This is a picture of Simon, a dog many of us met at the last Pet Talking Gathering in Findlay this fall. He belongs to a friend of mine who is a counselor in Upper Sandusky.
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This is my great-niece, Katrina who also happens to be Amy's God daughter.
Katrina's mother and dad got divorced this summer and Katrina lives with her mother but spends time with her dad also. When she came back from her dad's about two weeks ago, she had a suspicious mark on her wrist. She came up with a million stories as little kids will do as to how it happened. Because it looks like a cigarette burn it is being investigated by the police and children services. Obviously, we don't want this to happen again. I finally remembered that my friend with Simon has done a lot of work with kids that have been physically and sexually abused (no, we don't think that Katrina has been sexually abused). So I called her to get an appointment for Katrina.
Simon goes to work with my friend, Barb. Obviously he is quite an attention getter for kids. When Barb asked Katrina what happened to her arm Katrina said she would tell Simon. The first visit (last Thursday) did not go so well because in the end she would not tell who hurt her arm.
Yesterday, we went to see Barb and Simon again. Barb had explained to Katrina that if she didn't tell, the person could do it again because we couldn't protect her if we didn't know and Katrina had promised that she would tell Simon this time. When we got there, Barb talked to Katrina's mother first. I sit in the waiting room with Katrina. Katrina went next and she TOLD Simon what happened. She even showed Simon how it was done. She drew a picture of it too. Now Barb can call the Social worker and the Detective and hopefully we can get it so the father can only get supervised visits at a Safe House.
Yeah, Simon! What a good dog!
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