Healing Neen by Tonier Cain

Author:Tonier Cain
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Healing, Neen, Trauma, Addiction, Path, Salvation, Path
Publisher: Health Communications Inc
Published: 2014-08-05T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

Imprisoned

Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening.

—Acts 16:25

When the time came for my court appearance, I was so far down. I didn’t really care about where I was or where I was going. That morning the judge

was just another part of the blackness that was closing in on me. “Tonier Cain.” I stood up when he called my name. The judge looked at me. I could tell he was disgusted. He looked at me like the police officer who’d transported me after taking me away from my children. He looked at me like the policemen Keith’s girlfriend had called when Keith stole Lil Keith. He looked at me like I was a piece of trash. And I just looked back because I really didn’t care. He was just a part of the blackness.

“Do you know why you are here?” I just looked at him. I must have looked pretty stupid because I didn’t answer, and he kept talking. “Miss Cain, I want you to turn around and look at these people seated in the first two rows.” When I turned around I saw Carol, James, Dorothy, Jumbo, Sharon, Oatmeal, Ann, Ella Mae, and my family. I wondered why they were there. But it wasn’t Carol or the others. It was a group of strangers. “These people are the hardworking folks you stole from when you passed those worthless checks. You knew that account was closed. You knew you were taking something that didn’t belong to you. You are . . .” He kept talking, but what I saw were five little children sitting on a bench as someone who sounded and looked like him told a crying Barbara, “I am appalled by your actions. These are your children. Yet, you, Mrs. Johnson, have allowed these children to live in what can only be described as a pigsty. I have looked at pictures taken of the apartment where you left these children, and it is despicable. I have presided over many cases, but I have never seen a case as bad as this.”

I came back to the present and the sound of the judge’s voice saying, “Writing these worthless checks makes you no better than a rapist. What you have done is rape these people of their hard-earned money. I am going to protect the state of Maryland from you. You will spend the next thirty-three months in the prison system of the state of Maryland. You are sentenced to three months per count. That equals thirty-three months off the streets and without the possibility of afflicting any further harm on these and any other helpless people.” I don’t remember if he banged his gavel or what. I just remember the officer who’d been standing beside me pulled me back to where the other prisoners were sitting.

The roaring in my ears was so loud I barely remember anything beyond him calling me a rapist. He said I had raped someone.

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