Christ Is The Only Answer

Several weeks ago one of our girls (19 years old) was arrested for sniffing solvent at home while "taking care" of her 1 year old son. She has been facing a lot of troubles and to escape these realities in her life she chose to sniff solvent. She is now being charged for child and drug abuse. We had the opportunity to visit her last Friday. She seems very regretful for what she did and knows that she needs to pay the consequences for her actions. Since she is considered an adult (under 18 is a child) her punishment will be worse. It wouldn't be so bad if the jails here were actually correctional. Right now she is just in a tiny community jail MIXED WITH MEN!!! When we went to visit her my heart broke for her. Dianne, our new social worker was with us so she actually talked to the guard about having them mixed. It's actually illegal i think but he just said "well we separate them at night." When Diane asked her if she was alright in the jail mixed with men she just started to cry. Please pray for her. Yes, there does need to be action for what she did, however my fear is that she will be more hurt and that this will not help fix the problems she already has. Pray for her protection, her case to be worked out quickly and that she will really draw close to the Lord and know that He is our only answer to our problems. Pray also for her two children. She has a four year old daughter and a one year old boy. The little girl is already quite malnourished. They are now supposed to be taken care of by their grandma, but because she goes out to work all day she pulled her 11year old daughter out of school to take care of them. Please pray that God will give us wisdom in this situation. It is not right for an eleven year old to be pulled out of school and be the 'mother' of her niece and nephew. We are really praying for wisdom to have these children placed in a Christian orphanage until their mom is ready and capable of taking care of them.