I just wanted to share my thoughts. I’ve lived here my whole life, born and raised. I live in a small town, and I, along with my siblings were horrifically abused as a child. CPS has been called on my abusive parent probably around 20 times. And each time unfortunately they did absolutely nothing. And now my youngest sibling(8yrs old) is dealing with the same bullshit. Im 25, and I’ve tried so so so hard to save her, and even try to get her to live with me. But everytime I’ve called it’s fallen on deaf ears. I see so much of myself in her, and that’s so scary. I’ve been badly sexually abused as a child, and it’s insane to me that nobody ever did anything to help us. I moved out, and had to leave her behind… shes such a broken child. Part of it, is NOBODY in my family will say anything. So it’s only coming from me, and CPS doesn’t take me seriously because everyone puts on a good front. My other sibling has been abused so bad she’s scared to talk to CPS and refuses because of retaliation from my parent. It doesn’t surprise me, because everyone I know in my small town has been sexually abused. Almost every single one of my friends, even including men, have been sexually abused. I do agree that Maine is really great at reporting it, I blame a lot of it on CPS. My parent never let me speak to them, and even when I called myself I never got a phone call back. I know there’s probably a lot of cases, but I just wish someone could have done something. And now every single day, I’m worried about what that kid has gone through, as they’re already showing signs of abuse. Not to mention the father is a sex offender and nobody cares and lets them alone with him. It’s so hard to talk about because I know there’s good people who work for CPS. But for some reason we’ve always gotten the shit end of the stick. I want to say to all the good CPS workers, thank you. You’re saving children from being a victim like us. And I do appreciate you. 💜