Drama

Isn't it funny how the ripples of drama seem to emulate out like the ripples of a raindrop? it seems, just when you think you're past the crap, another wave from something that happened BECAUSE of the drama, hits you. well....last night I posted a story, and today....more drama because of that story.

Turns out, the boyfriend/father of said children of last night's topic was locked out of his house today by his psycho (now ex I hope) girlfriend who was the one in question that was heard beating her children. But wait....it gets even more screwed up.

So this poor guy is out by the house, crying. he wants to be there to protect the kids, but this woman is the one beating them, while accusing HIM of doing it. yet not a single one of us ever heard him hurting those kids. it was always her, banging, and screaming profanities at them, and more.

so today she kicks the only protection those kids have, out of the house, and calls the cops on her boyfriend. the poor guy was nearly in tears. so he leaves, the kids are now defenseless, the oldest daughter is being groomed by the mother to accuse the father basically. and meanwhile the authorities do nothing.

the day I lost my faith in humanity

Up until today....I really wanted to believe there was some logical sense to our justice system....but sadly....I have come to the conclusion after careful observation, and personal experience, that there is not. there is absolutely nothing even resembling logic to it at all.

See today, I heard the most awful sounds any mother would never want to hear. Now, bare in mind....I was a mother once, a long time ago. seems like forever ago really. And it pulls at your heart strings when you hear a child scream in terror! That is the sound I heard today. One of my neighbors who for now shall remain nameless due to this potentially ending up in court some day (hopefully soon!!) but This woman for days now, could be heard screaming profanities at her children, loud bangs and subsequent terror filled screams from a child within the house. These noises were so loud, they could be heard across the whole complex!

Now, the ONLY reason I didn't make the call sooner is because I didn't feel right making the call if I didn't actually hear it for myself. but....today I did. And to all things sacred and spiritual, I wish I hadn't! my heart broke right there, and I suddenly began feeling rage. Rage that any mother would even consider treating an innocent child in such a way. Rage at the injustice this child must be suffering at the hands of the one person sworn to protect them and keep them from harm....so....I made the call....calmly and patiently waited for the cops to get there, and hoped justice would  be carried out swiftly and carefully so as to ensure a better future for those poor children.

But here is where it will make you cry folks. As if getting beaten by their own mother isn't enough, but when fellow neighbors try to call the authorities to save the kids, they say that because we only HEARD them being abused, and not actually SAW them doing anything, there is nothing they could do, despite having captured it on video (because I couldn't seem to find just the audio track recorder on this blasted phone.....not sure if it got removed somehow or not. *sigh) but sadly, the audio is barely audible, and you can't really hear anything except my neighbors narrating everything they hear. (wish they would have been quieter, but meh....we tried I suppose)

but the cops just left, despite her making threats to myself and all the other residents here that she was going to "come give us a piece of her mind" after the cops leave. So...here I sit...(because this woman has proven herself to be mentally unstable to begin with) with a knife by my side...waiting for her to knock on my door...because admittedly, I am the one who placed the call. I am not one to stand idly by while children are being abused. and I mean, truly abused. I am not doing this out of spite,  because I don't even know the woman really. But I have seen her flipping out on the other residents in the complex for things that are at best a paranoid delusion. but this....hearing that child scream in terror....I could not sit and do nothing. I made the call.

I feel truly bad for having to do it. I really do, but my conscience wouldn't allow me to do nothing. but I might as WELL have done nothing for what good it was worth in the end.

The owner of the complex is coming down tomorrow to attempt to kick her out I guess, but that still won't stop her from abusing these poor children somewhere else, and who is to say if the next neighbors will be as diligent as the ones here are? What if they are people who aren't the type to say anything? Or make that call? what happens to those children then?

All these painfully unanswered questions to these poor children's fate leaves me heartbroken, and a bit disgruntled with the justice system honestly. All around, it's been a pretty shitty day today....I just hope...that somewhere...somehow, someone out there will see this woman abusing her kids and put a stop to it. I tried, I truly did...but sadly...in the end...the family just moves to a new place, where they can continue to beat their children. where is the justice here?

The most ironic part about this whole thing....is that the police are not even considering taking this report seriously, while one of my best friends since high school, and one of the only people I trusted to watch my son, is being accused of abusing a child simply because his ex wanted to "get back at him", and guess what....the cops seem to be treating HIS case pretty seriously. when did we get to a point in society, where we put a lover's scorn over the priority of truly saving a child's life? ya know how messed up this is? truly??? I know for a fact, my friend never hurt any kid. he would never, he doesn't have the heart for that kind of thing. but this woman I heard today....she sounded like pure evil incarnate. a woman who's sanity is hanging by a thread, and obviously unpredictable....and they won't even entertain the idea that she might possibly be abusing her kids, even AFTER the cop himself, HEARD the child screaming in terror, and the woman cussing him out, and banging SOMETHING around anyway, and the kid hollering out in pain. I don't know what he saw when he went in there, but apparently, it wasn't enough to arrest this woman. this is truly a facepalm moment folks....let's have a moment of silence to pray (or even just a thought of hope from those non religious folks out there) that those children survive, and end up in a better situation some day soon.

I did what I could, but...apparently...it wasn't enough to put a stop to it. I admit I am feeling a bit defeated right now.