thanks for replying guys
she has admitted she needs to talk to a professional but she tried telling her mum and she only said she was over-reacting. she isn't a bad mother or anything, i think she just doesn't want to believe that there is anything wrong with her daughter, especially as her son has ADHD. i think she just wanted a "normal" child, whatever that is. anyway...i think that made it worse and has cut her chance of being able to speak to a professional.
when the group were hanging out across the road from the police station, she came out because she felt slightly safer (even though she knew the police did absaloutly NOTHING when we were chased away from there) but now that the group has moved she doesn't wanna come out because we are too close to where it all happened
i really don't know what to do anymore. i've tried convincing her to come out every so often, rather than every night, to gradually get her used to coming out
i've tried telling her that as soon as we see neds we'll leave coz there's tonnes of ways to exit, and they're never clever enough to cover them all
i've tried getting other people from the group to ask her to come out to show her that no one will let anyone hurt her
i've tried making her realise that no one has been hurt since last summer
when she does come out, i go up for her and walk her down, then walking her right to her door afterwards, so do 2 guys from the group
i just feel like i've tried everything
i feel so useless

-steph
xxx