Wife came back and told me about one of the former church member Q. She said that another lady SL mentioned that Q’s son has now joined a gangster group. When SL informed Q about her son, Q denied such allegations saying that her son is a good boy. Looks like Q is very ignorant about her son. Sometimes ignorance can make us blind to the fact. And many times people are afraid to face up the fact that there is something wrong about their love ones. Such is the case above.
I have known Q and her son for a few years. They have been joining our care group while I was in the same church. It is indeed very sad to hear of such news. The boy is definitely a bright boy. Now I am not so sure what will happen to him. It seems that the gangster group would require every of its members to fail in the studies and have tattoo marks on the body. They also require certain amount of money called protection money.
Wife also told me that her brother was also approached by a gangster group to join the group. However, he refused to join even though most of the group members are his friends also. If he joined the group back then, I wonder what he would become today. Maybe he would not be a technician today. Maybe he would not be married and have two lovely daughters. And most probably he would be involved in drugs. Most of the gangster groups are involved in drug trafficking and some of the members are drug addicts. Unfortunately for these group members, even though they are addicted, the group would not help them at all. They would be kicked out from the group and no longer under their “protection”. These drug addicts would have to get drug addiction treatment on their own. In most cases they will only go for treatment when they are caught by the police and sent to a drug rehabilitation centre.
I do hope and pray that Q's son would not end up as a drug addict and will get out of the gangster group immediately before it is too late.
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