Sharing A Couple Of Painful Incidents My Son Experienced

The first time I visited Emmitt when he was taken into the states custody he looked very confused and traumatized and he said" Mom that man brought me here you didn't know where I was at Mom?" Before I left the lady at the St. Vincent's home told him that I was leaving and he broke down crying and asked me, "why don't you want me to go with you no more, why mom?" I held my six year old while he cried for about 10 minutes.
Five months after my 6 and a half year old son was in the custody of DHS we sat on a porch together and he heard a firecracker which he thought was a gunshot. My baby sat there crying Mommy that's a gun shot and I corrected him by telling him it's a firecracker. I wondered why my 6 year old would just sit there and cry and not come to me when he's afraid until I realized that he had been afraid, etc. for five months of his life without anyone to comfort him.