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My wife and I witnessed a situation today that I just wanted to tell ya'll about.
We had to go to the local IRS office, and there was a 6ish year old little girl, her mother, and her step-father sitting behind us. (I know he was step-dad because one of the things he said to the little girl was, "I'm glad you live with your dad now. I never wanted you around anyways.") That was actually very mild compared to the rest of what he said.
This precious child was being very well-behaved, sitting in her seat. She was a little figgedity a few times, but never got off the chair.
Everytime she moved, he would tell her that if she didn't sit still he was going to take her in the bathroom and kick her @ss. Exact words. Still pretty tame, considering the rest.
One time her hand slipped off the armrest and he told her he was going to break every bone in both her hands.
Obviously, at her age, her feet couldn't touch the floor sitting in her seat, and 1 of her flip flops fell off. He told her he was going to break both her legs if she didn't sit still.
Then he told her, and I quote, "You make me so sick that I'm going to cut you up into little pieces and ship you to Japan to use as sushi."
She asked her mom (who never said ONE word during any of this) when she was going back to her daddy's house, and the step-father said he would cut up her dad and send him to Japan, too. He told the little girl that since she lived with her dad now, not to ask her mom for anything, no food, no water, no clothes, and that she could ask her dad. The last thing he said to her before they left was, "You just wait and see what I'm going to do to you when we leave here."
When they left, my wife went outside and pretended to be making a phone call, but was going to get their license plate #. Unfortunately, they had a tinted (illegal) plastic cover on it, and she couldn't read it.
Obviously, the IRS rep couldn't give us any info on the people (understandably) and said that because she hadn't witnessed it (it happened in the waiting area) she couldn't report it.
My wife was just tore up about this. We went to the CPS office to see if there was anything at all that could be done. We could tell the CPS agent exact times (my wife was texting her mom about it at the time) and which IRS rep they saw. We were hoping that maybe CPS could contact the IRS office and obtain the mother and step-father's info, but they can't do that. The only way we could have made a CPS report was if we could supply CPS with their names and address. These were strangers, so obviously we couldn't.
We are both haunted by this. My wife just cried and cried when we found out there was nothing to do. We are both afraid that we are going to read about something happening to this poor little girl in the paper.
Looking back, we probably should have called the police at the time, while they were still there, but hindsight is 20/20.
Just thought I would share this. It's heart-breaking, but really brings home how much damage an overstepping step can do to a child. As well as a biological parent who doesn't intervene.
We just pray that this poor, precious child is ok.
My wife and I witnessed a situation today that I just wanted to tell ya'll about.
We had to go to the local IRS office, and there was a 6ish year old little girl, her mother, and her step-father sitting behind us. (I know he was step-dad because one of the things he said to the little girl was, "I'm glad you live with your dad now. I never wanted you around anyways.") That was actually very mild compared to the rest of what he said.
This precious child was being very well-behaved, sitting in her seat. She was a little figgedity a few times, but never got off the chair.
Everytime she moved, he would tell her that if she didn't sit still he was going to take her in the bathroom and kick her @ss. Exact words. Still pretty tame, considering the rest.
One time her hand slipped off the armrest and he told her he was going to break every bone in both her hands.
Obviously, at her age, her feet couldn't touch the floor sitting in her seat, and 1 of her flip flops fell off. He told her he was going to break both her legs if she didn't sit still.
Then he told her, and I quote, "You make me so sick that I'm going to cut you up into little pieces and ship you to Japan to use as sushi."
She asked her mom (who never said ONE word during any of this) when she was going back to her daddy's house, and the step-father said he would cut up her dad and send him to Japan, too. He told the little girl that since she lived with her dad now, not to ask her mom for anything, no food, no water, no clothes, and that she could ask her dad. The last thing he said to her before they left was, "You just wait and see what I'm going to do to you when we leave here."
When they left, my wife went outside and pretended to be making a phone call, but was going to get their license plate #. Unfortunately, they had a tinted (illegal) plastic cover on it, and she couldn't read it.
Obviously, the IRS rep couldn't give us any info on the people (understandably) and said that because she hadn't witnessed it (it happened in the waiting area) she couldn't report it.
My wife was just tore up about this. We went to the CPS office to see if there was anything at all that could be done. We could tell the CPS agent exact times (my wife was texting her mom about it at the time) and which IRS rep they saw. We were hoping that maybe CPS could contact the IRS office and obtain the mother and step-father's info, but they can't do that. The only way we could have made a CPS report was if we could supply CPS with their names and address. These were strangers, so obviously we couldn't.
We are both haunted by this. My wife just cried and cried when we found out there was nothing to do. We are both afraid that we are going to read about something happening to this poor little girl in the paper.
Looking back, we probably should have called the police at the time, while they were still there, but hindsight is 20/20.
Just thought I would share this. It's heart-breaking, but really brings home how much damage an overstepping step can do to a child. As well as a biological parent who doesn't intervene.
We just pray that this poor, precious child is ok.