Thread by @WonderKing82

I had a 7 year old client removed from his home for sexually abusing his 2 year old brother. Stay with me, he was placed in a residential treatment facility in Virginia where I worked as a Residential Counselor. He's been in the facility for 1 year 3 months before I got him.

He had 4 counselors before, his file landed on my desk. When a counselor doesn't make progress within a certain time frame they pass the resident on to another counselor to make progress (terrible process). For 3 months, 1 hour every Monday, Tuesday and Friday we sat in silence.

They wanted to remove him from my case load. I really had to demand for him to remain on my caseload. They gave me 3 more months extension. Then one day he ask who's his next counselor, I said it will always be me if you want. He went back silent for the remainder of the session.

The next session he finally spoke to me about something random, he started asking me questions, which I answered for him. The next session he allowed me to ask him some questions. My questions had nothing to do with reasons why he was in this facility. We both know why he's here.

We established a great relationship that eventually tapped into why he was here but things didn't start to make sense to me. I just felt something was extremely wrong. I asked him for the first time if he has ever been touched inappropriately. And to my surprise he said yes.

After 7 months of counseling, it made sense. He stuffed 2 double A batteries in his brothers anus because he wanted to block his step father from doing exactly the same thing to his brother he was doing to him. Tears literally fell from my eyes from what this now 8 is telling me.

None of this was in his file. He said he told his mother and his first case worker. Everything else was there but what he said. After this revelations I gave it to my boss who took legal action. The kid was eventually released into foster care, he ended up in good home.

The mother said she didn't believe her son and thought he just didn't like the new father. They're still together. This case will always stay with me because for a child to think let me block my brother anus so he can't stick his dick inside my little brother is very ...ugh..