The fate of Willia Lee’s home remains in limbo.

We wrote about Lee earlier this month.

A condition known as a pseudo tumor left her mostly blind and on disability. For the past couple of years she and her four children have lived in a house on Webster Street where she gets assistance with the rent through the Fort Wayne Housing Authority’s public housing program.

All was going well until her 18-year-old son, Vincent, was arrested Dec. 28 on an attempted robbery charge in the holdup of a Dollar General store in Leo-Cedarville.

Lee says she ordered her son to move out sometime before Thanksgiving because he wouldn’t abide by her rules, but she didn’t have his name removed from her lease as a resident.

Sometime early this month, Lee said she asked to have Vincent’s name removed, but there seems to be some dispute about that. Housing authority officials say she never specifically made that request.

The result is that Lee was sent a letter notifying her that the housing authority was terminating her from its program because her son, who on paper appeared to be a resident of her home, had engaged in violent criminal behavior.

Last week, assisted by a staff member of the League for the Blind and Disabled, Lee attended a hearing to appeal the termination order.

So far, it hasn’t gone well.

Beverly Harding, who is with the league, said Lee has cognitive problems because of her condition, which causes a buildup of fluid on the brain, and when she gets upset she gets confused.

One way Lee could avoid termination from the public housing program would be to show her son is no longer a resident.

Lee did present a letter from the mother of Vincent’s girlfriend, saying that Vincent had lived at her home since November, but there was a problem with the letter.

It wasn’t dated or notarized, so the housing authority said it didn’t provide sufficient proof that Vincent no longer lived with his mother.

Harding says she is going to approach the woman who wrote the letter and try to get her to write a new, dated letter and have it notarized.

The big issue, Harding said, is whether Lee’s son moved in with his girlfriend’s family before or after he was arrested.

Complicating the issue is that when Lee’s son was arrested, he gave his mother’s address as his home, and Lee’s answering machine is full of messages from bail-bondsmen and court officials, and twice police have come to her house looking for her son, who she says hasn’t been there for more than two months.

During a recent visit to her home, Lee wondered out loud how she could get people to stop calling her home to try to reach her son.

“Right now we don’t have any evidence that he was gone” from the home when he was arrested, Harding says. “They’re trying to nail her. They want her out of there.”

It’s a tough situation because Lee still has three children living with her, including a 4-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter.

“They’re going to put her out because of what her son did,” Harding said.

It will play out, and one’s sympathies come down on the side of Lee, but let it serve as a reminder to other young people. Their actions can destroy their families.