After Vincent went with us to a movie Friday night and to the gym Saturday night, we weren't able to talk Vincent - still home under "house arrest" - to go to pizza and games night at church youth group Sunday afternoon. But it turned out that his father surprised him by calling and saying he was on his way south with his parents - who apparently are trying to return to Lakeland, FL. Vincent's father has been living with his parents for a couple of years outside of Columbus. But now his parents - neither in great health - are headed out on their own. Vincent's father said he has a roommate lined up, but I'll be surprised if he can stay in that house. Anyway, we've always suggested he come down to take Vincent's out to dinner, and so he and his parents did - Vincent apparently suggested one of only two Golden Corral buffet restaurants in Lousiville. They tried to go somewhere afterwards, but that didn't work out, and so Vincent returned home at 8:45 p.m. with two early birthday present pairs of shoes that apparently didn't fit. We chatted briefly including about the death of Vincent's former stepmother in a car accident, her child, and Vincent's half sister, whom Vincent's father hadn't seen in a couple of years. And then they were off on a dark, rainy night - driving straight through to Florida? Vincent's father said he might be back in a couple of weeks - or maybe he'd stay down in Florida.
Vincent had his weekly counseling session scheduled for Monday lunchtime. Vincent had engineered a couples counseling session with his girlfriend, who he hasn't seen in the two weeks of the house arrest. Her mother had called Sunday night to find out where she should go. But apparently Samantha's mother had second thoughts about pulling her out of half a day of school for someone else's 45-minute counseling appointment. Stephanie said Vincent seemed upset to get there and find Sam not there. But perhaps he'll reschedule an appointment so it's after school. Coming up soon: Vincent's Tuesday, April 21 court date, one day after his birthday. In the mean time, we've got to call Vincent's lawyer to find out if conversations with the prosecutors are going anywhere.
-- Perry
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I talked today with the lawyer, who said that it turns out that Vincent's "house arrest" was a typical step and asked whether we wanted to go back to court later this week or next week to try to get the house arrest lifted at least in a very limited way, with supervised visitation at home between - let's say - Vincent and his girlfriend.
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