Her abusive, drunk boyfriend attacked choked sara about a year ago, and got sent to jail (not for the first time).
Sara's mom wanted her boyfriend (who just got out of jail) to move into back into their house. However, because she not have a job, she does not have the money to take another person under the roof. She therefore asked Sara's dad, who has an apartment in Alaska, to come take Sara to live with him. He agreed, because he could barely afford to send child support money (He was giving the mom 100$ a week), and he realized he could save money by keeping her in Alaska and barely spending any money on her. He took a plane to PA, and they tricked her into taking a car ride to the airport (The dad said "I'm in danger, I need you two to come with me"). At the airport, they told her she had to take a plane with her dad to Alaska to live with him. Horrified and confused, she refused, but they had a police officer at the station tell her that she had to go with him.
Sara has been in her dads small apartment in Alaska for a week now. She desperately wants to get back to Pennsylvania, but her dad says he won't let her go back. This was not a planned move, her parents decided this on a complete whim. She's still registered at her Pennsylvania School, her High School counselors only just found out about what happened to her. Her dad has made absolutely no attempt to register her in an Alaskan school, nor has he made any indication that he plans to do so.
It is well know by everyone (Parents and teens) in the area who knows Sara that her family is both irrational and uncaring. Neither the dad or the mom graduated high school, and they have verbally made it clear that they don't care about the girls grades or best interests whatsoever. She was taking all AP and honors courses, and was going to go to States for track. A local mom was tutoring her to help her prepare for the spring SATs.
Many local families in the area are very worried about the sweet girl. Everyone wants to find a way that she can legally get back to PA. Multiple local Parents have stated that they would take her in to live with them in a second.
My question is as follows -
Is there any legal way that in this situation Sara can get back to Pennsylvania and continue her life? It is clearly in her best in her best interests, but her awful parents don't care about her (or her future) whatsoever. Many local families want to do whatever they can to help get her back.
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