Alcohol & Drugs: MIP, MIC, Intoxication Drunk relative causing havoc, please help

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toshadykitty

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I am writing because I am having a big problem (in my family) and was hoping you would be able to help or give some advice though it may be very hard. No one in my family is doing anything and I have done just about all I can think of.

So here is story. My Aunt K who lives with my grandmother and is her "caretaker." My grandmother was recently in the hospital because her heart was beating very fast. The paramedics were called and when they came they found my Grandmother dirty, malnourished and dehydrated. There was nothing but string cheese and beer in the fridge. A further search of the house showed that there were mountains of beer cans and empty vodka bottles in the garage. After all this my Aunt V and I contacted APS and they sent a social worker out, the social worker did nothing to help.

My Aunt V visited my Grandmothers with her husband, my Uncle M on Mother's Day. Aunt K called the police and said Aunt V was trespassing. Police came, report filed and then Katherine got a restraining order against Aunt V. Aunt K took Aunt V to court and most of my family, including myself wrote Aunt V letters. The case was tossed out, restraining order finally removed. Aunt K wrote a letter to the court with lies about everyone who wrote letters against her. She said my mother was a drunk and drug addict and she was abusing her kids..So because of that I am sure CPS will have to contact my mother. Aunt K said I tried to kill both my grandmother and grandfather and that I was lesbian..that was the funniest part of the whole letter. Anyhow that really isn't the big deal here, but it concerns me that it is now a court record.

The big deal is that my Aunt K drives drunk all the time. Even when she has not been drinking her blood alcohol level is so far above normal she was denied admittance to the hospital 3 times trying to have a surgery done. After her surgery she was on morphine and checked herself out of the hospital. She took a cab home and then got in her car and drove to SB again. She hit a truck and fled the scene. That was in December. Since then she picked up a man (she drives drunk on a regular basis) and he beat her, thrashed her car and drove it to a nearby city and murdered a woman. He is in jail, thankfully.

I have contacted the SB county sheriff with an anonymous report of her hit and run as well as the fact that she drives drunk all the time. I didn't know about any of this until this weekend and I feel that if I don't stop her that if someone gets hurt it will be on my conscience forever. No other member of my family is doing anything to stop her even my grandmother who knows everything she has done. I can't help but thinking that she is going to kill someone driving drunk.
 
If she has any friends, I'd suggest an "intervention" and try to get her into some kind of rehab. However, it sounds like all her relationships are strained.

There's not much you can do, but avoid her. If the police won't do anything, the prosecutor won't go after her for false statements, etc.
 
An anonymous report of a hit and run is nearly impossible to prosecute. No witnesses, no one to put her at the scene, no probable cause for a search warrant, etc.

So, it's not that the police will NOT do anything it is more likely that they CAN NOT do anything.

An intervention is not likely to succeed, either. Though if she is too inebriated or otherwise incapable to properly care for grandma, the remaining family might be able to go to court and have someone else put in charge of the poor lady.

- Carl
 
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