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Ga. Sons Father Is About To Get Out Of Prison, Has Been Associating With People In Gangs Or The Cartel. What Can I Do To Protect Myself And My Son?

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Hey everyone. I hope this is the right subreddit to post this in.

My sons father went to prison two years ago for aggravated assault. He got married last year while still being incarcerated. He now has a wife and four year old step daughter. And I am the mother of his six year old son. He has a past of being extremely abusive with me but the family courts in Texas (where our son was born) did not care and still gave him rights/visitation.

My son and I moved here to Georgia last year after my mom passed away and my dad became more aggressive/abusive due to the grief and whatever else. My sons fathers wife told us she would help us out and for us to come out here so we did. Since I had no help or support from anyone in Texas. She’s been amazing and helpful and treats my son like he’s her own.

The only thing is, my sons father has been dabbling in the wrong things and getting associated with the wrong people it seems. I don’t know if it’s some sort of gangs, or the cartel….I don’t know. I don’t know or really understand prison life.

He’s been in a halfway house in Valdosta, GA after moving from a central state prison for a few months now waiting to get paroled out. He should be getting out sometime this summer between June-august.

He recently had these people mail packages of cell phones to my apartment. He never asked me if he could do it, he just went ahead and did it. I’ve had these phones sitting in my trunk of my car for weeks now because someone has yet to pick them up. He told me tonight that if anything happened to those phones, those people would come after me.

I have no proof of him saying these things, or what this situation is even about. His wife told me to drop the phones off at her place so I will be doing that tomorrow. These things were said over FaceTime.

I know this entire situation is of pure ignorance and I feel very stupid. I’m too poor to get an attorney to possibly see what can be done about this. So I am turning here to seek any kind of advice that could possibly be helpful in this situation. I need to protect my son and myself. But I am scared and at a complete loss. Thank you.

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