Friends are witnesses who can help stop child abuse

by Patricia S
(Palm Springs, California, USA)

The abused have to leave the abuser in order to stop being abused. The abused are controlled, manipulated, and afraid that no one will believe them. I know first hand physical abuse by my own mother. I was afraid. Later, I married an abusive man, and I had 2 children. He was jealous, overpowering, controlling and abusive.

Now I have grandbabies that I'm concerned about because I know they are trapped in abuse by their own father while my daughter participates. Neither knows the difference between discipline and abuse.

Okay, these are three incidents. In each incident, I was not allowed friends and neither are my grandbabies. WHY? Because friends can be used as witnesses. Abusers don't want that, so they take precautions and protect their abusive environment from friends. In my opinion and experience, friends are an enemy to any abuser.

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