Deputy takes her work home with her

By at 15 June, 2009, 10:28 pm

Deputy Lorrie Fluker has been with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office for eight years, and has spent the last two years as a child abuse investigator. She often deals with broken homes and children, but then she came across two special young girls with one compelling story. “Most parents are either drug addicts or have abused there kids and that’s why there in the system. But their story is so different, I think that’s why it touches so many people,” Lorrie said. The girls, whom we’re not identifying for privacy issues, have a terminally ill mother and were left in an abusive home. They ran away and were eventually put in a foster home, but Lorrie says the conditions there were unhealthy. Despite their hard knocks in life, the girls were filled with optimism and hope. “Well-mannered, very smart, very talented,

and it’s just rare to find kids like that these days,” Lorrie explained. In limbo, the two were close to being split apart in the foster care system. That’s when Lorrie started asking questions. “‘What do I have to do to become a foster parent?’ And she said, ‘We need you.’ And I said, ‘OK, give me the information,’” Lorrie recalled. So in mid-March, the child abuse investigator became foster mom to two very special young girls and they couldn’t be happier. “With Lorrie, she put us first in her life. She acts like a real mom. I just like that a lot,” offered one of the teens. The girls will be allowed to stay with Deputy Fluker until they turn 18 years old.  

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