Witness

I sat on the witness stand, about 20 feet away from the parents that I had known and worked with for the last five years, and did my best to answer the Judge's questions as accurately as possible.  I think that I was more uncomfortable than the parents were and they did not seem to have any ill will and did not seem to be upset about my testimony.  They knew that I was just telling the truth, I think.I told the Family Court Judge that I knew the family for several years because several of their children had been assigned to me for early intervention occupational therapy.  I was asked about one of my therapy sessions on a specific date and I told the Judge that as I sat and played with the child the fleas were jumping out of the carpet and onto little Jenna's legs.  And onto my socks and pants.  Jenna's legs were covered with bites and streaked blood from all the scratching.  The week prior to that session I taught the parents how to use commercially available 'flea bomb' products safely in order to address the problem.  It seemed to work for a day or two, but they had difficulty getting all the fleas and eggs vacuumed up.  I spent part of one of my therapy sessions repairing their vacuum cleaner that was clogged and had a broken belt so they could vacuum, but I think that was part of the reason why the flea problem persisted.  The fleas were just everywhere, and the problem probably needed to be solved with a professional extermina...
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