Betrayal and Lies

It's really discouraging to give your trust to someone and open up your life in order to help them only to get burned. A friend of my son had been beaten up by her boyfriend and needed a place to stay until she could save enough money to move back to where she came from.

Being a former surviver of an abusive relationship I really wanted to help her. We recently bought a house that has two seperate sides to it. We told her she could stay here, just having to pay the utilites which she would split with my oldest son who was also living on the other side.

This person became like part of our family, spending Thanksgiving and Christmas with us. We told her she was welcome to stay as long as she needed to and she had told us she would probably be staying until April. She was told what her part of the utilities for last month came to and she said she would pay us when she got her SSI check on the third.

The third came and went and she said she had not recieved her check yet but would pay the bills when she did. She also said she did not know why her check hadn't come yet.

Unfortunately today we discovered she had taken all of her stuff and just left, taking the keys with her. There are still a few things as well as some food boxed up sitting on the counter. When we tried to call her she ignored the calls. My son sent her some text messages that she also ignore. Finally he sent her a message saying how upset we were about her just leaving like that and we may call the police because she took the