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Statutue of limitations for 42 usc 1983?

I've got a series of problems resulting from a pretty lousy childhood (recently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder).

While attending public schools, I was suspended numerous times. I still have some of the papers and never was a adminstrative appeal proceedure mentioned. My father was learning disabled and didn't understand how this would be a problem, and my mother is fairly sociopathic. Since it didn't affect her directly she just didn't care.

My parents retaliated by putting me into a psychiatric facility (which was closed because the staff was raping inmates. I witnessed such a incident and made the mistake of talking about it, after being released from Rivendell, a subsidiary of Vendell healthcare). This facility tried to commit me for suicidal tendancies because my parents couldn't afford to keep me there privately. I'm worried about the status of these records, and about the actions I took after being shaken to my core.

I was taken home, beaten, and then dropped off in a home for runaways. This home did not notify the police. 10 days later I was told that I would be re-integrated with my family. I got arressted instead. The police noticed facial bruising and made a report. 14 years later, I find the report.


Asked on 5/15/07, 1:42 pm

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Re: Statutue of limitations for 42 usc 1983?

What a rotten break life has given you so far...but what an opportunity you now have to get some control over your future and leave it behind you!

Legally, you may have some claims against people and institutions, but more importantly, you want to take inventory and get a plan for how to keep yourself on track. You weren't given many good tools to do that, so there's absolutely no shame in asking for help.

Step one, find a compassionate ear, whether it be a religious person, psychological counselor or both. Figure out what you want and then plan a strategy to achieve it. Kids who grow up with sociopaths are behind the 8 ball, -- get some help.

Kids with alcoholic parents didn't do anything wrong either, it's the fact of alcoholism alone that makes parents unable to be good parents. Mental illness isn't much different.

What a lawyer can do is look at the facts and see whether you are due some compensation. It won't be easy no matter what, but google " mentally ill parent"

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Answered on 5/24/07, 4:28 pm


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