"I don't know where else to turn." This is how desperate and helpless Carmen feels, a mother from Seville who has turned to La Voz de Lanzarote for help. According to her, she has a daughter who lives on the island "thrown in the street" and who has "a borderline personality disorder, is a drug addict and is pregnant", so she fears for her life and that of the baby she is expecting. "And no one listens to me," says this woman, who believes that her daughter should be in a center.
In fact, according to Carmen, her daughter was recently admitted for "a month and a bit" in "psychiatry at the Molina Orosa Hospital". "But they let her out alone one day outside the premises, she escaped and was missing for four days, which I don't see as logical, that a drug addict, with a personality disorder and pregnant, was allowed to go out alone," says this mother, who also says that her daughter was then "incapacitated by a judge."
"I called the Lanzarote Court and they told me that they had no news of the disappearance, that is, that it was not convenient for the psychiatric hospital to give the news because they screwed up," says Carmen, who explains that she then called "the Police" and that she managed to have her daughter "picked up" and returned to the center. However, she points out that "eight days later she was discharged", something she considers should not have happened.
"They shouldn't have discharged her, because they say that they have stabilized her with the treatment for the personality disorder, but she is a drug addict, she is hooked on crack and heroin and she is seven months pregnant", she says.
Since then, this mother says that she has heard that her daughter is "causing a public scandal in Valterra" and that even "the other day she undressed in Calle Real." "And people call the Police, but they tell her 'behave yourself', and they leave, and I don't know what to do anymore," she laments.
"If she continues like this, she won't have the baby, because she's going to die"
According to Carmen, her daughter's incapacitation was only "temporary" and, although she has hired "a lawyer to incapacitate her, she has not been able to." "I have gone to Lanzarote five times in these years to try to help her and she has not wanted to," adds Carmen, who says that she also suffers from blindness and has a 20-year-old granddaughter "in her care, since her daughter "disappeared from home" seven years ago.
"And now what do I do? Now she is in the street, thrown away, begging and pregnant, and I don't see it as normal. I call the Social Services of the Cabildo and they don't take care of it; I call the Police to pick her up and the Police tell her to behave and that's it; and I call the psychiatrist and he tells me that he can't keep her any longer because it's the protocol. So, what happens? Don't they protect the minor?" asks this mother, who believes that "at least" they should incapacitate her daughter "until the baby is born."
"Because if she continues like this, she won't have it, because she's going to die, because she's smoking and doesn't have proper food," Carmen fears, who doesn't understand "why no one does anything." For their part, sources from the Cabildo have assured La Voz that the Social Services area knows the case and that they are doing "a follow-up."
