Son was arrested for hate speech and threats of violence.

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I kept calling the station but I wasn't allowed to pick him up because part of the threats involved me. I sent my brother (his uncle) to pick him up but a carer picked him up after the 24 hours instead. He recieved a NFA at the end of it..

I'm overwhelmed. I haven't seen him since all of this. He's in care and our scheduled visit is on Friday. I'm just so anxious.

The hate speech and threats were both internal extreme speech like homophobic talk but also external very scary misogynistic and islamophobic things... I'm of a Muslim background myself. He threatened to hurt me when speaking to one of his support workers because of a disagreement we had recently. They searched him for a knife after a claim but couldn't find one, but he was acting increasingly hostile so the police were called.

He's just been referred to prevent again. I couldn't sleep last night at all

No advice but thinking of you.

Thank you xx

I'm so sorry, that sounds so scary. I hope you are able to rest a little and look after yourself. It's safer for both of you if he gets help and support to work out what is going on. Hopefully you will have a social worker assigned to you and you can talk it all through with them as they will need your input as his mum to be able to understand what might help. One day at a time.

I wanted to reach out and say I hope you got some rest yesterday… it sounds a very tough situation.

it’s so hard when our children go down paths that we don’t understand.

what support do you have? Please look after yourself and let us know how you are getting on.

Again no useful advice but I hope you’re safe. This sounds very scary.

Thank you all. He's ran to a male friend (or boyfriend... I'm really not sure if he's engaging in homosexuality or having sex) but the boy's parents have been called and son will hopefully return to his placement