The Fight Wages On

I think it is interesting that in this society, if a teenager takes gun to school and goes to jail, he does so without financial repercussion on his family. But if he sexually assaults his sister, he is put in detention and then "treatment", at the expense of his family.

What is wrong with this picture?

If a family were to seek out a professional diagnosis of mental illness of the minor, and did not report the crime to police, the state would step in and institutionalize the child and request that the parents give up their parental rights, so that the family would not incur the expense, the state would.

Does this make sense to anyone?

Basically, if we had not reported this crime to the state, we could have had a PhD give a diagnosis of mental illness that would have required institutionalization and the state would have done that at our request, with no financial obligation. These are just some of the things we wish we had known at the time we began prosecution. No one tells you what you can be faced with. No one from the state will take responsibility for "doing their job."
There needs to be some serious changes made to a law that forces families to be victimized again and again. We are just trying to do what we were told was the right thing. Right by who?