When I was volunteering at the HIV support group, one of my assignments was a woman with an extensive drug and prostitution history.
One of her first boyfriends became her pimp and made her work. The drug problem soon followed. Along the way she had a kid whom she lost parental rights to.
I helped her with grocery shopping, laundry, Dr. appts, trips to pharmacy, NA, and support group meetings. She was quite a handful. She passed away from HIV many years ago. She had moments when I thought she was experiencing genuine feelings and might yet turn her life around, but those moments were massively diluted in months of insincerity, using people, prostitution and drug relapses, legal and medical problems, family problems.
At some point I had to go to the support group management and request I be released from helping her, it was just too much.
She went on to be 'adopted' by a church congregation who thought all things were possible through faith. It didn't go well for them either.
No matter what amount of resources were deployed her way, if she was not monitored strictly, closely, and relentlessly 24/7/365, she was going to slip.
One of her first boyfriends became her pimp and made her work. The drug problem soon followed. Along the way she had a kid whom she lost parental rights to.
I helped her with grocery shopping, laundry, Dr. appts, trips to pharmacy, NA, and support group meetings. She was quite a handful. She passed away from HIV many years ago. She had moments when I thought she was experiencing genuine feelings and might yet turn her life around, but those moments were massively diluted in months of insincerity, using people, prostitution and drug relapses, legal and medical problems, family problems.
At some point I had to go to the support group management and request I be released from helping her, it was just too much.
She went on to be 'adopted' by a church congregation who thought all things were possible through faith. It didn't go well for them either.
No matter what amount of resources were deployed her way, if she was not monitored strictly, closely, and relentlessly 24/7/365, she was going to slip.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
