Family Secrets by Ronnie Ashmore

Author:Ronnie Ashmore [Ashmore, Ronnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-27T22:00:00+00:00

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After spending the better part of an hour on the phone with the CPS intake call operator and giving her all known information Mike went back to the chief’s office and joined him and Morgan, who had arrived earlier. The chief was finishing catching Morgan up to date with what Elizabeth Parks had relayed to them. Tolliver looked as if he wanted to throw up in the trash can that he kept under his desk.

“What did CPS say?” Morgan asked, as Mike took a seat.

“They would forward to the investigator. Intake said it wasn’t much to go on, since the outcry was so outdated.” His frustration with the call was evident. Unless the children living in the house now made an outcry, CPS would not give much priority to this case. It was now a case, Mike thought, even though the witness was not cooperative.

“Well, the State allows us to investigate. If this happened to the kids, it just might be happening to the grandkids.” Tolliver said.

The image of George Parks doing those things that were described by Elizabeth to her was horrible enough to imagine, but the thought of that old man doing those things to Lydia was almost too much for Mike to come to terms with. He held his emotions in check because he knew the chief would take him off this case, and this one was one he wanted to see through to the end.

It was nearly ten o’clock on Friday night Morgan seen as he glanced at his watch. “Maybe we can catch Christine and get her permission to talk to the boy. Do we even know his name?” Mike shook his head and Morgan continued, “But Lydia is eighteen, we can talk to her.”

“We don’t know her cognitive abilities. I’d feel better if we talked to Christine first. Then the kids.” Tolliver said.

Morgan got up and motioned Mike to follow him. They stopped at Morgan’s office for a notebook binder that he used to take notes in then they left the station. In Morgan’s pickup Mike rode in silence as they headed in the direction to get to Christine’s house, finally he spoke.

“You ever hear of anything like this? This is something you hear about on the news or the internet not here.”

“It’s here. And depending on how this case goes, you will read about it in the news and internet.”

The rest of the ride was silent. Each lost in their own thoughts. Mike was hoping Christine would cooperate. He thought of Christine and her life she had lived to this point and he felt sad for her. He had judged her and her life on what could be seen on the surface never suspecting that she was locked in a hell that was not her choosing. How would her life had been different if she had decent parents? Mike thought of their mother then. How could she live with a monster that hurt, no, destroyed her children like that? If he came face to face with Pam Parks, he was going to be sure and ask that very question.

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