Happy Easter to all!
My person had a call from police around 4 weeks ago to say his case has gone to CPS. If it has gone straight to CPS with no second interview can we assume nothing extra has been found on devices since the first interview? We were under the impression that if extra things were found on the devices then there would be a second interview?
Also, whilst we want this to be over but at the same time we're dreading it, at the moment how long do CPS take to come back with charges?
My person is struggling massively with this final chapter and what the outcome could be. He's in therapy and is unraveling the worst sexual abuse suffered in his childhood whilst also waiting charges from CPS for communication with a minor
Thanks for any advice xx
My person had a call from police around 4 weeks ago to say his case has gone to CPS. If it has gone straight to CPS with no second interview can we assume nothing extra has been found on devices since the first interview? We were under the impression that if extra things were found on the devices then there would be a second interview?
Also, whilst we want this to be over but at the same time we're dreading it, at the moment how long do CPS take to come back with charges?
My person is struggling massively with this final chapter and what the outcome could be. He's in therapy and is unraveling the worst sexual abuse suffered in his childhood whilst also waiting charges from CPS for communication with a minor
Thanks for any advice xx
You are right if there was additional information found they would have called him in for 2nd questioning. As Lee said CPS can take as long as they like, because they can go to and fro Inorder to meet the threshold, if it's just a 1 case of communication you are likely to be bumped for other cases they don't work as a first in first out method. When you do get charges through it's normally a month til plea at court.
Hi Lee,
He has done LFF modules and has also been seeing a private counsellor for over a year who has helped him immensely with what is going on now, how he got here and past major childhood trauma.
.He doesn't have any attraction to minors and is understanding and working on what led him to this situation which is good, he's changed so much for the better in the last year and has more control over his feelings and thoughts and knows now the childhood trauma wasn't his fault, he knows this situation now was completely not right and understands the harm caused by his actions.
We just hope this hard work over the past eighteen months helps if/when he is charged.i know he will never venture down the same path xx
He has done LFF modules and has also been seeing a private counsellor for over a year who has helped him immensely with what is going on now, how he got here and past major childhood trauma.
.He doesn't have any attraction to minors and is understanding and working on what led him to this situation which is good, he's changed so much for the better in the last year and has more control over his feelings and thoughts and knows now the childhood trauma wasn't his fault, he knows this situation now was completely not right and understands the harm caused by his actions.
We just hope this hard work over the past eighteen months helps if/when he is charged.i know he will never venture down the same path xx
Bettyboo we are in the same situation. My person wasn't contacted after the first interview. In February we got in touch with the oic about a travel matter and in her reply she mentioned the case was now with the cps. No second interview and we don't know if anything further was found on his phone or via chat sites. Ours was 1 communication which took place last year February. In fact OH didn't even remember it happening as he thought it was an adult pretending to be a minor. He'd never before nor since had any such chats or contact so was shocked (as were the rest of us!) when we had our early morning knock 5 months later.
Like you, we just want this to be over but the fear of not knowing what's coming makes me want to stay in this limbo or under the false hope that they may drop this. Wishful thinking I know but I don't think I could cope if he was to get custodial as that then takes to another level. I've just managed to start accepting this as our new "normal". Another change will be too much.
He is doing the LFF modules and is in regular contact with them but the thought and fear of what may come is sole destroying.
Like you, we just want this to be over but the fear of not knowing what's coming makes me want to stay in this limbo or under the false hope that they may drop this. Wishful thinking I know but I don't think I could cope if he was to get custodial as that then takes to another level. I've just managed to start accepting this as our new "normal". Another change will be too much.
He is doing the LFF modules and is in regular contact with them but the thought and fear of what may come is sole destroying.
Thanks Lee, you're helping immensely and we're grateful, he has printed off the LFF mods so we will give them to the solicitor, his therapist is also doing a statement confirming his sessions and how far he has come.
RIG it is definitely soul destroying, we've been in limbo around 19 months and up until the call that it had gone to CPS my person had rebuilt himself and his strength and outlook but following that call he's back to the reality of the whole situation and suicidal and saying he's had a good life etc etc. If it goes to custodial he has said he won't cope, it brings back all the fears of his childhood and the serious sexual abuse at the hands of males, he keeps saying "I'm going to pay the price but they did it to me and got away with it", my heart is breaking all the time xx
P.s he's not strong enough to be able to report his own abuse.
RIG it is definitely soul destroying, we've been in limbo around 19 months and up until the call that it had gone to CPS my person had rebuilt himself and his strength and outlook but following that call he's back to the reality of the whole situation and suicidal and saying he's had a good life etc etc. If it goes to custodial he has said he won't cope, it brings back all the fears of his childhood and the serious sexual abuse at the hands of males, he keeps saying "I'm going to pay the price but they did it to me and got away with it", my heart is breaking all the time xx
P.s he's not strong enough to be able to report his own abuse.