My Single Mom Life

Today Sebastian and I have to go give depositions in the case against the teen who broke his arm January 2003.
We have already been through the criminal trial and now it's the civil part.
Neither of us are looking forward to seeing the psycho mom or the teen again.
She's crazy.
They better not ask me to like sit in a waiting room alone with her for long because I don't trust her. She's unstable and frankly, she scares me.
All the time she drove around taking pictures of me and my kids, chasing me and the juvy justice guy out into the hallway during the criminal trial and demanding that she be allowed to hear what he was telling me. Yelling at us after the teen was convicted so loudly that we had to have police escorts out of the building.
She still sits in her car and watches me when I walk anywhere.

This isn't about the money contrary to what some may think.
This is about her failure to acknowledge that the teen had some serious problems before I let my kids go in and over to her house.
I equate it to a pit bull and her not telling me.
He had problems with drugs, violence and other issues and she never told me and I let my kids go there to play all the while she knew he had a short temper and was violent towards his little brother and other kids in the neighborhood.
No one said anything until after he broke Sebastians arm and then it was stories like he chased me down with a chain and fathers saying he tried to hit them with a chain for defending their kid.
He had done drugs in that home and my kids were in there.

It's like if she had a dangerous dog and kept it in the house only and never told anyone and let kids go to play and the dog hurt one of them.
Her teen had a violent history, she didn't inform other parents and as a result, he became violent with my kid and broke his arm in a horrific manner.

If I had known, I would have never allowed them near that house.

I understand her anger at me. Her son went to jail for a year because I agreed with the state prosecution and went forward with charges.
I feel bad that their family was turned upside down for a year but my son missed a month of school and then when he went back, he wasn't even allowed recess for 3 months. He wasn't allowed to ride his bike for 6 months or play outside. He was basically a bored little video gamer stuck in the house.
He will have to have surgery to correct the rotation issues when he gets older.
He is at less than 80% rotation in that arm and it bends funny now.
I was told to talk him out of a life of sports if that was his dream. Talk him into a desk job like lawyer or teacher. Something that won't put his arm in conflict.

This is about informing other parents if you have a dangerous child in your home.
I understand her need to protect her son and be angry at me for taking him away but he did it to himself and she did it to him by not telling other parents so that we could keep our kids safe.
If she had told me, I would have never let them go over there and he would have never picked up Sebastian over his head and thrown him to a concrete driveway on January 12,2003.