Your Child Is Guilty Of A Fatal Hit & Run

[win231]

In my 20's I was with a group of friends whose car broke down because the battery died. We were 20 miles from home. A couple of them asked me to watch for police while they stole someone else's battery out of their car. When I said that wasn't the right thing to do, one of them said, "What kind of wimp are you?"
I said "The kind that knows that no friend would ask a friend to commit a crime." I called another friend & he took me home. When the other guys wanted to stay friends, I told them to F--- off.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Your kid is guilty of killing another person, and another is serving your kid's jail sentence. You could just not do anything, but I believe the guilt and other emotional baggage will make living the lie hard to keep from ruining the family. And if one is capable of letting sleeping dogs lie, I feel that the "family" is merely a few biologically related misfits, who will eventually feed off one another. As for me, I would have to take my child down to the police as soon as I found out. It's the only thing I could live with.
I never faced such a problem, but years ago, I could have avoided a lot of grief by just lying. There was one other, who knew the truth., I had to tell the truth. It's not that I'm such a "good" person. It was what I had to do.