Should we keep quiet?

[Tink]

I guess I should have added that we've had KT in counseling off and on since she was 12. She's currently going weekly. At one point we got her on a 72 hr hold in a psych unit because she'd taken a load of dramamine (with an older guy) and was hallucinating. She also spent about 2 weeks in a treatment center for her drinking.

She's tested regularly now, (since she's on probation for her numerous underage drinking charges) and has been drug free for over a year. The drinking is another story. She's doing less of it, but still indulges at times. Neither her Dad nor I drink at all, so it's never kept at home, but she manages to find older friends who will buy it for her. I think that's where she gets connected with all these slimeballs. She hangs out with them so they'll buy her alcohol.

She got her first underage drinking ticket when she was 12. She was passed out and dumped in an unheated RV after she got drunk with some older boys. One of them raped her, and bragged about it to someone who knew Katie. That person THANK GOD called us and we went and found her. It was well below zero that night, so there's a very good chance she'd have died of hypothermia before the night was over if they hadn't called us.

As far as we knew, she was spending the night with a friend that night. We knew the friend, the parents, and thought she was safe. That was the start of this very scary time.