1st Court Date Frustration

As you all can imagine by Monday we all were as sleep deprived as we could be. Kennedy was moping around, even the dog kept going to Caleb's room looking for him and whining. Arthur was irritated because it has been even longer since he saw him. All I kept thinking about was him being without contact with us all weekend. The whole village was there dressed like we THOUGHT everyone dressed for court, especially since we were representing the type of family comes from. The room was packed with people mostly waiting for court with their child, some actually had two kids with court. Let me say this before I make this statement I don't believe every child that acts up was not brought up knowing better or doesn't have parents that pray and love them like I do with mine. Sometimes they just make decisions to exert their free will and it's the opposite of what they are taught. But their are more times where the parents are trifling, hence them fighting when they were coming to visit their child in juvenile causing a lock down, and the room was full of examples why my heart breaks for our youth. When the momma shows up like she is fresh from the club and the daddy's that were even there come in without their hair combed and sagging where you can see their underwear its no wonder the list is so long with kids in trouble. Several kids cursing at their parents. Quite the mess to say the least. We finally were called in and only Me, Arthur, Ma, and Daddy were allowed back as we were bluntly told only after we got up to go in. Once we got in court a woman with an oversized garanimal outfit, bad teeth and lack of eloquence in her speaking came to talk to us. If you know me, ma or Arthur you know we don't do well with facial expressions and Arthur is always talking where only I can hear him and Ma just says stuff out loud. Well this was one of those crazy face, talking under our breath moments. Meanwhile, the prosecutor had on a full suit, looked professional, and was very articulate. Nonetheless  I did my best to listen to her hoping this was not the GREAT public defender my associate that is a prosecutor mentioned to me worked the juvenile cases. Let's just call this woman Garanimals because I don't remember her name. So anyway Garanimals comes to talk to us and mid sentence stops talking to is and starts laughing and playing with her co worker passing about whatever, but she never finished talking or explaining anything to us. Now when Daddy started to talk and say OH NO THIS WONT WORK that truly attest to how irritated we were with this woman that is supposed to be a professional. Court started and since this was a basic hearing to determine if Caleb will be released or not and conditions until his adjudication hearing. Caleb walked in still wearing the orange jail jumpsuit because we were not allowed to bring him clothes for court. I saw Garanimals whispering to Caleb and wondered what she was saying.( I later found out from him she was saying YOU GOT YOURSELF IN A MESS THIS TIME HUH?) The judge asked who everyone was in the court room and the charges of possession of a firearm on school property and theft by receiving was read off by the prosecutor. I was then called to the stand and asked questions like...do you have other children in the juvenile  system...were you married when you had Caleb....has Caleb ever ran away...does he stay out all night...what's Caleb's biological father name???? Ok I won't lie when he asked for his biological father's name my whole family cringed because he IS in the criminal system repeatedly and if that had any bearing on anything Caleb would nevrr come home. The judge lectured me about saying Arthur is the dad because when they ask for the father they mean biological...blah blah blah...I said the biological father is inactive and has been for over 10 years..he is not a factor when it comes to the rearing of the children and the judge allowed it after he reiterated terminology. He asked about plans for Caleb's school and told us GOOD LUCK in getting the school to do anything other than expel him for a year. He then said Caleb testing negative for all drugs TODAY as if tomorrow would be different. He allowed Caleb to be released to me and Arthur under the grounds that he only go to work or church and he could only drive to those places otherwise he had to be with either parent or grandparent. He said usually he bans driving but he would allow it in this case. He assigned Caleb a probation officer and random drug tests. Other than that he was free to go until the next court date June 1st. I tried to talk to Garanimals but she basically brushed me off and laughed in my face and said fat chance of Caleb getting a pass with his charges and refused to even consider the character letters. This couldn't be the great defense attorney I heard about. I still asked for her card which she reluctantly gave me. We then went to meet Caleb downstairs and then back to talk to the probation officer Dwayne Wilkins which we found out was related to Arthur.  The only thing he wanted Caleb to do was call him once a week and he would test him for drugs the next court date because he knows Caleb's not on drugs. We used the opportunity to ask about Garanimals and almost broke out in a holy ghost two step when he said she was just a sub and the one that would represent Caleb was in Europe and returning the following week and she was the one my friend had mentioned. Not long after we left we had to go to his school and see what their decision was and they opted to expel Caleb not because they believed it was him but because it was their policy. (I was able to appeal and with the help of his vice principal get his expulsion just from school grounds and he take his classes from home) For the mean time we were ecstatic to have Caleb back home and had his friends come over so they could see he was fine. Now we had to prepare for the next  fight to prove Caleb's innocence.